A method for manufacturing a multimaterial component or construction, whereby a body is formed in said method of a basic material and at least one piece formed of a wear resistant material being joined to said body at a temperature of not more than 80% of the lowest melting temperature of the materials to be joined. The invention also comprises the use of a multimaterial component or construction ...

An electrical control unit ECU controls a shift thrust Ft applied to a variable width drive pulley 11 through a control valve CV and makes the rotational speed Ne of the engine follow a target engine rotational speed Neo to vary the speed change ratio of a continuously variable transmission CVT. In this control, the shift thrust Ft is achieved as sum of a proportional term P and an integral term I...

A vehicular transmission comprises an engine E, a continuously variable transmission CVT and a starting clutch 5. The driving force from the engine E is conveyed through the continuously variable transmission CVT with a speed change to a countershaft 2, and the starting clutch 5 is used to convey this driving force from the countershaft 2 to wheels of a vehicle. The continuously variable transmiss...

MéTODO PARA CARACTERIZAçãO DE FLUIDO EM UMA FORMAçAOSUBTERRáNEA CIRCUNDANDO UM FURO PERFURADO, SISTEMA PARA ORIENTAçãO DURANTE A PERFURAçãO DE UMA FORMAçãO SUBTERRáNEA, E APARELHO PARA ORIENTAçãO DURANTE A PERFURAçãO DE UMA FORMAçãO SUBTERRáNEA. Trata-se de um método e um sistema para caracterizaçào de fluido em uma formação subterrânea que circunda um furo perfurado. Sinais acústicos são transmit...

A magnetic attachment is disclosed to be coupled to a conventional walking cane at the handle end thereof that is grasped by the hand of a user. By turning the cane upside down, the magnetic attachment at the handle end can be moved into contact with a magnetic object (e.g., a set of keys) to be lifted off the floor and carried to the hand of the user. By virtue of the foregoing, an elderly or dis...

Provided is an electrochemical sensor strip having circuits comprising electrodes in an electrode region connected to contact pads in a contact region by conductive traces wherein the electrode region is off-set from the contact region in both an x direction parallel to the length of the sensor strip and a y direction parallel to the width of the sensor strip. Also provided is an electrochemical s...

SISTEMA INTERATIVO MULTIUSUáRIO, MULTILINGUAL E DE MìDIA PUBLICITáRIA PARA ATENDIMENTO CONFIGURáVEL A APLICAçõES COMERCIAIS E/OU DE SERVIçOS COM DISPOSITIVO DE SEGURANçA DE RECUPERAçãO DE DADOS. Patente de Invenção de sistema eletrónico de chamada sem fio capaz de gerenciar as informações referentes ao atendimento automatizado em estabelecimentos comerciais ou prestadores de serviços, permitindo q...

The disclosure relates to methods and apparatus for determining the velocity of an ultrasound pulse in drilling fluids in downhole environments. A method for determining a velocity of ultrasound propagation in a drilling fluid in a downhole environment includes emitting an ultrasound pulse into the drilling fluid in a borehole using a first ultrasound transducer ( 37 ); detecting the ultrasound pu...

An accumulator/pump housing associated with a motor vehicle hydraulic system that is designed to incorporate a gerotor pump and an accumulator. The accumulator/pump housing comprises a portion of a torque coupling assembly in which a friction clutch selectively engages and disengages a torque coupling case and at least one output shaft. The accumulator/pump housing is located external to a torque ...

Bipolar electrosurgical scissors for treating biological tissue include first and second scissor blades. A shearing surface and cutting edge of each blade is electrically neutral. The scissors include a pair of electrical connections for receiving electrical currents of opposing polarities. Each blade includes at least one first electrode and at least one second electrode positioned on a surface o...

A light sensing area of a light sensing element is comprised of A 1 region, A 2 region, B 1 region, B 2 region and N region. A tilt detector carries out a tilt detection in accordance with a first difference signal, which is a difference signal between a signal obtained from the A 1 region and a signal obtained from the B 1 region, and a second difference signal, which is difference signal between...

A network protocol distributes control and lookup functions among various network elements. Plural servers are permitted to service the same domain name without requiring re-mapping. Each client or server is permitted to have a different network quality of service level that is provided by one or more network elements of a network or server quality of service level that is provided by a server.

A member information unit, a service history unit and a log information unit for acquiring information from a company's member terminal hold respectively member information including a URL indicating the location of the company's own website, questionnaire information and log information. A predicting unit derives an area of the company's purchase orientation based on the member information, the q...

According to one embodiment, a first computing device receives first information that has been formed according to application software instructions. Independent of the application software instructions, the first computing device forms second information for causing a second computing device to perform an operation. In response to receiving the first information, the first computing device execut...

A system in accordance with an embodiment of the invention provides Quality of Service (QoS) for Storage Access. Such QoS is partially enabled in one embodiment by the automatic pooling of storage devices and provisioning virtual targets from those pools. QoS is enforced in one embodiment by keeping the bandwidth for each connection within a specified range, and particularly, by controlling the nu...

The invention provides techniques for adaptive load balancing. Techniques are provided for monitoring a server's operating conditions; determining, based on the server's operating conditions, when to send a behavior modification hint to one or more clients that are being served by the server; generating the behavior modification hint based on the server's operating conditions; and sending the beha...

Methods and corresponding system are provided herewith that, in at least one embodiment, include the act or acts of: determining that a service provided by a restaurant is available for bidding. The service is provided for a particular time and a particular date. The methods and system also include receiving a bid for the service provided by the restaurant, in which the bid is associated with a fi...

A method and an apparatus for forming a diamond film from microwave plasma by controlling a manufacturing condition based on spectroscopic measurement of plasma emission to obtain a large area of a high-quality diamond film. In the method of forming a diamond film, a gas mixture of hydrocarbon gas and hydrogen gas is introduced into a reactor, where the gas mixture is excited by microwave which is...

ARTIGO COMPREENDENDO UNA PELìCULA EXPANDIDA DE UMA Só CAMADA E PROCESSO PARA PREPARAR A PELìCULA. Artigos compreendem uma película expandida de uma só camada preparada a partir de uma composição compreendendo pelo menos um polímero de cloreto de vinilideno e pelo menos um plastificante na qual pelo menos um polímero de cloreto de vinilideno compreende cloreto de vinilideno e pelo menos um acrilato...

A differential gear system with a three-step control mechanism uses the axial motion of a single member to achieve three functions of ON, OFF and LOCK. The differential gear system has a locking mechanism installed in the planetary gear carrier between two planetary gears thereof. Extra space for the locking mechanism is not necessary. It can be applied to differential gear systems with spiral bev...