Procédé pour corriger les variations de force radiale entre le pneumatique et le sol, consistant à mesurer sur une machine d'uniformité la variation de force radiale de l'ensemble roulant pneumatique - jante de montage, à reconstituer une variation radiale à partir des variations harmoniques à corriger, à effectuer cette correction au moyen de cales, sous formes d'anneaux circulaires placés entre ...

Methods for fabricating cored structures are provided. The cored structures may particularly find usefulness as cored battery plates for use in lead/acid batteries. A pre-formed core element is provided, and on its surfaces there is placed a thin layer of an active surface material. That active surface material is one which may enter into a chemical or electrochemical process when in use and in th...

Methods for fabricating battery plates for lead/acid batteries are provided. The battery plates that are fabricated may be positive plates, negative plates, or bipolar plates. The principal active constituent of the battery plates is elemental lead in the case of negative plates, lead oxide in the case of positive plates, or elemental lead on one face and lead oxide on the other face of bipolar pl...

An electrochemical cell and a method of manufacturing the same. Plates of opposite polarity are wound spirally and end connectors (310, 314) with protruding hubs (318, 388) are attached to each end. The assembly is placed within a casing (350) having a jacket and an end with a hole through it, whereby one end connector hub (318) extends through the casing end hole. The end connector hub is radiall...

PCT No. PCT/FR91/00791 Sec. 371 Date May 17, 1993 Sec. 102(e) Date May 17, 1993 PCT Filed Oct. 11, 1991 PCT Pub. No. WO92/08527 PCT Pub. Date May 29, 1992.Safety binding for an alpine ski, designed to hold a boot in place on a ski and to release this boot when it exerts excessive stress in the binding. The binding (1) comprises a base (3) , a boot position-retention device (5), a return spring (10...

A quick connector comprises a tubular-shaped female member, a tubular-shaped male member, and an engager member which comprises a "C" ring-shaped and tapered stopper whose diameter can be increased in said annular-shaped concave, and which has the smaller diameter ends having the small diameter at the inner side of said female member and having the large diameter at the side of said opened flange ...

A polyurethane composite for the attenuation of sound having a two part polyurethane binder, a high density particulate filler having a specific gravity greater than 2.0 and a very low density void forming filler having a specific gravity less than 0.50.

A system for controlling navigation, more particularly a current position recognition for a biped walking robot in a navigation environment. A map of the environment is prepared in advance. In the map shape features of an object such as stairs are predesignated. The robot has a vision sensor and in its navigation, the robot recognizes its current position from the shape feature. Evaluation functio...

In a method for inspecting a dished end face of a nuclear fuel pellet, a focused beam of light is emitted to a dish of the end face of the nuclear fuel pellet while a parallel beam of light is being emitted to the end face thereof. An image of the end face of the nuclear fuel pellet is picked up and the quality of the pellet is judged based on the picked-up image. An apparatus for inspecting a dis...

A system and method which provides a complete software implementation of a device driver that is capable of detecting an undetectable data corruption problem without hardware redesign and/or internal modification to an existing FDC. The approach taken consists of software DMA shadowing and use of a software decoding network which allows the implementation of the invention to require a small amount...

Disclosed are unoriented polyester sheet materials and molded articles having a thickness of at least 10 mil and having excellent clarity and heat stability. The polyesters used in the manufacture of the sheet materials and molded articles are derived from terephthalic acid and 1,4-butanediol and certain modifying monomers. Also disclosed are methods for manufacturing the aforesaid sheet materials...

A biosensing meter receives a sample strip that includes electrically isolated sense and excitation electrodes bridged by a reaction zone. When a drop of biological sample fluid is placed in the reaction zone, a plurality of fail/safe tests are performed. A drop size test is performed by a circuit that detects the size of the drop placed in the reaction zone. The circuit both detects that a drop h...

An expanded polymeric foam material comprises a mix of a foam forming agent, a resin, fibrous material and an exfoliating material. The foam-forming agent may comprise an organic isocyanate, more especially diphenylmethane diisocyanate. The exfoliating material may comprise powdered exfoliating graphite and/or powdered sodium silicate. The fibrous material may comprise man-made mineral fibres (MMF...

A transurethral radio frequency apparatus for ablation of the prostate gland through the urethra formed by a wall, a probe consisting of a flexible elongate tubular member with proximal and distal extremities and sized so as to be adapted to be inserted into the urethra, and an ablation electrode carried by the distal extremity of the flexible elongate member. The flexible elongate tubular member ...

A biosensing meter receives a biomedical sample strip or a check strip, a sample strip including electrically isolated excitation and sense electrodes. The biosensing meter includes first and second contacts that are positioned to be electrically connected by a sense electrode when a sample strip is inserted into the biosensing meter. An operational amplifier circuit has one input connected to the...

A biosensing meter is enabled to receive a sample strip that includes a sample well with an analyte reactant therein and electrodes in contact therewith. The biosensing meter includes an excitation supply for supplying potentials to a sample strip electrode. A sense amplifier is also provided for connection to another electrode of an inserted sample strip and produces an output signal indicative o...

A method and an apparatus are provided for complete fluid exchange and internal system flushing of an automatic transmission system as the transmission system operates. The apparatus is connectable to the transmission system and, in a preferred embodiment, is operable at an adjustable output fluid flow rate and pressure setting to act as an independent fluid supply and storage system for the autom...

A fluid-operated spring brake actuator has a funnel-shaped pressure plate which reduces the volume of fluid necessary to compress the spring and release the brake thereby providing a faster response time upon actuation of the brake.

A process is disclosed wherein arsenic dissolved in wastewater or groundwater is removed from solution by precipitation thereof as calcium arsenate formed by the reaction of the arsenic with lime or hydrated lime in a heated solution at a pH of about 11 to about 13. It is preferred that the arsenic is first converted by oxidation to its pentavalent form.