The device has a control valve, which combines the functions of a stroke valve (27), to control the servo drive (26) of a waste gate (22), and of a thrust air circulation valve (32), to control charging air. The control valve has a first control line (28), leading to the intake tube (12) on the intake side of the turbocharger (11). A second control line (29) leads to an intake line (16) on the pre...

A destination determination unit (5) determines a destination on the map. A route determination unit contains a route cost storage unit, for storing the route cost of the connecting legs. It determines a destination route from a start position to a destination determined by the unit (5), by computing the route cost on the basis of the connecting leg data and the joining leg junction data. A Dikjst...

The tension indicator consists of slide (10) moved in front of a window (16). This is located in a label (14), which has a transparent cover (18) and a scale. At least the slide and the cover define a sealed space. The space contains the window and the part of the label carrying the scale.The connection joints between label and cover, and cover and slide, are sealed. The slide has a smooth surface...

FCA genes of Arabidopsis thaliana and Brassica napus are provided, enabling flowering characteristics, particularly timing of flowering, to be influenced in transgenic plants. Timing of flowering may be delayed or hastened using sense and antisense expression, also various mutants and alleles, including alternatively spliced forms.

Integrated air sepn. comprises: (a) sepg. air by compressing a feed air stream, cooling the stream to a temp. suitable for its rectification, rectifying the air so that a waste stream is produced, and warming the waste stream; and (b) pre-purifying the feed air stream prior to its cooling by a pressure swing adsorption (PSA) process to produce a purified air stream. The PSA process comprises subje...

This invention relates to a vulcanized rubber substrate such as, for example, a tire and a crosslinked, non-black rubber composition layer thereon such as, for example, a white sidewall. In one aspect, the invention relates to such a tire wherein said white sidewall is colored after its vulcanization with a contrasting colored dye. In another aspect, a dye solution is provided which is comprised o...

A heat sealable thermoplastic film is coated on at least one side with an acrylonitrile-containing coating containing from at least about 25 wt.% acrylonitrile. More specifically the film is coated on a first side with a polymeric coating comprising (i) from about 25 about 85 wt.% of a nitrile such as acrylonitrile, (ii) from about 40 to about 75 wt.% of a monomer selected from the group consistin...

Offenbart werden Ein- oder Zwei-Komponenten-Polyurethanlacke zur Beschichtung von Elastomeren, enthaltend Polyurethan-Prepolymere mit dem Mittel 2 oder mehr Isocyanatgruppen pro Molekül hergestellt durch Vermischen von Alkoholen der Funktionalität 2 und grösser mit einem Überschuss an Isocyanat-Verbindungen der Funktionalität 2 und grösser und Lösemitteln, die dadurch gekennzeichnet ist, dass zur ...

Die vorliegende Erfindung beschreibt ein adhäsives Mittel auf wässriger Basis, enthaltend eine durch ein oder mehrere Polyacrylate stabilisierte wässrige Dispersion eines oder mehrerer Phenolharze, einen oder mehrere Latices mit einem oder mehreren halogenierten Polyolefinen und einen oder mehrere Vernetzer. Die vorliegende Erfindung beschreibt weiter die Verwendung eines adhäsiven Mittels auf wäs...

A method for finishing a dry-laid web made from paper fibres bonded by a thermoplastic binder and with a non-uniform fibre distribution is described, which includes the step of applying heat distortion under load to the web between a hard, non-deformable engraved cylinder and a receiving cylinder with a Shore D hardness in the range of about 60 DEG and 90 DEG , and which is resilient and deformab...

An angular velocity sensor having a fault diagnosing function. The angular velocity sensor is provided with a driving means which stably drives the driving section of a sensor element equipped with the driving section and a detecting section for detecting an angular velocity and a detecting means which detects an angular velocity from the detecting section of the sensor element. A self-diagnosing ...

This invention provides a novel process to prepare high performance polarizing film. In one embodiment, the process comprises melt-blending a film-forming wholly aromatic thermotropic liquid crystalline polyester and a dichroic dye and then extruding the blend at a suitable temperature to yield polarizer films with superior polarizing efficiency and thermal and humidity stability.; L'invention con...

Es wird ein Informationssystem mit einem Datenspeicher angegeben, der über Nachrichtenübertragungswege mit Teilnehmerstationen verbunden ist. Über die im Datenspeicher gespeicherten Informationsdaten werden automatisch Kurzinformationen an Teilnehmer übertragen, die daraufhin ausgewählte Informationsdaten abrufen können. Das Informationssystem eignet sich insbesondere als Produktinformationssystem...

The calculating device comprises an input unit (4), a calculating member (1) and an output unit (5). The calculating member (1) is arranged to calculate the current quotation of a valuable paper which gives rise to regular payments of interest, as price minus accrued interest, that is the present value of earned interest not paid. Thereby, the accrued interest is calculated while taking the curren...

The invention relates to a system for the processing of means of payment and a signal-processing device comprising a first data port for communication with a cash register (10). The signal-processing device (50) also comprises a second data port for communication with a display arrangement, a third data port for communication with a payment-processing device, and a buffer unit for storage of data....

In a system including electronic mail facilities made available to attached users, means are provided to enable user using any terminal connected to the system network to select a form among prestored document forms, fill said form in and then have said form mailed for approval by system users selected based on predefined and stored rules. The approval path is being permanently updated by the syst...

A collagen powder is obtained by wet-pulverizing a purified animal tissue consisting mainly of collagen in water at a collagen concentration of 1-30% by weight at a water temperature of not more than 37 DEG C and a pH value of 2-8, tanning treating the pulverized tissue at a pH level of 2-7 with a polyvalent metal tanning agent to obtain a stabilized wet collagen product, dehydrating the wet colla...

A branched monoester represented by the formula R<1>COOR<2> acts as a silicone-dissolving or solubilizing agent. In the formula, R<1> is an isoalkyl group having 4 to 17 carbon atoms, and R<2> is an isoalkyl group having 3 to 18 carbon atoms.