The actuating arrangement includes a torque transmitting system that includes a first device for initiating, discontinuing or regulating the transmission of torque. A transmission includes a second device for initiating a gear shifting operation within one of a plurality of gear shifting paths. The transmission further includes a third device for initiating the gear ratio selecting operation among...

This invention is directed to a method and system for extracting a solute from a fluid or a dense gas using a porous membrane. The invention includes providing a porous membrane having opposite sides in a module under pressure, with the membrane serving as a barrier interface between a fluid and a dense gas. The dense gas is introduced into the module on one side of the membrane and the fluid is i...

This invention is directed to a method and system for extracting a solute from a fluid or a dense gas using a porous membrane. The invention includes providing a porous membrane having opposite sides in a module under pressure, with the membrane serving as a barrier interface between a fluid and a dense gas. The dense gas is introduced into the module on one side of the membrane and the fluid is i...

A creel for a warping arrangement has a closed circuit carrier with a plurality of pegs for circulating them in a circulation direction. The pegs are adapted to receive thread spools and are distributed along the circulation direction upon the closed circuit carrier. The closed circuit carrier can stop in one of a plurality of predetermined positions to place one or more of the pegs in a thread ta...

In a tire mold (22) having a pair of mold parts separable about cooperating surfaces (62,64) of the respective mold parts which define a parting line region, each of the mold parts includes a surface defining at least a portion of a cavity for shaping a tire. The tire mold further includes a plurality of pockets (108,122) for defining a respective plurality of circumferentially arranged tread elem...

The invention relates to films of linear polyester containing glass spheres having a certain particle size distribution and in a certain amount. The addition of the glass spheres improves, inter alia, the dynamic coefficient of friction of the film. Preferably, a second film additive, fumed silica, of a controlled particle size distribution and weight is added to the film. The addition of the fume...

Horizontal centrifuge comprising a drum (1), a helicoid screw (2, 2a) coaxial to the drum (1) and arranged inside the latter, two closure heads (14, 15) located at the ends of the drum (1) and provided with nozzles (4, 6) for discharging to the outside oil and water/solid remainders respectively and an inlet tube (3) for the oily slurry ending inside the hollow body (2a) forming the helicoid screw...

Combination method in which in the closing phase of the integration of the residual paper sheet pile (3). The method utilises the main pole (2) and the displacement of the grid bar (7) takes place in the travel interval (delta s). Each travel interval is allocated a height interval (delta h) to compensate for the height difference at the leading edge of the pile. The height interval is formed as ...

A PC controlled measurement system for accurately determining the components of a colour spectrum is designed to eliminate subjective assessments when matching e.g. dental repairs. The method employs three stable light sources e.g. LEDs (10) of different colour and of known spectral output using independent fibre optics (2a) to convey pulsed light energy to the target area by means of a suitable p...

A device for gathering and removing at least two threadlines (F) has a yarn cutter (5) and a yarn suction installation (4). A single cutter (5) and yarn suction installation (4) deals with the required number of yarns. A yarn gatherer (7,8,10,11) collects all the threadlines and guides them together to the yarn cutter (5) and the suction installation (4). Pref. the gathering mechanism has swing a...

The object of the invention is to provide a device by means of which a continuous paper web can be cut transversely at the highest permissible paper-transporting speed. For this purpose, in the case of a cutting machine for cutting a continuous paper web, the paper is fed via feeding means, after separating off the feed-hole strips, to a transverse-cutter arrangement having a non-driven, bottom cu...

When loading sheet feeders with stacks of sheets supported by pallets the pallets are each supplied to a lift mechanism and raised by same and then lowered after removing the stack. The pallets are each brought to a lift table which is fixed relative to the sheet feeder, where they are raised by same and after reaching a predetermined height or after removal of the sheets are lowered at least to a...

The control system has a unit, for controlling the vehicle in accordance with supplied control characteristic information, provided by a memory, in which several different sets of information are held, each corresp. to a different driver. Each individual driver is identified to allow the corresp. control characteristicinformation to be fed from the memory to the control unit, with selective corre...

For each quote entered into a computerized anonymous trading system, the system determined if it is waiting to be "hit" (would be matched with the first hit of a predetermined size) at a substantial number of trading floors, and if so, notifies the trader originating the quote. The substantial number of floors is preferably expressed as greater than a predetermined percentage of the available trad...

A catheter (22) capable of both sensing myocardial electrical activity and delivering ablating energy within myocardial tissue, is disclosed. The catheter (22) comprises electrodes (38, 39) on the outer sheath and contains a movable fiber optic cable (42) that can be percutaneously advanced beyond the catheter body (22), and into the myocardium for myocardial heating and coagulation, or modificati...

Disclosed are 1) osteogenic devices comprising a matrix containing osteogenic protein and methods of inducing endochondral bone growth in mammals using the devices; 2) amino acid sequence data, amino acid composition, solubility properties, structural features, homologies and various other data characterizing osteogenic proteins, and 3) methods of producing osteogenic proteins using recombinant DN...

A flying head slider (6) of a hard disk driver is moved by an actuator (9) between a loading and an unloading position, a motor (2) for rotating a disk (1) is driven at nominal velocity when data is recorded on the disk by a magnetic head (6) supported by the flying head slider and the motor (2) is driven at a velocity faster than the nominal velocity when the flying head slider (6) is moved from ...

A method and apparatus are provided for debugging a sequence program (60) by partially running the program by a programmable controller (10A). The programmable controller (10A) includes memory (13) to store the sequence program (60) and memory (14) to store partial run conditions which comprise the identity of an external device required for a partial run of the sequence program (60), a device acc...

The present invention provides a recording system having a detachable automatic sheet supplying apparatus, wherein: a projection protruding substantially in a horizontal direction is formed on the recording system or on the automatic sheet supplying apparatus, so that they can stand by themselves; a recess is formed in the automatic sheet supplying appparatus or in the recording system; and the re...