An apparatus that stores and synchronizes printed forms that are being transferred between a high speed forms printer and a mechanism for attaching plastic cards to the forms. The apparatus is also able to buffer the forms that are in progress in the printer should the card processing system need to be shut down or paused. The apparatus creates a shingled stack of forms, with the bottommost form i...

A differential planetary gear apparatus according to the present invention is characterized in that the differential planetary gear apparatus has a single-pinion-type structure in which one planetary gear (3) is arranged in a radial direction and one or more planetary gears (3) are arranged in a circumferential direction in a region between a sun gear (1) and a ring gear (2). Each of a drive sourc...

The invention relates to a portable, cordless, hair dryer/blower that has an elongated hollow body portion with a mass center line and including therein a blower motor and a heating element and having a posterior end and an anterior end. A handle portion has a longitudinal axis extending substantially transversally from and along the mass center line of the elongated body portion. The handle porti...

The tire (1) has a crown (2) provided radially outside of a tire tread (8), and two sidewalls (3), whose internal surface and the crown forming an internal wall of the tire. A portion of the wall is covered by a self sealing layer (11) made up of styrene thermoplastic elastomer. The self sealing layer has a loss factor lower than the 0.2, and a dynamic modulus lower than the inflation pressure of ...

The method involves creating a straight arrangement (12) of reinforcing fibers (11), and impregnating the arrangement with a liquid resin composition after degassing the arrangement. The impregnated product is passed to impart the shape of a tape (21) to the product. Surface treatment is applied on an upper face of the tape to obtain a solid skin. The tape is placed on a holder/mandrel (23) that d...

Resin particles comprised of an acrylic resin. Not only is the maximum compression deformation ratio thereof as great as 60% or more but also the load required for 60% compression deformation is as small as 60 mN or less. Wiring boards are therefore coupled in using an anisotropic conductive adhesive obtained by first manufacturing conductive particles having a conductive coating formed on a resin...

The invention relates to a braking method for a hybrid vehicle (1) including a heat engine and an electric machine (3) forming a power train. According to the invention, when pressure on the brake pedal (20) of the vehicle is detected, the value of the hydraulic pressure gradient (gradP) produced by said pressure is compared with a threshold value (S_FU). If the pressure gradient (gradP) is above ...

Un dispositif (D) est dédié au contrôle du fonctionnement d'un régulateur de vitesse d'un premier véhicule. Ce dispositif (D) comprend des moyens de traitement (MT) chargés i) de calculer une correction de vitesse (CV) à apporter à une vitesse de consigne (VC) du régulateur de vitesse en fonction au moins de cette vitesse de consigne (VC), d'un temps inter-véhicules de consigne, d'une estimation d...

The object of this invention is a dashboard assembly (1) comprising a first rotating pointer (6) indicator (2), with a central part (4) comprising a second indicator (4) and a peripheral part comprising a dial (5) of the first indicator (2). The assembly (1) is characterized in that the pointer (6), the dial (5) of the first indicator (2) and the second indicator (4) are lighted by one single ligh...

The board has an electronic card connected to a polygonal shaped liquid crystal display screen by a connecting element (14). The connecting element is located in an edging area of width (L2) of the screen and is subdivided into two connectors (71, 72) which extend according to distinct planes (P1, P2), where the connectors have identical or different dimensions. An angle formed between a reference...

The socket-outlet has shafts (2) for connecting an opening (11) of a frontage (1) to a circular insulating base (32) of a case (30). A body (3) has a fixation unit (31) movable with respect to the case, where the unit has a square shaped frame. Positioning units maintains the case with respect to the unit (31) along two distinct angular positions. The positioning units are constituted in form of a...

The device has a transparent adhesive film-strip light-green tinted of 50 meters long and 8 millimeters wide affixed on a windscreen in a line of vision of a driver. The film-strip is affixed on the windscreen, such that the driver of a preceding motor vehicle is assured to be found at a distance of 50 meters long of its predecessor when the preceding motor vehicle is located above the film strip ...

The system has a determination unit i.e. biometric fingerprint sensor, for determining a source of activation of a biometric type touch-sensitive faceplate (5) from viewing angles of a person e.g. driver or passenger, of a motor vehicle, where the faceplate is arranged on a single screen i.e. dual view screen. The sensor is directly integrated to the faceplate and detects biometric information i.e...

The part has a core zone (14) made of carbon-containing steel with a hardness of 30-662 Rockwell C Hardness (HRC). An edge zone (17) of low carbon austenitic steel is blended with an alloy metal, where the edge zone lies outside relative to core zone. An intermediate zone (15b) formed of ferritic steel is arranged between the core zone and the edge zone, where hardness of the intermediate zone is ...

A process for making an article molded of polymeric material, the article featuring photochromic properties is disclosed. To at least a portion of the surface of an article, molded of a composition that contains at least one transparent thermoplastic polymer or a transparent thermosetting composition there is applied a curable weatherable polyurethane coating. At least a portion of the coating is ...

The invention relates to a method of gently compounding polymers and polymer blends on a screw extruder, the end product combining a particularly low residual solvent content with a low monomer or oligomer content.; La invención se refiere a un procedimiento para componer cuidadosamente polímeros y mezclas poliméricas en un extrusor de husillo, presentando el producto final un contenido especialme...

A data logger device for in-situ measurement of one or more physical parameters comprising a power source; one or more sensors for measuring the one or more physical parameters; a data store for storing representations of at least some of the measured values of the one or more physical parameters; control logic arranged to write the representations of at least some of the measured values to the da...

A tubular stream (4) of molten plastic is extruded. This tubular stream is taken up by stretching pins (1) with a saw-like blade. The pins are inserted to the tubular stream to subject the tubular stream to a force that is exerted from the inside towards the outside in a radial direction at two opposed points. A transverse cut is made in the tubular stream to create a parison (4') having free edge...

Provided is a packaging for facilitating microwave heating arranged to contain a food product up to a fill level within the packaging, which packaging comprises: a) a first metallic microwave active component, extending above and below the fill level; and optionally b) a second metallic microwave active component, extending above and below a base level.; Se suministra un empaque para facilitar el ...

In one disclosed aspect, dynamic gain modification s are applied to an audio signal at least partly in response to auditory events and/or the degree of change in signal characteristics associated with said auditory event boundaries. In another aspect, an audio signal is divided into auditory events by comparing the difference in specific loudness between successive time blocks of the audio signal....