A mould segment (1) comprises a mould surface (3) for creating the profile tread of the tyre with at least one groove-shaped cut-out (5). Into at least one of the cut-outs (5) is inserted a lamella (11) for creating the profile tread of the tyre, which projects out of the cut-out, over the opening mouth (7) of the cut-out (5). The lamella (11) exhibits in its section inserted into the cut-out (5) ...

The protector is comprised of upper, lower and intermediates layers (1-3) that are made of hydrophilic materials with bodily fluid retaining property, and allows washing in a standard domestic washing machine at 60 degree centigrade temperature. A fixing unit (4) is provided at the periphery of the protector, and engages the attachment unit (5) adhered to a mattress (M), such that the protector is...

The method of this invention for raising the stick temperature of pellets of ethylene-based copolymers with an acid content at least 5 weight percent has the steps of contacting the pellets with an aqueous solution of a water-soluble metal salt of an aliphatic acid having fewer than 12 carbon atoms, and drying the pellets. The resulting ethylene-based copolymers have a stick temperature of above 2...

Recovery of a vinyl alcohol polymer from a solution in a solvent comprises converting the solution to a gel, adding water to the gel, and mechanically breaking the gel to form a suspension of polymer particles in a liquid comprising the solvent and water. An Independent claim is also included for vinyl alcohol polymer particles produced as above whose greatest dimension is 100 micrometers or less...

The fixing (12) comprises a body (16) with fixing member (17) which can move relative to the body along a longitudinal axis against the action of first elastic members. An actuating element which is movable inside the body along a perpendicular axis against the action exerted by second elastic members is kinematically coupled to the fixing member through coupling members designed to transfer the v...

The method involves obtaining constraints defined between two documents of an electronic document group and recording the constraints, for a given group of documents and a given arborescence level. Sub-groups are built according to the obtained constraints and the characteristics of the group documents. An arborescence level corresponding to the built sub-groups is formed. A built sub-group is sel...

The invention relates to a rock drill apparatus comprising a feed beam (1) and a rock drill machine moving to-and-fro therealong, a pressure fluid driven feed cylinder (4) which, by means of a flexible transfer element, is connected so as to transfer the rock drill machine in the longitudinal direction of the cylinder, the feed beam (1) being provided with a space in its longitudinal direction whe...

The method involves forming a pulmonary mask of a thoracic cage and of a mediastinum by smoothing the contour of the thoracic cage and the mediastinum, and applying the mask to a 3D medical imaging data. The masked data is subjected to erosion for obtaining eroded 3D data in which sub-pleural nodules are not connected with pleura and containing pulmonary pathological anomaly.

The induction coil has a core (10) surrounded with a determined and fixed number of turns of a conducting wire (20) for forming a coil. An insulating material (30) covers the periphery of the coil. The core has an open C-shaped annular structure in which a permanent magnet is arranged in an air gap of the core to store electromagnetic energy, where the core is composed of an iron-silicon-niobium-c...

La planche de bord (10) comprend une conduite de ventilation (30) comportant une partie centrale (31) et deux parties d'extrémité (32) jouant respectivement les rôles d'entrée et de sortie (35) de l'air pour cette conduite (30), et moins une traverse (20) apte à recevoir intérieurement la conduite de ventilation, les deux parties d'extrémité (32) étant rapportées sur la partie centrale (31).

DC choke arrangement of a power transformer, especially of a frequency converter, provided with a DC circuit and connected to an AC electricity network, to limit the harmonics of the network current taken by an appliance from the AC network, in which DC choke arrangement is at least one choke (Ldc+, Ldc-), which is arranged in the magnetic core, which contains pillar parts and yoke parts (1a', 1 b...

A method for producing a coil assembly includes overlaying printed circuit traces on a core. The traces include terminals for coupling to conductive connections on a base on which the coil assembly is to be mounted. Two or more wires are wrapped around the core so as to define two or more coils, wrapped in different, respective directions. The ends of the wires are coupled to the printed circuit t...

The invention relates to the detection and quantitation of cyclodextrins and cyclodextrin derivatives in solutions comprising a protein. The invention further relates to methods of evaluating pharmaceutical preparations for the presence of residual cyclodextrins.

Provided herein is an automatic balancing device for counterbalancing an out-of-balance mass present in a rotating body. The automatic balancing device includes a chamber with an outer wall and an axis, first and second counterbalancing masses constrained to move freely in a circular path about the axis within the chamber, and a viscous fluid provided in the chamber so as to provide viscous coupli...

A filter block for filtering particles contained in the exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine includes a plurality of channels for the circulation of the gas, a channel defined by a wall provided with a filtering zone and which opens out towards the outside via an opening, a group of channels including at least two channels with different respective F/P ratios between surface F of the filte...

The method of producing aerobic biogranules for the treatment of waste water comprising the steps of: a) introducing waste water into a reactor; b) seeding the reactor with a active biomass material; c) supplying the oxygen-containing gas to the reactor to provide a mixing action to the suspension of biomass material in said waste water, the supply of oxygen-containing gas providing a superficial ...

The use of specified polyoxyalkylene polycarboxylates to improve the maintenance of fluidity of concrete compositions with a slump value T0 of 12-20 cm. The polyoxyalkylene polycarboxylates comprise at least 50% by number of a random linear chain of structural units of formulae (1) and (2). X = H, alkali metal, alkaline earth metal, ammonium; n = integer 0-120; m = integer 0-100; R = 1-24...

The shell (1) is formed by a wall (2) made of layered composite. There are three layers (3, 4, 5), of which two (3, 5) are electrically-conductive. They sandwich an insulating layer (4). Circuitry detects the resistance and/or capacity between the conductive layers, and generates a signal relating to the state of the container. Electrical terminals (6-9) provide for supply- and measurement connect...

Chemical conjugates which comprise oligopeptides, having amino acid sequences that are selectively proteolytically cleaved by free prostate specific antigen (PSA) and known cytotoxic agents are disclosed. Such conjugates are useful in the treatment of prostatic cancer and benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH).

Techniques for suspending execution of a thread in a multi-threaded processor. In one embodiment, a processor includes resources that can be partitioned between multiple threads. Processor logic receives an instruction in a first thread of execution, and, in response to that instruction, relinquishes portions of the portioned resources for use by other threads.