"PROCESSO E DISPOSITIVO PARA O ENROLAMENTO DE UMA SEçãO DE PAPEL". A presente invenção refere-se a um processo para o enrolamento de uma seção de papel, especialmente uma seção de tecido, principalmente na partida da máquina e após a ruptura da seção de material. De acordo com a invenção, a tira aplicadora de papel (8), ou seja, toda a seção de papel, antes da aceitação de tambor (3), é prensada e...

An electrode support structure comprises a guide body having at its distal end a flexible spline leg. The spline leg is flexed to define an arcuate shape to facilitate intimate contact against tissue. An electrode element is carried by the spline leg for movement along its axis. The structure includes a control element coupled to the electrode element. The control element remotely imparts force to...

Surgical methods and apparatus for coagulating tissue including an energy transmission device cooling apparatus.

A binder B for inorganic powders comprises a mixture of b1 from 80 to 99.5% by weight of a polyoxymethlene homopolymer or copolymer B1 and b2 from 0.5 to 20% by weight of a polymer system B2 which is not miscible with B1 and comprises b21 from 5 to 100% by weight of polytetrahydrofuran B21 and b22 from 0 to 95% by weight of at least one polymer B22 of C_2-8-olefins, vinylaromatic monomer...

The present invention relates to an opaque, white film with a thickness of from 10 to 500 mum whose principal constituent is a crystallizable thermoplastic. It also comprises at least barium sulfate and at least one optical brightener. The barium sulfate and/or the optical brightener here is either incorporated directly into the thermoplastic during preparation of the polymer or fed as a masterbat...

Disclosed are methods and compositions for extracting nucleic acids from a biological sample. In particular, disclosed is a nucleic acid extraction solution together with methods using such a solution for extracting nucleic acid sequences from biological samples containing cells, cellular debris or both. The nucleic acid extraction solution contains a molecule having the formula R₁O-CH<...

An isolated polynucleotide comprising a polynucleotide sequence chosen from the group consisting of a) polynucleotide which is identical to the extent of at least 70% to a polynucleotide which codes for a polypeptide which comprises the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID No. 2, b) polynucleotide which codes for a polypeptide which comprises an amino acid sequence which is identical to the extent of at ...

A portable security alarm system including a movement detecting and signal transmitting member for mounting on or proximate to the object whose movement is to be detected, a signal receiving and alarm generating member for receiving a signal from the movement detecting and signal transmitting member and producing a security response, a remote control for actuating and deactuating the signal receiv...

The invention concerns a method for evaluating pattern defects on a wafer surface, comprising the following steps: acquiring the surface data of a plurality of individual image fields ( 4 ) of a series-produced wafer ( 1 ); storing the data in a reference data set and making it available as reference data for the inspection of further wafers of the same series; inspecting, successively in time, th...

A self-propelled robot is disclosed for movement over a surface to be treated. The robot has a power supply and a pair of wheels driven by motors for moving the robot over the surface. A mechanism is provided for controllably depositing a fluent material on to the surface. Navigation sensors provide signals for enabling the robot to navigate over the surface and one or more detectors detect the pr...

A waiting time of an automated guided vehicle is substantially eliminated by significantly shortening the communication time of various information, and the transport efficiency of an automated guided vehicle as well as the operating rate of work stations and production lines as a whole are improved, and in addition, the flexibility of an operation control system for the automated guided vehicle i...

A processor executive (PE) handles an operating system executive (OSE) in a secure environment. The secure environment has a platform key (PK) and is associated with an isolated memory area in the platform. The OSE manages a subset of an operating system (OS) running on the platform. The platform has a processor operating in one of a normal execution mode and an isolated execution mode. The isolat...

A power transfer unit includes a non-parallel gear set and a parallel gear set integrally packaged within a housing. The housing includes an extension portion that connects the power transfer unit to a transmission assembly. The extension portion is formed having a structural web with one or more cavities. These cavities include inner cavities that define a portion of the interior volume of the ho...

An axle driving apparatus wherein a hydraulic motor and a hydraulic pump for a hydro-static-transmission are housed in a transmission casing of the axle driving apparatus and a center section for connecting the hydraulic motor and hydraulic pump is disposed in the transmission casing, the center section being fixed at the butt joint portion at the transmission casing, and an oil passage from the h...

To obtain a storing method for an elongated plastic deformation member in which the elongated plastic deformation member and a liner are overlapped and wound around a reel for storing the elongated plastic deformation member, whereby partial deformation or deformation nonuniformity of the elongated plastic deformation member can be suppressed. In the present invention, when a liner and an unvulcan...

A rotary machine ( 10 ) comprises an inner housing ( 12 ) having valving means ( 14 ) which includes a shaft ( 15 ) for directing working fluid through the machine ( 10 ) and, an outer housing ( 16 ) within which the inner housing resides. A working chamber ( 18 ) is defined between the inner and outer housings ( 12 and 16 ). A plurality of gates ( 20 ) are supported by the inner housing and are s...

A mapping catheter is positioned in a heart chamber, and active electrode sites are activated to impose an electric field within the chamber. The blood volume and wall motion modulates the electric field, which is detected by passive electrode sites on the preferred catheter. Electrophysiology measurements, as well as geometry measurements, are taken from the passive electrodes and used to display...

A first electrode is positioned within an artery proximate an implanted intravascular stent. A second electrode is positioned at a separate location relative the position of the first electrode. Electrical energy is then delivered between the first and the second electrodes to produce an electrical field adjacent the implanted intravascular stent. When a intravascular stent is implanted in a coron...

A detecting/removing method and a device therefor, used to examine whether o r not shells still remain on crustaceans such as lobsters and crabs from which shells are supposed to have been torn off. The device comprises an irradiati on means (1) for applying a ray of light in a specific wavelength area onto a crustacean (20) having its shell torn off, a CCD camera (40) disposed opposi te to the cr...