In at least one embodiment, the present invention relates to a method and system of painting an article having two or more base coats, and to articles prepared in accordance therewith. In at least one embodiment, the method comprises applying a primer composition to a first and second area of the article; applying a first base composition to the first area of the article; curing the primer composi...

A method of producing a light redirecting structure comprising a three dimensional structure formed from a segment of sheet plastics material having at least one parallel or concentric array of cuts 15, 16, 17, 18 is disclosed. The cutting is performed with a laser and may form more than one parallel array of cuts 15, 16, 17, 18. In a first a...

An apparatus for computed tomography (CT) imaging of a cyclically moving organ includes a positional state monitor ( 24, 40 ) that monitors a positional state of the cyclically moving organ such as the heart. A cone-beam CT scanner ( 10 ) acquires image data at least within a plurality of time windows. Each time window is centered about an occurrence of a selected positional state of the organ. A ...

A hammermill having a housing, a rotor assembly, a first plurality of hammers, and a first attrition plate assembly is provided to reduce oversized particulate material to a desired size. The housing has a sidewall that extends between an inlet end and an discharge end which defines an enclosed work space. The rotor assembly is disposed within the housing for rotation about a longitudinal axis of ...

The invention relates to a process for producing a cutting tool, in particular saws, cutting rules or cutting dies, comprising a carrier material (1) in strip or disk form, to whose edge, which is substantially standing on end, a cutting-edge region (2) in the form of a pulverulent alloy is applied and melted during the application, preferably by means of a laser beam, and then solidifies on the e...

An X-ray CT apparatus includes a plurality of X-ray irradiation sources and a plurality of X-ray detection units. Timing of irradiation of X-ray is shifted by each X-ray irradiation source, the detection unit separately obtains projection data and scatter correction data. In a scatter correction unit, scatter correction is performed based on the projection data and the scatter correction data.

To provide an apparatus for manufacturing a glass particles deposit in which it is possible to effectively prevent the foreign matter from being deposited on or mixed into the glass particles deposit during the manufacturing operation. The apparatus for manufacturing the glass particles deposit comprises an upper funnel, a reaction vessel and a lower funnel, wherein the glass particulates are depo...

High strength aluminum alloy powders, extrusions, and forgings are provided in which the aluminum alloys exhibit high strength at atmospheric temperatures and maintain high strength and ductility at extremely low temperatures. The alloy is produced by blending about 89 atomic % to 99 atomic % aluminum, 1 atomic % to 11 atomic % of a secondary metal selected from the group consisting of magnesium, ...

A sensor capable of simply and quickly measuring the electrical activities of a number of cells simultaneously and a device comprising the sensor and capable of detecting the signal transmission between subject cells are provided. The sensor comprises a plurality of electrodes provided on a substrate. The electrodes individually measure a signal generated by a biological sample held by each of the...

Disclosed is a driving method and apparatus of a PDP to decrease the false contour. In the driving method of the present invention, a false contour generation region is detected from a video data. After that, a motion information is extracted using the detected false contour generation region. A compensation value reflecting the extracted motion information is added or subtracted to or from a gray...

A display and a driving method of a display panel capable of improving a dark contrast. In driving the display panel having light-emission areas formed at each intersection of a plurality of pairs of row electrodes and a plurality of column electrodes, each of the light-emission areas having a first discharge cell including a portion where the respective row electrodes in pair are opposed to each ...

A method and apparatus for driving a plasma display panel that is adaptive for improving a sustain driving margin. In the method and apparatus, the number of sustaining pulses is set in response to an average picture level. A period of the sustaining pulse is set in proportion to said average picture level.

The liquid consists of water and the jet hits the tube surface at different points. The associated installation features nozzles (110), which are supplied with water through hoses (115) and are positioned on a joint rod (120). The rod (120) is mounted shiftably on two guide rails (128) via two guide bodies (125).

The invention provides a regeneration control device of a hybrid electric vehicle, which is able to sufficiently charge a battery with power regenerated as a result of the regenerative braking and effectively perform the regenerative braking, and which is also able to ease the burden of a friction brake. If chargeable power set by a chargeable power setting device according to a charging level of ...

Provided is a press die for molding a sipe blade which can efficiently mold a sipe blade having a complicated shape such as three-dimensional shape and having excellent mechanical strength characteristics and which can reduce production cost due to its simple structure, and further provided is a method for simply and efficiently making a press die for molding a sipe blade having a complicated shap...

A device for enhancing and processing printed cardboard, cardboard packaging, paperboard, paper or similar substrates (2), especially designed for a rotational stamping process, wherein the substrate (2) can be introduced in between two rotating processing cylinders (4, 5) in an advance direction (A) and is processed as it passes there through by tool parts (7, 8) acting in a working gap (6). The ...

In a process for the manufacture of dipped tire cord fabrics (11) made of organic fiber cords, two organic fiber cords (8A,8B) before treatment, each formed by subjecting two or more bundles of organic multifilaments to cable twisting and ply twisting, are connected to each other in a particular connection apparatus to form a continuous cord having a joint portion (8C), and a tire cord fabric is m...

The utility model provides a lead-acid accumulator, wherein the structure of the utility model is that the utility model comprises a battery trough, a battery cover, a pole group, an acid filter, a pole sealing circle, a pole sealing pad, a pole helicoids and electrolyte; the battery cover is arranged on the top of the battery trough; the pole group is disposed in an inner cavity enclosed by the b...

The utility model relates to a lead-acid accumulator. The present accumulator employs the completely sealing structure, and the whole battery is all made up of the opaque material, which can not judge if the battery lacks the water and also can not complement the liquid to the accumulator, thereby reducing the operating life of the accumulator. The utility model comprises a battery shell and a bat...

The utility model relates to a lead-acid accumulator. The present accumulator employs the completely sealing structure, and the whole battery is all made up of the opaque material, which can not judge if the battery lacks the water and also can not complement the liquid to the accumulator, thereby reducing the operating life of the accumulator. The utility model comprises a battery shell and a bat...