This invention provides recombinant tropoelastins and variants of recombinan t tropoelastins produced from synthetic polynucleotides, as well as the synthetic polynucleotides themselves. The invention also provides cross-linked elastins or elastin-like products prepared from the tropoelastins or variants.

SISTEMA MISTO-EóLICO PARA CLIMATIZAçãO DE AMBIENTES. O Relatório Descritivo do objeto desta Patente de Invenção é destinado preferencialmente à climatização de ambientes a partir de uma fonte energética onde o suprimento para dinamizar compressor de gás freon, bem como, o ventilador responsável pela aspersão do ar refrigerado, é advindo de um conjunto moinho-de-vento instalado no topo de uma torre...

A cooling device has a series of baffles that deflect a falling stream of liquid coolant. An air handler, such as a fan, pulls air through the liquid coolant. The air moved by the air handler through the liquid coolant is cooled, and the cooled air exits the device to cool the surrounding environs.

An umbrella has a shaft anchorable in or on the ground or in the air by an anchor and defining an axis and a canopy movable between an unfolded open position in which it is wavy and a folded position inclined to the axis, made of a preferably nonstretching membrane or fabric, formed of a whole number of polygonal sections with outer corners defining alternating high points and low points, traverse...

This invention is a steel tempered wire approximately 3/16'' in diameter bent to form a clip to hold papers, files, or any item normally carried by hand. The clip has enough tension to hold the items snugly against a crutch so the individual can use both hands to navigate on the crutch. It is positioned under the arm just above the crutch handle. It can be on the inside or outside position, but no...

An adjustable rotation base includes a base housing and a transportation arrangement. The base housing has a bottom side, an upper side for coupling with the supporting post to support the outer umbrella in an upright manner, and a receiving cavity indently formed on the bottom side of the base housing, wherein the base housing includes a stationary unit provided at the bottom side for sitting on ...

A tread belt is molded and cured in a mold having a base plate and an inverted cup-shaped top plate. A plurality of inner segments are disposed in the mold. When the mold is closed outer surfaces of the inner segments form a cylindrical surface which is in contact with an inner surface of the tread belt. A first portion of the inner segments are follower segments, a second portion of the inner seg...

An electrosurgical generator is disclosed, which includes an RF output stage connected to a DC power supply and first and second connections. The first connection includes a first switching component and a first parallel inductor-capacitor resonant circuit. The second connection includes a second switching components and a second parallel inductor-capacitor resonant circuit. The first and second s...

The invention relates to a biaxially oriented polyester film having a base layer (B) which comprises at least 80% by weight of a polyester comprised of from 55 to 90 mol % of units deriving from at least two aromatic dicarboxylic acids and of from 5 to 45 mol % of units deriving from at least one aliphatic dicarboxylic acid, where the total of the dicarboxylic-acid-derived molar percentages is 100...

A method for making a composite integrated device includes providing a first integrated device having a substrate, an overlying interconnect region, and a contact, wherein the contact electrically contacts the interconnect region and is at a surface of the first integrated device. The method further includes forming a sidewall spacer along a sidewall of a first opening in a first dielectric layer,...

The present invention is a process and apparatus for conserving loss of heat while forming and crystallizing polymer particles in a liquid. The cooling liquid quenches the polymer during particle molding to facilitate shaping. The cooling liquid cools the polymer particles not below a temperature that allows adequate crystallization to occur. Cooling liquid is quickly switched with a warming liqui...

In cleaning using a self-propelled cleaning device, firstly the cleaning device moves alongside a wall surface and then a reference direction is set. Next, the cleaning device advances alongside the wall surface at a prescribed distance, makes a right-angle turn, and travels in the reference direction. When the cleaning device reaches the surface of an opposing wall, it moves in a spiraling manner...

A mechanism is disclosed for enabling a plurality of nodes on a network to collaboratively share a file. In one implementation, each node maintains its own copy of the file, and each node may make updates to its copy of the file. Whenever a node does update the contents of a region of the file, that node sends out an update message. The update message comprises the updated content for the region t...

The present invention is concerned with a method for the production of fine and ultrafine powders of various materials such as metals, alloys, ceramics, composites etc., through a transferred arc plasma system. The method comprises vaporizing or decomposing the material in the plasma reactor, condensing the vapor in a quench tube comprising two sections, the first one for indirectly cooling or hea...

The invention is directed to a backpack, comprising a backpack body and at least one shoulder strap. The backpack body defines at least one storage compartment. The backpack body has a back-facing face. The back-facing face having at least one air channel defined thereon. The at least one air channel has at least one opening at the periphery of the back-facing face. The at least one shoulder strap...

A door entry security device (10) used in a security system (2) including a control panel (4), the door security device (10) in a housing suitable for mounting within a recess of a doorjamb or door of a premises. In the housing is a lock position detecting switch (20), adapted to detect the position of a lock mounted on a door as being either locked or unlocked, a door position detecting switch (2...

A combined service brake and spring-loaded brake cylinder includes an air-bleed valve having a piston supporting a valve body, which is guided inside a cylinder in an axially displaceable manner, and at least one first pressure spring supported on the piston being loaded against a first valve seat on the piston. The piston is loaded by at least one second pressure spring which is supported on the ...

A device (1) for mounting the components of a safety binding on a ski (2), comprising: a rigid platform (3) that extends over the entire length of the area in which the binding is mounted and comprises lateral slides (12); an elastomer element (4) that extends under the rigid platform (3) and is intended to come into contact with the upper surface of the ski (2); two limit stops (6) and (5), front...

An acrylic film for a lens substrate is provided. The film has a thickness of 400 mum or thinner and comprises a layer of a resin composition comprising a methacrylic resin and rubber particles dispersed therein. A lens layer can be placed on the acrylic film to produce a lens film excellent in light fastness. The lens film may be laminated on a resin sheet to produce a lens sheet suppressing its ...

Ionized irradiation can be used to improve the properties of fluoropolymers. In particular, elasticity, strain hardening, and melt strength of a fluoropolymer can be increased by LIP to an order of magnitude by exposure to controlled amounts of radiation; while polymer foams may be thermoformed and crosslinked by irradiation to provide a solvent resistance polymer foams having wide range of densit...