A retractable blind or shade assembly for covering a polygonal contoured surface area, comprising a retractable covering member (2, 16, 36, 37, 55), a movable member (3, 39, 60') and at least one cord member (9, 43, 44, 58), wherein said at least one cord member (9, 43, 44, 58) is provided between its terminal ends with engagement means (10, 10'), said engagement means (10, 10') being adapted to e...

A portable electronic device having a stationary housing enclosing a first electric circuit and a pivotable housing enclosing a second electric circuit, uses a mechanical and electrical interconnection assembly for interconnecting the two housings and circuits. The mechanical assembly includes a pivot and friction assembly that pivotally couples the stationary and pivotal housings together, and al...

A range backstop assembly having a container with an opening typically closed by a rubber sheet and serving for projectile entry. The container is filled with a particulate flowable granulate material which slows down the entering projectiles. An anti-adhesion medium is further interspersed between the particles of the granulate material to prevent adhesion of the granulate material in the presenc...

13 DISPOSITIF D'ACCROCHAGE MECANIQUE D'UN SYSTEME DE VISUALISATION SUR UN CASQUE Ce dispositif d'accrochage comporte un fourreau (4) qui entoure le corps du système de visualisation (2) à l'exception du système optique coudé menant au combineur (40) constituant l'oculaire du système de visualisation et qui présente une arête longitudinale (6) dépassant en saillie et servant d'axe de guidage pour l...

The high-frequency oscillating current, with the help of two electrodes, is able to regulate (raising or lowering in a few seconds) the glycemic ratio of the blood of a diabetic.

Support apparatus for control of nutritional diets, comprising a calculation unit combined with a display, a data entry keypad, mass storage and working storage means, and storage means which include a basic firmware and an application program parameterised as a function of initialisation data put in through said keypad.

The control system comprises an encoder (20) related to the winding drum of the shutter and is constructed in such a way as to generate sequences of pulses (I17, I18) indicating both the angle and the direction of rotation of the drum (3) and a control pushbutton panel (2, 2M, 2S) including a microprocessor (32) which at each movement of opening or closure counts the pulses (I17, I18) of said sequ...

Process for treating urban solid waste which consists in initially crushing (1) the waste that arrives from the collection vehicles, with a first drainage (3) of the percolate; in pre-drying (4) the crushed waste, with a second drainage (6) of the percolate; in compacting (20) the crushed waste; in compressing (30) the compacted waste to reach a waste density of 1.4-1.5 tons/cu m, with final drain...

A load dissipating and limiting device for application in anti-seismic works comprises at least an elongated primary member to be connected with its two end portions to two elements of a work subjected to a related displacement, the elongated primary member being adapted to be elastically-plastically deformed, a secondary member being moreover provided to be interposed between one of the two eleme...

Disclosed is a process of making a coated paper including the following steps: 1) providing a paper layer composed of a blend of pulp fibers and particulate material containing polyvalent metal cations, 2) applying a solution of a material selected from salts and derivatives of alginic acid to cover at least a portion of the paper, 3) reacting the salts and/or derivatives of alginic acid with poly...

Disclosed is a process of making a coated paper including the following steps: 1) providing a paper layer composed of a blend of pulp fibers and particulate material containing polyvalent metal cations, 2) applying a solution of a material selected from salts and derivatives of alginic acid to cover at least a portion of the paper, 3) reacting the salts and/or derivatives of alginic acid with poly...

Method for monitoring the condition of electrodes in an optical fibre splicing appts. in which the fibre ends are welded together by heating in an electric light beam created by applying an electric voltage between electrodes, esp. useful for indicating dirty electrodes that need cleaning or are in a generally poor condition, comprises measuring the max. and/or mean voltage value over a certain pe...

The handle arrangement is for opening and closing a valve with a rotatable control body. It comprises a end cover (20), an intermediate part (22), and a bottom part (24) which together form a handle housing (16) rotatable around a stationary handle throat (12). Through the handle throat passes a rotary shaft (18), whose one end (28) is non-rotatably fixed to the handle housing and whose other end ...

A recording paper comprising pulp fibers and a filler has a surface where pulp fibers bared to the surface and pulp fibers covered with particles are present together in portions. The quantity of ink transfer at a minimum ink-shoot time interval for adjacent dots with different colors as measured by the Bristow's test method is not smaller than a maximum shot-in ink quantity per unit area of recor...

A lithium secondary battery comprises a negative electrode having lithium as an active material, a positive electrode comprising a boron-containing lithiummanganese composite oxide as an active material and a nonaqueous electrolyte comprising a solute and a solvent, the boron-containing lithium-manganese composite oxide having an atomic ratio between B and Mn (B/Mn) of 0.01 to 0.20 and an average ...