A method using a telephone calling card to transact commerce electronically. In one embodiment a user initiates a phone call to a merchant using a calling card provided by a service provider. The service provider initially checks the identify of the user through the use of a PIN code (1). Once the user's identity is validated the user's call to the merchant is established. The user and merchant th...

The properties of (meth)acrylic ester/(meth)acrylic acid copolymer webs, such as films and nonwovens, are improved by blending the ester/acid copolymer with a copolymer of ethylene and acrylic acid and/or polyethylene glycol. The copolymer blend provides a polymeric material which is useful for making personal care products such as diapers and feminine pads in that it can be made water-soluble whi...

In a spectacle lens supply method, for a system which includes a terminal (101) installed at a lens orderer side and at least a computing device (201) installed at a lens processor side and connected to the terminal via a communication line (300), the terminal transmits processing condition data including at least one of lens information, frame information, prescription values, layout information ...

A grinding machine having a relatively movable worktable (64) and grinding wheel (66) which can be swivelled, the positions of a tailstock (62) and workrests (60, 61) being adjustable by computer controlled drive means relative to the worktable to enable different components (and parts thereof) to be ground on the same machine.

Polyvinyl butyral resin and sheet having a hydroxyl content less than 19.5, preferably about 17 to 19 weight %, calculated as polyvinyl alcohol, plasticized with a compatible amount of triethylene glycol di-2-ethylhexanoate.

Powdered hydroxypropyl- beta -cyclodextrin compsn. contains less than 25% of 100 mu m particles and dissolves in less than 5 mins. at 21 degrees C for a soln. contg. 20% dry matter (as measured in a test I). The compsn. pref. dissolves in less than 3 (pref. less than 2) mins. Particles smaller than 40 mu form less than 10% of the powder, particles bigger than 315 mu form less than 40% of the pow...

Die Erfindung betrifft ein Verfahren und eine Vorrichtung zur Motor- und Getriebesteuerung bei einem Kraftfahrzeug mit einem Verbrennungsmotor, der von einer Motorsteuerung gesteuert wird, und einem Stufenautomatikgetriebe, das von einer Getriebesteuerung gesteuert wird. Ein gewünschtes Getriebeabtriebsmoment wird dadurch realisiert, daß außerhalb eines Schaltvorganges des Stufenautomatikgetriebes...

The account comprises two column pairs: a debit and credit column pair for the monetary values, and a debit and credit column pair for the quantities of transactions to be registered and displayed. The transaction record or screen template are indicated in various drawings. A method of standard registration of quantities and values using a uniform record is also claimed.

The method includes destruction and reconstruction steps, which are performed on the state variables of an actual system state. The destruction step destroys the current state to a larger extent and introduces increased degrees of freedom for the reconstruction step, to produce a new state. This permits the re-calculation of a new state in correspondence with additional boundary conditions, with i...

The apparatus allows future purchasers of goods and services to make a binding contract with potential vendors based on a purchase request. The apparatus includes a checking mechanism which contains the binding purchase requests of future purchasers. The checking mechanism makes the purchase requests globally available to possible vendors. Possible vendors then have the option to accept the purcha...

Die Erfindung betrifft ein Verfahren und eine Vorrichtung zur Dämpfung von Schaltruckeln bei einem Kraftfahrzeug, dessen Motordrehzahl gemäß einer einem ruckelfreien Zustand entsprechenden Modelldrehzahl geregelt wird. Das Verfahren ist dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß bei einem Schaltvorgang die Zielgangstufe und eine Motorzieldrehzahl während des Einkuppelns bestimmt werden, wobei die Zielgangstufe a...

The invention relates to a device for the progress-controlled drilling of bores comprising rotating drilling rods and a bore rod in a rotationally fixed housing which has control ribs which can be adjusted by means of an adjustment cylinder. Regulation of said adjustment cylinders occurs using control valves and by means of a clinometer blade located in a housing in order to determine slope values...

Characteristic magnitude(s) associated with braking pedal operation are measured (S10) whilst the vehicle is stationary. An operational braking control pressure is activated (S12), when the characteristic operational magnitude fulfills one given criterion (at least). The operational brake control pressure is released with delay (S16), when the pedal would have been released.; Ein Verfahren zur Ver...

A procedure for the determination of the engine reduction with load upshifts with auto gearboxes of cars has the value of the engine reduction calculated analytically. The engine reduction is calculated from the magnitude of the dynamic torque. The magnitude of the dynamic torque of the shifting gearbox's input shaft is described by a parabola of the second order in the form: MT=a0 + a1 asterisk t...

The clamping device has three holding members (15-17) which are supported in a separate intermediate member (14). This is connected directly or via intermediate components to a pressurized piston (23) which can drive it in the direction of the workpiece (5) in the casing. Control curves are machined into the casing walls alongside the two outer holding members (16, 17).; Bei einer Einrichtung zur ...

The invention relates to a process and to a device for labelling business objects (10) for electronic commerce, whereby an identification code that is unambiguous world-wide is added to each data record pertaining to a business object to be labelled. In this way it can be ensured that business objects which have been generated on various computer systems (20) can be subjected to further processing...

The invention relates to polycarbonate substrates and to the use thereof in the production of molded articles of especially high purity and extremely high surface luster. The invention also relates to the molded articles producible from the inventive polycarbonate substrate.; Beschrieben werden Polycarbonat-Substrate sowie deren Verwendung zur Herstellung von Formkörpern mit besonders hoher Reinhe...

The invention relates to polycarbonate substrates produced on the basis of 1,1-bis-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-3,3,5-trimethylcyclohexanone and to the use thereof in the production of molded articles of especially high purity and extremely high surface luster. The invention also relates to the molded articles produced from the inventive polycarbonate substrate.; Beschrieben werden Polycarbonat-Substrate her...

Die Erfindung betrifft ein Verfahren zum Erreichen des Tastpunktes einer automatisch betätigten Kupplung. Dazu wird die von der Motorsteuerung ohnehin geregelte Leerlauf-Luftmasse genutzt. Bei Erkennen einer über ein Limit ansteigenden Luftmasse bei Leerlauf wird aus dem internen Kupplungsstellerweg der Tastpunkt indiziert.; The method involves monitoring the flow rate of the air fed into the engi...

The invention relates to a method comprising the following steps: securely locking the closing device (11) of a goods container (10) by means of a goods receiver and by storing an access code in the storage device (12); storing a delivery code on a data carrier; delivering the goods to the location of the goods container (10), reading-out the delivery code from the data carrier by means of the rea...