FIELD: survey of boreholes or wells, particularly to measure specific borehole fluid resistance. ^ SUBSTANCE: borehole resistivity meter comprises metal body, detector, including exiting and measuring toroidal coils coaxially arranged inside the body, fluid intake means and borehole fluid channel formed inside the body. The channel includes sealing members and measuring section defined by bush. Th...

FIELD: measuring engineering. ^ SUBSTANCE: device comprises fluctuation flow meter having pickup for measuring density of fluid connected to the unit for processing fluctuation density, determining component flow rate, and identifying fluid type. The device for measuring flow rate of the fluid is mounted in series with the density pickup inside the path through which the fluid flows and is connect...

A location service and method provides a location aware computing device that is extensible by allowing different types of location awareness providers operate with the service. The method includes receiving a request for a location context, acquiring data associated with a current location from one or more location detection devices, reconciling the acquired data for any inconsistencies concernin...

FIELD: well drilling, particularly to supply power to bottomhole instruments and to communication link transmitter during drilling operation. ^ SUBSTANCE: electric generator has outer rotor and stator made as an axle and cavity defined in-between. The cavity is filled with liquid lubricant. At least one turbine house is installed on the stator by means of front and rear bearings. Ring made of abra...

FIELD: computer science. ^ SUBSTANCE: sub-system has two registers, block for identification of administration of transport service, block for selecting transport service documents, block for identification of treaties of transport service, block for transferring data to clients, block for selecting addresses of treaties documentations, block for forming database control signals, block for identif...

FIELD: well drilling equipment, particularly one adapted to supply power to autonomous bottomhole logging and navigational complexes. ^ SUBSTANCE: turbogenerator comprises sealed body filled with lubricating fluid, provided with outer stator and inner rotor arranged on turbogenerator shaft and upper fairing. The shaft is mounted through rolling bearings. The upper fairing has orifices formed in co...

The invention relates to a device and a method for chemically and physically separating solid materials from a suspension using flotation. A rotationally symmetrical flocculation/flow reactor is provided with outlets in the lower part thereof and is arranged in a separating tank. At least one suspension inlet extends eccentrically into said reactor. The supplied suspension is guided into said reac...

Metal lumps or pebbles are produced by introducing a molten metal stream into a stream of water in a direction which is substantially the same as the direction of the water stream and at a velocity which is substantially the same or slightly less than the velocity of the water stream.

A cDNA sequence encoding the alpha -subunit of human mast cell IgE surface receptor or an IgE binding fragment thereof.

The present invention relates to the use of hollow microspheres filled with a hydrocarbon, to introduce uniform cell geometries in syntactic foams having a bimodal cell structure. The rigid foam product includes from 20 to 80 percent by weight of the hollow microspheres, the microspheres having average diameters ranging from 80 to 200 microns. The microspheres are encapsulated from 80 to 20 percen...

A method and system for transmitting notifications to users of a logistic system. Different events within the logistic system are used to call up different modules having respectively associated functions. The modules produce notification orders which are transmitted to a central sending component, which produces notifications which correspond to orders and sends said notifications to the users.

It is described a composition comprising an effective amount of the HMGBl protein or functional parts thereof, of HMGBl expressing vectors, for the treatment of tissue damage and/or to promote tissue repair and regeneration. It is further described a composition comprising an effective amount of an antagonist of the HMGBl protein for the treatment of adverse effects induced by necrotic tissue, suc...

Hydrocarbon well probe comprises a main body (2) a downstream arm (3) and an upstream arm (5). At least one of the arms has a measuring device for determining the characteristics of fluid circulating in the well. The downstream and upstream arms are connected to the main body by first (A) and second (E) sliding pivot links, respectively. Preferred Features: The downstream arm (3) and the upstream ...

An information processing system P3 is communicably connected with multiple controlling systems P2 that promote the growth or health of living organisms by controlling at the least the light irradiated on such living organisms by a light irradiating means X1, and the environmental data produced by one controlling system P1 and concerning the beneficial environmental parameters including the light ...

In a multiple connected well, spaced apart production packers (26a-D) isolate independent zones (15-18) from one another. In each isolated production zone, a side pocket mandrel (30) with a full opening bore (40A) has lengthwise extending side by side pockets (40B, 40C, 40D) for receiving a static pressure measurement instrument or tool (90); for providing an elongated pressure differential flow p...

A method of checking for restrictions in a string of tubing formed of a plurality of tubing sections comprises providing a profile in the tubing string, providing a drift member adapted to engage with the profile, and passing the drift member through the tubing string. The method may permit a determination that the drift member has engaged with the profile prior to separating the tubing sections, ...

N-((Piperidin-2-yl)-phenylmethyl)-trifluoromethyl-benzamides (I) are new. Piperidine derivatives of formula (I), in the form of the pure (1R,2R) or (1S,2S) optical isomer or the threo-diastereomer, and their acid addition salts are new. A = N-R1, N+(R1)-O- or N+(R')R1; R1 = H, 1-7C alkyl (optionally substituted by one or more F), (3-7C) cycloalkyl-(1-3C) alkyl, phenyl-(1-3C) alkyl (optionall...

A chip card having a chip card body, a semiconductor chip and a carrier substrate, the carrier substrate being provided on both sides with surface contacts and with contact-hole lines electrically connecting the upper and lower surface contacts to one another. The contact-hole lines are arranged so close to the edge of the carrier substrate that their lower ends open out into a base of an outer ca...

An improved water resistant gypsum board is made by adding an aqueous wax emulsion containing a cationic surfactant to an aqueous slurry containing calcium sulfate and host particles at a slurry temperature which maintains calcium sulfate hemihydrate crystals. The wax emulsion is stable at the temperature of slurry which maintains the calcium sulfate hemihydrate. The slurry is then dewatered and r...

FIELD: water preparation; prevention of a crust formation. ^ SUBSTANCE: the invention is pertinent to the field of water preparation and may be used for prevention of a crust formation on the heating surfaces of the heat-exchange apparatuses, steam and water-heating boilers, for desalination and evaporation of water, in the production processes providing for cycles of evaporation of water solution...