A lounge chair having a seat portion, an adjustable back portion rotatable about a transverse axis through roughly a 9° angle from upright to flat, and an adjustable support associated with said back portion.The lounge chair preferably has a manually accessible lever extending from the side of the seating area to the adjustable support conventionally associated with the back to engage and re-engag...

An excisional biopsy device and method are disclosed. The device can include a probe housing having a rotatable RF loop cutter mounted at the distal end of the probe, and the RF loop cutter can include at least one electrode supplied with an RF actuating signal for cutting tissue. A rotational drive and specimen containment sheath can also be included.

An improved electrochemical sensor having a base bearing a working and counter electrode which provides a flow path for a fluid test sample. The working and counter electrodes are configured so that a major portion of the counter electrode is located downstream on the flow path from the working electrode with the exception of a small sub-element of the counter electrode which is in electrical comm...

The present invention relates to a coated film comprising a polyester film having a coat on at least one side thereof, obtained by applying on at least one side of a polyester film a coating solution containing (1) a self-emulsifiable isocyanate having repeating units of ethylene oxide and two or more isocyanate groups, and (2) at least one polymer selected from the group consisting of polyesters,...

An ester polyurethane foam is prepared by reacting a mixture of one or more polyester polyols with one or more isocyanates and one or more silicone surfactants in the presence of a blowing agent, such as water, and other additives, such as catalysts. The cured foam is chemically treated in a caustic solution and is then felted (compressed under heat and pressure) to form a hydrophilic ester polyur...

A robot cleaner, a system thereof, and a method for controlling the same. The robot cleaner system includes a robot cleaner that performs a cleaning operation while communicating wirelessly with an external device. The robot cleaner has a plurality of proximity switches arranged in a row on a lower portion of the cleaner body. A guiding plate is disposed in the floor of the work area, the guiding ...

In a swarm weapon system, decision-making processes are described for the organization of mobile robotic vehicles (MRVs). After MRV drone sensor data is provided to a lead MRV, an initial decision is made by the lead MRV as a result of the selection of a winning simulation that provides the best opportunity for success of a mission. Once this decision is made, actions are organized for the MRVs, w...

A method of controlling uniformity during tire manufacture includes the steps of selecting a target attribute and assigning a target value thereto, measuring the target attribute in a subject tire at a first rotational speed approximating highway speed and measuring in the subject tire indicator attributes a second rotational speed lower than the first rotational speed. The indicator attributes ar...

A programmatic time-gap defect correction apparatus and method corrects errors which may go undetected by a computer system. Buffer underruns or overruns, which may incur errors in data transfers, yet remain undetected and uncorrected in a computer system, are corrected by an error avoidance module in accordance with the invention. Bytes transferred to and from buffers, used by an I/O controllers ...

The present invention provides a method in a data processing system for monitoring a plurality of related threads. The plurality of related threads is polled for status information. Responsive to receiving the status information, A determination is made as to whether a thread within a plurality of related threads is active. Responsive to an absence of a determination that a thread within the plura...

An electrosurgical tool (10) comprises a retractable cutting blade (34) movable along a linear cutting path and an electrical energy supply source (26) which communicates electrical energy (e.g. radio frequency energy) through the cutting blade (34) and to tissue adjacent the cutting blade. During surgical procedures the electrosurgical cutting device (10) is able to simultaneously cut tissue and ...

A waterproof and, at the same time, breathable and antistatic film produced without a support by extrusion, the film having a DIN friction coefficient of less than 0.8 and consisting of thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer resins with a melt flow rate, as measured at 190.degree.C under a load of 10 kg, of at most 70, the soft segment of the elastomer resins consisting of polyethylene oxide and/or ...

"UTILIZAçãO DE PELO MENOS UM FRAGMENTO POLINUCLEOTìDICO, DE PELO MENOS UM MARCADOR E DE UMA COMBINAçãO DE PELO MENOS DOIS FRAGMENTOS POLINUCLEOTìDICOS, PROCESSO PARA O DIAGNóSTICO DE UMA PREDISPOSIçãO AO ENCANECIMENTO PRECOCE EM UM INDIVìDUO, E, KIT". Utilização de pelo menos um fragmento polinucleotídico compreendendo pelo menos 18 nucleotídeos consecutivos cuja seq³ência corresponde a todo a par...

"MéTODO PARA APERFEIçOAR A PROCESSABILIDADE DE PRé-MISTURAS DE ESPUMA". Um método para aperfeiçoar a processabilidade de pré-misturas de espuma que contêm HFC e/ou agentes de sopro a base de pentano em polióis é proporcionado, cujo método consiste em adicionar trans-1,2dicloroetileno à pré-mistura citada em uma quantidade eficaz para intensificar a processabilidade citada.; A method for improving ...

"MéTODO PARA CURAR PNEUS E UM MOLDE DE PNEU DE TRAVA AUTOMáTICA". Um molde segmentado 2 para moldar um pneu 100 que é descrito possui um eixo geométrico central; uma pluralidade de segmentos que formam a banda de rodagem radialmente móvel; duas placas que formam o costado, uma placa que forma o costado superior 8, e uma placa que forma o costado inferior 6; um anel de trava superior 10 que possui ...

The invention relates to a brake actuator, especially for a rail vehicle brake, comprising a service brake unit with a brake force generator for applying and/or releasing the brake, an accumulator brake unit with an energy accumulator device for accumulating and delivering energy for applying the brake as an operative emergency brake and/or as a parking brake, and a force conversion device for con...

A self-service terminal (14) having a port (78) for transferring data is described. The terminal (14) includes a program (94) for informing a user about one or more electronic collectables (100) that a user can request, and for transferring a requested electronic collectable (100) to the user. The electronic collectables (100) typically comprise an image (104), an associated description (106) of t...

A laser treatment apparatus for performing treatment by irradiating a part to be treated by a laser beam for treatment is disclosed. This apparatus includes a laser source which emits the treatment laser beam; a multi-articulated arm for delivering the treatment laser beam emitted from the laser source, the arm including a plurality of light delivery pipes at least one of which is axially extensib...

A cement composition of an environmental impact reducing type, used in the field of civil engineering and construction, which provides initial strength-development equal to that of ordinary Portland cement and which can reduce the clinker calcination amount, is provided. A cement composition containing Portland cement having a 3CaO.SiO2 content of at least 60% and a slowly cooled blast furnace sla...

It is to provide a block copolymer and its copolymer composition which provides a heat shrinkable (multilayer) film with less spontaneous shrinkage while maintaining favorable low temperature shrinkability, and a heat shrinkable (multilayer) film containing the block copolymer. By using a block copolymer comprising a vinyl aromatic hydrocarbon and a conjugated diene characterized in that the relat...