The invention relates to an endotracheal or tracheotomy tube with a central lumen (2) for supplying and carrying off respiratory air. The tube comprises the following: an inflatable sealing cuff (3) which surrounds the tube (1); a pipe for supplying compressed air to the cuff (3); an aspiration duct (6) situated above or below the cuff (3) and ending outside the tube (1); and a supply pipe (7), wh...

The invention relates to an endotracheal or tracheotomy tube with a central lumen (2) for supplying and carrying off respiratory air. The tube comprises the following: an inflatable sealing cuff (3) which surrounds the tube (1); a pipe for supplying compressed air to the cuff (3); an aspiration duct (6) situated above or below the cuff (3) and ending outside the tube (1); and a supply pipe (7), wh...

A driverless transport system for transporting loads comprises a transport surface (7), an assembly line (1) movable relative to the transport surface, and at least one driverless transport vehicle (8) for transporting a load between the transport surface and the movable assembly line. The driverless transport vehicle is provided with three axles including a forward axle and a rearward axle which ...

Hydrofluoropolyether foaming agents selected from: difluoromethoxy-bis(difluoromethyl ether) of formula HCF2OCF2OCF2H; and/or 1-difluoromethoxy-1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethyl difluoromethyl ether of formula HCF2OCF2CF2OCF2H.

The startup is controlled by a state machine (1) dedicated to initialization. This machine is formed from combinatorial and sequential logic components timed by the clock signal and presenting illegal states and combinations. A logic circuit (2) detects these illegal states and combinations, and a logic circuit (3) responds to this by sending an initialization signal to the principal circuit.

Stable aqueous emulsions of epoxy resins are provided using an epoxy-functional surfactant prepared by reacting an amidoamine having formulae (I), (II) and (III), wherein R<1> is an alkyl, aryl, or arylaklyl group or mixtures thereof having 1 to 15 carbon atoms, R<2> is aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, or aromatic group having 2 to 18 carbon atoms optionally containing non-reactive oxygen or at most an ...

Stable aqueous emulsions of epoxy resins are provided using an epoxy-functional surfactant prepared by reacting an amidoamine having formulae (I), (II) and (III), wherein R<1> is an alkyl, aryl, or arylaklyl group or mixtures thereof having 1 to 15 carbon atoms, R<2> is aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, or aromatic group having 2 to 18 carbon atoms optionally containing non-reactive oxygen or at most an ...

The gearbox (10) has parallel primary (14) and secondary (16) shafts, with the primary shaft connected to the vehicle engine by a torsion bar (38) lying coaxially with the gearbox and equipped with a friction damper (54). The torsion bar fits inside a bore (36) in the primary shaft and has a splined forward (40) and rear ends engaging with the engine and primary shaft. The damper has a friction sl...

A method for detecting slippery ground in a vehicle with automatic transmission includes detecting the instantaneous running conditions, with the aid of at least one parameter that represents the existence of slippery ground; on the basis of this detection, generating, by counting, a value that represents the change in running conditions as a function of time; comparing the value with reference co...

A kind of manufacturing method for semiconductor device especially regarding to the etching method for strong dielectric, high dielectric constant material and platinum. The method is to form insulation film on the semiconductor substrate; sequentially forming lower platinum layer, strong dielectric film, upper platinum layer and titanium film and forming the photosensitive anti-erosion agent mask...

The transformer comprises four flat layers of conductor lines, with links forming windings. The integrated circuit transformer comprises four levels of conducting lines (12,12,14,16) separated by first, second and third insulating layers. A set of conducting links (34) extend across the second insulating layer (56), linking together the second and third conducting lines, and forming with them a fi...

Procedure comprises detection of a potential obstacle by processing images generated by the camera, then calculation of the distance (x) between the camera and the object by analysis of the object displacement in the images allowing for the displacement of the vehicle carrying the camera. A procedure is then followed to determine if there is sufficient parking space. It is decided if the object wi...

The packaging has a flat section to allow printing. It has two layers (1,5) with a flat magnetic detector layer (2) between them. The layers are fixed together by gluing and the detector layer can be formed of a metal wire.

The apparatus comprises a pump for extracting a fraction of the liquid and re-injecting it in the form of a jet (j) under pressure to form bubbles, while the gas (G) is supplied to the surface of the liquid. The jet agitates a floating device. The apparatus contains two floats (2) in parallel, connected by a plate which supports the pump. The floats protect the means of re-injecting the liquid and...

The invention relates to a fuel injection system having an electrically actuatable injection pump which comprises a pre-stroke actuator for setting the start of injection and a flow rate actuator for setting the injection quantity. A control unit for controlling the injection quantity and start of injection emits an actuation signal which starts injection to the flow rate actuator, and an actuatio...

A cache system supports a re-sizable software-managed fast scratch pad that is implemented as a cache-slice. A processor register indicates the size and base address of the scratch pad. Instructions which facilitate use of the scratch pad include a prefetch instruction which loads multiple lines of data from external memory into the scratch pad and a writeback instruction which writes multiple lin...

This invention relates to a joint prosthesis. The joint prosthesis has an anchoring means (1, 51, 100) arranged to be placed in a bone to rest against and be supported by an inside surface of the cortical bone layer. The anchoring means (1, 51, 100) may be placed in a bore along an extra medullary axis of a bone, such as the femur (F), and be supported by the cortical bone layer distal from the hi...

The invention concerns a method for regenerating a hydrogenation catalyst, and hydrogenation methods carried out with a catalyst comprising at least one regenerated catalyst. More particularly, it concerns a method for regenerating Raney catalysts used in total or partial hydrogenating processes of compounds comprising nitrile functions into amine functions. Said method consists in treating the sp...

The package is used for cooking items such as precooked frozen potato chips. The package has at least one flat face (1) that is placed on the plate or grill of the oven, and an opposing face (2). The two faces are provided with openings (3) that allow the heat of the oven to penetrate into the package, and they also allow vapor formed during cooking to escape from the package. The openings have a ...

Apparatus, method and computer program product are provided for digitally processing an encrypted data stream scrambled, for example, according to content scrambling system (CSS) technology. This digital processing insured against communication of clear data within the computer system from a central processing unit (CPU) to any accessible structure, such as memory or a system bus. Descrambling of ...