A telecommunications transmission system is adapted to operate as a platform for an agent-based electronic market. The telecommunications system includes a plurality of user terminals arranged for connection to the Internet, at least one service provider server, and a plurality of electronic shops. The telecommunications transmission system can support agent-based market interactions between a plu...

A telecommunications transmission system is adapted to operate as a platform for an agent-based electronic market. The telecommunications system includes a plurality of user terminals arranged for connection to the Internet, at least one service provider server, and a plurality of electronic shops. The telecommunications transmission system can support agent-based market interactions between a plu...

The invention provides a telecommunications transmission system adapted to operate as a platform for an agent-based electronic market and including a plurality of user terminals arranged for connection to the Internet, at least one service provider server, and a plurality of electronic shops. The platform is arranged to support agent-based market interactions between a plurality of agent types, an...

The invention provides a telecommunications transmission system adapted to operate as a platform for an agent-based electronic market and including a plurality of user terminals arranged for connection to the Internet, at least one service provider server, and a plurality of electronic shops. The platform is arranged to support agent-based market interactions between a plurality of agent types, an...

The invention relates to a brake joint for a prosthesis, in particular, to a brake-action knee joint for a leg prosthesis. There is an upper joint part, a lower joint part, and a joint shaft for pivotally connecting the upper and lower joint parts. The joint shaft is connected to the lower joint part in a rotatably fixed manner and is designed as a brake shaft. The joint shaft is surrounded by a b...

A tire pressure and temperature measurement system adapts a Y-block (30) to an existing valve stem (20). One branch (44) of the Y-block accepts a conventional valve core (42) and another branch (38) accepts a flexible tubular temperature sensor (36) that leads "down the throat" of the existing valve stem and into the interior of a tire (14, 18). Another embodiment is adapted for use on inside dual...

The present invention relates to compounds, methods and pharmaceutical compositions for inhibiting proteases, particularly serine proteases, and more particularly HCV NS3 proteases. The compounds, and the compositions and_methods that utilize them, can be used, either alone or in combination to inhibit viruses, particularly HCV virus.

The present invention relates to a method and an arrangement to mitigate damage to a rotary cultivator type mine clearer. In the event of detonations, triggered by the mine clearance tool, the present invention acts to mitigate damage to the mine-clearing tool, the mechanical mine clearer drive function, and its suspension. Detonation forces are, in a first stage, damped by hydraulic and/or mechan...

The present invention relates to a method and an arrangement to mitigate damage to a rotary cultivator type mine clearer. In the event of detonations, triggered by the mine clearance tool, the present invention acts to mitigate damage to the mine-clearing tool, the mechanical mine clearer drive function, and its suspension. Detonation forces are, in a first stage, damped by hydraulic and/or mechan...

Base or mattress support (12) for a bed (10). Side rails (20, 21) and associated side slat support members (22, 23) support a plurality of compression springs (26). End rails (13, 14) support a central slat support member (30) which runs parallel to the longitudinal axis of the bed (10). A plurality of intermediate slat support members (31, 32, 33, 34) are positioned between the central slat suppo...

A multifocal ocular lens having a vision correction area which consists of a central, an intermediate, and an outer vision correction region having respective different values of an optical power, and which has an optical axis with which centers of the central and outer vision correction regions are aligned, the central and outer vision correction regions having respectively determined first and s...

A subscriber of a public switched telecommunications network may gain direct access his/her voice station set (12) to the Internet (14) by first accessing a special platform (16) in the telephone network. The special platform (16) serves to validate the subscriber, and upon validation, converts a entered address label, entered by the subscriber via DTMF or voice, into a corresponding TCP/IP addres...

A thin orthotic insert having a rigid rearfoot plate and a flexible forefoot cushion which are joined together without requiring a separate top cover. A connection is formed by a slot at the forward edge of the plate which receives and holds the rearward edge of the cushion layer. The rearfoot plate may be formed as a laminated structure, with forward edges of the upper and lower laminate layers b...

Dispositif distributeur modulaire de poche de médicaments (1), constitué d'un module principal (2) fait de deux compartiments (2a, 2b) contenant des moyens électroniques de mémorisation, de calcul et de restitution de données concernant la distribution des médicaments de chaque compartiment, le module principal (2) comportant des moyens de visualisation de données (3) et des moyens avertisseurs (6...

Procédé de mise en oeuvre d'un pilulier électronique de poche à compartiments multiples, dont chaque compartiment est amovible et équipé d'un dispositif de distribution à l'unité de médicaments, adaptable à des formes galéniques, et des tailles différentes, caractérisé en ce qu'il comporte une étape de rédaction (601) d'une ordonnance ; une étape de codage et de chargement d'un fichier d'ordonnanc...

A lithium secondary battery uses an organic electrolyte solution and includes a battery case, an internal electrode body contained in a battery case and including a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a separator made of porous polymer. The positive electrode and the negative electrode are wound or laminated so that the positive electrode and negative electrode are not brought into direct...

La présente invention concerne un pilulier électronique de poche à compartiments multiples comportant un circuit électronique à microprocesseur (1) contrôlant une mémoire (4) destinée à contenir l'ordonnance, un circuit (60) de commande d'un dispositif d'affichage (61), un voyant d'indications du compartiment à utiliser (81a à 81e) pour chaque compartiment, des moyens (3) de chargement de la mémoi...

Spectrometer with an optical arrangement for the capturing of light to be measured and the separation thereof into spectral portions with a light entry, a reflecting diffraction grating and an exit surface from which the spectrally separated light to be measured exits, whereby the optical arrangement (O) includes an at least partially essentially transparent carrier body (T) which is defined by tw...

This invention discloses an emulsion styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) that can be employed in manufacturing tire tread formulations that have rolling resistance and treadwear characteristics that are similar to those made with solution SBR but with improved traction characteristics. Thus, the emulsion SBR of this invention is superior in many respects for use in tire tread compounds to conventional ...