The method involves moving the armature (4) in an oscillatory manner between the pole faces (12,13) of two electromagnetic coils (8,9) against the force of at least one restoring spring (7,11) by alternately passing current through the electromagnetic coils and carrying out 3-point regulation. A neutral value, preferably null, of a control parameter, especially a voltage applied to a coil of an el...

The method involves moving the armature (4) in an oscillatory manner between the pole faces of two electromagnetic coils (8,9) against the force of at least one restoring spring (7) by alternately passing current through the electromagnetic coils and carrying out regulation taking into account the change in direction of the magnetic flux in the armature. The change in direction is achieved by reve...

The shredder has a slowly turning shredding roller (14) with peripherally spread out shredding tools (14) which can be fitted on tool holders on the roller whilst counter cutters are fitted on tool holders of counter cutter tool supports and are fixed by spring-loaded securing bolts. The securing bolts pass through an opening in the tool holders and are supported with spring tension against the op...

The coupling has coupling halves with connection flanges, which are connected together by a packet of ring plates (1) that are fixed against rotation and move axially and at an angle to each other. The plate packet is fixed to connection flanges by alternating peripheral fixing and clamp devices. The ring plate has four fixing bores (5) arranged evenly about a circle. The width of the ring plate s...

A filter (2; 24) for a fuel injection device, comprising a plurality of filter elements (4; 25) arranged within a housing (1; 20) such that, in use, fluid is directed through clearances (4a; 26) of predetermined size between respective mutually adjacent ones of the elements (4; 25) for preventing the passage of oversized contaminant particles carried in the fluid.

A belt for supporting strips of deformable material includes a flexible central band onto which one or more strips of the deformable material are placed, wherein variable-configuration spacing elements are arranged along edges of the central band. The spacing elements may be air chambers. An apparatus for using the belt, a method for feeding a strip of deformable material, and a method for storing...

A device for guiding a yarn which is unwound from the front end of a yarn supply drum (2) of a yarn feeder unit for looms, which device comprises a hollow body, which is disposed co-axially and in line with the yarn supply drum, wherein the hollow body (7) has a larger diameter at its entry side facing towards the drum (2) than at its exit side facing away from the drum, and wherein the hollow bod...

A composite rotary tool includes at least first and second regions comprising first and second materials, respectively. The first and second regions are autogenously bonded and differ with respect to at least one characteristic such as, for example, modulus of elasticity, hardness, wear resistance, fracture toughness, tensile strength, corrosion resistance, coefficient of thermal expansion, or coe...

A control system for a vehicle including a continuously variable transmission (10) is constructed: such that a target output of a prime mover (1) for achieving a target driving force is determined on the basis of the target driving force; such that a target output speed is determined on the basis of the target output; such that a gear ratio of the continuously variable transmission is controlled s...

A portable, motorized apparatus for winding flexible hoses, lines, cables an d the like into spools for storage. The apparatus includes a motor assembly th at drives a spool. The apparatus can receive hoses from either side, and can be mounted on a vehicle hitch receiver at different heights to accommodate different operators and terrains.

The invention relates to a non-woven fibre mat as semi-finished product, containing an engineering thermoplastic as fusion fibre and a reinforcement fibre, a method for production of such a non-woven fibre mat and fibre composite materials produced from said non-woven fibre mat.

Vorrichtung zur Beatmung mit einem doppellumigen Endotrachealtubus mit einem Ansatzstück am patientenfernen Ende, in das die beiden Lumina des Endotrachealtubus hineingeführt sind, wobei sie im Ansatzstück durch eine axiale Trennwand voneinander getrennt sind, einem Verbinder mit zwei Schlauchanschlüssen, die in einer Aufnahme für das Anschlussstück zusammengeführt und durch eine weitere axiale Tr...

The invention relates to a buoyant board (10) for water sports. The board includes a vertically flattened elongated body (12). The body has a lower face (14) for contact with water, and an upper face (16) for supporting a person, the lower face and the upper face meeting along a peripheral edge (18) of the body. The body is constituted by a pair of end parts (20, 22) and at least one intermediate ...

The object of the invention is an LPG fuel system for petrol injection engines, which, firstly, provides LPG in the liquid phase to the engine, at a constant pressure, and, secondly, envisages mechanical, eletronic or electromechanical devices for preventing the petrol from reaching the engine when this is powered by LPG, and mechanical, eletronic or electromechanical devices for preventing the LP...

A method of manufacturing an armature assembly for a valve includes providing powdered metal. The powdered metal is then placed in a die having a cavity defining the shape of an armature core. Pressure is then applied to the powdered metal in the die so as to compact the powdered metal into the shape of the armature core. The powdered metal of the armature core is then heated so as to bond the pow...

The invention concerns a method for mapping a zone to be treated, which consists in ensuring co-operation between two processing modules: one module analyzing/identifying then incrementally assembling different elementary zones scanned by the device so as to form a mapping of the zone to be treated, characterized in that the surface of each elementary zone is analyzed/identified by its visual aspe...

There is provided an insertion protection system (10) for controlling access of a recording medium (20) into an apparatus (100) operable to read data from and/or to write data to the medium (20). The medium (20) includes one or more identifying features (315; 405). Moreover, the apparatus (100) includes an interrogation arrangement (300, 310, 320, 350, 360; 400, 420, 425, 430, 440) for interrogati...

Ski binding heel unit includes lateral release cams and a vector decoupler mechanism that provide lateral shear release of the heel of a ski boot from a ski. The ski binding heel unit includes an independent vertical heel release mechanism, independent lateral release mechanism and a forward pressure compensator. The lateral release cams have laterally outwardly flaring contact points. The vector ...

The present invention is directed to a method of predicting a response to a chemotherapeutic regimen based on loss of heterozygosity at the thymidylate synthase locus in cancer tissue. This method comprises determining normal tissue genotype for thymidylate synthase of a patient; determining tumor tissue genotype for thymidylate synthase of said patient; comparing the normal tissue genotype with t...