A drill bit insert has a cylindrical barrel, a bevel on one end, an interface therebetween, and a cutting tip opposite the bevel. The bevel and interface contact the entrance to a hole in the drill bit and facilitate the transition of the barrel into the hole. A high quality surface finish on the bevel and interface enhance the durability and retention of the insert in the drill bit. The surface f...

Lasers can be used to machine glassy planar light wave circuits, and to alter performance by local heating or exposure to UV radiation. Features such as facets may be machined by first ablating the feature using a laser and then polishing using a longer wave length laser. Local heating may be used to expand the mode of the waveguide in the region of a facet. Local exposure to UV radiation may be u...

The present invention relates to methods of treating a BRCA associated disorder, particularly a BRCA1 associated cancer. The invention also provides a method of diagnosis or prognosis of the disorder, preferably a BRCA-1 associated cancer and methods of determining suitable treatment regimes for the disorder or cancer. The invention also provides a transgenic animal useful as a model for testing p...

The information device has a touch screen and a control device with a memory. At lest part of the memory is non-volatile. Information produced by the navigation system which is dependent on the location is transmitted to the information device via connecting elements, and the control device stores the information in the non-volatile sections of the memory. The connecting elements are releasable, a...

The present invention relates to a method of making a PcBN cutting tool insert. The method includes the following steps: mixing raw material powders i.e. cBN and one or more of hBN(hexagonal boron nitride), TiC, TiN, Ti(C,N), WC, W, C, Co, Co2Al9, Al, AlN, Al2O3) with a liquid (e.g. ethanol) and a pressing agent (e.g. polyethylene glycol, PEG) to form a homogeneous slurry with desired compositio...

A method and apparatus for use with a multi-row CT fan beam system for collecting data in a high speed mode and for using data corresponding to halfscans in order to generate images within one or more image planes wherein, for each beam angle corresponding to an image plane data is generated by interpolating and/or extrapolating between simultaneously collected data wherein simultaneously collecte...

The invention relates to an apparatus for cutting food products. The apparatus includes a support for a food product, a blade, and an intercalated sheet feeding device, which guides a free end of a continuous strip by using compressed air.

A server for changing control gains of a vehicle is disclosed. The server includes a first receiver for receiving environment data obtained by vehicles of a plurality of users running in specific areas, and a second receiver for receiving learned data obtained by a plurality of users operating vehicles, and a storage device for accumulating the environment data and the learned data. The server fur...

A coated cemented (binder alloy, e.g., cobalt-chromium alloy) tungsten carbide cutting insert that comprises a substrate and a coating. The substrate contains at least about 70 weight percent tungsten and carbon, between about 3 weight percent and about 12 weight percent cobalt, and at least 0.09 weight percent chromium. The substrate presents a surface zone of binder alloy enrichment that begins ...

A method and apparatus for generating an optimally registered working set of two-dimensional CT images in a gated CT system, the method including, where an acquisition period is divided into sequential acquisition phases, obtaining CT image data for separate phase ranges during each acquisition phase, generating phase image sets including 2D images for each phase range and selecting one phase rang...

The control accuracy is improved in the case where the sensing operation is performed by using a camera (1) and a radar (4) and a vehicle is controlled by using the sensing results. A measuring and controlling apparatus for a vehicle includes an image processing means (2) which is mounted on the vehicle, photographs a circumferential state of the vehicle and processes mage signal; a radar signal p...

An ion exchange resin catalyst containing sulfonated styrene-divinylbenzene copolymer, with special porous structure is disclosed. The catalyst is suitable for the condensation reaction between a phenol and a carbonyl compound to prepare bisphenols,especially suitable for the condensation reaction between phenol and acetone to prepare bisphenol A.

PCT No. PCT/GB97/01014 Sec. 371 Date Feb. 18, 1999 Sec. 102(e) Date Feb. 18, 1999 PCT Filed Apr. 11, 1997 PCT Pub. No. WO97/38955 PCT Pub. Date Oct. 23, 1997Process for the selective hydrogenation of alphatic or aromatic substrates under supercritical or near critical conditions. Hydrogenation is effected using a heterogeneous catalyst in a continuous flow reactor containing a supercritical or nea...

A cutting insert that has a flank face and a rake face and a cutting edge at the juncture thereof. The substrate presents a bulk region that contains a metallic binder, as well as one or more of Group IVB, Group VB, and Group VIB metal carbides and/or carbonitrides. The substrate further includes a flank surface region near the flank face of the substrate that has a solid solution metal carbide an...

The invention provides a control (15) for an electrical appliance (11) with at least one electrical operating device (13) contained in the appliance (11), the control (15) containing at least one power switching device (17). According to the invention the control (15) has a control unit (21) separate from the electrical appliance (11) and which is connected to the latter in wireless, signal-transm...

The utility model discloses secondary lead storage battery, which comprises a storage battery box 1 and a storage battery pole 2. A protection unit 3 arranged on the storage battery box 1 is connected with the storage battery pole 2, to ensure that a protection circuit is combined with the storage battery into a whole, the connection is firm, thus the utility model solves the problem that the conn...

The utility model relates to a storage battery, in particular to a lead-acid battery for double composite polar plate used in the electric bicycle and the emergency light, comprising a positive plate group and a negative plate group, which is characterized in that: the polar group of the monopole negative plate at the two ends of the storage battery forms the double composite polar plate group by ...

A cutting tool assembly wherein a cutting head is releasably retained by a tool holder by means of interacting coupling members, with one of the coupling members being inserted into a cavity of the other coupling member, with radially extending abutment wings of said one coupling member passing respectively between successive support wings of the other coupling member, rotation of the one coupling...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To manufacture a packaging container free from a molding failure and with high quality in vertically sealing overlaps of a tubelike web of a tube molding apparatus by stabilizing pressing force of the web by a pair of rollers. SOLUTION: A part of rollers in a forming roller is a pressure receiving roller 51, wherein the pressure receiving roller 51 and a pressure applying rol...

PCT No. PCT/SE96/00041 Sec. 371 Date Jul. 17, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Jul. 17, 1997 PCT Filed Jan. 18, 1996 PCT Pub. No. WO96/22249 PCT Pub. Date Jul. 25, 1996A device for distributing and dispersing highly pressurized air-saturated water, preferably for use in a flotation tank (1) of a water purification plant, is placed adjacent to inlet openings (2) through which water to be treated in the flotat...