There is proposed a method including the associated apparatus for severing foils which have a decorative layer on a carrier film, wherein firstly the decorative layer is removed by means of laser radiation along a removal track. Then the carrier film is severed by a blade which engages the carrier film in the removal track.

A nonwoven fiber and fabric are provided wherein the fabric has comparable strength characteristics to conventional fabrics yet is softer. The fibers are are a blend of a high crystallinity polypropylene polymer and a random block copolymer of polypropylene and polyethylene. The fabric of this invention may be laminated to other spunbond layers, meltblown nonwoven fabrics or films. The nonwoven fa...

"CAIXA DE CORREIO ELETRôNICA DE SEGURANçA E SISTEMA LOGíSTICO". Dita caixa de correio compreendendo uma pluralidade de compartimentos eletrônicos, sendo atribuído um módulo de serviço respectivamente a vários compartimentos eletrônicos, e sendo que está prevista uma unidade central para controlar os módulos de serviço.; A device and system include a plurality of electronic boxes for packets, sever...

A method of predicting the lymphotropic metastatic potential of a solid non-lymphoid tumor. The percentage of cells of each of a plurality of representative samples of the tumor which express lymphoid gene products is determined. The metastatic potential is predicted to be low when no tumor cells in all of the samples are detected to express lymphoid gene products. The metastatic potential is pred...

The present invention provides compositions comprising an HFC component and a non-HFC component consisting essentially of methanol, having boiling points that are unexpectedly low and relatively constant, and uses thereof.

A flexible isocyanate-based polymeric foam which has: (i) low resiliency; (ii) a Tg less than or equal to about 0° C.; and (iii) a change in tan delta less than or equal to about 35% from a median value measured over a temperature range of from about -20° to about +60° C. The foam may be produced using a formulation comprising selected plasticizers as set in the disclosure. The subject foam is les...

Systems and methods are described for the execution and authoring of policies that use event rates for event management. The first system addresses policy execution. Included in this system are: a controller that provides overall operational control, a grouping engine, a rate detector, and a rate diagnoser. The second system automates the construction of event rate policies based on primary inform...

The present invention provides an OAM tool that enables a network operator to trace the path that an Ethernet frame traverses through bridges in a bridge Ethernet LAN. Each bridge within the LAN has a control plane which examines a query message received from a previous node and determines the next node in the route to a destination. The identity of the next node is returned to the source together...

Myocardial revascularization is performed by an apparatus and method which forms channels in the myocardium from inside the ventricular cavity without penetrating the full thickness of the ventricular wall. A catheter has a fiber optic connected at its handling end to a laser, and terminates at the insertable end of the catheter. A servomotor controls the advancing of the fiber to stop positions r...

"PNEU PARA RODAS DE VEìCULO E PROCESSO PARA PRODUZIR O MESMO". Pneu para rodas de veículos, compreendendo: uma estrutura de carcaça tendo pelo menos uma lona de carcaça formada em uma configuração substancialmente toroidal, cujas bordas laterais opostas estão associadas com os respectivos arames do talão; uma estrutura de cinta compreendendo pelo menos uma tira de cinta aplicada em uma posição cir...

"COMPOSIçõES DE AGENTE DE EXPANSãO PARA ESPUMAS A BASE DE HIDROFLUOROCARBONETO E DE ESPUMA DE POLIURETANO". São proporcionadas combinações de agente de expansão para espumas contendo trans-1,2-dicloroetileno e um ou mais hidrofluorocarbonetos, como também o são composições contendo essas combinações. As espumas resultantes apresentam uma dramática melhoria do que diz respeito ao desempenho em rela...

The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for covering printed products with a packaging material in the form of a continuous packaging material web, especially a plastic film. In each case, at least two printed products are deposited beside each other on the packaging material web by means of a feed device. In each case, at least two printed products lying beside each other are covered s...

A component of a plasma reactor chamber for processing a semiconductor workpiece, the component being a monolithic ceramic piece formed from a mixture of yttrium aluminum perovskite (YAP) and yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG) formed from a mixture of yttria and alumina powders, the ratio the powders in said mixture being within a range between one ratio at which at least nearly pure yttrium aluminum p...

A clutch pack actuation system for compressing the annular clutch pack of a limited slip differential includes a pump which can provide a supply of pressurized fluid, an annular member provided between the pump and the annular clutch pack, and an annular piston which is slidable within the annular member. Together with the annular member, the annular piston defines a clutch pressure chamber adapte...

A rear axle assembly for a primary front wheel drive motor vehicle includes two electromagnetic clutches and a geared differential. A first electromagnetic clutch provides torque to the geared differential which, in turn, provides drive torque to two axles. The geared differential includes a second electromagnetic clutch operably disposed between the differential cage and the output shafts (axles)...

A laser beam projector equipped with a CCD camera for taking a picture of a spot for treatment, thus permitting observation of the spot by sight. The laser beam projector has an annular projection formed around a circular hole made on the front of its casing, and a trapezoid heat sink is fitted in the circular hole with its base caught by the circumference of the annular projection. The annular pr...

An apparatus for treating water contaminated with metal sulfates and sulfuric acid such as acid mine drainage (AMD) which in part recycles high pH effluent from later steps in the process back to the earlier steps of the process. The recycled high pH effluent added with magnesium hydroxide to the entering AMD generates precipitates separable from the stream to leave sulfate ladened water. A tangen...

Process for treating a flexible bi-constituent self-demolding silicone membrane used as a counterform particularly for resin transfer molding. The membrane is coated with a thin layer of at least one monoconstituent silicone which is a polysiloxane cross-linkable at ambient temperature in the presence of the moisture in air. The polysiloxane corresponds to the formula (I):in which:the substituents...

The invention relates to thermoplastic polyolefin compositions having enhanced surface durability and products thereof which include a thermoplastic polyolefin base component at least one radiation-crosslinkable component present in an amount sufficient to enhance the surface durability of the thermoplastic polyolefin component when radiation-cured and at least one photoinitiator present in an amo...

Environmentally safe, e.g. biodegradable, paint stripper compositions comprising 10-99 parts dimethyl esters of C4-C6 aliphatic dibasic acids, 0.1-40 parts polyvinyl butyral and 1-90 parts water. The compositions can be mixed, e.g. in high shear to provide stable emulsions which strip paint, e.g. varnish from wood. Certain embodiments of the invention also comprise water soluble organic solvents, ...