A process of making polytrimethylene terephthalate staple fibers, comprising (a) providing polytrimethylene terephthalate, (b) melt spinning the melted polytrimethylene terephthalate at a temperature of 245-285° C. into filaments, (c) quenching the filaments, (d) drawing the quenched filaments, (e) crimping the drawn filaments using a mechanical crimper at a crimp level of 8-30 crimps per inch (3-...

An actuator, preferably a linear actuator for furniture, comprises a brake spring (20) in the form of a helical spring having a plurality of windings wound around a cylindrical element (10) of plastics rotatable at least during braking, said spring being tightened around the cylindrical element for braking. The frictional heat generated hereby can cause the plastics to be deformed, which adversely...

The invention relates to a control device (HC) for operating one or more foot pedal control devices (26; 26) in a vehicle. According to the invention, the control device (HC) comprises means (11, 20, 22; 11, 21 23) for transmitting the movement and force, exerted by the driver by his/her own muscular strength on the actuator (13) of the control device (HC), hydrostatically to the foot pedal contro...

The draw ratio and/or rate of stretch of HDPE in film orientation can be increased, or the breakage frequency at a given draw ratio and draw rate decreased by the addition of an orientation improving amount of a normally solid fatty carboxylic acid having a melting point lower than the orientation temperature of the film.

The invention relates to a process for the production of expanded or expandable polyolefin beads by impregnating polyolefin granules with a volatile blowing agent in suspension under pressure. As suspension aid, use is made of a mixture of a water-insoluble inorganic compound and a surfactant, and the impregnation is carried out in the presence of a surface-active polymer carrying carboxyl or carb...

Composite glass with films based on partially acetalated polyvinyl alcohol containing a softening agent, especially PVB based, as an intermediate layer with magnesium salts or calcium salts of organic acids as an adhesion-reducing additive (anti-adhesive agent) exhibit large amounts of fluctions with regard to adhesion when the composite glass is subjected to thermal stress. According to the inven...

A controllable gas-lift well having controllable gas-lift valves and sensors for detecting flow regime is provided. The well uses the tubing and casing to communicate with and power the controllable valve from the surface. Ferromagnetic chokes at the surface and downhole electrically isolate the tubing from the casing. A high band-width, adaptable spread spectrum communication system is used to co...

A first set of apparatus is arranged for transmitting data from a point in a cased section of a well (1, 3) to a remote location. The apparatus may be used as a relay station (6) to increase operational depth. Signals are applied to and received from the string (1) at the relay station (6) and a selected length of the string (1) is provided with insulating spacer means (9) on either side of the re...

A petroleum well having a wireless power and data communication system is provided. The well uses the tubing and/or casing to communicate with and power a plurality of devices, such as sensors and controllable valves. An electrically isolating portion of a tubing hanger at the surface of the well and a ferromagnetic choke downhole may electrically isolate the tubing from the casing and provide a c...

A host system such as a performance management system (1) uses an integration engine (18) to automatically capture data from external systems such as a switch. The engine (18) allows the user to configure it for population of columns in a data container according to simple or advanced filtering mappings. Data is further consolidated according to agents in containers associated with the external sy...

A delivery system comprises a docking station and an element for releasably connecting to the docking station. The element is preferably a chain or cable which serves to both hold closed a transportable container and plug into the docking station. A keypad or card reader is provided so that a recipient can remove the plug from the docking station and gain access to the delivered goods in the conta...

An electronic greetings system arranged to transmit electronic greetings, comprising at least one server (12(n), 14(n), 16(n), 18(n); n=1, ..., N) and at least one database (30(n)) storing at least data regarding a plurality of electronic greetings components, the at least one server (12(n), 14(n), 16(n), 18(n); n=1, ..., N) being arranged to: receive a first message from a user to select an elec...

Concrete comprising water and cement in which the aggregates of sand and stones wholly or partially are substituted by crushed glass, the substantial part of the sand fraction being substituted either by glass of a grain size of 0-5 mm, by a non alkali reactive mineral with said grain size, or by a combination of said two types of fractions. The substantial part of the stone fraction is substitute...

Process for producing regular porous pearl cellulose with a particle size in the range from 2 to 1,000 mum, comprising the steps:a) a cellulose having a degree of polymerisation in the range from 150 to 2,000 is dissolved in a solvent to form a solution of 0.5 to 25% by mass, b) the cellulose solution is finely divided and dispersed in a dispersant which is immiscible with said solution and has a ...

Method with which a mobile user can confirm a transaction with a service provider, in which: an offer of said service provider is reproduced with the mobile device of said mobile user, said mobile user selects said offer with input means of his mobile device, a transaction confirmation is automatically forwarded from said mobile device to an authentication server, a plurality of transactions betwe...

According to a first aspect of the present invention, a plurality of PN junctions are formed at the surface of a semiconductor substrate under a belt-like conductive film having a spiral shape which constitutes an inductance device. A reverse bias voltage is applied to the PN junctions, and the surface of the substrate is completely depleted. Since the reverse bias voltage is applied to the PN jun...

A ferroelectric capacitor with a ferroelectric film having a relatively larger amount of titanium constituent than zinconate constituent improves ferroelectric characteristics. The method for fabricating the ferroelectric capacitor includes the step of performing a heat treatment in an oxygen atmosphere after forming a contact opening in an insulating layer which covers an already formed ferroelec...

The crystallinity of non-monocrystalline silicon necks that connect monocrystalline silicon hemispherical grains to an underlying electrode on an integrated circuit substrate is increased. Preferably, the non-monocrystalline silicon necks are crystallized. By crystallizing the non-monocrystalline silicon necks, the necks may be made more resistant to breaking and detaching during subsequent cleani...

The wheel axle (15) is supported by the casing (13) of the motor unit. The motor unit includes an internal combustion engine. The casing has a separating wall which divides the interior of the casing into left and right sided parts across the width of the vehicle and allows the output shaft (4) of the engine to pass through it. The separating wall is positioned adjacent to a plane that forms one ...

A personalised network service access system has an access unit (30) with a data base (80) containing client service subscription data that use the IP (Internet Protocol) address provided to the database by an authentication unit (60) for client identification to mark (100) data packets from a client terminal (10) in the type of service or option field for routing (90) to servers (1,2, 3) and also...