A device and method for measuring the slope of a road on which a vehicle travels, which includes a gear position sensing member (101) for outputting a corresponding signal after sensing the gear position, or a car speed sensing member (102) for outputting a corresponding signal after a driving speed of the vehicle, an engine revolution sensing member (12) for outputting a corresponding signal afte...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make it possible to ensure the adhesion of a packaging film even if the film is run at a high speed and to lessen production loss so as to maintain a high yield by installing a temporally fixing section, film dissolving section and cooling and adhering section between a folding section and a cutting section. SOLUTION: A series of the packaging film 2 let-off from a film ro...

In apparatus and method for controlling a driving force for an automotive vehicle having an internal combustion engine, a slip condition of a driven road wheel is detected, an opening angle of an engine throttle valve so as to control the slip condition of the driven road wheel to a predetermined condition is adjusted, a target opening angle of the throttle valve according to the detected slip con...

A method of charging a nonwoven web of thermoplastic microfibers to provide electret filter media is provided. The method includes impinging on a nonwoven web of thermoplastic nonconductive microfibers capable of having a high quantity of trapped charge jets of water or a stream of water droplets at a pressure sufficient to provide the web with filtration enhancing electret charge and drying said ...

The monitor system for at least one warp (3a, 3b), especially leno warps at a loom, has a unit (5) to register the movement of at least one warp (3a, 3b) in the take-off direction, together with an electronic sensor (6).

The invention provides dual-skinned membrane useful as one way or rectifying membranes which reduce back filtration of solute molecules in dialysis and which improve nutrient supply and product recovery in membrane bioreactors. The membranes are dual-skinned polymeric materials preferably in the form of hollow fibers. The membranes have skins of polymer on the opposite sides with differing permeab...

The mill base area below the movable section, in which the cylindrical yoke (11) moves in the cylindrical wall section, (5) is divided along a separation plane (E). The separation plane runs perpendicularly to the axis (A) of rotation into an upper base section (1a) and lower base section (1b) which are detachably interconnected. The upper base section contains the cylindrical wall section and the...

The height at the loading or unloading station of is governed by a hoisted stack platform driven by an electric motor which also positions an angle-sensing arrangement which in turn controls the rate of travel of the platform. A platform carrier (1), supporting the stack of sheets (2), is lifted and lowered by means of chains (3) wound on a drum (4) rotated in either direction by a motor (6) and g...

The invention concerns a shock-absorbing shield for case transporting a portable microcomputer or other technical equipment, characterised in that it covers at least three internal edges (6), (7) and (8) of the case and is formed of a support strip (9) bearing over its whole length or locally a flexible foam lining (11) of three or four cushions (14), (15) and (17), (18) whereof the density and/or...

A device and method for treating collapsed bronchial tubes found in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma are provided. The device delivers energy so that the tissue is inductively heated by directing electromagnetic energy into the tissue. The device includes electrodes (210, 220) having adjustable diameters to enable the electrodes to contact the wall of the bronchial tu...

The present invention provides improved methods and apparatus for monitoring the delivery of radio frequency (RF) energy from electrodes disposed in tissue for inducing hyperthermia, and other purposes. In one embodiment, an impedance display (210) of a power supply (200) comprises an array of discrete light elements (212), where the number of light elements (212) illuminated increases in response...

A test strip system and related methods for monitoring analytes contained within bodily fluids such as blood. The test strip includes a substrate member formed with a plurality of reagent sites including a test site and at least one complementary site each within a containment area having reactive reagent material exposed to substantially similar environmental conditions for measuring levels of at...

A computer system has a large number of media input sources selectively coupled to a single presentation device. A device database tracks characteristics and connections of the input sources. Multiple, possibly conflicting, channels are assigned to a set of mutually distinct logical channel designations in a channel-map database. Program events occurring on the channels reside in a guide database....

A method for the preparation of cellular polymeric products which comprises reacting an organic polyisocyanate with an isocyanate-reactive composition, characterised in that the isocyanate-reactive composition comprises a blowing promoter which is a cyclic urea compound having at least one isocyanate-reactive substituent.

In this process for the production of gaseous oxygen under high pressure by air distillation in a double column (7), pumping (at 12) of liquid oxygen drawn from the low pressure column vessel (9), and vaporisation (at 6) of the compressed liquid oxygen by heat exchange with air pressurised to a high pressure, all the air to be distilled is compressed to the high air pressure, the excess fraction o...

Foamed cellular material from polyester resins obtained by extrusion foaming of polyester resins having melt strength higher than 8 centinewton, intrinsic viscosity greater than 0.8 dl/g and complex melt viscosity higher than 25000 poises.

In a process for the production of mouldings from flexible PUR structural (integral) foam by foam moulding by means of polyaddition of a polyol with an isocynate in the presence of water, a closed, tough outer layer on the mouldings is formed by introducing 40 to 60% by volume of air, from 0.05 to 2.5% by weight of water and 0.25 to 2.0% by weight of one of the C1- to C6-hydrocarbons into the poly...

A single piece soft foldable IOL having open loop haptics of specific thickness and geometry. The unique geometry provides an IOL with improved fixation and centration.