An improved mobile X-ray unit has a counterweighted articulating X-ray tube support arm that allows positioning of an attached X-ray tube virtually without the need for moving a supporting carriage. The improved mobile X-ray unit also allows the X-ray tube to be locked to the supporting carriage during travel and the articulating X-ray arm includes several electro-magnetically actuated disk brakes...

The crusher comprises a casing (1) with a rotor (2) rotating inside it and hammers (3) provided in its periphery. A supply hopper (6) made in the casing side comprises an ejector (8) rotating in a plane tangent to the rotor. The ejector comprises paddles or radial arms (8a) which rotate in a vertical casing (9) provided with an upwards directed outlet opening (10).;

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A method of determining the position of unmanned mining vehicles. According to the method, control marks are provided in the mine, for positioning mining vehicles in production use by means of a marking device, such as a paint sprayer (14), provided in a specific measuring vehicle (3). The invention also relates to a measuring vehicle that is unmanned and comprises a measuring device for measuring...

In a method of calculating amounts of yeast for use in a process in order to ensure that the number of yeast cells used in the process is consistent, the sizes of the yeast cells to be used are measured and the average size calculated and this calculated average cell size is used together with viability data to calculate the amount of yeast to be used.

The invention relates to a method and a system for identifying a juridical person (80) in order to provide the juridical person (80) access to a provided service. It comprises the retrieval of the CLI-number provided to a telephone device allocated to the juridical person. The CLI-number being part of the phone communication protocol and being retrieved at a service unit telephone device (82) or a...

A digital control system for a vibrating structure gyroscope having a vibrating structure (3), at least a primary drive (4) for putting and maintaining the vibrating structure (3) in vibratory resonance, and at least a primary pickoff (2) for detecting vibration of the vibrating structure (3), includes a digital processing unit (22) for receiving output signals from the pickoff (2) for processing ...

A digital control system for a vibrating structure gyroscope having a vibrating structure (3), at least a primary drive (4) for putting and maintaining the vibrating structure (3) in vibratory resonance, and at least a primary pickoff (2) for detecting vibration of the vibrating structure (3), includes a digital processing unit (22) for receiving output signals from the pickoff (2) for processing ...

The data processing system operates with a smart card (14) issued to each customer. The card (14) carries customer identification and a list of product codes eligible for discount. The card is inserted in the electronic payment handling terminal (12) that processes bank cards. This terminal detects bar codes scanned in by the cashier and compares them with codes stored in the card. Where a discoun...

The use of a waste material, as an additive in the production of cement, is new. An Independent claim is also included for cement containing a waste material as an additive.

The invention concerns solid water dispersible composite particles, comprising: an organic hydrophobic system (SH), in the form of droplets, comprising at least a liquid amine silicone (AS), said system (SH) being finely divided inside and encapsulated by a water soluble or water dispersible organic matrix (MO); and at least an emulsifying agent (AE) at the droplet/matrix interface. The invention ...

The flow of vapor from the cell to the user is controlled using a detector upstream of the first compartment giving a signal (S1) indicating the flow of liquid from the reservoir, an electronic circuit (34) comparing S1 to a control signal (S2), and a control valve (32) downstream of the second compartment operating as a function of an error signal (S3) provided by the electronic circuit The vapor...

The present invention relates generally to a method, a system and a business model for performing sale of products. The products may be new goods, secondary market goods, services, collectibles etc. The present invention relates more particularly to implementing auctions with telecommunications media. One idea of the present invention is providing an auction where information on the products in sa...

The lower ultra violet lamp assembly (2) is supported by a robust cover support (6). The user lies on a mattress (7) filled with a translucent medium (8). The upper ultra violet lamp assembly (3) is hinged to the support (6) and has a pneumatic spring (5). The outer covers (31, 32) of the upper and lower assemblies are made from opaque plastic or lightweight aluminum sheet.

A method is described for testing for slider/disk contact in a disk drive comprising a rotating disk and a head mounted by an actuator for selective positioning of the head over the disk, the head having a slider, and a spindle motor for rotating the disk. The method comprises the steps of providing power to the spindle motor to cause rotation of the disk at a preselected rotational velocity corre...

In a cordless communications system with at least one base station (BS1...BSm) and a multitude of mobile stations (MS1...MSn) authorized in this system, a mobile station (MS5) can, for example in case of loss, be excluded from the communications system by deleting the identification word (IDW5) of the mobile station (MS5) from the memory (SP1) of the base station (BS1...BSm).

Module électronique comprenant : - une première plaque de substrat (100) avec au moins un composant électronique et des plots de contact reliées au composant,- une deuxième plaque de substrat (200), assemblée à la première plaque, la deuxième plaque comprenant des pistes conductrices reliées électriquement aux plots de contact et s'étendant sur une plage de connexion (209) de la deuxième plaque...

The invention concerns an injection grout containing: water, a cementing material, at least 100 kg/m<3> of fly ash derived from coal combustion in circulating fluidised bed.

Waste material aggregates used in the production of road bed layers include cathode ray tube glass scrap. An Independent claim is also included for a road bed layer comprising bitumen granules, hydraulic granules, cement sand and hydraulic sand, one or more of which contain waste material aggregates. Preferred Features: The waste material contains \-50% silica, optionally together with one or mor...

The invention relates to a connection block for high transmission rates in telecommunications and data technology. The connection block 1 consists of a plastic housing 2 and of metallic insulation piercing terminal contact elements 10 which are inserted in pairs, in at least two parallel rows, into the housing 2 and have connected contact fingers 15 forming spring contacts 16. In order to reduce t...

Additives for preventing the corrosion of metals in building materials containing an inorganic binder are described. These additives contain as corrosion inhibitor a reaction product of amines with acids or consist thereof. These salt-like corrosion inhibitors are low in odour and pleasant to process and can be used to improve, in a targeted manner, properties of the building material in processin...