The present invention provides a method for on-line auction. According to the present invention including the steps of deciding whether there is an auction opened for a particular item, producing a new auction for the item if there is no auction opened for the item, withdrawing a present price inspection cash according to the request of a present price inspection by participants of the auction and...

A fastener-free composite roofing product comprising a roofing material and an interply material attached to the roofing material, wherein the interply material includes an adhesive coating on one side. The interply material is attached adjacent to an edge of the roofing material to pen-nit a major portion of the interply material to be folded away from the roofing material for application to a ro...

A coating film-forming method comprising a first step which comprises coating a cationic electrodeposition coating composition (A) containing an electrically conducting agent, followed by washing with water and heat curing and drying to form a cured cationic electrodeposition coating film; a second step which comprises coating such an anionic electrodeposition coating composition (B) that a coatin...

An insert for a drill bit that includes diamond particles disposed in a matr ix material, wherein the diamond particles have a contiguity of 15% or less is disclosed. A method of forming a diamond-impregnated cutting structure, that includes loading a plurality of substantially uniformly coated diamond particles into a mold cavity, pre-compacting the substantially uniformly coated diamon d particl...

"SISTEMA DE AVALIAçãO DE FORMAçõES PARA UMA FERRAMENTA DE INTERIOR DE POçO PASSìVEL DE POSICIONAMENTO EM UM FURO DE POçO QUE PENETRA UMA FORMAçãO SUBTERRáNEA, E MéTODO DE AVALIAçãO DE UMA FORMAçãO SUBTERRáNEA". São providas técnicas para avaliação de formações com uma contaminação reduzida. As técnicas referem-se à retirada de fluido para o interior de uma ferramenta de interior de poço passível d...

In an internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders, some of which can be deactivated during operation of the engine, the cylinders which can be deactivated during operation are configured specifically for high load engine operation and have a lower compression ratio epsilon than the rest of the cylinders, which are configured specifically for low load engine operation.

The invention relates to an external module for equipping a motor vehicle of the type that includes components to control the locking of the closed position of a movable part, such as a tailgate, with respect to a fixed part of the vehicle structure. The external equipment module includes a sealed external body which is received in a complementary housing in the movable part in which it is mounted...

A pneumatic tire having improved conductivity is disclosed herein whereby the tire is provided with at least one conductive pathway extending through the tread surface and contacting the tread cushion. Conductive pathways are created by introducing small volumes of high carbon black concentration. Such pathways provide low electrical resistance and dissipation of static charge accumulation on a mo...

The invention relates to a composition which can be foamed from pressurized containers. Said composition is based on an aqueous plastic dispersion containing an aqueous dispersion of at least one film-forming plastic material consisting of 30% to 80% by weight of a film-forming plastic material, a propellant gas amounting between 3% to 25% by weight in relation to the entire composition and one or...

In a high-speed fabrication process for producing highly uniform metallic microspheres, a molten metal is passed through a small orifice, producing a stream of molten metal therefrom. A series of molten metal droplets forms from the break up of the capillary stream. To achieve high uniformity of the spheres and avoid defects, the droplets are cooled before being captured. Separating the droplets, ...

The present invention relates to optical ion sensors, including fluorescence optical ion sensors for use in liquid media in the fields of biology, biotechnology, chemistry, medicine, etc. The present invention provides for optical ion sensors that may be attached to dry hydrophilic or hydrophobic surfaces so as to allow continuous sensing. The optical sensors of the present invention may be steril...

A film or sheet having a glass transition temperature below about 23° C. and a melting temperature greater than about 120° C. is prepared by first preparing a polyester composition of about 50 to about 95 weight percent of a base copolyester having a melting temperature of less than about 220° C. and exhibiting more than about 1 percent crystallinity after annealing for 2000 minutes at a temperatu...

Novel polypeptides of human megakaryocyte stimulating factors (MSFs). Pharmaceutical compositions containing same, and methods for their preparation and use are provided.

A security system comprises a first sensor disposed in an area to be monitored in a building to monitor the area; a moving robot having a robot main body, a second sensor for monitoring the area to be monitored and a robot operation processor for moving the robot main body according to an operation mode data indicating an operation of the robot main body; a controller including first and second se...

Techniques are disclosed for improved monitoring and analysis of VoIP communications, multimedia communications or other types of network traffic in a network-based communication system. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, endpoint devices of the network-based communication system are configurable so as to collectively implement a distributed monitoring and analysis system which does n...

A self-contained system uses light reflectivity to examine intensity of a dyed spot on a device membrane surrounded by background area to discern information about the specimen that produced the spot. In a preferred embodiment, a master clock alternatively drives one LED focussed upon the spot center, and then drives two LEDS focused on the background area. Light reflected from the spot and backgr...

A robot cleaner system for detecting an external recharging apparatus which is positioned in a non-detectable area by an upper camera thereof, and a docking method for docking the robot cleaner system with the external recharging apparatus. The robot cleaner system includes an external recharging apparatus with a power terminal connected to a utility power supply, a recharging apparatus recognitio...

The invention relates to a method for producing sinterable shaped metallic parts from a metal powder to which a compacting auxiliary agent has been added. Said compacting auxiliary agent contains at least partially components from the family of polyslkylene glycols. The metal powder is placed in the mould and compacted under pressure before being discharged from the mould in the form of a shaped c...

A label (12) for a blood pack (10) comprising a microporous plastic film including a matrix of interconnected pores for allowing gas to flow into and out of the blood pack (10) through a labeled area. The pores allow ink to be absorbed at least on an outer surface of the label (12) allowing the label (12) to be printed and/ or written on. The labels of the present invention have breathability with...

A reduced drag cable for use in vertical wind tunnels and other applications with a change in the spacing and/or size of the strands of a standard twisted wire cable is disclosed. The perimeter strands of one embodiment all have a standard diameter, with the exception of one or more wires with different diameter from the other perimeter strands. The different sized strand forms a helical feature a...