A wire reel assembly comprising a reel, a reel support and a reel securing assembly is described herein. The reel includes a central body and removable sides. The central body is removably mounted to an arm of the reel support thereby allowing one of the removable sides to be disconnected from the central body without requiring disassembly of the reel support. The reel securing assembly is also us...

The present invention relates to an atomization apparatus and method for the formation of substantially uniform, at least nearly spherical particles, particularly for the formation of metal particles. The present invention provides an atomization apparatus having a nozzle positioned at the bottom of a cooling chamber. Rayleigh wave instability may be induced by imparting vibrations to a stream of ...

The invention relates to a device and procedure to get information on what is stored in a cabinet or the like. The device is made up of a combination of a cabinet (110), a camera (112), a display unit (106), and an image processing unit (108). The camera (112) is placed in a position, from where it can take pictures of the contents of the cabinet (110), and the camera is connected to the image pro...

An ultrasound segmentation method comprising the steps of automated initial contour identification, followed by application of a geometrically deformable model (GDM). The formation of the initial contours involves the input of a single seed point by the user, and has been found to be insensitive to the placement of the seed within a structure. The GDM minimizes contour energy, providing a smoothed...

The present invention provides a semi-automated method for three-dimensional ultrasound for constructing and displaying 3D ultrasound images of luminal surfaces of blood vessels. The method comprises acquiring a 3D ultrasound image of a target vessel and segmenting the luminal surfaces acquired from the 3D ultrasound image of the target vessel to generate a 3D ultrasound image of the lumen of the ...

A combined alumina cement / gypsum product comprises 100 parts by weight of alumina cement, 10 to 100 parts by weight of an aqueous polymer precursor emulsion (Component A), and 15 to 600 parts by weight of a hemi-hydrate gypsum (Component B). Component A preferably comprises a thermosetting acrylic resin, and Component B is preferably an alpha-hemihydrate gypsum or an anhydrous or retarded plaste...

An absorbent article having a flap and a spacer wherein the flap is positioned in the rear waist portion of the article and forms a pocket. The spacer is positioned proximate the pocket opening and biases the pocket into an open position. The flap may be a laterally extending liquid impermeable flap which is fixedly secured to the article along a seam. The seam, which may be substantially U-shaped...

An absorbent article having a flap and a spacer wherein the flap is positioned in the rear waist portion of the article and forms a pocket. The spacer is positioned proximate the pocket opening and biases the pocket into an open position. The flap may be a laterally extending liquid impermeable flap which is fixedly secured to the article along a seam. The seam, which may be substantially U-shaped...

A micro-lens formed by etching a semiconductor member in a chemical etching solution, which contains an etchant causing diffusion-limited etching to the semiconductor, using an etching mask having an opening defining a portion of the semiconductor member to be a convex surface of the micro-lens, and a combination micro-lens and vertical cavity surface emitting layer (VCSEL) in which a microlens is...

An apparatus for utilizing semi-permeable membrane technology to process compressed air in such applications as a compressed air system of a railway locomotive.

A decontamination formulation is provided which is effective against a broad spectrum of chemical and biological warfare agents and radioactive dusts, comprising an active decontamination agent, a co-solvent, a buffer system to optimize the initial reaction pH above 8.5 and more preferably in the range of to 11 for favoring oxidation of VX and HD and hydrolysis of G agents, and a surfactant simila...

The invention relates to a method of automatic gain control (AGC) in a base station of a cellular radio network and to a network part in a cellular radio network. The method comprises receiving at least one random access burst transmitted by a subscriber terminal of the cellular radio network on a random access channel. Then the received power of the random access burst is measured, followed by ge...

A method of routing signalling information at a signalling transfer point of a telecommunication network. A Global Title Routing Case (GTRC) table is provided for mapping Global Titles to GTRCs, where each GTRC is allocated a primary and secondary destination signalling point. At least one peak time period is predefined, and said primary and secondary destination signalling points are swapped for ...

In a method of interconnecting two elements (10, 11) of plastic material by welding or gluing together surfaces of the elements a channel (12) is formed in one of said elements, which is divided by partitions (16) into individual spaces distributed longitudinally of the channel. The partitions and the side walls (14, 15) of the channel along the edge surfaces (17, 18, 19, 20) thereof are connected...

In a method of interconnecting two elements (10, 11) of plastic material by welding or gluing together surfaces of the elements a channel (12) is formed in one of said elements, which is divided by partitions (16) into individual spaces distributed longitudinally of the channel. The partitions and the side walls (14, 15) of the channel along the edge surfaces (17, 18, 19, 20) thereof are connected...

The ultrasonic welding device has a first ultrasound unit (6) on one side of the material layers (2, 4) and a second one (14) on the opposite side. The sonotrodes (12, 20) act with each other during the welding process so that their ultrasonic energy is supplied simultaneously to the joint region of the materials joined.

The ultrasonic welding device has a first ultrasound unit (6) on one side of the material layers (2, 4) and a second one (14) on the opposite side. The sonotrodes (12, 20) act with each other during the welding process so that their ultrasonic energy is supplied simultaneously to the joint region of the materials joined.

Methods for the purification of sugar solutions using hydrolyzed polyacrylamides as flocculants are herein described. The hydrolyzed polyacrylamides are prepared from emulsion or microemulsion polymerization of acrylamide monomer, and subsequently hydrolyzed to a degree of hydrolysis of about 10 to about 50 mole %. The hydrolyzed polyacrylamides have a molecular weight of at least about 10,000,000...

A method of balancing transmit signal power among a plurality of constituent Welsh channels in a CDMA celleular communications system, comprises the steps of: (a) determining a pilot filter bandwidth and a quality for each channel; (b) determining {E c /I o ¦ data }¦i; for each constituent Welsh channel, based on E b / I o and processing gain data G data, or E c / I o ¦data = E b/ I o - G data ; (...