The housing (6) enclosing the working parts of the cleaner from which it is separated by springs (11) of a suitable foam material to form an annular cavity impediment detector (10) by which an object (9) in the travel path trips a switch (12) when the housing is deflected. Other sensing means are disclosed.

The invention relates to methods for using data transmission networks for testing and/or polling remote users. Said invention makes it possible to increase the reliability of testing and/or polling. The inventive method consists in forming a question database which contains correct and incorrect responses and is recorded in the main database of a company Internet server, wherein a supplier of good...

A gastric band (10) includes a band body having a first end (14) and a second end (16). The band body includes a latching mechanism (20). The latching mechanism is composed of a shell member (22) at the first end of the band body and a collar member (26) at the second end of the band body, the shell member and collar member being shaped and dimensioned for selective locking and unlocking in a mann...

A measurement apparatus for enumeration of particles or white blood cells in a sample comprises: a holder, which is arranged to receive a sample acquiring device that holds a sample, an imaging system, comprising a magnifying means and at least one digital image acquiring means, said imaging system being arranged to acquire at least one digital image of the sample, and an image analyser, which is ...

A heatable laminate includes a first substrate; an electrically conductive member on a portion of the first substrate; a pair of spaced bus bars each bus bar being in electrical contact with the electrically conductive member; a second substrate overlaying and the electrically conductive member and bus bars; an interlayer positioned between the two substrates; a first leads connected to one of bus...

A washing machine having a steam generator (30), which prevents the accumulation of scale in the steam generator (30) due to the long-term use thereof, and a method for controlling the same. The washing machine includes a water supply valve (22) for supplying water to the inside of the steam generator (30) therethrough so as to cool the steam generator (30) when the operating time of the steam gen...

A register data store 20 is provided within a data processing system 2. The register data store 20 may be accessed via registers for which a data processing instruction specifies a register size Q, D and a data element size S16, S8 for the multiple SIMD data elements to be manipulated by that data processing instruction. A given data processing element may be accessed via different registers depen...

A data processing apparatus and method are provided for moving data between registers and memory. The data processing apparatus comprises a register data store having a plurality of registers operable to store data elements. A processor is operable to perform in parallel a data processing operation on multiple data elements occupying different lanes of parallel processing in at least one of the re...

A storage medium including an interactive graphic stream providing menus using various transition effects regardless of reproducing modes of multimedia data and an apparatus for reproducing the same. The storage medium in which multimedia information is recorded includes: video data; and graphic data to provide a menu screen overlaid on an image based on the video data, wherein the graphic data pr...

The present invention relates to butene-1 homopolymers, or copolymers containing up to 20% by weight of alpha olefins having from 2 to 10 carbon atoms other than butene-1, characterized by the following properties: (i) a Molecular Weight Distribution (MWD) in terms of Mw/Mn, measured by GPC analysis according to the method specified, of lower than 6; and (ii) a melt strength (measured according to...

The catalyst and transport fluid in the tubular zone are at more severe conditions of temperature and/or catalyst to transport fluid mass ratio than those in the annular zone after the charge is injected. The flows from the tubular zone and the annular zone are mixed and then cooled, and the cooled mixture is cracked in the upper part of the reaction zone The regenerated catalyst is introduced at...

Disclosed herein are a method for reproducing contents information in an interactive optical disc device and a method for providing contents information in a contents provider server. The interactive optical disc device is connected with the contents provider server via the Internet to receive a variety of contents information provided from the contents provider server. When the sending of the con...

A mounting slide insert for use in a guide shoe at an elevator car of an elevator installation has a slide zone and fastening regions for inserting the mounting slide insert into the guide shoe and fastening it there. The mounting slide insert is for temporary use and has two mounting slide zones, which extend substantially parallel to one another and which consist of metal material so that during...

A garment-like absorbent article includes an absorbent chassis that defines a waist opening and first and second leg openings. A longitudinal length of the chassis is optimized in a linear relationship with the waist circumference of the chassis, the circumference measured at 500 grams tension. With respect to the linear relationship, the thickness of the garment is substantially constant along th...

An interlabial absorbent article configured for disposition primarily within the vestibule of a female wearer includes a generally liquid permeable cover sheet, a generally liquid impermeable back sheet, and an absorbent material disposed between the cover sheet and the back sheet. The back sheet has a water vapor transmission rate that is at least about 20% of a water vapor transmission rate of t...

A method of forming a waist band on an absorbent article is disclosed. The method includes forming stretchable front and back panels and attaching an elastic band to at least one of the panels. Each elastic band is cantilevered outward from a distal end of the panel to which it is attached. An absorbent assembly is also secured between the front and back panels. The method further includes folding...

A proppant material is formed from a solid particle having at least one phase of a boron-containing component. The boron-containing component may be an Al₂O₃-B₂O₃ component and/or an Al₂O₃-B₂O₃-SiO₂ component, which may be a chemical compound, a solid solution or a eutectic mixture. The proppant mate...

The disclosed endotracheal tube includes a silicone tubular member that has a proximal end, a distal end, and a lumen extending through the member to supply air from the proximal end to the distal end. The tubular member defines a first zone and a second zone. At least a portion of the first zone has a first outer diameter. The second zone has a second outer diameter. The first outer diameter is l...

The use of moulding materials (I) containing (a) 100 parts by weight (pts. wt.) polyamide and (b) 0.005-10 pts. wt. of a compound (II) with at least two carbonate units, for coextrusion with a moulding material (III) based on a high-melting polymer with a crystallite melting point (Tm) of at least 255 deg C and/or a glass transition point(Tg)of at least 180 deg C. Independent claims are included ...

Systems, methods, and apparatus for desalinating water are provided. A vessel includes a water intake system, a reverse osmosis system, a concentrate discharge system, a permeate transfer system, a power source, and a control system. The concentrate discharge system includes a plurality of concentrate discharge ports.