A rotatable base apparatus for use with a hose reel enclosure. The base comprises an upper and a lower portion. A bearing is located in between the upper and lower portions and allows the portions to rotate with respect to each other. The bearing can comprise balls mounted in sockets in the lower base portion which ride in a track in the upper base portion. Clips are provided on the upper base por...

Example wellbore telemetry systems and methods for transmitting signals between a surface unit and a downhole tool are disclosed. One example method transmits data between a downhole location in a wellbore and a surface location associated with the wellbore by measuring downhole data via at least one downhole component and generating a data frame containing at least a portion of the downhole data....

A joint for wooden furniture is created using laser cutting such that no glue, fasteners or dowels are required for the joint to be secured.

An optical pickup includes at least a laser light source (2) emitting a laser beam, a collimator lens system (11) including a plurality of lenses (9,10) for collimating the light beam emitted from the laser light source and incident thereupon as diffused light, and an objective lens (15). The laser beam transmitted through the collimator lens system is incident upon the objective lens. The collima...

A travel and warning system for providing safety and comfort by assisting the driver of a vehicle, setting a predetermined area about a school as a school zone and giving warning to travel cautiously within the school zone.

A recording medium destruction and discarding system for destroying and discarding a recording medium, includes: a registration unit that registers an identification information appended to the recording medium associated with an attribute information of the recording medium; a reading unit that reads the identification information appended to the recording medium; a determination unit that determ...

A fuel injection valve for fuel injection systems of internal combustion engines, in particular for injecting fuel directly into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, said fuel injection valve comprising a fuel inlet which is designed to allow fuel to flow into the fuel injection valve, and an actuating device which can be electrically activated and cooperates with a valve arrange...

A vehicle powertrain includes an electric motor (4) and a clutch (12) between the electric motor and a motor driven road wheel (3L, 3R). Powertrain play between the electric motor (4) and the road wheel is eliminated upon determination that powertrain play elimination (PPE) is needed for motor torque transmission to the motor driven road wheel. The PPE includes controlling engagement of the clutch...

A personal exercise machine suitable for swimming-like movements. The machine having a frame, a seat, pulleys and cables. It further includes a system for providing extra stability for the seat and a system for lowering said seat for an improved accessibility suitable for disabled persons.

A vehicle integrated control system includes an intra-vehicle communication network, a plurality of ECUs (100, 200, 300, 400) coupled to the intra-vehicle communication network (10, 11) having programs for controlling at least an operation of a plurality of functional elements of the vehicle and a vehicle coordinator (101, 201, 401) for transmitting operation commands to more than one of these con...

An X-ray imaging device is equipped with a solid state detector, for recording image information by being irradiated with X-rays that bear image information and for outputting image signals that represent the recorded image information, and an X-ray dosage detector for detecting the dosage of irradiated X-rays. The X-ray dosage detector is provided between an X-ray source and the solid state detec...

The yarn splicing method and the joint can secure the twist continuity of two yarn ends without reference to the yarn type, and makes the joint intensity superior and the dyeing property good. The adhesive (3) is hardened in the state that the yarn ends (1a) and (1b) of spun yarn, which are made by twisting staple fibers, are butted and the adhesive (3) that has permeability to staple fibers are a...

A spectrometer (10) includes a two-dimensional array of modulatable micro-mirrors (18), a detector (20), and an analyzer (22). The array of micro-mirrors is positioned for receiving individual radiation components forming a part of an input radiation source. The micro-mirrors are modulated at different modulation rates in order to reflect individual radiation components therefrom at known and diff...

Disclosed is a device and a process for examining cells using the patch-clamp method. A plane arrangement is used of a first number of micro-cuvettes for receiving cells and a plane arrangement of a second number of micro-pipettes which can be positioned in relation to the plane arrangement of micro-cuvettes in such a manner that a multiplicity of cells located in the micro-curvettes can be examin...

A working vehicle is provided with a speed changer (48) that is driven by the output of an engine (2) and changes the working speed. A working speed change operation member (30) for operating the speed of the speed changer (48) and an engine revolution change member (87) for changing the rotational speed of the engine are interlocked through a connection member (88). In a working vehicle, such as ...

The control procedure of the invention sets the measured value of the rotation angular acceleration alpha to a first peak angular acceleration alpha1 at a timing when the rotation angular acceleration alpha of a motor, which directly outputs torque to a drive shaft, reaches a first peak after an increase over a preset threshold value alphaslip that suggests the occurrence of a wheelspin-induced sk...

A vehicle controller includes an obstacle-determining portion and a driving torque reducing portion. The obstacle-determining portion determines whether the vehicle is climbing up an obstacle, more specifically, whether the vehicle starts climbing up the obstacle. Then, the driving torque reducing portion performs a driving torque reduction control when it is determined that the vehicle is climbin...

This invention puts forward a high energy sealing maintenance-free lead acid battery negative active substance composite material used in railroad locomotives characterizing in fine large current discharge performance under super-low temperature so as to enable the lead-acid batteries to operate under super-low temperature.

This invention discloses a kind of nano-colloid dynamic batteries including positive and negative pole plates, baffles and electrolyte, a battery tank and connector terminals, in which, the pole plate and the baffle include nano-SiO2, nano-arbon and nano-stannous oxide to prevent early attenuation resulted from fluid loss and delamination of the electrolyte to reduce corrosion speed so as to incre...

This invention puts forward a high energy total sealing maintenance-free Pb-acid battery used in naval ships, which can be exchanged with the current used Pb-acid batteries and realizes total sealing and maintenance-free, the volume of the new type of batteries is increased by more than one time in the same volume with the current batteries, the discharge time of 10-hour rate increases to 20 hours...