The decanter centrifuge comprises a screw conveyor having a body ( 4 ), which carries a screw comprising one or more flights ( 7, 7 ') and having a nominal transport speed varying along the longitudinal axis. An inlet ( 6 ) is provided in the screw conveyor for the material to be separated. The screw conveyor is provided with a baffle ( 8, 8 ') dividing the separation chamber in a substantially cy...

Formulation comprises a particulate medicament (I) e.g. salmeterol, salbutamol, fluticasone propionate, becolomethasone dipropionate and a fluorocarbon or hydrogen-contg chlorofluorocarbon propellant. Also claimed are the prepn of the surface-modified medicament and a canister for delivering metered doses of the aerosol formulation. Pref., (I) is salmeterol xinafoate (Ia); salbutamol sulphate; flu...

This device comprises:an entrance (3) allowing a token (1) to be inserted into the reading and collecting device;a radio transmitting-receiving circuit (5) placed so that it can read a token (1) in an area (2) upstream of the entrance (3) of the device, such that a token (1) can be read before it is inserted into the entrance (3);a flap (11c) for preventing a token being inserted into the entrance...

Three-phase AC or two-phase DC choke arrangement of a frequency converter, in which is a magnetic core, in which are the phase-specific pillars of the AC choke arrangement or the branch-specific pillars of the DC choke arrangement (1a, 1b), around which are arranged the phase-specific windings of the AC choke arrangement or the branch-specific windings of the DC choke arrangement (Ldc1+, Ldc1-) to...

A method and system for object tracking in computer vision. The tracked object is recognized from an image that has been acquired with the camera of the computer vision system. The image is processed by randomly generating samples in the search space and then computing fitness functions. Regions of high fitness attract more samples. The random selection may be based on standard deviation or other ...

A gate driving device comprises a control circuit, a shift register circuit, a level shifter, a buffer block and a current overdrive protection device. The control circuit receives and outputs the logic control signals. The shift register circuit receives the logic control signals and sequentially outputs N horizontal low-voltage pulse signals from the first to Nth horizontal lines. The level shif...

Display panels buffering display data from a data driver. The display panel comprises a first signal line, a first data line, a first scan line interlaced with the first data line, a first pixel coupled to the first data line and the first scan line, a first switching element comprising a first terminal coupled to the first data line, a first storage capacitor coupled between a second terminal of ...

A recording medium and a method and an apparatus are provided for allocating a management area on a recording medium. The recording medium includes an inner zone, a data area and an outer zone. The inner and outer zones include defect management areas for storing defect management information of the recording medium when the recording medium is to be finalized. The method comprises: (a) allocating...

A semiconductor memory device having a high speed for a data transmission includes a plurality of cell blocks, each having a plurality of unit cells for storing data; a plurality of local bit line sense amplifying block, each for sensing and amplifying the data stored in the N number of cell blocks; a global bit line sense amplifying block for latching the data amplified by the local bit line sens...

There is provided a semiconductor memory device which is capable of reducing a current consumption in an active mode. The semiconductor memory device includes an internal voltage supply block and an internal voltage control block. The internal voltage supplying block is enabled in response to an internal voltage driving enable signal and generates an internal voltage used in an internal operation ...

An apparatus included in a semiconductor memory device for precharging a bit line and a bit line bar and sensing and amplifying a data delivered to one of the bit line and the bit line bar includes a precharge means for precharging the bit line and the bit line bar as a ground; a sense amplifying means for sensing and amplifying the data by using a low voltage having a lower voltage level than the...