A medical safety device is provided and includes a needle hub having a needl e supported thereon; and a safety shield operatively mounted on the needle hub . The safety shield includes a pair of spaced legs and a foot member. Each proximal segme nt includes a camming surface. The safety shield further includes a trigger supported on t he foot member. The trigger includes a camming member and is mo...

An arrangement for distributing radiation, the arrangement comprising a radiation source (1) and a plate-like distributor element (3), positioned in the passage of a radiation beam (2) produced by the radiation source, for distributing the radiation. According to the invention, the radiation beam (2) is oriented at a slight angle to the plane (4) of the distributor element, and the distributor ele...

The invention relates to a cellular slab, a method for manufacturing such a cellular slab, as well as a use for cellular slabs. The cellular slab comprises a first slab element and a second slab element arranged at a distance to the first slab element, and several intermediate plates connecting the first and second slab elements to each other. According to the invention, the intermediate plates ar...

Two parallel planar metallic strips having the same (or almost the same) width are connected by another short metallic strip perpendicular to both of them. The antenna is fed by a coaxial cable where the ground of the cable is connected to one of the parallel metallic strips while the central connector of the coaxial cable is connected to the other metallic strip. The lengths of the parallel metal...

The gear has a shift piston (9) connected with a control rod (7) of a switch gear by using a fastening unit (11). A position of a control element is changed by the switch gear. A sealant (12) is designed in the form of an O-ring and provided at the fastening unit that is designed as a fixing screw e.g. collar screw. The switch gear is positioned in a region, in which an oil space separation runs b...

In a device on a drafting system for textile fiber slivers with weighting of the upper rolls of the drafting system which comprises roll pairs arranged one behind the other, the pairs having lower and upper rolls, the rotating journals at the ends of the upper roll are mounted by means of bearing elements and the bearing elements each have at least one rolling-element bearing having an immovable o...

In a device on a draw frame having a drafting system for textile fiber slivers with weighting of the upper rolls of the drafting system which comprises roll pairs arranged one behind the other, the pairs having lower and upper rolls, the rotating journals at the ends of the upper roll are mounted by means of bearing elements and the bearing elements each have at least one deep-groove ball bearing ...

A prilling method comprising the steps of: providing a molten first component, mixing at least a second component with the molten first component, reacting the components to from a shear-rhinnable mixture; and prilling the shear-thinnable mixture wherein the prilling comprises mechanically agitating in the prill head to shear thin the shear-thinnable mixture sufficiently to permit prilling. The in...

The present disclosure includes a system and method for enhanced voice cal l continuity. A method includes receiving a request to handover a call session from a radio access network to an IP-CAN. The method further includes handing over the ca ll session to the IP-CAN independent of an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) .

A construction layout marking device includes a reel housing that uses a ree l case to rotatably support a reel hub. A pair of spaced, parallel measuring tapes are secured, at inner ends, to the reel hub and can be coiled inside the reel ca se by rotation of the reel hub. A plurality of marking templates are attached to the spaced measuring tapes, at specified intervals. These marking templates ca...

Herein described is an axial fan for cooling the underhood of a farm machine, of the type made up of a rotor (10) provided with a plurality of blades (12) with a wing profile and a substantially radial development constrained against the central hub (14) of the rotor (10) at one of their first ends. Each blade (12) is made up of a first element or main profile (18) and by at least a second element...

The invention concerns the use of L-kynurenine amino acid and derivatives thereof, both natural and synthetic, for the treatment of chronic inflammatory pathologies like, for example, chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) and allergies.

The unit comprises a cartridge heater (10) with a substantially cylindrical form and a plug (12) with a generally tubular configuration. The plug (12) has a sleeve-shaped appendage (14) fixed around a proximal end (16) of the heater (10) and has a threaded outer circumferential region (18) capable of enabling the connection of the unit to a device containing a liquid to be heated. A tubular seal (...

The present invention relates to albumin as an active ingredient in a medicament for the treatment of cancer and to a pharmaceutical composition comprising at least one anti¬ neoplastic agent and albumin at a concentration of at least 2% w/v of the composition, in a pharmaceutically acceptable vehicle. The anti-neoplastic agent is preferably hydroxyurea, preferably at a concentration between 10µM ...