Peeling apparatus and a method for biasing lower idle rollers of a roller-type peeling machine against power rollers to maintain the rollers in contact as the rollers wear. The apparatus includes biasing means, such as a cylinder applying upward pressure against the upper ends of the lower rollers to keep the rollers in constant contact.

Subject: high-accuracy user-friendly combs designed to facilitate users (professionals or amateurs) in the hair dressing of any type of hair. Constitution: said combs are manufactured from lightweight material (e.g. plastics) and composed of a handle 1, a head 2 and teeth 5 being set in parallel disposition and exhibiting either the same or different length, thickness and distance between them for...

Subject: metal heat-insulating roofing tile combined with incorporated wooden strips set on its underside. Manufacture materials: steel lamella, hardened polyurethane foam and wooden strips all adequately-interconnected to form a tile of the Dutch, Roman and French type with average thickness of 62mm and variable length from 1 to 15 metres. Advantages: heat-insulation properties due to the presenc...

A system for the bi-directional transmission of optical/acoustical signals from a viewer to a TV channel or from a viewer to another viewer comprises a device decoding digital television signals, which is connected to a digital camera and a microphone, allowing the user to send optical/acoustical signal live from his house. The basic use of this system is intended for TV broadcasts involving the p...

An exhaust gas purifying catalyst including: rhodium particles having catalytic activity; compound particles which are formed on peripheries of the rhodium particles and support the rhodium particles; and oxides which are formed on peripheries of the compound particles and suppress coagulation of the compounds.

A muffling apparatus capable of attaining the prevention of the occurrence of a noise reliably while making concrete the reduction of the manufacturing cost and the easiness of the assembling of the same apparatus, and a feed water apparatus having such a muffling effect are provided. The muffling apparatus 2 is an apparatus connected to a jet pipe 1 adapted to send out the water, which flows in a...

A method obtains media on a device, provides identification of an object in the media via image/video recognition and audio recognition, and displays on the device identification information based on the identified media object.

A pulse-width modulation (PWM) controller to supply power to electronic components using a phase lock loop (PLL) is presented. A PWM controller comprises an input node operable to receive a reference signal and a phase-locked loop (PLL). The PLL comprises an oscillator operable to receive an error-correction signal and to generate an oscillator signal having a frequency that is related to the erro...

To realize a resin composition which enables formation of a film having excellent film formability and bending resistance and having a small retardation. A resin composition of the present invention comprises: an acrylic resin as a main component; and organic fine particles whose average particle diameter ranges from 0.01 μm to 1 μm, wherein a glass transition temperature of the acrylic resin rang...

A correlating receiver is used ( 102 ) at a code division multiple access base transceiver station to monitor what may comprise possible multi-path versions of a transmission from an authorized communication system user to provide monitoring results. These monitoring results are then used ( 103 ) to detect when one of the possible multi-path versions of the transmission was sourced by an unauthori...

A method and electronic device (104) for processing incoming packets in a communication network (100) is disclosed. The method includes filtering (302) incoming packets in real time by using a recent offender list (212). The method also includes classifying (304) the incoming packets as offending packets and non-offending packets in non-real time.

It is possible to simultaneously identify the sound coming direction from a sound source in all directions and estimate the sound intensity of the sound source. A plurality of microphones (11) are arranged on the surface of a baffle (10) of a shape such as a sphere and polyhedron so that sound from all directions are acquired. A calculation device (40) calculates the amplitude characteristic and t...

An improved diesel operation system employs a lightly diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC), preferably with a platinum containing fuel borne catalyst (FBC) in the fuel. The DOC is at least partially lightly catalyzed with precious metal catalyst, e.g., platinum group metal, having a metal loading of from about 3 to 15 grams per cubic foot to minimize formation of NO₂ in the exhaust gas. Pref...

An adhesive composition which contains an adhesive component comprising a thermoplastic resin, a radical-polymerizable compound, and a radical polymerization initiator, wherein the adhesive component exhibits a signal in the ESR measurement at 25°C.

A plurality of inner leads, a plurality of outer leads formed in one with each of the inner lead, a bar lead of the square ring shape arranged inside a plurality of inner leads, a corner part lead which has been arranged between the inner leads of the end portion of the inner lead groups which adjoin among four inner lead groups corresponding to each side of the bar lead, and was connected with th...

Live cells of a microorganism in a test sample are detected by the following steps: a) the step of treating the test sample with a topoisomerase poison and/or a DNA gyrase poison, b) the step of extracting DNA from the test sample, and amplifying a target region of the extracted DNA by PCR, and c) the step of analyzing an amplification product.

This invention is a method for manufacturing a high-frequency module device. A high-frequency circuit unit ( 2 ) in which first to third unit wiring layers ( 5 ) to ( 7 ), each having a capacitor ( 12 ) or the like at a part, are stacked and formed on flattened one surface of a dummy board ( 30 ) so that a third pattern wiring is exposed from a connection surface ( 2 a) of an uppermost layer is mo...

A apparatus and method for using an asynchronous channel for mobile handoff in a communication system includes a first step of operating a mobile unit on a forward link channel and a reverse link channel, wherein the forward and reverse link channels are different. A next step includes dropping the forward link while maintaining a connection to the reverse link channel. A next step includes acquir...

A method and system are specified to determine, provide, and exploit the precise time base relations between the distinct signal timings of the Global Positioning System (GPS) and a wireless communications system (WCS) for which the internal WCS downlink time base standards are not inherently synchronized to GPS timing. These downlink signal synchronization facilities are particularly beneficial f...

This invention discloses a molten metal supply system that can supply molten metal to a downstream process at a constant pressure and molten metal flow rate. The molten metal supply system includes a molten metal supply source, a plurality of injectors, and a plurality of check valves.