Lead composition for use in the production of battery components particularly the electrode plates, having specific amounts or ranges of trac e elements to maximise battery life. Ranges of trace elements include the combination of 2 0- 100 ppm silver, 250-1000 ppm bismuth, and 250-1000 ppm zinc; or 100-1000 ppm antimon y and 100-1000 ppm iron; ar 250-1000 ppm bismuth, 250-1000 ppm zinc, 20-100 ppm...

A belt clip extension is provided for use with personal use devices such as mobile electronic devices, tools, or implements, all having an integral belt clip, so that a personal use device may be clipped to the belt clip extension and be suspended from the belt of a wearer. The belt clip extension is flexible so as to be able to swing away from the belt of the wearer, and so as to be twisted about...

A computer-implemented method of performing a risk analysis for a proje ct is described. The computer-implemented method includes, generating, in a hierarchical database, a plurality of area checklists in the form of documents, wherein each area checklist has at least one input field into which data is input. Next, the data from the hierarchical database is exported to a relational database. After...

A sliding window arrangement has an upper and a lower horizontal guide rail and a vertical rectangular window which is mounted between the guide rails and displaceable along the same. The window has at each upper corner a guide means which engages the upper guide rail, and at each lower corner a guide means which engages the lower guide rail. The lower guide rail has a stop means which is position...

An encoded video signal is decoded to obtain a decoded video signal, wherein the decoded video signal includes a previous and a current frames and is processed an a macroblock-by-macroblock basis, each frame's data containing pixel values, by deriving a set of quantized discrete cosine transform coefficients corresponding to current frame data and converting the set of quantized discrete cosine tr...

A method signals the transport block size in wireless communications. Firs t, information including a first information indicating a transport block size, the first information indicating a transport block size being a set number of bits, is transmitted. Then, a packet using the transport block size indicated by the first information is transmitted. The packet is retransmitted using a second infor...

A portable, potable-water generator for producing high-purity liquid water by condensation of dew from ambient air. The generator employs filtration subsystems to remove particulates and aerosols from the incoming air. An enclosed heat absorber cools the filtered air to its dew point and collects droplets of condensate into a closed system. The collected dew is further continually treated in a bac...

An electromagnetic isolation apparatus for an electronic device such as a portable telephone is provided which includes first and second shield cases and elastic members such as rubber cushions. The first and second shield cases are disposed within a casing of the electronic device to surround at least part of both surfaces of a printed circuit board mounted within the electronic device. The elast...

A clad end seal for a vacuum interrupter comprises a disk-shaped base portion made of at least two clad metal layers and a cylindrical sidewall portion extending therefrom comprising one of the metal layers. The base portion provides strength and stiffness, while the sidewall portion provides stress isolation between the insulating tube of the vacuum interrupter and the base of the clad end seal. ...

PCT No. PCT/GB96/00316 Sec. 371 Date Sep. 10, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Sep. 10, 1997 PCT Filed Feb. 14, 1996 PCT Pub. No. WO96/25872 PCT Pub. Date Aug. 29, 1996In a cleaning head (10) of the kind having agitating means (26) engageable with a surface to be cleaned for agitating cleaning liquid thereon, and collecting means (25) for collection of liquid from the surface by suction, the agitating means ...

Isolated human monoclonal antibodies which specifically bind to IL-15 (e.g., human IL-15), and related antibody-based compositions and molecules, are disclosed. The human antibodies can be produced in a transfectoma or in a non-human transgenic animal, e.g., a transgenic mouse, capable of producing multiple isotypes of human monoclonal antibodies by undergoing V-D-J recombination and isotype switc...

A trigger actuated pump sprayer has a reduced number of parts to render it low cost without compromising any pump function. A combined inlet/discharge valve unit (17) is located in a liquid passageway leading from the inlet end of the pump body. The unit has a pair of axially spaced apart frusto-conical valve skirts (41,42) diverging outwardly from the common stem (38) on which the valve skirts ar...

A cotton cloth enclosed Chitin powder compound that is sewn within the potential space inside the cotton cloth layers to contain the Chitin, which is a powerful oi l sorbent. The cloth sizes range from 12" by 12" to 56" by 10 ft. At each of two opposite ends there will be a staple or nail secured wooden block or plastic block to ensure the flotation of the apparatus, running the length of the side...

The device has a generator on the turbine of the turbocharger (11), an exhaust gas cleaning device downstream of the turbocharger in the exhaust gas channel of the internal combustion engine (10) and a device for determining the amount of electrical power produced by the generator based on the temperature of the exhaust gas cleaning device. AN Independent claim is also included for the following:...

The input signal enters a frequency modulation-selection filter (1) connected to a demodulator (2) which is connected to a stereo decoder (3). Demodulated signals are also sent to a neighboring channel detector (4), a frequency increase detector (6) and an additional channel detector (7) which are connected to a control circuit (5). The control circuit sends channel separation information signals...

The dashboard carrier extends transversely to the direction of travel in the vehicle in three parts: a driver bridge (1), middle part (2) and passenger bridge (3). The driver bridge may be on either side of the middle part, with the passenger bridge on the other side. The middle part can be connected to the driver bridge and the passenger bridge.

Process for recognizing a coating on a glass substrate comprises measuring the reflection of a light beam through the surface of the substrate being tested or a monolithic, laminated or multiple glazing unit, subsequently measuring on another surface, and comparing the results to decide whether the surface being tested is provided with a coating. An Independent claim is also included for a device...

A machine for processing wood panels (2) or similar has at least one work table (14) defining a supporting surface (P) for at least one panel (2); at least one edging unit (18) for edging the panel (2); a first and a second actuating device for moving the work table (14) and the edging unit (18) with respect to each other in a first and, respectively, second direction (6, 10) crosswise to each oth...

A variable-delivery rotary pump (10) with oscillating vanes (20), having devices (12, 13, 14, 16) for simultaneously rotating the rotor (15) and the outer rotating ring (17) at the same rotation speed.