A mattress top assembly for a mattress includes a pad filled with cushioning material and a plurality of connector straps attached along the head, foot, arid side edges of the pad and removably connected to the side wall of the mattress. The mattress includes one part of a cooperable fastener generally midway between top and bottom surfaces, on the side walls of the mattress, for detachable connec...

An improved walking aid to allow people who walk with canes, crutches and other walking devices to travel over sand, gravel and uneven areas. It consists of a pad made up of layers of flexible material with a non-flexible ring inside the pad. The ring sits around the outer edge for stability. It has a thin rubber layer on the bottom of the pad for traction on smooth surfaces such as pavement. It h...

A first structure has a flexible outer wall system defining a first vessel. The first vessel is used to contain one or more fluids and is expandable and compressible to one or more states dependent on a volume of one or more fluids in the first vessel. A second structure has a flexible outer wall system defining a second vessel. The second vessel is used to contain one or more fluids and be expand...

In one embodiment, the present invention relates to a method of making a catalytic film comprising: applying an electric current to an electrochemical cell comprising an anode, a cathode and a solution comprising a film forming compound and a nitrate ion source thereby forming the catalytic film.

A laminated polyester film stretched in at least one direction, comprising: a polyester support, and at least one enhanced adhesion layer laminated on the polyester support, comprising a composition comprising: (1) an aromatic copolyester (A1) having a water-dispersible functional group, a polyvinyl alcohol resin (B1), and a vinylpyrrolidone copolymer resin (C1); or (2) an aromatic copolyester (A1...

The present invention relates to the use of hollow microspheres filled with a hydrocarbon, to introduce uniform cell geometries in syntactic foams having a bimodal cell structure. The rigid foam product includes from 20 to 80 percent by weight of the hollow microspheres, the microspheres having average diameters ranging from 80 to 200 microns. The microspheres are encapsulated from 80 to 20 percen...

In an air conditioning apparatus for a vehicle, plural electrical heating members are integrated with a heater core for heating air. The air conditioning apparatus includes a first control unit for determining number of the electrical heating members to be operated, and a second control unit for controlling electrical power supplied to each of the electrical heating members based on the number det...

Method suitable for optimizing an operation of a self-guided vehicle. The method includes steps for incorporating a self-guided capability as part of the operation of the vehicle, the operation further including a mapping technique for soliciting information required for vehicle motion from a first to a second predetermined location. The method then requires dynamically assessing a global optimal ...

A hand held appliance and holder assembly comprising a holder including means adapted for mounting to a supporting surface, a first end portion, a second end portion, and a cradle portion intermediate the end portions, and a hand held appliance including a handle portion including an inner end, an outer end releasably engaged by one of the end portions, and an intermediate part located between the...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a single wire bead producing apparatus for efficiently and automatically producing a completed product of a bead on one line. SOLUTION: A single wire bead producing apparatus is equipped with a winding device 2 for winding a wire 6 around a drum 7 to form a bead, a yarn winding device 3 for winding yarn 9 around the end start terminal of the wire 6 present at the a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain the excellent transparency and luster of a coating film and the excellent adhesion and fixing resistance between the coating film and a water-based top coating agent by a method wherein a water-based coating liquid is applied on a coating layer, which is formed by applying an oxazoline group-containing polymer on the surface of a film and then drying and stretching ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve a read reliability and a preservation characteristic of a sensor mark part by including in the sensor mark part a first carbon black of a specific or smaller average particle size and a second carbon black of a specific or larger average particle size. SOLUTION: An ink ribbon 1 has yellow ink layers 3Y, a magenta ink layer 3M and cyan ink layers 3C formed on one fa...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an open-celled rigid polyurethane foam molding of which the material cost per unit volume is low because of its peculiar structure and the surface has an excellent smoothness; a method for producing such as open- celled rigid polyurethane foam molding having a peculiar structure; a heat insulation material which is produced from the open-celled rigid polyurethane f...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a silicone molding having softness enough to absorb excessive force during fastening or compression and having a very high heat conductivity and surface pressure-sensitive adhesiveness, which molding is prepared so that it is composed of a skeleton and a resin part, there is a difference between the heat conductivity of the skeleton and that of the resin part, and i...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce remarkably a phenomenon of reverse mixing of powder materials from a chamber on the discharge part side to a chamber on the supply part side. SOLUTION: A partition plate 11 partitioning a vessel between a supply part and a discharge part of powder materials into a plurality of chambers is provided vertically and the plate 11 has a slit 19 or a hole. The upper ends o...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To avoid mismatching between programs having a dependent relation in the case of translating/coupling the programs by performing updating processing so that the version of a program held in the work environment of a programmer can be made into latest state at all the time. SOLUTION: A program storage part 144 is searched, and it is determined from version information whether ...

Un método de inspeccionar las variaciones comerciales en unaprimera porción de un recipiente que comprende los pasos de dirigir energía luminosa dentro de la primera porción del recipiente bajo inspección, observar la I primera porción del recipiente sobre el cual la energía luminosa es dirigida con un medio sensor de luz que proporciona una salida como una función de las características ópticas d...

An electrically conductive elastomeric foam for use in EMI/RFI shielding applications, especially as a gap filler or, caulk. The foam is based upon a polyurethane system wherein the electrically conductive filler is intermixed with either the isocyanate or active hydrogen containing component before reacting the two components to create the foam. The foam is lightweight, flexible, highly conductiv...

A brake (10) for a hydraulic vehicle brake system has a housing (14) with a bore (18) which is formed therein and in which a brake piston (20) is received in a sealingly and slideably displaceable manner. The brake piston (20) is adapted to press a brake lining (32) against a brake disk (12) by means of hydraulic pressure. For sealing, the brake piston (20) is sealed off relative to the bore (18) ...

An apparatus and method for demagnetizing a differential which has a controllable electromagnetically actuated clutch. The apparatus includes sensors and a coil connected to a control module. The sensors receive vehicle inputs to indicate various measured values such as vehicle speed, brake pressure, magnetization current provided to the differential, and the like and generates signals which are t...