FIELD: wind power engineering. ^ SUBSTANCE: proposed direct-drive wind set has tower with rotary base, segment stator member installed on base, tail, windwheel with blades and segment rotor members. Rotor and stator segment members are made in form of two sections, nonmagnetic segment member being installed between segment members of rotor. ^ EFFECT: reduced starting torque at preservation of powe...

FIELD: oil and gas industry, particularly for well overhaul and maintenance. ^ SUBSTANCE: packer comprises body connected to conductor-and-support cable in which electric drive, reducing gear, screw pair, central rod, rubber gland, seat and movable bush are arranged. The central rod is connected with screw and pusher, the rubber gland is located between fixed and sliding flanges. The seat is forme...

FIELD: textile industry, in particular, nonwoven multilayer artistic-ornamental textile materials. ^ SUBSTANCE: nonwoven material has at least two layers formed and thermally treated under pressure, with following compression of formed material by double-sided stitching by needles and overturning of material. One of said layers includes continuous web made from threads and at least other layer inc...

Instant messaging systems and methods are disclosed. The systems and methods allow users to play competitive and collaborative games using an instant messaging client application. The client application may create a user interface screen that includes an instant messaging region or window for exchanging instant messages and a game region or window for playing games.

"VEìCULO DE QUATRO RODAS DO TIPO DE MONTAR EM SELA, SISTEMA DE SUPRIMENTO DE COMBUSTìVEL E ESTRUTURA DE DISPOSIçãO DE UM SISTEMA DE SUPRIMENTO DE AR SECUNDáRIO". A presente invenção refere-se a um veículo de quatro rodas do tipo de montar em sela (1) que inclui um sistema de suprimento de combustível do tipo de controle eletrónico em um sistema de suprimento de combustível para um motor (5) montad...

A mattress cover, especially for hospital mattresses prevents the ingress of liquids to the mattress core. The mattress cover includes an opening to allow the cover to be put on, and taken off, a mattress core. The opening is closed by a zip fastener ( 10 ). The teeth ( 12 ) of the zip fastener ( 10 ) are mounted on a substrate which is impermeable to fluids. Preferably the substrate is coated wit...

A fetching structure for a carrier bag essentially comprised of a support board fixed to the inner edge of the opening of the bag; one fixation band being each laterally provided on the surface of the supporting board; a penetration section not connected to the supporting board being provided on the fixation band; one end of a pull band penetrating through the penetration section and the other end...

A transmission has an oil drain passage for connecting an oil reservoir with a mission case in a pump casing. The automatic transmission has also a retainer serving as a shielding member to shield between a discharge opening of the oil drain passage from at least part of a multistage transmission mechanism. This ensures that breather oil blow, which is caused by the spattering and stirring of oper...

Electrosurgical methods, systems, and apparatus for the controlled ablation of tissue from a target site of a patient. An electrosurgical apparatus of the invention includes an active electrode assembly having an active electrode screen surrounded by a plurality of flow protectors. Each flow protector defines a shielded region of the active electrode screen, each shielded region of the screen char...

A catheter body of a catheter assembly includes a proximal portion, an intermediate portion extending from the proximal portion, a distal portion extending from the intermediate portion, and a locating device including a distal tip extending from the distal portion of the catheter body. The intermediate portion defines a longitudinal axis and the distal portion forms a loop including one or more l...

In an incising device for use with endoscope having an electrode 3 for incising an organic tissue on its distal end and an energy connecting portion on it proximal end portion, the electrode 3 is formed of a pliable member having flexibility.

A method and an apparatus for manufacturing a pneumatic tire, in which carcass plies are formed by applying carcass cords over an outer surface of a toroidal core along cord paths extending in a meridian direction of the core are disclosed. A zigzag shaped carcass cord arrangement is formed by applying a carcass cord on an outer surface of an imaginary column axially of the imaginary column and se...

Methods and systems for monitoring semiconductor fabrication processes are provided. A system may include a stage configured to support a specimen and coupled to a measurement device. The measurement device may include an illumination system and a detection system. The illumination system and the detection system may be configured such that the system may be configured to determine multiple proper...

A pipeline video decoder and decompression system handles a plurality of separately encoded bit streams arranged as a single serial bit stream of digital bits and having separately encoded pairs of control codes and corresponding data carried in the serial bit stream. The pipeline system employs a plurality of interconnected stages to decode and decompress the single bit stream, including a start ...

A redundant array includes a plurality of disks, a bus coupling the disks, a receiving device, and a device to reconstruct a block stored in one of the disks. The device reconstructs the block with associated data and parity blocks from other disks. The device transmits the reconstructed block to the receiving device in response to the one of the disks being unavailable or degraded.

A biaxially oriented polyethylene naphthalate copolymer film, characterized in that: (1) the film is made substantially of a polyethylene naphthalate copolymer comprising 90 to 99.9 mole % (based on the total of the repeating units) of ethylene 2,6-naphthalate units and containing an isophthalic acid component or a decalin-2,6- dicarboxylic acid component in an amount of 0.1 to 10 mole % based on ...

"DISTRIBUIçãO DE VEGF COM BASE NA CéLULA". Um método de estimulação de diferenciação de célula-tronco no tecido danificado por isquemia que consiste nas etapas de aumento da concentração de VEGF no tecido danificado por isquemia e no aumento da concentração de células-tronco no tecido danificado por isquemia enquanto a concentração de VEGF no tecido danificado por isquemia é aumentada.; A method o...

"MéTODO PARA A FORMAçãO DE UM COMPACTO A PARTIR DE Pó E APARELHO DE MOLDE PARA A MOLDAGEM DE Pó". A presente invenção refere-se a um método para a formação de um compacto a partir de um pó, no qual uma porção de formação 1A em um corpo de molde 2 é enchida com um pó bruto, e os furadores superior e inferior 3, 4 são encaixados na porção de formação 1A de modo a formar o compacto. Antes de encher a...