The present invention provides a coating composition having improved intercoat adhesion with an under coating layer. The coating composition comprising: (A) a film-forming resin, (B) a crosslinking agent for thermosetting the resin (A), and (C) a phosphate, a sulfonic acid or a carboxylic acid having a long-chain alkyl group of 8 to 18 carbon atoms and HLB of 3 to 12. A solid content of the compon...

A metal detector mounted on the vehicle (V) has one or more aerials (2) located, for example, under the bumpers, and is able to signal the presence of any metals mixed with the paint used for forming the horizontal road markings (1). It is thus possible to control the path which the vehicle follows without the need to use cables embedded in the road surface or megnetisable paints.

The piston for hydraulic brakes, especially for vehicles, consists of a beaker-shaped piece (23) with a base (25) which has a central protuberance (101) forming a connection (100). The beaker-shaped piece (23) fits inside a hydraulic brake cylinder (17) and has a thermally insulating core (26) partly fitting in the beaker (23) and sticking out beyond it and fixed to the beaker (23) by means of the...

A gear-changing device for a motor-vehicle transmission unit including a gearbox connected to the engine of the vehicle with the interposition of a clutch and having a plurality of members for engaging the gears associated with respective control actuators. An electronic control unit receives a signal indicative of the operation of the clutch and selects the gear to be engaged in dependence on the...

A gear selection device (16) for a transmission assembly (1) of a vehicle is disclosed, comprising a main lever (18) for selecting two operating positions (U, D) and on which are provided two buttons (P, N), one of which (N) is for selecting neutral, and a small auxiliary lever (23) also having two operating positions (U, D), and an electronic processor (17) for controlling the the gearbox (4) and...

Artificial marble composed of an organic matrix produced by radicalpolymerisation of a polymerisable liquid formulation containing at least oneallyl polycarbonate, one polyol in monomer and/or oligomer form and onemineral filler dispersed in said organic matrix, the mineral filler beingcomposed at least partly of cristobalite powder. The artificial marbleobtained in this way offers enhanced charac...

Two rollers (44,55) with lobes for feeding a sheet are disposed below the plane feed surface (22). The two rollers are rotatable on axes perpendicular to one another and move the sheet or the document to be printed in a direction perpendicular and parallel, respectively, to the printing direction (20) of the head (14) to align the sheet against inverted V elements (80) movable parallel to the prin...

The invention is generally accomplished by providing a disposable garment comprising a liquid impervious backing sheet, a liquid pervious body-side liner sheet, and an integral absorbent pad disposed between the liner and cover sheets. The absorbent pad is provided with a high absorbency area extending from the crotch region toward the center of the front waist of the garment. It is preferred that...

The roll-up curtain (1) is secured detachably to the roller (2) by hook-clasp fastener strips (3,4) on the roller and at the top curtain edge. The width of the strip on the curtain is such that with the curtain rolled up it covers virtually the whole peripheral surface (2c) of the roller. The other strip (3) is mounted in a recess (2b) in the peripheral surface. ADVANTAGE - Smooth coiling and un...

A vision system for automating a machine process. The system includes a conventional CCD camera and a vision processor which automatically determines process parameters from a workpiece surface by generating an image of the workpiece surface, transducing the workpiece image into electrical signals, and electronically determining the process parameters from the electrical signals. Applied to a lase...

A method of preparing humanized monoclonal antibodies is described which utilizes comparative model building methodology. A humanized anti-CD18 antibody, 60.3, has been formulated and demonstrated to have analogous binding characteristics to the original murine monoclonal antibody, while displaying essentially complete human Ig heavy and light chains.

A hydraulic clamp for dies of injection molding machines, workpieces of machine tools such as press machines and the like. In the front part of its housing a clamp arm (4) is installed to be longitudinally movable and vertically pivotable and a hydraulic cylinder (5) in the rear part thereof, and there is formed in at least either of a piston rod and the clamp arm a longitudinally extending hole (...

Skate (10) fitted with one or more rigid, circular tubular rings (11) having a constant internal cross section, mounted either singly or in pairs on a platform (20) on which one foot or both feet (21) can rest, housing a number of continuously circulating balls (12) that come in contact with the ground through an aperture (15) on the longitudinal underside of said rings (11).

The invention concerns films or plates of acrylic polymers, in particular polymethylmethacrylate, rendered no drop by coating with a monomeric composition, polymerized and reticulated by ultraviolet light, consisting of: a) from 50 to 70% by weight of acrylates or methacrylates of C1-C12 alkyls, C4-C12 cycloalkyl, polycycloalkyl or alkylidene having from 7 to 14 C atoms; b) from 10 to 30% of acr...

A fixed track 40 is provided, inclined with respect to the horizontal, on which slides a pile 3 of objects 2 of indeterminate length arranged perpendicular to the said track 40 and resting on it with the lower portion of its own edge, the said pile 3 occupying at least the lower portion of the fixed track 40; on the track 40 act first means 10, for attaching and releasing a segment 5 of predetermi...

In lifting equipment of the type comprising a tilting telescopic arm controlled by a main double-acting cylinder-piston unit and carrying a load platform hinged to the end, whose orientation is controlled by an auxiliary double-acting hydraulic cylinder-piston unit, the piston rod of the main cylinder-piston unit has an axial cylindrical cavity inside which slides the piston of the secondary doubl...

A retainer for the nose piece of the shoe which backs the abrasive belt in a belt-type grinding machine. The nose piece is T-shaped having a cross member provided with opposite side portions and a stem between the side portions. The head of the shoe has a stem-receiving recess and outwardly facing locating shoulders on opposite sides of the recess. The nose piece is mounted on the head with its st...

A filter duplexer (280), such as a filter duplexer for a radio transceiver, of minimum dimensions is disclosed. A first filter portion (304, 308, 312, 316) of the duplexer filter includes resonators of at least a first geometric configuration, and a second filter circuit portion (320, 324, 328, 332, 336) of the duplexer filter comprises resonators of a second geometric configuration. The geometric...

Method for positioning the working tool with respect to the piece being machined in machining modules and machine tools with digital control along three axes controlled at right angles in which a toolholder mandrel is supported in such a way that it can move in translation in directions at right angles along the vertical Y and longitudinal Z Cartesian axes in which according to the invention the s...

Optical demultiplexing system, wherein from an optical carrier modulated by a TDM data flow the wanted tributary is extracted as an optical signal. The system makes use of a semiconductor optical amplifier, whose gain is modulated due to saturation effect. The amplifier receives both the modulated optical carrier and one or a plurality of sampling optical carriers, with wavelengths different from ...