The method uses the solar heat of collector plates, and the underground water for the cooling and warming system. The method has the heating system that stores heat in heat accumlation device (8) through a circulating pump (6) and a duct (17) and heats rooms by circulating heat. The method also has the cooling system that transfers heat in a heat exchanger (3) after sending the underground water (...

The buttonless memory system of the present invention retrieves and stores the measurement results of a sample for the user of an electronic measurement device, particularly a portable and personal electrical measurement device, with minimal user interaction. The user simply activates the portable measurement device and waits as the buttonless memory system initially cycles through the stored meas...

Per guidare un utensile lungo un percorso sotterraneo 6 in prossimità della superficie, come richiesto ad esempio nel caso di attraversamento di un fiume 7, l'utensile è provvisto di un rilevatore magnetico mentre circuito trasmettitore è posizionato quale punto di riferimento per l'utensile in superficie. In una prima fase di misurazione, viene fatta fluire una corrente continua in una direzione ...

A method of transmitting information relating to the operation of an electrical device disposed in a borehole, in which information picked up by at least one downhole sensor is conveyed to surface reception means via the wire connection connecting said device to electrical power supply means on the surface, the method being characterized in that said wire connection is inductively coupled firstly ...

The invention relates to a connection block for high transmission rates in telecommunications and data technology. The connection block 1 consists of a plastic housing 2 and of metallic insulation piercing terminal contact elements 10 which are inserted in pairs, in at least two parallel rows, into the housing 2 and have connected contact fingers 15 forming spring contacts 16. In order to reduce t...

The present invention relates to a compressed pharmaceutical dosage form containing pharmaceutical particles coated with a taste-masking composition, a water-dis-integratable, compressible carbohydrate and a binder. These components are dry blended and compressed into a dosage form, such as a tablet, having a hardness sufficient to cause the carbohydrate to disintegrate within 30 seconds after ora...

A wavelength-division-multiplexed transmitter has a single modulator modulating the output of an array of individually actuable semiconductor lasers (LA1,...,LA8) integrated onto the same substrate as the modulator. An optical combiner (CO1) integrated onto the same substrate between each of the lasers and the single modulator combines the outputs of the lasers. One or more of the lasers are activ...

17 The discharging system discharges periodically and automatically a predetermined amount of an effluent stored in a container. It allows a periodic accumulation of effluent in a container and an automatic discharge thereof with only the use of the hydro-mechanical force of the system. It comprises a tube located in the container having a free end and an end pivotally connected to the outlet of t...

A sailing craft having a hull with a longitudinal midplane. A primary boom is pivotally mounted on the hull for 360.degree. continuous rotation in either direction about a central vertical axis. The primary boom is connected by lines to a sail boom. At least one angled mast is mounted to the hull and extends upwardly. The mast has a top, the top is disposed approximately above the central vertical...

The invention relates to a radio system with frequency optimisation, especially a mobile radio system with radio base stations and subscribers (mobile stations or stationary stations) at low speed down to standstill. To avoid fluctuations and interruptions in the received level, the invention provides that in each subscriber station (mobile station or stationary station), the received levels and/o...

A control method and architecture is described for an ATM network carrying connections data traffic. The method is capable of integrating connectionoriented as well as connectionless traffic. The method takes advantage of the quasi-deterministic nature of the traffic emanating from a source that is being shaped by the leaky bucket shaping algorithm. Alternative methods are provided if such a shapi...

VIBRATORY TUMBLING APPARATUS A vibratory material handling apparatus is provided for mixing of materials, cleaning, blending and/or shake out of castings or the like. The apparatus comprises a container having a material supporting surface disposed along a generally horizontal longitudinal axis. The container has a material input end and a material discharge end axially spaced therefrom and it is ...

Reagents and methods for determining the fructosamine content in a blood sample or a sample derived from blood are disclosed. It is proposed: - a set of reagents for determining the fructosamine content in a blood sample or a sample derived from blood, comprising two stable ready to use liquid reagents, the first liquid reagent having an nearby neutral pH and containing a colour reagent, which is ...

The present invention relates to a method for producing microsilica having a reflectivity between 65 and 90 % in a smelting furnace for production of ferrosilicon or silicon by using a charge comprising an SiO2-source and a solid carbonaceous reduction agent, where microsilica is recovered from the off-gases from the smelting furnace, wherein the solid reduction agent supplied to the furnace conta...

The present method comprises the following steps: the seeds 2 are taken from a disordered mass and packed in a support means 10 in the form of a thin sheet composed of two thin foils 11 and 12 joined to each other with the seeds 2 in between, the seeds 2 being placed in the support means in a plurality of containment blisters 13 arranged relative to each other in a geometrically ordered and consta...

The layout comprises a movable reheating bell 16, suspended from an immovable framework 12, which makes it possible to lower said bell into an operating position in contact with the top layer 11 of the wastes contained in the pit 10. The reheating bell has at least one high- temperature heat source 17 able to bring about pyrolysis in situ of the wastes at individual zones of the pit and at least o...

Gear change 1 with continuous torque transmission for a motor vehicle comprising an inner shaft 3 provided with a plurality of drive wheels 10, 11, 12 and two countershafts 15, 16 on which corresponding driven wheels 10a, 11a, 12a; 10b, 11b, 12b can be inserted by means of friction members 30, 44, 45 which engage driving wheels 10, 11, 12 either directly or for reverse operation through an idler g...