The invention relates to a heat transmission system based on electromagnetic radiation, which heat transmission system comprises an oven cavity and a foil with at least two layers, said at least two layers of the foil comprising a radiation-absorbing layer, wherein the wavelength spectre of the electromagnetic radiation of the radiation-absorbing layer and wavelength spectre of the electromagnetic...

The invention is related to an electrical time and humidity or moisture sensor incorporated in a package or packaging material of goods, particularly electronics, foodstuffs and degradable products. The electrical time and humidity or moisture sensor incorporated in a package or packaging material comprises a layered structure that is based on a conductive polymer and it indicates whether the pack...

A water treatment process whereby heat is used and recaptured to pasteurize water and or sewage effluent. Contaminated waters are partially treatable utilizing bacterial and chemica l processes, however some bacteria (e.g. Cryptosporidium and Giardia) are resistant to chemicals. Hence, the present process raises the temperature of the water to any desired temperature and for any desired length of ...

The invention relates to a method and apparatus for measuring the degree of fullness of a pulpwood barking drum. The supply end of a drum (1) is illuminated with a light fixture (2), and a camera (3) is used for imaging through the drum. A dark area (4) visible in the image is interpreted as a pulpwood -loaded section of the drum, and an area (5) visible in illumination is interpreted as a void sp...

A microwave ablation probe for providing microwave energy to tissue is disclosed. The probe includes a feedline having an inner conductor, an insulating space r and an outer conductor. The probe also includes a radiation portion having an extruded portion of the inner conductor that is centrally disposed therein. The radiation portion al so includes one or more conductive disks disposed on the ext...

A transition part (1) between two optical waveguides (2,3) with different index contrast is characterised in that the transition part (1) includes a non-adiabatically up-tapered longitudinal section (8), and in that the transition (7) between the two waveguides (2,3) is arranged after the up-tapered longitudinal section (8) as seen along the main direction (L) of propagation of the light. A method...

A method of configuring a telephone, comprising configuring a plurality of self - labeling Role Keys to represent respective user roles, and configuring a plurality of self - labeling Role Associated Keys associated with respective ones of the self - labeling Role Keys such that upon user selection of one of the self - labeling Role Keys representing a predetermined user role, the plurality of sel...

An apparatus and method for testing thermal switches is disclosed including modulating the temperature of a receiver in thermal contact with a thermal switch at a first rate within a range containing the nominal switch temperature of the thermal switch. A first temperature at which the switch changes state is recorded. The temperature is then modulated at a second rate and a second temperature at ...

A Mach Zehnder (MZ) modulator (1) comprising a splitter (4) for splitting incident light in one wave guide (3) into two modulator arms (5,6) of the MZ and comprising a combiner (7) that combines light from the two arms {5,6) into an output mode, where electrodes (9,10) are present in connection with said arms (5,6) for changing the refractive index in said arms in order to modulate incident light ...

With a burner, especially pulverized coal burner (1), with a fuel conveying tube (7) and a primary air tube (9) which is concentrically arranged within it, wherein the primary air tube (9) on the mouth discharge side terminates at a distance to the mouth opening of the fu el conveying tube (7), and the burner (1) is connected, or can be connected, to a feed line which conveys pulverous fuel in den...

9 ABSTRACT The invention relates to a process for removing nitrogen and phosphorus and other undesirable components from greywater. According to the process, the greywater is filtered by using a finely divided mixture of pine wood and spruce wood as filtering material. The invention also relates to a filtering apparatus for implementing the process. (Figure 1)

The invention relates to a copper-zinc alloy, consisting of (in wt%): from 28.0 to 36.0% Zn, from 0.5 to 2.3% Si, from 1.5 to 2.5% Mn, from 0.2 to 3.0% Ni, from 0.5 to 1.5% Al, from 0.1 to 1.0% Fe, optionally also up to at most 0.1% Pb, optionally also up to at most 0.2% Sn, optionally also up to at most 0.1% P, optionally also up to 0.08% S, remainder Cu and inevitable impurities, with mixed sili...

A method of transferring data to a portable electronic device includes providing a link for pushing data to the portable electronic device, receiving a selection of the push link, receiving an identifier of the portable electronic device for delivery of th e data thereto, and transmitting the data to the portable electronic device.

The invention relates to a system and method for maintaining a first connection to a first network and a second connection to a second network by a communication device. The method comprises: conducting a first activity to maintain or establish the first connection in a series of spaced, timed segments, such that the segments represent a timeframe of an original activity that would span a continuo...

A lubricating oil composition for internal combus-tion engines comprising a base oil having and lubricating viscosity and additives composed of a) a salt of an alka-li metal or alkaline earth metal and an alkylsalicylate and/or an alkylcarboxylate, b) a nitrogen atom-containing ashless dispersant and/or a nitrogen atom-containing dispersive viscosity index improver, c) a neutral salt of a fatty ac...

A chemical sensor for gases, comprising a layer of semiconductor material, a layer of organic molecules bound covalently to the surface of the semiconductor layer by a direct carbon-semiconductor surface atom bond, and a layer of porous material, characterised in that the organic molecule layer comprises cyclodextrin derivatives.

A sports shoe (1) which comprises a rigid sole (2) from which a shell (5) protrudes, starting from a forefoot region (3) and up to a heel region (4), a quarter (10) being rotatably associated with the shell (5). An insole (12) is slidingly associated within the shell (5), at a bottom thereof, is provided with a tip (15) and interacts with means (16) for adjusting and guiding its axial position wit...

A pulley for multi-wire machine tools comprising a disk-shaped body (2) with a substantially central rotation axis (X) and an outer peripheral portion (3), an anti- wear protection (4) associated with the outer peripheral region (3) of said disk- shaped body (2) and having an annular shape with at least one outer peripheral groove (5) for receiving at least one flexible element. The anti-wear prot...