PURPOSE: An apparatus and a method for driving a plasma display panel are provided to reduce largely a manufacturing cost by using a low-voltage switching element for lowering a sustain discharge voltage in half. CONSTITUTION: An apparatus for driving a plasma display panel includes a first and a second switching element, a third and a fourth switching element, a first diode, and a second diode. T...

A vacuum belt conveyor for a web forming machine intended for transporting a web threading tail ( 24 ) has lateral guidance. The vacuum belt conveyor has a frame construction ( 16 ) with two rolls ( 17, 18 ), an air-permeable belt loop ( 21 ) and guiding equipment ( 22 ) for providing lateral guidance. The guiding equipment ( 22 ) is composed of air blows ( 25 ), which are arranged on both sides o...

A pneumatic tire has a tread with a plurality of sipes (11,14,15), in which one of opposed wall faces (11a) of the sipe (11) is a concave face arc-shapedly curved over the whole of the sipe in a depth direction thereof and the other wall face (11b) thereof is a convex face just fitted to the above concave face (11a), and a curvature of each of the concave and convex faces (11a,11b) is substantiall...

In a vehicle provided with a continuously variable transmission, when a target speed change ratio sharply decreases due to the release of an accelerator pedal from depression, a real speed change ratio of the continuously variable transmission which follows the target speed change ratio may undershoot the target speed change ratio. Due to this undershoot, the engine rotation speed may temporarily ...

PCT No. PCT/NO95/00211 Sec. 371 Date Jul. 8, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Jul. 8, 1997 PCT Filed Nov. 9, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO96/15427 PCT Pub. Date May 23, 1996A method for measuring the flow rate in a fluid flow, particularly a two-phase flow comprising oil, water and gas from an offshore well, in which a temporary transitory shut-off of the fluid flow by means of a valve is performed, and the fluid pre...

An apparatus for controlling brake force of a vehicle is disclosed. Each cylinders of a vehicle engine has a combustion chamber that receives fuel from a fuel injector and air from an air intake passage. The engine selectively performs a stratified charge combustion and a uniform charge combustion. The stratified charge combustion mode is selected to increase the amount of the air and the fuel sup...

PCT No. PCT/JP97/02939 Sec. 371 Date Apr. 22, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Apr. 22, 1998 PCT Filed Aug. 25, 1997 PCT Pub. No. WO98/08764 PCT Pub. Date Mar. 5, 1998A thin ribbon cassette (16) is set on a tape winding device and its vertical-direction position is fixed by a position restricting member (18) provided on a back of a cover for an apparatus body. When the ribbon cassette (16) is thin in corresp...

Die Erfindung betrifft ein Verfahren zum Schweißen zweier Werkstücke (2, 3) mit einer Schweißoptik (4) entlang einer Schweißnaht (5), bei dem ein erstes Werkstück (2) mithilfe eines verschieblichen Anpresselements (7) gegen ein zweites Werkstück (3) gepresst wird, wobei die vom Anpresselement (7) auf das erste Werkstück (2) ausgeübte Ist-Kraft prozessbegleitend gemessen wird. Um eine hohe Genauigk...

Longitudinal recesses near the top (1) of the spindle (2) accommodate projections on the interior of the yarn tube to provide the drive coupling. The sides of the recesses are tapered and shaped to guide the projections as the tube is placed on the spindle and can have a re-entrant region to hold the projection. The number of recesses on the spindle is a multiple of the number of projections on th...

An energy-efficient method and system for processing target material such as microstructures in a microscopic region without causing undesirable changes in electrical and/or physical characteristics of material surrounding the target material is provided. The system includes a controller for generating a processing control signal and a signal generator for generating a modulated drive waveform bas...

The height adjustable system (8) has a supporting arm (7), which carries the arc shaped holder (6) at the side and on one side at a place of the arc periphery. The holder (6) is designed with a "C" shape, at the ends of which are arranged an X-ray emitter (2) and a collinear opposite lying image taking unit (4), to form the first X-ray photograph taking unit. The image taking unit of the second X-...

A system controlled responsive to data bearing records includes a card reader that is operative to read data from user cards including identifying data, and authorizes operation of an automated banking machine responsive to the identifying data. The automated banking machine includes a housing including a generally L-shaped chest portion and an upper housing portion. The banking machine includes a...

A system controlled responsive to data bearing records includes a card reader that is operative to read data from user cards including identifying data, and authorizes operation of an automated banking machine responsive to the identifying data. The automated banking machine includes a housing including a generally L-shaped chest portion and an upper housing portion. The banking machine includes a...

The invention relates to a grinding machine for all kinds of material, said machine comprising: a receiving element for the material (5); at least one shaft (2) positioned in the housing (1) and provided with grinding tools (3) ; rigid cutting tools (4) which are arranged in the housing (1) and against which the grinding tools (3) operate, grinding the material (5) with specifically low forces. To...

A centrifuge has a rotatable bowl (56) generating a cylindrical slurry pool (70) and at least one liquid phase discharge port assembly (64) provided on the bowl. Each of one or more liquid phase discharge port assemblies (64) on a bowl head (62) define a liquid phase discharge path having a circumferential component oriented in opposition to a direction of rotation of the bowl. Eac h discharge por...

An automated banking machine (10) accepts deposit items such as currency, checks, gift certificates or other items of value. Deposited items after bei ng accepted in the machine and processed are moved to the container (260). The container includes an interior area (268) which is bounded by a shaker membe r (282) on which deposit items are supported. The machine is operative to control operation o...

A diagnostic tool for use in diagnosing diseases, the tool is a detector for detecting a presence of an array of markers being used to determine gene expression changes that are related to cellular immortalization, the presence of the markers being indicative of a specific disease and the markers and treatments found by the tool. A tool for interpreting results of a microarray, wherein the tool is...

Methods are provided for determining whether a patient treated with an anti-proliferative agent is susceptible to toxicity. In practicing the subject methods, an expression profile for the transcriptional response to a therapy is obtained from the patient and compared to a reference profile to determine whether the patient is susceptible to toxicity. In addition, reagents and kits thereof that fin...

The present invention provides processes for producing certain very low inherent viscosity polyesters. Also provided are the low inherent viscosity polyesters in discrete particulate form, and processes for producing the particulate polyesters. The discrete particulate materials are desirable for use in further processes.; L'invention porte sur des procédés de production de certains polyesters à t...

Tyre drum including a turn-up mechanism, the tyre drum being provided with a central shaft, two ring segments placed around the shaft and spaced apart for supporting the bead cores and the tyre drum on either side outside of the ring segments being provided with a set of axially extending arms, the arms at a first free end oriented towards the ring segment being provided with a first turn-up means...