The system has a computer (2) searching participants (10, 40) having a concordance between a sales profile and a purchase profile of the participants (10, 40) respectively. The computer sends personal details (P 40) of the participant (40) acting as a potential buyer, to the participant (10) acting as a potential vendor. The computer waits for the reception of a message indicating a permission of ...

Disclosed are glass compositions, glass fiber compositions, glass fiber battery separators, glass fiber filter media, battery additives and active materials formed with glass compositions disclosed, glass fiber radiation shields, and glass fiber paper compositions. Certain embodiments include, among other components, bismuth oxide. Certain embodiments include about 0.5-30% bismuth oxide of the com...

The invention relates to a crushing device, which includes a frame structure and a rotor mounted rotatably in bearings in it. In addition, shredder elements are arranged in connection with the frame structure and the rotor, and a hydraulic motor is connected to the rotor through a power transmission. The material fed to the crushing device is arranged to travel through the shredder elements while ...

A CSI system is described that uses pencil beams 40,42,44,46 through a sample 30 having a region of interest 32. Each coherent scatter spectrum of sample beams 40, 44 through the region of interest is subtracted by the spectra using respective reference beams 42, 46. The measurements are combined to determine features of the region of interest 32 whilst minimising the effect of features in the res...

A water-absorbent composite in the form of a sheet comprising, as main components, a fiber base material in a web form, a super water-absorbent res in and a binder component which combines both the materials, characterized in that th e composite may be prepared by a method wherein (a) the fiber base material in a web for m is a non-bonded web being almost free of a bonding between fibers thereof, ...

The present invention is directed to a single point watering system for refilling individual cells of a multi cell monobloc lead-acid battery wherein each battery cell is fitted with a refill control valve. The system includes a manifold and a swivel connector fitting. The manifold has (i) a plurality of outlet bosses positioned at a predetermined spacing to permit the manifold to be assembled to ...

An air conditioning device for a vehicle having a regenerative section. The air conditioning device comprises a first compressor (6) connected to an output shaft (la) of an engine (1) via an electromagnetic clutch (5), a moto r- generator (2) for electrially recovering kinetic energy of the vehicle (100) during decelelation, a battery (9) for stoning energy regenerated by the mot or- generator (2)...

An ergonomic support staff apparatus for supporting a user upon a surface is provided. The apparatus generally includes a longitudinally extended support member having upper and lower portions, and an intermediate shaft portion extending therebetween. The apparatus also includes a handle member coupled to at least one of the upper and intermediate shaft portions of the support member. The handle m...

A pneumatic tool has a body, a handle, a clip, a biasing member and a cap. The handle is formed on and extends from the body and has a free end and an annular shank extending from the free end. The clip is rotatably and slidably mounted on the shank and has a collar and a clip tab. The collar is rotatably and slidably mounted around the annular shank and has multiple teeth formed on a side of the ...

A loading apparatus with which it is possible to securely connect connection terminals of a recording medium to terminal electrodes, thereby enhancing the reliability of operations of the loading apparatus. A holder ( 34 ) which holds a recording medium ( 100 ) having connection terminals ( 105 ) and which is moved between an insertion/take-out position where the recording medium is inserted or ta...

The present invention relates to transducers, their use and fabrication. The transducers convert between mechanical and electrical energy. Some transducers of the present invention include a pre-strained polymer. The pre-strain improves the conversion between electrical and mechanical energy. The present invention also relates to devices including an electroactive polymer to convert between electr...

A system for decrypting transmissions encrypted by a transmission station includes a receiver having a first conditional access module embedded within the receiver, and a second conditional access module that is removable from the receiver. The first conditional access module decrypts a first signal transmitted by the transmission station and the second conditional access module decrypts a second ...

A method is provided for controlling steering oscillations in a work vehicle having a closed loop GPS based automatic steering system, wherein the closed loop steering system has a default gain and a user defined gain. The method causes the system to automatically apply the default gain when an implement is raised and/or when a steering oscillation has been detected and to automatically apply the ...

An error logging and analysis system is used to detect a type of error condition, assign a numeric value corresponding to the severity of the error condition, record the time of the error condition, and determine the frequency between subsequent error conditions of the same type. A weighted error rate is generated as a function of the severity of the initial error condition, the frequency of subse...

A device for monitoring a processor is described. A watchdog simultaneously monitors the system clock, the software base functions and performs a check of the tests of the system components of the processor. If an error is detected, the watchdog communicates this to the processor, an error counter is incremented and at least one device that is connected to the processor is blocked. If the error co...

A method and apparatus for reckoning a position of a moving robot using dead-reckoning and range sensing. The method includes performing dead-reckoning to determine a variation state in accordance with motion of the moving robot, calculating an absolute position of the moving robot by sensing a distance between the moving robot and at least one fixed position, predicting an optimized current posit...

The subject of this invention is a finger- mountable device, preferably attached to a mobile telephone, that may be used for visually appealing, acrobatic play, comprising a finger mountable ring, which in turn comprises a rotating part, whereby the rotating part comprises a revolving axis, one end of which is connected to the ring, and the other end of which connects to a supporting element, whic...

The invention relates to a process for the preparation of racemic citalopram free base or an acid addition salt thereof and/or R- or S-citalopram as the free base or an acid addition salt thereof by separation of a mixture of R- and S-citalopram with more than 50% of one of the enantiomers into a fraction consisting of racemic citalopram and/or a fraction of S-citalopram or R-citalopram characteri...

A composite structure including a polyurea show surface, or top layer, and a polyurethane backing layer is disclosed. Preferably, the show surface of the composite structure is substantially free of volatile organic compounds and is aliphat ic such that it is ultraviolet light stable. Specifically, the show surface is the reaction product of an aliphatic polyisocyanate or aliphatic polyisocyanate ...

A centerless cylindrical grinding machine, for through-feed and in-feed grinding of various workpieces ( 8 ), has a first driven positioning axis X_S for a grinding spindle head ( 2 ) with a grinding wheel ( 1 ) and a second driven positioning axis X_R, running parallel to the positioning axis X_S, for a regulating spindle head ( 4 ), with a regulating wheel ( 3 ). Th...