Methods and systems of measuring in-situ time variant temperature for subsurface formations utilizing an active heating and/or cooling device and temperature sensors for purposes of characterizing hydrocarbon-bearing formations by deriving formation thermal properties.

A driving circuit of a transmitting apparatus drives a piezoelectric element in a frequency band different from a resonance frequency at which a vibration system including the piezoelectric element resonates the most strongly. A driving circuit of a sound sensor drives the piezoelectric element for transmitting or receiving an acoustic wave in a frequency band different from a resonance frequency ...

A portable telephone case structured to retain at least a portion of a portable telephone on an interior thereof and including a housing having a display portion disposed and structured to permit viewing of a display face of the telephone within the case, while the case is secured to the person of a user. A cover panel is movably secured to the housing and selectively disposable between a closed o...

A catheter system with an enhanced steering system, allowing for positioning the distal portion of the catheter proximate to a desired biological target tissue site, is provided. The system includes an elongated tubular member having a steerable distal end configured to deflect, or otherwise direct, and properly position at least a portion of the distal end comprising an ablation device during a s...

A multi-processor system in which each processor receives a message from another processor in the system. The message may contain corrupted data that was corrupted during transmission from the preceding processor. Upon receiving the message, the processor detects that a portion of the message contains corrupted data. The processor then replaces the corrupted portion with a predetermined bit patter...

A self-supporting tyre for a vehicle wheel includes a carcass structure, a belt structure, a tread band, a pair of sidewalls, and at least one elastic stiffening insert. The carcass structure includes at least one carcass ply provided with end flaps engaged with respective annular reinforcing structures. The annular reinforcing structures are disposed in coaxial relationship with a geometric rotat...

Embodiments of a method and/or apparatus for automatically detecting a test result of a probe zone of a test strip are provided.

An industrial vehicle includes a vehicle body, a pair of rear wheels, a rear axle for supporting the rear wheels, a lock cylinder, a counterweight and a coupling portion. The rear axle is supported to be pivotable relative to the vehicle body. The lock cylinder is located between the vehicle body and the rear axle. The lock cylinder limits pivoting of the rear axle. The counterweight forms a rear ...

An electrical card connector ( 100 ) for connecting with an electrical card includes an insulative housing ( 10 ), a plurality of contacts ( 20 ), a front cover ( 30 ), a rear cover ( 40 ) and a door ( 50 ). The rear cover comprises an insertion space and a spring tab ( 422 ) extending into the insertion space. The door includes a door panel ( 52 ) and a cam ( 542 ). The door can move from an open...

A high efficiency fluid filter arrangement wherein a combined layer of scrim and filter media applications is of empirically relatively estimated weight size and depth with intermediate pleat spacing so as to arrive at a combined filtration capability value in keeping with selected approved test standards.

A method of forming metal spheres includes ejecting a precisely measured droplet of molten metal from a molten metal mass, buffering the molten metal droplet to reduce the internal kinetic energy of the droplet without solidifying the droplet and cooling the buffered droplet until the droplet solidifies in the form of a metal sphere. An apparatus for fabricating metal spheres includes a droplet ge...

A method for producing an alloy in atomized form, wherein the alloy includes between about 10% to about 100% of a silicon based alloy, including obtaining a base silicon-iron alloy mixture and an atomization unit having an atomization chamber and a plurality of nozzles, injecting an atomizing fluid into the atomization chamber via the plurality of nozzles, introducing the base silicon-iron alloy m...

A method for improving the processability of foam premixes containing HFC and/or pentane-based blowing agents in polyols is provided, which method comprises adding trans-1,2-dichloroethylene to said premix in an amount effective to enhance said processability.

Coating materials curable thermally and with actinic radiation, comprising (A) binder selected from the group consisting of random, alternating and block, linear, branched and comb polyaddition resins, polycondensation resins, and addition (co)polymers of olefinically unsaturated monomers, curable physically, thermally, with actinic radiation and thermally and with actinic radiation; and (B) from ...

The invention provides a method of using at least one sensor sensitive to infrared radiation for inspecting hollow, transparent or translucent articles at high temperature leaving various different forming cavities. The method includes a step of evaluating the level of infrared radiation from the articles coming from the forming cavities so as to adapt the exposure of the sensor in a subsequent st...

A robot vacuum cleaner has a driving unit moving a cleaner body on a cleaning surface; a distance detecting unit detecting a distance of travel by the driving unit; an obstacle detecting unit detecting an obstacle near the cleaner body; and a central processing unit moving the cleaner body to a location a certain distance away from the obstacle according to a cleaning travel pattern when the obsta...

The quilted-top featherbed includes a conventional featherbed, which is adapted and arranged to lie on top of a conventional bed mattress and is filled with feathers. A quilted-top member is secured around the periphery thereof to the featherbed, wherein the top member comprises successive layers of woven fabric, polyester batting and nonwoven fabric, the three layers being secured together by a q...

"MéTODO PARA VALIDAçãO DE DADOS". A presente invenção está relacionada a um método para validação de dados fiscais como, por exemplo, dados provenientes de relatórios ou documentos fiscais, comparando com parâmetros pré-estabelecidos pelo usuário como, por exemplo, condições matemáticas e/ou operadores lógicos e verificando a adequabilidade das informações.

Installation and method for performing a financial service comprising the following steps: (a) calculation of at least one inflation correction value for a desired coupon value CV in a year i making use of the coupon value CV and of future index data I_i; (b) calculation of a cash value of the at least one inflation correction value for the coupon value CV in year i making use of the cou...

A method and system for providing a connection between a client and a server with load balancing between servers are disclosed. A computer-implemented method of the present invention generally includes binding a primary virtual server to a set of URLs, each URL having an associated real server and receiving a request from a client for connection to the primary virtual server. One of the real serve...