Disclosed are a marketing lottery card and an online marketing method using the card. The lottery card includes a matrix of rows and columns, and characters or gift symbols printed on the matrix. The on-line marketing method using the lottery card includes the steps of connecting a customer to a free gift-offering site, identifying whether the customer is a member of the site, displaying a pop-up ...

A rotary apparatus for performing a pressing operation on a material, the material being positioned between a pressing member and an anvil roll, the rotary apparatus comprising: a) a rotary member comprising a rotary shaft, wherein the rotary shaft comprises a rotational axis and an outer perimeter, wherein the outer perimeter comprises the pressing member and two bearer rings positioned on opp...

The method for making the fiber optic Fabry-Perot sensor includes securing an optical fiber to a substrate, and forming at least one gap in the optical fiber after the optical fiber is secured to the substrate to define at least one pair of self-aligned opposing spaced apart optical fiber end faces for the Fabry-Perot sensor. Preferably, an adhesive directly secures the at least one pair of optica...

A method for manufacturing a studded tyre includes producing an unvulcanized tyre, inserting studs for the tyre into seats in a curing mould, disposing the unvulcanized tyre in the mould, closing the mould, curing the tyre, and opening the mould to extract the cured tyre. The cured tyre includes a tread band including a plurality of metal studs partially projecting from a radially outer surface of...

The salami or the cheese (16) is sliced by a rotating blade (18). Each of the slices (22) is guided around a drum (38) into a gap (44) created by the drum (38) and a spiked chain (32) rotating around a sprocket (34). An attachment in the shape of a drum holder and a cutting device is positioned parallel to the food slicing unit. A drum containing a suitable material like grease paper or food grade...

A material web-threading apparatus (24) comprises a guide extending at least partially along the running path, a transporter (32) adapted to travel along the guide, a motor (28) connected to the transporter and/or the guide, and a clamp connected to the transporter. The clamp is movable and can be releasably attach with respect to the material web. - An INDEPENDENT CLAIM is also included for a met...

A method of detecting a combustion chemical in a region and setting an alarm based on concentration levels of the combustion chemical comprises the steps of: monitoring the region for a combustion chemical with a sensor having a measurable parameter which changes in value proportional to concentration levels of the monitored combustion chemical, the measurable parameter being ambient temperature d...

The present invention relates to a method for processing a photoresist-coated board, a method for manufacturing a stamper for a recording medium and a method for manufacturing a recording medium which can form a fine raised and depressed pattern having a uniform width after development even in the case where a laser beam having a relatively long wavelength is used for forming pre-pits on a recordi...

Production of an electrical and optical structure on a substrate comprises using a laser beam. Preferred Features: The substrate is made of indium-tin oxide layer system built up from InO and SnO layers or InO and Sn layers. The conducting pathway formed from the layer system is reinforced by applying a metal. The laser is Nd:YAG laser. The substrate is etched after being subjected to the laser be...

A coated milling insert particularly useful for milling in low and medium alloyed steels with or without abrasive surface zones during dry or wet conditions at high cutting speed, and milling hardened steels at high cutting speed. The insert is characterized by a WC-Co cemented carbide with a low content of cubic carbides and a highly W-alloyed binder phase and a coating including an innermost lay...

The intrusion detection system comprises a pair of narrow-beam microwave detectors (1A, 1B), exploiting Doppler effect and independently operating. A processing unit (4) analyses the signals received by both detectors versus time and Doppler frequencies and amplitude. Analysis of such data allows detecting an actual intrusion. The processing unit (4) also analyses the steady presence of the radio-...

A power transmission arrangement for a vehicle adapted to transmit a drive power from an engine (76) to a transmission (75) via a wet multi-plate clutch (52). An electronic controller (79) automatically disengages and engages the clutch normally, but does not engage the clutch if a transmission gear position other than a predetermined one is selected for starting of a vehicle. This prevents clutch...

A control system controls a hybrid vehicle having an engine (1) for rotating a drive axle (2), an electric motor (3) for assisting the engine (1) in rotating the drive axle (2) with electric energy and converting kinetic energy of the drive axle (2) into electric energy, and an electric energy storage unit or a capacitor (14) for supplying electric energy to the electric motor (3) and storing elec...

A package containing a liquid (5) comprising a compound which is potentially toxic or damaging or detrimental to health or the environment, such as a pesticide, which package comprises an envelope (3) which comprises a water soluble or water dispersible material (4) and which envelope (3) has a thickness from 10 to 500 micrometres and comprises a flexible wall which is water soluble or water dispe...

The utility model relates to an accumulator slab lattice double side paste coating machine, which comprises a slab lattice delivering device, a tension device, a residual paste scaler, a wringing device, a drive transmission device, an electrical appliance controller, a frame and a front side paste coating device. The utility model is characterized in having a bottom side paste coating device whic...

本发明公开了用于在有机产品上提供图像的系统和方法，以向接收人提供信息或个性化该有机产品。通过使用胶片正片把图像光致蚀刻入印刷平面或铅版的光敏材料中。向该铅版施加油墨和使转换介质与该铅版接触。转换介质把油墨从铅版的图像区域中提取出，并在介质上创建负片图像。该转换介质把墨印图像转换到诸如花瓣或叶子的有机产品上。然后，使印刷的图像固定以使其保留在花瓣或叶子上，以向要送的接收人传达消息和/或为其个性化该产品。; Systems and methods for providing an image on an organic product to provide a communication to the recipient or otherwise individualize the organic product. The image is photo-etched into a photos...

A method of manufacturing a tool body of a cutting tool comprises mechanically shaping the tool body to provide a metal surface on the tool body having a first surface characteristic. Thereafter, the metal surface is chemically treated with a metal reactant to create a relatively soft metal film along the metal surface. This soft metal film is removed via burnishing or other appropriate action to ...

Improved devices, systems and methods for treating a tissue region provide straightforward, yet reliable ways for installing diverse functional components within the confined space of a catheter based system (10).; L'invention concerne des dispositifs, de systèmes et des méthodes améliorés permettant de traiter une zone de tissu, et offrant des processus simples et néanmoins fiables pour installer...

One or more holes that extend through a wall of a powder metal component are formed by creating an absence of powder metal in a die set during compaction at an interface between a side surface of a punch and another side surface of the die set that faces the side surface of the punch in substantially close proximity to create the absence of powder metal at the interface.; L'invention concerne un o...

The present invention provides a test strip for measuring a concentration of an analyte of interest in a biological fluid, wherein the test strip may be encoded with information that can be read by a test meter into which the test strip is inserted.; La présente invention concerne une bande test permettant de mesurer une teneur en substance à analyser d'intérêt dans un liquide biologique, la bande...