A method of applying thermal barrier coating systems to a metal piece having a cooling hole extending along a central axis through the piece from a first surface of the piece to a second surface of the piece opposite the first surface. The method includes spraying a bond coat on the first surface of the piece and spraying a thermal barrier coating on the bond coat. Further, the method includes spr...

A binding process requires the application of respective parts of a two-part binding adhesive as strips that could be at either side of a page to be bound. In one example, a stack of pages are unstacked and conveyed individually along the path where part A of a two-part adhesive is applied to one side of a page and Part B of the two-part adhesive is applied to the reverse side of the page. A stack...

Chew toys (10) for domestic carnivorous animals having rawhide (11) and jerky sheets or members (12). The jerky sheets (12) are wrapped in a rawhide sheet (11) by either rolling or folding. This provides an outer layer (18) of rawhide containing jerky therein. A seam (19) is created in rawhide outer layer (18) by the rolling or folding of the rawhide sheet (11). The jerky (12) preferably extends t...

A method for connecting at least two threads, especially thread end regions, which are arranged overlapping and are connected together, wherein an auxiliary connection element is guided several times around the adjacent threads, the connection element remaining on the threads.

L'invention concerne un procédé d'imagerie radiologique d'un organe en mouvement, comprenant les étapes consistant à :(11 ) acquérir une séquence d'images de référence de l'organe,(13) traiter la séquence d'images de référence de l'organe pour déterminer pour chaque image au moins un paramètre de mouvement ou des données de mouvement de l'organe associé(s) à l'image,(14) associer à une ou plusieur...

A self-actuated cylinder comprising a cylinder housing comprising electromagnetic force generating means to generate electro-magnetic forces, and a piston within the cylinder housing, wherein the electro-magnetic forces act directly on the piston to displace the piston within the cylinder housin g. The self-actuated cylinder can be used as an oscillation spirometer to determine air flow, an input ...

A notched wire 4 that is disposed in layers in a filtration apparatus. First projection stripes 4d are formed on the top surface 4b of a base 4a at prescribed intervals in the longitudinal direction of the base 4a so as to extend in the width direction of the base 4a. Second projection stripes 4e are formed approximately at the centers of the first projection stripe 4d so as to extend between the ...

A process for constructing a tyre carcass on a drum, for a self supporting radial tyre, comprises forming an inner layer, a reinforcing profile for the side walls, and a carcass layer and bead region. The drum has pockets for the reinforcing profile. The reinforcing profile (9) regions in contact with the inner layer (4) have ripples composed of numerous grooves (12) that run laterally with respec...

A thermoplastic polyurethane pellet comprising a thermoplastic body, thermally expandable micropsheres and a binding agent.

The ability to switch at will between amperometric measurements and potentiometric measurements provides great flexibility in performing analyses of unknowns. Apparatus and methods can provide such switching to collect data from an electrochemical cell. The cell may contain a reagent disposed to measure glucose in human blood.

The device has two `Nylon` straps (5) equipped with a powered-on system, support rings (3) and their clamping handles (4). The rings and the handles are cylindrical with a diameter permitting the passage of the leg of a beach umbrella (2) for accommodation. The rings and the handles have, on the side opposite to the straps, a threading to receive a screw terminated by a thumb wheel for the tighten...

The comb has a line (4) of teeth (2, 3) extending along X axis. Teeth (3) carry longer hooks (5) that extend outside a plane defined by the teeth (2, 3), while teeth (2) are devoid of the hooks. A handle (6) elongates along a longitudinal axis that is perpendicular to the X axis. The teeth (2, 3) extend parallel to the longitudinal axis of the handle. The hooks extend laterally towards same latera...

An optical pickup device comprises a light source to emit a light flux having wavelength »; an objective lens including at least two plastic lenses of a first plastic lens having positive refractive power and a second plastic lens having positive refractive power, wherein the first plastic lens and the second plastic lens are arranged in this order from the light source side; and an actuator to dr...

Delivery unit and corresponding computer-assisted method of providing components (11 to 19) of a lift (10), an escalator or a moving walkway. In that case the following steps are carried out: - provision of a parts list (21), - provision of associated assembly information (22) and - packing up the components (11 to 19), wherein the components (11 to 19) are packed up by packing material with consi...

The invention relates to a polymeric composition based on expandable polystyrene comprising: (a) 100 parts by weight of a styrene polymer having an average molecular mass of 150000...300000 and a content of residue monomer of less than 2000 ppm, (b) 2...9 parts by weight of at least one blowing agent containing n-pentane, (c) from 0.1 to less than 1.0 parts by weight of a petroleum wax comprising ...

A PRESENTE INVENÇÃO DIZ RESPEITO A UM MÉTODO DE EFECTUAR PAGAMENTOS ELECTRÓNICOS UTILIZANDO UM DISPOSITIVO MÓVEL DE COMUNICAÇÃO, TAL COMO UM TELEMÓVEL, BEM COM A UM SISTEMA QUE IMPLEMENTA ESSE MÉTODO. O MÉTODO E SISTEMA FUNCIONA ATRAVÉS DA REALIZAÇÃO DE UMA CHAMADA A PARTIR DE UM TELEMÓVEL PARA UM NÚMERO ASSOCIADO A UM PRODUTO OU SERVIÇO QUE SE PRETENDE PAGAR. A CHAMADA É RECEBIDA POR UM SERVIDOR ...

A synchronous drive apparatus and method, wherein the apparatus comprises a plurality of rotors comprising at least a first and a second rotor. The first rotor has a plurality of teeth for engaging the engaging sections of an elongate drive structure, and the second rotor has a plurality of teeth for engaging the engaging section of the elongate drive structure. A rotary load assembly is coupled t...

The differential (2), designed to transmit the rotation of an engine shaft (1) to two coaxial half-shafts (50a, 50b) via a pinion (10), crown wheel (3) and planetary and satellite bevel gears, incorporates an activator controlled by an electric motor (7) that accelerates the rotation of the faster half-shaft and brakes the slower one, corresponding to the outer and inner wheels on a turn. The elec...

25 (57) Abstract An information system, comprising a workstation, a data- base, and connection means for providing access to the database from the workstation. An input record comprises identification of a factor and at least one input value re- lated to the factor. A computing unit computes a new re- sult value on the basis of the current result value of the factor and the value of the factor in ...

A composite material comprises a first layer and a second layer, said layers being bonded together, wherein said first layer comprises 40 - 95 % by weight of an acrylic polymer formed from a monomer comprising 60 - 100 % methyl methacrylate and 0 - 40 % of a vinylic comonomer and 5 - 60 % of a copolymer wherein at least 10 % of the monomer residues are (optionally substituted) styrene and said sec...