The invention relates to a device (10) for treating composite elements made of solid organic and/or inorganic composite materials. Said device (10) contains a flow path situated between a feed channel (34) and a tube-like outlet (38, 38a) in a housing. Said flow path is used for a transport fluid which is produced by disintegrating the composite materials and which carries particles made of solid...

The present invention relates to a substrate and a method for obtaining an electrophysiological measuring configuration in which a cell forms a high resistive seal (giga-seal) around a measuring electrode making it suitable for determining and monitoring a current flow through the cell membrane. The substrate is typically part of an apparatus for studying electrical events in cell membranes, such ...

Le procédé selon l'invention comprend la détection des tubes à l'intérieur des portoirs (P), la détection d'un déséquilibre prévisible de la centrifugeuse (CE) et, lorsque cette détection révèle la présence d'un tel déséquilibre dû à la présence de portoirs incomplets (P) ou d'un nombre impair de portoirs (P) : la simulation de la charge de la centrifugeuse incorporant le portoir incomplet (P),...

Il s'agit d'une hélice pour acquisition de données dans un écoulement. Elle comporte des pales (1) et un moyeu (2). Elle est réalisée en un matériau plastique et est surmoulée en emprisonnant au niveau de son moyeu (2), un axe (3) et au moins un aimant (4).Application notamment pour l'acquisition de données dans les puits d'hydrocarbure.

Il s'agit d'un dispositif à hélice pour acquisition de données dans un écoulement. Il comporte un support (3) avec deux paliers (4.1, 4.2) pour maintenir un axe (2) autour duquel est montée l'hélice (1). L'axe (2) comporte deux extrémités (5) sensiblement coniques. Les paliers (4.1, 4.2), réalisés dans un matériau à coefficient de frottement aussi faible que possible, comportent chacun une empr...

Foamed and expanded beads of a crosslinked aliphatic polyester resin having a gel fraction of at least 5 % by weight. The expanded beads may be obtained by crosslinking beads of a non-crosslinked aliphatic polyester resin with a crosslinking agent including an organic peroxide to obtain crosslinked resin beads having a gel fraction of at least 5 % by weight, and then expanding the crosslinked resi...

Particulate, expandable styrene polymers capable of being processed into hard foamed plastic materials of a small density and containing, therefore, at least one foaming agent comprise at least aluminum in a particulate form for improving their thermal insulation properties. The styrene polymer particles comprise, after their expansion, a fine cell structure and contain the aluminum particles inco...

PCT No. PCT/EP97/01198 Sec. 371 Date Sep. 18, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Sep. 18, 1998 PCT Filed Mar. 10, 1997 PCT Pub. No. WO97/35899 PCT Pub. Date Oct. 2, 1997A process for preparing rigid expanded materials containing urethane and optionally urea and isocyanurate groups, characterised in that a polyurethane rigid foam is prepared by reacting a) an aromatic polyisocyanate with b) a polyol component w...

A fluid coupling having an outer housing with an internal bore, an O-ring fitted within the bore, a spacer bushing fitted against the O-ring, a gripper ring fitted against the axially outer side of the spacer ring, the gripper ring having axially and radially inwardly protruding circumferentially spaced gripping teeth, the teeth arranged for providing a twist when subjected to simultaneous rearwar...

The machine (10) has a forward viewing camera and infrared sensors to avoid ground objects and a vertically viewing camera (14) with a fisheye lens which interprets data from ceiling (33) mounted transmitters (31) to guide it over the cleaning path.;

Ce robot nettoyeur (10) inclut une unité d'entraînement permettant d'entraîner une pluralité de roues, une caméra (14) disposée dans un corps et d...

La présente invention concerne un système d'avertissement d'erreurs d'exécution d'une ou de plusieurs routines d'initialisation d'un ou de matériels constitutifs d'une machine informatique, telle qu'un ordinateur, ladite ou lesdites routines étant exécutées par une unité centrale (10) que comporte ladite machine informatique.Selon la présente invention, ce système comporte un dispositif d'avert...

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A computer system for engineers to locate and obtain reference information associated with an engineering task to be accomplished by the engineers has a server computer and several client computers connected together over an Intranet or Extranet. The server computer has a database stored on it that includes engineering tasks, items of engineering reference information associated with the engineeri...

A method (100) and system for assessing work performance of an operator remotely accessible by an operator workstation such as an operator's personal computer or computer terminal to a host computer such as a computer server or main frame computer. One or more work performance assessment programs are transmitted (106) through the host computer to the operator workstation in response to a request f...

A method for peening the tops of cooled blades which include cooling air passage orifices. Peening is performed by mobilization of a plurality of beads in a sealed chamber containing at least one blade tip. The plurality of beads is mobilized by the active surface of a sonotrode which delimits part of said chamber. The beads have a diameter greater than that of the cooling air passage orifices.

Plastisol contains and acrylate polymer with molecular weight greater than 2 x 106 g/mole and plasticiser. Plastisol comprises: (i) polymers and/or copolymers, with molecular weight greater than 2 x 106 g/mole, of: (a) 20-100 wt.% methyl methacrylate, (b) 0-80 wt.% linear or branched 1-18 C alkyl (meth)acrylate, of formula (I), (c) 0-40 wt.% other monomer, and (d) 0-40 wt.% adhesion promoting ...

A food product cartridge comprising a delivery and dosage member, said cartridge having a base part wherein an endless screw and a delivery opening are housed, characterized in that the endless screw is provided to operate a shutter for opening and closing the delivery opening.

A method for evaluating financial plans by calculating the investment performance over a set time period based on user provided information like personal information (102), account properties (104), opening balances of each account (108), planned contribution of each account (110), planned retirement distributions (112), withdrawal information (116), allocations of assets by categories (120) and t...

Valve stem 51 normally seals orifice 52. On releasing cap 41 from bottle 40 pressure in space 55 in the bottle is reduced to atmospheric. Additionally, stem 51 is caused to move away from orifice 52 and fluid then flows from chamber 56 into space 55.

An arrangement for handling of information regarding economic transactions with a paying party and a payment-receiving party, comprises at least a first computerised user interface (1,2) for a first of the parties and a computer device (10) including a computer application with a database (11) and at least a second computerised user interface (3,4) for the second of the parties. The first user int...