An attachment between a monitoring device and an innerliner of a tire includes the use of an epoxy adhesive that bonds the monitoring device directly to the inner surface of the innerliner of the tire. The innerliner is first roughened in a manner that provides a roughened portion of the innerliner without removing the entire thickness of the innerliner. The entire thickness of the innerliner is n...

An arteriosclerosis evaluating apparatus including a left-superior-limb-blood-pressure measuring device including a cuff, a right-superior-limb-blood-pressure measuring device including a cuff, a ratio determining means for determining a ratio between a left-superior-limb blood pressure measured by the left-superior-limb-blood-pressure measuring device and a right-superior-limb blood pressure meas...

An electrical oil having reduced gassing tendency includes a major amount of a paraffinic or naphthenic basestock and a blend of certain hindered phenols, especially a blend of 2,6-di-t-butyl phenol and 2,6-di-t-butyl cresol. A further enhanced gassing tendency can be provided to the electrical oil by including a tolyltriazole derivative.

The invention relates to dental materials which contain a thermochromic dye and which display a reversible change of colour in the event of changes in temperature, so that they can be distinguished from the natural dentin.

An oscillation frequency of a VCXO is controlled based on a phase difference between a reference phase signal outputted from a reference phase generation circuit and a feedback phase signal outputted from a feedback phase generation circuit, an oscillation frequency of a VCO is controlled based on a phase difference between an output clock of the VCXO and an audio clock obtained from a divider cir...

A method for improved readability of digitally captured document images that include printed or handwritten textual material overlaid on background graphics. Text in the document is generally composed at least in part of strokes characterized by pairs of edges in close proximity to one another. The digital image comprises an array of pixels representing at least a portion of the document. The edge...

Methods of caching tile image constituents of image-mosaics enable a substantially smooth real-time display of portions of the image-mosaic in a view during panning, resizing, or zooming of the view. The method includes using a predictive algorithm to identify tile images to be retrieved from a remote store through a local area network, and for sequencing requests for the retrieval of tile images ...

A data structure of an image signal includes a reproduction cycle identifier indicating whether the cycle of image display for each frame is variable or not. When the display cycle identifier indicates that the display cycle is fixed, display cycle data is inserted in a header of the coded image data, and data relating to the frame number is inserted in each frame. On the other hand, when the disp...

The invention presents a medical device system and method for determining the degree of heart failure of a patient, utilizing information representative of dynamic variations in patient QT, or segments of QT, over time. The dynamic variations in QT that are measured relate to characteristics of the variation of QT with rate when rate is increasing and when it is decreasing. The dynamic variations ...

First wiring pattern data corresponding to a shape of a wiring pattern on a layer in a semiconductor device is acquired on the basis of a first image obtained by imaging a sample which permits imaging of the wiring pattern. Evaluation CAD data which synthesizes CAD data of a plurality of layers, which includes wiring CAD data of the layer with the wiring pattern is generated. Position coordinates ...

Microfluidic devices (202) are provided for the performance of chemical and biochemical analyses, syntheses and detection (230). The devices of the invention combine precise fluidic control systems with microfabricated polymeric substrates to provide accurate, low cost miniaturized analytical devices that have broad applications in the fields of chemistry, biochemistr y, biotechnology, molecular b...

"MéTODO DE MEDIçãO DE SECURA DE POLPA, MéTODO E SISTEMA DE CONTROLE DE DESCARGA DE POLPA E SUCO E MéTODO DE CONTROLE DE CONCENTRAçãO DE POLPA". O método e o sistema da presente invenção mede a secura da polpa com o uso de ressonância magnética nuclear (RMN). O mesmo também controla a descarga de polpa e de suco a partir do finalizador de suco. A descarga a partir do finalizador de suco é medida co...

A power plug is proposed, including a terminal base having at least one conductive terminal and a ground terminal; an electric wire having core wires connected to the conductive terminal and ground terminal, respectively; a cover integrally connected to the terminal base; and a ground mechanism for grounding isolated metal parts (such as screws). The ground mechanism can prevent quality of power p...

An orthopedic implantable device articulately connects a first spinal vertebra to an adjacent second spinal vertebra along the midline of the first and second vertebrae or along an axis medial to the facets. The device includes a first component having a male articulation member and a second component having a female articulation member. The first and second components are adapted to be attached t...

The invention relates to a resilient foot insert for an artificial foot. According to the invention, this foot insert consists of at least two springs (1, 2) which are connected to one another and which together-in side view, in the unloaded state, enclose an approximately triangular spring deflection space (3), the upper, approximately roof-shaped spring (1) having, in the roof top area, an adapt...

Wire bond packages which mount encapsulated semiconductor chips, such as plastic ball grid array (PBGA) packages providing for the mounting of so-called flip-chips. The chips are overlaid with a heat spreading thermally-conductive cap of a mesh-like material which is interstitially the filled with an adhesive to prevent delamination caused by mismatches in the coefficients of thermal expansion, wh...

A kit and a method for making a porous cement which self sets to hydroxyapatite and has an interconnected porosity is produced by mixing a calcium source and a phosphate source with a carbonate source and mixing this powdered component with a liquid component having an acid component. The liquid component comprises water or an aqueous solution containing an acid. The acid and the carbonate react t...

Process for the preparation of a composition comprising a biofunctional polymer substrate and biofunctional material substrate adapted for use in or in association with the human or animal body, cultivated or uncultivated living matter, wherein the biofunctional material substrate is substantially insoluble in the polymer substrate and/or a supercritical fluid, wherein the process comprises contac...

Thermosetting resin compositions useful as underfill sealants for mounting a semiconductor devices onto a circuit board are provided, which include epoxy resins, an adhesion promoter having at least two secondary amine groups, and a curative based on the combination of nitrogen-containing compounds and transition metal complexes.

A device (1,21,28, 36, 37, 86, 103, 121, 128) for electronic packaging, the device including a discrete solid body having a pair of opposing generally parallel major surfaces, the solid body having a body portion of a porous valve metal oxide based material with a pair of exterior surfaces respectively constituting portions of the major surfaces and extending inward from one major surface towards ...