A mass spectrometer is configured with individual multipole ion guides, configured in an assembly in alignment along a common centerline. A linear (22) of four independent quadrupole ion guides (23, 24, 25, 26) and three smaller quadrupole ion guide segments (39, 40, 41) are positioned along comm on axis (27) and are configured in a six vaccum pumping stage hybrid API source - multiple quadrupole ...

A centrifugal device comprising: a rotor having a rotor shaft having a longitudinal rotor axis; a holder having an access end, and a holder axis; location means for locating the holder within the centrifugal device, such that the holder is rotatable about the rotor axis, with the holder axis forming a non-zero angle with the rotor shaft axis, the location means accurately locating the access end o...

An integrated control system includes a main control system (accelerator) controlling a driving system, a main control system (brake) controlling a brake system, and a main control system (steering) controlling a steering system, an adviser unit generating and providing information to be used at each control system based on environmental information around the vehicle or information related to a d...

GERADOR EàLICO DE ENERGIA CAPTADA PELO MOVIMENTO DE VEÍCULO AUTOMOTOR. Na parte frontal do automóvel existe uma entrada de ar ( 2 ), cujo fluxo de ar gerado pelo movimento do veículo empurra as aletas (1 ) que giram em torno do seu eixo, o qual encontra-se ligado ao redutor ( 3 ) que multiplica a força gerada pelo movimento das aletas (1) e transfere esse movimento para o gerador ( 4 ), que transf...

PROCESSO PARA A SEPARAÇçO TÉRMICA A LASER DE MATERIAL EM PLACA CERÂMICO OU OUTRO MATERIAL QUEBRADIÇO. A presente invenção refere-se a processo para separação térmica a laser de material em placa cerâmico ou outro material quebradiço, sendo que ocorre uma varredura múltipla da linha de separação (6) prevista com o raio laser (2) em direção sempre igual e com pausas selecionáveis e ajustáveis em cor...

A carrier for a portable device having a shoulder strap having a padded region and a cord region. The padded region is adapted to rest on a superior portion of a person's shoulder. A shoulder strap catch is adapted to be coupled at an end thereof to a portable device; and the shoulder strap catch defines an opening through which the cord region of the shoulder strap is slidably retained. The porta...

A light head is mounted on a common base, and includes a light source in a mounting base. The base is mounted on a collapsible elongated pole, and the pole is for mounting on an outside wall of a carrying case. There is a carrying handle for the case, an electrical power outlet mounted on a wall, base or lid of the case and for plugging in an electrical wire to power the light head. The interior o...

A light fixture removably attachable to a stationary socket includes a lamp socket mounted for receiving a lamp and a connector which is electrically engageable with such stationary socket. The connector is attached in spaced relationship to the lamp socket and is electrically connected thereto. The light fixture may include a housing having the lamp socket mounted therein with the connector attac...

The present invention provides a new method for detecting, diagnosing, monitoring, staging and prognosticating prostate cancer.

By using a support program for a web application server according to the present invention, it is possible to completely control an order of executing processes of a processing flow including a transition of a plurality of screens in a web application by a side of the server, and to describe the processing flow as "one unit of executable program code". Also, it is possible to record, point by poin...

In some embodiments a boot progress of a System Boot Strap Processor in a multi-processor system is monitored and a boot processor failure is detected using an Application Processor. If the boot processor failure is detected at least a portion of the system is reinitialized (and/or the system is rebooted). Other embodiments are described and claimed.

A logistics system (10) and a method are mounted on a vehicle (4) and utiliz e vehicle position control (8) for logistics operations, such as loading and unloading material to and from the vehicle (4). The position control can be GPS-based and/or based on linear movement of the vehicle (4), such as movement of a railcar (4) along a track (5). A computer-based position control subsystem (8) mounted...

PROCESSO PARA FABRICAÇçO DE COMPàSITO DE NANOTUBOS DE CARBONO E FELTRO DE CARBONO E COMPàSITO DE NANOTUBOS DE CARBONO E FELTRO DE CARBONO. Compreendido por um emaranhado de fibras obtido de processo de oxidação, carbonização e/ou grafitização de tecidos, feltros poliméricos e de nanotubos de carbono que recobrem totalmente ou não as fibras do feltro, os nanotubos de carbono podem conter nanopartic...

COMPOSIÇçO DE ESPUMA DE POLIURETANO OU POLISOCIANURATO. Composição de poliuretano ou polilsocianurato, na qual pelo menos 10 por cento do volume de gás de expansão é diáxido de carbono, formado da reação de polilsocianato e água ou ácido orgânico, e incluindo um solvente aprótico di- polar, em uma proporção de 1 por cento em peso a 10 por cento em peso, com base no peso total da mistura de formaçã...

A device and a method are disclosed for centrally tightening rotatingly drivable parts. The device comprises at least three units for clamping and adjusting a part, wherein at least two of the units comprise an actuator allowing controlled adjustment in radial direction according to a control value. A measuring device is provided to detect deviations of the part from concentricity with respect to ...

A limb for a breathing circuit manufactured from very thin walled polymer materials has an elongate axial reinforcing spine lying freely inside the conduit and fixed to each end connector. The spine is laterally compliant but axially stiff. The spine provides resistance to tensile and compressive loads on the conduit, including that induced by prevailing internal pressures.

A rubber-fiber composite material of the present invention comprises a non-woven fabric and a rubber which coats the non-woven fabric. At least a part of the non-woven fabric is made of an organic fiber having a single fiber diameter of 10 to 35 mum, a fiber length of 30 to 100 mm and a tensile modulus of 50 GPa or higher. By the use of the non-woven fabric at least a part of which is made of the ...

A method and apparatus (100) are provided for treating acne using pulsed radiant energy (246) to destroy or partially destroy one or more hairs (112), without damaging the skin, or, alternatively, to destroy or partially destroy one or more acne-related structures without damaging either skin or hair.

The ceramic filter structure 1 of the present invention comprises plural cells defined by partition walls 2 having a porous structure to form flow passages of fluid, plugged portions being formed at one open end portion of specified cells and another open end portion of the remaining cells to allow partition walls 2 to serve as filtration layers, wherein the ratio (S2/S1) of the actual area (S2) o...

A cellulose acylate film is produced by using a cellulose acylate solution and forming a film consisting of two or more layers by the co-casting method. The cellulose acylate to be used is selected so that the association molecular weight of cellulose acylate due to the static light scattering in the solution forming the outer layer becomes smaller than the association molecular weight of cellulos...