The system shall find application in the construction of one-storeyed residential houses built on a steep terrain. It makes use of double accumulated heat energy - for re-accumulation in longitudinal under the floor canals and in a space serving a water accumulator. The system includes steps (1) of a stepping element (2) in which holes (3) are formed. In every hole (3) there is an energy consumin...

The system shall find application in civil engineering, for example for building one-storeyed residential houses. It has an increased accumulation surface on the roof pitches. Under a transparent cover (1) a canal (3) is made which also continues under the first solid Northern pitch (5). Under canal (3) there is a first solid Southern pitch (6) and a second Northern solid pitch (7), and under them...

The inhalator for dry powder form medicament has an agitator (31) fitted non-concentrically in the blending chamber (25). The agitator is revolved by a motor at high speed. A plunger (106) introduces a batch of the powder medicament to the chamber so that all particles of the powder are available for blending, crushing and fracturing. Hole (51) receives an air stream allowing it to go to the mouth...

Polyester films 5-30 microns thick having (i) a degree of crystallinity of greater than or equal to 50 %, (ii) a planar birefringence delta P of less than or equal to 0.160, (iii) a breaking strength in the longitudinal direction (RRMD) and the weakest of the two breaking strengths in diagonal directions (+/- 45 degrees . w.r.t. the longitudinal direction) (RR45) such that (RRMD)-(RR45) is less ...

A flexible oriented plastic sheet has a high tensile strength and is resistant to corrosion and highly resistant to splitting when penetrated by a pointed article. The flexible oriented sheet can be cut into desired shapes and sizes so as to be useful in a variety of applications, such as roofing batten bars and fencing materials, which require high resistance to splitting and fastener pull-throug...

Errors in applying liquid sample are judged during biochemical analysis wherein a droplet of liquid sample is applied to an analysis medium containing a reagent, which chemically reacts with a specific constitutent in the liquid sample, the analysis medium is then incubated, the optical densities of the analysis medium are determined, and concentration of the specific constituent in the liquid sam...

A rigid polyurethane foam obtained by foaming a special polyol component and an isocyanate component in the presence of a blowing agent comprising water and at least one member selected from the group consisting of 1,1-dichloro-2,2,2-trifluoroethane and 2,2-dichloro-2-monofluoroethane possesses balanced excellent properties, has no surface void, and shows only slight expansion after molding. There...

A rigid foam, especially a largely closed-cell polyurethane or polyisocyanurate rigid foam, includes a cell structure being formed by the expansion of rigid foam raw materials with carbon dioxide as an inflating agent. The cell structure is substantially homogeneous and has a cell content of substantially CO2 inflating agent and proportions of a physical inflating agent being at least substantiall...

A continuous process is provided for the preparation at ambient temperatures of a polymer-based foam sheet in which the foam is produced from a reaction product capable of curing at ambient temperatures formed by the reaction of a reactant composition comprising a prepolymer, such as an isocyanate-capped polyether, and water. The process includes providing a continous substrate (5); depositing sai...

For the preparation of spherical particles having a narrow particle size spectrum by producing drops by means of a nozzle from a liquid phase having melting points of up to 1500 DEG C, the liquid phase, the nozzle and the falling distance of the drops until stabilisation of the spherical shape of the falling drops are kept at a constant temperature which is 1 to 10 DEG C above the melting point of...

In electrosurgical apparatus for tissue desiccation and cutting, an electrosurgical generator has a series-connected output inductor (L) which forms a series resonant circuit with the capacitance (CL) of the generator load, the load including an electrode unit and a cable coupled to the generator output (12A). The series resonant frequency is typically 1.5f where f is the operating frequency of th...

Verfahren und Einrichtung zur Warnung von Personen im Gleisbereich vor herannahenden Zügen durch Meldestationen (1), die Züge signalisierende, der Warngebung dienende Statusinformationen an im Arbeitsbereich der Personen befindliche, zur Warngebung fähige Warnstationen (5) leiten, die ihre Lage durch Funkempfänger (53) eines globalen Positionierungssystems ermitteln und nur jene Statusinformatione...

Beschrieben werden Fasern mit einem Einzelfasertiter von weniger als 10 dtex, Filme und Hohlkörper enthaltend Polyester und Fullerene. Diese lassen sich vorzugsweise als Segel, Verpackungsmaterialien oder Nähfäden einsetzen. Ferner wird ein Verfahren zur Herstellung von Zusammensetzungen enthaltend Polyester und Fullerene durch Polykondensation von einem oder mehreren polyesterbildendenen Monomere...

The invention is a modular and hierarchically organized set of computer programs which comprise methods for controlling a system of semi-autonomous automatically guided vehicles, such as mobile robots. The methods include control programs which: execute in stationary control computers; communicate between the stationary control computer programs and corresponding programs which execute in mobile c...

The device comprises a turn-over bladder 1 capable of moving axially towards the centre of the drum 3 in the manner of a caterpillar track. Its movement is controlled by the inflation of a thrust bladder 2.

A method and apparatus for measuring a defect distribution comprising introducing a narrowed laser beam into an object to be observed, receiving scattering lights generated at the defect portions of the object by a photoelectric conversion element, and measuring automatically the density and density distribution of the defects inside the object on the basis of the output image data of the photoele...

Liquid impervious, biodegradable films are disclosed. In particular, the films comprise a blend of an interpenetrated network of destructurized starch with ethylene/acrylic acid copolymers or ethylene/vinyl alcohol copolymers, and an aliphatic polyester such as polycaprolactone. Diapers, sanitary napkins, pantiliners, and the like, containing backsheets prepared from the foregoing materials are al...

Fremgangsmåte til å fremstille en biodegraderbarimpermeabel, transparent film. Fremgangsmåtenbestår i å utføre følgende trinn; (a) å oppnå enblanding som består av et hydrokolloid, fortrinnsviset alginat, et vandig oppløsningsmiddel og etmykningsmiddel som er blandbart med hydro-kolloidet og oppløsningsmiddelet; (b) å danne enfilm av denne blanding; (c) å tørke den oppnåddefilm (d) og behandle min...

A method for forming a shock resistant tool comprising reinforcing fiber used as a reinforcing material and cyclopentadiene resin used as matrix resin by reaction injection molding method. Cyclopentadiene resin is superior in shock resistant performance and has a low melt viscosity, thus allowing fiber to be contained in the shock resistant tool at a high percentage.