Abstract: Getter devices with improved sorption rate based on powders of ternary alloys particularly suitable for hydrogen and carbon monoxide sorption are described, said alloys having a composition comprising zirconium, vanadium and aluminum as main constituent elements.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a shock absorbing device incorporating a plurality of wavy shaped elements made of a superelastic material arranged in a crossing pattern, wherein pairs of crests or troughs of said wavy shaped elements made of a superelastic material are restrained to each other in a locking manner by way of connecting elements.

Abstract: LED system comprising a sealed internal volume containing one or more elements sensitive to the presence of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), wherein in said internal volume is present a getter composition for VOCs removal comprising a combination of at least two different types of zeolite.

Abstract: A shock-absorbing devices comprising a plurality of slender metallic structures having a slenderness ratio equal to or higher than 10 is described. Systems and/or components using such devices are also described.

Abstract: LED system comprising a sealed internal volume containing one or more elements sensitive to the presence of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), wherein in said internal volume is present a getter composition for VOCs removal comprising a combination of at least two different types of zeolite.

Abstract: A lock for closing a door with respect to a frame. The lock includes a lock body mounted on the door and a striker mounted on the frame, or vice versa. The lock body includes a catch element mounted so as to rotate between a striker keep position and a striker release position; elastic means suitable for driving the catch element from the striker keep position to the striker release position; a lever suitable for moving between two positions, a closing position in which it maintains the catch element in the striker keep position and an opening position in which it is disengaged from the catch element; and a service actuator suitable for applying a force f on the lever so as to bring it from the closing position to the opening position. The lock body further includes an emergency SMA actuator suitable for applying a force on the lever so as to bring it from the closing position to the opening position.

Abstract: A carbon dioxide composite getter comprising a CO2-permeable envelope containing powders of two active materials and sealed systems employing the carbon dioxide composite getter.

Abstract: The present invention relates to cathodes electrodes compositions suitable to provide a pumping mechanism which exhibits an extremely high pumping speed and capacity of noble gas suitable to be used in several vacuum devices as for example sputter ion vacuum pumping systems comprising them as active element.

Abstract: Method for the irreversible dosage of hydrogen in LED light bulbs by means of heating an irreversible hydrogen dispenser containing at least an active material for hydrogen release.

Abstract: A ballistic protection structure has a first ballistic layer made of a textile of synthetic fibers and a second ballistic layer comprising a first holding element on which slender metallic structures in the form of flat sheets and/or straight filiform elements are restrained. The metallic structures are restrained at different points of the first holding element and protrude therefrom generally perpendicularly. The free ends of the slender metallic structures are restrained to the first textile layer.

Abstract: There are described dispensers (10; 20; 30; 40; 50; 60) of alkali or alkaline-earth metals, comprising deposits of getter materials (13; 23; 33; 43; 53; 63) and alkali or alkaline-earth metal sources (12, 22; 32; 42; 53; 63), in which the sources of alkali or alkaline-earth metal are protected from environmental gases by said deposits of getter materials.

Abstract: An active package having LTA zeolites exchanged with palladium is described. This solution is capable to improve the quality of the gaseous atmosphere within the package itself, with particular reference to the presence of ethylene. This solution provides improved performance when the package is accidentally exposed to hydrocarbon vapors and provides benefits in terms of reliability in the ethylene control.

Abstract: A sensitive device is described including an edge of the sensitive device and a composite material sealing the edge of the sensitive device. The composite material includes a homogeneous dispersion of superficially functionalized nanozeolites in a polymerizable compound. The nanozeolites contain surface modifying organic groups belonging to the same chemical class of at least one functional group of the polymerizable compound.

Abstract: Method for the irreversible dosage of hydrogen in LED light bulbs by means of heating an irreversible hydrogen dispenser containing at least an active material for hydrogen release.

Abstract: A thermally or photo curable adhesive composition containing a bisphenol F epoxy resin and a bisphenol A epoxy resin in a ratio between 2 and 10. The composition further contains at least one epoxy acrylate component and a rubber modified bisphenol. The adhesive composition is applicable by a melt or liquid coating technique and undergoes curing upon exposure to heat or radiation, showing improved viscoelastic properties and suitable to provide a cured product having superior durability.

Abstract: A non-hermetically sealed LED system containing an active composition having an amount between 0.06 and 2.5 mg per cm2 of the system optical window area is described. The active composition contains an active material in powder form, wherein at least 75 wt % of the active material is chosen from one or more of active carbons, silver, copper, zinc, copper oxide, zinc oxide, calcium oxide, and silver oxide.

Abstract: A composite transparent lighting device is described. The device has a transparent substrate, an uniform distribution of low concentration dielectric particles, reflective perimeter and perimetral discrete light sources, of improved appearance both in the inoperative state of the device, and at the same time capable of providing good quality lighting when the device is active, i.e. when the discrete light sources on the perimeter of the device are turned on.

Abstract: Rechargeable lithium batteries are described comprising an airtight container, electrodes immersed in an electrolytic solution and spaced apart by means of one or more separators, electrical contacts connected to the electrodes and a means for sorbing harmful substances formed of a multilayer polymeric sheet comprised of an inner layer of a polymeric material containing particles of one or more getter materials for the sorption of the harmful substances, and at least one external protective layer of a polymeric material impermeable to the electrolyte, wherein all the polymeric materials are permeable to the harmful substances.

Abstract: An Ultra High Purity (UHP) carbon dioxide purification system and a method for purification of UHP carbon dioxide is disclosed. The purification system includes supported nickel oxide and supported palladium oxide. An upper portion of the purification system is at least partially filled with supported nickel oxide, and a lower portion of the purification system is at least partially filled with supported palladium oxide. The upper and lower portions of the purification system have a physical separation but are in fluid communication. The method includes purification or pre-purification of High Purity (HP) carbon dioxide to Ultra High Purity (UHP) levels including feeding carbon dioxide of High Purity grade or better to an Ultra High Purity carbon dioxide purification system.

Abstract: Getter pumping system particularly useful for linear accelerators or more generally high-volume environments, wherein a plurality of getter cartridges (100, 100?, 100?, . . . 100n) having a linear support (110, 110?, 110?, . . . 110n) and a plurality of linear heaters (120, 120?, . . . 120n) are connected in a high-density configuration to a wall (11) that has a surface area of at least 0.5 m2.