Abstract: A speaker can have a main body with a generally spheroidal shape, which can be supported standing on its end. The speaker can include a subwoofer that faces forward. A plurality of mid-range drivers can be distributed around the sub-woofer, facing generally forward and radially outward. A plurality of tweeters can be distributed around the sub-woofer, facing generally forward and generally outward. The outer housing portion of the speaker can be covered with a fabric material. A user interface ring 162 can be touch sensitive to receive input, and can have a plurality of lights that can be illuminated separately to convey information to the user.

Abstract: The wear condition of a milling tool is determined by detecting vibrations of the milling tool and a metal workpiece and generating wavelet coefficients which are utilized to evaluate the wear condition of the workpiece. The vibrations are detected at several locations along the metal workpiece or upon a different workpiece under comparable conditions and evaluating workpiece wear on the basis of changes in wear condition parameters at different locations and/or comparable cutting engagement between the milling tool and similar or different workpieces.

Abstract: Reduced-noise devices or their components, in particular engine or combustion units and their components or fluid-carrying systems and their components, which are constructed, partially or wholly, from thermoplastics and which, at a distance from the surfaces of the devices, have at least one perforated plate, which is firmly connected, rests essentially with a form fit on continuously circumferential attachments on the thermoplastic component and encase the devices, in part or completely.

Abstract: In a method for monitoring the wear condition of a tool (2) during machining of a metal workpiece (4) by means of a machine tool (1) by detecting measuring signals generated during the machining process with the aid of at least one sensor (6) and by transforming said measuring signals detected by said sensor (6) into wavelet coefficients by means of a wavelet function, wherein the resultant wavelet coefficients are used for calculating wear condition parameters for the tool (2), it is provided that the vibrations, which are generated during the machining process, of a vibration system comprising at least the tool (2) and the metal workpiece (4) are detected by at least one vibration sensor (6).

Abstract: An apparatus for collecting and discharging live marine animals, the apparatus having a collection chamber for holding the marine animals, an inlet conduit having one end extendible into a body of water containing the marine animals, and another end in fluid communication with the chamber, the conduit being sized to allow the marine animals to pass therethrough, a pump to suck water out of the chamber which also causes water to flow through the conduit and into the chamber thereby carrying the marine animals through the conduit and into the chamber, a screen to prevent the marine animals from being sucked into the pump, a discharge outlet through which the marine animals can pass out of the apparatus, and a mechanism the marine animals through the discharge outlet.

Abstract: The present invention relates to antibodies against heart muscle actin, processes for the production of such antibodies and their use.

Abstract: The invention relates to the identification of insoluble cytoskeletal proteins, or fragments thereof, which are characteristic of the origin of the tissue. The invention relates as well to the method for detecting such proteins by breaking down and solubilizing the protein for immunological detection and quantitation. The method allows detection of tissue lesions or other pathological foci and metastases.

Abstract: An impact activated automotive safety system relying upon relative movement between a drive unit and a chassis of an automobile and comprising a plurality of cables attached, at one of their ends, to the chassis on opposite sides, and slung around a rear portion, of the drive unit and respectively attached by their other ends to a plurality of safety features such as, for instance, a collapsible steering column, seatbelt coiling devices, and seat-lifting mechanisms, all of which would be activated substantially simultaneously in case of a frontal collision by forces transmitted to them by the cables.

Abstract: In a system for controlling the motion of an industrial robot, a resultant translational velocity of a preselected point on the robot is calculated from a plurality of velocity values such as actual velocity values detected by sensors or target velocity values computed from a velocity reference value. Upon the exceeding of a predetermined maximum velocity by the calculated resultant velocity, all robot motion is terminated. Robot motion may also be stopped upon detecting an excessive difference between an actual angular velocity of one robot component and a respective desired or target angular velocity of that robot component, upon detecting an excessive translational acceleration of a predetermined point on the robot, or upon detecting a position of the robot part or point located more than a predetermined distance from a reference position.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for secondary cooling of a metal strand particularly of steel by the quantity-controlled spraying of a coolant in individual cooling areas by means of nozzles on areal portions of the strand surface, which as a consequence of the strand advance are intermittently cooled in the sprayed areal portions and reheated in the unsprayed portions by the continuing heat flow from the inside of the strand, whereby the coolant quantities which are fed to the nozzles of the individual cooling areas are controlled according to predetermined values. The coolant quantity per unit time Q.sub.t (l/min) fed to each nozzle proportionally to the strand advance speed is controlled according to predetermined values of the coolant quantity Q.sub.S (l/m.sup.2) which is fed to each strand surface unit by a nozzle. The coolant quantity Q.sub.