Abstract: A gas turbine engine augmentor nozzle has an inlet for connection to an augmentor fuel conduit and an outlet for expelling a spray of fuel. A passageway between the inlet and outlet is at least partially bounded by outlet end surface portions diverging from each other. The nozzle may be used as a replacement for a non-divergent nozzle and may reorient a fuel jet centerline toward radial.

Abstract: This procedure consists in a first stage of reception of the information given by a client and its technical analysis. It also consists in a second stage of preparation of photochromes and flat colors on the basis of the “Pantone” scale and the CMYK part of the original file. It consists in a third stage of transfer from the “Pantone” scale to an own scale and obtaining the flat colors with this scale. It consists in a fourth stage of reproduction and correction of the color and of the tone scale up to a 97% of approximation, and a fifth stage of calibration by software and manual retouching of these colors and the tone scale up to a 99% of approximation. Finally, this procedure consists in a sixth stage of preparation of the engraving final images in the printing cylinder and storage in an adequate medium. The third stage includes three steps. The first one is the selection of those colors that are nearer to the original.

Abstract: An axial bearing, for a spooling roller on a spooling machine, with a shaft fixed to a machine frame, or to a machine chassis, a fixed rear cover disc, a hub freely rotating about the shaft and a flange, arranged on the free front face of the shaft with a front cover disc. At least one stud chamfers in the radial direction, away from the shaft in the region of the flange, engaging in but without projecting beyond a guide slot of a bayonet sleeve, detachably connected to the flange. The open guide slot, on the front face, rises up to an arched peak, turns away from the front face of the bayonet sleeve at a separation and runs toward the front face with a blind terminus. A pressure spring, tensioned on the shaft, is arranged between a shaft mounting and the hub, which presses the roller core with the spooling roller, over the hub, in the axial direction on the flange and forms therewith a rapid closure with the centered spooling roller.

Abstract: A device for applying a liquid or gel-like product, in particular a cosmetic product, comprising a rotatably supported ball serving as an applicator element, and a storage chamber for the product to be applied on a side of the ball in opposite relationship to an applicator side of the ball for loading the ball on its side in opposite relationship to its applicator side, wherein the storage chamber has a feed opening for the product to be applied. A vent opening is disposed behind the feed opening as viewed from the ball for venting the storage chamber.

Abstract: There is provided an inexpensive microfluid handling device which is capable of simply controlling the flow of plural kinds of very small amounts of liquids (microsamples) independently of a driving source and which is suitable for a POC inspection. In the microfluid handling device 1, there is formed a fine groove 10 forming a microchannel for allowing a liquid sample to move due to capillarity. At one end of the fine groove 10 of the microfluid handling device 1, a storage portion 6 (7) is formed for injecting a sample S1 (S2) into the fine groove 10. At the other end of the fine groove 10, there is formed a final storage portion 8 capable of being used for taking out the sample S1 (S2) flowing through the fine groove 10 due to capillarity. The storage portion 6 (7) is open to the atmosphere. The bottom of the final storage portion 8 is sealed with a sealing protrusion 11 capable of being broken off, and is open by breaking the sealing protrusion 11 off.

Abstract: This system comprises local monitoring units installed in close proximity to the facilities to be monitored, each of which comprises a device for detecting facility malfunctions; a first computer made available to the facility maintenance company, connected to the local units through a transmission network for receiving and processing fault information transmitted from the local units; a second computer made available to a facility management company, which receives the same information as the first computer from the local units; each local unit being associated with a facility and further comprising a control device for allowing a maintenance engineer to signal the beginning and the end of an inspection of the associated facility, these events being transmitted to the computers which comprise a device for storing all information transmitted by the local units.

Abstract: A membrane electrode assembly includes an anode; a cathode; a membrane disposed between the anode and the cathode; and an extended catalyzed layer between the membrane and at least one electrode of the anode and the cathode. The extended catalyzed layer includes catalyst particles embedded in membrane material and preferably includes a first plurality of particles which are electrically connected to the at least one electrode. The extended catalyzed layer may further preferably have a second plurality of particles which are electrically disconnected from the at least one electrode.

Abstract: There are provided a resin double helical gear capable of reducing operation noises and vibrations of an image forming system, such as an ink jet printer, which is arranged in the vicinity of an operator, and a gear train using the same and having a smaller number of parts. The gear train 2 for ink jet printer 1 includes a first resin double helical gear 5 which is mounted on an output shaft 4 of a motor 3 so as to be rotatable therewith, and a second resin double helical gear 6 which is mounted on a paper feeding roller shaft 7 so as to be rotatable therewith and which meshes with the first resin double helical gear 5.

Abstract: A real-time on board engine component performance tracking system for deriving high fidelity engine models capable of providing a reference level from which performance changes can be trended with reduced operating cost, increased safety, and increased reliability while minimizing memory requirements and maximizing speed.

Abstract: A rotation damper for a vehicle that runs on rails, having piston and cylinder parts moving with respect to one another. This damper has a friction characteristics, that is to say the fluid connection over the piston is not a permanently open hole but exclusively comprises spring-loaded valves. In order to facilitate the installation of such dampers, it is proposed to make a separate connection between the working cylinder and the reservoir in which a valve that can be manually operated is arranged, which valve, on operation, opens a connection as a result of which the piston and cylinder can be moved relative to one another under manual force.

Abstract: The chair has a seat that folds down about a horizontal axle 24 and which is intended, in particular, to equip halls that receive the public, such as lecture theatres and/or show halls. This chair comprises at least an underframe having an essentially longitudinal axis 14 and to which a backrest 16 may be fixed, and with respect to which a fixed horizontal axle 24 is determined. The seat 20 comprises a first part 32 projecting forwards with respect to the horizontal axle 24, and a second part 30 projecting towards the underframe 12. The underframe 12 contains a gas strut 40, one end 48 of which is fixed to the underframe 12, and the other end 50 of which is fixed to the second part 30 of the seat 20.

Abstract: A combustion chamber for use in an engine, such as a rocket engine, has an inner wall with a corrugated configuration. The inner wall is formed with a plurality of tubes for carrying a coolant. As a result of the tubular construction, the inner wall has a plurality of spaced apart crowns and a plurality of valleys intermediate with the spaced apart crowns. To enhance the rate of heat flux or transfer in the valleys, a device is installed in each valley to cause local intensification of the turbulence in the hot gas flow in an effective way. The device may take the shape of a chevron or a bump.

Abstract: A method for detecting integrity degradation of a turbine engine component includes the steps of detecting oxygen in a cavity of a turbine engine component; receiving a signal confirming the detection of oxygen; and detecting an integrity degradation of the turbine engine component by the detection of oxygen.

Abstract: A combustor heat shield panel has interior and exterior surfaces with a number of circuitous non-interconnected cooling gas passageways having inlets on the exterior surface and outlets on the interior surface.

Abstract: A method for communication of multimedia data using virtual world interface in a mobile personal computers is disclosed. The method comprises logging in to the server; displaying an initial menu picture on a screen of the mobile personal computer, the initial menu picture including a plurality of menu items for transmission or retrieval of the multimedia data; and performing a subroutine associated with a selected one of the menu items in the initial menu picture to transmit or retrieve the multimedia data. According to this invention, information can rapidly and accurately be exchanged at any time or place. Further, desired media data can conveniently be transmitted or retrieved by merely a clicking operation of a stylus pen or a drag operation of a mouse without executing a multiplicity of individual programs for transmission and/or retrieval of different media data.

Abstract: A device for protecting against arcing events solar array panels and control equipment supplying a main power bus is provided. The control equipment comprises a regulator for controlling a solar array voltage (Vs) and includes a power dump stage for shunting the solar array voltage as a function of a control signal. The device comprises a voltage drop detection circuit for generating a voltage drop detection signal (VD) when a voltage drop is detected in the solar array voltage (Vs), and an arc-quenching circuit comprising a system for generating an output signal (Vo) which is applied as the control signal to the power dump stage so as to shunt the solar array voltage (Vs) when a voltage drop is detected by the voltage drop detection circuit.

Abstract: An applicator device comprising a storage space for a product to be applied comprising a front portion having a holder for rotatably holding a ball communicating with the storage space through an opening provided between the ball and the holder, wherein at least the front portion comprises plastic material.

Abstract: The invention relates to a door hinge with a holder for motor vehicle doors, wherein the door hinge comprises a pillar bracket attachable at a motor vehicle and a door bracket connectable with the motor vehicle door, said door bracket being connected with said pillar bracket via a hinge pin arranged at one bracket in an anti-rotational manner and rotatably arranged in the other bracket, said holder comprising a stop member carrier connected in an anti-rotational manner with the hinge pin and an engagement element supported so as to be rotatable together with the other bracket relative to said stop member carrier, said engagement element having at least one stop mark on a surface facing the stop member carrier, wherein at least one stop member biased by a spring element is arranged on the stop member carrier in such a way that it can be brought into engagement with the surface of the engagement element facing the stop member carrier.

Abstract: There is provided a method for producing a silver powder having excellent dispersibility and capable of forming a paste which do not form suspended matters by phase separation and which is printed on a substrate to form a film having a uniform thickness. In this method, an alkali or a complexing agent is added to an aqueous silver salt containing solution to form a silver oxide containing slurry or an aqueous silver complex salt containing solution. After or before silver particles are deposited by reduction by adding a reducing agent to the silver oxide containing slurry or aqueous silver complex salt containing solution while stirring it, at least one chelating agent selected from the group consisting of compounds having an azole structure, dicarboxylic acids, hydroxy carboxylic acids and salts thereof is added to a silver power containing slurry solution as a dispersing agent.

Abstract: A non-lethal anti-personnel land mine comprising a sealed container having a first chemical reactant contained therein, and a second container having a second chemical reactant contained therein, the container being positioned within the mine to assure that a stepping action on the mine will result in the opening of the container and the release of the contents thereof into contact with the second chemical reactant, whereby the contact results in a fast chemical reaction non-lethal to the person stepping on the mine.