Abstract: Self Contained Aerosol Dual Delivery System (SCADDS) is a pocket-sized inhaler for delivering inhaled therapeutic or recreational aerosols simultaneously and separately via oral and nasal routes. A handle assembly has a removable mouthpiece, cartridge penetration needles, puncture needle protective cover, a shuttle, a cam, valves and conduits from the penetration needles to the individual nozzles for oral and nasal inhalation. A cartridge contains separate reservoirs of solutions for oral and nasal inhalation. The reservoirs, impermeable bags with fluid and dissolved gas in solution, are punctured when the cartridge is attached to the handle assembly. Inhalation slides the shuttle toward the mouthpiece and opens the valves to release solution. The oral aerosol is inhaled into the lungs while the nasal aerosol provides a pleasant aroma.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for constructing tread surfaces comprising polygonal elements (1) where each element has a top surface and a number of substantially straight side edges arranged perpendicular to the top surface along the periphery of said top surface and that all side edges (2) are provided with a number of receiving openings (3) each opening adapted to receive and maintain a connector member, and that said elements (1), furthermore, along one or more of said side edges (4) are provided with one or more integrated and protruding connector members (5) which each are adapted to fit into said receiving openings (3).

Abstract: Two layered beads (B) arranged between two neighboring warps (tx-1) and (tx) are woven by inserting a weft (yx) through center holes (2) of the beads in (B) in a forward direction or in a backward direction and turning the weft (yx), around one of the warps (t). A two layered beaded fabric is obtained by repeating the movements of the weft (yx). A three layered beaded fabric can be obtained in the same manner as the two layered beaded fabric.

Abstract: An air quality monitor having multiple sensors deployed in an electric circuit returns a single sign indication of atmospheric impurity regardless of whether the impurity gas is of the oxidizing or reducing type. Each sensor employs a gas sensitive material that exhibits a response in the form of a change in electrical resistance of the material in the presence of a gas and that exhibits a negligible response to changes in the moisture content of the atmosphere. A powder is dried and calcined and the result is ground into a fine powder and pressed into a desired shape to make the gas sensitive material. Adding a binder during the pressing and firing the shaped powder results in a gas sensitive material with porosity. Gas is flowed to the gas sensitive material and the resulting change in resistance is measured and returned as a single sign indication of atmospheric impurity.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a compression chamber unit (1) of an air pump, comprising a cylindrical body part (3) provided with at least one outlet nozzle (4), a number of connecting flanges (6) and a number of connecting bosses (7), wherein the cylindrical body part (3) is an extruded cylinder and a cap (2) is formed with outlet nozzle (4), connecting flanges (6) and connecting bosses (7), where the cap (2) is adapted to engage with a first end part (10) of the cylindrical body part (3). The present invention further more relates to a method for forming a compression chamber unit (1) which method comprises the following steps: the cylindrical body part (3) is extruded, and the cap (2) is moulded onto the cylindrical body part (3).

Abstract: The present invention provides transparent proxies for random access channels. Client proxies and server proxies are provided at opposite ends of random access channels. The Predictive Browser (PB) of the present invention replicates many of the client browser functions at the Server Proxy in order to predict and encode the client traffic flowing in an ALOHA channel to the server. The replication moves the browser function away from the user into the Server Proxy on the other side of the random access channel. Several methods have been developed to reduce ALOHA channel HTTP traffic. These methods are Proxy Recursion and Page Caching, Request Tokenizing, Predictive Tokenizing and Request Compression. These methods, collectively integrated into the invention, reduce the amount of data required to be sent across the ALOHA channel.

Abstract: A method for achieving optimum coaxial lidar configuration using optical fibers. Optical fibers are used with mirrors or lenses to create light paths that can achieve an optimum lidar configuration while employing fewer components than that of prior art for a more simplified, lightweight, and less expensive system to produce. The lidar components, including the laser source and the light detector unit, may be placed in a separate housing. A separate housing eliminates unnecessary weight in the optical telescope assembly, makes scanning of the system easier, and enables a better omni-directional cloud height indicator.

Abstract: Method of installing a bucket foundation structure comprising one, two, three or more skirts, into soils in a controlled manner. The method comprises two stages: a first stage being a design phase and the second stage being an installation phase. In the first stage, design parameters are determined relating to the loads on the finished foundation structure; soil profile on the location of installation; allowable installation tolerances, which parameters are used to estimate the minimum diameter and length of the skirts of the bucket. The bucket size is used to simulate load situations and penetration into foundation soil, in order to predict necessary penetration force, required suction inside the bucket and critical suction pressures, which penetration force, required suction, and critical suction pressures are used as input for a control system in the second stage, in which second stage the pa-rameters determined in the first stage are used in order to control the installation of the bucket.

Abstract: Method for reusing bituminous products (11), in particular bitumen containing roofing materials and membranes, wherein the bitumen containing products are placed in a second hopper (9), where a particulate material having a grain size between 5 mm and 35 mm is placed in a first hopper (5), and that in the bottom of the second hopper, conveyor means (10) urges the bituminous material into a mixing chamber (8), and that inside said mixing chamber a milling and/or crushing wheel (14) is arranged, which wheel engages and crushes/mills the material transported from the second hopper in an engagement zone, and at the same position as the wheel engages the bituminous material, the particulate material by means of a first conveyor (7) is fed into the engagement zone, and that the wheel's action will fragment the materials and at the same time mix the fragmented bituminous materials and the particulate materials, and transport the material past a sieve (15), where material having a particle size smaller than the sieve

Abstract: A method to determine and correct broadband background in complex spectra in a simple and automatized manner includes carrying out a background correction with respect to broadband background before a calibration step. The background correction may involve recording a spectral graph and smoothing the recorded spectral graph, determining all values in the initially recorded graph having a value higher than the value of the smoothed graph and reducing such values to the value of the smoothed graph, and repeating these two steps. The background graph obtained is then subtracted from the initial graph. The smoothing of the graph is carried out by moving average, where each intensity value I at the position x in the spectrum is replaced by an average value. The characteristics of the found peaks can be stored in a file so that the calibration can be used at any time.

Abstract: A high performance multifunctional cementitious nanocomposite material is made by adding a nano admixture to the water used in a conventional cementitious material manufacturing process. The nano admixture is made by dispersing nanomaterials in a solvent and sonicating the mixture, adding a hydrophilic emulsifier, thickener, additive or cellulose derived compound to hot water, where it separates and expands, cooling the water, causing the compound to dissolve, and then adding the solvent and nanomaterial mixture to the water and mechanically mixing. The contact between the nanomaterials and the surrounding matrix changes with applied stress, affecting the volume electrical response of the finished nanocomposite material. By measuring the electrical resistance of the material, its structural health, as well as the stress applied to it, can be monitored. A bridge made with the material is monitored for structural integrity and for the weight, speed, and location of traffic over the bridge.

Abstract: Multi drive unit for propelling a modular conveyor belt, where the conveyor belt is made from a plurality of substantially identical belt links, where each link has a top and bottom surface, two side faces and a front and rear edge, where eye parts project from the front and rear edges, where the eye parts are separated by openings, such that the eye parts along the front edge of one belt link may intermesh in the openings provided between the eye parts along the rear edge of an adjacent belt link, and that apertures provided in the eye parts perpendicular to the intended travelling direction are superposed and a hinge pin may be inserted in order to hingely connect the overlapping eye parts and thereby adjacent belt links, wherein the unit comprises a plurality of parallely arranged axles, where each axle is provided with a plurality of sprocket wheels, each sprocket wheel having a number of projecting teeth distributed along its circumference, where the sprocket wheels on the same axle are spaced along the

Abstract: The new seal monitor uses of a time dependant pseudo random number or a number from a time pad, which are lists of random numbers often used in encryption. This number changes periodically, for example, once an hour or whatever time interval is deemed timely by the particular application. It is intended that a remote monitoring station would send a request to the monitor and the monitor would respond with the random number that dependant on the time the monitor was started and how much time has elapsed. If the random number returned is correct it infers that the monitor is operating correctly and the seal has not been tampered with. If the monitor does not respond or responds with an incorrect number then the monitor or the seal has been tampered with. Light through a cable is periodically compared with historic outputs from that cable.

Abstract: A planar concentrator solar power module has a planar base, an aligned array of linear photovoltaic cell circuits on the base and an array of linear Fresnel lenses or linear mirrors for directing focused solar radiation on the aligned array of linear photovoltaic cell circuits. The cell circuits are mounted on a back panel which may be a metal back plate. The cell circuit area is less than a total area of the module. Each linear lens or linear mirror has a length greater than a length of the adjacent cell circuit. The cell circuit may have cells mounted in shingle fashion to form a shingled-cell circuit. In an alternative module, linear extrusions on the circuit element have faces for mounting the linear mirrors for deflecting sun rays impinging on each mirror onto the shingled-cells. The linear extrusions are side-wall and inner extrusions with triangular cross-sections. The circuit backplate is encapsulated by lamination for weather protection.

Abstract: A mediated electrochemical oxidation process and apparatus are used to process biological and organic materials to provide hydrogen and oxygen for use as fuel in numerous types of equipment. Waste materials are introduced into an apparatus for contacting the waste with an electrolyte containing the oxidized form of one or more reversible redox couples, at least one of which is produced electrochemically by anodic oxidation at the anode of an electrochemical cell. The oxidized species of the redox couples oxidize the organic waste molecules and are themselves converted to their reduced form, whereupon they are reoxidized and the redox cycle continues until all oxidizable waste species have undergone the desired degree of oxidation. The entire process takes place at temperatures to avoid any possible formation of either dioxins or furans. The oxidation process may be enhanced by the addition of ultrasonic energy and/or ultraviolet radiation.

Abstract: The present invention provides an electromagnetically actuating optical deflecting elements which can be manufactured out of reduced number of components and are capable of being actuated at lower frequencies and at wider deflecting angles without causing mechanical influences of the metal wiring on beams of the optical deflecting element. For that purpose, the electromagnetically actuating optical deflecting element comprises: a movable part having a light reflecting plane and a coil; a base component having a magnetic field generating means; and a pair of beams which axially support said movable part on to the base component, The movable part is actuated by an electromagnetic force generated by an electric current flowing through the coil and the magnetic field generating means.

Abstract: The invention relates to carbon chemistry and is embodied in the form of a nanodiamond comprising 90.0-98.0 mass % carbon, 0.1-5.0 mass % hydrogen, 1.5-3.0 mass % nitrogen and 0.1-4.5 mass % oxygen, wherein the carbon is contained in the form a diamond cubic modification and in a roentgen-amorphous phase at a ratio of (82-95):(18-5) in terms of a carbon mass, respectively. The inventive method for producing said material consisting in detonating in a closed space of a carbon-inert gas medium a carbon-containing oxygen-deficient explosive material which is placed in a condensed phase envelop containing a reducing agent at a quantitative ratio between said reducing agent mass in the condensed envelop and the mass of the used carbon-containing explosive material equal to or greater than 0.01:1 and in chemically purifying by treating detonation products with a 2-40% aqua nitric acid jointly with a compressed air oxygen at a temperature ranging from 200 to 280° C. and a pressure of 5-15 MPa.

Abstract: The invention relates to carbon chemistry and is embodied in the form of a diamond-carbon material, in which carbon is contained in the form a diamond cubic modification and in a roentgen-amorphous phase at a ratio of (40-80):(60-20) in terms of a carbon mass, respectively, wherein the inventive material comprises 89.1-95.2 mass % carbon, 1.2-5.0 mass % nitrogen, 0.1-4.7 mass % oxygen and 0.1-1.5 mass % fire-resisting impurities. The inventive method for producing said material consisting in detonating, in a closed space of a carbon-inert gas medium, a carbon-containing oxygen-deficient explosive material, which is placed in a condensed phase envelop containing a reducing agent at a quantitative ratio between said reducing agent mass in the condensed phase and the mass of the used carbon-containing explosive material equal to or greater than 0.01:1.

Abstract: A crushing machine for comminuting laminated glass, particularly windshields for cars, consists of a chamber with cylindric wall (24) in which is suspended a rotor (28) with pivotably beaters (50). Plural layers of laminated glass are fed through a feeding opening (20) through rubber rollers (22) which form an almost airtight lock into the crushing chamber. At the inner side of its wall (24), the chamber is provided with a number of evenly distributed ribs (54) to be impacted by laminated glass pieces, which are subsequently further comminuted by the beaters (50). The crushing chamber is provided with a slot-formed discharge opening (34) which may be varied in width. Outside the discharge opening (34), there is mounted a collecting containing (36) provided with subpressure.

Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement (1) for the on-line monitoring of the quality of a laser process exerted on a workpiece (3), comprising a laser source transmitting a laser beam (4) to the workpiece (3), the thermal process of the laser beam (4) causing emission of electromagnetical radiation (7) from the process zone on the workpiece (3); a heat detection camera (8) for detecting the electromagnetical radiation emitted from the process zone of the workpiece (3), wherein the arrangement (1) is provided with a tilted non-focussing mirror (5) such that the laser beam (4) which is transmitted by the laser source is let through the tilted non-focussing mirror (5) towards the working piece (3), and the electromagnetical radiation (7) emitted from the process zone on the workpiece (3) is reflected by the tilted non-focussing mirror (5) towards the heat detection camera (8). The invention further relates to a method using such an arrangement (1).