Abstract: There is provided a hose for fuel piping which has an inner layer portion having a single layer of a thermoplastic resin having a low fuel permeability, the inner layer portion has a thickness of at least 0.3 mm at a maximum thickness portion, and an outer layer portion of a thermoplastic elastomer. The inner layer portion is laminated to the outer layer portion by a bond strength of 0.6 kgf/cm or less. In a modification, the inner layer portion of a thermoplastic resin having a low fuel permeability can be coated with a thermoplastic resin.

Abstract: A tightening tool that includes a microprocessor for management and measurement of tightening parameters and a transponder for communication with a monitoring station. The monitoring station is equipped with at least one decoder for communication with the transponder. The tool microprocessor unit receives control parameters from the station through the transponder and sends tool data to the station through the transponder.

Abstract: A micro-perimeter technique using a portable computer and a projector, and using two screening methods, multi-resolution static and bi-directional kinetic. The static method, as applied to a static test, starts with relatively low-resolutions, and only the unseen zones are selectively remapped under higher resolutions during successive iterations. The bi-directional kinetic method, as applied to a kinetic test, uses a response to a continuously moving target, and the unknown response delay is compensated for by an algorithm that merges the patient's response to measurements at the same visual location, but with opposite scanning directions. Offline visualization of the mapping results is performed automatically superimposed over the fundus image.

Abstract: A method for applying nail paint to a finger or toe nail in which a positive image Is established in a cutout defined on a plate. Nail paint is applied to the cutout to create a negative representation of the negative image in nail paint. The representation of the image in nail paint is picked up and transferred onto a nail of a person. The picked up representation is rotated through one revolution during the transfer.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for monitoring a system in which a fluid flows and which is characterized by a change in the system with time in space. A preselected place in the system is monitored to collect data at two or more time points correlated to a system event. The data is indicative of a system parameter that varies with time as a function of at least two variables related to system wash-in and wash-out behavior. A calibration map is made on a calculated basis with each pixel or voxel representative of a color hue indicative of wash-out behavior and a color intensity indicative of wash-in behavior. When a satisfactory map is obtained, the collected data is processed on the basis of the map to obtain an image of the preselected place with each spatial unit thereof correlated with a color hue and a color intensity. Software and a data processing system are provided to develop the calibration map. The calibration map and image of the preselected place are also novel implementations.

Abstract: The invention pertains to an airbag device for a motor vehicle with at least one cover flap, behind which is a gas generator with which a gas bag can be inflated, and also moving drive devices that can be actuated by and are connected to each cover flap, where the latter is moved before or during triggering of the gas generator within the airbag device or within a part of the motor vehicle containing the airbag device. Furthermore, it is provided that the drive devices contain at least one piston running within a channel.

Abstract: A hand operated self-contained apparatus for applying an image on a nail of a person's digit or an object that has an integrally molded base having a reference line indicated and a supporting area for receiving an image creating plate containing at least one image for creating thereon an image composed of an image defining coating material. A digit positioning member is mounted on the base and positions a person's digit relative to the location of the created image. A transfer member is mounted on the base and moves between the image creating plate and the person's nail. The transfer member contains a squeegee for removing excess coating material from an image and a pick up pad for picking up a created image. The positioning member has one element mounted and biased for movement vertically for holding the end of the digit and another element mounted and biased for movement horizontally against which the end of the digit or object abuts.

Abstract: A self-contained automatic watering method and system for plants that includes a container made up of an inner and outer pot nested together to define an annular space which serves as a reservoir for water to be used for watering a plant held in the inner pot. A distributor in the form of an inclined wall is located on the container at least partially surrounding a plant held in the container. A housing is easily detachably mounted on said container and extends into the reservoir. The housing contains a pump, a motor to drive the pump, and a conduit leading from the pump to the distributor for directing water into a plant held in the inner pot, and a controller for controlling the motor to initiate watering cycles according to a preselected program regarding the frequency of watering and quantity of water.

Abstract: The invention relates to an air bag system which has multi-stage gas generating devices, with a primary stage for the partial inflating of an air bag and at least one subsequent stage which can be electrically and/or electronically triggered only as a function of an unhindered expansion of the air bag because of the inflating by a preceding stage, at least one electric switch being provided which can be switched as a function of the undisturbed expansion of the air bag because of the inflating by the preceding stage and is connected for the electric and/or electronic triggering of the subsequent stage.

Abstract: A compact, simple to install dipole antenna that has a base composed of a molded plastic mass in the shape of a modified D-shape and having a flat face. A pair of spaced, coaxially aligned brass cores are encapsulated in the plastic mass of the base with threaded portions of the cores projecting axially out of the plastic mass of the base. A coaxial cable, having an outer conductor and an inner conductor, has one end encapsulated in the plastic mass of the base. Connectors directly connect the outer conductor of the coaxial cable to one of the brass cores, and the inner conductor with the other brass core. A pair of telescoping brass pole elements are threadedly mounted on the threaded projections.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an air bag system having an air bag and a covering which contains at least one tearing thread in an outlet area of the air bag for opening the covering. The tearing thread is a thread of a woven fabric and/or of a seam of the covering in the outlet area of the air bag. Tearing devices are provided which, in the outlet area of the air bag from the covering, are applied to the at least one tearing thread and are coupled to the air bag system. When the air bag system is triggered, the tearing devices weaken or open up the covering before or during inflation of the air bag by severing the at least one tearing thread. Furthermore, the invention relates to an interior vehicle covering which is suitable as a covering of the air bag system, a seat equipped with such a covering and air bag system, and a triggering process of an air bag system situated under a covering.

Abstract: The invention relates to an air bag arrangement in vehicle, having a gas bag which, as the result of a triggering by a sensor, can be inflated with gas by a gas generator and, during the inflating, can be advanced into an interior of the vehicle, the gas generator having at least two driving stages with propellant charges which can be ignited in a time-related succession and of which the first propellant charge is ignited by a triggering by a sensor and the second propellant charge being ignited facultatively when the gas bag moves beyond a defined advancing position.

Abstract: Method for the production of encapsulated water-soluble granulated chemicals (fertilizers, salts, pesticides, etc.) with slow controlled release in water and soil with a uniform distribution of the chemicals in a melted thermoplastic, biodegradable and inert polymer composition, with subsequent formation of clots, granules or other shapes. The uniform cross-linked polymer compositions are produced by combining the process of polymerization of neutralized unsaturated carboxylic acids and the process of polycondensation of thiourea with formaldehyde, and the cross-linking of the obtained macromolecules with sulfur. Thus method makes it possible to obtain encapsulated chemicals with a wide range of use, containing up to 85% of the target product, with a gradual release which lasts for up to 180 and more days.

Abstract: An appliance for testing oblong tablets or tablests with a similar form and more especially for weighing, measuring and fracture testing of such tablets in suitable testing stations, the appliance including a feeder for feeding individual oblong tablets to a weighing device having a weighing pan with a floor in the form of a trough inclined in the conveying direction, and being provided with a conveyor underneath the weighing pan on which conveyor the tablets are deposited with their longitudinal axis parallel to the longitudinal direction of the trough and which conveys the tablets with such alignment through the further testing stations, and in which between the point at which the oblong tablets are transferred to the conveyor and the testing stations, a toppling device is arranged, which topples over any oblong tablets standing on their edges so that the tablets fall onto their round sides.