Abstract: The invention relates to an aid for putting on an elastic stocking in particular. The aid comprises a substantially flat and flexible sheet body manufactured from a smooth material, which is provided with removal means to remove the aid from between a foot and a stocking arranged around it, and with connecting means arranged on opposite edges of the body, which when in use interact to interconnect the opposite edges, resulting in a tube-like body having a insertion side for the foot and an opposite foot section, whereby each connecting means comprises magnets which are attracted by corresponding magnets in the other connecting means. The aid is simpler and more convenient in use than the known aid.

Abstract: A plate type rotational centrifugal separator for separating one or more components of a feed stream includes a rotatable first outer carrier and a rotatable second inner carrier coaxially arranged in the first outer carrier. The first outer carrier supports one or more curved plates which are flexibly connected to the second inner carrier. A feeding arrangement disposed at one end of the separator supplies a feed stream to be separated, and a discharging arrangement disposed at the opposite end of the separator discharges separated streams. Confined spaces are defined between adjacent curved plates and the first outer and second inner carrier for separating the feed stream under influence of centrifugal forces. The first outer carrier is axially removable from the second inner carrier for removing components collected on the plates.

Abstract: A drive assembly has a moveable drive head, which is able to engage a plunger in a cartridge containing a liquid. The cartridge has a plunger moveable by the drive head to extract the liquid from the cartridge.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetoresistive effect head includes a magnetically pinned layer having a direction of magnetization that is pinned, a free magnetic layer positioned above the magnetically pinned layer, the free magnetic layer having a direction of magnetization that is free to vary, and a barrier layer comprising an insulator positioned between the magnetically pinned layer and the free magnetic layer, wherein at least one of the magnetically pinned layer and the free magnetic layer has a layered structure, the layered structure including a crystal layer comprising one of: a CoFe magnetic layer or a CoFeB magnetic layer and an amorphous magnetic layer comprising CoFeB and an element selected from: Ta, Hf, Zr, and Nb, wherein the crystal layer is positioned closer to a tunnel barrier layer than the amorphous magnetic layer. In another embodiment, a magnetic data storage system includes the magnetoresistive effect head described above.

Abstract: A drive train assembly for a ride-on twin rotor concrete finishing machine mounts the main clutch and drive belt arrangement at an unobstructed location on a gear box at one end of the supporting frame where it is readily accessible for changing the drive belt without disassembly of the main drive shaft while maintaining a centrally located engine.

Abstract: A flexible-printed-circuit (FPC) voice-coil assembly configured for integration in a voice-coil motor. The FPC voice-coil assembly includes at least one FPC voice coil. The FPC voice coil includes a coil including at least one coil turn, and a flexible substrate. The flexible substrate is coupled to the coil to form a flexible printed circuit. The FPC voice coil is configured for integration in a voice-coil motor. A voice-coil motor and a disk drive including the FPC voice-coil assembly are also provided.

Abstract: A substrate support structure for clamping a substrate on a surface by means of a capillary layer of a liquid. The surface has an outer edge and includes one or more substrate supporting elements for receiving the substrate to be clamped, wherein the one or more substrate supporting elements are arranged to provide support for the substrate at a plurality of support locations. The substrate support structure further includes a sealing structure circumscribing the surface and having a top surface or edge forming a sealing rim. A distance between the outer edge of the surface and an outermost of the support locations is greater than a distance between the outer edge and the sealing rim.

Abstract: A tufted nonwoven with improved stitch holding, a bonded nonwoven and methods for their manufacture are described.

Abstract: A system and method for motion estimation involves obtaining input image frames, where the input image frames correspond to different instances in time, and performing motion estimation on the input image frames using depth information from the input image frames, where the depth information from an input image frame indicates how far a pixel in the input image frame is located from a surface of a three dimensional space.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a circuit-based apparatus that operates on an input data stream includes delay-line circuitry that characterizes the input data stream, modified over time. A plurality of integrators provide a plurality of integrated signals in response to the delay-line circuitry, and a plurality of weighting amplifiers amplify the plurality of integrated signals by a plurality of respective time-varying weighting factors to provide weighted signals. A signal-combining circuit combines the weighted signals. The circuit-based apparatus also includes a plurality of parallel signal-processing circuit paths that couple the weighted signals to the signal-combining circuit. By combining the weighted signals from the parallel signal-processing circuit paths, the signal-combining circuit provides a signal representative of the input data stream.

Abstract: A MEMS switch (1, 81), and methods of fabricating thereof, the switch comprising: a sealed cavity (24); and a membrane (26); wherein the sealed cavity (24) is defined in part by the membrane (26); and the membrane is a 5 metallic membrane (26), for example consisting of a single type of metal or metal alloy. The MEMS switch (1, 81) may comprise a top electrode (30), for example extending into the cavity (24), located in a hole (32) in the metallic membrane (26). Fabrication may include providing a sacrificial layer (22) in a partly defined cavity (24). The bending stiffness of the membrane (26) may be 10 higher along an RF line (102) than along a line (104) perpendicular to the RF line (102), for example by virtue of the cavity (24) being elliptical.

Abstract: The invention relates to a coating formulation for preparing a hydrophilic coating, wherein the hydrophilic coating formulation comprises a supporting monomer and/or polymer comprising at least 2 reactive moieties capable of undergoing polymerization reactions, a polyelectrolyte, a Norrish Type I photoinitiator, and a Norrish Type II photoinitiator.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a machine for stoning mangoes. The method includes a stage of blocking the mango fruit frontally of a cutting blade (3), which performs a first cut below the stone and a second cut above the stone; the cuts, performed with the same or with different blades, intersects a whole length in a longitudinal direction of the fruit and are performed by thrust-insertion of a cutting blade in the longitudinal direction of the stone. The machine for implementing the method includes one or more work stations (6, 7, 8, 9), each of which includes at least a blocking group (10) which blocks the fruit in a desired position thereof; at least a station includes a blade (3) with a shaped cutting profile which is provided with straight motion and performs the cuts envisaged by the method; sliding means (11) are provided to cause the straight motion of the blade.

Abstract: A method, device and computer program product for parsing linguistic input data by a computer system, in accordance with a grammar of a Formalized Natural Language. The grammar of the Formalized Natural language is a text grammar representing an infinite set of texts of type Text and is stored in electronic form in a computer readable medium constituting a text grammar device. This text grammar is defined by a set of four elements W, N, R and Text. W is a finite set of invariable words of type Word, to be used as terminal, elementary expressions of a text. N is a finite set of non-terminal help symbols, to be used for the derivation and the representation of texts. R is a finite set of inductive rules for the production of grammatical expressions of the Formalized Natural Language, and Text is an element of N and start-symbol for grammatical derivation of all texts of type Text of the Formalized Natural Language.

Abstract: The present invention relates to unsaturated polyester resin composition comprising an unsaturated polyester resin, a manganese compound, a 1,3-dioxo compound and a base; the molar ratio between the dioxo compound and the basic functionality of the base is from 170:1 to 1:30 and the resin composition being curable with a peroxide. The present invention further relates to a process for radically curing such a resin composition wherein a peroxide is added to the resin composition and the curing is effected in the absence of cobalt.

Abstract: A palatable, edible soft chewable medication vehicle for delivery of a pharmaceutically acceptable active ingredient, such as a drug, to an animal or human subject. The edible soft chews contain only food grade or better inactive ingredients, and preferably do not contain ingredients of animal origin. Processes for manufacturing the edible soft chews do not require the use of heat or the addition of water during mixing of active and inactive ingredients, provide stable concentrations of the active ingredient, and produce chews of consistent weight and texture.

Abstract: In one aspect, the present invention is directed to a technique of, and system for simulating, verifying, inspecting, characterizing, determining and/or evaluating the lithographic designs, techniques and/or systems, and/or individual functions performed thereby or components used therein. In one embodiment, the present invention is a system and method that accelerates lithography simulation, inspection, characterization and/or evaluation of the optical characteristics and/or properties, as well as the effects and/or interactions of lithographic systems and processing techniques.

Abstract: A door hinge unit in a refrigerator which pivots a door on a refrigerator body, and holds the door to maintain an opened state or a maximum opened state at a predetermined position for preventing the door from hitting an external object and a hinge shaft from breaking, and minimizes a friction surface between a male member and a female member of the hinge for making movement of the hinge smooth and preventing the hinge from causing noise.

Abstract: The invention relates to a dual stage lithographic apparatus, wherein two substrate stages are constructed and arranged for mutual cooperation in order to perform a joint scan movement. The joint scan movement brings the lithographic apparatus from a first configuration, wherein immersion liquid is confined between a first substrate held by the first stage of the stages and a projection system of the apparatus, to a second configuration, wherein the immersion liquid is confined between a second substrate held by the second stage of the two stages and the projection system, such that during the joint scan movement the liquid is essentially confined within the space with respect to the projection system.