Abstract: A hand-held control device for a V-blade plow in which left and right plow blade wings are pivotally mounted on a vertical pivot on a vehicle mounting frame and actuated about the vertical pivot by electric switch-controlled hydraulic actuators, there being an electric switch to control the extension of a hydraulic actuator, respectively, and an electrical switch for controlling retraction of the hydraulic actuator, respectively. Each electrical switch has an associated thumb actuator, the thumb actuators being in an array so that an operator's thumb or finger can actuate two thumb actuators simultaneously while gripping the hand-held control device with the same hand. The plow includes a third hydraulic actuator for raising and lowering the frame relative to ground and an electric switch pair for controlling extension and retraction, respectively, of the third hydraulic actuator.

Abstract: A method of providing an inner surface of a weapon barrel with a hard chromium layer includes the steps of forming the hard chromium layer on the inner surface by galvanic separation; and thereafter heating the hard chromium layer beyond the re-crystallization temperature thereof for obtaining, upon conclusion of the heating step, a uniform re-crystallization of the hard chromium layer in its entirety.

Abstract: A primary support for a tunnel roof comprising elongated lagging members which are “extruded” from tubes forming a shield for a tunnel boring machine. The lagging is inserted into the tubes at different times so as to avoid having the ends of adjacent lagging members coincide. As the tunneling machine progresses in the direction of boring, the lagging members emerge from the shield tubes to form a primary tunnel roof lining. Ring beams or arc beams may be installed as required by rock bolts or other fastening devices.

Abstract: A method and system for determining whether at least one telephone subscriber participating in a communication session is marked for monitoring by a Law Enforcement Agency (LEA) and, if so, for automatically marking for monitoring all remaining participants in the communication session. In a presently preferred exemplary embodiment, the subscribers are marked for monitoring their communications for a selected period of time by a starting the timer each time a new subscriber is marked. In another preferred exemplary embodiment, the subscribers marking level is detected and verified to determine if the marking level satisfies a pre-defined condition associated therewith. If so, the corresponding subscriber is marked for monitoring and the subscriber's subsequent communications are monitored.

Abstract: A power efficient indoor radio base station for use with wireless cellular telecommunication systems is disclosed. A small unitary package design is achieved by reducing the level of power dissipation, and subsequently, the size of the heat sink required for heat dissipation. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a plurality of transmitter signals are combined in a hybrid combiner to generate a pair of output signals. A first output signal is transmitted through a dipole antenna resulting in vertical polarization and a second output signal is transmitted through a horizontal antenna producing horizontal polarization. Further, a phase shift of 90° is introduced between the signals prior to transmission. The resulting simultaneous transmission of the perpendicularly oriented signals yields a substantially circular polarized field in the area of coverage.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a credit card transaction authentication system and method using a mobile terminal. There is provided a credit card transaction authentication system using a mobile terminal for performing a work of credit card authentication for a relay system of a VAN company connected between an approval system of a credit card company, which can approve a credit card settlement of the prices, and a transaction approval terminal, which requests credit card transaction approval by means of contactless radio-frequency identification for the mobile terminal containing a transponder therein. The present invention provides advantages that a cumbersome procedure in which the credit card should be handed over and taken again by the user upon making the credit card settlement can be eliminated, and stability of credit card information can be enhanced so that a commercial transaction can be briskly made.

Abstract: A electrical unit consisting of a proximity switch and a cable terminal part is described, where the proximity switch has an outside housing and an insulation part, positioned on one end face of the outside housing and having a terminal element with terminals which lead to the outside. The terminals of the terminal element include terminal sockets. The cable terminal part includes a cable and a connecting part, and the cable is mounted in the connecting part and the ends of the leads of the cable are electrically connected to the terminal sockets of the terminal element. The electrical unitcable terminal part also has a cap which surrounds at least the connecting part and is attached to the proximity switch.

Abstract: An alloy steel, includes 0.12 to 0.25 wt. % C, 0.40 wt. % or less Si, 1.20 to 1.80 wt. % Mn, 0.025 wt. % or less P, 0.010 wt. % or less S, 0.01 to 0.06 wt. % Al, 0.20 to 0.50 wt. % Cr, 0.20 to 0.50 wt. % Mo, 0.03 to 0.10 wt. % V, 0.20 wt. % or less Cu, 0.02 wt. % or less N, 0.30 to 1.00 wt. % W, and the balance iron and incidental impurities, for making high-strength, weldable seamless steel tubes for structural application, through a hot rolling process and subsequent quenching and tempering.

Abstract: The present invention is a new catalyst compositions and methods of making and using the same. These compositions comprise organometallic salts with large noncoordinating anions which contain at least one terminal unsaturation and the high dipole moment Zwitterions that these can isomerize into. During polymerization, the ionic pairs are dispersed within the polymer particles. The length of space separating the positive and negative end of the Zwitterion also increase as a consequence of polymerization. Additionally, polymerization proceeds without the need of a co-catalyst.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device and a method for processing bristle filaments, in particular toothbrushes, with an abrasive surface. In order to improve, in particular, the processing of contoured brushes, the abrasive surface is formed according to the present invention on at least one tooth flank of at least one tooth which is provided on a rotating circumferential surface and circulates in the rotational direction. The method according to the invention is characterized in that the bristle filaments are moved in a first direction substantially in parallel to at least one tooth flank comprising the abrasive surface, and in a second direction substantially at a right angle to the first direction, over the ridge of the at least one tooth.

Abstract: A golf towel is disclosed that also functions as a putter headcover. The dual-purpose product is formed from a panel of soft, absorbent toweling that is normally folded along at least one longitudinal fold line, and preferably along two such fold lines. It has an external side pocket at its upper end into which the head of a putter may be easily inserted. The towel/headcover protects the head of the putter as it is being carried in a golf bag, and the putter in turn provides the means for supporting the towel externally of the bag where it is readily available for use in cleaning balls and clubs and for transport to a green where the towel may then be used for ball cleaning prior to putting.

Abstract: A binder and/or electrolyte material and method for production thereof, which material is intended to be used in the preparation of a porous electrode (5) for a cell (100), wherein the binder and/or electrolyte material (20) comprises an ion conducting polymer (10).

Abstract: The receive part of an array antenna of base station system may be interpreted as self-calibrating. However the transmit direction of the array antenna may not coincide with the receive direction due to the difference in receive and transmit frequency. The present application teaches how a correction be performed for the transmitting direction by using the same phase compensations of the receiving direction also in the transmitting direction with a proportional correction for the difference in transmit frequency. A Frequency Domain Duplex (FDD) system is foreseen as the prerequisite for the applicability of present invention, but it will also work for a Time Division Duplex (TDD) system. By calculating during reception a first feed cable weight set by means of an adaptive algorithm at the receive frequency a corresponding second cable weight set for a transmit frequency can be calculated.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of regulating the load in a distributed database (A), where the information within the database is distributed between several different nodes (1, 2, 3, . . . , k) belonging to the database. A request (4a) from a user (4) is served either by the node to which the user connects, here designated the receiving node (1), or by some other node after the receiving node (1) has forwarded the request to a node that can meet the request, this node being called the serving node (2). Respective nodes are given one or several key-numbers which limit the number of requests that respective nodes may accept in their role as a receiving node (1). The key-numbers are related to the executing capacity of the database (A).

Abstract: The present invention provides a self-replenishing liquid water source onboard an automobile for supplying liquid water to an electrolyzer, such as an on-board hydrogen generator useful for the suppression of unwanted emissions. While automobiles typically have water reservoirs resupplied by a person, the invention provides a passive means of water collection for reliable replenishment due to operations of the automobile itself. The invention provides condensate from the engine exhaust gas by cooling a region of the exhaust system using cooling fluid from the engine coolant system. The cooling fluid is circulated during a period following the engine cold start event when the heat load on the engine coolant system is low.

Abstract: The principal impediment to achieving interoperability, modifiability, implementation-independence and the reuse of object-oriented software components is the strong coupling between objects. The preferred solution to this problem involves adding an output port to each object and further making this additional output port part of a new software development approach that is an extension of the object-orientation paradigm. The resulting component-oriented software development environment provides the level of indirect addressing that is needed to manage the design requirements of interoperability, modifiability and implementation-independency. Another solution to the decoupling problem includes requiring each object to address other objects only indirectly, such as by using specific interface objects. Several variants of this technique have been detailed, described and compared in this patent application. Each of these techniques may be applied in different parts, or at different levels, of a software system.

Abstract: A system adapted to manage a plurality of calls, including a first call, comprises a first node including a memory for receiving a message announcing a through-connection for the first call and recording a record of the first call (including an indication of the through-connection) in the memory. The system includes a second node in electronic communication with the first node for making the through connection for the first selected call.

Abstract: In an unsolicited page response scenario within a telecommunications network, a control channel access indicator with an unsolicited paging response is set to designate a digital control channel to indicate that a page validation must occur at the VLR connected to the satellite MSC receiving the message. If the indicator is not present or its value is set to designate an analog control channel, the page validation occurs at a BSC connected to the satellite MSC receiving the message. When the network is a TDMA network that has adopted the GPRS technology solution, the control channel access indicator is set to designate an analog control channel to indicate that the page order search should be conducted in the TDMA paging stack of the receiving satellite MSC. If the indicator is set to designate a digital control channel, then the search will be performed in the GPRS stack of the receiving satellite MSC.

Abstract: An electrical transducer using the two-wire process has a sensor outputting a value corresponding to the quantity which is to be measured, an analog end stage that is connected downstream of the sensor, a processor circuit, and an analog measurement signal transmission path. The end stage converts the output signal of the sensor into an impressed output current with a magnitude which is a measure of the quantity to be measured, wherein and the electronic transducer can be controlled with the processor circuit.