Abstract: A heat-curable addition-reactive type silicone rubber composition which gives a molded article having excellent antistatic property, heat resistance, compression set property. The heat-curable addition-reactive type silicone rubber composition includes: (A) a mixture containing a heat curable addition-reactive silicone rubber and a curing agent, (B) an ionic liquid in an amount of 30 to 3000 ppm relative to 100 parts by mass of the component (A), wherein the curing agent is not included in the 100 parts by mass, (C) a heterocyclic compound containing nitrogen atoms in an amount of 30 to 3000 ppm relative to 100 parts by mass of the component (A), wherein the curing agent is not included in the 100 parts by mass.

Abstract: A tubular comprising a substrate having a first end, a second end, and an axial bore extending between the first and second ends, and an outer polymer layer disposed on the substrate, wherein a first axial end of the outer polymer layer extends beyond the first end of the substrate.

Abstract: A method of making a gasket having a high temperature coating that includes obtaining a substrate formed from a metallic material and having the shape of a gasket, applying a nanoparticle suspension over the outer surfaces of the substrate, and heating the substrate to a first elevated temperature to form an undercoat layer of a self-protective oxide coating. The method also includes applying a liquid comprising boron nitride over the undercoat layer and drying the boron nitride liquid at a second elevated temperature to form an overcoat layer.

Abstract: According to one embodiment of the technology described herein, a audio headset system is provided, comprising: a speaker; a signal processor configured to process source audio received from an audio source, to produce processed audio from the source audio, and to output the processed audio to the speaker; and a control unit configured to control operation of the signal processor according to an audio profile, wherein the audio profile causes the signal processor to selectively mix, delay, phase shift, and equalize the source audio, thereby producing processed audio.

Abstract: A method for growing a crystalline composition, the first crystalline composition may include gallium and nitrogen. The crystalline composition may have an infrared absorption peak at about 3175 cm?1, with an absorbance per unit thickness of greater than about 0.01 cm?1. In one embodiment, the composition may have an amount of oxygen present in a concentration of less than about 3×1018 per cubic centimeter, and may be free of two-dimensional planar boundary defects in a determined volume of the first crystalline composition.

Abstract: Provided is a process for preparing an improved compounded product and a compounded product prepared by the described process.

Abstract: A flywheel for use in an automobile between an engine and a clutch assembly is provided. The flywheel is a circular member having an engine side and an opposite clutch side. An aperture is formed in the circular member having an axis, and the aperture is used to operatively attach the flywheel to the engine. A plurality of clutch fins and/or grooves are formed on the clutch side adjacent the outer edge of the circular member and spaced radially about the axis of the aperture of the flywheel. The clutch fins have a face that is generally coplanar with the clutch side of the circular member. The fins and grooves work to cool the internal components of the engine. Optionally, a second set of grooves and fins may be formed on the engine side of the flywheel to further aid in cooling the clutch disc and other engine components.

Abstract: A goal apparatus for soccer (football) and the like has a frame, a first pliable goalpost member, a second pliable goalpost member and a pliable crossbar member. The frame presents net connection points and is configured to support each of the pliable goal members in tension between two net connection points such that the goal apparatus presents a substantially rectangular goal mouth.

Abstract: There is provided a room-temperature-curable polyorganosiloxane composition having low viscosity and good coatability without any solvent and forming a cured coating film excellent in scratch resistance. The room-temperature-curable polyorganosiloxane composition contains: (A) 100 parts by mass of a mixture of (A1) 10 to 80 parts by mass of a polyorganosiloxane having two or more alkoxy groups bonded to silicon atoms and a prescribed viscosity, and (A2) 90 to 20 parts by mass of a polyorganosiloxane represented by an average composition formula: R1aSi(OR2)bO{4?(a+b)}/2 (R1 and R2 represent prescribed group respectively, and a and b are prescribed positive numbers), having an Mw of 2,000 to 100,000 and a three-dimensional network structure, and being in a solid state or in a semisolid state at normal temperature; and (B) 0.1 to 15 parts by mass of an organic titanium compound.

Abstract: The present invention provides apparatuses and methods for a tactile feedback instrument, and more specifically, some embodiments are directed toward methods and apparatuses for a tactile feedback stylus. Some embodiments of the invention provide a stylus used in conjunction with mobile devices. Further embodiments of the invention provide a game system, comprising a game console and a stylus. Within such embodiments, the stylus comprises an electric motor and a control circuit coupled to the electric motor that is in communication with the game console and controls the electric motor. Within some of these embodiments, the stylus can vibrate or rumble when the electric motor is activated in response to gaming activity.

Abstract: The invention includes the hot thermo-mechanical processing of heat-treatable aluminum alloys comprising preparation of the billet material, heating the billet to obtain the temperature for solution treatment, holding the billet at this temperature a sufficient amount of time required for the dissolution of soluble elements, cooling the billet to the temperature necessary for plastic deformation with essential preservation of the solid solution, plastic deformation, immediate quenching of the billet after plastic deformation, and then billet aging at the corresponding temperature and time. Additional plastic deformation may be used between stages of quenching and aging. An embodiment specifies cooling rate, forging temperature and strain rate.

Abstract: A chromic luminescent composition and method for fabricating the composition are disclosed. The chromic luminescent composition comprises at least one or more non-luminescent materials and one or more luminescent materials. The one or more non-luminescent materials having absorption spectra that at least partially overlap with the spectrum of incident electromagnetic radiation. The one or more luminescent materials convert at least a portion of energy of incident electromagnetic radiation to a lower energy wavelength. The one or more non-luminescent materials and the one or more luminescent materials are selected such that, when subsequently exposed to incident electromagnetic radiation, color and brightness are substantially modulated through absorption and emission as a function of incident electromagnetic radiation. Also disclosed are a chromic luminescent textile and a method for fabricating the textile.

Abstract: Physical and/or sensory skills may be trained while an individual wears eyewear that alters the quality/quantity of visual information available to the individual. Sensor may measure performance metrics and/or physiological metrics during training During a recovery period, an individual may receive visual information with less alteration of the quality and/or quality of the information.

Abstract: A goal apparatus for soccer (football) and the like has a frame, a first pliable goalpost member, a second pliable goalpost member and a pliable crossbar member. The frame presents net connection points and is configured to support each of the pliable goal members in tension between two net connection points such that the goal apparatus presents a substantially rectangular goal mouth.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a fast curing compositions comprising a (meth)acrylamide functionalized hydrophilic silicone monomers having a polyether moiety containing a branched linking group. In one embodiment, such compositions are useful for preparing water-absorbing silicone-hydrogel films for contact lens applications. In one embodiment, the (meth)acrylamide monomers disclosed here have a branched linking group on the polyether moiety which makes it possible to produce hydrophilic polyether modified silicone copolymers without the need to separate various by-products including, but not limited to, unreacted, isomerized polyether and associated high molecular weight by-products.

Abstract: A method for retiming digital telecommunications data received by a digital logger from a plurality of T-carrier type telephone lines respectively having differing clock sources ensures efficient transmission of received digital audio data to a host computer via a Universal Serial Bus (“USB”) interface. Also the digital logger includes volatile memory for temporarily storing digital audio data received from the plurality of T-carrier type telephone lines for: 1. ensuring that the host computer receives digital audio data correctly via the USB interface; 2. buffering the digital audio data within the digital logger during interruptions in transmission of digital audio data from the digital logger via the USB interface; and 3. reducing audible latency of speech communications.

Abstract: There is provide an addition-curable silicone composition from which a silicone cured product having excellent adhesiveness and external appearance, being able to protect metal, in particular, silver, from corrosion, and having less shrinkage and change in hardness due to heat, is obtained. The addition-curable silicone composition contains: 100 parts by mass of a polyorganosiloxane having alkenyl groups; an amount of a polyorganohydrogensiloxane such that an amount of Si—H groups is 0.9 to 3.0 mol relative to 1 mol of the alkenyl groups; a catalyst amount of a hydrosilylation reaction catalyst; 0.01 to 10 parts of an adhesiveness imparting agent; and 0.001 to 0.015 parts by mass, in terms of metal atoms of (R3COO)kM (where M is Ce, Fe, Cr, La, Nd, Pr or Sm, k is 2, 3 or 4, and R3 represents a substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbon group having 4 to 17 carbon atoms).

Abstract: There is provided a fast curing composition comprising an alpha, beta-unsaturated amido-containing organosilicon compound, useful in making water absorbing silicone-hydrogel films for biomedical devices, such as contact lens, and a process for producing these monomers. This invention also provides for hydrogels made from the alpha, beta-unsaturated amido-containing organosilicon compound described herein.