Abstract: A shock absorber is provided having a cylinder, a piston rod, a piston body, and a valve. The cylinder is configured to receive fluid. The piston body is connected to the piston rod and is configured to reciprocate within the cylinder between a compression chamber and a rebound chamber. The valve is provided by the piston body having a fluid flow port, a valve seat, a circumferential valving element, and a spring configured to urge the valve body into the valve seat. A primary damping valve and an auxiliary damping valve are also provided.

Abstract: A housing, particularly a battery housing, includes at least one first housing part, at least one second housing part, and at least one connecting member connecting the first housing part to the second housing part. The first housing part and the second housing part are configured such that, in an interconnected state, they separate a housing interior space from an environment situated on the other side of the first housing part and the second housing part. The housing is characterized in that the at least one connecting member is configured as a profile rail engaged with the first housing part and with the second housing part.

Abstract: The present invention relates to aspartic acid ester-functional polysiloxanes, their use in the manufacture of curable compositions using polyisocyanate crosslinkers, in particular, in the manufacture of coating compositions, cured compositions obtained from said curable compositions and articles comprising the cured compositions.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to an acoustical baffle that has use in vehicle interiors, such as an interior headliner. In particular, the baffle can provide improved acoustics while maintaining a desired airflow resistance and can be configured to provide for different sound attenuation characteristics at selected locations of the baffle construction.

Abstract: Contact lenses are provided with tints that enhance performance and are shaped to permit wearing by individuals who are unfamiliar with contact lens handlings. With suitable contact lens shapes, applying and removing the contact lenses is simple, and providing tints on a contact lens permits using more transmissive tints than would be needed for spectacles or goggles. In addition, using tinted contact lenses avoids some of the physical limitations and problems associated with spectacles and goggles.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for an exhaust demand control system for measuring one or more contaminants at one or more exhaust locations within one or a plurality of exhaust ducts or plenums served by an exhaust fan system. Example systems and methods can include sensing the one or more contaminants within the one or more exhaust duct locations using a multipoint air sampling system having one or more sensors and comparing contaminant concentration measurements from the one or more of said exhaust duct or plenum locations against an action level to create a fan setback signal.

Abstract: A polyvinyl halide compound has thermal conductivity and includes polyvinyl halide resin, natural or synthetic graphite of flake or spheroid form, and at least 0.5 weight percent of epoxidized vegetable oil. Selection of types and amounts of graphite and epoxidized vegetable oil provide thermal conductivity while other desirable properties of the compound are suitably maintained. The compound can be used for making any end use article that needs flame retardance and good thermal management and is especially useful as a thermally conductive material to replace die cast or extruded aluminum heat sinks in industrial applications, such as LED lighting fixtures.

Abstract: A heat stable siloxane-imide copolymer and a curable silicone adhesive composition comprising such a siloxane-imide copolymer is shown and described herein. The composition includes an alkenyl silicone, a silicone hydride based cross linker, hydrosilylation catalyst and additives that is curable at relatively low temperatures and shows good heat stability.

Abstract: The present invention relates to flame retardant polyamide-based compositions or moulding materials and to articles of manufacture of the electricals or electronics industries producible therefrom, in particular charging components, containing at least one polyamide, aluminium oxide, magnesium hydroxide and at least one organic epoxide.

Abstract: An addition reaction curing type polyorganosiloxane composition for bonding poly(phenylene sulfide) resins includes (A) a polyorganosiloxane containing two or more alkenyl groups in the molecule, (B) a polyorganohydrogensiloxane having, in the molecule, three or more silicon-atom-bonded hydrogen atoms, (C) a platinum-based catalyst, (D) an oxide or carbonate of a metal selected from among the metals in Groups 2 and 12 of the periodic table, and (E) an adhesion promoter, the content of the ingredient (D) being 0.1-20 wt % with respect to the whole composition.

Abstract: A cap assembly for closing an opening in a vessel may include a stopper and a rigid cap adapted to fit over the stopper and onto a vessel. The stopper may include a polymer body adapted to fit an opening of the vessel and a tubular portion defining an internal passageway extending through the polymer body. The rigid cap may include a pressure based locking mechanism adapted to engage the vessel under a unidirectional force and a tamper evident feature.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a self-correcting modular-redundancy-memory device, comprising three bistable-memory elements and a majority voter. The bistable-memory elements receive respective binary data signal, clock signal, and a feedback signal. Each of the bistable-memory elements is configured, in response to the clock signal assuming a first value, to provide a binary output signal with an output-signal value correlated to a data-signal value of the data signal, and in response to the clock signal assuming a second clock-signal value, to provide the output signal with the output-signal value indicative of a current feedback-signal value of the feedback signal. The majority voter receives the output signals each of the bistable-memory elements and is configured to provide the feedback signal with the feedback-signal value indicative of that output-signal value taken on by a majority of the currently received output signals.

Abstract: Dy2O3 particles of a nanoparticle scale have beneficial properties for ceramic and electronic uses. Disclosed herein are moderately dispersed Dy2O3 particles having regular morphology and lateral size ranging from about 10 nm to 1 ?m. The Dy2O3 particles may exhibit a narrow particle size distribution such that the difference between D10 and D90 is about 0.1 ?m to 1 ?m. Further disclosed are processes of producing these moderately dispersed Dy2O3 particles. These processes do not include grinding to obtain the particles. Also disclosed herein are uses for these Dy2O3? particles.