Abstract: A tire which is intended to bear heavy loads and the endurance of which is improved. The tire contains, in the bead region, at least one internal annular insert, the said insert having a rubber composition containing a polyisoprene elastomer, between 45 phr and 60 phr of a reinforcing filler containing from 43 to 55 phr of a reinforcing inorganic filler with a BET specific surface of between 155 and 185 m2/g, and a coupling agent for bonding the reinforcing inorganic filler to the elastomer.

Abstract: A heavy-current system, and a heavy-current distributor used in a building are provided; the heavy-current system comprises a plurality of first distributors respectively installed in different positions, and a plurality of electric equipments; each of the first distributors includes a PCB board, a power transmission copper bar, an inlet port, and a plurality of groups of connection ports; wherein the power transmission copper bar, the inlet port and the connection ports are arranged on the PCB board; the inlet port and the connection ports are further electrically connected to each other via the power transmission copper bar; the inlet port of the first distributor is connected to the distribution box via power transmission line, and the electric equipments are respectively connected to the inlet port of one of the first distributors via the power transmission lines.

Abstract: The present invention relates to silicon coated metal microparticles in which at least a part of a surface of a metal microparticle composed of at least one of metal elements or metalloid elements is coated with silicon, wherein the silicon coated metal microparticles are a product obtained by a reduction treatment of silicon compound coated precursor microparticles in which at least a part of a surface of a precursor microparticle containing a precursor of the metal microparticles is coated with a silicon compound, or silicon doped precursor microparticles containing a precursor of the metal microparticles. Because it is possible particularly to strictly control a particle diameter of the silicon compound coated metal microparticle by controlling conditions of the reduction treatment, design of a more appropriate composition can become facilitated, compared with a conventional composition, in terms of diversified usages and desired properties of silicon compound coated metal microparticles.

Abstract: A method of producing an organic pigment composition including at least organic pigment microparticles, wherein a diffuse reflectance of the organic pigment microparticles is controlled for the purpose of improving a luminance of a color filter. The luminance of the color filter is controlled to be high, by controlling a ratio of an area of the diffuse reflectance in a target wavelength range to a total area of the diffuse reflectance in the entire measurement wavelength range in a diffuse reflection spectrum of the organic pigment microparticles in the wavelength range of 380 to 780 nm, to be high. The luminance of the color filter is controlled to be high, by coating at least a part of the surface of the organic pigment microparticles with an oxide.

Abstract: A method performed by a monitoring node associated with a tool communication network of monitoring energy flow in a tightening tool connected to the communication network includes receiving, from the tightening tool, parameter values relating to current fed (I) into the tightening tool, angle (?) of a rotor in the tightening tool and torque (T) applied to a joint by the tightening tool. The method also includes calculating energy input to the tightening tool based on the received parameter values, calculating energy transferred to the joint by the tightening tool based on the received parameter values relating to the torque applied to the joint by the tightening tool and the angle (?) of the rotor in the tightening tool. The method further includes detecting that the calculated energy input deviates from the calculated energy transferred to the joint by more than a predetermined value.

Abstract: An elastomeric laminate is provided. The elastomeric laminate comprises a layer A consisting of a diene rubber composition, a layer B comprising a highly unsaturated diene elastomer B, n layers Ci arranged between the layer A and the layer B, n being an integer ?2, i being an integer ranging from 1 to n, the layer C1 being arranged between the layer A and the layer C2, the layer Cn being arranged between the layer B and the layer Cn?1, the layer Ci being arranged between the layer Ci?1 and the layer Ci+1 for values of i ranging from 2 to n?1 when n>2. Such a laminate has good resistance to separation of the layers which constitute it.

Abstract: The machine presents a working zone that is defined in an upper part of a build sleeve which is fixedly mounted in a chassis. Within the working zone, the object is supported by a build plate which slides inside the build sleeve when driven in vertical translation by the head of an actuating cylinder which is placed along a central axis of the sleeve. The build plate is positioned inside a transport container which is arranged removably between the sleeve and the actuating cylinder. The machine also includes a means for moving the transport container vertically into contact with the build sleeve. The container is open at its top and at its bottom so that, when the actuating cylinder is actuated, the head thereof can transfer the plate between the transport container and the build sleeve which forms a build envelope around the plate.

Abstract: The aspects disclosed herein relate to a tread for a tire including at least one block of rubbery material of width W and length L with L»W. This block extends in a circumferential direction (X) when the tread is mounted on the tire, the block including a contact surface intended to come into contact with the ground and a first lateral wall and a second lateral wall delimiting this contact surface. The block further includes a plurality of sipes opening onto the contact surface of the block, with each sipe extending over the contact surface in an oblique direction opening onto the first lateral wall and onto the second lateral wall, the sipes of the block being oriented in the same direction. The sipes are distributed over the contact surface of the block in such a way that when one sipe reaches the second lateral wall another sipe starts out from the first lateral wall at the same circumferential level (N) on the block, and each sipe includes at least two parts.

Abstract: An electric pulse tool for performing tightening operations, where torque is delivered in pulses to tighten a screw joint, includes an output shaft, a sensor arranged to determine a parameter value associated with the tightening of the screw joint, a processor, and a memory containing instructions executable by the processor. The electrical pulse tool operates to provide torque pulses on the output shaft in a first direction until the determined parameter value associated with the tightening of the screw joint reaches within or above a predetermined first interval including a target parameter value. The electrical pulse tool also operates to provide at least one torque pulse on the output shaft in a second direction that is opposite to the first direction in case the determined parameter value exceeds the target parameter value within a predetermined second interval.

Abstract: A tire comprising a crown reinforcement formed from at least two working crown layers of reinforcing elements and at least one layer of circumferential reinforcing elements, wherein, the tensile modulus of elasticity at 10% elongation of at least one skim coat of at least one working crown layer is greater than 9 MPa and the maximum value of tan(?), denoted tan(?)max, of said skim coat is less than 0.100.

Abstract: The disclosure relates in particular to a machine for additive manufacturing by sintering or melting powder using an energy beam acting on a powder layer in a working zone, said machine comprising a device for layering said powder. The device is configured to distribute the powder that are able to travel over the working zone in order to distribute the powder in a layer having a final thickness suitable for additive manufacturing; transfer the powder to a distribution structure by gravity, and control the quantity of powder transferred to the distribution structure.

Abstract: A volumetric pump comprising a product metering piston 28 mounted inside a metering chamber 22 so as to slide, a sleeve 14 at least partially delimiting an intake chamber 16 and an exhaust chamber 18 for the product, and a product dispensing means 24 is provided. The dispensing means comprises an intake member 34 comprising product passage means 44d that are able to at least partially face an inlet orifice 48 of the metering chamber, and an exhaust member 36 comprising product passage means 50d that are able to at least partially face an outlet orifice 54 of said chamber. The intake and exhaust members are situated axially on either side of an internal partition 42 of the sleeve and are each mounted so as to bear axially against said partition.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing oxide particles with controlled color characteristics and to provide oxide particles with controlled color characteristics. The present invention provides a method for producing oxide particles, comprising controlling color characteristics of the oxide particles by controlling the ratio of M-OH bonds, the binding of one or more different elements (M) other than oxygen or hydrogen with hydroxyl group (OH), in oxide particles selected from metal oxide particles and metalloid oxide particles. According to the present invention, oxide particles having controlled color characteristics of any one of reflectance, transmittance, molar absorption coefficient, hue, or color saturation can be provided by controlling the percentage of the M-OH bonds contained in metal oxide particles or metalloid oxide particles.

Abstract: A method for grafting a carboxylic acid ester function onto an unsaturated polymer, which comprises the reaction of a 1,3-dipolar compound with at least one unsaturation of the unsaturated polymer is provided. The 1,3-dipolar compound comprises a group Q and a group B connected to one another by a group A in which: Q comprises a dipole containing at least and preferably one nitrogen atom, B represents a carboxylic acid ester function, A, which is preferably divalent, is an atom or a group of atoms connecting Q to B.

Abstract: A pigment composition for a green filter includes a green pigment consisting of a halogenated zinc phthalocyanine, wherein as spectral transmission characteristics of a dispersion containing only the green pigment as a pigment, the transmittance at 400 nm is 1% or less; the transmittance at 450 nm is 25% or less; the transmittance at 600 nm is 30% or less; the transmittance at 650 nm is 0.3% or less; the transmittance at the peak wavelength is 80% or more; the half value width of the peak wavelength is 120 nm or less; the transmittance at 750 nm is 1% or less; and the transmittance at 800 nm is 20% or less. The pigment composition for a green filter has low transmittance in the blue range, low transmittance in the near infrared range, and high transmittance in the green range by only a green pigment.

Abstract: A hand-held power tool includes an electrical motor unit which includes a stator and a rotor arranged concentrically outside the stator, wherein a heat pipe is arranged with a first end inside the stator, thermally connected to the stator, and a second end reaching outside of the stator and thermally connected to a cooling device having a heat sink for cooling the second end of the heat pipe. The heat pipe includes a phase changing fluid for transporting heat from the first end to the second end to be dissipated at the cooling device. A fan is arranged to provide a cooling air stream to the heat sink and the fan is arranged to provide a cooling air stream to the heat sink independently of an operation of the motor unit.

Abstract: A power tool including: a motor; a shaft for delivering a torque to a joint or the like, the shaft being drivingly connected to the motor; and a housing that at least partly houses the motor and the shaft. The shaft includes a longitudinal cavity in which a torque transducer is arranged to measure a torque acting over a portion of the shaft, wherein the longitudinal cavity includes: a first contact surface for torque transferring contact with a first end portion of the torque transducer; and a second contact surface, separated from the first contact surface, for torque transferring contact with a second end portion of the torque transducer, the portion over which the torque is measured being located between the first and second contact surfaces.

Abstract: A hydraulic torque impulse generator includes a drive cylinder with a hydraulic fluid chamber, an output shaft with an impulse receiving portion connected to a radially movable seal element and intermittently dividing the hydraulic fluid chamber into high and low pressure compartments, and cam profiles which can displace the seal element from an idling position to a high pressure pulse generating position. A by-pass passage communicates fluid between the high and low pressure compartments, and a valve element movable between closed and open positions controls the fluid flow. The valve element is closed during pressure build-up in the high pressure compartment and opens when a high pressure pulse is completed, and is part of a control spindle coupled to the drive cylinder. The control spindle rotates through an angular play by inherent kinetic energy at an abrupt stop of the drive cylinder at the generation of each high pressure pulse.

Abstract: A method for producing single crystalline zinc oxide nanoparticles that is capable of mass production includes mixing, between processing surfaces which are disposed in a position facing each other so as to be able to approach and separate from each other and rotate relative to each other, a zinc oxide separating solvent prepared by homogeneously mixing an acidic substance with a solvent containing at least alcohol and a raw material solution obtained by mixing a zinc oxide nanoparticle raw material with a basic solvent or a raw material solution that is basic as a result of mixing and dissolving a zinc oxide nanoparticle raw material with and into a solvent, and discharging a mixed fluid in which zinc oxide nanoparticles have separated out from between the processing surfaces.

Abstract: A torque sensor system for a pedelec includes an annular gear (6), a planetary gear train (5), a sun gear output shaft (2), a pressure conversion device (9) and a signal processing component (8). The annular gear (6), the planetary gear train (5), and the sun gear output shaft (2) are engaged in turn. The annular gear (6) is driven by the planetary gear train (5), and an applied force signal is transmitted to the signal processing component (8) via the pressure conversion device (9) at an edge of the annular gear (6). The applied force signal is converted to an electric signal by the signal processing component (8) and transmitted to a controller, so as to realize a torque feedback. As a result, a problem that a speed sensor is not applicable to a pedelec when climbing is solved; and a user will feel real and comfortable when riding.