Abstract: A baggage identification system has a label and a key fob. The label has a front face with a distinctive design thereon, and a rear face with an adhesive thereon. A backing material attached to the adhesive on the rear face of the label is removable to expose the adhesive for affixing the label to the baggage. The key fob has a design thereon matching the design on the label.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a solenoid valve. The end of valve, which points away from the magnet core towards the magnet armature, bears against an area of a valve tappet remote from the valve seat. The valve tappet is positioned so that it can be displaced in a bore of the magnet armature in order to adjust the preloading force of the spring.

Abstract: A detector and a computed tomography unit are disclosed. The detector includes a first detector region for acquiring projections of a first projection direction, and additionally includes at least a second and a third detector region for acquiring projections of a second and a third projection direction. Given appropriate operation of the detector, it is possible to carry out flexible scanning of an examination area in an optional fashion with a high time resolution, a high volume coverage or with a large coverage of a cross section of the examination area, doing so perpendicular to the system axis of the computed tomography unit.

Abstract: Method and system are disclosed for providing advanced RAKE delay control in wireless communications systems. The RAKE delay control method and system of the invention is capable of tracking presently known paths over time and merging the tracking results with new path searcher results. The invention is particularly suitable for devices where the resources (e.g., computational load, power) available for detecting the multipath components are limited. The result is a resource efficient architecture for positioning the RAKE fingers to best extract the signal power available in the channel and to utilize the inherent diversity due to the multipath nature of the signal.

Abstract: When a Bézier spline is fitted to a plurality of points the two tangent handles at each control point can be very different in length. A method of fitting a second spline to the first spline that has tangent handles of equal length at each control point is provided. A point is found on the first spline that is close to the midpoint between the two control points defining the tangent handles. This point is a new control point on the second spline. Tangent handles to the new control point are then found such that they have a slope equal to the tangent to the first spline at the new control point, the sum of their lengths is equal to the sum of the original two tangent handles and their lengths are equal to each other. A second spline found in this way closely approximates the first spline. The lengths of the tangent handles may be adjusted to provide a better fit.

Abstract: According to one aspect of the invention, a movable cursor control device is provided for controlling a cursor on a display screen of a digital processing system. One exemplary cursor control device comprises a housing, an electromagnetic emitting device coupled to the housing, and an electromagnetic detector coupled to the housing. The electromagnetic detector detects reflections of signals emitted from the electromagnetic emitting device and determines when the housing has been lifted from a surface. In another aspect of the invention, an exemplary method is provided for controlling a cursor on a display screen of a digital processing system. The exemplary method includes holding the cursor relative to an object on the display screen using a cursor control device activated by a user, detecting that the user no longer activates the cursor control device, and detecting that the user has lifted the cursor control device from a surface when the cursor control device is no longer activated by the user.

Abstract: A wire saw (1; 100) for cutting a workpiece includes a device (21, 22, 24, 27) for setting, controlling and/or maintaining a predetermined or desired water content in at least part of the gaseous medium that contacts the slurry. With the wire saw according to the invention and the process carried out using this wire saw, it is possible to achieve consistently good surface properties of the resulting wafers over a prolonged period of use of a slurry.

Abstract: This invention relates to a traction band for use with a snowmobile or the like and more particularly, to a traction band of reduced weight but as efficient as a regular traction band. The improved traction band comprises a longitudinal flexible body having a width defined by two side surfaces, and a series of reinforcing rods which do not extend across the full width. The rods are embedded within the body in an alternating fashion from one of the side surfaces with predetermined intervals in the longitudinal direction of the same.

Abstract: A method and a device are described for transmission of control information for the adjustment of operating parameters of drivers in the data interface of a RAM module by means of a controller, with control bits for adjustment purposes being sent during an adjustment mode by the controller as a burst of data bits at the data clock rate to the RAM module. According to the invention, each control bit which is sent from the controller via the data channel in the burst is represented by a sequence of n?2 data bits, which have a binary value corresponding to the relevant control bit and follow one another at the data clock rate. The binary value of each control bit sent via the data channel is determined in the RAM module by detection of the binary value of the sent burst within the relevant sequence at a time at which the m-th data bit in the sequence appears, where m>1.

Abstract: The invention relates to organosilicon compounds, and to the ways in which they can be made and used.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel indol derivative according to Formula (I), a pharmaceutically acceptable acid or base addition salt thereof, a stereochemically isomeric form thereof, an N-oxide form thereof or a quaternary ammonium salt thereof, wherein the variables R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, p, a1?a2a3?a4, Z1—Z2, X and Y are defined as in claim 1. Said derivative exhibit a binding affinity towards dopamine receptors, in particular towards dopamine D2, D3 and D4 receptors, with selective serotonin reuptake inhibition properties and acting as 5-HT1A agonists or partial agonists. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds according to the invention, the use thereof for the prevention and/or treatment of a range of psychiatric and neurological disorders, in particular certain psychotic disorders, most in particular schizophrenia and processes for their production.

Abstract: A device for redundant speed monitoring of a synchronous motor, which is sine-commutated without the use of sensors and which has a permanently magnetically excited rotor, has a first control unit, a drive output stage, a plurality of drive phases, and a second control unit for monitoring an electrical value of at least one of the drive phases and connected to the drive output stage for turning off the drive output stage when an improper speed state is detected.

Abstract: For determining the behavior of a flexible system submitted to predetermined displacement boundary conditions, a process uses geometrically non-linear finite element analysis. The process has a plurality of incremental steps within a total Lagrangian formalism with co-rotational update. In each incremental step, one computes for a finite element of the flexible system a displacement vector, having translational and rotational components, at the nodes of the finite element. This computation of the displacement vector is carried out by minimizing the energy of the flexible system when the system is submitted to a fraction of the predetermined displacement. For a given finite element, the co-rotational update is carried out by computing an updated elementary frame of reference, without considering the bending rotational components of the displacement vectors computed at the nodes of the finite element. The properties of this co-rotational update make all computations similar, hence simpler and easier.

Abstract: The field of the invention is that of X-ray generator tubes. The invention relates more specifically to the arrangement of the emitting surfaces which are the source of the X-ray radiation. It is known that the inclination of the emitting surface known as the target to the electron beam governs the intensity of X-ray emission and the resolution of the tube. The target carrier assembly according to the invention allows this inclination to be set according to the desired application. For high-energy applications requiring a cooling circuit, the arrangement of the component also allows an appreciable improvement to the geometry of said cooling circuit so as to appreciably improve its efficiency. Several layouts of cooling circuit are presented, together with methods for producing them.

Abstract: A trailer includes a deck frame which can be supported in a lowered transport position in which the deck frame is spaced above the ground below a height of the wheels corresponding to a deck between configuration and a raised transport position in which the deck frame is spaced above the ground substantially at or above the height of the wheels corresponding to a deck over configuration. Consumers are thus only required to purchase a single trailer to meet the advantages of both trailer configurations. Load supports, independent of a lift mechanism of the trailer, are provided in addition to the linkage which controls displacement of the deck frame between the two positions to ensure that the deck frame is supported on the wheels in a manner so as to safely bear a load on the deck frame in both the lowered and raised positions.

Abstract: A seismic streamer includes a jacket covering an exterior of the streamer. At least one strength member extends along the length of the jacket. The strength member is disposed inside the jacket. Seismic sensors are disposed at spaced apart locations along the interior of the jacket. An acoustically transparent material fills the space inside the jacket. The material is introduced into the inside of the jacket in liquid form and undergoes a state change upon exposure to radiation. The radiation in one embodiment is ultraviolet radiation. The radiation in one embodiment is electron beam radiation.

Abstract: Compositions comprising Compound I, wherein the Compound I is present in one or more polymorphic forms. Also provided are kits and articles of manufacture with compositions comprising one or more polymorphs of Compound I, and methods of using the compositions to treat various diseases.

Abstract: A vacuum pump system includes a vacuum pump with a brushless, multi-phase, synchronous motor with a permanently magnetically excited rotor, and a pump type recognition element, a control unit for controlling the vacuum pump and having a drive microcontroller and a final stage, and a further microcontroller that monitors a rotational speed of the motor and turning off the final stage in case the rotational speed of the motor exceeds a maximum allowable rotational speed of the motor, and that forms part of the control unit.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a sensor (10) for sensing the interface pressure between two bodies, the sensor having at least two intercommunicating detection zones (11), each detection zone being formed inside an inflatable envelope (12) for interposing between said bodies and having two opposite regions whose spacing apart depends on the interface pressure between said bodies, each detection zone including a detector (15a, 15b) arranged to deliver information associated with the spacing between the opposite regions (12a, 12b).