Abstract: A fingering guidance image 81 for guiding a fingering upon performing a chord of a stringed instrument to a user is displayed on a display device. This fingering guidance image 81 includes a musical instrument image 811 indicating a guitar, a depressed pointer 813 arranged at the position in the musical instrument image 811 that is depressed upon performing a chord and a fingering image 812 indicating fingers in the form of performing a chord, among which the fingering image 812 is made to be a transmitting image. Accordingly, even if the fingering image 812 is superposed on the musical instrument image 811 and the depressed pointer 813, a user can clearly confirm the musical instrument image 811 and the depressed pointer 813 through the fingering image 812.

Abstract: A system and method for creating a ring tone for an electronic device takes as input a phrase sung in a human voice and transforms it into a control signal controlling, for example, a ringer on a cellular telephone. Time-varying features of the input signal are analyzed to segment the signal into a set of discrete notes and assigning to each note a chromatic pitch value. The set of note start and stop times and pitches are then translated into a format suitable for controlling the device.

Abstract: When the sliding direction of a sliding operation piece (40) is changed while the sliding speed thereof exceeds a threshold value, a trigger is generated to start sound output. The termination process of the sound output started in response to the latest trigger is invoked when the sliding speed of the sliding operation piece (40) falls below a threshold value, while, when a new trigger is generated, the termination process of the sound output started in response to the previous trigger is invoked.

Abstract: A bottle rocket launcher comprises a long hollow tube barrel having an tube-axial sealing valve that has a rotary cylindrical or spherical valve member where the valve is attached at the breech end of the launcher barrel. The rocket launcher can be angled up to a near vertical position with support legs. In use, a bottle rocket can be partially inserted into the valve passageway that is held open. The flammable rocket fuse is lit and the bottle rocket is dynamically inserted by hand contact with the rocket stick into the barrel inside chamber body to a position that is beyond the valve member. The valve is rotated into a valve-closed position while the rocket fuse is burning. When the bottle rocket powder is ignited by the burning fuse, the burning exhaust gases thrusts the bottle rocket along the inside of the barrel tube and propels it into the sky in the direction that the launcher barrel is pointed.

Abstract: Force diversion apparatus, methods and devices including the same result in rotational motion being imparted to an impacting object.

Abstract: A piston space (7) of the consumer (10) has two delivery lines (6, 8), such that when the consumer (10, 12, 13, 14) is not actuated, pressure medium flows continuously via the second delivery line (6) through the piston space (7) and into a pressure medium reservoir (2) to maintain a consumer (10, 12, 13, 14) in readiness for actuation and operate it with uniform pressure medium viscosity. Pressure medium is passed into the piston space (7) through both the first pressure medium delivery line (8) and the second pressure medium delivery line (6) to actuate the consumer (10, 12, 13, 14).

Abstract: A flow control valve includes a pressure compensating valve and a first switching valve. The pressure compensating valve is configured to enlarge an opening area of a variable orifice between a load pressure line and a compensating pressure line when a pressure of working fluid of the compensating pressure line is smaller than a first set pressure, and narrow the opening area of the variable orifice when the pressure of the working fluid of the compensating pressure line is larger than the first set pressure. The first switching valve is configured to switch between a meter-out operation and a neutral operation by an external operation, wherein the working fluid of the compensating pressure line is drained in the meter-out operation, the working fluid of the compensating pressure line is not drained in the neutral operation. The load pressure line guides the working fluid to be supplied to an actuator.

Abstract: A cylinder rod with wear-resistant surface markings is provided. The cylinder rod may include a rod substrate, a thermal-spray coating disposed on a surface of the substrate, and one or more surface markings disposed on the coating at predetermined locations along the length of the cylinder rod.

Abstract: A composite material and framework structure adapted to be utilized as a piston and cylinder apparatus. A cylindrical tube composed of a composite material is compressed between two end caps at the axial ends of the cylindrical composite tube. Beam elements extend between the end caps and maintain the compression force on the cylindrical composite tube. The cylindrical composite tube comprises a continuous glass fiber reinforced structure embedded in a resin matrix. The resin matrix provides a self contained lubricant system in a resin rich layer, the lubricant system migrating to the inner surface of the cylindrical composite tube.

Abstract: A mixed ionic and electronic conducting membrane includes a two-phase solid state ceramic composite, wherein the first phase comprises an oxygen ion conductor and the second phase comprises an n-type electronically conductive oxide, wherein the electronically conductive oxide is stable at an oxygen partial pressure as low as 10?20 atm and has an electronic conductivity of at least 1 S/cm. A hydrogen separation system and related methods using the mixed ionic and electronic conducting membrane are described.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for storing molecular hydrogen in which a storage material suitable for storage of molecular hydrogen is electrostatically charged with a first electrostatic charge in the range of about 1V to about 100V, forming an electrostatically charged material and the electrostatically charged material is then contacted with molecular hydrogen, resulting in adsorption of the molecular hydrogen by the electrostatically charged material. The molecular hydrogen is released from the storage material by applying to the electrostatically charged material a second electrostatic charge having a polarity opposite to the first electrostatic charge.

Abstract: A pressure swing adsorption process for the separation of nitrogen and/or CO2 from natural gas utilizes two separate pressure swing adsorption stages, the first containing a hydrocarbon-selective adsorbent and the second containing a nitrogen- and/or CO2-selective adsorbent. In the process, the product stream from the first pressure swing adsorption unit contains a natural gas stream having a reduced hydrocarbon content and the product stream from the second pressure swing adsorption unit is a natural gas stream having a reduced nitrogen and/or CO2 concentration. An intermediate pressure stream containing methane from the second pressure swing adsorption unit is used to desorb the hydrocarbons from the first pressure swing adsorption unit. The C3+ hydrocarbons can be separated as liquids from the methane.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for extracting water from air containing water vapor. A feed air assembly supplies air containing water vapor to a diff-user assembly in a reactive tank containing a reagent, preferably sulfuric acid, which absorbs the water vapor from the feed air. The reactive tank vents the dried air. A reagent solution line transmits reagent solution from the reactive tank to a recovery tank. A vacuum pump evaporates concentrated water vapor from the recovery tank and an extraction energy exchanger condenses the concentrated water vapor to liquid water.

Abstract: An on-vehicle service system for removing matter from a filtering device of a single filtering device exhaust system includes a controllable filter bypass line fluidly connecting a first orifice of the filtering device of the single filtering device exhaust system to a second orifice of the filtering device. The service system also includes a receptacle fluidly connected to the filtering device and configured to collect at least a portion of the matter removed by the on-vehicle service system when a fluid is provided through a portion of the filter bypass line into the filtering device.

Abstract: The invention relates to a plate heat exchanger for exchanging heat between a first air stream (11, 12) and a second air stream (13, 14) comprising a plurality of plates (1) limiting exchange chambers which are serially arranged in a transversal direction with respect to said plates (1). The first air stream passes through one part of the exchange chambers (11, 12), the second air stream passes through the other exchange chambers (13, 14), preferably in an opposite direction. The second air stream consists of the air (13) removed from ventilated premises. A water distribution system (20, 21) is used for supplying water to the exchange chambers of the second air stream (13, 14) in such a way that the removed air is cooled by contact and evaporation, thereby lowering the external air temperature.

Abstract: The invention relates to a gas chromatography apparatus with a cooling device, wherein the cooling device includes a closed cooling circuit containing a refrigerant, so that no refrigerant is wasted.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention include methods and devices for trapping particulate matter suspended in exhaust from, for example, automotive diesel engines. Particulates carried in exhaust are actually a colloidal suspension of finely divided particulates in a fluid (in this case, the exhaust gases). This colloidal mixture is channeled through an open spiral exhaust channel. The particulates will differentially tend to travel through the fluid in a straight line, which leads them to collide with a fine mesh or porous material that defines the open spiral exhaust channel. The gas, on the other hand, will easily traverse the spirally shaped exhaust channel, with its molecules bouncing around the curved path of the spiral. Continuing through the device, more and more particulates will build up in the surrounding meshwork or porous material. In this manner, the device separates the particulates from the gas and leaves them lodged in the meshwork or porous material.

Abstract: A vacuum cleaner includes a dust chamber; a dust bag provided in the dust chamber; and an electric blower for generating suction air flow for drawing and collecting dust and dirt in the dust bag. A deodorant is supplied into the dust bag by the suction air flow and directly attached to the dust and dirt, the deodorant having a granule or powder shape.

Abstract: A defoaming apparatus comprises, in juxtaposition, a defoaming treatment chamber internally provided with a defoaming unit for defoaming, as a result of a rotation of a impeller in a casing having a suction port and discharge ports, by suctioning foam of a foaming liquid via the suction port of the casing and colliding the suctioned foam against an inner circumferential surface of the casing by centrifugal force of the impeller and a substantially closed-type tank for housing a foaming liquid, wherein the suction port of the defoaming unit is located in a foam phase region of the tank.

Abstract: A device for brewing beer, particularly a wort pan (1), with a container body (2) to receive a wort reservoir (3) the device containing an internal boiler (4) arranged in the container body (2), which is provided with a heat exchanger (5) and a guiding screen (8). A wort forced flow (10) provided with a pump is also provided, which runs through the boiler (4). In order to increase the efficiency of the device, the wort forced flow (10) has a thin-layer distributor (17) for the wort, which contains a pipe subsection (11b) connected with the pump, which subsection leads above the guiding screen (8) via an outlet opening (13) with reduced outlet cross-section into the container body (2). Above the outlet opening (13), a flow-guiding baffle surface (15) is provided, at which the flow arrives from below, to deflect the liquid towards the wort reservoir (3).

Abstract: In one example embodiment, an article of manufacture includes a wooden element such as a dowel, preferably formed from toasted oak, that is attached to the inside of a screw-type wine vessel closure. In a second example embodiment, the wooden element is attached to a stopper. In yet other embodiments, elements are attached to the inside of a wine bottle or are prevented from leaving the bottle during pouring by deformable shape. In a wine making method, the wine is not aged in oak barrels but rather filled in bottles and sealed with the oak insert and aged in the bottles, including optional agitation, to accomplish substantially the functions of the barrel oak aging.

Abstract: Systems and techniques to brew coffee are described. In general, in one implementation, the technique includes: releasing water from at least one water inlet onto ground coffee in a stationary coffee filter. The ground coffee is automatically agitated while the water is being released using an agitator that is connected to an agitator motor to aid flavor-enhancement during the brewing process by helping to assure that the coffee grounds are uniformly mixed, saturated and blended with hot water and to substantially maintain an evenness of depth of the ground coffee. The water, now containing extracted coffee chemicals, is collected in a coffee vessel.

Abstract: Disclosed is a blocking device for use with a beverage making machine of the type having a housing (22) and a funnel (30) positionable relative to the housing. The blocking device (40, 40a, 40b) prevents unintended disengagement of a funnel from a corresponding housing to which at least a portion of the blocking device is attached. The blocking device includes a first engager (16) and a second engager (18). The first and second engagers are engageable when positioning a funnel on a housing. The first and second engagers are selectively disengageable when removing a funnel from a housing. The blocking device as disclosed also includes a method of retaining a funnel on a housing and a kit for attaching a blocking device to a beverage making machine which does not include a blocking device.

Abstract: A food press having an upper handle rotatably connected to a lower handle. A press chamber and a slicer chamber are formed in the lower handle, and a press foot and a slicer foot are pivotally connected to said upper chamber and positioned to engage the press chamber and slicer chamber when the upper and lower handles are rotated together. At least part of the slicer chamber is a separately formed unit that has a plurality of blades, and that is inserted into the lower handle. The slicer foot has a plurality of ribs that are sized and shaped to be inserted between the blades such that the ribs extend beyond the blades when the upper and lower handles are rotated together. A cleaning piece is removably attached to the upper handle for cleaning the press chamber, slicer chamber and slicer foot.

Abstract: An extrusion-based injection molding system is designed for use in food processing applications. Interior surfaces, such as the barrel exit line and/or fill line, of the system may be coated with a friction-reducing agent.

Abstract: An apparatus for and method of disinfecting the interior surfaces of barrels and destroying microorganisms is disclosed. In one embodiment, an ultrasonic apparatus includes a sonotrode encased in a sheath, placed within a bunghole of a barrel. An ultrasonic generator is connected to the sonotrode. The ultrasonic apparatus also includes an ultrasonic transducer connected to the ultrasonic generator and associated with the sonotrode.

Abstract: A squeezer can be used to produce a pulp contained juice instead of the conventional squeezer only provided juice. The squeezer comprises a motor base, a rotary disk, a bowl, a cutter disk, a mask, an upper lid and a feed tube passed through a receiving opening of the upper lid. In which, a circular lid is introduced between the bottom end of a receiving opening and the cutter disk. The cutter disk has a ring type press plate relative to the cutter disk in an up and down relationship. A gap kept between the ring type plate and the cutter disk allows shredded fruits to be macerated to form pulp contained juice and then drained out. The mask is composed of a support frame and a watertight base. Because the mask has no meshes, the pulp contained juice can be led into the bowl.

Abstract: Systems and methods for manufacturing bundled printed sheets. The printed sheets can be used for labels, business cards, greeting cards, trading cards, tickets, game cards, bank cards, phone cards, identification cards, note pad sheets, paper currency, negotiable instruments, interlaced images, coupons, chits, ballots, maps, forms, time sheets, and like applications. The system generally comprises a substrate staging area, a print module, a cutter module, a collator module, conveyor module, and a packaging module. The system of the present invention can also comprise optional coating or treatment modules, web inspection equipment, waste removal equipment and other such features, and can be web- or sheet-fed.

Abstract: Disclosed in this specification is a decal assembly comprising a decal support, a releasable covercoat, a heat activatable layer, and an ink layer. The ink layer forms a digital image. The heat activatable layer has a high adhesion to a ceramic substrate at high temperatures and a low adhesion to the substrate at lower temperatures. Thus the adhesive properties of the decal are activated by heat. The resulting image has excellent adhesion to the substrate and resists the effects of washing.

Abstract: A variable cut-off offset press system and method of operation which utilizes a continuous image transfer belt is provided. The offset printing system comprises at least two plate cylinders adapted to have thereon respective printing sleeves. Each of the printing sleeves is adapted to receive colored ink from a respective ink source. An optional coating source may be provided to fully or partially coat the image transfer belt before inking. The system further comprises at least a impression cylinder, wherein the image transfer belt is positioned to contact each of the printing sleeves at respective nips formed between respective ones of the plate cylinders and the at least one impression cylinder. An image belt cleaning station adapted to remove residual ink or coating from the surface of the image transfer belt after image transfer of a multicolored image from the image transfer belt to a substrate is also provided.

Abstract: There is described a printing unit and a method for printing with flexographic inks. The printing unit includes a screen roller engaging a doctor blade system (3), and which is in continuous operation, either by engaging a motor (10) or by operation by the transmission (2) of the printing machine. The screen roller (1) of the printing unit interacts with a rubber sheet (16) which is disposed on a rubber sheet cylinder (4) at a position between a printing plate cylinder (5) and a back-pressure cylinder (6). A slot (7) is provided in the rubber sheet, used when the screen roller (1) is to be engaged with the rubber sheet (17).

Abstract: A sheet feeding device is adapted to feed a sheet to a sheet processing apparatus. The sheet feeding device has a stacking plate, a first guiding member, and an angle adjustment mechanism. The stacking plate is adapted for sheets to be stacked thereon. The first guiding member is adapted to move on the stacking plate along a width dimension thereof perpendicular to a sheet feeding direction. The first guiding member is also adapted to rotate around a vertical axis. The first guiding member has a vertical guiding surface for positioning the sheets disposed on the stacking plate. The angle adjustment mechanism is adapted to rotate the guiding member around the vertical axis, for slanting the guiding member with the vertical guiding surface at an angle with the sheet feeding direction.

Abstract: A two-ended ink stamper has at least one handle with at least two ends. A first frame and a second frame are provided, and each frame is disposed adjacent to a different one of the ends of the handle. Each frame extends in a different direction from the handle. At least two platens are respectively operatively attached to, and disposed within, one of the frames for selective movement within the frame between a non-marking position and a marking position. Each platen is secured to the handle and extends outward from a different end of the handle. Thus, moving the handle moves the platens relative to the frames and between non-marking and marking positions.

Abstract: A puncture or gripper cylinder is provided with at least one puncture strip that is provided with gripper pins or point needles. These pins are extendable from the cylinder to puncture and to grip a signature. At least one deflector is carried on the puncture cylinder and is extendable and retractable with respect to a surface of the cylinder. The deflector, when it is extended at least temporarily shields the signature from subsequent pins.

Abstract: The present invention is a thermally sensitive recording medium comprising a thermally sensitive color developing layer containing colorless or pale colored basic leuco dye and a color developing agent as main components on a substrate, wherein said thermally sensitive recording layer is comprising an acrylic polymer obtained by copolymerization of alkyl acrylate, alkyl methacrylate and vinylsilane as monomer components and a colloidal silica, further, the present invention is a thermally sensitive recording medium, wherein said colloidal silica is possessing chain structure.

Abstract: At least two blankets which are removed from the same cylinder of a printing machine one after the other, are stored in a storage device. The blankets are drawn off the cylinder in a longitudinal direction and are stored in the device at an angle of inclination of not more than 15? relative to the horizontal. The second blanket to be drawn off is stored below the previously drawn-off blanket at a distance that is vertical along its length.

Abstract: In a system configured by connecting a printer (2) and a host device (3) to a line concentrator (1), an arrangement is made such that the printer (2) is held in power save mode for a for a long time to achieve power savings. When transferring to the power save mode, the printer (2) transmits internal information to the line concentrator (1). The line concentrator (1) stores this internal information in association with the printer (2). When an inquiry about the internal information is made from the host device (3) to the printer (2), the line concentrator (1) does not transmit this inquiry to the printer (2) but returns a response (proxy response) to the host device (3) by using the internal information stored in the line concentrator (1) itself. This makes it unnecessary to cancel the power save mode of the printer (2) as a result of the inquiry.

Abstract: An ink feeding method for a printing machine includes a first color density measuring step for measuring color density of prints at selected times, an expected color density computing step for computing, based on the color density of prints measured in the first color density measuring step, an expected color density of prints occurring after a predetermined number X of prints are made, an ink feeding rate correcting step for correcting the ink feeding rate based on the expected color density of prints computed in the expected color density computing step and a target color density of prints, a second color density measuring step for measuring color density of an Xth print in the predetermined number X of prints after the ink feeding rate is corrected, and a number of prints correcting step for varying the predetermined number X of prints based on the color density measured in the second color density measuring step and the target color density of prints.

Abstract: A method for evaluating the stability of print module registration for a printer creates an innovative test pattern by forming two graphic images from two separate print modules. The graphic images include parallel graphic information and a desired intersection point. The graphic images are printed on by a pixel by pixel basis onto print media from the separate print modules. The resulting patterned image or test pattern is viewed to ascertain alignment based on the desired intersection point.

Abstract: There is disclosed a printing unit (1) for use in an offset machine. The printing unit allows a broader use of offset machines (1). This is achieved in that the lacquer application means and the water application means comprise a unit (28) consisting of a doctor blade chamber device (30) and at least one roller (29, 32) for transferring lacquer or water from the doctor blade chamber device (30) to the plate cylinder (15) of the printing unit.

Abstract: A device is provided for displacing gas turbines, i.e. aeroplane mechanisms or stationary gas turbines, or gas turbine modules, especially during maintenance thereof. The device comprises at least one conveying device formed such that it can be raised or lowered. In the raised state of one or each conveying device, gas turbines or gas turbine modules can be displaced by displacing one or each conveying device.

Abstract: Provided is a solubility-controallable compound being soluble in a solvent due to a solvent-philic group thereof, of which solubility in the solvent is irreversibly lowered when the group is removed by retro-Diels-Alder reaction.

Abstract: A process for the manufacture of a transparent Pigment Yellow 155 or transparent Pigment Yellow 180 is disclosed, said process includes grinding particles of said pigment in the presence of a grinding agent until said particles achieve a surface area of at least about 40 m2/g.

Abstract: Process for improving the brilliance of color and the stability of a colored polymer system, which is composed of a matrix and of discrete polymer particles distributed in accordance with a defined spatial lattice structure in the matrix, and which is obtained by filming of an emulsion polymer with core/shell structure, which comprises using an emulsion polymer obtainable by polymerizing monomers in at least one first stage (core monomers), then polymerizing monomers in at least one further, second stage (transition stage), and finally polymerizing monomers in a third stage (shell monomers), where, based on the percentage constitution of the monomer mixtures of the three stages, at most 30% by weight of the monomers of the first stage are identical with those of the third stage, and 5% of the monomers of the second stage are identical with, respectively, those of the first and those of the third stage, and not more than 60% by weight of the monomers of the 2nd stage here are monomers absent in the 1st stage

Abstract: A production method of an electronic device comprising the steps of forming a stacked body by stacking green sheets 10a and electrode layers 12a having a predetermined pattern and firing the stacked body. Before forming the stacked body, a blank pattern layer 24 having substantially the same thickness as that of the electrode layer is formed on a space portion of the electrode layer having a predetermined pattern. The electrode level difference absorbing print paste for forming the blank pattern layer 24 includes at least ceramic powder and a binder resin, and a polymerization degree of the binder resin included in the electrode level difference absorbing print paste is made equal to or more than that of a binder resin included in slurry for forming the green sheet.

Abstract: A method of producing Portland cement includes the steps of: preparing a raw material of the Portland cement; preparing Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) ash; mixing the raw material and the MSW ash to obtain a mixture; feeding the mixture into a kiln; and operating the kiln to obtain the Portland cement. In the step of mixing the raw material and the MSW ash, the raw material may be mixed with the MSW ash, so that a weight% of the MSW ash is within a range of 1% to 60%. The method of producing Portland cement may further include the step of analyzing the MSW ash to determine a composition thereof, so that the raw material may be mixed with the MSW ash according to the composition of the MSW ash.

Abstract: A flat panel workstation system that may be retrofitted into an existing desktop/work surface for supporting and pivoting a flat panel display such as a liquid crystal display (LCD) from a closed position to an open, viewable position in front of a user. The system includes a sliding keyboard and mouse platform mounted underneath the front edge of the desk top/work surface and which automatically pivot a support panel atop the work surface (and attached flat panel display) to an upright position or closed flush position upon extension/retraction of the keyboard and mouse platform.

Abstract: A multi-purpose table for furnishing is anticipated, comprising: a top (2) with a thickness and perimeter edges (2a) delimiting a support surface (3) of the top (2), supports (4) on the underside of the top (2), a clearance aperture (5) passing through the top (2) and developing in such a way as to interrupt both the support surface (3) and perimeter edges (2a), a mobile element (6) counter-profiled to the clearance aperture (5) and aimed at re-forming the support surface (3) and perimeter edges (2a), and fixing means (7) between the top (2) and mobile element (6) to constrain the mobile element (6) in a removable way in the clearance aperture (5).

Abstract: A table including a drawer attached to the table top is disclosed. Advantageously, the drawer can be connected directly to the table top or to a frame that is connected to the table top. The table top is preferably constructed from blow-molded plastic and the support assembly preferably includes a first leg and a second leg that are pivotally connected. The legs desirably have a generally X-shaped configuration when the legs are placed in an upright position and the legs can be collapsed into a storage position. Each of the legs may include a lower portion, a body portion and an upper portion that is preferably selectively connected to the table top. The legs, for example, can be connected to the table top by inserting the upper portions of the legs into leg receiving recess. Desirably, the table top includes a plurality of leg receiving recesses and the legs can be selectively attached to the leg receiving recesses in order to vary the height of the table.

Abstract: A worktable includes a tabletop and at least three legs mounted to a bottom of the tabletop for supporting the tabletop. Each leg includes a bracket secured on the bottom of the tabletop, and a stand pivotally connected to the bracket and selectively positioned when supporting the stand is stretched to support the tabletop.