An audio conferencing apparatus and method. The apparatus includes a data bus, such as a TDM bus, a controller, and an interface circuit that receives audio signals from a plurality of conference participants and provides digitized audio signals in assigned time slots over the TDM bus. The audio conferencing platform also includes a plurality of digital signal processors (DSPs) adapted to communicate on the TDM bus with the interface circuit. At least one of the DSPs sums a plurality of the digi...

An ergonomically designed food slicing machine including a rotatable blade (800, 2800) for slicing bulk food product, a motor (1400, 3400) operably connected to the rotating blade (800, 2800), and a base (100) portion located below the rotatable blade (800, 2800) which defines a food slice receiving area. The machine may be provided with a sliced food receptable operably connected to a scale (3900), a visible indicia (3502) correlating to the distance between the gauge plate (2500) and rotatable...

Joints for movable toys, such as action figures, that use friction to maintain a fixed position. The toys include several body part members interconnected by a joint that includes a plug portion and a socket portion that receives the plug portion. The socket portion includes one or more protrusions, against which the plug portion is urged to create friction between the plug portion and the socket portion.

A scanning analyzer unit comprises a scanner device, a signal amplifier, an analog/digital converter, a driver device, a controller device, a computing unit, and a RS-232 interface. After chemical, biological, or chemi-enzymatic reaction, a resulting color change of a testing support through reacted multi-chromogens therein is quantified by means of the scanning analyzer unit. Via the sensitivity differences of the multi-chromogens at a fixed wavelength of the scan, multi-analyte concentrations ...

A method of determining one or more color characteristics of a colored microsphere comprising: providing a microarray of microspheres, including at least one colored microsphere which has a color characteristic; producing a magnified optical image of individual microspheres of the microarray; locating a microsphere in the aperture of a spectrometer to confine the color region of interest of the located microsphere in order to determine one or more color characteristics thereof; and determining o...

The invention relates to a process for the manufacture of a colored make-up cosmetic composition which makes it possible to produce a transparent or translucent colored coat on the skin, lips or superficial body growths, comprising the following successive steps: (1) selecting a cosmetically acceptable base having bulk opaqueness, translucency or transparency, (2) preparing at least one series of samples of this cosmetic base, each series comprising increasing amounts of a coloring agent dissolv...

A joined assembly and kit for a rotor of a dynamoelectric machine are provided. The joined assembly is part of a conductive path generally extending from a radially inward section of the rotor to a radially outward section of the rotor. The conductive path includes a flexible connecting member from the radially inward section of the rotor to the joined assembly. The joined assembly includes a stacked winding energizable in response to excitation current carried by the conductive path to a top of...

A three-phase motor having a stator in which the dimensions of protrusion of coil end parts in winding coils of individual phases can be equalized as much as possible and in which the overall dimension of protrusion of the coil end parts in the winding coils of the three phases can be reduced to an optimal dimension is provided. Each of unipolar coils forming the winding coils of the three phases has a pair of coil end parts protruding from end parts in the axial direction of a stator core. The ...

A doll with an angled and/or jointed torso. In some embodiments the doll includes a torso, at least a portion of which is asymmetric about a midline such that an angle formed between a left lateral contour and the midline substantially differs from an angle formed between a right lateral contour and the midline. Alternatively, or additionally, the torso may be comprised of an upper torso member that is connected to a lower torso member by a joint that enables rotation therebetween.

The machine comprises a rotor with a winding for cooling, which is in particular superconducting, in a winding support. A device with a composite body made of fiber-reinforced plastic is provided, for retention of the winding support within a rotor outer housing, on a torque transmitting side. The composite body is in one piece and comprises lateral pieces and a center piece, whereby the lateral pieces extend outwards in a funnel shape and the center piece is in the form of a hollow cylinder. Th...