An apparatus in an electronic control system allows two or three wire operation. A power supply can supply power to the enclosed circuitry in both two and three wire installations. Two separate zero cross detectors are used such that timing information can be collected in both two and three wire installations. Both zero cross detectors are monitored and are used to automatically configure the electronic control. Over voltage circuitry senses an over voltage condition across a MOSFET which is in ...

An upstanding Self-Adjusting Volume Display and Merchandise Dispensing System designed to increase merchandise and order picking dispensing efficiency and solve major space problems in a direct marketing distribution facility and other product display situations. The inventive system includes a main high-volume, open-top storage bin or hopper with an inclined floor member slanting toward the front of the hopper and a companion, upstanding, telescoping, self-adjusting volume chute vertically and ...

A borehole seismic acquisition tool configured for release from a stuck position within a borehole having a tool body with at least one sensor package, an anchoring arm, and anchoring arm linkage adapted to connect the anchoring arm to the tool body. The anchoring arm linkage includes a weakpoint mechanism adapted to break in response to a minimum threshold amount of breaking force being applied upon the weakpoint mechanism. The anchoring arm includes a first end adapted for contacting a borehol...

Briefly, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention, a lateral phase change memory and a method to manufacture a phase change memory is provided. The method may include forming a conductor material over a substrate and patterning the conductor material to form two electrodes from the conductor material, wherein the two electrodes are separated by a sub-lithographic distance. The method may further include forming a phase change material between the two electrodes.

The invention provides a method for controlling the width of a plurality of extruded filaments comprising providing a polymer supply and an extrusion die comprising a plurality of extrusion capillaries and a plurality of counterbores allowing fluid communication between the extrusion capillaries and polymer supply, providing an adjustable insert for interrupting fluid communication between the polymer supply and at least one extrusion capillary, providing at least one fluidized polymer, conveyin...

A method for coiling thin metal strip, especially hot-rolled or cold-rolled thin steel strip, on a coiler mandrel which is adjusted in diameter. At the beginning, the inner windings of the coil are coiled on the adjusted coiler mandrel diameter and, after the final winding of the coil, the coiler mandrel is pulled out or the coil is taken off. At least the first inner winding is joined over a large area with the second inner winding by introducing adhesives, fillers, pieces of metal, bonding age...

The present invention relates to an oil in water emulsion vaccine composition. In particular, the present invention relates to a vaccine adjuvant formulation based on oil in water emulsion comprising a metabolisable oil and a saponin, wherein the oil and a saponin are present in a ratio of between 1:1 and 200:1. The invention further relates to methods for preparing the emulsion and its use in medicine.

A fail-safe control system for controlling valves in power generation systems is presented. The AC-coupled, rectified signal supplied to one valve is disabled in the event that the other valve fails. This failure is sensed, for example, through the use of power sensing circuitry configured to sense and multiply the voltage and current applied to the valve. Components such as capacitors and transformers are used exclusively such that only AC power (and not DC power) is transferred, ensuring that,...

The present invention provides cross linkable compositions useful in the preparation of hydrophilic gels, and are prepared from obligers having pendent hydrophilic ploy(alkenylene oxide) groups, and pendent pulverizable functional groups, and cross linked by polyfunctional ploy(alkenylene oxides).

Methods for generating geometric databases of coiled tubing inspection data and using the data in job design, real time monitoring and automated feedback control of operations are described. One method includes creating a grid of spatial positions on a length of coiled tubing as it traverses through an inspection apparatus having a plurality of sensors for detecting defects in the coiled tubing. Real time data may be compared to historical or nominal data for the coiled tubing. Another method in...