A relative position derivation, sensing and indicator system primarily adapted for conventional elevators. The system displays elevator position and travel direction at each floor with a relatively old fashioned appearing indicator apparatus including an "antique" faceplate and a simple rotatable pointer arm driven by a stepper motor assembly. Electronic solid state digital circuitry is employed to derive suitable control signals for driving the associated stepper motors which rotate the pointer...

There is disclosed herein a relative time clock wherein the relative time between two or more events is recorded independently of real time or wall clock time. A continuous time clock will count in units such as days, hours, minutes and seconds until the clock reaches a predetermined maximum time at which point the continuous time clock will reset and repeat its previous count cycle. The time indicated on the continuous time clock is recorded and correlated to events such as the start and finish...

A method of detecting an object that may be coated with material for preventing or attenuating reflections of incident electromagnetic waves is disclosed in which pulses of electromagnetic wave energy are generated with a large relative bandwidth in the band from about 0.1 GHz to about 12.0 GHz. Preferably, the generated pulses have a pulse duration in the range from 0.1 nanosecond to 1 nanosecond. Those pulses of electromagnetic wave energy are directed toward the object and reflections of thos...

A database containing datafiles is partitioned into a set of tablespaces. Every disk pointer pointing to a data item in a datafile refers to a tablespace-relative file number for the datafile. Data pointed to by a tablespace-relative disk pointer is retrieved by first checking the cache, and upon a cache miss, the tablespace-relative file number is translated into an absolute file number according to a latch-free look up technique.

A method is provided for determining the relative wettability of a sample of a porous media with respect to a first liquid and a second liquid. The method includes the steps of providing the sample at a partially saturated state with respect to the first liquid; obtaining a first nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) parameter value for the partially saturated sample; exposing the partially saturated sample to the second liquid for a predetermined period of time, wherein the second liquid is treated ...

A small, lightweight relative drive device is provided, which is capable of producing large torque. The relative drive device of a two-phase magnetic excitation type according to an aspect of the invention comprises first and second coil groups and a magnet group. The magnet group includes magnets disposed with alternating north and south poles facing the first and second coil groups. The first and second coil groups are disposed at positions that are out of phase with each other by an odd multi...

A relative pressure measuring transmitter resistant to the intrusion of moisture. includes a housing, an insert arranged in the housing, a gap existing between the housing and the insert, a relative pressure sensor, and, connected to the relative pressure sensor, a reference pressure supply line, which leads into the insert, opens on an outer wall of the insert, and has an interior, which is connected via an opening in insert with the gap The housing has a bore passing through it, via which the ...

A cigarette packet (4) with a cross section of flattened oval profile is fashioned from a diecut blank (1) of essentially elongated rectangular outline referable to a longitudinal axis (16) and comprising, aligned along the axis (16), a central panel (17), two intermediate panels (18, 19) and two end panels (20, 21), each intermediate panel (18, 19) displaying a flattened oval outline and joined to the two contiguous panels (17, 20; 17, 21) along respective rectilinear borders (22) extending tra...

A system, method, and computer program product for reducing processing time related to relative geometry calculations performed for objects in a simulated three-dimensional environment. The method converts three-dimensional location coordinates of each object of a plurality of simulated objects in the simulated three-dimensional environment to coordinates of a two-dimensional grid. Then, a two-dimensional grid area that is associated with the scan of an object is calculated. Objects with two-dim...

A system, method, and computer program product for reducing processing time related to relative geometry calculations performed for objects in a simulated three-dimensional environment. The method converts three-dimensional location coordinates of each object of a plurality of simulated objects in the simulated three-dimensional environment to coordinates of a two-dimensional grid. Then, a two-dimensional grid area that is associated with the scan of an object is calculated. Objects with two-dim...