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A mobile communication device is adapted to identify a task for postponed transfer to a computing device over a local communication link. A similar transfer task function is established on the computing device for receiving the identified task and any required related data. The user is provided with the ability to initiate a task on the mobile communication device and continue or complete the task on a computer.

A method of making an absorbent binder composition includes combining a first aqueous monomer solution including a reducing polymerization initiator with a second aqueous monomer solution including an oxidizing polymerization initiator to form a binder composition having post application, moisture-induced crosslinking capability. The first aqueous monomer solution includes a monoethylenically unsaturated monomer and an ethylenically unsaturated monomer that contains an alkoxysilane functionality. The second aqueous monomer solution includes a monoethylenically unsaturated monomer. The monoethylenically unsaturated monomer included in the first and second aqueous monomer solutions may be carboxylic, sulphonic, or phosphoric acids or salts or a combination thereof. The ethylenically unsaturated monomer may be an acrylate or methacrylate. Crosslinking of the resulting binder composition is induced by removal of water. The polymerization of the monomer solutions to form an absorbent binder composition may be carried out in about 100 minutes or less.

A stationary shroud of a gas turbine engine made of a base metal is repaired by removing any damaged material from a flow-path region of the stationary shroud to leave an initially exposed base-metal flow-path surface; and applying a base-metal restoration overlying the initially exposed flow-path surface. The base-metal restoration is applied by furnishing a source of a structural material that is compatible with the base metal, and depositing the source of the structural material overlying the initially exposed base-metal flow-path surface of the stationary shroud by plasma transferred arc welding to form a repaired base-metal flow-path surface. An environmentally resistant rub coating may be applied overlying the base-metal restoration.

The present invention concerns a wind energy plant for generation of alternating current with a tower constructed of several tower segments, a generator arranged in the region of the top of the tower, a power module arranged in the region of the base of the tower, and current carrying means for transferred current from the generator to the power module. In order to enable faster, easier and thereby cheaper erection of the wind energy plant, it is provided in accordance with the present invention that the current carrying means be premounted in the tower segments in segmented form.

The invention disclosed relates to the fabrication of electronic devices. A method for fabricating an electronic device is disclosed, comprising embossing a surface of a work-piece 200, 202 using an embossing tool 204, so as to form a microstructure having at least two levels of thickness contrast on the work-piece surface, and depositing fluid 208 containing a functional material onto the microstructure. In a preferred embodiment, the step of depositing fluid 208 comprises ink-jet printing. An embossing tool 204 for creating a microstructure on a work-piece 200, 202 is also disclosed, the embossing tool 204 comprising a first surface and steps of at least two different heights relative to the first surface.

Apparatus for measuring magnetic field intensity characteristics around a target object enclosed in a 3D volume space is disclosed. It comprises (a) a means for magnetically polarizing the target object with a known polarizing magnetic field to introduce a magnetic density distribution (MDI) f(r1), (b) a means for measuring magnetic field characteristics g(r2) around the target object at a set of points r2 in a 3D volume space that in particular extends substantially along a radial direction pointing away from the approximate center of the object, (c) a means for setting up a vector-matrix equation; and (d) a means for solving this vector-matrix equation and obtaining a solution for f(r1) that provides a 3D tomographic image of the target object. This novel apparatus is integrated with frequency and phase encoding methods of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) technique in prior art to achieve different trade-offs.

A sensor system and a joystick including the sensor system. The sensor system comprises a magnetic field sensor, and first and second magnetic sources. The first magnetic source is rotatable relative to a sensitive surface of the sensor and generates a first magnetic field contribution of at least quadrupolar order. The second magnetic source is pivotable with respect to the sensitive surface and generates a second magnetic field contribution. The sensor is configured for detecting at least an in-plane component of a superimposition field of the first and second magnetic contributions at a plurality of lateral measurement locations on the sensitive surface, obtaining measurements, and determining a rotation angle for the first source from the field gradient measurements and two angular directions for the second source from the field mean measurements. Lateral measurement locations are arranged into two pairs of diametrically opposite measurement locations with respect to the sensitive surface.

A laser power grid for operation with data networks employs WDM and incorporates wavelength addressing. The laser power grid (100) includes a laser power supply station (110) comprising a plurality of continuous-work laser sources (112, 114, 115, 116, 118), a laser distribution grid (130) for distributing light propagations of different wavelengths throughout a data network and an optical switching network (142, 144, 145, 146, 148) coupled to the laser distribution grid for locally turning the laser power on when it is needed. The laser power grid replaces systems of tunable lasers. It is considerably faster and cheaper than systems of tunable lasers and produces less waste heat within the data network surroundings. The laser power grid incorporates parallel fast optical communication in complex multi-node communication and computer networks and enables the implementation of burst switching and packet switching by wavelength addressing.

An automated system for defining a star schema for a data source. The system based on automatically gathered information from the data source such as entities and columns, entity column types and lengths, entity keys, relationships between and within entities, measures, workflow and correlated attributes, specialized entities, an update frequency of entities and columns, and grouping of entity and column updates associated with the source database automatically determines facts, dimensions, dimension hierarchies, measures, workflow specific measures (if data source has workflows) and workflow correlated attribute specific measures (if data source has temporal, priority, ownership and progress tracking attributes) to come up with a star schema for the data source.

The invention relates to a method of Silicon Carbide scanning or optical mirror production. In order to reduce the costs for manufacturing a scanning or optical mirror, according to the present invention, Silicon Carbide powder is pressed or stamped or isostatically pressed using an engineered stamp or tool to form the shape and structure of a scanning or optical mirror which is then in this embodiment sintered to provide a surface that will become the face surface of said scanning or optical mirror that is then coated or bonded with a suitably thick layer of in this embodiment Silicon material deposited by a thermal spray process onto said face surface of said scanning or optical mirror that is then polished to achieve the desired surface quality and/or roughness and/or flatness and then optical coated using coating technologies and materials to coat said face surface that will then become the reflective surface with suitable high reflective optical coatings specific to the wavelength or wavelengths that the finished Silicon Carbide scanning or optical mirrors will be used to reflect in final application/s.

Tamp printing of at least one picture (4) occurs by means of at least one tamp pad (1, 18, 24, 34) on a piece (3), which has boundary surfaces (5, 13) forming angles relative to each other, the tamp pad first printing in one direction (10) against a boundary surface (13, 43) and thereafter, after further compression of the tamp pad (1) against said boundary surface (13) due to its deformation, prints in another direction (45) than the direction (10) against another boundary surface or other boundary surfaces (5, 43), whereby the picture is transferred to said boundary surfaces.

A method for welding profiled elements in plastic material, includes the steps of: preparing two profiled elements, arranged with respective zones to be facing one another; making a groove in correspondence to at least one zone, by a removal operation on a peripheral edge of at least one profiled element; heating the zones to be welded; coupling the zones to be welded to one another, pressing the profiled elements one against the other so as to keep the zones to be welded in reciprocal contact. The coupling step includes: melting the zones to be welded into one another in order to define a welding bead; making a containing compartment defined by the groove, the welding bead being made internally of the containing compartment; and arranging a containing presser in correspondence to the containing compartment for preventing exit of the welding bead from the compartment itself.

The disclosure provides methods for the clarification of a cell broth with high cell density.