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20100261557 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING A BASKETBALL PLAYER'S SHOOTING - A system and method for improving a player's efficiency in shooting by providing a player with various shooting challenge routines at which a player makes either a total number of shots or a total number shots in a row. Statistics regarding the player's performance are stored, printed and/or evaluated and the player can use the information to improve his or her efficiency at one or more of the plurality of different locations where the player shoots the basketball. | 10-14-2010 |
20130005512 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING A BASKETBALL PLAYER'S SHOOTING INCLUDING A DETECTION AND MEASUREMENT SYSTEM - A system and method for improving a player's efficiency in shooting by providing a player with various shooting challenge routines at which a player makes either a total number of shots or a total number shots in a row. Statistics regarding the player's performance are stored, printed and/or evaluated and the player can use the information to improve his or her efficiency at one or more of the plurality of different locations where the player shoots the basketball. In another embodiment, a measuring or detection system is used in combination with or separate from a ball launcher. The system is adapted to measure at least one of a distance of a player from the a launcher, height of a shot made by the player after catching a basketball, release angle, release time, or arc of a shot; entry angle of the basketball into a goal; hold or release time; or shot arc. | 01-03-2013 |
20130157786 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING A BASKETBALL PLAYER'S SHOOTING INCLUDING A TRACKING AND CONTROL SYSTEM FOR TRACKING, CONTROLLING AND REPORTING STATISTICS - A system and method for improving a player's efficiency in shooting by providing a player with various shooting challenge routines at which a player makes either a total number of shots or a total number shots in a row. Statistics regarding the player's performance are gathered or collected, stored and/or tracked, printed and/or evaluated and the player can use the information to improve his or her efficiency at one or more of the plurality of different locations where the player shoots the basketball. One embodiment includes the ability of players from the same or different teams to compare statistics and enables the launchers at different locations to launch substantially exactly the same pass to different players to facilitate such competition. | 06-20-2013 |
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20140087181 | LIQUID-ACTIVATED FORMULATION WITH HOT MELT BINDING MATRIX - A liquid-activated formulation is provided, comprising a liquid-activated colorant, a hydrochromic ionic compound, an opacifier, and a hot melt binding matrix. | 03-27-2014 |
20140088530 | LIQUID-ACTIVATED FORMULATION WITH SOLVENT-BASED BINDING MATRIX - A liquid-activated formulation is provided, comprising a liquid-activated colorant, a hydrochromic ionic compound, an opacifier, and a solvent-based binding matrix. | 03-27-2014 |
20140088531 | ANTI-LEACHING LIQUID-ACTIVATED FORMULATION - A liquid-activated formulation is provided, comprising a liquid-activated colorant, a hydrochromic ionic compound, an opacifier, and a binding matrix comprising a leaching inhibitor. | 03-27-2014 |
20140088532 | LIQUID-ACTIVATED FORMULATION WITH SURFACTANT - A liquid-activated formulation is provided, comprising a liquid-activated colorant, a hydrochromic ionic compound, an opacifier, a binding matrix, and a surfactant. | 03-27-2014 |
20140088533 | LIQUID-ACTIVATED FORMULATION WITH PERMANENT COLORANT - A liquid-activated formulation is provided, comprising a solvent-soluble or liquid-activated colorant, a permanent colorant, a hydrochromic ionic compound, an opacifier, and a binding matrix. | 03-27-2014 |
20150173968 | ABSORBENT ARTICLES HAVING CHANNEL-FORMING AREAS AND WETNESS INDICATOR - An absorbent article comprising an absorbent core having at least two longitudinally extending channel-forming areas and a wetness indicator. The core wrap comprises a top side and a bottom side, which are attached to each other through areas substantially free of absorbent material, so that when the absorbent material swells upon absorption of a liquid the core wrap forms channels along these areas substantially free of absorbent material. The wetness indicator is placed between the channel-forming areas or between at least one channel-forming area and at least one longitudinally extending side edge of the article, as seen for the exterior of the article. | 06-25-2015 |
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20150265477 | VOLUME INDICATORS WITH MASKING LAYER - An absorbent article comprising a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet, wherein the article further comprises at least two volume indicators, and wherein at least one volume indicator comprises a masking layer comprising a water-soluble colorant and a stationary color layer comprising a permanent colorant. | 09-24-2015 |
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20160001082 | SELECTIVE BLOCK OF NERVE ACTION POTENTIAL CONDUCTION - A method of selectively blocking a portion of a nerve signal is disclosed. The method may include the step of providing an electrode around a subject's peripheral nerve and connecting the electrode to a stimulator. The stimulator may then energize the electrode with a continuous periodic waveform of at least 50 kHz. This energization of the electrode can result in the selective block of one of: 1) a fast portion of a nerve signal having a conduction velocity greater than 2 m/s, and 2) a slow portion of the nerve signal having a conduction velocity less than 2 m/s. A method according to the present disclosure may allow the non-blocked portion of the nerve signal to be conducted substantially unimpeded. | 01-07-2016 |
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20090061135 | Polyolefin resin blends for crack-resistant pipe - Resin blends useful for pipe and blow-molded articles are disclosed. The blends comprise a low-molecular-weight, high-density polyethylene and a high-molecular-weight, low-density ethylene copolymer. The high-molecular-weight component is made with a bridged indenoindolyl Group 4 metal complex having open architecture. Blends of the invention uniquely have high molecular weight (M | 03-05-2009 |
20090275711 | Olefin polymerization process - A slurry process for polymerizing ethylene is disclosed. The process comprises polymerizing ethylene in a first reactor in the presence of hydrogen and a catalyst comprising an activator and a supported dimethylsilyl-bridged indeno[1,2-b]indolyl zirconium complex to produce an ethylene homopolymer, removing some of the unreacted hydrogen, and reacting the homopolymer slurry in a second reactor with ethylene and a C | 11-05-2009 |
20090304966 | Bimodal polyethylene process and products - Bimodal polyethylene resins having reduced long-chain branching and suitable for use in pipe resin applications as a result of their improved SCG and RCP resistance are provided. The improved resins of the invention are produced in a two-reactor cascade slurry polymerization process using a Ziegler-Natta catalyst system and wherein an alkoxysilane modifier is present in both reactors. | 12-10-2009 |
20100092709 | Multimodal polyethylene pipe resins and process - Multimodal polyethylene resins having improved stress crack resistance and melt strength rendering them useful for the manufacture of thick-walled pipe are produced in a process wherein the second stage of the process is a copolymerization conducted at a high temperature with a low comonomer to ethylene ratio and a low hydrogen to ethylene ratio. | 04-15-2010 |
20100221561 | Polyolefin composition having improved oxidative stability - Disclosed is a pipe resin composition. The composition comprises a polyethylene pipe resin, a primary antioxidant, and an acid. The composition of the invention has an increased oxidative induction time (OIT) and environmental stress cracking resistance (ESCR). | 09-02-2010 |
20100272937 | Polyethylene pipe resins - Disclosed is a pipe resin composition. The composition comprises a polyethylene pipe resin, a primary antioxidant, and an acid. The composition of the invention has an increased oxidative induction time (OIT) and environmental stress cracking resistance (ESCR). | 10-28-2010 |
20120123067 | BIMODAL POLYETHYLENE PROCESS AND PRODUCTS - Bimodal polyethylene resins having reduced long-chain branching and suitable for use in pipe resin applications as a result of their improved SCG and RCP resistance are provided. The improved resins of the invention are produced in a two-reactor cascade slurry polymerization process using a Ziegler-Natta catalyst system and wherein an alkoxysilane modifier is present in both reactors. | 05-17-2012 |
20140127438 | STABILIZED HIGH-DENSITY POLYETHYLENE COMPOSITION WITH IMPROVED RESISTANCE TO DETERIORATION AND STABILIZER SYSTEM - The disclosure relates to a high-density polyethylene (HDPE) composition with resistance to deterioration in the presence of chlorinated and non-chlorinated water at temperatures in the range of about 0° C. to about 100° C., due to a particular stabilizer system which is composed of a hindered phenol antioxidant, a phosphonite or phosphine antioxidant, and a natural or synthetic hydrotalcite. The stabilizer system is specifically tailored to protect the HDPE as well as other polyolefins against deterioration and degradation. | 05-08-2014 |
20150141592 | BIMODAL POLYMERIZATION PROCESS UTILIZING CHROMIUM/SILICA CATALYSTS - The present invention relates to novel methods for producing a bimodal or broad distribution of molecular weight polyolefin polymers using Cr/silica catalysts. In some aspects the methods utilize different pressures of hydrogen to tailor the properties of the polymer. In particular aspects, a method of preparing a polyolefin having a bimodal molecular weight distribution, comprising:
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