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around the perimeter of the circulating sub oil compensation spring 355 oil compensation piston 357 and fail sate spring 367 fig3 b also illustrates drillstring 320 and connecting rod 365 additionally shown are valve sleeve 370 also known as a valve poppet formed to sealably engage valve seat 375 valve seat 375 also called a valve plug may be mounted by use of a screw for example and includes an o ring 378 to form a seal with valve sleeve 270 holes 380 and 381 for mud flow 390 into the center of the circulating sub are formed in the upper portion of valve sleeve 370 holes 382 and 383 in valve sleeve 370 correspond to holes 384 and 385 in the housing and provide an alternate route for the drilling mud when the circulating sub is open and activated the housing is a circulating sub housing that engages with the valve sleeve but may be any appropriate housing such as a section of the drill string in addition many of the advantages of the preferred embodiment may still be obtained even where the valve poppet is not exactly like the configuration shown the valve poppet can therefore be any of a variety of configurations during operation downhole circulating sub electronics 308 receive power from the surface to facilitate power delivery the system may be preferably part of a coiled tubing.

suitably selected to permit the cutting edge defined by the upper edge of each of the recesses to be formed into a desired length the recesses each are preferably formed into a circular shape from the viewpoint of manufacturing of the strainer for example the recesses may be formed into a diameter of about 20 to 150 mm and a depth of about 0 5 to 5 0 mm alternatively the recesses may be formed into any suitable shape such as an elliptic shape a rectangular shape a triangular shape or the like other than a circular shape the strainer of the present invention may be manufactured according to any suitable process other than the above described process for example it may be manufactured by subjecting a single plate material to cutting to form the recesses and then forming the plate with the straining apertures alternatively it may be produced by superposing a plate formed with through holes corresponding to the recesses and a blank plate on each other and then forming the plates with the straining apertures as can be seen from the foregoing the strainer of the present invention for paper making which is arranged in the vicinity of a rotor for screening a paper feedstock macerated is formed with a plurality of the recesses on the surface thereof opposite to the rotor to thereby eliminate the mounting of cutters on the strainer as required in the prior art resulting in effectively preventing.

in which the variable i is decremented the step e 216 then tests if the variable i has reached 0 if not not all the bits of the secret key d have been processed and the next iteration of the loop follows by going to the step e 204 described above if so all the bits of the secret key have been processed and the modular exponentiation is therefore finished the variable a 1 corresponds to the required result that is to say m d mod n the value a 1 is therefore returned at the output of the subroutine described here in the step e 218 alternatively the step e 210 can be executed between the steps e 216 and e 218 instead of or in addition to the step e 210 described above if the step e 210 is no longer performed in the loop but only after the loop for example between the steps e 216 and e 218 the test phases of the algorithm are simplified a third embodiment of the invention is described next with reference to fig3 and is used in the context of modular exponentiation using the chinese remainders theorem crt the algorithm shown in fig3 receives as input the number or message m to which the modular exponentiation is to be applied the two prime numbers p q constituting the public modulus n p u00b7 q the components d p d q of the secret key d relating to p and q where d p d mod.

useful for situations which require that the sample be transported from the patient to a different location for evaluation i e where an automated coagulation detection apparatus is not readily available for example it is often desirable to perform a platelet function test after a patient has been moved from the operating room to the intensive care unit in such a case the blood sample must be transported back to the operating room or to another location such as a clinical laboratory for testing the present invention thus provides a convenient alternative to bedside testing by allowing hospital personnel to transport blood samples for testing without concern for distance from the laboratory and without the need for recording time of draw and instructions regarding the timing of the test the invention is further described by the following examples which are illustrative of specific modes of practicing the invention and are not intended as limiting the scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims all solvents and reagents employed in the examples were used as received from the manufacturer bovine serum albumin bsa was purchased from sigma chemical co st louis mo sigma product a 3803 bovine lung heparin was purchased from the upjohn company kalamazoo mich paf was purchased from sigma chemical co st.

14 mounted on the front and rear frames 13a and 13b and its direction of movement can be changed by bending the front frame 13a relative to the rear frame 13b by the action of the steering cylinders 17 mounted therebetween as shown in fig4 during excavating and loading operations the vehicle is once stopped at the excavation site and the rotatable vehicle body 1 is permitted to gyrate by the gyrating motor 20 while excavation and loading operations are effected by the implement 3 therefore movement of the vehicle body back and forth for excavation and loading operations needed in the case of the conventional loader mounted vehicle can be eliminated and so the operational efficiency can be improved remarkably and remarkable wear down or consumption of wheels 14 can be avoided further fig3 shows an embodiment in which the axial cylinder 15 is formed on one end of the rear frame 13b so that the front frame 13a can be rotated about the axial cylinder 15 however the arrangement may be made such that the axial cylinder 15 is formed on one end of the front frame 13a so that the rear frame 13b can be rotated about the axial cylinder 15 fig5 shows another embodiment of the present invention in which the rotatable or gyrating vehicle body 1 and the front frame 13a are rotatably mounted on the rear frame 13b and.

the frame the mask frame further includes lower headgear connection points 170 for attachment to the headgear which holds the mask in place on the patient 39 s face upper headgear connection points may be formed in the forehead support not shown with reference to fig1 to 3 a it can be seen that the mask frame includes two ports 180 approximately 2 5 cm apart located in recesses 190 in the base of the mask frame 100 these recesses are positioned in between the lower headgear strap connection points 170 the ports are positioned so that in use oxygen or other breathable gas can be delivered close to the patient 39 s nares each port is formed as a tubular spigot 185 with an approximate external diameter of 4 mm and an approximate length of 1 cm the spigot 185 forms the male connector onto which small bore tubing supplying for example oxygen may be attached an elevational cross section through the port is shown in fig3 b and a lateral cross section at fig3 c as best seen in fig3 b and 3 c each recess 190 is approximately rectangular in elevation fig3 a and closed off from the mask cavity except for an aperture 200 extending through the recess upper wall 210 between the bore 220 of the spigot 185 and the mask cavity the recess is bounded by the upper wall 210 side wall portions 230 240 and a rear wall portion 250.

of the liquid ring vacuum pump receives water through water intake pipe 12 and distributes the water across manifold distribution tube 16 which feeds the water directly into pump 30 through make up water injection orifices or intakes 70 as seen in fig3 the flush mount manifold 10 is provided with caps 14 for direct access to the interior of manifold distribution tube 16 each cap 14 preferably is provided with threads 22 for engaging internally threaded cap receptacles in the manifold distribution tube 16 the orifices 21 of the manifold or the discharge pipes 20 can be inclined to mate and be in axial alignment with water injection inlets 70a 70b 70c or 70d as shown in fig5 whereby the axes of the opposing caps 14 will also be aligned with the axes of the mating orifices 70 21 or orifices 70 and pipes 20 and parallel with each other cap axis a nut type square head 26 is used to remove the cap the flush mount manifold 10 is affixed directly to the pump housing 34 by connecting flange 28 to the housing as with bolts overall the pump 30 is shown without the manifold distribution tube 16 in fig3 in operation a motor 40 drives a shaft 32 through a bearing housing 36 gas is injected into the pump through an inlet passageway 38 make up secondary plant water from a source 68 is fed into the pump through the manifold the manifold distributes the water through the wall of the pump housing 34 through the injection orifices 70 the manifold distribution tube 16 is attached to the pump.

means 50 removed a view of an embodiment showing the sternal closure device 10 in position on the sternum 90 is shown in fig1 an alternative embodiment for the sternal closure device 10 is illustrated in fig7 through 10 in this embodiment at least one of the anterior brace members 21 31 has a different configuration in that the transverse bridging means 50 comprises lateral arm members 55 affixed rigidly to or formed as an integral component of the anterior brace member 21 or 31 the securing means 60 comprises arm brackets 65 that are secured to the anterior brace member 21 or 31 to receive the lateral arm members 55 the arm brackets 65 are provided with bracket bolts or similar fasteners 66 that are mated with threaded apertures in the anterior brace member 21 or 31 whereby tightening of the bracket bolt 66 forces the arm bracket 65 against the lateral arm member 55 to fix the relative lateral positions of the two brace assemblies 20 30 preferably the lateral arm members 55 and either the arm brackets 65 or the upper surface of the anterior brace member 21 or 31 are provided with lateral arm interlocking members 56 such as projections teeth ridges or the like while the illustrations show all lateral arm members 55 extending from only one of the anterior brace members.

tribasic and the like of these catalysts it is preferable to use an alkali metal phosphate in terms of the reaction yield and it is further preferable to use tripotassium phosphate from the viewpoint of the economy of production in the present invention it is preferable that the total amount of these catalysts used be 0 1 to 50 by weight and particularly preferably 0 1 to 5 by weight relative to the weight of the aldoxime 2 which is a starting material compound in the present invention the reaction temperature for obtaining the nitrile 1 from the aldoxime 2 is 80 to 200 u00b0 c and preferably 100 to 160 u00b0 c in the present invention processes for distilling water which is produced with the progress of the reaction away from the reaction system are not particularly limited and highly efficient examples thereof include a process in which the water is removed by azeotropic distillation using a solvent which can be azeotropically distilled with water a process in which the water is distilled away by evaporation with the pressure in the reaction system being reduced and the like examples of the above described solvent which can be azeotropically distilled with water include benzene toluene xylene chlorobenzene heptane and the like in the present invention when the above described process in which the water is removed by azeotropic distillation using an azeotropic solvent is employed the reaction for obtaining the nitrile 1 from the aldoxime 2 is preferably conducted under atmospheric pressure in general on the other hand when the process in which a high boiling point solvent is added and the water is distilled away by evaporation under reduced pressure the reaction is conducted preferably at 200 torr or below.

light scattering from a small particle giving the particle size refractive index and incident wavelength we have calculated the scattered intensity at different scattering angle from eq 2 11 for different u03bb the refractive index and size effects of the scattering of visible light can be easily evaluated from those equations fig1 is the calculated peak wavelength via particle size at the scattering angle 136 u00b0 using mie theory for white light even intensity of spectrum component from 400 nm to 700 nm incident upon a zinc oxide zno colloidal sphere fig1 shows that the scattered light prefers the blue green color for the particle size less than 500 nm actually for particle diameter less than 130 nm the shorter wavelengths are scattered most strongly which so called rayleigh scattering with the increase of particle sizes from 100 nm to 500 nm the scattering is dominated with mie scattering and the peak wavelength is shifted between green and violet due to resonance effect there is more than one peak in the wavelength range from 400 nm to 700 mm fig2 and fig3 show the normalized intensity at the angle 136 u00b0 near backward for even intensity light illuminating nanoparticles of diameter 175 nm and 430.

mixing after each addition the following components 0 5 ml of 0 2 m tris hcl ph 7 8 8 9 ml of ethylene glycol and 0 25 ml of 1 m hcl twenty microliters of a salt amino acid energy mixture saem consisting of 0 375 m kcl 10 mm mg ch 3 co 2 2 15 mm glucose 0 25 10 mm amino acids excluding leucine 5 mmatp 1 mmgtp 50 mmtris hcl ph 7 6 10 ul creatinine phosphate creatinine phosphokinase 8 ul 14 c leucine amersham 348 mci mmol and adding 1 5 ul of solutions containing varying concentrations of the gelonin mixture the mixture was incubated for 60 minutes at 30 u00b0 c 14 c leucine incorporation was monitored in an aliquot of the mixture by precipitating synthesized protein on glass fiber filters washing in 10 tca and acetone and monitoring the radioactivity in a beta counter using aquasol scintillation fluid utilizing this assay purified gelonin had a specific activity of 4 u00d7 10 9 u mg protein a unit of gelonin activity is the amount of gelonin protein which causes 50 inhibition of incorporation of 14 c leucine into protein in the cell free assay the gelonin amino acid sequence was determined by the edman degradation method using an automated amino acid sequencer as described in european patent application no ep 257735 large peptides and unfragmented protein were applied to the.

the passage of the armature bodies 10 through the chamber 31 is represented by the arrow 20 the grounding of the armature bodies 10 is effected via the conveyor belt 22 which has clamping devices 23 and is in turn grounded a spray apparatus 32 is integrated with the chamber 31 and via at least one spray location 33 by means of compressed air sprays a metered quantity of powder onto each armature body 10 to that end a so called spray gun or corona gun is disposed at each spray location 33 and its spraying direction is aimed at the particular armature body 10 moving past it such spray guns are available on the market as standard components and are used for instance in painting decorative surfaces the spray guns are connected to a voltage potential of approximately 70 kv for the sake of electrically charging the powder particles the quantity of powder sprayed per armature body 10 is metered such that a layer thickness of preferably 1 0 to 1 5 mm is created on the armature body 10 a coarse plastic powder is used whose powder particles have a mean diameter of more than 150 u03bcm these heavy powder particles improve the overcoming of the faraday effect mentioned above and lead to an improved uniform coating of the slot walls of the axial slots 14 in the armature body 10 powder that does not reach the armature bodies 10 is delivered via a so called u201c overspray u201d line 34 to a powder bin 36 in which the compressed air laden with powder particles is passed through filters and flows out into the environment as waste air arrow 37 the powder particles trapped by.

system for calibrating and adjusting process points to account for variations in machines and circuit boards vision systems are used to locate fiducials on the processing modules and the circuit boards differences between stored locations for fiducials relating to the circuit board and the processing modules are used to adjust the positions of stored process points to achieve improved performance application_number US 26098002 A description 0017 fig1 illustrates a selective wave solder machine 100 incorporating the present invention fig2 illustrates various components within the wave solder machine 100 fig3 a and 3b further illustrate components in the wave solder machine the wave solder machine 100 includes a gantry system 110 for moving a circuit board within the machine the gantry system 110 is controllable for motion in x y z and theta the gantry system 110 includes a circuit board support 120 with attachments 121 122 for the sides of the circuit board alternatively the attachments 121 122 may connect to a jig support or other device holding the circuit board the attachments are designed to mate with an input and an output of the machine to allow circuit boards to be automatically loaded and discharged from the machine the gantry system 110 includes a translation control system 113 for moving the gantry known distances in the x and y directions a height.

the equilibrium conditions of the application temperature pressure and partial pressure of carbon dioxide the design will involve equations of state for prediction of the ph and the subsequent gelation time for higher temperature applications the use of both temperature and ph can accelerate gelation one example is adding polylactic acid pla solids to the composition this chemical is largely inert until a certain temperature is reached at which time the pla decomposes to provide lactic acid that accelerates the gelation a similar effect could be achieved by using encapsulated acid or acidic salts that have a capsule wall that does not release until a higher temperature is achieved in a fifth embodiment the gel composition further comprises a gelling enhancer the gelling enhancer can be a colloidal solid examples include fly ash silica fumed silica titanium dioxide natural solids such as clays synthetic clays talc calcium carbonate latexes nanocarbons and minerals such as boehmite bohmite carbon black graphite etc other gelling enhancers for fracture plugging can include solids as fine silica flour ground nut shells diatomaceous earth ground seashells calcium carbonate fibers and other minerals fibers can be used as synthetic fibers e g kevlar fibers or metal fibers e g cast iron fibers in a sixth embodiment the gel composition further comprises a swellable polymer to trap oil and or water if used for removing water swellable polymers include.

is removed and the curd body develops when the ph of the drained curd is about 5 2 the curd is cooled under a cold water spray and cut into curd pieces of about u215c by u215c by 3 inches for further processing the yield of curd 50 5 moisture and 42 5 fdb fat dry basis was 7114 8 lb 14 82 melted cheese was obtained by placing about 400 lb of the curd pieces into a standard pasta filata cooker and heating directly with hot water to about 130 to 140 u00b0 f no salt was added to the cheese curd or the cooker water a 40 lb batch of extender is prepared by placing 22 5 lb cold water 4 8 lb cold 40 fat whey cream and 0 7 lb sodium tripolyphosphate in a steam injection processor equipped with high and low shear mixing about 2 1 lb of modified food starch frigex w u2014 national starch is added slowly to the cold liquid mixture under high shear mixing after the starch has hydrated the mixture is heated by direct steam to about 170 u00b0 f and held under low shear mixing until the consistency is thick and smooth then 2 1 lb of a starch maltodextrin compound gel 700 u2014 usp technology is melted at about 180 u00b0 f and added to the extender mixture under low shear mixing finally about 4 9 lb of plastic cream is added while stirring and the mixture is heated to 195 u00b0 f for about 10 minutes a 40 lb batch of extender is prepared by placing 3 5 lb cold water 1 8 lb 40 fat whey cream and 0 3 lb sodium tripolyphosphate in a steam injection processor equipped with high and low shear mixing about.

of sulfonation of 0 6 is prepared as follows 1 lignin recovered as a by product from a kraft pulping process is prepared in an aqueous slurry form containing 29 31 solids lignin 2 the ph of the slurry is adjusted to 10 8 to 11 2 with sodium hydroxide 3 the ph adjusted slurry is heated to 74 u00b0 c 76 u00b0 c and 2 7 pound moles formaldehyde per 1 000 pounds lignin solids in the slurry is added thereto 4 the temperature of the slurry is maintained for 8 hours to methylolate the lignin 5 water is added to adjust the methylolated lignin slurry to 20 solids and 0 1 pound mole ammonium hydroxide per 1 000 pounds lignin solids is added thereto 6 the methylolated lignin slurry is isolated with dilute sulfuric acid to a ph of 2 2 5 and filtered with a water wash 7 the methylolated lignin slurry is adjusted to 20 solids and 1 0 pound mole triethanolamine 1 5 pound moles ammonium hydroxide and 1 5 pound moles sulfur dioxide per 1 000 pound moles of lignin are added to the slurry the ph is adjusted to 7 0 7 2 with ammonium hydroxide and heated to a temperature of 95 u00b0 c 100 u00b0 c for 8 hours to carry out the sulfonation reaction 8 the sulfonated lignin amine salt is heated to evaporate water and spray dried in accordance with the procedures set forth in example i during which time excess ammonia is removed from the spray dried product the resultant product is characterized by a dry granule powder form without.

distillation is conducted in two steps first flash distillation is conducted at a temperature less than the reaction temperature under a pressure preferably under vacuum to remove any unreacted ccl 4 and or vcm followed by another vacuum flash distillation at a lower pressure to remove the hcc 240fa reaction product the u201c bottoms u201d stream is recycled back to the reactor the distilled unreacted ccl 4 and vcm may be recycled back to the reactor periodic purges may be applied to avoid accumulation of heavy by products such as hcc 470 isomers in catalyst recycle stream in a later step of the process the present invention provides for the purification of the crude product by distillation fractional vacuum distillation is carried out at about 5 to about 200 mm hg and a temperature of about 50 u00b0 c to about 150 u00b0 c to recover the product it has been discovered that when this purification step is carried out in the presence of a trialkyl phosphate such as tributyl phosphate or other metal chelating compound the distillation yield of purified product is significantly improved while not wishing to be bound by any particular theory it is believed that the tributylphosphate acts to prevent the decomposition of the hcc 240fa product thus in a preferred embodiment the purification step includes the addition of an amount of a metal chelating compound sufficient to improve the hcc 240fa product yield preferably 5 weight percent of tributyl phosphate is used as used herein the singular forms u201c a u201d u201c an u201d and u201c the u201d include plural unless the context clearly dictates otherwise moreover when an amount concentration or other value or parameter is given.

50 supported thereon to a position in which the rear tracks 73 are adjacent to or resting on the upper surface of the bed 34 the tracks 73 are then astride the thighs 32t of a person 32 seated on the bed as illustrated in fig3 the back support tie down bar 115 will then be removed from the clips 116a and moved downwardly to be received by the slots 116 the cloth back support 10 moves downwardly with bar 115 to the back supporting position illustrated in fig3 wherein the back support 110 is taut on the frame 100 the lateral seat edges 92 are then clamped into the slots 91 on the chair frame via the clamp bars for wedges 94 to secure the cloth seats 93 to the rolling chair frame the motor 119 is then reversely operated to drive the gear 121 and shaft 120 to raise the sub frame 49 and track assembly 50 and chair 40 and person 32 supported thereon to a position removed from the bed to the position illustrated in fig3 a referring now more particularly to fig3 the rolling chair 40 with the patient 32 thereon is then forwardly moved the rollers 103 will initially ride on the upper surface 73a of the rear tracks 73 and the front rollers 108 will ride on the upper surface 72a of the front track surfaces 72 when.

fig2 and 3 there is formed laterally in each case a vertical bore 60 the inside diameter of which is less than the width of the bottom surface 38 of the depression 36 and less than the distance between the reinforcing ribs 44 46 in the upper frame part 6 there can be provided instead of the bores 60 lateral recesses 90 92 and 94 as in fig1 in the wall 48 and the bottom surface 38 as in the lower frame 8 the width of the recesses is likewise less than the width of the bottom surface 38 and less than the distance between the reinforcing ribs 44 and 46 the middle frame parts 10 12 as in fig1 and 7 are made as box shaped hollow profiles of aluminum or plastic with inside transversely and longitudinally running reinforcing walls 62 64 in the outer walls 66 68 parallel to the reinforcing walls 62 64 there are formed circular openings 70 72 lying opposite one another for the pipes 4 the radius of curvature of the openings 70 72 corresponds to the radius of the pipes to be received and the maximum depth of which is less than the distance between the outer walls 66 68 and in each case the reinforcing walls 62 64 adjacent to the walls 66.

management console 5 is described separately in the fifth embodiment in the diskarray switch 20 the communications controller 204 acquires the setup information and sets the structural information such as the address space information for each of the diskarray subsets 10 by means of the mp 200 the mp 200 distributes the structural information of the diskarray subset 10 to the each of the host i f nodes 203 and the diskarray i f nodes 202 by way of the crossbar switch 201 when the nodes 202 and 203 receive this information the sp 2021 stored this structural information in the dct 2027 in the diskarray subset 10 the diskarray subset configuration manager means 106 acquires the setup information and stores it in the shared memory 102 the host mpu 1010 and the lower mpu 1030 refer to this setup information in the shared memory 102 and perform configuration management the operation when the read command is issued is described next for the diskarray system 1 with a host u201c 2 u201d fig1 is a model view showing the sequence of frames sent by way of the fiber channel during read operation from the host fig1 a through 13c are flowcharts of the processing in the host i f node 203 during write processing in the following description it is.

and or may be coupled to activation button 162 that may apply lubrication on demand in an embodiment of the present invention concealment of sexual device 120 may be achieved by inserting sexual device 120 into second device 104 and may be secured by threading or the like cap 124 over distal end 108 of second device 104 in operation sexual device 120 may be pulled out of second device 104 by unscrewing cap 124 and thereafter retrieving it for use in an embodiment sexual device 120 may be reversed in orientation from its concealment orientation and may be coupled to distal end 108 of second device 104 in order to increase its usable length in an embodiment of the present invention second device 104 may include semen receptacle 140 the semen accumulated in the semen receptacle 140 may be removed via semen evacuation tube 145 in an embodiment of the present invention the semen receptacle 140 may include a semen liner not shown that may include an environment and or chemicals for keeping sperm alive for a specified period of time in this embodiment semen receptacle 140 may be utilized for accumulating sperm to be used later for artificial reproduction sexual device 120 may telescopically elongate outwards from second device 104 in this arrangement sexual device 120 may be housed with end 126.

b one edge of which coincides with one of the curved edges of the microstrip provided in the dielectric is a slot 4 into which the gas is injected and in which the plasma 5 is generated a substrate 6 to be treated on average perpendicular to the plane of the microstrip and having a warped shape matching the curvature of the dielectric and of the microstrip is driven beneath the device in the direction indicated by the arrow according to this embodiment the substrate is perpendicular to the microstrip the treatment is a post discharge plasma treatment fig2 a and 2 b illustrate schematically a device 7 according to the invention in which the microstrip 8 of warped shape is connected to a very high frequency generator this microstrip 8 is fixed to the actual warped surface of a dielectric 9 b the gas is fed in close to the face 9 a 2 of the dielectric 9 a 1 a 2 and the plasma 10 is generated beneath the face 9 a 2 opposite the microstrip 8 a substrate 11 to be treated having a warped shape matching that of the dielectric 9 b and of the microstrip 8 is driven beneath the device 7 in the direction indicated by the arrow in this embodiment since the substrate 11 is perpendicular to the microstrip the treatment is a direct plasma treatment fig3 a to 3 d show schematically the various ways of connecting the microstrip conductor to the very high frequency power supply thus according to a first embodiment.

and second end 328 a 5 of lever 328 a 3 is configured to selectively engage vdn 127 as seen in fig7 a slider 328 a may include a biasing member in the form of a coil or constant force spring 329 a or as seen in fig7 b slider 328 a may include a biasing member in the form of a tensile spring 329 b or as seen in fig7 c slider 328 a may include a biasing member in the form of a compression spring 329 c biasing members 329 a 329 c are each configured or arranged so as to maintain first end 328 a 4 of lever 328 a 3 in contact with or in engagement with detents or tactile features 131 formed in housing 102 of electrosurgical pencil 100 and to maintain second end 328 a 5 of lever 328 a 3 in engagement with vdn 127 biasing members 329 a 329 c may be secured to and extend between a suitable location on lever 328 a 3 and a suitable location on body portion 328 a 1 in use as slider 328 a is moved distally and proximally relative to housing 102 of electrosurgical pencil 100 first end 328 a 4 of lever 328 a 3 inter engages with detents or tactile features 131 formed in housing 102 of electrosurgical pencil 100 to thereby provide a degree of tactile feedback to the user of electrosurgical pencil 100 while second end 328 a 5 of lever 328 a 3 moves along vdn 127 thereby affecting vdn 127 in particular as first end 328 a 4 of lever 328 a 3 moves from one detent or tactile features 131 to an.

with the concave forming surface 105 of the mold part facing downwards the back surface substrate 201 can be disposed symmetrically on the bottom of the front surface substrate 101 with the convex forming surface 205 of the back surface substrate 101 projecting partially into the concave region of the front surface substrate 101 preferably the back surface substrate 201 can be dimensioned such that the convex surface 205 thereof engages the outer edge of the concave surface 105 of the front curve substrate 101 throughout its circumference thereby cooperating to form a sealed cavity containing the saline solution 301 and the oil 305 referring now to fig4 ultra thin optical pieces 102 and 202 assembled and sealed together containing one or more liquids therebetween according to aspects of the present disclosure are depicted the front curve substrate 101 and the back curve substrate 201 are assembled together forming the mold assembly 400 used to join the ultra thin optical pieces 102 and 202 with the saline solution 301 and the oil solution 305 therein in some embodiments the mold assembly 400 may include a groove 401 in one of the substrates 201 or 202 that can be used to deliver an adhesive used to seal the saline solution 301 and the oil solution 305 between the ultra thin optical pieces 102 and 202 in alternative embodiments the.

of course there is some clearance between the vertical sides of the rails of the rack and the outside edges of the pallet thus in another exemplary embodiment the lengths of beams 26 are sufficiently short to accommodate the resultant play or possible shifting from side to side of a pallet mounted in the rack thus in all cases with regard to this exemplary embodiment the end of a beam 26 will not be above the vertical extension of the innermost edge of the rail in other exemplary embodiments e g where one end may extend beyond said vertical extension and the other does not the length and or position of the beams may chosen accordingly to anticipate shifting within the rack in accordance with the above exemplary embodiments in the event of a fire the plastic of the pallet softens and loses strength and or burns away and cross beam 26 will no longer be supported at one or both of its ends as the plastic softens or disappears the one end of the pallet will fall from the rail and the pallet will collapse into the space between the rails referring now to fig6 in another exemplary embodiment at least one beam 26 a is offset although all beams may be from one lengthwise edge so that one end of the beam.

extent of the conveyor train since as indicated above all of the framework members 14 are identical with the exception of the framework members which contain the drives for chain 44 only one will be discussed in detail the belt training system will be discussed in detail below as can be seen in fig3 the upper portion 32 of each framework member 14 includes left and right conveyor belt support members 100 and 102 support members 100 and 102 are bolted to the side portions 34 and 36 of the bottom portion 30 there exists a generally open area between member 100 and 102 directly above bottom portion 30 a plurality of rollers comprise the means mounted on each framework member 14 for moveably supporting the orbital conveying belt 12 within the open area of the carriage train an upper series of rollers are provided for supporting the upper conveying run portion 12a of the belt 12 and a lower series of rollers are provided for supporting the lower run portion 12b of the belt 12 edge rollers 104 and 106 are mounted on brackets 108 and 109 respectively which are mounted across the bottom portion 30 thereby supporting edge rollers 104 and 106 the brackets 108 109 are attached in any convenient manner.

pipe sections 116 mixing vessels 118 extruders 120 and other parts 122 and 124 which each receive quantities of spinning solution sufficient cause the spinning solution to pass through at least one temperature sensor is arranged in each of the sectors set up in this way to increase safety several sensors 110 112 can be arranged in a sector 122 preferably the temperature sensors consist of so called dual sensors dual sensors comprise two temperature sensors that measure the temperature of the spending solution at nearly the same location and relay a temperature signal to the system controller 124 wherein the temperature sensors of this sensor pair additionally compare the measuring results and issue a separate signal given deviations in the measuring results the separate signal also called a defect signal alerts the system controller to the failure of a temperature sensor in this embodiment the system controller 124 is connected by a safety circuit not shown with the individual companion heating systems 130 132 134 136 and 138 which can be automatically deactivated by the system controller 124 in response to a defect signal the embodiment of this invention with dual temperature sensors further enhances safety suitable temperature sensors are commercially available under the designation pt 100 measuring sensors detect a localized overheating of the spinning solution in at least one of the sectors and the temperature values are relayed to the safety circuit 170 the preset parameters of the first limiting temperature and the second limiting temperature are provided as switching points in the safety circuit the cited parameters are variable and set as a function of the used spinning solution in the present example a first limiting.

and the like the wire 106 which is extended along near cervical area of lingual surface is brazed between the c clasps 103 as shown in fig3 and 4 the resin plate 102 is provided along a side edge of a palate and has unevenness fitting with inside surfaces of teeth the reinforcing wire 104 is extended from the c clasps 103 along the inside surface of the teeth and the bridge wire 105 traversing a rear edge of the palate is suspended and brazed between the c clasps 103 note that in this embodiment the second molars 126 or first molars may be surrounded by the c clasps 103 according to such a retainer 10 l in addition to the effects of the retainer 100 the retaining force can be increased by the labial wire 106 a retainer 111 shown in fig5 has a form in which adams clasps 109 are used around the first molars 125 in this way adams clasps may be used instead of the c clasps 103 in a retainer 121 shown in fig6 the first molars 125 and the second molars 126 or first molars are surrounded by bifurcated c clasps 107 this makes it possible to induce articulation of teeth and tusks in an eruptive phase a retainer 131 shown in fig7 has a form in which resin 108 is added to the labial wire 106 in the anterior teeth as shown in fig8 in the retainer 101 shown in fig2 the retainer 131 makes over treatment for the respective teeth and tusks possible.

tubes about two inches in diameter and about u00bc inch thick walls also shown is a second magnifying lens 18 forming a compound lens using convex lens in series with the first magnifying lens 14 which concentrate the solar rays and make the rays hotter and more powerful and which also be used to capture solar energy from the sun 16 for transmission to the first magnifying lens 14 and then onto the steam grid 12 for increasing the solar energy transfer from the sun to steam grid 12 each magnifying lens 14 18 is supported on a stanchion 20 having a base 86 which is shown mounted onto a rotating platform 22 wherein the platform has an attachment member 24 for connection to an electrical motor 26 which turns the platform on which the entire present invention 10 is disposed so as to maintain the first and second magnifying lens 14 18 substantially perpendicular to the sun 16 so that they receive maximum available solar energy from the sun platform 22 is capable of 0 to 360 degree rotation to be user selected by the operator depending on the angle of sun 16 relative to the present invention 10 fluid is supplied to grid system 12 by supply pump 46 which receives fluid from fluid reservoir 48 which serves as the main supply of fluid for the present invention 10 direction arrows 90 indicate in the standard manner the direction of fluid flow through the system of the present invention 10 reservoir 48 could be an open or closed reservoir and it could be fed or supplied from a conventional water supply including.

with a production tube a second embodiment of the milling head is shown in fig6 this embodiment of the milling head 140 can be fitted with a check valve comprising a ball seat 142 a check ball 144 and a spring 146 it can be seen that as milling fluid passes downhole through the fluid path in the milling head 140 the check ball 144 can be lifted off its seat 142 against the bias of the spring 146 to allow flow out the lower end of the work string a kick or pressure excursion sometimes occurs in the formation fluids which could create an undesirable flow in the uphole direction through the work string to prevent this the spring 146 biases the check ball 144 toward engagement with its seat 142 as pressure below the milling head 140 increases above the drilling fluid pressure this causes the check ball 144 to seat more securely thereby preventing flow in the uphole direction a third embodiment of the apparatus 210 of the present invention is shown in fig7 and 8 in this embodiment the mill body 212 is secured to the milling head 214 by shear pins 216 in shear pin bores 224 and 226 in the mill body 212 and the milling head 214 respectively flow passages 228 are provided through the milling head 214 however in this embodiment the check valve comprises a swing check type valve with a check valve body 262 assembled in the milling head 214 and with a flapper valve 264 which is pivotably mounted to the check valve body 262 by a pivot pin 266 the check valve body 262 can be retained in the milling head 214 by one or more snap rings or pins as is known in the art.

the sealing surface if movement or flexing result in contact between the insert and the opposed sealing surface application_number US 20467094 A description the apparatus a is illustrated in fig1 in the embodiment illustrated an on off tool is shown which has a top sub 10 including a thread 12 at its upper end 14 top sub 10 has an internal thread 16 which facilitates the connection of j slot assembly 38 j slot assembly 38 holds the insert 20 against shoulder 22 on top sub 10 insert 20 has a pair of internal seals 24 and 26 and an external seal 28 seals 24 26 and 28 are preferably made of nitrile rubber however other resilient compounds such as aflas u00ae made by asahi glass company kalrez u00ae made by dupont inc etc can be used without departing from the spirit of the invention in the preferred embodiment seals 24 26 and 28 are bonded to insert 20 on three sides thereof however different arrangements of seals and different seal types can be used without departing from the spirit of the invention in the preferred embodiment seals 24 26 and 28 are made of hydrogenated nitrile baker polymer specification e801 for example seals 24 and 26 can be used as shown with an o ring seal located in a groove used to replace seal 28 alternatively instead of using two seals 24 and 26 only one seal or more than two seals can be used without departing from the spirit of the invention in fact it is within the purview of the invention to use a nonmetallic insert 20 in combination with a bonded seal on at least one of its faces top sub 10 has a bore 30 therethrough seal nipple 32 extends.

in basic form comprises an air compressor a turbine portion and a combustor although the turbine portion is only a single element of the entire assembly the entire assembly is commonly referred to as a gas turbine or gas turbine engines in operation of a simple single shaft gas turbine air is compressed in a compressor after which it enters a combustion chamber where the temperature is increased through the combustion of fuel while the pressure remains essentially constant the resulting high temperature air is then exhausted through the turbine portion where it performs work typically by causing turbine blades to rotate typically such turbines are used to drive electric power generators which convert the rotational energy of the turbine portion to electricity in accordance with the present invention the two gas turbines of fig1 are individually modified as follows the first gas turbine 10 is modified for use as a motor driven compressor thus forming a portion of the compression train of the preferred embodiment while the second gas turbine is modified for use as a turboexpander thus forming a portion of the expansion train of the preferred embodiment gas turbine 10 comprises a turbine element 15 and a compressor 40 connected to a shaft 30 clutch devices 45 50 are provided in gas turbine 10 for isolating compressor 40 turbine element 15 and a motor 35 advantageously motor 35 can be the original generator that was.

on an eye tracking system is described application_number US 35647499 A description fig1 is a schematic diagram showing one preferred embodiment of an eye tracking system 100 in accordance with the present invention the eye tracking system 100 includes a position detection device 20 control electronics 50 and a scanner 60 to track the eye movement during a photo refractive surgery the tracking system 100 incorporates with a reference 10 affixed on the eye 11 the position detection device 20 projects an infrared illumination beam 4 on the reference 10 detects the position of the reference 10 and thus detects any displacement of the subject 39 s eye 11 using the positioning signal 26 from the output of the position detection device 20 the control electronics 50 controls the scanner 60 to steer a surgical laser beam 62 to follow the movement of the subject 39 s eye 11 the reference 10 is a retro reflective disk with a diameter of a few millimeters the reference disk 10 should be attached onto the cornea of the eye 11 and located near and outside the surgical area practically the reference disk 10 can be attached onto the cornea simply by moisture the reference disk 10 has a retro reflective surface to enhance significantly the backward scattering of an illumination beam the position detection device 20 consists of an infrared light source 21 a beam splitter.

from the surface of the balloon to the artery wall during inflation of the balloon the amount of drug transferred is typically less than 25 of the total amount of drug available on the surface after inflation the balloon can be rewrapped and removed from the artery or redeployed elsewhere to another lesion site little drug is lost during removal process and the oil based formulations provide for a lubricious coating to the balloon without using polymers or hydrogels when used to coat metal coronary stents the oil based formulations permit uniform coating of the entire metal surface coating can be applied to both the stent and the delivery balloon at the same time unlike the balloon coated option that is removed from the artery immediately after deployment the coated stent remains in place and will slowly deliver the entire amount of drug to the artery wall the dissolution rate of the oil based hydrophobic drug system is compatible with sustained release delivery of the drug to the artery wall without a controlling polymer or hydrogel and wound healing potential as vitamin e 39 s antioxidant activity may augment the anti restenotic activity of the drug and enhance wound healing at the site where the stent struts are embedded in the artery wall the current formulation approach applied to an angioplasty balloon demonstrates rapid pressure transfer delivery of a sufficient amount of water insoluble materials to the artery wall using a non polymer hydrogel base consisting of oil capable of dispersing the drug the formulation approach works to keep a lipid material in a very deliverable form without further solid state changes that could lead to ineffective delivery the delivery.

so that the yield of the process can be improved the final purification step may be carried out by any method such as distillation and or column chromatography accordingly compounds of the 2 1 alkoxyethenyl 1 pyrroline type can be obtained by this process and may be used for the production of encapsulated 2 acetyl 1 pyrroline it has also been found that one of the compounds of this type namely 2 1 ethoxyethenyl 1 pyrroline has certain organoleptic qualities which enable it to be used on its own or in combination as a flavouring agent these organo leptic characteristics may be described as grilled fruity hazel nuts and reminiscent of those of pyrazine thus 2 1 ethoxyethenyl 1 pyrroline may be used on its own as a flavouring agent for example as a substitute for certain alkyl pyrazines the quantity to be added to a food product depends primarily on the nature of the product and on the final effect required 2 1 ethoxyethenyl 1 pyrroline may also be used in the preparation of a flavouring composition for example a flavouring composition containing up to 0 1 by weight 2 1 ethoxyethenyl 1 pyrroline which has a flavour of corn bread or potatoes the composition thus obtained may be added to the end food product in a quantity of 1 to 2 grams per kilo end product the invention is illustrated in more detail in the following examples in which parts and percentages are by weight and wherein examples 4 and 5 illustrate two processes for the production of 2 acetyl 1 pyrroline in aqueous solution examples 6 to 9 illustrate three processes for the production of.

brake shoe 44b is attached to shoe attachment portion 42b such that brake shoe 44b can be adjusted vertically to ensure proper engagement between brake shoe 44b and rim 18 of bicycle wheel 19 brake shoe 44b has a shoe fastening pin not seen in the figs a shoe holder 122b which is fastened to the tip end of the shoe fastening pin a nut 124b threadedly coupled to the free end of the shoe fastening pin and a friction pad 126b constructed of a suitable friction material which is attached to the shoe holder 122b as seen in fig2 link member 43a as seen in fig4 6 has a somewhat u shaped cross section with a pair of connecting portions 130a connected together by a central portion 132a each of the connecting portions 130a has a hole 134a in its lower end and a hole 136a in its upper end for receiving the pins 64a and 119a respectively to couple mounting member 38a to brake shoe attachment portion 42a more specifically the first pin 64a is used to couple the lower end of link member 43a to mounting member 38a pin 119a is used to couple the upper end of control link member 43a to brake attachment portion 42a link member 43a together with brake arm 40a brake shoe attachment portion 42a and mounting member 48a forms a parallel push mechanism in the form of a parallelogram such that the brake shoe 44a moves in a substantially straight movement to engage the rim.

acid and disperse dyes such assistants being a combination of dibenzyl ether with a compound of the formula str1 wherein x is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen methyl and ethyl application_number US 91226578 A description dibenzyl ether alone was found to be an effective dyeing assistant for acid dyeing of specialty nylons comprising 40 or greater of the condensation product of 4 4 39 diamino dicyclohexyl methane and decanodicarboxylic acid having the basic repeating unit str3 however it did not give optimum results with disperse dyes with this specialty nylon a representative alkylene carbonate did not give optimum results with either acid or disperse dyes however combinations of dibenzyl ether with certain alkylene carbonates gave assistants whose performance could not be predicted by a mere arithmetic averaging of the properties of the individual constituents since the combinations generally were effective for both acid and disperse dyeing of the aforedescribed specialty nylons it was further observed that when dyeing the aforedescribed specialty nylon dye compositions comprising the disperse dye eastman polyester navy blue 2r lsw eastmand chemical products inc c i disperse blue 79 with the combinations as assistants gave commercially acceptable dyeing results this contrasts with the outcome found when the individual members of the combinations were used with this dye all gave unacceptable results due to the dyed fiber being a blue gray hue rather than a navy blue or due to uneven dyeing or due to incomplete.

is capable of reducing a mechanical vibration generated from the cage by obtaining a torque of the winding machine from a speed controlled current command and an acceleration of the winding machine from the torque and the present acceleration of the winding machine to compensate for and output the value of the current command when a high speed elevator having a low mechanical resonant frequency is operated application_number US 74964296 A description referring to the accompanying drawings the speed control apparatus for compensating a vibration of an elevator according to the present invention will now be described in detail fig3 is a schematic diagram showing the construction of a speed control apparatus for compensating a vibration of an elevator according to the present invention as shown in this drawing the elevator includes a winding machine 118 having a motor and a sheave a cage 121 and a counterweight 122 for performing a vertical movement according to a rotation of the winding machine 118 through cables 119 120 the speed control apparatus includes a pulse generator 117 for outputting a pulse signal p1 in accordance with a rotation of the winding machine 118 a pulse amplifier 115 for receiving the pulse signal p1 to output a pulse signal p2 corresponding to a rotating speed of the winding machine 118 a first subtractor 112 for subtracting the.

be sewn in the manner as generally described with regard to the foregoing embodiments however when reinforcing a sail it has been found that the reinforcing ropes should extend within approximately 1 foot of each other in the area of the center preferably approximately a 10 inch diameter circle of cloth should be left free of rope in the area of the center in order to permit the cloth to equalize the stresses thereagainst under varying wind pressures therefore in this embodiment the reinforcing ropes extend generally from the corners to a point within approximately 10 inches of the center of the sail as with the prior sea anchor embodiments the reinforcing rope should be placed on the downwind side 52 of the sail so that the reinforcing ropes have the sail urged against the ropes as the sail fills with wind as a further modification the reinforced sail of fig7 and 8 may be used in emergencies as a sea anchor in order to accomplish this double function a loop 60 is formed at the end of each of the reinforcing ropes in the event a sudden storm or heavy seas were encountered the sail would be dropped and bail ropes could be attached by tying or mechanical fasteners to the looped ends of the reinforcing cord and extended outwardly therefrom a distance as described with respect to the prior embodiments the ends of each of the bails would then be tied together and secured to a running line which may extend a 150 ft to 200 ft as the reinforcing cords are stitched to the sail in the manner prescribed with respect to the embodiments of fig1 through 6 the triangular sail is already adapted for deployment without further.

example fats of animal origin such as cetin spermaceti beeswax lanolin perhydrosqualene turtle oil and the like plant fats in the form of oils fats or waxes such as sweet almond oil avocado oil olive oil sesame oil or macadamia oil optionally hydrogenated coconut or palm kernel oils cocoa butter carnauba wax or montan wax and synthetic oils consisting of esters and or ethers of glycerol or of glycol such as for example those described in french patents no 75 24656 2 281 916 75 24657 2 281 743 and 75 24658 2 281 744 in addition to more or less oxidizable fats the cosmetic or dermopharmaceutical compositions according to the invention can also contain oxidation sensitive products such as for example vitamin f or u03b2 carotene the cosmetic or dermopharmaceutical compositions according to the invention are provided in particular in the form of oily solutions of water in oil or oil in water emulsions of optionally anhydrous solid products of lotions or of microdispersions or of vesicular dispersions it being possible for the constituent lipids of the vesicles to be of ionic or nonionic type or else a mixture of these the compositions according to the invention can also be provided in the form of milks for skin care of creams creams for the face for the hands for the body anti sun creams make up removing creams foundation creams liquid foundations make up removing milks anti sun milks.

a compressed state the clip and compressed material can then be folded upwardly as shown in fig7 and 78 to form a rigidification along the end of the panel the rigidified band of material can be adhesively secured in position after it has been folded upwardly as illustrated in fig7 and 79 if desired a panel 200 that has been modified to be suspendable from or supportable by the t shaped support members 60 is shown in fig8 u2013 96 with a plurality of the panels shown in fig8 installed in underlying relationship to existing acoustical panels 202 supported on support members 60 as will be appreciated each panel 200 is of the general type previously described and as seen in fig8 u2013 86 has an outer sheet 204 a connector sheet 206 and a plurality of parallel cellular dividers 208 therebetween the cellular dividers are preferably as previously described compressible in nature and best seen in fig8 u2013 91 as being formed from individual strips of material that have been creased and folded so as to define elongated tubes having two truncated triangular areas 210 and 212 superimposed upon each other the dividers 208 have foldable intermediate side walls 214 with fold lines 216 which allow the side walls to either fold inwardly as shown in fig8 u2013 91 or fold outwardly as shown in fig8 and 88 depending upon a number of conditions including the type of binder used in the fiberglass matting material from which the dividers are made and the treatment of the dividers to heat and cold which.

3 to about 6 water aztreonam l lysine may also be obtained by spray drying an aqueous solution of aztreonam l lysine the aztreonam l lysine salt obtained by spraying is a white to off white powder the water content of the product obtained by this method is between about 4 to about 7 the preferred spray drying parameters are listed in the following table the parameters apply to a buchi laboratory spray drier b 191 aspirator rate 31 5 m 3 h inlet concentration outlet pump speed temperature spray flow of solution temperature ml h u00b0 c l h m m u00b0 c 240 750 115 195 400 800 7 29 45 127 the outlet temperature depends mainly on the pump speed inlet temperature spray flow and concentration of solution using optimal drying parameters the product exhibited good handling properties i e it was free flowing the particle size can also be influenced by regulating the specific drying parameters the l lysine salt of aztreonam can also be isolated by precipitating aztreonam l lysine from an aqueous solution the aqueous solution of aztreonam l lysine is preferably dropped into an aqueous or anhydrous organic solvent e g ethanol acetone etc the water content of the alcohol used for the precipitation is preferably between about 0 and 9 m m the aztreonam l lysine obtained using these methods was stable in the sense that during 3 months at 2 8 u00b0 c.

as one or more two way serial port connections or by a two way radio frequency wireless connection such as a bluetooth or a wi fi connection the control module 20 sends commands to and receives messages from the speed and distance detection device 40 and alert module 50 directly with each an typical message received by the control module 20 from the speed distance detection device 40 might be a speed measurement of a vehicle passing through the minimum distance plain control module 20 also sends and receives commands from the gui 30 the control module 20 receives and stores all values set by the gui 30 and uses these values to send commands to the detection device 40 when the control module 20 receives speed measurement signals from the detection device 40 at or above the minimum speed 80 set by the gui 30 at distance 90 it signals the alarm 50 to start a sequence the control module 20 is also coupled to the at least one power source 60 the control module could be powered by direct current or alternating current in either case the connection would consist of a positive wire connection and a negative or ground wire connection between the power source 60 and the control module 20 power is required by this module to operate the processor and storage.

injury 1 minimal injury and 10 indicated that the plants were dead in the following examples the herbicidal and antidotal compounds are referred to by number as follows the following abbreviations are also used to indicate the various methods of treatment discussed above ______________________________________corn injury rating after 4 weeks antidote herbicide iaherbicide kg ha application none seed 0 5 sw ______________________________________none 0 0iia 002 pre 7 2 004 pre 7 3iib 25 pre 5 2 5 pre 6 2eptam 6 ppi 10 7 5______________________________________ sw percent seed weight eptam sethyl dipropylthiocarbamate ______________________________________wheat injury rating after 7 weeks conc antidote in soil iaherbicide ppb none seed 0 5 sw______________________________________none 0 0iic 25 0 0 5 2 0 1 0 4 0 1 5 6 4 2 6 5 4 3 6 5 4 5 ______________________________________ partially headed out not headed out all other treatments headed out ______________________________________crop injury rating after 5 weeks antidotesherbicide ia 2 kg ha ic 0 5 kg ha pre kg ha none row ppi row ppi______________________________________cornnone 0 0 0 0 0iia 0 062 9 5 8 5 8 2 8 0 8 2iib 0 5 8 5 3 0 4 3 3 0 3 0soybeansnone 0 0 0 0 0iia 0 062 9 9 9 9 9iib 0 5 9 9 9 9 9ricenone 0 0 0 0 0iia 0 062 9 5 9 5 8 8 8 0 7 5iib 0 5 5 4 5 5 5 5 6 2______________________________________ ______________________________________corn injury rating after 4 weeks antidotes seed row postkg 5 sw 2 kg ha 2 kg ha herb ha none ia iak sup ia iak sup ia iak sup ______________________________________prenone 0 0 0 0 0 0 0iia 0.

d represents the distance between the microphones 1 a and 1 b c sound velocity and u03c6 the angle between the direction 3 of sound approaching and the connection line 2 between the microphones 1 a and 1 b block 4 represents a discrimination unit to which signals f t and r t are sent the outputs of the discrimination circuit 4 are designated f t and r t the amplitude of f t and r t depends on angle u03c6 wherein a cardioid pattern is obtained for example that means that the amplitude a of signals f and r corresponds to equation 2 a a 0 2 u2062 1 cos u2062 u2062 u03c6 2 a 0 represents the maximum amplitude obtained if the source of sound is on the connection line 2 between microphones 1 a and 1 b which means that the maximum amplitude of f t is at u03c6 0 and of r t at u03c6 u03c0 signals f t and r t are processed further in the processing unit 5 the output of which is designated with ff t and rr t in fig2 the discrimination unit 4 is explained further the first signal f t is sent into a first subtractor 6 a the output of which is delayed in a delaying unit 7 a for a predetermined time t 0 signal r t is sent to a second subtractor 6 b the output of which is sent to a second delaying unit 7 b which.

the document multiplied by the word 39 s idf value in the example all frequencies turn out to be 1 so the weight of a word in a document becomes the word 39 s idf value the calculation of a sim value for a query and a document can now be explained by reference to the similarity procedure in fig2 and a small sample calculation consider the words used in the original query of fig5 and the words used in document 4 of fig6 these two lists are called the query word list and the document word list and they are the inputs to the similarity procedure step 405 sets the sim value to zero step 410 sets qword to 34 fast 34 since 34 fast 34 is not in document 4 step 420 causes movement to step 430 since 34 fast 34 does trigger semantic categories step 430 causes movement to step 435 and step 440 causes cat to be 34 515 34 and qp to be 1 15 at step 445 there is no word in document 4 that triggers 34 515 34 so step 435 is executed again steps 435 440 and 445 re repeatedly executed with no movement to step 450 until category 34 174 34 is used at step 440 cat eventually becomes 34 174 34 and qp becomes 2 15 since there are two of 34 174 34 in.

transferred from the primary coil to the secondary coil and ultimately to a load connected to the secondary side an example of a preferred embodiment of apparatus for wireless power transmittal according to the invention is shown in fig1 the apparatus 100 includes a number of primary coils 102 for transmitting power to a secondary side receiver not shown in fig1 a driver circuit 104 is coupled to the coils 102 preferably the driver circuit 104 is capable of adjustment in terms of frequency and amplitude in order to adjust transmission parameters suitable startup circuitry is provided in the driver circuit 104 in order to enable the apparatus 100 to achieve appropriate bias levels prior to driving the primary side coils 102 this preferably provides the capability for a smooth startup that mitigates or eliminates wasted energy and radiated emissions adjustable resistors may also be provided in order to regulate the amplitude of the transmitted signal for output at the primary side coils 102 the primary side coils 102 are preferably arranged so that they do not share the same plane it has been found that providing primary side coils in non coplanar configuration tends to provide favorable signal transmission coverage to a space in proximity to the primary side coils thus it may be anticipated that placement of one or receivers having secondary coil s in this proximity facilitates reception of the transmitted signal s in all or most secondary coil orientations as can be seen in the example of fig1 the primary coils 102 are non coplanar arranged around the periphery of a container 106 in this case box shaped.

with a thin but thorough coating of 34 composite soil 34 and then baked at 246 u00b0 c 475 u00b0 f for 1 5 hours smooth and even baked soil surfaces were used for subsequent testing a section broken from a baked soiled slide was placed in a 50 ml beaker with the baked soiled side up five grams of the cleaning composition under test was placed on the baked soiled surface the beaker was placed in a 90 u00b0 c 193 u00b0 f oven and checked every 30 minutes for percentage of soil removal when 100 of the soil was removed or the cleaning composition had evaporated the test was terminated the results are given in table 3 below table 3______________________________________ soil removalexample base solvent 1 hr 1 5 hr ______________________________________1 mea bee 75 100a mea bee 100 b dow oven cleaner 0 100______________________________________ consumer product on market in these examples various amine bases were tested as 10 wt mixtures in an aqueous solution containing 10 wt bee in examples 2 7 co 2 was added by adding dry ice to each cleaning composition until the ph was reduced into the range of 7 to 8 the identities of the amines tested and the results obtained expressed in terms of percent of soil removed are given in table 4 below the preparation and testing procedures given in examples 1 a and b were used table 4__________________________________________________________________________percent soil removal various aminesexample2 3 4 5 6 7 c d e f g hbase nba dba tpa mea dea tea nba dba tpa mea dea tea__________________________________________________________________________30 min 0 0 0 0 0 0 100 20 0 50 0 01 hr 0.

therethrough and a pair of rolls 31 withdraw the yarn plug from the tubular stuffer box the yarn plug then advances onto a cooling roll 32 and at least partially loops about same the cooling roll 32 is rotated at a slow circumferential speed it is porous and an air current is sucked through the roll from the outside to the inside thereby cooling the yarn plug 33 subsequently the yarn is again singled in that it is pulled out from the yarn plug the point of exit is indicated at numeral 34 but it should be emphasized that the point of exit is not constant due to unavoidable irregularities of the yarn plug consequently the tension of the advancing single yarn fluctuates to withdraw the yarn at the point of exit 34 a feed system 9 in accordance with the invention is used in the illustrated embodiment feed system 9 is looped at an angle of approximately 180 u00b0 the circumferential speed is more than 3 above the yarn speed as a result the yarn tension is very considerably reduced downstream of feed system 9 and the fluctuations of the yarn tension are substantially lessened a looping feed system 35 may now follow which is believed to result in a further steadying of the fluctuations in the yarn tension it is however expected that in normal cases of application the feed system 9 of the present invention will suffice to achieve a uniform result in a subsequent entanglement nozzle 16 in which an air jet is blown onto the yarn transversely of its axis which results.

is not affected by most wavelengths that alter its light transmissivity or clarity the lens 50 is made from material having high light transmissivity such as for example only glass quartz high temperature and transparent plastic or a combination of these materials the lens 50 is placed on top of and adheres to the encapsulation material 46 the lens 50 is not rigidly bonded to the reflector 40 this u201c floating lens u201d design enables the encapsulant 46 to expand and contract under high and low temperature conditions without difficulty for instance when the die package 10 is operating or being subjected to a high temperature environment the encapsulant 46 experiences greater volumetric expansion than the cavity space that contains it by allowing the lens 50 to float up somewhat freely on top of the encapsulant 46 no encapsulant will be squeezed out of its cavity space likewise when the die package 10 is subjected to a cold temperature the encapsulant 46 will contract more than the other components that make up the cavity space for the encapsulant 46 the lens will float freely on top of the encapsulant 46 as the latter shrinks and its level drops hence the reliability of the die package 10 is maintained over relatively large temperature ranges as the thermal stresses induced on the encapsulant 46 is reduced by the floating lens design in some embodiments the lens 50 defines a recess 52 see fig3 having a.

separating roller 24 are connected to a motor not shown for activating the feed roller 20 in fig1 reference numeral 43 denotes a front plate for aligning the leading edges of sheets 18 on the sheet tray 16 referring to fig2 the feeding pressure regulator 22 mainly includes a feed stay 44 a feeding pressure varying motor 46 step motor a rack 48 a pressure applying arm 50 and a position detecting substrate 52 the rack 48 is movable transversely of the sheets 18 by the feeding pressure varying motor 46 the pressure applying arm 50 applies a pressure to the feed arm 40 the position detecting substrate 52 detects a lateral displacement of the rack 48 the feeding pressure varying motor 46 includes a worm 54 attached on its rotary shaft and transmits its rotational force to the rack 48 via a worm wheel 56 and a pinion 58 integral therewith the rack 48 has a slit 48a for moving itself a lateral movement of the rack 48 is controlled by a pair of stepped screws 60 as shown in fig2 a pressure applying spring 64 has its one end connected to one end of the rack 48 via a hook bracket 62 and has the other end thereof coupled to the pressure applying arm 50 via a pulley 66 the pressure applying arm 50 is supported by a shaft 68 attached to the feed stay 44 and is longitudinally movable returning to fig1 the other end of the pressure applying spring 64 is positioned below a rotational center of the pressure applying arm 50 in other words the rotational moment is generated at the pressure applying arm 50 by an urging force of.

optimized to a particular project having site specific issues demands and conditions an important feature of the ag layer 24 88 is that it must be more permeable than both the underlying sediment 16 and the overlying ab and bb layer 22 90 so that the ag layer creates a long preferential flow path 25 and or provides sufficient contact and residence times to enable reactions e g sorption complexation destruction and or precipitation to occur to facilitate the capture and removal of contaminants from pore fluids e g groundwater and or gas as the contaminated pore fluid preferentially flows into and through the ag layer 24 88 the contaminated pore fluid is actively treated until it daylights at the leftmost extent of the ag layer 24 and enters into the overlying water column 10 or surface water the exposed section of the ag layer also facilitates the dissipation of positive pore water pressure associated with upwelling pore fluid active reactive sediment capping systems have been described above in connection with fig1 in particular the reactive capping systems of aquablok ltd utilize a composite particle comprising a core or aggregate material in combination with various amendments such as sorbents in accordance with the present invention the reactive layer portion or material within such systems may employ a self regenerating reactive material as described below as described herein combinations of materials may be used in forming either of the two major layers of a capping system for example the bb layer of the bb ag system is itself a blend of ab composite particles with aggregate other materials such as slag clays sand mortars binders etc might be used in combination with ab particles for the impermeable layer which should have a hydraulic conductivity of 1.

the region of the appurtenant feed which upon the first revolution of the needle cylinder displaces the connected 3 2 way pneumatic valve 15 into a position in which a pressurized air impulse of short duration is passed from the source through the corresponding check valve into duct 10 as a result chamber 18 is pressurized lifting the piston 4 whereupon pawl 11 is also lifted out of engagement with the slot 16 by this action spring 13 causes the lever 1a to pivot counterclockwise in the direction of arror b swinging the guide 1 into operative position as shown in fig2 as the pawl 11 is released from slot 16 it is caused to slide over the edge of the hub fig5 which because of its curvature acts to additionally force the piston 4 into its uppermost position simultaneously the piston 5 which moves freely in its cylinder 5a is moved by the rear arm of the lever 1a into its upper position the check valve 14 does not permit any pressure drop in line 10 due to feed back and thus the correct operation is assured even with short duration air impulse when guide 1 has however reached its operative position secured by spring 13 then air slowly escapes from below piston 4 and the pawl 11 due to the lack of sealing in its mounting in the body 6 the guide is held in the operative position throughout knitting by the bias of spring 13 in order to disengage the yarn guide 1 from its operative position the switching of one of the 3 2 valves 15 leading to duct 8 is effected from machine control drum or the control chain this valve 15 is brought.

can be otherwise combined separated interchanged and or rearranged without departing from the disclosed systems or methods additionally the shapes and sizes of components are also exemplary and unless otherwise specified can be altered without affecting the disclosed systems or methods throughout the entirety of the present disclosure use of the articles u201c a u201d or u201c an u201d to modify a noun can be understood to be used for convenience and to include one or more than one of the modified noun unless otherwise specifically stated fig1 illustrates a holder 10 mounted on a golf glove 12 for illustrative purposes the holder 10 is described for use with golf glove 12 though the features of the holder described herein are equally applicable when mounted on other golf accessories and or sport apparel in the exemplary embodiment of fig1 holder 10 is mounted on the closure assembly of the glove 12 though other locations on the glove 12 can be contemplated as is known such closure assemblies can include a tab or flap 14 attached to one edge 16 of a slit opening on the rear face 18 of the glove 12 the flap 14 mates with a corresponding portion on the opposite side of the slit opening preferably the flap 14 can have an inner surface of fabric loop fastener material not shown in fig1 and the corresponding portion can have the mating hook fastener material on its outer surface though the.

the ball cage sleeve 56 toward the end of the release tool 50 urges the gripping balls 60 up the tapered grooves 54 until the gripping balls 60 project from the sleeve 56 and engage the internal wall of the locking sleeve 17 once the gripping balls 60 engage the locking sleeve 17 the release tool 50 is pulled back out from the male connector 3 the friction between the locking sleeve 17 and gripping balls 60 cause the gripping balls 60 to be urged further toward the end of the release tool 50 thereby increasing the force with which the gripping balls 60 engage the locking sleeve 17 the release tool 50 therefore pulls the locking sleeve 17 toward the nose cone 13 against the spring loading of the locking sleeve 17 until the ball grooves 41 are adjacent the locking balls 39 and the latch pin feet 31 are centred over the depressions 21 in this position the locking balls 39 are free to move into the ball grooves 41 and the male connector 3 is therefore unlocked from the female connector since the male and female connector assembly is intended in use to be substantially vertically oriented the male connector and attached bend stiffener are pulled down against the action of the gripping balls 60 by gravity consequently the release tool 50 and male connector 3 remain coupled together even after the male connector 3 is unlatched from the female connector 5 the coupled release tool 50 and male connector 3 are then lowered down out from the female connector 5 as shown in fig5 and recovered as the male connector is removed from the female connector the latch pins no longer abut the inner surface of the female connector and are urged radially outwardly by their.

ammonium chloride mirapol and alkaquat available from alkaril chemical company sanisol benzalkonium chloride available from kao chemicals and the like and mixtures thereof in embodiments a suitable cationic surfactant includes sanisol b 50 available from kao corp which is primarily a benzyl dimethyl alkonium chloride examples of nonionic surfactants include but are not limited to alcohols acids and ethers for example polyvinyl alcohol polyacrylic acid methalose methyl cellulose ethyl cellulose propyl cellulose hydroxyl ethyl cellulose carboxy methyl cellulose polyoxyethylene cetyl ether polyoxyethylene lauryl ether polyoxyethylene octyl ether polyoxyethylene octylphenyl ether polyoxyethylene oleyl ether polyoxyethylene sorbitan monolaurate polyoxyethylene stearyl ether polyoxyethylene nonylphenyl ether dialkylphenoxy poly ethyleneoxy ethanol mixtures thereof and the like in embodiments commercially available surfactants from rhone poulenc such as igepal ca 210 u2122 igepal ca 520 u2122 igepal ca 720 u2122 igepal co 890 u2122 igepal co 720 u2122 igepal co 290 u2122 igepal ca 210 u2122 antarox 890 u2122 and antarox 897 u2122 can be selected the choice of particular surfactants or combinations thereof as well as the amounts of each to be used are within the purview of those skilled in the art in embodiments initiators may be added for formation of the latex examples of initiators include water soluble initiators such as ammonium persulfate sodium persulfate and potassium persulfates and organic soluble initiators including organic peroxides and azo compounds including vazo peroxides such as vazo 64 u2122 2 methyl 2 2 u2032 azobis propanenitrile vazo 88 u2122 and 2 2 u2032 azobis isobutyramide dehydrate and mixtures thereof initiators can be added in suitable amounts such as from about 0 1 to about 8 weight percent and in embodiments of from about 0 2 to about 5 weight percent of the monomers in embodiments chain transfer agents may.

needle moved under the other is more efficiently deployed if a user can see led 117 as an indication of when to stop moving that needle in a forward direction under the other knitting needle led 39 s 118 119 and 120 provide additional illumination for counting stitches in a row of stitches on a shaft 107 wires 121 connect led 39 s 116 through 118 to battery power and switching means in knob 108 switch means include switches capable of causing any one two three four or five of the led 39 s to become lighted fig7 shows an alternate embodiment of the invention needle 122 wherein an led 123 is located along the length of shaft 107 alone in about the location of led 117 of the knitting needle of fig6 wires 124 connect led 123 with battery power and switch means fig8 shows an alternate embodiment of the invention needle 125 wherein a group of led 39 s 126 are located close together to provide a relatively unified illumination source for greater light levels and even lighting of a work field fig9 shows left needle 115 a bearing a number of stitches 129 and a loop 128 being initiated by a tip of right needle 115 b led 39 s 117 a and 116 b illuminate virtually all of the required work field for a user to see the yarn and needle surfaces needed for forming the loop 128 led 116 a provides an u201c umbrella u201d lighting generally downward from a.

way of a spoken i e speech based dialogue control the voice interactive service system 1 comprises a plurality of processing cores c1 c2 c3 c4 cn e g hundreds or thousands of processing cores the processing cores c1 c2 c3 c4 cn are hardware based processing units often also referred to as central processing units cpu as illustrated in fig2 in a preferred embodiment the processing cores c11 c12 c13 c14 cm1 cm2 cm3 cm4 are independent parts cores of a multi core processor mc1 mcn e g a quad core processor commercially available from companies such as intel corp or advanced micro devices inc amd typically the cores c11 c12 c13 c14 cm1 cm2 cm3 cm4 are integrated into a single integrated circuit die i e a chip multiprocessor cmp or they are integrated onto multiple dies in a single chip package moreover each core c11 c12 c13 c14 cm1 cm2 cm3 cm4 has its own local cache memory so called level one l1 cache and on die shared cache memory so called level two l2 cache as illustrated schematically in fig1 different configurations of service processing resources are assigned to the processing cores c1 c2 c3 c4 cn specifically in the example of fig1 speech processing resources r11 r12 r13 are assigned to processing core c1 speech processing resources r21 r22 r23 are assigned to processing core c2 speech processing resources r31 r32 r33 are assigned to processing core c3 speech processing resources r41 r42 r43 are assigned to processing core c4 and speech processing resources rn1 rn2 rn3 are assigned to processing core cn preferably the service processing resources are stored permanently in memory associated.

the waste soil e g caco 3 as calcite or aragonite ca oh 2 u2014 hydrated lime cao u2014 lime and others a variation of this technique with added matrix materials e g fly ash incinerator ash cement kiln slag and ash etc can be used to fill larger void spaces of coarse ground waste materials such as gravels coarse sands waste debris etc found in abandoned mine workings c introduction or impregnation of the waste zone which is waste and admixed soil or overburden with sequential solutions that react to produce a precipitate that fills pore space e g cacl 2 solution na 2 co 3 solution caco 3 precipitate 2nacl solution loss to external soil groundwater this application of the solutions can be repeated until refusal occurs other examples of these solutions include cacl 2 na 2 so 4 caso 4 precipitate nacl solution cacl 2 na 2 hpo 4 ca 3 po 4 2 precipitate nacl solution d sequential solution gas phase impregnation of the waste zone to produce a calcium carbonate precipitate and cementing action or result as the reaction proceeds for example another embodiment of this application is the admixture of solid hydrated lime or the introduction of slaked lime into the waste zone prior to the introduction of co 2 yet another embodiment of the above remediation applications is the introduction of silica gel into the waste zone as the pore filling agent this can be accomplished via infiltration or impregnation of an aqueous alkali silicate solution to which a suitable gelling agent.

any moving parts in the embodiment of fig9 fig1 provides flow paths similar to the embodiment of fig9 except that the heat transfer surface 32 and cold plate 34 are not directly connected to the throttle device 35 these elements of a closed cycle refrigeration system would be connected by copper tubing 36 at p1 whereby the throttle device 35 is adaptable for many different cooling applications in fig1 a throttle device 38 includes a fixed orifice 22 arranged in parallel with a parallel pair of porous material elements 16 16 39 the porous material 16 16 39 may be of the same or different pore sizes and cut off temperatures so as to tune the device 38 to a desired cool down time an integrated valve body 40 holds the three throttle elements 16 16 39 22 but two independent bodies could be used preferably held together with a highly conductive wire such as copper for good thermal contact between all elements in each instance the fixed orifice that is used for steady state operation is dimensioned for a low refrigerant flow velocity thus the vibrations delivered at the cold interface with the object to be cooled are vastly reduced over the conventionally sized capillary tube that.

the shoulder portion 10 which is shown to have an upstanding planar surface 12 and a generally horizontally extending planar surface 13 and the surfaces 12 and 13 are at right angles to each other as shown of course it will also be seen and understood that the sleeve has an upper arm portion generally designated 14 and a lower or forearm portion generally designated 16 and the two portions are continuous and uninterrupted relative to each other and along the longitudinal length of the sleeve which is the upright showing of the sleeve still further the drawings show the sleeve such as in fig2 and 3 to be projected in elevational views perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the lower or forearm portion 16 also the sleeve has the intermediate portion 17 which is the elbow portion of the novelty sleeve as shown in its normal configuration which is that shown in the drawings there is therefore a slight angulation between the longitudinal axis of the forearm 16 and the longitudinal axis of the upper arm 14 such as shown in fig2 and 4 this therefore presents the sleeve in a slightly bent original configuration somewhat in the normal position of a person 39 s arm which is not being held rigidly straight it will therefore be understood that a person can slide the sleeve over the right arm and the sleeve will extend from the person 39 s shoulder to the person 39 s wrist and the.

e g by evacuation it is useful for the geometry of the container to be designed such that the fraction of film is as small as possible the container can be micro perforated whereby the size of the perforations is smaller than the particle size of the powder packaged therein the container can be designed in known fashion e g as flat bag flat bag with euro slot flat bag with round hole chain type bag flat bottom bag side gusseted bag stabilized bag 3 side sealed bag 4 side sealed bag tetrahedral shaped bag block bottom bag capsule or compartment package according to the invention the respective quantity of powder is packaged or sealed in a film that is soluble in the monomer e g mma polymer films that are made e g of pmma lend themselves for this purpose in this context the packaging can be implemented in the form of a bag with loose or compressed bulk powder or in the form of a compact filling surrounded in a form fitting manner by a film the thickness of the film must be sufficient to withstand mechanical loads during production and transport undamaged and to provide sufficient protection to the product against ambient influences moisture and dirt while being sufficiently thin to be dissolved partially or completely in as short a time as possible the invention shall be explained in more detail by means of examples in the following a pmma film is used to produce 3 side sealed bags using a bagger machine with vertical operation the machine is a form fill seal machine in which.

the day of the week as well as with raised bumps in particular orientations the raised bumps can employ the braille coding system for marking the dates of the weeks fig1 shows the seven compartment container 80 in an open position fig1 depicts a section of the seven compartment container showing a portion of a vertical guard wall 88 horizontal guard wall 91 stop 89 and tab 90 referring to fig1 20 a 14 compartment container 92 according to a third embodiment of the present disclosure is described in the depicted embodiment the 14 compartment container 92 is configured to store two weeks worth of pills the fourteen compartment container 92 is similar to the seven compartment container 80 and the two compartment container 10 one difference is that the lids 96 98 are not integral with the base 94 instead the lids 96 98 are separate components that are connected to the base 94 the lids 96 98 include a connector strip 100 that connects a number of individual covers or caps together the connector strip 100 includes recesses and protrusions thereon the connector strip 100 fits within a channel 102 in the base in the depicted embodiment two connectors strips 100 are fitted together back to back and are slidably snapped into engagement with the channel 102 referring to fig2 24 a 28 compartment container 104 is described the 28 compartment container 104 is configured to store at least.

depicted in the sequences described above since each of these antibodies can bind to il 13 the v h and v l sequences can be u201c mixed and matched u201d to create other anti il 13 binding molecules of the invention il 13 binding of such u201c mixed and matched u201d antibodies can be tested using the binding assays described above and in the examples e g elisas when v h and v l chains are mixed and matched a v h sequence from a particular v h v l pairing should be replaced with a structurally similar v h sequence likewise a v l sequence from a particular v h v l pairing should be replaced with a structurally similar v l sequence the v h and v l sequences of the antibodies of the present invention are particularly amenable for mixing and matching since these antibodies use v h and v l sequences derived from the same germline sequences and thus exhibit structural similarity in another aspect the invention provides antibodies that comprise the heavy chain and light chain cdr 39 s cdr2s and cdr3s of the antibodies or combinations thereof the amino acid sequences of the v h cdr1s of the antibodies are shown in seq id nos 6 7 the amino acid sequence of the v h cdr2s of the antibodies is shown by seq id no 8 the amino acid sequences of the v h cdr3s of the antibodies are shown in seq id nos 9 10 the amino acid sequences of the v l cdr1s of the antibodies are shown in seq id nos.

network 502 the routing network uses as its inputs the coefficients resulting from the decompositions performed by the module 501 a multiplexer 504 is used to select the coefficients cs at the output of the architecture thus when level one decomposition is in progress the output of the unit 500 is selected whereas when decomposition at level two or above is in progress it is the output of the unit 502 that is selected advantageously this architecture permits optimal hardware utilization with low main storage requirements fig6 shows an example of a row processing module rpe that can be used for the level one decomposition the 2d wavelet transform is obtained by the successive application of vertical and horizontal transforms without an intermediate buffer memory the rpe row processing element transform unit executes the horizontal transform it incorporates two registers 600 601 for storing the intermediate coefficients required for the calculations two addition operators 602 603 and a 3 bit shift operator are used for calculating the coefficients control of the operations and paths is provided by multiplexers 604 605 606 607 608 the state of which depends on the parity of the current row fig7 shows an example of a column processing module rce that can be used for the level one decomposition this unit is used for the vertical transform it resembles the horizontal transform unit but with the two registers 600 601 replaced with two row memories 700 701 providing read access and write access for each cycle for the decomposition of the higher levels as explained above a second decomposition unit 501 is responsible for.

ferrous object such as a refrigerator door or tool box by placing one of the sets of outwardly facing magnetic elements for example 12 1 a and 12 2 a against the object the remaining pair of outwardly facing magnetic elements for example 12 1 c and 12 2 c can magnetically hold directly small magnetic objects therefore one aspect of magnetic holder 1 is that it comprises magnetic elements which cause it to attract or be attracted to magnetic objects a user could for example keep keys on ring 40 and store the keys conveniently by placing holder 1 on a refrigerator door various contact areas 30 lie between adjacent members 10 one contact area 30 1 is formed by a pair of magnetic elements 12 1 and 122 coming in contact with the back side 21 of a member 10 for example as shown in fig2 contact area 30 1 ab formed by magnetic elements 12 1 b and 12 2 b coming in contact with back side 21 a of member 10 a another contact area 30 2 is formed by a pair of magnetic elements 12 1 and 12 2 coming in contact with another pair of magnetic elements.

products is designed in order to be able to absorb stresses from the tower on the tank shell with a desired degree of flexibility preferably in the tower foot e g in a zone thereof and or as a flexible element application_number US 59634496 A description as illustrated in fig1 between a tank 2 and a vertically extending tower 3 a flexible transition section 1 is provided the flexibility is principally provided by a double curved annular or continuous peripheral element 4 shown by quarter circles a a 39 this peripheral element 4 is connected to the tower 3 via a connecting element 5 illustrated by line a 39 b which can however be omitted if this is considered expedient alternatively the peripheral element 4 can be designed as a number of single curved plates which are welded to the connecting element 5 at point a 39 and the tank wall at point a thus in this case the peripheral element 4 will be discontinuous in the first embodiment of the device according to the invention which is illustrated on the left side of the tower 39 s longitudinal axis 8 the connecting element 5 is composed of a flat plate but it can be conical instead in the second embodiment of the device according to the invention which is illustrated on the right side of the tower 39 s longitudinal axis 8 the connecting element 5 is composed of a part of a spherical surface and in this case the entire construction is in the form of a korbogen structure.

the reversible pumping chambers 51 52 turning to fig6 a cycler 60 is illustrated with a chamber 61 for accommodating the drain container 13 and a chamber 62 for accommodating the dialysate container 11 each chamber 61 62 is equipped with an integrated valve assembly and pressure sensor shown at 63 64 in the embodiment 60 shown in fig6 the chamber 61 must be capable of being evacuated dialysate may flow from the dialysate container 11 by way of gravity or pressure fill again the sensors of the valve assembly sensor combinations 63 64 monitor the intraperitoneal pressure of the patient 12 as discussed above in the embodiment 70 illustrated in fig7 the dialysate container 11 and drain container 13 are both connected to integrated control valves and pressure sensors 71 72 each of the integrated control valves and pressure sensors 71 72 are connected to lumens 73 74 respectively which are connected to the catheter 75 a by way of a y connection the details of all the y connections and clamps are not shown but are known to those skilled in the art flow from the dialysate container 11 to the patient is carried out under the gravitational head shown at 75 while flow from the patient to the drain container 13 is carried out under the gravitational head shown at 76 fig8 illustrates one in line pressure sensor 80 that is suitable for use with the present invention redundant load cells 81 82 are connected to the flexible pressure sensing membrane 83 by a vacuum connected by the line 84 85 a lumen connecting the cycler to the patient is shown at 86 fig9 illustrates a dual pumping chamber cassette 87 which includes an output line.

a lithography system having a resist coating and developing apparatus a wafer transferring mechanism and an exposure control apparatus the exposure control method in the lithography system includes the steps of transmitting data of temperature for heat treating a resist film in the resist coating and developing apparatus to the exposure control apparatus determining and controlling exposure time based on the temperature data and exposing the resist film on a wafer which is moved or transferred by the wafer transferring mechanism during the determined exposure time application_number US 2160801 A description hereinafter the exposure control method and exposure control apparatus in a lithography system will be explained with reference to the accompanying drawings 0032 fig1 is a block diagram illustrating the lithography system according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention the system comprises a resist coating and developing apparatus 200 a wafer transferring mechanism 250 and an exposure control apparatus 100 which in a preferred embodiment is a stepper the resist coating and developing apparatus 200 coats a wafer with a resist and heats the resist and the wafer in a heating chamber in addition the resist coating and developing apparatus 200 develops the resist patterned by exposure to a light source the transferring mechanism 250 serves to transfer wafers w coated with the resist from the resist coating and developing.

the embodiments of the present invention referring to fig8 the esd protection apparatus includes a resistor 810 a capacitor 820 a first transistor 830 a second transistor 840 diodes d 1 dn and a main transistor 850 wherein n is an integer greater than 0 in the embodiment the transistors 830 and 840 are a pmos transistor and an nmos transistor respectively and the main transistor 850 is an n type field oxide device in general the substrate of the main transistor 850 has a substrate internal resistor indicated as a resistor rsub in fig8 wherein the substrate of the main transistor 850 is coupled to the second power rail gnd as the ground line here via the substrate internal resistor rsub the capacitor 820 and the resistor 810 are connected with each other in series between the first power rail vdd as the system voltage line and the second power rail gnd the gates of the transistors 830 and 840 are coupled to the common contact cp between the capacitor 820 and the resistor 810 the source and the drain of the transistor 830 are respectively coupled to the first power rail vdd and the substrate of the main transistor 850 the drain of the transistor 840 is coupled to the drain of the transistor 830 while the source of the transistor 840 is coupled to the.

obtaining a smaller heat capacity of the resistor layer 52 which allows a faster rate of heating cooling of the resistor layer 52 fig8 shows a partial schematic plan view of a variation of the thermal printhead of fig5 the resistor portion 53 shown in fig8 has an opening 56 inside the same photolithographic process to form the resistor portion 53 of the resistor layer 52 can be used to form this opening 56 the opening 56 has an effect of flattening the temperature profile of the resistor portion 53 such as the one shown in fig3 by positioning the opening 56 in the area where the highest temperature would be reached without the opening 56 the temperature profile would become more flattened because the highest temperature point is now without the resistive film to heat up this will also contribute to improving the printing quality without slowing down the speed of printing the shape of this opening 56 is merely an example and is not limited to a circle as shown in fig8 fig9 shows examples of alternate shapes for the opening 56 in addition to the circle triangle trapezoidal rectangular elliptical half circle and the like can be used for the opening 56 depending on such factors as materials of the resistor layer 52 applications and environments for printing and manufacturability of devices among other factors fig1 shows a partial schematic plan view of a thermal printhead according to a second embodiment of the present invention the second embodiment of a thermal printhead has a different topology from that of the first embodiment shown in fig5 in that a set of first and second resistor portions 53 a 53 b constitutes a heating element to imprint a dot improving resolution of printing fig1 shows a schematic cross.

derived through intelligent monitoring of the input voltage waveform the circuit and method described is adapted to higher current applications such as led lighting systems using the latest high power leds application_number US 201213656475 A description fig5 7 show the typical shapes of the ac voltage input presented to a light or lighting system by standard ac dimmers fig5 shows a forward phase control chopped sinewave typical of most silicon controlled rectifier scr type incandescent wall dimmers fig6 shows a reverse phase waveform which is sometimes provided by dimmers made for electronic or capacitive loads fig7 shows the type of ac voltage waveform presented by an autotransformer and some higher end dimming systems designed for theater lighting in all of these cases it is the input voltage that is modified reduced in amplitude or chopped out during part of the sinewave in order to present a lower average or rms voltage to the load as explained in the background section this type of dimming can cause non linear and unpredictable results when it is used with a switcher regulator circuit as is often the case in led lighting products the present invention is best understood by starting with a typical implementation of a prior art switching regulator led driver circuit fig8 shows a diagram of a typical buck switching regulator circuit configured to output a constant current to a load a detailed description of the operation of a buck switching regulator is beyond the scope of this discussion but can be found in such reference documents as the national semiconductor application note an 556 and the article.

central flange 12 and a base 13 the shank 11 has a truncated conical shape for insertion into a truncated conical hole 101 of a machine spindle 100 and fastening therein by means of a pair of keys 102 which are respectively engaged with corresponding recesses 103 on the flange 12 of the holder 10 the tip of the shank is cylindrically shaped the annular flange 12 has an annular recess formed in the outer surface a large diametral axial bore 14 for receiving shank 90 or adapter of a machine tool 91 is formed from the end section of the base 13 a small diameter threaded central hole 17 is formed from the interior end of the hole 14 to the opposite end namely to the top 18 of the shank the through hole 17 has a larger diameter at the tip portion than the remainder of the hole a threaded hole 15 is radially bored at a suitable portion of the base to open to the longitudinal bore 14 and another threaded hole 16 is radially bored in the same manner from the flange recess to the foregoing large hole 14 both radial holes 15 and 16 are at a right angle or are inclined at a u03b8 degree optional angle to the longitudinal axis a deformable thin ring 50 is movably engaged with a cylindrical portion of the base 13 between the side face of the flange 12 and the threaded hole 15 upon an annular ring 60 and a felt ring 70 as shown in fig2 for engagement of the annular 34 o 34 ring 60 a corresponding annular groove 61 is provided around the surface of the base 13 on the interior surface of the thin ring.

inlet to the cyclonic separator and a shroud comprising a wall having a multiplicity of through holes forming an outlet from the cyclonic separator the apparatus also includes a plurality of separate passageways provided immediately downstream of the through holes by providing this arrangement the separate passageways can be located around other parts of the cyclonic separating apparatus inwardly of the shroud allowing for better packaging of the components of the cyclonic separating apparatus the shroud may be reduced in size because some of the space previously required for a single large passageway can be used for other components of the cyclonic separating apparatus such a collector or a cyclone the reduction in size of the shroud in turn allows for the cyclonic separating apparatus to be more compact application_number US 25981408 A description a cylinder vacuum cleaner 10 incorporating cyclonic separating apparatus according to the invention is shown in fig1 and 2 the vacuum cleaner 10 has a main body 12 housing a motor and fan unit not shown and to which a pair of wheels 14 is attached the wheels 14 allow the main body 12 of the vacuum cleaner 10 to be maneuvered across a floor surface a dirty air inlet 16 is formed on the main body 12 a hose and wand assembly not shown can be connected to the dirty air inlet 16 in order to enable a user to clean a floor surface cyclonic separating apparatus 100 according to the invention is releasably attached to the main body 12 the interior of the cyclonic separating apparatus 100 is in communication with the dirty air inlet 16 through which a dirt laden airflow enters the cyclonic.

down in fig1 pocket pouch 42 is sealed by velcro strip 46 or another means such as a zipper or buttons cable 48 connects display controller 14 to clothing flexible display 16 cable 50 provides power to clothing flexible display 16 via power source or battery pack 18 although fig2 illustrates a long sleeved jacket or shirt it is not the intent of the inventors to restrict embodiments of this invention to a specific style of clothing in addition pocket pouch 42 may be located anywhere in the piece of clothing 40 pocket pouch 42 is shown as being centrally located but could certainly be laterally located in the traditional pocket position referring now to fig3 a schematic diagram of a main processor and associated components is shown processor board 12 in one embodiment utilizes the gumstix single board computer which combines a 400 mhz intel xscale pxa255 processor with a bluetooth transceiver universal serial bus usb 22 a serial port and a multimedia card mmc power source or battery pack 18 provides power to display controller 14 via connection 50 and to processor board 12 via connection 52 processor board 12 is connected to display controller 14 by cable 54 display controller 14 is further connected.

emulsifying agent and the degumming agent are made up in tank 60 while the wetting agent is dissolved in a portion of the vegetable oil in tank 62 the treating solution is pumped through line 64 containing metering valve 66 and pump 68 into the oil delivery line 70 while the wetting agent oil solution is pumped into line 70 through line 72 containing metering valve 74 and pump 76 the crude vegetable oil in line 70 containing the metered treating agents flows through a contactor 80 in which turbulent mixing of the oil and treating agents is effected to form an emulsion suitably the contactor contains a series of spaced baffling elements 84 to effect the desired mixing and emulsification of the mixture the emulsified oil mixture flows through line 86 containing pump 88 and cooler 90 to the primary separation centrifuge and then to the secondary wash centrifuge for processing as described with respect to fig1 the dewaxing process of the invention is particularly useful with vegetable oils containing a high amount of wax usually over 50 ppm to about 2 000 ppm though the dewaxing process may be conducted on crude or finished oil it is preferably practiced on the crude vegetable oils with crudes having a very high phosphatide content over about 300 ppm it may be preferable to degum the crude before it is dewaxed in general the process is practiced on those vegetable oils containing over 50 ppm insoluble wax in finished product causing haze and loss of brilliance representative crude oils that may be processed in accordance with the invention are soybean sunflower peanut cottonseed.

the remainder of the post 6 along the weakened zone more particularly the tab 20 is in the form of a vertical strip 21 that is adapted to lift clear of the front face 5 the separation between the tab 20 and the post 3 propagates from an upper section 22 of the post 3 toward a lower section 23 as the post 3 deflects downward the tab 20 is designed to shear away from the post 3 upon further deflection of the post 3 fig4 and 5 show alternative examples of weakened zones 16 that are intended to facilitate release of the fastener 11 from the aperture 13 as opposed to the creation of a tab in fig4 the weakened zone 16 is in the form of slots 24 arranged in a cross configuration in fig5 the slots 25 are arranged in a square array around the connection region 15 fig6 and 7 illustrate further examples of the weakened zone 16 being in the form of a u shape slot 26 with fig6 showing an inverted u shape in both cases the weakened zone 16 will result in the creation of a tab 20 fig8 and 9 show the aperture 13 as a rectangular slot 27 and the weakened zone 16 is then formed by horizontal slots 28 in communication with the aperture 13 whereby the overall zone 16 has an i shape or d shape.

limit line thus determined is used within the surge limit control the compressor is always sufficiently protected from operating in the unstable range of the performance characteristic even if the gas composition is subject to greater variations the process becomes somewhat more complicated when the compressor is operated with variable speed or with variable geometry guide vanes inlet guide vane or throttling fitting and variable gas composition a surge limit line or a surge limit control line is already obtained in the case of compressors of such a design only in the case of constant gas composition as is known the compressor must never be operated beyond i e to the left of the surge limit line to make it possible to ensure this a control line is positioned to the right of the surge limit with a sufficient safety margin such that the surge limiter can always operate the compressor outside the surge limit range even under extreme operating conditions there are many turbocompressors especially multi stage machines in which especially the course of the surge limit line in the performance characteristic depends on the gas composition a surge limit line or a surge limit control line of a different shape may be obtained for each gas composition in the case of variable geometry or variable speed and variable gas composition the surge limit line or the surge limit control line becomes a family of surge limit lines and surge.

n heterocyclic reagents 2 and 3 are known and commercially available or may be prepared according to known procedures see for example advances in heterocyclic chemistry pp 1 56 vol 3 1964 and pp 71 121 vol 22 1978 academic press the following list representatively illustrates such reagents str17 wherein all symbols have previously been defined the dotted line indicates both saturated and unsaturated rings relative to the above listed reagents the preferred values for the radical r which is directly attached to the ring nitrogen atom are hydrogen loweralkyl having from 1 10 carbon atoms substituted alkyl wherein the substituent is chloro fluoro hydroxyl alkoxyl substituted alkoxy carboxyl amino sulfo and mono and dialkylamino wherein each aklyl has 1 6 carbon atoms phenylalkyl alkyl moiety having 1 6 carbon atoms and substituted phenylalkyl wherein the substituents are selected from chloro fluoro carboxyl amino hydroxyl lower alkoxyl having from 1 6 carbon atoms sulfo str18 r u00b0 is hydrogen or alkyl having 1 6 carbon atoms the quinolizinium and indolizinium examples are a special category of preferred values of r in that r is there an integral part of a bicyclic system r 39 defined above the preferred values for the other non position specific ring substituent r are chloro fluoro carboxyl and loweralkyl having from 1 6 carbon atoms substituted.

and squareness the deposition process can be done by various thin film deposition techniques including ion beam deposition ibd plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition pecvd magnetron sputtering radio frequency sputtering or chemical vapor deposition cvd next in step 330 the protective overcoat layer 225 is deposited over the magnetic stack the protective overcoat layer 225 which is typically diamond like carbon dlc can be deposited using a variety of thin film deposition techniques including ion beam deposition ibd plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition pecvd magnetron sputtering radio frequency sputtering or chemical vapor deposition cvd in one embodiment the dlc protective overcoat layer 225 is prepared by ion beam deposition using a work gas is c 2 h 2 the energy per c atom is 90 ev next in step 340 the dlc protective overcoat layer 225 is exposed to uv light while being exposed to a hydro phobic chemical environment typically this includes exposing the magnetic media having the dlc protective overcoat layer 225 to uv light for a fixed amount of time the amount of time needed varies from lubricant to lubricant and is typically around 120 seconds also the amount of time needed is a minimum threshold that sufficiently fills the voids in the protective overcoat 225 to prevent diffusion of moisture through to the magnetic layer the amount of time depends on the type of hydrophobic chemical being used some examples of hydrophobic chemicals used include low molecular weight perfluoropolyether fluoroalkane fluoroether chlorofluoroalkane chlorofluoroether vertrel xf etc in addition to just varying the time of uv light exposure other.

workflow as a composition of operations a resource and infrastructure operational workflow or a plan is a named partial order composition of a set or library of named operations drawn from a larger set of pre defined resource or infrastructure management operations 7 well defined runtime semantics for the workflow the workflow runtime semantics is defined via a workflow plan u201c semantics u201d object that is passed as an additional argument to the workflow plan in general the workflow plan semantics are defined to support typical desired semantics such as but not limited to below atomicity semantics this is supported only if for every control operation there is a matching rollback operation that is defined error handling semantics this is useful to suggest whether to return on first critical error or continue even if an error is encountered ordering semantics in a partial order workflow plan an ordering may be specified for the sub compositions of the plan that may be otherwise run asynchronously priority semantics in a work flow plan a priority may be attached for the particular sub composition of the workflow plan for instance a particular sub composition may be attached high priority in which case all resources may be provided to the high priority sub composition temporal automation semantics this is used to suggest perhaps how much time to wait before the plan starts to be executed or how much time to wait.

the intermediate wheel 15 to allow the yarn y to be threaded round the yard feed wheel 14 the yarn feed wheel is then returned to its operating position to nip the yarn between the yarn feed wheel 14 and intermediate wheel 15 thus the yarn is driven upon the rotation of these two wheels in the position shown in fig1 the left hand end of the arm 9 is in its uppermost position in which the intermediate wheel 15 engages with the first drive roller 5 such that the yarn y is driven at a speed determined by the first drive roller 5 when the pneumatic actuator 12 is actuated the left hand end of the arm 9 is moved downwardly bringing the intermediate wheel 15 into engagement with the lower drive roller 6 hence driving the yarn y at a speed determined by the second drive roller 6 upon leaving the yarn feed roller assembly the yarn y is fed through a pair of gear type puller rolls 16 which brush against the yarn rather than driving it and serve to maintain the tension in the yarn while isolating the yarn feed assembly from variations in the yarn tension caused by a reciprocation of the needles 3 the yarn then extends through a pair of guide plates 17 18 and then to the needles 3 the way in which the machine is controlled in order to produce the various pile heights will now be described with reference to fig2 the tufting machine is provided with pattern data which contains information on the required height of each stitch of the pattern a control means receives this data and controls the timing of actuation of the pneumatic actuator 12 accordingly in the.

ester resin manufactured by dow chemical company using approximately 2 5 weight percent methyl ethyl ketone peroxide as a catalyst approximately 0 40 weight percent cobalt naphthenate as a promoter and approximately 0 10 weight percent dimethylaniline as an accelerator the rigid and flexible resins differ in the degree of reinforcement and lamination the rigid resin is reinforced and laminated with approximately twenty layers of hexcel corporation graphite fabric having 716 fabric style plain weave 4 7 ozs per square yard weight 0 006 inch thickness 16 u00d7 16 warp fill 3k warp 75 1 0 fill yarn undirectional graphite fabric glass fill the graphite fabric is laid such that all twenty sheets run the length of the rigid resin plate the flexible resin plate is also derakane 8084 reinforced with approximately ten sheets of hexcel graphite fabric the result is that the rigid resin plate has a thickness of approximately 0 225 inch whereas the flexible plate has a thickness of approximately 0 110 inch the sole of the shoe is standard leather or synthetic a leather insert may be used to cover the sole strengthener plate 124 foam insert 130 is typically closed cell ethylene vinyl acetate having a compression deflection in the range of 3 5 to 6 5 psi and a density of 2 5 to 3 5 lb cu ft adhesives as known in the shoe art are used for.

see fig1 3 5 6 are secured to the top 11 of the bag in such manner that the arcs 21a 21b of each handle 20a 20b are parallel to the respective bridges 15a 15b the handles 20a 20b may be shortened to fit the physical characteristics of the person carrying the bag 10 and its contents or the person carrying pouch 30 containing the folded bag 10 by simply holding together the two handles and making a knot of course other adjustable means such as buckles may be implemented to adjust the length of the handles 20a 20b pouch 30 is secured to the outside of the bag 10 at the bridge 15a see fig6 at top 11 and is typically made from a cotton material although canvas rayon or other suitable materials may be used the pouch 30 comprises two planar walls 31 32 see fig3 6 with a fold 33 between them at their lower intersection and sides 34 35 which are sewn together the pouch 30 has a flap 36 which extends from wall 31 which is the wall of the pouch 30 furthest see fig5 from the bag 10 the flap 36 closes the pouch 30 when it is being used as a purse in conjunction with the bag 10 or when the bag 10 is folded within the pouch 30 as shown in fig6 the pouch 30 closes the bag by crossing flap 36 over bridges 15a 15b and mating i e by pressing with the finger a securing means preferably comprising velcro u2122 strips 37a 37b on flap 36 to corresponding velcro u2122 strips 38a 38b see fig5 on wall 32 of the pouch 30 the netting strands.

shall be noted but not limiting the scope of the said invention referring to fig7 another preferred embodiment of the said invention seat pad 70 shown in a perspective top view illustrates a non slip member 71 fixedly attached to approximately the midsection 75 of side panel 74 the non slip member 71 defined by a portion of the shape of the seat pad 70 is fixedly attached on three sides held in close proximity to the lower panel 73 surface area where the space between the non slip member 71 and the lower panel 73 define a pocket 72 that has the capacity to store articles within the seat pad 70 assembly small articles such as papers photos magazines and alike can be stored within the assembly and conveniently removed and inserted without the need for other storage devices the need for a pocket or pouch is more commonly used in travel outdoor events or sports and alike games referring to fig8 a and 8 b the seat pad cushion 80 is shown as an assembly the assembly main components comprising of a lower panel 83 a gripping member 81 on fig8 a and another embodiment shown of the gripping member 85 on fig8 b the anti slip material used on gripping members 81 and 85 are shown with a reduction in material weight for lowering the manufacturing cost of the seat pad 80 the gripping member 85 as shown in fig8 b can also be utilized as a handle to enable the consumer to carry the seat pad 80 or securely hold onto in the event of an emergency the seat pad 80 and the gripping member 85 are constructed.

drain of the first n channel mosfet 520 is connected to the source of a second n channel mosfet 523 an eighth resistor 527 is connected at a seventh node 524 to the seventh resistor 522 a ninth resistor 525 and the gate of the second n channel mosfet 523 similarly the drain of the second n channel mosfet 523 is connected to the ninth resistor 525 at an eighth node 526 also connected at the eighth node 526 is a second pull up resistor 550 and a tenth resistor 529 which is a part of the high side gate drive 501 this configuration makes up the pin scorotron grid voltage control circuit 502 the high side gate drive circuit 501 includes the positive terminal of a variable voltage source 549 which is connected to a ninth node 547 through an eleventh resistor 548 the negative terminal of the variable voltage source 549 is connected to ground 556 also connected at the ninth node 547 is the gate of a fifth p channel mosfet 546 and a twelfth resistor 543 the drain of the fifth p channel mosfet 546 is connected to ground 556 similarly the source of the fifth p channel mosfet 546.

as compressed air through fluid connection 23 coacting with orifice 22 is a plenum 27 which is circumferentially bored in the side walls of body 10 forming an enlargement of the bore at a location in communication with fluid connection 23 from fig2 it will be noted that incoming air can rush into plenum chamber 27 and immediately pass toward venturi 14 through orifice 22 a second cylindrical flange 21a is formed on the yarn guiding element 12 a distance d upstream from the first flange 21 within the bore 9 of the jet body downstream of the gas inlet 23 the second flange 21a has a diameter that is less than the diameter of the first flange and preferably extends about one half the distance beyond the yarn guiding element 12 as does the first flange venturi 14 is free to move axially within the body 10 and a seal is formed between the venturi and body by o ring seal 24 seated in an annulus 25 in the body the venturi 14 is press fitted into collar 16 and collar 16 is free to move within the recess 26 at the outlet end of the jet body a circumferential groove 28 is formed in collar 16 a rod 30 extends through body 10 and engages groove 28 the rod is rotatable in both the body and the groove a handle 32 is attached to the end of the rod so that the rod may be easily rotated the rod is not completely circular but has a cam surface 31 intermediate its ends which is coincident with the groove 28 first.

inches to 0 60 inches tapered portion of handle 25 has an inner and an outer diameter that varies with the tapered portion of a particular needle being formed however the range of outer diameters of the tapered portion may range from 0 20 inches to 0 30 inches similarly the inner diameter of the tapered portion may range approximately from 0 15 inches to 0 25 inches the first stepped portion of handle 25 has an outer diameter that ranges from approximately 0 30 inches to 0 40 inches and the inner diameter ranges from approximately 0 25 inches to 0 35 inches second stepped portion of handle 25 has an outer diameter that ranges from 0 25 inches to 0 35 inches and an inner diameter that ranges from approximately 0 20 inches to 0 30 inches and a length that ranges from approximately 0 25 inches to 0 75 inches needle 40 may have a length that ranges from approximately 0 70 inches to 2 5 inches an outer diameter that ranges from approximately 0 10 inches to 0 02 inches it will be appreciated that a solid tip needle lacks the inner diameter dimensions listed for the proximal portion of handle 25 flange 30 the tapered portion of handle 25 the first and second stepped portions of handle 25 in fig7 needle 40 that is formed has a solid tip but a surface groove is formed therein surface groove 60 allows blood to enter needle 40 at or near the distal end of needle 40 the blood moves in the proximal direction of needle 40 as shown in fig7 it will be appreciated that the surface groove.

in the form of a modular skin mountable drug delivery device 1 comprising a patch unit 2 and a pump unit 5 as the pump unit comprises a reservoir it may also be termed a reservoir unit when supplied to the user each of the units are preferably enclosed in its own sealed package not shown the embodiment shown in fig1 comprises a patch unit provided with an insertable transcutaneous device e g needle cannula or sensor in case an actual embodiment requires the patch unit to be mounted on the skin and the transcutaneous device inserted before a pump or other unit can be attached it follows that the method of use would be adopted correspondingly the patch unit comprises a flexible patch portion 10 with a lower adhesive mounting surface 12 adapted for application to the skin of a user and a housing portion 20 in which a transcutaneous device not shown is arranged the transcutaneous device comprises a pointed distal end adapted to penetrate the skin of a user and is adapted to be arranged in fluid communication with the pump unit in the shown embodiment the pointed end of the transcutaneous device is moveable between an initial position in which the pointed end is retracted relative to the mounting surface and an extended position in which the pointed end projects relative to the mounting surface the transcutaneous device may also be moveable between the extended position in which the distal end projects relative to the mounting surface and a retracted position in which the distal end is retracted relative to the mounting surface the.

32 to move the cam roller 26 along the length of the cam arm 24 referring now to fig2 a rocker arm assembly 10 is shown with the cam roller 26 shown in three different positions designated 1 2 and 3 in fig2 positions 1 and 2 are active roller positions wherein the cam roller 26 contacts the cam lobe 12 as it is rotated by the camshaft 14 position 3 is an inactive position wherein the roller is recessed relative to the cam lobe 12 when the cam roller 26 is in position 3 the valve is not opened as the cam lobe 12 rotates when the cam roller 26 is in position 3 the rocker arm assembly 10 may function as a variable displacement engine control for deactivating the valve the position of the cam roller 26 is changed by rotating the adjustment control shaft 28 as illustrated by positions 1 and 2 the adjustment cam allows for adjustment as indicated by positions 1 and 2 during engine operation as shown in fig2 adjustment between positions 1 and 2 causes the center line of the roller 26 to move an incremental distance represented by the arrows labeled u201c dh u201d that represent the change in height as the roller is adjusted between positions 1 and 2 the adjustment of the roller 26 also causes a change in the timing of valve opening represented by the arcuate arrow designated u201c u03b1 u201d the center line of the roller 26 moves relative to the center line of the camshaft 14 by the amount indicated by u201c u03b1 u201d change in angle when the roller 26 is moved the distance between the center line of the adjustment control shaft 28 and the center.

recycled back to the start of the first distillation column through the use of multiple distillation columns essentially no ticl 4 yield loss occurs and both a ticl 4 product and sncl 4 product can be produced a third distillation column or batch operation of the second distillation column can be used in some embodiments to produce a ticl 4 product ideal for titanium metal production the benefit of using elemental tin compared to organic treating agents is no organic residue is present in the ticl 4 which is highly detrimental to the titanium metal in some embodiments the contaminant vanadium is also removed by a process described herein the vanadium chlorination products vocl 3 or vcl 4 have boiling points close to that of ticl 4 which makes removal problematic when tin metal is reacted with the vanadium in the crude ticl 4 a solid vanadium product is produced along with sncl 4 this treatment process works with all ranges of vanadium seen in the variety of ores available with levels from 100 ppm v to 3000 ppm v but has not been seen to have any limitations either with lower or higher concentrations as with arsenic noted above the sncl 4 does not contaminate the vanadium solid the product ticl 4 has vanadium removed to a level.

mm long anthers color u2014 yellow rhs group 4d pollen production u2014 generally u2014 considered moderate in abundance pollen color u2014 gray yellow rhs group 161a pistil u2014 style u2014 the style ranges in length from about 1 8 mm to about 9 9 mm pistil fusion u2014 the pistil is fused at a distance of about 4 3 mm from the base pistil color u2014 green yellow rhs group 1c pistil pubescence u2014 this typically extends from the base to the fused region as noted above pubescence color u2014 green white rhs group 155c stigma u2014 shape u2014 club shaped stigma u2014 color u2014 gray yellow rhs group 162d sepals u2014 numbers u2014 5 per blossom are typically seen sepal shape u2014 generally u2014 thinly lanceolate with the tip being acuminate in shape and the base is truncate sepal length u2014 about 10 8 mm sepal width u2014 about 5 5 mm sepal pubescence u2014 generally u2014 considered abundant and present on both of the upper and lower surfaces of the sepal pubescence color u2014 gray yellow rhs group 157d sepal color u2014 generally u2014 both the upper and lower surfaces are colored yellow green rhs group 145b the tips of the sepals are highlighted a gray purple color rhs group 187b peduncle u2014 size u2014 about 19 7 mm to about 31 6 mm in length peduncle u2014 diameter u2014 about 1 2 mm to about 1 5 mm peduncle u2014 color u2014 yellow green rhs group 145a still further the shaded side of the peduncle is gray purple rhs group 187b peduncle u2014 surface texture u2014 a.

first terminal position into the second terminal position operates directly on the disk 30 e g by means of a gearwheel so that it does not have to be rotated with roller pair w9 w10 the lower roller w10 is driven by the motor m3 though here a drive for the upper roller w9 is also possible at this point discussion is directed to the two cylinders r1 and r2 fig6 and 7 which prevent buckling of the strip f across the direction of transport cylinder r1 is positioned in an elongated hole 31 provided in the flange of guide plate l3 while cylinder r2 is immovably mounted in the first position of disk 30 in which the strip f is not introduced into the turning channel 2 the cylinder r2 prevents buckling of the strip f in the upward direction fig6 the cylinder r1 plays no role when the disk 30 is in this position when the disk 30 is rotated into the position in which the strip is fed into the turning channel 2 however cylinder r1 slides within the elongated hole to the lower end of said hole with the result that it is the cylinder r1 that prevents upward buckling of the strip f in the given position of disk 30 and not the cylinder r2 as in the other disk position fig6 in the position of the disk 30 shown in fig7 the cylinder r2 serves as a deflector for the transport of the strip f into and out of the turning channel 2 when the strip f being processed leaves.

treat the image of patterns so as to be continuous to one another in case the patterns are of an identical type 0031 fig2 shows that a pattern 60 and a pattern 61 are in a combined state in this case the stitch end point e 0 of the pattern 60 is may be indicated as the stitch start point s 1 of the pattern 61 however as shown in fig3 in case a pattern 62 is repeatedly stitched in series wherein the stitch end point e 2 is not at the end of the pattern and terminates at a stitch start point s 2 it becomes necessary to make a special treatment of pattern image more precisely as shown in fig4 in case the second pattern 63 of the same patterns is indicated in the first position at the pattern indicating device 8 it becomes necessary to indicate a portion d of the pattern 62 which overlaps the stitch start point s 3 of the pattern 63 the indication may be realized by a special treatment of pattern image as follows in fig5 when the first pattern is selected the initial data is decided from the position data of cursor so that a cursor 90 may come to an optional position in the indicating device 8 while the currently indicated data is disappeared and then the pattern image position is initialized steps s 1 s 2 s 3 subsequently the indication data for the initial pattern is read out step s 4 subsequently it is discriminated whether or not the read out indication data.

operating system software or other runtime environment and uses computer resources to perform application specific tasks desired by the user according to one embodiment of the invention the operating system 340 comprises the linux operating system according to another embodiment of the invention the operating system 340 comprises the windows server operating system from microsoft corporation according to another embodiment the operating system 340 comprises the unix or solaris operating system it should be appreciated that other operating systems may also be utilized the mass storage devices connected to the south bridge 326 and their associated computer readable media provide non volatile storage for the computer 302 although the description of computer readable media contained herein refers to a mass storage device such as a hard disk or cd rom drive it should be appreciated by those skilled in the art that computer readable media can be any available media that can be accessed by the computer 302 by way of example and not limitation computer readable media may comprise computer storage media and communication media computer storage media includes volatile and non volatile removable and non removable media implemented in any method or technology for storage of information such as computer readable instructions data structures program modules or other data computer storage media includes but is not limited to ram rom eprom eeprom flash memory or other solid state memory technology cd rom dvd hd dvd blu ray or other optical.

feeler roller 10 of the double lever 9 rests on the elevated lobe of the interval cam 11 so that the cam sleeve 4 is in its furthermost right end position the feeler roller 21 then rests on the cylindrical cam 4a which corresponds to a pivoted position of adjusting lever 20 and thus the adjusting crank 15 which with the rotation of the arm shaft crank 13 leads to a constant maximum crank radius and thus to a maximum needle shaft stroke in sewing the needle at the lowermost stroke position penetrates through the material and the loop catcher lying therebelow catches the upper thread carried along by the needle which then leads to the normal formation of a stitch when the feeler roller 10 rolls down from the elevated lobe as the interval cam 11 is further rotated which as previously mentioned happens when the adjusting lever 20 and thus the feeler roller 21 rest on the upwardly positioned section of the cam 4a which corresponds to the top dead center position of the needle shaft 4 the control sleeve 4 is pushed far enough to the left by a corresponding pivoting of the double lever 9 clockwise in fig1 so that the feeler roller 21 is located on the cylindrical section of cam 4b as the arm shaft crank 13 continues to rotate the feeler roller 21 rolls up onto the cam lobe of the cam 4b causing a corresponding pivoting of adjusting lever 20 and thus adjusting crank 15 i e in the sense of a reduction of the crank radius which.

is a flowchart illustrating the steps involved in using the first preferred embodiment in accordance with the present invention in step 202 subscriber 110 can be assigned or provided with a disposable telephone number the disposable telephone number preferably has a prefix or an npa that is dedicated for all disposable telephone numbers for example a telephone number having the 10 digit format of npa nxx xxxx with the npa being u201c 999 u201d may be recognized as a disposable telephone number of the present invention in a specific example subscriber 110 may be provided with the disposable telephone number 999 332 2323 alternatively a seven digit format may be used for disposable numbers on a regional basis for example within one or more area codes the nxx part of the nxx xxxx may be an exchange such as u201c 999 u201d in step 204 the disposable telephone number can be related to or associated with a true telephone number of subscriber 110 for example the 999 332 2323 disposable telephone number can be associated with the 123 456 7890 true telephone number of subscriber 110 in step 206 the relationship between the disposable telephone number and the true telephone number may be stored preferably the relationship is stored in a database the database may be database 132 shown in fig1 database 132 may comprises a look up table that relates the disposable telephone number to the true telephone number again table 1 above is an example of the look up table in step 208 the disposable telephone number may be given to a caller from whom subscriber 110 wishes to receive a telephone call but.

of the splint and radial tabs with directional markings are provided as visual indicators of the angular setting of the splint hinge application_number US 66408500 A description with reference to the drawings wherein like elements are designated by like numerals fig1 depicts an orthopedic splint or knee brace 10 applied to the knee joint k of a patient the brace includes an upper plate 12 and a lower plate 14 connected to each other for pivotal movement by a hinge 16 the upper plate is attached to the thigh of the patient 39 s leg by an upper strap s 1 and the lower plate is similarly attached to the leg below the knee by a lower strap s 2 so that the hinge 16 lies adjacent to and pivots with bending of the knee typically two similar knee braces 10 are applied to the knee joint of the patient one brace on the outside of the leg as shown in fig1 and an opposite second brace hidden in fig1 on the inside of the leg the two braces are generally parallel to each other and provide lateral support to the knee joint while allowing flexing of the knee joint in a plane parallel to the planes of movement of the brace hinge 16 in the course of rehabilitation or other therapy it may be desirable to temporarily hold the knee at a particular fixed angle or to limit the range of movement of the knee to.

pet polyester webs spunlace airlaids meltblowns apertured films tissues etc preferably the permeable non woven material is suitable for high temperature processing e g handling at temperatures of about 300 u00b0 f or higher in a particular embodiment the layers 14 and 16 are made from a composite comprising about 30 cotton and about 70 polypropylene fibers by weight and has a basis weight of 33 gsm grams per square meter a non woven material found to be useful in making the packets is sh ppc 33 manufactured by shalag nonwoven of israel optionally the layer 16 may be a folded over portion of the layer 14 optionally the layers 14 and 16 may comprise lengths of material with which a plurality of packets are formed to provide a length 20 of interconnected temperature change packets 10 as shown in fig3 the length 20 of temperature change packets may be wound up in pancake rolls or traverse spools a length 20 of temperature change packets 10 may then be installed on a tampon manufacturing machine the length 20 of temperature change packets 10 may be unwound and cut into individual temperature change packets 10 for incorporation into temperature change pledgets as shown in fig4 a pledget 22 is formed by placing an individual temperature change packet 10 on a first layer 24 of pledget material a second layer 26 of pledget material is then placed on the first layer 24 the pledget 22 is used to form a tampon with the temperature change packet 10 therein near the string end of the tampon in another embodiment of the present invention a moisture activated material is dispensed on top of and in the central area of a first layer 24 of pledget material a second.

thrown the same distance the support may be inflatable so that the game can be played in water application_number US 28040105 A description in the drawings the game apparatus is denoted generally by reference number 10 in referring to the various figures like numerals are used for like parts turning first to fig1 the game apparatus 10 includes a target consisting of three objects in the form of cylinders 11 12 and 13 each of the cylinders has an outside diameter of approximately 2 inches with an inside diameter of approximately 1 u00be inches with a wall thickness of approximately u215b inches the cylinders can be made of any suitable material but are preferably made of plastic the largest cylinder 11 has a height of approximately 4 inches the intermediate cylinder 12 has a height of approximately 3 inches and the smallest cylinder has a height of approximately 2 inches a support 14 includes a base in the form of a plate 15 approximately 5 inches in diameter defining a planar surface 16 a leg or rod 17 approximately 18 inches in length extends outwardly from plate 15 opposite the planar surface 16 the rod is sharpened at its free end 18 preferably the rod comprises segments that can be connected together by means of a friction fit or threaded cup links the rod 17 may also be removably fixable to the plate 16 by means of a friction fit or threaded cup link in use the rod 17 is assembled and affixed to the plate 15 and the support 14 is inserted into a suitable ground site such as a playground or open field the rod 17 being pointed at its free end 18 to facilitate insertion into the ground the support 14 is thereby held in.