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An appliance for storing, distributing and placing surgical fasteners comprises a handgrip body and an elongate element attached to the handgrip. The elongate element includes a magazine slide adapted to be displaced in the elongate element by a control rod. The control rod can be, in turn, actuated by the handgrip. The magazine slide also has surgical fasteners. Each surgical fastener has an anchoring bar, a catching bar and a connecting strip. A distal part of the anchoring bar has a conical shape. A distal end of the distal part of the anchoring bar has a hemispherical shape.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a parking assisting apparatus which can selectively determine an appropriate target parking position, which can be used for parking assisting, with an appropriate priority, by appropriately using obstacle detecting means and parking space detecting means in a coordinated fashion. The present invention is a parking assisting apparatus for assisting parking a vehicle, comprising the obstacle detecting means for detecting an obstacle near the vehicle; and parking section line detecting means for detecting a parking section line painted on the ground; wherein if the parking section line is detected by the parking section line detecting means, the apparatus calculates the target parking position based on the detected parking section line.

A timer indicator or chronograph is described. The chronograph functions according to chromatographic principles to develop a perceptible visual image or pattern on an indicator panel or display area, which serves as a means to monitor the relative amount of time that elapses. The chronograph includes a self-contained reservoir for an activating agent, which once activated creates a mobile front that traverses the indicator panel substrate from the reservoir to a distal end at a predetermined rate. The chronograph may be used as a stand-alone device or may be incorporated as part of various articles or products, for instance, as either a training aid or as a dryness indicator. Methods for using and making the chronograph are also described.

A storage or conveying system includes an electromagnetic surface-area motor which moves one or more conveying devices, especially movable pallets, cars, or containers mounted on wheels or rolls. The surface-area motor is equipped with a plurality of electromagnets which can generate suitable magnetic fields for moving the conveying device. The conveying device is designed in a passive manner with respect to the driving action of the surface-area motor. The transformers can be separated from one another and can be arranged to form desired geometries of the surface-area motor. At least one metal detecting apparatus is integrated into the surface-area motor.

A timer indicator or chronograph is described. The chronograph functions according to chromatographic principles to develop a perceptible visual image or pattern on an indicator panel or display area, which serves as a means to monitor the relative amount of time that elapses. The chronograph includes a self-contained reservoir for an activating agent, which once activated creates a mobile front that traverses the indicator panel substrate from the reservoir to a distal end at a predetermined rate. The chronograph may be used as a stand-alone device or may be incorporated as part of various articles or products, for instance, as either a training aid or as a dryness indicator. Methods for using and making the chronograph are also described.

Improved techniques and systems for storage, delivery and acquisition of digital assets stored in cloud data storage. Cloud data storage can be provided by a cloud data repository that is capable of storing digital data for various users. A given user can access cloud data storage from any of his / her authorized client devices via a network. A given client device can access not only locally stored digital assets but also remotely stored digital assets from cloud data storage. In one embodiment, downloads of digital assets resident in cloud data storage to client devices can be managed in view of available network performance. As one example, digital assets of differing quality levels can be downloaded in a manner dependent on network performance. As another example, locally stored digital assets of reduced quality can be upgraded (e.g., replaced) by higher quality versions in a manner dependent on network performance.

The present invention relates to methods for producing nanoparticle and microparticle powders of a biologically active material which have improved powder handling properties making the powders suitable for commercial use using dry milling processes as well as compositions comprising such materials, medicaments produced using said biologically active materials in particulate form and / or compositions, and to methods of treatment of an animal, including man, using a therapeutically effective amount of said biologically active materials administered by way of said medicaments.

A display device capable of allowing a page to be turned to give a feeling as if a page is actually turned includes a memory for storing information, a display for displaying information, a page turn instruction unit for detecting that the unit itself is tilted to output a detection signal indicating the direction of the tilt, and a display control unit for receiving an instruction from the page turn instruction unit to read information of the next or previous page from the memory according to the direction of the tilt and display the read information on the display.

To provide a content playback device that can use content appropriately by avoiding output of content not permitted to be used according to contract information. A playback control unit 102 extracts a content name from playback control information in a playback path information table 210, and inquires of a rights management unit 108 whether content identified by the extracted content name is playable or not. If the content is judged as being unplayable, the playback control unit 102 extracts an alternative playback number from the playback control information, and extracts a content name from playback control information whose playback number matches the alternative playback number. The playback control unit 102 then instructs a decryption unit 103 and a playback unit 107 to decrypt and play back encrypted content identified by the extracted content name.

Cost-effective reinforcement system for frames walls helps support against failure from violent lateral forces. Strips of resin-impregnated textile in crossed pairs are attached to frame members. Attachment of ends of strips is ductile due to use of multiple fiber anchors.

The present invention involves an interactive selection system for a consumer product that improves the consumer's ability to quickly sort through numerous criteria in a complex decision making process and determine whether that particular consumer product is appropriate for his or her purchase and use. The interactive selection system is designed for a consumer product wherein the product is appropriate for less than all consumers comprising: (a) an interface; (b) at least one product selection device associated with the interface, wherein each product selection device is comprised of: (i) decision criteria that are relevant to appropriate selection or deselection of the product, (ii) at least two selectable responses associated with each decision criteria, wherein there is at least one positive selectable response and at least one negative selectable response for each decision criteria, and (iii) selection indicia associated with each selectable response; (c) directive instructions which direct an operator to manipulate each product selection device to choose a consumer applicable response from the available selectable responses per decision criteria; and (d) interpretive instructions which explain how to interpret the pattern of selection indicia which is observably associated with the chosen one or more consumer applicable responses to assist with determining whether or not the product is appropriate for the consumer's purchase or use.

A battery pack capable of sufficiently exhibiting performance of each secondary battery constituting the battery pack and its producing method are provided. The battery pack producing method of the invention comprises an obtaining process for obtaining a charge amount voltage curve C during charging and a charge amount voltage curve D during discharging, a selecting process for selecting more than one of the used secondary batteries close to each other in curves C and D from a group of the used secondary batteries whose curves C and D have been obtained, and an assembling process for combining the selected used secondary batteries to constitute the battery pack.

A circuit for detecting excessive current flow through a switching element derives an electrical quantity relating to a condition of the switching element and correlated with the current level, and compares the magnitude of that electrical condition quantity with a threshold value corresponding to the maximum allowable level of current. A temperature detection signal indicative of the switching element temperature is converted to a compensation signal having a temperature characteristic which is modified from that of the temperature detection signal, and which is utilized to compensate the magnitude comparison operation against inaccuracy caused by a temperature dependency of the electrical condition quantity.

Provided are a battery pack manufacturing method, which can prevent a drawback that some of used secondary batteries constituting a battery pack prematurely come to the end and which can suppress the enlargement of the temporary voltage difference between the used secondary battery at a charging / discharging time (especially in a low-temperature circumstance), and a battery pack. The battery pack manufacturing method comprises an acquiring step (Step S1) of acquiring the individual internal resistances of the secondary batteries already used, a selection step (Step S2) of selecting a plurality of the used secondary batteries having the internal resistances close to each other from a group of the used secondary batteries whose internal resistances have been acquired, and an assembling step (Step S3) of combining the used secondary batteries selected, to constitute the battery pack.

An access point terminal includes: a communication-terminal-status determination unit which determines a communication status of one wireless communication terminal out of wireless communication terminals, by obtaining a wireless signal transmitted or received by the one wireless communication terminal; and a frequency control unit which uses (i) a first frequency band for wireless communication with the one wireless communication terminal and (ii) a frequency band other than the first frequency band for the wireless communication with one or more of the wireless communication terminals other than the one wireless communication terminal, when the communication-terminal-status determination unit determines that the communication status of the one wireless communication terminal satisfies a predetermined condition.

An on-board camera captures an image of a travel lane ahead of an own vehicle. At least one state acquisition apparatus acquires an acquired value indicating a state of the own vehicle. A travel lane marking recognition system recognizes a travel lane marking that demarcates the travel lane from an image captured by the on-board camera. The travel lane marking recognition system sets a reliability level of the recognized travel lane marking based on the acquired value of the at least one state acquisition apparatus. When the reliability level is higher than a first predetermined threshold, the travel lane marking recognition system performs driving control of the own vehicle based on the recognized travel lane marking. When the reliability level is lower than the first predetermined threshold, the travel lane marking recognition system performs a deviation warning of deviation from the travel lane based on the recognized travel lane marking.

A robust, quickly tunable narrow-linewidth entangled photon source system based on Spontaneous Parametric Down Conversion (SPDC) of the pump light in periodically polled LiNbO3 (PPLN) waveguides. The photon source provides narrow-linewidth, entangled output photons having a wavelength in the telecom C-Band wavelength. To tailor the output spectrum of the output photons, the PPLN waveguide is arranged between two end waveguides having LiNbO3-embedded Bragg gratings, thereby forming a tunable Fabry-Perot cavity. The resulting narrow output linewidth of the output photons makes the system desirable for use in a long-distance quantum key distribution (QKD) system.

The present invention provides an information processing device includes: a biometrics device, an interface control unit for controlling the biometrics device, a first storage unit for concealing a user identifier and user authentication information, a second storage unit for storing a program executed by the information processing device, and a processor for releasing the concealment of the first storage unit based on the program stored in the second storage unit and acquiring biometrics information inputted from the biometrics device, so as to compare it with the user authentication information. Thus, it is possible to prevent lowering of user-friendliness and increase of the cost when using an external authentication device in a laptop type personal computer and to provide an authentication control configuration and an authentication procedure optimal for an information processing device such as a laptop type personal computer.

A monitoring system has a distribution apparatus which encrypts continuous data and distributes the encrypted continuous data via a network, a reproduction apparatus which decrypts the encrypted data distributed via the network to reproduce the continuous data, and a key management apparatus which has a key management database. The distribution apparatus obtains a key number correlated with the distribution apparatus and key information correlated with the key number from the key management apparatus, encrypts data with using the obtained key information, and distributes the encrypted data with the obtained key number. The reproduction apparatus transmits the key number appended to the encrypted data to the key management apparatus, obtains key information correlated with the transmitted key number, and decrypts the encrypted data with using the obtained key information.

An interface device in accordance with the present claimed invention is an interface device 4 that intervenes between a measuring means 2 that measures brain activities of a subject H and an object 31 to be controlled, and that comprises a reference signal storing part D1 that stores a brain activity signal measured at a time when the subject H conducts predetermined thinking different from direct thinking in order to control the object 31 to be controlled in a desired mode as a reference signal, a discriminating part 41 that compares the brain activity signal measured by the measuring means 2 with the reference signal and discriminates whether or not the thinking of the subject H is the predetermined thinking, and a controlling part 42 that controls the object 31 to be controlled in the desired mode when the discriminating part41 discriminates that the thinking of the subject H is the predetermined thinking.

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for sending and receiving multi-carrier information to support multi-carrier mode operations in a multi-carrier communication system. The method of the present invention for sending and receiving multi-carrier information comprises a step wherein a base station transmits system information on a supportable multi-carrier to a terminal via a broadcast message; a step wherein a unicast message is received from the terminal, including information regarding the carriers that the terminal prefers or is able to support in the multi-carrier list included in said system information; and a step wherein multi-carrier allocation information, including the primary carrier and secondary carrier that the terminal will use, is transmitted to the terminal via unicast message.

A wearable camera includes a body, a lens, a video recording button, a snap shot button, a mode changeover switch, and a confirmation changeover switch. The mode changeover switch includes an operating section and a linear slot in which the operating section moves. A first mode which is a most-frequently-used mode having a high frequency of use in case of emergency is disposed on an upper end side of the slot, and a fourth mode which is an off mode cutting off connection with the outside is disposed on a lower end side thereof.

A chromatographic specific binding assay strip device, comprising: a non-permeable platform strip; a permeable membrane testing strip positioned on top of said non-permeable platform strip, with the testing strip comprising at least one capture reagent site containing a capture reagent for at least one specific analyte, a sample receiving pad positioned on top of and at a proximal end of the non-permeable platform strip, with the sample receiving pad having contact with a proximal end of said permeable membrane testing strip, a reservoir pad positioned on top of and at a distal end of said non-permeable membrane testing strip, with the reservoir pad having contact with a proximal end of said permeable membrane test strip; a supporting strip attached to and extending from the proximal end of said non-permeable platform strip; and a conjugate pad positioned on said supporting strip, said conjugate pad comprising a semi-permeable membrane containing a colorant conjugate. The semi-permeable membrane acts as a barrier between the conjugate pad and the sample receiving pad, regulating the flow through the semi-permeable membrane and overall flow of the assay by dipping the conjugate pad into a sample solution, there will be increased binding between the analyte in the sample and the conjugate (preferably colloidal gold), thereby giving improved results on the lateral flow assay.

Piezo-electric ceramic transducer 1 has upper piezo-electric active layer 5 and lower piezo-electric active layer 6. Upper insulating layer 2 and lower insulating layer 3, between which upper piezo-electric active layer 5 and lower piezo-electric active layer 6 are placed, are disposed on both surfaces of piezo-electric ceramic transducer 1 in a thickness direction thereof. Two electrode pads 8 and 9 are disposed on a surface of upper insulating layer 2. Electrode pads 8 and 9 are connected with upper electrode layers 7a and lower electrode layers 7b via connection members 12, and voltages are applied to upper piezo-electric active layer 5 and lower piezo-electric active layer 6 via electrode pads 8 and 9. Insulating layers 2, 3 and 4 and piezo-electric active layers 5 and 6 are made of the same material as one another and are integrated by sintering.

A process controlling unit included in a multifunction-device controller sends an acquired ID number and a request for identifying the user corresponding to the ID number, to a controller server. The controller server searches a user management file for user information corresponding to the ID number. The controller server sends, to the multifunction-device controller, information representing that user verification is successfully made when user information is acquired. Upon reception of such information, the process controlling unit permits the verified user to operate a copier making copies of documents. Upon completion of the copying operation, the process controlling unit acquires information representing the number of copies made by the user. Then, the process controlling unit creates usage information of the copier, and sends the created usage information to the controller server. The controller server stores the received usage information into a usage-information management file.

A control device for a vehicle equipped in the vehicle, the control device that includes a first display located in a center fascia of the vehicle, a second display located at a lower side of the first display, a guide configured to guide the second display to be moved in a direction from front to rear sides of the vehicle, and a controller configured to control at least one of the first and second displays such that information output on the at least one of the first and second displays differs according to a position of the second display is disclosed.