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A test tube rack for supporting, storing and carrying a plurality of test tubes in a laboratory environment comprising a tray, a central support panel and/or lower support panel and a cover. The tray and cover are identical and interchangeable, and tapered for storage in nested stacks. Wells in the tray bottom are in alignment with corresponding openings in the central support panel and corresponding holes in the lower support panel and with domes in the cover, and serve to locate and retain test tubes within the test tube rack. The cover snap-attaches to the tray by means of at least one molded-in tab on the tray or cover which is received and frictionally retained by a corresponding well on the opposite element, thereby locating and securing the cover to the tray, and also locating and securing the central support panel between the tray and the cover. A dual-purpose support panel has manually removable perforated edges allowing it to serve either as a central support panel or, with the perforated edges removed, as a lower support panel. The test tube rack is preferably made of transparent injection-molded or thermoformed plastic.

A semiconductor substrate includes a pair of trenches filled with a dielectric material. Dopant introduced into the mesa between the trenches is limited from diffusing laterally when the substrate is subjected to thermal processing. Therefore, semiconductor devices can be spaced more closely together on the substrate, and the packing density of the devices can be increased. Also trench constrained doped region diffuse faster and deeper than unconstrained diffusions, thereby reducing the time and temperature needed to complete a desired depth diffusion. The technique may be used for semiconductor devices such as bipolar transistors as well as isolation regions that electrically isolate the devices from each other. In one group of embodiments, a buried layer is formed at an interface between an epitaxial layer and a substrate, at a location generally below the dopant in the mesa. When the substrate is subjected to thermal processing, the buried layer diffuses upward, the dopant in the mesa diffuses downward until the two dopants merge to form an isolation region or a sinker extending downward from the surface of the epitaxial layer to the buried layer. In another embodiment, dopant is implanted between dielectrically filled trenches at a high energy up to several MeV, then diffused, combining the benefits of deep implantation and trenched constrained diffusion to achive deep diffusions with a minimal thermal budget.

A method for printing an image on a printing substrate, a number of portions of fluid printing ink being produced on a printing ink carrier (10) through energy input by a number of image spots (810) of an array (84) of individually controllable VCSEL light sources, and the fluid printing ink being transferred to the printing substrate. A device for inputting energy (80) to a printing-ink carrier (10), includes a number (82) of individually controllable laser light sources which have a modular design consisting of subarrays (86) and are disposed in an array (84), and further includes printing-ink carrier (10) with which is associated an axis of rotation (88) and on the surface of which can be produced a number of image spots (810) of the laser light sources. The subarrays of laser light sources are VCSEL bars (84), and rows of image spots (12) of the VCSEL bars are inclined with respect to the axis of rotation (88).

A disposable lid for covering and closing the open end of a beverage cup or other container that may contain a hot or cold beverage or other foodstuff is disclosed. The disposable lid includes a top surface having at least one depressed area formed therein. The at least one depressed area has a depth sufficient for receiving and containing foodstuff such as condiments.

A siphonic flush toilet system and method of priming the same having a toilet bowl assembly comprising at least one jet flush valve assembly and at least one rim valve; and bowl having a rim and a jet defining at least one jet channel, the at least one jet channel having an inlet port and a jet outlet port configured for discharging fluid to a sump area, wherein the sump area is in fluid communication with a trapway. The bowl has a closed jet pathway including the jet channel and extending from the jet flush valve assembly outlet to the jet channel outlet port to maintain the jet channel in a primed state with fluid from the jet flush valve assembly so as to assist in preventing air from entering the closed jet pathway. Flush valves are also disclosed having back-flow preventer mechanisms and/or at least partly flexible valve covers for use with the toilet systems and methods herein

Structural reinforcing members are supplied for use in resisting shear forces within larger construction projects using reinforced concrete, along sites where strengthening ribs or beams between formers are to be created. The members also force the channels apart and maintain the reinforcing therein before curing at predetermined dimensions and spacings. A variant provides reinforcing cages that can be put together on the site for maintaining multiple reinforcing rods. The cages of different beams can intermesh at rib cross-over points. Example cages are eight-bar cages where each bar is made of 1.25 inch diameter reinforcing steel. During assembly the bars are held in place by the members with the assistance of gravity so that relatively little linking together of the reinforcing parts is required.

First and second laser beams from two different laser systems are superposed and irradiated as a hybrid laser beam on a workpiece. The effective spot size of second laser beam on the workpiece is smaller than that of the first laser beam. Thereby, a workpiece of a metal material having high reflectivity is processed with a sufficient weld penetration depth and width, and at high speed.

A siphonic flush toilet system and method of priming the same having a toilet bowl assembly comprising at least one jet flush valve assembly and at least one rim valve; and bowl having a rim and a jet defining at least one jet channel. The bowl has a closed jet pathway to maintain the jet channel in a primed state with fluid from the jet flush valve assembly to prevent air from entering the closed jet pathway. Flush valves may have back-flow preventer mechanisms and/or at least partly flexible valve covers, including specific valve cover structures. Flush activation assemblies may have a flush activation bar connected to the pivot rod and/or an adjustable flush connector located between the pivot rod and the flush activation bar. A kit providing one or more flush activation elements is included. The kit elements may be usable with the toilet systems and methods described.

A pneumatic tire provided with a tread pattern on which a plurality of blocks are formed with circumferential grooves which extend along a circumferential direction of the tire and lateral grooves which traverse the circumferential grooves, wherein the lateral groove disposed between the blocks on the endmost tread edge region has a depth from 10 to 50% of a depth of the circumferential groove to be traversed and has a groove bottom concave portion whose both ends in a longitudinal direction are disposed inside the groove bottom, and a width of the groove bottom concave portion, which is determined on the basis of the bottom plane of the groove bottom, is from 25 to 45% of a groove width of the lateral groove.

An optical joystick includes a first waveguide including a first reflecting surface located below a reading area for sensing the movement of an object and a first plano-convex lens portion condensing light reflected from the first reflecting surface, a second waveguide including a second plano-convex lens portion facing the first plano-convex lens portion and a second reflecting surface for reflecting light refracted at the second plano-convex lens portion, and an image sensor located below the second reflecting surface. The first reflecting surface and the first plano-convex lens portion form a single body, and the second plano-convex lens portion and the second reflecting surface also form a single body. The reflecting surface and the lens portion are in a single body, thereby notably reducing the thickness of the optical joystick. The first and second waveguides are facing each other, thereby improving refraction and condensing light.

A substrate carrying a machine-readable pattern, the pattern comprising a plurality of printed shapes, local portions of the pattern uniquely encoding respective locations of the substrate, the substrate further carrying a human-recognisable printed image, wherein the human-recognisable image is masked at locations of the printed shapes of the machine-readable pattern, thereby preventing the machine-readable pattern from being obscured by the human-recognisable printed image.

A method and apparatus for adaptively managing communication latency, including processing one or more data frames in a communication network; sampling the one or more data frames in accordance with a first sampling time; interpolating the sampled one or more data frames; and forming a play-out waveform using the one or more data frames and having a predetermined length in time. The one or more data frames can be one or more vocoder frames and a play-out time of the one or more vocoder frames is different than the original sampling time.

The present invention relates to a prefabricated swimming pool made of metal, especially stainless steel, or of plastic, that is made of one piece or made up of individual segments (1′) and has a water circulation system (8) that, either continuously or at regular intervals, removes parts of the pool water from the swimming pool, runs it through a dirt filter and returns it to the pool, which achieves a flow in the pool water created by the circulation of the pool water. The swimming pool is characterized by the fact that the pool floor (1) is curved, at least in part, along one of its axes, preferably along its lateral axis, with at least 25 percent, preferably at least half, and especially preferably with the entire surface of the pool floor (1) being curved along this axis.

Provided is a photosensitive composition, which comprises a carboxyl group-containing resin, a photopolymerization initiator, a photosensitive acrylate compound and a filler, wherein the filler has a refractive index of 1.5 to 1.6 and a dry coating film of the photosensitive composition shows an absorbance of at least either 0.01 to 0.2 at a wavelength of 365 nm or 0.01 to 0.2 at a wavelength of 405 nm per thickness of 25 μm. The content of the filler is preferably 20 to 60 wt % with respect to the total amount of the composition. This photosensitive composition can be advantageously used as a plating resist of a printed wiring board or a solder resist and is useful particularly in the formation of a very finely patterned resist film having a high aspect ratio.