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The present invention relates to a system for replication and encapsidation of recombinant DNA fragments into virus particles comprised of adenovirus associated viral (AAV) capsid proteins. The invention provides an means of obtaining recombinant viral stocks that may be used to treat patients suffering from genetic diseases.

A method and apparatus for increasing the bandwidth of a memory controller system are provided. According to the invention, data received at an interface of a memory controller system is compressed in the memory controller by a compression engine for storage in associated memory. The address of the data written to memory is maintained in a memory controller. When data is read from the memory for provision to an interface of the memory controller, the memory manager retrieves the data from memory and provides it to a decompression engine. The decompression engine restores the data to its original, uncompressed form. The data is then provided to the appropriate interface.

An on-vehicle power supplying apparatus comprises a first battery charged by a generator driven by an on-vehicle engine, a second battery connected to an on-vehicle electric load, and a power adjuster adjusting power to be supplied from both of the first and second batteries to the electric load. For adjusting the power, he power adjuster uses a predetermined order in which the first battery is firstly made to supply the power to the electric load, provided that a residual capacity of the first battery is higher than a predetermined threshold, before making both the first and second batteries supply the power to the electric load cooperatively.

In a double heat exchange, a radiator and a condenser are integrated through a side plate for reinforcing the radiator and the condenser, and a longitudinal dimension of condenser tubes is made smaller than a longitudinal dimension of radiator tubes. Therefore, a core area of the condenser becomes smaller than that of the radiator. Thus, heat-exchanging capacity of the condenser is restricted from being increased more than a necessary capacity, and size and performance of the double heat exchanger are restricted from being increased more than necessary conditions.

An electroluminescent display device includes an electroluminescent display, and at least one switch which is positioned adjacent to an inner surface of the electroluminescent display, the switch being activated upon an outer surface of the electroluminescent display being pressed to resiliently deform the switch.

The present invention provides a biological implantation RFID tag which can be subcutaneously implanted in a small animal without significantly stressing it and which exhibits improved communication performance, and an insertion jig used to implant the biological implantation RFID tag in the living body of a small animal. A biological implantation RFID tag is implanted in the living body of a small animal to transmit and receive an electromagnetic wave to and from the exterior of the living body to allow an ID assigned to the animal to be read. The biological implantation RFID tag includes an inlet having an IC chip that stores the ID and a main antenna, a support around which the inlet is wound to form an inlet portion, and an auxiliary antenna connected to the main antenna to extend it. Implanting the biological implantation RFID tag in the living body allows the inlet portion to be implanted in a subcutaneous tissue layer with most of the auxiliary antenna projecting out from the living body.

A multi-operating mode frame type portable landslide testing device for a geomechanical model belongs to the field of geological hazard model test. The testing device comprises a frame-beam-type testing bed, a rainfall simulator, a water level regulator and a self-weight horizontal loading mechanism, wherein the frame-beam-type testing bed mainly comprises a cuboid framework, a front panel, a rear panel and a base plate; the rainfall simulator is arranged at the top of the frame-beam-type testing bed and comprises a plurality of spraying pipes and nozzles on the spraying pipes and is used for simulating rainfall in the frame-beam-type testing bed; the water level regulator comprises a left-side trough and a right-side trough respectively formed on the left and the right sides of the frame-beam-type testing bed, and a plurality of drainage holes are respectively formed on the right panel of the left-side trough and the left panel of the right-side trough and used for changing the water levels of water level simulation libraries in the left-side trough and the right-side trough; and the self-weight horizontal loading mechanism is arranged above the right-side trough and used for bearing weights, so as to exert horizontal load to the landslide model in the frame-beam-type testing bed.

The invention discloses a cold-hot compound die molding method for an aluminum alloy sheet metal component, and relates to a molding method for a sheet metal component. The invention aims to solve the technical problems that the conventional hot-state molding method for the aluminum alloy sheet metal component is low in molding efficiency and can easily cause local crinkles and fractures, and provides the cold-hot compound die molding method for the aluminum alloy sheet metal component. The cold-hot compound die molding method comprises the following steps of: 1, heating a lower die to a temperature of between 200 and 900 DEG C; 2, placing an aluminum alloy plate blank on the lower die and heating the aluminum alloy plate blank to the deformation temperature of the aluminum alloy plate blank; 3, closing the die to press the aluminum alloy plate blank into the aluminum alloy sheet metal component; 4, separating the aluminum alloy sheet metal component, an upper die and a blank holder from the lower die; and 5, cooling the upper die and the blank holder, keeping the temperature for a certain period of time, and taking the aluminum alloy sheet metal component down to finish the cold-hot compound die molding of the aluminum alloy sheet metal component. According to the method, a cold-hot compound die in which the upper die is in a cold state and the lower die is in a hot state is adopted to mold the aluminum alloy sheet metal component. The cold-hot compound die molding method is suitable for making the aluminum alloy sheet metal component.

A phase contrast image is generated on the basis of a plurality of radiation images of an object taken in imaging positions which are different from each other in the distance from the object. An enlargement/reduction processing is carried out on the radiation images as taken in the imaging positions according to the distances between the imaging positions so that the radiation images become substantially the same in their sizes, and a phase contrast image is generated on the basis of the radiation images thus processed.

Semiconductor devices provided with high performance high-frequency circuits that reduce interference caused by inductors are provided. In the semiconductor device including a modulator circuit to modulate a carrier wave by a base band signal to output an RF signal and a demodulator circuit to demodulate the RF signal by use of the carrier wave to gain the base band signal and a local oscillator to generate the carrier wave, inductors respectively having a closed loop wire are adopted. Interference caused by mutual inductance is reduced by the closed loop wire. For example, where inductors are adopted in the modulator circuit, a closed loop wire is disposed around the outer periphery of the inductors.

A liquid chromatograph provided here is adapted to enable the lengths of tubing for connecting the respective constituent elements thereof to be minimized by making the positions of the respective constituent elements including a detector and a column movable and adjustable in order to reduce the dead volume in a liquid chromatograph system in plumbing and increase the analytical precision through prevention of diffusion of samples and rapid sending of a mixed liquid solvent. Furthermore, in order to prevent cross-contamination due to residues of samples and cleaning liquid in a flow channel of the liquid chromatograph system, an injection port in which a needle can be inserted is so provided as to communicate directly with a flow channel of an injection valve.

A power converter includes a body including a switching element; a plurality of semiconductor modules each having a control terminal projected from the body; a circuit board controlling the switching element; a cooler that cools the semiconductor modules; a smoothing capacitor smoothing direct-current voltage applied to the switching element; a discharge resistor disposed on a surface of the circuit board and electrically connected parallel to the smoothing capacitor. The semiconductor modules are mounted on the circuit board with the control terminal, the discharge resistor includes a first connecting portion at one end of the discharge resistor in a longitudinal direction thereof and a second connecting portion at an other end of the discharge resistor in the longitudinal direction, and the first connecting portion is connected to the control terminal via a wiring pattern provided on the surface of the circuit board.

A ceiling-only dry sprinkler system configured to address a storage occupancy fire event with a sprinkler operational area sufficient in size to surround and drown the fire. The system and method preferably provide for the surround and effect by activating one or more initial sprinklers, delaying fluid flow to the initial activated sprinklers for a defined delay period to permit the thermal activation of a subsequent one or more sprinklers so as to form the preferred sprinkler operational area. The sprinklers of the operational area are preferably configured so as to provide sufficient fluid volume and cooling to address the fire-event with a surround and drown configuration. The defined delay period is of a defined period having a maximum and a minimum. The preferred sprinkler system is adapted for fire protection of storage commodities and provides a ceiling only system that eliminates or otherwise minimizes the economic disadvantages and design penalties of current dry sprinkler system design.

In order to configure a jack (J) that realizes a favorable conductive state by bringing a tip electrode (10) at a front end of a plug (P) into reliable contact with a contact without making the jack bigger, a contact unit (CU) having a pair of tip contacts (CT) that contact the tip electrode (10) at the front end of the plug (P) in an embracing fashion is incorporated in a body (20). The contact unit (CU) is made of a linking portion (23), intermediate portions (24) that extend from both ends of the linking portion (23) towards an aperture side of the plug insertion hole (H), and folded portions (25) that are folded over from the ends of the intermediate portions (24) to the inner end side of the plug insertion hole (H), projecting into the plug insertion hole (H), the contact unit being formed in one piece by bending a band-shaped conductor, such as a copper alloy, and the tip contacts (CT) being formed on a free end side of the folded portions (25).

An ambient noise removal device includes: a sound signal output section that outputs a sound signal to thereby drive a speaker; a noise detection section that detects an electromotive force produced in the speaker by ambient noise; and a noise cancellation section that generates, on the basis of the electromotive force, a signal of an opposite phase from the ambient noise and adds the generated signal to the sound signal to thereby cancel the ambient noise.

A scrapping unit and an image forming apparatus having the same, and cleaning methods thereof to improve a maintenance performance. The scrapping unit cleans a polluted member disposed in an image forming apparatus and stained by a polluting material. The scrapping unit may include an endless belt to circulate between an exposed position where a surface of the endless belt is exposed toward the polluted member, and a non-exposed position where the surface of the endless belt is not exposed with respect to the polluted member, and a belt support frame which includes a belt support surface to support the endless belt so that the endless belt can be unfolded in the exposed position, and a storing space to store the endless belt so that the endless belt can be folded in the non-exposed position.

A fuel additive composition includes: a) a reverse-micellar composition having an aqueous disperse phase that includes cerium dioxide nanoparticles in a continuous phase that includes a hydrocarbon liquid, a surfactant, and optionally a co-surfactant and b) a reverse micellar composition having an aqueous disperse phase that includes a cetane improver effective for improving engine power during fuel combustion. A method of making a cerium-containing fuel additive includes the steps of: a) providing a mixture of a nonpolar solvent, a surfactant, and a co-surfactant; and b) combining the mixture with an aqueous suspension of stabilized cerium dioxide nanoparticles.

This semiconductor laser apparatus includes a first semiconductor laser device having a first surface and a second surface, an integrated laser device formed by a second semiconductor laser device and a third semiconductor laser device having a third surface and a fourth surface, and a support substrate. The third surface is bonded onto a first region of the support substrate, a first section of the first surface overlaps with at least part of the fourth surface, and a second section of the first surface is bonded to a second region of the support substrate.

The present invention discloses a glass cutting method, a two-dimensional code is set on a glass substrate before glass cutting, two-dimensional code information is read before the glass cutting, and inputted into a control system, the control system interprets the two-dimensional code information and generates a cutting path according to interpretation information, and a cutting device cuts the glass substrate according to the cutting path. According to the method, different sizes and different shapes of glass to be cut can be optimized and arranged, the utilization rate of the glass substrate can be improved, the workload of manual input of parameters can be reduced, the relative position of the two-dimensional code on the cut glass is more precision, production efficiency of the glass subsequent processing can be improved, mixed production of different specifications of glass can be achieved, positional deviation increase, large glass size scattering difference and other defects caused by a plurality of times of repeated positioning can be avoided, and flexible secondary processing of the glass can be facilitated. The present invention also discloses the glass cutting device for cutting the glass substrate by use of the method.

An image formation device changes the rotational rate of a polygon motor, i.e. the main-scanning rate, and selects one of pulse width conversion tables when an image formation is performed multiple times on a single sheet of transfer paper. The changing of the main-scanning rate is for preventing inconsistent sizes between a first recorded image and a second recorded image caused by shrinkage of transfer paper. The pulse width conversion tables allow the pulse widths to be modulated.