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A powered surgical tool with a housing that contains a power generating unit such as a motor. A control module is disposed in a shell that is mounted in the housing. Conductive pins extend through the shell to provide electrical connections to the components within the shell. An active seals are disposed around the conductors and the inner walls of the shell that define the openings in which the shells are seated. Each active seal include an inner and outer skirt. A biasing component disposed between the skirts urges the inner skirt against the section of the conductive pin seated in the opening. The biasing component also urges the outer skirt against the adjacent opening-defining inner wall of the shell. The active seal functions as a barrier between the conductive pin and the adjacent inner wall of the shell.

It is an object to provide a thin-type full-color display device with the long lifetime, inexpensively, in which desired emission luminance and desired color purity can be obtained at a low voltage. In a light-emitting device capable of full-color display, among a plurality of light-emitting elements emitting different emission colors (for example, colors of red (R), green (G), and blue (B)), at least one of the light-emitting elements of an emission color is a light-emitting element including an organic compound (an organic EL element), and the other light-emitting element of an emission color is a light-emitting element using an inorganic material as a light-emitting layer or a fluorescent layer (an inorganic EL element). It is to be noted that the organic EL element and the inorganic EL element are formed over the same substrate.

A data multi-hop sensing and threat detecting network, including modular sensor devices, smart plug and portable sensor devices, and low power sub-sensor devices. A determination is made to alert when a sensed value is either (1) greater than a predetermined upper threshold value or the running average baseline value (whichever is greater) plus the upper fluctuation buffer value, or (2) less than a predetermined lower threshold value or the running average baseline value (whichever is less) less the lower fluctuation buffer value. The running average baseline is smoothed by applying large number numerology to the sensed values.

A method for establishing a multimedia session between a calling telecommunications equipment and a called equipment that is a mobile equipment of a network of the multimedia sub-domain type, wherein: an invitation (Invite) is sent from the first user equipment (UE1) to establish a multimedia session, which comprises as he destination address a public identity of the second equipment, said invitation being transmitted: by the first equipment (UE1) to a first proxy server (P-CSCF1), then, from this first proxy server, to a first session control server (S-CSCF1) of the network in which the first equipment (UE1) is registered, and from this first session server (S-CSCF1) to a point of entry server (I-CSCF2) of the network corresponding to the destination address of the second equipment (UE2); this point of entry server (I-CSCF2) interrogates a database (HSS2) of the network of the second equipment (UE2) in order to obtain the address of a session control server (S-CSF2) responsible for said second equipment (UE2); when said second equipment (UE2) is registered in said database: said point of entry server (I-CSCF2) transmits the invitation message to the selected session server (S-CSCF2), and said session server (S-CSCF2) transmits the invitation message to a proxy server (P-CSCF2) corresponding to the second equipment, wherein the proxy server (P-CSCF2) transmits this invitation message by encapsulating it in an IP packet to the second equipment via an appropriate transit node (GGSN).

A headlight module comprising at least one phosphor which can be excited to emit light by means of electromagnetic radiation; at least one radiation source for exciting the at least one phosphor; at least one carrier device for the at least one phosphor; and at least one beam directing device which is disposed such that it directs electromagnetic radiation emitted by the at least one radiation source onto the at least one phosphor.

A flow cytometry system is disclosed for oscillating the exterior of a flow cytometer nozzle. Oscillating the exterior of a flow cytometer nozzle at selected oscillations or a sweeping range of oscillations disintegrates particles and gas entrapped within the flow cytometer nozzle. Adherents absorbed to the exterior of the flow cytometer nozzle may also be removed. An energy source (1) serves to generate a selected oscillation or range of oscillations. The energy source (1) is connected to a flexible transfer element (2) which conducts the electrical signals to an oscillation system (3). The oscillation system (3) turns the electrical energy from the energy source (1) into mechanical oscillations and is connected to a portable device (4) which disintegrates particles, dislocates gas within the flow cytometer nozzle and cleans the exterior of the flow cytometer aperture.

A display rack assembly for the display of product packages, with provisions for pushing packages toward the front of the display as individual packages are removed. The assembly includes a support base for supporting the packages and slidably mounting a spring-urged pusher. The pusher has front and back panels, with the back panel being joined along its upper edge to the back of the front panel, and the respective bottom edges being spaced apart in the front to back direction. A generally flat, front extension panel is removably attached to the front pusher panel to extend its dimensions upwardly or laterally, or both. This enables a standardized display rack to be easily adapted for tall and / or wide packages, as well as packages of smaller sizes. Interchangeable extension panels also can be provided with product advertising, specific to the product being displayed, which can be replaced or interchanged when a new product is displayed.

A system for security checking or transport of persons by an elevator installation and to a method of operating this system wherein in a person is authenticated by at least one authentication signal. At least one mobile authentication device carried by the person detects an authentication signal of the person and checks it with at least one person reference. In the case of correspondence of the authentication signal and the person reference, at least one identification code is provided. The identification code is detected by a stationary recognition device and assigned to a predefined travel destination or to an input travel destination input at the recognition device by the person.

A crossbow may include a main beam: (a) a bow assembly including a bow and a bow string adapted to propel an arrow; (b) a trigger mechanism mounted to the main beam; (c) and a bow assembly mounting apparatus for use in selectively mounting the bow assembly at a first location on the main beam to provide a first draw weight and for use in selectively mounting the bow assembly to a second location on the main beam to provide a second draw weight that is substantially different from the first draw weight.

This invention provides an optical position detection device capable of detecting the position of a light source and with low price. An emission system is based on a certain distance between a second light source (12) and a third light source (13); a signal light (R2) from the second light source (12) is corresponded to an incident angle (Theta 2) of the emission system (1); a signal light (R3) from the third light source (13) is corresponded to an incident angle (Theta 3) of the emission system (1);the detection emission system (1) is corresponded to the position of a receiving system (2).

In a variable power divider including a first 90° phase combiner (30), a second 90° phase combiner (40), and a phase-amplitude adjustment block (50), the phase-amplitude adjustment block (50) includes, correspondingly to two-channel polarized signals, variable phase shifters (51, 52) for adjusting their phase amounts and variable attenuators (55, 56) for adjusting amplitudes (attenuation amounts), and the phase amounts and the amplitudes of the two-channel polarized signals can be adjusted by an antenna control unit (60). Further, there are included a phase shifter (53) and an attenuator (57) provided on two-channel signal lines between an orthomode transducer (20) and a first 90° phase combiner (30) and for equalizing the amplitudes and phases of the two-channel polarized signals. By this, an antenna apparatus can be inexpensively provided which uses a reflector antenna (10) to perform transmission / reception of a signal to / from a satellite at high accuracy, and is miniaturized to be suitable for mounting on an aircraft or the like.

There is provided a packaging container which reserves an acidic beverage having a relatively high acidity and allows spore to remain properly without corrupting and the acidic beverage can be aseptically filled and reserved at a normal temperature with low cost without utilizing a container having high heat-proof property and expensive manufacturing equipment. An interior of a container 2 is sterilized by a sterilizing agent “b” and a heated water “c” so as to allow bacterial spore to be alive but not to allow bacteria vegetative cell, mold and yeast to be alive, and a sterilized content “a” having an acidity of an extent of suppressing germination of the bacteria spore fills the container at a normal temperature or low temperature, and then the container is sealed by a lid 3, thereby providing a packaging container 1.

The present invention provides a new and unique method and apparatus for monitoring a device, such as a pump. The device may also include a fan, compressor, turbine or other rotating or reciprocating piece of machinery. In one embodiment, the method features sensing in a first device both a start-up vibration at a start-up time after the first device is affixed to a second device to be monitored and a subsequent vibration level at a subsequent time after the start-up time, and providing both a start-up vibration level signal containing information about the start-up vibration level of the second device, and a subsequent vibration level signal containing information about the subsequent vibration level of the second device; and monitoring in the first device the condition of operation of the second device based on a comparison of the start-up vibration level signal in relation to the subsequent vibration level signal. The apparatus may take the form of one or more modules and / or chipset for performing the steps and functionality of the aforementioned method.

An optical distance measuring sensor includes a light receiving element arranged on the same plane as a light emitting element. The light receiving element includes a light receiving unit having a plurality of cells and collecting the light emitted from the light emitting element and reflected by a target object, a flash memory unit storing a predetermined position on the light receiving unit, and a signal processing circuit unit sensing the collection position of the light on the light receiving unit, and measuring the distance to the target object based on a relative positional relationship between the predetermined position stored in the flash memory unit and the collection position of the light on light receiving unit.

An ice cake forming apparatus is provided. The ice cake forming apparatus may include a pair of molds formed from a material having a relatively high heat conductivity such as aluminum and so on, and guide rods which guide mutual freely separating and approaching of the pair of molds. Separating and joining surfaces of the pair of molds may be provided with molding concavities respectively and appropriately, and the apparatus may be so constituted that an appropriate blank ice lump is melted at portions contacting to the molds, utilizing a temperature difference between the molds at a temperature equal to or lower than a normal temperature and the blank ice lump, and a desired shape of molded ice cake can be molded by the molding concavities due solely to a heat held in the molds.

Method and apparatus for selecting samples for presentation on an output device, such as a display or speaker, from a sequence of stored media samples, such as audio or video information. Position information is received from a pointing device, such as a mouse, and translated into direction and magnitude information. A second sample is then retrieved based on this position and magnitude information. This method may be used to implement jog or shuttle controls for a media composer, which may be provided with simulated “inertia” for ease of use.

The present invention provides a new and unique method and apparatus for monitoring a device, such as a pump. The device may also include a fan, compressor, turbine or other rotating or reciprocating piece of machinery. In one embodiment, the method features sensing in a first device both a start-up vibration at a start-up time after the first device is affixed to a second device to be monitored and a subsequent vibration level at a subsequent time after the start-up time, and providing both a start-up vibration level signal containing information about the start-up vibration level of the second device, and a subsequent vibration level signal containing information about the subsequent vibration level of the second device; and monitoring in the first device the condition of operation of the second device based on a comparison of the start-up vibration level signal in relation to the subsequent vibration level signal. The apparatus may take the form of one or more modules and / or chipset for performing the steps and functionality of the aforementioned method.

The ice cake maker includes a pair of molds (A and B) formed from a material having a relatively high heat conductivity such as aluminum and guide rods (10) to guide the pair of molds (A and B) being moved in a predetermined direction. The molds (A and B) have molding concavities (7 and 8) at the sides thereof opposite to each other. A blank ice lump is melted at a part thereof being in contact with the molds (A and B) owing to a temperature difference between itself and molds (A and B), and molded into an ice cake having a predetermined shape defined by the molding concavities (7 and 8). Any unexperienced one can use the ice cake maker to make the ice cake having the predetermined shape easily and rapidly from the ice lump or broken ice pieces. Since no heaters are required, the apparatus can be operated with an improved safety. The apparatus is simply constructed, suitable for use to mass production of such ice cakes, and inexpensive. Thus, the ice cakes or balls can be made economically.

In a variable power divider including a first 90° phase combiner (30), a second 90° phase combiner (40), and a phase-amplitude adjustment block (50), the phase-amplitude adjustment block (50) includes, correspondingly to two-channel polarized signals, variable phase shifters (51, 52) for adjusting their phase amounts and variable attenuators (55, 56) for adjusting amplitudes (attenuation amounts), and the phase amounts and the amplitudes of the two-channel polarized signals can be adjusted by an antenna control unit (60). Further, there are included a phase shifter (53) and an attenuator (57) provided on two-channel signal lines between an orthomode transducer (20) and a first 90° phase combiner (30) and for equalizing the amplitudes and phases of the two-channel polarized signals. By this, an antenna apparatus can be inexpensively provided which uses a reflector antenna (10) to perform transmission / reception of a signal to / from a satellite at high accuracy, and is miniaturized to be suitable for mounting on an aircraft or the like.

Disclosed is a solar cell having a collecting electrode on one main surface of a photoelectric conversion section. The collecting electrode includes a first electroconductive layer and a second electroconductive layer in this order from the photoelectric conversion section side, and further includes an insulating layer between the first electroconductive layer and the second electroconductive layer. The first electroconductive layer includes a low-melting-point material, and a part of the second electroconductive layer is conductively connected with the first electroconductive layer through, for example, an opening in the insulating layer. The second electrode layer is preferably formed by a plating method. In addition, it is preferable that before forming the second electroconductive layer, annealing by heating is carried out to generate the opening section in the insulating layer.

A low-cost, high-temperature heat exchanger is made from a notched piece of metal, the metal being folded back and forth upon itself to form a monolith. The notches in the metal piece create openings, communicating with distinct sides of the monolith. Ducts are attached to the openings. Cut pieces of corrugated metal, which may have a catalyst coating, are inserted between folds of the monolith. The heat exchanger may be used as part of a fuel cell system, or in other industrial applications, to recover waste heat, or to conduct various catalytic and non-catalytic reactions. The invention also includes an element, or building block, for a high-temperature heat exchanger, including a folded metal monolith with metal combs inserted, the monolith and the combs defining seams which are hermetically sealed.

Systems and methods which determine geologic properties using acoustic analysis are shown. Acoustic signals are collected during processing (e.g., crushing, shearing, striking, compressing, etc.) of geologic media, such as rock samples, for determining geologic properties according to embodiments. The acoustic signals collected may include frequency information, amplitude information, time information, etc. which may be utilized in determining geologic properties, such as geologic media properties (e.g., mineralogy, porosity, permeability, sealing capacity, fracability, compressive strength, compressibility, Poisson's Ratio, Youngs Modulus, Bulk Modulus, Shear Modulus), geologic structure properties (e.g., lithology, seal quality, reservoir quality), geologic acoustic properties (e.g., acoustic logging effectiveness, acoustic response, natural or harmonic frequencies, etc.). Embodiments may be used to provide determination of geologic properties from a variety of geologic media samples, such as cuttings, core samples, etc.

A positive electrode material that contains sulfur of high capacitance density as an active material without containing any large amount of conduction aid, namely, a positive electrode material for a battery of high energy density. There is provided a battery positive electrode material comprising a composite of conductive substance and sulfur and / or a sulfur compound having S—S bond, wherein there is disposed a composite microparticle layer having microparticles of conductive material cut into particles of sulfur and / or a sulfur compound having S—S bond. Further, there is provided a process for producing a battery positive electrode material, comprising conducting mechanofusion between particles of sulfur and / or above-mentioned sulfur compound as a raw material and microparticles of conductive material so as to obtain a composite material having a composite microparticle layer wherein the above microparticles are cut into the above particles.

This invention has as its object to generate print data using minimum resources in a terminal. A browser controller acquires a predetermined Web page from an Internet print server, and inputs the URL of a Web page to be printed and a print mode on that page. Printer information is transmitted to the server together with the input information. The server reads a Web page specified by the received URL, generates print data in a format that the printer can print in accordance with the printer information and print mode, and transmits that print data to the browser controller. The browser controller transmits the print data to the printer to print it out while receiving the print data.

The invention provides an efficient inspection method for inspecting a hermetically sealed package for pinholes, in which when a hermetically sealed package whose contents such as electrically conductive fluid or food are covered with an electrically insulating film is inspected for pinholes by using a high voltage, the inspection can be achieved with an extremely simple procedure while fully preventing occurrence of misoperations due to the atmosphere such as humidity during the inspection.In a hermetically sealed package in which contents 1 such as electrically conductive fluid are covered with an electrically insulating film 2, an electrical conductor 4 derived from a voltage output terminal of a DC high voltage power supply 6 is put into contact with or proximity to a side face portion 31 of the hermetically sealed package, by which the contents 1 in the hermetically sealed package 3 are electrified. Next, a lead wire 8 is connected to a connecting terminal 5a of an electrode 5 put into close contact with or opposed proximity to an inspection-object portion 3a of the package 3 where pinholes are most likely to occur, and the lead wire 8 is grounded. Then, a discharge current derived from the inspection-object portion 3a that flows only when a pinhole is present is detected by a discharge current detector 7, by which the presence or absence of a pinhole is detected depending on the presence or absence of the discharge current. In this procedure, the inspection can be made by placing the package on a support electrode derived from an AC high voltage power supply and electrifying the contents.

A liquid crystal display is provided with a detection range on its screen. Along right and left sides of this detection range, two mirrors are arranged as opposed to each other, and along one of sides perpendicular to the sides along which the mirrors are arranged a camera unit is arranged. The camera unit comprises a linear light sensor and a pinhole. When an arbitrary position in the detection range is pointed by a fescue, the linear light sensor detects a real image of a detection target. The linear light sensor also detects a mapped image of the detection target reflected by the mirror. Then, positional information of the real image and the mapped image of the detection target on the linear light sensor is used to obtain a two-dimensional position of the fescue in the detection range.

A memory element in which recording and reading-out of information can easily be performed and which can be manufactured easily using a comparatively simple manufacturing method and a storage device using the memory element are provided. A memory element 10 includes an amorphous thin-film 4 that is in between a first electrode 2 and a second electrode 5, in which at least one electrode in the first electrode 2 and the second electrode 5 contains Ag or Cu and the amorphous thin-film 4 is composed of Ge, and at least one element selected from S, Se, Te and Sb. Also a storage device includes the memory element 10, a wiring connected to the side of the first electrode 2 and a wiring connected to the side of the second electrode 5, in which a memory element 10 is arranged in large numbers.

The screen of the invention comprises an oriented film having a direction of maximum scattering (scattering axis) and a direction of minimum scattering (transmitting axis) for linear polarized light, and containing macromolecular fine particles in a macromolecular matrix, wherein the refractive index of the macromolecular fine particles is within a specified range and the matrix and macromolecular fine particles satisfy a specified relationship. The screen reproduces bright and high-quality projected images with virtually no moire effect or glare, and is therefore highly useful as a transmissive or reflective projector screen.