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A blind fastener for securing a plurality of workpieces is disclosed. The blind fastener comprises several components, a core bolt, a body sleeve member and a buckle sleeve member. The core bolt includes a tool engaging portion to engage the head of a driver on a installation tool. The buckle sleeve member has a buckle portion designed to create a bulb fastening the workpieces together. In some embodiments, a the buckle portion is locally annealed to promote formation of a blind side bulb. A nose assembly with a matching anti-rotation engagement to the head of the body sleeve member is also disclosed.

Automated sample injection apparatus, multiport valves, and chromatography systems containing an automated sample injection apparatus and / or a multiport valve are disclosed. Methods of making and using automated sample injection apparatus and multiport valves within chromatography systems are also disclosed.

A table may include a table top and one or more legs, which may be movable between an extended and a collapsed position relative to the table top. The table may also include one or more securing members that are sized and configured to receive at least a portion of the one or more legs in the collapsed position. Additionally, the table may include one or more mounting members that are sized and configured to receive another portion of the table such as a cross bar. Advantageously, the securing members and mounting members may be attached to the table top by a snap, friction or interference fit, which may allow the securing members and mounting members to be attached to the table top at any time during the manufacturing process. It may also allow the table to be used with different types of securing members, mounting members and legs. In addition, it may allow the securing members and mounting members to be replaced, if desired.

An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for utilizing a 'shadow mask' approach to fabricate servo patterns on high density patterned media. The apparatus may include a deposition mask having a plurality of apertures generated by a conventional lithographic process. Material may be deposited onto a substrate through the deposition mask apertures from at least one deposition source oriented at unique deposition angles. In this manner, each aperture may correspond to multiple deposition locations. Apertures may be precisely dimensioned and positioned to create servo pattern features from the resulting deposition locations. The deposition mask may also include a plurality of bit pattern apertures adapted to direct a material to a plurality of deposition locations on the substrate, the deposition locations forming a bit pattern concurrent with formation of a servo pattern.

A strap joint rotating assembly (12) is for use with a strapping machine (10) of the type for feeding a strapping material (5) around a load (L), positioning, tensioning and sealing the strapping material around the load. The strapping machine has a feed head (16) for feeding the strapping material into the strapping machine, a strap chute (20) through which the strapping material is passed and a sealing head (18) to seal overlapping courses of the strapping material to one another to define a strap loop having a seal and defining a strap loop plane (Pp). The strap traverses from the feed head, through the strap chute and sealing head to define a strap path (P). The strap joint rotating assembly includes a driven wheel (34) having an axis of rotation generally perpendicular to the strap loop plane and a pinch wheel (36) that has an axis of rotation (A36) and is carried on a wheel block (60). The wheel block pivots to move the pinch wheel into and out of the strap loop plane. The pinch wheel, when in the strap loop plane, has its axis of rotation parallel to the axis of rotation of the driven wheel. The pinch wheel is further movable toward the driven wheel to pinch the strap (S) between the driven wheel and the pinch wheel. The driven wheel is driven to rotate the strap loop around the load. A strapping machine having a strap joint rotator is also disclosed.

An internal permanent magnet machine (''IPM machine'') of the type used, for example, with traction motors and hybrid electric vehicles, includes a rotor with an additional air barrier provided above the first magnet barrier in the same rotor slot. Each magnet only fills a portion of each cavity, thereby defining the air barriers. The added air barrier above the permanent magnet of the first layer acts as a barrier to the first layer magnet and lowers the magnet flux.

Methods and pharmaceutical compositions for treating viral infections, by administering certain 2-aryl-benzothiazole or 2-heteroaryl-benzothiazole derivative compounds in therapeutically effective amounts are disclosed. Methods of using the compounds and pharmaceutical compositions thereof are also disclosed. In particular, the treatment and prophylaxis of viral infections such as caused by flavivirus is disclosed, i.e., including but not limited to, Dengue virus, West Nile virus, yellow fever virus, Japanese encephalitis virus, and tick-borne encephalitis virus.

The present invention relates to a method for modifying polyamide. The method comprises that polyamide is contacted with an enzyme preparation comprising an effective amount of protease enzyme in aqueous environment under conditions suitable for the function of the enzyme. The enzyme is preferably selected from the group of aspartic proteases, cysteine proteases and metallo-proteases.

An integrated vascular access device can include strain relief features to minimize the likelihood of the extension tubing becoming kinked during use. These strain relief features can be configured at both ends of the extension tubing to minimize the likelihood of kinking at the interfaces to the catheter adapter and a luer adapter. To provide strain relief at the catheter adapter end of the extension tubing, an interface formed of a flexible material can be aligned with an extension of the catheter adapter into which the extension tubing inserts. The interface can be integrated into a stabilization platform or formed separately from a stabilization platform. To provide strain relief at the luer adapter end of the extension tubing, a flexible spacer can be coupled to a distal end of the adapter and have a distal portion that is positioned around the extension tube.

A friction material is provided with a baked, carbonized organic material as its binder. The friction material has a degree of compression deformation from 0.3% to 2.5% under a load of 4 MPa and a degree of compression deformation from 1.0% to 4.5% under a load of 10 MPa at room temperature. The compression deformation ratio of the degree of compression deformation at 300°C to the degree of compression deformation at room temperature is from 1.0 to 1.5 under a load of 1-10 MPa. The baking carbonization step includes carbonizing an organic material at a temperature from 550° C. to 1300° C. in any atmosphere of vacuum, reducing gas or inert gas, wherein a load is applied to the organic material.

A process for the hydrodesulfurization of gasoline is disclosed, the process including: feeding (1) a cracked naphtha containing mercaptans and other organic sulfur compounds and (2) hydrogen to a first hydrodesulfurization reactor containing one or more beds of a hydrodesulfurization catalyst; contacting sulfur compounds comprising the other organic sulfur compounds in the cracked naphtha with hydrogen in the presence of a hydrodesulfurization catalyst to convert a portion of the other organic sulfur compounds to hydrogen sulfide; withdrawing from the hydrodesulfurization reactor an effluent comprising hydrocarbons and hydrogen sulfide. The effluent from the hydrodesulfurization reactor is fed to a membrane separation system containing a membrane for partitioning the hydrocarbons from the hydrogen sulfide. For example, the membrane may be selective to hydrogen sulfide, to separate a permeate fraction comprising hydrogen sulfide from a residue fraction comprising the hydrocarbons.

An approach to parallel access of data from a distributed filesystem provides parallel access to one or more named units (e.g., files) in the filesystem by creating multiple parallel data streams such that all the data of the desired units is partitioned over the multiple streams. In some examples, the multiple streams form multiple inputs to a parallel implementation of a computation system, such as a graph-based computation system, dataflow-based system, and / or a (e.g., relational) database system.

The present invention relates to a bag system comprising a main bag and an additional bag, the main bag comprising a front side, wherein a slit is provided along the front side, a hasp is connected to the inner surface of the front side, and the additional bag is removably coupled to the main bag and includes a connector. The connector is disposed along a rear side portion of the additional bag, and the connector is disposed through the slit and removably coupled to the hasp, the connector and hasp thus constituting a latch assembly.

Translating the software specification includes receiving a first software specification (228) specified in a first programming language, a second software specification (228) specified in a second programming language, programming in a third programming language different from the first and second programming languages A language-specified third software specification (226), the third software specification defining one or more data relationships between the first software specification and the second software specification. A combined representation of the first software specification and the second software specification is formed in a fourth programming language different from the first programming language, the second programming language, and the third programming language (332). A connection between the representation of the first software specification and the representation of the second software specification is formed in a fourth programming language based on the identified data relationships.