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A modified vacuum assisted wound closure system adapted for concurrent applications of phototherapy having a foam pad for insertion substantially into the wound site and a wound drape for sealing enclosure of the foam pad at the wound site. The foam pad includes an optical pigtail, whereby desired wavelength of light may be directed into and about the wound site. The foam pad is placed in fluid communication with a vacuum source for promotion of fluid drainage. The foam pad is made of a highly reticulated, open-cell polyurethane or polyether foam for good permeability of wound fluids while under suction and is also embedded with an optical pigtail. The optical pigtail comprises an optical fiber that has been formed to fan into a plurality of sections. The fibers of the most distal fanned sections, which are implanted in the foam pad at its base, are provided with tiny optical slots, oriented away from the foam pad and toward the wound site. Each optical slot is made by stripping the cladding from the optical fiber in the desired areas of the fanned sections to form slot radiators. Because it is necessary to trim the foam pad in preparation for therapy, the optical fibers comprise plastics, such as acrylic or styrene. Upon placement of the pad, having the optical pigtail embedded therein, the wound drape is firmly adhered about the VAC therapy suction hose as well as the extending optical fiber to prevent vacuum leakage.

An exterior mirror assembly for a vehicle includes a signal light that provides an advanced notification system to approaching vehicles that the driver of the vehicle intends to turn or make a lane change. The exterior mirror assembly includes a housing with a reflective element and a positioning device for adjusting the position of the reflective element in the housing, and at least one signal light positioned in the housing. The signal light includes a light source and a light conduiting member which is adapted to project a pattern of light from the housing and yet restrict light from extending into the vehicle so that a driver seated in the vehicle does not directly observe the pattern of light. The light source may be provided by a light pipe which is optically coupled to a remote light source located, for example, in the vehicle. Preferably, the pattern of light extends rearwardly, forwardly, and laterally from the vehicle. In one form, the light conduiting member includes a light input surface on one end and at least one light emitting surface for directing light outwardly from the housing of the exterior mirror assembly. In another form, the exterior mirror assembly incorporates a signal light which includes a plurality of reflective surfaces for directing light forwardly, rearwardly, and laterally from the vehicle but restricts light from entering into the vehicle and distracting the driver. In yet another form, the exterior mirror assembly includes a powerfold mirror system which incorporates a security light in either the folding portion or non-folding portion of the powerfold mirror system.

This invention provides a system and method for dispensing medication and a dispensing apparatus that comprises a plurality of compartments in an array within a housing, the compartments having respective lids, each of the lids being movable from a closed position to an open position, the respective lids each having a latch that secures the lid in a locked configuration in the closed position. The apparatus has an actuator mechanism that selectively unlocks the latch of each of the lids at a predetermined time so as to place the unlocked lid in an unlocked configuration that enables the lid to be moved to the open position. The compartments of the medication dispenser each receive a removable cup therein that is accessible when a respective of the lids associated therewith is in the open position. Other features, such as communication and messaging and / or audible / visual displays can also be provided.

An exterior mirror assembly for a vehicle includes a signal light or security light that provides illumination at a side of the vehicle. The exterior mirror assembly includes a housing with a reflective element, and may include a positioning device for adjusting the position of the reflective element in the housing. The signal light includes a light source and may be adapted to project light from a non-folding portion or support member of the mirror housing.

This invention provides a medication dispensing system that instructs the user through visual and audio cues, such as the illumination of individual medication cups that are arrayed in accordance with a daily and weekly schedule in separate orifices within the dispenser body. It monitors compliance by determining when an indicated cup is accessed, based upon at least one of manipulating a lid and / or placing into, removing from, or replacing into the correct orifice based upon the indication. The cups can be refilled based upon an indication, and / or can be provided in removable prefilled refill tray. The dispenser can include an on-board processor that stores a current configuration including the treatment schedule. The configuration can be programmed / re-programmed, and compliance can be monitored, via a wired or wireless server connection that communicates with interested parties, and that supports a graphical user interface. Communication, messaging and / or display systems can also be integrated.

The present invention is related to a data backup device performing backup of data stored in a portable device while charging a battery in the portable device. The present invention incorporates a data backup mechanism into a charger and a portable device. When the portable device is connected to the charger for charging the battery of the portable device, the charger automatically retrieves data in the portable device, and stores it in a non-volatile memory of the charger. If a portable device is lost or malfunctions, or a new portable device is purchased, the data stored in the portable device can be easily recovered from the non-volatile memory.

A lighted exterior mirror system for a vehicle comprises an exterior mirror assembly having a first portion adapted for mounting to a vehicle and an actuator disposed at a second portion. A reflective element is supported by a reflective element support member mounted to the actuator to adjust the rearward field of view of the reflective element. The assembly includes a turn signal indicator disposed adjacent to and separate from the reflective element. The turn signal indicator emits a light beam at least generally laterally and rearwardly of the vehicle when the exterior mirror assembly is mounted to a vehicle. The turn signal indicator is adjusted tandem with the reflective element by the actuator. The light beam is substantially unobservable by the driver of the vehicle and does not pass through the reflective element.

A lighted exterior mirror system includes an exterior mirror assembly having a folding portion and a non-folding portion. A ground illumination light of the exterior mirror assembly is configured to illuminate with white light a ground area adjacent the equipped side of the vehicle at least at a front door region at the side of the vehicle where occupants may enter / exit exit the vehicle. The ground illumination light includes at least one light emitting diode, which is connected in series with a resistor that acts as a voltage divider to reduce an ignition voltage of the equipped vehicle to a reduced voltage, with the resistor having a resistance of less than about 1,500 ohms. The ground illumination light provides ground illumination of at least about one lux illumination intensity at least on the ground area adjacent the front door region at the equipped side of the vehicle.

This invention provides a system and method for dispensing medication and a dispensing apparatus that comprises a plurality of compartments in an array within a housing, the compartments having respective lids, each of the lids being movable from a closed position to an open position, the respective lids each having a latch that secures the lid in a locked configuration in the closed position. The apparatus has an actuator mechanism that selectively unlocks the latch of each of the lids at a predetermined time so as to place the unlocked lid in an unlocked configuration that enables the lid to be moved to the open position. The compartments of the medication dispenser each receive a removable cup therein that is accessible when a respective of the lids associated therewith is in the open position. Other features, such as communication and messaging and / or audible / visual displays can also be provided.

A data processing system 2 includes a single instruction multiple data register file 12 and single instruction multiple processing circuitry 14. The single instruction multiple data processing circuitry 14 supports execution of cryptographic processing instructions for performing parts of a hash algorithm. The operands are stored within the single instruction multiple data register file 12. The cryptographic support instructions do not follow normal lane-based processing and generate output operands in which the different portions of the output operand depend upon multiple different elements within the input operand.

An exterior mirror vision system includes a driver-side exterior rearview mirror assembly mounted at a driver side of an equipped vehicle and a passenger-side exterior rearview mirror assembly mounted at a passenger side of the equipped vehicle. The driver-side exterior mirror assembly including a mounting portion configured for mounting at the driver side of the equipped vehicle, a driver-side exterior minor housing, and a driver-side reflective element. The driver-side exterior rearview mirror assembly includes a driver-side light module and a driver-side camera. The passenger-side exterior mirror assembly includes a mounting portion configured for mounting at the passenger side of the equipped vehicle, a passenger-side exterior mirror housing, and a passenger-side reflective element. The passenger-side exterior rearview mirror assembly includes a passenger-side light module and a passenger-side camera. The driver-side camera and the passenger-side camera are part of a multi-camera vision system of the equipped vehicle.

This invention provides a medication dispensing system that instructs the user through visual and audio cues, such as the illumination of individual medication cups that are arrayed in accordance with a daily and weekly schedule in separate orifices within the dispenser body. It monitors compliance by determining when an indicated cup is accessed, based upon at least one of manipulating a lid and / or placing into, removing from, or replacing into the correct orifice based upon the indication. The cups can be refilled based upon an indication, and / or can be provided in removable prefilled refill tray. The dispenser can include an on-board processor that stores a current configuration including the treatment schedule. The configuration can be programmed / re-programmed, and compliance can be monitored, via a wired or wireless server connection that communicates with interested parties, and that supports a graphical user interface. Communication, messaging and / or display systems can also be integrated.

A family combined ball pool structure is provided. The ball pool structure is formed by stacking a fence frame, an inflatable pad and an inflatable wall. The fence frame is an enclosed cloth screen frame having a bottom layer and a circumference side. The bottom and circumference side inside the fence frame are formed by the inflatable pad and the inflatable wall, respectively. Therefore, a child is placed in a safe space formed by the inflatable pad and the inflatable wall, which form a safe and fall-proof family ball pool with the enclosure of the fence frame.

A book-like reading teaching tool having a plurality of columns wherein each column contains each letter of the alphabet in ascending format, which are simultaneously viewable, a picture corresponding to each sound of each letter in the alphabet and structure for interchanging, mixing and matching letters and identifying and selecting long vowel and short vowel sounds. The reading tool includes a front cover, back cover, spiral binder, instructions, alphabet indicia, plurality of pictures corresponding to each letter and sound in the alphabet, plurality of windows or cutouts corresponding to selected letters and sounds, short vowel sound indicia, long vowel sound indicia and plurality of flip panels arranged in columns wherein each panel in each column contains a letter indicia. The covers, pages and panels have a plurality of apertures that are joined at coinciding ends by the spiral binder. The windows are formed in the second page over pictures corresponding to letters having only one sound or one common sound, such as the letter “B.” The instructions indicate how to form words and sounds using the panels and also include suggested beginning sounds, set of suggested complex beginning sounds, set of suggested ending sounds and set of suggested complex ending sounds.

The invention provides a method and system for generating sound effects interactively. The method provides a plurality of sound effect tags to a user, wherein each of the plurality of sound effects corresponds to a specific sound effect object. The sound effect object includes a seed sound representing a predefined audio file and a sound effect action representing an operation on sound. Then the user selects at least one of the sound effect tags for a whole source sound or at least a piece of the source sound. The method edits the source sound by using the selected sound effect tags to form a sound effect expression, interprets the sound effect expression to determine the operations corresponding to respective sound effect tags in the sound effect expression and the execution order of the operations, and executes the operations in said order to output a sound with the sound effects. The method of the invention enables a user to perform sound effect editing on sound in real time and dynamically, thus providing more customized sound effects.

A lighted exterior mirror system for a vehicle comprises an exterior mirror assembly having a first portion adapted for mounting to a vehicle, a second portion, and a reflective element. An actuator is operable to adjust the rearward field of view of the reflective element when the exterior mirror assembly is mounted to a vehicle. A turn signal indicator assembly is provided that comprises a single non-incandescent light emitting source. Light emitted by the single non-incandescent light emitting source is visible at least to a driver of another overtaking vehicle when the exterior mirror assembly is mounted to a vehicle and when the single non-incandescent light emitting source of the turn signal indicator assembly is actuated by an operator of the vehicle, and preferably is also visible to at least one of (a) a driver of another vehicle approaching from a direction opposite to that of the direction of travel of the vehicle to which the exterior mirror assembly equipped with the turn signal assembly is mounted and (b) an observer viewing generally in a direction sideways of the direction of travel of the vehicle to which the exterior mirror assembly equipped with the turn signal assembly is mounted.

A photographic system involves the collection of data from a scene, e.g., a visitor attraction site, that is capable of interactive communication with a user. The attraction site stores content data related to the site, and the user communicates with the attraction site through a camera capable of communication with the site. Besides capturing an image associated with the site, the camera stores predetermined personality data that relates an interest of the user to at least a portion of the content data and includes means for transferring the personality data to the attraction site. The camera further includes means for receiving and displaying the portion of the content data from the attraction site, and a user interface for selecting from the displayed content data that part which the user wants to keep. In this manner, information relevant to a user's interests about a photographed item can be easily requested, accessed and stored with the specific pictures that the user has captured.

The present invention discloses a soft pad structure of glasses having a soft pad. The soft pad includes a fixing member of long shape to wrap the edge of an upper portion of the eyeglass. The fixing member forwarding the inner and outer sides of the eyeglass extends down to form a lining pad and a decorative member to cover the inner and outer surfaces of the eyeglass. The eyeglass and the fixing member of the soft pad are embedded in an embedding trench of the frame body to be form-integrated. The lining pad can be a leaning pad for providing comfortable wearing experiences for users and the decorative member can be coating in different colors to enhance the appearance while wearing. In addition, the soft pad of the present invention can be assembled rapidly and firmly without any manual tools to improve the purpose of convenient combination and easy repair.

A lens module includes an upper coupling element, a spring, a magnet yoke, a plurality of magnets, a coil, a lens holder and a lower coupling element. The magnet yoke is disposed under the spring and has a cylindrical inner wall, multiple extension slices and a top wall. The top wall is outwardly extended from an upper edge of the cylindrical inner wall. The extension slices are downwardly and axially extended from a periphery of the top wall and circumferentially arranged on the top wall at regular intervals. The magnets are attached on inner surfaces of respective extension slices of the magnet yoke. At least two raised structures are circumferentially arranged on the lower periphery of the lens holder. The lower coupling element includes at least two concave structures mating with the raised structures.

A selected malolactically active Ln. oenos strain which is useful for inducing malolactic fermentation in wine or fruit juice by the direct inoculation of a concentrate of a starter culture containing the strain, the strain having a survival rate of at least 80% when inoculated directly into a wine having a pH of 3.2 or lower and containing at least 25 mg SO2 per l and at least 12 vol % ethanol, and capabl, of starting malolactic fermentation when added directly to the wine or fruit juice at a concentration of less than 107 colony forming units per ml. There is also provided a method of isolating such a strain and a method for producing a culture of the strain.

A bath sponge includes a base sponge member having an axis, and a supplementary sponge member coaxially symmetrically surrounded around the center area of the base sponge member. The supplementary sponge member shows with the base sponge member a rounded sponge shape.

The present invention discloses a soft pad structure of glasses having a soft pad. The soft pad includes a fixing member of long shape to wrap the edge of an upper portion of the eyeglass. The fixing member forwarding the inner and outer sides of the eyeglass extends down to form a lining pad and a decorative member to cover the inner and outer surfaces of the eyeglass. The eyeglass and the fixing member of the soft pad are embedded in an embedding trench of the frame body to be form-integrated. The lining pad can be a leaning pad for providing comfortable wearing experiences for users and the decorative member can be coating in different colors to enhance the appearance while wearing. In addition, the soft pad of the present invention can be assembled rapidly and firmly with out any manual tools to improve the purpose of convenient combination and easy repair.

An exterior mirror system for a vehicle includes an exterior mirror assembly having a folding portion and a non-folding portion configured for mounting at a side of a vehicle. A reflective element is disposed at the folding portion. The reflective element is mounted to a backing plate that is supported by an electrical actuator operable to move the reflective element. The exterior mirror assembly includes an indicator having at least one light emitting diode that emits an intensity of light when electrically operated. During low ambient lighting conditions at night, the intensity of light emitted by the at least one light emitting diode of the indicator is reduced under photosensor control to a nighttime intensity level. The nighttime intensity level is greater than about 0.3 candela and is less than about 200 candelas. The indicator may include a module and the module may be substantially water impervious.

An exterior mirror vision system includes a driver-side exterior rearview mirror assembly mounted at a driver side of an equipped vehicle and a passenger-side exterior rearview mirror assembly mounted at a passenger side of the equipped vehicle. The driver-side exterior mirror assembly including a mounting portion configured for mounting at the driver side of the equipped vehicle, a driver-side exterior mirror housing, and a driver-side reflective element. The driver-side exterior rearview mirror assembly includes a driver-side light module and a driver-side camera. The passenger-side exterior mirror assembly includes a mounting portion configured for mounting at the passenger side of the equipped vehicle, a passenger-side exterior mirror housing, and a passenger-side reflective element. The passenger-side exterior rearview mirror assembly includes a passenger-side light module and a passenger-side camera. The driver-side camera and the passenger-side camera are part of a multi-camera vision system of the equipped vehicle.

Broadband infrared radiation is used to heat and fuse an enamel paste to form an enamel seal between at least two solid substrates such as glass, ceramic or metal.

Estramustine phosphate is an anti-mitotic chemotherapeutic drug with proven efficacy against cancer. The invention describes methods which potentiate the therapeutic benefit of intravenous estramustine phosphate. The invention provides for intravenous estramustine phosphate to be administered at a high dosage exceeding 1300 mg as a single dose. Efficacious enhancement of estramustine phosphate pharmacokinetics is thereby achieved. Further provided, estramustine phosphate may be intravenously administered for use in combinational regimens with other chemotherapeutic agent. The therapeutic advantages achieved using the intravenous estramustine phosphate formulation are applicable to treatment of a variety of cancers including prostate cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer, colorectal cancer, pancreatic cancer, ovarian cancer, melanoma, and other cancers.

A probe pin according to an embodiment of the present invention has a two-piece structure consisting of a pogo pin part and a barrel part, in which the pogo pin part includes an upper plunger having an outside contact point at an upper end, a lower plunger having an outside contact point at a lower end, and a spring portion composed of one or more springs and connected to a lower end of the upper plunger and an upper end of the lower plunger; and the barrel part has a cylindrical shape surrounding a portion of the pogo pin part and has a barrel-fixing spring portion protruding on an outer side of the barrel part to apply elasticity outward.