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Disclosed is a lead removal apparatus for removing an implanted pacemaker or defibrillator lead from the heart. The lead removal apparatus includes a proximal handle that further includes a proximal portion, such as an elongate section of intertwined wire, having a compact, pre-formed first configuration, such as one or more coiled loops. The compact shape permits the operator to utilize the proximal portion without requiring the assistance of a second person to help keep it within the sterile field during a procedure. The operator is thus able to constrain or uncoil the proximal portion into a second configuration that is sufficiently straight such that a medical device, such as a dilator sheath, can be advanced thereover to help separate the lead from scar tissue along the vein path. The proximal portion may include sufficient resiliency to substantially return to the first configuration once the sheath has been advanced.

A composite stent having a substrate tube made of stainless steel, a nickel-cobalt-chromium-molybdenum alloy, or chonichrome with at least one metal cladding tube is disclosed. Specifically, the substrate tube is placed within a metal cladding tube made of platinum, gold, tantalum, tungsten, platinum-iridium, palladium, or nickel-titanium, preferably with an interference fit therebetween. The composite, laminate tube then undergoes a series of rolling or cold drawing processes interspersed with heat treating to release built up stresses. When the final diameter of the laminate tube is reached, the cladding has been laminated to the exterior of the substrate tube by a bond generated from the rolling and/or cold drawing operations. The finished laminate tube is then cut by laser cutting or chemical etching to form a suitable stent pattern.

The present invention relates to a current collector including a base portion with a flat face, primary projections projecting from the flat face, and secondary projections projecting from the top of the primary projections. The present invention also relates to a current collector including a base portion with a flat face and primary projections projecting from the flat face, wherein the roughening rate of the top of the primary projections is 3 to 20. By using such a current collector, separation of the active material from the current collector can be inhibited when using an active material that has a high capacity but undergoes a large expansion at the time of lithium ion absorption.

The fold-out shelving unit comprises a rear panel (1), side panels (2) movable between a folded position, wherein said panels are coplanar, and an expanded position, wherein the side panels (2) are perpendicular to the rear panel (1), a moving support panel (3) extending from one to the other of the side panels (2) and a shelf panel (4) foldable over the rear panel (1). The support panel (3) and the shelf panel (4) are cinematically linked to one another and to the side panels (2) by first and second cinematic linking means so that the support panel (3) gets closer and away parallel to the rear panel (1) and the shelf panel (4) pivots relative to the rear panel (1) when the side panels (2) move between the folded position and the expanded position.

A medical device having a sleeve-shaped elastic body which is rolled up to form an annular structure and may be rolled down to annularly contacting one or more body parts, such as limbs, a biochemically active material, such as a disinfecting material, added substantially to a portion of the sleeve-shaped elastic body, and a pressure-exerting element for rolling down the sleeve-shaped elastic body while applying an external pressure on a contact point between the portion and the one or more body parts.

An improved fire-blocking gasket profile for a fire-rated joint, such as a head-of-wall assembly. Fire-rated joints are aimed at inhibiting or preventing fire, heat, or smoke from leaving one portion of a building and entering another portion of a building. Fire-rated joints can also accommodate movement between adjacent building structures, such as between a ceiling and the top of a wall. The improved fire-blocking gasket profile includes a first layer formed of an intumescent material, a second layer formed of a foil lining and a third layer formed of the vinyl profile. The vinyl profile includes an air gap with the intumescent material positioned therein. A vertical portion of the vinyl profile is positioned between a header track and a wallboard in the fire-rated joint. A horizontal portion of the vinyl profile is positioned at least partially within a deflection gap and sealingly engages with the ceiling.

A system for preventing backflow as part of an ion source arrangement is introduced. Such a system incorporates a novel continuous flow guide within a source, such as an API ion source. In the spray direction, the cross-sectional area that defines the first portion of the internal volume initially decreases in a convergent-like manner and thereafter increases in a divergent-like manner towards the exit opening of the source housing. Such a flow guide has been designed as an integral part of an ion source housing to provide for an optimal unidirectional flow past a sampling orifice of a mass spectrometer inlet. Accordingly, the novel design of the present invention prevents recirculation and thus minimizes carryover, chemical noise, and source turbulence and as an added benefit, enables a user to easily clean such a system during maintenance.

The invention relates to an ultrahigh-strength high-toughness multistep isothermal bainite steel and a preparation method thereof. The technical scheme of the invention is as follows: a hot-rolled steel billet is austenitized 0.2-5.0 hours at a temperature of 850-1100 DEG C firstly, and then the steel billet is subjected to bainite multistep isothermal transformation, so that an ultrahigh-strength high-toughness multistep isothermal bainite steel is obtained. The multistep isothermal transformation is implemented through the following steps: 1, carrying out heat preservation 0.2-3.0 hours in an isothermal medium at a temperature of 250-450 DEG C; 2, carrying out heat preservation 2-50 hours in the isothermal medium at a temperature of 220-350 DEG C; 3, carrying out heat preservation 24-240 hours in the isothermal medium at a temperature of 180-250 DEG C; and 4, carrying out heat preservation 50-360 hours in the isothermal medium at a temperature of 150-220 DEG C, and cooling the obtained product to room temperature, wherein the multistep refers to step 1 to step 2, or step 1 to step 3, or step 1 to step 4. The bainite steel prepared by using the method disclosed by the invention has the characteristics of high hardness, high strength, high toughness, good volume stability and fine microstructure.

The invention provides a polycrystalline diamond compact and a manufacturing method thereof. The polycrystalline diamond compact comprises a cylindrical compact base body and a working end face. The compact base body comprises a hard alloy base layer and a polycrystalline diamond layer covering the upper surface of the hard alloy base layer. The working end face is located on the upper end face of the polycrystalline diamond layer and provided with multiple nanodiamond layers. Each nanodiamond layer comprises two nanocrystalline layers of different average grain sizes. The manufacturing method of the polycrystalline diamond compact includes the steps of firstly, compact base body manufacturing, secondly pretreatment, thirdly CVD film coating and fourthly nanodiamond layer surface polishing after which the compact is obtained. The outer layer of the compact is coated with the nanodiamond layers, the abrasion resistance, impact resistance and toughness of the polycrystalline diamond compact are improved, and the service life of the compact is prolonged; and the polycrystalline diamond compact manufactured through the method is good in abrasion resistance, high-temperature resistance and impact resistance.

The present invention provides a cell passaging medium comprising at least one agent capable of detaching from a surface a cell that is culture in vitro on said surface, and a water-soluble polymer capable of protecting the detached cell. The present invention also provides a cell culturing medium comprising one or more cell culture protectants capable of protecting cells in culture. The present invention further relates to the use of said media in methods for culturing cells in vitro or for deriving monolayer cell cultures of mammalian stem cells.

A hair roller includes a longitudinally extending hair curling portion defined between a pair of opposed end members. The hair curling portion is expandable and retractable in a radial direction with respect to the longitudinal axis of the hair curling portion, in response to relative movement of the end members with respect to each other.

An absorption chiller system has an efficient start-up control that monitors system condition, and in particular the absorption solution temperature. The system limits the amount of heat delivered into the absorption chiller generator, to provide a gradual rise in the absorption solution temperature at start-up. In this manner, undesirable noise vibration and rapid thermal expansion, which may have occurred in the past is reduced or eliminated.

The invention provides room-temperature high-plasticity wrought magnesium alloy and a preparation method thereof. The magnesium alloy comprises the following components by weight percent: 5.5wt%-7.3wt% of Al, 0.40wt%-1.50wt% of Zn, 0.15wt%-0.50wt% of Mn, 0.05wt%-1.0wt% of P and the balance being Mg and inevitable impurities, wherein the inevitable impurities comprise the following components: not more than 0.05wt% of Si, not more than 0.004wt% of Fe, not more than 0.004wt% of Cu and not more than 0.002wt% of Ni. According to the magnesium alloy, a nonmetal element P is added in an existing magnesium alloy smelting process, a stable small grain structure is obtained under the action of the nonmetal element P, the room-temperature plasticity is improved, and the room-temperature processing and using requirements of finished products or semi-finished products can be met.

The invention belongs to the technical field of road tunnel support, and discloses a pressure tube friction type extendable anchor rod which comprises an anchor rod and a sleeve, wherein the anchor rod is sleeved with the sleeve; damping tubes are disposed between the side wall of the sleeve and the side wall of the anchor rod; a damping block is disposed at the upper end of the anchor rod; a straight section is arranged at the upper part of the damping block; a tapered section is disposed at the lower part of the damping block; the cross-sectional area of the upper part of the tapered sectionis greater than the cross-sectional area of the lower part of the tapered section; and the damping tubes are deformable in the radial direction. The extendable anchor rod has the advantages that by arranging the damping block and the damping tubes, the damping block continuously squeezes the damping tubes on both sides when entering the sleeve, so that a certain frictional force is generated between the damping block and the damping tubes, and when the surrounding rock deformation in a tunnel occurs, the constant resistance of large deformation is continuously provided by the frictional forceso as to delay the expansion of a plastic zone to accommodate the large deformation.

The invention discloses a JPEG image bit stream encryption method based on alternating current statistical characteristic change. The method comprises: in a JPEG bit stream, a user selects the last non-zero communication coefficient entropy code in a part of image blocks by using a user key to encrypt; hiding the secret information into a part of image block entropy codes through a histogram translation method; statistical characteristics are obtained through a user secret key and an alternating current coefficient, a direct current coefficient encryption secret key and an alternating currentcoefficient encryption secret key are generated in a self-adaptive mode, inter-group scrambling and differential coding iteration scrambling are carried out on the direct current coefficient, and intra-block scrambling and inter-block scrambling are carried out on the alternating current coefficient; and the receiver extracts secret information from the encrypted bit stream and decrypts the secretinformation, recovers the direct current coefficient and the alternating current coefficient encryption key according to the user key and the alternating current coefficient statistical characteristics in the encrypted bit stream, decrypts the alternating current coefficient and the direct current coefficient, recovers the alternating current coefficient entropy code in each image block entropy code, and obtains the original bit stream. The method is high in security and small in encrypted file expansion.

The invention discloses a high-impact resistance surface functional group treated carbon nanotube modified reactive powder concrete. The high-impact resistance surface functional group treated carbonnanotube modified reactive powder concrete is characterized in that the raw materials of the high-impact resistance surface functional group treated carbon nanotube modified reactive powder concrete comprise cement, functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotubes, silica fume, fly ash, sands, a water reducer and water; and the functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotubes are carboxylated multi-walledcarbon nanotubes or hydroxylated multi-walled carbon nanotubes. The functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotubes can significantly enhance the dynamic compressive strength, dynamic peak strain and impact toughness of the reactive powder concrete. When the strain rate is in a range of 200-800/s and the dosage of the multi-wall carbon nanotubes is 0.25-0.5%, the dynamic compressive strength of concrete can be increased by 71.3%, the dynamic peak strain can be increased by 101. 1%, and the impact toughness can be increased by 100.8%.

The invention discloses a heat treatment process for a heavy-load wheel. The heat treatment process comprises the steps of: a, heating a rolled wheel; b, quenching the wheel; and c, tempering and cooling the wheel. In the heat treatment process for the heavy-load wheel, a quench cooling device used for quench cooling of the wheel is included, the quench cooling device comprises a carrier roller platform for supporting the wheel, nozzles for carrying out quench cooling on a wheel tread and a wheel rim surface, and a cooling mechanism for quench cooling of the nozzles; the wheel is placed on the carrier roller platform; the nozzles are evenly distributed in the circumferential direction of the carrier roller platform and connected with the cooling mechanism; carrier rollers rotate to drive the wheel to rotate; and quench cooling liquid is evenly sprayed on the wheel tread and the wheel rim surface. According to the quench cooling mode and the heat treatment process for the wheel, on the premise that the microstructure of conventional high-carbon steel AAR-C is still kept to be fine pearlite and a small amount of ferrite, the wheel has high hardness, high toughness and high plasticity at the same time, and the wear resistance and safety of the heavy-load wheel with the axle load of 40 tons are met.

A floating wetland structure including a plurality of floating connected modules, each module having a frame that is at least partially hollow and a support structure adapted to support a plurality of containers for growing plants in the wetland.