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An RF coil assembly for an MRI system includes a resonator formed by a cylindrical shield and pairs of opposing conductive legs disposed symmetrically around a central axis and extending the axial length of the shield. Drive circuitry for each pair of opposing conductive legs includes a current balun that maintains substantially equal and opposite currents in the two conductive legs. Terminal susceptance elements are used to maintain maximum currents and minimum voltage at the midpoints of the conductive legs. Multinuclear measurements can be made simultaneously at different Larmor frequencies.

The framing fastener is made up of a configuration of plates used to attach any number of posts and beams to each other or to a base material. The framing fastener may include a substantially flat first plate with at least one hole extending there through and a substantially flat second plate with a hook formed at one edge thereof. The first and second plates are attached together such that the first and second plates are substantially coplanar or substantially perpendicular. The first plate of the framing fastener is attached to a post by means of one or more fastening rods. Then a beam is attached to the second plate of the framing fastener by means of one or more fastening rods, one of which rests in the hook.

An environmental protective electrical power generating system is formed by a penstock connected at its opposite ends to a large sewer for conveying waste water from feeder pipelines to a sanitary treatment station. Sewer waste water is propelled through the sewer line by pumping equipment which simultaneously pulverizes most large objects carried by the waste water. The waste water is diverted, through a control gate, into the penstock where it flows through and operates one or more water-operated turbines. The turbines are operatively connected to electrical power generators for producing electrical power and dispersing the power through an electrical power transmission system. Depending upon the size of the sewer pipes, the volume of liquid flowing there-through, and the turbine and generator equipment, electrical power is generated without affecting the environment or ecology and without the use of fossil fuels.

A plurality of input digital pixel images, having differing pixel array sizes, are scaled to a plurality of common pixel dimension input images based on a printer resolution value, a data characterizing dimensions of the printed image, and a final size value for at least one of the plurality of digital pixel images. A lenticule resolution data is received. A composite image file is formed of the plurality of scaled input digital pixel images, and at least one left-right image file pair is generated from the composite image file. The left-right image file pair are interlaced and printed on a printer associated with the printer resolution value.

A rotary structure carries cavities with an upper inlet for receiving articles and an open bottom for dropping articles distributed along a closed circuit, and funnel-shaped conduits, each of which is located below a respective cavity to receive an article therefrom, means for temporarily supporting the articles in the cavities and dropping them into the corresponding conduits in a site of the closed circuit, and support elements in each cavity to cooperate with parts of the article when the latter falls in order to confer to it a predetermined orientation inside the conduit. The cavities have their inlets in a perimetric ring surrounding a receptacle for the accumulation of the articles on a bottom formed by a rotating disk the peripheral edge of which reaches, upon rotating, a level above the perimetric ring.

A movable standing base for parasols, display boards, flagpoles and the like comprises a weight part having, firmly attached at the bottom side thereof, at least three, preferably four steering rollers, and it further comprises attachment elements for a parasol, for a display board, for a flagpole or for any other objects to be set up, and a plurality of preferably four lowerable blocking feet. In order to improve ease of handling without loss of stability, the blocking feet are connected to each other in the edge region of the weight part by two bridge girders arranged opposite to each other and a middle yoke and are anchored to the weight part in a substantially parallelogram shaped lowerable manner by two pivot levers. A tensioning lever is disposed resting on the middle yoke, and a pressure element leads to a blocking pedal at the upper side of the standing base.

A modular furniture system that includes a base cabinet having a drawer used for storage and able to be opened and closed; a plurality of shelf members; means for support the plurality of shelf members in at least one stacked array over said base cabinet; and a plurality of modular leg members that are interengageable by screwing together and that are adapted for placement in said drawer.

A modular lighting fixture (10) is provided with a plurality of arms (16) branching off a central support (14) wherein they are inserted pressure-wise starting from the respective bottom ends. The central support comprises a containment body (18) wherein a plate (20) is arranged, with concentric seats (22,24) for as many spiral electrical conductors (22′, 24′) surmounted by a cylindrical plate (26) of insulating material wherein a plurality of through seats (28) with circular plan or wells is peripherally obtained, starting from a plane (30), wherein the bottom ends of arms (16) are inserted, provided with the electrical cables (42) for powering a lighting body connected to the opposite top end of the same arms. The bottom end of the arms is made integral to a sleeve (40) provided, along the base perimeter, with a vertical notch (40′) intended for coupling with a projection (52) protruding from the outer side surface of a cylindrical body (48), whereon the sleeve is fitted pressure-wise.

A device for the forced locking of two elements oriented orthogonally to one another, especially suitable for steadily connecting and constraining two tubular elements (10), (12) with quadrangular or polygonal section which are partly delimited by a U-shaped band (22) and which have, on at least one face, a plurality of pairs of shaped recesses (14), whereas the band (22) is correspondingly provided with pairs of complementary projections (16) developed projecting on the inner front of the opposite vertical and parallel branches (18) and (20) thereof. The device further includes a bush (32), extending between the branches (18) and (20) of band (22) and fitted, at one end, on a collar (28) which develops projecting along the inner front of branches (18) and (20), whereas the opposite end of bush (32) constitutes the inlet for a screw (30) the end whereof engages in a threaded hole (28′) delimited by the collar (28), bush (32) being extended transversally in the tubular element (10) or (12), provided with aligned holes (38), (40) along two opposite faces, starting from a hole (26) of the band (22).

An apparatus (10) for working on metal containers, especially suitable for high speed machines and intended for performing a sequence of operations on the metal containers themselves including a chain composed of a plurality of elements (12) linked in a succession and cooperating in simultaneous transporting and processing of metal containers.

A magnetic memory cell that uses a curved magnetic region to create magnetic anisotropy is provided by the present invention. The magnetic memory cell is created from a free magnetic layer, a barrier layer and a reference magnetic layer. The magnetic layers are constructed such that they have portions that are curved with respect to a first axis and straight with respect to a second perpendicular axis. These curved portions result in a magnetic memory cell that has an easy axis that is parallel to the first axis and a hard axis that is perpendicular to the easy axis. In addition, the resulting magnetic memory cell's coercivity is independent of it's thickness. Thus, the magnetic memory cell is well adapted to being scaled down without increasing the likelihood of thermally induced errors.

A steam turbine, having a steam turbine outer housing; a high-pressure inner housing having first process steam inlet and outlet sections for conducting process steam therethrough from the inlet to the outlet section in a first process steam expansion direction; a low-pressure inner housing having second process steam inlet and outlet sections for conducting process steam therethrough from the second process steam inlet section to the second process steam outlet section in a second process steam expansion direction; and an intermediate superheater, which is arranged downstream of the high-pressure inner housing and upstream of the low-pressure inner housing, wherein the high-pressure and low-pressure inner housings are arranged within the steam turbine outer housing and the high-pressure and the low-pressure inner housings are arranged in such a way that the first steam inlet section of the high-pressure inner housing faces the second steam inlet section of the low-pressure inner housing.

A collapsible control lever for use with a control system having levers including a conventional cable control lever system such as those found on motorcycles and bicycles. The lever has three independent axes of rotation about which sections of the lever rotate during impact to deflect the impact force. However, the lever remains rigid in the direction of the applied control force when in its operational position during normal operation. The lever restores itself to its operational position following impact with minimal user assistance. The lever may be sized and shaped to be easily retrofit into existing known pivot bases, and at least one of the pivots may include an improved swivel pivot that is sealed from mud and other debris in its operational configuration. The improved swivel pivot has a first and second generally cylindrical frame portion that rotate about a pivot pin with each frame portion having a sliding surface with a smoothly alternating concave and convex-shaped sliding surface. The two surfaces are in intermeshed alignient when the lever is in its operational configuration. The two surfaces slide out of intermeshed alignment during impact. A coil spring received within the frame portions urges the two frame portions toward each other and the misaligned concave and convex surfaces urge the frame portions to rotate to restore the sliding surfaces into intermeshed alignment following an impact.