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The present invention relates to footwear and in particular, but not necessarily restricted thereto, relates to footwear for those with diabetes and, in particular, with ulcers of the sole. The present invention seeks to address some of the problems encountered by prior art limb compression devices and methods. In particular the present invention seeks to provide a boot which can stimulate blood flow. A further object to the invention is to provide a boot with a sole which is adaptable to conform with various shapes and conditions of human feet. The present invention also seeks to provide a new type of footwear that has a therapeutic benefit for diabetic patients with circulatory problems in their foot, and also enables the technique of “off loading” the foot to assist in the healing of any wounds present. The present invention relates to a method for aiding arterial and venous flow from the limb of an ambulatory patient comprising the step of applying pressure to one or more areas of the soft tissue of an underside portion of the foot.

An apparatus and method for obtaining a data file representing a natural color three-dimensional image of the surface of a subject are disclosed. The apparatus incorporates a plurality of scanners, each comprising illuminating means and digital camera means, disposed about the subject, and computer means to correlate the images and store the data file. An apparatus and method for producing a natural color three-dimensional model from that data file are also disclosed. The use of rapid prototyping and manufacturing technology for manufacturing a model is disclosed. The present invention is particularly applicable to human subjects.

The invention relates to a fastening assembly for solar modules (1), wherein the solar modules (1) are fastened to carrier profiles (2) arranged in several rows by way of clamping elements (3, 4) in that each clamping element (3, 4) extends over the mutually opposing delimiting edges of two solar modules (2), which run transversely to the carrier profile (2) and adjoin the clamping element (3, 4) on both sides. Each clamping element (3, 4) comprises a ridge element (3) and a head element (4) designed separate therefrom. The ridge element (3) is designed as a profile section and attached at the lower end thereof to the carrier profile (2) through insertion into profile contours of the carrier profile. The head element (4) is attached to the ridge element (3) in the region of the upper end of said element by being inserted into profile contours of the ridge element (3). To this end, the head element (3) protrudes beyond the ridge element (3) on both sides in the profile longitudinal direction of the ridge element (3) so as to extend over the delimiting edges of the solar modules (1) to be fastened. The invention provides a fastening system which comprises few components (2, 3, 4) that can be produced cost-effectively and enables the simple and secure fastening of solar modules (1) even under difficult ambient conditions by using delimiting edges that run transversely to the carrier profiles (2).

A hierarchical route inquiry method in Automatic Switched Optical Network is applied to the networks having multi-layer route domains. According to the method, after the route controller RC in one child domain receives the Route Request, if it can not calculate the complete route, it sends the Route Request to the RC in the parent domain; if the RC in the parent domain can not obtain the complete route, it further interacts with other child domains to obtain the complete route and returns the Route Response back to the requester. The present invention solves the problem of creating a cross-domain connection in route inquiry in the Automatic Switched Optical Network.

Provided is a stent such that there is minimal occurrence of strain or of stress concentration in a drug coated layer as a consequence of expansion and deformation of the stent in the radial direction thereof, and that as a result, there is no risk of the drug falling off. The aforementioned stent is characterized in that the thickness (B) of the drug coated layer (4) formed by coating the outer surface of a stent body (2) gradually decreases toward a bending section (K), that reduction is made to the strain and stress which occur in the drug coated layer (4) as a consequence of expansion and deformation of the stent (1), and that as a result, the drug is prevented from falling off.

A syringe cylinder 12 includes a groove 32 formed in an inner peripheral surface thereof and extending over a predetermined length from an opening end 30 thereof. Even with the intermediate sliding stopper 14 located at a position where the groove 32 is formed, the pressure inside the syringe cylinder 12 can be reduced. Thus, during vacuum tapping, the intermediate sliding stopper 14 can be held in the vicinity of the opening end 30 of the syringe cylinder 12. Consequently, the intermediate sliding stopper 14 can be inserted into the syringe cylinder 12 in a correct posture and reliably moved to a predetermined position in the syringe cylinder 12.

Embodiments of the present invention relate to a device for locking a home bar door of a refrigerator appliance. More particularly, embodiments of the present invention relate to a device for locking a home bar door of a refrigerator, where the device employs a simple cam sliding mechanism to open a home bar door in a stable fashion. The device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a latch part mounted on a refrigerator door and having a locking block configured to be linearly movable in the latch part; and a release part mounted on a home bar door hinged to an opening provided in the refrigerator door, where the release part operates the latch part to move linearly, and is detachably engaged with the latch part.

An ultra-thin fan is composed of a base with an axle hole and at least one coil, a blade wheel consisting of an annular plate and multiple curved blades, an assembly elements with an assembling hole and a radial flange, a magnet sheet with at least one pair of N and S poles on its surface, and an axle.

A safety stop for preventing activation of brakes of a towed vehicle by a cable braking system connected between a towing vehicle and the towed vehicle until a predetermined load is placed on the cable system such that premature activation of the system is prevented.

The invention is to provide a UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) redundant system based on a CAN bus. The system comprises a CAN physical layer, a CAN protocol layer and a UAV control redundant backup. The CAN physical layer comprises a CAN bus interface; through the CAN bus interface adopted in a UAV control system, UAV inner wiring is reduced; the CAN protocol layer and the UAV control redundant backup are connected with the CAN bus interface; the CAN protocol layer is used for presetting flag bits of main / backup data in the UAV control redundant backup; and the UAV control redundant backup is used for determining the main / backup data as effective backup data based on the flag bits of the main / backup data and a preset redundant backup mechanism, thereby realizing redundant backup of the UAV control system, and improving reliability of the control system.

A wound cleansing assembly, which includes or is a wound cleansing cloth (1), having at least one carrier layer (2) and threads (3) disposed on the carrier layer (2) and protruding from the carrier (2), preferably made exclusively of synthetic fibers, preferably plastic fibers.

The present invention provides a semiconductor module in which a joint between upper, lower semiconductor packages to obtain high reliability, characterized in that: the semiconductor module having a second semiconductor package 200 mounted on a first semiconductor package 100, wherein the first semiconductor package 100 includes: pads 15 formed on the top surface of the first semiconductor package 100; external connection terminals 2 formed on the underside of the first semiconductor package 100, and vias 18 electrically connecting the pads 15 and the connection terminals 2. In a radiographic plane viewed in a vertical direction relative to one surface of a second substrate 25 of the second semiconductor package 200, the via 18 overlaps one of the pad 15 and the connection terminal 2, the pad 15 and the connection terminal 2 overlap each other, and the pad 15 has the center position outside the connection terminal 2.

Disclosed herein is an apparatus for opening and closing a front entrance. The apparatus includes: a door lock housing which has an opening in which a latch bolt is disposed; first and second door handles which are provided on the door and configured to be pushed or pulled; a movable member which is disposed in the door lock housing and horizontally moved by pushing or pulling either the first door handle or the second door handle, with a lift guide block provided on the movable member; a rotating unit which includes a roller and a bent part; a latch bolt coupling unit which is locked to the bent part of the rotating unit and coupled to the latch bolt; and a restoring spring which is configured such that the rotating unit is returned to its original state.

This sample inspection device 100 is provided with at least one substrate 1 having a sample mounting face F1 provided with two or more of recesses 3 for storing independently two or more of liquid drops containing a measuring object to be analyzed. The face F1 is partitioned at least into the first area F11 coated with a hydrophobic monomolecular film 2, and the second areas F12 having an inside not coated with the monomolecular film 2 and having a hydrophilic property. A bottom face of the each of the recesses 3 is formed of the F12, and the whole outer circumferential portion including the whole inner face of the each recess 3 is formed of the monomolecular film 2 coating the F11. The film 2 is formed of an organic molecule, and is immobilized onto the face F1 with a covalent bond.

A knitting machine that is capable of: knitting a knitted product of high gauge while effectively preventing increase in the number of components in a needle selection mechanism, and performing knitting methods such as inlaid knitting easily and reliably. The knitting machine comprises a plurality of knitting needles each of which have a protrudingly provided butt and which are arranged substantially parallel to each other so as to be able to perform a knitting operation independently, a plurality of selectors that move the knitting needles toward a protruding side of the butt, and a carriage having a cam groove along which the butt of the knitting needle, which has been moved by the selector to the side where the butt is protrudingly provided, can slide, in which the selector moves at least two adjacent knitting needles simultaneously to the side where the butt is protrudingly provided.

The invention provides a vacuum container, a pressure vessel and a sealing method thereof. The vacuum container is inserted with an annular middle component that is divided along circumferential direction. The container including clearance between the divided components of the middle component, can divide internal-external atmosphere of the middle component. The vacuum container structure includes: an annular first sealing component that is composed of an elastic body between the middle component and the first component with a pressing state for air sealing to plug the middle component and the first component along the middle component; an annular second sealing component that is composed of an elastic body between the middle component and the second component with a pressing state for air sealing to plug the middle component and the second component along the middle component; and an annular plate component that peripherals of one side and another side tightly joints with the first sealing component and the second sealing component respectively for air sealing to plug the adjacent divided components each other along the middle component.

The invention relates to a method for keeping a mast upright during erection or retraction thereof, the mast being part of a mast assembly additionally comprising a base and a guy control assembly, which guy control assembly allows to keep guy control wires under tension by a single person.The invention also relates to a mast assembly comprising the mast, the base, and a guy control assembly for keeping the mast upright during erection or retraction of the mast.

The invention provides an image monitoring system and a monitored image display method. The image monitoring system has a monitored site system having a plurality of first monitoring cameras or a plurality of second monitoring cameras; a management server which obtains image data of shot images of the first and second monitoring cameras from the monitored site system, and generates a picture for monitoring according to the image data; and a monitoring terminal which displays the picture for monitoring, the management server generating a first overlook image according to the image data of a shot image of each first monitoring camera, generates a second overlook image in which a first icon is displayed in an arrangement position of each first monitoring camera and a second icon is displayedin an arrangement position of each second monitoring camera in the first overlook image, and generates a picture for monitoring which includes the second overlook image, and when a certain first or second icon is designated in the monitoring terminal, the displayed second overlook image being switched to the shot image of the first or second monitoring camera corresponding to the first or second icon.

An agricultural baler comprising a controller, sensor and an actuator connected such that in a first position of a bale chute upon sensing of the movement of a completed bale ready to be lowered by the sensor a signal indicative of said movement is fed to the controller by the sensor upon which the controller controls an actuator such that the bale chute is pivoted to the second position which is sufficiently inclined to the horizontal such that the trailing end is sufficiently lowered to prevent a completed bale from toppling or being damaged, wherein the controller is configured to control the actuator such that the bale chute is pivoted from the first position to the second position after receiving the signal indicative of movement from the sensor.

The invention provides a new emulsion fuel and a manufacturing method for easily and safely manufacturing the emulsion fuel, which can keep emulsifying state of not separating fuel oil and water after a long time without using emulsifier, stabilizer, furthermore the fuel oil does not separated with water even though the temperature changes, and with excellent storage stability for long time and stable and excellent combustion efficiency. The emulsion fuel does not add surfactant and emulsifier and has fuel oil and function water, especially the function water is electron water and harmonics restoration water, preferably sodium chloride is in the emulsion fuel. In addition the said method comprises a 1st process of carrying out agitation mixing of fuel oil and the harmonics restoration water, and obtaining an emulsion and the 2nd process of carrying out the agitation mix of an emulsion obtained at this one process, and the electron water.

An actuator for use with an external controller, either alone or in a group including other actuators controlled from the same external controller. The actuator includes a housing for encasing internal components of the device; a motor assembly for creating motion, the motor assembly being disposed within the housing; and a drive assembly for driving a pushrod, the drive assembly being arranged within the housing and slidingly connected to the motor assembly. A remote control communication circuit is electrically connected to the motor. The actuator includes an in line planetary gear and a linear position sensor. The actuator may include a hand held remote controller which utilizes tilt for proportional control, and a distributed network.

Disclosed is a positive electrode current collector for a lithium ion secondary battery, which is characterized by comprising an aluminum foil comprising pure aluminum or an aluminum alloy and a surface layer formed on one surface or both surfaces of the aluminum foil, wherein the surface layer contains C in an amount of 10 to 95 at.% and additionally contains at least one element selected from Group 4 to Group 6 elements in an amount of 5 to 90 at.%. Also disclosed is a positive electrode for a lithium ion secondary battery, which is characterized by having a positive electrode active material layer that covers the surface layer of the positive electrode current collector for a lithium ion secondary battery. It becomes possible to prevent the elution of the current collector into an electrolytic solution to improve the adhesion between the current collector and the active material in the interface therebetween and increase the service life of a battery.

A thin fan is composed of a base with an axle hole and at least one coil, a blade wheel consisting of an annular plate and multiple curved blades, a magnet sheet with at least one pair of N and S poles on its surface, and an axle.

Provided is a video signal line driving circuit that enables an image of high display quality to be displayed even when identical gradation voltages are simultaneously selected as analog image signals. A voltage ladder (87) in a source driver (50) has formed therein a gradation voltage compensation line (91) that extends to the outside of the source driver (50) from an output terminal for outputting a generated gradation voltage. This gradation voltage compensation line (91) is grounded outside the source driver (50) via a voltage compensation capacitor (90). By this configuration, even when identical gradation voltages are simultaneously selected as analog image signals, the necessary current is complemented from the voltage compensation capacitor (90) to the voltage ladder (87), therebyinhibiting a drop in potential at the output terminal for outputting the gradation voltage.

An ultra-thin fan is composed of a base with an axle hole and at least one coil, a blade wheel consisting of an annular plate and multiple curved blades, an assembly elements with an assembling hole and a radial flange, a magnet sheet with at least one pair of N and S poles on its surface, and an axle.

A holding apparatus for holding a gutted poultry body / part during processing has a support body supporting the body / part, a fastening body for holding the support body and fastening the holding apparatus to a circulatingly driven transport unit, and a clamping device for securing the body / part to the support body. The clamping device has a hook for penetrating into soft parts and a clamping lever. The lever has a clamping jaw for clamping parts of the body / part against the hook lower side directed towards the support body. The hook lower side is spaced apart from the support body to form a free space for receiving the parts to be clamped. The clamping lever is movable, against a spring force, from a standby position into a clamping position, and back. The clamping lever also has a centring shoulder projecting into the free space when the clamping lever is in the standby position.

The purpose of the present invention is to provide: an efficient method for deciding the blending amount of ash-free coal when producing a coke for blast furnaces; and a process for producing a coke for blast furnaces using said decision method. This method is for deciding the blending amount of ash-free coal obtained by solvent extraction of coal, when producing a coke for blast furnaces which comprises feed coal and the ash-free coal. The method comprises: calculating a reference value W [mass%] from the porosity index Pv [vol%] of the feed coal, the expansibility index D [vol%] of the ash-free coal, and the true specific gravity ρ of the ash-free coal using the following equation (1); and deciding the blending amount of the ash-free coal with respect to the blend coal on the basis of the reference value W. The blending amount of the ash-free coal with respect to the blend coal is preferably 0.29W-1.00W [mass%]. W=(Pv / D)×ρ×100 (1)