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In a device including an anterior plate for vertebral column support, there is at least one connecting sliding piece which is used to connect an anchoring screw to a securing rod. The securing rod is inserted into a cylindrical bearing and is fixed using a tightening device including a small clamp and a tightening screw. The connecting sliding piece includes at least one tip which extends away from the cylindrical bearing for the securing rod, in a direction which converges with the axis of the anchoring screw. In this way, the connecting sliding piece is provisionally fixed by pressing same against a vertebra, the anchoring screw is subsequently screwed in place and, finally, the securing rod is inserted laterally into the cylindrical bearing before being tightened using the small clamp and the tightening screw. The device is designed for anterior implantation on a vertebral column.

An apparatus (100) for and a method of delivering and implanting a surgical device on an anatomic structure is through minimally invasive procedures. The method is facilitated by an apparatus including a unitary tube (106) operatively connected to a deployment head (118) controlled by an apparatus controller. The deployment head is configured to deploy suture hooks or similar clips that connect an annuloplasty implant to heart tissue and secondary surgical devices to the annuloplasty implant. The apparatus is further configured to facilitate orientation adjustment or collapsing of the deployment head and surgical devices attached thereto in order to facilitate their passing through an incision smaller than generally required. After the deployment head passes through the incision its orientation is readjusted so that it may be positioned and the annuloplasty implant automatically sutured to a heart valve annulus by the apparatus suturing sub-assembly using the suture hooks.

An adjustable retractor blade may include a vertical blade portion integrated with an adjustable attachment portion, which is used to attach the blade to a support arm or frame. The adjustable portion is compatible with existing retractor support arms or frames and allows the vertical blade's position within the body to be easily adjusted without the need for an assistant.

A mask frame assembly used in vacuum deposition of thin films of an organic electroluminescent device. The mask frame assembly includes a frame having an opening and at least two unit masks which each have at least one unit masking pattern portion in the direction of the unit mask and two edges which are fixed to the frame under tension.

Systems for deterring theft of retail products. Systems of this invention provide theft deterrent dispensing modules for dispensing products and may incorporate theft deterrent measures including mechanical deterrents, time delays and sound. The dispensing modules may include one or more pusher assemblies for dispensing product. Certain systems of this invention may also include a lockout feature, so that one only pusher assembly may be activated to dispense a product at one time. In some embodiments, a door assembly may be provided as an additional theft deterrent mechanism so that access to additional product not yet dispensed by the pusher assembly is restricted.

Method of compressing/extending a color reproducing space which compresses or extends chroma of a first color gamut in a same hue plane. The color reproducing method and apparatus produces a third transformation definition by transforming a first color gamut represented by a first transformation definition within a second color gamut represented by a second transformation definition such that the gradation is preserved, produces a fourth transformation definition by transforming a second gamut within the first color gamut such that gradation is preserved and produces a fifth transformation definition in the second transformation definition by providing an inverse transformation from the second transformation definition into the first transformation definition to the first color gamut and then produces a color reproduction target transformation definition for transformation from the first transformation to the second transformation definition by mixing the second color gamuts represented by the third transformation definition and the fifth transformation definition.

A motorized bicycle derailleur assembly has a motor unit, a movable part (e.g., a motor linkage, a derailleur linkage and/or a chain guide) and a controller. The movable part is in response to activation of the motor unit within a mechanical stroke. The motor unit has a motor output stroke with a prescribed maximum movement range that is larger than the mechanical stroke of the movable part. The movable part has an anti-jamming arrangement having an anti-jamming spring. The anti-jamming spring is configured and arranged to compress when the motor unit continues to apply a moving force to the movable part after the movable part reaches a lockup position. The controller is configured to set the motor unit output stroke to an operating movement range that is smaller than the prescribed maximum movement range so that the anti-jamming biasing element remains uncompressed during normal shifting operation.

A catadioptric system includes: a first image forming optical system that includes at least two reflecting mirrors and forms a first intermediate image of a first plane with light originating from the first plane; a second image forming optical system that includes at least two reflecting mirrors and forms a second intermediate image of the first plane with light having traveled via the first image forming optical system; and a refractive type of third image forming optical system that forms a final image of the first plane onto a second plane with light having traveled via the second image forming optical system, and optical members constituting the first image forming optical system, the second image forming optical system and the third image forming optical system are all disposed along a single linear optical axis.

Device for the relative movement of bones, in particular for the treatment of scoliosis in humans, with a first shaft element (1), a second shaft element (2), which is connected movably to the first shaft element (1), and an electric motor, which is connected to the first shaft element (1), wherein an output shaft of the electric motor is operatively connected to the second shaft element (2) in order to permit a movement of the shaft elements (1, 2) relative to each other, wherein the electric motor (6) is arranged lengthways adjacent to at least one of the shaft elements (1, 2).

An angle-adjusting apparatus for a housing of a headrest display, comprising an external housing having an opening at the outer side thereof, a cavity being formed and two sleeves being symmetrically arranged at both sides thereof, a spring element being provided at a top and a bottom side of the cavities, the spring element having a first projecting rib longitudinally extending at an internal side thereof; an internal housing having a front and a rear portion with an internal room for installing a display, a groove and two positioning sleeves corresponding to the cavities of the external housing being disposed at both sides of the internal housing, the internal housing further having a plurality of second projecting ribs at a position corresponding to the spring element; and a left link element and a right link element formed in a symmetric manner and received within the cavities of the external housing, respectively. Each of the left and right link elements includes an external and internal link portion both of which are locked on the external and internal housings, respectively, for a pivotal connection. And the joining end is limited to the lowest point so that a room is reserved to install the display in the small headrest. Moreover, the contact at both sides includes a plurality of engaging and positioning points to allow for a precise angle-adjustment and to protect from loosening due to the rocking action when driving. Accordingly, an optimal view angle can be achieved.

An organic EL display panel includes a substrate; an interlayer insulating layer on the substrate; first electrodes on the interlayer insulating layer to correspond to element formation regions in rows and columns; banks extending in columns to partition the regions in rows; organic light-emitting layers above the first electrodes, and each containing organic light-emitting material having light-emitting color differing between each two adjacent regions in rows; and second electrodes above the light-emitting layers, and being opposite in polarity to the first electrodes, wherein the interlayer insulating layer has first opening corresponding to interval between each two adjacent first electrodes in rows, the banks each have integrally formed buried part and main part, the buried part fills the interval and the first opening, and the main part is protrusion of the buried part and has recess on top thereof along with shapes of the interval and the first opening.

The invention relates to a patient positioning and transport system comprising a transportable stretcher (1) and a cart (2) for transporting the stretcher (1) with the patient. The stretcher (1) can be removed from the cart (2) to be placed on a diagnosis or treatment station (4). A patient positioning and transport system of the aforementioned type should be designed as to avoid, to the greatest possible extent, repositionings of the patient between separate diagnosis or treatment stations (4). Towards this end, at least one adapter plate (3) that can be assigned to the stretcher (1) is provided, whereby the stretcher (1), the adapter plate (3) and the cart (2) can be joined to another and are configured in such a manner that the stretcher (1) with the patient can be transferred from the cart (2) to various, differently designed diagnosis or treatment stations (4) and back.

A damping adjusting/controlling system is provided for a vehicle having two front shock-absorbers and two rear shock-absorbers. Each shock-absorber includes a piston rod having a central rod mounted therein. The damping adjusting/controlling system includes two front motors and two rear motors for driving the central rods of the front and rear shock-absorbers, respectively. Front and rear motor controller are mounted to front and rear portions of the vehicle and electrically connected to the front and rear motors, respectively. A main controller is operable to proceed with bidirectional information transmission/reception between a programmed chip of the main controller and programmed chips of the front and rear motor controllers to drive at least one of the front and rear motors, thereby adjusting a height of the central rod and a damping state of at least one of the front and rear shock-absorbers.

There is disclosed a lighting apparatus, more particularly, a lighting apparatus that is able to control a radiation angle of a body provided therein, with being fitted to a lighting space and in an installation spot or in a state of being installed, and to enhance luminance efficiency and save the energy.

The invention discloses an outdoor energy-saving controllable power supply device, which comprises a shell. A first sliding groove is arranged in the shell; a second sliding groove is arranged at the lower part of the first sliding groove in the shell; the right side of the second sliding groove is communicated with a third sliding groove; a slot is arranged at the bottom part on the right end surface of the shell; a fourth sliding groove is arranged in the upper end wall of the slot; a fifth sliding groove and a sixth sliding groove are symmetrically arranged at the left side and the right side of the top end surface of the shell; and a cushion is fixedly arranged in the middle of the top surface of the shell. The whole structure of the device is simple; the production cost is low; the operation is simple; operation among components is automatically controlled; power supply is safe and stable; the reliability is high; happening of electric shock accidents in the existing life can be effectively prevented; the life safety of people is ensured; the solar panel can automatically adjust the inclination angle according to requirements to meet different illumination angles; and promotion and use are facilitated.

An adjustable angle handle for a surgical instrument, capable of easy adjustment to a number of angles, permitting the handle of the instrument to be grasped with one hand, and the other hand to guide the operating end of the instrument, said handle permanently affixed to an instrument, or capable if attachment to a number of instruments by means of a firm but releasable fastening to the shaft of the instrument, as with a Hudson fitting; the adjustable angle handle comprising a hand gripping portion with a distally mounted transverse pin with a key, for a keyhole in the proximal end of the instrument, or the instrument retainer shaft.

To provide a semiconductor device including a skew detecting circuit activated in a write leveling mode, and an ODT control circuit that activates a terminating resistance circuit connected to a data strobe terminal by using an ODT signal. The ODT control circuit selects a first resistance mode when a dynamic ODT is in an unused state in the write leveling mode, and selects a second resistance mode when the dynamic ODT is in a used state in the write leveling mode. With this configuration, a resistance in a used state of the dynamic ODT and that in an unused state of the dynamic ODT can be reproduced in an actual write operation. Consequently, a more accurate write leveling operation can be performed.

Disclosed is an apparatus to adjust position of a mirror in projector. The mirror position adjusting apparatus includes a mirror, a mirror plate on which the mirror is seated, and a mirror mounting part located in the inside of the projector for adjusting the position of the mirror plate. The mirror position adjusting apparatus according to the present invention can adjust change in position of the mirror occurred due to transformation of plastic by a structure of the projector, which generates intense heat, thereby improving quality of image formed on a screen.

A cordless window blind structure comprises a head rail having an accommodating channel into which a cord-winding control device with an operational cord attached thereto and a fixed seat are mounted at both end sides with a movable seat situated there-between. The operational cord is also fixed to one side of the movable seat. Multiple lift cords mounted to the corresponding positions of a blind body and a bottom rail are guided into the accommodating channel and divided to extend from either the upper or lower side of a guiding post of the fixed and movable seats respectively and wind onto multiple guiding elements, permitting the operational cord to link in movement to the lift cords wound onto the movable and fixed seats. Therefore, the bottom rail is simply pushed or pulled by hands to easily and accurately adjust the blind body into a desirable collected or expanded position thereby.

It is a car wheel bearing analogue test load device, which comprises drive main axis 1 and test main axis 2, test bearing supportive structure, radial and axis load cylinder structure. The connection end between radial load oil cylinder and frame is fixed with a ball socket bearing 5. The connection end between the axis bearing load oil cylinder and frame is fixed with ball socket bearing 11. Its radial load oil cylinder down part is directly fixed with proportion decompression valve 21 and electromagnetism switch valve 20. Its axis load oil cylinder down part is directly fixed with proportion decompression valve 15 and electromagnetism 14.

A device for arresting spark and ash issuing from, and precisely controlling the ventilation of and temperature inside, a heat source-containing vessel such as a cooking grill, stove, oven, cooker, fireplace, heater, or firebox. The device comprises a spark arrestor assembly including a base plate, a cover plate, and a spark arrestor. The base plate defines an opening. The cover plate and spark arrestor are slidably mated in two channels formed in the base plate around the opening. The cover plate and spark arrestor may be adjusted to extend across or only partway across the opening as selected by a user of the device. Tabs are provided on the cover plate and spark arrestor for easy adjustment thereof. Tabs in the base plate are positioned to define a range of slidable motion of the cover plate and spark arrestor. The spark arrestor assembly engages a fire-containing or heat source-containing vessel over an opening defined by the vessel so that the vessel opening cooperates with the spark arrestor assembly opening.

A machine for testing components of a joint in relative articulation under a load includes an adapter fixed to a movable joint component and having a semispherical upper surface concentric with a semispherical articulation surface of the movable component, a load assembly configured in load applying relation to the semispherical upper surface and having a load adapter providing a lower semispherical surface against which the adapter can articulate under the load, and a drive assembly configured in articulating driving relation with the adapter and having a rotatable wheel and a drive shaft mechanically coupled thereto in angular offset relation to the wheel's rotation axis. Rotating the wheel effects an articulation of the adapter under the load and in turn an articulation of the movable component under the load against a semispherical pocket of a stationary joint component, in an articulation pattern determined by the angular offset relationship.

A method and apparatus for clamping a work piece is disclosed. The apparatus generally includes a stationary jaw with a first clamping surface and a moveable jaw with a second clamping surface connected and operated by a spindle. The spindle moves the stationary jaw and moveable jaw toward each other when rotated in one direction. The spindle disengages the stationary jaw when rotated in the opposite direction, thus allowing for rapid adjustment of the apparatus.

The invention discloses a high-isolation double-unit MIMO (multiple input multiple output) antenna array which is characterized in that: two independent resonant modes are produced through two C-like radiating units and two inverted-L-shaped radiating units printed on the front and back surfaces of a dielectric substrate, and used for controlling the double frequency characteristics of an antenna; and on the premise of realizing double-frequency coverage, a decoupling structure is formed on an additional floor unit printed on the front surface of the dielectric substrate and an isolation groove formed on a floor, so that the isolation between antenna units in a multi-frequency range is improved, and the bandwidth performance of dual-frequency operation is ensured.

The invention discloses a volume adjusting method and a system. The method includes obtaining distance change information between electronic equipment and a user, and judging whether a distance change value expressed by the distance change information is larger than zero, wherein if the distance change value is larger than zero, volumes of the electronic equipment are turned up, and the volumes comprise input volumes and/or input volumes; and if the distance change value is no larger than zero, the volumes of the electronic equipment are turned down. As the volume adjusting method and the system are used, the volumes of the electronic equipment can be adjusted according to the distance between the electronic equipment and the user, so that the user can hear sounds with constant volumes.

A system and a method for controlling movements of an industrial robot during a work cycle including visiting and performing work on a plurality of workstations in a work cell. The system includes a set of predefined workstations. Each workstation includes preprogrammed robot code adapted to the workstation, an entry point defining the entrance position to the workstation, and one or more predefined paths to be followed by the robot at the workstation. A user interface is adapted to provide information about the predefined workstations and allows an operator to select one or more of the predefined workstations and to specify a desired part flow between the workstations. A scheduling unit is adapted during execution of the work cycle to schedule the execution order for the workstations based on the workstations selected from the predefined workstations and the desired part flow, and to control the movements of the robot based on the scheduled execution order and the predefined paths.

A machine for slitting a metal sheet has a number of knife holder assemblies each containing a rotary knife. The knife holder assemblies are mounted for movement along upper and lower rotating shafts which rotate the knives during a slitting operation. The position of the knife holder assemblies is programmably controlled for efficient and accurate positioning and adjustment of the knives along the rotating shafts for a variety of slitting configurations. Additionally, each of the upper and lower drive shafts contains a pair of drive shaft sections that are normally connected together during operation and can be disconnected for servicing of the knife holder assemblies on the shafts. The slitting machine includes upper and lower frames that are movable relative to each other by adjustment of a pair of jack screws to slit metal sheets of differing thicknesses without labor intensive adjustment or reconfiguration of the machine.

An angle-adjustable aroma-diffusing night lamp system includes an electrical plug unit, a lamp socket unit, a collar coupled to a front coupling neck of the housing of the electrical plug unit and affixed to the housing of the lamp socket unit for allowing rotation of the lamp socket unit relative to the electrical lug unit within a predetermined angle, a spring-supported latch installed in the housing of the electrical plug unit to lock the electrical plug unit to the collar in one of a series of angular position, and a lampshade coupled to the lamp socket unit around the lamp bulb in the lamp socket unit and holding a fluid aroma substance for heating by the radiation heat from the lamp bulb into vapor.

The invention discloses a method for controlling the balance of a direct current side of a cascaded grid-connected inverter based on zero sequence and negative sequence voltage injection. The method is based on the combination of zero sequence voltage and negative sequence voltage injection; and the method comprises the following steps of (1) integrally controlling the direct current voltage by using a control method of positive sequence current decoupling, and correcting the unbalance of the system on the basis of positive sequence decoupling, and decomposing network voltage and the positive and negative sequence of the current by using a second harmonic filtering method; and (2) controlling the phase balance of the direct current side, respectively calculating the zero sequence voltage component and the negative sequence voltage component needing injecting, starting the zero sequence voltage injection method under a normal condition, and using the negative sequence voltage injection method when the power difference of each phase is large according to switching conditions. Furthermore, when the zero sequence voltage injection is used, the condition that the maximum output phase voltage does not exceed the maximum value provided by the inverter needs to be satisfied. Through the method, three phases can be comprehensively combined; the voltage of different phase sequences can be injected under different conditions, the output performance and interphase power adjustment ability of the device are both considered; and for the application of three-phase cascaded grid-connected inverter matched renewable energy sources large-scale synchronization and large-scale energy storage, the method has an important value.

The computer tomography device includes an X-ray source for emitting an X-ray beam and a detector system for measuring density profiles of cross-sections of an object. The detector system includes a two-dimensional matrix of detector elements. The detector elements positioned along a direction transversely of the cross-sections have the same effective surface and detector elements positioned parallel to the cross-sections have different effective surfaces. Furthermore, the computer tomography device includes an adjustable X-ray collimator for limiting the X-ray beam transversely of the cross-sections.