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Clips of a self-closing type are used in annuloplasty procedures. Each clip is generally U-shaped with two end points separated from each other when it is constrained to be in an open configuration, but tends to coil up to assume its naturally closed configuration if the constraint is removed. A plurality of such clips in open configurations penetrate the tissue around the annulus circumferentially and then the constraint keeping them in the open configuration is removed such that they pull the tissue together between their two end points and this tends to reduce the diameter of the annulus. Such clips may be deployed each in the form of a clip assembly, having at least one of its end points connected to a needle through a flexible member and a release mechanism by which the clip can be easily released. The needle is caused to penetrate the tissue at one position and to come out therefrom at another circumferentially separated positions. Alternatively, a clip delivery device may be used with a plurality of such clips loaded to a clip-holder serving to keep them in open configurations. A pusher pushes the loaded clips out of the device one at a time. Self-closing clips can be used efficiently also in ring annuloplasty and valve replacement procedures.

A secondary battery module includes a battery information storage unit for storing electric characteristic information and usage history information of the secondary battery module. A battery information management device and a terminal device respectively include interfaces to be connected to the secondary battery module. The battery information management device is provided with a battery information database. The battery information management device is connected to the terminal device through a communications network. In this way, battery information stored in the battery information storage unit, which is acquired by the battery information management device and the terminal device, is accumulated in the battery information database. Moreover, the battery information management device grades the secondary battery module for reuse based on the battery information and a predetermined threshold.

Disclosed is a method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving data in a wireless communication system. The method includes: a terminal transmitting a coverage enhancement request or capability information for the terminal; a base station determining a channel setting for the terminal based on the transmitted request or information; and transmitting downlink data and performing random access on the basis of the determined channel setting. Namely, a scheme for adaptively transmitting and receiving data in consideration of the coverage of the terminal is proposed.

To provide a broadcast receiving apparatus which enables an effective use of information appended to a broadcast, even though a two-direction communication function is not furnished. A broadcast receiving apparatus includes: a memory storing ID data which identifies the broadcast receiving apparatus; an appended information receiver which receives appended information appended to a broadcast from a broadcasting station; a generator which generates code information obtained by encoding the ID data stored in the memory and the appended information received by the appended information receiver; and a transmitter which transmits the code information generated by the generator to a display connected outside.

An electronic endoscope has a light guide for leading a light and a solid-state image sensor for capturing an image of a human body cavity during illumination. In inspecting the number of broken optical fibers in the light guide, a cap is attached to a distal portion of the electronic endoscope. The cap has a test chart. The solid-state image sensor captures an image of the test chart which is illuminated with the light transmitted through the light guide. A photometric circuit calculates an average luminance value “Y” of the test chart from a chart image signal. A broken fiber number calculator calculates the number “N” of broken optical fibers that satisfies N=M×(1−Y/I). “Y” represents an average luminance value of the test chart. “I” represents an ideal average luminance value when all optical fibers are conducting, and “M” represents the total number of the optical fibers.

A headlamp disclosed includes: a laser diode for emitting a laser beam; a light emitting section including a fluorescent material which emits light in response to excitation light emitted from the laser diode; a light-transmitting heat conducting member which is provided so as to face a laser beam irradiation surface of the light emitting section and receive heat of the light emitting section; and an adhesive layer filling a gap between the heat conducting member and the laser beam irradiation surface. This arrangement improves efficiency of the heat conducting member in absorbing the heat of the light emitting section, and consequently cools the light emitting section efficiently.

An injection molding die is provided with a cavity block including a stationary mold having first and second split molding cavity portions having different shapes, and a movable mold having first and second common split molding cavity portions, so as to form first and second molding cavities between the stationary and movable molds in mold clamping. Each time a molding shot is performed, a component part to be sealed is inserted while a primary molded piece formed in the first molding cavity is transferred to the second molding cavity and a secondary molded piece formed in the second molding cavity is removed. Thus, the first and second molded pieces can be simultaneously produced.

A photoresist coating apparatus, medium, and method for efficiently spraying a liquid photoresist to maintain an atmosphere of ionized solvent vapor between a substrate and a spray nozzle of an upper portion by using a vapor inducing pipe supplying ionized solvent vapor, with the atmosphere being maintained by differently biasing a lower portion supporting the substrate and a plate of the upper portion. Photoresist can be evenly coated over the entire surface of the substrate while reducing the loss of sprayed photoresist droplets.

A software development platform, used to develop software applications substantially free of the need to write code. The platform includes a visualizable computer executable modeling language for the definition of software solutions. The platform also includes a visual modeling system comprising a visual modeling tool for users to develop software solutions using the modeling language, and a runtime engine software program that automatically executes the defined software solutions. The visualizable computer executable modeling language system enables defining each application by a set of: process models, each of which may contain any number of sub process model; input and output slots; data models, each of which may contain any number of sub data models; and flow rules applicable to connect pairs of slots, data models and sub-data models, thereby defining both data flow and process flow, wherein the sets of process models, slots, data models and flow rules are arranged in a structural hierarchy conforming to a set of rigid composition rules.

A method and system for diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions. The method includes communicating MRI, CT, PET and/or ultrasound image data, and fusing such data using an image-guided biopsy system. It further includes using such fused images in conjunction with the image-guided biopsy system for performing diagnosis and treatment procedures.

Event triggered snapshots of display content of software applications facilitate for a user, typically in the role of a software application developer, in the process of power-optimising an application under development. The invention provides the developers with an ability to correlate specific software application events, e.g. user interface events, to power consumption peaks and lows.

A method and apparatus of transmitting a PPDU in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes selecting a subchannel among a plurality of subchannels, wherein a PLCP preamble and a PLCP header in each PPDU are independently generated in each of the plurality of subchannels, and transmitting a PPDU in the selected subchannel.

A control unit (5) for controlling each device which constitutes a electric power generator set (1) is provided with an operation-and-display device (28) so constituted as to calculate each electric power value data and each electric energy data on external electric power, generated electric power, and load electric power on the basis of sensed data on each value of external electric power and generated electric power transmitted from inverters (6a, 6b) and as to store these calculated data and the sensed data, and connected to the electric power generator set (1) by wires or radio. A cogeneration system comprising the electric power generator set (1) is so constituted that data on the electric power generation current value of the external electric power source and the electric power generator set (1) and data on water-heat energy are sensed and transmitted to the control system (2), and that the control system calculates data on an external electric energy, a generated electric energy, a load electric energy, a water-heat energy recovery quantity, and an energy efficiency to display the calculated data on the operation-and-display device (28).

An ink storage container having a simply configured ink exchange function is provided, whereby the amount of stored ink is increased. An air flow control unit for controlling the flow of air between the inside and outside is disposed in an ink storage unit for storing ink. The air flow control unit includes: a valve element that is formed of an interconnected porous material and allows air to be exchanged between the inside and outside of the ink storage unit according to positive and negative changes in the internal pressure of the ink storage unit; and a liquid repellent membrane that has air permeability and liquid repellency and is disposed on an ink side of the valve element.

A digital prescription carrier and monitor system includes a pager sized carrier apparatus with an internal processor, a real-time clock/calendar, non-volatile memory, a communication port, a character display, and alert devices. Prescription data for one or more medications is stored within the carrier by a physician and downloaded by a pharmacist to fill the prescriptions called for. The carrier apparatus requires the entry of an decryption key to access prescription data within the carrier to prevent unauthorized access or tampering with the prescription data. The carrier apparatus also functions as a prescription reminder to the patient and records compliance with the prescription, since a switch must be operated to quiet an alert device activated when a scheduled medication dose is due.

The present invention relates to a non-human transgenic mammal which has had an HLA-A24 gene introduced and in which CTLs are induced when stimulated by an HLA-A24-binding antigen, a method of screening therapeutic or preventive agents for tumors or virus infections comprising administering a test substance to said transgenic non-human mammal and assaying and evaluating whether CTLs specific for the test substance are induced, an HLA-A24-binding tumor antigen peptide of PSA origin selected by said screening method, a chimera DNA (DNA construct) useful in the generation of said non-human transgenic mammal, a host cell transformed by said chimera gene and use thereof, and the like.

The main body of the heat accumulation element has a honeycomb structure, and fluid passages where a fluid circulates and heat accumulating medium portions where a medium for storing heat is enclosed are formed. Specifically, the heat accumulation element has partition walls, and one opening portion and the other opening portion of each of the predetermined cells of a honeycomb structure having a large number of cells partitioned and formed to function as fluid passages are plugged and fired to form plugged cells. A heat accumulating medium is provided in the plugged cells. Open cells neither plugged nor fired serve as fluid passages with the plugged cells plugged and fired serving as heat accumulating medium portions, and the fluid circulating through the open cells and the heat accumulating medium in the plugged cells exchange heat.

The invention is a data-handling architecture that exploits the technical advantages offered by object-oriented techniques, classes, data containers, component software, object frameworks, containerization, design patterns, and a central runtime data repository. The architecture is based on the Common Object DataBase (CODB), frameworks, components, objects, information streams, and containers. The software exploits the Extensible Markup Language (XML), employs software gauges, and uses intelligent agents to aid in assembly, diagnosis, evaluation, composition, and re-configuration of a DATE-based application. The architecture of the present invention is defined by highly-modular components where interdependencies are well-defined and minimized. Components define the major aspects of the inventive architecture, objects are used to flesh out the specification, design, and implementation of the components. The invention's architecture can support the dynamic loading of any of the components or major objects in any component required without re-linking or recompiling software. Within the architecture, data is transmitted between components only along information streams within containers using the Extensible Markup Language (XML).

A satellite-positioning receiving device includes: an antenna which receives a signal from a satellite; an RF amplifier unit which amplifies the signal received by the antenna; a reference quartz oscillator; a digital processor unit which performs signal processing; an operation accepting unit; and two reception processing systems, that is, a first reception processing system including a first mixer unit, a first local oscillator, a first IF amplifier unit, and a first IF filter unit and a second reception processing system including a second mixer unit, a second local oscillator, a second IF amplifier unit, and a second IF filter unit. The digital processor unit is connected to the local oscillators and the IF filter units, and is so constituted that it is capable of individually changing and setting their characteristics.

A refrigerator includes: a refrigerator main body including a freezing chamber positioned at a lower portion thereof and a refrigerating chamber positioned at an upper portion thereof; an ice maker and an ice bank positioned at an inner side of the freezing chamber; an ice dispenser positioned at an inner side of the refrigerating chamber; a transfer flow path extending from the ice bank to the ice dispenser; an ice input unit supplying ice stored in the ice bank to the interior of the transfer flow path; and a blower blowing air to allow the ice supplied to the interior of the ice transfer flow path toward the ice dispenser.

An apparatus and method utilize a buffer interposed in a common signal path between asynchronous clock domains in a hardware-based logic emulation environment to manage the communication of time-multiplexed data signals between the clock domains during hardware-based emulation. The buffer is effectively used to latch each data signal communicated across the common signal path so that the clock domain that receives the signals can retrieve each such signal at appropriate points in the receiver clock domain's evaluation cycle. Independently-controlled write/read pointers are maintained in a buffer control circuit to independently address the buffer for the transmitter and receiver sides of an asynchronous communication path. Locations in the buffer are associated with specific steps in the evaluation cycles of each of the transmitter and receiver clock domains, and the write/read pointers are managed to respectively write and read data to and from the locations in the buffer based upon the current evaluation steps being performed within the respective evaluation cycles of the transmitter and receiver clock domains.

In a base station, a first setting circuitry sets a first Narrowband for allocating a system information block (SIB) for MTC by using a predetermined default offset. A second setting circuitry sets a second Narrowband for allocating a signal other than the SIB by using the default offset and an additional offset that indicates a difference from the default offset. An allocating circuitry allocates the SIB including the additional offset to the first Narrowband, and allocates the signal other than the SIB to the second Narrowband.

Techniques for producing an arbitrary broadband waveform include storing a first waveform in a circulating coherent storage device. A next waveform is generated. A shifted replica is generated by shifting, by a frequency shift one of the next waveform or the waveform in the storage device. A combined waveform is stored by coherently combining the shifted replica and one of the next waveform or the waveform in the storage device which waveform is not frequency shifted. An apparatus includes a source of a carrier frequency waveform, and a modulator configured to impose the next waveform on the carrier frequency waveform. The apparatus also includes a circulating coherent storage device configured to store a coherent interaction between multiple waveforms. The apparatus also includes a frequency shifter configured to generate a shifted replica by shifting, by a frequency shift, one of the next waveform or a waveform in the storage device.

A method for killing malignant brain tumor cells in vivo entails providing replication competent herpes simplex virus vectors to tumor cells. A replication competent herpes simplex virus vector, with defective expression of the γ34.5 gene and the ribonucleotide reductase gene, specifically destroys tumor cells, is hypersensitive to anti-viral agents, and yet is not neurovirulent.

Capsule containers disclosed in the present invention. In principle, the capsule container is accommodated inside of the opening formed in a common container such as a beverage container, bucket container, etc. and caught and supported by the rim of the opening. The capsule container is advantageous in that it enables blending of the content accommodated inside with a fluid, powder, etc. having different properties as intended by the user; safe blending of contents without flowing-out; and prevention of excessive flow-out of contents as only proper amounts of the contents are discharged through the opening when the contents flow out.

The present invention is to prepare a novel polymerizable biotin derivative represented by formula (I) shown below and make it possible to synthesize or design a polyfunctional or multifunctional polymer using the derivative.

In formula (I), R² represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, R³ and R⁴ each independently represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an aryl group, T represents an oxygen atom or ═NH, W represents a single bond, a carbonyl group, a thiocarbonyl group or a C_1-5 alkylene group, U represents a single bond or —NH—, X represents a single bond, a C_1-8 hydrocarbon bond, an oxygen atom or —NH—, Y represents a single bond, a carbonyl group, a thiocarbonyl group, —NH—, a 1,2-dioxyethylene group or a 1,2-diaminoethylene group, Z represents a single bond, a carbonyl group, a thiocarbonyl group, a C_1-5 alkylene group, an oxygen atom or —NH—, and V represents a single bond or a C_1-5 alkylene group.

A cooling device for a condenser of a system for a thermodynamic cycle, with a coolant circuit, wherein a conveying device for conveying a coolant through the coolant circuit is provided, and wherein the coolant circuit includes a cold branch downstream from a cooling point for the coolant and a hot branch upstream of the cooling point. The conveying device has a variable output, and/or the coolant circuit has a connecting line between the hot branch and the cold branch. A mixing device is provided, by way of which a variable portion of coolant can be supplied from the hot branch to the cold branch via the connecting line, bypassing the cooling point.

Devices and methods are disclosed which relate to mobile devices on a cellular network. A multi-number mobile device is introduced which enables a user to use multiple connecting numbers or identifiers on a single mobile device. The multi-number mobile device contains a plurality of hardware IDs, each of which is registered on a service-provider's network. The multi-number mobile device is equipped with software that enables the user to choose among the hardware IDs and set default preferences concerning which hardware ID to use depending on the service or situation.

A portable clothes washing device having a container for receiving clothes to be washed and liquid for washing, an apertured pressure agitator in the container which may be placed over clothes in the container, a rod attached to the pressure agitator, a cover having a hole through which the rod freely movably extends, and a handle on the end of the rod for manipulating the pressure agitator. Preferably, the container is tapered to its bottom and the pressure agitator is of a diameter less but about the diameter of the bottom of the container.

A method and apparatus for dynamically and automatically optimizing multiple filter/stage security systems whereby a multiple filter/stage security system is provided that includes two or more filters or “stages” and is initially implemented such that the two or more filters/stages are used in an initial order, i.e., in a defined initial sequence. At least two of the two or more filters/stages are then monitored to determine the composite “cost” and/or effectiveness of each filter/stage. Data representing the results of the monitoring of the at least two of the two or more filters/stages is then analyzed to determine a cost/use profile for each filter/stage and the cost/use profile for each filter/stage is then analyzed to determine an optimal order of the at least two of the two or more filters/stages, i.e., an optimal filter/stage sequence, based on actual filter/stage use, actual composite filter/stage cost, and/or user and/or system defined priorities. The optimal filter/stage sequence is then implemented.