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An apparatus for and a method of performing an animal-related action regarding at least a part of the body of an animal is proposed. The apparatus includes a cleaning tool (15), adapted to be brought into contact with the part of the body, a support (16, 17) provided to support the cleaning tool (15), and a drive element (18, 24) provided to move the cleaning tool (15) along the contour of the part of the body. A sensor (34) is provided to sense the contact of the cleaning tool (15) and the animal. Furthermore, a processor (36) is provided to determine the position of the part in response to the sensor.

A device, system and method provides mitral valve therapy. The device is implantable in the coronary sinus of the heart to partially encircle the mitral valve annulus. The device is elongated, is resilient, and has a preformed arched configuration. When the device is implanted in the coronary sinus, the device exerts a substantially radially inward force to the mitral valve to restore mitral valve annulus geometry.

A debt management system includes a financial planning tool that examines a user's mortgages, home equity loans, auto loans, savings, credit cards, and unsecured debt to determine actions that can be taken to improve the user's debt situation. Upon receiving and saving user financial information, the debt management system dynamically recommends the most cost-effective debt management actions available to the user. The recommendations are based upon one or more parameters, such as desired debt management strategy, optimized user-selected financial goals, user credit information, available debt reduction instruments, real time interest rates, and current underwriting guidelines and upon a variety of user-inputted information. The recommendations of the debt management system are monitored and adaptively changed according to changes in the fiscal environment.

A system for providing in response to changes within current operational data of a business enterprise, alert information including an alert to a wireless device in real-time. The system architecture includes an enterprise application integration services component for accessing and conditioning the current operational data and other business intelligence information. An analytics services component monitors for changes within the current operational data from a predetermined target level and communicates an alert and alert information if a change occurs. The analytics services component also extracts contextually-related first and second sets of critical business information, and converts the operational data, alert and alert information, and the first and second sets of critical business information into a device-independent, web-enabled format, which is then recoded by a delivery services component in accordance with the data delivery requirements of the wireless device. The alert and alert information will be displayed in the context of the current operational data and first and second sets of critical business information.

The invention relates to a device that can be used to expose a person to a magnetic field, including an insulating belt to be placed in contact with a part of the body of the person, at least one substantially rectangular, flat dipole antenna emitting a magnetic field over a vector perpendicular to the surface thereof, the antenna being arranged longitudinally on the belt in the lengthwise direction thereof, and a power source for supplying the antenna with AC or pulsed power.

A hand-guided electric device has an electric motor for driving a tool. The electric motor has a motor housing with inlet and outlet for cooling air. A blower wheel is driven by the electric motor and cooling air is conveyed into the motor housing with the blower wheel through the inlet and blown out from the motor housing through the outlet. The device housing has a cooling air inlet chamber and a cooling air outlet chamber. The cooling air enters the inlet chamber through a cooling air inlet port in an exterior housing wall of the device housing and exits from the outlet chamber through a cooling air outlet port in the exterior housing wall. The cooling air inlet and outlet chambers are separated from one another substantially air-tightly by an inner housing wall so that motor housing is the only flow connection between inlet and outlet chambers.

A vehicle hybrid power system is provided according to the present invention. The hybrid power system is characterized by applying the concept of minimum equivalent fuel consumption, and then simulating equivalent fuel consumptions based on respective energy consumption or increase of motor and generator of a motor vehicle, and also defining simulated equivalent fuel consumption formula and making a list of system state parameters, system control parameters, and system negative load parameters, thereby obtaining simulated equivalent fuel consumption multidimensional data by entering the system parameters derived from a discretization/transformation process in the defined simulated equivalent fuel consumption formula; wherein, the simulated equivalent fuel consumption multidimensional data are revised to comprise subsystems, such as system engine, motor, generator, and others to determine a system control strategy of holistic optimization, thereby achieving the objective of saving energy. The present invention further provides a method for creating simulated equivalent fuel consumption multidimensional data, which is applicable to the hybrid power system of the present invention.

A retractor and a surgical tool are positioned within a cannula, and a dissection cradle of the retractor is positioned at the distal end of the cannula. The retractor includes a dissection cradle that is resiliently supported along an axis skewed relative to the axis of the cannula. The dissection cradle, in operation, is extended to cradle the target vessel, and the retractor may be fully extended to urge the vessel away from the axis of the cannula to isolate a side branch for exposure to a surgical tool. The retractor includes a hollow support and a spray nozzle disposed in the distal end of the retractor to form an irrigation system and lens washer that can be selectively positioned to direct the spray of irrigation fluid at a remote surgical site or at an endoscopic lens.

The invention provides users of either a unified messaging mailbox or simple plain text storage mailbox, with media and device sensitive methods and apparatus to convert messages from one medium to another (when necessary) taking into account the type of target device (for example, cell phone, PDA, pager, etc.), being used to access a stored message Additionally, the invention provides methods and apparatus for determining target device type and for summarizing message content based on target device type.

The piezoelectric generator is characterized by providing a spacer member in the vicinity of a fixed end of an elastic plate mounted on a base plate by means of affixing both ends in such a way as to prevent the elastic plate not to be deformed unnecessarily when a load is applied to the elastic plate from above, so that a piezoelectric ceramic plate glued onto the elastic plate generates electric power by the elastic plate's deformation.

A fuel cell for use with a combustion tool for delivery of a predetermined amount of fuel with each stem actuation is provided and includes a housing defining an open end enclosed by a closure. A main valve stem has an outlet, disposed in operational relationship to the open end and reciprocating relative to the housing at least between a closed position wherein the stem is relatively extended, and an open position wherein the stem is relatively retracted. A fuel metering valve is located within the housing, associated with the main valve stem, including a fuel metering chamber disposed in close proximity to the closure and configured so that when the stem is in the open position, only a measured amount of fuel is dispensed through the outlet. In a preferred embodiment, the fuel cell housing includes a separate fuel container, and the fuel metering valve includes a valve body having a second end opposite the fuel metering chamber located within the container.

A fluid-filled engine mount, including: an elastic body connecting a first and a second mounting member; a pressure receiving chamber partially defined by the rubber elastic body; an equilibrium chamber partially defined by a flexible layer, a first orifice passage connecting between the pressure receiving and equilibrium chambers and tuned to a low frequency range, a second orifice passage connecting the both chambers and tuned to a medium frequency range; a valve member for opening/closing the second orifice passage and operated by a pneumatic actuator; a movable partition member including a rigid center movable plate portion and a readily deformable outer peripheral rubber film portion supported fluid-tightly by the second mount portion; and an intermediate equilibrium chamber formed opposing to the pressure receiving chamber with the movable partition member interposed therebetween.

A pool cleaner device is configured to travel along an enclosing surface of a pool. The device includes at least one elongated brush having a long axis that is oriented at a nonzero angle to a lateral axis of the device and substantially parallel to the surface when the pool cleaner is traveling along the surface. The device also includes a mechanism for causing bristles of the elongated brush to vibrate against the surface when the device is operating on that surface.

A fluid-filled type vibration damping device wherein a low-frequency orifice passage and at least one high-frequency orifice passage are formed in a partition member, which is supported by a second mounting member member; a valve body is disposed at least at one opening of the high-frequency orifice passage and is provided with a spring member that in a nonloaded state positions the valve body away from the opening of the high-frequency orifice passage to hold the high-frequency orifice passage in an open state; and, at times of vibration input, the valve body is adapted to block the high-frequency orifice passage in opposition to a holding force of the spring member.

A massage device includes a support, a grip or gripping means firmly attached to the support and capable of being grasped in order for a user to handle the massage device, and at least two massage members rotatably mounted on the support around respective axes of rotation. The two massage members each typically include a roller that extends along a main axis of elongation, and massage components configured to bear against a skin surface, the massage components including free ends that project outwardly relative to the roller and that are arranged along at least one helix around the main axis of elongation of the roller, the massage components being distributed around at least one turn of the helix, said helix including an irregularity relative to the roller.

A rotating anode for x-ray generation uses a heat pipe principle with a heat pipe coolant located in a sealed chamber of a rotating portion of the anode. The rotating portion is positioned relative to a second portion so that relative rotation occurs between the two portions and so that a fluid path exists between the two portions through which an external cooling fluid may flow. The relative motion between the two portions provides a turbulent flow to the cooling fluid. The anode may also include cooling fins that extend into the sealed chamber. The sealed chamber may be under vacuum, and may be sealed by o-rings or by brazing. A closable fill port may be provided via which heat pipe coolant may be added. A balancing mass may be used to balance the anode in two dimensions.

A vehicle has an engine, an accelerator for controlling the rotary speed of the engine, an axle and a multi-speed transmission for transmitting power from the engine to the axle. The multi-speed transmission includes an odd-numbered speed drive train for an odd-numbered speed level, a first clutch for the odd-numbered speed drive train, an even-numbered speed drive train for an even-numbered speed level, and a second clutch for the even-numbered speed drive train. In correspondence to operation of the accelerator and an actual speed of the axle, either the odd-numbered speed drive train or the even-numbered speed drive train is selected so as to transmit power from the engine to the axle. A shift-up or shift-down timing between the odd-numbered speed level and the even-numbered speed level relative to variation of the actual speed of the axle is changed according to detection of a tilt angle of the vehicle or a weight of the vehicle.

A cosmetic and tissue cleansing composition including mineral salts, preferably Dead Sea Mineral Salts, Tea Tree Extract and Urea as an effective agent to minimize the effect of itching on the skin from a condition caused by psoriasis. In another form, the composition can be used as an exfoliating or scrubbing composition. The composition being formulated with a non-oily base which is water soluble such that the granules which are mineral salts act as exfoliating or scrubbing agents. The composition can also be formed for dental or mouth use. The composition can be used for therapeutic uses together with organic herbs and selectively aromatic essences.