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A substrate processing apparatus includes: a depressurizable processing chamber 11; a shaft 26 supporting a facing electrode 24 provided within the processing chamber 11 while allowing the facing electrode 24 to be movable with respect to a mounting electrode 12; a first ring-shaped bellows 31 concentrically installed at an outer peripheral portion of the shaft 26; and a second bellows 32 concentrically installed at an outer peripheral portion of the first bellows 31. The first bellows 31 absorbs a displacement of the facing electrode 24 with respect to a wall surface 13 at a penetration portion where the shaft 26 penetrates the wall surface 13 of the processing chamber 11, and seals the inside of the processing chamber 11 against the ambient atmosphere around the shaft 26. A ring-shaped gas flow path 35 is formed by the first bellows 31 and the second bellows 32.

A fire protection system includes a dry pipe system and a controlled discharge gas vent. The dry pipe system and controlled discharge gas vent operate using a breathing cycle to displace oxygen and / or water vapor from within the piping network of the dry pipe system. The controlled gas discharge vent allows displacement of pressurized air with nitrogen, for example, using manual or automated processes that can employ one or more sensors. Corrosion resulting from oxygen, water, and / or microbial growth is reduced or nearly eliminated.

An electrostatic ultrasonic transducer includes a first electrode that has through-holes, a second electrode that has through-holes, and a vibrating membrane that is disposed such that the through-holes of the first electrode and the through-holes of the second electrode form a pair, interposed between a pair of electrodes composed of the first electrode and the second electrode, and having a conductive layer applied with a direct current bias voltage. The first electrode and the second electrode each have counter electrode portions that are formed in the through-holes to face the vibrating membrane, and a modulated wave, which is obtained by modulating a carrier wave in an ultrasonic frequency band with a signal wave in an audible frequency band, is applied between the pair of electrodes.

Methods for enhancing blood and lymph flow in the extremities of a human subject are disclosed. In one aspect, the methods rely on a stimulus effective to displace the skin of a plantar or palmer surface of the subject, thereby enhancing blood and lymph flow in the extremity associated with the stimulated plantar or palmer surface. In another aspect, the methods rely on an electrical stimulus to directly stimulate cutaneous receptors in a plantar or palmer surface of the subject, thereby enhancing blood and lymph flow in the extremity associated with the stimulated cutaneous receptors. Apparatus for enhancing blood and lymph flow in the extremities of a human subject according to the methods of the present invention are also disclosed.

A method of driving a piezoelectric actuator including: a piezoelectric element containing a piezoelectric body having coercive field points on a negative field side and a positive field side respectively and having asymmetrical bipolar polarization—electric field hysteresis characteristics in which an absolute value of a coercive electric field on the negative field side and a coercive electric field value on the positive field side are mutually different, and a pair of electrodes for applying voltage to the piezoelectric body; and a diaphragm which externally transmits, as displacement, distortion produced in the piezoelectric body when the voltage is applied to the piezoelectric body, includes the step of driving the piezoelectric actuator between a positive drive voltage and a negative drive voltage in a range not exceeding the coercive electric field, from among the positive and negative coercive electric fields, which has the larger absolute value.

A method is for cutting of at least one line disposed along a pipe string in a well. The method includes (A), using a cutting tool for selective cutting activation and provided with at least one cut-forming means for cutting in a radial direction outward from the cutting tool; and (B) lowering the cutting tool to a longitudinal section where the cutting is to be carried out. In (A), a cutting tool is used for controlled cutting in a peripheral direction and distributed in an axial direction relative to the cutting tool. The method further includes (C), activating the cutting tool and cutting, in the radial direction through and past the wall of the pipe string, at least one peripherally extending hole collectively covering the entire circumference of the pipe string, and also distributing the hole in the axial direction.

A method for manufacturing an imaging device is provided. The method comprises forming a contact pad over a semiconductor substrate. The contact pad has a malleable metal. The method further comprises providing a readout circuit having a first side and a contact plug. The contact plug has a base affixed to the first side of the readout circuit and a plurality of prongs extending from the base away from the first side. The first side of the readout circuit is moved towards the substrate so that the prongs of the contact plug are pressed into the pad and displace a portion of the pad into a space defined by and between a first and a second of the prongs. Stop elements formed over the substrate are aligned with and contact stop elements provided on the readout circuit so that the prongs are inhibited from passing completely through the contact pad.

A fire protection system includes a dry pipe system and a controlled discharge gas vent. The dry pipe system and controlled discharge gas vent operate using a breathing cycle to displace oxygen and / or water vapor from within the piping network of the dry pipe system. The controlled gas discharge vent allows displacement of pressurized air with nitrogen, for example, using manual or automated processes that can employ one or more sensors. Corrosion resulting from oxygen, water, and / or microbial growth is reduced or nearly eliminated.

A catheter for displacing tissue obstructions. The shaft of the catheter has first and second conduits extending therethrough. Preferably, the catheter has a distensible, cuffed balloon positioned around the distal end of its shaft, in fluid communication with the first conduit. The catheter preferably also has a fluid delivery port located at its distal end for discharging fluid from the second conduit. Preferably, the catheter also includes a stylet for guiding the catheter into and through the epidural space.

An auxiliary vehicle steering system includes a user interface for receiving a user input and transmitting a control output signal associated with the input signal. The interface is located within the vehicle. A mechanism is included for rotating a vehicle's front wheels along an arcuate path offset 90 degrees from equilibrium. The front wheel rotating mechanism includes grooved plates that have tapered outer edge portions extending along an outer perimeter thereof. A mechanism is included for rotating a vehicle's rear wheels along an arcuate path offset 90 degrees from equilibrium. The rear wheel rotating mechanism includes grooved plates that have tapered outer edge portions extending along an outer perimeter thereof. A controller is coupled to the interface that receives the control output signal and instructs the front wheel and the rear wheel rotating mechanisms to contemporaneously register the wheels orthogonal to the vehicle so that same can be laterally displaced.

A glow plug including a substantially cylindrical housing extending in an axial direction; a rod-shaped heater unit having a front end protruding from the front end of the housing and movable in the axial direction; a connecting member connecting the heater unit to the housing within the housing and allowing the heater unit to move in the axial direction; and a pressure sensor that detects pressure received by the heater unit. The heater unit has a large-diameter portion at the rear end thereof and a small-diameter portion frontward of the large-diameter portion and having a diameter smaller than the diameter of the large-diameter portion. The connecting member connects the small-diameter portion of the heater unit to the housing within the housing.

A cement spacer fluid for use in a wellbore includes an aqueous cement spacer carrier fluid and a preformed synthetic polymer swellable in the aqueous cement spacer carrier fluid in an amount effective to displace a drilling fluid during a cementing operation. Preferably, the polymer is particulate, and forms a hydrated pack of particles. A method of cementing a wellbore comprising a drilling fluid includes injecting the cement spacer fluid into the wellbore to displace the drilling fluid; injecting a cement slurry into the wellbore subsequent to injecting the cement spacer fluid; and hardening the cement in the slurry to cement the wellbore.

A fluid control device includes a piezoelectric actuator, a housing and a glue body. The piezoelectric actuator includes a suspension plate, an outer frame, a bracket and a piezoelectric element. The housing includes an outlet plate and a base. The outlet plate accommodates the piezoelectric actuator and the base includes an inlet plate and a resonance plate. The glue body is arranged between the outer frame and the resonance plate to maintain a gap formed therebetween. The suspension plate is made of a material having a linear expansion coefficient less than a linear expansion coefficient of the piezoelectric element. The suspension plate has a specified hardness to maintain a curved shape after being heated, and the linear expansion coefficient of the suspension plate is different from a linear expansion coefficient of the resonance plate, so that an effective deformation displacement between the suspension plate and the resonance plate is obtained.

In a mirror drive device, a first actuator section and a second actuator section are arranged on both sides of a mirror supporting section that supports a mirror section so as to sandwich the mirror supporting section. The upper electrode of a first actuator section includes a first electrode section and a second electrode section, and an upper electrode of a second actuator section includes a third electrode section and a fourth electrode section. The arrangements of the electrode sections correspond to stress distribution of principal stresses in the piezoelectric body in resonant mode vibration, and in a piezoelectric body portion that corresponds to positions of the first electrode section and the third electrode section and a piezoelectric body portion that corresponds to positions of the second electrode section and the fourth electrode section, stresses in opposite directions to each other are generated.

In a mirror drive device, a first and second actuator sections are arranged on both sides of a mirror supporting section that supports a mirror section so as to sandwich the mirror supporting section. Division of an upper and lower electrodes of each of the first and second actuator sections is performed correspondingly to stress distribution of principal stresses in a piezoelectric body in resonant mode vibration, and a piezoelectric body portion corresponding to positions of a first and third upper electrode sections, and a piezoelectric body portion corresponding to positions of a second and fourth upper electrode sections have stresses in opposite directions to each other. Division of the lower electrodes is performed similar to the upper electrodes, and drive voltages having the same phase can be respectively applied to the upper and lower electrode sections of the piezoelectric body portions that are different due to a division arrangement.

Disclosed are compositions and a method for amplification of nucleic acid sequences of interest. The disclosed method generally involves replication of a complex nucleic acid sample such as genomic samples using one, a few, or more primers such that, during replication, the replicated strands are displaced from the nucleic acid molecules in the sample by strand displacement replication of another replicated strand. It was discovered that highly complex nucleic acid samples can be efficiently amplified using only one or a few primers having specific nucleic acid sequences. The one or few primers are complementary to nucleic acid sequences distributed throughout nucleic acid in the sample.

A fluid control device includes a piezoelectric actuator, a housing and a glue body. The piezoelectric actuator includes a suspension plate, an outer frame, a bracket and a piezoelectric element. The housing includes an outlet plate and a base. The outlet plate accommodates the piezoelectric actuator and the base includes an inlet plate and a resonance plate. The glue body is arranged between the outer frame and the resonance plate to maintain a gap formed therebetween. The suspension plate is made of a material having a linear expansion coefficient less than a linear expansion coefficient of the piezoelectric element. The suspension plate has a specified hardness to maintain curved after being heated, and the linear expansion coefficient of the suspension plate is different from a linear expansion coefficient of the resonance plate, so that an effective deformation displacement between the suspension plate and the resonance plate is obtained.

A fire protection system includes a dry pipe system and a controlled discharge gas vent. The dry pipe system and controlled discharge gas vent operate using a breathing cycle to displace oxygen and / or water vapor from within the piping network of the dry pipe system. The controlled gas discharge vent allows displacement of pressurized air with nitrogen, for example, using manual or automated processes that can employ one or more sensors. Corrosion resulting from oxygen, water, and / or microbial growth is reduced or nearly eliminated.

A driving apparatus (100c) is provided with: a base portion (110); a stage portion (130) on which a driven object (12) is mounted and which can be displaced; an elastic portion (120) which connects the base portion and the stage portion and which has elasticity to displace the stage portion in one direction (Y axis); and a first applying device (161, 162, 22) for applying, to the base portion, an excitation force for displacing the stage portion such that the stage portion is resonated in the one direction at a resonance frequency determined by the stage portion and the elastic portion.

A method for building a plug in a horizontal wellbore using a fluid pill containing a suspended well treatment agent. The well treatment agent contains an ultra lightweight (ULW) deformable core and a viscosifying polymer and crosslinking agent coated onto the core. The fluid pill is pumped into the wellbore at the end of a fracturing treatment. The fluid pill is displaced by a displacement fluid and the fluid pill transforms to a thickened gel. The thickened gel is formed by the in-situ reaction of the viscosifying polymer and crosslinking which become disassociated from the ULW deformable core. The gelled fluid containing the ULW deformable core assists in the bridging of the ULW deformable core and forming the bridge plug.

The present application describes improved total recovery of oil, condensate and associated gas in a subterranean formation such that said hydrocarbons are released by a hydraulic fracturing process with a non-gel hydraulic fracturing fluid that comprises an enzyme surfactant fluid with at least one anionic surfactant thereby forming a non-gel hydraulic fracturing fluid enzyme surfactant composition which is injected at 1 to 3 percent of total frac fluid during fracturing.

A driving apparatus is provided with: a first base portion; a first stage portion; a first elastic portion which has elasticity to displace the first stage portion in one direction (X axis); a second stage portion which is disposed on the first stage portion and on which a driven object is mounted; a second elastic portion which has elasticity to displace the second stage portion in other direction (Y axis); a first applying device for applying an excitation force for displacing the second stage portion such that the second stage portion is resonated in the other direction at a resonance frequency determined by the second stage portion and the second elastic portion; and a second applying device for applying a driving force for displacing, in a stepwise manner or in a continuous manner, the first stage portion in the one direction.

A driving apparatus (100q) is provided with: a first base portion (110-1); a first stage portion (130-1); a first elastic portion (120-1) which has elasticity to displace the first stage portion in one direction (Y axis); a second stage portion (130-2) which is disposed on the first stage portion and on which a driven object (12) is mounted; a second elastic portion (120-2) which has elasticity to displace the second stage in other direction (X axis); a first applying device (151-1, 152-1, 22) for applying an excitation force for displacing the first stage portion such that the first stage portion is resonated in the one direction at a resonance frequency determined by the first stage portion and the first elastic portion; and a second applying device (151-2, 152-2, 22) for applying a driving force for displacing, in a stepwise manner or in a continuous manner, the second stage portion in the other direction.

An auxiliary vehicle steering system includes a user interface for receiving a user input and transmitting a control output signal associated with the input signal. The interface is located within the vehicle. A mechanism is included for rotating a vehicle's front wheels along an arcuate path offset 90 degrees from equilibrium. The front wheel rotating mechanism includes grooved plates that have tapered outer edge portions extending along an outer perimeter thereof. A mechanism is included for rotating a vehicle's rear wheels along an arcuate path offset 90 degrees from equilibrium. The rear wheel rotating mechanism includes grooved plates that have tapered outer edge portions extending along an outer perimeter thereof. A controller is coupled to the interface that receives the control output signal and instructs the front wheel and the rear wheel rotating mechanisms to contemporaneously register the wheels orthogonal to the vehicle so that same can be laterally displaced.

A substrate processing apparatus includes: a depressurizable processing chamber 11; a shaft 26 supporting a facing electrode 24 provided within the processing chamber 11 while allowing the facing electrode 24 to be movable with respect to a mounting electrode 12; a first ring-shaped bellows 31 concentrically installed at an outer peripheral portion of the shaft 26; and a second bellows 32 concentrically installed at an outer peripheral portion of the first bellows 31. The first bellows 31 absorbs a displacement of the facing electrode 24 with respect to a wall surface 13 at a penetration portion where the shaft 26 penetrates the wall surface 13 of the processing chamber 11, and seals the inside of the processing chamber 11 against the ambient atmosphere around the shaft 26. A ring-shaped gas flow path 35 is formed by the first bellows 31 and the second bellows 32.

A driver (100f) comprises a base section (110), a movable stage section (130) for mounting a driven article (12), a resilient section (12) for connecting the base section and the stage section and exhibiting resiliency for moving the stage section along one direction (Y axis), and a section (161, 162, 22) which applies a shaking force to the resilient section in order to move the stage section to oscillate alone the one direction at a resonance frequency determined by the stage section and the resilient section.

A driving apparatus (100a) is provided with: a base portion (110); a stage portion (130) on which a driven object (12) is mounted and which can be displaced; an elastic portion (120) which connects the base portion and the stage portion and which has elasticity to displace the stage portion in one direction (Y axis); and a first applying device (141, 142, 22) for intermittently applying an excitation force for displacing the stage portion such that the stage portion is resonated in the one direction at a resonance frequency determined by the stage portion and the elastic portion, the excitation force being caused by a piezoelectric element.