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Consumer directed transfers of funds over the Internet are provided by a combination of systems and networks, including the Internet, email, and the Automated Clearinghouse system (ACH). A host system provided by a funds transfer service manages requests of senders to transfer funds and further manages responses of receivers to claim funds. The host system allows the sender to initiate the funds transfer by specifying the amount of the transfer and information for contacting the receiver, without the need to specify the account of the receiver for receiving the funds. Instead, the host system contacts the receiver and informs the receiver of the available funds; the receiver can then provide the necessary target account information for completing the funds transfer. The ACH is used to effect the transfer of funds, with the host system providing instructions for ACH entries to its financial institution using account information separately received from the sender and receiver. The credit risk associated with originating ACH entries is reduced by use of the Point of Sale system to verify sufficient funds in the sender's account by comparing the closing balance of the day the funds transfer is requested with the transfer amount. Sender fraud is reduced by comparing a sender provided balance (or check number / amounts) with an account balance acquired through automated means such as the POS system or ATM network.

Methods and systems and mobile device interfaces for creating, joining, organizing and managing via mobile devices affinity groups in a cloud computing environment for social and business purposes.

The present invention provides methods and systems for using an aggregated contact list for sharing online information. In one embodiment, an event forum is provided with a connection link to enable a user to retrieve contacts from one or more online social or messaging networks. Upon the user providing authentication credentials to login to the one or more online social or messaging networks, an aggregating service retrieves the user's contacts from each of the networks. In one embodiment, the contacts from all the networks are presented as an aggregated list, allowing the user to select one or more contacts to send a message related to the event forum. In one embodiment, the aggregating service creates a landing web page specific to the message transmitted by the user. In some instances, the landing web page enables the user and the contacts to exchange messages.

A paint application facility including a paint booth assembly for applying paint to automotive vehicles each defining a longitudinal axis includes a carrier adapted to serially move a plurality of automotive vehicles through the booth assembly in a direction generally perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle.

A wireless power and data connector includes a socket and a plug. The socket has a power port for connecting to a wired power transmission line, a data port for connecting to a wired data communication line, a wireless power transmitter, and a wireless data transceiver. The plug includes a power port for connecting to a wired instrument power transmission line, a data port for connecting to a wired instrument data communication line, a wireless power receiver, and a wireless data transceiver. The socket has a concave portion and the plug has a convex region shaped such that the convex region of the plug removably fits within the concave region of the socket. The wireless power transmitter and wireless power receiver transmit power from the socket to the plug using magnetically coupled resonant tank circuits.

A track system for storage and retrieval of materials for use with warehousing vehicle that rides upon tracks in horizontal configuration for storage locations, and that is capable of switching to and riding a sloped track to ascend or descend vertically. A set of transition exchanges allows the vehicle to access multiple levels of storage “flooring” or shelving. The exchanges use ramps, or movable sections of railway, that may be moved out of the way of a set of wheels of the vehicle, while other ramps are set in place to provide support to some wheels of the vehicle, whereby the vehicle may selectively either travel along the elevator track, or to move between elevator track and level storage locations.

An assembly is provided which can crimp or compress an intraluminal device or measure the radial strength of an intraluminal device. The device includes a first disk and a second disk for imparting movement to a number of spaced apart moving elements attached to linear sliders on the first disk. In one configuration, rotational movement is imparted to the second disk which causes the tips of the moving elements to move is a linear direction toward the center of the opening formed by the elements thereby closing in on the device. In another configuration, rotational movement is imparted to the first disk and the tips move along an arcuate path from the perimeter of the opening toward the center of the opening.

An interactive computer for selecting color contact lenses and eyeglass or sunglass frames having a touch screen display, a digital camera, and streaming video technology. The computer takes a picture of the user and displays it on the monitor. The user can then select contact lenses of different colors to try on. Similarly, the user can put on different eyeglass or sunglass frames and take pictures to be displayed on the monitor. In this way, the user can view his or her face wearing a series of different color contacts or eyeglass / sunglass frames to determine which color or style they prefer. Furthermore, the user can view his selections while having the benefit of wearing his prescription contact lenses or eyeglass so that his perception of his selections is not visually impaired.

The invention discloses a method for enhancing a color image, comprising the following steps of: (1) converting an original color image from a red, green and blue (RGB) space into a hue, saturation and variability (HSV) space; (2) maintaining the hue H component unchanged, locally enhancing the variability V by adopting a mean value and standard deviation way and changing the saturation S according to the relationship of the saturation S and the variability V; and (3) converting the processed image from the HSV space into the RGB space. The invention can enhance the definition of the image and enable the enhanced image to be more according with the human visual characteristics.

A self-attaching fastener installation head and feed mechanism including a spring-biased L-shaped feed pawl which feeds a first nut in the feed passage adjacent the plunger passage on the upstroke of the die press. The feed pawl is pivotally supported on a slide bracket which includes a roller in the longitudinal axis of the feed passage which is biased against a central cam surface on the base and the base is interconnected to the nose member by removable pins. A spring biased nut restrictor is pivotally supported on the nose member, simplifying removal of a nut strip from the head and the installation head is more rugged in design and has fewer parts, reducing costs.

Packaging techniques for planar resonator gyroscopes, such as disc resonator gyroscopes (DRGs) are disclosed. A gyroscope die may be attached to its package substrate on a central disc area that is inboard of its embedded electrodes. This configuration eliminates contact of the die with the package substrate beneath the embedded electrodes allowing the internal electrode support structure to expand or contract freely without stress as its temperature changes. The central attachment can also be used diminish the package temperature gradients on the periphery of the die, if the thermal conductivity of the central disc attachment material is higher than the package substrate. Temperature gradients across the resonator also lead to thermoelastic damping asymmetry and rate drift. In addition, the electrical connections to the die may be formed by vertical vias within the central disc attachment area or by thin wirebonds to peripheral I / O pads on the gyro chip.

An electrical brush having at least one conductive element and at least one conditioning material coated on the at least one conductive element wherein the conditioning material has a composition and thickness on the conductive element such that, as deposited on a moving contact surface in the course of brush operation, the conditioning material can have an average film thickness S<˜1 μm so that current can be conducted by means of electron tunneling through a film thickness of the deposited conditioning material of Si≦12 nm thickness over a fractional area fC, greater than 0.01 of a foot print of the conductive element in a current conductive area.

A coffee storage container, for storing a quantity of coffee within a jar having a bottom and a side wall, and using a piston having a top and bottom, and a one-way valve. The quantity of coffee is placed in the jar bottom. The piston extends within the jar and defines a storage volume beneath the piston bottom. A stem is selectively attached to the piston top to push the piston downward to allow air to escape through the one-way valve so that the storage volume becomes substantially the coffee volume and little or no air remains within the storage volume. The stem may be removed from the piston for storage.

A device comprising: a pair of opposing legs; a bridge between and connecting the pair of legs; a pair of retraction spring arms attached to the outside of each of the legs; the retraction spring arms each comprising: a guide support tab connected to each of the pair of opposing legs wherein the retraction spring arms assist in retracting a pair of brake pads, and the guide support tabs guide the retraction spring arms during movement.

Chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) devices, a pad conditioner assembly and a polishing pad conditioning method thereof are provided. The CMP device planarizes a wafer by rotating a carrier, which has a wafer mounted on a lower surface of the carrier, over a rotating polishing table while supplying a slurry onto a polishing pad attached to an upper surface of the rotating polishing table. The CMP device may include a pad conditioner assembly that conditions the polishing pad by supplying a pad conditioning liquid onto the polishing pad and simultaneously transferring a megasonic vibration to the pad conditioning liquid to remove foreign substances from a surface of the polishing pad.

A fundus camera for the recording of high-resolution colour images of the fundus of non-dark-adapted eyes, and without the use of a mydriatic. The fundus camera has a strip-shaped pupil division, and includes a coherent or incoherent illumination source with illumination optics, a deflection mirror and an ophthalmoscope lens for illuminating the eye, detection optics and a detector for detecting the light reflected by the eye, and a control and evaluation unit. The deflection mirror has a strip shape, and the spatially resolving detector can be activated and read out in sectors. The control and evaluation unit connects the data read out in sectors in the form of a bright image from the detector and produce a resulting fundus image. The fundus camera records images of the fundus when the eyes are not dark-adapted for this purpose and no mydriatic has been used.

Accelerator-free carboxylated latex compositions, articles made therefrom, and methods of fabricating them, are disclosed. The carboxylated latex compositions use a mixture of alkoxyalkyl alkylol melamine and zinc oxide as their cure system. Carboxylated nitrile (a terpolymer of butadiene, acrylonitrile and organic acid) gloves made according to this invention are free of accelerators and sulfur, and they have similar tensile property as nitrile gloves cured by accelerators, sulfur and zinc oxide. Furthermore, glove softness can be adjusted by varying the quantity ratio of alkoxyalkyl alkylol melamine to zinc oxide.

Provided is a low cost sample analysis chip wherein liquid is fed to wells formed on the chip so as to carry out reaction by simple liquid feed method while preventing variation in the quantity of liquid among respective wells. A sample analysis chip has a plurality of wells (102) and channels leading to respective wells, wherein the channels includes a main channel (103) which feeds liquid to each well, and the sample analysis chip is characterized in that the main channel is provided closer to the rotation center side than the well, and is formed to have one peak between adjoining wells in the direction of rotation center.

An electrostatic clamp is provided having a clamping plate, wherein the clamping plate has a central region and an annulus region. A plurality of gas supply orifices are defined in the central region of the clamping plate, wherein the plurality of gas supply orifices are in fluid communication with a pressurized gas supply, and wherein the pressurized gas supply is configured to provide a cushion of gas between the clamping surface and the workpiece in the central region of the clamping plate via the plurality of gas supply orifices. One or more gas return orifices defined in one or more of the central region and annulus region of the clamping plate, wherein the one or more gas return orifices are in fluid communication with a vacuum source, therein generally defining an exhaust path for the cushion of gas. A seal is disposed in the annulus region of the clamping plate, wherein the seal is configured to generally prevent a leakage of the cushion of gas from the central region to an environment external to the annulus region. One or more electrodes are further electrically connected to a first voltage potential to provide a first clamping force.

Methods of forming and feeding self-attaching fasteners are disclosed wherein the strip includes a plurality of spaced abutment surfaces, preferably notches, which may be used both during the manufacturing process and feeding of a strip of fasteners to an installation head. Where the fasteners are interconnected in a strip, by frangible wires, the wires are located in the bottom wall of the panel receiving grooves in the flange portions on opposed sides of the projecting pilot portion. A self-attaching fastener having deformable inclined lip portions which extend upwardly and toward the pilot portion from the flange portions which are deformed during installation to provide further securement for the panel when deformed in the grooves.

The griping mechanism of the present invention comprises a thin flat body having two linearly moveable side fingers and a pair of rotating and linearly moveable distal fingers. In contrast to gripper of conventional design, the gripping mechanism of the invention is positioned over the object. In spite of an overhead position, the gripper is contamination-free since it has a completely closed design. In the vicinity of the gripping fingers, the mechanism is provided with soft edge-supporting pads having tapered surfaces for self-alignment and centering of the circular objects. The pads also eliminate surface contact between the wafer and the surface of the gripper body. The overhead position of the gripper makes it possible to simplify the construction of a wafer-holding chuck, e.g., on wafer processing stations. The gripper has auxiliary object-uplifting means in the form of vacuum suction ports or blowing nozzles that generate a vortex effect for uplifting the objects to the level required for edge gripping.

Methods of forming and feeding self-attaching fasteners are disclosed wherein the strip includes a plurality of spaced abutment surfaces, preferably notches, which may be used both during the manufacturing process and feeding of a strip of fasteners to an installation head. Where the fasteners are interconnected in a strip, by frangible wires, the wires are located in the bottom wall of the panel receiving grooves in the flange portions on opposed sides of the projecting pilot portion. A self-attaching fastener having deformable inclined lip portions which extend upwardly and toward the pilot portion from the flange portions which are deformed during installation to provide further securement for the panel when deformed in the grooves.

A five-freedom active control magnetic suspension free rock system is mainly composed of a magnetic suspension stator system and a magnetic suspension rotor system. The magnetic suspension stator system is mainly composed of a support rod front segment, a support rod back segment, a cover plate, a rotary encoder, a shaft coupling, an electromagnetic clutch component, a tightening bolt, a fixed thread ring, a small self-locking thread ring, a large self-locking thread ring, an axial magnetic bearing stator, a radial magnetic bearing stator, an axial displacement sensor and a radial displacement sensor; and the magnetic suspension rotor system is mainly composed of a locating joint, a principal axis, a protecting bearing, a radial magnetic bearing rotor, an axial magnetic bearing rotor, an axial sensor detecting ring and a radial sensor detecting ring. The invention adopts a magnetic suspension support mode and greatly reduces the mechanical friction, leads to that the plane model can better analog the real aero flight of the plane and the precision of plane wind tunnel test is greatly increased.

A vibrating element includes a piezoelectric substrate having an excitation section adapted to excite a thickness-shear vibration, and provided with a step section in each of side surfaces on both ends, and a peripheral section having a thickness smaller than a thickness of the excitation section, and the peripheral section has at least one projection section disposed on both principal surfaces in an area where a vibratory displacement when the excitation section excites a vibration is sufficiently attenuated.

An implantable medical device deployment system is disclosed that employs both a sheath element and a constraint member to protect implantable medical devices during delivery in a body while providing simple, accurate, and reliable device deployment. The delivery system is configured so that loading and deployment forces are not directly related to device diameter, length, or design, thus allowing a more universal delivery system across various delivered device configurations and product lines. The deployment system can provide numerous benefits, include better protection for drug-coated implantable devices.