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A measuring device for providing data corresponding to a geometric configuration in space, in the form of a flexible, compliant, measurement member capable of bending in at least one degree of freedom and extending along a medial axis or plane. The member has spaced flexure sensors distributed at known locations on the member and separated by known sensor spacing intervals to provide flexure signals indicating the local state of flexure present at the locations. The member comprises a multiplicity of formed, i.e. shaped, fibers, these fibers including sensing fibers having sensing portions which provide the flexure sensors, the sensing portions of different fibers being located at differing distances along the member so as to be located at the sensor spacing intervals, the formed fibers being in mutually supporting relationship, as by continuous or repeated contact with each other. Such fibers may constitute most or all of the member.

A damping valve (102) comprises: a first valve element (16); a first valve seat (15) in which the first valve element (16) is seated; a second valve element (26) placed in series with the first valve element (16); a second valve seat (25), placed between the first and second valve elements (16) and (26), in which the second valve element (26) is seated; an biasing mechanism (30) for biasing the second valve element (26) toward the second valve seat (25) and biasing the first valve element (16) toward the first valve seat (15) via the second valve element (26); a first liquid chamber (106); a second liquid chamber (104); and a third liquid chamber (107).

A method for making a carbon nanotube composite structure, the method comprising the steps of: providing a carbon nanotube structure having a plurality of carbon nanotubes; and forming at least one conductive coating on a plurality of the carbon nanotubes in the carbon nanotube structure to achieve a carbon nanotube composite structure, wherein the conductive coating comprises of a conductive layer.

The present invention teaches a device for converting solar radiation to electrical energy comprising a thin film, single crystal device chosen from a variety of semiconductor materials, optionally, employing an alternative substrate, and various combinations of p-n, p-i-n and avalanche p-i-n diodes to enable high conversion efficiency photo-voltaic devices.

Disclosed is a lens system installed in a mobile communication terminal, comprising: a first lens including at least one aspherical plane and having a positive refractivity; a perforated iris separated from the first lens by a designated distance for preventing unnecessary incident light from being incident onto an optical system; a second lens separated from the perforated iris by a designated distance, including at least one aspherical plane and having a positive refractivity; and a third lens separated from the second lens by a designated distance, including at least one aspherical plane and having a negative refractivity, wherein the first lens, the perforated iris, the second lens and the third lens are arranged sequentially from a subject, and the perforated iris is located between the first lens and the second lens.

The present invention relates to a shoe sole including a cushioning element. The shoe sole can include a heel cup or heel rim having a shape that substantially corresponds to the shape of heel of a foot. Further, the heel part can include a plurality of side walls arranged below the heel cup or rim and at least one tension element that interconnects at least one side wall to another side wall or to the heel cup or rim. The heel cup or rim, the plurality of side walls, and the at least one tension element can be integrally formed as a single piece.

Anti-human Mp1 antibodies were isolated and purified, and then single-chain anti-human Mp1 antibodies were prepared using genetic engineering techniques. The antibodies were found to exhibit a high agonistic activity. This shows that the activity of an antibody can be enhanced by making the antibody into a single-chain polypeptide that comprises two or more heavy chain variable regions and two or more light chain variable regions linked via linkers.

A bicycle sprocket assembly comprises a first sprocket unit formed in one piece, a second sprocket unit formed in one piece and being hollow inside, and a third sprocket unit formed in one piece. The first sprocket unit includes at least one sprocket and a first protrusion. The second sprocket unit includes at least two sprockets with different outer diameter, a first recess formed in a side of the larger outer diameter sprocket and a second recess formed in a side of the smaller outer diameter sprocket. The third sprocket unit includes at least one sprocket and a second protrusion. In assembly, the first protrusion of the first sprocket unit engages with the first recess of the second sprocket unit and the second protrusion of the third sprocket unit engages with the second recess of the second sprocket unit.

In a manufacturing method of a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device including a variable resistive element having a variable resistor made of a perovskite-type metal oxide film, the variable resistor is formed at a temperature which is lower than the melting point of a metal wire layer that has been formed before formation of the variable resistor. More preferably, the variable resistor is formed by a praseodymium calcium manganese oxide, which is represented by a general formula, Pr_1-xCa_xMnO₃, carried out at a film forming temperature in a range from 350° C. to 500° C. according to a sputtering method.

This invention provides processing steps, methods and materials strategies for making patterns of structures for electronic, optical and optoelectronic devices. Processing methods of the present invention are capable of making micro- and nano-scale electronic structures, such as T-gates, gamma gates, and shifted T-gates, having a selected non-uniform cross-sectional geometry. The present invention provides lithographic processing strategies for sub-pixel patterning in a single layer of photoresist useful for making and integrating device components comprising dielectric, conducting, metal or semiconductor structures having non-uniform cross-sectional geometries. Processing methods of the present invention are complementary to conventional microfabrication and nanofabrication platforms, and can be effectively integrated into existing photolithographic, etching and thin film deposition patterning strategies, systems and infrastructure.

The present invention relates to a shoe sole including a cushioning element. The shoe sole can include a heel cup or heel rim having a shape that substantially corresponds to the shape of heel of a foot. Further, the heel part can include a plurality of side walls arranged below the heel cup or rim and at least one tension element that interconnects at least one side wall to another side wall or to the heel cup or rim. The heel cup or rim, the plurality of side walls, and the at least one tension element can be integrally formed as a single piece.

A method and apparatus are disclosed for improving vehicle tracking and remote control. A wireless telecommunications system infrastructure receives a unique vehicle identifier via a shared-communications channel from a vehicle being tracked, as well as location information for that vehicle. The location information is derived from Global Positioning System signals or from the address of the local infrastructure currently in contact with the vehicle, or both. The same shared-communications channel is used to convey control messages to the vehicle, wherein the messages are mapped into control signals that can disable the vehicle's engine or control some other system that is part of the vehicle.

The invention concerns a method for processing a work piece (21), in which a work piece (21) is constructed in layers (3) from a conductive material using a rapid prototyping process. The work piece (21) constructed in layers (3) is contacted in an anodic manner. Then, a tool (1) is disposed opposite to a to-be-processed site of the work piece (21) such that a gap (50) remains therebetween. The tool (1) is contacted in a cathodic manner and a conductive medium (32) is brought into the gap (50) so that current flows by applying an electronic voltage and metal ions are dissolved from the work piece (21) by electrolysis, whereby a defined removal of material from the work piece (21) takes place. The invention further concerns a method for producing a tool to be utilized as an electrode (1) in an ECM method and an electrode (1) for usage in an ECM method for electro-chemical processing of a work piece (21).

A fixing system for cables, in particular in wind turbines, includes a main body (1) that can be fixed to a supporting structure and cable holders (11) that have an opening for cables to be inserted. Each opening can be closed by a cover device (45). The cable holders (11) are mounted on the main body (1) and in an arrangement extending at least over a part of a circle with the opening of the cable holders on the outside. The cover device includes retaining elements (45), by which the opening of the respective cable holders (11) can be blocked to secure inserted cables.

Gymnastic machine (1) having a frame (10) supporting a load unit (20) and including an exercise station (30) having at least one functional group (31) mechanically connected to the load unit (20) to exchange mechanical energy with the load unit (20); the group (31) including at least one articulated quadrilateral (32) coupled to the frame (10) and an implement (40) connected to the articulated quadrilateral (32) and movable with respect to the frame (10) to exchange energy with the load unit (20); the implement (40) being shaped in such a way as to be interfaceable with a particular portion of an extremity of a user and being movable over an open path (P); a restraint device (52) being provided in combination with at least one articulated quadrilateral to control, in use, the displacement of the implement (40) relative to the frame (10) in such a way that, in use, the implement (40) is movable along path (P) according to a substantially curvilinear composite movement.

An insulated structural panel is made from expanded polystyrene (EPS) panel and a plurality of interior and exterior structural members that are affixed to one another by screws is provided. When assembled, the interior and exterior structural members are flush with the EPS panel. A tongue at one end of the EPS panel engages a grove at another end of another EPS panel, therein permitting interlocking two or more EPS panels. The interior panel is C-shaped and is slid into a C-shaped passage in the EPS panel formed by hot-wire cutting the EPS panel. The exterior structural member is positioned within a channel formed opposite the passage. A top plate connects a plurality of interior structural members. A seam covering member is affixed to the one end of the EPS panel and is flush with the EPS panel. A thermal break is provided between the interior and exterior structural members.