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A test apparatus having a base which performs a plurality of tests for different analytes in body fluids. A portable tester, such as a glucose meter, is detachably mounted to the base and provides a convenient and ergonomic hand-held instrument which a diabetic may carry to frequently monitor blood glucose levels. When mounted or docked to the base, the portable tester is data linked to the base. The invention provides a communications network among the base, the portable tester and another device such as a PC. The portable tester can therefore be kept small and inexpensive since advanced computing and data storage capabilities are provided in the base or a PC.

An exercise machine ergonomic handle system for providing hand-holds for the performance of exercises with reduced flexion and/or extension of the hand and wrist and reduced ulnar and/or radial deviation so as to reduce injury and allow application of full strength to the exercise machine. The exercise machine ergonomic handle system generally includes a longitudinally extending frame, a carriage that moves upon a first longitudinal portion of the frame, and at least one pair of ergonomic handles positioned on a second longitudinal portion of the frame. The ergonomic handles rotate about an axis to prevent flexion and/or extension, and can be positioned at a width and/or angle that reduces ulnar and/or radial deviation.

A card feeding device for feeding cards into a card handling device is disclosed. Examples of card handling devices include shufflers, card sorters, card delivery devices and card verification devices. The device includes a card infeed area that supports a stack of cards. The card infeed area has a card support surface. Included in the device is a card removing system that removes cards individually from the bottom of the stack. A pivoting arm presses against a card at the top of the stack. At least one sensor is provided that detects at least one of a position of the arm and a presence of a card in the card infeed area. A method of shuffling cards is also disclosed. The method includes the steps of providing cards to be shuffled into a card infeed area as a stack with a top and bottom and removing cards one-at-a-time from the bottom of the stack and moving the removed cards to a shuffling zone. Cards are then shuffled. The stack of cards is stabilized by a pivoting arm capable of pressing against the top of the stack in an engaged position. The pivot arm may be automatically rotated from a first card engaging position to a second recessed position.

A keyboard includes rows of keys defining a keyboard axis and side borders of the keyboard, the keyboard axis disposed mediate the side borders of the keyboard, the rows of keys disposed in series with each other along the keyboard axis, and the keyboard axis being disposed at an acute or obtuse angle relative to a user of the keyboard and being generally aligned along a length of an arm of the user holding the keyboard. Each key may be also defined by a unique region of numeric values or a unique region of color pixels allowing ease in changing keyboard location, size and orientation.

A controller for use with a guidewire, such as a vascular guidewire, provides a mechanism for gripping and applying a torque to the guidewire without the need to thread the guidewire axially through the controller and at a location close to a point of access of the guidewire. In one embodiment, the controller includes a side-access, multi-part assembly including a collet or other gripping element that applies a uniform radially inward force on the guidewire. In another embodiment, for use with guidewires having active electrically controllable elements, the controller integrally or removably incorporates a switch or other mechanism to initiate an energized state. The controller thereby permits ergonomic, single-handed control of an electronically steerable guidewire, including axially displacing, torquing and steering the guidewire.

A controller for use with a guidewire, such as a vascular guidewire, provides a mechanism for gripping and applying a torque to the guidewire without the need to thread the guidewire axially through the controller and at a location close to a point of access of the guidewire. In one embodiment, the controller includes a side-access, multi-part assembly including a collett or other gripping element that applies a uniform radially inward force on the guidewire. In another embodiment, for use with guidewires having active electrically controllable elements, the controller integrally or removably incorporates a switch or other mechanism to initiate an energized state. The controller thereby permits, among other advantages, ergonomic, single-handed control of an electronically steerable guidewire, including axially displacing, torquing and steering the guidewire.

A powered toothbrush which has been designed for improved ergonomics and for assisting the user in using a powered brush in an improved and gentler manner. The powered toothbrush includes a handle portion having a base member at one end thereof. A neck portion extends from the other end of the handle portion with the head coupled to the neck portion. The head includes at least one bristle carrier connected to a drive shaft rotating the at least one bristle carrier in a first rotatable direction. In order to improve the ergonomics and stability of the powered toothbrush, the handle portion is formed asymmetrical about the longitudinal axis of the powered toothbrush and the base member of the handle portion is substantially flat. In this ergonomically-designed powered toothbrush, the width of the base member is less than the greatest width of the handle portion, the depth of the base member is less than the greatest depth of the handle portion, and the height dimension of the neck portion is greater than the height dimension of the handle portion.

The present invention relates generally to an adapter unit for a personal digital assistant. More specifically, this invention relates to an adapter unit that provides additional functionality, and improved ergonomics and increased ruggedness to the personal digital assistant.

The invention relates to an automatic feed multi-station progressive die. The structure is as follows: a feed sectioning upper die, a feed sectioning lower die, a drawing upper die A, a drawing lower die A, a drawing upper die B, a drawing lower die B, a drawing upper die C, a drawing lower die C, a shaping upper die A, a gibbous shaping lower die, a top rush hole upper die, a top rush hole lower die, a material pressing upper die A, a profile four-hole punching die, a material pressing upper die B, a rotation die with a hole, a material pressing upper die C, a profile technology hole punching die, a material pressing upper die D, a profile U-shaped hole punching die, a shaping upper die G, a square hole shaping die, a sectioning upper die and a sectioning lower die are respectively fixed on an upper die and a lower die, wherein the upper die is connected with a pressure machine, and the lower die is fixed on a work table. Compared with the prior art, the automatic feed multi-station progressive die has reasonable structure and design, high work efficiency, low material cost, reliable performance, stable quality and high automation degree.

The invention relates to an image output method for medical navigation in which the positional relationship of an instrument with respect to a part of a patient's body is ascertained, and in which the instrument and the part of the patient's body are displayed in the correct positional relationship on an image output, wherein the display of the part of the patient's body is based on the one hand on virtual image data captured by means of a medical imaging method and on the other hand on actual images captured during navigation, wherein the virtual image data is displayed on the image output primarily and as the basis of the image, and the actual images are superimposed on it merely as an addition and secondarily. It also relates to an image generating and image output device for medical navigation.

Machine for gymnastic exercises comprising a sliding rail (3), a carriage (4) installed in a sliding manner on the sliding rail (3), a first pulley (21) and a second pulley (22) installed on the carriage (4) and rotatable in an idle manner around respective axes of rotation, a gripping element (6), cable traction means (16) comprising a first cable branch (a) and a second cable branch (b) provided with respective and separate connection ends (17) attached to the gripping element (6). The first cable branch (a) and the second cable branch (b) wind at least partly around the first pulley (21) and respectively the second pulley (22) to define first return segments (23) comprised between the gripping element (6) and respectively the first pulley (21) and second pulley (22), and second return segments (24) that extend one on a first side (25) and the other on a second side (26), opposite the first side (25), of the carriage (4) and substantially parallel to the sliding rail (3).

The invention discloses a pyraclostrobin-containing ultralow-volume liquid preparation. The pyraclostrobin-containing ultralow-volume liquid preparation is characterized in that the pyraclostrobin-containing ultralow-volume liquid preparation comprises an active ingredient of pyraclostrobin, or a complex of pyraclostrobin and an active component II, or a complex of pyraclostrobin and any two substances of the active component II, and the balance auxiliary agents and solvents; the active component II is any one of prochloraz, prothioconazole, difenoconazole, epoxiconazole, tebuconazole, hexaconazole, isoprothiolane, thifluzamide, fenoxanil, dimethomorph and chlorothalonil. The pyraclostrobin-containing ultralow-volume liquid preparation can be utilized for preventing and treating rice blast, bakanae disease, banded sclerotial blight, wheat and barley fusarium head blight, smut and the like, has high work efficiency, a low use amount of preparation water, a long persistent period, a synergism effect and high safety, and can delay resistance.

The invention aims to provide an automobile hub abrasive flow deburring method which is low in cost and simple in structure and can be suitable for various complex conditions of burr removal of hubs with different structures. In order to fulfill the aim, the technical scheme is that the automobile hub abrasive flow deburring method comprises the following steps: 1, mounting the hub on automobile hub abrasive flow precise deburring and finishing equipment and fixing; 2, preparing viscoelastic abrasive flow with controllable rheological property and leading the abrasive flow into the automobilehub abrasive flow precise deburring and finishing equipment; 3, controlling the abrasive flow to perform rough machining on the hub; 4, controlling the abrasive flow to perform finish machining on the hub which is subjected to rough machining; and 5, finishing machining and the process procedures. Due to adoption of the technical scheme, the problems of difficulty in mass production and automaticproduction in automobile hub deburring and finishing and the like are solved by the abrasive flow, and the aims of improving work efficiency, reducing cost, reducing labor intensity and improving product reliability are fulfilled.

The invention relates to high-carbon chromium bearing steel cycloid wheel precision casting extrusion manufacturing technology. It is the critical component manufacturing technology in the spindle wheel swinging reducer. Its mainly technical features lie in its technological line that the first step, the high-carbon chromium bearing steel is precisely cast to many cycloid wheel blanks, and the remained forging envelope is from 0.3 millimeter to 0.5 millimeter. The second step, isothermal spheroidizing is practiced. The third step, shot blasting is practiced. The forth step, the surface is cleaned out. The fifty step, phosphorization is practiced. The sixth step, cold extrusion is practiced. The seventh step, stree-free annealing is practiced. The eighth step, quench tempering is practiced. The ninth step, the plane, inner hole, shaft pin hole, and curve tooth surface curve of the cycloid wheel are practiced coarse grinding. The tenth step, they are practiced fine grinding. The eleventh step, the cycloid wheel is tested after the fine grinding, and the finished product is put in storage. The technology can economize more than fifty percent of the raw material, sixty percent of the manpower; the economized energy is reached to twenty percent; the improved work efficiency is twice.

The invention discloses a water-based environment-friendly finishing paint, which is prepared from the following compositions in part by weight: 20 to 70 parts of water borne acrylic resin solution of which the solid content is 30 to 80 percent and/or 20 to 70 parts of water borne epoxy resin solution of which the solid content is 30 to 80 percent, 4 to 10 parts of water borne amino resin solution of which the solid content is 60 to 98 percent; 1 to 5 parts of organic amine, 0.2 to 2 parts of wetting and leveling agent, 0.2 to 2 parts of thickener, 0.1 to 0.8 part of defoaming agent, 1 to 5 parts of adhesion promoter, 0.2 to 5 parts of catalyst, 10 to 30 parts of alcohol diluting solvent and/or 1 to 5 parts of nontoxic ether diluting solvent, and 20 to 50 parts of deionized water, wherein the catalyst is one or more of ammonias, alcohols and benzenesulfonic acids. The water-based environment-friendly finishing paint has the advantages of wide applicable range, high hardness, good flexibility, strong adhesion, good scratchproof performance, and environmental protection. Simultaneously, the invention also discloses a method for preparing the water-based environment-friendly finishing paint.

The invention relates to a method for making the arrow map automatic digitalization in the field of graphic digitalization technology. The method comprises: initial paper map scanning and inputting, grid image matching and adjusting, information auto identifying extracting, grid image arrow transferring, establishing topology relation and assigning the attribute value to the new arrow image.

An adjustable cam and follower system for a surgical device that includes a tri-dimensional rotatable cam member having a rotational input and a cam surface, the contour of which is defined by at least one radius of varying length. The system further includes a follower selectively moveable linearly, the follower configurable to ride substantially upon the cam surface as the cam rotates. A handpiece having an ergonomic member attachable thereto is also disclosed.

A box type of house mould used on building consists of outer wall formed by steel frame, steel screen frame and aero ¿C concrete plate; inner wall formed by hollow wall plate and composite frame wall plate; top plate mould formed by pressed steel bearing plate and light thin plate and steel tube. It is featured as enclosing box type of house mould by one outer wall and three inner walls and furthermore forming stereo structure house mould with five surfaces by welding said box type of house mould with top plate mould.

The invention discloses a method for constructing an integrated road bed of a track traffic tunnel, which is a supporting frame method for short. Firstly, a finished track panel assembled on a base is hoisted to the constructed tunnel; and the track panel of sleepers with different forms is born through adopting a supporting frame of a lower bearing type track panel; secondly, the track panel in the construction working face is hoisted to the designed elevation; the supporting frame of the track panel is mounted to support the track panel; a transverse supporting lever is utilized to approximately fix the direction of the track panel; and finally, according to fiducial mark, the elevation of track surface, the direction of the track, level and height are adjusted to the designed positions; after the binding and welding of concrete reinforcing bars and the erection of a template of the road bed are sequentially completed, and the integrated road bed is finally subjected to concrete pouring to obtain the integrated road bed; and the steps are sequentially advanced to complete the whole construction. The method reduces control links and material waste, improves construction schedule, ensures construction quality and is mainly used for the structural construction of undergrounds, light rails, tunnels, bridges, large-scale vehicle fields and other integrated road beds.

The invention discloses a floating barrel duckbilled lotus root digging machine, which comprises a chassis frame (14), a power water pump room (9), a pump fixing frame (10), a water inlet pipe (7), a high-pressure tube (8) and a high-pressure nozzle (3), and is characterized in that: the lotus root digging machine is provided with left and right sealed floating barrels (1); a working bin (11) is arranged between the left and right sealed floating barrels (1); bottom, front-back and top filtering nets (2, 4 and 16) are welded outside the working bin (11) and between the left and right sealed floating barrels (1); and the chassis frame (14) is welded with the left and right sealed floating barrels (1), the working bin (11), the pump fixing frame (10), an operating frame (6) and a lifting lever (15) into a whole. The lotus root digging machine is novel in structure, light and flexible in complete machine, low in manufacturing cost, easy to operate, high in efficiency, low in fault rate, easy to maintain, convenient to transfer and wide in application.

Container with foldable load platform intended for transporting different pieces, so that once the container assembly is empty; it can be folded occupying a reduced space. It is characterized in that it comprises a foldable load container having two opposite side walls with the addition of a central folding line (5) and two side folding lines (6) parallel and separated by a distance from the corner joints (7) of adjacent side walls. Therefore some characteristic inner spaces are created in the folded position of the load container, which allow housing different fastening elements therein, unlike conventionally occurs wherein housing these fastening elements within the inside fold of load container is not possible.

A locking pliers includes a body that supports a fixed jaw and a movable jaw. A lever is pivotably connected to the movable jaw, and a locking mechanism including a stub arm is coupled between the body and the lever to lock the jaws in a closed position. This locking mechanism includes an adjustment screw that is exposed at an end of the body remote from the fixed jaw. The body forms a resilient gripping surface that extends away from the exposed portion of the adjustment screw. This gripping surface extends beyond the end of the lever by at least about 4 inches such that the lever does not obstruct access to the grip. The user can place both hands on the grip to apply large torques to a clamped workpiece once the locking pliers has been locked in place on the workpiece.

The present invention discloses a riprap rock-fill concrete construction method, which relates to a construction method for the large volume concrete. The present invention adopts self-compacting concrete having superior anti-segregation performance and good plasticity-retention performance, and firstly the concrete is poured into a bin, and then block stones or pebbles with the particle size smaller than 4 cm are poured into the poured self-compacting concrete in a mechanical way or a manual way, and the self-compacting concrete can fill up and compact the vacancies caused in the block stone settlement path at any time, the high anti-segregation performance ensures that the self-compacting concrete does not segregate and bleed water under the impact of the block stones, and finally the self-compacted rock-fill concrete with high intensity is formed. The method has the advantages that the construction is convenient, and the present invention has significant effects on the aspects of improving the construction efficiency and saving the construction cost, and the rock-fill concrete formed has high degree of compaction, the cement used is less, the hydration temperature rise is low, the volume stability is good, and the comprehensive performance is excellent, meanwhile, the present invention also has the advantages of energy-saving, environmental protection and being easy for continuous construction.

The invention discloses an automatic production line of composite boards, which is used for attaching a base plate of a composite board to a faceplate of the composite board and comprises a roller conveyor device, a base plate surface cleaning device, an automatic glue spraying device, a conveying aligning and attaching device, an attaching pressing device and a board conveying device which are arranged in sequence. A base plate piling device is arranged at the side of the roller conveyor device; a base plate moving and carrying device arranged above the roller conveyor device and the base plate piling device; a face plate piling device is arranged at the side of the conveying aligning and attaching device; and a face plate moving and carrying device is arranged above the conveying aligning and attaching device and the face plate piling device. The production line can realize the automatic combination of a plurality of base plates and a plurality of face plates, thus achieving the purposes of improving production benefit, reducing labor intensity, and ensuring the stability and the reliability of the product.

A manhole wall module for constructing the wall of manhol is disclosed, which features that on its surface there are the concave-convex structures for matching with adjacent modules, it has the preserved holes for pouring concrete or inserting the reinforcing bar in them, and its accessories are used to flexiblly connecte to external pipeline.

The invention provides a cold-working die steel material, which comprises the following trace elements in percentage by weight: 0.95 to 1.05 percent of C, 0.35 to 0.45 percent of Mn, 0.55 to 0.65 percent of Si, 7.55 to 8.5 percent of Cr, 0.45 to 0.55 percent of Mo, 0.35 to 0.45 percent of V, less than or equal to 0.025 percent of S, and less than or equal to 0.025 percent of P. The cold-working die steel material has simple technical process and easily-controlled operation, adopts alloying and modification treatment, has good hardenability, stable temper resistance, higher wear resistance and good processability, can improve work efficiency, reduce production cost, reduce or avoid moulds from breaking and cracking, and has long service life, high performance-price ratio and wide application.

The invention relates to a changeable computer desk which consists of a universal display bracket, a universal keyboard and mouse mounting mechanism, a cross sliding rack, a universal supporting arm and a fixing mechanism; the universal display bracket is arranged above the cross sliding rack; the universal keyboard and mouse mounting mechanism is arranged under the cross sliding rack; the cross sliding rack is arranged on a crossbeam of a rotary tube of the universal supporting arm through a middle sleeve arranged on the cross sliding rack and can slide along the crossbeam left and right; the universal supporting arm is arranged on a base of the fixing mechanism; and the height of the crossbeam and the horizontal rotation using a lifting tube as an axle can be independently adjusted. The changeable computer desk has good human-computer working efficiency, small size and strong functions; besides the function as the compute desk, a printer/a sundries bracket arranged on the computer desk and a small drawer hung on the computer desk to lean against the bed head can be also used as a bedstand; in use, a user only needs to adjust the heights, the relative positions or the angles of the universal supporting arm, the cross sliding rack and the universal mechanism arranged up and down to meet the use requirements of sitting, standing and lying; and a desk body mounted with a computer chassis does not make any movement.

The invention discloses a full rotation steering oar device installation method. A hull base of a full rotation steering oar which is installed in a trunk flange mode is cut into tapered unit bodies (indicated as the figure). The tapered unit bodies are transported to a workshop and high-precision mounting matching surfaces, screw holes and seal ring grooves are machined on the tapered unit bodies through a large vertical lathe. Next, the machined tapered unit bodies are lifted on a ship and replaced according to cutting steel marks and then the steering oar is installed so as to meet the requirement for shafting layout design, installation quality of the steering oar and sealing reliability. The full rotation steering oar device installation method abandons a traditional construction method, is labor-saving and effort-saving, improves work efficiency, and saves expensive tooling equipment investment. Secondly, the machined tapered unit bodies can be assembled with the steering oar, and then lifted on the ship and carries out replacement and installation. Installation quality and work efficiency of the steering oar are further improved and requirements of modern shipbuilding are met.

The invention discloses a pipe jacking construction method. The pipe jacking construction method is characterized by comprising the steps that firstly, surveying and setting out are carried out; secondly, working well construction is carried out; thirdly, assembling type back wall installation is carried out; fourthly, a guide rail is installed; fifthly, a main jacking jack is installed; sixthly, a pipe jacking auxiliary device is installed; seventhly, a pipeline is jacked; eighthly, deviation is rectified, and mould weights are stacked at the front end of a water draining pipe to increase the weight of a pipe section; ninthly, coming out of a hole is carried out. According to the pipe jacking construction method, the horizontal deviation and high-level deviation of a pipe jacking axis are effectively controlled, the stability of an excavation face can be effectively kept, the disturbance on the soil body around a pipe body is small, and the pipeline floating is avoided.

A vacuum cleaner comprising: a cleaner body 3; an elongate handle 5 connected to the cleaner body, the elongate handle being movable between an extended position, extending outwardly from the cleaner body, and a stowed position, in which the elongate handle is positioned substantially adjacent to the cleaner body; wherein the vacuum cleaner further comprises a carry handle 11 which becomes accessible for use when the elongate handle is moved from the extended to the stowed position.