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The present invention relates to a device for augmenting an alarm signal generated by an analyte monitoring device, e.g., the GlucoWatch(R) (Cygnus, Inc., Redwood City, Calif.) biographer glucose monitoring device, for improving the alarm signal's effectiveness in alerting the user, and / or for communicating the signal to a person or person(s) other than the user, or to a trained assistance animal.

The present invention relates to a device for augmenting an alarm signal generated by an analyte monitoring device, e.g., the GlucoWatch(R) (Cygnus, Inc., Redwood City, Calif.) biographer glucose monitoring device, for improving the alarm signal's effectiveness in alerting the user, and / or for communicating the signal to a person or person(s) other than the user, or to a trained assistance animal.

Tunable dielectric materials including an electronically tunable dielectric ceramic and a low loss glass additive are disclosed. The tunable dielectric may comprise a ferroelectric perskovite material such as barium strontium titanate. The glass additive may comprise boron, barium, calcium, lithium, manganese, silicon, zinc and / or aluminum-containing glasses having dielectric losses of less than 0.003 at 2 GHz. The materials may further include other additives such as non-tunable metal oxides and silicates. The low loss glass additive enables the materials to be sintered at relatively low temperatures while providing improved properties such as low microwave losses and high breakdown strengths.

This invention relates to a blend of biodegradable polymers comprising: (A) about 5% to about 95% by weight of at least one flexible biodegradable polymer (A) having a glass transition less than about 0° C., (B) about 5% to about 95% by weight of at least one rigid biodegradable polymer (B) having a glass transition greater than about 10° C., and (C) about 0.25 to about 10 weight % of at least one compatibilizer (C), said percentages being based on the total weight of the polymer blend; where the polymer blend has a higher zero shear melt viscosity than polymers (A) and (B) separately.

Deposition of metal in a preferred shape, including coatings on parts, or stand-alone materials, and subsequent heat treatment to provide improved mechanical properties. In particular, the method gives products with relatively high yield strength. The products often have relatively high elastic modulus, and are thermally stable, maintaining the high yield strength at temperatures considerably above 25 DEG C. This technique involves depositing a material in the presence of a selected additive, and then subjecting the deposited material to a moderate heat treatment. This moderate heat treatment differs from other commonly employed "stress relief" heat treatments in using lower temperatures and / or shorter times, preferably just enough to reorganize the material to the new, desired form. Coating a shape and heat treating provides a shaped deposit with improved material properties. Coating a shape with a portion connected to a base and a portion detached therefrom can provide a resilient, conductive contact useful for electronic applications.

Novel two-phase yellow phosphors are disclosed having a peak emission intensity at wavelengths ranging from about 555 nm to about 580 nm when excited by a radiation source having a wavelength ranging from 220 nm to 530 nm. The present phosphors may be represented by the formula a[Srx(M1)1-x]zSiO4●(1-a)[Sry(M2)1-y]uSiO5:Eu2+D, wherein M1 and M2 are at least one of a divalent metal such as Ba, Mg, Ca, and Zn, the values of a, x, y, z and u follow the following relationships: 0.6≦a≦0.85; 0.3≦x≦0.6; 0.85≦y≦1; 1.5≦z≦2.5; 2.6≦u≦3.3; and Eu and D each range from 0.001 to about 0.5. D is an anion selected from the group consisting of F, Cl, Br, S, and N, and at least some of the D anion replaces oxygen in the host silicate lattice of the phosphor. The present yellow phosphors have applications in high brightness white LED illumination systems, LCD display panels, plasma display panels, and yellow LEDs and illumination systems.

Novel two-phase yellow phosphors are disclosed having a peak emission intensity at wavelengths ranging from about 555 nm to about 580 nm when excited by a radiation source having a wavelength ranging from 220 nm to 530 nm. The present phosphors may be represented by the formula a[Srx(M1)1−x]zSiO4.(1-a)[Sry(M2)1−y]uSiO5:Eu2+D, wherein M1 and M2 are at least one of a divalent metal such as Ba, Mg, Ca, and Zn, the values of a, x, y, z and u follow the following relationships: 0.6≦a≦0.85; 0.3≦x≦0.6; 0.85≦y≦1; 1.5≦z≦2.5; 2.6≦u≦3.3; and Eu and D each range from 0.001 to about 0.5. D is an anion selected from the group consisting of F, Cl, Br, S, and N, and at least some of the D anion replaces oxygen in the host silicate lattice of the phosphor. The present yellow phosphors have applications in high brightness white LED illumination systems, LCD display panels, plasma display panels, and yellow LEDs and illumination systems.

This invention relates to a blend of biodegradable polymers comprising:(A) about 70% to about 80% by weight of at least one flexible biodegradable polymer (A) having a glass transition less than about 0° C.,(B) about 30% to about 20% by weight of at least one rigid biodegradable polymer (B) having a glass transition greater than about 10° C.;said percentages being based on the total weight of the polymer blend;wherein said polymer blend has a notched Izod impact strength according to ASTM D256 of at least 7.5 ft-lbs / in.

The object of providing a non-volatile semiconductor memory that stands out by good scalability and a high retention time as well as ensures low switching voltages at low switching times and achieves a great number of switching cycles at good temperature stability is solved by the present invention with a semiconductor memory whose memory cells comprise at least one silicon matrix material layer with open or disturbed nanocrystalline or amorphous network structures and structural voids which has a resistively switching property between two stable states, utilizing the ion drift in the silicon matrix material layer. The memory concept suggested in the present invention thus offers an alternative to the flash and DRAM memory concepts since it is not based on the storing of charges, but on the difference of the electric resistance between two stable states that are caused by the mobility of ions in the amorphous silicon matrix material with an externally applied electric field.

The invention provides a magnetic resistance sensor for measuring a magnetic field. By the sensor, the sensitivity of a magnetic resistance sensing element can be calculated, and is related to shape anisotropy and an outer field. A long shaft of a magnetic resistance element is parallel to a sensitive direction, and the magnetic moment of the magnetic resistance element can be further saturated by the component Hcross of the outer field in the vertical sensitive direction at the same time. A monolithic permanent magnet has the effect of generating an Hcross field with an angle and offsetting a non-ideal field along an easy magnetization axis at the same time. The magnetic resistance element with high sensitivity can be widely applied in the field of electrics. Six electrical bridges formed by the magnetic resistance sensor can be presented in the magnetic resistance sensor.

Conventional lenses for DVD / CD compatible writing / reading are liable to CD jitter deterioration due to phase shifts in a central area.Setting a corresponding base material thickness of an intermediate area of the circumference A2 to greater than 1.2 mm which is the base material thickness of the CD, that is, converging luminous flux that has passed through the intermediate area of the circumference A2 onto a farther place than the information recording surface of the base material thickness of the CD makes it possible to reduce jitter deterioration due to phase shifts. Further, it makes possible to provide a system with higher precision and higher reliability.

A nanoparticle-enhanced liquid crystal phase shifter is provided including a first substrate layer, a plurality of electrodes attached to the substrate layer, a ground plane layer attached to a second substrate layer, and a liquid crystal layer between the ground plane layer and the first substrate layer, including a suspension of a liquid crystal material and highly polarizable nanoparticles having specific shape and size characteristics.

This magnetic element for writing by magnetic field or heat assisted spin transfer comprises a stack consisting of:a free magnetic layer, also called storage layer or switchable magnetization layer (51), of which the magnetization direction is switchable between two nonwrite stable states, both directed out-of-plane and substantially perpendicular to the plane of said layer, and of which the magnetization is spontaneously reoriented from substantially perpendicular to the plane to substantially in the plane under the effect of the rise in temperature during the writing;at least one reference magnetic layer (50, 55), called pinned layer, of which the magnetization is oriented substantially perpendicular to the plane of said layer;a nonmagnetic spacer (52) inserted between the two layers;means for making an electric current flow perpendicular to the plane of said layers.

A process for preparing a polymer having a 2,5-furandicarboxylate moiety within the polymer backbone, and having a number average molecular weight of at least 25,000, includes a transesterification step, a polycondensation step, a drying and / or crystallizing step, and a step where the polymer is subjected to post condensation conditions, and to a polyester-containing bottle or film or fibre-containing woven or non-woven object made from melt-processing poly(ethylene-2,5-furandicarboxylate), where the poly(ethylene-2,5-furandicarboxylate) is obtainable by the process of the invention.

The invention provides an all-fiber testing device for testing the polarization crosstalk of an optical device. The all-fiber testing device comprises a wide-spectrum light source (501), a polarizer (511), a to-be-tested polarizing device (522), an optical path correlator (530), a difference detector (550) and a photoelectric signal conversion and signal recording device (560), wherein the wide-spectrum light source (501) is connected with the to-be-tested optical fiber device (522) through the polarizer (511) and a first rotary connector (521) and is connected with the optical path correlator (530) with a polarization beam splitting Michelson structure through a second rotary connector (523); and the optical path correlator (530) is connected with the polarization difference detector (550) through a third rotary connector (541) and is connected with an interference signal detecting and processing device (560). The all-fiber testing device has the advantages of small size, high measurement accuracy, high temperature and vibration stability and the like, so that the all-fiber testing device is widely applied to high-accuracy measurement and analysis of the polarization performance of the optical device.

A magnetic field measuring device useful for measuring a magnetic field associated with an electric current, including a bus section connectable into the path of the electric current, a first magnetoresistive (MR) bridge oriented to be sensitive to the magnetic field of a current in the bus section, a second MR bridge oriented to be substantially insensitive to the magnetic field of a current in the bus section, a biasing coil configured and positioned to apply a magnetic field to the first and second MR bridges, whereby the sensitivity of the first MR bridge can be controlled; and a signal processing device responsive to a voltage output of the second MR bridge to control the current through the biasing coil. The device exhibits good rejection of stray magnetic and electric fields, is convenient to use, and can be fabricated in a single chip, with or without associated signal processing and conditioning circuitry, using conventional IC processing techniques.

The present invention provides devices and methods for the cryogenic storage of biological material. Devices of the invention are useful for storing material at a cryogenic temperature. The devices include a temperature chamber defined by a thermally-conductive container and at least one layer of thermal insulation surrounding the thermally-conductive container. Some embodiments utilize one or more heat sources thermally connected to the thermally conductive container. Other embodiments are arranged so that no net flow of heat occurs from the temperature chamber when the temperature chamber is at a set target temperature. Also provided are methods of using the devices.

An acoustic sensor and a method of fabricating an acoustic sensor are provided. The acoustic sensor includes at least one photonic crystal structure and an optical fiber having an end optically coupled to the at least one photonic crystal structure. The acoustic sensor further includes a structural portion mechanically coupled to the at least one photonic crystal structure and to the optical fiber. The at least one photonic crystal structure, the optical fiber, and the structural portion substantially bound a region having a volume such that a frequency response of the acoustic sensor is generally flat in a range of acoustic frequencies.

The invention discloses a core-shell synergistic flame retardant polyurethane microencapsulation expandable graphite and the application of the expandable graphite in rigid polyurethane foaming plastic. The core-shell synergistic flame retardant polyurethane microencapsulation expandable graphite comprises polyether and / or polyester polyol, a foaming agent, a foam stabilizer, a catalyst, an organic phosphorus-based flame retardant, a halogen-free intumescent flame retardant, an organic modified nano inorganic filler, core-shell synergistic flame retardant polyurethane microencapsulation expandable graphite, polyisocyanate compound and isocyanate index, wherein the polyisocyanate compound has two or more isocyanate groups; the core-shell synergistic flame retardant polyurethane microencapsulation expandable graphite takes expandable graphite particles as a capsule core and takes cyclodextrin or polyurethane as a capsule shell, wherein the cyclodextrin or polyurethane is formed by crosslinking cyclodextrin / modified resin and toluene diisocynate. The expandable graphite microcapsule can effectively improve the initial decomposition temperature, the heat stability and the flame retardant effect of a material and remarkably reduces the heat release rate and the total heat release quality during combustion.

The invention discloses an electronic voltage transformer using data fusion technology and an error calibration method thereof. The error calibration method comprises the following steps of: acquiring a secondary measured voltage by using a capacitive voltage divider and a sampling resistor R, accessing the voltage to a data acquisition processor for sampling, and tracing the frequency of the voltage; accessing a signal of a temperature sensor to the data acquisition processor, and computing the temperatures of measuring points; dynamically computing a divided voltage ratio of the capacitive voltage divider according to the temperature variation of the measuring points by using data acquisition device processing software so as to modify a transformation ratio error of the transformer; dynamically computing phase deviation according to signal frequency variation by using the data acquisition device processing software so as to modify a phase error; and outputting a digital sampling value through an optical fiber interface. The device is simple in structure, safe and practical; errors caused by manufacturing factors, temperature and signal acquisition circuits and the like can be effectively modified and restrained; and the measuring accuracy, temperature stability and transient performance of the electronic voltage transformer according to a capacitive voltage division principle are improved.

A closed loop magnetic sensor system for measuring an input magnetic field from a magnetic field source has a compensation circuit, which can be for example a printed wire board, and a magnetic sensor, such as a Magnetoresistive (MR) sensor, for measuring an input magnetic field. Preferably, the magnetic sensor is magnetically coupled to the compensation circuit by arranging the magnetic sensor in an air gap provided in the compensation circuit. The compensation circuit has a compensating conductor, arranged on or in a dielectric medium, which can be configured as a plurality of nested coils. Electrical control circuitry, electrically, coupled to the magnetic sensor and compensating conductor, is adapted and arranged to drive a feedback current through the compensating conductor according to the output of the magnetic sensor such that the input magnetic field is substantially compensated at the magnetic sensor. The magnetic system can serve as current sensor for sensing current through a primary conductor.

Improved carbon dioxide sensors are disclosed which are less sensitive to the moisture content of the environment and which are substantially insensitive to oxygen levels under normal working conditions. The CO2 sensor comprises a pH indicator and long-lived reference luminophore and a porous sol-gel matrix. Combined CO2 and O2sensors are also described. Further disclose are methods of printing sensor onto substrates.

A pressure distribution detection device is characterized in that a flexible array sensor unit (2) is sequentially connected with a signal conditioning and data acquisition unit (3) and a data display and analysis unit (4); the flexible array sensor unit (2) consists of a sensor array (1) and a Wheatstone bridge circuit; the sensor array (1) consists of sensor nodes; each sensor node is a strain disc (6); the strain discs (6) are arranged to form the sensor array (1) in a line and row manner; and each strain disc (6) constitutes the Wheatstone bridge circuit with three precision resistors with known resistance values. When ambient pressure is applied on the strain discs (6), the resistors change, and the variation information of the resistance value of the flexible array sensor unit (2) is collected through the signal conditioning and data acquisition unit (3) and is transmitted to the data display and analysis unit (4) after analog-digital conversion to be displayed and analyzed. The invention is applicable to such fields as biomechanical engineering, medical rehabilitation and rehabilitation assistant property detection.

A method of forming a silicon oxide layer comprising initiating formation of a silicon oxide layer on a surface of a silicon layer by an oxidation method using wet gas at an ambient temperature at which no silicon atom is eliminated from the surface of the silicon layer, and then, forming the silicon oxide layer up to a predetermined thickness by an oxidation method using wet gas.

The invention provides a back contact solar battery and a preparing method of the back contact solar battery. The preparing method of the back contact solar battery includes the steps of providing a first mould slide boat and a second mould slide boat, wherein the first mould slide boat comprises first film growing areas and first shielding areas which are distributed alternatively, and the second mould slide boat comprises second film growing areas and second shielding areas which are distributed alternatively, the first film growing areas correspond to the second shielding areas, and the second film growing areas correspond to the first shielding areas. First doped amorphous silicon indication areas and second doped amorphous silicon indication areas are formed on the surfaces, with passivated layers, of monocrystalline silicon substrates through the mould slide boats, wherein the first doped amorphous silicon indication areas and the second doped amorphous silicon indication areas are opposite in doping type and crossed in distribution. By means of the preparing method, a fork structure of a back field of the back contact solar battery is achieved simply at low cost, additional manufacturing process of forming the passivated layers is needless, and the preparing method of the back contact solar battery is simplified.