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A mask (10) for supplying gas under pressure to the nasal airway of a human includes a manifold (30) including means (36) for connection to a gas supply means, a gas supply element or elements (26) for providing said gas to the nasal airway without pressurising the exterior of the nose and a flexible strap (12) formed from an elastomeric material for securing the manifold (30) in position. The strap (12) extends either side of the manifold (30) and is shaped to generally conform with the shape of the upper lip and adjacent cheek area to act as a distributed anchor means for the mask (10).

Complex steerable catheter visualization and tissue manipulation systems and their methods of use are disclosed herein. The deployment catheter is articulated using various steering mechanisms. Tissue visualization is accomplished from the visualization hood at the distal end of the deployment catheter, the hood having an ability to expand and other features to facilitate visualization and articulation at the tissue surface.

A method and apparatus for facilitating communication between client computers is provided. The method provides for the use of ping probing by a server to determine the types of NAT devices and/or firewalls protecting the client computers. Once these are determined, the server can predict the response to communications from the client computers and instruct the client computers to contact each other. Once a session or tunnel is established it can be maintained through the use of a flag, even if contact with the server is lost.

A method and apparatus for fabricating a solar cell and forming metal contact is disclosed. Solar cell contact and wiring is formed by depositing a thin film stack of a first metal material and a second metal material as an initiation layer or seed layer for depositing a bulk metal layer in conjunction with additional sheet processing, photolithography, etching, cleaning, and annealing processes. In one embodiment, the thin film stack for forming metal silicide with reduced contact resistance over the sheet is deposited by sputtering or physical vapor deposition. In another embodiment, the bulk metal layer for forming metal lines and wiring is deposited by sputtering or physical vapor deposition. In an alternative embodiment, electroplating or electroless deposition is used to deposit the bulk metal layer.

Power MOSFETs and fabrication processes for power MOSFETs use a continuous conductive gate structure within trenches to avoid problems arising from device topology caused when a gate bus extends above a substrate surface. The conductive gate structure forms gates in device trenches in an active device region and forms a gate bus in a gate bus trench. The gate bus trench that connects to the device trenches can be wide to facilitate forming a gate contact to the gate bus, while the device trenches can be narrow to maximize device density. CMP process can be used to planarize the conductive gate structure and/or overlying insulating layers. The processes are compatible with processes forming self-aligned or conventional contacts in the active device region.

An ophthalmic drug delivery device having a scleral surface, an orbital surface, an injection port on the orbital surface, and a fluid conducting passageway disposed within the device that is fluidily coupled to the injection port and terminates in an opening for communicating the fluid to an outer surface of the sclera is disclosed. The fluid contains a pharmaceutically active agent useful for the treatment of a disease of the posterior segment of the eye.

Catheters, systems, and methods are provided for performing medical procedures, such as tissue ablation, adjacent the ostia of anatomical vessels, such as pulmonary veins. The catheter comprises an elongated flexible catheter body, which includes a proximal shaft portion and a distal shaft portion, and a tracking element carried by the distal shaft portion. The proximal section is pre-shaped to form a curve having an apex sized to be inserted into the vessel ostium, and a distal section configured to contact the adjacent tissue when the curve apex is inserted within the vessel ostium. The method may comprise inserting the curve apex into the vessel ostium to place the distal section in contact with a first tissue site adjacent the vessel ostium, and determining a location of the tracking element(s) within a coordinate system while the distal section is in contact with the first tissue site.

The invention provides an organic light-emitting display panel comprising a substrate including a display region and a non-display region, wherein the non-display region comprises: an insulating layer disposed on the same side of a array layer and provided with at least one groove exposing the substrate; a metal layer comprising a first portion covering the groove and in contact with the substrate, and a second portion covering the outer side of the groove and in contact with the insulating layer; at least one shielding wall disposed on a side, away from the substrate, of the second portion and in contact with the second portion, wherein the material of the shielding wall comprises an organic substance. The organic light-emitting display panel can increase the bonding ability of the shielding wall and the substrate, reduce a peeling risk when being in contact with a mask plate, and prevent the expansion of cracks, increases a side wrapping effect in order that little water enters to corrode an organic light emitting device from the side.

Embodiments of the invention are related to systems and methods for a docking station that wirelessly connects to a mobile device, facilitates charging the mobile device, and enables the mobile device to interact with a virtual desktop infrastructure.

The invention relates to solid-state electrolytes, in particular to a polycarbonate all-solid-state polymer electrolyte, an all-solid-state secondary lithium battery made of the same and preparation and application thereof. The all-solid-state polymer electrolyte is prepared from polycarbonate macromolecules, lithium salt and a porous supporting material; the thickness is 20-800 micrometers, the mechanical strength is 10-80 MPa, the room temperature ion conductivity is 2*10<-5>S/cm-1*10<-3>S/cm, and the electrochemical window is higher than 4V. The all-solid-state polymer electrolyte is easy to prepare and form, good in mechanical property, high in ion conductivity and wide in electrochemical window; meanwhile, the solid-state electrolyte effectively inhibits growth of negative electrode lithium dendrites and improves interface stability and long circulation performance.

An application tip (100) for a viscous or pasty composition comprises a body (101) including a proximal end (102) that can be fastened onto a device for dispensing said composition and a distal end (103) that is provided with an outlet orifice (104), an internal duct (110) extending between the proximal and distal ends of said body. The internal duct (110) comprises at least one portion (112) of flat shape opening out at the outlet orifice (104) and including adjacent grooves (113) in at least one of its sides.

A disposable, integrated extracorporeal blood circuit employed during cardiopulmonary bypass surgery performs gas exchange, heat transfer, and microemboli filtering functions in a way as to conserve volume, to reduce setup and change out times, to eliminate a venous blood reservoir, and to substantially reduce blood-air interface. Blood from the patient or prime solution is routed through an air removal device that is equipped with air sensors for detection of air. An active air removal controller removes detected air from blood in the air removal device. A disposable circuit support module is used to mount the components of the disposable, integrated extracorporeal blood circuit in close proximity and in a desirable spatial relationship to optimize priming and use of the disposable, integrated extracorporeal blood circuit. A reusable circuit holder supports the disposable circuit support module in relation to a prime solution source, the active air removal controller and other components.

A system for remote surveillance of an EEG signal of a person susceptible of having a hypoglycemic seizure comprises an EEG sensor part with electrodes for measuring one or more EEG signals from the person, and a processing unit adapted to be arranged at the ear of said person. EEG signal processing means is adapted for analyzing the EEG signal, for identifying or predicting a hypoglycemic seizure in the person. The system comprises a first connection between the EEG sensor part and the processing unit, adapted for transmitting an EEG signal from the implantable EEG sensor to the processing unit. The system comprises an external part adapted to receive wirelessly an alarm from the processing part, where the external part is adapted to forward an alarm to a care-giver. The invention further provides a method of EEG surveillance.

A leadless integrated circuit (IC) package comprising an IC chip mounted on a metal leadframe and a plurality of electrical contacts electrically coupled to the IC chip. The IC chip, the electrical contacts, and a portion of the metal leadframe are covered with an encapsulation compound, with portions of the electrical contacts protruding from a bottom surface of the encapsulation compound.

The invention discloses a waterborne epoxy zinc-rich paint modified by a nanometer conductive carbon material and a preparation method thereof. The paint is composed of a component A and a component B, wherein the component A comprises waterborne epoxy emulsion, the nanometer conductive carbon material, zinc powder, a waterborne antifoaming agent, a waterborne wetting dispersant and the like, and the component B is modified amine curing agent emulsion. The preparation method comprises: (1) preparing a waterborne slurry of the nanometer conductive carbon material; (2) adding water, waterborne epoxy emulsion, waterborne anti-forming agent and waterborne wetting dispersant into a stirred tank, stirring with a low speed to disperse uniformly, successively adding zinc powder, an anti-settling agent, the nanometer conductive carbon material slurry and the like, dispersing with a high speed to obtain the component A of the waterborne epoxy zinc-rich paint modified by the nanometer conductive carbon material; and (3) adding the component B into the component A, stirring uniformly and sieving. By employing the waterborne epoxy zinc-rich paint of the invention, the obtained epoxy anticorrosion coating modified by the nanometer conductive carbon material has excellent corrosion resistance and impact resistance.

A sensor mounting system includes a rigid main body portion defining a housing within which is mounted a compression element. In use, the compression element provides a predetermined biasing force to force a sensor against the skin of a subject. A secondary support structure provides an adjustable biasing force to retain the main body portion against the subject. Alternatively, the main body portion may be mounted to a rigid pod with one or more secondary compression elements, with the pod itself retained against the subject. An interface layer extending from the main body portion provides a cushion to improve the comfort of the subject. The interface layer and sensor interface elements may be in the form of fingers to increase contact of the sensor with a selected portion of the subject.

A directory display and configurable entry system having a user interface providing an intuitive multi-page graphical user interface useful for enabling a user to readily access occupant related information that is contained in a database of the system. The system may also include a relay interface module, which may be remotely located from a computer unit of the system. The relay interface module enables either new and or legacy devices to be coupled to the hardware of the system, including the computer unit. This abstract is provided to comply with rules requiring an abstract, and is submitted with the intention that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope and meaning of the claims.

The invention discloses an all-solid-state lithium battery with a gradient structure and a preparation method thereof. The all-solid-state lithium battery comprises a cathode with a gradient structure layer, a solid electrolyte layer, and a metal anode or an anode with a gradient structure layer; the preparation method comprises the following steps: preparing cathode slurries with different component concentrations or particle sizes or molecular weights, coating a collector electrode with the cathode slurries according to the component concentration gradient or particle size gradient or molecular weight gradient to prepare an electrode layer, coating the electrode layer with the solid electrolyte layer, finally attaching the metal anode, or preparing anode slurries with different component concentrations or particle sizes or molecular weights, coating the electrolyte layer with the anode slurries according to an opposite concentration gradient or particle size gradient or molecular weight gradient based on the preparation method of the cathode electrode layer, and finally attaching a collector electrode to obtain the all-solid-state lithium battery with a gradient structure; the preparation method is simple, and the prepared all-solid-state lithium battery is stable in large-rate charge and discharge, and can work normally at large current.

This invention relates generally to a hand covering. More specifically, the invention relates to a hand covering that may be used with an electronic device. In particular, the hand covering includes a conductive portion that enables the wearer of the hand covering to perform various tasks, such as interacting with an electronic device, without removing the hand covering.

A gate driver for a liquid crystal display includes a shift register including a plurality of stages for outputting gate drive signals. Each of the stages includes a pull-up circuit for providing the gate drive signal to an output terminal in response to first and second clock signals, a pull-down circuit for providing a gate off signal to the output terminal, a pull-up driving circuit for driving the pull-up circuit in response to a first control signal, and a pull-down driving circuit for driving the pull-down circuit in response to a second control signal. Each of the stages includes a plurality of switching devices. A node of nodes where a signal line, through which the first clock signal, the second clock signal, the first control signal or the second control signal is applied, is electrically connected to a switching device includes at least two contacts.

The invention relates to a formula of an environment-friendly Ag conductor slurry for a silicon solar cell front gate line electrode and a processing method thereof. The component and the content (weight percentage) of the Ag slurry are: a metal Ag powder 60-80, a lead-less glasses adhesive 1-10, an Ohm contact additive agent 0. 05-10, and organic resin 2-15and a slurry modifying agent 1-8 The production method of the environment-friendly Ag conductor slurry comprises a preparation of the lead-less glass adhesive, a formula of the Ag slurry and a processing process of the slurry. The developing Ag slurry implements the slurry lead-free by using a Ba-Zn-B glass material and the lead content of the slurry is less than 100 ppm, while the content of other harmful substances such as Hg and Cd or the like is all conformed to the environment protection demand. A good Ohm contact is formed on the silicon surface of the Ag line and the cell by adding the Ohm contact forming agent in the slurry. The Ag slurry has strong adhesive force, superior weldability, good Ohm contact and high cell conversion efficiency after a continuous tunnel furnace fast heat treatment when the Ag slurry is used in the silicon solar cell front gate line electrode.

A method of forming an electrochemical cell is disclosed. The method comprises contacting a negative pole layer and a positive pole layer one with the other or with an optional layer interposed therebetween. The pole layers and the optional layer therebetween are selected so as to self-form an interfacial separator layer between the pole layers upon such contacting.

The invention relates to a chemical oxidation remediation method for organism-contaminated soil and a remediation device. The device comprises an oxidant pot, a catalyst pot, a chelating agent pot, aflexible pipe, an electric valve, a control apparatus, a valve switch, a pump, a flow valve, a reactor, a stirrer, a stirrer switch, a sealing cover, a liquid inlet pipe, an exhaust pipe, a gas-liquidseparating apparatus and a tail gas treating apparatus. The method comprises the following steps: placing contaminated soil into the reactor; firstly injecting 0.03-0.4mol/ (kg soil) of citric acid into the reactor through the chelating agent pot; then adding 0-0.4mol/ (kg soil) of catalyst ferrous sulfate in the catalyst pot, and adding water to be dissolved to prepare 0.5mol/l of catalyst; injecting the catalyst into the reactor by the pump; pumping 1-2mol/(kg soil) of oxidant hydrogen peroxide into the reactor; and fully stirring the three preparations and the contaminated soil by the stirrer in the reactor to oxidize and degrade polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon in the soil, and the removal rate of pollutants in the soil exceeds 80 percent. The invention has high efficiency on organics-contaminated soil remediation and can not cause secondary pollution to the soil.

A game controller system for electronic games includes a two-hand operated game pad that has a pair of pistol-like grips extending from opposed ends of a central housing bearing player input buttons, triggers analog sticks, and digital pad. A wrist support panel extends laterally from the bottom of each grip to provide a rest for the blade portion of the gripping hand. A plug connector disposed on the housing releasably connects to any one of several modules, such as mouse, joystick, and steering units to enable a user to reconfigure the assembly for different games and purposes.

The invention discloses slurry for battery negative electrodes, which comprises a carbon negative active material, a conductive agent, a thickening agent, a binding agent and a solvent, the proportion by weight of the carbon negative active material, the conductive agent, the thickening agent, the binding agent and the solvent is 70-130: 1-10: 1-10: 1-10: 80-200, wherein the carbon negative active material is a mixture of native graphite and artificial graphite of the proportion of 0-3: 7-10. The invention further discloses a preparing method of the slurry for battery negative electrodes and a battery manufactured by utilizing the negative electrode slurry. Based on the artificial graphite, the invention creates a proper negative material aqueous formula, which can significantly increase volumetric capacity of the negative electrode based on the artificial graphite on the premise of excellent circulation performance, and thereby a lithium ion battery with high volumetric capacity and long cycle life can be manufactured.

A surgical drain device includes a matrix of biodegradable polymer material and a plurality of drain tubes attached to the matrix. The device is implanted within a surgical wound to treat the presence of seromas, for example, and is used to promote drainage, tissue adhesion, and wound closure. The drain tubes converge into a common collection tube that leads wound fluid outside the body under gravity feed or negative pressure applied to the collection tube. The matrix contains an array of apertures that allow tissue contact across the device. A preferred embodiment comprises a tissue anchoring system including anchor elements such as hooks or barbs. The device can be used with a negative pressure system to further improve the drainage band can also be used with a wound dressing. The device and systems containing the device are particularly useful to promote the healing of surgical wounds from abdominal surgery.

A lifting connector to facilitate the lifting of wear parts used on earthmoving equipment is mechanically secured to a hole in the wear part. The wear part has a latching formation to maintain the head of the connector in a preferred orientation so that it is in the proper service position for connecting the lifting connector to a lifting device. The wear part can be safely maneuvered onto and off of the earthmoving equipment while secured to the lifting device.

The invention discloses a novel lithium iron phosphate material which is adulterated /covered with conductive agents and a preparation method thereof. The lithium iron phosphate material of the invention comprises lithium source compounds, iron source compounds, phosphate radical source compounds and the conductive agents of lithium iron phosphates. The technology of the invention is simple; the material is clean and pollution-free; the cost of the material is low. The invention is suitable for industrialized mass production. Specific capacity of the obtained lithium iron phosphate material is high (more than 140 mAh/g); cyclical stability is good (more than 300 times); high rate charging and discharging performance of the lithium iron phosphate material is particularly prominent (5C capacity can still reach 80 mAh/g); conductivity and stacking density are high; diffusivity of protons is improved; contact between active materials and an electrode is increased; internal resistance of the electrode and a battery is reduced; discharging and cyclical stabilities of the electrode are obviously improved. The invention is widely applied to novel high performance lithium ion batteries.

The flattening machine for plate material possesses strong flattening capacity and wide thickness range of plate material is formed from main motor, speed-reducing machine, gear distribution box, cardan shaft, flattening machine self-body, inlet pinch rolls, outlet pinch rolls, roll-changing device, hydraulic lubricating air and water control system and electric transmission and automatic controlsystem. Its upper roll device and lower roll device are respectively equipped with motor, worm speed reducer, screw rod and nut, and the inlet side, outlet side, transmission side and roll-changing side of upper roll device are respectively equipped with downward cylinder, and their pinch rolls are respectively equipped with hydraulic cylinder, motor and speed reducer.

The invention relates to a special baking oven and a special material rack thereof for silicon material. The baking oven comprises a thermal insulation shell, an inner container, a high temperature air cavity, a hot air duct, a heater, a circulating fan, a dehumidifier, a dehumidification pipe, a humidity sensor, a temperature sensor, a frame body, idler wheels and a silicon material box, wherein the high temperature air cavity is arranged on top of the inner container, the hot air duct is arranged around the inner container, the heater is arranged in the baking oven, the circulating fan is arranged between the high temperature air cavity and the hot air duct, the dehumidifier is communicated with the inner chamber of the inner container, and the humidity sensor and the temperature sensor are arranged to realize automation control of the baking oven. The movable baking shelf thereof can facilitate loading/unloading and in/out of silicon material, save baking preparation time, and has the advantages of high baking efficiency and low energy consumption. The whole silicon material box can be directly moved in the baking oven for baking, thereby greatly shortening technology preparation time and reducing labor strength of operators.