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The present invention describes a process for producing a three-dimensional object, comprising: providing a material to be solidified, the material comprising a filler and a binder; delivering electromagnetic radiation and / or synergistic stimulation in a pattern or an image to a building region for solidifying said material; wherein said delivering of electromagnetic radiation and / or synergistic stimulation is performed selectively to a defined area or volume of said material to be solidified; and wherein an energy density of electromagnetic radiation and / or synergistic stimulation is varied within said pattern or image and / or between patterns or images of different building regions of said material. The present invention may be directed also to a system where different first and second materials are to be solidified. The present invention further provides a freeform fabrication system, and a freeform three-dimensional object having unique properties as well as products derived therefrom, such as sintered products.

The present invention provides improved ingress of therapeutic and other moieties into cellular targets. In accordance with preferred embodiments, complexes are provided which carry primary moieties, chiefly therapeutic moieties, to such target cells. Such complexes preferably feature cell surface receptor ligands to provide specificity. Such ligands are preferably bound to primary moieties through polyfunctional manifold compounds.

An ultrasonic surgical apparatus which can be used in laparoscopic surgery. The ultrasonic surgical apparatus includes an inserting unit and an operation unit. The inserting unit is inserted into a guide member called a trocar. The inserting unit includes an elongated member, a tip portion, and also a joint section provided between the elongated member and the tip portion. The tip portion includes a transducer unit and an oscillation member, and preferably further includes a clamp member and an open / close mechanism. The joint section enables the tip portion to be slanted with respect to the elongated member. The operation unit includes a mechanism for operating the joint section, and preferably further includes a mechanism for operating the clamp member. The direction of the oscillation member can be varied by the joint section. Because ultrasonic oscillation is generated in the tip portion, effective transmission of the ultrasonic oscillation to the oscillation member can be achieved.

A laparoscopic port assembly includes a cannula unit including three cannulas each extending at an acute angle relative to a base. The cannulas are flexible for receiving respective angulated laparoscopic instruments. The cannula unit is rotatingly received in a port holder for rotation about a longitudinal axis of the holder, the holder being disposable in an opening in a patient's skin.

An electronic system providing banking services, comprises a server having a first interface for communication with user mobile telephony devices over a mobile telephone network; and a second interface for communication with an intermediary acting as a gateway to banking records of multiple banking organisations. The first interface is adapted to allow at least balance enquiry requests to be submitted to one of the multiple banking organisations by means of the intermediary and to provide at least balance enquiry replies for display on the user mobile telephony device. The invention provides the functions of the high street ATM using the mobile phone environment.

A hybrid-vehicle power train connected to an engine comprises a motor, a CVT unit, a planetary gear unit having at least two input elements, namely, first and second input elements and an output element, a first clutch for engaging / disengaging the first input element with / from a final shaft of the power train, and a second clutch for engaging / disengaging the output element with / from the final shaft of the power train. An input shaft of the CVT unit is connected to the engine and is drivingly connected to the second input element. An output shaft of the CVT unit is connected to the first input element. The motor is connected to the output shaft of the CVT unit. According this configuration, motor torque is amplified and transmitted to the final shaft when the first clutch is engaged, while motor torque is transmit directly to the final shaft when the second clutch is engaged.

This medical manipulator is provided with a distal-end moving section including an end effector. The distal-end moving section includes a rotating sleeve (a distal-end rotator) which is able to rotate integrally with the end effector about a roll axis and has a hollow cylindrical portion, and a distal-end fulcrum block (rotary support cylinder) which is provided so as to be able to change orientation in relation to the axial direction of a shaft and rotatably supports the rotating sleeve at an inner peripheral section. A part of an opening / closing driving transmission section (actuating means) for transmitting an opening / closing driving force to the end effector is disposed inside of the distal-end moving section.

An attribute value of a matter accompanied by a sensor is transmissibly accessible in a sensor node system constituted by wireless terminal computers having the sensor, the wireless communication base stations and server computers. The wireless terminal computer reports at the time of wireless communication an identification number of a wireless communication base station with which it communicates previously. A relay processing service is dynamically constituted so that when a wireless communication base station different from itself is reported, the wireless base station as the communication counter-part can transmissbly look up the wireless terminal computer from a host computer.

The invention is a biometric information input device including biometric information collection means for reading a relatively-moving living body site and successively collecting a plurality of partial images of the living body site as biometric information, movement direction detection means for detecting a movement direction of the living body site with respect to the biometric information collection means based on the biometric information collected by the biometric information collection means, and coordinate conversion means for performing a coordinate conversion on the biometric information collected by the biometric information collection means using the movement direction detected by the movement direction detection means, thereby allowing the device to be used irrespective of a direction in which a living body is swept when biometric information is entered.

Disclosed herein is a head mounted display including: an eyeglasses frame-like frame to be mounted onto an observer's head; and two image display devices, each of the image display devices including an image generating device, and light guide means which is mounted to the image generating device, which as a whole is located on the side of the center of an observer's face relative to the image generating device, on which beams emitted from the image generating device are incident, through which the beams are guided, and from which the beams are emitted toward an observer's pupil.

In a memory module including a plurality of DRAM chips which transmit / receive a system data signal with a predetermined data width and at a transfer rate and which transmit / receive an internal data signal having a larger data width and a lower transfer rate as compared with the system data signal, it has become clear that there is a restriction on the transfer rate of the system data signal and that speeding-up cannot be expected. A current consumption in a plurality of DRAMs constituting the memory module is large, and this is also a factor for hindering the speeding-up. There is obtained a memory module in which a plurality of DRAM chips are stacked on an IO chip and in which each DRAM chip is connected to the IO chip by a through electrode and which comprises a constitution for mutually converting the system data signal and the internal data signal in each DRAM chip by the IO chip. In this constitution, a wiring between the DRAM chips can be shortened, and DLL having a large current consumption may be disposed only on the IO chip.

An information processing apparatus includes: a display control section for displaying a window showing a first icon and a second icon of a predetermined display size on a display screen. The display control section reduces the display size of at least either the first icon or the second icon so as not to overlap with each other if it determines that the icons overlap with each other when it alters a display area of the window being displayed on the display screen.

Coil units equipped with primary coils having the same specification are provided in a power feeding module. Coil-unit intermeshing recess sections are formed on a printed circuit board to match each of the coil units. Pads for joining together with electrodes formed on the coil units are formed on the bottom faces of each of the coil-unit intermeshing recess sections. A plurality of coil units can be mounted onto the printed circuit board easily, by fitting each of the coil units into each of the coil-unit intermeshing recess sections and joining them together, which will enable manufacturing efficiency to be improved.

A shaving razor having a handle that defines a longitudinal axis, a shaving head that defines a transverse axis, a connector assembly, and a biasing element. The connector assembly couples the handle and the head so that the head can pivot upward and downward about its transverse axis and can also move toward and away from the handle with the transverse axis perpendicular to the longitudinal axis or oblique thereto. Preferably, the biasing element is separate and spaced apart from the connector assembly and biases the head into a rest position.

In a stereoscopic video image pick-up and display system comprising a stereoscopic video image pick-up device including two video image pick-up means (402R, L) for outputting video information from said pick-up means; a stereoscopic video image display device (400) for displaying different video images for the eyes of a viewer (60); and a medium (500) for transmitting said video image information from said stereoscopic video image pick-up device to said stereoscopic video image display device, said stereoscopic video image pick-up device includes cross-point measuring means (403) for measuring CP information on the cross-point (CP) of optical axes of said pick-up means and outputs information including the CP information and video image information to said medium, and said stereoscopic video image display device includes offset presetting means (106) for offsetting and displaying said different video images based upon said video image information, said cross-point information and information on the size of the image which is displayed by said stereoscopic video image display device.

An active matrix type planar display device includes display elements arranged in a matrix and auxiliary wiring elements. The display element has an optical active layer between a first electrode formed on a substrate and a second electrode. The auxiliary wiring element is formed in the same layer or on the same surface as the first electrode, electrically insulated from the first electrode, and electrically connected to the second electrode.

An antenna element made of an electrically conductive material pattern is printed and formed on a face of a casing made of an electrically nonconductive material having a circuit board housed therein, and the antenna element and the circuit board are electrically connected to each other by a connecting element.

There are provided an artificial joint device that can realize an artificial limb enabling twisting motion without a drive source, and when with the drive source, reduce the size and costs of the device, and a parallel linkage that can realize the device. The linkage connects a foot portion and a mounting plate spaced from each other. A fixed link has one end fixed to the plate, and the other end connected to the foot portion via a ball joint, making the angle of the fixed link relative to the foot portion changeable in any direction. Expansible links extend between the foot portion and the plate in an expansible / contractible manner and each have opposite ends connected to the plate and the foot portion via respective upper and lower ball joints, making respective angles thereof relative to the foot portion and the plate changeable in any direction.

Disclosed is a computer implemented method of facilitating provisioning of social activity data to a mobile device based on user preferences is disclosed. The computer implemented method may include receiving, using a communication device, at least one selection corresponding to a plurality of filtering icons corresponding to a plurality of activities. Further, the computer implemented method may include receiving, using the communication device, a location indicator from the mobile device. Further, the computer implemented method may include filtering, using a processing device, social activity data based on the at least one selection of plurality of filtering icons to generate a filtered social activity data. Further, the computer implemented method may include transmitting, using the communication device, the filtered social activity data to the mobile device.