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Pedicle screws are secured in two columns, one along each side of the spine. Cross support rods have ends connected to pedicle screw heads. A longitudinally extending rod is supported on the cross supports and recessed in the cavity created by removal of portions of spinous processes, providing a reduced profile of the installed construct. Several types of cross supports are shown such as: arms from the screws inward to rings or yokes connecting the longitudinal rod; cross rods with ends connected to the screws and having centrally-located yokes for the longitudinal rod; cross rods with articulating longitudinal rod portions fixed or swiveled to them. These cross rods may have end portions angled posterior toward anterior to accommodate lateral positioned pedicle screws, but shorter cross rods without angled end portions enable medialized pedicle screw orientation.

Systems for providing support within the pelvic region of a patient. The systems can include an elongated incontinence sling having a central support portion adapted to be positioned to support any one of the urethra or anus, and a sling tension adjustment mechanism operatively attached to the elongated sling. The sling tension adjustment mechanism can include a plunger device adapted for traversal within an interior of the housing, and an inflatable bladder provided within the housing to selectively control traversal of the plunger. Alternatively, the adjustment mechanism can include a bobbin device within the housing and one or more retention devices to selectively restrict unwinding of a suture from the bobbin device.

Abstract of Disclosure An apparatus and method for controlled delivery of seeds between the seed meter of an agricultural planter to an open seed furrow. Seeds are received individually and in a sequence from a seed meter into a housing. The seeds are conveyed in sequence through the housing by a conveyor at a controlled speed to a location proximate the open furrow, then gently released into the open furrow as the agricultural planter moves forward. The controlled delivery of the seed to the furrow ensures more accurate seed placement within the furrow at the desired seed spacing, thereby improving crop yield potential.

Systems for providing support to body tissue to alleviate incontinence are disclosed that comprise an elongated incontinence sling having a central support portion adapted to be positioned to support any one of the urethra or anus and first and second sling end portions extending from the central support portion through body tissue and a tension adjustment mechanism acting on or within one or both of the sling end portions. The sling tension adjustment mechanism is attached to and extends through an adjustment spacing between sling intermediate ends within at least one sling end portion. The adjustment spacing is lengthened to decrease sling tension and shortened to increase sling tension

A bipolar stimulator probe suitable for application of intramuscular stimulation provides an active stimulator electrode and a reference electrode as part of a single tool. The separation between the electrodes is significantly greater than the electrode separation of known bipolar stimulator probes and bipolar bar electrode configurations. The probe tool may be configured to permit adjustment of the fixed relative position of the electrodes within a given range. By providing a relatively wide spacing between the two electrodes, the tool can be used to approximate the effect of monopolar stimulation with a separate reference electrode, with the electrical stimulus producing less pain to the patient compared to bipolar stimulation where the two electrodes are spaced apart by only 2-4 cm or less.

A crop conditioner includes a frame mounting a bottom fixed roller and a top liftable roller. The top roller is liftable at each end on a pivot member tensioned by a tension link, a tension spring and a bell crank connected between the tension link and the spring. The bell crank is mounted on the conditioner frame for pivotal movement about a pivot axis which lies transversely to a line parallel to the pivot axis of the second roller so that the bell crank extends from the tension link to the tension spring in a direction outwardly of the radial plane of the roller pivot axis. The spring extends upwardly and forwardly from the bell crank pivot at a rear flange of the frame to an adjustment screw of the spring at a top flange of the frame immediately adjacent an adjustment of a bottom stop of the top roller.

One or more embodiments of a thumbnail caching system dynamically provide a thumbnail cache of digital content items (e.g., photos, videos, audio) to a user on a client device. In particular, the thumbnail caching system provides a thumbnail cache of a digital content collection to a client device such that the thumbnail cache does not exceed a threshold storage limit for the client device. In addition, the thumbnail caching system intelligently adjusts the thumbnails within the thumbnail cache to keep the size of the thumbnail cache within the threshold storage limit irrespective of the number of digital content items stored or added to the digital content collection. Further, the thumbnail caching system can dynamically adjust the size of the thumbnail cache in response to a user adding or removing external data to the client device.

The invention relates to a movable fastening unit for a seat frame in an aircraft. In said fastening unit, a connecting element can be movably mounted on both a seat structure and a floor fixture by means of bearings, thus allowing the seat frame to be moved relative to the floor fixture without having to detach the fixture from the floor.

The present invention provides a unique dual mode, inline switch mechanism that is fully integrated into the rear cap of a flashlight assembly to provide a completely self contained and waterproof switching mechanism. The switch assembly further provides dual mode functionality including an ON position and a momentary ON position while also including a reliable OFF position that prevents the accidental activation of the light when the user desires that it remain off. The entire mechanism resides in the end cap of the flashlight assembly and includes an end cap structure that is designed to be rotatably attached to the end of a flashlight housing, a tactile ratchet lock assembly similar to a ballpoint pen, a plunger and an elastomeric cover. The switch mechanism is fully integrated on the interior of the flashlight providing the highly desirable, fully contained, in line functionality.

A dust separating apparatus is provided. The dust separating apparatus draws in an external air stream and separates dust particles from the drawn air stream. The dust separating apparatus may include a dust collecting space to store dust particles and a driving means to increase or decrease the dust collecting space. Accordingly, a user may adjust the capacity of the dust collecting space as desired.

The present invention provides a unique dual mode, inline switch mechanism that is fully integrated into the rear cap of a flashlight assembly to provide a completely self contained and waterproof switching mechanism. The switch assembly further provides dual mode functionality including an ON position and a momentary ON position while also including a reliable OFF position that prevents the accidental activation of the light when the user desires that it remain off. The entire mechanism resides in the end cap of the flashlight assembly and includes an end cap structure that is designed to be rotatably attached to the end of a flashlight housing, a contact plate, a plunger, an insulator disk and an elastomeric cover. The switch mechanism is fully integrated on the interior of the flashlight providing the highly desirable, fully contained, in line functionality.

A recording area of an example recording medium stores a text subtitle stream that includes a dialog style segment and at least one dialog presentation segment associated with the dialog style segment. The dialog style segment includes at least one set of style information. Each set of style information provides region positioning information for positioning a region in an image and text box positioning information for positioning a text box in the region. The dialog presentation segment includes at least one region subtitle information. The region subtitle information includes text subtitle data (e.g., style data and/or text string data) and a region style identifier, and the region style identifier identifies one of the sets of style information in the dialog style segment to apply to the text subtitle data.

A percussive massager is provided having a housing supporting a motor having an output shaft rotatably driven thereby. At least one positioning member is movably connected to a percussion arm which is attached to the housing and operably connected to the motor output shaft. At least two massage nodes are operably connected to the percussion arm, one of which being attached to the positioning member, to form a massage surface and move toward and away from the housing to provide a percussive massage effect. A rotary mechanism is rotatable with respect to the percussion arm and drives the positioning member toward and away from a central region of the housing. An ancillary transmission has an output and an input for operably imparting rotation to the rotary mechanism such that the spacing of the massage nodes progressively increases and decreases.

The invention relates to a multifunctional touring car, including a touring car body. The touring car body includes a cockpit, a chassis located at the back of the cockpit, a living cabin and a healthcabin fixed on the chassis. The top of the living cabin is provided with a hollow cabin roof. The cabin roof is connected with a shading shed frame through a telescopic rod. The two sides of the shading shed frame are respectively provided with solar panels. An inverted 'V' awning is formed through the solar panels of two sides. The interior of the living cabin is provided with stairs. The livingcabin is divided into two parts by the stairs, which are a bedroom and a living room. The bedroom part of the living cabin is provided with an assembled folding bed and a folding desk. The lower partof the living cabin is connected with a telescopic plate in intercalation. The side of the living cabin is provided with a living cabin door with an extended folding structure. The chassis is connected with an axle through an adjustable suspension system. The multifunctional touring car has the advantages of being simple in structure, convenient to use, capable of effectively saving the space ofoccupied space in the car and meanwhile enlarging the interior space of the car to improve the comfort degree according to the demand.

A hydraulic tail trailer comprising a main deck having a main tail assembly pivotally connected to the rearward end thereof with the pivotal connection therebetween being located forwardly of the centerline of the rear axle of the trailer suspension system. The location of the hinge between the main deck and the main tail assembly, by being located forwardly of the centerline of the rear axle, provides a main tail having an increased length thereby providing a lower loading angle without increasing the overall length of the trailer. The trailer of this invention also enables the front axles of the trailer suspension system to be moved to multiple spread positions with respect to the rear axle.

The invention relates to an ash blowing control valve, which comprises a valve body, a valve flap, a valve holder, a valve handle, and a guide sleeve. The ash blowing control valve also comprises a reverse T-shaped adjusting ring. A square hole passes through the middle of the adjusting ring, the adjusting ring is positioned below the guide sleeve and sleeve on the valve handle, the lower end face of the guide sleeve is provided with a round groove corresponding to the upper end part of the adjusting ring, the upper end part of the adjusting ring is arranged in the groove and connected with the guide sleeve through threads, and the cross section of the part of the valve handle with adjusting ring is square and matched with the square hole of the adjusting ring. Compared with prior lift valve, the ash blowing control valve improved in the invention has an optimized and reasonable structure, and has cutting function as well as pressure and flow adjusting function in the control valve body.

A photovoltaic system with glass fibers comprises a solar photovoltaic module frame and a junction box for a photovoltaic panel. A bayonet for mounting a solar cell module is arranged on the inner side of the frame, a night side of the frame is a mounting surface, a mounting cavity is arranged between the mounting surface and the bayonet, at least one vent hole is arranged on a sunward side of the frame and communicated with the mounting cavity, the solar photovoltaic module frame is made of glass fiber materials, the junction box for the photovoltaic panel comprises a junction box body and a box cover, four clamp grooves are arranged on one side of the junction box body, fixture blocks are arranged on the other side of the junction box body, clamp hooks corresponding to the clamp grooves are arranged on the box cover, elastic clamp hooks corresponding to the fixture blocks are arranged on the box cover, and the junction box is made of glass fiber materials.

The invention provides a finance evidence pressing machine for finance management and relates to the field of finance evidence sorting. The finance evidence pressing machine for finance management comprises a working platform. A first supporting plate is fixedly connected to one side of the working platform. A second supporting plate is fixedly connected to one side, opposite to the first supporting plate, of the working platform. A rotating shaft is arranged on the middle portion of the first supporting plate. The rotating shaft is in thread connection with the first supporting plate. A rocking handle is fixedly connected to one end of the rotating shaft. The middle portion of the working platform is hollow, and first openings are formed in four corners of the edge of the interior correspondingly. A second sliding groove is formed in the lower portion of the working platform. A sliding rod is arranged in the first sliding groove. A fixing plate is fixedly connected to the middle portion of the upper end of the working platform. According to the finance evidence pressing machine, by the adoption of the sliding rod and a clamping plate, a large number of finance evidences can be treated in batch, meanwhile, the heating manner is adopted in the treatment process, thus the leveling speed of the finance evidences is further increased, and the treatment efficiency is improved greatly.

A method for detecting a load distribution in a roller bearing having at least one row of rollers and a strain sensor attached to a first ring, wherein the first ring is configured to rotate relative to a second ring. The method comprises steps of: (a) detecting peak heights and peak positions in roller load induced strain signals obtained from the strain sensor, and (b) calculating a load acting on at least one angle range of the second ring using peak heights of a plurality of peak positions falling in the angle range.