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An interconnection element and a method of forming an interconnection element. In one embodiment, the interconnection element includes a first structure and a second structure coupled to the first structure. The second structure coupled with the first material has a spring constant greater than the spring constant of the first structure alone. In one embodiment, the interconnection element is adapted to be coupled to an electronic component tracked as a conductive path from the electronic component. In one embodiment, the method includes forming a first (interconnection) structure coupled to a substrate to define a shape suitable as an interconnection in an integrated circuit environment and then coupling, such as by coating, a second (interconnection) structure to the first (interconnection) structure to form an interconnection element. Collectively, the first (interconnection) structure and the second (interconnection) structure have a spring constant greater than a spring constant of the first (interconnection) structure.

Systems and methods for monitoring uterus contraction activity and progress of labor. The system of the subject invention can comprises (1) a plurality of sensors; (2) an amplifying/filtering means; (3) a computing means; and (4) a graphical user interface. Accurate clinical data, which can be extracted and provided to the user in real-time using the system of the invention, include without limitation, progress of labor, prediction and monitoring of preterm labor, and intrauterine pressure prediction. In a preferred embodiment, the system of the invention includes an intelligence means, such as a neural network system, to analyze and interpret clinical data for use in clinical diagnosis as well as delivery strategy.

An apparatus for holding and arranging threads in surgical operations with a flexible structure being in a ring form, connecting straight linear forms or divided linear forms, with flexible metal inserted within foaming material. V shape ditches are cut on the upper portion, and the base has adhesiveness. Affordable and simple manufacturing method is established with extrusion molding process or heat press molding process, after which extrusion cut process is conducted with the mold. Labor within hospitals can be reduced, by providing an affordable apparatus which prevents the threads from being damaged, also solving the concern of tissue damage due to thread tension, as the threads are accurately held and arranged without any mixing up with neighboring threads, and the apparatus size, the fixing position of the apparatus, and the operating tissue area can be adjusted at the surgeon's will.

The invention relates to a multifunctional environment-friendly and coating-saving wall painting machine. The multifunctional environment-friendly and coating-saving wall painting machine comprises a base, a movement module, a wall painting module, a feeding module and a stirring module. The movement module comprises a lifting mechanism installed on the base. The lifting mechanism drives the wall painting module to move vertically. The wall painting module comprises a roller brush, a puttying plate, a polishing plate and a rotary locating mechanism. The rotary locating mechanism comprises a rotary plate, a locating pin and a reset spring. A mechanical arm and a rotating arm are arranged above the lifting mechanism, the rotating arm is hinged to the mechanical arm, and a tension spring is arranged between the rotating arm and the mechanical arm. The multifunctional environment-friendly and coating-saving wall painting machine can achieve integration of automatic stirring, feeding, puttying, polishing and painting, guarantee accurate discharging, replace workers to complete complex wall painting work high in labor intensity, improve the work efficiency, guarantee the wall painting quality, liberate labor force, avoid injury to the human body, solve the problem of waste caused by leakage of coatings, lower the decoration cost and reduce the environmental pollution.

The system enables conversion of black and white images to color images and/or two-dimensional images into three-dimensional images based on adding color and/or depth to images using masks for regions in the images, as well as reshaping of masks to cover objects that have moved and changed shape as the objects move in a sequence of images. Also, includes motion picture project management system for reviewers, coordinators and artists. Artists utilize image analysis and image enhancement and computer graphics processing for example to convert two-dimensional images into three-dimensional images or otherwise create or alter motion pictures. Enables the efficient management of projects related to motion pictures to enable enterprises to manage assets, control costs, predict budgets and profit margins, reduce archival storage and otherwise provide displays tailored to specific roles to increase worker efficiency.

Motion picture project management system for reviewers, coordinators and artists. Artists utilize image analysis and image enhancement and computer graphics processing for example to convert two-dimensional images into three-dimensional images or otherwise create or alter motion pictures. Enables the efficient management of projects related to motion pictures to enable enterprises to manage assets, control costs, predict budgets and profit margins, reduce archival storage and otherwise provide displays tailored to specific roles to increase worker efficiency.

To provide a bi-aspherical type progressive-power lens which provides an excellent visual acuity correction for prescription values and a wide effective visual field with less distortion in wearing, by reducing a magnification difference of an image between a distance portion and a near portion. The lens is characterized in that when on a first refractive surface being an object side surface, a surface refractive power in a horizontal direction and a surface refractive power in a vertical direction, at a far vision diopter measurement position F1, are DHf and DVf respectively, and on the first refractive surface, a surface refractive power in a horizontal direction and a surface refractive power in a vertical direction, at a near vision diopter measurement position N1, are DHn and DVn respectively, relational equations,

DHf+DHn<Dvf+DVn, and DHn<DVn

are satisfied, and surface astigmatism components at F1 and N1 of the first refractive surface are cancelled by the second refractive surface being an eyeball side surface so that the first and second refractive surfaces together provide a far vision diopter (Df) and an addition diopter (ADD) based on prescription values.

A vehicle rear body structure including: a cross member provided beneath a rear parcel shelf to connect upper ends of rear suspension towers; a strip member provided along a rear edge of a floor panel; and panel members provided between the cross member and the strip member to connect the cross member and the strip member. The panel members include a center panel and a pair of side panels arranged on outer sides in a vehicle transverse direction of the center panel, respectively. Each of the side panels is joined along an inner edge in the vehicle transverse direction thereof to the center panel by a continuous welding.

An in-vehicle unit used in each of host vehicles including a subject vehicle and nearby vehicles communicates information using inter-vehicle communication, generates an index data-item including an index value indicating an operational situation of a sensor instrument based on a detection result from the sensor instrument, and transmits the generated index data-item via the wireless communicator. A subject in-vehicle unit used in the subject vehicle includes: a communication processing section that acquires the index data-item from nearby in-vehicle units; a determination criterion specification section successively specifies a different-unit determination criterion based on the acquired index data-item; and a different-unit diagnosis test section that determines whether a sensor instrument in a target nearby in-vehicle unit operates normally, by comparing the different-unit determination criterion with the index data-item acquired from the target nearby in-vehicle unit.

A light trolley system for vertical-plane growing that maximizes the coverage area, quality of light, and useable growing area is provided. The light trolley system comprises a support structure and a first C rail secured to the support structure. The first C rail has a first end and a second end. A first brace is mounted to the first C rail and a first light trolley secured to the first brace. The first light trolley has at least one bar light mounted within a light manifold. The first brace supports and stabilizes the first light trolley. The combined first brace and first light trolley is moveable along the first C rail between the first end and the second end of the first C rail allowing the first light trolley to be moved to various locations increasing labor efficiency in the growing area.

A drilling machine, in particular a core hole drilling machine, having a mount on which an electromagnet is provided for attachment to a metal part on which a drilling unit is supported in displaceable fashion, wherein the drilling unit has a housing that accommodates an electric motor for driving a tool, is provided. There is provided a controller having at least one switch for switching on and off the electric motor and the electromagnet. The controller includes an operating and supervisory panel that is supported on an end of the housing opposite the tool. The switch for switching on and off the electromagnet and for switching off the electric motor is designed so that in the activated condition of the electric motor any operation of the controller will first cause the electric motor to be switched off before the electromagnet can be switched off.

A system, apparatus, and method are provided for using a PCB component as an antenna to allow for RFID communication in the UHF band. The present invention enables supply chain management of a PCB and products containing the PCB by enabling tracking of a PCB at the assembly level such that at each production stage of the board production it is known exactly where the product is and what is its present state of test. One embodiment uses an existing ground plane of a PCB, splitting the ground plane of all the layers of the PCB, allowing for a dipole structure that provides an adequate received energy level to power the circuit to the “on” state thereby allowing RFID/Electronic Product Code transactions. In alternative embodiments, existing or added traces are used in place of the split ground plane as an antenna for the RFID IC. The supply chain management can employ a dedicated RFID interrogator that is connected to an IT network and allows for bill of materials to be fulfilled in an automated fashion throughout the assembly of the PCB. The manufacturer of the end product can also use the RFID IC in an own end product item level supply management system that includes inventory, shipments, and returns.

Apparatus for applying a fluid to a target area of a component is provided, the apparatus comprising a fluid applicator 10 and means 12, 300, 400 for guiding the fluid applicator 10 along a predetermined path with respect to the component 26; the fluid applicator 10 comprising a body 14 and an application head 50, 100, 200 mounted on the body 14 and operable in use to be brought into physical contact with the component 26.

The invention provides a river channel dredging, screening and mud-cleaning method and equipment. A combined lifting structure operating under action of negative pressure is adopted, stone with a large density and floating rubbish with a small density are screened out by means of dead load from rubbish mixed with mud and are respectively collected. A mud pump (4) is installed on one side of a boxbody (1). The lower portion of the other side of the box body (1) is provided with a mud pipe (5). The inner end of the mud pipe (5) communicates with a stone collecting device (3) vertically installed in the box body (1) through a mud jet opening (12). A floating rubbish screening box (2) is installed on the top of the stone block collecting (3). The problems that rubbish in small and medium-sized river channels are complicated and diversified, and mechanical operation is difficult are solved. The interception ratio of the stone and the floating rubbish reaches 90% or over. The river channeldredging, screening and mud-cleaning equipment is high in self-suction capacity, stable in conveyance and operation, simple and compact in structure and convenient to assemble, disassemble and maintain. The dredging construction efficiency is significantly improved, labor is liberated, mechanization of dredging of the small and medium-sized river channels is facilitated, and the river channel dredging, screening and mud-cleaning equipment is suitable for use and popularization.

The invention discloses a method for extracting levodopa by taking mucuna cochinchine-sis(Lour)Tang et Wang as a raw material. The method comprises the following steps: (1) raw material pretreatment,(2) extraction, (3) impurity removal, (4) concentration, (5) purification, (6) recrystallization, and (7) drying to obtain a product. According to the method for extracting the levodopa from the mucuna cochinchine-sis(Lour)Tang et Wang as the raw material, an acid solution adopts a mixed acid prepared from formic acid and hydrochloric acid according to a volume ratio of 1:(1 to 3), and can converttyrosine into dopa, thus greatly reducing the content of the tyrosine in the product, and improving the quality of the product; resin is not needed in a preparation process, and generated sewage andwastewater are less and easy to treat. The finished levodopa prepared by the method is high in yield, the crude product yield is 4.0-4.5 percent, the product yield is 2.8-3.0 percent, and the contentof the tyrosine in the prepared finished levodopa is reduced to 0.08 to 0.15 percent, and is reduced by 2 to 5 times compared with levodopa produced according to a conventional process.

A decision support tool is provided for predicting the neonatal vitality scores of a fetus during delivery, the scores being an indicator of future health for the infant anticipated to be born within a future time interval, measured as time to birth. The predicted neonatal vitality score is determined from measurements of physiological variables monitored during labor, such as uterine activity and fetal heart rate. Fetal heart rate variability and patterns may be detected and computed using the monitored physiological variables, and neonatal vitality scores may be predicted based, at least in part, on the variability metrics and fetal heart rate patterns. Scores may be predicted for different delivery methods, such as vaginal delivery or cesarean delivery, for different time-to-birth intervals. In this way, these scores may be used for decision support for care plans during labor, such as increased monitoring and/or modifying the delivery type.

A frame assembly for installing panel modules with different dimensions is disclosed. The frame assembly includes a first frame and a second frame. The first frame has a first fixing structure formed thereon and a first sliding structure in an axis direction. The second frame has a second fixing structure formed thereon and a second sliding structure in the axis direction. The second sliding structure is slidably engaged with the first sliding structure. The first fixing structure and the second fixing structure are fixed on a side of a first panel module or on a side of a second panel module when the second frame slides relative to the first frame in the axis direction to a first position or to a second position.

A dip tube for use with a water heater having a pipe nipple, the dip tube including an upper end and a tubular body, where the upper end is located above the tubular body. The upper end has an outer wall, a top portion and bottom portion, and further includes a flange located at the top portion. The flange extends outwardly from the outer wall to retain the dip tube at the pipe nipple. The upper end also includes a reinforced connecting portion located at the bottom portion for connecting the upper end to the tubular body, where a portion of the tubular body is located within the reinforced connecting portion.