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The invention is a divider block assembly suitable for use at high fluid pressures. Applicant has found that divider blocks in common use deform sufficient at high pressures to have an adverse affect on accurate fluid delivery and component longevity. A preferred high pressure divider block uses divider block sections engineered for high pressure applications with substantially thicker material surrounding the piston bore, utilizing precise bolt placement on the divider block sections to ensure even pressure to prevent distortion of the piston bore, and engineered base plate inlet and end sections that allow mounting of divider blocks without the addition of extra intermediate sections to reduce leak paths and bolts to secure the base together more firmly, all bolts being torqued to prevent distortion while sealing fluid passages. The use of any of these aspects separately can improve performance, and not all are required in every embodiment.

The invention provides compositions containing hemoglobin, particularly PEGylated hemoglobin. The PEGylated hemoglobin molecule is capable of transferring oxygen or carbon monoxide bound thereto to a tissue with which it is in proximity. Exemplary PEGylated hemoglobin formulations of the invention are virally inactivated. Various compositions of the invention include deoxygenated hemoglobin, which may be conjugated with one or more water-soluble polymer. PEGylated hemoglobin includes those species in which the iron atom of the hemoglobin molecule is not bound to oxygen or any other species, and hemoglobin molecules in which a species other than oxygen, e.g., carbon monoxide, is bound to the iron atom. The compositions of the invention are formulated as hypo-, iso- or hypertonic solutions of the PEGylated hemoglobin. The compositions are of use to treat and / or ameliorate disease, injury and insult by providing for the oxygenation of tissues and / organs.

A thermal barrier liner is preferably spray coated onto the internal surface of a container. The liner is provided in embodiments including a closed cell substrate, a base layer having gas or liquid filled microcapsules, a base layer having microencapsulated solid-liquid phase change material, or combinations thereof. For the closed cell substrate embodiment, when the liner is under pressure within the container prior to the container being opened, the liner maintains a minimum thickness. When the container is opened and as pressure is released within the container, the liner expands to achieve equilibrium. The liner can be supplemented with a foaming agent to create cellular structures. Voids created by the microcapsules enhance the thermal barrier characteristics of the liner. The phase change material changes phase from a solid to a liquid state upon absorbing heat.

A rectifier hub and associated cooling method provide increased cooling efficiency for rotating rectifier diodes in a dry cavity generator. The rectifier hub has an inner and an outer circumferential surface and includes at least one pair of flow passages, and at least one flow channel. Each pair of flow passages extends between the hub inner and outer circumferential surfaces, and each flow channel is formed in the hub outer circumferential surface and couples the pair of flow passages in fluid communication with one another. This configuration allows a cooling medium to flow directly across the rectifier hub and cool the rectifier diodes mounted within drive cavities formed in the hub.

Systems and methods for treating contaminated impound water are disclosed which include a pretreatment stage wherein contaminated water is oxidized, pH adjusted, treated with a coagulant, and treated with a polymer to form a flocculent comprising bulk solids and fine particles. The oxidizing step may include two or more stages, one of which is a treatment with ferrous iron generated from iron filings or steel wool. Bulk solids are removed, and the liquid portion containing fine particles is applied to a low pressure microfiltration unit to remove the fine particles resulting in a microfilter effluent. The microfilter effluent may be directly fed to a reverse osmosis (R / O) unit. The R / O reject may be recycled to another R / O unit (second pass). The R / O permeate may be blended as needed with the microfiltration effluent to provide the final discharge effluent with reduced contaminant levels and maximized throughput. The R / O second pass reject water is further oxidized and recycled back to the front of the system to be retreated.

The invention provides compositions containing hemoglobin, particularly PEGylated hemoglobin. The PEGylated hemoglobin molecule is capable of transferring oxygen or carbon monoxide bound thereto to a tissue or red blood cells with which it is in proximity. Exemplary PEGylated hemoglobin formulations of the invention are virally inactivated. Various compositions of the invention include hemoglobin, which may be conjugated with one or more water-soluble polymer. PEGylated hemoglobin includes those species in which the iron atom of the hemoglobin molecule is not bound to oxygen or any other species, and hemoglobin molecules in which a species other than oxygen, e.g., carbon monoxide, is bound to the iron atom. The compositions of the invention are formulated as hypo-, iso- or hypertonic solutions of the PEGylated hemoglobin. The compositions are of use to treat and / or ameliorate disease, injury and insult by providing for the oxygenation of tissues and / organs.

The invention discloses an anti-mud type phosphate modified polycarboxylate superplasticizer and a preparation method thereof. The method specifically comprises the following steps: performing oxidation-reduction free radical polymerization reaction on unsaturated carboxylic acid micro-monomer and unsaturated polyether macro-monomer in the presence of an initiator, a reducing agent and a chain transfer agent, thereby acquiring a carboxyl-containing polycarboxylate superplasticizer prepolymer; with diphenyl phosphoryl chloride, modifying the carboxyl-containing polycarboxylate superplasticizer prepolymer partially, thereby acquiring a phosphate based copolymerization product; after completing the reaction, regulating the pH value to 6-7 and adding water, thereby acquiring the polycarboxylate superplasticizer. According to the invention, the side chain of the polycarboxylate superplasticizer is modified into a phosphate group containing two benzene rings and the phosphoric acid functional group enters into the carminate element of the polycarboxylate superplasticizer, so that the sulfate radical resisting capacity and anti-mud capacity of the polycarboxylate superplasticizer are promoted. The introduction of the benzene rings can greatly increase the physical size of the side chain of the polycarboxylate superplasticizer and the polycarboxylate superplasticizer is unlikely to be inserted into the layered structure of clay, so that the anti-mud effect can be achieved and the intrinsic function of the polycarboxylate superplasticizer is not influenced.

An object of the invention is to reduce the size of a liquid crystal display device and to enhance the reliability of a connection portion with a flexible wiring substrate. According to the invention, liquid crystal is sandwiched between a TFT substrate and a color filter substrate. The TFT substrate is formed in a larger size than that of the color filter substrate. A connection portion with a flexible wiring substrate is formed on the TFT substrate. The TFT substrate is formed with a notch at its portion connected with the flexible wiring substrate. The flexible wiring substrate is bent over the notch toward a rear side of the liquid crystal display device as accommodated in a mold. This allows for the size reduction of the overall display device and ensures the enhanced reliability of the connection portion.

A heatsink for dissipating heat generated by electronic components comprising an outer frame of copper tungsten or copper molybdenum metal matrix composite having a cavity extending between the top and the bottom surfaces, a copper-diamond composite material within the opening, and copper plating on the top and the bottom surfaces. The heatsink also includes an array of alternating layers of copper and a material selected from the group of molybdenum and copper / molybdenum metal matrix surrounding the outer frame. The heatsink can be manufactured by press fitting at room temperature a porous isotropic diamond material in the cavity of an outer frame of porous tungsten or molybdenum, co-infiltrating the assembly under pressure with copper, press fitting at room temperature the outer frame into the layered array, and subjecting the heatsink to a temperature of approximately 800 Deg C.

A computer system includes a first circuit board and a second circuit board which is detachably coupled to the first circuit board via a specially designed I / O connector. When coupled together, the main board and the I / O card are positioned within a same plane by which, a computer system is configured with easy customizable printed circuit boards without substantially increase of the overall physical dimension. In the event that the first circuit board or the second circuit board needs to be modified, the two circuit boards can be detached from each other and after the modification, the two circuit boards can be coupled together again with the same connector to resume the functions of the computer system. Embodiments of the present invention provide effective and convenient solutions for reconfiguration, upgrading, addition and / or removal of external I / O ports in computer systems without redesigning and / or replacing the whole motherboard.

The invention discloses a slow-release polycarboxylate superplasticizer and a preparation method thereof. The preparation method comprises specific steps as follows: firstly, small unsaturated carboxylic acid monomers and diphenylphosphinyl chloride are subjected to a partial reaction, and small unsaturated monomers containing phosphate ester groups are obtained; then 2-phenylethylamine and phosphate ester groups are added to a reaction system and subjected to a reaction, and small unsaturated monomers containing amide groups are obtained; the small unsaturated monomers containing the amide groups are subjected to an oxidation-reduction free radical polymerization reaction with unsaturated polyether macromonomers under the action of an initiating agent, a reducing agent and a chain transfer agent, and a copolymerization product is obtained; pH value is adjusted to 6-7 after the reaction, water is added, and the polycarboxylate superplasticizer is obtained. The amide groups containing benzene rings are introduced to side chains of the prepared polycarboxylate superplasticizer, so that the dispersibility of the polycarboxylate superplasticizer for cement is improved, the polycarboxylate superplasticizer has good slump retaining performance on the premise of water reduction, and besides, the yield of the polycarboxylate superplasticizer containing the amide groups can reach 94% or higher.

To provide an electric machine capable of being improved in both fabricability and reliability, and a process for manufacturing the machine.In order to ensure resolution of the above subject, a stator coil 112 is constructed from a plurality of coil conductors 113 each mounted in two spaced slots 111b, each of the coil conductors 113 is formed under a no-end state at any portions from a connection 113j to a connection 113k, and a crossover-side coil end 113c that includes crossover side portions 113e and 113f crossing over from one of two spaced slots 111b to the other of the slots, guided from an end of a stator core 111 outside the outside of the stator core, and extending in the direction that the crossover side portion is away from the end of the stator core 111 is formed so that an angle of a crossover side of the crossover side portion 113e with respect to an edge present at the end of the stator core 111 is greater than an angle of a crossover side of the crossover side portion 113f with respect to the edge present at the end of the stator core 111.

The inventive body scanner is used to screen persons entering a security controlled area for the presence of security threats hidden under the clothing, such as guns, knifes, explosives and contraband. The Invention is an improvement on prior art body scanners that operate primarily by acquiring backscatter x-ray images, but only acquire transmission images over a limited part of the person's body. These prior art systems provide x-ray sources on the anterior and posterior sides of the person being screened, and x-ray sensitive detectors on the sides of these x-ray sources. While sufficient for backscatter imaging, the gaps between these detectors results in blind areas in the transmission images, resulting in lower ability to detect security threats hidden under the clothing. The present Invention overcomes these limitations of the prior art by providing x-ray sensitive detector on the outside of the x-ray sources. That is, the pair of x-ray sources are located within the pair of x-ray detectors, and the person being screened is located within the pair of x-ray sources. In conjunction with this imaging geometry, spatial offsets in the location of the x-ray sources provide effectively full transmission coverage for transmission imaging.

A readout board for use in a micropattern gas detector comprises a plurality of detector pads arranged into a plurality of consecutive layers that are separated by dielectric spacer material. An electron cloud hitting the front side of the readout board will induce a charge on one of the detector pads of the uppermost layer. By capacitive coupling, the signal will propagate downwards through the consecutive layers until it reaches the bottom layer, from which the charges are read out and analyzed. The position of the impact can be determined by comparing the charges that have spread to neighboring readout pads. Since only the bottommost layer of the readout pads needs to be connected to readout electronics, incident particles can be localized at high precision despite the relatively large size of the readout pads in the bottom layer. The invention is effective both in a gas electron multiplier (GEM) and in a MicroMegas detector.

The present invention relates to a polypeptide having an amino acid sequence that differs from and is at least 70% identical to the amino acid sequence of hRANK, and which has a binding affinity to RANKL that is at least as high as the binding affinity of hRANK to RANKL, as determined by the functional competition assay described herein.

The consumption of organic solids with anaerobic digestion to generate usable gases including methane is made more efficient by maintaining the ideal digestion temperature, which is attained by combining the anaerobic digestion process with a halogen digester which produces heat energy and hydrogen gas. With a given biological feedstock four outputs can be generated (methane, hydrogen, electricity, and heat) in the ratio that makes the most economical sense. The process also provides a significant reduction in volume of output solids. The halogen oxidation process can be used on all the anaerobic digester effluent to extract more energy and oxidize a wet feedstock. If there are solids which are not easily digested with the anaerobic process, these solids can be diverted to the halogen digester to derive more energy from the feedstock. Pathogens common to other anaerobic digester effluents are removed. The mixture of methane and hydrogen gas can be compressed to produce an enriched compressed natural gas (CNG) with a variety of uses.

The invention is a divider block assembly suitable for use at high fluid pressures. Applicant has found that a sufficiently deep counterbored hole allows a mounting bolt to apply the sealing pressure well below the divider block surface, which can reduce or eliminate the compressive force on the metal around the piston bore, thereby reducing or eliminating distortion of the piston bore of the divider block and providing.

Disclosed is a display device for sharing one virtual screen image with other display devices, comprising display means for displaying a physical screen image corresponding to a portion of the virtual screen image; computing means for executing computations of the display device; and communication means for communicating with other display devices, so that those display devices are capable of interacting with each other via the virtual screen image.

The invention is a divider block assembly suitable for use at high fluid pressures. Applicant has found that a sufficiently deep counterbored hole allows a mounting bolt to apply the sealing pressure well below the divider block surface, which can reduce or eliminate the compressive force on the metal around the piston bore, thereby reducing or eliminating distortion of the piston bore of the divider block and providing.

In an IC packaging scheme, a multilayer substrate is composed of electrically conductive layers of interconnects, separated by insulative layers of epoxy resin or ceramic and connected by vias. Passive elements are integrated within the substrate at the definition stage during layout of the interconnects. The passives can be used to enhance the electrical performance of the active circuit die to a maximum extent allowed by the material technology used for the substrate. Material selection for the package is made to allow for the best passive integration for a given circuit design. Typical applications include power supply bypass capacitors, radio frequency tuning, and impedance matching. The incorporation of passives in the packaging substrate creates a new class of electrically tailorable packaging that can derive improved performance for any given die design over existing approaches.

The disclosure provides in one aspect a head-up display for a vehicle. The head-up display comprises a picture generating unit, an optical system and a light-selective filter. The picture generating unit is arranged to display a picture on a screen. The optical system is arranged to receive light of the picture. The optical system comprises at least one optical element having optical power arranged to form a magnified image of the picture. The light-selective filter is transmissive to light of the picture and reflective to other light. The light-selective filter is disposed between the optical system and the screen. The light-selective filter has a first surface arranged to receive light from the optical system and a second surface arranged to receive light of the picture from the screen.

The invention relates to a method and a system for achieving increased directivity in listening situations where at least one microphone (1, 2, 3) is embedded in a first structure (11) and at least one microphone (4) is embedded in a second structure (10), the first and the second structure being freely movable relative to each other, the method comprising conveying a microphone signal from one structure (11) to a common processing unit (8) for the microphone signals in the other structure (10) and successively processing the signals for achieving a directional output based on the microphone input to both structures.

The invention provides a compound polycarboxylate superplasticizer and a preparation method thereof. The compound polycarboxylate superplasticizer comprises a polycarboxylate superplasticizer mother solution, wherein the polycarboxylate superplasticizer mother solution is obtained by the steps of mixing a terminal hydroxyl esterifiable polyether macromonomer, water, an initiator, a chain transfer agent and acrylic acid, reacting while heating and neutralizing until the pH value is up to 6-7; and the terminal hydroxyl esterifiable polyether macromonomer is obtained by carrying out esterification reaction on the terminal hydroxyl of a polyether macromonomer and carboxyl of macromolecular carboxylic acid under the catalytic action of a catalyst. The terminal hydroxyl esterifiable polyether macromonomer takes the macromolecular carboxylic acid as a terminal blocking group of the polyether macromonomer, so that the physical size of the tail end of a side chain is greatly increased, then, the physical size of the tail end of the side chain of the polycarboxylate superplasticizer mother solution synthesized and prepared by using the terminal hydroxyl esterifiable polyether macromonomer is greatly increased, the polycarboxylate superplasticizer mother solution is not easily inserted to a laminated structure of clay, and furthermore, a mud-resistant effect is achieved. Then, the polycarboxylate superplasticizer mother solution is compound to form the compound polycarboxylate superplasticizer provided by the invention, so that the working performance of concrete is better ensured.

Systems and methods for treating contaminated impound water are disclosed which include a pretreatment stage wherein contaminated water is oxidized, pH adjusted, treated with a coagulant, and treated with a polymer to form a flocculent comprising bulk solids and fine particles. The oxidizing step may include two or more stages, one of which is a treatment with ferrous iron generated from iron filings or steel wool. Bulk solids are removed, and the liquid portion containing fine particles is applied to a low pressure microfiltration unit to remove the fine particles resulting in a microfilter effluent. The microfilter effluent may be directly fed to a reverse osmosis (R / O) unit. The R / O reject may be recycled to another R / O unit (second pass). The R / O permeate may be blended as needed with the microfiltration effluent to provide the final discharge effluent with reduced contaminant levels and maximized throughput. The R / O second pass reject water is further oxidized and recycled back to the front of the system to be retreated.

Methods and apparatus for configuring and storing data in a data storage device to increase storage capacity while ensuring acceptable data reliability are provided. The methods may involve providing a data zone and a risk zone, which forms an outer region of the disc and is known to have a higher risk of data access failure than the data zone. The risk zone is configured to have a first location for primary data storage and a second location for storing a backup copy of the data stored in the first location.

The invention provides compositions containing hemoglobin, particularly PEGylated hemoglobin. The PEGylated hemoglobin molecule is capable of transferring oxygen or carbon monoxide bound thereto to a tissue with which it is in proximity. Exemplary PEGylated hemoglobin formulations of the invention are virally inactivated. Various compositions of the invention include hemoglobin, which may be conjugated with one or more water-soluble polymer. PEGylated hemoglobin includes those species in which the iron atom of the hemoglobin molecule is not bound to oxygen or any other species, and hemoglobin molecules in which a species other than oxygen, e.g., carbon monoxide, is bound to the iron atom. The compositions of the invention are formulated as hypo-, iso- or hypertonic solutions of the PEGylated hemoglobin. The compositions are of use to treat and / or ameliorate disease, injury and insult by providing for the oxygenation of tissues and / organs.

In a base station device 12 which sequentially stores a part or the whole of packets in physical slots formed for time-division multiplexing to perform radio communications with another communication device, an empty region determination unit 22 compares the maximum storage size of each of the physical slots and the data size of the part or whole of the packet to be stored in the physical slot, and determines whether or not an empty region is formed in the physical slot. When the empty region determination unit 22 determines that an empty region is formed in the physical slot, a packet storage / extraction unit 24 stores a part or the whole of a packet subsequent to the packet, in the empty region.

The present invention provides a novel physical structure for a multilayer optical information recording medium including a plurality of information recording layers, and a recording method and a recording / reproduction apparatus for such a recording medium using the same. The multilayer optical information recording medium according to the present invention includes a test recording area for performing test recording for data recording and / or reproduction conditions in at least one of an inner zone and an outer zone. The test recording area is categorized as one of at least two categories of test recording areas (OPC-A area and OPC-B area). In the OPC-B area, an upper limit value is set on a recording power for the test recording.

An information recording medium according to the present invention includes three or more information recording layers. Each of the plurality of information recording layers includes a test recording area usable for adjusting a recording condition. One of the plurality of information recording layers includes a reproduction-only management data area in which management data usable for managing the information recording medium is pre-recorded. Each of the other two or more information recording layers among the plurality of information recording layers includes a test recording area at a radial position partially overlapping the radial position of the management data area.