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A liquid crystal display is provided which is capable of reducing the occurrence of defective display due to variations in the initial alignment direction of a liquid crystal alignment control film in a liquid crystal display of an IPS scheme, realizing the stable liquid crystal alignment, providing excellent mass productivity, and having high image quality with a higher contrast ratio. The liquid crystal display has a liquid crystal layer disposed between a pair of substrates, at least one of the substrates being transparent, and an alignment control film formed between the liquid crystal layer and the substrate. At least one of the alignment control films comprises photoreactive polyimide and/or polyamic acid provided with an alignment control ability by irradiation of substantially linearly polarized light.

A living hinge includes a hinge body formed of a material. The hinge body has attachment edges and a flexing zone between the attachment edges defining a flexing axis. The material of the hinge body has at least one separation formed therein in the flexing zone. The at least one separation describes an angle with the flexing axis being other than 90°.

Embodiments of the invention comprise an angled axis machine vision system having a camera system angled with respect to an axis of the coordinate system of the environment. This configuration has all of the advantages of the horizontal alignment while eliminating the inherent problem of utilizing horizontal and vertical lines in an environment for distance calculations when the horizontal and vertical lines are parallel or close to parallel to an axis lying between camera centers of the camera system. With the camera centers angled about the roll axis, horizontal and vertical lines in the environment appear as angled lines in images taken from the cameras enabling more accurate distance calculations. With the camera centers angled downward about the pitch axis objects that are near are more readily observed. With angled axis rotation it is still possible for lines in the environment to be parallel to the axis defined between the camera centers, but these instances are rarer than horizontal or vertical lines in real world environments. Embodiments of the invention may comprise a camera mount that is rotatably mounted to a support wherein two sets of pictures from each of the cameras may either be utilized. In one embodiment the two sets are compared for the number of lines which are parallel to the axis of the camera centers and the set of pictures with the least lines parallel is used for distance calculations. In another embodiment, the two sets are utilized to correlate the distances derived from each set of pictures.

Disclosed are systems and methods for the formation of a polymer nanocomposite material using a high-concentration masterbatch as a source of nanocomposite filler.

A package having a handle portion is disclosed. The package generally includes opposing panel portions that at least partially define an interior cavity therebetween accessible through an access opening. The handle is generally formed by two or more openings or apertures punched or cut into a portion of the package. The handle can be further defined by a cut or slit line extending between and in communication with the apertures to provide a hingeable flap.

A system and method for multi-spectral image capture of a first scene includes acquiring a first series of images of the first scene with one or more image acquisition systems and filtering each of the first series of images of the scene with a different non-interference filter, illuminating each image of the first series of images with a different illuminant, or acquiring each of the images of the first series of images with a different image acquisition system. Each of the image acquisition systems has at least one color channel, each of the non-interference filters has a different spectral transmittance, and each of the illuminants has a different spectral power distribution.

A polarization sensor is described. It includes a quarter-wave plate to convert circularly polarized light into linearly polarized light. The quarter-wave plate is realized as a metasurface. The sensor also includes a linear polarizer to analyze the light generated by the quarter-wave plate, and a photodetector to receive the analyzed light. The sensor may be combined with other linear polarization sensors to form a sensor capable of complete measurement of the polarization state of incident light. An array of these sensors can be integrated directly onto image sensors to form a polarimetric imager.

The basic function of this device is to use gravity effects on a fluid to cause energy to be developed in a manor different than the present hydro systems, alleviating the mechanical losses present in their design, as well as the limitations of placement, and layout that cause unnatural disturbances in surrounding natural systems. This design allows the device to be placed effectively on a low level system as well as a high, and still produce an effective output. This is accomplished by ganging low level hydro elevation differences. Territorial elevation differences such as Lake Erie versus Lake Ontario can be used for energy Production as well as tidal changes, as in the Bay of Fundy.

A system and method for biometric identification of a target individual based on a query containing UV image data of the target individual. In one embodiment, the system includes a first database, a query module, a detection module, a sequence module and a match module. The first database includes a plurality of identities with each identity having at least one binary sequence representative of a skin area of that identity. The query module receives the query and validates the UV image data. The detection module detects at least one skin area in the UV image data. The sequence module forms at least one target binary sequence corresponding to the at least one skin area. The match module searches the first database based on the at least one target binary sequence to identify at least one identity thereby facilitating biometric identification of the target individual.

The invention provides a method for producing grain-oriented silicon steel with single cold rolling, comprising: 1) smelting, refining and continuous casting to obtain a casting blank; 2) hot rolling; 3) normalization, i.e. normalizing annealing and cooling; 4) cold-rolling, i.e. single cold rolling at a cold rolling reduction rate of 75-92%; 5) decarburizing annealing at 780-880° C. for 80-350 s in a protective atmosphere having a due point of 40-80° C., wherein the total oxygen [0] in the surface of the decarburized sheet: 171/t≦[O]≦313/t (t represents the actual thickness of the steel sheet in mm), the amount of absorbed nitrogen: 2-10 ppm; 6) high temperature annealing, wherein the dew point of the protective atmosphere: 0-50° C., the temperature holding time at the first stage: 6-30 h, the amount of absorbed nitrogen during high-temperature annealing: 10-40 ppm; 7) hot-leveling annealing. The invention may control the primary recrystallization microstructure of steel sheet effectively by controlling the normalization process of hot rolled sheet to form sufficient favorable (Al, Si)N inclusions from nitrogen absorbed by slab during decarburizing annealing and low-temperature holding of high-temperature annealing, facilitating the generation of stable, perfect secondary recrystallization microstructure of the final products. In addition, the invention avoids the impact of nitridation using ammonia on the underlying layer in prior art, and thus the formation of a good glass film underlying layer is favored.

A dispensing device having a polymer which is combined with a therapeutic agent in the form of a microparticle or nanoparticle which is “hyper-compressed” to form a controlled release dispensing device and methods of locally administering a therapeutic agent using said microparticles.

Polyacrylamides, guar gum (sometimes “guar”), xanthan gum, carboxymethylcellulose, hydroxyethylcellulose, and other water-soluble polymers are dissolved and hydrated in aqueous solutions, including especially recycled drilling, fracturing, and other oilfield fluids having significant salt contents, by passing the water-soluble polymer together with the aqueous medium to a cavitation device including an integrated disc pump. The integration of a disc pump with the cavitation device reduces the risk of gumming by applying a negative pressure at the feed point. The ability to use water-soluble polymers with the salty recycled oilfield fluids has significant environmental benefits, namely (1) fresh water is not needed, (2) disposal of the environmentally undesirable returned fluids is not needed, (3) difficultly degradable synthetic polymers may not be needed, and, in particular, (4) the enhanced ability to use guar, which, being a natural product, is biodegradable, is environmentally favored. Although the invention is most beneficial for use with salt or brackish water, its high efficiency points to beneficial use where fresh water is the only available choice for the aqueous medium. Where dry polymer is used, the invention's benefits are especially realized in terms of logistics and handling, since viscous and bulky solutions need not be prepared and stored in advance, thus also minimizing health, safety and environmental risks

A formulation for and method of enhancing adiponectin and leptin secretion is disclosed. The method comprises contacting living cells with an inhibitor of the enzyme pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase (PDHK). The PDHK inhibitor causes the cells it contacts to increase adiponectin secretion as well as increasing the production of leptin. The increased levels of adiponectin alone (or in a synergistic combination with increased leptin) provides a range of desired results including weight loss and the prevention of weight.

A mounting system for securing a handgun holster to furniture, comprising a holster having a pistol receiving pouch and an attachment element, a mounting bracket having a horizontal plate portion connected to a vertical plate portion, the vertical plate portion having at least one opening, and a fastener for securing said attachment element to said mounting bracket at the opening. This handgun holster safely and reversibly secures a handgun to furniture to allow a user to store a handgun conveniently nearby for ready access without the risk of the holster falling off of the mounting system and unintentionally discharging the weapon.

A framing hammer including an automatic feeding magazine supported within the hammerhead by guide rails with a self-loading magazine. Through the center of the upper portion of the hammer handle lies the self-loading reciprocating magazine. The top end of the magazine actuates due to the force of the impact of the tool through its natural operation. The magazine is inclined at 21° relative to the handle and is spaced in the center of the handle from the rear of the nail driving face. Structure is provided for individually driving a nail from a magazine contained row of commercially available 21° collated nails toward the rearward facing end of the hammerhead. Upon impact the tool dispenses and sets a nail up to a 1½″ into the work surface, upon disengagement the tool reciprocates to resets to its resting position whereupon the tool is ready to repeat the action.

The system for forming stacks of composite materials comprises a form (1) which defines the section that is desired to provide to a stack (2) of composite material placed thereon to obtain a formed stack (2′); a counter-form (3), which together with the form (1), forms and obtains the formed stack (2′); and it is characterized in that the system also comprises transition elements (4) deformable, that adopt a variable section from an initial section in one of its ends and the end section defined by the form (1) in the other end.

It allows changing the geometry during the forming of the laminate, to obtain laminates of variable section along its length. For this purpose, the form and counter-form must have a variable geometry at will.