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The invention relates to a process for making a thin film starting from a substrate (1) of a solid material with a plane face (2) comprising:the implantation of gaseous compounds in the substrate (1) to make a layer of micro-cavities (4) at a depth from the said plane face (2) corresponding to the thickness of the required thin film, the gaseous compounds being implanted under conditions that could weaken the substrate at the layer of micro-cavities,partial or total separation of the thin film from the rest of the substrate (1), this separation comprising a step in which thermal energy is added and pressure is applied to the said plane face (2).

This invention provides a method and system for the curative treatment of obesity. A first aspect of this invention is that it enables identification of the nerves responsible for the relaxation of the stomach muscles that occurs prior to and during eating. A second aspect of the invention is that it allows the physician to identify focal nerve sites in the stomach and upper duodenum that are associated with producing sensations of hunger and satiety. Nervous transmission from these sites can be modulated or blocked all together so as to minimize the sensation of hunger. A third aspect of this invention is that allows a physician to shrink selected portions of the innermost oblique muscle and middle circular muscle layers of the stomach. This can be performed in a physician's office using local anesthesia. Shrinkage of these muscles produces a feeling of satiety that enhances the patient's efforts to restrict his caloric intake.

This invention provides a method and system for the curative treatment of obesity. A first aspect of this invention is that it enables identification of the nerves responsible for the relaxation of the stomach muscles that occurs prior to and during eating. A second aspect of the invention is that it allows the physician to identify focal nerve sites in the stomach and upper duodenum that are associated with producing sensations of hunger and satiety. Nervous transmission from these sites can be modulated or blocked all together so as to minimize the sensation of hunger. A third aspect of this invention is that allows a physician to shrink selected portions of the innermost oblique muscle and middle circular muscle layers of the stomach. This can be performed in a physician's office using local anesthesia. Shrinkage of these muscles produces a feeling of satiety that enhances the patient's efforts to restrict his caloric intake.

The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for electrical stimulation of the pancreatico-biliary system. Electrode sets are placed in the pancreatico-biliary system in an arrangement that induce contractions or relaxation of the portion or whole of the pancreatico-biliary system by electrical stimulation of the surrounding tissue, muscles and nerves. The electrical stimulus is applied for periods of varying duration and varying frequency so as to produce the desired therapeutic effect, including inhibiting fat digestion or fat absorption by a patient and inducing satiety in the patient.

Systems and methods affect tightening of the pyloric sphincter and / or serve to mediate or moderate receptive relaxation of muscles in the stomach, to treat or mitigate various physiologic conditions, such as obesity, biliary reflex, GERD, and / or Barrett's esophagus. The systems and methods may be used as either a primary treatment modality, or applied as a supplementary treatment before, during or after a primary intervention.

The present invention is directed to a collapsible cover for protecting an occupant in a seating unit having a head region and a foot region. The cover has a body comprised of a flexible material having a top portion and at least one side wall portion, the top portion having a generally ellipse shape and having a length to span the distance between the head region and foot region of the seating unit and a width to span the width of the seating unit. The sidewall portion is connected to the top portion along a substantial portion of the periphery of the top portion to provide an arched configuration to the top portion. The cover further has a single closed loop frame member made of a flexible, coil-able, resilient material, that is secured along the length of the structure's membrane body so as to assume an ellipse-like shape when viewed from above, that is bent into an arched configuration about its minor axis. The closed loop frame member is movable between an extended orientation to allow the cover to be attached to the seating unit and a collapsed orientation to allow for a reduced size of the cover for transport and storage and is connected to the periphery of the top portion to provide in the extended orientation an arched ellipse shape about the length of the top portion. The cover also has a means for releasably attaching the cover to a seating unit.

A spin MOSFET includes: a first ferromagnetic layer provided on an upper face of a semiconductor substrate, and having a fixed magnetization direction perpendicular to a film plane; a semiconductor layer provided on an upper face of the first ferromagnetic layer, including a lower face opposed to the upper face of the first ferromagnetic layer, an upper face opposed to the lower face, and side faces different from the lower face and the upper face; a second ferromagnetic layer provided on the upper face of the semiconductor layer, and having a variable magnetization direction perpendicular to a film plane; a first tunnel barrier provided on an upper face of the second ferromagnetic layer; a third ferromagnetic layer provided on an upper face of the first tunnel barrier; a gate insulating film provided on the side faces of the semiconductor layer; and a gate electrode provided on the side faces of the semiconductor layer with the gate insulating film being interposed therebetween.

A cylinder head gasket is formed of a single metal base plate for sealing between a cylinder head and a cylinder block of an internal combustion engine. The cylinder head gasket has a primary sealing portion including a grommet or shim around a cylinder bore, and a secondary sealing portion outside the primary sealing portion. The secondary sealing portion is formed of a bead and a foamed coating layer coated on one side or both sides of the bead to cover at least a portion of the bead in a belt shape.

The present invention is directed to a collapsible cover for protecting an occupant in a seating unit having a head region and a foot region. The cover has a body comprised of a flexible material having a top portion and at least one side wall portion, the top portion having a generally ellipse shape and having a length to span the distance between the head region and foot region of the seating unit and a width to span the width of the seating unit. The sidewall portion is connected to the top portion along a substantial portion of the periphery of the top portion to provide an arched configuration to the top portion. The cover further has a single closed loop frame member made of a flexible, coil-able, resilient material, that is secured along the length of the structure's membrane body so as to assume an ellipse-like shape when viewed from above, that is bent into an arched configuration about its minor axis. The closed loop frame member is movable between an extended orientation to allow the cover to be attached to the seating unit and a collapsed orientation to allow for a reduced size of the cover for transport and storage and is connected to the periphery of the top portion to provide in the extended orientation an arched ellipse shape about the length of the top portion. The cover also has a means for releasably attaching the cover to a seating unit

An application of the motherwort's extract including leonurinine, leonurine, general leonurine, leonurine A, cadabine in preparing the medicines as acetylcholinesterase depressant for treating and preventing more than 20 diseases including senile dementia, Parkinson's disease, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, etc is disclosed.

Sample extraction or trimming from an end strip of an elongated formed metal that is coiled in layers within a tensioned metal coil resting on driven rollers. A cut channel is formed across the material width. In some embodiments the cut channel is formed between the rollers and by cutting at an angle relative to the coil outer surface. Coil weight and / or a coil tensioner mechanism inhibits coil relaxation along the cut channel by maintaining tension on wrapped layers against each other when the coil is unbanded for sample extraction. The coil is rotated so that the cut channel clears the rollers laterally. Material downstream the cut is then separated from the coil. After trimming and / or sample extraction the coil maintains rolled tautness for ease of rebanding.

Methods and structures for producing semiconductor materials, substrates and devices with improved characteristics are disclosed. Structures and methods for forming reduced strain structures include forming a plurality of substantially strain-relaxed island structures and utilizing such island structures for subsequent further growth of strain-relaxed substantial continuous layers of semiconductor material.

This invention relates to a new composition containing the effective dosage of an aqueous extract of red vine leaves (1) and a diuretic (2) for preventing or alleviating the discomfort associated with mild-to-moderate chronic venous insufficiency of the legs. The compositions according to this invention may also contain pharmaceutically or dietetically acceptable additives.

The invention discloses a composition with an auxiliary protection effect on an alcoholic liver injury and a preparation method of the composition. The composition with the auxiliary protective effect on the alcoholic liver injury is mainly prepared from the following raw materials in parts by weight: 57.5-172.5 parts of kudzuvine root extract, 22.5-67.5 parts of semen hoveniae extract, 35-105 parts of salvia miltiorrhiza extract, 18-57 parts of turmeric extract and 7.5-22.5 parts of ammonium glycyrrhetate. The raw materials respectively have anti-lipid peroxidation effect and protective effect on the liver. Functional tests show that the composition with the auxiliary protection effect on the alcoholic liver injury has better liver protection effect compared with the same dose of single kudzuvine root extract preparation and single semen hoveniae extract preparation, and liver fatty degeneration and liver lipid peroxidation which are caused by the alcoholic liver injury can be obviously alleviated. The composition with the auxiliary protection effect is prepared by adopting a scientific and reasonable production process, is definite in functions, controllable in quality and safe to take and is applicable to a large group of people suffering from the alcoholic liver injury.

A 3-substituted 1, 2, 3, 4-tetrahydro-quinoline derivative, its synthesis and use are disclosed. The procedure is carried out by condensing substituted-o-nitrobenzaldehyde or o-aminobenzaldehyde with aryl-acetonitrile derivative, reducing by double bond and obtaining 3-substituted 1, 2, 3, 4-tetraquinazine derivate by loop closing under the condition of catalytic hydrogenation. It can be used for cerebral local ischemia, suppressive vasorelaxation, antiarrhythmic and antineoplastic activities. It is simple, has gentle reactive condition and more output.

A label peeling mechanism has a peeling member for peeling adhesive backed labels from a backing member of a continuous label strip. A conveying unit conveys the continuous label strip to the peeling member. A discharge frame has a discharge opening for discharging the adhesive backed labels peeled by the peeling member from the backing member of the continuous label strip. A slack preventing member integral with the discharge frame suppresses slack of the continuous label strip as the adhesive backed labels are peeled by the peeling member from the backing member of the continuous label strip.

The invention discloses functional nutritional blend oil and a preparation method thereof, and belongs to the field of healthy blend oil. The functional nutritional blend oil is formed by blending the following components in percentage by weight: 50 to 92 percent of rice oil serving as a main raw material, 8 to 50 percent of one or more other edible vegetable oils, 0.5 to 1.2 percent of octacosanol, and 0.6 to 1 percent of resveratrol. The other edible vegetable oils are one or more of safflower seed oil, corn oil, soybean oil, olive oil, linseed oil, sunflower seed oil and peanut oil. The invention solves the problems that the conventional edible oil is single in nutrient and unbalanced in content and lacks functional components, and provides the edible vegetable blend oil which is in accordance with an optimal proportion of multiple unsaturated fatty acids such as omega-6 (linoleic acid) and omega-3 (linolenic acid) recommended by Chinese Society of Nutrition and is functional and stable.

Disclosed is unit brake, which is equipped with a cylinder apparatus in which a clutch mechanism that switches between transmitting or cutting off a biasing force of a spring brake part is disposed, is capable of preventing a braking force due to the spring brake part from unintentionally decreasing due to a meshing section of the clutch mechanism disengaging, and is of a size that can replace an existing unit brake, and maintains the performance of bearings in the clutch mechanism even with long-term use. The clutch mechanism of the unit brake includes: a nut member that rotatably screws on a spindle that is positioned in an area that communicates with the atmosphere, and is movably supported in a direction opposite to braking; a clutch that is disposed in a direction opposite to braking with respect to the nut member, and faces the nut member in the vicinity of the spindle; a clutch box that is formed in a cylinder shape, and houses the nut member and clutch on the inside; and bearings that rotatably support the nut member on the inside of the clutch box.

The invention relates to a preparation method of a solid drink containing resveratrol. The preparation method includes the following steps of, step one, proportionately mixing a grape extract containing 5% of the resveratrol with an apple powder, a citrus powder, a green tea powder, a blueberry powder and a red wine powder, screening the mixture by using a 60 mesh screen net and then performing stoving and natural cooling to obtain a mixture 1; step 2, proportionately mixing a soybean dietary fiber powder with stevioside, intermittently smashing the mixture, screening the mixture by using the 60 mesh screen net and then performing stoving and natural cooling to obtain a mixture 2; step three, mixing vitamin C with vitamin E, screening the mixture by using the 60 mesh screen net and then performing stoving and natural cooling to obtain a mixture 3; step 4, uniformly mixing the mixture 1, the mixture 2 with the mixture 3, sampling, testing whether the mixture is uniform, and finishing the preparation if the mixture is uniform. The solid drink containing the resveratrol has good health benefits, can reinforce human immunities and is applicable to public crowds, and the solid drink containing the resveratrol can be prepared into solid drinks and is convenient to eat.

A metal gasket includes first and second metal plates laminated together to form the metal gasket, and having holes to be sealed. At least one of the first and second metal plates has a half bead surrounding the hole. A surface pressure assistance plate is located at least adjacent to the half bead between the first and second metal plates. The assistance plate has depressions and projections with respect to a thickness direction thereof in at least a peripheral part thereof.

The invention discloses a dielectric ceramic material with a giant dielectric constant and low dielectric loss. The dielectric ceramic material is a SrTiO<3>-based ceramic material with giant dielectric performance, a Sr bit of the SrTiO<3>-based ceramic material is jointly substituted by two elements Sm and Ba, a chemical formula of the dielectric ceramic material is Ba<x>Sr<0.97-x>Sm<0.02>TiO<3>, and the x represents a mole fraction of the element Ba, is larger than or equal to 0.1 and is smaller than or equal to 0.4; a fixed mole fraction of the element Sm is 0.02. A method for preparing the dielectric ceramic material includes steps of mixing SrCO<3>, SM<2>O<3>, TiO<2> and BaCO<3> with one another according to a stoichiometric ratio of the chemical formula Ba<x>Sr<0.97-x>Sm<0.02>TiO<3> to obtain mixtures; carrying out ball-milling on the mixtures; drying the mixtures; pre-sintering the mixtures; carrying out secondary ball-milling on the mixtures; granulating the mixtures; molding the mixtures; sintering the mixtures and the like to obtain the dielectric ceramic material. The dielectric ceramic material and the method have the advantages that the dielectric ceramic material is high in dielectric constant (higher than 20000), low in dielectric loss (lower than 0.05) and excellent in temperature and frequency stability; the method is simple and is good in repeatability, high in yield, low in cost and suitable for popularization and application.

A casing cover (1, 10, 20) for an internal-combustion engine, particularly valve covers or oil pans, for being mounted detachably and fluid-tight to the engine block (5, 13, 21), having a peripheral edge that is profiled to receive an elastomer seal (3, 12) at the edge (2, 11) of the casing cover (1, 10, 20). The cover is provided with an axial extension (7, 14) that is oriented in the direction of the engine block (5, 13, 21) and is disposed at an inner portion of the edge (2, 11) of the casing cover (1, 10, 20). The extension is positioned to project axially beyond the sealing surface (4, 15), an engine block wherein the casing cover is inserted so the casing cover is at least positioned correctly on the engine block.

A spin MOSFET includes: a first ferromagnetic layer provided on a semiconductor substrate, and having a fixed magnetization direction perpendicular to a film plane; a semiconductor layer provided on the first ferromagnetic layer, including a lower face opposed to the upper face of the first ferromagnetic layer, an upper face opposed to the lower face, and side faces different from the lower and upper faces; a second ferromagnetic layer provided on the upper face of the semiconductor layer, and having a variable magnetization direction perpendicular to a film plane; a first tunnel barrier provided on the second ferromagnetic layer; a third ferromagnetic layer provided on the first tunnel barrier; a gate insulating film provided on the side faces of the semiconductor layer; and a gate electrode provided on the side faces of the semiconductor layer with the gate insulating film being interposed therebetween.

The invention discloses a serum or RLP density in the plasma testing method, which is characterized by the following: adopting immune combined direct method or immune sediment separating method; providing effective estimation and reference accordance for atherosclerotic disease, coronary disease and relative metabolic disease of atherosclerotic disease.

Described herein is a spindle drive for the motorized adjustment of an adjustment element of a motor vehicle comprising a drive portion on the spindle side and a drive portion on the spindle nut side, in which the drive portions are able to be adjusted relative to one another in a linear manner for producing drive movements between a refracted position and an extended position and in each case comprising a coupling means for transferring the drive movements and a spring arrangement provided which pretensions the two drive portions in the extended position, wherein a predetermined rupture point is provided in the drive train of the spindle drive which fractures at a predetermined critical load acting via the coupling means on the spindle drive, and which is located outside the flux of force of the spring arrangement.

When a seat (10) is to be stowed, a seat pad (28) is moved toward a seat (10) reverse side, pad side portions (32) are rotated toward the seat (10) reverse side with respect to a pad center portion (30), and a center portion (12) and side portions (14) of the seat (10) are contracted. Here, interlockingly with contraction of the side portions (14), a skin (42) is bent and folded in at portions covering distal ends of vertical walls (22) of a wall panel (18) and at second fixing portions (42B). Due thereto, slack of the skin (42) at seat (10) lateral direction end surfaces can be taken in.