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A protective system or apparatus for use in vascular procedures includes a tubular guidewire, a control cable slidable within the tubular guidewire, and a sheathless filter. The control cable is attached to a distal end of the sheathless filter and the tubular guidewire is attached to a proximal end of the sheathless filter. Selective displacement of the control cable radially expands the sheathless filter to create a proximal exterior convex primary filter surface that is positionable downstream from a site of a vascular procedure. The sheathless filter also presents a distal interior concave secondary filter surface. Preferably, the sheathless filter is constructed of a braided wire framework in the form of a tube over which woven polymer fibers or strands are applied to create a filter mesh having a softer filter surface.

The present invention generally relates to the insertion of a transcutaneous device of the type comprising a cannula (651) and a therein moveably arranged insertion needle (661), as well as the connecting of such a transcutaneous device with a fluid supply. Thus, a device is provided comprising an insertion needle and a cannula disposed on and being axially moveable relative to the insertion needle, the insertion needle comprising a proximal fluid inlet, a seal (655) being provided between the cannula and the insertion needle allowing fluid to be transported from the fluid inlet to the distal fluid outlet, wherein the insertion needle after having been used to insert the cannula is arranged at a retracted position proximally of the initial position, thereby allowing the fluid inlet to be connected to a fluid supply when it is moved from its initial to its retracted position.

A medical device is provided comprising a cannula (771, 861) having a distal end portion adapted to be arranged through the skin of the subject and having a distal opening, and a needle (761, 861) arranged coaxially with and being axially moveable relative to the cannula, the needle comprising a pointed distal end, wherein the device is adapted for advancing the cannula with the distal end of the needle projecting there from through the dermis of the subject, and further advancing the cannula into the subcutis of the subject with the distal end of the cannula projecting relative to the needle.

A method and apparatus optimizes the protection of computing networks. This protection utilizes attenuated (weakened) strains of live, replicating, malicious code such as viruses and worms, analogous to the development of live, attenuated, human vaccines in the medical field. In a preferred embodiment, this is achieved by (1) attenuating a malicious program, e.g. a virus or worm, or software vulnerability by limiting its virulence, i.e., limiting its damage and resource usage, (2) modifying the virus to confer immunity on the network that it infects, e.g., automatically patching a vulnerability, or marking the infected host as immune to further infection, (3) releasing the newly attenuated virus into the network, (4) tracking the attenuated virus and its success rate (e.g., rate and ratio of successfully patched to un-patched vulnerable hosts), and (5) limiting the spread of the virus vaccine, e.g., emergency termination, timeout to die, “white-list” of hosts not to touch, network IP address limitation, restricted IP ranges, variable address selection algorithm.

A protective cover assembly used to cover and protect windows, doors or other wall openings for homes, office buildings, hotels, and other walled structures from the destructive forces of a high windstorm, such as a hurricane. The current form of the preferred embodiment consists of a high strength fabric covering an opening, such as a window and being supported by brackets, a rod and a bar. Once installed, the high strength fabric is stretched over the opening, through the use of a gears and ratchet assembly. The high strength fabric once stretched will provide protection from high winds and wind borne debris common in storms such as hurricanes. The protective cover assembly also prevents unlawful entries or break-ins of buildings. The high strength fabric is securely supported to the rod and steel bar that are firmly attached to the wall structure near the wall opening.

Methods and apparatus for orthopedic replacement of the hip through three incisions with a modular prosthetic system assembled in vivo while substantially preserving muscles and soft tissues around the hip joint resulting in reduced healing time and decreased risk of dislocation. A prosthetic femoral stem is inserted into the femur. A prosthetic femoral neck is inserted from a point along the side of the patient's body and into the side of the femur and through a lateral bore in the prosthetic femoral stem to join the prosthetic femoral head. The methods and apparatus include structures and techniques for fixing or enhancing interconnection of implant components, such as by increasing the interconnection in an interference fit with one or more tapers, threads, and/or cooling of components prior to assembly.

A method includes receiving at least one wafer having a front side and a backside, where the front side has a plurality of integrated circuit chips thereon. The backside of the wafer is thinned, a pattern of material is removed from the backside of the wafer to form a plurality of dicing trenches. Each of the dicing trenches are positioned opposite a location on the front side of the wafer that corresponds to edges of each of the plurality of chips. The dicing trenches are filled with a filler material and a dicing support is attached to a front side of the wafer. The filler material is removed from the dicing trenches, and a force is applied to the dicing support to separate each of the plurality of chips on the wafer from each other along the dicing trenches.

The invention relates to the use of reduced fluency rate PDT to treat neovasculature, particularly choroidal neovasculature (CNV). Reduced fluency rate PDT decreases the likelihood of molecular oxygen being the limiting factor in the photodynamic reaction so that the concentration of either photons (light intensity) or photosensitizer in the target tissue controls the photodynamic reaction.

A feeding device includes a conveying roller that conveys a sheet downstream when the conveying roller rotates forward. A first guide member guides the conveyed sheet toward the conveying roller. A second guide member guides the sheet when the conveying roller rotates in reverse. A rotating member is positioned between the first guide member and the conveying roller, and has a support shaft and a pressing portion. The rotating member rotates about the support shaft between a first supported state where the rotating member is separated from the second guide member, and a second supported state where the rotating member is closer to the second guide member. In the first supported state, the sheet is conveyed from the first guide member to the conveying roller. A trailing end of the sheet moves toward the second guide member when the rotating member transitions from the first to the second supported state.

The invention provides a touch interactive panel, an interactive system and an interactive method thereof. The panel comprises a support layer for supporting the whole panel, a total reflection layer disposed above the support layer and used for totally reflecting the light transmitted on the total reflection layer, a total reflection coupling layer adhered to the total reflection layer and used for generating deformation under the effect of external force to destroy the total reflection condition of the total reflection layer so as to scatter the light where the external force acts, a projection imaging layer disposed above the total reflection coupling layer and used for projecting the imaging of an image so that a user views, and a wear-resistant protective layer disposed above the projection imaging layer and used for isolating the influence of the external light. The invention has the advantages of favorable robustness of the system and having a screen protective measure, thus a plurality of operations can be supported and the influence or the damage on the touch screen is less.

There is provided a method of arranging, as a composite charged-particle beam system, a gas ion beam apparatus, an FIB and an SEM in order to efficiently prepare a TEM sample. The composite charged-particle beam system includes an FIB lens-barrel 1, an SEM lens-barrel 2, a gas ion beam lens-barrel 3, and a rotary sample stage 9 having an eucentric tilt mechanism and a rotating shaft 10 orthogonal to an eucentric tilt axis 8. In the composite charged-particle beam system, an arrangement is made such that a focused ion beam 4, an electron beam 5 and a gas ion beam 6 intersect at a single point, an axis of the FIB lens-barrel 1 and an axis of the SEM lens barrel 2 are orthogonal to the eucentric tilt axis 8, respectively, and the axis of the FIB lens-barrel 1, an axis of the gas ion beam lens-barrel 3 and the eucentric tilt axis 8 are in one plane.

The invention ensures the width of grain transfer passage from a horizontal barrel to a vertical barrel in a connecting part, and reduces the damage and clog of transferred grains. The combine harvester comprises: a connecting part (22) having a horizontal barrel (26); a winnow device (25) connected on the upper part of the vertical barrel (27) of the connection part; a communication port (30) communicating the vertical barrel (27) with the horizontal barrel (26); a support barrel (36) of which the base part is mounted on the back wall (26b) of the horizontal barrel and the front end part is cantilevered; an input shaft (40) whose shaft supports on the front end part of the support barrel (36); a connecting part (24) connecting the front end part of the input shaft (40) to the back end part of the bottom exhaust spiral (38) of a grain tank (20); and a transmission mechanism (A) for the linkage of two shafts (40, 46) between an input shaft part backer than the back wall (26b) and the lower part of the winnow spiral shaft (46) of the winnow device (25).

The invention is directed to a gasification reactor comprising a pressure shell, a reaction zone partly bounded by a vertically oriented tubular membrane wall, said wall being provided with one or more openings and wherein attached to the wall and above the opening a slag deflector is present. The invention is also directed to a process to prepare a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide by gasification of a solid or liquid feedstock comprising between 15 and 50 wt % ash in a gasification reactor, wherein the feedstock and an oxygen containing gas and an optional moderator gas are provided to a burner as provided in an opening of the reactor and wherein the gasification in the reaction zone is carried out at a temperature in the range from 1200 to 1800° C. and at a pressure in the range from between 30 and 100 bar.

The present invention discloses a digital camera having a live view mode for continuously capturing and displaying a series of subject images, in which when the live view mode is selected, a computation part initializes an aperture mechanism based on photographing lens-specific information. Since the aperture mechanism is controlled based on the photographing lens-specific information in a live-view initialization process, the possibility of damaging an imager while a photographer is framing a picture can be reduced. The photographing lens-specific information includes, for example, focal length information and maximum aperture value information. The computation part can be configured, for example, to initialize the aperture mechanism in such a manner that the amount of light from the sun per unit area, or the total amount of light from the sun, will always become almost equal regardless of the kind of photographing lens.

The invention discloses handling method and device for a double-medium stacked supporting and hard top plate type mined-out area, and aims at solving the construction problem that the hard top plate of a thick coal mine seam is difficultly fallen. The method is that a base stack body fills in the mined-out area after the mining at the working face; the base stack body and the top plate are subjected to flexible roof contact by filling chemical materials; the spacing and arrangement distance of the filled stacks are influenced by the mining depth, height and lithology of the top plate and other factors, wherein the arrangement distance is 15 to 30m, and the spacing is 8 to 15m; the section of the filled stack can be circular, rectangular or quadrate; the effective section area is 0.8 to 1m<2>; the flexible roof contact medium is 1/10 to 1/8 of the mining height; the base stack can be filled by grouting concrete or gravels and other materials. The method and device are particularly suitable for continuous mining of shallow buried thin coal seam layers; the design that the working surface is frequently moved while supporting the mined-out area through tool posts is replaced, or the complex processes of softening the top plate by filling water and blasting and pre-cracking are decreased.

A first FinFET device includes first fin structures that extend in a first direction in a top view. A second FinFET device includes second fin structures that extend in the first direction in the top view. The first FinFET device and the second FinFET device are different types of FinFET devices. A plurality of gate structures extend in a second direction in the top view. The second direction is different from the first direction. Each of the gate structures partially wraps around the first fin structures and the second fin structures. A dielectric structure is disposed between the first FinFET device and the second FinFET device. The dielectric structure cuts each of the gate structures into a first segment for the first FinFET device and a second segment for the second FinFET device. The dielectric structure is located closer to the first FinFET device than to the second FinFET device.

A novel, triangular connector containing intersecting triangles and tabs. Triangles are connected along their longest sides by a bend. Tabs are connected to the sides of the triangles opposite the longest sides. The tabs have nail holes for attaching to intersecting structural members on a building. When fastened to the structural members, the connector forms a gusset with multiple intersecting triangles. These provide multi-angles of stiffness. The connector helps prevent movement of the structural members during seismic events. The connector can be retrofitted to vertical and horizontal beams on a building to help prevent earthquake and hurricane damage.