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This invention provides a stabilizing system and method for two-wheeled vehicles that affords the rider no restriction on the full range of movements (banks, leans, etc.) common to bicycles, but that provides greater stability during turns and other maneuvers so that an unintentional bank or tilt (potentially causing a fall) is less likely, even at relatively slow speeds and startup. A rotating mass of predetermined mass-value and radial mass-distribution is provided coaxially with the front axle. The mass is supported on bearings so as to freewheel with respect to the rotation of the front wheel. As such it can be induced to spin significantly faster than the front wheel thereby generating a gyroscopic effect at the front wheel about the axle. This gyroscopic effect influences the steering of the wheel by the rider. Due to precession, the wheel tends to follow any excessive bank by the vehicle, ensuring that the rider can “steer-out-of” an unintended tilt or bank. Likewise, the gyroscopic effect limits the rider's ability to execute excessive steering, thereby preventing jackknife movements. The mass can be an electric-motor-driven flywheel within a shell housing that includes a battery, control system and drive motor. The drive motor engages a surface of the flywheel with a drive tire in a resilient manner to reduce potential damage to the motor.

The arrangement of the function block to the programming field is performed according to the guide by a function block arrangement template in which block arrangeable positions are defined vertically and horizontally and in which one end side in a row direction is defined as an input terminal side and the other end side is defined as an output terminal side; and the template is separated into an input side template positioned on an input side and including a series of plural columns respectively accepting the arrangement of a predetermined type of function block related to an input signal, and an output side template positioned on an output side and including a series of plural columns respectively accepting the arrangement of a predetermined type of function block related to an output signal.

There are provided a polarizing plate that has excellent durability including both humidity resistance and heat resistance and is less likely to cause knick defects, and a method for production thereof. The polarizing plate includes: a polarizer including an iodine-containing polyvinyl alcohol resin and containing zinc; protective films each having a water-vapor permeability of 150 g/m² per 24 hours or less in an atmosphere at 40° C. and 90% RH; and an adhesive including a polyvinyl alcohol resin, a crosslinking agent and a colloidal metal compound with an average particle size of 1 to 100 nm, wherein the protective films are bonded to both side of the polarizer with the adhesive interposed between the protective layer and the polarizer.

A ureteral stent for assisting movement of urine along a patient's ureter and into the patient's bladder. The stent includes an elongated tubular segment extending toward the bladder from a kidney end region for placement in the renal cavity to a bladder end region. A central lumen connects at least one opening at the first end region to at least one opening in the bladder end region. Thin flexible tail(s) are attached to the bladder end region of the tubular segment at a point outside the bladder so as to receive urine from the opening in the bladder end region of the tubular segment and to transport urine from there across the ureter/bladder junction and into the bladder. The tails include an elongated external urine-transport surface sized and configured to transport urine along the ureter. The urine transporting surface(s) are sized and configured to extend along at least part of the ureter, across the ureter/bladder junction, and from there into the bladder.

A workpiece authentication technique is provided. The technique bases workpiece authentication upon intrinsic physical characteristics of the workpiece, including one or more images of topographical appearance of at least one portion of the workpiece.

A fiber or filament which is formed from ingredients comprising (a) at least one fiber-forming thermoplastic polymer, and (b) at least one polybrominated anionic styrenic polymer is provided. The polybrominated anionic styrenic polymer has a bromine content of at least about 50 wt %. Processes for producing such fibers or filaments are also provided.

A user is registered to use telecommunications services provided by a home service provider in a wired home network. When the user travels, the user may be provided with telecommunications services by another service provider operating in a wired visited fixed network. The user “attaches” himself/herself to the visited fixed network which includes nominating a telephone to which calls made to a user's personal number may be forwarded. The user is also assigned a prefix number which enables him/her to make calls from any phone in the visited fixed network.

The intraoral mandibular advancing positive pressure apparatus utilizes mandibular advancement (or protrusion) therapy with CPAP therapy. The mandibular advancement appliance is fabricated to receive a portion of a person's upper and lower teeth when the patient bites down on the appliance. The mandibular advancement appliance advances the patient's mandible a predetermined amount. The mandibular advancement appliance contains a fluid communication pathway that provides for access to the patient's oral cavity. A CPAP device is in fluid communication with the fluid communication pathway and supplies a continuous positive pressure air supply. The utilization of mandibular advancement therapy with CPAP therapy reduces the amount of advancement necessary through mandibular advancement and eliminates the need for nasal involvement or a facial mask typically associated with CPAP therapy.

A pre-coated plate of steel is heated in a furnace to form an intermetallic alloying layer on the plate at least in an area thereof. Air is pretreated through drying to produce dried air which is fed into the furnace to control the atmosphere within the furnace while the pre-coated plate is in the furnace.

In this patent, reaction sintering was used to prepare translucent strontium barium niobate ceramics (SrxBa1-xNb2O6, x=0.2-0.7). High purity powders of strontium carbonate (SrCO3) and barium carbonate (BaCO3) were mixed with niobium oxide (Nb2O5), respectively, at the same mole using ball milling. The mixed powders were dried and ground by a mortar. Thereafter, they were calcined at 800-1050° C. for 1-4 h in air to form strontium niobate (SrNb2O6) and Barium niobate (BaNb2O6), respectively. Precursor powders of strontium niobate (SrNb2O6) and barium niobate (BaNb2O6) were mixed in appropriate ratios and pressed. Compacts were reaction-sintered in a temperature range of 1300 to 1320° C. in O2 and then heat-treated in a temperature range of 1260 to 1275° C. in O2. We also propose the related basic principles and microstructures.

The present invention discloses a flexible 3D microprobe structure, which comprises at least one probe, a base and a hinge portion. The probe is connected to the base via the hinge portion. The probe forms a bend angle with respect to a normal of the base by attracting the probe through an electrostatic force to make the hinge portion bend with respect to the base, and thus to form a 3D structure having the bend angle. The probe, the base and the hinge portion are made of a flexible polymeric material to reduce the inflammation response of creatures. Further, a fixing element is used to enhance the structural strength of the flexible 3D microprobe structure.

An electronic component according to the present invention includes a land 112 having a flat reference surface p1 and having a solder joint p3 to be solder bonded, wherein the solder joint p3 as a concave 113 recessed from the reference surface, and a nickel plate layer 114 is laminated on a surface of the land 112, and a position of an interface between (a) a tin-containing alloy layer 116 formed on the solder joint p3 of the nickel plate layer 114 in solder bonding the nickel plate layer 114 and (b) the nickel plate layer 114 deviates from a plane including the reference surface p1. This makes it possible to provide an electronic component including a solder joint which hardly cracks.

A rolling pin including a core, a silicone-containing jacket over the core defining a rolling surface. The jacket may be of such length and so positioned on the core as to define end regions of the jacket extending beyond the ends of the core; the jacket end regions being folded inward over the ends of the core; a cap securing to the core each folded inward end region of the jacket. A handle may be at each end of the core.

The invention relates to systems and methods for filing and monitoring electronic claim submissions in proceedings involving a large number of claimants, such as securities class action lawsuits, estate dissolutions, arbitrations, and bankruptcies. The systems and methods create an easy-to-use and convenient way for institutions and individual claimants to register their claim relief upon judgment or settlement.

There is provided a gas barrier sheet that has high productivity, good gas barrier properties, and anticurling properties. In particular, a gas barrier sheet is provided that, even after a heat cycle test which is performed as a durability test for organic EL displays and the like, can suppress the occurrence of curling and can maintain gas barrier properties. The gas barrier sheet comprises a gas barrier film 3 provided on a base material 2. The gas barrier film 3 is an SiN_xO_y film, wherein x=0.5 to 1.5 and y=0.25 to 1, has an absorption intensity of IR absorption (830 cm⁻¹ to 840 cm⁻¹), corresponding to an Si—N bond, per unit thickness of 0.5×10⁻³/nm to 1.8×10⁻³/nm and has a refractive index of 1.7 to 2.1.

The present invention provides an aqueous fluoropolymer dispersion that shows favorable dispersion stability and is less likely to have a pH decrease even after storage for a long period of time. The present invention provides an aqueous fluoropolymer dispersion including: a fluoropolymer; a fluorine free surfactant; at least one organic electrolyte selected from the group consisting of hydroxy monocarboxylic acids, hydroxy dicarboxylic acids, tricarboxylic acids, and amino acids; and a fluorine-containing anionic surfactant containing not more than 7 carbon atoms.

An input signal Sx in a first millimeter-wave frequency band higher than 100 GHz is input to a millimeter-wave band filter 20 in which a pair of radio wave half mirrors30A and 30B so as to opposite to each other and which performs a resonance operation. A signal component Sa corresponding to the resonance frequency of the filter is extracted, is mixed with a first local signal L1 with a fixed frequency, and is converted into a signal in a second frequency band. The converted signal component Sb is mixed with a second local signal L2 whose frequency is swept and is converted into a signal in a predetermined intermediate frequency band. Then, the level of the signal is detected. The millimeter-wave filter 20 has high selectivity characteristics in a frequency domain higher than 100 GHz and can change its passband center frequency.