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The invention relates to an intervertebral disc prosthesis for the total replacement of a natural intervertebral disc within the lumbar and cervical spine, comprising articulating sliding partners, where the upper sliding partner has means for a firm assembly to an upper vertebral body and the lower sliding partner has means for a firm assembly to a lower vertebral body and at least one sliding surface that is between two sliding partners. According to the invention, functional two- and three part designs are planned and both prostheses have in common, that only a dorsoventral- and rotation movement is possible as a result of laterolaterally aimed, transversally arched, ventrally curved cylindrical convexity(ies) and corresponding concavity(ies), however without an inclination of the sliding partners in a lateral direction. In a further design, the cylindrical articulation surfaces are un-curved, enabling a motion of the sliding partners in only a ventrodorsal direction. According to the invention, the intervertebral disc prostheses are suited for an implantation from lateral and ventrolateral, particularly in revision surgeries.

Therapy system (100) for irradiating a target volume (2) of a patient (1) with a charged particle beam (6), including a beam generator (3), a beam transport system (4), and a nozzle (5) for distributing the beam to the target volume (2), the nozzle (5) being, when in operation, under vacuum. The therapy system comprises an X-ray device (10) which is rotatably mounted inside the nozzle (5) between a first position and a second position. In the first position, an X-Ray source (12) within the X-Ray device is able to emit X-Rays along a charged particle beam path for generating an X-Ray image on a corresponding X-Ray receiving device (11) arranged opposite to the patient (1), said X-Ray image serving to determine a correct position of the target volume (2) with regard to the charged particle beam (6). In the second position, the X-Ray device (10) is set outside of a charged particle beam treatment path envelope (23), so that the charged particle beam (6) can reach and irradiate the target volume (2).

A handheld or pocketsized electronic apparatus, such as a mobile telephone, having a display unit and a touch surface that is position-sensitive in a first and second direction for control of the electronic apparatus; the display unit having a display area taking up most of the front side of the apparatus and the touch surface being sufficiently narrow to fit on the side edge of the apparatus and curved in the first direction to convex shape, thus making it simple for a user to control the apparatus with one hand, without the display being hidden, and in an ergonomically correct manner, whereby control of the apparatus is attained without the use of a keyboard or similar input device.

Devices, systems, and methods are disclosed for relaying information from a cardiac pacemaker to an external device. Logic on the pacemaker modulates a heartbeat clock of the pacemaker to encode information onto a blood pressure sequence. This is accomplished by adding or subtracting a small subinterval to or from a pulse repetition interval of the pacemaker. A muscle stimulator beats the heart according to the modulated sequence. A monitoring device external to the body monitors the blood pressure to retrieve the encoded information, or message. The encoded information is then decoded to determine the information in the message. This information may concern the pacemaker as well as other devices within the body that are in communication with the pacemaker such as blood monitors, etc. Since the message is conveyed via simple modulation of the heart beat intervals, no separate transmitter is required in the pacemaker which would otherwise increase cost and decrease battery life.

Instruments and a method for preparing the articular surface of the patella to receive a patellar implant are utilized without everting the patella. A medial or lateral parapatellar incision and an anterior midline incision are made adjacent the patella. The patella is clamped with a patella clamp, a hole is drilled from the anterior surface of the patella. A reamer is inserted through the medial or lateral parapatellar incision and is then attached to the end of a drive shaft that extends outwardly beyond the articular surface of the patella. The posterior facing cutting surface of the reamer device is then placed in contact with the articular surface. The drive shaft is then rotated and moved anteriorly causing the cutting surface of the reamer device to remove a desired amount of patellar cartilage and bone to accommodate a patellar component. The patellar component is secured into place by aligning a central peg protruding from the top surface of the patellar component with the previously drilled hole in the patellar remnant.

The present invention describes methods and products involving the use of cultured animal cells as ingredients in nutritional and therapeutic products. Said animal cells are preferably cultured on an industrial scale prior to their incorporation into any of a number of edible, topical, oral, or other products.

The present invention relates to a light emitting diode, LED, light source that may be arranged for retrofitting into a luminaire employing an incandescent light source. The light source comprises a light guide into which light from one or more LEDs in a light unit arranged at one end of the light guide is injected, and a reflector having a reflecting surface arranged at the other end of the light guide and facing towards the light guide capable of reflecting light incident on the reflecting surface. According to the present invention, the reflector comprises at least one transmitting portion being arranged such that at least a portion of light incident on the at least one transmitting portion is transmitted through the reflector, for example a through hole extending along an axis, allowing for an almost viewing angle independent light intensity of the light source.

A metallic alloy whose primary constituent elements are a relatively higher volume fraction of titanium and a relatively lower volume fraction of an added element or elements generally selected from the transition elements (excluding mercury, cadmium, osmium and copper). Medical devices formed from the metallic alloy are visible under MRI imaging and are sufficiently radiopaque for viewing by x-ray fluoroscopy. The alloy may be embodied in a multitude of medical devices.

A lighting fixture having a main housing to which is attached a moveable reflector assembly. The fluorescent lamps are affixed to the main housing and the moveable reflector assembly is adjusted to a position close to the fluorescent lamps to achieve a narrow illumination field. Adjusting the position of the moveable reflector assembly away from the fluorescent lamps achieves a wide illumination field. The reflector is designed as a near parabolic like shape and may be configured as a single fluorescent lamp cavity, or a multiple lamp cavity wherein the parabolic like shapes for each fluorescent lamp intersect to provide a uniform illumination light field and highly efficient light output while minimizing the lighting fixture width.

A wall mount for use with exercise cords is secured to a wall and provides spring clips at multiple elevations for the attachment of the exercise cord. Each spring clip has a central curved portion that extends through a slot formed in the wall mount to provide an attachment point to which the exercise cords can be clipped with a caribiner. The wall mount is secured to the wall with a material-specific anchor. The cords may be quickly and easily attached and reattached to the spring clips at plural elevations for a large number of resistive exercise options.

An amorphous carbon film includes carbon as a major component, and silicon in an amount of from 0.1 atomic % or more to 10 atomic % or less when the entire amorphous carbon film is taken as 100 atomic %. The carbon is composed of carbon having an sp2 hybrid orbital in an amount of from 60 atomic % or more to 90 atomic % or less when the entire carbon amount is taken as 100 atomic %. Also disclosed is a process for producing the amorphous carbon film.

An electrical test lead probe for use with a multi-meter provides for releasable retention in and electrical contact with a terminal of an industrial terminal block. The test lead probe includes a self-adjoining electrically conducting tip that is configured for automatic releasable receipt into a terminal block socket of various styles of terminal blocks, the terminal block socket housing a terminal of the terminal block. The present terminal block probe, in one form, is permanently attached to a multi-meter test lead. In another form, the present terminal block probe is coupled to a modular multi-meter test lead. In yet another form, the present terminal block probe has a removable head incorporating an electrically conducting, self-adjoining tip wherein the body is permanently attached to a multi-meter test lead. In a modular form, a plurality of terminal block probes may be provided each one of which has an electrically conducting tip of a different configuration corresponding to different configurations and / or sizes of terminal block sockets.

Devices, systems, and methods are disclosed for relaying information from a cardiac pacemaker to an external device. Logic on the pacemaker modulates a heartbeat clock of the pacemaker to encode information onto a blood pressure sequence. This is accomplished by adding or subtracting a small subinterval to or from a pulse repetition interval of the pacemaker. A muscle stimulator beats the heart according to the modulated sequence. A monitoring device external to the body monitors the blood pressure to retrieve the encoded information, or message. The encoded information is then decoded to determine the information in the message. This information may concern the pacemaker as well as other devices within the body that are in communication with the pacemaker such as blood monitors, etc. Since the message is conveyed via simple modulation of the heart beat intervals, no separate transmitter is required in the pacemaker which would otherwise increase cost and decrease battery life.

A tone generating system 100 has a motion detection terminal 11 and a tone producing device. The Motion detection terminal 11 has a motion sensor MS which is attached to the back of a hand, and transmitting unit 11a. The Motion sensor MS detects a torsional motion of the hand to which it is attached. The Transmitting unit 11a transmits motion information on the torsional motion. A Tone producing device 10 receives the motion information, generates control information based on the motion information, and produces a tone on the basis of the control information.

A circular polarizer includes at least an optically anisotropic element, a transmissive protection film and a polarizing element sandwiched therebetween. The optically anisotropic element has a liquid crystal layer aligned on a cellulose triacetate film and a retardation of approximately ¼ wavelength in the visible light region. The liquid crystal layer includes a liquid crystal film with a fixed twisted nematic alignment. The circular polarizer is suppressed in thickness by simplifying the layer structure without causing defects, such as peeling off the layers, even under elevated temperature and humidity condition and makes it possible to set arbitrarily the angle of the alignment axis direction of the optically anisotropic element including a liquid crystal layer with a fixed twisted alignment with respect to the absorption axis of the polarizing element, so that the optically anisotropic element and polarizing element both in the form of an elongate film can be laminated continuously to one another.

A high-pressure fuel injection pipe has a connecting head with an outer circumference formed for a mating seat portion. A shallow annular groove is formed in the inner side of the connecting head while shaping the head. A connecting washer is fit on the outer circumference of the lower neck of the connecting head. The injection pipe is characterized in that the lower neck of the connecting head is provided with an at least two-stepped portion having no slope, and in that the connecting washer is provided with a stepped portion corresponding at least partially to the stepped portion of the connecting head, so that the stepped portions may abut against each other.

Disclosed herein is a system architecture capable of processing fixed length and / or variable length data packets. Under the method of the invention, incoming data packets are queued together according to their corresponding switch processing parameters (SPPs), and then the commonly-queued data packets are processed through a switch fabric as a single unit. In one aspect of the invention, the commonly-queued data packets are processed by the switch fabric as a single train packet. In another aspect of the invention, the commonly-queued data packets are sliced into a set of subtrain packets. A switch fabric then processes the set of subtrain packets in parallel using a plurality of switch planes. Both aspects of the invention can be implemented with a plurality of packet formatters and deformatters linked to a switch fabric in various configurations, including multi-path and hierarchical switching systems. a multichannel switching system.

The invention is a steamer head, which includes a steamer body having a front face having at least one steam hole, the steam hole being in fluid communication with a steam chamber; and a crease panel assembly movably connected to the steamer body, the crease panel having a crease panel face, wherein the crease panel face has at least a portion in substantially parallel orientation to the front face.

A mold for molding a tread of rubber mix, this tread comprising a running surface delimited axially by lateral faces, this mold comprising (i) a central part for molding the running surface, movable between an open configuration allowing filling of the mold and a closed configuration allowing molding, the central part comprising at least one rib for molding a groove in the running surface; (ii) two lateral parts for molding the lateral faces, at least one of the lateral parts being axially movable relative to the central part; et (iii) at least one pin for molding a channel inside the tread, this pin being anchored in one of the lateral parts; and in which, when the mold is closed, a contact surface is formed between the pin and the rib, and the pin and / or the rib comprise a buffer made of a deformable material, deformation of which makes it possible to fill in the clearance between the pin and the rib at the contact surface when the mold is closed.

Disclosed is an electrical device, in particular a control unit for a motor vehicle, comprising a plate-shaped circuit support fixed on a metallic base plate of the housing, on which a plastic plug part s fixed on a side facing away from the metallic base plate, characterized in that fixing means which are pivot-shaped and protrude from the base plate, are provided for the common mounting of the plastic plug part, the circuit support and the metallic base plate of the housing, that said fixing means are guided through corresponding recesses in the circuit support and in the plastic plug part, that a deformation is produced at each inserted end and that each deformation is supported y a supporting part on said plastic plug part.

The present invention relates to a mechanical part, which is obtained by: processing a steel into a shape of a part, the steel having an alloy composition containing, by weight percent, C: 0.10 to 0.30%, Si: 0.50 to 3.00%, Mn: 0.30 to 3.00%, P: 0.030% or less, S: 0.030% or less, Cu: 0.01 to 1.00%, Ni: 0.01 to 3.00%, Cr: 0.20 to 1.00%, Al: 0.20% or less, N: 0.05% or less, and the remainder of Fe and inevitable impurities, and the alloy composition satisfying the following condition:[Si %]+[Ni %]+[Cu %]−[Cr %]>0.50,in which [Si %], [Ni %], [Cu %] and [Cr %] represent the concentration of Si, the concentration of Ni, the concentration of Cu and the concentration of Cr in the alloy composition, respectively; subjecting the steel to a carburizing treatment in a vacuum, followed by gradually cooling the steel; and subsequently subjecting the steel to a high-frequency hardening to thereby harden a surface of the steel.

A display device has an NTSC ratio of higher than or equal to 80% and a contrast ratio of higher than or equal to 500 and includes a display portion. In the display portion, a pixel is provided at a resolution of greater than or equal to 80 ppi, and the pixel includes a light-emitting module capable of emitting light with a spectral line half-width of less than or equal to 60 nm. Further, the light emission of the light-emitting module is raised to a desired luminance with a gradient of greater than or equal to 0 in response to an input signal within a response time of longer than or equal to 1 μs and shorter than 1 ms.

In order to improve an implant, in particular a bone replacement implant for insertion into a bone cavity, or an intervertebral implant for insertion between two adjacent vertebral bodies of a human or animal spine, which can be brought from a normal position, in which the implant encompasses a maximum total volume, into an insertion position, in which the implant encompasses an insertion volume, which is smaller than the maximum total volume, such that the implant can be inserted through as small as possible an opening in a human or animal body and nevertheless have a high inherent stability, it is proposed that the implant has a plurality of cavities in fluidic connection with one another, and that a net volume encompassed in the normal position by the plurality of cavities in fluidic connection with one another is smaller than the maximum total volume.

A device includes a substrate (10) and a III-nitride structure (15) grown on the substrate, the III-nitride structure comprising a light emitting layer (16) disposed between an n-type region (14) and a p-type region (18). The substrate is a RAO3 (MO)n where R is one of a trivalent cation: Sc, In, Y and a lanthanide; A is one of a trivalent cation: Fe (III), Ga and Al; M is one for a divalent cation: Mg, Mn, Fe (II), Co, Cu, Zn and Cd; and n is an integer ≧1. The substrate has an inplane lattice constant asubstrate. At lease one III-nitride layer in the III-nitride structure has a bulk lattice constant alayer such that [(|asubstrate−alayer|) / asubstrate]*100% is no more than 1%.

After forming the outer drain and source regions of an N-channel transistor, the spacer structure may be removed on the basis of an appropriately designed etch stop layer so that a rigid material layer may be positioned more closely to the gate electrode, thereby enhancing the overall strain-inducing mechanism during a subsequent anneal process in the presence of the material layer and providing an enhanced stress memorization technique (SMT). In some illustrative embodiments, a selective SMT approach may be provided.

A press roll device for applying pressure on a piece of wood moving along a path. The device has a frame mounted in proximity to the path of the piece of wood and a lower and an upper arm both pivotally connected to the frame. A roller is rotationally mounted on the end of the lower arm and a jack is resiliently connected to the corresponding end of the upper arm. A bag of compressed air is disposed between the ends of the lower and upper arm, resiliently separating the roller and the jack. In this manner, the bag of compressed air absorbs the vibration of the roller caused by unevenness in the piece of wood, at least partially.