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A golf club that is preferably made from fiber-reinforced plastic composite by an injection molding process. The preferred golf club head includes a striking face for striking a golf ball, an outer periphery, a cavity formed between the outer periphery and the back of the striking face, a sole enclosing the bottom portion of said cavity, and at least one elongate power bar extending across the cavity from the striking face to the outer periphery. The sole is preferably integrally formed with the face plate and outer periphery. The cavity of the golf club head opens to the top of the club head. Each elongate power bar separates the cavity into receptacles. Inserts may be placed within the receptacles for aesthetic, aerodynamic, acoustic, and other purposes.

A method of and an apparatus for treating a near zone and/or a far zone of a well is disclosed. The method comprises the following steps. (1) A tube that is permeable to a material is placed inside a wellbore, forming an annulus inside the wellbore. (2) A setting section surrounded by a sleeve is placed inside the tube. The sleeve is expandable and impermeable to the material. (3) The sleeve is inflated so that the sleeve is in contact with the tube, ensuring for a first zone of the tube is impermeable to the material, but leaving a second zone permeable to the material. (4) A treatment fluid is pumped to the zones that passes through the second zone still permeable to the material. (5) The near zone in the annulus and/or the far zone in the surrounding formation is treated with the treatment fluid.

A thumb spica splint for being custom-fitted to the thumb portion of the hand for immobilizing the thumb while permitting continued unrestricted use of the other fingers of the hand, and including an elongate, flexible inner cushion layer, an initially flexible intermediate layer overlying the inner cushion layer, the intermediate layer formed of a fabric impregnated or coated with a moisture-curable resin which hardens upon curing to form a rigid structure of the fabric which retains a shape into which it is molded during curing. A flexible protective outer layer overlies the intermediate layer and is attached to the inner cushion layer for enclosing the intermediate layer and forming the inner layer, intermediate layer and outer layer into a single, integrated splint structure. The splint is shaped to extend along and conform to the medial aspect of the lower arm and thumb to the distal joint thereof. An elongate thumb strap is fixedly attached by one end thereof to the splint structure adjacent the thumb for extending around the thumb and releasably attaching to a thumb strap attachment element fixedly attached to the splint structure for holding the splint structure in a supporting position around the thumb. Arm straps are fixedly attached by one end thereofto the splint structure adjacent the arm for extending around the arm and releasably attaching to an arm strap attachment element fixedly attached to the splint structure for holding the splint structure in a supporting position around the arm.

The present invention provides a method for accelerating start-up for SAGD-type operation by providing radio frequency heating devices inside the lateral wells that can re-heat the injected steam after losing heat energy during the initial injection. The method also extends the lateral wells such that the drilling of vertical wells can be reduced to save capital expenses.

A surgical lift device includes a suction member for detachably contacting an external skin surface of a human body wall and holding the external skin surface by application of negative pressure between the suction member and the external skin surface. The suction member has a gripping force sufficient to permit lifting of the human body wall to an elevated position and to hold the human body wall in the elevated position. The suction member has a load-bearing domed structure which determines the lifting of the human body wall during application of negative pressure. The surgical lift device further includes a low friction entry port device arranged on the dome structure, wherein the low friction entry port device has a low friction port fixture for inserting a tool.

A trench MOSFET element with shallow trench contact is disclosed. This shallow trench contact structure has some advantages: blocking the P+ underneath trench contact from lateral diffusion to not touch to channel region when a larger trench contact CD is applied; avoiding the trench gate contact etching through poly and gate oxide when trench gate becomes shallow; making lower cost to refill the trench contact using Al alloys with good metal step coverage as the trench contact is shallower. The disclosed trench MOSFET element further includes an n* region around the bottom of gate trenches to reduce Rds. In some embodiment, the disclosed trench MOSFET provides a terrace gate to further reduce Rg and make self-aligned source contact; In some embodiment, the disclosed trench MOSFET comprises a P* area underneath said P+ region for avalanche energy improvement with lighter dose than said P+ region.

The invention is directed to an apparatus for heating an elongate tubular article, comprising a frame member adapted to be disposed around said article, a heater with multiple heating zones and a controller for operating the heating device. The apparatus may be used to apply a heat shrinkable sleeve around a welded pipe joint. The heater may be infrared and also may use thin stamped sheets. If a heat shrinkable sleeve is used, the controller may activate the heating zones from the centre of the weld outward to eliminate pockets of air. The diameter of the interior of the frame may change along the length of the frame.

An automobile exhaust filter that both traps particulates while altering the concentration of one or more gaseous species is provided. This dual functionality is combined in a single device by utilizing a reactive material that simultaneously alters gaseous component concentration while filtering out particulate material. The automobile exhaust filter is suitable for inclusion in the exhaust of a diesel-powered vehicle. A method utilizing the automobile exhaust catalyst is also provided.

A tongue cleaner apparatus having a elongate body with a gripping area at one end thereof and a tablet receiving area adjacent an opposite end thereof, a cleaning edge formed at the opposite end of the elongate body, and a tablet affixed within the tablet receiving area of the elongate body. The tablet has a plurality of protrusions or a plurality of indentations on a surface of the tablet. The protrusions or indentations extend from the surface of the tablet that contacts the tongue. The tablet increases the abrasiveness and surface area of contact on the tongue.

A dental wedge comprises an elongated body, which includes a distal end and a proximal end which tapers to the distal end. The distal end defines an insertion end and tilts upwardly. The elongate body has a first portion starting at the distal end and has a second portion that ends at the proximal end. The first portion has a generally triangular-shaped cross-section and the second portion has a generally trapezoidal cross-section.

The invention performs electronic image formation and refinement from overlapping measurement vignettes captured by an array of image sensors and associated micro-optics. The invention is directed to an alternate image formation system that combines readily-fabricated micro-optical structures, a two-dimensional image sensor array with electronic or digital image processing to actually construct the image.

Image formation is performed without a conventional large shared lens and associated separation distance between lens and image sensor, resulting in a “lensless camera.”

In an embodiment, a readily fabricatable LED array is used as a light-field sensor. In an embodiment, the LED array further serves as a color “lensless camera.” In an embodiment, the LED array also serves as an image display. In an embodiment, the LED array further serves as a color image display. In an embodiment, one or more synergistic features of an integrated camera/display surface are realized.

A fluid ejecting apparatus includes: a fluid ejecting head in which nozzles that eject fluid are provided; a wiper that wipes a nozzle formation face, in which nozzle orifices of the nozzles are formed, in the fluid ejecting head; and a pressurization mechanism which changes the curvature of a concave liquid surface formed in the nozzle, in the nozzle by performing pressurization on the fluid in the fluid ejecting head at the time of the wiping.

The present invention teaches a beverage tower of the type having a cold block with glycol recirculation, however, the traditional tap is actually built into the cold block, so as to keep the entire beer tap or other type of tap cold and maintain the beverages in a sanitary condition meeting health codes. The glycol lines within the cold block are then arranged so as to pass around the tap in the cold block, resulting in a tap which remains cooled so long as the glycol recirculation system keeps the block cold. Serpentine channels may be used so that the beverage passing through the beverage supply channels has a longer run in contact with the conductive material of the cold block and thus more opportunity to reject heat thereinto.

A female terminal fitting (10) is provided with a tubular main body portion (20) into which a mating male tab (90) is to be inserted, and a resilient contact piece (21) deflectably arranged in the main body portion (20). The resilient contact piece (21) is resiliently deformed toward a base wall (22) of the main body portion (20) to resiliently come into contact with the male tab (90) when the male tab (90) is inserted into the main body portion (20). An excessive deflection regulating piece (33) for regulating excessive deflection of the resilient contact piece (21) by coming into contact with the base wall (22) of the main body portion (20) is integrally provided to the resilient contact piece (21).

A forced convection fin tube condensing heat exchanger for supplying heat includes a shell, burner and fin tubes bundle. The burner is at the top of the shell, circular fin tubes bundle installed around the burner tightly, circularly and coaxially. The flue channel which is formed by the shell and a row of fin tubes bundle is below the burner. The flue flows along the flue channel to flue outlet. There are front and rear water manifolds at the two ends of the fin tubes. Water baffles inside the rear water manifold divide the rear water manifold into water inlet and outlet areas. The water enters the small portion of circular fin tubes bundle from water inlet area, through the front water manifold, back to the water outlet area via the main portion of the circular fin tubes bundle. The use of bended fin tube to improves efficiency.

An overshoe for sports is comprised of a flexible, stretchable, waterproof material with a plurality of spikes extending from the a base surface that is entirely flat. The plurality of spikes forms a circular design at the toe portion of the flat base and staggers outward so that the spikes uniformly cover the base. The design and placement of the spikes enhances the balance of the user while preventing large amounts of turf or earth from clinging to the base of the outsole. The flat base surface allows the overshoe to contour around a user's footwear of choice thus maintaining a flat surface with the ground while, at the same time, maintaining the user's comfort in his footwear of choice. The flat base surface also assists in maintaining balance while contemporaneously restricting sway and movement of other parts of the body.

The invention relates to a processing process of high-modulus low-shrinkage high-colour-fastness polyester filament yarn by direct melt spinning and real-time injection. By the special design of steps including subjecting a polyester raw material to shrinkage reducing processing, performing modulus-increasing blending and melting melt processing, performing low-frequency real-time compression and injection, subjecting the melt to multi-stage direct-melting and spinning, passing through a filter screen, spinning, cooling, applying oil, stretching, and the like, and by special optimization of related parameters, the technical difficult problems of fiber in the prior art, namely low modulus, low strength and poor natural-color fasteness are overcome, and the objective of purification, high color fasteness, high modulus and low shrinkage is achieved. Under the obvious improvement on the high color fasteness, the high modulus and the low shrinkage which are good properties, stability, thermal resistance, resistance to hot water, elasticity resilience, elongation and homogeneity are largely improved.

A gas sampler device has a top plate with a concaved outer wall. The concaved outer wall allows users easily to lift the top plate off of the bottom plate without disturbing the bottom plate because the curved surface permits more positive contact between the outer wall and users' fingers. Moreover, the weight of the top plate is reduced by approximately twenty percent compared to conventional top plates, a feature that also makes it easier for users to lift the top plate off of the bottom plate.