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A collapsible container with angularly related multiple folding sections, each section extending at an angle to the vertical and including, within each section itself, a flexure zone adjacent the angular joint between adjacent sections and flexibly movable between a first open position in the expanded container and a second position folded upon itself in the collapsed container, the flexure zones resisting movement of the sections in both the fully expanded container and the collapsed container, as well as any intermediate position wherein only selected flexure zones are in an open position.

A collapsible container with angularly related multiple folding sections, each section extending at an angle to the vertical, and flexure zones between adjacent sections for flexibly moving the sections between a first open position in the expanded container and a second position folded upon itself in the collapsed container, the flexure zones resisting movement of the sections in both the fully expanded container and the collapsed container, as well as any intermediate position wherein only selected flexure zones are in an open position.

A collapsible container having a rigid base, a rigid top ring, and rigid intermediate rings extending therebetween. A flexible peripheral wall is intimately bonded to the base, top ring, and intermediate rings, to form wall sections having alternating sections of flexible material and flexible material intimately bonded to the intermediate rings, whereby the container is adjustable between an expanded position with the top ring spaced upward from said base and forming a container interior, and a collapsed position with said top ring surrounding said base in outwardly spaced substantially concentric relation thereto.

An imaging positioning system having a robotically positioned support structure is provided. By utilizing a robotic arm, imaging along multiple planes within a patient treatment room without having to move the patient is provided. Such a configuration allows multiple axis x-ray imaging, cone beam CT acquisitions having a dynamic field of view, and PET imaging within the treatment room. Rotation of the imaging panel on the support structure allows the imaging system to simulate a gantry rotation when a fixed beam is used for treatment. Beam line x-ray imaging is also provided by tilting the imaging panel or by moving the support structure on which the x-ray source is positioned. Laser distance scanning for collision avoidance and force torque sensing movement enhance the safety thereof. The support structure may be in the form of a ring along which the imaging components may move.

The present invention provides bond pads structures between semiconductor integrated circuits and the chip package with enhanced resistance to fracture and improved reliability. Mismatch in the coefficient of temperature expansion (CTE) among the materials used in bond structures induces stress and shear on them that may result in fractures within the back end dielectric stacks and cause reliability problems of the packaging. By placing multiple metal pads which are connected to the bond pad through multiple metal via, the adhesion between the bond pads and the back end dielectric stacks is enhanced.

A multi-well assembly including a filter plate and receiver plate. Each plate includes a plurality of wells, which, when the filter plate is placed in nesting relationship with the receiver plate, each filter plate well has a corresponding receiver plate well into which it extends. The receiver plate wells are of a non-uniform cross-section in order to increase the gap between the outer walls of the filter plate wells and the inner walls of a corresponding receiver plate well when the receiver plate and filter plate are in nesting relationship. The increased gap size reduces wicking and cross-contamination. A multi-section well of maximum cross-section in an upper region and a minimized cross-section in a lower region, with a gradual transition between the regions, is thus provided. The multi-well assembly of the present invention also improves the repeatability of positioning the filter plate and receiver plate in proper nesting relationship and provides stability during handling, mixing and shaking operations.

Systems and techniques, including a circle feeder, for the handling of drill cuttings, providing surge storage, rig buffer storage and wet and dry cuttings blending, including temporary storage of drill cuttings, optimizing storage capacity and the efficient and regulated movement of stored cuttings to a discharge port out of the hopper. Systems and techniques, maximize available space, provide optimized surge storage to optimize the use of downstream DPCS (and other transportation devices), provide optimized rig based storage and discharge, minimize or eliminate the occurrence of ratholing, bridging, degradation, segregation, and dehydration within the hopper, control and regulate the flow of cuttings from the hopper to the discharge port from the hopper, and provide metered discharge from the hopper storage, particularly when one hopper is discharging wet cuttings and a second hopper is discharging dry cuttings, and it is desirable to blend the wet and dry cuttings after such metered discharge.

A conversion seat for a marine vessel that converts from a lean post configuration to a seat configuration. In a stowed position, the seat is stored vertically exposing a cushion that can be used as a lean post. When a positive lock is released the seat is able to rotate, in some embodiments with an assist from a gas strut, two-hundred and seventy (270) degrees until the seat lands on a horizontal surface. When released, a backrest opens to a desired angle providing a comfortable seat or sun pad. To stow the seat for use as a lean post, the backrest is folded back down and then the seat is able to rotate back through the two-hundred and seventy (270) degrees to its vertical stowed position.

Systems and methods are provided that may be used to automatically create RAID configuration with heterogeneous Physical Disk (PD) set up using Virtual Disk (VD) RAID Level and size, for example, to allow replication of a given RAID configuration across multiple different RAID platform systems regardless of the underlying storage disk sizes and/or storage disk types.

The invention discloses a memory management method which comprises the following steps of predefining a public code and a private code; dividing memory space with preset size to the public code; selecting the private code according to actual scene; dividing corresponding memory space according to the selected private code to load the private code; and establishing a memory pool according to the rest available memory. Compared with the prior art, the establishing time of the memory pool of the memory management method provided by the invention is in the stage after program codes for specific operation of systems are determined, instead of the initialization stage of the systems so that when the memory pool is established, the rest available memory of the systems is known and is capable of maximizing the available space for establishing the memory pool, and thus, the use efficiency of memory is greatly improved.

One embodiment of a scooping litter receptacle, which forms a compact cylindrical exterior design, includes a scooping device that can move within a litter filled channel inside a base container. The scoop is able to pass through the entire bed of litter granules, thus, separating waste material from usable litter. The scoop can then be lifted from the litter receptacle by the handle so that the complete scooping process can be done by the user without the user coming into contact with parts that have traversed through the soiled litter mass. Also, the scooping device is not fixed to the base container which makes it easy to remove and discard the waste as well to remove for cleaning. Further, the base container is designed such that the scooping device can be stored on the outside of the litter receptacle. An optional top cover allows for the litter receptacle to be enclosed which helps reduce litter tracking outside the litter receptacle as well as providing a compact and tidy appearance.

The invention provides radio frequency equipment (4), which comprises a first substrate layer (2) and a second substrate layer (3) arranged at a distance from each other, wherein the first and secondsubstrate layers (2, 3) comprise electrically conductive transmission line elements (10, 11, 10', 11'') on the first surface (6) of the first substrate layer (2) and on the second surface (8) of the second substrate layer (3), the electrically conductive transmission line elements allow radio frequency signals to be transmitted in a transmission direction, the radio frequency equipment (4) furthercomprises more than one electrically conductive crossing part (1) between the first surface (6) of the first substrate layer (2) and the second surface (8) of the second substrate layer (3), the electrically conductive crossing part provides electrically conductive connection of the respective electrically conductive transmission line elements (10, 11) on the first and second substrate layers (2,3), at least one phase shift region (12) of the radio frequency equipment (4) comprises corresponding regions of respective first and second substrate layers (2, 3) for forming at least one radio frequency phase shift element arranged on the first and second substrate layers (2, 3), all electrically conductive crossing parts (1) are arranged outside the at least one phase shift region (12) of theradio frequency equipment (4), and each electrically conductive crossing part (1) is electrically connected to a respective phase shift element.