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A remote-controlled device for rotating tools, preferably medical tools, comprising a hollow body (1) which is embodied in the form of pivotally connected proximal and distal parts (2, 6) provided with a pair of adjacent end surfaces (5, 5′) which are angularly disposed with respect to the longitudinal axis of the body (1), and an axis (7) which is perpendicularly oriented with respect to the end surfaces (5, 5′) and provided with a central channel and a remote control mechanism. A shaft (10) arranged in the central channel of the device comprises driven, driving and transmitting sections (11, 12, 13) respectively, and operates as a link for transferring working rotational motion at a variable angle. The tilt angle between the distal part (6) and the longitudinal axis of the proximal part (2) can be equal to 180°.

An instrument and method are provided for sealing and joining or hemostatically dividing tissue, which is particularly suitable for laparoscopic and endoscopic surgery. The instrument makes use of the controlled application of a combination of heat and pressure to seal adjacent tissues, to join adjacent tissues, or to anastomose tissues, whereby tissue is heated for an optimal time and at an optimal temperature under optimal pressure to maximize tissue seal strength while minimizing collateral tissue damage. The instrument of the present invention is lightweight and therefore portable, and is particularly useful in field conditions where a source of external power may not be readily available.

An apparatus and system for delivering a lipophilic agent associated with a medical device including: a medical device, a first lipophilic agent capable of penetrating a body lumen, wherein the transfer coefficients of the first lipophilic agent is by an amount that is statistically significant of at least approximately 5,000, wherein the first lipophilic agent is associated with the medical device, wherein the first lipophilic agent / medical device is placed adjacent to said body lumen, and wherein a therapeutically effective amount of the first lipophilic agent is delivered to a desired area within a subject. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for improving patency in a subject involving placement of a medical device in a body lumen for treating and / or preventing adjacent diseases or maintaining patency of the body lumen.

An apparatus and system for delivering a lipophilic agent associated with a medical device including: a medical device, a first lipophilic agent capable of penetrating a body lumen, wherein the transfer coefficients of the first lipophilic agent is by an amount that is statistically significant of at least approximately 5,000, wherein the first lipophilic agent is associated with the medical device, wherein the first lipophilic agent / medical device is placed adjacent to said body lumen, and wherein a therapeutically effective amount of the first lipophilic agent is delivered to a desired area within a subject. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for improving patency in a subject involving placement of a medical device in a body lumen for treating and / or preventing adjacent diseases or maintaining patency of the body lumen.

A method and apparatus whereby a fingerprint verifier has a mechanism to slide a prism over an imaged area of a camera. The position of the prism being determined by a binary absolute linear code on a sliding mechanism imaged by the same camera at the side of the fingerprint wherein the images are knitted together to simulate a large CCD.

An optical structure of the optical mouse is disclosed, which comprises a light source providing an incident light beam transmitted onto a target surface at a specific incident angle and a photosensor pre-disposed at an angle of between 1 and 179 degrees or between 181 and 359 degrees so as to be aligned to stand at a right angle with respect to a path of the reflected version and thus achieve a proper acquirement of luminance and image of the reflected version of the incident light from the target surface.

There is provided a light emitting module including: a printed circuit board; a plurality of light emitting diode chips disposed at a distance from one another on a conductive pattern formed on a top of the printed circuit board; and a connector formed on a bottom of the printed circuit board and electrically connected to the plurality of light emitting diode chips. The light emitting diode chips and the connector are optimally arranged to ensure that the light emitting module is suitably utilized as a high-density linear light source including a great number of light emitting diode chips and emits light outward with minimum loss.

An apparatus for filtering electromagnetic waves, the apparatus comprising a substrate having a surface relief structure containing at least one dielectric body with physical dimensions smaller than the wavelength of the filtered electromagnetic waves, such structures repeated in a two dimensional array covering at least a portion of the surface of the first substrate. Also disclosed is a material sensor utilizing this apparatus.

An apparatus and system for delivering a lipophilic agent associated with a medical device including: a medical device, a first lipophilic agent capable of penetrating a body lumen, wherein the transfer coefficients of the first lipophilic agent is by an amount that is statistically significant of at least approximately 5,000, wherein the first lipophilic agent is associated with the medical device, wherein the first lipophilic agent / medical device is placed adjacent to said body lumen, and wherein a therapeutically effective amount of the first lipophilic agent is delivered to a desired area within a subject. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for improving patency in a subject involving placement of a medical device in a body lumen for treating and / or preventing adjacent diseases or maintaining patency of the body lumen.

An improved variable radius chain or belt transmission is provided for bicycle, motorcycle, automobile, industrial, household and consumer product uses. It delivers power and shifts under power through a continuously variable range of ratios. Alternative means are disclosed: for properly engaging the chain or belt regardless of drive radius; for handing off the workload of the chain or belt even while the drive's effective radius is changing; for minimizing the force required to expand a drive under chain or belt; for supporting the chain or belt attachment points in radially variable manner; for circumferentially bridging the spans between radial attachment points; for coordinating the radial movement of the attachment points within one drive; for actuating up-shifting or down-shifting processes in forward or reverse; and for simultaneously varying the effective radii of input and output drives in coordinated fashion.

Typical known methods for producing large quantities of concentrated extracts from solid raw materials such as ground, roasted coffee are not ideally suited to producing high quality coffee extracts that are rich in flavor and fragrance, and which maintain the varietal characteristics of the roasted coffee from which they are produced. The current invention provides filtration methods for producing such high quality concentrated extracts from more dilute extracts via solvent removal. The invention provides methods that have sufficient flexibility and scalability to be used for a wide variety of applications, including for producing industrial-scale quantities of extracts for the food and beverage industry. The invention provides methods and apparatus that can produce highly concentrated, “gourmet quality” extracts for use as flavoring agents, beverage concentrates, and fragrances.

A low-cost minimal-loss zero-maintenance flywheel battery, to store electric power from a DC power source by conversion to kinetic energy, and regenerate electric power as needed. Its vertical spin-axis rotor assembly is supported axially by repelling annular permanent magnets, and is centered by ceramic ball bearings which have axial preload that prevents vibration and augments axial rotor support. A regenerative multi-pole permanent-magnet motor, controlled by its 2-phase stator current, and connected by power and signal conductors to power interface electronics, is integrated within the flywheel assembly, in a vacuum enclosure supported by a self-leveling structure. Sinusoidal 2-phase stator currents are controlled by high-frequency pulse-width-modulated H-bridge power electronics that draw and regenerate controlled DC current with minimal ripple, responsive to respective 2-phase rotation angle sensors, the DC power voltage, and other settings. The electronics includes logic and over-voltage protection to prevent otherwise possible damaging current and voltage.

A lens driving device including: a lens barrel having at least one lens therein and provided with a friction member; a housing for housing the lens barrel therein; an actuator having a piezoelectric body disposed at an edge of the housing to apply a driving force, the piezoelectric body having at least one output member provided at one side thereof to be in contact with the friction member; a preload member disposed between the edge of the housing and the actuator to apply an elastic force toward the lens barrel; and a guiding part disposed between the housing and the lens barrel to guide the lens barrel to move in an optical axis direction. The lens driving device is simplified in a driving mechanism and thus reduced in size, while experiencing minimum loss of a driving power and ensuring more accurate and stable movement of the lens.

An apparatus for filtering electromagnetic waves, the apparatus comprising a substrate having a surface relief structure containing at least one dielectric body with physical dimensions smaller than the wavelength of the filtered electromagnetic waves, such structures repeated in a two dimensional array covering at least a portion of the surface of the first substrate. Also disclosed is a material sensor utilizing this apparatus.

Plural electronic or optical images are provided in a streak optical system, as for instance by use of plural slits instead of the conventional single slit, to obtain a third, fourth, etc. dimension—rather than only the conventional two, namely range or time and azimuth. Such additional dimension or dimensions are thereby incorporated into the optical information that is to be streaked and thereby time resolved. The added dimensions may take any of an extremely broad range of forms, including wave-length, polarization state, or one or more spatial dimensions—or indeed virtually any optical parameter that can be impressed upon a probe beam. Resulting capabilities remarkably include several new forms of lidar spectroscopy, fluorescence analysis, polarimetry, spectropolarimetry, and combinations of these, as well as a gigahertz wavefront sensor.

A submerged turbine generator is operated by a working fluid, such as liquid nitrogen, liquefied natural gas, or liquid ethylene, to generate electric power. The submerged turbine generator includes a shaft, a casing, a turbine having a runner fixed to the shaft, a generator having a rotor fixed to the shaft and a stator surrounding the rotor, and bearings for rotatably supporting the shaft. The runner is rotated integrally with the shaft by the pressure of the working fluid introduced into the casing. The shaft includes at least two members.

A method of quantitating the activity of a selected protein kinase on a peptide substrate is provided. The peptide substrate is conjugated to a binding compound. The modified peptide substrate is then added to a solution containing the selected protein kinase. The protein kinase and the peptide are incubated along with a label for sufficient time to form a modified peptide product having the binding compound and the label. The modified peptide product is then bound to a matrix having a high binding compound affinity. The bound peptide is then washed and the activity of the protein kinase is measured. Also provided is a kit for the stated method.

Methods are disclosed for producing architectural preforms and high-temperature composite structures containing high-strength ceramic fibers with reduced preforming stresses within each fiber, with an in-situ grown coating on each fiber surface, with reduced boron within the bulk of each fiber, and with improved tensile creep and rupture resistance properties for each fiber. The methods include the steps of preparing an original sample of a preform formed from a pre-selected high-strength silicon carbide ceramic fiber type, placing the original sample in a processing furnace under a pre-selected preforming stress state and thermally treating the sample in the processing furnace at a pre-selected processing temperature and hold time in a processing gas having a pre-selected composition, pressure, and flow rate. For the high-temperature composite structures, the method includes additional steps of depositing a thin interphase coating on the surface of each fiber and forming a ceramic or carbon-based matrix within the sample.

A light emitting element such as an organic EL element comprises a first electrode formed of a transparent electrode on a side from which light is emitted to outside, and a second electrode formed on a back side of the element so as to be opposed to the first electrode with a light emitting element layer interposed therebetween. The second electrode is designed to be a semitransparent electrode, and, on a further back side of the second electrode, an antireflective layer with a low optical reflectivity is formed. The semitransparent second electrode does not reflect but transmits light incident from outside of the element and transmitted through the transparent electrode, and then the antireflective layer absorbs the transmitted light, thereby making it possible to suppress reflection of ambient light on a surface of the back-side electrode and to achieve improvement in contrast. The second electrode may, for example, be made of a metal material formed as a thin film, or be provided with apertures to thereby exhibit semitransparency.

Plural electronic or optical images are provided in a streak optical system, as for instance by use of plural slits instead of the conventional single slit, to obtain a third, fourth etc. dimension—rather than only the conventional two, namely range or time and azimuth. Such additional dimension or dimensions are thereby incorporated into the optical information that is to be streaked and thereby time resolved. The added dimensions may take any of an extremely broad range of forms, including wavelength, polarization state, or one or more spatial dimensions—or indeed virtually any optical parameter that can be impressed upon a probe beam. Resulting capabilities remarkably include several new forms of lidar spectroscopy, fluorescence analysis, polarimetry, spectropolarimetry, and combinations of these.

The present invention relates to a method of producing a frozen confection product with improved freeze-thaw stability. In particular, the invention relates to a method comprising a post pasteurization acidification step. The present invention also relates to products obtainable by such a method.

A communications network has a plurality of nodes interconnected by an optical transmission medium. The transmission medium is capable of a carrying a plurality of wavelengths organized into bands. A filter at each node for drops a band associated therewith and passively forwards other bands through the transmission medium. A device is provided at each node for adding a band to the transmission medium. Communication can be established directly between a pair of nodes in the network sharing a common band without the active intervention of any intervening node. This allows the network to be protocol independent. Also, the low losses incurred by the passive filters permit relatively long path lengths without optical amplification.

An apparatus and method for controlling charged particles. The charged particles comprise electrons and positive ions. A magnetic field having only point cusps is used to confine energetic injected electrons and so to generate a negative potential well. Positive ions injected into or created within the negative potential well are trapped therein. The magnetic field is generated by current-carrying elements arranged at positions spaced from but closely adjacent and parallel to edges of a polyhedron which has an even number of faces surrounding each vertex or corner. The current-carrying elements are spaced apart at their corners (the vertices of the polyhedron) so as not to touch, and the containing structures for the current-carrying coils of the magnetic-field-providing system are conformal to the fields so produced. Preferably, the coils are placed on the outboard side of the confining coils so as to increases electron confinement.

A crane hoist apparatus and method of use for moving items within, into, out of, or adjacent to an interior of a containerized cargo enclosure causing minimal loss of interior enclosure volume from the crane. The crane includes a first frame with a plurality of beams each having a span, a width, and a depth, the first frame is supported by the enclosure, also a second frame having a beam with a span, a width, and a depth, that is slidably supported by the first frame in a transverse span orientation, with the second frame depth not extending below the first frame depth, the second frame moves in a direction parallel to the first frame span. A winch carriage is slidably supported by the second frame wherein the winch does not extend below the second frame depth, the winch moving in a direction parallel to the second frame span.

A light therapy device for alleviating medical disorders is provided. The light therapy device comprises a housing having a pair of first side walls, a pair of second side walls, a pair of side walls, and a bottom wall with the second side walls being between the first side walls and the bottom wall, the first side walls being substantially perpendicular to the bottom wall, and the side walls being substantially perpendicular to the first side walls and the bottom wall. A light bulb is positioned within the housing. An angled light reflective panel is positioned between the bottom wall of the housing and the light bulb wherein the light reflective panel reflects light and heat in a general direction toward the first side walls, the second side walls, and opposite the bottom wall thereby removing light and heat from behind the light bulb.