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Headgear for a respiratory mask includes a strap arrangement including front strap portions adapted to be disposed over a patient's cheeks and having front ends adapted for attachment to an airway interfacing portion, top strap portions connected to respective front strap portions and adapted to be disposed over the top of a patient's head and to connect to each other, and a back strap extending rearwardly from and connecting respective junctions of the front strap portions and top strap portions or regions adjacent these junctions and adapted to locate underneath a patient's occiput. In use with a patient having long hair, the back strap is adapted to extend under the patient's hair and urge upwardly on the patient's hair and against the patient's head beneath the occiput. In use with a patient having short hair, the back strap is adapted to urge against the patient's head beneath the occiput. In an embodiment, front strap portions of the headgear may be provided with a sleeve or cover (e.g., constructed of a fleece material) to enhance comfort in use.

The present invention is directed to nonwoven webs and articles comprising nanofibers. The nanofibers are made from a polymer having a glass transition temperature about 25 C. The nanofibers, having a diameter of less than 1 micron, may comprise a significant number of the fibers in one layer of the web contained by the article. Preferably, the nanofibers are produced in a melt film fibrillation process. Articles include diapers, training pants, adult incontinence pads, catamenials products such as feminine care pads and pantiliners, tampons, personal cleansing articles, personal care articles, and personal care wipes including baby wipes, facial wipes, and feminine wipes.

Specially designed non-mammalian GnRH, its analogs, or biometics resistant to degradation by peptidase, are disclosed. The GnRH analogs are further defined as analogs of GnRH II or salmon GnRH. These non-mammalian analogs incorporate D-arginine, D-leucine, D-tBu-Serine, D-Trp or other active D amino acids at position 6 and ethylamide, aza-Gly-amide or other Gly amide at position 10. The D-Arg (6)—GnRH II-ethylamide, D-Arg (6)—GnRH II-aza-Gly (10)-amide, the D-Arg (6)—salmon GnRH ethylamide, and D-Arg (6)—salmon GnRH-aza-Gly (10)-amide analogs are also provided, and demonstrate preferential binding to immune system non-mammalian GnRH receptors. These non-mammalian GnRH or its analogs, or long-acting preparation, biometics or their antibodies may be used in pharmaceutical preparation, and specifically in treatment of various immune system disorders. The non-mammalian GnRH or its analogs are also provided in pharmaceutical preparations that may be used clinically for treating immune system disorders when used in very low doses and administered in pulsatile fashion. The aza-Gly (10) amide non-mammalian analogs are yet other embodiments of the non-mammalian GnRH or its analogs provided as a part of the invention. The use of agents that regulate the production or antibodies or In addition, the detection of non-mammalian GnRH or GnRH II or the non-mammalian GnRH receptors may be used as a diagnostic tool.

A system and a method for transmitting control information by a system in a heterogeneous wireless communication network using Component Carriers (CCs), the heterogeneous wireless communication network including a first wireless communication network and a second wireless communication network, which at least partially overlap and are heterogeneous, the system controlling the second wireless communication network can more stably and efficiently transmit control information in a heterogeneous network environment. The method includes: calculating an environmental parameter having an influence on transmission of control information; determining a transmission scheme of the control information according to the calculated environmental parameter; and transmitting the control information to a User Equipment (UE) connected to the second wireless communication network according to the determined transmission scheme.

Disclosed are a method and a system for providing a mobile communication terminal with network-based location measurement by using a G-pCell database. The method and system are advantageous in that, when a mobile communication system employs a network-based location measurement scheme, the influence of repeaters is reduced to improve the positioning stability and measurement accuracy and provide more stable location-based services.

A fitting apparatus includes a robot arm having, at the forward end thereof, a gripper for holding a workpiece, a force detector for detecting a force and moment received by the workpiece held by the gripper, and a controller for controlling an operation of the robot arm. The controller includes a motion command generating unit for generating an operation command to fit two workpieces to each other, and an operation command correcting unit for correcting the operation command so as to correct the position of the gripper in a direction perpendicular to the fitting direction and the orientation of the gripper around an axis perpendicular to the fitting direction until the detected force and moment become less than or equal to a threshold value, based on either maximum values of the force and moment detected by the force detector while the two workpieces are in contact with each other or the force and moment detected by the force detector when the two workpieces first come into contact with each other.

Headgear for a respiratory mask includes a strap arrangement including front strap portions adapted to be disposed over a patient's cheeks and having front ends adapted for attachment to an airway interfacing portion, top strap portions connected to respective front strap portions and adapted to be disposed over the top of a patient's head and to connect to each other, and a back strap extending rearwardly from and connecting respective junctions of the front strap portions and top strap portions or regions adjacent these junctions and adapted to locate underneath a patient's occiput. In use with a patient having long hair, the back strap is adapted to extend under the patient's hair and urge upwardly on the patient's hair and against the patient's head beneath the occiput. In use with a patient having short hair, the back strap is adapted to urge against the patient's head beneath the occiput. In an embodiment, front strap portions of the headgear may be provided with a sleeve or cover (e.g., constructed of a fleece material) to enhance comfort in use.

The present invention is directed to articles comprising nanofibers. The nanofibers, having a diameter of less than 1 micron, may comprise a significant number of the fibers in one layer of the web contained by the article. Preferably, the nanofibers are produced in a melt film fibrillation process. The articles include diapers, training pants, adult incontinence pads, catamenials products such as feminine care pads and pantiliners, tampons, personal cleansing articles, personal care articles, and personal care wipes including baby wipes, facial wipes, and feminine wipes.

A check valve unit in a hydraulic tensioner comprises a check ball, a steel ball guide having an inner wall allowing a limited range of longitudinal movement of the ball but restricting its lateral movement, a steel retainer attached to the high pressure oil chamber side of the ball guide, and a steel ball seat attached to the oil supply side of the ball guide. Bulged portions formed on an outer surface of the ball guide are press-fit into the plunger-accommodating hole of the tensioner.

A robot controller which uses a robot to more stably, more rapidly move a given object and a different object relative to each other to set the given object and the different object in a combined state in which portions of the two objects are in contact and combined with each other. The robot controller includes an unit which measures a force acting between two objects, an unit which sets a direction of translational force control, an unit which sets a translational force control target force, an unit which sets an axis of rotational force control, an unit which calculates a target amount of translational force control direction movement, an unit which calculates a target amount of rotational force control axis rotational movement, an unit which calculates a target amount of rotational movement, and an unit which generates an operation command for the robot.

The present invention is directed to articles comprising nanofibers. The nanofibers, having a diameter of less than 1 micron, may comprise a significant number of the fibers in one layer of the web contained by the article. Preferably, the nanofibers are produced in a melt film fibrillation process. The articles include diapers, training pants, adult incontinence pads, catamenials products such as feminine care pads and pantiliners, tampons, personal cleansing articles, personal care articles, and personal care wipes including baby wipes, facial wipes, and feminine wipes.

A cervical plating system for fixedly connecting two or more vertebrae to each other includes a cervical plate having a fastening hole, the fastening hole penetrating the cervical plate, a fastening screw fitted into the fastening hole in the cervical plate, and a screw locking member disposed adjacent to the fastening hole. The screw locking member is rotatable along the circumference of the fastening hole between a first position, in which it opens the fastening hole, and a second position, in which it at least partially closes the fastening hole.

A thermal transfer recording apparatus for recording a glossy and high quality image alleviates or substantially solves at least one of the problems of low recording speed of the image, poor stability of recording, and high running cost of recording. The thermal transfer recording apparatus has an intermediate record support which forms a closed loop and extends over a plurality of drums which are placed separately, and a dye receiving layer transfer section having a dye receiving layer transfer head which faces a part of the intermediate record support on an outer periphery of one drum of the plurality of the drums. The thermal transfer recording apparatus also has an image recording section having at least one image recording head which faces a part of the intermediate record support on an outer periphery of the one drum, and an image transfer section having an image transfer head which faces the intermediate record support inside of the closed loop.

A fitting apparatus includes a robot arm having, at the forward end thereof, a gripper for holding a workpiece, a force detector for detecting a force and moment received by the workpiece held by the gripper, and a controller for controlling an operation of the robot arm. The controller includes a motion command generating unit for generating an operation command to fit two workpieces to each other, and an operation command correcting unit for correcting the operation command so as to correct the position of the gripper in a direction perpendicular to the fitting direction and the orientation of the gripper around an axis perpendicular to the fitting direction until the detected force and moment become less than or equal to a threshold value, based on either maximum values of the force and moment detected by the force detector while the two workpieces are in contact with each other or the force and moment detected by the force detector when the two workpieces first come into contact with each other.

The present invention provides a method for producing metal-supported carbon, which includes supporting metal microparticles on the surface of carbon black, by a liquid-phase reduction method, in a thin film fluid formed between processing surfaces arranged to be opposite to each other so as to be able to approach to and separate from each other, at least one of which rotates relative to the other, as well as a method for producing crystals comprising fullerene molecules and fullerene nanowhisker / nanofiber nanotubes, which includes uniformly stirring and mixing a solution containing a first solvent having fullerene dissolved therein, and a second solvent in which fullerene is less soluble than in the first solvent, in a thin film fluid formed between processing surfaces arranged to be opposite to each other so as to be able to approach to and separate from each other, at least one of which rotates relative to the other.

An LED control circuit designed for providing stable voltage to LED loads, which is comprised of a bridge rectifier connected with the power supply, at least one LED branch circuit comprised of LED control units in series connection with a current-regulating element. Each LED control unit is comprised of a zener diode parallelly connected with LED working elements made of an LED and a serially connected current limiting resistor. The forward voltage drop of the zener diode closely approximates the desired working voltage of the LED loads, and thus each LED control unit plays the role of a voltage regulator. When voltage of an LED control unit is below the stabilized voltage of the zener diode, the brightness of LED is continuously adjustable. When an LED branch circuit is put under the control of a constant current control module, the current flowing through each LED can be stabilized.

LC resonant voltage control oscillators are adopted as voltage control oscillators for the purpose of providing a clock generating and distributing apparatus that can generate and distribute a clock signal of high precision even in a high-frequency region of several giga hertz or higher, and of providing a distributive VCO-type clock generating and distributing apparatus in which voltage control oscillators oscillate in the same phase, and which can generate a clock signal of a desired frequency and distributes a high-frequency clock signal to each part within a chip more stably even in a high-frequency region reaching 20 GHz. Furthermore, an inductor component of a wire connecting the oscillation nodes of the oscillators is made relatively small, or the LC resonant oscillators are oscillated in synchronization by using injection locking, whereby the LC resonant voltage control oscillators stably oscillate in the same phase.

LC resonant voltage control oscillators are adopted as voltage control oscillators for the purpose of providing a clock generating and distributing apparatus that can generate and distribute a clock signal of high precision even in a high-frequency region of several giga hertz or higher, and of providing a distributive VCO-type clock generating and distributing apparatus in which voltage control oscillators oscillate in the same phase, and which can generate a clock signal of a desired frequency and distributes a high-frequency clock signal to each part within a chip more stably even in a high-frequency region reaching 20 GHz. Furthermore, an inductor component of a wire connecting the oscillation nodes of the oscillators is made relatively small, or the LC resonant oscillators are oscillated in synchronization by using injection locking, whereby the LC resonant voltage control oscillators stably oscillate in the same phase.

The swaying fitness equipment structure includes a stand, which is equipped with two brackets located at the opposite side on its top. There is an effector, having two brackets located at its middle portion forming a pivot structure. A active drive mechanism is located on the top of the stand. A passive-driven mechanism is placed on the top of the stand and faces the active drive mechanism. A linked mechanism is connected between the active drive mechanism and the passive-driven mechanism. The effector mechanism is located at the eccentric axis on the other side of the passive-driven mechanism, causing the effector mechanism to sway.

Methods are provided for the manufacture of a conductive layer on an insulating layer and for the manufacture of a built-up circuit board, each include an innovative step of irradiating the surface of an insulating (resin) layer with ultraviolet light, so that a conventional swelling process can be eliminated or simplified.

The present invention pertains to a non-contact temperature monitoring device, wherein: temperature data and image data are simultaneously outputted to a monitoring unit by simultaneously photographing a temperature detection target and detecting the temperature of the temperature detection target in a non-contact manner, in which the temperature state of the temperature detection target and on-site conditions can be monitored in real time; the state of the temperature detection target is photographed using an image capturing unit only when the temperature state of the temperature detection target is abnormal, thereby simplifying an operation in a normal state and more accurately detecting on-site conditions using image information in emergency situations. Accordingly, quicker and more accurate responses are possible, thereby preventing fire accidents in industrial settings.

A flat metal particle-containing composition including flat metal particles containing silver and a metal nobler than the silver, wherein the metal nobler than the silver is located near surfaces of the flat metal particles and wherein an amount of the metal nobler than the silver is 10−3 atomic % to 5 atomic % relative to the silver contained in the flat metal particles.

A fixing arrangement is provided for fixing a spring and / or damping element to a continuous hollow member of a motor vehicle body, into the lower flange of which a through-opening for the spring and / or damping element is let. The spring and / or damping element fixes a wheel suspension member of the motor vehicle to the hollow member by way of a load-distributing support. In order to support a longer spring and / or damping element against the hollow member of the motor vehicle body without increasing the distance from the wheel suspension member, the spring and / or damping element passes right through the hollow member and extends upwards from the upper flange of the hollow member. The spring and / or damping element is supported against the upper flange of the hollow member by a radially protruding socket. An adapter plate, which, when fitted, is fastened to the socket with a bracing and separating effect, is supported on the lower flange of the hollow member.

An electrical contact (2) comprises a mating portion (23), a preload portion (24) extending away from the mating portion, a retention portion (22) extending from the mating portion and a solder portion (21) for soldering the electrical contact to a printed circuit board. The mating portion has a tab resiliently abutting against the housing. The preload portions and the tabs of the electrical contacts ensure a reliable electrical connection between the electrical contacts and electrical elements mating with the electrical contacts.

A wheel structure includes a main wheel body, a pair of extension sections extending from respective sides of the main wheel body, and a pair of auxiliary sections coaxially extending from the extension sections, respectively. The main wheel body of the wheel has a larger outer diameter than the outer diameters of the auxiliary sections. Both the main wheel body and the auxiliary sections are provided with outer tires made in a different material. The wheel increases contact surfaces with the ground when making turns, so as to prevent overturning.

Provided is an electro-spinning type pattern forming apparatus. The electro-spinning type pattern forming apparatus includes a nozzle, a stage, and a fiber guide part. The nozzle has a first voltage applied thereto and spins a spinning solution. The stage is disposed below the nozzle to support a substrate on which a pattern is to be formed and has a second voltage applied thereto. The fiber guide part is disposed between the nozzle and the stage, and transforms the electric field formed between the nozzle and the stage to apply a force, acting in a direction parallel to the stage, to nano-fibers spun from the nozzle. The electro-spinning type pattern forming apparatus can form a nano-fiber pattern arranged in one direction.

A support structure for a display device includes a base member fixed to a rear surface of the display device, a support member which is fixed pivotably to the base member and supports the display device in a supporting position in an opened state where the display device is inclined at a predetermined angle and capable of being stored in a closed state, a holding member fixed to the base member including a regulation portion that regulates rotation of the support member beyond the supporting position, a pressure member that presses an end portion of the support member, and a compression coiled spring that urges the pressure member toward the support member. The pressure member includes a protruded portion having a triangular cross section, and inclined surfaces contacting with the support member while pressing the end portion when the support member rotates from the closed state to the opened state.