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A method of providing e-commerce payment functionality between a customer and a vendor wishing to provide or accept alternate methods of payment. The vendor website initiates a transaction payment request identifying the selected customer payment method, the transaction amount, and the desired vendor payment method to a payment facilitation bureau which processes payment for the transaction amount to the selected customer payment method and issues transaction payment credentials to the vendor in a transaction payment response. The vendor e-commerce platform can then process payment for the transaction to the selected vendor payment method using the issued payment credentials. Various vendor payment methods and customer selected payment methods could be used, and the method allows for the bridging of incompatible pairings of payment methods. Client and server level software for use in this payment method is also disclosed.

A supply pipe (1) for connecting an instrument for dental or surgical use to a control and supply unit contains fluid conduits and electric lines and includes at a front end a universal coupling (4) for connecting different types of said instrument in a removable manner to part or all of said conduits and lines. The universal coupling includes fluid connectors (6 to 9) coupled to said conduits and electric connectors (20 to 23) coupled to said lines, each of said connectors occupying a place on a front face (11) of the universal coupling. The supply pipe (1) contains at least on additional electric line including an additional conductor (24) which is not coupled to one of said electric connectors (20 to 23), but to one (7) of the fluid connectors of the universal coupling (4), said dual function connector being arranged to provide a choice between a fluid connection, an electric connection or both. The additional conductor (24) can be inside or outside the flexible tube (17) forming the fluid conduit, or even in the wall of said tube.

A method of exercizing, various exercize devices and a method of assembling the exercizer devices. The exercise device includes at least one weight system comprising at least a first weight and a second weight, the first and second weights being rotatably mounted, at least one chamber for at least partially enclosing the weight system, and at least one mechanism for allowing a user to grip the inertial exercizer. A method of exercizing provides for gripping the exerciser with at least one hand, and moving the exercizer in at least one direction. A method of assembling an inertial exerciser, includes installing the at least one first weight and the at least one second weight into the at least one chamber, and attaching the at least one mechanism to the at least one chamber.

An external dental accessory sanitization device is configured for receiving and sanitizing a dental accessory, such as a brush, flosser, pic or other dental accessory. The sanitization device is configured to sanitize the dental accessory using one or a combination of ultraviolet light and/or sound waves. The device can be configured for sanitizing one or a plurality of dental accessories therein.

A generally U-sectioned cam buckle frame is modified to include a first turning roller aligned transversely across the frame proximate the free end of a release lever. A generally planar tongue having one end pivoted adjacent the first roller extends within the frame under the cam piece connected to the release lever provides a force transfer structure for a strap is inserted between the tongue and the frame bottom surface, around the first roller to pass between the cam piece and the other side of the tongue. Other transverse rollers may be included in the frame to form a pulley arrangement and one end of a frame side wall may be convolved to form a hook assembly.

A method of exercising and a handheld exercise or amusement device are provided. The handheld exercise and amusement device includes a handle adapted to be gripped by a user and at least two weights which are at least one of freely rotatably mounted and freely orbitally mounted about an axis running through the handle. The method of exercising includes gripping the exerciser with at least one hand and moving the exerciser in at least one direction.

A machine tool has at least 5 axes. A tool holder assembly permits a tool holder spindle to be displaced relative to the frame along a first axis of translation and along a second axis of translation perpendicular to the first axis of translation and implementing slides in a plane forming an angle of between +40° and +50° relative to the first axis of translation. A part holder assembly permits a part to be displaced along a third axis of translation perpendicular to the other axes of translation, about a first axis of rotation parallel to the third axis of translation and about a second axis of rotation perpendicular to the first axis of rotation. The length of the precision path connecting the part to the tool via the frame and the assemblies of the machine is less than 1600 mm.

In a transmission for a motor vehicle of a reduction gearing design with power branching including a main shaft and a counter shaft, a first component transmission and a planetary gear unit, power is branched to the countershaft by the first component transmission in certain gears and recombined via the planetary gear unit and a direct power transmission path is provided wherein the countershaft is decoupled selectively by means of a control device.

A hybrid step motor creates additional detent positions between successive drive phases of the motor for smooth motion and micro-step accuracy. A multi-section rotor has two sets of rotor sections that are displaced by the standard one-half rotor tooth pitch plus-or-minus an additional displacement angle equal to one-quarter of the fundamental step angle. The motor can also employ a stator in which two groups of teeth on the stator poles are displaced from the standard stator tooth pitch by an amount selected to create even more detent positions.

A gravity value is measured using two light beams which each reflect from both a freefall test mass and a stationary reference test mass which is inertially supported by a long period isolation device. The optical path lengths of the light beams change equally and oppositely in response to gravity and equally in response to disturbances, resulting in cancellation of the undesirable effects of the disturbances by common mode rejection and in a desirable increase in the number of gravity induced measurement fringes, when the two light beams are combined interferometrically.

Crank arm spider adjustment orientation system to provide different angular orientations in the attachment of at least an ovoid chainring, comprising an ovoid chainring (3) and a spider (1), both of them provided with multiple anchorage points (30, 10) arranged as holes distributed along the perimeter of a BCD, and mechanical anchorage means (5) engaging chainring anchorage points (30) with corresponding spider anchorage points (10); where the number of said spider anchorage points (10) is multiple of and greater than the number of said mechanical anchorage means (5), and the angular increment between consecutive chainring's (3) orientations provided by the chainring anchorage points (30) is different than the angular increment between consecutive chainring's (3) orientations provided by the spider anchorage points (10), so the combination of the spider (1) with at least one ovoid chainring (3) multiplies the possibilities for said ovoid chainring's (3) orientation reducing the angular increment between consecutive chainring's (3) orientations.

A beam-splitting optical module (100), comprising: a light-emitting device (101); and a diffractive optical element (103), wherein the diffractive optical element (103) is provided in a light exit path of the light-emitting device (101), and is configured to modulate incident light to project at least two groups of light beams, and can form, on a target surface (105), at least two groups of light spots, the number of groups of which corresponds to that of the light beams, wherein polarization directions of at least two groups of light beams are different, and/or optical distances from the light-emitting device (101) to the target surface (105) are different.

A braking system for aircraft landing gear including a plurality of clamping zones for clamping a brake disk. The braking system comprises an actuator, a caliper, a rim rotatable about an axis of rotation, and the brake disk, which is floatingly mounted relative to the rim. The caliper comprises a stationary inner support, a movable intermediate support, and an outer support that is hinged relative to the inner support. Under action of the actuator, the movable intermediate support moves and causes the brake disk to move so that the brake disk is clamped between the intermediate support and the outer support, and then causes the outer support to tilt so that the brake disk is damped between the inner support and the outer support.

Disclosed is a method of screening binding molecules, including Monoclonal Antibodies, using an optical fiber array device. Target cells are coated onto a population of microbeads, wherein each microbead is coated with several cells of the same cellular type and has an assay and an assay reporter associated with it. Each of the cell-coated microbeads is positioned in a particular well formed in one end of a particular fiber in an array of optical fibers. The microbeads are contacted with binding molecules, and the results of an assay associated with a microbead are reported to the distal end of the array of fibers.

The invention relates to an electronic parking assistance device (1) for a motor vehicle (10), comprising: a housing (2) provided with an antenna (3), a camera (6) that is contained, at least in part, in the housing, and a control unit (7) that is contained in the housing and is connected to said antenna. According to the invention, the housing is provided with at least one other antenna (4) that is connected to the control unit, and this control unit is suitable for selecting each antenna and for sending and receiving signals exclusively via the selected antenna.

A method for the activation by a user with a portable device of at least one function of a piece of motor vehicle equipment. The vehicle having a plurality of predefined areas (around and/or inside the vehicle) and including a plurality of pieces of equipment, each capable of implementing at least one function, and a management system for controlling the pieces of equipment. The method includes the user performing a predefined movement of the device in at least one predefined vehicle area, the management system determining the movement performed by the user with the device and the area or areas in which the movement is performed, associating the movement performed and the area or areas in which the movement is performed with at least one function of at least one of the vehicle's pieces of equipment, and activation by the management system of the at least one associated function.

Switch including a support control organ in motion relative to a fixed device, the organ and the support being in such a relationship that a plurality of distinct relative positions produce differentiatable data producing different effects. One of the organ or the support includes at least one laser diode emitting a light beam and at least one photodetector, the other including a least one zone situated in the path of the laser beam and provided with computer-generated holograms forming elementary coding cells in order to perform spatial coding of the relative organ/support position. The beam sent by the laser diode is diffracted by the holograms in order to form a binary optical code which can be read by the photodetector and directly and instantaneously transformed into a binary electronic code.