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Floorboards consisting of a core and a surface layer with decorative joint edge portions which are formed by removing the surface layer.

Floorboards are shown, which consist of a core and a surface layer and are provided with decorative joint edges which are formed by removing the surface layer.

The invention is directed to a colored contact lens designed for enhancing a wearer's eye color while giving the wearer's eyes a very natural appearance. A colored contact lens of the invention comprises a colored central zone which includes a colored substantially-circular pattern composed of non-opaque colored dots. Sizes of the dots and / or amounts of space between the dots are varied in a radially-controlled manner so that local colored dot coverage increases in a radial direction from the center to the peripheral edge or a position near the peripheral edge of the substantially-circular pattern.

Features for a high performance prosthetic foot are provided in a package suitable for use with Symes and reverse-Symes amputees. The foot has a very low profile despite incorporating ankle-type torsional features complete with biasing. Other optional features are presented by way of a dual-rate padding spring system, that convincingly allow for both walking and running (together with related tasks like jumping) by way of a single prosthetic setup. Additional features may be provided in the padding springs directed toward more natural foot movement and response. The foot may be provided alone, in connection with a prosthetic socket and be bare or encased in order to appear more natural.

A non-rotating anatomical-shaped breast implant having a front side with a smooth surface and a rear side with a textured surface. A smooth surface ripples or wrinkles little, if at all. Rippling or wrinkling of the implant may undesirably produce a visible or palpable waviness on the skin of the breast. A smooth surface is more likely to produce the look and feel of a natural breast. A rear side with a textured surface is desirable because tissue growth of the body, after the implant has been implanted, engages the textured surface to anchor the implant in place such that the front side with the smooth surface remains matched with the front side of the body and such that the anatomical-shaped breast implant with its tear drop shaped fullness remains at a natural position within the breast. The disclosure further includes a method for minimizing the rotation of an implant within the body and a method for making an implant envelope that has different thicknesses.

An object of the invention is to offer an optical additive capable of adequately activating the effects of incorporated optically active substances, providing the base with such optical effects, having a suitable sensation and level of safety, and having exceptional cosmetic properties. A cosmetic composition comprising in a physiologically acceptable medium (a) silicium based porous particles having an aspect ratio of at least 2 and (b) an optically active substance incorporated into said porous particles is offered. The incorporated optically active substances are selected from among UV screening substances, fluorescent substances and photochromic substances.

The present invention relates to a cosmetic or pharmaceutical composition for topical application to the keratinous surface which comprises a alignment agent for promoting the orderly arrangement of a feature enhancing component for enhancing the lengthening of the eyelashes and / or the covering of wrinkles on the skin surface. The feature enhancing component can be a fibrous component and can include a variety of types of fibers including wicking fibers, evaporating fibers, or a combination of both. The feature enhancing component can also be inert fillers such as platelet materials.

The invention is directed to a colored contact lens designed for enhancing a wearer's eye color while giving the wearer's eyes a very natural appearance. A colored contact lens of the invention comprises a colored central zone which includes a colored substantially-circular pattern composed of non-opaque colored dots. Sizes of the dots and / or amounts of space between the dots are varied in a radially-controlled manner so that local colored dot coverage increases in a radial direction from the center to the peripheral edge or a position near the peripheral edge of the substantially-circular pattern.

A method of manufacturing a colored contact lens including the steps of providing a transparent contact lens having a pupil section and an iris section, the iris section surrounding the pupil section and applying a colorant to the surface of the contact lens. The colorant is applied to the contact lens as an amorphous pattern and covers an effective amount of the iris section of the same. The amorphous pattern provides a lens capable of changing the apparent color of the iris of a person wearing the lens while imparting a very natural appearance.

In a method, unit and display device the input image signal is split into a regional contrast signal (VRC) and a detail signal (VD), followed by stretching separately the dynamic ranges for both signals, wherein the dynamic range for the regional contrast signal is stretched with a higher stretch ratio than the dynamic range for the detail signal. Preferably the stretch ratio for the detail signal is near 1 or preferably 1. In preferred embodiment highlights are identified and for the highlights the dynamic range is stretched to an even higher degree than for the regional contrast signal.

Methods for making and compositions comprising hollow silica particle are disclosed, said particles made from a composition comprising a silicon-containing compound selected from the group consisting of tetraalkoxysilanes, trialkyloxysilanes and derivatives thereof, dialkoxysilanes and derivatives thereof, alkoxysilanes and derivatives thereof, silicone oligomers, oligomeric silsesquioxanes and silicone polymers distributed over a polymer template core that is eliminated from the particle. The particles of the present invention have a substantially uniform particle size and exhibit low permeability to liquids.

The present invention provides a modularized prosthesis leg cover and a method for manufacturing the prosthesis leg cover, which quickly covers a prosthesis leg and does not affect bending or stretching motion of a knee joint part of the prosthesis leg, thus preventing damage to the knee joint part of the prosthesis leg. Thus, the modularized prosthesis leg cover of the present invention includes a thigh module (10), which can be mounted to a thigh socket (2) of the prosthesis leg, a lower leg module (30), which can be fastened to a calf pipe (6) of the prosthesis leg, and a patella module (20), which can be rotatably assembled with the lower leg module (30). The prosthesis leg cover, which is formed by assembling the modules, is covered with a skin module, which is made of a stretchable fiber. The respective modules of the present invention are provided as prefabricated modules.

Compositions and methods are disclosed for the treatment of cells, such as keratinocytes and adipocytes, to increase their lipid content and compositions and methods are disclosed for treatment of skin cells to diminish the appearance of blemishes.

Systems and methods for pumping milk from a breast responsive to a controller, wherein the milk is expressed from the breast under suction and milk is expulsed from the pumping mechanism to a collection container under positive pressure.

A colored contact lens (10) having a non-opaque pupil section (20), an iris section (22) surrounding the pupil section (20), and a colored, opaque intermittent pattern made up of a plurality of elements located over the entire iris section (22) that leaves a substantial portion within the interstices of the pattern non-opaque, the pattern covering an effective amount of the iris section (22) to change the apparent color of the iris, the pattern having a plurality of portions, each of the portions being a different shade from each other portion, each of the portions overlapping each other portion at a plurality of points, where at least one of the plurality of portions contains a design, thereby providing a lens (10) capable of changing the apparent color of the iris of a person wearing the lens (10) and imparting a very natural appearance.

Systems and methods for pumping milk from a breast, wherein the milk is expressed from the breast under suction and milk is expulsed from the pumping mechanism to a collection container under positive pressure.

A dental veneer made from a composite comprising at least one organic binder, preferably with methacrylate, and inorganic solid particles as fillers. Methods for manufacturing the dental veneer include curing the composite with heat and light under pressure followed by laser treating the facial surface of the veneer to form a smoother facial surface. Filler particles at the facial surface of the veneer can be melted and / or coalesced together to form a continuous glass surface, which is more natural looking and better resembles natural tooth material as compared to ceramic veneers or other composited veneers lacking surface treatment.

A retractable plug of power supply is comprised of a slide seat and a plug body. The slide seat is snap-fastened in a housing and metal pieces are arranged on sides of the plug body. An elastic lamella is disposed above the plug body, and a wedge block is located on the elastic lamella. The housing has a slot and a positioning hook part is provided on an inner wall face of the housing. A pushbutton is combined to the elastic lamella through the slot. The plug body is slidable in the slide seat by pushing the pushbutton in order to stretch metal pieces out of the housing. The metal pieces are prevented from being withdrawn into the housing by way of mutual retaining of the wedge and the positioning hook part, and such retaining could be released by pressing down the pushbutton to allow the withdrawal of the metal pieces into the housing.

The invention relates to method for processing bamboo plywood which is homogeneous and forms natural texture; the processing method solves the disadvantages of low productivity, bad levelness of the product surface, uneven product intensity, easy deformation, low strength and narrow application field with the present method. The method includes the following steps that saw bamboo into tubes of proper length and cleave the tubes into slices of proper width and then remove the layers of green color and yellow color; cleave the bamboo slices into thin strips of proper thickness and weave the strips in parallel with wire to form a bamboo curtain and the thickness difference of strips used for the same curtain should be within 1mm; dry and size the curtain and then dry for the second time; pile the curtain on the board of a hot-press layer by layer to form plate blank; the included angle of two neighboring layers is acute or right one and the surface layer or / and the bottom layer consist(s) of one to four bamboo curtains with included angles of zero degree between all strips in the pattern of one to four layers; the plate blank is hot pressed and trimmed to obtain the homogeneous bamboo plywood.

The use of water redispersible thermoplastic polymer powder stabilized with protective colloid as a binder in cork products produced from cork flour or granules allows use of reduced amounts of binder without compromising physical properties.

To provide a robot whose degree of freedom of design is not limited, and which has simple structure and further reduces load of an actuator of a neck part, the present invention provides a robot at least including a head part, a body part, and a neck link which connects the head part and the body part, wherein a surrounding object distance measurement means is provided adjacently to the neck link and in an upper portion of the body part between the head part and the body part, and a distance scanning field of the surrounding object distance measurement means is provided in parallel with a horizontal plane.

A looped fabric having a ground fabric that is made of cotton and provided with loops of bamboo fiber is disclosed. A terry made from the looped fabric and the use of bamboo fiber in a looped fabric is also disclosed.

A blank is provided for producing a dental prosthesis (tooth crown) comprising a mechanically processable material block and a holder connected thereto for clamping in an automatic processing tool. Said block is provided with a subgingival anatomic implant connecting part which is protrusively arranged thereon and in which an implant fixture for fixing it to the implant head is formed. The holder is arranged on the surface of the block arrangement side and the implant fixture to a surface on the implant side, thereby making it possible to work the blank by means of a computer-controlled conventional tool. A threaded channel which is embodied in the centre of the block in a parallel direction with respect to the surface on the fixation side, the angular orientation of the mastication surface of the tooth crown with respect to the occlusion vertical and the subgingival anatomic implant connecting part make it possible to fix the prosthetic element (tooth crown) directly to the implant without an abutment and with correct orientation in the row of teeth.

A ground fabric made of cotton and provided with loops of bamboo fiber is used to form a looped fabric. The ground fabric has a ground weave that is obtained by a technique with three weft sequences or by a technique with four weft sequences. The looped fabric has a weight between 200 and 1700 gram / m2. The number of warp threads per cm fabric is between 21 and 34, and the number of weft threads per cm fabric is between 10 and 28, and the number of loops per cm fabric is between 3 and 9. The looped fabric may be used as a terry.

This invention discloses contoured, shape-enhancing jeans garments having permanent inner structures of a buttocks enhancing contoured form system at the posterior waistband portion and torso region; and, an anterior tummy slimming and smoothing pocket system, eliminating the need for additional or separate buttocks expanding, or shaping devices, or girdle type undergarments. The buttocks system is affixed at strategic points to the posterior of jeans garments; and the tummy system is similarly incorporated at the anterior of the garments. The buttocks system is comprised of a tapered open-cell foam pad with a stretchable posterior casing and anterior minimal stretch lining allowing for flexibility, comfort and conformity to the individual's physique with a free floating lower edge. The tummy system is specifically positioned to slim and smooth by covering and containing the tummy of the wearer. The wearer garners and aesthetically improves shaping of the buttocks, hips and flattened tummy for a more sexy, natural and sophisticated buttocks appearance while maintaining freedom of movement.

The invention relates to a pure natural green high-anthocyanin purple sweet potato beverage prepared by using purple sweet potato as raw material and a preparation method of the pure natural green high-anthocyanin purple sweet potato beverage. The beverage has high anthocyanin content and high juice yield. The preparation method comprises the steps of: taking purple sweet potato as raw material, carrying out the technological processes of choosing, cleaning, pre-processing, shelling, cutting into slices (dicing), protecting color, pasting, pulping, enzymolyzing, centrifuging and filtering, preparing purple sweet potato juice with high concentration and original flavor, blending, adding stabilizer and sweetener, homogenizing (or grinding by a colloid grinder), bulking and sterilizing. The beverage has peculiar purple and fragrance of the purple sweet potato, soft taste and pure taste, can be stored for a long time and convenient for eating. The beverage contains high-concentration anthocyanin, is ideal natural green functional beverage and has various functions such as inoxidability, anti-aging property, and cancer resistance.

The invention relates to spinning liquid, an instant-spinning nanometer facial mask and a preparing method thereof, and belongs to the field of cosmetic products. The instant-spinning nanometer facialmask is different from a traditional facial mask, is invisible to the eyes, is very friendly to the skin, is prepared from raw materials like fish skin collagen and / or gelatin, is non-woven fabric interwoven by nanoscale filament, can bear all kinds of skin-care and moisture-preservation contents, is natural in appearance, and has high air permeability, moisture retention and elasticity. A user feels fine and has no feeling of foreign matter, and the instant-spinning nanometer facial mask is convenient to use.

The invention relates to an almond cake and a production method. The almond cake takes mung bean powder, soy protein isolate, fructo-oligosaccharides and mulberry leaf powder as raw material, can also use the nuts with a certain flavor and taste as the supporting material; and the improved almond cake raw material formula is more scientific, while the nutrition is more balanced. To produce the almond cake, firstly, first-grade mung beans are selected, soaked, germinated, blanched, dried, peeled and finely ground into mung bean powders; fresh mulberry leaves are picked, washed, dried at low temperature and crushed to get mulberry leaf dry powders which are then reserved; then the soy protein isolate and the fructo-oligosaccharides are added into a mixing barrel, stirred into uniform emulsion and kept static for 45 to 60 minutes; after butter is added into the uniform emulsion and stirred evenly, the green bean powders and the mulberry leaf powders are added into the mixture to generate the powder material; finally, the prepared powder material is placed in a cake mold, molded into a cake, put into an oven with the temperature less than 100 DEG C, baked for 35-60 minutes, cooled, sorted and packed.