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A surgical instrument particularly suited to endoscopic and laparoscopic insertion through a cannula of a trocar into an insufflated body cavity or lumen includes a bending member in an elongate shaft that acts to rotate an end effector about an articulation pivot joint. A proximally directed camming surface (e.g., gear segment, cam recess) aft of a pivotal attachment of the end effector to a proximal frame ground of the elongate shaft interacts with a bending member whose proximal end is ground to the proximal frame ground. Differential fluidic actuators or mechanical cam bars deflect a distal end (e.g., rack, cam point) of the bending member to effect articulation. Thereby, the end effector may act upon tissue that would otherwise be obscured, such as behind an organ. The articulated end effector also advantageously allows an endoscope to be positioned behind the end effector without being blocked by the instrument shaft.

The Invention is a control system for a compound aircraft. A compound aircraft has features of both a helicopter and a fixed wing aircraft and provides redundant control options. The control system allows an authorized person to select any of plurality of control biases each which is designed to achieve an overall operational objective. The control system applies the selected control bias in allocating the control function among the redundant control options.

A method for preparing microparticles having a selected polymer molecular weight. The hold time and temperature of a solution containing a nucleophilic compound and a polymer having a starting molecular weight are controlled in order to control the molecular weight of the polymer in the finished microparticle product. In this manner, a selected polymer molecular weight in the finished microparticle product can be achieved from a variety of starting material molecular weights.

Methods of manufacturing dental prosthesis/implants each to replace a non-functional natural tooth positioned in a jawbone of a specific pre-identified patient are provided. An example method includes the steps of receiving imaging data such as x-ray image data and surface scan data of a dental anatomy and/or a physical impression of the dental anatomy of a specific preidentified patient. The steps can also include forming a three-dimensional virtual model of at least portions of a non-functional natural tooth positioned in the jawbone of the specific pre-identified patient based on the imaging and surface scan data, virtually designing a dental implant based upon the virtual model, exporting the data describing the designed dental implant to a manufacturing machine, and custom manufacturing the dental implant for the specific patient.

A computer implemented method for an aviation system to manage, consistent with specified system business goals, the temporal assignment of airport gates for use by a plurality of aircraft which are to-be-serviced by specified ground resources, including ground personnel, equipment and supplies, so as to deliver and receive specified passengers, their baggage and cargo during a specified time period, based upon specified data pertaining to the aircraft, passengers and ground resources, includes the steps of: (a) collecting and storing the specified data, (b) processing the data to predict the trajectories of the aircraft, wherein these trajectories including the expected gate arrival time, required ground servicing period and projected departure time of each of the aircraft, (c) processing the data to predict the loads imposed on the ground resources and gates associated with the movement of the passengers, equipment and supplies in relation to the arrival and departure of the aircraft, (d) processing the data, trajectories and loads to identify the various possible ways to distribute the ground system resources and assign the gates so as to meet the time constraints of the predicted trajectories and loads, and (e) assigning to each of the plurality of aircraft a gate for use for a prescribed period, with these assignments being made in such a manner as to allow the aviation system to optimally meet its business goals.

Dental prosthesis, systems, and methods of forming and using a dental prosthesis, are provided. An example of a dental prosthesis includes a first manufactured portion shaped to substantially conform to the three-dimensional surface of a root of a tooth to be replaced and a second manufactured portion shaped to substantially conform to the three-dimensional surface of a crown of the tooth. Furthermore, customized manufactured splints to position and fixate a tooth-shaped prosthesis, are provided. Furthermore, a CAD/CAM based methods of and a systems for manufacturing a customized dental prosthesis are provided. The tooth can be scanned to determine its three-dimensional shape and substantially copied using an imaging system in-vitro like a 3D scanner or in-vivo like a cone beam CT system and CNC machinery. Biocompatible material that is suitable to be integrated into the extraction socket and adopted by existing tissue forming the socket can be manufactured or engineered.

An arrangement is provided for controlling a motor vehicle powertrain. The controller comprises means for measuring an operator request for acceleration, and means for controlling the component as a function of the operator request for acceleration.

Surface of a golf ball 1 is comparted into 8 spherical regular triangles St and 6 spherical squares Ss by comparting lines that are formed by casting a reflection of sides of the cuboctahedron inscribed in the phantom spherical face onto the phantom spherical face. On the spherical regular triangle St are arranged regular triangular dimples A1. On the spherical square Ss are formed square dimples B1 and B2. Dimple patterns of respective spherical regular triangles St are identical with each other. Dimple patterns of respective spherical squares Ss are identical with each other. It is also permitted that the snub cube is envisioned, and the surface is comparted into spherical regular triangles St and spherical squares Ss. Surface area occupation percentage of dimples 4 is preferably equal to or greater than 70%.

A method and apparatus for handling network jitter in a Voice-over IP communications network using a virtual jitter buffer and time scale modification. A sequence of voice packets is received, where the sequence of voice packets may comprise a talk spurt, and the packets are stored in a jitter buffer having an initial playback latency of zero. Then, a number of the initial voice packets in the sequence are advantageously time-expanded and played out, thereby increasing the depth of the jitter buffer (and thus the amount of network jitter handled). Then, a number of subsequent voice packets are advantageously time-compressed and played out to return the jitter buffer depth to zero. In one embodiment, the sequence of voice packets comprises a talk spurt, and in another embodiment, the sequence of voice packets comprise those which are received during a cellular handoff.

Custom dental prosthesis or implants each individually designed and manufactured to replace nonfunctional natural teeth positioned in a jawbone of a specific pre-identified patient are provided. An example dental prosthesis/implant includes a dental implant body having a prosthesis interface formed therein to receive an occlusally-facing dental prosthesis component. The prosthesis interface has a custom three-dimensional surface shape positioned and formed to create a form locking fit with respect to the occlusally-facing dental prosthesis component when positioned thereon.

Packaging materials and containers may be treated with sterilization dosages internally and externally using monochromatic, continuous wave, high-intensity, incoherent light in single and/or multiple light source configurations. The treatment systems and methods preserve physical and performance properties of the packaging/container while achieving a desired level of sterilization. The sterilized materials may be adapted for extended shelf life (ESL) products. The disclosed treatment systems and methods may also be used for sterilization of food and beverage products (either prepackaged or post packaged), medicines, pharmaceuticals, vitamins, infusion products, clinical and/or non-clinical solutions and systems, enteral and/or parenteral solutions and systems, and the like.

A method for gathering information relating to at least one object positioned on a patient positioning device of a medical imaging device is provided. The method includes the following steps:

• • gathering by optical means of 3-D image data relating to the object positioned on the patient positioning device by means of a 3-D image data recording unit,
  • transferring the gathered 3-D image data from the 3-D image data recording unit to an evaluating unit,
  • determining information relating to the object positioned on the patient positioning device based on the 3-D image data by means of the evaluating unit,
  • generating output information based on the determined information relating to the object positioned on the patient positioning device, and
  • outputting the output information relating to the object positioned on the patient positioning device.

A semiconductor device includes a nonvolatile memory cell including a writing transistor including an oxide semiconductor, a reading transistor including a semiconductor material different from that of the writing transistor, and a capacitor. Data is written to the memory cell by turning on the writing transistor so that a potential is supplied to a node where a source electrode of the writing transistor, one electrode of the capacitor, and a gate electrode of the reading transistor are electrically connected, and then turning off the writing transistor so that a predetermined potential is held in the node. Data is read out from the memory cell by supplying a precharge potential to a bit line, stopping the supply of the potential to the bit line, and determining whether the potential of the bit line is kept at the precharge potential or decreased.

An absorbent product which possesses two longitudinal side edges (12, 13), two transverse end edges (10, 11), a longitudinal centre line and a transverse centre line, and which comprises a liquid-permeable outer layer (2), a liquid-impermeable backing layer (3) and an absorption core (4) which is located between the outer layer (2) and the backing layer (3), with the absorption core (4) comprising a first and a second absorption layer (14, 15), with the first absorption layer (14) being arranged behind the liquid-permeable outer layer (2) and the second absorption layer (15) being arranged between the first absorption layer (14) and the liquid-impermeable backing layer (3), with the first absorption layer (14) having two longitudinal channels (16, 17), with each of the channels having an outer edge (20) closest to the corresponding longitudinal side edge (12, 13) of the product and an inner edge (21) closest to the longitudinal centre line of the product. The two longitudinal channels (16, 17) extend through the whole of the thickness of the first absorption layer (14), and a compressed area (22) is arranged between the longitudinal sides (12, 13) of the absorbent product, wherein the distance between the side edges (24) of the compressed area (22) is smaller than or equal to the distance between the outer side edges (20) of the longitudinal channels (16, 17).

The present disclosure provides an optical imaging lens, comprising, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with positive refractive power having an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof; a second lens element; a third lens element having positive refractive power; a fourth lens element; a fifth lens element with positive refractive power having an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof, and both the object-side surface and the image-side surface being aspheric; and a sixth lens element having an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, at least one convex shape in an off-axial region on the image-side surface, and both an object-side surface and the image-side surface being aspheric. There are a total of six lens elements.

A blood pump (1) comprises a pump casing (2) having a blood flow inlet (5) and a blood flow outlet (6) connected by a passage (7), and an impeller (3) arranged in said pump casing (2) so as to be rotatable about an axis of rotation (9). The impeller (3) is provided with blades (4) sized and shaped for conveying blood along the passage (7) from the blood flow inlet (5) to the blood flow outlet (6), and is rotatably supported in the pump casing (2) by a first bearing (10) at a first axial end of the impeller (3) and a second bearing (20) axially spaced apart from the first bearing (10). The first bearing (10) comprises a projection (11) extending along the axis of rotation (9) and connected to one of the impeller (3) and the pump casing (2) and a cavity (13) in the other one of the impeller (3) and the pump casing (2), the projection (11) comprising an enlarged portion (12) that engages the cavity (13) such that the first bearing (10) and the second bearing (20) are arranged to bear axial forces in the same axial direction.

The invention relates to a method and a device for stabilizing a car-trailer combination, including a towing vehicle and a trailer moved by the towing vehicle, wherein the towing vehicle is monitored in terms of rolling motions and measures that stabilize driving are taken upon the detection of an actual or expected unstable driving performance of the towing vehicle or the car-trailer combination. In order to be able to perform, in a timely manner, an intervention on the towing vehicle that stabilizes driving, the invention provides that the measures that stabilize driving are controlled in dependence on the yaw acceleration.

Disclosed is a positioning device for a free-flying kite-type wind-attacked element that comprises a profiled wing, is used as the exclusive, an auxiliary, or an emergency drive unit, and is connected to a watercraft via a traction rope. The positioning device is provided with a winch that can cause the traction rope to be taken in when a given first tractive force is not attained and/or when the flow is about to stop or has stopped abruptly and/or cause the traction rope to be veered when given a second tractive force and/or a given inflow velocity are/is exceeded.

A high-altitude aircraft powerplant including an engine, a two-stage turbocharger having an intercooler and an aftercooler, a cryogenic hydrogen fuel source, and a cooling system including a hydrogen heat exchanger. Aided by a ram-air cooler that cools a coolant to a near-ambient temperature, the heat exchanger is configured to heat the hydrogen using the coolant, and to cool the coolant to a temperature well below the ambient temperature during high-altitude flight. The intercooler and aftercooler use the sub-ambient temperature coolant, as does a separate sensor. The ram-air cooler includes a front portion and a rear portion. The cooling system includes three cooling loops which respectively incorporate only the front portion, only the rear portion, and both portions of the ram-air cooler.

In the method for producing a layer system on a dielectric substrate in which a metal layer is applied onto the substrate by a coating step (110) and a further layer with a predetermined layer thickness is subsequently applied by a further coating step (140), the metal layer having a sheet resistance >10 Mohm and an average reflectance >50%, the further layer would have a sheet resistance <1 Mohm if it had been applied onto the substrate with the same layer thickness by the further coating step (140), and the layer system consisting of the metal layer and the further layer has a sheet resistance >10 Mohm, where the invention furthermore relates to a layer system on a dielectric substrate in which a metal layer is applied onto the substrate by a coating step (110) and a further layer with a predetermined layer thickness is subsequently applied by a further coating step (140), the metal layer having a sheet resistance >10 Mohm and an average reflectance >50%, where the further layer, if it had been applied onto the substrate with the same layer thickness by the further coating step (140), would have a sheet resistance <1 Mohm, and the layer system consisting of the metal layer and the further layer has a sheet resistance >10 Mohm, the invention further providing a housing including a layer system.

The invention relates to a device (1) for patterning workpieces (2), which preferably consist at least partially of wood, wood materials or the like, having an ink-jet printing means (10) having a plurality of nozzles (12) from which drops of ink can be expelled, a workpiece carrier means (20) for carrying the workpiece (2) to be patterned, a conveyor device for bringing about a relative movement between the workpiece (2) to be patterned and the printing means (10). The device according to the invention is characterised in that it further has at least one image detection sensor (46).

An optical sensor system on an apparatus for treating liquids, with a device for projecting light to at least one illumination position in space, at least one device for imaging the at least one illumination position on at least one photo detector in order to supply a measurement signal depending on the received light, wherein the device for projecting is a device for simultaneously projecting light to plural illumination positions and/or the device for projecting is a device for simultaneously projecting light under different angles to the same illumination position, and/or plural photo detectors are existent, and an analysing unit connected to the at least one photo detector for analysing the at least one measurement signal.