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A process for the recovery of ethane, ethylene, propane, propylene, and heavier hydrocarbon components from a hydrocarbon gas stream is disclosed. The stream is cooled and is thereafter expanded to the fractionation tower pressure and supplied to the fractionation tower at a lower mid-column feed position. A distillation stream is withdrawn from the column below the feed point of the stream and is then directed into heat exchange relation with the tower overhead vapor stream to cool the distillation stream and condense at least a part of it, forming a condensed stream. At least a portion of the condensed stream is directed to the fractionation tower at an upper mid-column feed position. A recycle stream is withdrawn from the tower overhead after it has been warmed and compressed. The compressed recycle stream is cooled sufficiently to substantially condense it, and is then expanded to the pressure of the fractionation tower and supplied to the tower at a top column feed position. The quantities and temperatures of the feeds to the fractionation tower are effective to maintain the overhead temperature of the fractionation tower at a temperature whereby the major portion of the desired components is recovered.

Disclosed is an optical disk barcode forming method wherein, as information to be barcoded, position information for piracy prevention, which is a form of ID, is coded as a barcode and is recoded by laser trimming on a reflective film in a PCA area of an optical disk. When playing back the thus manufactured optical disk on a reproduction apparatus, the barcode data can be played back using the same optical pickup.

A method for separating, or removing, particulate material, e.g., blood cells, from a sample of fluid, e.g., whole blood of a patient, in which the particulate material is suspended. In the case of separating blood cells from blood plasma or blood serum, the resulting samples of blood plasma or blood serum can be used for in vitro diagnostic applications. In normal practice, a whole blood sample of a patient are provided and then introduced into an apparatus that contains a flow channel. An acoustic field, which contains acoustic standing waves from external ultrasonic transducers, is located within the flow channel. Laminar flow is maintained in the flow channel. Blood cells and platelets are separated from blood plasma or blood serum at the end of the flow channel and collected. The method described herein allows fluid components to differentially migrate to areas of preferred acoustic interaction. The parameters that affect separation of particles are size, density, compressibility of the particles, and the fluid surrounding the particles.

The present invention provides a light guide plate which can process in polarization separation, and emit a light in a desirable direction, a surface light source device, and a liquid crystal display device. A light guide plate 30 includes a light guide plate main body 31 including a first surface 31a on which a light 100 output from a light source section 20 is made incident, a second surface 31b adjacent to the first surface, a third surface 31d which faces the first surface, and is adjacent to the second surface, and a fourth surface which faces the second surface, and is adjacent to the third surface, and a diffraction grating section 32 arranged on the second surface 31b wherein; the diffraction grating section 32 is configured in such a way that a plurality of gratings 33 consisting of a dielectric is arranged in parallel at an interval Λ along a predetermined direction facing from the first surface to the third surface, wherein; when a wavelength of a visible region possessed by a light 100 is set to be λ, the interval Λ satisfies 1≧Λ/λ≧0.5, and when a refractive index of the light guide plate main body 31 is set to be n_s, and a refractive index of the grating 33 is set to be n_g, the refractive index n_g satisfies n_g-n_s≧0.15.

A foam spring for use in pillows, cushions, mattresses or the like, the foam spring having a tubular resilient body-made of foam with holes extending inwardly from an outside surface to an inside surface, wherein the tubular body-comprises at least one tubular foam layer and at least one reinforcing layer applied to said foam layer over at least a part of the axial length of the spring.

A pipette, comprising a pipette casing which has disposed therein a seat, a piston seat in an accommodating body, mounting devices for reversibly fixing the mounting portion and syringe piston of a syringe within the seats and piston adjusting devices for displacing the accommodating body, wherein the mounting portion and syringe piston are adapted to be slid to their mounting positions through axial apertures, the mounting devices have radially advanceable gripping devices, the gripping devices have syringe gripping levers pivotally supported within the pipette casing and piston gripping levers pivotally supported within the accommodating body, the syringe gripping levers and piston gripping levers have two arms, the syringe gripping levers, at the insides of their actuator arms, having contact points which when their actuator arms are actuated are adapted to be externally pivoted against the actuator arms of the piston gripping levers, the syringe gripping levers have inwardly projecting release levers on the actuator arms, a transfer element which is slidably guided transversely with respect to the release levers within the pipette casing is adapted to be brought into abutment against the two release levers by being shifted by a front-end sided abutment area, and a trigger displaceable within the pipette casing is coupled to the transfer element to displace the transfer element upon displacement of the trigger.

A method of recycling useful metals is provided. The method enables useful metals including indium, zinc, yttrium, europium, lanthanum, terbium, gadolinium, antimony, lead, copper, tin, and silver to be recovered from wastes, such as wasted flat panel displays, and recycled economically with small energy consumption. The method of recycling useful metals includes: a step in which wastes comprising various flat panel displays, e.g., liquid-crystal display panels, are crushed/powdered; a step in which the resultant particles are dissolved in an aqueous hydrofluoric acid solution; and a step in which various metal oxides and various metal fluorides which remain undissolved are filtered off and the aqueous hydrofluoric acid solution containing various metal ions is electrolyzed to deposit and recover metals for transparent-electrode oxides, such as indium and zinc, and other useful metals.

In response to an external trigger for paging processing start, a CPS (41) decides paging group information according to the terminal identification information contained in the external trigger (S3) and passes the paging group information to a UPS (42) in charge of the user plane (S6). The UPS generates radio channel setting information for paging according to the paging group information (S8). The paging information passed between the CPS and the UPS is information of paging group not radio-depending. The UPS converts this information into radio-dependent information when performing paging. Accordingly, the C-U separation of the RNC (4) becomes possible and the CPS and the UPS can develop without depending on each other.

The invention refers to a device, including a plate package (2) of heat exchanger plates (1) which are provided beside each other to form a plate interspace between adjacent plates, and a heat exchanger plate. The plate interspaces form in an alternating order first passages (3) for a first medium and second passages (4) for a second medium for cooling of the first medium. Each heat exchanger plate has at least two portholes forming a first inlet port channel and a first outlet port channel (7), which extend through the plate package to a first inlet and a first outlet, respectively, for the first medium to and from the first passages (3). The first outlet forms a gas outlet (31) for discharge of a gas of the first medium and a liquid outlet (32) for discharge of liquid of the first medium. The liquid outlet (32) is separated from the gas outlet (31) for permitting separate discharge of the liquid and gas.

The present invention proposes a warning system that can be implemented in any kind of vehicle, in order to efficiently detect moving objects. The system utilizes at least one camera for a continuous imaging of the surroundings of the vehicle. Thereby, moving objects can be monitored. A computing unit is programmed to estimate a motion of any moving object based on a pixel motion in the camera image. If a dangerously moving object is detected, a warning unit can be used for issuing a warning signal. To take such a decision, the estimated motion of at least one of the moving objects can be correlated or compared to predetermined motion patterns.

Disclosed is a sealing sheet for use to close a container-defining sheet having a top surface comprising a given number of spaced apart cavities embossed therein, each of the cavities being upwardly opened and thus defining a container that is surrounded by a flange that is part of the top surface of the container-defining sheet. This sealing sheet has a top layer which can be glued to the flanges surrounding the containers of the container-defining sheet in order to close said containers. The top layer is advantageously made of a water-proof material such aluminum, in order to make the closure of the container-defining sheet moisture proof once such a closure has been completed. This top layer advantageously also has a top surface that is printable to ensure that relevant information as to the content of each container being made available on it if desired.

The disclosure describes a prism containing a microfluidic channel. By coupling bulk acoustic wave generators to opposing sides of the prism, a standing bulk acoustic wave field can be excited in the prism and in the microfluidic channel. Because the microfluidic channel is titled with respect to the nodes of the bulk acoustic wave field, the prism microfluidic channel device can be used to separate microparticles and biological cells by size, compressibility, density, shape, or mass distribution. This technology enables high throughput cell sorting for biotechnology applications such as cancer cell detection.

The present invention comprises a face area detection means for detecting a face area of a person from original image data, a skin information extraction means for extracting skin information equivalent to the detected face area, a first image processing means for performing a sharpening operation or a granulation control operation on the detected skin area, and a second image processing means for performing a sharpening operation or a granulation control operation on at least data of areas other than the skin area, which is different in intensity from the sharpening operation or the granulation control operation by the first image processing means. The present invention separates the skin area from the other areas of a photographic subject and subjects these areas to respective appropriate sharpening operations at high speeds.

An electric motor, particularly an electronically commutated direct current motor, has a stator and a rotor. The stator and the rotor are arranged coaxially to a longitudinal axis of the electric motor. The stator features a plurality of electrical stator poles and a plurality of phase windings. The rotor features a permanent magnet with a least one magnetic pole pair which is dedicated to the phase windings. The phase windings and/or the permanent magnet are divided into several axial sections in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the electric motor and these sections are staggered around the longitudinal axis of the electric motor with respect to each other. Angular positions of the individual phases are offset with respect to each other is in such a way that torque ripple can be reduced and torque gaps can be prevented.

Practical diffractive optical elements are made available efficiently and at low-cost. A refractive-index-modulated diffractive optical element includes a transparent DLC (diamond-like carbon) film (2) formed on a transparent substrate (1), with the DLC film (2) containing a diffraction grating having local regions (2a) of a relatively high refractive index and local regions (2) of a relatively low refractive index. The DLC film (2) can readily be deposited by plasma CVD onto the substrate (1), and the high refractive-index regions (2a) within the DLC film can readily be formed by irradiating it with an energy beam (4) such as an ion beam.

To provide a sensing device and a sensing method that, by a simple method of liquid supply to first and second excitation electrodes, makes it possible to make a first oscillation area adsorb an adsorption substance that adsorbs a substance to be sensed in a sample solution and a blocking substance that prevents the adsorption of a substance and to make the electrode in a second oscillation area adsorb the blocking substance. By the supply of a solution containing the adsorption substance to a first liquid storage space 53A surrounding a first excitation electrode 42A, a front surface of the excitation electrode 42A is made to adsorb the adsorption substance, and next, by the supply of a solution containing the blocking substance to the first liquid storage space 53A, an area, of the excitation electrode 42A, on which the adsorption substance is not adsorbed, is made to adsorb the blocking substance. Further, by the supply of the solution containing the blocking substance to a second liquid storage space 53B separated from the first liquid storage space and surrounding a second excitation electrode 42B, a front surface of the second excitation electrode 42B is made to adsorb the blocking substance.

A method of processing a signal in a hearing instrument with at least one outer microphone oriented towards the environment, an ear canal microphone oriented towards the user's ear canal, and at least one receiver capable of producing an acoustic signal in the ear canal includes the steps of:

• • Processing a first signal from the outer microphone and a second signal from the inner microphone to yield an ambient sound portion signal estimate and an own voice sound portion signal estimate;
  • Processing the ambient sound portion signal estimate into a processed ambient sound portion signal;
  • Processing the own voice sound portion signal estimate into a processed own voice sound portion signal; and
  • Adding the processed ambient sound portion signal and the processed own voice portion signal for obtaining an input for the receiver.

A separating fluid, method and use for separating multilayer systems, especially photovoltaic modules, for the purpose of recycling, which allow the separation of multilayer systems. Especially photovoltaic modules, in comparatively simple manner in terms of the processes used, in as environmentally friendly a manner as possible, at high recycling rates. For this purpose, the separating fluid is a nanoscale dispersion or a precursor thereof.