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A lancet comprises a slider having a puncture needle holding mechanism at its one end; a cam ring which has a continuous cam groove, is rotatable about a support shaft, and has a cam ring claw and an anti-return claw for restricting the rotation; a ring spring for applying a force to rotate the cam ring; a rotatable stopper arm for holding and releasing the rotation of the cam ring; and a rotatable ratchet for restricting the direction of rotation of the cam ring. A puncture needle unit comprises a puncture needle body which is integrally molded with a protrusion to be fitted to the lancet, a rotation stop rib, and a puncture needle; and a puncture needle cap which is lightly pressed into the puncture needle body.

A side light type backlight includes a light source including a plurality of LEDs, and a light guide plate. One of the end surfaces of the light guide plate is a light incidence surface at which a plurality of R-LEDs, a plurality of G-LEDs and a plurality of B-LEDs are arranged. LEDs satisfy the relationship of: a distribution range of light emitted from G-LEDs <a distribution range of light emitted from R-LEDS, or a distribution range of light emitted from G-LEDs <a distribution range of light emitted from B-LEDs. Also, LEDs are electrically connected to each other.

A surgical system controls a fluid and includes an irrigation line for conducting an irrigation fluid; a first fluid vessel for holding the irrigation fluid; and, a surgical handpiece. The irrigation line has a first end connected to the first fluid vessel and a second end connected to the handpiece. The system further includes a suction pump having an inlet and an outlet; an aspiration input line arranged between the inlet of the suction pump and the surgical handpiece so as to permit the suction pump to draw fluid through the surgical handpiece; a pressure sensor for detecting the pressure of the fluid in the aspiration input line; a collection vessel; an aspiration output line connecting the outlet of the suction pump to the collection vessel so as to permit fluid from the outlet of the suction pump to be conducted into the collection vessel; a second fluid vessel for accommodating irrigation fluid therein; an aspiration ventilation line for connecting the second fluid vessel to the aspiration input line; and, a venting valve provided in the aspiration ventilation line and the venting valve being switchable in dependence upon the fluid pressure in the aspiration ventilation line.

Provided is a magnetic tape, which comprises, on a nonmagnetic support, a nonmagnetic layer comprising nonmagnetic powder and binder, and on the nonmagnetic layer, a magnetic layer comprising ferromagnetic powder and binder; wherein a total thickness of the magnetic tape is less than or equal to 4.80 μm; at least the magnetic layer comprises one or more components selected from the group consisting of a fatty acid and a fatty acid amide; and a C—H derived carbon, C, concentration calculated from a C—H peak area ratio in a C1s spectrum obtained by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy conducted at a photoelectron take-off angle of 10 degrees on a surface on the magnetic layer side of the magnetic tape is greater than or equal to 45 atom %.

The magnetic tape has a nonmagnetic layer containing nonmagnetic powder and binder on a nonmagnetic support, and a magnetic layer containing ferromagnetic powder and binder on the nonmagnetic layer; wherein the combined thickness of the nonmagnetic layer and the magnetic layer is less than or equal to 0.60 μm, the coefficient of friction as measured on the base portion of the surface of the magnetic layer is less than or equal to 0.35, at least the magnetic layer contains one or more components selected from the group consisting of a fatty acid and a fatty acid amide, and a C—H derived carbon, C, concentration calculated from a C—H peak area ratio in a C1s spectrum obtained by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy conducted at a photoelectron take-off angle of 10 degrees on the surface of the magnetic layer is greater than or equal to 45 atom %.

A method of controlling a hybrid drive train of a vehicle having, in series, an internal combustion engine, a clutch, an electric motor and a transmission with an output connected to the drive axle. During traction operation, the vehicle changes from an electric driving mode into a combination driving mode or a combustion engine driving mode, in that the clutch is engaged and the combustion engine torque is temporarily increased. The method includes regulating engagement of the clutch at least until reaching a starting rotational speed of the combustion engine such that the acceleration of the combustion engine occurs according to a predetermined progression of rotational speed and that the torque of the combustion engine is increased by the same amount as the transferable torque of the clutch is increased by the engagement process.

A garment comprising a stretch fabric wherein the garment covers at least a part of the lower body of a wearer, has a crotch part, and is worn by being fitted to the wearer's body, wherein the garment in part has a first portion with a strong straining force; first portion with a strong straining force is a strong straining portion (A); right and left parts of the portion (A) are connected at a second position on the back side of the garment corresponding to any region from os sacrum to vertebrae lumbalis of the wearer's body; and the portion (A) covers a region extending from second position through tops of bulges of the buttocks or vicinities thereof approximately in the direction of muscle fibers of musculus gluteus maximus at right and left to at least the vicinity of trochanter major.

A tape cartridge includes a process tape to be subjected to tape processing and a cartridge casing in which the process tape is accommodated and which has a plurality of outer wall faces making a contour of the cartridge casing, and is detachably mounted on a tape processing apparatus. The tape cartridge is handled in a state in which a feeding end of the process tape is slightly projected from a tape feeding port formed in one of the outer wall faces of the cartridge casing. One or more outer wall faces other than the one outer wall face of the cartridge casing have braille placed thereon serving as content indications.

A display apparatus comprises a display element, a backlight apparatus provided behind the display element and having a metal case, and a housing accommodating the display element and the backlight apparatus. In the display apparatus, electric wires for providing power to the backlight apparatus extend between the metal case of the backlight apparatus and the housing, and at least one opening is provided in the metal case in a part where the electric wires extend.

A firearm grip with a rest is provided, which at least has a grip body with a hollow portion, a shell encasing and combined with an outside of the grip body and exposing a bottom of the grip body, and a rest received in the grip body and capable of being projected from the bottom of the grip body to position and support the firearm grip against a setting surface. The grip body and the rest can be coupled to each other by an elastic member that allows the rest to be resiliently retracted back into the grip body. Alternatively, the rest can be pivotally coupled to the grip body and rotatably retracted into the grip body. The above firearm grip eliminates the shortcomings of the prior art.

There is provided a shelf divider system for organizing, moving, and displaying merchandize items on a store shelf. A plurality of dividers attach perpendicularly to a plurality of base strips by inserting knobs on the dividers into mating holes in the base strips. Each adjacent pair of dividers forms a channel for the merchandise. Merchandize carriers slide over the base strips between each adjacent pair of dividers. A pull strap is attached to the front end of each carrier for pulling it forward for moving the merchandize items forward on the shelf. The pull straps have longitudinal grooves therein for dividing the pull straps longitudinally into two narrower pull straps. The merchandize items are prevented from falling from the front of the shelf by transparent guards attached to guard holders. The shelf divider system may be attached to the shelf by clips, which attach a base strip to the shelf.

An air conditioning apparatus is provided. The air conditioning apparatus includes a cover assembly having an indoor air suction hole, a filter assembly cleaning indoor air sucked through the indoor air suction hole, and a grill. The grill includes a discharge grill formed on a side for discharging the indoor air cleaned by the filter assembly to an indoor area, and an exhaust grill for discharging indoor air to an outdoor area. A fan assembly draws indoor or outdoor air toward the grill. A rear panel is coupled to the grill. The rear panel includes a suction hole formed in one side for introducing outdoor air and an exhaust hole formed beside the suction hole for discharging indoor air to the outdoor area.

A transdermal contraceptive delivery system (TCDS) for fertility control in women is described. It comprises a backing layer, an adjoining layer of a solid absorption adhesive polymer matrix in which effective daily doses of an estrogen and a progestin are dispersed and released for transdermal absorption. Presently preferred is the use of the synthetic estrogen, ethinyl estradiol, and the synthetic progestin, levonorgestrel. Along with these two steroidal contraceptive agents, a combination of several chemical skin permeation enhancing agents, including capric acid, blended at specific weight ratios, ranging from 2:1:1:0.8 to 6:1:1:0.8, are homogeneously dispersed in the adhesive polymer matrix. The invention also provides a method of fertility control utilizing the transdermal contraceptive delivery system.

A motor includes a stator and a bus bar supported axially above the stator. The bus bar includes a concave portion arranged in a lower surface thereof facing toward coils of the stator. In a gap defined between the coil and the concave portion, a portion of the wire extracted from the coil and wound in the circumferential direction (i.e., a crossover wire portion) is accommodated. The bus bar includes a wire-positioning hole through which the wire is led to a terminal to be connected with the wire.

The invention relates to a walk-aiding exoskeleton robot system and a control method, which belong to the technical field of rehabilitation engineering. The system comprises a hanging support, a moving platform, joints, protecting sleeves, a sensor module, a signal acquisition module, a central processing module and a motion control module, wherein the hanging support is fixed on the moving platform, the joints are connected with the hanging support to form an exoskeleton robot, the sensor module, the signal acquisition module, the central processing module and the motion control module are sequentially connected, the sensor module is used for acquiring joint angles, the interacting force of the exoskeleton robot and the human being and the myoelectric signals of the muscles of the human body, the signal acquisition module carries out signal conditioning and digital-to-analog conversion, the central processing module carries out action generation and the reverse solution of motion, and transmits an action command to the motion control module, and the motion control module is connected with the exoskeleton robot and generates a pulse signal to control the coordinated motion of the exoskeleton robot. The invention realizes the synchronous motion of the exoskeleton robot and the human body and real-time active control.

A walking assistance device is capable of preventing a load transmit portion thereof from falling due to gravity when the operation of an actuator of the walking assistance device is stopped. A leg link is provided with an elastic member that imparts, to a third joint, an urging torque for restraining the flexion degree of the leg link from changing from a predetermined first flexion degree due to the gravity acting on the walking assistance device in a reference state wherein a foot-worn portion connected to the load transmit portion through the leg link is in contact with a ground and the flexion degree of the leg link the third joint is the first flexion degree.

In a disk array device for cooling respective sections including a HDD by a fan, drop of cooling efficiency by the difference of conditions of HDD mounted and unmounted sections is prevented and the use of a dummy HDD is deleted/eliminated. A housing contains a HDA mounted on the HDD, a power controller board for performing control to the HDD, a power unit for supplying power to each section, a fan for cooling the housing therein, and a backboard for connecting all the sections. On one backboard surface, the HDA is mounted, which has a cooling function for making cooling air flowing in the housing and exhausting air from the housing via a region on which the HDA are mounted and via a vent hole on the backboard. For the vent hole, a shutter is mounted, which has a mechanism for adjusting an open area rate of the vent hole by opening when the HDA is mounted and closing when removed.

An application device for a screen protector and an application method thereof are provided for applying an adhesive film to a screen of an electronic device with ease and precision. The application device is formed as a frame-like structure having an internal hollow region. The screen protector includes, from top to bottom, a protective layer, an adhesive film layer, and a release layer sequentially bonded together. The protective layer is greater in area than the adhesive film layer or the release layer and has a peripheral portion extending outwardly beyond the adhesive film layer or the release layer. The peripheral portion of the protective layer is attached to a frame-shaped top surface of the application device while the adhesive film layer and the release layer bonded thereto are placed in, and lie adjacent to a top portion of, the internal hollow region of the application device.