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The present invention relates in a broad aspect to a method for conducting electronic transactions based on business processes, also known as e-Business, by the use of software. By providing a central configuration tool, the invention enables an automatic generation of a central transaction kernel used to integrate all business processes and further integrate to external systems. Thereby, a routing on business process level is obtained. The present invention is particularly useful for e-Business, but it is relevant for all areas of electronic transaction based processes. Also, a synchronous to asynchronous mechanism is introduced that allows plug-in of different communication and formatting components.

A method of endovenous laser treatment in disclosed. An introducer sheath 40 is introduced into a vein and an optical fiber 12 is introduced through the introducer sheath until a first marking 45 on the optical fiber 12 indicates that the distal end of the optical fiber 12 is substantially in alignment with the distal end of the introducer sheath 40. The introducer sheath 40 is then withdrawn relative to the optical fiber 12 until a second marking 46 on the optical fiber 12 indicates that the distal end of the optical fiber 12 extends a predetermined distance beyond the distal end of said introducer sheath 40. Laser radiation is passed down the optical fiber 12 so that laser radiation is delivered to the inner wall of the vein and the introducer sheath 40 together with the optical fiber 12 are withdrawn a certain distance along the vein.

Improved receiver set for an indirect or direct gas operated firearm wherein the charging handle has been moved to the side of the upper receiver, the magazine well has been flared open to better receive a magazine, and the lower receiver has a semi-circular shelf in the rear which supports the proximal end of the bolt carrier as it is longitudinally displaced due to firing of the weapon.

A quick insertion fastener has an internally threaded first member ("nut") adapted to be quickly attached and tightened on an externally threaded second member ("bolt"). The nut is formed with a casing with an internal frusto-conical front surface, a plurality of threaded shell segments contained in the casing having external frusto-conical front surfaces which abut the front surface of the casing, a spring member positioned at a rear part of the casing which elastically holds the rear ends of the shell assembly together, and an end retainer provided at the rear part of the casing having a taper for engaging the rear ends of the shell assembly and displacing them radially apart when the shell assembly is displaced axially toward the end retainer by insertion of the bolt. This allows the bolt threads to move without interference past the internal threads of the shell segments. When the insertion force of the bolt is released, the spring member urges the shell segments together so that the internal threads of the shell assembly become engaged with the bolt, and the nut can be tightened on the bolt. The spring member may be a radial spring or O-ring, or in the alternatively may be a wave compression spring, segmented spring, circumferential or axial leaf springs, or a flexure spring formed integrally with the end retainer. The nut may also be configured with an external sleeve member for pulling the shell assembly back relative to the nut casing for quick disengagement from the fastener.

A flexible direct vision fiberoptical viewing cable is placed within a urinary catheter with its tip located at a distal end of the catheter such that the surfaces of the distal end of both the viewing cable and the catheter are aligned so as to fit together in such a way as to form a composite smoothly curved surface to facilitate negotiating obstructions. The cable is maintained in this position within the catheter with the surfaces that comprise the tip of the instrument, maintained in alignment. The urethra is then viewed therethrough during all or part of the insertion procedure for observing and identifying obstructions that may be present and thereafter the fiberoptic cable is withdrawn while allowing the catheter to remain in place within the urethra.Another form of instrument includes a working sheath and an obturator. A method is also described for facilitating endoscopic examination and surgical procedures through the sheath.

An integrated catheter assembly for rapid vascular insertion including a catheter configured for receipt of a needle and a guidewire; a catheter assembly comprising an integrated assembly comprising a catheter, needle, and guidewire; and a method of rapidly inserting a catheter to obtain vascular access. The catheter includes a central lumen for receiving the needle and guidewire. The lumen includes a distal port and a transverse side port adjacent an intermediate portion thereof which provide open vascular communication from two ports between the central lumen and the vasculature. The needle and guidewire, when integrated with the catheter, extend through the transverse side port wherein a proximal end of the needle extends contiguous to and exterior of a proximal portion of the catheter.

Identification of objects in images. All images are scanned for key-points and a descriptor is computed for each region. A large number of descriptor examples are clustered into a Vocabulary of Visual Words. An inverted file structure is extended to support clustering of matches in the pose space. It has a hit list for every visual word, which stores all occurrences of the word in all reference images. Every hit stores an identifier of the reference image where the key-point was detected and its scale and orientation. Recognition starts by assigning key-points from the query image to the closest visual words. Then, every pairing of the key-point and one of the hits from the list casts a vote into a pose accumulator corresponding to the reference image where the hit was found. Every pair key-point / hit predicts specific orientation and scale of the model represented by the reference image.

An integrated catheter assembly for rapid vascular insertion including a catheter configured for receipt of a needle and a guidewire; a catheter assembly comprising an integrated assembly comprising a catheter, needle, and guidewire; and a method of rapidly inserting a catheter to obtain vascular access. The catheter includes a central lumen for receiving the needle and guidewire. The lumen includes a distal port and a transverse side port adjacent an intermediate portion thereof which provide open vascular communication from two ports between the central lumen and the vasculature. The needle and guidewire, when integrated with the catheter, extend through the transverse side port wherein a proximal end of the needle extends contiguous to and exterior of a proximal portion of the catheter.

A method of making A fiber optic connector adapted to receive a fiber bearing unit involves coupling at least one high precision piece, having holes configured to accept an array of optical fibers, to a low precision piece to form a unit, inserting optical fibers into the unit and housing the unit within a fiber optic connector housing. A commercial fiber optic connector of a style constructed to accept a ferrule-like unit therein has a connector housing, at least 36 optical fibers, a low precision piece, and at least one high precision slice having at least 36 fiber holes each adapted to accept one of the optical fibers, the low precision piece and the at least one high precision slice being contained substantially within the connector housing and forming the ferrule like unit.

The invention relates to a method for producing hardened structural parts from sheet steel. The method includes shaping at least one shaped part made of sheet steel provided with a cathodic corrosion protection coating, performing any required final trim of the shaped part and possibly any required punching, or the creation of a perforation pattern, subsequently heating the shaped part, at least over partial areas, under the admission of atmospheric oxygen to a temperature which permits austenizing of the steel material, and thereafter transferring the structural part to a mold-hardening tool and performing mold-hardening in the mold-hardening tool, wherein the structural part is cooled by the contact with and pressing by the mold-hardening tool and is hardened thereby.

Provided is a durable oxygen sensitive probe of sufficient strength to withstand direct tissue pressures in vivo, the probe comprising a sensor chamber within a biocompatible, gas-permeable membrane containing an oxygen sensitive analyte solution producing oxygen quenchable phosphorescence when excited. Further provided is a tissue oxygen detection and measurement system comprising the probe, and methods for use of the probe and the system to directly, rapidly and accurately measure tissue oxygen levels in a patient without reliance on blood vessels or fluid protection of the probe.

A plurality of adjacent, aligned, shaped hollow uniform building components, each having four separate distinct key channels are assembled together with a plurality of friction fitting locking keys to accomplish at least three separate distinct locks which become uniform whole friction fitting structural buildings upon alignment of like side surfaces or like end surfaces of uniform building components, together with friction fitting insertion and alignment of one of four separate and distinct shaped uniform bridge keys, then friction fit insertion of the primary locking keys into and through the primary key channels of adjacent and / or abutting uniform building components and uniform bridge keys, thereby rapidly achieving the primary lock and key joint, being the primary finished bonded joint and the primary lock of this invention. The second and third separate distinct locks of this invention are accomplished using corner locking keys to achieve the corner lock and / or center bore hole locking keys to achieve the center bore hole lock. The interior or exterior of a friction fitting structural building is enhanced with other components, including transverse locking keys to form a transverse lock, and key channels may also contain building improvement components.

The invention relates to a screw fastener comprising a threaded shank having a force application means for torque transmission and a screw fastener point. The threaded shank consists of a shank core and a self-tapping thread, and the thread is designed as a prominence which runs helically over the shank core, is defined by two flanks meeting in an outer thread edge and has a radial height (H). The outer thread edge, at least in a section of the thread, runs in a wavelike manner in the radial direction with an amplitude between wave crests having the height (H) and wave troughs having a height (h) reduced by the amplitude. The thread, at least in the region of one of its flanks, has niches in the region of the wave troughs of the thread edge, which niches interrupt the surface of the flank and their outer boundary is the thread edge, the thread in each case having a certain first apex angle (α), formed between the flanks, in those regions of the wave crests of the thread edge which are not interrupted by niches and a second apex angle (α′) in the deepest regions of the wave troughs of the thread edge. The first apex angle (α) between the flanks is approximately within the range of 30° to 35°, the second apex angle (α′) being 30° up to at most 58°.

A clamp for the rapid and accurate positioning of a threaded fixation pin has a central body defining a channel therethrough for receiving a fixation pin. The clamp also includes a locking member with a lower surface adapted to engage and mate with the threads of the fixation pin. Thus, the fixation pin can be rapidly inserted into the desired bone structure by rotating the fixation pin, and as the fixation pin is rotated, it also advances forward due to the engagement of the threads of the fixation pin with the locking member of the clamp. If the forward advance caused by the engagement of the threads of the fixation pin with the locking member can not keep pace with the cutting action, the resultant resistance to insertion in the form of a rearward directed force will cause the locking member to rise up and disengage the threads of the fixation pin.

A write barrier is implemented using thread-local hash table based write barrier buffers. The write barrier, executed by mutator threads, stores addresses of written memory locations or objects in the thread-local hash tables, and during garbage collection, an explicit or implicit union of the addresses in each hash table is used in a manner that is tolerant to an address appearing in more than one hash table.

The present invention is directed to an implantable immune modulation device that is useful for modulating an immune response in mammals, comprising a plurality of fibers, within a porous shell. The fiber filling is loaded with single or multiple antigens, and optionally one or more biologically active compounds such as cytokines (e.g. lymphokines, chemokines etc.), attachment factors, genes, peptides, proteins, nucleotides, carbohydrates or cells depending on the application.

A pulley assembly in which either a hub or a bearing is attached in the center of one or more pulleys either by rivets passing transversely through overlapping portions of the pulley and the hub or bearing. When fastening together a hub and a pulley, the pulley has belt groove around the outer periphery and an annual web extending radially inwardly from the belt groove. A hub has a radially outwardly extending flange which overlaps the web of the pulley and in one embodiment a plurality of rivets pass through matching holes in the pulley web and the hub flange to fasten the hub and pulley together instead of using rivets, the pulley web and hub may be fastened together either with an adhesive layer or by friction welding of adjacent surfaces of the pulley web and the hub flange. When attaching bearings to a pulley an annular flange extends radially outwardly from the outer race of the bearing and overlaps a radially inwardly extending web of a pulley. The pulley and bearing can be fastened together either by rivets passing transversely through the pulley web and bearing flange or by applying a layer of adhesive between adjacent surfaces of the pulley web and bearing flange.

The multiple magazine carrier and dispenser for firearms is configured for rapidly dispensing ammunition magazines in a proper orientation to facilitate rapid reloading of a weapon. The multiple magazine carrier may be curved for either left or right hand use or may be uncurved, and carried on a torso and shoulder strap harness, vest, or other garment, as desired. The carrier has a thickness and height only slightly greater than those dimensions of a magazine, but has a length sufficient for the installation of a series of magazines therein in a front to back orientation. A spring and push plate or shoe urge the magazines toward the front of the device, where a dispensing opening is configured to facilitate grasping the first magazine in line in the proper orientation for rapid installation in a weapon carried by the user.

The invention discloses a visual-content-based method for establishing a multi-level semantic map. The visual-content-based method comprises the following steps: gathering images shot by a robot wandering in an environment and labeling the scenes of spots for photography; constructing a hierarchical vocabulary tree; constructing a knowledge topological layer so as to grant knowledge to the knowledge topological layer; constructing a scene topological layer; constructing a spot topological layer. According to the visual-content-based method, a visual sensor is utilized for constructing the multi-level semantic map for a space, and digraph structure is used on the knowledge topological layer for storing and inquiring the knowledge, so that unnecessary operation can be eliminated in a knowledge expression system, and the inserting and inquiring speed is quick; the scene topological layer is utilized for carrying out abstract division on the environment so as to abstractly divide the whole environment into subdomains, so that the image searching space and the path searching space can be reduced; the spot topological layer is utilized for storing specific spot images, the self-positioning can be realized by adopting image searching technology, and the error accumulation problem of self-positioning estimation is solved without maintaining the global world coordinate system.

The present invention relates to various embodiments of an improved high-speed corner flange connection member which is specifically shaped and designed to increase the clamping force applied to adjacent duct flanges when adjacent duct sections are connected together. In some embodiments, the corner connection members include creases or bends which allows the leg portions to be bent or angularly deflected away from such creases downwardly so as to form a bowed configuration; some embodiments include clearance holes and tap holes which are strategically positioned on the corner element such that when a pair of duct sections are positioned in end-to-end relationship for joinder, the opposed corner elements are arranged such that a clearance hole is positioned in registration with a tap hole; other embodiments include similarly shaped openings which are associated with the respective opposed corner elements; and in still other embodiments a substantially flat corner element is constructed utilizing the strategically placed clearance and tap holes so as to achieve a faster and stronger connection including the use of standard carriage type bolts. Still further, the present invention includes the use of a plurality of differently configured high-speed fastener members which are specifically designed to substantially eliminate misalignment and cross-threading issues commonly associated when using the conventional bolt / washer / nut arrangement for fastening adjacent duct sections.

There is provided an injection device comprising a barrel adapted for receiving a syringe assembly, a trigger assembly, tension spring means and stopping means. The trigger assembly comprises retractable blocking means for blocking the syringe assembly at a first axial point within the barrel and a trigger for retracting said blocking means from blocking the syringe along said first axial point along the barrel. The tension spring means has a barrel end mountable on the barrel and a syringe end mountable on the syringe assembly, whereby said tension spring means imparts an axial force to the syringe assembly when the syringe assembly is in a cocked position. The stopping means are for retaining the syringe assembly in an injected position within the barrel upon release of the syringe assembly from the cocked position followed by axial travel of the syringe assembly within the barrel under the influence of the axial force.

A production method for a pre-filled syringe includes holding a syringe assembly; reducing a pressure in the outer barrel of the syringe assembly to a set pressure; while the pressure in the outer barrel of the syringe assembly is at the set pressure, sealing the proximal end opening of the outer barrel with the gasket by disposing the gasket at a sealing position; and pushing the gasket toward the barrel tip with a sliding motion through the outer barrel to move the gasket from the sealing position to an insertion position, and the insertion position being a position at which a distal end surface of the gasket is spaced from the drug solution. After the gasket is moved to the insertion position, a pressure in a space between the drug solution and the distal end surface of the gasket is approximately equal to the atmospheric pressure.

The invention relates to a screw fastener comprising a threaded shank having a force application means for torque transmission and a screw fastener point. The threaded shank consists of a shank core and a self-tapping thread, and the thread is designed as a prominence which runs helically over the shank core, is defined by two flanks meeting in an outer thread edge and has a radial height (H). The outer thread edge, at least in a section of the thread, runs in a wavelike manner in the radial direction with an amplitude between wave crests having the height (H) and wave troughs having a height (h) reduced by the amplitude. The thread, at least in the region of one of its flanks, has niches in the region of the wave troughs of the thread edge, which niches interrupt the surface of the flank and their outer boundary is the thread edge, the thread in each case having a certain first apex angle (α), formed between the flanks, in those regions of the wave crests of the thread edge which are not interrupted by niches and a second apex angle (α′) in the deepest regions of the wave troughs of the thread edge. The first apex angle (α) between the flanks is approximately within the range of 30° to 35°, the second apex angle (α′) being 30° up to at most 58°.

A system for generating instruction signals arranged in workflow for performing interventions on network equipment included in a communication network, wherein the equipment is associated with resource proxy agents, each responsible for managing a single equipment in the network. The system includes a distributed architecture of intervention management proxy agents to generate the instruction signals. The intervention management proxy agents are interactively coupled with the resource proxy agents, whereby the instruction signals are a function of the status of the equipment in the network on which the interventions are performed.

A nebulization system, which creates a uniform fog of tiny suspended liquid droplets, to lubricate the surfaces of MEMS devices. These droplets fall over the edge of a baffle and are then mixed with an umbrella-like sheet of N2 turbulation gas to generate a uniform cloud of droplets that fill a passivation chamber. The MEMS device is then positioned in this uniform cloud of lubricant droplets for a specified amount of time, thereby uniformly lubricating all the surfaces of the device. The system uses a laser monitoring approach to control the uniformity of the lubricant cloud by providing feedback to the system to control the flow of gases. The system also equalizes the pressure around the sample device seal to prevent gases from entering or exiting the chamber and thereby influencing the environment inside the chamber.

The invention provides a site-directed modification method for DNA viral genome, and the problems in the prior art are solved that induction of site-directed mutagenesis of DNA viral genome is difficult, the operation of inserting an exogenous fragment is complex, and recombination rate is lower. The site-directed modification method comprises: transfecting cells by a plasmid carrying a nuclease system, infecting by a virus, after the cells show pathological changes, collecting the cells with pathological changes, performing freeze-thaw or ultrasonic processing, and centrifuging, separating the liquid supernatant to obtain a progeny virus. The site-directed modification method is capable of realizing applications to screening of virus attenuated vaccine strains, construction of viral genetic carriers and an oncolytic virus, research on virus function sequences, and the like; during modification of the viral genome, the method helps to improve mutagenesis efficiency, accurately control DNA virus for genome site-directed mutagenesis and specific gene knockout, simplify operation steps of inserting the DNA virus carrier by an exogenous gene, and improve efficiency that the exogenous gene is integrated to the viral genome, so that the work of screening high-flux recombination viruses is convenient to conduct.

A ratcheting take-up device that compensates for imperfect alignment in a tie rod continuity system in the frame of a building wall. The upper ends of the tie rods are tightly clamped within the take-up device by domed segments inserted in a bowl-shaped housing. The segments are also forced together by a compression member in the housing. The domed shape of the segments and the bowl shape of the housing cooperate so that the segments can rotate in any direction to accommodate tie rods that are not perfectly vertical, without a corresponding loss of strength in the connection.

The invention discloses a method for acquiring routing information. The method comprises the following steps of: establishing and real-time updating a routing table containing the routing information and a corresponding next hop pointer and a next hop table containing next hop information and a corresponding quoting count value; and when a data packet needs sending, acquiring the next hop information according to the routing table and the next hop table. The invention discloses a device for acquiring the routing information at the same time. The method and the device can effectively reduce the occupation of a memory, and further can reduce the consumption of resources.