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An odor control system is formed by treating cellulose fibers with a partially neutralized carboxylic acid odor control agent. The odor control system absorbs odor and inhibits formation of various odor-producing bacteria. The odor control system is useful in the absorbent cores of a wide variety of personal care and medical absorbent garments.

The present invention relates to an air guide member (10) for an apparatus for preparing food by circulation of hot air in a food preparation chamber, the air guide member comprising, an air deflecting structure (12), a protected region (14) for collecting residual material from the food preparation chamber. The air deflecting structure (12) has a deflection surface (18) with a deflection orientation (20) that leads away from the protected region (14). The invention also relates to an apparatus implementing this air guide member. This invention prevents or reduces generation of fumes during cooking.

A sputtering target for manufacturing a mask blank having a backing plate 5 where a portion for bonding a target member 4 is protruded like the convex with respect to a base portion 5′, and the target member 4 being formed to have a larger surface area than the area of the bonding portion of the backing plate 5 with extending from the bonding portion over a whole periphery with a bonding agent 30 interposed in-between, and further a metal 40 is deposited to a concave portion formed by a combination of the two structures in such a manner that the elution of the bonding agent 30 can be sealed.

Provided is a liquid crystal display panel, a liquid crystal display device having the same, and a driving method thereof capable of improving image quality. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel; a gate driver; and a data driver. The liquid crystal display panel includes pixel regions arranged in a matrix, each being defined by a gate line and first and second data lines crossing the gate line. The gate driver supplies a scan signal to the gate line. The data driver alternately supplies a data voltage and a common voltage to the first and second data lines.

An adaptive control method for controlling EP pulse parameters during electroporation (EP) of cells or tissue using an EP system includes providing a system for adaptive control to optimize EP pulse parameters including EP pulse parameters, applying voltage and current excitation signals to the cells, obtaining data from the current and voltage measurements, and processing the data to separate the desirable data from the undesirable data, extracting relevant features from the desirable data, applying at least a portion of the relevant features to a trained diagnostic model, estimating EP pulsing parameters based on an outcome of the applied relevant features, where the initialized EP pulsing parameters are based on the trained model and the relevant features, to optimize the EP pulsing parameters, and applying, by the generator, a first EP pulse based on the first pulsing parameters.

A scan driver is coupled to a plurality of scan lines and includes a plurality of stages. Each of the stages is configured to sequentially receives clock signals that are phase delayed by two horizontal cycles or more from three of a plurality of clock lines, and output a scan signal having a pulse width of two horizontal cycles or more to a corresponding scan line. The scan signals are overlapped with each other by one horizontal cycle or more.

A plasma generating device is disclosed, which generates plasma by supplying a bias RF power in the initial state in an inductive coupled plasma (ICP) system. Especially, an insulator which insulates a ground member from a susceptor supplied with the bias RF power is separated into at least two pieces such that the thermal expansion of the insulator can be generated similarly to adjoining parts.

An ESD protection device includes a multilayer body including base material layers, a hollow portion inside the multilayer body, a ground electrode exposed at the hollow portion, first and second discharge electrodes exposed at the shared hollow portion and opposing the common ground electrode, and an auxiliary discharge electrode including conductive particles dispersed in the base material layer and extending along an inner surface of the hollow portion. At least the auxiliary discharge electrode in an adjacent region between the first discharge electrode and the second discharge electrode is divided into a portion on the first discharge electrode side and a portion on the second discharge electrode side by a non-formation section where the auxiliary discharge electrode is not provided in the hollow portion.

A furniture glide for supporting a furniture leg on a leg supporting surface. The furniture leg defines a leg free end. The furniture glide includes a slider, the slider including a slider body defining a body end surface. The body end surface has a substantially convex configuration. The body end surface is substantially covered with a plurality of substantially elongated textile fibres extending substantially away therefrom. A leg-to-slider attachment is operatively coupled to the slider for attaching the slider to the furniture leg substantially adjacent to the leg free end in an operative configuration in which the substantially elongated textile fibres extend substantially away from the leg free end with the body extending between the substantially elongated textile fibres and the leg free end. When the leg-to-slider attachment is attached to the furniture leg in the operative configuration and the furniture glide supports the furniture leg on the leg supporting surface, the slider defines a contact surface in which the slider abuts against the leg supporting surface. The contact surface includes a load transmitting portion in which the slider transmits load exerted onto the furniture leg to the leg supporting surface and an unloaded portion in which the substantially elongated textile fibres contact the leg supporting surface in a substantially unloaded state, the unloaded portion extending peripherally relatively to the load transmitting portion.

A bearing apparatus for a driving wheel of a vehicle has an outer member (2), inner member (5, 6), rolling elements (4), outer joint member (61) and a cover (11, 67). The outer member (2) is formed with double row outer raceway surfaces (2a) on its inner peripheral surface The inner member (5, 6) include a wheel hub (2) with an integrally formed wheel mounting flange (7) at one end and an axially extending cylindrical portion (5b, 13b) of a smaller diameter. At least one inner ring (6) is press fit onto the cylindrical portion (5b, 13b). The inner member (5, 6) is formed with double row inner raceway surfaces (5a, 6a) arranged opposite to the double row outer raceway surfaces (2a). The double row rolling elements (4) are freely rollably contained between the outer and inner raceway surfaces (2a and 5a, 6a). The outer joint member (61) of a constant velocity universal joint (53) is integrally formed with a shaft portion (60) which is inserted into the inner member (5, 6) in a torque transmitting manner and is axially fastened by a nut (63) so that it abuts the inner member (5, 6). Lubricant is applied to the end face of the inner member (6) that abuts the outer joint member (61). The cover (11, 17) is mounted on the end of the inner member (6). The cover (11, 17) has a fitting portion (11a, 17a) adapted to be inserted into the cylindrical portion (5b, 13b) and an annular bottom portion (11c, 17b) to cover the end of the inner member (6).

A range image generating apparatus capable of preventing or reducing generation of range images with interference which contain e.g., pixels with erroneous distance values is provided. The range image generating apparatus includes: a light source radiating a light; an image pickup element; a range image generating unit; a frequency changing unit that changes a modulation frequency for each frame rate or charge storage time; and a control unit that controls the light source and the image pickup element in synchronization with the modulation frequency changed by the frequency changing unit.

Discussed herein are a solar cell and a fabricating method thereof. The solar cell includes a first conductivity-type semiconductor substrate, a second conductivity-type semiconductor layer formed on a front surface of the first conductivity-type semiconductor substrate, and having a conductivity opposite to that of the first conductivity-type semiconductor substrate, an anti-reflection film including at least one opening exposing a part of a surface of the second conductivity-type semiconductor layer, and formed on the second conductivity-type semiconductor layer, at least one front electrode contacting a part of the surface of the second conductivity-type semiconductor layer exposed through the at least one opening, and at least one rear electrode formed on a rear surface of the first conductivity-type semiconductor substrate, wherein the at least one front electrode includes a metal containing silver and lead-free glass frit.

The present invention relates to a topical composition comprising a malodor-reducing effective amount of a rosemary extract, or active fraction thereof, in combination with a self-tanning effective amount of DHA. The invention also provides a method of reducing the potential for malodor generation of a DHA composition comprising adding to the composition an effective amount of rosemary extract or active fraction thereof.

A machining device may include an electric motor, a blade rotatably driven by the electric motor for machining a workpiece, and a blade cover configured to surround the blade. A resonance sound reduction device may be disposed at the blade cover and may reduce air vibration generated by the rotation of the blade.

A mounted structure includes an electronic component including external electrodes, a wiring substrate including lands, and joint portions composed of a solder joint material and configured to join the external electrodes and the lands. The external electrodes respectively include coatings that cover a principal surface of a body, which is opposed to the wiring substrate, and coatings that cover end surfaces of the body, which are opposed to each other in the length direction. A distance De between the coatings in the length direction and a distance Dl between the lands in the length direction satisfy a condition of 0.91≦Dl/De≦1.09.

The present invention relates to a control system and a method for a hybrid vehicle which may optimally control the operating point of a vehicle. A control method for a hybrid vehicle includes detecting driving requests and a state of charge (SOC) of a battery when the vehicle is driving in HEV mode, determining a motor operating point and an engine operating point when the battery is in low SOC state, and compensating the motor operating point and the engine operating point by applying a climbing degree of the vehicle and theatmospheric pressure.