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Embodiments of the invention may be directed to apparatuses for securing and sealing apertures in tissue and related methods of use.

An imagery optical system, sequentially from an object side to an image side on an optical axis comprising: the first lens element with positive refractive power, the second lens element with positive refractive power, the third lens element, the fourth lens element, and the fifth lens element having at least one inflection point. Each of the five lens elements may be made of plastic and comes with bi-aspheric surfaces. The imagery optical system satisfies conditions related to shorten the total length and to reduce the sensitivity for use in compact cameras and mobile phones with a camera function.

An image pickup optical lens assembly, sequentially arranged from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, comprises the first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface, the second lens element with negative refractive power having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, the third lens element with refractive power, the fourth lens element with positive refractive power having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, the fifth lens element with negative refractive power having a concave image-side surface with at least one inflection point, and a stop. Each of the five lens elements may be made of plastic with bi-aspherical surfaces. Additionally, the image pickup optical lens assembly satisfies conditions of shortening the total length and reducing the sensitivity for usage in compact cameras and mobile phones with camera functionalities.

A stepper includes a base and two stands upwardly extending from a front portion of the base. Two swing arms are respectively pivotally connected to a rear portion of the base due to a pivot structure that is mounted in a corresponding one of the two swing arms. Each swing arm has an endless strap sleeved thereon for user to step thereon. A drive shaft pivotally extends through the pivot structures for driving the straps and supporting the two swing arms. A motor is mounted on the base for driving the drive shaft. A restitution structure is mounted under a corresponding one of the two swing arms for providing a restitution force to the corresponding swing arm after being downward stepped.

A tool or set of tools is provided having a heavy-duty tether permanently secured thereto, the tether being a load rated web-strapping material which may be several feet in length and is provided with hooks and rings for temporarily shortening the length of the tether without disconnecting the tool or adjusting buckles. Each hand tool is modified and tested for permanent attachment to the tether system. The tool connection and the tether's associated hardware are all load rated as a complete unit for shock loading due to the tool being dropped several feet. The tether system may also be configured to contain several hand tools on a single tether while still allowing the use of only one tool at a time without interference from the remaining tools. The tether system and its permanently attached tools are intended to be leased to workers or their employers under a maintenance agreement for the periodic repair and re-certification of the tools and the tether system as a complete unit.

A video recording system including: a camera sensor and a controller configured to: continuously store video in a temporary file storage arrangement from the camera sensor, display a user interface including displaying the video and a record button, upon receiving an activation of the record button at a first time, recording the first time as a start location, updating the user interface to include a stop recording button, upon receiving an activation of the stop recording button, at a second time, marking the second time as a stop location, display a user interface including one or more selectable start time points that precede the first time, receive a selection of a start time point of the start time points, generate a video file from a subset of the temporary file storage arrangement, the video file beginning at a video frame associated with the start time point.

The present invention relates to an apparatus for dividing a bank in a flash memory. A block of the flash memory is divided into two banks and each page buffer is located between the two banks to share an input/output line. Therefore, it is possible to shorten the length of a bit line, improve a data sensing rate, and allow one bank to perform one operation while the other bank performs a read, write or erase operation.

An electron beam apparatus comprises a TDI sensor (64) and a feed-through device (50). The feed-through device has a socket contact (54) for interconnecting a pin (52) attached to a flanged (51) for separating different environments. The other pin (53) making a pair with the pin (52) and the socket contact (54) together construct a connecting block, and the socket contact (54) has an elastic member (61). The pin (53) is connected with the TDI sensor (64), in which a pixel array has been adaptively configured based on the optical characteristic of an image projecting optical system. That sensor has a number of integration stages that can reduce the field of view of the image projecting optical system. Further, the number of integration stage may be determined such that the data rate of the TDI sensor would not be reduced but the number of pins would not be increased as much as possible. Preferably, the number of line count may be almost equal to the number of integration stages.

A storage apparatus including a circuit board, a first flash memory, a first golden finger, a control unit, and a supporting component is provided. The circuit board has a first surface and a second surface. The first flash memory is disposed on the circuit board. The first golden finger and the control unit are disposed on an end of the circuit board, in which the first golden finger is disposed on the first surface, and the control unit is disposed on the second surface, and the control unit is substantially on the backside of the first golden finger. The control unit is electrically connected with the first memory and the first golden finger. The supporting component is used for supporting the circuit board.

Various methods and apparatus are described that use a filter. A receiver may be configured to receive multi-tone signals. The receiver has a Time Domain Equalizer filter employing an algorithm to shorten a length of an incoming impulse response to equal to or less than a guard period by calculating a minimum mean square error solution in combination with measuring an inter-symbol interference of a channel.

In an information recording medium, object data made into a stream including those composed of a plurality of angle video information is recorded. Each of the angle video information, for example, is made of a set of GOPs. Each of the GOPs is segmented and stored in a packet. In an object data file, a switch unit as a logical delimiter for angle switching on the reproduction time axis is defined so that a plurality of packets containing the same GOP segmented will not be placed astride the boundary of the switch unit and the GOP which can be reproduced without using the GOP belonging to a switch unit preceding over the switch unit boundary is arranged as a first GOP of the switch unit in question.

A vibration damping device in which a covering member can be fixed firmly to a rotary member by a rivet is provided. In the vibration damping device, a pendulum mass 14 is held in a rotary member 15, and a casing 17 is fixed to the rotary member 15 by a rivet 20. The rivet 20 comprises a head 20a, a first shaft 20b and a second shaft 20c. The first shaft 20a penetrates through a first casing member 18, the rotary member 15 and the second casing member 19, and a tail thereof is expanded to fasten those members. The second shaft 20c penetrates through a driven member, and a tail thereof is expanded to fasten the driven member to the rotary member 15.

A fishing reel component includes a boss, a spring member, a lid member, a push button and spring arrangement member. The boss forms a boss through hole and a mounting space. The spring member is mounted in the mounting space. The spring member includes first and second engagement portions arranged to oppose each other. The lid member is fixed to the boss to retain the spring member and cover the mounting space. The push button includes a plurality of tapered portions. The tapered portions protrude from the push operation portion in the axial direction. The spring arrangement member arranges the spring member between the lid member and the spring arrangement member. The spring arrangement member includes a plurality of first through holes with each of the first through holes being configured for one of the tapered portions to pass therethrough.

In a pivoted tensioner lever for maintaining tension in an automobile engine timing chain, an arc-shaped shoe on which the timing chain slides, comprises a guide region, which guides and controls the part of the transmission chain approaching the end of the lever near the pivot axis, and a pressing region, which is continuous with the guide region, and which absorbs the looseness of the transmission chain moving away from the tip of the lever. The radius of curvature of the pressing region is smaller than the radius of curvature of the pressing region.

A superior slim type of speaker comprises: a baffle, a hole being disposed at a center of the baffle, an vibrating system being disposed at an inner edge of the hole; a voice coil, a periphery of a bottom surface of the vibrating system being connected to a top edge of the voice coil, an outer edge of the voice coil being set a coil, the voice coil being adjacent to two sides of an outer edge of the coil, and the two sides being connected to two lead wires respectively; and a U-type iron member, a loop groove is disposed at a top periphery of the U-type iron member, two sides of the U-type iron member has two gaps respectively, and at least one side of each of the two gaps has an isolating portion; wherein when the U-type iron member is disposed at a bottom of the baffle, the voice coil is elongated to the loop groove in order to let the lead wires outwardly pass through the gaps and be upwardly fastened at a bottom surface of the baffle. As a conclusion, the distance between the lead wires and the U-type iron member are not necessarily considered, so that the length of the voice coil is shortened and the thickness of the whole speaker is decreased as well.

A plug for a universal serial bus connector in the USB 3.0 standard to which a cable is connected to form a connector assembly, the cable including a signal line for the USB 2.0 standard and a ground line and being fixed by a cable fixing section of a connector shell, the plug includes an electrode which approximately abuts a distal end of the cable fixing section in the connector assembly, and to which at least one of the signal line for the USB 2.0 standard and the ground line is connected.

An optical waveguide structure has a single port 10 on one input/output side, a plurality of ports 12 on another input/output side and an S-bent optical waveguide portion 20 arranged on the outermost side of the waveguide structure. Tangential lines at opposed ends of the S-bent waveguide portion are parallel to each other. The S-bent optical waveguide portion includes a first circular arc optical waveguide portion 24 and a second circular arc optical waveguide portion 26 connected thereto at a first inflection point 22 where a curvature of the S-bent optical waveguide portion 20 is inverted. The first circular arc optical waveguide portion 24 has a first splitting/coupling point located on a single-port side relative to the first inflection point 22. The waveguide portion also has a third circular arc optical waveguide portion 32 extending from the first splitting/coupling point 30 toward the plural-ports 12 side and having a curvature inverted relative to the first circular arc optical waveguide portion 24. At the first splitting/coupling point 30, a tangential line of the first circular arc optical waveguide portion 24 and a tangential line of the third circular arc optical waveguide portion 32 are parallel to and spaced from each other.

A belt type infinite variable-speed drive using a ball-screw mechanism is compact and noise-free. A nut of the ball-screw mechanism is fixed to a casing and a threaded shaft is rotatably coupled to a movable pulley member through a ball bearing so that ball circulating portions on the nut will not rotate while the movable pulley member is movable axially. Also, the ball circulating portions, which are low in load bearing capacity, are oriented in such a direction that a load hardly acts on the ball-screw mechanism. This makes it possible to compactly and rationally design a belt type infinite variable-speed drive and to suppress noise due to vibration of balls in the ball circulating portions.

A brush device has a brush that slides against an outer circumferential surface of a cylindrical rotor. The brush device includes a base member, a terminal retained by the base member, an electric wire, which connects the brush to the terminal, and a cylindrical brush holder. The brush holder is located on the base member. The brush holder has a holder axis, which extends along the radial direction of the rotor. The brush is accommodated in and retained by the brush holder and is movable along the holder axis. The brush holder has an opening portion, which is formed at the outer portion of the brush holder with respect to the radial direction of the rotor. The opening portion permits the brush to pass along a direction perpendicular to the holder axis.

Gate electrode lines 11 formed on glass substrate 3 are separated by separating portions 32 for respective pixels 5 to shorten lengths of gate electrode lines 11. Both end portions of gate electrode lines 11 separated by separating portions 32 are electrically connected by conductive films 42 made from the same materials as signal electrode lines 13. When glass substrate 3 is lifted up while glass substrate 3 is charged with static electricity, the increases in voltages at gate insulation film 31 provided between gate electrode lines 11 and polycrystalline semiconductor film 22 are effectively suppressed so that electrostatic destruction of gate electrode lines 11 can be prevented.

A heartwire comprises a wire having a proximal end and a distal end, at least part of the distal end being conductive so as to be usable in heart stimulation; and attached to said distal end, an end structure adapted for non-invasively maintaining the distal end in position adjacent the heart. The end structure may comprise an irregular or three-dimensional, atraumatic structure adapted for engaging a surgical material secured to the heart, for maintaining said heartwire in position relative to said surgical material. The surgical material may be a pledget, and the end structure may comprise at least one of a pigtail, a hook, a tine and a suture sized and shaped for engaging the pledget so as to maintain the heartwire in position. The heartwire may comprise a second wire having a corresponding distal end structure and may be a bipolar heartwire. An arrangement for stimulating a heart may comprise the foregoing heartwire, in combination with a surgical material for being secured to the heart. The heartwire may be combined with and/or secured to a chest tube, and may be removable from the chest tube while still in position relative to the heart. A chest tube may also be combined with an anesthesia delivery tube and/or a wire for carrying cardiac output monitoring signals.

The invention relates to an x-ray device with an x-ray source fixed to a ceiling stand and a generator connected therewith in order to supply it with power. For simplification purposes, it is proposed in accordance with the invention to provide a conductor rail between the generator and the x-ray source on the ceiling in order to produce an electrical connection, along which conductor rail a ceiling stand accommodating the x-ray source can be moved.

A self-opening/closing umbrella includes a central shaft unit having an improved structure. The central shaft unit forms a raised channel on one side of a third shaft segment and a pulley is pivotally mounted to a lower portion of the raised channel. A second shaft segment has a top to which an internal plug including a pulley is fixed and includes a first pull rope having an end fixed to a bullet-head member and an opposite end extending upward to warp around the pulley of the internal plug, projecting through a sideway slot, extending downward to wrap around the pulley inside the third shaft segment for upward extension to fix to a top end of the third shaft segment. A second pull rope has an end fixed to the internal plug and an opposite end extending across a top cap to project outward to fix to the runner.

A device for non-invasively mechanically stimulating bone or muscle includes a vibrational energy generator for applying vibrational energy to a first end of a length of a tissue which includes bone and/or muscle. The vibrational energy is for inducing strain in at least one region within the length of tissue. A restraint is disposed opposite the first end of the length to resist translation of the length during operation of the device and to provide loading to the bone or muscle. A connecting structure couples the restraint to the vibrational energy generator. The device does not require gravity to operate and as a result is expected to have applications in space, such as with astronauts, with those having bone ailments such as bed-ridden patients, persons with osteoporosis or disuse atrophy, athletes, recovering bone cancer patients, and persons with muscoskeletal disorders.

Method and arrangement for providing a range gearbox with planetary gear (1) for motor vehicles, intended to be connected to the output side of a basic gearbox. The ring gear (18) of the planetary gear is axially displaceable. The ring gear (18) can engage coupling rings (10, 16) alternatively. A synchronizing means (15) is intended to synchronize the rotational speed difference between the ring gear (18) and at least the coupling ring (16). The synchronizing means (15) and the coupling ring (16) are arranged coaxially outside the ring gear (18). A second means (25) for engaging the coupling ring (16) and a third means (25, 25b) for driving the synchronizing means (15) are arranged on the external side, seen radially, of the ring gear (18), and the synchronizing means (15) is arranged between the coupling ring (16) and the first means (27) for axial displacement of the ring gear (18).

The present invention provides a method and a structure for mounting a sensor substrate of a brushless motor, in which a rotation detection element is arranged near a permanent magnet of a rotor and the sensor substrate can be securely mounted with a simple method, and thus, it is not necessary to elongate the dimension of the permanent magnet of the rotor in an axial direction. In the present invention, insulating members that insulate a location for winding of a stator coil from an outside are formed on a stator core (20) on which radially arranged pole teeth (20b) are provided on an inner peripheral surface side of the stator core (20) with a predetermined space, a stator coil is wound around the pole teeth via the insulating members, stopper walls (83) for preventing the coming off of the stator coil are provided to the pole teeth of the insulating member on a leading edge thereof, pedestal parts (84) are formed on the stopper walls (83) on an inner periphery surface side thereof, a sensor substrate (9) to which a position detection element which detects the position of a permanent magnet (30) provided to a rotor (3) is arranged on the pedestal parts (84), locking portions for locking the sensor substrate (9) are provided to some of the pedestal parts (84), and thereby the coming off of the sensor substrate (9) in an axial direction is prevented.

A valve gear for an internal combustion engine having a sub-rocker arm return spring that is shortened in a longitudinal length of a cylinder. The valve gear for the internal combustion engine is provided with a camshaft, an intake cam turning integrally with the camshaft, a valve cam for opening and closing an engine valve, a link mechanism for transmitting a valve driving force to the valve cam, a holder for supporting a sub-rocker arm support and a driving mechanism for varying a fulcrum position of the link mechanism. A valve operating characteristic can be varied with an oscillating position of the sub-rocker arm support. A sub-rocker arm is provided with a roller, an eccentrically disposed step and a link section. The step is provided with a spring socket, and a return spring is arranged intervening between the spring socket and the holder.

A light source device capable of repressing light surges is fixed in a flatbed scanner to provide a light beam for scanning a document. The light source device includes a bent lamp with bent parts for generating the light beam and compensating for the brightness at two ends of the bent lamp; and a set of obscuring units fixed at the two bent parts to partially obscure the light of the lamp. Hence, the light source device can repress the light surge caused on two ends of the image sensor even if the bent parts at two ends of the lamp are very close to the sides of the scanning window. Therefore, the length of the light source device can be shortened and the width of the flatbed scanner using the light source device can also be narrowed.

A method is provided for transmitting a control frame from a emitting entity to a receiving entity. The control frame includes what is called a “first layer” header field intended to convey information relating to a first layer. The method includes a modulation step employing a first modulation technique, and, before the modulation step, a step of inserting information relating to a second layer into the first layer header field.

The present invention relates to a removal of a noise due to an interference between an emitted light from a light emitting element of laser beam for reading a signal from an optical disc and a return light from the optical disc. The present invention provides a pickup device for reading a signal from an optical disc, including a light emitting element that emits a laser beam irradiated on the optical disc, an objective lens that condenses the laser beam emitted from the light emitting element on a signal recording surface of the optical disc, a light-receiving element that receives a return light reflected on the signal surface of the optical disc, and a noise removing section removing the noise component generated by the interference between the emitted light and the return light, the noise removing section being arranged in an optical path having a route for the emitted light and the return light.