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The user of a handheld wireless communicator, for example a cell phone or so-called smartphone completes a call or email or other communication event. The event is timed by the device or the duration is calculated, or otherwise the event is quantified and the information is stored in for example a log within the device. At the end of the communication event, the telecommunication expense management system provides a pop up user interface asking the user to decide whether to capture the communication event so as to assist in billing the event, to delay capturing the communication event to a future time, to dismiss the communication event as if it had not occurred, or to add the communication event to a list which is of personal interest to the user but which is not in the user's opinion billable or the costs not recoverable or otherwise of a business nature that requires capturing.

In a conventional multipoint videoconferencing system, one can take part in the conference only from an H.320-compliant dedicated communication terminal. According to the present invention, a general-purpose terminal is connected to a multipoint videoconferencing system via the Internet and video from a communication terminal is converted to HTML data, which is then distributed to the general-purpose terminal. Voice communication between the communication terminal and general-purpose terminal is made possible by making a suitable conversion between the voice communication protocols of the two terminals. As a result, even a transportable general-purpose terminal, for example, can participate in videoconferencing.

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.

A data set describing a vascular system in three dimensions is pre-specified to a computer. A section of the vascular system is selected. With the aid of the data set describing the vascular system in three dimensions, the computer calculates a length of the selected section. A sequence of images of the vascular system is pre-specified to the computer, wherein a time is assigned to each image. One image respectively of the sequence is defined as a start image and as a stop image. With the aid of the length of the selected section and the times assigned to the start image and the stop image, the computer determines a velocity and outputs the velocity together with the selected section to a user. The operating method can be integrated in particular into the clinical workflow.

A rotational movement component of a camera provided on a mobile object is to be detected in a precise and simple manner. Three motion vectors extracted from the forward images captured by a camera mounted on a vehicle are extracted on a random basis. A temporary rotation angle is calculated using the extracted motion vectors based on a relational expression that represents the relationship between a background vector and the rotation angle of the camera, the relational expression being a linear expression of the yaw angle, pitch angle, and roll angle of the rotational movement of the camera. An error when using the temporary rotation angle is calculated for other motion vectors, and the number of motion vectors for which the error is within a predetermined threshold value is counted. After repeating such a process for a predetermined number of times, the temporary rotation angle with the largest number of motion vectors for which the error is within the predetermined threshold value is selected as the rotation angle of the camera. The present invention can be applied to an in-vehicle obstacle detecting device.

A light source device for an endoscope is provided. The light source device comprises a light source unit that supplies illumination light to an incident end face of a light guide member, which is laid inside an endoscope. The light source unit comprises a plurality of reflecting board members. Each reflecting board member has at least one light emitting diode. The plurality of reflecting board members are assembled into a concaved open polyhedron, so that the light emitted from the light emitting diodes are concentrated onto the incident end face of the light guide member.

The present invention relates to a device for improving visibility in a vehicle, especially in darkness, bad weather and fog, including one or more laser headlights radiating laser light of a wavelength outside the visible spectrum into a predetermined solid angle area ahead of the vehicle, a camera which is sensitive outside the visible spectrum and used for taking images of current traffic scenes, as well as an optical display system in the vehicle for reproducing the captured images in the visible spectrum. According to the present invention, provision is made for at least two different types of laser headlights which each illuminate different parts of the solid angle area to be observed to produce an angle-dependent radiation pattern of the laser light in a simple manner.

The subject of the invention is glazing comprising at least one transparent substrate provided with a stack of thin layers consisting of an alternation of n functional layers having reflection properties in the infrared and/or the solar radiation range and of n+1 coatings composed of one or more layers made of a dielectric, so that each functional layer is placed between two coatings. At Least one layer absorbent in the visible is inserted between two layers of dielectric of at least one of the said coatings.

In a capacitor body of a multilayer capacitor, one second capacitor portion is sandwiched between two first capacitor portions. An ESR is controlled by setting a width of lead portions of third and fourth internal electrodes disposed in the second capacitor portion to be less than that of lead portions of first and second internal electrodes disposed in the first capacitor portions and by changing ratios between the first and second capacitor portions in the width of the lead portions and in the number of stacked internal electrodes. In the first capacitor portions, current paths from the internal electrodes to an external terminal electrode are widely distributed so that the first capacitor portions have a relatively low ESL, and accordingly, the ESL of the entire multilayer capacitor is reduced.

The invention relates to a method for a particularly precise execution of a measurement or control action and to a corresponding controller (9). A temporally periodic synchronization signal (S, S′ ) generated by a receiver (9) based on a timing reference signal (Z) is divided by a switching frequency (F) generated by a timing generator (14) into a plurality of switching intervals (I_n). A switching command (C_n), which triggers a corresponding switching process of the action, is associated with each switching interval (I_n). Several measurement and control actions can be accurately synchronized by performing each action with the aforedescribed method using a common timing reference signal (Z).

Disclosed herein is a method involving the steps of (a) precipitating an amount of asphaltenes from a liquid sample of a first hydrocarbon-containing feedstock having solvated asphaltenes therein with one or more first solvents in a column; (b) determining one or more solubility characteristics of the precipitated asphaltenes; (c) analyzing the one or more solubility characteristics of the precipitated asphaltenes; and (d) correlating a measurement of feedstock reactivity for the first hydrocarbon-containing feedstock sample with a mathematical parameter derived from the results of analyzing the one or more solubility characteristics of the precipitated asphaltenes.

The present invention relates to a cutting insert, a cutting tool for chip removing machining, a shim as well as a method for mounting a cutting insert. The cutting tool includes a holder equipped with at least one insert pocket including a base surface, at least one circular shim including opposite first and second surfaces, and at least one cutting insert, which includes a circular cutting edge formed at a transition between an upper side and an edge surface of the cutting insert. The upper side includes a chip surface comprising at least one chip breaker portion and the edge surface includes a clearance surface. The shim is provided between the base surface of the insert pocket and the cutting insert. The cutting tool includes a clamping arrangement for holding its parts together. The chip breaker portion is provided at a varying distance from the associated cutting edge. The shim and the cutting insert include at least one pair of cooperating projection and recess for indexing of the cutting insert. The pair of cooperating projection and recess is provided to be positioned in a position relative to a reference line or axis of the tool in order to orient the chip breaker portion in the chip surface to a desired relative position. The number of chip breaker portions is a multiple of the number of projections or recesses.

An imprint lithography process is used for the production of a semiconductor component. A polymeric gate dielectric layer (12) is structured in the absence of a resist solely by at least one imprint die (20). Before and/or after the structuring by means of the imprint die (20), the polymer layer is cured and/or crosslinked. The curing and/or crosslinking is induced thermally and/or by light.

In a quantum entangled photon pair generator selectively generating polarization entangled photon pairs and time-bin entangled photon pairs, an excitation optical pulse shaper receives a linearly polarized optical pulse, and selectively outputs either one of a polarization excitation optical pulse pair to be a seedlight pulse for a polarization entangled photon pair and a consecutive excitation optical pulse pair to be a seedlight pulse for a time-bin entangled photon pair. An optical interferometer receives the polarization excitation optical pulse pair or the consecutive excitation optical pulse pair, and outputs a correlated photon pair forming signal and idler photons through a parametric fluorescence process. A quantum entangled photon pair extractor spatially extracting wavelength components corresponding to photons of the quantum entangled photon pair to output the components as the polarization entangled photon pair or the time-bin entangled photon pair.

The invention relates to a cane handle comprising a hand strap attached to the top end of the handle. Said strap forms a loop which has an adjustable length and can be fixed by means of a clamping device placed in the top end of the handle. Said clamping device comprises a clamping element which is placed in the top end of the handle and encircled by the loop. In order to adjust the hand strip more easily and to reduce the number of components required, the clamping element with the encircling section of the loop is set between an upper and a lower bearing surface, is placed in such a way that it pivots around an approximately horizontal axis, and has a clamping area which is eccentric in relation to the swivelling axis.

An already-existing and general-purpose capsule endoscope for alimentary canal is enabled to be used to monitor a body cavity by directly diverting the already-existing and general-purpose capsule endoscope to a body-cavity-indwelling capsule endoscope in a simple and secure manner. An indwelling device for an encapsulated medical device of the invention includes a latching portion 203 which fixes a capsule endoscope 300 and a retaining unit 202 which mounts and retains a capsule endoscope 300. Therefore, the capsule endoscope 300 and the latching portion 203 are integral with each other only by mounting and retaining the capsule endoscope 300 to and in the retaining unit 202, and then the capsule endoscope 300 can be placed along with the latching portion 203 by setting the latching portion 203 to a desired region in the body cavity to fix the latching portion 203 to a body cavity tissue by endoscopic treatment. Accordingly, the already-existing and general-purpose capsule endoscope 300 for alimentary canal can be used to monitor a body cavity by directly diverting the already-existing and general-purpose capsule endoscope to the body-cavity-indwelling capsule endoscope in the simple and secure manner.

A ceramic armor plate is proposed which is formed in one piece and which comprises a plurality of connected segments that are functionally separated by crack stoppers, whereby the crack stoppers serve to prevent the propagation of cracks from one segment to a neighboring segment.

A magnetic bearing device (1) with an improved vacuum-tight electrical feedthrough through its housing (10) is disclosed. The feedthrough (30) comprises a flat connection element (31) such as a rigid or flexible printed circuit board extending through the wall of the housing (10), preferably all the way along an inner circumference of the housing. The connection element is sealed in a gas-tight manner to the housing. The element preferably has a central opening (36) for receiving the rotor shaft. Connections to the bearing units and sensors may be achieved by flat-ribbon cables (51) or flexprints. The sensors are preferably also implemented as printed sensors. Thus a very compact and cost-efficient magnetic bearing device can be obtained. An alternative embodiment uses a connection element on a side wall of the housing as a feedthrough to the bearing components.

In order, in the case of an OLED, to improve the coupling-out efficiency, a top emitting electroluminescent component (100) is proposed, comprising a substrate (110), a first electrode (120) closest to the substrate, a transparent electrode (140) located at a distance from the substrate, and at least one light-emitting organic layer (130) arranged between the two electrodes. The component according to the invention is distinguished by the fact that a coupling-out layer (150) is arranged on that side of the second electrode which is remote from the at least one organic layer, said coupling-out layer comprising conversion centres (151) which partly absorb the light emitted by the at least one organic layer and emit it again with an altered frequency. In this way, directional light penetrating into the coupling-out layer is emitted again in non-directional fashion, so that a part of the light which would be captured by means of total reflection without the influence of the frequency conversion centres within the coupling-out layer can indeed leave the coupling-out layer.

Furthermore, the invention also relates to a method for producing such a component.

A household appliance, particularly a dishwasher or washing machine, having a height-adjusting device for an appliance pedestal. The height-adjusting device may include at least one drive gear engaged with a transmission drive converting the rotary motion of the drive gear into a lift motion of the appliance pedestal. In an exemplary embodiment of the invention, the drive gear includes a torque-limiting element operable to enable a deflecting motion of the drive gear from an operating position when a limit torque is exceeded, and which releases the engagement between the drive gear and the transmission drive.

A method for forming a solder resist pattern includes laminating a semi-cured thermosetting film on both sides of a substrate and laser ablating the laminated thermosetting film according to a solder resist mask pattern. The method is applicable to multilayer printed circuit boards, which are fabricated either by the buildup process or the parallel process. Lower manufacturing costs and improved accuracy of the solder resist pattern can be achieved due to the simplified process.

The combination needle is intended for peripheral nerve block. It comprises a plastic cannula (1) and an essentially cylindrical, solid steel mandrel (10), which is provided with a pricking tip, which is free from a cutting edge, and with a grip part (11), which has an electric plug contact (21) for the connection of an electrostimulator. The steel mandrel (10) can be introduced into the cannula (1) such that its pricking tip (42) protrudes from the front end of the cannula or is at least flush with same. It shall be achieved with the present invention that the two [“bei der die beiden” in German original should read “die beiden”—Tr.Ed.] electrodes necessary for the electrostimulation are located at a very short distance from one another and the electric effects of the stimulation is [sic—Tr.Ed.] limited to the body area where the stimulation shall take place. The steel mandrel (10) therefore has a two-pole design and is provided with a two-pole electric plug contact means (21, 37).

An emergency lighting device (1) for operating a light source, in particular an LED, incorporates an energy storage unit (4), a charging circuit (3) to be supplied with mains supply voltage (U_in) for charging the energy storage unit (4) during a charging operation, wherein the charging circuit (3) has potential isolation, and a driver circuit (5) supplied by the energy storage unit (4) during operation of the emergency light, for operating the light source. A control unit (2) is further provided that is designed to monitor the state of the mains supply voltage (U_in) during the charging operation, and to activate emergency operation upon detecting an emergency state, wherein the control unit (2) determines the state of the mains supply voltage (U_in) from operating parameters of the emergency lighting device (1) measured on the output side of the charging circuit (3).

A device for measuring a current flowing through an electric cable comprises a printed circuit board, a magnetic field sensor and a ferromagnetic component. The ferromagnetic component comprises two tongues whose front faces are disposed opposite of each other and are separated by an air gap and further comprises at least two feet, with the tongues and/or the feet being bent off. The cable is guidable through an opening which is enclosed by the ferromagnetic component. The ferromagnetic component and the magnetic field sensor are mounted on a surface of the printed circuit board. The magnetic field sensor is sensitive to a magnetic field extending parallel to the surface of the printed circuit board. The tongues of the ferromagnetic component extend parallel to the surface of the printed circuit board (2).

A biological sample processing system comprises a container for large volume processing, a flat polymer film having a lower surface and a hydrophobic upper surface, which is kept at a distance d to the base side of the container by the protrusions. The distance d defines at least one gap when the container is positioned on the film. A liquid droplet manipulation instrument comprises at least one electrode array for inducing liquid droplet movements; a substrate supporting the at least one electrode array; and a control unit is characterized in that the container and the film are reversibly attached to the liquid droplet manipulation instrument. The system thus enables displacement of at least one liquid droplet from the at least one well through the channel of the container onto the hydrophobic upper surface of the flat polymer film and above the at least one electrode array; wherein the liquid droplet manipulation instrument controls a guided movement of the liquid droplet on the hydrophobic upper surface of the flat polymer film by electrowetting and to process there the biological sample.

A central valve for a pivot motor actuator, the central valve including a housing tube including a first operating connection, a supply connection, a second operating connection and a tank drain connection; a piston enveloped by the housing tube and moveable relative to the housing tube, wherein the first operating connection is connected with the supply connection and the second operating connection is connected with the tank drain connection in a first position of the piston, wherein the piston is positioned in a center position in a second position, and wherein the second operating connection is connected with the supply connection and the first operating connection is connected with the tank drain connection in a third position of the piston, wherein the piston includes at least one first check valve on its outside.

A shock absorbing cane, including a shaft and a handle, the shaft having a self propelling and repositioning forward motion when compressed handle is lifted by user. The shaft extends from the handle and the handle is shock-absorbing for absorbing impact when the shaft strikes against an unyielding surface. The handle includes a fixed portion, a movable portion, and a dampening assembly. The fixed portion is affixed to the shaft and the movable portion is movably mounted to the fixed portion. The dampening assembly includes a tension spring disposed in the fixed portion of the handle, with one leg thereof extending into the shaft to preload the tension spring by biasing against the shaft, and with the other leg thereof extending via a rod into and affixed to the movable portion of the handle, thereby allowing the movable portion of the handle to resiliently move relative to the shaft and absorb impact when the shaft strikes against the unyielding surface.

A valve device, in particular a window and lens cleaning device in motor vehicles, includes a housing (1) with a duct (2) and at least one nozzle (3), and also a tubular connecting piece (4) for feeding a pressurized fluid, in particular a cleaning liquid, into the duct and to the nozzle. The connecting piece (4) is provided at its nozzle-side end with a nonreturn valve which blocks a return flow from the nozzle to the connecting piece, wherein the connecting piece (4) is open at its nozzle-side end. The nonreturn valve comprises of an elastic shaped part (8) with a mouth which is normally closed and can be opened by the pressure of the cleaning liquid.

A method for providing sound to at least one user, in which audio signals are captured and transformed into audio data that is transmitted to at least one receiver unit; audio signals are generated from the received audio data and the hearing of the user(s) stimulated thereby; wherein the audio data is transmitted as audio data packets in separate slots of a TDMA frame structure, wherein the transmission unit and the receiver unit(s) are synchronized to form a wireless network, wherein each TDMA frame structure has at least one listening slot during which the synchronized network members do not transmit data and at least one network members listens, and wherein control data is transmitted from an external control device according to a sequence pattern selected according to the duration and periodicity of the listening slot(s) to be received by the at least one synchronized network member during said listening slot(s).

A method and a control system for controlling rock drilling. A control unit of a rock drilling apparatus is provided with one or more control modes, each determining the drilling variables to be measured, their threshold values and the operating principles according to which the operating parameters of drilling are controlled to achieve a desired control criterion.