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Stapler cartridges and surgical apparatus that include a stapler cartridge can include a knife that retracts into the stapler cartridge after cutting stapled tissue to prevent an operator being cut by the knife during replacement of the used stapler cartridge with a new stapler cartridge. A stapler cartridge includes a staple pushing shuttle, a knife member slidably coupled with the staple pushing shuttle, and a cartridge body. The staple pushing shuttle is slidably coupled to the cartridge body. The cartridge body includes a guide track engaged by the knife member and configured so that a cutting blade of the knife member protrudes from the cartridge body during a first portion of a distal movement of the staple pushing shuttle and the cutting blade is retracted into the cartridge body during a second portion of the distal movement of the staple pushing shuttle.

Embodiments of the invention enable the synchronization of clocks across packet switched networks, such as the Internet, sufficient to drive a jitter buffer and other quality-of-service related buffering. Packet time stamps referenced to a local clock create a phase offset signal. A shortest-delay offset generator uses a moving-window filter to select the samples of the phase offset signal having the shortest network propagation delay within the window. This shortest network propagation delay filter minimizes the effect of network jitter under the assumption that queuing delays account for most of the network jitter. The addition of this filtered phase offset signal to a free-running local clock creates a time reference that is synchronized to the remote clock at the source thus allowing for the transport of audio, video, and other time-sensitive real-time signals with minimal latency.

An aircraft passenger seat comprises a primary seat (1) having a seat back (3) and a seat pan (4), and a secondary support surface (5) located or locatable opposite the primary seat (1), the passenger seat being able to adopt each of an upright configuration, a reclined configuration and a substantially flat configuration, such that in the reclined configuration, the primary seat (1) is reclined relative to the upright configuration and the secondary support surface (5) is angled upwardly towards the primary seat (1) so as to support the lower leg(s) of a passenger seated in the primary seat (1); and in the substantially flat configuration, the secondary support surface (5) is substantially horizontal and the seat back (3), the seat pan (4) and the secondary support surface (5) form a substantially flat and continuous surface wherein the secondary support surface (5) is rotatable about an axis between the reclined and substantially flat configurations, said axis being translated between the reclined and substantially flat configurations.

The polymeric composition of this invention can be used as a temporary support material in the additive manufacturing of three dimensional articles without compromising the quality of the ultimate product, reducing printing speed, increasing cost, increasing the incidence of printer jamming, or requiring printers of increased complexity. This invention more specifically discloses a polymeric composition which is particularly useful as a temporary support material for utilization in three-dimensional printing, said polymeric composition being comprised of a first polymeric component which is suitable for use as a modeling material and a second polymeric component which is immiscible with the first polymeric component, wherein the polymeric composition has a continuous phase, wherein the continuous phase is comprised of the second polymeric component, and wherein the polymeric composition has a Shore A hardness of at least 80.

A side viewing endoscope system is discloses that a mother endoscope of a side viewing type provided an endoscopic observation means is disposed on a side surface of a rigid distal end portion, a instrument rising chamber installed of a instrument riser member for rising up or sinking down of a treatment instrument in the rigid distal end portion, a biopsy channel provided through an axial direction of the insertion section being communicated with said instrument rising chamber, a daughter endoscope having a slender insertion section being inserted into the biopsy channel and having a viewing field in a forward direction of the distal end of the slender insertion section, a perforation window formed at the rigid distal end portion and having a viewing field of the forward direction of the biopsy channel, and the distal end portion being introduced through the biopsy channel at a position not to be protruded from the outer surface of the rigid distal end.

Relatively high speed methods for increasing the bulk density of coal particles without impacting the coal particles and an apparatus for compacting coal for making metallurgical coke. The method includes depositing coal particles onto a charging plate external to a coking oven. The charging plate has side walls, and at least one movable end wall to provide an elongate bed of dry, uncompacted coal having an upper surface on the charging plate. The uncompacted coal is compacted by passing a vibratory cylindrical compactor along a length of the uncompacted coal for a number of passes sufficient to decrease a thickness of the bed of coal to less than about 80 percent of an original thickness of the uncompacted coal. The vibratory cylindrical compactor has a length to diameter ratio ranging from about 1.4:1 to about 2:1.

Trustworthy systems require that code be validated as genuine. Most systems implement this requirement prior to execution by matching a cryptographic hash of the binary file against a reference hash value, leaving the code vulnerable to run time compromises, such as code injection, return and jump-oriented programming, and illegal linking of the code to compromised library functions. The Run-time Execution Validator (REV) validates, as the program executes, the control flow path and instructions executed along the control flow path. REV uses a signature cache integrated into the processor pipeline to perform live validation of executions, at basic block boundaries, and ensures that changes to the program state are not made by the instructions within a basic block until the control flow path into the basic block and the instructions within the basic block are both validated.

A hands-free fastening mechanism for releasably securing a user's foot to footwear is disclosed. The fastening mechanism comprises at least one pivotable strap which is coupled to a hinge mechanism which, in turn, is secured to the footwear. The hinge mechanism allows the strap to pivot between an open and a closed position. The strap is further coupled to a lever which is engageable by a user's foot so as to cause the strap to move from the open position to the closed position. When the strap moves to the closed position, a catch will engage, thereby securing the user's foot within the footwear. The footwear may then be removed by using the other foot to apply pressure to a protruding member or by striking the heel on a hard surface and then withdrawing the secured foot such that the catch is disengaged and the foot is released.

Idle mobile stations are steered to a particular cell or service area to accommodate subscriber preferences or restrictions, subscription services, or network operator preferences or restrictions and / or to accomplish load redistribution or other network management functions. Multiple idle mobile station steering factors are considered. Steering may be accomplished using a variety of techniques such as rejecting registration attempts in certain cells and accepting those attempts in others and adjusting cell broadcast parameters.

A diffuser provides the ability to diffuse one or more infusion materials into a host material. A rotor and stator rotate relative to one another. The infusion materials are drawn through openings in the rotor and stator. These openings are also causing turbulence within the host material, which is flowing through an area between the rotor and stator. As aligned openings pass one another, succussion occurs, which provides energy to diffuse the infusion materials into the host material to an extremely high degree. The opening patterns in the rotor and stator can be designed to operate at a single frequency or at multiple frequencies. The frequencies of operation may affect bonding between the infusion materials and the host material and may also be effective in break down of complex molecular structures.

A system for facilitating patient ownership of his or her medical data through the use of third-party health repositories that preserves the maximum information content of the medical records by displaying information relevant to the authority of the medical data as reflected by its source and types of modification as it has moved between institutions, as well as the data itself. In this way, improved use of this data is made possible.

A diffuser provides the ability to diffuse one or more infusion materials into a host material. A rotor and stator rotate relative to one another. The infusion materials are drawn through openings in the rotor and stator. These openings are also causing turbulence within the host material, which is flowing through an area between the rotor and stator. As aligned openings pass one another, succussion occurs, which provides energy to diffuse the infusion materials into the host material to an extremely high degree. The opening patterns in the rotor and stator can be designed to operate at a single frequency or at multiple frequencies. The frequencies of operation may affect bonding between the infusion materials and the host material and may also be effective in break down of complex molecular structures.

A light emitting diode (LED) lighting fixture includes a base plate having a front side and a rear side. A plurality of lighting strips is mounted on the front side of the base plate. A reflector is mounted to each of the lighting strips and desirably comprises multi-faceted side walls extending away from the light strip. Driver circuitry and control circuitry are mounted to the base plate, and are electrically coupled to a power supply for powering and controlling the plurality of LEDs. Each of the lighting strips includes a plurality of linearly-arranged LEDs, and each of the light emitting diodes has a diode base and a light emitting portion. The multi-faceted side walls of the reflector cause light produced by the plurality of LEDs to be amplified and formed into a bath or wash of light.

A link rod flexibly connecting an exterior door handle of a motor vehicle and a door latching mechanism to prevent actuation of the door latching mechanism as the result of a lateral collision, the link rod comprising: a first section connected to the vehicle door handle; a second section operatively connected to the door latching mechanism; and a lateral connector operatively connecting the first section to the second section. The lateral connector may be a laterally flexible spring, laterally flexible synthetic material, or a hinge point.

An instantaneous trip mechanism for a mould cased circuit breaker in a trip mechanism of a mould cased circuit breaker, the instantaneous trip mechanism capable of easily adjusting a trip current sensitivity for initiating an instantaneous trip operation and of fabricating a reliable mould cased circuit breaker by employing a simple construction for the adjusting unit and supporting a constant trip current sensitivity by products, the instantaneous trip mechanism for the mould cased circuit breaker comprising: a fixed electromagnet for generating a magnetic force which is changed according to a current flowing on a circuit; an armature disposed to face the fixed electromagnet and rotatable to a position for tripping the mould cased circuit breaker by the magnetic force from the fixed electromagnet when a great current exceeding a normal current flows on the circuit; a spring for elastically biasing the armature in a direction of being separated from the fixed electromagnet; an adjusting dial member having a cam surface for adjusting a gap between the armature and the fixed electromagnet; and an adjusting bar having one end contacted with the cam surface of the adjusting dial member and another end contacted with the armature, and rotatable to change the gap by pushing the armature according to a position of being contacted with the cam surface of the adjusting dial member.

Relatively high speed methods for increasing the bulk density of coal particles, apparatus for increasing the bulk density of coal particles and methods for making metallurgical coke. Once such method includes depositing coal particles onto a charging plate external to a coking oven to provide an elongate bed of dry, uncompacted coal having an upper surface of the charging plate. The charging plate has side walls, and at least one movable end wall An impact pressure is applied to the upper surface of the bed of dry, uncompacted coal while degassing the coal to provide a dry, compacted coal bed having a bulk density ranging from about 960 to about 1200 kilograms per cubic meter.

A solar tracking and concentration device, including a reflecting unit, a receiving unit, a controlling device, and a plurality of photo sensors, is provided. The receiving unit is used to receive the sunlight reflected and reflected by the reflecting unit. The receiving unit and the reflecting unit face each other. The receiving unit is adapted to move along a first direction. According to the position and the time of the reflecting unit, the controlling device controls a rotation angle of a support element and controls a first moving position of the receiving unit moving along the first direction, in which the support element supports the reflecting unit and the receiving unit. The photo sensors are used to detect the sunlight reflected by the reflecting unit to the receiving unit, and are adapted to output a first feedback signal to calibrate a direction of the receiving unit facing the reflecting unit.

A manipulator includes: a first finger having a sequence of first links and first joint shafts, the sequence of first links bending so that rotation angles of the first joint shafts maintain a fixed relationship; a second finger having a sequence of second links bending sequentially from one of the second links assigned at a basal side of the second finger; and drive sources driving the first and second fingers, wherein an adjacent second link next to the second link assigned at the basal side moves after contacting the second link assigned at the basal side with the object.

PCT No. PCT / DE98 / 02771 Sec. 371 Date Jul. 23, 1999 Sec. 102(e) Date Jul. 23, 1999 PCT Filed Sep. 18, 1998 PCT Pub. No. WO99 / 20893 PCT Pub. Date Apr. 29, 1999A fuel injection system having a common rail pressure reservoir filled with high-pressure fuel and having a dual-fuel injector for a bi-fluid injection of fuel and an additive fluid into an internal combustion engine. The system includes a first 2 / 2-way valve in the injection line between the common rail pressure reservoir and a pressure chamber encompassing the injector needle of the dual-fuel injector as well as a second 2 / 2-way valve, whose inlet is connected via a supply line to the injection line at a point between the first 2 / 2-way valve and the pressure chamber, and whose outlet is connected to the low-pressure fuel side by way of an outlet line. As a result, the otherwise conventional 3 / 2-way solenoid control valves, which are significantly more complex technically, can be replaced by more reasonably priced 2 / 2-way valves. At the same time, this raises the possibility of shifting the quantity metering for additive fluid to a single metering valve that serves an entire group of injectors.

A camera shake compensation unit includes (1) a mobile optical device which changes the direction of the light running through the mobile optical device by moving on a two-dimensional plane which intersects with the direction along the light; (2) a camera shake detection section; (3) a polymer actuator; and (4) a camera shake compensation section which compensates for displacement of the light by supplying a voltage corresponding to a detection result by the camera shake detection section to the plurality of electrodes. The polymer actuator includes (i) a polymer membrane which expands and contracts in response to application of a voltage, and connects the mobile optical device with a holding section, and (ii) a plurality of electrodes for application of a voltage to parts of the polymer membrane.

A micropump comprises a valve system having one gasket (10) shaped to define three cavities (12, 12a, 12b) connected respectively to a piston chamber, an inlet port and an outlet port of the pump. A valve switching element (16) having at least one groove (17) is movably mounted on the gasket such that, during piston instrokes, said groove moves along a part of the gasket adjacent to the cavities connected respectively to the piston chamber and the inlet port of the pump, thereby creating a leakage between said cavities so that fluid is sucked into the piston chamber during a piston instroke. During piston outstrokes, said groove moves along a part of the gasket adjacent to the cavities connected respectively to the piston chamber and the outlet port of the pump, thereby creating a leakage between said cavities so that fluid is expelled out of the piston chamber through the outlet port during a piston outstroke.

A parking lock arrangement for a motor vehicle gearbox. A parking lock cog can be fixed to a shaft of the motor vehicle gearbox rotatable about a first axis. A parking lock pawl is supported so that it can pivot about a second axis. An actuating mechanism can pivot the parking lock pawl into a locking position, in which the parking lock pawl meshes with the parking lock cog. A release mechanism can pivot the parking lock pawl out of the locking position into a release position, in which the parking lock pawl is decoupled from the parking lock cog. The actuating mechanism has a cam, which is supported so that it can pivot about a third axis and which in a first cam position holds the parking lock pawl in the locking position.

An inkjet nozzle with a chamber defined by a plunger spaced from an ejection nozzle. An actuator moves the plunger towards the nozzle to eject drops of ink. Ejecting ink from the nozzle with a reciprocating plunger and simple actuating mechanism is energy efficient and offers high speed operation. With relatively low power consumption, the printhead can be easily extended to pagewidth.

A method for blow molding and filling sterile containers of preforms in a container treatment device containing a blow module, in which the preforms are transferred from a heating device to the blow module via transport devices, and the containers are transported to a filling machine and filled, where a sterilization treatment is performed each at the preforms and the containers, a main sterilization treatment is performed at the preforms between the heating device and the blow module, and only a subsequent sterilization treatment is performed at the containers on the transport path to the filling machine. Further, a device having a main sterilization module between the heating device and the blow module, and a subsequent sterilization module between the blow module and the filling machine.

A cleaning implement includes a cleaning head having on a bottom a cleaning operation surface, a holding portion arranged on the side opposite the cleaning head, a pipe for coupling the cleaning head and the holding portion, and a valve opening and closing device provided to the pipe so as to be able to hold a first container for receiving a first fluid or a second container for receiving a second fluid. The holding portion includes a lever coupled to the valve opening and closing device so as to open and close a first valve of the first container or a second valve of the second container. A spout of a second ejection nozzle for ejecting the second fluid containing an allergen inactivator is located, for example, at a height of about 30 cm or more from the floor.

An image forming apparatus includes a unit for receiving process information indicating a list of processes used in a process flow requested by an information processing apparatus connected via a network; a unit for executing a process that the image forming apparatus is requested to execute, and recording charging information, which is relevant to the executed process, in charging information record data of the process flow; a unit for transferring the charging information record data to a service providing device that is requested to execute another process; a unit for receiving the charging information record data in which charging information, which is relevant to the other process executed by the service providing device, has been recorded by the service providing device; and a unit for recording, in a storage unit, the charging information record data in which charging information are recorded in association with the corresponding processes in the list.

An improved print head mounting and adjusting mechanism for inkjet printers. The mechanism include a bottom bracket and a base plate, the bottom bracket is installed on the base plate, the bottom bracket can be used for mounting print head, wherein said bottom bracket is supported by two stainless steel round shaft which is mounted on the base plate to provide accurate Y-axis movement and adjustment. Micrometer screw head is used as the adjustment mechanism for fine precision adjustment. The bottom bracket moves along a stainless steel round shaft to prevent deflection while adjusting. The print head and the adjustment mechanism are two separate parts, so exchanging or adjusting it will not damage the print heads. Remounting a print head requires a slight adjustment to reach the desired position reducing labor intensity and making for easier maintenance to the print heads.