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A waste collection system for collecting waste during medical / surgical procedures including a mobile container cart with a waste container. A container cart is selectively coupled to a suction cart that includes a vacuum pump. The connection of the carts results in the connection of the vacuum pump to the waste container. The vacuum pump draws a vacuum that results in waste being drawn through a suction line into the waste container. The container cart holds instruments that can be removably attached to the container cart. This facilitates the configuration of the container cart for the specific procedure for which it is necessary to draw a suction.

A method for defining a document format transformation process for documents similar to an example document includes the following steps. An example document is provided in a first format. At least one anchor point is then specified within the example document. The anchor points serve to mark out regions of data within the example document. Positions are then defined for respective regions within a central format. During the transformation process, the data extracted from each region is transferred into the respective position. The method enables transforming documents similar to the example document into the central format.

A microelectronic package is made by a process which includes folding a substrate. Alignment elements on different parts of the substrate engage one another during the folding process to position the parts of the substrate precisely relative to one another. One or more of the alignment elements may be a mass of an overmolding encapsulant covering a chip.

The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition which includes naturally occurring, non-transgenic isolated bacteria from the group of Lactococcus and Acinetobacter or fragments thereof or mixtures thereof, to such a bacterium as a medicament for the prevention and / or treatment of allergic or chronic inflammatory disorders and to a process for producing this composition.

Semi-permeable membranes are described that allow for the efficient processing of many liquid based feed solutions, particularly those that contain acids. The membranes of this invention are able to process such feeds with high permeate rates while maintaining excellent retention of dissolved metals, cations, and organic compounds, even in the presence of hot concentrated acids. The semi-permeable membranes of this invention are able to conduct such separations for a useful period of time due to their chemical stability towards acids and their ability to permeate acids.

A method for defining a document format transformation process for documents similar to an example document includes the following steps. An example document is provided in a first format. At least one anchor point is then specified within the example document. The anchor points serve to mark out regions of data within the example document. Positions are then defined for respective regions within a central format. During the transformation process, the data extracted from each region is transferred into the respective position. The method enables transforming documents similar to the example document into the central format.

A powertrain having a torque converter, friction input shifting clutches and shared driving gears has an axially compact design, packages a transmission pump between the torque converter and a clutch hub and achieves seven forward speed ratios utilizing four back-to-back synchronizers.

A powertrain having a torque converter, friction input shifting clutches and shared driving gears has an axially compact design, packages a transmission pump between the torque converter and a clutch hub and achieves seven forward speed ratios utilizing four back-to-back synchronizers.

A display route creation method includes: a route determination step in which a route determination section determines a route based on a departure point and a destination set on a map; a directional sign information extraction step in which a read section reads out directional sign information existing on the route from a map information storage section; and a route creation step in which a merging section merges a display image portion indicating the road direction included in the directional sign information and the route to create a display route in which the route and display image portion are integrated with each other.

A router for interconnecting external devices coupled to the router. The router comprises: 1) a switch fabric; and 2) a plurality of routing nodes coupled to the switch fabric, wherein each of the plurality of routing nodes comprises packet processing circuitry for transmitting data packets to, and receiving data packets from, the external devices and for transmitting data packets to, and receiving data packets from, other ones of the plurality of routing nodes via the switch fabric. The packet processing circuitry comprises: i) a first network processor comprising a first plurality of microengines, each of the first plurality of microengines capable of performing security and classification functions associated with the data packets; and ii) a second network processor comprising a second plurality of microengines, each of the second plurality of microengines capable of performing security and classification functions associated with the data packets.

A differential cross-coupled power combiner in one aspect comprises a plurality of inputs, an output, a plurality of differential transmission lines each coupled between a corresponding one of the inputs and the output, and at least one set of additional differential transmission lines arranged in series between any two of the inputs. First and second ones of the additional differential transmission lines in the set are coupled to one another using a cross-coupling arrangement. Other aspects of the invention provide a differential cross-coupled power divider, communication system receivers and transmitters incorporating respective power combiners and dividers, and integrated circuit implementations of power combiners and dividers.

A network communication system sends identical information from a source node to a plurality of destination nodes by first sending the information from the source node to a predetermined relay node, then sending the information from the relay node to the destination nodes over predetermined communication paths. The predetermined communication paths connect the destination nodes to the relay node in a star topology. The star topology greatly simplifies the routing of the information, while automatically avoiding looped paths, and enables the identical information to arrive at all destination nodes in real time, substantially simultaneously.

Fiber optic drop wires extending from a cable closure supported along a fiber optic cable are supported by small horseshoe-shaped bend radius protectors which not only prevent overbending of the drop wires, but also enable one to store excess drop wire length on the bend radius protectors. The free end of the drop wire is clamped to a utility pole.

Silane-modified polyvinyl alcohols are obtained by treating vinyl alcohol polymers with one or more ethylenically unsaturated, silane-containing monomers at elevated temperature.

The invention discloses an active back-twist constant-force pay-off machine which comprises a machine frame, a back-twist pay-off device and a rotating tension device, wherein the back-twist pay-off device comprises a pay-off mechanism and a back-twist mechanism. The invention further discloses a production method of the active back-twist constant-force pay-off machine. The active back-twist constant-force pay-off machine is reasonable and ingenious in structural design and capable of quickly feeding a cable core to a stranding machine in a balanced mode with predetermined constant tension; at the same time, the rotating tension device and the stranding machine move in the same direction at the same rotation speed, and therefore the cable core can be effectively prevented from being damaged due to twist; in addition, regulating accuracy of the tension is high, the tension of the cable core can be automatically detected and adjusted in the whole production process, and therefore the tension of the cable core can always remain constant, and constant-tension cable feeding in a true sense is realized; and the active back-twist constant-force pay-off machine is convenient to operate, greatly lowers labor intensity, guarantees the quality of products, and is beneficial to improvement of the competitiveness of an enterprise. The production method of the active back-twist constant-force pay-off machine is simple in process, low in cost, easy to implement, and through the production method, the active back-twist constant-force pay-off machine can be produced rapidly.

A multi-chip module (MCM) for power supply circuitry integrates a controller, a driver and two power MOSFETs in a single chip to shorten the signal path between the controller and the driver. When applied to a voltage regulator, the MCM shortens the feedback paths between the current sensors and the controller, so as to reduce the loss of and interference with the feedback signals, thereby improving the efficiency of the voltage regulator and simplifying the PCB traces routing.

The invention relates to a method for locally acquiring overall information of a wireless sensor network based on compressed sensing. The method is characterized by comprising the following steps of: projecting original data to a random observation matrix to obtain an observation value, thereby converting the data from high dimension to low dimension, namely data compression; using a means of transmitting the observation value of node data in the network by a simple gossip transmission protocol to replace the means of directly transmitting the original data in the traditional method; and when the transmission is finished, calculating the estimated value of the overall information by each node according to the received observation value by using a data reconfiguration algorithm in the compressed sensing, thereby locally acquiring the overall information. Compared with the method for directly transmitting the original data in the network, the communication number is greatly reduced, namely, the data of each node can be transmitted to other nodes by lower transmission frequency. Thus, the network expenses are reduced, and the service life of the network is prolonged.

The invention relates to a system with wide geographical coverage for monitoring positions in real time, comprising position monitoring terminals, a communication satellite and a position monitoring central station, wherein the position monitoring terminals comprise a GNSS (global navigation satellite system) positioning module, a satellite communication module, a control module and a power supply module respectively; the communication satellite is a synchronous orbit communication satellite; the position monitoring central station comprises a heavy caliber parabolic antenna, a satellite communication receiver and a data processing computer; and the position monitoring terminals are used for passing positioning information acquired by the positioning modules back to the monitoring central station by a satellite link, so that the central station can monitor the positions of the position monitoring terminals in real time. In the monitoring system, bandwidth resources of one satellite transponder are utilized, and an FDMA (frequency division multiple access) way, a CDMA (code division multiple access) way and a TDMA (time division multiple access) way are adopted to monitor the positions of the multiple position monitoring terminals in real time. The system is applied to regions with satellite signal coverage only without ground communication network coverage particularly. The system has the characteristics of instantaneity, multiple users and wide geographical coverage.

A network communication system sends identical information from a source node to a plurality of destination nodes by first sending the information from the source node to a predetermined relay node, then sending the information from the relay node to the destination nodes over predetermined communication paths. The predetermined communication paths connect the destination nodes to the relay node in a star topology. The star topology greatly simplifies the routing of the information, while automatically avoiding looped paths, and enables the identical information to arrive at all destination nodes in real time, substantially simultaneously.

Steering electrodes are used to improve the uniformity and efficiency of solid-state semiconductor x-ray detectors. The steering electrodes are insulated from the semiconductor material so as to prevent surface current flows that degrade the signal to noise ratio of the detected signal. A simple fabrication technique employing photolithographic techniques may be employed

A conduit connector assembly for attachments on a loader includes a mounting plate with at least one coupler section mounted on the plate and secured rigidly to a forward end of one of the lift arms of a loader. The coupler section or sections are connected with conduits to power or electrical signal sources on the loader. The coupler section or sections on the lift arm are connectable to mating coupler sections attached to conduits from an attachment that requires power and / or control signals for operation. The coupler sections are supported to one side of the lines of vision that an operator in an operator's cab of the loader needs for watching the attachment.

A system for applying composite fiber to a lay-up tool has a fixed creel for supplying fiber to the fiber placement dispensing head and a fixed arm having a first end attached to the creel and having a second end attached to the dispensing head. The dispensing head is fixed on the end of the arm. A robot having a first and second pivot axis and at least a first wrist supports the lay-up tool. The robot manipulates the tool for application of fiber from the head to the tool. Manipulating the tool instead of the dispensing head allows the path length for the fiber between the creel and head to be fixed in length and orientation during application of fiber to the tool.

A method for producing a foaming agent is provided, the method comprising cultivating a host cell in a fermentation medium wherein the host cell extra-cellularly secretes a foaming agent and wherein the fermentation medium contains an antifoam which has a cloud point; and then removing the antifoam5 while the temperature of the fermentation medium is above the cloud point.

A fleece-laying apparatus with an upper carriage (4) and a laying carriage (5) which move above an output conveyor belt (2) transversely to the transport direction of that belt to lay a card web (11) supplied to the fleece layer in partially overlapping layers on an output conveyor belt (2), an endless card web conveyor belt (14) traveling exclusively in the laying carriage (5) wraps around at least one first laying roller (12) in the laying carriage (5). The belt has upper and lower strands (14o, 14u), which extend between the first laying roller (12) and a deflecting roller (15), which is supported in the laying carriage a certain distance away from the laying roller and around which the belt partially wraps. The lower strand (14u) of the web conveyor belt (14) traveling around exclusively in the laying carriage (5) passes only a very short distance away from the output conveyor belt (2), and its upper strand (14o), namely, a section of the upper strand adjacent to the laying gap, supports a length of the card web (11) to be laid from underneath. This length of the card web (11) is covered by the opposing section of another traveling card web guide belt (6).

The invention relates to a method and system to arrange multicasting in a communication system that comprises a first source (S) and receiver (R) connected to the source (S) by the SSM protocol (Source Specific Multicasting). In the method according to the invention, the first source (S) sends a message on the activity of the source to the receiver (R). The invention enables discovering several sources on the SSM channel by using the Source Active message according to the MSDP protocol (Multicasting Source Discovery Protocol).