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The invention relates to a method of growing a ZnS:Mn phosphor layer suitable for use in thin-film electroluminescent components. According to the method, the ZnS:Mn phosphor layer is grown on a substrate by means of the ALE method using volatile zinc, sulfur and manganese compounds as the precursors. According to the invention, an organozinc compound such as diethylzinc or dimethylzinc is used as precursor for zinc, hydrogen sulfide or an organosulfur compound is used as precursor for sulfur, and an organomanganese compound or organic manganese complex compound is used as precursor for manganese. The invention provides a display component with drive-voltage-symmetrical light emission and stable characteristics of luminance level and turn-on voltage.

The invention relates to multi-column sectional drive combined type domestic incinerator. It is set three fire-grates that drying section, burning section, and firing section. The middle fire grate is connected between them. There is altitude fall between them that the drying section is the highest point; the firing one is the lowest point. The primary air chamber is respectively set under them. The incinerator fire grate system of the invention has independent drive mechanism, air supply system, and air chamber for each section which is convenient for controlling technical parameter that traveling speed, air quantity, air temperature, air pressure etc to realize full drying and burning for whole garbage layer.

An unmanned aerial vehicle according to the present invention includes a housing mounted on a vehicle and having an inner space, the housing provided with a launching unit, an unmanned aerial vehicle accommodated in the housing and configured to be launched from the housing when a driving state of the vehicle meets a preset condition, wing units mounted to the unmanned aerial vehicle and configured to allow the flight of the unmanned aerial vehicle in response to the launch from the housing, an output unit disposed on the unmanned aerial vehicle, and a controller configured to control the wing units to move the unmanned aerial vehicle to a position set based on information related to the driving state when the unmanned aerial vehicle is launched, and control the output unit to output warning information related to the driving state.

A fully automated package identification and measuring system, in which an omni-directional holographic scanning tunnel is used to read bar codes on packages entering the tunnel, while a package dimensioning subsystem is used to capture information about the package prior to entry into the tunnel. Mathematical models are created on a real-time basis for the geometry of the package and the position of the laser scanning beam used to read the bar code symbol thereon. The mathematical models are analyzed to determine if collected and queued package identification data is spatially and/or temporally correlated with package measurement data using vector-based ray-tracing methods, homogeneous transformations, and object-oriented decision logic so as to enable simultaneous tracking of multiple packages being transported through the scanning tunnel.

In a steering mechanism of steer-by-wire type which includes a first steering unit that is handled by a driver and a second steering unit that steers steered road wheels with the aid of a steering motor, there is employed a control system which input and output detecting sections that detect input and output of the steering motor, a road surface disturbance estimating section that estimates a disturbance of road surface based on both the detected input and output of the steering motor, and a steering reaction force calculating section that, based on the estimated disturbance of road surface, calculates a steering reaction force that is to be applied to a steering wheel of the first steering unit.

This invention relates to a compression garment (10) for clothing a body part including a lower body part of a wearer. The compression garment has a first panel (12) of stretchable material joined to a second panel (14) of stretchable material by a first seam (16). The stretchable material of the second panel (14) has a higher stretch and recovery characteristic compared to the stretchable material of the first panel (12). In use, the first panel (12) of stretchable material is adapted to support a larger, more powerful muscle group than the second panel (14). The second panel (14) is joined to a third panel or the first panel (12) by a second seam (18). The second panel (14) is adapted in use to be located along a substantial part of the illiotibial band of the wearer.

A turbo blood pump having a small size, that is, a small amount of blood to be filled and capable of adjusting and maintaining the slight amount of flow, and a turbo blood pump in which hemolysis is not likely to occur even if it is used at a practically high rotational speed necessary to obtain a predetermined discharging ability. The turbo blood pump to be used includes a housing having an inlet port and an outlet port; and an impeller disposed rotatably in the housing; wherein the impeller includes at least a rotation shaft and an annular connection portion to which the plural vanes are attached. The vane is manufactured so that an inlet side part is in the skew position with respect to an outlet side part.

Provided is an arterial stiffness evaluation apparatus using a new arterial stiffness index which serves as an index to evaluate a degree of arterial stiffness, and a program therefor. The arterial stiffness apparatus includes pulse wave detecting means, pulse wave propagation velocity deciding means, blood pressure detecting means, and arterial stiffness index calculating means, in which the arterial stiffness index calculating means executes: a first step of calculating a pulse wave propagation velocity PWVori after pressure calibration and CAVI=ln(Ps/Pd)×PWV², and deriving a regression equation where PWVori is represented by a quadratic equation of CAVI; a second step of setting the regression equation as an equation representing a arterial stiffness index PWVpcm1; a third step of deriving a regression equation where the PWVori is represented by a linear equation of the PWVpcm1; a fourth step of setting the regression equation as an equation representing an arterial stiffness index PWVpcm2; and a fifth step of obtaining a PWVpcm2 value by substituting a measured value, and the degree of arterial stiffness is evaluated based on the PWVpcm2.

An internal combustion engine includes a variable compression ratio mechanism made up of a case-side bearing-forming portion, a block-side bearing-forming portion, and a shaft-shaped drive portion. The case-side bearing-forming portion is formed in an upper portion of a crankcase. The block-side bearing-forming portion extends outward from a lower end portion of an outer wall surface of the cylinder block. The block-side bearing-forming portion is linked to the case-side bearing-forming portion by the shaft-shaped drive portion. Slit-shaped stress reduction groove portions each having an opening in a region between the block-side bearing-forming portion and cylinder bores are formed in a lower surface of the cylinder block. Therefore, even when the block-side bearing-forming portion presses the outer wall surface, the stress reduction groove portions reduce the stress, so that the deformation of the wall surface of each cylinder bore can be restrained.

A detecting device includes a sensor support body having a pair of arms, and an optical sensor having a combination of a light emitting unit and a light receiving unit disposed on one and the other of the arms, respectively. A control operation section controls a driving section and, with the arms inserted in a cassette, the sensor support body is moved, thereby performing a scanning operation for scanning the substrate by the optical sensor. The scanning operation is set such that a light beam is related to the substrate while vertically moving at a plurality of scanning positions. The control operation section finds out the presence of absence of the substrate and the position of the front end of the substrate within the cassette on the basis of data obtained from the optical sensor during scanning.

A method for generating a stabilized three-dimensional image from a scannerless range imaging system comprises the steps of acquiring a bundle of three or more phase offset images corresponding to modulated illumination reflected from a scene, whereby one or more of the phase offset images includes image motion relative to another phase offset image; searching for a stable chain of phase offset images in the image bundle, wherein a stable chain is a collection of images that is obtained by testing the phase offset images against a confidence measure that separates less severe correctable image motion from more severe image motion and then populating the stable chain only with those phase offset images that meet the confidence measure for correctable image motion; correcting for the image motion in the stable chain of images if a stable chain of at least three phase offset images is found to exist; and computing a stabilized three-dimensional image using the phase offset images from the stable chain of phase offset images.

The method comprises the steps of monitoring the wheels (R1, R2, R3, R4) of a motor vehicle having an antilock brake system (ABS), for fault states, in particular for incorrect tire pressures, the occurrence of a fault state and the wheel position (FL, FR, RL, RR) of the wheel (R1, R2, R3, R4) at which the fault state has occurred being indicated. Each wheel (R1, R2, R3, R4) to be monitored is assigned a wheel unit (E1, E2, E3, E4) which monitors the respective wheel (R1, R2, R3, R4) for fault states, and wherein at least the wheel position (FL, FR, RL, RR) of a wheel (R1, R2, R3, R4) at which a fault state has occurred is determined by means of output signals of sensors (S1, S2, S3, S4) of the antilock brake system (ABS).

The invention discloses a vertical integral forming mould of a novel prefabricated concrete segment and a forming method thereof, and the forming mould is assembled by an inside template, an outside template, a partitioning board, a bottom die, a cover plate and a positioning spigot. The forming method comprises the following steps: firstly assembling the mould, positioning and fixing reinforcing bars in the segment to the mould, reserving pre-stressed ducts, casting high-intensity and self-compaction concrete, and finally installing the cover plate on the mould to form the prefabricated concrete segment with the special shape. In the forming mould and the forming method, prefabricated concrete segments with different shapes and sizes can be manufactured as needed and are accurate in size and simple in manufacturing method, thus the forming mould and the forming method are applied to industrialization quantity production.

A game machine of the present invention is a medal game machine where a lottery is performed at a satellite unit as a physical lottery system and when obtained numbers form a line on a bingo card, which is realized as an establishment of bingo. Medals are paid out directly or indirectly to a player. Wherein one privilege to be given to a player at the moment of establishment of bingo is selected in accordance with a control state of a payout rate of medals from a plurality of privileges each of which is connected with the payout of medals to a player and by which the affections given to the payout rate of medals are different from each other.

A zoom lens is provided which has a wide angle of view and is bright and in which the entire lens system is compact and which can achieve high optical characteristic over the entire zoom range.

A cellulose acylate film including a cellulose acylate and a sugar ester compound, which is stretched at (Tg−5° C.) to (Tg+10° C.) while as yet not heated at all at (Tg−5° C.) or higher and which has a total haze of at most 1.0% and an internal haze of at most 0.1%, wherein Tg means the glass transition temperature (unit: ° C.) of the cellulose acylate film.

This invention provides an aid for dining in stand-up and similar situations where a person must simultaneously support a plate or other such receptacle and a beverage container by a single hand. The invention comprises a universal food holding receptacle that is stably mountable (directly or by means of a connector unit) on upright beverage containers of widely diverse shapes and sizes, taken one beverage container at a time. The user holds a lower portion of the beverage container in one hand and uses the other hand for other activities such as taking food items from the food holding receptacle that is supported on the beverage container. In order to drink from the beverage container the user removes the plate from the beverage container and drinks from the beverage container in the normal way. The food holding receptacle is stably mounted on the beverage container in loose-fitting relationship so that the receptacle can be repeatedly mounted on and demounted from the beverage container in a facile manner. The food holding receptacle of the present invention may also be used to stably support beverage containers of diverse shapes and sizes, taken one beverage container at a time. In this mode of operation, the user grasps the food holding receptacle, with the upright beverage container supported on the receptacle. This leaves the user's other hand free to take food items from the receptacle or for other purposes. In order to drink from the beverage container in this mode of usage the user removes the beverage container from the receptacle and drinks from the beverage container in the normal way.