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The ceiling surface (12b) of a chamber (12) is substantially entirely formed with a gas supply port (19). Further, the gas supply port (19) has shower head (20) fitted therein. The peripheral edge of the ceiling surface (12b) has connected thereto a second side wall (12d) forming an angle greater than 90 degrees with ceiling surface (12b). Further, the side surface of a susceptor (16) is formed such that it forms an angle greater than 90 degrees with a mounting surface for a wafer (W) and is substantially parallel with the second side wall (12d) of the chamber (12). Further, the susceptor (16) is disposed such that the distance (L2) between its side surface and the second side wall (12d) is greater than the distance (L1) between the shower head (20) and the wafer (W).

A memory array includes a plurality of memory cells, each of which receives a bit line, a first word line, and a second word line. Each memory cell includes a cell selection circuit, which allows the memory cell to be selected. Each memory cell also includes a two-terminal switching device, which includes first and second conductive terminals in electrical communication with a nanotube article. The memory array also includes a memory operation circuit, which is operably coupled to the bit line, the first word line, and the second word line of each cell. The circuit can select the cell by activating an appropriate line, and can apply appropriate electrical stimuli to an appropriate line to reprogrammably change the relative resistance of the nanotube article between the first and second terminals. The relative resistance corresponds to an informational state of the memory cell.

A sorbent media protective device includes an enclosure having a gas inlet, gas outlet and a thin-film multilayer indicator. The thin-film multilayer indicator is proximate sorbent media that can sorb a vapor of interest flowing from the gas inlet towards the gas outlet. The indicator includes a porous detection layer whose optical thickness changes in the presence of the vapor, located between a semireflective layer and a reflective layer permeable to the vapor. With equilibration at the applied vapor concentration between at least a portion of the media and the vapor, the vapor can pass through the reflective layer into the detection layer and change the detection layer optical thickness sufficiently to cause a visibly discernible change in the indicator appearance if viewed through the semireflective layer.

The invention is directed towards a process for implanting a cartilage graft into a cartilage defect and sealing the implanted cartilage graft with recipient tissue by creating a first bore down to the bone portion of the cartilage defect, creating a second shaped bore that is concentric to and on top of the first bore to match the shape and size of the cartilage graft, treating the first bore and the second shaped bore at the defect site with a bonding agent, treating the circumferential area of the cartilage graft with a bonding agent, inserting the cartilage graft into the defect site and wherein the superficial surface of the cartilage graft is at the same height as the surrounding cartilage surface. The first and second bonding agents may be activated by applying a stimulation agent to induce sealing, integration, and restoration of the hydrodynamic environments of the recipient tissue. The invention is also directed towards a process for repairing a cartilage defect and implanting a cartilage graft into a human or animal by crafting a cartilage matrix into individual grafts, cleaning and disinfecting the cartilage graft, applying a pretreatment solution to the cartilage graft, removing cellular debris using an extracting solution to produce a devitalized cartilage graft, implanting the cartilage graft into the cartilage defect with or without an insertion device, and sealing the implanted cartilage graft with recipient tissue. The devitalized cartilage graft is optionally recellularized in vitro, in vivo, or in situ with viable cells to render the tissue vital before or after the implantation. The devitalized cartilage graft is also optionally stored between the removing cellular debris and the recellularizing steps. The invention is further directed toward a repaired cartilage defect.

A semiconductor light-emitting device in which a light-emitting diode including a light-emitting layer is placed directly on the bottom of a cup-shaped case or placed above the case bottom with a submount disposed therebetween includes a transparent primary sealing member that seals a side region, located under the light-emitting layer, surrounding the light-emitting diode that is fixed in the case; a transparent secondary sealing member disposed on the primary sealing member; and a uniform deposition layer formed by depositing phosphor particles or light diffuser particles contained in a material for forming the secondary sealing member. The phosphor particles or the light diffuser particles are deposited on the upper surface of the light-emitting diode and the upper surface of the primary sealing member to form a uniform layer that is as thin as a one-particle to five-particle layer.

Systems and methods for treating an occluding thrombus in a blood vessel of a patient. Ferrofluids having magnetic particles dispersed therein are introduced locally via a catheter, a micro-catheter, or intravenously, to the bloodstream of a patient. The ferrofluids are magnetically manipulated or moved throughout the blood vessels of the patient by an external magnetic field generator until the intended occluding thrombus is broken up and removed. The external magnetic field generator, which can be stationary or portable, creates a vortex, high velocity jets, or other motion, within the ferrofluids, by rotating or moving at least one magnet relative to the patient. The at least one magnet is provided in the magnetic field generator. The vortex, high velocity jets, or other motion of the ferrofluids are used to break-up and remove the occluding thrombus. Drugs or abrasive particles, or both, may be incorporated with the ferrofluids and delivered to the bloodstream with the ferrofluids to help break-up and remove the occluding thrombus as well. Upon removal of the thrombus, magnetic components of the ferrofluids may remain in the patient or may be magnetically recaptured and removed from the bloodstream.

A sorbent media protective device includes an enclosure having a gas inlet, gas outlet and a thin-film multilayer indicator. The thin-film multilayer indicator is proximate sorbent media that can sorb a vapor of interest flowing from the gas inlet towards the gas outlet. The indicator includes a porous detection layer whose optical thickness changes in the presence of the vapor, located between a semireflective layer and a reflective layer permeable to the vapor. With equilibration at the applied vapor concentration between at least a portion of the media and the vapor, the vapor can pass through the reflective layer into the detection layer and change the detection layer optical thickness sufficiently to cause a visibly discernible change in the indicator appearance if viewed through the semireflective layer.

A fuel supply system has an air chamber that contains a fuel injector. At least one aperture is formed in a substantially lowermost portion of a lower surface of the air chamber. The aperture and the lower surface have a generally uninterrupted or smooth transition or interface.

The invention is directed towards a process for implanting a cartilage graft into a cartilage defect and sealing the implanted cartilage graft with recipient tissue. The invention is also directed towards a process for repairing a cartilage defect and implanting a cartilage graft into a human or animal. The invention is further directed toward a repaired cartilage defect.

An apparatus for extracorporeal blood treatment has a dialysis fluid circuit and a blood circuit which are separated by a dialyzer. Arranged in the dialysis fluid circuit there is a sterile filter for producing a sterile dialysis fluid which flows into the dialyzer. To check the sterile filter, a chemical and / or physical property of the dialysis fluid, for example the conductivity, is changed upstream of the sterile filter, and the change in the property of the dialysis fluid is detected downstream of the sterile filter. From the time shift between the initiation of the conductivity impulse and the detection of the latter, it is possible to tell whether the blood treatment apparatus is fitted with a sterile filter. Moreover, the volume of the sterile filter can be inferred from the length of the time shift.

The present invention is a gap in care alert system for alerting someone associated with a patient (including in one embodiment the patient himself) that a gap in heath care will soon occur or in another embodiment that a gap in care has occurred for the patient based on the occurrence of a triggering event and the absence of a follow-up event occurring. Health insurance claims data may be used in the process to determine gaps in care.

A termination circuit for terminating a transmission line comprises a resistance unit which is formed by connecting a P-channel type MOS transistor and an N-channel type MOS transistor in parallel, and Thevenin termination is formed by providing this resistance unit between the transmission line and a power supply line and between the transmission line and a ground line.

A magnetic resonance imaging system (500) comprising: a magnet (502) for generating a magnetic field; a radio frequency system (516) for acquiring magnetic resonance data; a magnetic field gradient coil (510) for spatial encoding of the magnetic spins of nuclei within the imaging volume; a magnetic field gradient coil power supply (512) for supplying current to the magnetic field gradient coil; an anesthesia system interface (532) for sending control messages to an anesthesia system (524) for controlling the delivery of inhalation gases to a subject and a computer system comprising a processor (534) and a memory (538, 540), wherein the memory contains instructions (542, 544, 546, 548, 550, 552) for execution by the processor, wherein execution of the instructions causes the processor to: control (100, 200, 300, 400) the operation of the magnetic resonance imaging system to acquire magnetic resonance data, and to send (102, 202, 302, 402) control messages to the anesthesia system via the anesthesia system interface.

The present invention relates to compositions delivering enhanced visual benefits to the skin with specific optical attributes. These are delivered using specific deposition systems (where oil / emollient comprises part of deposition system) and / or by ensuring dispersion of particles.

An RF tag suitable for use for electronic article surveillance comprises a tuned circuit formed by an inductive coil, which behaves as an antenna on a first side of a substrate electrically connected to a capacitor having plates on each side of an dielectric layer which may be the substrate. The capacitor and coil together form a resonant circuit. To permit deactivation of the tag the circuit also includes a discontinuity closed by a switch composition whose conducting properties can be changed from an insulating state to a conducting state when the tag is subjected to a strong electric field at or around its resonant frequency. The switch composition may, for example, be arranged to short out the capacitor plates or introduce additional capacitor plates or change the properties of the inductive coil. Alternatively the switch composition may introduce additional components (e.g. an IC) into the circuit. The tag may be arranged for sequential retuning to give a multifrequency tag. The switch composition may, for example, be an ink formulation containing 5 to 75% by weight a metal, preferably in the form of flakes. The switch composition may further contain oxygen scavengers or ionic species to improve the response of the switch composition and / or prevent the switch composition reverting to the insulating state.

A switching device for submersed sump pump. The switching device employs an internal logic circuit inside a housing having a metallic member extending therefrom for mounting. The member is adapted to engage with the curved surface of a hose and hose clamp engaged to the sump pump. The member is engaged to the electrical ground to communicate a reference ground to the fluid in the sump to allow an impedance sensor to discern the fluid level and cause the logic circuit to energize or de-energize the sump pump.

An atmospheric cold plasma brush was used to treat the surfaces of polymers. The surface properties of plasma-treated polymers were compared to those of the corresponding untreated polymers by static water contact angle measurements. Surface treatment usually resulted in a decrease in the static water contact angle, indicating that the treatment resulted in a higher surface energy and surface wettability compared to the untreated polymer.

A system for selectively inhibiting unauthorized use of an optical device. In an illustrative embodiment, the system implements an optical-device play-prevention system and copy-prevention system. The system includes a first set of data that is encoded via pit structures of the optical disc. A read system, such as a disc drive, which includes a read laser, is adapted to read the first set of data. A first material, which is positioned on or within the disc, changes transparency to laser light from the read laser in response to a first predetermined energy, such as ultrasound. A second material that is positioned on or within the disc temporarily changes transparency to the laser light, in response to a second predetermined energy, such as energy from the read laser. Changes in transparency of the first material and the second material change accessibility of the first set of data to the read system. The system further includes instructions executable by the read system for enabling or disabling reading, playing, and / or copying of the optical disc by the read system based on the accessibility of the first data to the read system.

A sample vessel (80) made of material with magnetic susceptibility χ2, for containing a sample substance (87) with magnetic susceptibility χ3≠χ2 to be analyzed in a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer, has an inner interface G2 toward the sample substance and an outer interface G1 toward the environment (85) that exhibits magnetic susceptibility χ1. The shape of the interface toward the sample substance and the interface toward the environment are coordinated to match the discontinuities in susceptibility at the interfaces in such a way that on introduction of the sample tube filled with sample substance into the previously homogeneous magnetic field of an NMR spectrometer, the magnetic field inside the sample substance remains largely homogeneous.

A fuel supply system has an air chamber that contains a fuel injector. At least one aperture is formed in a substantially lowermost portion of a lower surface of the air chamber. The aperture and the lower surface have a generally uninterrupted or smooth transition or interface.

The present invention relates to beauty wash bar compositions which deliver enhanced visual benefits to the skin with specific optical attributes. This is accomplished using specific deposition systems (where oil / emollient comprises part of deposition system) and / or by ensuring dispersion of particles onto skin.

A termination circuit for terminating a transmission line comprises a resistance unit which is formed by connecting a P-channel type MOS transistor and an N-channel type MOS transistor in parallel, and Thevenin termination is formed by providing this resistance unit between the transmission line and a power supply line and between the transmission line and a ground line.

The present invention relates to facial wash compositions delivering enhanced whitening using sub-micron titanium dioxide, optional modifier and specific deposition systems.

This invention provides a surface plasmon polariton direction change device (1) for changing a propagation direction of a surface plasmon polariton (5). The surface plasmon polariton direction change device (1) includes a metal film support member (2), and a first metal film (3) and a second metal film (4) which are provided on a predetermined surface of the metal film support member (2), are provided adjacently to each other, and are different from each other in effective refractive index. The surface plasmon polariton direction change device (1) is characterized in that the first metal film (3) and the second metal film (4) are provided so that, in at least a part of a boundary between the first metal film (3) and the second metal film (4), an angle θ formed between (i) a line perpendicular to the boundary and (ii) the propagation direction of the surface plasmon polariton (5) satisfies 0°<θ<90° or −90°<θ<0°, and (i) a surface of the first metal film (3) which is opposite to a surface in contact with the metal film support member (2) and (ii) a surface of the second metal film (4) which is opposite to a surface in contact with the metal film support member (2) are flush with each other.

The present invention provides a polymer compound containing a repeating unit shown by the following general formula (1). There can be provided a polymer compound usable in a negative resist composition that can achieve high resolution of 50 nm or less and small LER and cause very few defects, a negative resist composition using the polymer compound, and a patterning process using the negative resist composition.

The invention provides a semiconductor optical modulator including a two-step mesa optical waveguide having a first clad layer (101); a mesa-like core layer (102) formed over the first clad layer (101); and a second clad layer (103) formed into a mesa shape over the core layer (102), and having a mesa width smaller than that of the core layer (102). The two-step mesa optical waveguide includes a multi-mode optical waveguide region to which an electric field is applied or into which an electric current is injected, and a single-mode optical waveguide region to which the electric field is not applied and into which the electric current is not injected. When the mesa width of the core layer in the multi-mode optical waveguide region is defined as Wmesa1, and the mesa width of the core layer in the single-mode optical waveguide region is defined as Wmesa2, Wmesa1>Wmesa2 is satisfied.

The invention is a soap and towel dispensing product that enables quick and easy restocking of towels and soap and also reduces contact with contaminated surfaces on the product during restocking. The product can hold a soap container beneath a towel enclosure to minimize contamination of the towels by the soap. The product is configured so that the soap container can be removed from the product without requiring a service worker to touch the soap container. The product is configured to that the soap container can be replaced by simply pressing the soap container against the product without rotating the soap container.

The present invention relates to compositions delivering enhanced visual benefits to the skin with specific optical attributes. These are delivered using specific deposition systems (where oil / emollient comprises part of deposition system) and / or by ensuring dispersion of particles.