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A transcutaneous recharging system for providing power to an implantable medical device comprises a primary side circuit for transmitting power in the form of magnetic flux; and a secondary side circuit integral to the implantable medical device for receiving the power transmitted from the primary side circuit and for providing the received power to recharge a battery in the implantable medical device, wherein the primary and secondary side circuits are not physically coupled. A variety of attachment configurations are disclosed for attaching and shielding the secondary circuit directly onto the housing of the implantable medical device, inclusive of flexible printed circuit coils and wire coils recessed into helical notches.

The invention relates generally to various systems, tools and methods for acquiring diagnostic information, including medical information, for a user, transmitting the information to a remote location, assessing the information, and transmitting resulting diagnosis and treatment information to the user and/or a third party for subsequent action. The present invention provides consumer and user-friendly telemedicine systems and procedures which enable health services and/or diagnosis to be provided at a distance remotely.

The invention is directed to a photochromic material that filters, from solar radiation, near infrared radiation and sufficient portions of ultraviolet radiation while transmitting actinic radiation in the wavelength range of about 341±5 nm. The light-transmitting photochromic material provides light and heat stability to achieve a longer useful life. This photochromic material is preferably incorporated in a multilayered structure with constituents provided on or contained within one or more layers to enhance the resistance to light fatigue.

This invention provides a medical device container comprising thermoplastic materials wherein said container is transmissive over substantially all of the surface area of said container to greater than 30% of the radiation in the range of 240 to 280 nm which impinges upon said container, and wherein said container is impervious to microorganisms. The preferred medical device container houses a contact lens.

In order to rotate and move an arm of a slave which supports a needle-holder, the rotation and movement of a pen-shaped operating section (31) caused by the fingers of the operator's hand are directly transmitted as the rotation and movement of the needle-holder, as sensors for detecting the rotation and movement of the operating section, an X-axis torque sensor, Y-axis torque sensor, Z-axis torque sensor, and a rotation detecting potentiometer (33) are installed thereon. As a result, the rotation and movement of the pen-shaped operating section (31) caused by the fingers of the operator's hand are transmitted as the rotation and movement of the needle-holder in optimum proportions through a computing section. Therefore, when the needle-holder is to be finely moved, a subtle motion of the fingers of the hand can be satisfactorily transmitted. Thereby, it is possible to provide a surgical operation device capable of doing minute surgical operations with ease.

Techniques are described for wireless communication. A first method includes contending for access to a first channel of a radio frequency spectrum, and transmitting, upon winning contention for access to the first channel, a first channel reservation indication. The contending may be performed by a first node operating according to a first radio access technology. The first channel reservation indication may be understood by a second node operating according to a second radio access technology.

The present invention is directed to a fuel reformer device that produces a hydrogen rich gas from a hydrocarbon and steam. The steam reforming reaction that produces the hydrogen rich gas from the hydrocarbon and steam is endothermic. A known technique supplies heat required for the steam reforming reaction by an exothermic oxidation reaction proceeding in parallel with the steam reforming reaction. This known technique may, however, cause an excessive temperature rise in an area of the vigorous oxidation reaction in the fuel reformer device.

A reformer unit 34 including a Cu—Zn catalyst receives a supply of a crude fuel gas containing the air flown through a second fuel supply conduit 64. The crude fuel gas is subjected to the steam reforming reaction and the oxidation reaction proceeding inside the reformer unit 34. A resulting hydrogen rich gaseous fuel is discharged to a third fuel supply conduit 65. The reformer unit 34 includes an upper stream reaction unit 80 and a lower stream reaction unit 81. Both the reaction units 80 and 81 have honeycomb structures, wherein the total sectional area of the flow path in the upper stream reaction unit 80 is made smaller than the total sectional area of the flow path in the lower stream reaction unit 81. This arrangement causes the gas flowing through the reformer unit 34 to have the higher flow velocity on the upstream side than on the downstream side. The higher flow velocity on the upstream side extends the area of the vigorous oxidation reaction to the lower stream portion and enables the heat generated on the upstream side to be effectively transmitted to the lower stream portion. This arrangement thus effectively prevents an excessive temperature rise on the upstream side.

A tandem solar cell includes a top solar cell and a bottom solar cell. The top solar cell and the bottom solar cell each have a respective front surface and a rear surface, with the respective front surfaces being adapted for facing a radiation source during use. The top solar cell is arranged with its rear surface overlying the front surface of the bottom solar cell. The top solar cell includes a photovoltaic absorber layer with a bandgap greater than that of crystalline silicon. The bottom solar cell includes a crystalline silicon substrate. On at least a portion of the front surface of the bottom solar cell a passivating layer stack is disposed which includes a thin dielectric film and a secondary layer of either selective carrier extracting material or polysilicon. The thin dielectric film is arranged between the silicon substrate and the secondary layer.

A description is given of a device and a method for determining the temperature of a cooking vessel placed on a hotplate of a heating appliance, e.g. on the glass ceramic plate of an inductive cooker, in the vicinity of a heating zone. In the vicinity of the heating zone is applied to the top of the hotplate at least one flat measuring element, e.g. formed by a colour coating and whose top surface comes into flat contact with the cooking vessel bottom on setting down the cooking vessel. As a result the temperature of the measuring element, by heat conduction, reliably matches the cooking vessel temperature, so that by determining the measuring element temperature it is possible to determine the cooking vessel temperature. The measuring element can serve as a reference measuring surface for infrared temperature measurement through the hotplate, the precision of the temperature measurement not being dependent on the emission capacity of the set down cooking vessel.

A positive resist composition comprising (A) a resin that is decomposed by the action of an acid to increase solubility in an alkali developing solution and includes a specific repeating unit and (B) a compound that generates an acid upon irradiation of an actinic ray or radiation, and a pattern formation method using the positive resist composition.

The present invention is designed so that UL transmission can be carried out adequately even when communication is carried out by using a plurality of CCs of varying communication qualities. A user terminal communicates with a radio base station by using a first CC and a second CC, and has a generating section that generates uplink control information based on DL signals transmitted from the radio base station, a transmission section that transmits uplink control information, and a control section that controls the transmission of the uplink control information, wherein, when transmission of an uplink shared channel is indicated in the first CC, the control section controls the transmission of the uplink control information by using the uplink shared channel of the first CC, and, when transmission of an uplink shared channel is indicated in the second CC and the transmission of the uplink shared channel is not indicated in the first CC, the control section controls the transmission of the uplink control information by using an uplink control channel of the first CC.

A light guide plate includes a light guide positioned to receive light from a light source at a side end face. The light guide includes an exit surface that conveys light from the guide plate. Preferably, the exit surface has an anti-reflection layer having microscopic recesses or projections arranged in a lattice.

The invention relates to a battery cell (1), in particular a lithium-ion cell, having at least one positive electrode (2), at least one negative electrode (3) and connections (4) which are connected in an electrically conductive manner to the electrodes (2, 3) for electrically contacting the battery cell (1). The battery cell (1) comprises a device (5) for monitoring at least one parameter of the battery cell (1) and the device (5) comprises at least one sensor (6, 7, 8, 9).

The present invention relates to inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICPMS) in which a collision cell is employed to selectively remove unwanted artefact ions from an ion beam by causing them to interact with a reagent gas. The present invention provides a first evacuated chamber (6) at high vacuum located between an expansion chamber (3) and a second evacuated chamber (20) containing the collision cell (24). The first evacuated chamber (6) includes a first ion optical device (17). The collision cell (24) contains a second ion optical device (25). The provision of the first evacuated chamber (6) reduces the gas load on the collision cell (24), by minimising the residual pressure within the collision cell (24) that is attributable to the gas load from the plasma source (1). This serves to minimise the formation, or re-formation, of unwanted artefact ions in the collision cell (24).

A wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) fiber optic communication system is operative to transmit WDM signals between multiple nodes. Each of the nodes has a booster EDFA, and in-band (IB) and out-of-band (OB) supervisory channels operative to monitor the integrity of a transmission link by generating and detecting respective in-band and out-of-band control signals. The booster EDFA is operative to receive the multiplexed WDM and IB signals and generate an output signal carried by a plurality of fiber-optic cables between the nodes. The booster EDFA is operative to switch from an automatic gain control regime upon detecting of at least one of the IB and OB signals to an automatic power control regime upon loss of both IB and OB signals. The output signal of the EDFA in the AGC regime has a high power sufficient for being transmitted the WDM and IB signals, and has a low power in the APC regime sufficient for transmitting only the IB signal between the nodes.

A method for laser welding comprises:

• • forming a laser-transmissible resin workpiece 1 exhibiting whitish hue of white, gray or tint color out of a resin composition which includes 100 parts by weight of a thermoplastic resin and 0.1 to 2 parts by weight of white pigment having 2 to 2.8 of reflectance,
  • piling a resin workpiece 2 being at least partly capable of laser-absorption onto the laser-transmissible resin workpiece 1,
  • and then irradiating a laser beam 3 thereto to weld them thermally.