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An object of one embodiment of the present invention is to provide a more convenient highly reliable light-emitting device which can be used for a variety of applications. Another object of one embodiment of the present invention is to manufacture, without complicating the process, a highly reliable light-emitting device having a shape suitable for its intended purpose. In a manufacturing process of a light-emitting device, a light-emitting panel is manufactured which is at least partly curved by processing the shape to be molded after the manufacture of an electrode layer and / or an element layer, and a protective film covering a surface of the light-emitting panel which is at least partly curved is formed, so that a light-emitting device using the light-emitting panel has a more useful function and higher reliability.

A heat-dissipating structure for a LED lamp includes a heat-dissipating base, a heat-dissipating body and a plurality of heat pipes. The heat-dissipating body has an outer cylinder formed into a hollow cylinder. The inside surface of the outer cylinder is provided with a plurality of accommodating grooves. The condensed ends of the plurality of heat pipes are inserted into the accommodating grooves. The end to be heated of the heat pipe is adhered to the heat-dissipating base. Further, the inside surface and the outside surface of the outer cylinder are formed with a plurality of heat-dissipating fins made by aluminum extrusion, so that the heat pipes are encircled by the heat-dissipating fins. In this way, the heat can be conducted by the plurality of heat pipes so as to increase the total contacting area. Thus, the heat can be rapidly conducted to the outer cylinder. Further, the heat can be rapidly dissipated to the outside by the heat-dissipating fins, thereby to substantially increase the efficiency in the heat dissipation.

In various embodiments, the medical device delivery system described herein can be configured to position and deliver a medical device in a body lumen. The medical device delivery system can comprise an elongate member, a medical device and a leash. During deployment, the medical device can be tethered to the catheter by the leash, to stabilize and prevent unwanted shifting of the medical device as it deploys at the treatment site.

Provided are devices, systems, and methods for catheter and guidewire management in a surgical setting. In one implementation, the device may include a housing having a curved bottom surface for accommodating the shape of a patient's leg. Into the housing is mounted a retaining member, which can retain one or more guidewires, catheters, or the like. In another embodiment, the housing may include a number of vertical supports between which is mounted at least one retaining member housing. The retaining member housing may in turn house a retaining member, suitable for receiving and retaining one or more elongated devices such as catheters or guidewires. The retaining member may have a suitable size, shape, and level of flexibility to allow a catheter or guidewire to be placed therein and held with a desired level of force until such a time as a user desires to remove the catheter or guidewire. Using the device, catheter / guidewire combinations or other such paired devices, or indeed any devices, may be effectively managed in a surgical field.

A platinum / Rhodium resistance thermal probe is used as an active device which acts both as a highly localized heat source and as a detector to perform localized differential calorimetry, by thermally inducing and detecting events such as glass transitions, meltings, recystallizations and thermal decomposition within volumes of material estimated at a few mu m3. Furthermore, the probe is used to image variations in thermal conductivity and diffusivity, to perform depth profiling and sub-surface imaging. The maximum depth of the sample that is imaged is controlled by generating and detecting evanescent temperature waves in the sample.

A platinum / Rhodium resistance thermal probe is used as an active device which acts both as a highly localized heat source and as a detector to perform localized differential calorimetry, by thermally inducing and detecting events such as glass transitions, meltings, recystallizations and thermal decomposition within volumes of material estimated at a few mum3. Furthermore, the probe is used to image variations in thermal conductivity and diffusivity, to perform depth profiling and sub-surface imaging. The maximum depth of the sample that is imaged is controlled by generating and detecting evanescent temperature waves in the sample.

A portable refrigeration unit is described. The unit has a body and a lid. The body has an outer housing and an insulated interior container that is thermally insulated from the outer housing. The insulated interior container has a bottom surface and at least one sidewall forming a cavity for receiving an article to be stored therein The lid has an outer surface and an inner surface and the lid is insulated. There is at least one solar collector on at least a portion of the outer surface of the lid. This solar collector provides electrical power to one or more cooling units and to one or more rechargeable batteries. The cooling units include an interior and an exterior heat sink, and an interior and exterior fan and an interior and exterior vent. Air in the cavity at a first temperature passes from the cavity through the interior vent to the interior heat sink where heat in the air is transferred to the exterior heat sink and where the air at a second lower temperature is transmitted by the interior fan back into said cavity. Ambient air passes through the exterior vent so that the heat in the exterior heat sink is transmitted from the exterior heat sink to the air and the air is discharged by said exterior fan.

A tissue-implantable sensor for measurement of solutes in fluids and gases, such as oxygen and glucose, is provided. The sensor includes: i) a detector array including at least one detector; ii) a telemetry transmission portal; iii) an electrical power source; and iv) circuitry electrically connected to the detector array including signal processing means for determining an analyte level, such as glucose level, in a body fluid contacting the detectors. The sensor components are disposed in a hermetically sealed housing having a size and shape suitable for comfortable, safe, and unobtrusive subcutaneous implantation allowing for in vivo detection and long term monitoring of tissue glucose concentrations by wireless telemetry.

The invention relates to RF voltage-operated ion guides based on stacked apertured diaphragms. The invention provides ion guides consisting of diaphragm stacks that permit the ion beam to be shaped in cross-section so that it corresponds to the acceptance profile of the subsequent section of the device, therefore yielding optimal ion transmission. For this purpose, at least some of the diaphragms in the diaphragm stacks do not have circular openings, but instead have openings which shape the cross section of the emerging ion beam in the desired manner. It is possible, for instance, to obtain elliptical beam cross sections, divided beams or beams focused to the shape of a fine thread at the output of the diaphragm stacks.

Disclosed herein is a battery cartridge-connecting system for battery modules, comprising: bus bars, each of which includes a plate-shaped bar body, coupling parts, and electrical connection parts; a base plate, to which the bus bars are easily mounted; and a printed circuit board (PCB), which is easily coupled to the bus bars and is mounted to the base plate in a compact structure. The present invention also provides a battery module and a medium- or large-sized battery system including the battery cartridge-connecting system. According to the present invention, the battery cartridge-connecting system easily accomplishes the electrical connection and the mechanical coupling in the compact-structured battery module or battery system. In addition, the battery cartridge-connection system has excellent electrical characteristics, such as electric resistance at the connected parts, after the electrical connection is completed, and excellent mechanical strength to external impacts or vibrations after the mechanical coupling is completed. Furthermore, the battery cartridge-connecting system prevents a risk of an engineer or a user being exposed to the electrical short circuits when the battery module or the battery system is manufactured or when the battery module or the battery system is repaired.

A percutaneous surgical device and method for creating a cavity within tissue during a minimally invasive procedure. A cavitation device includes a shaft interconnected to a flexible cutting element. A flexible cutting element has a first shape suitable for minimally invasive passage into tissue. The flexible cutting element has a means to move toward a second shape suitable for forming a cavity in tissue. When used in bone, the resulting cavity is usually filled with bone cement or suitable bone replacement material that is injectable and hardens in situ. The disclosed cavitation device and methods can be used for the following applications: (1) treatment or prevention of bone fracture, (2) joint fusion, (3) implant fixation, (4) tissue harvesting (especially bone), (5) removal of diseased tissue (hard or soft tissue), and (6) general tissue removal (hard or soft tissue).

A façade (100) comprising at least one façade panel (112) having a front face (131) and a rear face (113) and at least two panel support elements (108). Each panel support element (108) comprises a first arm (110), a second arm (109) wherein at least a portion of the second arm (109) is attached to the rear face (113) of the façade panel (112). The panel support element (108) also comprising at least two panel retaining elements (101), each comprising a first flange (104) and a channel 106, wherein at least a portion of the second arm (109) of the panel support element (108) is restrained within the channel (106) and each panel retaining element (101) is attached to a building structural substrate (102).

In a module including circuit elements, a plurality of wires, which are generally two-dimensionally formed, are multi-layered via electrically insulating material, which comprises a mixture including at least filler and electrically insulating resin. One or more circuit elements are electrically connected to the wires, and at least a part of those circuit elements is embedded in the electrically insulating material. The module further includes a heat sink member that has a higher thermal conductivity than the electrically insulating material, and that, when viewed from the direction of multi-layering the wires, overlaps with a circuit element, which is one of those circuit elements, exhibiting the highest temperature rise at least in the module.

A portable, solar assisted, temperature controlled container comprises: a body with a cavity; a lid sealable thereon; a detachable solar panel producing electric power; a thermoelectric cooling unit; an interior heat sink secured in the cavity proximate to an interior side of the thermoelectric cooling unit with an interior fan to direct cavity air thereon; an exterior heat sink secured proximate to an exterior-facing side of the thermoelectric cooling unit with an exterior fan to direct exterior air thereon. The thermoelectric cooling unit transports heat to maintain a thermostat-controlled temperature in the cavity. The interior and exterior fans and the interior and exterior heat sinks increase efficiency of the heat transport. One or more wheels rotatably attached to the body are coupled to a faraday generator to generate electrical power to replace / supplement the solar power. A rechargeable battery may also replace / supplement solar power during periods of inadequate solar power generation.

An object of the present invention is to provide a substrate for a thin film photoelectric conversion device, in which its properties are not deteriorated when its surface unevenness is effectively increased, and then provide the thin film photoelectric conversion device having its performance improved by using the substrate.According to the present invention, by setting the surface area ratio of a transparent electrode layer in the substrate for the thin film photoelectric conversion device to at least 55% and at most 95%, the surface unevenness are effectively increased to increase the optical confinement effect, while deterioration in properties due to sharpening of the surface level variation is suppressed, whereby making it possible to provide a substrate for a thin film photoelectric conversion device, which can enhance output properties of the thin film photoelectric conversion device.

A surgical guidance system for orthoscopic drilling is disclosed which comprises a probe, the end of which is suitable for locating on the emergence site of a hole to be drilled through body tissue, a targeter comprising one or more sensors for locating the position of the probe, a drill guide, and a control system in communication with the targeter for determining the position of the probe measured by the targeter and providing a real-time visual representation of the relationship between the direction of the drill guide and the tip of the probe to allow the user to align the drill guide to the tip of the probe. The probe comprises an elongate shaft and one or more, preferably two or more markers located at distant positions along the shaft, and wherein further the markers can be detected by the targeter and are each positioned at locations removed from the tip of the probe.

In a charged-particle beam exposure device, an electrostatic lens (ML) comprises several (at least three) electrodes with rotational symmetry (EFR, EM, EFN) surrounding a particle beam path; the electrodes are arranged coaxially on a common optical axis representing the center of said particle beam path and are fed different electrostatic potentials through electric supplies. At least a subset of the electrodes (EM) form an electrode column realized as a series of electrodes of substantially equal shape arranged in consecutive order along the optical axis, wherein outer portions of said electrodes (EM) of the electrode column have outer portions (OR) of corresponding opposing surfaces (f1, f2) facing toward the next and previous electrodes, respectively. Preferably, the length of the electrode column is at least 4.1 times (3 times) the inner radius (ri1) of said surfaces (f1, f2).

A receiver (30) with an antenna circuit is disclosed, which antenna circuit comprises a coil (31) and either a monopole (35) or a dipole connected to the coil (31). The antenna circuit captures a signal with a wavelength transmitted by a transmitter (1). The coil (31) captures the signal and generates therefrom a current having a frequency corresponding to the wavelength. The coil (31) is dimensioned such that the current is distributed uniformly within the coil (31) at each point in time. Preferably, the monopole (35) or a leg of the dipole has a length corresponding to less than 5% of the wavelength. The invention further relates to a radio transmitter of the same kind. Finally, the invention relates to an RFID tag, a smart card, a mobile device, and a hearing aid, each comprising an inventive receiver (30) and / or an inventive transmitter.

A machine room (15) is provided between a cab (14) and a counterweight (6) which are mounted on a revolving frame (5) to accommodate an engine (7). The machine room (15) is built of a left front support member (20), a rear support member (21), a connecting support member (22) and a left side housing door (25). A horizontal grip portion (22B) and an inclined grip portion (22C) are provided in intermediate portions of the connecting support member (22) which connects the left front support member (20) and the rear support member (21). By opening the left side housing door (25), the inclined grip portion (22C) of the connecting support member (22) comes out, permitting a servicing worker to hold on thereto helping him or her perform a cleaning job of a rear face portion (14B) of a cab (14) in an efficient manner.

A machine room (15) is provided between a cab (14) and a counterweight (6) which are mounted on a revolving frame (5) to accommodate an engine (7). The machine room (15) is built of a left front support member (20), a rear support member (21), a connecting support member (22) and a left side housing door (25). A horizontal grip portion (22B) and an inclined grip portion (22C) are provided in intermediate portions of the connecting support member (22) which connects the left front support member (20) and the rear support member (21). By opening the left side housing door (25), the inclined grip portion (22C) of the connecting support member (22) comes out, permitting a servicing worker to hold on thereto helping him or her perform a cleaning job of a rear face portion (14B) of a cab (14) in an efficient manner.

A resilient foodstuff bag opener is disclosed, wherein the resilient bag opener is forcibly bent or bowed for easily entering a pliable food stuff bag, and upon relaxation of the bending forces, the bag opener resiliently deforms from its bent configuration to thereby open the food stuff bag in a manner that allows a food stuff residing on a food support surface of the bag opener to flow into the food stuff bag. The food support surface of the bag opener may be also used for processing foods such as cutting, dicing, washing, straining, etc. depending on the embodiment used. An inclined support may be optionally provided for maintaining the bag opener in a “hands-free” inclined position so that a food stuff provided on the food support surface can flow into the food stuff bag without a user having to hold the bag opener.

A method of treating a spinal column shape deformation includes fixing at least two fixation screw assemblies to respective vertebrae, sliding a rod between the arm extensions on each of the fixation screw assemblies, swinging the channels of the screw assemblies relative to the fixation screws so that the channels become less inclined to the axes of the fixation screws, and so that the rod is located generally posteriorly of the spinal column, locking the channel against swinging relative to the screw, rotating the rod about its axis relative to at least one of the channels, and locking the rod against movement relative to the channel.

To provide a production method of three-dimensional shape data of a part other than an engaging portion by a three-dimensional measuring device, the engaging portion has an engaging part in a cross sectional shape other than a rotary body and is projected and / or recessed on a jawbone side, a measured object mounting tool 2 comprises a cylindrical part 2a, a mounting part 2b and a placing part 2c, the mounting part 2b positions a prolonged line of an axis of the cylindrical part 2a in the engaging part 3aa, the placing part 2c aligns a pre-specified direction of the mounting part 2b with a specified providing direction of the placing table 1b, the center axis of the cylindrical part 2a is aligned with Z axis, and the model of the dental prosthesis 3 is rotated around Z axis on the basis of the specified providing direction of the placing table 1b.