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A FOUP opening / closing device includes a housing containing a mounting table for mounting the FOUP thereon, an FOUP loading opening, and a delivery opening. The device further includes a rotator for rotating the mounting table, a door opening / closing unit to open or close the door of the FOUP and keep the door open, a mover for moving the FOUP and the door opening / closing unit in a reciprocating manner, to allow the FOUP and the door opening / closing unit to be connected to or separated from each other, and a controller to output control signals for moving the FOUP and the door opening / closing unit via operation of the mover to mount the door of the FOUP to the door opening / closing unit, separating the door from the FOUP, moving the FOUP and the door opening / closing unit away from each other, and rotating the mounting table to make the FOUP face the delivery opening.

A novel mechanical system, based on a new cable driven mechanical transmission, able to provide sufficient dexterity, stiffness, speed, precision and payload capacity to actuate multi-DOF micro-manipulators. Besides the possibility of being used in several articulated surgical instruments and robotic systems for surgery or other applications involving remote manipulation, it enables the design of a novel fully mechanical surgical instrument, which offer the advantages of conventional laparoscopy (low cost, tactile feedback, high payload capacity) combined with the advantages of single port surgery (single incision, scarless surgery, navigation through several quadrants of the abdominal cavity) and robotic surgery (greater degrees of freedom, short learning curve, high stiffness, high precision, increased intuition). The unique design of the proposed system provides an intuitive user interface to achieve such enhanced manoeuvrability, allowing each joint of a teleoperated slave system to be driven by controlling the position of a mechanically connected master unit.

An external fixation system having an improved fixation component for constructing a stable, adjustable fixation system that cooperates with other systems, and methods of use thereof.

Failure investigation in a SAN providing virtual volumes requires a high degree of knowledge from the SAN administrator, who also evaluates the relative severities of failure events from different devices. The SAN manager obtains information from the management agents in the devices. Using this information, the SAN manager manages the association between the server and the virtual volumes and the real volumes. The SAN manager receives failure messages from multiple devices and uses the association and a failure analysis dictionary table to determine the contents of the failure messages and associations between failure messages. Failures that are causal failure are displayed. The SAN manager is equipped with a conversion table for converting failure messages issued from different storage devices to a common severity. When a failure message is received, a notification is sent to a high-level program and to an administrator based on the common severity defined in the conversion table.

The invention relates to a process for producing a toothbrush having a body, which comprises a handle region, a head region and a neck region located between the handle region and the head region, and having functional elements which are arranged, at least in part, within the body and comprise an electrically operated functional unit and an electric supply device which has an energy store and is intended for the functional unit, in the case of which the body is produced, by injection molding, from at least one hard component, which serves as a reinforcement, and at least one soft component, and at least some of the functional elements, during the production of the body, are encapsulated, at least in part, directly by the plastic which forms the soft component.

The invention relates to a device for projecting patient image data from radioscopic imaging methods and / or tomographic imaging methods onto video images, comprising an image display device (10), at least one video camera (14) and a computer-assisted navigation system which can detect the spatial positions of the image display device (10) and / or the video camera (14) and the spatial positions of a part of a patient's body (1) via tracking means (12, 3) attached to it, wherein the image display device (10) and the video camera (14) are assigned to each other and are realized as a portable unit.

The invention discloses a voice enhancement device based on a distributed microphone array network. The method comprises the steps that the distributed microphone array network based on an Ad-hoc network is built; sampling rate synchronization is carried out on network nodes; framing is carried out on signals of the nodes; a multi-channel wiener filter is carried out at each node for voice enhancement; the enhanced voice signals are transmitted to all other nodes of the network; at each node, according to multi-channel microphone array observation signals of the current node and single-channel enhanced voice signals of the other nodes, the multi-channel wiener filters are adopted again for voice enhancement, and the updated single-channel enhanced voice signals of the current node are obtained. Isolated microphone arrays are connected through the wireless communication network to form a microphone array network, so that the voice enhancement effect of a single node can be improved.

A content management system for providing content that is specific to the execution context of a user application is disclosed. The invention relates specifically to applications that have a display in a browser that generates a document object model. The system comprises a development tool that is operative to record a specific execution context of the user application. The development tool makes a record that includes at least part of a document object model constructed by the browser and to associates content with the record. The system also comprises a content display tool that is operative to compare the execution context of the executing user application with records made by the development tool and to display content associated record having a corresponding execution context.

A method of measuring ego-motion speed of a mobile device is described. The linear motion of the device is measured using an image sensor component, thereby creating linear motion data. The rotational or angular motion of the device is measured using an inertial sensor component, thereby creating rotational motion data. The rotational and linear motion data of the device are used to calculate the ego-motion speed of the mobile device. This ego-motion speed can then be used to control a virtual camera control module for adjusting the view of 3D content viewed by the user on the mobile device as the user moves the device, changing the position of the virtual camera.

A thin, planar semiconductor device having electrodes on both surfaces is disclosed. This semiconductor device is provided with an IC chip and a wiring layer having one side that is electrically connected to surface electrodes of the IC chip. On this surface of the wiring layer, conductive posts are provided on wiring of the wiring layer, and an insulating resin covers all portions not occupied by the IC chip and conductive posts. The end surfaces of the conductive posts are exposed from the insulating resin and are used as first planar electrodes. In addition, a resist layer is formed on the opposite surface of the wiring layer. Exposed portions are formed in the resist layer to expose desired wiring portions of the wiring layer. These exposed portions are used as second planar electrodes. Stacking semiconductor devices of this construction enables an improvement in the integration of semiconductor integrated circuits.

The invention relates to assembly of an accessory and a shoe for providing support to a foot-drop affected foot relative to a lower leg belonging to the foot such that the foot is prevented from dropping downwards relative to the lower leg when the foot is raised by the lower from a supporting surface, the accessory being provided with a first attachment member for attachment of the accessory to the lower leg, a second attachment member for attachment of the accessory to an upper side of the shoe and a connecting body joining together the first attachment member and the second attachment member, wherein the second attachment member is provided with an attachment plate which, in use, is positioned under an upper part of the shoe. The invention also relates to the accessory of the assembly.

An example video game includes a virtual game world including a video game character movable within the virtual game world and one or more targets. A first target in the virtual game world can be locked onto so that the first target remains substantially at the center of a field of view of the game character within the virtual game world. A reticle may be moved to target one or more second targets in the virtual game world while the first target remains locked onto.

One aspect of the invention is a method for playing a stored content providing a plurality of segments which collectively contains the stored content, each segment has using first terminus and a second terminus with the content having a temporal flow from the first terminus to the second terminus. At least one segment is associated with a plurality of links to other segments. The method includes playing at least one segment with the temporal flow, determining whether a content expansion is desired prior to reaching the second terminus. If the content expansion is desired, then linking to an expansion segment and playing the expansion segment. If the content expansion is not desired, then linking to a continuing segment and playing the continuing segment. The method includes an additional link from the expansion segment to the continuing segment such that the continuing segment is played after the expansion segment has been played. Other aspects of the invention include other methods for playing stored content, for capturing and playing content, capturing segment and linkage descriptions, storage devices of the segment content, storage mechanisms referencing the continuous media content by segments and linkages and apparatus for capturing and playing continuous media content.

The solar cell structure according to the present invention comprises a nanowire (205) that constitutes the light absorbing part of the solar cell structure and a passivating shell (209) that encloses at least a portion of the nanowire (205). In a first aspect of the invention, the passivating shell (209) of comprises a light guiding shell (210), which preferably has a high- and indirect bandgap to provide light guiding properties. In a second aspect of the invention, the solar cell structure comprises a plurality of nanowires which are positioned with a maximum spacing between adjacent nanowires which is shorter than the wavelength of the light which the solar cell structure is intended to absorbin order to provide an effective medium for light absorption. Thanks to the invention it is possible to provide high efficiency solar cell structures.

A ureal water tank (28), a storage of an aqueous urea solution, is located within a utility room (6G) in a right front section of a revolving frame (6), which is readily accessible from outside. In this instance, among a plurality of operating oil conduits (18), a working mechanism operating conduit (21) which supplies operating oil to a boom cylinder (5D) of a working mechanism (5) is arranged to run along exterior surfaces of the ureal water tank (28). Therefore, even if the ureal water tank (28) is located in a place with no heat source, the aqueous urea solution in the ureal water tank (28) can be stably kept in a heated state by utilization of heat of operating oil in circulation through the working mechanism operating conduit (21).

An arrangement for the detection of relative movements of two objects with four measuring cells as vertical measuring device for the detection of a relative movement perpendicular to an imaginary plane, with the measuring cells being arranged in such a manner that their vertical projections onto the plane are arranged at an identical angular distance from each other about a centre. Further, a force and / or moment sensor with a first board and a second board which are elastically connected with each other and movable relative to one another.

The invention provides an electro-therapeutic device for application on a human or animal body part, comprising electrodes (3), a measuring means connected thereto and arranged to measure a value of an electrical quantity, and a control unit (10) to process the measured values, wherein the control unit (10) further comprises pattern recognition means to determine a pattern in the measured values, for example by comparing with patterns stored in a memory unit (15). By means of the determined pattern, the device is able to know its position on the body, and to determine whether this position is suitable for a treatment, and to which electrodes a treatment signal must be supplied. The device is much easier to use since it does not require any user's knowledge about patterns, as this may be stored in the device itself.

Upon registration, a client extracts plural feature points and information (identification information) by which each of the feature points can be identified, from a user's fingerprint, and randomly generates a transformation parameter for each feature point to transform the coordinates and direction. The transformed identification information (template) is transmitted to an authentication server and stored in a memory. The identification information and transformation parameters of the feature points are stored in a memory medium of the user. Upon authentication of the user, the client extracts feature points from the user's fingerprint, and identifies the feature points by the identification information in the memory medium. The client transforms the identified feature points by reading the corresponding transformation parameters from the memory medium, and transmits the transformed information to the authentication server. The server verifies the received identification information against the template registered in advance, to authenticate the user.

An improved earbud design providing for full modularity; improved and variable hearing protection, sound quality, comfort, fit, aesthetics, and signal connectivity; and the ability to maintain environmental sound directionality comprised of a multitude of new features with variable vents and membranes which dilute the harmful pneumatic effects of sound while improving its acoustic quality. A location-based transmission system provides event attendees to mix live sound with streamed sound through Ambrose Earbuds for reduced hearing risk and no quality detriments due to timing gaps, occlusion or ear tip spectral broadening, and enables noise pollution-free musical performances. A displacement-based digital compression algorithm caps maximum output air displacement as well as sound pressure level. Thus, an earbud is provided that through adjustments and modularity can act as a personal listening device, a hearing protection device and as a personal aesthetic statement with customized fit and comfort.

A method for lateral chain modification of aryl main chain polymers with aromatic ketones or aldehydes containing tertiary basic N-groups is described. The modification can be accomplished via addition of an aromatic carboxylic acid or an acid derivative containing a tertiary amine moiety to a metallized polymer. The tertiary amines on the modified polymer can be converted to quaternary amines with halogen alkanes. Modification of the aryl main chain polymers with aromatic groups containing sulphonic acid radicals is also described. The polymers formed can be crosslinked and prepared for use in a wide variety of membrane technologies including ion exchange, dialysis, reverse osmosis, nanofiltration.

The system for replication, integration, consolidation and mobilisation of data according to the present invention provides a flexible framework of functionally autonomous and distributable modules with the main advantage of scalability, to simplify data integration, produce an integration structure that can accommodate backend structural changes and can cope with highly distributed data sources. Also, it creates a framework for delivering highly accessible, secure data to a mobile environment with minimal transfer loads during sending and receiving and secure data on the mobile client devices. Added to this, making use of modern mobile connection types for delivering push content from and / or to a wide spectrum of devices.

Methods and apparatus are described in which, at design-time a thorough analysis and exploration is performed to represent a multi-objective “optimal” trade-off point or points, e.g. on Pareto curves, for the relevant cost (C) and constraint criteria. More formally, the trade-off points may e.g. be positions on a hyper-surface in an N-dimensional Pareto search space. The axes represent the relevant cost (C), quality cost (Q) and restriction (R) criteria. Each of these working points is determined by positions for the system operation (determined during the design-time mapping) for a selected set of decision knobs (e.g. the way data are organized in a memory hierarchy). The C-Q-R values are determined based on design-time models that then have to be “average-case” values in order to avoid a too worst-case characterisation. At processing time, first a run-time BIST manager performs a functional correctness test, i.e. checks all the modules based on stored self-test sequences and “equivalence checker” hardware. All units that fail are deactivated (so that they cannot consume any power any more) and with a flag the run-time trade-off controllers, e.g. Pareto controllers, are informed that these units are not available any more for the calibration or the mapping. At processing time, also a set of representative working points are “triggered” by an on-chip trade-off calibration manager, e.g. a Pareto calibration manager, that controls a set of monitors which measure the actual C-Q-R values and that calibrates the working points to their actual values. Especially timing monitors require a careful design because correctly calibrated absolute time scales have to be monitored.

The invention discloses an underwater movable sampling platform which is characterized in that the sampling platform comprises a diving power device, a collecting unit and a control system; the diving power device comprises a main bin and a horizontal pushing device and an sinking-raising device which are arranged on the main bin; the collecting unit comprises a water-sample collecting device, a soil-sample collecting device and a real-time image collecting device which are connected with the main bin; and the control system comprises an onboard panel and a terminal PC connected with the onboard panel which are all arranged in the main bin. The invention is provided with the diving power device so as to be capable of flexibly moving under water and accurately search and acquire the underwater samples in a wider range compared with the existing underwater samplers; simultaneously the invention is provided with the integrated collecting unit so as to fully complete the collections of water samples, underwater humus and underwater images in one underwater environment detection task and then the collection efficiency is higher compared with that of the existing underwater samplers.

A fuel injection valve has a first and a second injection ports whose central axes are parallel to each other, the central axis of the second injection port is out of alignment with respect to the central axis of the first injection port so that, when the largest length M1 of a longer-side line along which a plane including the central axis of the valve seat member and the central axis of the second injection port intersects with an inner wall of the second injection port is larger than the shortest length M2 of a shorter-side line along which the above plane intersects with an inner wall of the second injection port, the distance W1 from the inner wall of the first injection port to the longer-side line of the second injection port as measured within the plane is larger than the distance W2 from the inner wall of the first injection port to the shorter-side line of the second injection port as measured within the plane.

A drive unit (20) particularly suited for a motor vehicle 1 which is driven by a plurality of axles, which drive unit (20) comprises a primary drive source for solely driving a first driving axle (2), and a secondary drive source which, together with the primary drive source, via a superposition drive, serves to drive a second driving axle (3). The drive unit comprises a superposition drive (14) which comprises a first input shaft (17) for establishing a driving connection with a primary driveshaft, a second input shaft (18) and an output shaft (19), and an electric motor (15) with a rotor and a stator constituting the secondary drive source whose one part (rotor, stator) is connected to the second input shaft (18) of the superposition drive (14) and whose other part (stator, rotor) is connected to a further rotating member of the superposition drive (14).

The invention relates to a driving axle for electric motor-driven vehicles provided with at least one electric motor mounted on the axle and drive shafts driven by the motor shaft thereof with a planetary gear step inserted therebetween, connected to the output shafts bearing the wheels resting on the drive axle with a braking device and another planetary gear inserted therebetween. The invention is characterised in that two controlled asynchronous motors (10, 11) are disposed on the axle, said motors working separately and being controlled by a common control in the working functions thereof. The motor shafts (13) of both asynchronous motors (10, 11) are connected respectively by the planetary gear step (15, 16, 17) to the drive shaft (19) driving the downstream output shaft (24).

An exhaust gas recirculation device includes a turbocharger (5) having a turbine (5b) on an exhaust pipe (4) and a compressor (5a) on an intake pipe (3), a low-pressure EGR passage (31) connecting the exhaust pipe (4) downstream of the turbine (5b) and the intake pipe (3) upstream of the compressor (5a), and a filter (13) provided on the exhaust pipe (4) downstream of the turbine (5b). In the device, an exhaust throttle valve (19) is disposed on the exhaust pipe (4) that is downstream of the filter (13) and that is upstream of a site of connection with the low-pressure EGR passage (31).