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The battery charger is capable of charging a battery pack 2. The battery charger is provided with a docking section 1 where the battery pack 2 can be attached for charging, and a charging section 3 with a charging circuit 40 to supply a given amount of charging power to the battery pack 2 attached in the docking section 1. The battery charger is characterized by the docking section 1 and charging section 3 having a detachable structure.

A system and method including asynchronous location-based messaging is provided. Multimedia content may be created and associated with a specific geographic location. Notification messages associated with location-based content may be designated for receipt by particular users, for example, when the users are located within a predetermined distance of the geographic location. The notification messages, which may be transmitted to users' mobile computing devices, may include information about, as well as a pointer to, the location-based content to enable the content to be accessed immediately or at a later time through any number of interfaces.

Methods and apparatus are provided for treating congestive heart by actively or passively enhancing perfusion to the renal arteries. A first embodiment comprises a specially configured balloon catheter and extracorporeal pump, wherein the pump operates in a “once-through” fashion or alternating volume displacement mode. In another embodiment the catheter includes a pair of balloons to isolate a region of the aorta, and a third balloon that directs flow into the renal arteries. In still further embodiments, a stent or cuff having a constricted region is deployed in or around the aorta, respectively, to create a backpressure upstream of the stent or cuff. Methods of enhancing renal perfusion also are provided.

In a portable radio communication apparatus including a housing, at least one part of at least one of the housing is formed as a housing electrical conductor portion by an electrically conductive material. The housing electrical conductor portion is connected with a radio communication circuit of the portable radio communication apparatus so as to operate as at least one part of an unbalanced type antenna of the radio communication circuit. Further, the portable radio communication apparatus further includes a boom portion coupled with the housing at least at two positions so as to provide at least one penetrating hole between the housing and the boom portion.

There are provided an electric part which can be produced through a production process which is excellent in an industrial productivity and a method of manufacturing the electric part, by including a matrix-shaped nonconductive base member, a carbon nanotube group that is sealed within the nonconductive base member and includes one carbon nanotube or plural carbon nanotubes which are electrically connected to each other, in which substantially only end portion of the one carbon nanotube or at least one carbon nanotube contained in the plural carbon nanotubes is exposed from one surface of the nonconductive base member, and an electrode that is connected to a side surface of the at least one carbon nanotube contained in the carbon nanotube group.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a display device that is able to display a three-dimensional image without reducing resolution in displaying a two-dimensional image to half, and prevent the device itself from being bulky. This display device is a display device that has a light-emitting device having a plurality of pixels and an optical system at one side of the light-emitting device, where the light-emitting element has two electrodes that both have translucency, light is shielded by the first shield means and light is shielded by the second shield means, and the optical system makes light emitted from one of two adjacent pixels of the plurality of pixels incident into a let eye of a viewer and makes light emitted from the other incident into a right eye of the viewer by controlling a traveling direction of light emitted from the plurality of pixels.

In certain embodiments, a computer-implemented method includes determining, by a processor, characteristics of a new transaction and processing, by the processor, the characteristics of the new transaction using a risk assessment model. The risk assessment model is generated using an iterative training process that processes, over time, historical transactions to train the risk assessment model based on characteristics of historical transactions and associated risk assessment analysis of the historical transactions. The method includes generating, by the processor, a risk assessment indicator for the new transaction based on processing the characteristics of the new transaction using the risk assessment model. The risk assessment indicator indicates a degree of risk of the new transaction.

A flexible projective capacitive touch sensor structure includes following elements. A roll of first flexible transparent substrate has sensing unit regions thereon, and each of the sensing unit regions includes at least two first transparent patterned electrodes and at least three second transparent patterned electrodes. Bridging wires respectively stride over the corresponding first transparent patterned electrodes and respectively and electrically bridge the second transparent patterned electrodes located at two sides of each of the first transparent patterned electrodes to form at least one conducting wire. Dielectric pads are disposed between the bridging wires and the first transparent patterned electrodes. First connection wires are connected to the first transparent patterned electrodes and have first electrical connection terminals. Each of the second connection wires is connected to one second transparent patterned electrode of one end of the at least one conducting wire and has one second electrical connection terminal.

In a semiconductor device, a spacer layer is formed around an imaging element on a semiconductor substrate and a glass lid is combined to the spacer layer via an adhesive layer. A space is made between the semiconductor substrate and the glass lid so as to be positioned at a region where the imaging element is disposed. As a result, in forming a hollow section between a light transmitting material and an active element on the semiconductor substrate, it is unnecessary to apply a large load and to superimpose patterns when the light transmitting material is combined to the semiconductor substrate.

A bike share system with the flexibility to anchor the rental bike anywhere at the end of the trip employs a remotely operable lockbox which incorporates a wireless communication card with a GPS receiver. The lock system includes a scissor clamp for grasping the bicycle seat support post and a pair of extended fingers of the scissor clamp which are retained by the clamshell halves of the lockbox. One arm of a U-shaped retainer can be extended into throughbores of first and second ears positioned on opposing sides of the bicycle wheel to lock the wheel against rotation. A mechanical locking device has teeth which engage with protrusions on the other arm of the U-shaped retainer to prevent its movement relative to the lockbox maintaining the other arm in wheel immobilizing position.

Example embodiments relate to a solar cell and a method for fabricating the same, and more particularly, to a solar cell in which a substrate capable of functioning as electrode is used and a method for fabricating the same. The solar cell may include a substrate and a semiconductor layer laminated on the substrate. The solar cell may include a conductive substrate. The substrate may be a flexible substrate having a coefficient of thermal expansion comparable to that of the semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer may be formed on the substrate. The solar cell may include a front electrode formed on the semiconductor layer.

An explosive detection system includes an X-ray inspection apparatus, a mover for moving an object to be inspected to the X-ray inspection apparatus, a sample introduction probe for sampling a gas sample from the object to be inspected, a pipe for introducing the sampled gas into a corona discharge region and for subjecting the sampled gas to negative corona discharge to ionize the sampled gas and to generate negative ions. A mass spectrometer is provided to analyze the mass of the negative ions of the sampled gas and to provide results thereof. Inspection by the X-ray inspection apparatus is performed in relation to sampling of the gas sample, and explosive detection system inspects whether or not an explosive is present in the object to be inspected, from the analysis results of the sampled gas.

A light-emitting diode (LED) light source module is described, comprising: a heat conduction substrate, wherein a surface of the heat conduction substrate includes a plurality of recesses; a plurality of light-emitting diode chips respectively disposed in the recesses; an insulation layer disposed on the surface of the heat conduction substrate outside of the recesses; an electric conduction layer disposed on the insulation layer, wherein the light-emitting diode chips are electrically connected to the electric conduction layer; and an encapsulation layer covering the light-emitting diode chips, the electric conduction layer and the insulation layer.

Hybrid power relay used for opening or closing electrical circuits, including an electrical contact having a mechanical movement, a semiconductor component in parallel with the electrical contact, and a control unit which in response to a logic input level causes the electrical contact to close (open) and the semiconductor component to be turned on. The control unit generates a contact-make signal for closing the contact, and a control signal that turn on the semiconductor component for a predetermined period of time. The control signal prevents the semiconductor component from being turned on after the predetermined period if the electrical contact fails to close so that the semiconductor component is undamaged. Also, the control unit generates a contact-break signal for opening the electrical contact, and turning on the semiconductor component before the electrical contact has opened by means of a control signal which terminates at the end of a second predetermined period after the electrical contact has opened.

The present invention provides inter-transformative jewelry articles, and kits and methods of making and using the same. Inter-transformative jewelry articles according to the present invention are adapted to change or transpose, expand or simplify, and attach or detach, wherein one shape or design or article or item becomes another shape or design or article or item by using diverse, interchangeable and adaptive parts

A liquid crystal display device includes a pixel, an image signal switch connected to a signal line and a signal line drive circuit, a precharge switch connected to a scanning line and a precharge voltage supply circuit, and a scanning line drive circuit supplying successively a scanning line signal including a first signal and a second signal within one frame period to the scanning line in each row. The image signal switch is turned on while the first signal is supplied from the scanning line drive circuit, whereby an image signal is written into the pixels, and only the precharge switch is turned on while the second signal is supplied from the scanning line drive circuit, whereby a precharge voltage is written into the pixels.

Disclosed is a method of detecting bacteria in a biological sample, especially a blood sample, without the need for extensive sub-culturing of the sample. Nucleic acid present within the sample is isolated and bacterial DNA specifically amplified using primers that uniquely prime the amplification of 16s rRNA-encoding nucleic acid. The amplicons are then digested with an endonuclease to yield a restriction fragment length profile for the biological sample. The restriction fragment length profile for the biological sample is then compare to a database of profiles made using cultures of known bacterial species. A match between the sample profile and the database quickly identifies the bacteria present in the sample.

A breathing mask for breathing support devices (10) to guide the breathing support gas to the patient. The mask includes a mask body including a material that is permeable to air at least in partial areas. A gas guiding structure is provided which can be connected to suction openings of the breathing support device (10). The gas guiding structure extends through the interior of the mask body. The gas guiding structure for the transport / delivery of gas is limited partially by air-permeable areas of the wall of the mask body, through which ambient air can be drawn in. The mask is characterized by high wear comfort and improved safety against accidental coverage of the suction areas.

A motor comprises a stator having a stator core and a stator winding wound on the stator core and integrally molded with insulation resin, a rotor provided with a shaft, a first bearing and a second bearing for supporting the shaft, a bracket connected to the stator and retaining at least one of the first bearing and the second bearing, and a conductive member short-circuiting between the stator core and the bracket.

This invention relates to a method and image processing apparatus for automatically correcting mis-orientation of medical images. One or more image processing software modules are used to extract (101) anatomical areas from the medical images. It is determined (103) whether the extracted anatomical areas correspond to reference anatomical areas, but the reference anatomical areas have associated thereto data indicating the orientation of the reference anatomical areas. If the extracted anatomical areas correspond with the reference anatomical areas, the true orientation of the extracted anatomical areas is determined (105) by realigning the medical image until the orientation of the extracted anatomical areas corresponds to the orientation of the reference anatomical areas.

An magnetic-field-generating apparatus comprising permanent magnet segments arranged to form a ring-shaped magnetic circuit having a center hole; adjacent permanent magnet segments having such different magnetization directions that their magnetization directions successively change along a circumferential direction of the magnetic circuit; a basic magnetization phase angle theta between the magnetization directions of the adjacent permanent magnet segments being 720 / N (°); and a magnetization direction of at least one permanent magnet segment in an essential unit obtained by circumferentially dividing the ring to ¼ being deviated from the basic magnetization phase angle theta by such a deviating angle that a uniform magnetic flux flows in one direction along a diameter of the center hole.

It is an object to provide a high ion conductive solid electrolyte which uses organic and inorganic complex compound having water absorption and water resistance and to provide an electrochemical system using the high ion conductive solid electrolyte. The high ion conductive solid electrolyte is composed of a complex compound including water that has zirconic acid compound and polyvinyl alcohol. An aqueous solution in which zirconium salt or oxyzirconnium salt and polyvinyl alcohol are dissolved is neutralized by alkali. After removing water used as solvent, unnecessary salts are removed from the neutralized solution. The high ion conductive solid electrolyte is obtained which is composed of the complex compound having zirconic acid compound, polyvinyl alcohol, and water. Various electrochemical systems are obtained each of which use the high ion conductive solid electrolyte.