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Various embodiments of piston rod assemblies, drug delivery devices making use of such piston rod assemblies, and methods for assembling such piston rod assemblies and drug delivery devices are provided. In one embodiment, a piston rod assembly for a drug delivery device is provided, wherein the piston rod assembly is configured to engage a piston of a medicament cartridge. The piston rod assembly comprises (i) a piston rod, (ii) at least one adjusting member displaceably engaged with a distal end section of the piston rod, wherein the at least one adjusting member is displaceable along a long axis of the piston rod, and (iii) at least one interlock member configured to mutually lock the at least one adjusting member and the piston rod in an arbitrary relative axial position.

A device for subcutaneous administration of a medicament to a patient is disclosed, including a cannula housing with an interior chamber, a cannula connected to the housing and being in flow communication with the chamber, a flexible tubing having a first end and a second end, the first end being coupled to the housing such that the tubing is in flow communication with the chamber, and wherein, the second end carries a source coupling for coupling the tubing to the medicament. The tubing between the first and the second end is folded for forming a configuration with at least two essentially parallel courses of tubing, the tubing is secured in the configuration by a first holder device arranged between the first and second end of the tubing; and that the tubing can be displaced in relation to the first holder device for varying the length of the courses of tubing.

In an assembled battery (10), a plurality of rechargeable unit cells (12), each of which is provided with an electrode body (30) that has a positive electrode (32) and a negative electrode (34), a container (14) that houses the electrode body (30) and an electrolyte, and a positive electrode terminal (15) and a negative electrode terminal (16) which are arranged on an outside of the container (14), the rechargeable unit cells being connected in series. The plurality of unit cells (12) are arranged in a predetermined direction and fastened together while a predetermined load is applied in the arranging direction. Insulating filler (25) is inserted into a gap between the electrode body (30) and an inside wall surface of the container (14) of at least one of the unit cells (12), and a thickness in the arranging direction of each of the unit cells (12) in the fastened state is constant.

Intraoperative radiation therapy involves a treatment head disposed on a distal end of a robotic arm. An X-ray component included as part of the treatment head generates therapeutic radiation in the X-ray wavelength range. At least one patient motion sensor detects a breathing movement of a patient body. A control system dynamically controls a position of the treatment head by causing a position variation in at least one of the movable joints comprising the robotic arm. This movement is managed so that a relative motion as between the treatment head and a tumor bed internal of the patient is minimized.

An imaging apparatus includes a front lens group having a front lens element and a reflector; a support member supporting the reflector; a support mechanism supporting the movable frame, supporting the front lens element, to spherically swing about a center positioned on an extension of the front lens element optical axis behind a reflection surface of the reflector; and a permanent magnet and a coil as an actuator which performs image stabilization by driving the movable frame in response to vibrations to spherically swing the movable frame. The permanent magnet and the coil planarly extend parallel to tangent planes, tangent to imaginary spheres centered about the center, respectively. Any normal to the tangent plane of the permanent magnet is inclined to the optical axis of the front lens element such that a distance between the normal and the optical axis increases in a direction toward the object side.

A wire-grid metal sheet includes a grid portion defined by a plurality of spaced strip-shaped longitudinal members extending longitudinally and cross members extending substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal members. A wire grid is made by attaching the wire-grid metal sheet to a frame. The cross members are arranged at intervals at least about five times greater than those of the longitudinal members. The longitudinal members and the cross members may define a lattice pattern. Alternatively, the longitudinal members or the cross members may be arranged in a staggered manner.

Right angle transition to circuit. A system includes a conductive plate, coaxial transmission line, a circuit, parallel to the conductive plate, and a right angle transition from the coaxial transmission line to the circuit. The transmission line includes a center pin protruding through a hole in the plate, an outer conductor formed by a conductive surface of the hole, and air dielectric between. The circuit includes a top conducting layer (TCL), ground plane with cutout, and an insulating substrate between the TCL and ground plane that abuts the pin. The transition includes the pin, a conductive element connecting the center pin to the TCL, the outer conductor, the air dielectric, the abutment of the substrate against the pin, and the cutout. The abutment and cutout minimize manufacturing variations regarding distance between the pin and the ground plane. The transition tunes out inductance introduced by bonding the pin to the TCL.

A knee orthodic is provided with two load-bearing joints (12, 14), each joint having a proximal leg (16.1, 16.2) and a distal leg (18.1, 18.2). The knee orthodic, may be adapted more easily to a changing knee width. This is achieved in that the proximal legs (16.1, 16.2) are connected by a proximal joint (24) and the distal joints (18.1, 18.2) are connected by a distal joint, said proximal legs (16.1, 16.2) being connected pivotally and fixably relative to one another in the proximal joint (24) in the form of a rotary joint about a proximal joint pivot axis (P).

The invention pertains to a cyclic peptide comprising the following sequence:

-S₁-X₁-S₂-X₂-

• • wherein S₁ is a first target peptide sequence of a protease enzyme E₁, S₂ is a second target peptide sequence of a protease enzyme E₂, S₁ and S₂ possibly being the same or different, said first peptide sequence S₁ and said second peptide sequence S₂ comprising 4 to 14 amino acids, E₁ and E₂ possibly corresponding to the same protease enzyme or to two different protease enzymes, X₁ is a probe carrying a fluorescent donor group and X₂ is a probe carrying a fluorescent or non-fluorescent acceptor group.

Application of these peptides to determination of the activity of protease enzymes.

The image forming method of ejecting liquid droplets containing coloring material toward a recording medium from nozzles including main nozzles and subsidiary nozzles of nozzle rows of a recording head while causing relative movement between the recording medium and the recording head in a relative movement direction that is substantially perpendicular to a direction of alignment of the nozzles of each of the nozzle rows in such a manner that an image is formed by the coloring material on a recording medium, wherein the nozzle rows include first and second nozzle rows which have the main nozzles corresponding to a same coloring material of a particular color and at least one subsidiary nozzle row which includes the subsidiary nozzles corresponding to the same coloring material of the particular color; the first and second nozzle rows and the at least one subsidiary nozzle row are respectively arranged at different positions in terms of the relative movement direction; the at least one subsidiary nozzle row is disposed between the first and second nozzle rows; the subsidiary nozzles are arranged in such a manner that positions of the subsidiary nozzles projected on a straight line in the direction of alignment of the nozzles of each of the nozzle rows are different from positions of the main nozzles projected on the straight line, includes: a measurement step of measuring an amount of inclination of the recording head with respect to the relative movement direction; a correction judgment step of judging whether or not correction is necessary according to the amount of inclination measured in the measurement step; and a correction step of canning out droplet ejection from at least a portion of the subsidiary nozzles, in place of droplet ejection from at least a portion of the main nozzles when Judgment is made, in the correction judgment step, that the correction is necessary, in such a manner that the correction is carried out.

A cutting element for a cutting head for a device for cutting hair is disclosed. A laser beam is directed across a cutting zone, in the cutting head, substantially parallel to a user's skin. The laser beam has an effective cutting region in which the laser beam is of a sufficient intensity to cut hair entering said region. The cutting element has a guard adjacent to the cutting zone to contact a user's skin and space the laser beam there from. The guard has a non-planar shape in a direction extending across the cutting zone so that it substantially follows the contours of an edge of the effective cutting region of the laser beam to reduce any variation in the distance between the edge of the effective cutting region and the user's skin across the length of the cutting zone.

A display device includes an array of LEDs, an array of LCD pixels, and a display controller. The display controller is configured to compensate for one or more sources of color variation in light produced by the LEDs. The display controller can determine a first color variation at a given LCD pixel based on the distance between the given LCD pixel and one or more LEDs. The display controller can also determine a second color variation at the given LCD pixel based on a current level supplied to the one or more LEDs. The display controller configures the given LCD pixel to filter light that is received from the one or more LEDs in a manner that reduces or eliminates either or both of the first and second color variations.

An optical recording medium includes a plane ring-shaped substrate in which a center hole is opened at the center thereof, a recording-retrieving function layer and a cover layer each having an outer diameter approximately equal to that of the substrate and an inner diameter larger than an outer diameter of the center hole, are stacked on the substrate, and as a separate entity from the cover layer, a clamp portion which is for holding and fixing the substrate and which has an outer diameter smaller than inner diameters of the recording-retrieving function layer and the cover layer, is provided around the center hole in a region where the cover layer is not formed.

A torque sensor arrangement including a contactless torque sensor, in which the torque sensor is arranged on an electrically operating linear carriage is provided. A distance sensor is also arranged on the linear carriage such that it allows the distance to the object of which the torque is to be determined to be measured.

A semiconductor device in which an interlayer insulation film covers striped gate electrodes with a thickness larger than a thickness of a gate oxide film. The interlayer insulation film includes first contact holes outside each striped trench, and second contact holes inside the striped trench. In a plan view, striped active regions and striped contact regions both extending in a longitudinal direction exist. The striped active regions and the striped contact regions are alternately and repeatedly disposed in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. In each of the striped active regions, the source electrode is connected to a source region through the first contact hole. In each of the striped contact regions, the source electrode is connected to a protective diffusion layer through the second contact hole.

A multi-core optical fiber interconnection structure has a first multi-core optical fiber with a slanted end face and a second multi-core optical fiber with a slanted end face. In a state in which the slanted end faces face each other, each of cores of the first multi-core optical fiber is optically coupled to a corresponding one of cores of the second multi-core optical fiber in a one-to-one correspondence relation. The facing condition between the slanted end faces is adjusted so as to minimize variation in core pitches of pairs of the cores each in the one-to-one correspondence relation.

An electrophotographic developer is provided for realizing high-quality images and superior reproducibility of laser dots in a low coverage region and reduced unevenness of color in halftone solid images. The electrophotographic developer includes a toner and a carrier. The toner has a shape factor of 140 or less and a volume average particle size distribution GSDv of 1.3 or less. The carrier has a coat resin layer on a core material, the coat resin layer containing a conductive powder. The core material has a dynamic electric resistivity of 1 Ω·cm or less under an electric field of 10⁴ V/cm in a form of a magnetic brush. The conductive powder has an electric resistivity of 10¹ Ω·cm or greater and 10⁶ Ω·cm or less. The carrier has an electric resistivity in a range between 10 and 1×10⁸ Ω·cm. An image forming method is also provided wherein the electrophotographic developer is used for development in a developing stage.

A lens drive device includes a movable unit, a fixed unit, and a support portion. The movable unit includes a magnet and a lens holder for holding a lens. The fixed unit includes a coil board and a base board. The coil board includes a coil facing the magnet and a coil wiring connected thereto. The base board is disposed opposite to the magnet across the coil board and includes a base wiring and an opening through which the optical axis of the lens passes. The support portion relatively movably connects the movable unit to the fixed unit and supports the movable unit to the fixed unit. A first conductive portion conductively connecting the coil wiring and the base wiring in the fixed unit is disposed away from an opening periphery of the opening to an outside in a radial direction.