119 results about "Head to head" patented technology

Exemplary spinal fixation devices, systems, and method are provided for stabilizing vertebrae in a patient's spine. In one exemplary embodiment, methods and devices are provided for coupling one or more bone anchors, such as hooks, screws, etc., and/or one or more spinal fixation elements, such as spinal rods, cables, plates, etc. In certain exemplary embodiments, a cross connector is provided for connecting and stabilizing two bone anchors, a bone anchor and a spinal fixation element, or a bone anchor and bone.

A spinal fixation system comprising at least two bone anchors, a rod connecting the bone anchors and a connecting plate extending from a proximal surface of at least one of the bone anchors. A method of fixing vertebrae relative to each other comprising the steps of: implanting bone anchors in two adjacent vertebrae, each bone anchor having a rod receiving portion; placing a rod in the rod receiving portions, thereby connecting the bone anchors; threadably engaging set screws in the rod receiving portions of at least a portion of the bone anchors, thereby fixing the rod to the bone anchors; mating one end of a connecting plate to a proximal bearing surface of at least a portion of the bone anchors; and engaging a cap with at least a portion of the set screws, thereby fixing the connecting plate to the bone anchors.

An interaction competition provides an entertaining enjoyable environment for a player to compete against a celebrity in a head-to-head trivia game. The questions may be associated with the celebrity rather than random general information or general trivia. The celebrity can participate via stored audio media, stored audio-visual media, or in a live real-time format. A goal of the competition is for a player to gain more points than the celebrity. Another goal of the competition is for the player to answer more questions correctly than the celebrity. At least one or more game episodes can be provided on computer-readable media. A game episode may be implemented with a product featuring a celebrity. The competition can be provided in many different gaming environments. The competition can be provided online via a web-based format; a television game show format; telephone call-in radio talk show format; or a cellular phone game format.

A serial magnetic mass storage device and associated data storage method of the kind in which data is encoded in single magnetic domains in nanowires. In the invention, the nanowires are provided with a large number of notches along their length to form domain wall pinning sites. Moreover, the notches are addressed in groups (A, B, C) by heating electrodes. By alternately heating the notches hosting head-to-head and tail-to-tail domain walls in synchrony with alignment and anti-alignment of an operating field (H) along the nanowire the magnetic domains are moved along the nanowire by alternate movement of the head-to-head and tail-to-tail domain walls in caterpillar or worm-like motion in which the domains are incrementally lengthened and shortened by one inter-notch distance as they move along the nanowires under the joint coordinated action of the heating and alternating operating field. From an interconnect and fabrication standpoint, the scheme can be scaled almost without restriction out of the plane of the substrate to provide hundreds or thousands of stacked layers of nanowires, thus allowing very dense three-dimensional networks of stored information to be realised.

A modular head-to-head cross connector or construct extension system comprising a fastener element driven into a bone in a first orientation, a first U-shaped body operable to receive the fastener element and operable to receive a first rod in a first rod receiving channel, and a first compression element driven adjacent to and against the first rod in the first rod receiving channel, thereby engaging the first rod against the fastener element in a second orientation independent of the first orientation of the fastener element. The system further comprises a second U-shaped body operable to receive first compression element and operable to receive a second rod in a second rod receiving channel, and a second compression element driven adjacent to and against the second rod in the second rod receiving channel, thereby engaging the second rod against the first compression element in a third orientation independent of the second orientation.

Apparatus and method for improving disc drive performance by compensating for head-to-head offsets when scheduling a plurality of pending access commands. A disc drive includes a plurality of recording surfaces on which a plurality of concentric data tracks are defined. A servo circuit performs seeks to move a plurality of heads from an initial track to a destination track. A positional offset between each of the plurality of heads is measured and applied to an estimated seek length to calculate a corrected seek length. A corrected seek time is calculated from a seek profile table in relation to corrected seek length. The corrected seek time is used by a control processor to schedule the access commands stored in the memory.

The invention provides a preparation method for a methyl methacrylate polymer with high thermal stability, and continuous bulk polymerization or solution polymerization is adopted in the invention. According to the invention, no free radical scavengers or cross-linking agents need to be added in the preparation method; instead, unstable structures like a head-to-head structure and a terminal unsaturated double bond in the molecular structure of the methyl methacrylate polymer is gradually eliminated by controlling polymerization temperature, devolatilization temperature, polymerization time and devolatilization time in the continuous polymerization process of methyl methacrylate, thereby achieving the goal of improving thermal stability of PMMA. Preparing a PMMA resin with the method not only enables the PMMA resin to have excellent thermal degradation resistance, but also enables other inherent excellent properties of the PMMA resin to be guaranteed. The methyl methacrylate polymer prepared by the method in the invention has high thermal degradation resistance, with a starting thermal degradation temperature being higher than 360 DEG C. With utilization of the method, light transmittance of the PMMA resin is guaranteed to be 93%, and molecular weight distribution of the PMMA resin is guaranteed to be less than 1.8, while thermal stability of the PMMA resin is improved.

Normally, when stents are bent, inside the body of the stented patient, there is head-to-head collision between facing V-points on the inside of the bend. However, by alternating between two whole numbers the number of struts between successive connectors around the circumference of each of the stenting rings, the V-points are caused to veer circumferentially in opposite directions as they approach each other on the inside of the bend, so allowing them to pass by each other without collision, thereby allowing in the same stent both close packing of the ring stack, and an enhanced ability to tolerate severe bending, after placement in the body.

In a gaming system and method, a head to head poker game is presented to first and second players of first and second gaming machines. Two hands of cards are displayed to the players. The first player to make a hand selection from the two hands is assigned that hand and the remaining hand is assigned to the other player. The two players then play out their hand and attempt to achieve the hand with the highest rank.

A fantasy football game, a method, an apparatus and an article of manufacture for playing fantasy football. The fantasy football game can be played by participants who select coaching staffs from actual football teams such that statistical results or related performance indicia achieved during on-field play by one or more respective actual football teams are used to represent each participant in a virtual football game against at least one other participant. Wins and losses for the fantasy football games occur by calculating a total of each individual fantasy player's points and comparing them either in head-to-head or total point total formats. Metrics of the actual weekly on-field performance by a corresponding team can be used to gauge participant success, where such metric is based generally on a quantified value of coaching contributions to that team's on-field success. A more particular form of the metric involves using an adjustment to yards per pass attempt to take into consideration coaching play designs.

A measurement device of Hall effect is prepared as setting washer of Re material between two diamond press anvils, setting steel table between pressing machine of Ti alloy material and diamond head to head anvil, setting electromagnetic iron on said device, depositing four electrodes being insulated to each other and aluminium oxide protection layer on anvil surface and side surface of one diamond press anvil, exposing electrodes at end of anvil surface in sample cavity of diamond head to head anvil, exposing electrodes at end of side surface and connecting electrode lead wire on electrodes.

A method for implementing miniaturization of magnetic random access memory (MRAM) and a magnetic memory using single domain switching by direct current are provided. The magnetic memory preferably includes a half-circle or U-shaped architecture with an exchange biasing pad, such as a FeMn exchange biasing pad that effectively generates a head-to-head magnetization configuration. The magnetic memory also includes nanometer scale notches in order to minimize magnetostatic interaction between a single domain memory element and the spin current sources and to effectively trap the magnetic domain wall. Reading the bit can be carried out by anisotropic magnetoresistance, or by other means of determining the magnetization orientation through resistance measurements, such as a spin valve or a magnetic tunneling junction.

A casino game incorporates at least a first compulsory playing mode and one or more optional playing modes without a house advantage. Preferably, the first playing mode is a three-, five- or seven-card poker game against a payout scale based on the respective hand poker rank or against both a payout scale and the dealer. Optional modes without a house advantage include head-to-head poker games against the dealer only and poker games against other players. Side wager options are also available for high hands, thereby increasing player interest by providing a chance for a high payout.

The invention discloses a stain removal device of a part machining machine tool. The stain removal device of the part machining machine tool comprises a mounting box and is simple in structure. A lacked gear is driven to rotate through a first motor and engaged with a first rack, under the effect of a first spring, a sliding rod drives a full gear to move horizontally in a reciprocating mode, thusthe full gear rotates horizontally in a reciprocating mode along a second rack, and then two brushes rotate horizontally in a reciprocating mode to clean oil stains on the machine tool. Then a transmission belt is driven to rotate through a second motor, a linear-shaped magnet intermittently rejects a T-shaped magnet in the transmission belt moving process, under the effect of a second spring, apull rope and a third spring, the two brushes both conduct reciprocating deflection to improve the cleaning efficiency, and the oil removal capacity is reinforced. The linear-shaped magnet intermittently downwards pushes a movable rod, under the effect of a fourth spring and a connecting rod, two piston rods move in a back-to-back or head-to-head mode, and washing liquid in a sleeve is squeezed out by pistons through a spraying pipe.

A DIMM connection system includes a pair of non-vertical DIMM first and second connectors (10, 12) head to head positioned on a printed circuit board (100). Each of the connectors (10, 12) including an insulative housing (14) defining a central slots (16) for receiving the card therein. Two rows of pairs of contacts (18) are positioned within the housing (14) by two sides of the central slot (16) for engagement with the card. A pair of ejectors (20) are disposed at two opposite ends of the housing (14) for ejecting the inserted card. The key (24) in the slot of the first connector (10) is aligned with that of the second connector (12) in a transverse direction. The pair of contacts (18) of the first connector (10) are aligned with the corresponding pair of contacts (18) of the second connector (12) in the same transverse direction. A printed circuit board (100) is positioned under the pair of connectors (10, 12), and includes four rows of conductive pads (102) thereon corresponding to the contacts (18) of the first and the second connectors (10, 12) wherein for each set including four conductive pads (102) respectively in the four rows and aligned with one another in the same transverse direction, the first conductive pad (102) is electrically connected to the third conductive pad (102) while the second conductive pad (102) is electrically connected to the fourth conductive pad (102) so that both the connectors (10, 12) share the same circuits on the printed circuit board (100).