424 results about "Maximum depth" patented technology

The invention relates to a pilot drill (1) for producing a pilot bore in a human jaw bone in preparation for its enlargement into a step bore, achieved by means of a first step drill (2) or if the step bore is further enlarged, by means of second and third step drills (2). The prepared step bore is designed to receive a dental implant, preferably in screw form. The pilot drill (1) and the first step drill (2) form a drill set. The pilot guide (11) on the pilot drill (1), comprising a step (124) lying in the transition region leading to the drill neck (12), positions the drill at the commencement of drilling in the corticalis, whereby the drilling direction can be corrected prior to the continued drilling down to the maximum depth of the pilot bore. The pilot guide (11) has a drill diameter (b1), whereas the step (124) leads into an enlarged drill diameter (b2). The step guide (21) of the first step drill (2) has a drill diameter (b2′) that corresponds to the drill diameter (b2). The drill diameter (b3) at the drill neck (22) of the first step drill (2) corresponds to the drill diameter at the step guide (21) of the second step drill (2). The second step drill corresponds in a similar manner to the third step drill (2). The advantages of the invention are that it requires a reduced number of drilling tools, that the implant bed can be prepared in a precise, gentle manner and that the inserted implants achieve a primary stability.

A structurally supported tire includes an outer annular band, and a plurality of web spokes extending transversely across and radially inward from the annular band and anchored in a wheel or hub. The annular band may further comprise a shear layer, at least a first membrane adhered to the radially inward extent of the shear layer, and at least a second membrane adhered to the radially outward extent of the shear layer. A preferred web spoke has a cutaway section transverse to the annular band. The cutaway section has a profile formed by straight line segments joined by a blending radius. The profile of the cutaway comprises a height and a maximum depth greater than five percent of the height and less than thirty percent of the maximum width. The profile has an angle alpha formed by a line tangent to the profile relative to the horizontal at least equal to ten degrees at the radially outermost and radially innermost extent of said profile. The minimum radius of curvature of the profile is at least equal to twenty percent of the height of the cutaway section.

The present invention provides a lancing device designed for minimizing pain to the user, comprising a probe with cam profile responsible for controlling the lancet speed such that the lancet enters the skin relatively fast, decelerates smoothly and gradually to zero velocity at maximum depth of penetration and retracts slowly and controllably. The housing of the lancet comprises of leaf springs and set of guides for minimizing or eliminating pitching or vibration of the lancet during lancing, hence reducing the pain experienced by the user. The lancing device is further equipped with a gear-damper system for minimizing or eliminating noise produced during lancing process.

A structurally supported tire includes an outer annular band, and a plurality of web spokes extending transversely across and radially inward from the annular band and anchored in a wheel or hub. The annular band may further comprise a shear layer, at least a first membrane adhered to the radially inward extent of the shear layer, and at least a second membrane adhered to the radially outward extent of the shear layer. A preferred web spoke has a cutaway section transverse to the annular band. The cutaway section has a profile formed by straight line segments joined by a blending radius. The profile of the cutaway comprises a height and a maximum depth greater than five percent of the height and less than thirty percent of the maximum width. The profile has an angle alpha formed by a line tangent to the profile relative to the horizontal at least equal to ten degrees at the radially outermost and radially innermost extent of said profile. The minimum radius of curvature of the profile is at least equal to twenty percent of the height of the cutaway section.

The invention relates to a soil slope water flow erosion resistance simulation test method and device. The device comprises a liftable slope simulation device, a sheetflood scouring simulation device, a water and soil collecting device, a flow velocity determining device and a slope surface form camera device. According to the test method, the water flow is controlled, surface flow and seepage are formed, and sheetflood water, seepage water and sediment quantity formed by scouring slopes by sheetflood water are collected. The flow, the flow velocity, the erosion depth, the sand yield and the like of the water flow are measured quantitatively. Compacted soil is soaked in water until saturation for simulation, the efficiency of an indoor simulation test on slope scouring is improved, the test period is shortened, the test result proves the maximum depth of a slope erosion gully and the change rule of the sand yield with time, discloses the relation between the water flow erosion capacity of catchment behind slopes and the slope length, gradient and time and provides a basis for prediction of the water flow erosion scale and the need of slope protection and reinforcement. The device is simple in structure, convenient to operate and suitable for measurement of soil mechanics parameters of slope soil mass.

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 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.

Various embodiments are provided which relate to the field of image signal processing, specifically relating to the generation of a depth-view image of a scene from a set of input images of a scene taken at different cameras of a multi-view imaging system. A method comprises obtaining a frame of an image of a scene and a frame of a depth map regarding the frame of the image. A minimum depth and a maximum depth of the scene and a number of depth layers for the depth map are determined. Pixels of the image are projected to the depth layers to obtain projected pixels on the depth layers; and cost values for the projected pixels are determined. The cost values are filtered and a filtered cost value is selected from a layer to obtain a depth value of a pixel of an estimated depth map.

An image data processing method comprises: extracting a depth map from an input image; separating the input image into a foreground area and a background area based on grayscales of the depth map; and modulating the maximum depth value of the input image to become smaller and the difference between depth values of a gray grayscale segment of the depth map to be greater than the difference between depth values of the foreground area and background area of the input image.

A controller includes a touch sensor and a proximity sensor. Information on when and where a user touches the surface of the touch sensor is detected. Additionally, information on pre-touch events is detecting. The pre-touch events correspond to a user's finger hovering over the touch sensor within some maximum depth. A display device generates visualizations based on the hover events and the touch events. This can include providing visual feedback in a hover mode where a user's finger is, relative to the touch sensor. Additionally, various forms of navigation information may be provided in the hover mode, as well as other control information.

A liquid crystal lens element is provided, which can realize a small sized element having no moving part, and which has a lens function of switching the focal length among multiple focal lengths of at least 3 types according to an applied voltage. A liquid crystal lens element 10 is provided, which comprises a pair of transparent substrates 11 and 12 and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between these substrates, wherein focal lengths of light transmitted through the liquid crystal 16 is changed depending on a voltage applied to the liquid crystal 16, the liquid crystal lens element 10 has a Fresnel lens-shaped concave-convex portion 17 and a liquid crystal layer 16A, and configured so that the refractive index n of the liquid crystal layer 16A changes from a refractive index n1 at a time of no application to a refractive index n2 at a time of voltage application, a refractive index ns of the concave-convex portion 17 is a value between the refractive indexes n1 and n2 and satisfies a predetermined relation, and the maximum depth d of the concave-convex portion 17 satisfies a predetermined relation, the focal length can be switched by switching an applied voltage to the liquid crystal layer 16A under the predetermined conditions.

Protective containers for electronic equipment, and methods of testing and manufacture thereof, are provided. Enclosure systems and methods for protecting telecommunications equipment from electromagnetic fields include cabinets having a maximum width dimension that does not exceed about 26 inches and a maximum depth dimension that does not exceed about 22⅜ inches. The cabinets provide a HEMP protection level to electronic equipment housed therein that meets a HEMP protection level according to MIL-STD-188-125-1.

A method and apparatus for generating hierarchical depth culling characteristics includes determining a first minimum depth value and a first maximum depth value for a first graphical element. The graphical element may be a primitive. The first minimum depth value may be a minimum Z-plane depth of a pixel within the primitive and a first maximum depth value is a maximum Z-plane value for a pixel within the primitive. The method and apparatus further includes determining a second minimum depth value and a second maximum depth value for a second graphical element, which may be a tile. The method and apparatus further includes calculating an intersection depth range having an intersection minimum depth value and an intersection maximum depth value based on the intersection of the first minimum depth value and the first maximum depth value and the second minimum depth value and the second maximum depth value.

An improved structure of a spark plug which provides higher durability and ignitability of a gaseous fuel. The spark plug consists of a center electrode, a ground electrode, a noble metal chip joined to a center electrode-opposed surface of the ground electrode by laser welding, and a fused portion that forms a weld of the noble metal chip and the ground electrode formed by materials of the ground electrode and the noble metal chip melted together. A sectional area of the noble metal chip traversing a length thereof is between 0.1 mm2 and 0.6 mm2. An unfused sectional area percentage that is a percentage of a sectional area of an unfused portion of a joined end of the noble metal chip within a range of a sectional area of the noble metal chip closest to the fused portion traversing the length of the noble metal chip is less than or equal to 50%. A melt angle that is an angle which a line extending through the fused portion along a maximum depth of the fused portion makes with the center electrode-opposed surface of the ground electrode is less than or equal to 60°.

A stepped substack interlayer connector structure on a multilayer integrated circuit includes N steps on the substrate from a surface of the substrate at a first level to a surface of the substrate at a second level. A stack of active layers alternating with insulating layers on the substrate, including a plurality of substacks disposed in relation to the N step(s) to form respective contact regions in which the substacks are disposed at a common level. Interlayer connectors are formed by conductors in the respective regions connected to landing areas on active layers in each of the plurality of substacks. The maximum depth of the interlayer connectors is equal to, or less than, the thickness of one of the substacks.

The invention provides a depth map enhancement method blending a high-resolution color image. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, calculating the maximum depth difference of pixel points in a neighborhood according to a neighborhood difference method; dividing a low-resolution depth image into an edge region and an non-edge region; conducting secondary dividing on the non-edge region by utilizing local neighborhood variance; obtaining depth values, corresponding to a mapping point, of a point to be interpolated by utilizing a mean interpolation method and a three-dimensional convolution interpolation method respectively; sampling a high-resolution image on the low-resolution depth image based on the principle of bilateral filtering by taking the high-resolution color image as a reference image; obtain the depth values, corresponding to the mapping point, of each pixel; and finally outputting a depth enhancement image subjected to interpolation processing. The method can not only effectively remove noise interference, reduce the complexity of a depth enhancement algorithm, but also maintain the integrity of image edge information.

A memory optimized system and method for data interleaving / de-interleaving are disclosed. A data interleaver / de-interleaver may be implemented with a memory device and an improved data interleaver / de-interleaver. The improved data interleaver / de-interleaver may be implemented with a controller, a first array, and a second array. The first array identifies a maximum depth value for each of a plurality of memory segments responsive to both a block data length and the desired interleaving / de-interleaving depth. The second array comprises an index associated with each of the plurality of memory segments that may be used to derive write and read addresses. In its broadest terms, the method can be described as: identifying a block data length, N, and an interleaver / de-interleaver depth, D; initializing a set of pointers associated with each of N memory segments; initializing a set of pointer maximum values responsive to the relative magnitude of N and D, identifying a memory index responsive to a base address and the set of pointer maximum values; using a memory segment identifier, a word identifier, and a byte identifier along with the memory index and the pointers to write / read the bytes of code words.

A tool having a drilling portion and a tapping portion may be used to form female threaded holes in bone. The tool may include a shaft having a drill tap portion on one end. In the drill tap portion, a tap section may be located adjacent to a drill section. The drill section may be configured to form an opening in bone while the tap section may be configured to form female threads in the walls of a hole in bone. The drill tap portion may further include a spiral flute to aid in the removal of debris. The tool may further include a stop portion configured to limit the depth of the tapped hole to a predetermined maximum depth that may correspond to the length of a particular fastener such as a bone screw. A handle attachment portion may be provided to facilitate the use of a drill.

A portable, double bevel, combination table saw and slide miter saw comprising a horizontally disposed working platform with an elongated slot, is supported by a frame. A saw assembly is pivotably mounted beneath the working platform, with a saw blade that protrudes through the slot to cut a workpiece on the platform whereby stationary workpiece operations as well as moving workpiece operations may be executed. The stationary workpiece operations are executed from one side of the platform, and moving workpiece operations are executed from the opposite side of the platform, with separate appropriate controls on each side. The possibility of interference between saw assembly parts and the underside of the work platform inherent in double bevel configurations is avoided by the self-adjustment of the maximum depth for the workpiece bevel cuts.

The method comprises the following steps: partitioning of the 2D image into 2D zones as a function of the depths assigned to the pixels, a zone being defined by a minimum and maximum depth, calculation of blur of a 2D zone by convolution for the pixels on either side of the boundary with another zone, the size of the convolution kernel being dependent on the depth of the pixels of the 2D zone processed. Applications are the creation of special effects for video games, film production.

An electrical outlet box molded of plastic material has a knockout arrangement in a box wall that is formed by inner, intermediate and outer circular grooves that are eccentrically positioned to overlap at a tangent location and define inner, intermediate and outer eccentrically positioned circular knockouts. The grooves vary in depth from a minimum depth at the tangent location to a maximum depth opposite from the tangent location. Areas of increased weakness are provided in the box wall at the bottoms of at least the inner and intermediate grooves, and screwdriver slots are provided in the knockouts opposite from the tangent location.

When local heating by use of laser sealing or the like is applied, the bonding strength between glass substrates and a sealing layer is improved to provide an electronic device having increased reliability. An electronic device includes a first glass substrate, a second glass substrate, and a sealing layer to seal an electronic element portion disposed between these glass substrates. The sealing layer is a layer obtained by locally heating a sealing material by an electromagnetic wave, such as laser light or infrared light, to melt-bond the sealing material, the sealing material containing sealing glass, a low-expansion filler and an electromagnetic wave absorber. In the first and second glass substrates, each reacted layer is produced to have a maximum depth of at least 30 nm from an interface with the sealing layer.

A Z culling method, a three-dimensional graphics processing method using Z-culling, and an apparatus thereof are provided. The Z-culling method includes the following steps. A Z cache memory is provided to buffer a cover mask and a dynamic maximum depth value corresponding to each tile. A draw mask, a draw maximum depth value, and a draw minimum depth value calculated according to the tile and a drawn part are obtained. Moreover, whether the drawn part is completely included in a known part of the cover mask is judged, and coordinated with a comparison of the draw minimum depth value and the dynamic maximum depth value, so as to determine whether to discard the drawn part and whether to update the cover mask and the dynamic maximum depth value in the Z cache memory. Accordingly, the bandwidth taken up in the system memory is reduced efficiently.

A clamp-type garment hanger defined by a pair of opposed jaw members between which a garment is hung. The opposed jaw members have gripping members and opposed non-ribbed gripping surfaces having an enhanced coefficient of friction. The gripping members, opposed gripping surfaces with enhanced coefficient of friction and jaw members are all formed by injection molding in one piece from the same material, which may include either polystyrene, polypropylene, polyethylene, styrene-butadiene copolymers and blends, or polycarbonates. The coefficient of friction is provided to the gripping surface by forming a texture or pattern on the surface with relief structure which does not exceed a maximum elevation, or maximum depth, from the surface. The texture or pattern may be provided by molding, engraving, acid etching, electrical discharge machining, vapor honing, or sandblasting.

The invention provides a plate making method of a printing plate and the plate making device of a print plate. Engraving is conducted by a precise engraving process and a rough engraving process. The precise engraving process uses precise engraving beam of light with small beam diameter to irradiate the flexible photosensitive material at precise engraving pixel intervals. The engraving is conducted until the precise engraving beam of light reaches the maximum depth. The rough engraving process uses rough engraving beam with large beam diameter to irradiate the flexible photosensitive material at rough engraving pixel intervals which are larger than that of the precise engraving pixel intervals, and the engraving is conducted until the beam of light reaches the relief depth.

A flexo direct printing plate is engraved in two processes. One is a precision engraving process for irradiating the flexo direct printing plate at a precision engraving pixel pitch with a precision engraving beam having a small diameter, to engrave the plate to a maximum depth. The other is a coarse engraving process for irradiating the flexo direct printing plate at a coarse engraving pixel pitch larger than the precision engraving pixel pitch, with a coarse engraving beam having a large diameter, to engrave the plate to a relief depth.

A micro-hardness measurement method for calculating the hardness of a test sample by pushing an indenter in the test sample and forming an indentation thereon, including: a loading step for extracting load data showing the relationship between load L applied to the indenter and a depth δ to which the indenter is pushed in from the surface of the test sample; an unloading step of extracting unloading data showing the relationship between the load L applied to the indenter after the load is unloaded and the depth δ; a first step of judging, by comparing the unloading data with the load data, the load fluctuation amount from the maximum depth δ0 when unloading the load; and a second step of judging the load at the depth δ1 (δ1<δ0) when unloading the load or the load fluctuation amount in the vicinity of the depth δ1.

A Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) fiber sensor is disclosed, which comprises an optical fiber member and a plurality of optical fiber sensing units. Each of the plurality of the optical fiber sensing units comprises a cladding layer, a core layer, and a groove, and the plurality of the optical fiber sensing units is arranged into a cascade form matrix. In each of the optical fiber sensing units, the cladding layer is located at the periphery of the core layer, and the maximum depth of the groove is larger than the thickness of the cladding layer. An SPR sensing apparatus is also disclosed, which includes a light source, an optical signal detector, a plurality of fibers, and a plurality optical fiber sensing units. Besides, the optical fiber sensing units, the light source, and the optical signal detector are connected with each other through the plurality of fibers.

A method and system is provided for culling hidden objects in a tile-based graphics system before they are indicated in a display list for a tile. A rendering space is divided into a plurality of regions which may for example be a plurality of tiles or a plurality of areas into which one or more tiles are divided. Depth thresholds for the regions, which are used to identify hidden objects for culling, are updated when an object entirely covers a region and in dependence on a comparison between a depth value for the object and the depth threshold for the region. For example, if the depth threshold is a maximum depth threshold, the depth threshold may be updated if an object entirely covers the tile and the maximum depth value of the object is less than the maximum depth threshold.

A portable, double bevel, combination table saw and slide miter saw comprising a horizontally disposed working platform with an elongated slot, is supported by a frame. A saw assembly is pivotably mounted beneath the working platform, with a saw blade that protrudes through the slot to cut a workpiece on the platform whereby stationary workpiece operations as well as moving workpiece operations may be executed. The stationary workpiece operations are executed from one side of the platform, and moving workpiece operations are executed from the opposite side of the platform, with separate appropriate controls on each side. The possibility of interference between saw assembly parts and the underside of the work platform inherent in double bevel configurations is avoided by the self-adjustment of the maximum depth for the workpiece bevel cuts.