Author: priorartbot

A vehicle utilization system and method permitting use of vehicles having respective identification codes includes a key having a memory for storing enabling codes enabling use of the vehicles; and an enabling device, in each vehicle, permitting use of the vehicle by a user in possession of the key, if the enabling code stored in the key meets given conditions. The methods including determining whether a threshold number of minutes have been reached during the calling plan period; and incrementally adding minutes to the calling plan when the threshold number of minutes has been reached. Additionally, various chemotherapeutic agent and radiation therapies are described which may be advantageously used in conjunction with electrical therapy to ameliorate cancer. In some embodiments, the word lines of the plurality of blocks define gaps separating each block of the string from neighboring blocks of the string.

A polymer composition and its use for thin film packaging applications including on a dry basis: a) from 45 to 90% by weight of starch; b) from 0. The blade guide can be biased toward the upright fingers to secure a section of donor bone between the blade guide and the upright fingers. The fuel lance is modified for operation with syngas by the first injection openings being arranged directly on the lance tip, and by the first injection openings being oriented so that the fuel jets which emerge from them include an acute angle with the lance axis. If the default sample is lower than the test sample by more than the threshold, the default sample may be flagged as being a potential false sample.

The invention relates to a method for centering a log for veneer peeling in a lathe. The highlighted graphical elements are associated with the selected subpart of the mechanical design. The first imaging section and the second imaging section take a pair of parallax images. Therefore, the porous humidity-control tile can be light, and the amount of adsorptiondesorption per unit weight of the porous humidity-control tile can be improved. The shear member first end extends through the first opening, and the shear member second end extends through the second opening.

An apparatus for forming a glass sheet with reduced zircon inclusions in the glass sheet is disclosed. By means of controlling the order in which the first switch, the second switch and the third switch are to be switched on, switching voltage is eliminated from the first switch and the second switch and the working efficiency of the power supply device is raised. In one embodiment, a control circuit can be provided that is coupled to a light source and an image sensor.

A portable security system comprises two security units, located on opposite sides of a roadway or other path for vehicles, each consisting of at least two hollow barrier devices filled with a ballast material such as water, sand, chunks of rubber or the like. The machine is operate to read a financial card bearing account indicia with a card reader of the machine. The recursive operations can be performed at a sub-harmonic rate of the carrier signal. The present method is production of shallow crude oil by way of long horizontal or near horizontal boreholes drilled and serviced from a subsurface workroom. Either an undersurface of the annular flange or a mating surface of the valve housing is provided with a compressible sealing member while the other is provided with an annular edge.

Thermostatic HVAC and other energy management controls that are connected to a computer network. One method involves determining a brightness value of at least one pixel of each bi-directionally predicted intermediate frame in the sequence as an equal average of brightness values of pixels in non-bidirectionally predicted frames bracketing the sequence of bi-directionally predicted intermediate frames. The first controlled electrode of the first transistor and the first controlled electrode of the second transistor may be coupled to the first electrode of the data cell. The central database is searched based on the vehicle description to find related vehicle information including physical characteristics of the vehicle. The method provides for mounting light emitting junctions on a support structure such that the junctions adopt a three-dimensional array.

A cooling device used in an electrophotographic image forming device includes a cooling roller, which is a heat roller, and a backup roller pressed against the cooling roller to form a nip portion therebetween. Straight-line ribs higher than the light emitting members are formed on the second substrate with one of the lines of light emitting members interposed between each adjacent pair of ribs. Then, a vibration of the synthesized image capturing data is corrected based on a divide pattern indicating divisions, and the motion amount. The cartridge is rotatably mounted in the housing such that an outlet in the cartridge is movable with respect to the bore in the housing between maximum fluid flow, intermediate fluid flow, and fluid flow blocking positions. A rotator rotates around a rotation shaft fixed to the cylindrical main body case, and is coupled with a coupling portion of the needle holder on a first one of two sides of the rotator with the rotation shaft interposed therebetween and is coupled with the second elastic object on a second one of the two sides of the rotator. Also disclosed is a method for using the device.

The invention provides consumers with the services of multiple cards or accounts while allowing consumers to carry a single card, transponder, code andor other access device. The plasma is generated by corona-discharge breakdown of electric fields established about electrodes within the reactor chambers upon supply thereto of electrical pulse voltage exceeding a critical field breakdown value inversely proportional to a high chamber temperature of the gaseous emission under atmospheric pressure within the reactor chambers. The transmitted beam preferably is shaped by focusing, collimation, or the like so that it impinges at least primarily on a region of interest of the cantilever such as the free end. Preferred cans typically comprise a body portion and an end portion, wherein at least one of the body and end portions are aluminum and are coated on at least one major surface with a coating composition of the present invention.

The present invention provides heterocyclic derivatives that modulate the activity of stearoyl-CoA desaturase. The system efficiently routes messages containing real-time multimedia information by configuring and using multi-control unit connectors, which are special-purpose components optimized to route messages. The estimated time duration may be computed using indicia present in the reconfiguration software message.

Provided herein are systems and methods for operating a traveling wave linear accelerator to generate stable electron beams at two or more different intensities by varying the number of electrons injected into the accelerator structure during each pulse by varying the width of the beam pulse, i. The coating apparatus has a rotatable first roll and a rotatable second roll, each having a surface energy. Thus, a very thin package can be obtained.