Author: priorartbot

Imidazo-containing compounds with a hydrox-ylamine substituent at the 1-position, pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds, intermediates, and methods of use of these compounds as immunomodulators, for inducing cytokine biosynthesis in animals and in the treatment of diseases including viral and neoplastic diseases are disclosed. The vehicle driving assist system then calculates the risk potential around the subject vehicle based on the extent of influence. Accordingly, a soft magnetic material and a dust core which have a satisfactory compactibility and in which the insulating coating satisfactorily functions, thereby sufficiently reducing core loss, can be obtained. An outer belt and a tread are applied about the third belt, and the tire carcass is ready to be cured in a tire mold. The interaction generates voltage spikes in the reed magnetic sensors that are used as input signal to an electronic non-volatile counter, as well as its sole power source. The controller also includes a switch operable to open and close a first conduction circuit, which includes the first phase winding, and to regulate energization of the first and second phase windings of the motor through opening and closing the first conduction circuit.

A system and method is provided for maintaining a proper intervertebral disc height during the replacement or augmentation of the spinal disc. A sampling and data collection device is used to detect well fluid properties in situ at a flowline installation. At least one tip turn is provided with a single turbulence-enhancement device on an underside of the radially outer tip, projecting into the tip turn. The parcel engaging members are formed from polymeric material and may be removably fastened to the mounting member, or formed directly thereon. The software fix manager can place synchronizations in a fix list.

An electronic device includes a heat generating member arranged in a body, and a heat transmission member of a shape of a three-dimensional body having at least a first surface that is joined to the heat generating member and a second surface that is joined to an inner surface of the body. The addition of the shut-off device provides a full-rail differential logic circuit with shut-off that does not experience the dip experienced by prior art full-rail differential logic circuits and is therefore more power efficient. At least one resilient element biases the next to uppermost rung away from the uppermost rung to ensure that the locking pin of the uppermost rung engages a hole in the uppermost stile section as the ladder is lowered. An additional stretch fit seal can be incorporated into the lid. An illumination chamber for guiding the light of the light source to the indication plate is formed in the frame.

Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems, methods and devices for maintaining imaging device accounting data in the event that an imaging device’s primary accounting server becomes unavailable. Illustratively, a receiver containing a secure element securely communicates with a charging pad also equipped with a secure element. A respective support strap may be secured to a portion of each mini support cup, with a distal end adjustably securable to the shoulder strap to be moveable between at least first and second positions to cause pivoting of the mini support cup to produce directional support according to a desirable lifting vector.

A method and system to maintain lists of IP addresses for detection of email spam are described. The load-carrying component serves to attach an air conditioning unit and is connected to as least one casing part of the air conditioning unit such that the load-carrying component and the casing create at least one channel through which conditioned air flows into the passenger compartment of the vehicle. At least some of the ribs extend in one piece from the reflector portion and into the boom. The compressive stresses applied by the combination of the prestressed shell and the pressure medium are additive and effectively preload the rails and the composite bore structure to resist overall forces encountered during projectile firing which, in a rail gun, include asymmetric loads upon the rails from electromagnetic repulsion forces and also axisymmetric bursting forces. The crystal of the ester derivant is then subjected to light irradiation or heating.

An apparatus and method for applying anti-copy protection to a raster-scanned video signal are described. A first communication station transmits a communication to a second communication station. The workpiece pad furthermore comprises an ordered array of micro-structures. In addition, the interactive content may present a message that conveys an incentive to the viewer to take some action such as actuating a button when a particular commercial is presented thereby allowing the service provider and advertisers to determine how many, and which, viewers watched a particular commercial. Accordingly, a runout track number is computed by subtracting the minimum track number from the maximum track number.

Batteries and methods of making batteries are disclosed. In a case where the first mode is set, the controller controls the translator so as to translate the document data into a plurality of languages, and controls the output unit so as to output the translated document data by each language group. By suitably controlling a reflection characteristic of the filter circuit and a line of the signal transmission line, the high-order harmonic components on the transmission line are cancelled out and the high-order harmonic component from the antenna can be decreased. The integrated communication system further performs a rough transcription of the voicemail, either automatically or on demand as specified by the user. The use of differing materials can facilitate the using of more wear-resistant materials where needed while avoiding the costs of such materials in locations where it is not needed.

A non-contact, air-activated lifting and tamping device which incorporates a means of producing a Bernouilli airflow at the device nozzle, creating an adjacent low air pressure region for inducing lift; and which includes provision for high velocity air jets for tamping operation. A high-precision apparatus evaluates the creep damage of high tension heat resistant steel used in high temperature exposed apparatuses. The achievement of the finished thickness is controlled by at least one thickness measuring unit at the outlet of the roll stand, and deviations upward or downward therefrom are fed back in the form of an actuating signal for actuating the roll stand in order to appropriately increase or decrease the thickness reduction.

A decanter centrifuge is disclosed for separating a liquid feed mixture into constituent parts. The semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate; a first dielectric layer over the semiconductor substrate; a conductive wiring in the first dielectric layer; and a copper germanide nitride layer over the conductive wiring. The first embodiment is presented by assigning a first pair of the bit lines permuted with each other to create a non-neighboring bit line layout. Power is applied to a gear box mounted on upper end of said tongue extension frame which turns the pivot bar 180 degrees to place the sign at the top for display and the towbar with hitch means at the bottom. The bi-directional current source circuit selectively provides current in a first and second direction between the first and second terminals based on the first and second voltage.

A circuit for a pixel site in an imaging array includes a light-detecting element to convert incident light to a photocurrent and a reset transistor, operatively connected to the light-detecting element, to reset a voltage associated with the light-detecting element. The method further includes performing a polysilicon CMP process on the polysilicon layer, where the polysilicon CMP process removes a substantial percentage of the polysilicon nodule defects from the top surface of the polysilicon layer. Then, a second low dielectric constant film having a specific dielectric constant of k less than 3 is formed over the first protection layer so that an edge of the second low dielectric constant film is located at the first position.