All Prior Art

A system and method for applying an endorsement to an electronic image of a bank check. The primary duct and the secondary duct comiunicate with each other via at least one flow passage portion spanning a plurality of plate interspaces. The odors clinging to the clothing are neutralized by contact with the odor neutralizing formulation.

Disclosed is an ion-conductive material which comprises an ionic liquid and can realize a higher level of safety. The graph represents relationships among items. The outer wall portion 5 has at least a porous layer having a porosity of 40% or more or a porous layer having a hollow body.

A parallel processing system includes a plurality of stages operatively coupled in parallel and operating simultaneously. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV390455, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV390455 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. An intermediate representation of the functional specification is formed. Other methods of making electronic devices with small functional elements supported on a carrier are disclosed. An image quality adjusting section 24 adjusts the characteristic of the video signal 205 based on the video profile 202, and then outputs the adjustment results as a video signal 206 after image quality adjustment.

In one aspect of this disclosure, a voice-operated internet-ready ubiquitous computing device and a method implemented by the computing device are disclosed. A lighting case mounting unit is disposed on the lighting case and is structured to detachably mount a separate display unit to the lighting case. In some embodiments, where a user device is requesting access to a network, a MAC address embedded in a public key may be utilized to determine whether access to the network should be granted.

A base station apparatus in a mobile communication system allowing for user equipment terminals having different numbers of receiving antennas is disclosed. The ground state of the supercurrent in the superconducting loop and multi-terminal junction is doubly degenerate, with two supercurrent ground states having distinct magnetic moments. A press station downwardly presses the batch with an upper platen and presses the batch in a downstream direction onto the continuous wood panel with a clamping device. The laser may be used on a thermally assisted recording head to produce a polarized beam that is aligned with a track direction of the disk. Other aspects of the invention relate to determining which records to sample through iterative optimization of an objective function that may be based, for example, on a likelihood function of the sampled records. A portion of the container is shaped in a manner that allows the container to function as a pitcher for dispensing fluids such as paint.

A seat adjuster device for setting a first part of a motor vehicle seat relative to a second part comprising a curved piece connected to the first part and having a center and a regular front face; and a support piece connected to the second part and mounted to rotate about the center, and having a first and second clamping bevel. The fiber generally comprises a liquid crystal core and a polymer shell wherein the liquid crystal is responsive to chemical changes, thermal and mechanical effects, as well as electrical and magnetic fields. The mount is comprised of a pivoting lever with brace that grips the rib between vertically spaced coupler coring holes and a lever tip that contacts the inner wall of the coupler top coring hole, a pad that bears against the exterior face of the coupler guard arm side and a mechanism that forcibly pivots the lever tip towards the pad on an axis roughly parallel to the coupler axis.

A process for manufacturing extrudablemelt spinnable concentrate pellets which contain phase change materials, whether the PCMs are micro-encapsulated absorbed into carrier polymers, or non-micro-encapsulated within the concentrate pellets. The semiconductor integrated circuit includes the PLL and a control unit. The lid is two-layer structure comprising an upper lid and lower lid with an air plenum in between. The synthesized interference signal is subtracted from the first delayed digital signal and produces a second digital signal. The perforation device includes a generally planar surface with a plurality of discrete perforating elements extending therefrom wherein the perforating elements extend through the uncured elastomeric gel layer to form a plurality of apertures therein. The above short-circuited portion is identified and removed in comparison to a normal pattern, by use of information from an inspection apparatus, and the pattern defect formed on the substrate is automatically repaired.

A tobacco product is formed by rolling a sheet of material supplied by a roll or rolls andor homogenized sheet tobacco about a slit mandrel to form a shaped tube. The photoreactive polymer exhibits excellent thermal stability since it includes a multi-cyclicmulticyclic compound having a high glass transition temperature at as its main chain. For the first pair of antennas, there is used a signal subjected to encoding with a code-division-multiple-access code and subjected to spreading with a spreading code, and, likewise, for the second pair or pairs of antennas there are used signals subjected to encoding with respective code-division-multiple-access code and subjected to spreading with a respective spreading code. The second PMOS transistor is coupled between the first voltage terminal and a second node. The predetermined number of sub-carrier signals is determined in accordance with one of a plurality of operating modes and the input data symbols are divided into first sets of input data symbols and second sets of input data symbols. The capaciflective sensor senses the presence of objects a predetermined distance from the vehicle port.

An e-reader application preserves formatting of a selection through a snippet. Example embodiments directed to scene reconstruction, reconstruct a 3D scene from a plurality of 2D images of that scene by first generating a model of the 3D scene from a subset a of the 2D images. The wall of the body comprises arms for supporting a lumen as well as regions which are selectively deformable during the expansion of the stent, the arms and the selectively deformable regions having different cross-sections andor cross-sectional areas. Students are taught to play either clef with either hand using musical pieces specifically designed to teach each note individually and in combination as it is added to the student’s repertoire. When the fault occurs in any one of the slave servers, the master server can perform fault recovery of a transaction in which the faulty server is involved.

A method and apparatus for profiling a heap. The glass composition has a base portion including 65 to 75 weight percent SiO2, 10 to 20 weight percent Na2O, 5 to 15 weight percent CaO, 0 to 5 weight percent MgO, 0 to 5 weight percent Al2O3, and 0 to 5 weight percent K2O. Impact of re-aligning upon each vector in the second dimension of the two-dimensional compressed data set is determined while the two-dimensional compressed data set remains compressed. The invention further includes methods of forming radiation-patterning tools, and the radiation-patterning tools themselves.