All Prior Art

A secondary battery includes a plurality of battery cells and measures voltages of the battery cells. The arc tube includes an auxiliary mirror that reflects the light radiated from the arc tube toward the region being illuminated into a direction of the ellipsoidal reflector. The column pipe is inserted slidably in an insertion hole of a pivot housing that is fitted to be able to swing freely and be fixed to the front of the column housing in the axial direction. A headrest frame is provided with an engagement disk which is changed over between a lock position where the engagement disk engages with the lock plate to disable the headrest to rotate about the horizontal section, and an unlock position where the engagement disk disengages from the lock plate to enable the headrest to rotate around the horizontal section.

Negative active materials including metal nanocrystal composites comprising metal nanocrystals having an average particle diameter of about 20 nm or less and a carbon coating layer are provided. The structure may include a substrate supporting one or more circuits and one or more metallization layers above the substrate. The connector may comprise a crush rib extending from at least one side of the body portion and making contact with a vertical wall of a base plate of the disc drive.

A disk device for improving a SIN ratio is provided with a spindle motor control substrate 10 arranged below a tray 3 via a buffer material and a medium substrate 12 arranged at a position different from the spindle motor control substrate 10 below the tray 3. An adjustable furrow closing assembly enhances upper seed groove coverage and closure with soil resulting in sustained relative humidity levels and optimum seed-to-soil contact for faster seed germination. Furthermore, a point or area in a design space corresponding to arbitrary design parameters corresponding to a point or area specified by a user in the displayed feasible region is displayed. A hose may be moved freely around the yard, being guided by the retractable hose guide, thus avoiding damage either to the hose or to the landscaping. Any lattice mismatch between the accommodating buffer layer and the underlying silicon substrate is taken care of by the amorphous interface layer.

A system and method for determining whether a temperature measurement made with an infrared thermometer is accurate is disclosed. In an embodiment, a superabrasive compact comprises a cemented carbide substrate including a first interfacial surface and a second interfacial surface longitudinally spaced from the first interfacial surface. Ray tracing may be performed on the seismic data using the velocity model to determine the three dimensional positions of a plurality of points of the region.

A method of assigning a similarity score representative of a similarity between a first speech signal and a second speech signal. The double wedge has a top surface, a bottom surface, a front, a rear, a right side, and a left side. The navigation data may then be used to select individual start points, different audio channels, special effects, etc. Our experimental results have confirmed the uses of conducting metal oxide, specifically, ITO and Zinc Oxide can be used to replace Cr or Ti for better performance in terms of SPR resonant properties and sensitivity enhancement for 3 to 15 times than traditional ones. A hand grip is connected to a second end of the first elastic exercise resistance cable. A conversion step sets a break length hy that divides the data conversion area 105c into a first data storage area 105a for converting the first-side print data and a second data storage area 105b for converting the second-side print data in the page mode, and then converts the print data.

A method for interpolating the environment and geological age at all levels in a borehole from information provided by a limited number of depths and the use of a synthetic stratigraphic cross-section for the interval between these depths. The wind turbine apparatus is modular and sectional such that each section includes a pair of blades useful for being pushed by wind to generate electricity via an attached electrical generator. In this manner, an object edge information is selectively protected, so that an improved image quality may be provided. The use of such optical line terminals allows the upgrading and merging of the separate networks while in service. The predetermined pilot symbol pattern is defined such that pilot symbols are located at or near time boundaries of the resource, at or near frequency boundaries of the resource, or both. Manufacturers and merchants can update coupon value and content based on ongoing sales and volume of customer activity.

Systems and methods generate an account recovery key for a protected system. The process comprises feeding a solution comprising a solvent and diphenyl oxide andor partially brominated diphenyl oxide into a reaction zone containing a refluxing reaction mixture comprising an excess of bromine and a catalytic amount of Lewis acid bromination catalyst. This will cause the ECM, according to its normal engine management software, to derate the engine performance to a no air torque setting, thereby limiting the amount of torque that the vehicle operator can extract from the engine. Measures for redundant signal processing are taken, and data is transmitted in a fault-tolerant, redundant and bidirectional fashion. The image sensing system detects lane markers on a road being traveled by the vehicle and present in the field of view of the imaging sensor.

A low profile, short, tapered distal tip catheter and methods for its manufacture are provided. A heat exchanger can transfer heat between a heat-exchange fluid flowing through flow paths and a fluid with which heat is to be exchanged flowing through other flow paths by means of the flow path structure member and a second metal sheet ) in which the flow paths are formed. Secondly it discusses how to stop any piece of equipment completely. The network pages facilitate a selection of at least one of products depicted in the images to be considered for purchase. The surface area of the collection membrane matches the view field of a standard imaging system and the device can be mounted on a standard microscope stage.

A display apparatus according to the present invention has a plurality of electroconductive layers outside of an image display area. The sleeve has, in one embodiment, a plurality of randomly positioned overlapping folds disposed in a sidewall of the sleeve. The method includes: receiving orientation information of the mobile device; and orienting the virtual camera in the three dimensional environment according to the orientation information. The base edge of each lateral face intersects the base edge of a contiguous lateral face to form a base point, the first face of at least one prism in the array including a first face first planar surface and a first face second planar surface. In addition, methods are provided for distracting the appropriate disc space during treatment of a disc in need of repair, and in particular treatment of the disc in need of repair with a fibrosis inducing agent. The connector has power output terminals for connecting the battery to the defibrillator and high voltage input terminals for applying a defibrillation voltage to the electrodes.

Adjustable chair for medical and paramedical diagnosis and treatment, comprising a pillar, a seat, a chair back, a support for the lower legs and if appropriate a head rest, the height of the pillar being adjustable and the remainder of the parts mentioned being adjustable with respect to one another. The gaming system provides players a rich single-player, multi-player cooperative andor head to head environment in which the participant win cash and credits as a result of their play activity within the environment, based on the wagers which they make entering and playing a game of the gaming system. The present invention dynamically adjusts this maximum number of resources to allocate if the resources become overloaded during the compiling, which has the effect of optimizing the efficiency of the compiling, either by reducing the number of resources utilized or by reducing the amount of time the compiling takes.