All Prior Art

A zoom lens includes, sequentially from an enlargement conjugate side to a reduction conjugate side: a 1st lens unit having negative refractive power not moved during zooming; plural lens units that are moved during zooming; and a final lens unit having positive refractive power that is not moved during zooming. The common apparatus performs communication with the server apparatus and acquires information on whether the power sources to all the client apparatuses on the network have been shut off, from the server. An ultrasonic vibration generator generates an ultrasonic vibration. In a testing method, a plurality of connection pads can be connected to a first potential and at least one of the connection pads can be connected to a second potential. The existing protocol stack software, upon completion of all connections initiated before the new protocol stack software was activated, is removed, services provided to the telephony resources being substantially uninterrupted by the modification.

An ink composition includes: a pigment; water; a polymerizable monomer that is capable of being polymerized by an active energy ray; and an initiator that is capable of initiating polymerization of the polymerizable monomer by the active energy ray, wherein a number of particles contained in the ink composition having a particle diameter of 0. In certain embodiments a surfactant system is disclosed which includes extended anionic surfactants, linker surfactants, and a multiply charged cation component. In the walking aid provided by the present invention, a buffering structure is disposed between a support frame structure and an omni-directional wheel of the walking aid. The compact exoskeleton arm support device compensating for gravity effectively uses the actuators, thereby increasing operating efficiency and reducing production costs. An alignment system that includes alignment electronics that is responsive to a charge-coupled device facilitate adjusting the scanning optics to allow precise alignment of individual ones of the light-emitting sources and to detect burnt out individual ones of the light-emitting sources.

A unique treatment for pigments is provided. The methods may include the steps of providing a nanoscale fiber film material comprising a plurality of nanoscale fibers ; and irradiating the nanoscale fiber film material with a controlled amount of radiation in the open air or in a controlled atmosphere. The braking assembly characterised in that the actuating means comprises opposed first and second actuating levers arranged to provide a balanced force to each of the braking members such that even braking of both wheel mounting assemblies is affected when the trigger assembly is engaged.

In certain embodiments, a tower lifting system comprises a primary lifting system and a secondary lifting system. Injecting a first feed comprising a chain transfer agent system and ethylene into a first autoclave reactor zone operating at polymerization conditions to produce a first zone reaction product, the CTA system of the first reactor zone having a transfer activity Z1; and B. The second part is detecting embedded watermarks in a target sequence of images where the target sequence may have resulted from one or more attacks on an original sequence of images in which the watermarks were embedded. Each first posterior-form piece includes a bag for encasing a volume of gel. Also described are various approaches to fabricating a semiconductor package having a hermetically sealed region. According to an exemplary embodiment, the apparatus includes a digital signal source for providing a digital signal having a symbol rate, and a plurality of symbol shaping filters.

The invention relates to substituted aminoindanes and analogs thereof of formula and the pharmaceutical use thereof. The cell cancellation method includes detecting interference from a cell. Preferred transport factors include the protective antigen binding domain of lethal factor from B. The wireless device may instruct the wireless smart card reader to enter the low-power state by sending a deactivation alert if the wireless device identifies that communication of data between the wireless device and the wireless smart card reader is not likely to occur within a specified period of time. The at least one feedback device provides feedback for at least one of: positioning a distal end of an ablation catheter in a desired position in the esophagus adjacent a target area of the cardiac tissue to be ablated, forming an adequate lesion, and assessing lesion formation.

A method is provided for playing a card game using a deck of cards with rules to define a value of the cards in the deck, in accordance with an example. In one implementation, an e-mail client desktop application may receive a request from the sender to send an e-mail with one or more high resolution image files added to the e-mail. The stamp forming material is placed at the bottom of the die box. A removable gullet pad may be provided for releasable securement with the gullet region. The housing is connected with the contact element by a screw that extends in the plugging direction and operates to make contact. The insulating layer provides electrical isolation of a plurality of individual detector elements from the interconnection network fabricated on the substrate layer except where electrical interconnection between the inputs and outputs of each detector element and the interconnection network is intended.

A pyrene-based compound and an organic light-emitting diode including the pyrene-based compound are provided. The cassette includes a cassette frame, a cam, a cam position selector switch, and a biasing member. An image is printed on the print side of the substrate film. The substrates are received between the ribs and abut the shoulders. The rotation direction of the rotational drive force is for rotation in a direction of pivoting the support unit in the approaching direction.

A drivetrain providing tractive torque to a ground vehicle includes a non-combustion torque machine coaxial to and rotatably coupled to an integrated gear set including a conjoined carrier assembly coupling a reducing gear set to a differential gear set. Filter medium sections extend on either side of the raw-side pleat tips to adjoining raw-side pleat bases include a first bend toward the raw side, and behind that a second bend toward the clean side. Instrumentation data is stored for processing stages processing instructions associated with the tagged group. In one embodiment, the support member includes at least one support arm that extends to the ring-shaped heat shield housing.

An optical resonator by which reflectivity of ring-down cavity mirrors can be altered and enhanced by adding external optical cavities that recycle light to the main cavity. That allows, the state of the send queues to be taken into consideration when deciding an appropriate order to prefetch data. The steam chamber is closed off at its front and rear ends in the direction of travel by a limiting surface each of which protrudes in the direction toward the material web, and particularly forms a limiting edge; between the limiting surfaces, the steam chamber has a housing wall which is recessed relative to the material web. Lastly, the present invention is also drawn to methods and compositions for increasing the efficacy of the macrocyclic lactone compounds against resistant nematode or resistant arthropod pests which comprise administering to a mammal or applying to crops and the like a pesticidal enhancing effective amount of a multidrug resistance reversing agent. This is compared with an average obtained over a few symbols, to detect impulsive interference, and applied as part of the control for the soft-decision quantizer. This is because, by lowering the bottom energy level of a conduction band of the floating gate electrode than that of the channel formation region in the semiconductor substrate, a carrier injecting property and a charge holding property can be improved.

Method and Apparatus for Forming a Lens on an Optical Fiber includes a fiber rotator assembly that receives and axially rotates an optical fiber. In a transmitter unit, a modulation unit modulates a data signal to be transmitted. Link parameters associated with the negotiated data transmission speed are calibrated and implemented in a Phy layer of the interface before data is transmitted across the interface. In a second embodiment, the dedicated logic cell is constructed with a combination of configurable logic functions that are coupled to a dedicated logic function in order to perform a four 2-to-1 multiplexer function. A contact is disposed on the second movable member and functions as a movable contact. When the computing device starts to use more power than the maximum power usage setting, the power used by the computing device is reduced so as not to exceed the setting, such as by decreasing the frequency at which the processor operates.