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The retention of oral drug dosage forms in the stomach is improved by using swellable dosage forms that are shaped in a manner that will prevent them from inadvertently passing through the pylorus as a result of being in a particular orientation. The planar projection of the shape is one that has two orthogonal axes of different lengths, the longer being short enough to permit easy swallowing prior to swelling while the shorter is long enough within one-half hour of swelling to prevent passage through the pylorus.

The present invention relates to an apparatus for replacing a native aortic valve, the apparatus includes an expandable anchor adapted to be endovascularly delivered and secured at a site within the native aortic valve. The expandable anchor has a delivery length in a delivery configuration substantially greater than a deployed length in a deployed configuration. The apparatus may also include and a replacement valve configured to be secured within the anchor.

A structure of an interference display cell is provided. The cell comprises a first plate and a second plate, wherein a support is located between the first plate and the second plate. The second plate is a deformable and reflective plate. An incident light from one side of the first plate is modulated and only specific frequency light reflects by the second plate. The frequency of the reflected light is related to the distance between the first plate and the second plate. The support has at least one arm. The arm's stress makes the arm hiking upward or downward. The distance between the first plate and the second plate is also changed. Therefore, the frequency of the reflected light is altered.

An electronic smoking-substitute device 110 includes a tube containing a reservoir 310 containing a liquid. The liquid includes a substance to be inhaled by the user, for example a nicotine dilution. The device also has a heating element 320, the heating element is a coil and is in direct contact with the reservoir 310. A power source 340 is arranged to power the heating element.

A scheme for aligning opaque material layers of a semiconductor device. Alignment marks are formed in a via level of the semiconductor device. The alignment marks are formed using a separate lithography mask, and may have about the same length as vias formed in the via layer. The alignment marks comprise trenches that are not filled with material and are not exposed to a CMP process. An opaque material layer is deposited, and depressions are formed in the opaque material layer over the alignment mark trenches. The depressions in the opaque material layer are used to align a lithography process to open the opaque material layer over alignment marks in an underlying metallization layer. The alignment marks in the metallization layer are then used to align the lithography process used to pattern the opaque material layer.

An interference display unit with a first electrode, a second electrode and posts located between the two electrodes is provided. The characteristic of the interference display unit is that the second electrode's stress is released through a thermal process. The position of the second electrode is shifted and the distance between the first electrode and the second electrode is therefore defined. A method for fabricating the structure described as follow. A first electrode and a sacrificial layer are sequentially formed on a substrate and at least two openings are formed in the first electrode and the sacrificial layer. A supporter is formed in the opening and the supporter may have at least one arm on the top portion of the supporter. A second electrode is formed on the sacrificial layer and the supporter and a thermal process is performed. Finally, The sacrificial layer is removed.

A subcutaneously implantable distraction device comprises a first arm, having a first skeletal connector for attachment to a first skeletal component at a first location. A second arm has a second skeletal connector for attachment to a second skeletal component at a second location. The first and second arms are slidably moveable with respect to each other. A fluid actuator is associated with each of the first and second arms to apply a separating force between the arms to slidably move at least one of the arms relative to the other.

A fastener (1) includes a screw (2) and a supporting element (3). The screw (2) includes a head (4), a shank (8) and a threaded portion (12). The threaded portion (12) is located on the shank (8). The threaded portion (12) includes a thread having an outer diameter (14). The threaded portion (12) includes a thread runout (25) facing the head (4) of the screw (2). The shank (8) includes a shank portion (10) having a diameter (11) which is smaller than the outer diameter (14) of the thread. The supporting element (3) is captively connected to the screw (2), and it includes at least one narrow location (27). The narrow location (27) has a diameter (28) which is smaller than the outer diameter (14) of the thread. The narrow location (27) includes at least one surface element (30, 35) facing the thread runout (25) and forming an enveloping cone (31) enveloping the thread runout (25) to prevent the supporting element (3) from getting clamped at the thread runout (25) of the screw (2).

Embodiments are provided that provide for parallel sequencing of nucleic acid segments. In some embodiments, a single sequence is sequenced by at least two different sequencing techniques and the results compared, allowing for deficiencies or strengths of one technique to be complemented by the second technique.

A method for fabricating an interference display unit is provided. A first plate and a sacrificial layer are formed in order on a substrate and at least two openings are formed in the first plate and the sacrificial layer. A photoresist layer is spin-coated on the sacrificial layer and fills the openings. A photolithographic process patterns the photoresist layer to define a support with an arm. A second plate is formed on the sacrificial layer and posts. The arm's stress is released through a thermal process. The position of the arm is shifted and the distance between the first plate and the second plate is therefore defined. Finally, The sacrificial layer is removed.

The invention relates to bifunctional stapled or stiched peptides comprising a targeting domain, a linker moiety, and an effector domain, that can be used to tether, or to bring into close proximity, at least two cellular entities (e.g., proteins). Certain aspects relate to bifunctional stapled or stiched peptides that bind to an effector biomolecule through the effector domain and bind to a target biomolecule through the targeting domain. Polypeptides and / or polypeptide complexes that are tethered by the bifunctional stapled or stiched peptides of the invention, where the effector polypeptide bound to the effector domain of the bifunctional stapled or stiched peptide modifies or alters the target polypeptide bound to the targeting domain of the bifunctional peptide. Uses of the inventive bifunctional stapled or stiched peptides including methods for treatment of disease (e.g., cancer, inflammatory diseases) are also provided.

Embodiments of the present invention provide medical devices and methods for treating a target site within the body, such as for treating vascular abnormalities. For example, one embodiment provides a stent graft including an occlusive material having a preset, overlapping configuration comprising at least three inverted overlapping layers that are folded over one another. The at least three inverted overlapping layers are configured to be separated and disposed within a catheter in a non-overlapping configuration and return to the preset, overlapping configuration when deployed from the catheter.

A light emitting device comprises a pair of electrodes and a mixed layer provided between the pair of electrodes. The mixed layer contains an organic compound which contains no nitrogen atoms, i.e., an organic compound which dose not have an arylamine skeleton, and a metal oxide. As the organic compound, an aromatic hydrocarbon having an anthracene skeleton is preferably used. As such an aromatic hydrocarbon, t-BuDNA, DPAnth, DPPA, DNA, DMNA, t-BuDBA, and the like are listed. As the metal oxide, molybdenum oxide, vanadium oxide, ruthenium oxide, rhenium oxide, and the like are preferably used. Further, the mixed layer preferably shows absorbance per 1 μm of 1 or less or does not show a distinct absorption peak in a spectrum of 450 to 650 nm when an absorption spectrum is measured.

An integrated lens barrel for a miniature camera is disclosed. The lens barrel can include components such as a shutter, an autofocus mechanism, a zoom mechanism, and / or an image stabilization mechanism. These and / or components can define a portion of the lens barrel that increases the length of the lens barrel. An electrostatic MEMS actuator can be used to effect movement of the autofocus mechanism, zoom mechanism, and / or image stabilization mechanism. Integrating the shutter, autofocus mechanism, zoom mechanism, and / or image stabilization mechanism into the lens barrel facilitates the construction of a substantially smaller camera that is suitable for use in personal electronic devices, such as cellular telephones.

An imaging lens substantially includes seven lenses, constituted by: a first lens having a positive refractive power and a convex surface toward an image side; a second lens having a negative refractive power; a third lens having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens; a fifth lens having a positive refractive power; a sixth lens; and a seventh lens having a negative refractive power, a concave surface toward an image side, and at least one inflection point in the surface toward the image side; provided in this order from an object side. All of the first lens through the seventh lens are single lenses.

A golf club head composed of a forged metal material has a striking surface that is supported by diagonal stiffening regions that extend from a central region of the face toward the heel-sole quadrant, heel-crown quadrant, toe-crown quadrant, and toe-sole quadrants of the face. The diagonal stiffening regions are smoothly contoured to blend into the back surface of the face so as to avoid any stress concentrations. By extending the stiffening regions diagonally from the center of the club face to the four quadrants, a more uniform stress distribution can be obtained and therefore more uniform performance. Additionally, since the diagonal stiffening regions are greater in length than vertical or horizontal stiffening region could be made, the center of the face can deflect a greater amount without exceeding the yield strength of the material and, therefore, there is a more efficient transfer of energy from the club head to the ball.

Uplink traffic channel allocation is realized by utilizing a dedicated control channel in which a prescribed portion of the control channel resource, for example, frequency, time slot or the like, is reserved for transporting the uplink traffic channel requests. Both the base station and the particular mobile unit know the prescribed portion of the control channel resource a priori. Consequently, when the particular mobile unit transmits an uplink traffic channel request via the prescribed portion of the control channel resource there is no need for adding any control header information, thereby minimizing overhead. Furthermore, the length of the uplink traffic channel requests can be optimally chosen without constraints imposed by other control message schemes. Reduced overhead coupled with the prescribed portion of the control channel resource arriving quite frequently reduces latency in the particular mobile unit acquiring an uplink traffic channel. In one example, delivery of adequate uplink traffic channel request information to the base station, while minimizing the adverse impact of losing requests, is ensured by persistently transmitting the requests. Specifically, after the mobile unit transmits a first request, it transmits a second or even a third request instead of waiting to receive a response message from the base station and / or waiting for a timer to time out. By the mobile unit using such a persistent request transmission scheme, the base station can readily determine the true value of the received request by eliminating the transmission loop delay effect, thereby allowing a sensible assignment decision to be made.

A telescopically adjustable pipe includes an outer tube, an inner tube, an inner bushing, a sleeve, a push member, a mounting bracket, a positioning member, and a retaining member. Thus, the positioning member is moved by movement of the push member and is detachably locked in the respective positioning hole of the inner tube to lock the inner tube in the outer tube, so that the inner tube is locked in and cannot slip from the outer tube.

A digital camera includes: an image-capturing unit that receives light transmitted through a photographic optical system and outputs image signals; a lens drive unit that moves a focus lens constituting the photographic optical system along an optical axis; an evaluation value calculation unit that calculates a focal point evaluation value that changes in correspondence to a position assumed by the focus lens based upon the image signals; a focal adjustment unit that executes an AF search by repeatedly engaging the image-capturing unit and the evaluation value calculation unit in operation as the focus lens is made to move along the optical axis by the lens drive unit, detecting a focus match position based upon resulting focal point evaluation values and driving the focus lens to the focus match position; a face recognition unit that recognizes a face of a person in an image by analyzing the image signals; a distance calculation unit that determines an approximate distance to the face based upon the size of the recognized face; and a lens position determining unit that determines a focus lens position to be set as a start point of the AF search by the focal adjustment unit based upon the approximate distance to the face having been determined by the distance calculation unit.

A method and apparatus for depositing a coating material on a surface of a substrate by an ion plasma deposition process using a hollow cathode is disclosed. The cathode may be a substantially cylindrical hollow cathode. A plasma arc is formed on the outer circumference of the cathode to remove coating material from the cathode, which is then deposited on a surface of a substrate. An internal arc drive magnet is contained within the hollow bore of the cathode and cooling is provided to the magnet during operation.

An optical sensor diagnostic system utilizes a tunable Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) that incorporates an integrated MEMS tuning mechanism provides variable wavelength light into an optical fiber with improved wavelength scanning speed and greater simplicity of construction. Sensors, such as Bragg gratings, are disposed along the fiber in the light path. Each sensor reflects or transmits light exhibiting a characteristic amplitude and / or phase feature with respect to wavelength, the wavelength position of which is affected by an environmental stimulus imposed thereon. The light reflected or transmitted through each sensor is mixed with light passed through an optical reference path and then converted to an electrical signal by a simple detector and monitored by circuitry that applies signal processing to the detected power spectral distribution, by this means providing output signals indicative of the environmental stimulus on each sensor.

An article transport and organizer which can conveniently be used either as a tote bag for transport and storage of small articles or alternatively can be used in connection with an empty container such as a five-gallon bucket for the transport and storage of larger articles as well as for the transport of smaller articles and tools. The apparatus includes a removable shoulder strap that can be used to conveniently transport the apparatus when it is being used as a tote bag. The inner and outer skirt-like walls of the apparatus are provided with a plurality of spaced-apart pockets which are adapted to receive and organize hand tools and other small articles. Easy-to-operate zipper mechanisms are provided for interconnecting together the lower margins of the outer skirt-like walls so as to convert the apparatus from a bucket organizer into a tote bag.

An elongated medical clip applying device having a handle grip assembly on a proximal end thereof and an elongated channel with a pair of squeezable jaws on a distal end thereof. A push rod arrangement is included having a distal end and a proximal end. The push rod arrangement is utilized for advancing a plurality of clips in a sequential manner between the jaws. The push rod includes a multiplier extender arrangement to increase the distance of travel of the distal end of the push rod arrangement a multiple of the distance of travel of the proximal or input end of the push rod arrangement.