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An image data processing device for scaling up or down input image data and outputting output image data includes a first image processing section for converting the input image data with a first resolution into intermediate image data with a second resolution, and a second image processing section for converting the intermediate image data into the output image data with a third resolution.

A device for generating or detecting electromagnetic radiation includes a substrate, a gain medium provided on the substrate, a plurality of reflectors for confining electromagnetic radiation at a predetermined frequency range and substantially perpendicular to a face of the substrate, and spacer means for spacing the reflectors from each other at a predetermined distance, with the gain medium being sandwiched between the reflectors. The gain medium has a quantum well structure formed of a semiconductor material, and gives a gain to electromagnetic radiation by transitioning between subbands created in at least a quantum well in the quantum well structure. The spacer means is formed of a material different from a material of the gain medium.

The invention relates to a medical-technology valve device for suction and/or flushing lines of medical instruments, particularly instruments for endoscopic surgery, having a valve housing equipped with a through bore-hole and having a valve body, movably positioned in the valve housing, by which valve body the through bore-hole can be locked and opened again, and where the valve body is configured as a piston that can be displaced essentially perpendicularly to the through bore-hole by means of a servo drive, so that a rotary movement of the servo drive can be transformed into an axial movement of the piston. To produce a medical-technology valve device that makes possible a reproducible adjustment of the flow volume that is to be regulated, while allowing a reduction of turbulence, it is proposed with the invention that the servo drive is configured as a hand lever that can rotate around the longitudinal axis of the piston and can be displaced to move the piston from the position that frees the through bore-hole into the position that closes the through bore-hole by an angle of 90 degrees with respect to the longitudinal axis of the piston.

A trash can vent system that is securable to a trash can and that includes a vent channel positionable along the interior sidewall of the trash can to prevent the trash can liner from forming a vacuum seal with the interior trash can sidewalls. The vent channel member preferably has a number of vent openings formed therethrough in connection between a vent channel and the trash can liner facing side of the vent channel member and is adjustable in length.

The present invention provides an oxide magnetic material, which includes a primary phase of a hexagonal ferrite containing metallic elements Ca, R, Fe and M, where M represents at least one element selected from the group including Co, Ni and Zn, and R represents at least one element selected from the group including Bi and rare earth elements including Y, with La being essentially included in R; wherein the proportions of the metallic elements Ca, R, Fe and M with respect to the total amount of the metallic elements are from 1 to 13 atomic % for Ca, from 0.05 to 10 atomic % for R, from 80 to 95 atomic % for Fe, and from 1 to 7 atomic % for M. The present invention also provides ferrite particles, a bonded magnet, a sintered magnet, a process for producing them, and a magnetic recording medium, which contain the oxide magnetic material.

Suppressor sleeves have longitudinal interior splines and venting valleys and exterior ribs arranged at angles relative to the interior splines. One or more sleeves and caps are combined to provide suppressor sleeve assemblies.

The present invention provides a semiconductor device realizing reliable cutting of a fuse without enlarging layout area of a fuse element and the reduced number of wiring layers of a preventing wall that prevents diffusion of fuse copper atoms. A fuse is formed by using a wire in a metal wiring layer as an upper layer in a plurality of metal wiring layers. Wires are disposed just above and just below a fuse each with a gap of at least two wiring layers. In an upper layer, a power wire that transmits power supply voltage is used as a part covering a preventing wall structure just above the fuse.

A seat (chair, stool, etc.) has a seat base with a contoured front that is recessed in the middle. The recess extends towards a seating center and/or in a downward direction, creating an open area for seated person. The open area is located under the body part around the testes of a seated male person so that the dispersion of body heat from that area via air circulation will not be blocked by the seat base, and at the same time, the pressure between the testes area and the seat base will be reduced or eliminated, thereby improving the physiological condition for sperm, and in turn, may increase sperm activity and may reduce the possibility of infertility.

An electric power steering system includes: a band-stop filter 15a having a transfer function G₁(s) for suppressing resonance, and a phase compensator 15b having a transfer function G₂(s). The above function G₁(s) is represented by an expression G₁(s)=(s²+2ζ₁₁ω₁+ω₁²)/(s²+2ζ₁₂ω₁+ω₁²), where s: a Laplace operator, ζ₁₁: a damping coefficient, ζ₁₂: a damping coefficient, and ω₁: an angular frequency. On the other hand, the above function G₂(s) is represented by an expression G₂(s)=(s²+2ζ₂₁ω₂+ω₂²)/(s²+2ζ₂₂ω₂+ω₂²), where s: a Laplace operator, ζ₂₁: a damping coefficient, ζ₂₂: a damping coefficient, and ω₁: an angular frequency. Furthermore, the above damping coefficients ζ₂₁, ζ₂₂ satisfy an expression ζ₂₁24 ζ₂₂≧1. Thus, a filter such as a phase compensator may attain a design freedom while preventing the increase of arithmetic load, whereby both the suppression of resonance and a good assist response in a normal steering speed region, for example, may be achieved.

A heat-peelable pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet, which comprises a substrate, a heat-expandable adhesive layer formed on at least one surface thereof, and a surfactant, wherein the surfactant is contained in the heat-expandable adhesive layer as an adhesive surface.

A method and a device to increase the efficiency of dialysis for the removal from blood of substances that are more or less tightly bound to carriers such as albumin. According to the invention this is accomplished by a simultaneous significant increase of the flow rate of the dialysis fluid and of the area of the membrane that separates the blood from the dialysis fluid, compared to conventional dialysis.

Presented is battery packaging material which is made of a laminate including, as the essentials, a base material layer, a metal layer and a sealant layer in this order. When a product obtained by packaging a battery element with the packaging material in a hermetically sealed state through heat sealing is heated, the packaging material delaminates at least at a part of the interface between the metal layer and the outside surface of the sealant layer with the hermetically sealed state being kept, and thereafter works so as to make the product unsealed.

A sheet handling apparatus includes a sheet stacker for stacking sheets; a separating device for separating and feeding the sheets stacked on the sheet stacker; and a register roller disposed adjacent to the separating device for correcting a skew of the sheet. An ultrasonic wave sensor composed of a wave sending sensor and a wave receiving sensor is arranged between the separating device and the register roller obliquely relative to a surface of the sheet. A judging device is electrically connected to the ultrasonic wave sensor for detecting a double feed of the sheets based upon an output signal from the wave receiving sensor at a predetermined time after the register roller starts rotating. A control device electrically connected to the judging device and the register roller controls the register roller to stop and rotate.

An optical system apparatus having a lens barrel, including multiple lenses, that is shifted between a stored position in which the lenses are collapsed and a photographing position in which the lenses are aligned along an optical axis of the apparatus. A lens barrier covers at least a front side of a lens. A barrier driving unit moves the lens barrier between a closed position and an opened position for retracting the lens barrier out of an operation space of the lens barrel. A barrier control member prevents the lens barrier from moving to the closed position from the opened position when the lens barrel is in the photographing position.

A cooking fuel ignition assembly for an outdoor cooking apparatus as in a barbeque grill. The ignition assembly includes a tinder support combination of an ash can and tinder support stand. An operator inserts the tinder support stand within the ash can such that its lower spacer structure makes contact with the base of the ash can receptacle and the upper tinder platform is in the upper region of the ash can. The operator places tinder T on the upper surface of the tinder platform. The tinder combination with tinder is mounted in suspended fashion below an aperture in the grill base such that upon ignition of the tinder a flame extends up through, for example, an interface slide catch collar assembly and into an ignition relationship with supported cooking fuel above.

A method of processing noise in image data by an image processor having a signal-processing portion converting an image signal from an image sensor into a digital signal and outputting the converted signal as image data for each frame, the image data indicating sets of pixel values each having a brightness at a corresponding one of coordinate points arranged in directions of rows and columns is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: extracting pixel values; deciding pixel value; finding autocorrelation coefficients of pixel values which are less than a first threshold value; and deciding random noise in the image.

An expandable shoulder trial for a reverse shoulder system is described. The trial includes a rotatably adjustable insert housed within a humeral cup. The insert has a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end having a concave recess therein adapted to receive a glenosphere prosthesis. The distal end of the insert includes a shaft, the shaft having a helical groove disposed on at least a portion thereof. A distal end of the humeral cup is inserted in a humeral stem. The humeral cup has a proximal end including a recess therein, the recess defined by a circular wall. A guide pin protrudes from the circular wall and is adapted to engage the helical groove of the shaft of the insert. The proximal end of the insert may rotate along an axis toward the proximal end of the humeral cup and along the same axis away from the proximal end of the humeral cup.