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A frontlighting illumination system for selectively illuminating a nonemissive electronic display includes display elements in communication with at least one light source. The electronic display includes a nonemissive electro-optic medium; and a light transmissive element. Light transmitted through the light transmissive element illuminates the display medium. The propagation of light that is directed through the light transmissive element towards the microencapsulated electrophoretic display medium is substantially undeflected at the interface between the surface of the light transmissive element and the microencapsulated electrophoretic display medium. A reflector is included for directing light from the light source through the light transmissive element.

A plasma concentrator for producing plasma concentrate from a plasma from which erythrocytes have been substantially removed. The device comprises a concentrating chamber having an inlet port and an concentrate outlet, the concentrating chamber containing hydrogel beads and at least one inert agitator; and a concentrate chamber having an inlet communicating with the concentrator outlet through a filter, and having an plasma concentrate outlet port. A process for producing plasma concentrate from plasma from which erythrocytes have been substantially removed, comprising the steps of a) moving the plasma into a concentrating chamber containing hydrogel beads and an agitator to form a hydrogel bead-plasma mixture; b) causing the agitator to stir the hydrogel bead-plasma mixture, facilitating absorption of water by the beads from the plasma, until a hydrogel bead-plasma concentrate is formed; and c) separating the plasma concentrate from the hydrogel beads by passing the plasma concentrate through a filter. The concentrator can be one or more syringe devices coupled for multiple concentrations.

The present invention relates to systems and methods for localized delivery of heat, useful for localized imaging and treatment of a biological material. The systems and methods of the invention can be utilized for localized treatment of cancer, inflammation or other disorders involving over proliferation of tissue, and for tissue repair. The method comprises exposing nanoparticles to electromagnetic radiation under conditions wherein the nanoparticles generate microbubbles which emit heat when exposed to ultrasonic radiation.

A computer controlled suspension system is provided for a bicycle, which can effectively absorb shock and provide stability on rough surfaces regardless of the speed of the vehicle. The suspension system has a control unit, a front suspension, a rear suspension, a front wheel terrain sensor, and a rear controller. The rear suspension is selectively adjustable by the control unit to change stiffness of the rear suspension. When the front suspension hits a bump or a depression in the surface of the ground, a signal is sent to the rear controller so that the rear suspension can react appropriately. In one embodiment, a pedaling torque sensor is operatively coupled to the control unit to input a signal that is indicative of pedaling force, and the rear controller adjusts stiffness of the rear suspension in response to the pedaling force via the control unit. In another embodiment, one or more gear position sensors are operatively coupled to the control unit to input a signal that is indicative of gear position, and the rear controller adjusts stiffness of the rear suspension in response to the gear position force via the control unit. A locking mechanism is provided to operatively coupled to selectively lock the rear suspension in a compressed condition. The front and rear suspension preferably uses at least cylinder with a coil spring and a compressible material located between individual turns of the coil spring.

A thin film transistor, a method of manufacturing the thin film transistor, and a flat panel display device including the thin film transistor. The thin film transistor includes: a gate electrode formed on a substrate; a gate insulating film formed on the gate electrode; an activation layer formed on the gate insulating film; a passivation layer including a compound semiconductor oxide, formed on the activation layer; and source and drain electrodes that contact the activation layer.

The present invention provides one kind of water gel containing natural high molecular material and its preparation process. The water gel has cross-linking degree of 70-95 % and water absorption of 500-80000 %, and contains natural high molecular material or its derivative selected from chitin, chitin derivative, chitosan, chitosan derivative, carrageenin, etc. The water gel may have synthetic high molecular material, inorganic filler, cross-linking sensitizer, medicine and other assistant added. It is prepared through radiation cross-linking, with the radiation dosage being 10-40 kGy. The water gel of the present invention has high water absorption, high flexibility, good medicine slow releasing performance, and may be used in wound dressing, etc.

To provide an absorbent article which is a relatively thin absorbent article and which is hardly twisted while fitting to the body and exhibits excellent absorptivity.An absorbent article comprising at least a liquid-permeable sheet, a liquid-impermeable sheet, and an absorption body sandwiched between the liquid-permeable sheet and the liquid-impermeable sheet, whereinon the skin-contact surface side of the absorbent article, a compressed groove is disposed in both longitudinal edge parts at least in the center region of the absorption body so as to integrate the liquid-permeable sheet and the absorption body and a plurality of point-like compressed parts are disposed at intervals.

A novel wallboard composition is disclosed comprising a unique combination of synthetic binders selected for their ability to establish a strengthened permanent bond in the final dry state for use in a wallboard composition comprising primarily gypsum, and in a wallboard composition comprising an expanded mineral such as Perlite which largely reduces the amount of gypsum over current gypsum wallboard formulations, thus reducing the weight while maintaining the strength of the wallboard structure. In a preferred embodiment, the lightweight, strengthened wallboard of the present invention also comprises an optional covering veneer that is applied to the top ply of the face paper to provide increased strength, moisture resistance, and fire retardency, and the back paper top ply is treated to provide increased flexural strength. Additionally, this invention relates to the unique manufacturing process to produce the wallboard composition of the present invention in order to create a lightweight, strengthened, moisture resistant, and fire retardant wallboard used to cover walls and ceilings in construction applications. Still further, this invention relates to the apparatus for manufacturing the wallboard composition of the present invention, including a method and apparatus for economically converting a standard gypsum wallboard manufacturing facility into a facility for manufacturing wallboard of the present invention.

A normally-closed liquid crystal display includes a component to selectively absorb characteristic leakage light occurring at black representation. Therefore, when black is displayed, occurrence of unnecessary leakage light due to partial depolarization of polarized light caused by a component of an LCD panel can be suppressed. It is therefore possible to provide a liquid crystal display in which display performance of black is improved to clearly display black.

A method of coating highly reflective granules on an adhering material of a roofing or siding material to form a roofing or siding material having an average resulting reflectivity on an upper surface of at least about 45%. The method includes the selecting of highly reflective granules and applying the highly reflective granules on an adhering material until over about 95% of a top surface of the adhering material is covered by the granules.

A method for effectively absorbing and removing CO2 in an exhaust gas generated during an industrial process for reducing the amount of CO2 that is exhausted into the atmosphere. The exhaust gas containing CO2 is blown into an agglomerate of solid particles containing CaO and / or Ca(OH)2 so that the CO2 is in contact with the agglomerate for fixing the CO2 in the exhaust gas as CaCO3, thereby reducing the CO2 concentration in the exhaust gas. Preferably, the solid particles contain water, and more preferably, the solid particles contain surface adhesive water.

An absorbent sanitary article with posterior guide ridge member is provided for effectively absorbing and retaining bodily fluid in the septum region of a wearer. The absorbent sanitary article with posterior guide ridge member has a bodycontacting surface for providing comfort against body skin and throughwhich bodily fluids will pass. An absorbency core provides some measure of bodily fluid absorbency. A barrier layer is included in order to prevent bodily fluids retained by the absorbency core from penetrating through the present invention and soiling adjacent undergarments. An outer layer imparts a degree of comfort and softness, as well as providing a vapor permeable sheathe. An integrally formed guide ridge is provided in order to be guidably received within a septum region of the wearer to prevent soilage of undergarments and to provide the wearer with a greater sense of dryness.

A patterned color conversion film and a display device using the same are disclosed. The patterned color conversion film of the present invention comprises: a separator with plural openings; and plural pixel units disposed in the openings respectively, each pixel unit respectively comprising: a medium and scattering particles dispersed therein. Herein, at least one of the plural pixel units comprises quantum dots having the scattering particles sized of between 0.05 and 1 μm when a volume concentration of the quantum dots is in a range more than or equal to 5% and less than or equal to 80%, or having the scattering particles sized of between 0.2 and 2 μm when the volume concentration of the quantum dots is in a range less than 5% and more than or equal to 0%.

The invention is a phosphor which includes a phosphor material having a composition represented by a general formula: M(0)aM(1)bM(2)x−(vm+n)M(3)(vm+n)−yOnNz−n, wherein M(0) is one or more elements selected from Li, Na, Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Sc, Y, La, Gd and Lu; M(1) is one or more activators selected from Mn, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm and Yb; M(2) is one or more elements selected from Si, Ge, Sn, Ti, Hf and Zr; M(3) is one or more elements selected from Be, B, Al, Ga, In, Tl and Zn; O is oxygen; N is nitrogen; and an atomic ratio of M(0), M(1), M(2), M(3), O and N is adjusted to satisfy the following: x, y and z satisfy 33≦x≦51, 8≦y≦12 and 36≦z≦56; a and b satisfy 3≦a+b≦7 and 0.001≦b≦1.2; m and n satisfy 0.8·me≦m≦1.2·me and 0≦n≦7 in which me=a+b; and v satisfies v={a·v(0)+b·v(1)} / (a+b) (wherein v(0) is a valence of M(0) ion and v(1) is a valence of M(1) ion). The invention also relates to a method for producing the phosphor and a light-emitting device using the phosphor.

A power device for a vehicle includes a plurality of batteries, a case accommodating the batteries, a blower for forcibly supplying air to the batteries accommodated in the case, thereby cooling them, and a temperature sensor for coming in contact with a surface of the battery to detect a temperature of the battery. A thermal portion for detecting the temperature of the battery of the temperature sensor includes a thermal element to be thermally coupled to the surface of the battery, and a heat insulating material having a cushioning property to be elastically compressed which serves to thermally insulate the thermal element provided on the surface of the battery from the cooling air, and the thermal element is isolated from the cooling air supplied forcibly by means of the heat insulating material having the cushioning property, thereby detecting the temperature of the battery.

Oral dosage forms as a biodegradable, water soluble film for delivering pharmaceutically active agents, particularly anti-migraine agents to patients through insertion into the mouth of patient and methods for administering pharmaceutically active agents to patients by insertion into the mouth to provide selective uptake of said agents through the mucosa and thus avoiding the gastrointestinal tract.

To provide an electrostatic ultrasonic transducer arranged so that sound wave is not radiated from the rear surface while utilizing advantages of a push-pull type electrostatic ultrasonic transducer. A push-pull type electrostatic ultrasonic transducer includes a vibrating film 11 having a conductive layer and a pair of fixed electrodes 12, 13 provided facing respective surfaces of the vibrating film, and applies a direct current bias voltage to the conductive layer of the vibrating film and applies an alternating current signal between the pair of fixed electrodes so as to allow the vibrating film to generate sound wave and outputting the sound wave generated from the vibrating film from two sound wave output surfaces via through holes provided in the respective pair of fixed electrodes. Plural through holes are provided in the front-side fixed electrode that sandwiches the vibrating film and through holes having the same shapes are provided in the rear-side fixed electrode in positions opposed to the respective through holes provided in the front-side fixed electrode, and a sound absorbing material 16 is provided facing the rear-side fixed electrode.

A photodetector for use with relatively thin (i.e., sub-micron) silicon optical waveguides formed in a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) structure comprises a layer of poly-germanium disposed to couple at least a portion of the optical signal propagating along the silicon optical waveguide. Tight confinement of the optical signal within the waveguide structure allows for efficient evanescent coupling into the poly-germanium detector. The silicon optical waveguide may comprise any desired geometry, with the poly-germanium detector formed to either cover a portion of the waveguide, or be butt-coupled to an end portion of the waveguide. When covering a portion of the waveguide, poly-germanium detector may comprise a “wrap-around” geometry to cover the side and top surfaces of the optical waveguide, with electrical contacts formed at opposing ends of the detector.

The present invention relates to a composition for the delivery of active agents that are protected from environmental oxidation and are resistant to ruminal fermentation degradation but not intestinal digestion and adsorption. The composition may contain biologically active ingredients such as for example, vitamins, minerals, proteins, amino acids, fatty acids, nutritional supplements, and pharmaceuticals together with natural and / or synthetic lecithin phospholipids.

The electrode temperature control device in a processing apparatus 100 includes a freezing circuit 110 comprising a compressor 148, a condenser 142, an expansion valve 150 and an evaporator 108 with the evaporator disposed inside a lower electrode 106. This electrode temperature control device does not require components such as a coolant tank for storing the coolant, a pump for supplying the coolant to the processing apparatus, a heater for adjusting the temperature of the coolant and a heat exchanger for exchanging heat between a primary coolant and a secondary coolant. Thus, the production cost can be lowered, a reduction in installation area through miniaturization of the apparatus is achieved and more efficient use of energy is achieved as well. In addition, by using CO2 as the coolant, the GWP value can be reduced to approximately {fraction (1 / 8000)} to {fraction (1 / 7000)} that of Freon.

A distributed synchronization system for use in each node of a distributed asynchronous telecommunications network system that continually monitors and controls the flow of data through an implementing node to prevent dataflow errors due to phase and frequency differences in source and destination nodal clocks, and to control inter-nodal network latency so as to support the transmission of synchronous data. A synchronization data FIFO buffers predetermined fields or portions of fields of a unique frame packet received from a source node before retransmission to a destination node on the network. The frame packet includes a frame synchronization field indicating the beginning of a new frame packet; a payload field containing valid data; and a dead zone field providing bandwidth during which the present invention performs synchronization functions. A frame synchronization subsystem, implemented in a designated master node, guarantees that a frame is released at the beginning of an independently-determined frame regardless of network latency. A word resynchronization subsystem manages the flow of data through the data FIFO of each non-master node, receiving and storing data at the source node's clock rate and transmitting the data according to its own clock, thereby guaranteeing the efficient receipt and transmission of data between asynchronously-communicating nodes.

A catheter for delivery of sclerosant to a tubular member or vein of the body to cause ablation. The catheter has one or more balloons located near the distal end to enhance effectiveness of the sclerosant and prevent its delivery to the deep venous system. The catheter has an orifice located near the distal end of the catheter to direct the sclerosant into the vessel and one or more effluent openings to provide for removal of the sclerosant fluid. A heating member such as an electrical resistance element, a Laser probe, or an RF electrode located within the catheter lumen or on the outside of the catheter shaft heats the sclerosant fluid to improve its ablation effectiveness.

A method of administering parenterally, particularly intramuscularly, glutamine and cystine and glycine plus selenium; or lactalbumin plus selenium; or lactalbumin and glutamine and cystine and glycine plus selenium, through a long-acting pharmaceutically acceptable carrier to a patient. The method comprises injecting a mixture of glutamine, cystine, glycine, lactalbumin and selenium in order to maintain the mixture systemically or locally for a sufficient time period so as to maintain blood levels of glutathione within an improved therapeutic range.

A semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same, a circuit board and an electronic instrument are such that without substrate material selection or additional steps after connection, connection reliability can be assured, while direct connection to a substrate is possible, further allowing an electronic instrument to be made more compact and lightweight. The semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor chip (100) having electrodes (104), an interconnect layer (120) connected to the electrodes (104), a conducting layer (122) provided on the interconnect layer (120) avoiding the area of the electrodes (104), an underlying metal layer (124) having a size larger than the peripheral outline of the conducting layer (122) provided on the conducting layer (122) and easier to be deformed than the conducting layer (122), bumps (200) provided on the underlying metal layer (124), and a resin layer (126) provided on the periphery of the conducting layer (122).

A light-emitting device includes a light-emitting element emitting primary light and a wavelength conversion portion absorbing a part of the primary light and emitting secondary light having a wavelength equal to or longer than the wavelength of the primary light. The wavelength conversion portion includes a plurality of green or yellow light-emitting phosphors and a plurality of red light-emitting phosphors. The green or yellow light-emitting phosphor is implemented by at least one selected from a specific europium (II)-activated silicate phosphor (A-1) and a specific cerium (III)-activated silicate phosphor (A-2). The red light-emitting phosphor is implemented by a specific europium (II)-activated nitride phosphor (B). The light-emitting device emitting white light at efficiency and color rendering property higher than in a conventional example can thus be provided.

The invention discloses a preparation method of a one-way wet conduction nano-fiber multilayer composite membrane with the wettability gradient. The method comprises the following steps that hydrophilic nano materials are dispersed in solvent, the nano materials are dispersed uniformly through ultrasound, a hydrophilic polymer is dissolved in the dispersing agent, a spinning solution A1 is obtained, and a hydrophilic nano-fiber membrane is deposited on a receiving base material through an electrostatic spinning method; hydrophilic nano materials are dispersed in solvent, the nano materials are dispersed uniformly through the ultrasound, a hydrophilic polymer is dissolved in the dispersing agent, and a spinning solution A2 is obtained; a hydrophobic polymer is dissolved in solvent, and a spinning solution B1 is obtained; the two spinning solutions are deposited on the hydrophilic nano-fiber membrane to form at least one diversion layer through the electrostatic spinning method; a hydrophobic polymer is dissolved in solvent, a spinning solution B2 is obtained, a hydrophobic nano-fiber membrane is deposited on the diversion layers through the electrostatic spinning method, and the one-way wet conduction nano-fiber multilayer composite membrane with the wettability gradient is obtained.