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An implantable medical device that includes a magnetic sensor circuit that senses the presence of an external magnetic field and provides a signal that is proportionate to the strength of the magnetic field. The implantable medical device uses the variable signal to determine whether a magnetic field is being applied that is selected to activate a preselected function. In one implementation, the preselected function is a power up sequence.

This invention covers improved electronic time-temperature indicators with an RFID output, and other devices and methods by which the thermal history of a complex material, which may not obey a simple exponential Arrhenius law degradation equation, may be monitored, and the subsequent fitness for use of the tracked material may be quickly ascertained. In particular, the invention discloses a rapidly reprogrammable electronic time-temperature RFID tag that may be easily customized with the thermal time-temperature stability profile of an arbitrary material, using electronic data transfer methods. Using this device, a single, low-cost, generic time-temperature tag may be mass-produced, and then subsequently programmed to mimic the stability characteristics of nearly any material of interest. By utilizing data compression to compress a material's extensive thermal history into the small user data field transmitted by modern RFID tags, a considerable amount of information relating to product status and cause of failure may be rapidly transmitted within the small memory confines of standard RFID tag protocols.

A prediction method for thermodynamic responses and fatigue-creep damage of a high-chrome steel material is disclosed. The method includes constitutive model building, material parameter determination, numerical integration algorithm designing, damage analyzing, and the like. Compared with the prior art, the method can accurately simulate thermodynamic responses of the high-chrome steel material under different loading conditions, and can analyze fatigue, creep and fatigue-creep mutual damage of the material, thus providing a more reasonable and reliable theoretical model for service lifetimeprediction and safety design standards of supercritical generator unit components operated under complex changeable environments.

It is an object of the invention to provide a light emitting device in which burden on a light emitting element having low luminous efficiency is relieved, and the deterioration of a light emitting element, the reduction in color reproduction due to the deteriorated light emitting element, and increase in electric power consumption can be suppressed. A light emitting device according to the invention has light emitting elements each of which emits one of colors corresponding to three primary colors. Further, one feature of the light emitting device according to the invention has a light emitting element which emits a neutral color. The light emitting device according to the invention has a structure in which a plurality of pixels having light emitting elements each of which emits one of colors corresponding to three primary colors, and a light emitting element which emits a neutral color as one group, are arranged.

An apparatus of managing quality of sleep includes a weight sensor unit including a plurality of pressure sensors, which detect pressures in response to a presence and a movement of a user; an environment sensor including multiple sensors, which detect an environment surrounding the user in a sleep; and a controller for collecting and analyzing information, detected by the weight sensor unit and the environment sensor unit, and classifying and managing the analyzed information according to quality of sleep. The apparatus provides an optimized sleep environment adequate for a subject by learning various sleep environments, and provides a comfortable and cozy sleep environment to the subject to restore energy and be refreshed, so that the subject can enjoy energetic and effective daytime life.

The present invention relates to an electroluminescence device based on a boron-containing organic compound, wherein a main body material comprises a first organic compound and a second organic compound, the difference between a singlet state energy level and a triplet state energy level of the first organic compound is not greater than 0.2 eV, the singlet energy level of the second organic compound is greater than the singlet energy level of the first organic compound by more than 0.1 eV, and the triplet energy level of the second organic compound is greater than the triplet energy level of the first organic compound by more than 0.1 eV; the first organic compound and the second organic compound have the different carrier transport characteristics, wherein an object material is the boron-containing organic compound, the singlet energy level of the object material is lower than that of the first organic compound, and the triplet energy level of the object material is lower than that ofthe first organic compound. An organic light-emitting device prepared by the method has the characteristics of high efficiency and long service life.

The invention relates to a multi-functional multi-specimen sealing gasket service life evaluation testing apparatus which comprises a gasket loading and load measuring system (56) and a medium given system (51). The apparatus is characterized in that the air given end of the medium given system (51) is connected with the air inlet end of a medium sealing system (53), the medium sealing system (53) is positioned inside of a temperature controlling and measuring system (54), a cooling thermal insulation system (57) is placed above the medium sealing system (53), and a leakage rate measuring system (55) is positioned on one side of the temperature controlling and measuring system (54); the medium sealing system (53), the temperature controlling and measuring system (54) and the cooling thermal insulation system (57) are connected respectively through stress bolts (14) of the gasket loading and load measuring system (56); and a data acquisition and control system (52) is respectively and electrically connected with the medium given system (51), the medium sealing system (53), the temperature controlling and measuring system (54), the leakage rate measuring system (55) and the cooling thermal insulation system (57).

The present invention provides a bit with cutting structures or inserts that include diamond particles, in which the diamond-impregnated inserts are surrounded by substantially diamond-free support members. The diamond-impregnated inserts are manufactured separately from the bit body. Once formed, the diamond-impregnated inserts are affixed to the substantially diamond-free support members on bit body by brazing or other means of attachment. The total thermal exposure of the diamond particles during manufacture in accordance with the present invention is significantly lower than the total manufacturing-related thermal exposure in previously known diamond-impregnated cutting structures. Furthermore, the substantially diamond-free support members allow the bit to continue cutting through a formation without an increased contact area, as experienced by bits with diamond-impregnated ribs. Thus, the operating life of the cutting structures, and therefore the life of the bit itself, is increased.

Disclosed are substantially clear nutritional liquids comprising protein and calcium HMB wherein soluble protein represents from about 65% to 100% by weight of total protein. The liquids have a pH of from about 2.8 to about 4.6 and may be manufactured as a hot fill product. The substantially clear nutritional liquids may also have a weight ratio of calcium HMB to soluble calcium of from 4.5:1 to 7.3:1. In some embodiments, the substantially clear nutritional liquids are substantially free of fat, and may optionally include isomaltulose and / or beta alanine.

The invention discloses an intelligent home gateway. The intelligent home gateway comprises a communication module and a control module. A customized and dedicated IC is adopted for the control module, a Java processor and standard and compatible hardware are embedded in the control module, a terminal and a host calculator are made to be fast connected through a TCP / IP protocol and an Ethernet, and by changing software, different functions can be achieved with the same hardware. The invention further discloses a community management system. The community management system comprises a plurality of terminal devices, a plurality of intelligent home gateways and a community management platform, wherein the community management platform is used for managing the intelligent home gateways. Through the technical scheme, multiple homes and even the whole community can be intelligently managed internally and externally, an intelligent lifestyle with homes as units and the community as the platform is achieved, and life is made easier, more convenient, comfortable, economical, environmentally friendly, safe and efficient.

A shaft seal assembly for use with a reciprocating or rotating shaft includes a shaft seal, a lubricant-storing ring, and a retainer. The retainer and ring can be formed as a subassembly and then combined with a shaft seal. The seal includes an annular body portion, a first sealing lip portion, and a first pocket portion. The first sealing lip portion has a substantially uniform axial dimension and is adapted to sealingly engage a shaft. The first pocket portion includes a plurality of pockets, each having an opening toward the first sealing lip portion. The plurality of pockets are each adapted to collect a working fluid when the shaft axially displaces in a first direction and to dispense the working fluid when the shaft axially displaces in a second direction. The assembly provides a lubricated shaft and seal that improves the effective life of the shaft seal.

The invention discloses a substituted benzophenanthrene derivative organic semiconductor (I). By taking a benzophenanthrene derivative as a main core, the main core is chemically bonded and connected with a cavity or condensed with a heteroaromatic ring through teleportation. The material has the light emitting characteristics of excellent heat resistance and efficient long service life and can be applied to a blue light main body material, a blue light emitting layer, a cavity transmission layer or an electronic barrier layer of an organic light emitting diode to obtain an organic light emitting apparatus which is stable, efficient and long in service life.

The invention features dental compositions containing a basic filler that has been surface-treated with a strong acid to increase the shelf life of the composition.

The invention relates to a building waterproof heat-preservation exhaust compound system, which comprises a heat-preservation layer, a waterproof layer, a waterproof protective layer and an exhaust passage, and is characterized in that the heat-preservation layer comprises paved heat-preservation boards, the lower surfaces of the heat-preservation boards are provided with exhaust grooves, the exhaust grooves of all the heat-preservation boards are connected into the exhaust passage, one end of the exhaust passage is connected into a flue through a connecting pipe, and the waterproof layer and the waterproof protective layer are covered on the heat-preservation layer in turn. The building waterproof heat-preservation exhaust compound system has the following advantages that: the system is a heat-preservation waterproof moisture-proof exhaust system for roofs and the floors, which uses a JWG-M type to seal and resist water for EPS and XPS heat-preservation boards, is communicated with the flue through the exhaust grooves of the EPS and XPS heat-preservation boards, and exhausts moist air in time by the pipeline effect of the flue so as to achieve waterproof heat-preservation exhaust integral roofs. Simultaneously, the system removes the vertical exhaust pipes arranged on the roofs and reduces the hidden danger of seepage, and the roofs are smooth to prevent frost heave and gas heave so that the deserved effective service life of the waterproof and heat-preservation roofs is achieved. Besides, the system has good heat-preservation and waterproof effects.

The present invention is directed to a method of forming titania clad high surface area alumina suitable as a support for forming noble metal catalysts. The resultant catalysts exhibit resistance to poisoning by sulfurous materials and, therefore, are useful in applications directed to internal combustion engine emission conversion and the like. The present invention provides a commercially feasible and cost effective method of forming a highly desired support for noble metal catalyst application. The process comprises forming a slurry of porous alumina particulate suitable as a catalyst support for the intended application, mixing said slurry with a solution of titanyl sulfate having a pH of about 1, increasing the pH of the mixed slurry / solution at a slow rate of from 0.05 to 0.5 pH unit per minute to a pH of ≦4 by the addition of a basic solution, allowing the resultant slurry to age for a period of from 10 to 120 minutes, separating the treated porous alumina particulates and washing same free of sulfate with a weak base, drying and calcining said particulates to produce titania clad alumina particulate product. The resultant material exhibits a normalized sulfur uptake of less than about 45 μg / m2-sample. Such material can subsequently be coated with a noble metal to form the catalyst material.

A method for removing dental material is disclosed. The method may include suspending, by a hydrated polymeric material, a quantity of abrasive media. The hydrated polymeric material and suspended abrasive media may then be pressurized. Accordingly, an abrasive stream may be formed by expelling, under pressure, the hydrated polymeric material and suspended abrasive media from a nozzle. The abrasive stream may be precisely applied to a tooth to abrade the enamel or dentin thereof as a drilling instrumentality.

Disclosed are nutritional emulsions comprising fat, carbohydrate, protein, and calcium HMB wherein soluble protein comprises from about 50% to 100% by weight of the total protein. Also disclosed are nutritional emulsions comprising fat, carbohydrate, protein, and calcium HMB wherein soluble protein comprises from about 50% to 100% by weight of the protein and the emulsion has a weight ratio of soluble protein to calcium HMB of from about 5:1 to about 12:1. The nutritional emulsions are surprisingly stable and generate minimal or no bitter flavors or after taste over time.

A cooling system for the shutdown process in a fuel cell powered vehicle system for eliminating the detrimental effects of voltage persistence in the fuel cell including a volume of fluid coolant at ambient temperature, a pump, a fluid circuit interconnecting the pump and the coolant reservoir with a section of a cooling system that circulates through the vehicle fuel cell stack, and a controllable valve system whereby, at the occurrence of vehicle shutdown, the ambient temperature fluid in the reservoir is directed to a section of a cooling system that circulates through the vehicle fuel cell stack.

A system for improving social skills and feature recognition including a user interface displaying an electronic image, the image including two or more features, software for visually amplifying a first portion of the image, software for visually partitioning the image into two or more second portions, software for visually quantifying the image, and software for animating at least one of the first portion and the second portions.

A method is provided for controlling cell search in a wireless communication device when there is no service cell is available. When the duration specified in a timer elapses after no service cell occurs, the wireless device starts the cell search operation. This operation repeats itself at certain intervals until the device successfully camps on a service cell; meanwhile, the value recorded in a timer increases itself by a certain number after each iteration.

An upright-plate type sunlight generator comprises up-right-plate type photovoltaic generating tubes capable of automatically cleaning dust, collecting mirrors with the automatic storm-sheltering mechanisms and a collecting carrier, a cooling and radiating system, and an automatic sun-tracking machine and its object carrier. The collecting mirrors are the folding mirrors made up of plane mirrors, and are connected to the photovoltaic generating tubes provided in the focal strip of the group of collecting mirrors during the operation on the support of the collecting carrier. The collecting carrier is immovably connected to the object carrier of the automatic sun-tracking machine, and the object carrier is connected to the automatic sun-tracking machine. The cooling and radiating system includes a liquid-cooling cavity that is the internal cavity of the photovoltaic generating tube, flexible connecting pipes and a liquid storing and cooling member.

The invention discloses an LED (light-emitting diode) dot matrix display screen and a combined dot matrix display screen. The dot matrix display screen comprises a heat-dissipating substrate, a PCB (printed circuit board), an uniformly-arrayed LED light-emitting unit, an imaging controller, a layout circuit conducting layer, a pervious-to-light packaging colloid for packaging LED chips, and a plastic plate forming the pervious-to-light packaging colloid for packaging the LED chips, wherein the LED light-emitting unit comprises more than one LED chips, guide lines and the pervious-to-light packaging colloid; the guide lines electrically connect the LED chips with the layout circuit conducting layer, and the pervious-to-light packaging colloid is used for packaging the LED chips; a hermetically-sealed outer cavity side wall which is hermetically connected with the plastic plate and the heat-dissipating substrate is arranged between the plastic plate and the heat-dissipating substrate; the heat-dissipating substrate, the hermetically sealed outer cavity side wall and the plastic plate defines a hermetically-sealed cavity, and the PCB is accommodated in the hermetically-sealed cavity; and the heat-dissipating substrate, the plastic plate and the pervious-to-light packaging colloid are directly contacted with the outside air. The dot matrix display screen disclosed by the invention has the advantages that of being simple in structure and low in cost and having good waterproof and heat-dissipating effects since the PCB is accommodated in the hermetically-sealed cavity formed by the heat-dissipating substrate, the hermetically sealed outer cavity side wall and the plastic plate.

An improved pick and pick holder assembly for use in mineral winning and the like. The improved pick and pick holder increases the effective life of a tool and pick holder by minimizing the shifting of the pick within the pick holder. The movement of the pick is minimized by front and rear bearing surfaces that remain positively engaged with front and rear bearing surfaces of the pick holder for loads applied to the pick that are predominantly inward and predominantly rearward.

The present invention, which belongs to the technical field of display technology, provides a microcapsule, a method of preparing the same, and an OLED (organic light emitting diode) display device comprising the same. The OLED display device comprises a microcapsule having a phosphorescent material as a core material, which reduces the probability of the phosphorescence self-quenching and is isolated from water and oxygen, thereby improving the display quality and extending the service life of the OLED display device. Therefore, the OLED display device can solve the problem that the phosphorescence OLED display device in the prior art has a low brightness and short service life.

A double-sided cutting insert has top and bottom surfaces and two major side surfaces connected by two minor side surfaces. Each major side surface has two distinct relief surfaces which are inclined in opposite directions and merge at a transition surface extending between top and bottom surfaces. A first major cutting edge is defined between the first relief surface and the top surface and a second major cutting edge is defined between the second relief surface and the bottom surface. Each major cutting edge is tangent to an associated transition cutting edge defined between the transition surface and the insert top or insert bottom surface. An insert holder for the insert has three support sections accordant with three abutment sections of the insert.

A barrier to termites particularly suitable for protecting buildings comprising a mesh made of a material that is resistant to breakdown in the environment of use and is resistant to secretions deposited by termites, such as stainless steel, and is also sufficiently hard to not be attacked by termites, such as having a hardness not less than about Shore D70. The pores of the mesh being dimensioned so the maximum linear dimension in any direction of the pores is less than the maximum linear dimension of the cross-section of the head of the species of termite to be controlled.

A device and method for extending the lifetime of a battery of a tire pressure sensor disposed in a tire are described, in which the battery can be recharged through the valve stem of the tire. The device includes an electrical power source and an electrode adapted to be coupled to the valve stem and supply power from the electrical power source to the valve stem.

A shaft seal assembly for use with a reciprocating or rotating shaft includes a shaft seal, a lubricant-storing ring, and a retainer. The retainer and ring can be formed as a subassembly and then combined with a shaft seal. The assembly provides a lubricated shaft and seal that improves the effective life of the shaft seal.