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Consumer directed transfers of funds over the Internet are provided by a combination of systems and networks, including the Internet, email, and the Automated Clearinghouse system (ACH). A host system provided by a funds transfer service manages requests of senders to transfer funds and further manages responses of receivers to claim funds. The host system allows the sender to initiate the funds transfer by specifying the amount of the transfer and information for contacting the receiver, without the need to specify the account of the receiver for receiving the funds. Instead, the host system contacts the receiver and informs the receiver of the available funds; the receiver can then provide the necessary target account information for completing the funds transfer. The ACH is used to effect the transfer of funds, with the host system providing instructions for ACH entries to its financial institution using account information separately received from the sender and receiver. The credit risk associated with originating ACH entries is reduced by use of the Point of Sale system to verify sufficient funds in the sender's account by comparing the closing balance of the day the funds transfer is requested with the transfer amount. Sender fraud is reduced by comparing a sender provided balance (or check number/amounts) with an account balance acquired through automated means such as the POS system or ATM network.

Methods and systems and mobile device interfaces for creating, joining, organizing and managing via mobile devices affinity groups in a cloud computing environment for social and business purposes.

A paint application facility including a paint booth assembly for applying paint to automotive vehicles each defining a longitudinal axis includes a carrier adapted to serially move a plurality of automotive vehicles through the booth assembly in a direction generally perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle.

An assembly is provided which can crimp or compress an intraluminal device or measure the radial strength of an intraluminal device. The device includes a first disk and a second disk for imparting movement to a number of spaced apart moving elements attached to linear sliders on the first disk. In one configuration, rotational movement is imparted to the second disk which causes the tips of the moving elements to move is a linear direction toward the center of the opening formed by the elements thereby closing in on the device. In another configuration, rotational movement is imparted to the first disk and the tips move along an arcuate path from the perimeter of the opening toward the center of the opening.

The invention discloses a method for enhancing a color image, comprising the following steps of: (1) converting an original color image from a red, green and blue (RGB) space into a hue, saturation and variability (HSV) space; (2) maintaining the hue H component unchanged, locally enhancing the variability V by adopting a mean value and standard deviation way and changing the saturation S according to the relationship of the saturation S and the variability V; and (3) converting the processed image from the HSV space into the RGB space. The invention can enhance the definition of the image and enable the enhanced image to be more according with the human visual characteristics.

A fluid delivery device including a valve body fluidly coupled to an electrically insulating waterway assembly. The waterway assembly may include a molded base.

An electrical brush having at least one conductive element and at least one conditioning material coated on the at least one conductive element wherein the conditioning material has a composition and thickness on the conductive element such that, as deposited on a moving contact surface in the course of brush operation, the conditioning material can have an average film thickness S<˜1 μm so that current can be conducted by means of electron tunneling through a film thickness of the deposited conditioning material of S_i≦12 nm thickness over a fractional area f_C, greater than 0.01 of a foot print of the conductive element in a current conductive area.

Chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) devices, a pad conditioner assembly and a polishing pad conditioning method thereof are provided. The CMP device planarizes a wafer by rotating a carrier, which has a wafer mounted on a lower surface of the carrier, over a rotating polishing table while supplying a slurry onto a polishing pad attached to an upper surface of the rotating polishing table. The CMP device may include a pad conditioner assembly that conditions the polishing pad by supplying a pad conditioning liquid onto the polishing pad and simultaneously transferring a megasonic vibration to the pad conditioning liquid to remove foreign substances from a surface of the polishing pad.

Accelerator-free carboxylated latex compositions, articles made therefrom, and methods of fabricating them, are disclosed. The carboxylated latex compositions use a mixture of alkoxyalkyl alkylol melamine and zinc oxide as their cure system. Carboxylated nitrile (a terpolymer of butadiene, acrylonitrile and organic acid) gloves made according to this invention are free of accelerators and sulfur, and they have similar tensile property as nitrile gloves cured by accelerators, sulfur and zinc oxide. Furthermore, glove softness can be adjusted by varying the quantity ratio of alkoxyalkyl alkylol melamine to zinc oxide.

The griping mechanism of the present invention comprises a thin flat body having two linearly moveable side fingers and a pair of rotating and linearly moveable distal fingers. In contrast to gripper of conventional design, the gripping mechanism of the invention is positioned over the object. In spite of an overhead position, the gripper is contamination-free since it has a completely closed design. In the vicinity of the gripping fingers, the mechanism is provided with soft edge-supporting pads having tapered surfaces for self-alignment and centering of the circular objects. The pads also eliminate surface contact between the wafer and the surface of the gripper body. The overhead position of the gripper makes it possible to simplify the construction of a wafer-holding chuck, e.g., on wafer processing stations. The gripper has auxiliary object-uplifting means in the form of vacuum suction ports or blowing nozzles that generate a vortex effect for uplifting the objects to the level required for edge gripping.

A vibrating element includes a piezoelectric substrate having an excitation section adapted to excite a thickness-shear vibration, and provided with a step section in each of side surfaces on both ends, and a peripheral section having a thickness smaller than a thickness of the excitation section, and the peripheral section has at least one projection section disposed on both principal surfaces in an area where a vibratory displacement when the excitation section excites a vibration is sufficiently attenuated.

An implantable medical device deployment system is disclosed that employs both a sheath element and a constraint member to protect implantable medical devices during delivery in a body while providing simple, accurate, and reliable device deployment. The delivery system is configured so that loading and deployment forces are not directly related to device diameter, length, or design, thus allowing a more universal delivery system across various delivered device configurations and product lines. The deployment system can provide numerous benefits, include better protection for drug-coated implantable devices.

A rotational magnetic electrical generating device produces an alternating electrical current generated by a central rotational magnetic cylinder with an inner cavity having an central fixed coil operated by a DC current providing a driving rotational force upon a plurality of embedded neodymium magnets within the inner cavity of the central rotational magnetic cylinder, the central rotational magnetic cylinder having an upper outer margin with an upper magnetic ring and a lower outer margin having a lower magnetic ring, the two magnetic rings suspending the central rotational magnetic cylinder between two fixed magnetic fields supported by a frame member, the central rotational magnetic cylinder further having an outer perimeter surface embedded with a plurality of neodymium alloy magnets equally sized and spaced apart, a lower surface embedded with a plurality of neodymium alloy magnets equally sized and spaced apart, and an upper surface embedded with a plurality of neodymium alloy magnets equally sized and spaced apart. A plurality of alternate wound electrical stators are suspended above the upper surface, below the lower surface and around the outer perimeter surface of the central rotational magnetic cylinder, supported by the frame member while insulated from the frame member, each electrical stator connected to external leads to transmit alternating current generated by the spinning central rotational magnetic cylinder, the entire device enclosed within a vacuum.