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Described is a prosthetic valve assembly comprising: a radially self-expandable stent configured to expand to bear against a wall of a native body lumen; and an implantable prosthetic valve, having a diameter, the valve being mounted inside the stent; wherein the diameter of the stent is greater than the diameter of the prosthetic valve.

Methods, devices and a system for disease management are provided that employ diagnostic testing devices (e.g., blood glucose meters) and medication delivery devices (e.g., insulin delivery devices) for providing data to a repository in real-time and automatically. Repository data can be analyzed to determine such information as actual test strip use, patient health parameters to outside prescribed ranges, testing and medication delivery compliance, patient profiles or stakeholders to receive promotional items or incentives, and so on. Connected meters and medication delivery devices and repository data analysis are also employed to associate a diagnostic test to a mealtime based on timing of a therapeutic intervention performed by an individual.

A modular irrigation controller includes a processor capable of executing a stored watering program and controlling a plurality of removable station modules in accordance with the watering program. Each station module includes a station module circuit for opening and closing a plurality of values. A plurality of connectors can mate each mate to establish a communications link between the station modules and the processor. A plurality of terminals are each connectable with a corresponding one of a plurality of field valve lines from the valves. The terminals are mounted separate from the station modules and are connected to the connectors. This allows the irrigation controller to have a more compact design, provides connection terminals for spare field valve lines, and eliminates malfunctions due to erroneous re-connection of field valve lines during station module replacement.

A circuit component built-in module includes the following: an electrical insulating substrate made of a first mixture including a filler and a thermosetting resin; a wiring pattern formed on at least a principal surface of the electrical insulating substrate; circuit components that are arranged inside the electrical insulating substrate and connected electrically to the wiring pattern; and vias for electrically connecting the wiring patterns. At least one of the circuit components is mounted using wires. Part or all of the wires is sealed with a second mixture including a filler and a resin. This circuit component built-in module can eliminate a wire failure or short circuit while using a low cost mounting technique such as wire bonding.

This invention is related to a rotary charging plug structure of a charger, having: an upper lid to be matched with a lower lid so as to receive a circuit board therein, the lower lid being provided with a receiving chamber therein for receiving a blade base. The blade base is provided with two blades and shafts at each of opposing ends thereof. The shafts are each formed with an annular grove at a top end thereof for being integrally riveting to the shafts and includes the two stop blocks and a protruding block. The rear lid covers and urges against the blade base after placing the blade and the conductive plates into the receiving chamber. The rear lid includes a guide block at a center thereof to allow sliding movement of the protruding block of the blade base. Each of the through-holes and the guide block are provided with a push block therebetween for urging against the shafts. As such, the blades can be rotated within a 90° range. Further, the blades are prevented from disengagement upon experiencing a frontal or a lateral impact. This invention is also simple in its structure so as to reduce the manufacturing and assembly cost.

A printing system includes a printing apparatus, a terminal apparatus for transmitting and receiving information, a notification part notifying a user of the printing apparatus of information on authority of the user to use the printing apparatus, and a network connecting the printing apparatus, the terminal apparatus, and the notification means so that information transmission and reception in the system is performed through an electrical signal via the network.

An RF driver circuit and an orthogonal antenna assembly / configuration, are disclosed as part of a method and system for generating high density plasma. The antenna assembly is an orthogonal antenna system that may be driven by any RF generator / circuitry with suitable impedance matching to present a low impedance. The disclosed RF driver circuit uses switching type amplifier elements and presents a low output impedance. The disclosed low-output impedance RF driver circuits eliminate the need for a matching circuit for interfacing with the inherent impedance variations associated with plasmas. Also disclosed is the choice for capacitance or an inductance value to provide tuning for the RF plasma source. There is also provided a method for rapidly switching the plasma between two or more power levels at a frequencies of about tens of Hz to as high as hundreds of KHz.

The present invention provides a compact hoist system for use on a drilling or workover rig. The present invention eliminates problems related to chain failures in hoist systems by incorporating wire rope in a vertically and horizontally compacted arrangement to provide maximum vertical lift capacity and improved versatility. Caterpillar bearings, wire rope tension equalizing sheaves and a winch coupled to a axially movable spiral-grooved drum are combined to provide a system that enables cantilever jack-up rigs to handle blow-out preventer stacks of increased height and size.

Deterioration of reinforced concrete pipes is checked and the deterioration progress level is classified. Based on the inspection result, a portion to be inspected in detail in an inspection area is selected. With respect to the selected portion to be inspected in detail, the pipe thickness and the diameter of reinforcing bars are measured and the location of reinforcing bars in the portion to be inspected in detail are checked. Using the data of the thickness of a pipe, the diameter of the reinforcing bar and disposition of the reinforcing bars, structural analysis is carried out and the strength of the reinforced concrete pipe is calculated. The calculation result is used as information for evaluating the deterioration state of the reinforced concrete pipe.

A gutter cover is adapted for covering an opening of a generally U-shaped eaves gutter used for catching and distributing rainwater runoff from a pitched roof. The gutter cover includes an elongated cover panel having a longitudinal upstream section adapted for residing proximate a top rear edge of the gutter adjacent an eaves of the roof, and a longitudinal downstream section located away from the roof eaves. The downstream section is adapted for engaging an outwardly-spaced leading edge of the gutter. The cover panel defines a first row of longitudinally-spaced debris filter openings adapted for receiving rainwater runoff from the roof into the gutter. A longitudinal weir ridge is formed downstream of the first row of debris filter openings, and is adapted for slowing and flattening a downstream flow of rainwater runoff bypassing the first row of debris filter openings. The cover panel further defines a second row of longitudinally-spaced debris filter openings downstream of the weir ridge. The second row of openings is adapted to further receive rainwater runoff from the roof into the gutter.

In a method and apparatus for fail-safe controlling an electronically-controlled throttle-type internal combustion engine, provision is made of two accelerator position sensors and two throttle position sensors. When either one of the two accelerator position sensors or either one of the two throttle position sensors fails to operate, a low-speed fail-safe operation of a minimum compensation, that is, an operation for maintaining a minimum output required for limp-home control operation of the engine, is executed and, then, a first fail-safe control operation is executed for controlling the position of the throttle valve using a value detected by the remaining sensor. Therefore, the throttle valve is not unintentionally opened, and the operation can be smoothly shifted to the first fail-safe control operation. When the operation for decelerating the engine is detected by a sensor of a system separate from the above-mentioned sensors, the first fail-safe control operation is interrupted and, instead, a second fail-safe control operation is executed for holding the throttle valve at a predetermined position in order to assure the low-speed fail-safe operation of the minimum compensation.

The present invention provides a surgical footswitch that includes a base, a pedal, an encoder assembly, a wireless interface, and an internal power generator. The pedal mounts upon the base and pivots. The encoder assembly couples to the pedal. As the pedal pivots, the encoder assembly translates the mechanical signal of the pedal into a control signal based on the pedals position and / or orientation. The wireless interface couples the encoder assembly to receive the control signal. The wireless interface also couples the surgical footswitch to a surgical console operable to control and direct surgical equipment. The wireless interface passes the control signal from the encoder to the surgical console, which then directs the surgical equipment based on the control signal. This wireless interface eliminates the tangle of wires or tethers, which may be a hazard in the surgical theater. The internal power generator translates footswitch movement into stored energy to eliminate potential failures of the footswitch during a procedure and overcome the need to replace batteries within the footswitch.

A tape-like label forming device is capable of forming a label tape that is made up of a printing tape and a double-sided tape. A temperature-indicating material that changes color in response to changes in ambient temperature is applied to the surface of the printing tape. With this construction, since the color of the temperature-indicating material conceals the colors of the double-sided tape and characters such as letters and symbols printed on the underside of the printing tape, the colors of the characters and the double-sided tape can be freely selected and combined.

An improved cone nut for a structural channel is provided. The cone nut does not require gluing of the cone to the channel nut as in conventional methods. The cone instead houses the channel nut by a friction fit locking mechanism, resulting in a secure attachment of the cone to the channel nut which prevents failure of the cone by separation from the channel nut which would, in turn, render the channel nut useless.

A method and an apparatus for controlling to lock or unlock in the portable terminal having a transparent display that has two display surfaces and is capable of double-sided touch input and double-sided display is provided. The method includes activating the transparent display according to a lock state or an unlock state of the transparent display; displaying a lock or unlock area, which notifies whether a display surface is locked, in a preset area of at least one of display surfaces of the transparent display; and changing the lock state or the unlock state of the at least one of the display surfaces of the transparent display and displaying whether the changed state is the lock state or the unlock state in the lock or unlock area of the at least one display surface, when a touch input is received in the lock or unlock area.

A tube-bending device including a frame having a reciprocably mounted anvil and a coacting crossbar with tube-restraining blocks, together with a ratchet mechanism for driving the anvil toward the blocks to perform tube-bending operations, wherein the crossbar is reinforced with reinforcing ribs to prevent failure.

The invention describes a new feature for a network element or a router (IP-NIU). The feature is implemented in said router as a route manager object (RIISTA). The first function of the feature is realised by trapping the routing messages that any process like routing daemon or the route manager object sends to the input / output manager and sending them forward to the appropriate function. The second function of the feature is realised by copying the routing messages from the active unit (IP-NIU WO) to the other instance of the route manager (RIISTA_SL) running in the spare unit (IP-NIU SP).

A longitudinal control law is designed to optimize the flying qualities when aircraft is set to approach configuration, i.e. when the flap lever is set to the landing position and landing gears are locked down. Under such circumstances, the effort of trimming the aircraft speed can be extremely reduced by the usage of a momentary on-off switch or other control in the sidestick, instead of or in addition to a conventional trim up-down switch, making easier the task of airspeed selection by the pilot. This control law provides excellent handling qualities during approach and landing, with the benefit of not needing or using radio altimeter information in safety-critical applications.

The invention discloses an improved instantaneous symmetrical component method-based current detection method for a distribution static synchronous compensator (DSTATCOM), which comprises the following steps of: 1, determining a symmetrical component method and a method for expressing an instantaneous value in a phasor time domain; 2, determining the instantaneous value; 3, implementing the improved instantaneous symmetrical component method; 4, establishing a model by adopting a MATLAB simulation tool to perform simulation analysis on a conclusion; 5, filtering, converting and processing data; and 6, subtracting obtained three phases of positive fundamental active currents iafp<+>, ibfp<+> and icfp<+> from a load current to obtain required comprehensive compensation command currents iac, ibc and icc comprising harmonic components, negative sequence components and reactive components. The method avoids a complex phase shift circuit, a phase locked loop circuit, and an address generator and a table lookup process of sine and cosine function table, and eliminates errors and faults caused thereby.

A liquid crystal display according to an exemplary embodiment includes a display substrate including a display area for displaying an image and a non-display area enclosing the display area; a plurality of normal pixels formed in an edge region among a center region of the display area and a peripheral area of the display area, and a plurality of corner pixels formed in a corner region of the peripheral area of the display area; and a sealant formed in the non-display area. A corner pixel of the plurality of corner pixels and the sealant are separated from each other.

The invention concerns devices of power supply and is intended for independent energy, heat and hot water supply of living and industrial premises. The system of independent energy and heat supply of living and industrial premises contains wind generator setup for electric power production 1, connected with electric energy consumers; the electric energy accumulator 2 connected with the wind generator by setup 1 and electric energy consumers; setup for solar into thermal energy transformation 3 and the thermal accumulator 4, connected with thermal energy consumers.

A semiconductor device includes a substrate with an active area. A last level interconnect capping layer is disposed over the active area. A buffer layer / crack stop layer overlies the last level interconnect capping layer and a passivation layer overlies the buffer layer / crack stop layer. Also, a contact pad (e.g., probe pad, wire bond pad or flip-chip pad) overlies the passivation layer.

Data signals are transmitted over transmission lines in groups to receivers in a receiving IC. Each group of data signals has a differential clock used in synchronizing and detecting the data signals. The data signal eye windows vary with timing jitter in the data signals relative to the clock edges and the asymmetry in a compensated clock signal detected from the differential clock using a duty cycle adjustment circuit. Error detection determines if the clock asymmetry is affecting the eye window of the data signals. Control signals selectively adjust the gain of differential stages generating the compensated clock to modify the duty cycle of the compensated clock. The eye window of the data signals are monitored and used as feedback to servo the control signals to optimize the duty cycle of the compensated clock signal for sampling the data signals.

A guide rail system for slidably opening and closing a drawer within an enclosure is disclosed. The system comprises a mounting bracket for fixing the system to the enclosure, the mounting bracket having a fixed rail for receiving an intermediate rail capable of sliding back and forth on the fixed rail, and a pull out rail operatively attached to the drawer and capable of sliding back and forth on the intermediate rail. A resiliently compressible damping device, channel guide with sliding member and a closing device are disposed along the mounting bracket. The pull out rail has a guiding pin on its bottom surface. The sliding member is adapted to travel along the channel guide and locate an end of the damping device that can be pushed inwardly to provide damping. The closing device comprises a housing, a resilient means, and a driver pivotally mounted with the housing and operatively connected to the resilient means. The driver is pivotable between a first locked position and a second linearly moveable position, and includes an angular slot for receiving the guiding pin and an abutment projection contactable with the sliding member. During a closing action, the pull out rail is caused to slide in a drawer-closing direction. When the guiding pin reaches and engages with the angular slot, the action of the guiding pin within the angular slot causes the driver to be pivoted from its first position to its second position where the abutment projection engages with the sliding member. Thereafter, linear movement of the driver urges the sliding member to correspondingly travel along the channel guide against the resilience of the damping device, resulting in deceleration of the closing motion.

A catalytic hydrocracking reactor vessel for the conversion of a hydrogen gas and fossil fuel feedstream to light liquid hydrocarbons. The reactor vessel comprises reactor cup riser means with a helical cyclonic separator conduit for separating a liquid and vapor product stream to provide an essentially vapor-free liquid recycle stream, grid plate bubble cap means with tapered bell cap wall housing having serrated edges for producing small hydrogen bubbles of increased total surface area of bubbles at lower pressure drop, optionally feedstream inlet pipe sparger means containing rows of downward directed slots for even distribution of the feedstream across the cross-sectional area of the reactor and providing free drain of solid particles from the sparger, and optionally liquid recycle inlet distributor means containing vertically curved plates for creating a whirling motion in the liquid recycle stream for better mixing with the feedstream with minimal solids settling.

The invention discloses an elevator self-diagnosis and pre-diagnosis system and method based on a time-frequency transformation algorithm. The elevator self-diagnosis and pre-diagnosis system comprises a sensor and an elevator control system or comprises a frequency converter and an elevator control system. The sensor is connected with the elevator control system. The frequency converter is connected with the elevator control system. The elevator control system comprises a data conversion module, a data fusion module, a judgment module, an anomaly analysis module, an anomaly / fault clearance module and an anomaly / fault information sending module. According to the elevator self-diagnosis and pre-diagnosis system and method, labor cost of a company is reduced greatly, the number of times of elevator stopping is reduced, and the experience of passengers and elevator usage efficiency are improved. Meanwhile, due to the fact that the problem of an anomaly or a fault is solved through pre-diagnosis, the technical content of products of the company is increased greatly, industrial competitiveness is promoted, and the condition that the company conducts popularization and brand establishment on the elevator products is facilitated.