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A device for determining the position of a sleeve, on the one hand in the vertical direction in relation to a fixture dummy in or on a model of a bone, and on the other hand in the transverse direction in relation to the longitudinal axis of the fixture dummy. An expansion spacer cooperates with the fixture dummy and the sleeve. An expansion screw is designed in such a way that, when acted upon, it in turn acts upon the expansion spacer so that the latter determined the position of the sleeve and thus of the template relative to the jaw bone and the fixture.

The present invention provides a method and system for depicting an online map of a route along with any incidents on the route. To create the map, a consumer first provides the origination and destination addresses of the route, then a proposed route is provided for their approval. The consumer may modify the proposed route or accept it. Next, the route is analyzed to determine if any incidents have occurred upon it. This analysis comprises preparing the route by creating regions of interest around segments composing the route, examining if any traffic incidents fall within one or more of the regions of interest, and determining for those incidents if the incident is closer than a threshold value to any segment on the route. The final route along with any incidents on the route is then depicted for the consumer.

A system for cutting a bone at a desired location may include an image guided drill cylinder configured to receive either a drill bit to create a bore at a target location on the bone or a pin for insertion into the target location, and a cutting block having a plurality of adjustable guides, each defining a cutting path to guide a cutting instrument, a mounting location configured to attach to the bone at the target location, and a plurality of adjustors for adjusting the position of the guides relative to the target location. The system may further include a tracking instrument for providing image guidance of the adjustments to the positions of the guides.

A bone cutting apparatus configured to guide a surgical instrument during a bone cutting procedure is provided. The apparatus is attachable to a bone and comprises a cutting guide having a resection slot and a fine adjustment block coupled thereto. The fine adjustment block has a first adjustment dial configured to change the position of the resection slot relative to a resection plane. The system may further include a tracking element that is detectable and trackable by a surgical navigation system.

The present invention enables typing on a touchscreen without the need for the user to accurately hit each key on an onscreen keyboard. The relative distance and direction between each letter of a word on a virtual keyboard (visible or invisible) is used to uniquely identify the desired word by comparing parameters with those pre-stored in a word database. This means the user may begin typing at any location on the screen, without being constrained to a pre-determined location of an onscreen keyboard. It also means the size of the virtual onscreen keyboard may be determined by the user's typing pattern. Various disambiguation strategies can be applied to this typing approach to allow the user to be imprecise.

The present invention provides methods and systems for defining commercial transaction components; defining rules for mapping customer transactions into individual components; market segmentation in light of these individual definitions and bundling individual components of an offer into optimized packages for presentation and sale. A data processing system in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, examines the commercial behavior of enrolled customers, breaks each of the constituent transactions into purchases of atom-level components; catalogues those components; extracts demographic information from said transactions and other sources; facilitates demographic studies of groups of such customers; optimizes offerings to such groups; and facilitates the consummation of those offers of sale. The processing system may also facilitate customers fiscal management through the communication of data necessary to practice the instant invention.

A technique for estimating the location of a wireless terminal at an unknown location in a geographic region is disclosed. The technique is based on the recognition that there are traits of electromagnetic signals that are dependent on topography, the receiver, the location of the transmitter, and other factors. For example, if a particular radio station is known to be received strongly at a first location and weakly at a second location, and a given wireless terminal at an unknown location is receiving the radio station weakly, it is more likely that the wireless terminal is at the second location than at the first location.

A seat back hinge fitting for a motor vehicle seat having a seat carrier and a seat back. The seat back hinge fitting has a lower arm that is rigidly fixed to the seat carrier, an upper arm that is rigidly fixed to the seat back and a forward tilting hinge for swiftly tilting the seat back forward from a position of normal utilization into a forward tilted position. A bearing hole is provided for in one of the two arms. A bearing is pivotally disposed within said bearing hole. A locking device that normally locks a pivot movement of the bearing within the bearing hole is provided. A release means that disengages the locking device when actuated for the purpose of tilting the seat back forward into the forward tilted position is assigned to the locking device.

A method for monitoring the presence of selected chromophores in a sample of epithelial tissue, independent of the amount of a predetermined chromophore, the method comprising: illuminating an area of tissue by projecting light from a light source of at least two different wavelengths λ₁, λ₂; receiving light remitted by the illuminated area of tissue at a photoreceptor; analysing the received light to identify and measure the proportion of light of each wavelength remitted from the tissue I_r (λ); calculating the ratio of light at each wavelength returned from the tissue R_t, (λ), and then calculating Z=Formula (I); where 1 is chosen such that Z is independent of the amount of predetermined chromophore. Typically 1 is calculated such that Z=Formula (II); where j and k are such that 2j α(λ₁)=2kj α(λ₂)=1 where α(λ₁) and α(λ₂) are the absorbtion coefficients for the predetermined chromophore at each wavelength.

A grill for cooking includes a first set of burners and a second set of burners wherein at least one burner of the first set of burners is interdigitally arranged with burners of the second set of burners. The grill further includes a first valve that controls a flow of fuel to the first set of burners and a second valve that controls a flow of fuel to the second set of burners.

A semiconductor device formed by an automated wire bonding system. The semiconductor device comprises a lead frame having a plurality of lead fingers and a die paddle, and a semiconductor die mounted to the die paddle. The die paddle comprises a plurality of eyepoint features that extend from the die. The die comprises a first plurality of bonding pads and the lead fingers comprise a second plurality of bonding pads. The first and second bonding pads are interconnected by a plurality of connecting wires which are installed by the automated wire bonding system. The wire bonding system obtains an image of the lead frame and identifies the eyepoint features of the die paddle within the image so as to more accurately determine the positions of the second wire bonding pads of the lead frame with respect to the wire bonding system.

A system for singling and transferring objects comprises an inlet area and an outlet area for objects from the system, transfer means for transferring such objects comprising containment members, and retrieval means for retrieving and depositing such objects in the containment members. The transfer means may be actuated, in use, independently of the retrieval means so as to transfer one or more objects to the outlet area.

In an exemplary method, repeated patterns are identified in a strip-like product. In the method the strip-like product is observed by at least one camera, and at least one digital image signal comprised of pixels is created for inspection. The image signal is searched for anomalies comprised of one or more pixels. A search image is created of any detected anomaly and its neighbourhood, and the search image is used to convolute the image signal being examined, creating a response image signal. The response image signal is used to determine image areas in the image signal being examined that are substantially similar to the search image.

A hadron radiation installation adapted to subject a target to irradiation by a hadron radiation beam includes a target support configured to support, preferably immobilize, a target; a hadron radiation apparatus adapted to emit a hadron radiation beam along a beam axis to irradiate the target supported by the target support, the radiation beam penetrating into the target. The radiation apparatus has a control system at least comprising a beam penetration depth control allowing at least to control and vary the penetration depth of the radiation beam into the target. The installation has a radiation beam range sensor device adapted to determine the penetration depth of said radiation beam into the target, where the range sensor device includes a gamma camera responsive to prompt gamma rays that are emitted while the hadron radiation beam penetrates into the target.

A reference voltage signal (VpmpR), which is obtained by applying the output signal UPB/UP of a phase/frequency detection circuit (PFD) as a constantly locked state signal to a replica charge pump circuit (CPR) and then integrating, is compared in a correction voltage generation circuit (CMP) with a PLL circuit control voltage signal (Vpmp) for controlling a voltage-controlled oscillation circuit (VCO) by a desired voltage, this PLL circuit-controlled voltage signal being obtained by applying the output signal UPB/DN of the phase/frequency detection circuit as input to a charge pump circuit (CP) and then integrating, and the correction voltage signal (Vcmp) that is the result of the comparison then controls a charge pump bias circuit (CPBias) that controls the bias currents of the charge pump circuit and replica charge pump circuit.

A test table for measuring lateral forces and displacements while simultaneously applying, if necessary, normal forces, particularly in nanoidenters and in scratch and wear testers. The test table is mounted in a manner that enables it to be laterally displaced, and the lateral force and displacement can be determined by means of a measured-value acquisition. The test table is fixed between at least two vertically upright leaf springs, which can be laterally deflected in the direction of the lateral (horizontal) motion of the test table to be effected.

An arrow assembly having an elongated tubular arrow shaft, with a plurality of slits extending forwardly from the rearward end of the shaft, an expandable locking insert mounted at the forward end of the arrow shaft, a arrow head having a ball-shaped tip mounted on the locking insert, a fletching mechanism having a central spine mountable inside the shaft and a plurality of vanes extending radially outwardly from the spine and through the slits in the shaft, and a nock mountable at the rearward end of the shaft. The assembly can be assembled, disassembled and repaired in the field.

A method for performing an active profiling of the sound emitted by a vehicle engine including the steps of injecting second acoustic waves (MW), which are able to combine with the first acoustic waves (EW) in a merge point in said primary propagation path and to generate third resulting acoustic waves (RW); and generating a driving signal for the diffuser by regulating the amplitude of harmonics of the driving signal (SP) as a function of reference acoustic waves and of a workpoint of the engine, calculating equalization coefficients (α₁, . . . , α_M) to be applied to the amplitudes of said harmonics of the driving signal (SP) via a self-tuning procedure, and comparing the reference acoustic waves (TW) with a simulation (SRW) of the resulting waves. The simulation (SRW) is obtained by applying to a simulation of the second acoustic waves a model of the secondary propagation path.

A system for forming security markings using structured microdots (154) on a printing plate includes a printhead for forming a first plurality of square spots (156) less than or equal to 11 microns; wherein a first group (157) of the first plurality of square spots is formed in a first pattern (158); and wherein the first pattern is less than or equal to 66 microns and comprises a first microdot.

A combustion calorimeter (1) has a housing (6) and therein a detachably mounted decomposition vessel (2) with sample holder (11) and ignition apparatus (12) in its reaction chamber (3). The wall (4) of the decomposition vessel (2) and also the upper decomposition wall (5) here have in the vertical use position a wall thickness that increases from the bottom to the top in order to conduct the heat generated in a combustion process if possible into the upper region of the decomposition vessel (2), where also at least one temperature sensor (7) can be arranged. Owing to the increase in thickness of the delimitation of the internal or reaction space (3), the heat can be distributed therein more favourably.

A mass-flow throttle for highly accurate control of gaseous supplies of fuel and/or air to the combustion chambers for a large engine in response to instantaneous demand signals from the engine's engine control module (ECM), especially for large spark-ignited internal combustion engines. With a unitary block assembly and a throttle blade driven by a non-articulated rotary actuator shaft, in combination with control circuitry including multiple pressure sensors as well as sensors for temperature and throttle position, the same basic throttle concepts are suited to be used for both mass-flow gas (MFG) and mass-flow air (MFA) throttles in industrial applications, to achieve highly accurate mass-flow control despite pressure fluctuations while operating in non-choked flow. The throttle, in combination with the sensors and ECM, enable detection of backfire events, with the throttle system further being enabled to take operative measures to prevent damage to the throttle components resulting from a backfire event.

Defects in an electronic device are detected by capturing a first image from a first side of the electronic device, and capturing a second image from a second side of the electronic device which is different from the first side. The first and second images are captured when an inside of the electronic device is illuminated by light rays passed therethrough. If a defect is present in the electronic device, a profile of the defect is determined based on the first and second images and the electronic device is rejected if it is assessed from the profile of the defect that it is of a type for which the electronic device should be rejected.

A golf club head having integrally attached weight members is disclosed and claimed. The club head body defines at least a toe chamber and a heel chamber. Weights of variable mass are positioned within the chambers, moving the club head center of gravity back and down.

A jump cue stick for use in the game of billiards having a first and second hollow shaft members that are releasably connected and very light weight, the jump cue stick does not employ a conventional wood handle or wood shaft but has a carbon/graphite handle end and a carbon/graphite shaft.

The jump cue stick of present invention has one embodiment for causing a struck cue ball to be jumped over a obstructing ball and having an overall total weight of less than one half of a conventional jump cue stick and by elevating the handle end of the jump cue to an appropriate height, which is higher than if a conventional jump cue were used, and striking the cue ball at an appropriate angle with an appropriate amount of force enabling the player to facilitate the ball-jumping effect from a much closer distance to the blocking balls.

The invention discloses a method for mounting a pile-stabilizing positioning platform. The method includes the steps that A, multiple GPS moving stations are mounted on a floating crane; B, a ship board connecting edge used for constructing a supporting leg bracket of the pile-stabilizing positioning platform is attached and fixed to the ship board outer edge of the floating crane, and an inner frame of the supporting leg bracket is adaptive to the outer diameter of each engineering pile; C, the relative position relations between the GPS moving stations and the center point of the inner frame of the supporting leg bracket are detected and calculated out; D, lofting coordinates corresponding to each GPS moving station are calculated out through the coordinates of a center point of each actual engineering pile sinking position according to the relative position relations between the GPS moving stations and the center point of the inner frame of the supporting leg bracket; and E, the floating crane is moved until the actually-measured coordinates of each GPS moving station are consistent with the corresponding lofting coordinates. The method has the advantages that operation is simple, and positioning is accurate.