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A system for bilateral or monocular photochemical cross-linking of corneal collagen employs selectable light in a selected wavelength band as the excitation source and riboflavin as the photosensitizer. The system has an illumination source which may have multi-spectral capability, light guides for delivery of light to the optical head for projection onto the corneal surface, selectable radiation patterns to accommodate individual corneal architecture, and red light phototherapy to limit apoptosis and accelerate healing time. Aiming beams provide alignment of the optical head to the patient cornea. A microprocessor-controlled rotary solenoid mechanical shutter provides discontinuous illumination for tissue reoxygenation, and devices and methods may be included for the in situ determination of oxygen utilization and the riboflavin content of the cornea.

A new biofilm-activated sludge Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR) treatment process for sewage or wastewater has successfully been developed as the third generation SBR (SBR3). This new SBR3 process utilizes a multi-stage and multi-sludge SBR configuration receiving either continuous or intermittent inflow of wastewater. Each stage has individually controlled continuous or alternating anaerobic / anoxic / aerobic operation, with or without mixing and recycling from the other stage(s). The configuration and operation is dependent upon the treatment objectives and effluent discharge requirements. In the preferred embodiment, carriers are used to facilitate control of operating conditions.

The present invention provides a carbonated and non-carbonated water supplier for a beverage dispensing apparatus for a residential refrigerator. The beverage dispensing apparatus includes a drink supplier including a drink supply canister holder for holding a plurality of drink supply canisters, a plurality of valve actuators for causing the drink supply to be selectively released from the drink supply canisters, the water supplier for selectively supplying carbonated water and non-carbonated water for producing the beverages, a gas supplier for supplying CO2 gas to carbonate the carbonated water provided by the water supplier and for supplying CO2 gas or other gas for pressurizing the drink supply canisters to provide a consistent flow rate of the drink supply from the drink supply canisters and one or more beverage requesters for enabling users to request one of a plurality of beverages.

A dressing for promoting healing and pain relief of the body of a living organism having a pathologic condition has at least one layer of conductive material having a resistance no greater than 1000 Ω / cm2. When placed proximate a portion of the body of the living organism suffering from the pathologic condition, the dressing alters the electrodynamic processes occurring in conjunction with said pathologic condition to promote healing and pain relief in the living organism. When used as a wound dressing, the conductive material is placed in contact with tissue around the periphery of the wound and with the wound, lowering the electrical potential and resistance of the wound and increasing the wound current. In an exemplary embodiment, the conductive material is a multi-ply nylon fabric plated with silver by an autocatalytic electroless plating process and with the plies in electrical continuity. The dressing provides an antimicrobial and analgesic effect. The dressing may be provided for numerous applications and may include other layers such as an absorbent layer, a semi-permeable layer and additional layer of conductor material. Multilaminate embodiments of the present invention exhibit conductive material concentration gradients and, potentially, a capacitive effect when sequential conductor layers are insulated by intervening layers.

A multimedia content delivery system includes a server apparatus (100) for delivering graphical information across a network (30) to a client device (200). An environment engine (150) controls a virtual environment responsive to user commands. An object transformation unit (400, 405) transforms original object data (310) relating to a plurality of objects into compressed object data (350). A data management unit (120) transmits the compressed object data to the client device (200). The compressed object data (350) is decompressed and rendered by the client device (200) to output images to represent the virtual environment on a visual display device. Server-side and client side I / O handler units (130, 230) provide the user commands from the client device (200). The compressed object data (360) may comprise coefficients of a solution to a partial differential equation. Methods and apparatus are described relating to polygon-based object geometry (510) and pixel-based image files (600) which are transformed and regenerated using coefficients (540, 606) of a solution to a partial differential equation.

A system and method of intubating a patient includes an intubating body. A user-control at or associated with the proximal end of the body allows both display of patient oral cavity anatomy and control of orientation of a stylet guide at or near the distal end of the body. The combination assists a user to effectively intubate the patient even if the patient has difficult anatomy.

A dressing for promoting healing and pain relief of the body of a living organism having a pathologic condition has at least one layer of conductive material having a resistance no greater than 1000 Ω / cm2. When placed proximate a portion of the body of the living organism suffering from the pathologic condition, the dressing alters the electrodynamic processes occurring in conjunction with said pathologic condition to promote healing and pain relief in the living organism. When used as a wound dressing, the conductive material is placed in contact with tissue around the periphery of the wound and with the wound, lowering the electrical potential and resistance of the wound and increasing the wound current. In an exemplary embodiment, the conductive material is a multi-ply nylon fabric plated with silver by an autocatalytic electroless plating process and with the plies in electrical continuity. The dressing provides an antimicrobial and analgesic effect. The dressing may be provided for numerous applications and may include other layers such as an absorbent layer, a semi-permeable layer and additional layer of conductor material. Multilaminate embodiments of the present invention exhibit conductive material concentration gradients and, potentially, a capacitive effect when sequential conductor layers are insulated by intervening layers.

A method and device for brewing beverages is disclosed. The design incorporates a heater incorporating an advantageous combination of heating reservoir size and heating element power. The design also incorporates a purging process to dry a coffee pod after use.

The invention belongs to the field of oil and gas field exploration, discloses novel technology for volume fracturing of a compact oil reservoir, and particularly relates to a sectioned multi-cluster synchronous volume fracturing technology for double horizontal wells. The technology is characterized by including the steps of synchronous fracturing selection, synchronous fracturing well selection, multi-section and multi-cluster perforation position determination, synchronous fracturing construction and synchronous fracturing effect evaluation. In the technology, cracks are impelled to turn by means of interference among the cracks, thereby realizing complicated netted cracks and effectively modifying the compact oil reservoir.

A helicopter with two or more rotor heads with full swash plate control and a novel control scheme to allow for propulsion in the horizontal plane in all directions, allowing the aircraft to fly in all directions in a truly horizontal fashion. Furthermore, a manual input device to control the additional control freedoms thus gained, and an electronic control system that combines manual inputs with inputs from sensors and translates these inputs into directions for the actuators of the two or more swash plates in order to control the aircraft, taking into account the novel control scheme.

A dressing for promoting healing and pain relief of the body of a living organism having a pathologic condition has at least one layer of conductive material having a resistance no greater than 1000 Ω / cm2. When placed proximate a portion of the body of the living organism suffering from the pathologic condition, the dressing alters the electrodynamic processes occurring in conjunction with said pathologic condition to promote healing and pain relief in the living organism. When used as a would dressing, the conductive material is placed in contact with tissue around the periphery of the wound and with the wound, lowering the electrical potential and resistance of the wound and increasing the wound current. In an exemplary embodiment, the conductive material is a multi-ply nylon fabric plated with silver by an autocatalytic electroless plating process and with the plies in electrical continuity. The dressing provides an antimicrobial and analgesic effect. The dressing may be provided for numerous applications and may include other layers such as an absorbent layer, a semi-permeable layer and additional layer of conductor material. Multilaminate embodiments of the present invention exhibit conductive material concentration gradients and, potentially, a capacitive effect when sequential conductor layers are insulated by intervening layers.

An apparatus for providing a feature in a network environment is provided that includes a central web site operable to interface with one or more end users and to manage information related to one or more of the end users. The central web site includes a post-date component that comprises a set of questions for one or more of the end users to complete in order to provide answers associated with a meeting that took place between a first end user and a second end user.

A dressing for promoting healing and pain relief of the body of a living organism having a pathologic condition has at least one layer of conductive material having a resistance no greater than 1000 Ω / cm2. When placed proximate a portion of the body of the living organism suffering from the pathologic condition, the dressing alters the electrodynamic processes occurring in conjunction with said pathologic condition to promote healing and pain relief in the living organism. When used as a wound dressing, the conductive material is placed in contact with tissue around the periphery of the wound and with the wound, lowering the electrical potential and resistance of the wound and increasing the wound current. In an exemplary embodiment, the conductive material is a multi-ply nylon fabric plated with silver by an autocatalytic electroless plating process and with the plies in electrical continuity. The dressing provides an antimicrobial and analgesic effect. The dressing may be provided for numerous applications and may include other layers such as an absorbent layer, a semi-permeable layer and additional layer of conductor material. Multilaminate embodiments of the present invention exhibit conductive material concentration gradients and, potentially, a capacitive effect when sequential conductor layers are insulated by intervening layers.

A touch-based computer graphics user interface enhances a stylus pen with virtual suction to create a virtual vacuum or suction tool. The virtual tool may simulate a physical world suction tool and / or provide capabilities not available in the real world. The virtual suction tool allows the user to feel as if he or she has transcended the boundary between the virtual world and the real world by physically holding in his or her hand an object that is able to interact with and virtually attract and contain items removed from or expellable into the virtual world. The resulting highly intuitive user interface provides fun and exciting video game play and has other applications as well.

An apparatus for providing a feature in a network environment is provided that includes a central web site operable to interface with one or more end users and to manage information related to one or more of the end users. The central web site is operable to populate a queue of a first end user with a profile of a second end user. The central web site includes a search component that, once the first end user has reviewed the profile, allows the first end user to search for one or more other end users using specified criteria.

A wash system for the taillights of a trailer includes at least one wash nozzle directed at the taillights, a fluid supply line connected between a compressed air source and the nozzle, a wash fluid tank, and a pump which pumps a controlled amount of wash fluid from the tank into the supply line. A control valve in the supply line controllably discharges a charge of air under pressure into the supply line such that the charge of air under pressure is arranged to discharge the controlled amount of wash fluid in the fluid line through the wash nozzle. The volume of the charge of air and the amount of wash fluid are independent controlled to provide a high degree of control of the mixture of the resulting wash fluid being discharged from the nozzles to ensure effective washing of the light assemblies regardless of the conditions.

An apparatus for providing a feature in a network environment is provided that includes a central website operable to interface with one or more end users and to manage information related to one or more of the end users. One or more searches are conducted for one or more of the end users, and one or more attributes previously determined by a selected one of the end users are varied to offer one or more additional matches to the selected end user, and the additional matches are different from matches offered to the selected end user based on the previously determined attributes. In more specific embodiments, the central website offers the additional matches based on a number of current matches being served to the selected end user.

The invention relates to the field of terminal equipment data transmission, in particular to a method for defining and acquiring an upgrade package of terminal equipment. Aiming at the problems in the prior art, the invention provides the method for defining and acquiring the upgrade package of the terminal equipment which has a simple protocol and convenience in implementation. The method comprises the following steps: defining a version information configuration file first and then uniformly placing all version information in the configuration file, and deploying the version information and the upgrade package on a publishing server according to rules; actively requesting the publishing server to download the configuration file by using the terminal equipment; automatically searching the configuration file of the publishing server and downloading the configuration file to a terminal by using an upgrade client in the terminal; analyzing the configuration file, upgrading and the like. According to the method, the upgrade package is acquired by controlling the naming rules of a version number and the matching between the publishing server and the terminal equipment. The method is mainly applied to the field of the terminal equipment such as televisions, computers and intelligent mobile phones.

The invention discloses a liftable self-propelled continuous pushing system for a large-span steel box beam. The liftable self-propelled continuous pushing system for the large-span steel box beam comprises a automatically-positioning continuous pushing device, an automatic pier top slideway elevation adjusting device and a horizontal limiting and correcting device. By virtue of a highly automated control system, precise positioning and synchronous pushing are achieved, damage to the quality of a steel box structure is minimized, and a relatively good quality control effect is ensured. The invention further discloses a pushing construction method. Through arrangement of the automatically-positioning continuous pushing device and the automatic pier top slideway elevation adjusting device in a pushing construction technology, self-propelled advancement and precise positioning of the pushing device are achieved, lifting and mounting and dismounting operation procedures of mechanical equipment are saved, the operation of the construction technology is simplified, the technical difficulty is reduced, the on-site controllability is substantially improved, the construction time is shortened, the safety risks are reduced, and popularization and application are easy.

The invention relates to a well pattern adjustment and well pattern encryption method applied to on-sea hypotonic oil deposit exploitation. A horizontal well A, a horizontal well B and a horizontal well C which are in mutually parallel are selected, staged fracturing is carried out on the three horizontal wells respectively to generate artificial fissures vertical to a well cylinder, three artificial fissures of the horizontal well B in the middle and four artificial fissures of the horizontal well A and four artificial fissures of the horizontal well C on the two sides are distributed at stagger, fissures are mutually parallel to each other, and the distance is 80-200m. Water injection is carried out on certain fissures through injection and exploitation in a same well, oil extraction is carried out in other fissures, and encryption effects of inverted five spot well patterns, threadiness well patterns and injection and exploitation systems of the inverted five spot well patterns and the threadiness well patterns can be formed.

Metallic glasses of superior mechanical and magnetic properties are manufactured by annealing the glasses under the influence of an electric current to convert the glass to a composite that includes crystallites, preferably nanocrystallites, dispersed through an amorphous matrix.

The invention discloses a geographic information freehand sketching system based on longitude and latitude. The geographic information freehand sketching system is a system combing longitude and latitude information with freehand sketching information. The system is composed of map layers, a base map, various elements in a map including roads, stations and lines, and longitude and latitude information. Firstly, one or more map layers and measuring scales of the map layers are defined by a user, a drawing reference system (base map) is imported, and the reference system base map needs to acquire the longitude and latitude of two endpoints; then the user defines various elements in the base map, and longitude and latitude, name and beginning and ending time serve as the basic attributes of the elements; the defined elements are drawn into the map layers through mouse clicking and dragging. A map drawn with the method has extremely high expandability, randomness and controllability; furthermore, the elements in the map all have time attribute and longitude and latitude attribute. Longitude and latitude information is acquired through corresponding geographic information acquiring equipment and uploaded to a corresponding server, so that the position information of the map elements can be inquired in real time and displayed on a PC or a mobile device.

The invention discloses a method for processing coal gas flow center dynamic tracking and monitoring coal gas utilization rate. The method comprises the steps of 1 data collecting and processing; 2 infrared imagery processing; 3 temperature field calibration; 4 coal gas flow center dynamic tracking; 5 coal gas utilization rate monitoring. The method has the advantages that implementation is easy, temperature field calibration is achieved through the treatment on the collected infrared imagery combining crossed thermometry data and blast furnace design data, dynamic tracking on charge-level coal gas flow center fall point distribution is achieved, the coal gas flow center distribution characteristics and the corresponding coal gas utilization rates are classified, the relation between the coal gas center change and the blast furnace coal gas utilization rate is confirmed, real-time monitoring on the coal gas utilization rate is realized, the dynamic changing condition of the coal gas flow center and the relation between the dynamic changing condition of the coal gas flow center and the corresponding coal gas utilization rate can be recognized timely and accurately, on-line monitoring and visual control on the burden distribution operation of the blast furnace are achieved, and the advantages of being high in accuracy rate and strong in real-time performance are achieved.

A volumetric display apparatus is disclosed which includes, one or more movable generator means to receive a multitude of light sources, wherein said light sources have a non-linear spatial distribution and are independently accessed for unequal access durations, in which said light sources have multiple-element structure with independent direction and intensity control, in which light blocking means controls a direction and intensity of light beams generated by light sources, and a method employing a psudo-uniform volumetric image space in which volumetric image elements have a sane size.

A calibration arrangement for breathalyzers wherein a heightened degree of control and management is applied. Broadly contemplated are arrangements whereby jars or containers of new solution to be used in the calibration arrangement are subject to automatic verification. Also contemplated is the close monitoring of the running of calibration tests and safeguards to ensure that extensively used or old solution is not put into use.

An apparatus for coordinating a relationship in a network environment is provided that includes a central web site operable to interface with one or more end users and to manage information related to one or more of the end users. The central web site includes an on-line component and an off-line component such that one or more of the end users can communicate and gather information about each other at the central web site and the central web site can facilitate a meeting in person between two of the end users.

Provided are non-volatile split-gate memory cells having self-aligned floating gate and the control gate structures and exemplary processes for manufacturing such memory cells that provide improved dimensional control over the relative lengths and separation of the split-gate elements. Each control gate includes a projecting portion that extends over at least a portion of the associated floating gate with the size of the projecting portion being determined by a first sacrificial polysilicon spacer that, when removed, produces a concave region in an intermediate insulating structure. The control gate is then formed as a polysilicon spacer adjacent the intermediate insulating structure, the portion of the spacer extending into the concave region determining the dimension and spacing of the projecting portion and the thickness of the interpoly oxide (IPO) separating the upper portions of the split-gate electrodes thereby providing improved performance and manufacturability.

A vibration damping device including: a pressure-receiving chamber and an equilibrium chamber connected by a first orifice passage; a movable member disposed within the pressure-receiving chamber, to form a primary fluid chamber partly defined by a rubber elastic body, and an auxiliary fluid chamber partly defined by an oscillating plate; and a second orifice passage connecting the auxiliary fluid chamber to the equilibrium chamber. A through-hole is formed in a partition member that partitions the primary fluid chamber and the auxiliary fluid chamber, the oscillating plate is housed within the through-hole with a gap provided therebetween whereby the oscillating plate is displaceable in an axial direction within the through-hole. A stopper abutted by the oscillating plate during displacement to one axial side is provided, with the gap becoming closed off when the oscillating plate is in a state of abutment against the stopper.

A calibration arrangement for breathalyzers wherein a heightened degree of control and management is applied. Broadly contemplated are arrangements whereby jars or containers of new solution to be used in the calibration arrangement are subject to automatic verification. Also contemplated is the close monitoring of the running of calibration tests and safeguards to ensure that extensively used or old solution is not put into use.