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Implantable devices and osmotic pump and catheter systems for delivering a pharmaceutical agent to a patient at selectable rates include an impermeable pump housing and a moveable partition disposed within the housing, the partition dividing the housing into an osmotic driving compartment having an open end and a pharmaceutical agent compartment having a delivery orifice. A plurality of semi permeable membranes may be disposed in the open end of the osmotic driving compartment and a number of impermeable barriers may seal selected ones of the plurality of semi permeable membranes from the patient until breached. Breaching one or more of the impermeable barriers increases the surface area of semi permeable membrane exposed to the patient and controllably increases the delivery rate of the pharmaceutical agent through the delivery orifice and catheter. Each of the plurality of semi permeable membranes may have a selected surface area, composition and / or thickness, to allow a fine-grained control over the infusion rate while the pump is implanted in the patient.

Method and apparatus for increasing the transmissibility of inertial forces produced by an inertial actuator on the housing of a tactile feedback interface device. A tactile interface device, coupled to a host computer, outputs tactile sensations to a user based on interactions and events occurring in a displayed graphical environment. An actuator produces periodic inertial forces, such as vibrations, and a compliant suspension couples the actuator to the device housing. A compliance of the suspension is selected such that the suspension magnifies the periodic inertial forces for a particular frequency range of the inertial forces. The magnified inertial forces are transmitted to the housing to be felt by the user.

The invention discloses a prediction-based routing method at an intersection in a vehicle self-organizing network, and mainly solves the problem that when a packet is routed at the intersection, a link is unstable in the prior art. The scheme for implementing the method is that: when the packet arrives at a previous hop node of the intersection, the node predicts the next intersection to which the packet is transmitted; a weight of each adjacent intersection is calculated according to the density of adjacent road sections and a distance from the next intersection to a destination, and the intersection with the largest weight is selected as the next temporary destination for transmitting the packet; and when the packet is forwarded in a greedy mode in the road section, if the selected nodeis positioned in the boundary of the transmission range and is opposite to a driving direction of the transmitting node, a node secondarily nearest to the destination is selected, otherwise the packet is directly forwarded to the selected node. Compared with the geographic routing in city scenarios (GPCR) protocol and the greedy perimeter stateless routing for wireless networks in urban vehicularscenarios (GpsrJ+ protocol), the method has the advantages that: the transmission rate of the packet is increased, the transmission time delay of the packet is reduced, and the method can be applicable to the vehicle self-organizing network.

A method and device that identify impairments of the blood flow in an extra-corporeal blood circuit during extracorporeal treatment of the blood using an extracorporeal haemodialysis device, where the phase angle of at least one harmonic oscillation of an oscillating pressure signal that propagates in the extracorporeal blood circuit is determined. Impairments of the blood flow are detected in the extracorporeal blood circuit based on a characteristic modification of the phase angle of at least one harmonic oscillation of the pressure signal. A temporal modification of the phase angle may be compared with a predefined threshold value and an impairment is detected if the value of the modification of the phase angle is greater than the predefined threshold value. The method and device permit an early identification of a coagulation of the blood that flows through the haemodialysis unit, so that countermeasures can be initiated promptly.