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An automated irrigation and chemical treatment system comprising a user input device adapted to communicate with a control unit; a mixing chamber adapted to communicate with the control unit and connected to a water supply and chemical canisters, wherein each canister has a sensor to monitor fluid level therein, and control valves for connecting the mixing chamber to a network of pipes. Sprinkler heads connected to the network of pipes each include, a control valve adapted to control fluid flow to a water delivery nozzle by an electro magnet controlled rubber coated ferric ball closure member. The sprinkler heads include water and chemical saturation sensors and the sprinkler heads also communicate with the control unit via wireless transceivers. Multiple zones covered by the system may be treated according to predetermined schedules.

An automated irrigation and chemical treatment system comprising a user input device adapted to communicate with a control unit; a mixing chamber adapted to communicate with the control unit and connected to a water supply and chemical canisters, wherein each canister has a sensor to monitor fluid level therein, and control valves for connecting the mixing chamber to a network of pipes. Sprinkler heads connected to the network of pipes each include, a control valve adapted to control fluid flow to a water delivery nozzle by an electro magnet controlled rubber coated ferric ball closure member. The sprinkler heads include water and chemical saturation sensors and the sprinkler heads also communicate with the control unit via wireless transceivers. Multiple zones covered by the system may be treated according to predetermined schedules.

A gripper for a catheter shaft is a flexible tube surrounding a portion of the catheter shaft. A physician can move the gripper to a selected position on the catheter shaft, and then squeeze the outer surfaces of the gripper, which resiliently collapses around the catheter shaft. When squeezed, an inner surface of the gripper contacts the catheter shaft and can transmit forces applied by the physician to the outside of the gripper, including twisting of the catheter shaft or longitudinal pushing or pulling. The physician may then release the squeezing pressure, and has the option to move the gripper along the catheter shaft to a different position, and may choose to use the gripper at the new position by squeezing it again.

Described herein are chewable articles intended to be provided to animals for purposes including dental cleaning, breath freshening, nutrition, administration to the animal of beneficial agents, satisfaction of the animal's urge to chew, and general enjoyment by the animal. The chews are made to be appetizing to the animal, to satisfy an urge to chew, to effect abrasive cleaning of the animal's teeth, to deliver one or more active agents to the oral cavity of the animal, or a combination of these. The chews have a resilient, chewable texture and are shaped to facilitate dental cleaning, to facilitate oral grasping by the animal, to appeal to human owners of the animal, to enhance the human-animal bond, or a combination of these. Also disclosed are apparatus and methods for making such chewable articles and for formulating and using them to effect dental health in animals.

Polybutylene terephthalate having good heat stability and excellent hydrolysis resistance is continuously produced in a series of a first reactor for reacting an aromatic dicarboxylic acid comprising terephthalic acid as a main ingredient or a derivative thereof with a glycol comprising 1,4-butanediol as a main ingredient, thereby producing an oligomer with an average degree of polymerization of 2.2 to 5, a second reactor for polycondensating the oligomer from the first reactor, thereby preparing a low polymerization product with an average degree of polymerization of 25 to 40, and a third reactor for further polycondensating the low polymerization product from the second reactor, thereby producing a high molecular weight polyester with an average degree of polymerization of 70 to 130, or followed by a fourth reactor for further polycondensing the polyester from the third reactor to an average degree of polymerization of 150 to 200, thereby producing a high molecular weight polyester. Another third reactor or a plurality of third reactors can be provided in parallel to the third reactor, thereby producing different kinds of polybutylene phthalate with different degrees of polymerization from that produced in the main line of the third and fourth reactors or adjusting operating conditions of each of a plurality of the third reactors to increase kinds, precise quality.

A method of improving gas, water, water vapor, and / or grease resistance of a porous material is disclosed which comprises treating the material with a first treatment agent followed by the application of wax and poly(vinyl alcohol) and optionally a polyamine. Porous materials that have a multi-layer coating that includes a first coating of a first treatment agent and a second coating of wax, poly(vinyl alcohol), and optionally a polyamine are also disclosed.

The present invention improves operatability provided for the user as operatability to specify a display range in an information-processing apparatus employing an absolute coordinate input unit such as a touch panel. The information-processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention allows the user to select one of a plurality of input operation modes of the absolute coordinate input unit. One of the input operation modes is a specific mode allowing a display range to be moved to a desired position in a state where the highest resolution of a display unit integrated with the absolute coordinate input unit is lower than the resolution of an entire screen. The information-processing apparatus has a configuration in which, when an operation face of the absolute coordinate input unit is touched to carry out a drag operation in this specific mode, the distance of a movement made in the drag operation is detected, and the position of the display range is then changed by moving the display range by the detected distance.

The present invention relates to coding of SNR enhancement layer data produced during video signal encoding. The present method determines order or blocks in a picture according to a probability table that is obtained from frequencies of locations where non-zero data exists, scans and codes data on each block to data stream as selecting blocks in the determined order, updates the probability table, re-determines order of blocks in the picture based on the updated probability table, and scans and codes data on each block to data stream just after location where the previous scanning is suspended as selecting blocks in the re-determined order. The present invention increases probability to provide a decoding side with more data that contributes to video quality improvement.

The present invention relates to an SCR (Silicon Controlled Rectifier) for the ESD (electrostatic discharge) protection comprising two terminal electrodes of a first electrode and a second electrode, a PMOS, an NMOS and an SCR structure. By utilizing an embedded SCR, a whole-chip ESD protection circuit design can be obtained. The present invention is suitable for IC products, and for applications by IC design industries and IC foundry industries.

To provide a method of fabricating a polyurethane foam with micro pores, and a polishing pad therefrom, the method including steps of (a) adding a nonionic surfactant into at least one of a first ingredient including an isocyanate group-containing compound and a second ingredient including an active hydrogen group-containing compound, (b) agitating and mixing the mixture of the first ingredient and the second ingredient while adding a non-reactive gas thereto, (c) discharging the mixture out of a container at a predetermined rate, and (d) injecting the discharged mixture into a mold so as to form a mold body into a predetermined shape.

The present invention relates to a method for detecting Network Anomaly in network architectures based on locator / identifier split, the detection flow is as follows: initialization processing, and in ITR: processing data packets, sending a Map-Request, determining whether to send an additional Map-Request, sending the data packet, processing the Map_Reply, processing EID-to-RLOC Cache entry expired; in ETR: processing data packet, processing Map-Request, determining whether the traffic of the ITR currently sending the Map-Request is abnormal, replying to the ITR of which the query traffic is abnormal, replying to ITR of which the query traffic is abnormal. With respect to the characteristic that the network architecture based on locator / identifier split needs to query the relationship between the locator and the identifier for packet delivery, the present invention detects Network Anomaly based on query traffic instead of network data packet traffic. Thus the present invention has the advantages of effectively reducing the investment on detection device, The overhead of exchanging monitoring information and the detection system maintenance cost; facilitating cross domain coordination; and efficiently handling the failures occurring during network operation in time; effectively improve the reliability of the network, being suitable for a large-scale network.

Described herein are chewable articles intended to be provided to animals for purposes including dental cleaning, breath freshening, nutrition, administration to the animal of beneficial agents, satisfaction of the animal's urge to chew, and general enjoyment by the animal. Also disclosed are apparatus and methods for making such chewable articles, the methods including the use of a processing aid to lubricate the article-forming apparatus, such as extruders, portioners, and molds, and to reduce the power requirements of such apparatus in the forming process.

A design panel attached to a casing for an electronic equipment, which is constructed so that a display device whose display surface goes black at standby is placeable inside the casing, and which is formed with an opening that makes the display surface visible, the design panel being attached to the casing so as to cover the opening, the design panel including, a transparent support substrate having a larger area than the opening, a polarizing film provided outside or inside the transparent support substrate, a ¼ wavelength phase difference film provided on a closer side to an attachment side of the casing with respect to the polarizing film, and a black colored section provided on the closer side to the attachment side of the casing with respect to the transparent support substrate, for blacking a portion which is able to be in contact with the casing, wherein the display device is made visible from the outside at information display, whereas the display device is covered so as to be made invisible from the outside at standby.

Cutting or grinding oil compositions which are suitable for use in a minimal quantity lubrication system in which a minimal quantity of an oil is supplied to the spot to be cut or ground of a work, together with air are reduced in stickiness and improved in lubricity.

A computer mouse is provided which includes an elastic cover detachably secured upon a main body of the mouse, to enhance ease of operation and reduce muscle strain and soreness by repeatedly operating the computer mouse. The main body has left and right click knobs and optionally a scrolling wheel pivotally mounted thereon. The cover and main body can be complementary coupled together through respective mating convex and concave portions. A display surface is explicitly provided on the main body and / or cover to allow for labeling of instructional information and / or advertising. Additionally, the computer mouse, notably the detachably mounted cover member, can be provided in an attractive shape to encourage use by a child.

To provide a network monitoring system extracting the performance measurement data while eliminating the performance measurement data that is not effective for improvement of the network performance on the basis of a predetermined extraction condition and presenting the extraction result to the operator. The network monitoring system includes extraction condition presenting means for presenting a predetermined extraction condition indicating a relationship between performance measurement data of each device configuring the network and a status of a device to be eliminated upon extracting said performance measurement data; and performance measurement data extracting means for eliminating the performance measurement data that is measured under a status of the device to be eliminated on the basis of an extraction condition indicated by said extraction condition presenting means and extracting the performance measurement data that is effective for improvement of the network performance.

A method for manufacturing a lithium secondary battery includes a first step of dispersing a conductive material in a solvent to prepare a conductive slurry; and a second step of mixing the prepared conductive slurry, a positive electrode active material and a binder to prepare a positive electrode mixture layer-forming slurry; wherein the first step is conducted so that a ratio of a particle size at 10% accumulation to a particle size at 90% accumulation, which are based on a particle size distribution measurement of the conductive material, is 10 or more and 200 or less.

In this application is disclosed an excellent composition for preventing and / or treating the expression of clinical symptoms in a disease caused by mitochondrial dysfunction, characterized in that said composition is an orally administrable composition containing L-arginine as an active ingredient.

A computer-implemented engine, system and method for generating business valuations, scoring, and / or flagging over a network, responsively to information input by a user remote from the engine, system and method. The invention may include a graphical user interface capable of locally querying a user to input the company information, at least one network port capable of remotely receiving the company information from the graphical user interface, and at least one engine communicatively connected to the at least one network port, which engine preferably includes a plurality of rules to generate, responsively to the input company information, at least one of a business valuation, a business score, and / or one or more business flags to be used as indicators in a network marketplace, for the company associated with the inputted company information.

A computer-implemented engine, system and method for generating business valuations, scoring, and / or flagging over a network, responsively to information input by a user remote from the engine, system and method. The invention may include a graphical user interface capable of locally querying a user to input the company information, at least one network port capable of remotely receiving the company information from the graphical user interface, and at least one engine communicatively connected to the at least one network port, which engine preferably includes a plurality of rules to generate, responsively to the input company information, at least one of a business valuation, a business score, and / or one or more business flags to be used as indicators in a network marketplace, for the company associated with the inputted company information.

A device is operably attached to a swimming pool cleaner for dislodging and permitting a steering of the swimming pool cleaner away from obstacles within a swimming pool. The device includes a coupling slidably attached to the swimming pool cleaner near its hose coupling. An upper, generally horizontally positioned, resilient elongate bumper has its opposing ends affixed to the coupling to form the upper bumper into an arcuate shape extending partially around a forward portion of the swimming pool cleaner. A second resilient, elongate vertical bumper has one end attached to the upper bumper and an opposing end attached a weight assembly of the pool cleaner at a location proximate the sealing flange. A roller is attached to the vertical bumper near the upper bumper for rotation thereabout when the swimming pool cleaner encounters an obstacle such as a step from which it is to be dislodged.

The invention provides a front-feeding numerical control machine tool for machining pipes. The front-feeding numerical control machine tool comprises a machine tool body, a working platform is arranged on the machine tool body, a workpiece clamping device is arranged on one side of the working platform, a tool rest is mounted on the working platform, a lathe tool or a milling tool is mounted on the tool rest, the workpiece clamping device is in transmission connection with a spindle motor and comprises an outer sleeve and a spindle, the spindle is arranged in the outer sleeve which comprises an expansion end and a fixed end, the spindle comprises a tapered end and an extension end, the expansion end of the outer sleeve sleeves the tapered end of the spindle correspondingly, the outer sleeve is axially separated into N parts at the expansion end and fixed integrally at the fixed end, the outer diameter of the tapered end of the spindle gradually diminishes from an end portion to the extension end, and the extension end of the spindle is connected with a first air cylinder. The front-feeding numerical control machine is reasonable in structure, capable of working automatically, safe in working process, and high in producing efficiency and yield rate.

A method of improving grease and / or water resistance of a material is disclosed that comprises treating the material with wax and poly(vinyl alcohol) and optionally with a polyamine. Compositions for practicing the method and materials that have been treated by the method are also disclosed.

A computer-implemented engine, system and method for generating business valuations, scoring, and / or flagging over a network, responsively to information input by a user remote from the engine, system and method. The invention may include a graphical user interface capable of locally querying a user to input the company information, at least one network port capable of remotely receiving the company information from the graphical user interface, and at least one engine communicatively connected to the at least one network port, which engine preferably includes a plurality of rules to generate, responsively to the input company information, at least one of a business valuation, a business score, and / or one or more business flags to be used as indicators in a network marketplace, for the company associated with the inputted company information.

A computer-implemented engine, system and method for generating business valuations, scoring, and / or flagging over a network, responsively to information input by a user remote from the engine, system and method. The invention may include a graphical user interface capable of locally querying a user to input the company information, at least one network port capable of remotely receiving the company information from the graphical user interface, and at least one engine communicatively connected to the at least one network port, which engine preferably includes a plurality of rules to generate, responsively to the input company information, at least one of a business valuation, a business score, and / or one or more business flags to be used as indicators in a network marketplace, for the company associated with the inputted company information.

To obtain a monomer having a large torsion force, to obtain a liquid crystal polymer which is excellent in a film-forming property, can easily control a helical pitch of a cholesteric phase, can form a grandjean orientation in a good monodomain state by an orientation treatment in a short time such as few minutes, and can stably fix it in a glass state, and to obtain an optical element having a circular dichroism, represented by the following formula (a), comprising a solidified product of the liquid crystal polymer, which is thin and light, is hard to change the oriented state such as pitch, etc., at a practical temperature, and has excellent durability and storage stability. An optically active monomer represented by (wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and A and B represent an organic group); a side chain type liquid crystal polymer having a structural unit comprising the optically active monomer; and an optical element showing a circular dichroism having a solidified layer of a grandjean oriented cholesteric liquid crystal phase comprising the liquid crystal polymer.

A computer-implemented engine, system and method for generating business valuations, scoring, and / or flagging over a network, responsively to information input by a user remote from the engine, system and method. The invention may include a graphical user interface capable of locally querying a user to input the company information, at least one network port capable of remotely receiving the company information from the graphical user interface, and at least one engine communicatively connected to the at least one network port, which engine preferably includes a plurality of rules to generate, responsively to the input company information, at least one of a business valuation, a business score, and / or one or more business flags to be used as indicators in a network marketplace, for the company associated with the inputted company information.

An automatic die-cutting stamping machine of platen flat double-set type includes a sheet conveying unit, two dieing units, two aluminum foil controlling units, a transversal aluminum foil controlling unit and a sheet delivery unit. The position sequence of various units mentioned above includes: paper conveying unit+dieing unit of first group+aluminum foil controlling unit of first group+aluminum foil controlling unit of second group+dieing unit of second group (+transversal aluminum foil controlling unit)+sheet delivery unit; the sheet conveying unit uses the automatic vacuum paper sending device for continuous action of sheet handing over to the gripper row; two dieing units use the symmetrical crank-connecting rod mechanism for movement of the moving platform; the synchronism of the moving platform movements of two dieing unit uses two synchronous pulleys of the parallel type driven by a motor thereby implementing synchronous driving.

A precipitation-hardened soft magnetic ferritic stainless steel comprises C: not more than 0.2 mass %, Si: 0.01-3.0 mass %, Mn: not more than 0.5 mass %, S: not more than 0.3 mass %, Cr: 12.0-19.0 mass %, Ni: 1.0-4.0 mass % and Al: 0.2-4.0 mass % and further contains at least one of Ti: less than 0.5 mass % and Zr: less than 0.3 mass % and the remainder being inevitable impurities and Fe, and has substantially a microstructure of a ferrite phase after a solution treatment and an aging treatment.