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A vibrator for a bone conduction-type hearing aid device by which sound information is mechanically transmitted via the skull bone directly to the inner ear of a person with impaired hearing. The vibrator includes a coil that is directly into two coil halves for generating a dynamic magnetic field and a permanent magnet for generating a static magnetic field. The permanent magnet is radially magnetized and arranged in such a way that the static and dynamic magnetic fields coincide in air gaps formed between the coil and magnet arrangement and the casing, whereby the vibrator provides an axial force.

Systems and methods are described for inhibiting the readability of an optical media due to changes in a pseudo-reflective material that composes the optical media after the optical media has been exposed to air for a predetermined time. An optical media includes a data encoded component. At least a fraction of the data encoded component transforms from a substantially optically reflective state to a substantially optically non-reflective state as at-least-in-part a function of time from an initializing event. The systems and methods provide advantages because of low cost, limited content lifetime, avoidance of rental returns and minimum changes to existing manufacturing processes.

To provide a catch base capable of firmly attaching a catch of a snap fastener to a cloth. The catch base includes six claws for attaching the catch formed at regular intervals. The catch is put on one side of the cloth, and the claws are fitted into catching portions formed at the backside of the catch from the other side of the cloth. The catch base and the catch are then swaged together. With this, the strength in attaching the catch is increased by 20% due to the effect of the six claws, and the catch is not removed during the use, resulting in an improved safety.

In a vehicle front structure, without increasing the thickness of the material of a damper housing structure and reinforcement portions, an adequate mechanical strength in supporting the damper can be ensured, and the cost of the manufacturing facilities can be minimized. The damper housing structure is formed by a damper base, a damper housing main body, a front reinforcement portion and a rear reinforcement portion, and the damper base. Each of the damper housing main body, the front reinforcement portion and the rear reinforcement portion includes a closed cross section portion extending linearly with a same cross section.

To provide a device whose life is less likely to be reduced by deterioration of a light-emitting layer material, an EL display device includes: a pixel electrode, for each pixel, above a substrate; auxiliary wiring in a different region, above the substrate, from the pixel electrode; a transition metal oxide layer on the pixel electrode and the auxiliary wiring; a light-emitting layer in a region, above the transition metal oxide layer, corresponding to the pixel; a common electrode continuously above the auxiliary wiring and the light-emitting layer, and electrically connected to the auxiliary wiring; and a material deterioration suppressing layer continuously on a portion of the transition metal oxide layer above the auxiliary wiring and the light-emitting layer, mainly containing barium, and having a thickness equal to or greater than a size of a single barium atom and smaller than 10 nm.

A surgical power tool has an actuation assembly which comprises a force sensor and a switch. The force sensor is provided to determine an actuation force produced by the user, and the switch is transferred by the actuation force from a first switching state to a second switching state. A combined evaluation of the force sensor signal and of the switching state enables, for example, a plausibility check for increasing the operational reliability of the power tool.

A delivery apparatus for delivering a stent-valve for implantation within the body, the delivery apparatus configured for introduction into the body through an arterial introducer of a type having a stem insertable into the body and a mouth section that remains outside the body, the mouth section including a haemostasis valve, and wherein the delivery apparatus comprises: a first constraining sheath at a stent-valve accommodation region of the apparatus at a distal end of the apparatus, and configured for constraining at least a portion of a stent-valve at the accommodation region in a radially collapsed configuration; a delivery introducer captive on the delivery apparatus, and slidable between a first position surrounding at least a portion of the stent-valve accommodation region, and a second position in which the delivery introducer slides proximally of the stent-valve accommodation region; wherein the delivery introducer is insertable at least partly into the mouth of a said arterial introducer, the delivery introducer configured for introducing the stent-accommodation region through the haemostasis valve.

A socket assembly is provided for a miniature light bulb set, including a socket body, a base member that receives power cords set thereon, and a holder that receives and holds a light bulb. The socket body has a bottom portion having front and rear sides forming cord cavities each of which forms a rim to form the structure for positioning and retaining the cord. The base member has left and right sidewalls each forming a retention block that projects outwards and has an increased thickness of material for forming the structure for coupling with the socket body.

A surgical power tool has an actuation assembly which comprises a force sensor and a switch. The force sensor is provided to determine an actuation force produced by the user, and the switch is transferred by the actuation force from a first switching state to a second switching state. A combined evaluation of the force sensor signal and of the switching state enables, for example, a plausibility check for increasing the operational reliability of the power tool.

A connector system having a first connector and a second connector. The first and the second connector are moveable relative to one another along an axis in order to connect and disconnect the contacts of the first connector and the second connector. The first connector has a lever mounted at the pivot point and is pivotal around an angle. The lever has a surface extending in the circumferential direction and which extends substantially through the essentially along the same angle. The surface has a first planar section and a second section having a radially extending tooth system. The lever is movable from a first, second, and third position. The housing of the second connector has a complementary tooth system. The tooth systems become engaged when the lever is moved from the second to third position, thus moving the first connector and the second connector toward one another along the axis.

The invention aims at providing an outer water retaining seal strip with a decorative bright strip, which is reliable in function, convenient to assemble, good in corrosion resistance and good in retaining performance. The outer water retaining seal strip with the decorative bright strip comprises a seal strip body and the decorative bright strip which is arranged on an outer side of the seal strip body and is clamped with the seal strip, a clamping groove for clamping a door metal plate is formed in the seal strip body, a skeleton is arranged along the periphery of the clamping groove in the seal strip, and a supporting plate strip and a convex strip are arranged in a groove cavity of the clamping groove; a first plate strip is arranged at the top, close to one side of glass, of the seal strip body, a second plate strip is arranged below the first plate strip, a suspending edge of the second plate strip is folded back and extends towards a position below a suspending edge of the first plate strip, and length directions of the first plate strip and the second plate strip are consistent with a length direction of the seal strip body; a compensation block is arranged at the end of the clamping groove. The outer water retaining seal strip with the decorative bright strip can effectively avoid the problems that the end of the outer water retaining seal strip is warped up, an open joint is formed with the decorative cover plate, a gap exists between the outer water retaining seal strip and glass and sundries are accumulated.

A separating arrangement for the self-supporting bodywork of a motor vehicle has a partition which is arranged at the front end of a rear compartment, extends in the transverse direction of the vehicle and over part of its height between rear wheel houses of the motor vehicle and is fastened to boundary walls of the rear compartment. The separating arrangement is designed as a supporting device which strengthens the bodywork against distortion. The separating arrangement is curved in relation to a vertical transverse plane of the vehicle and a horizontal transverse plane of the vehicle, and the separating arrangement has reinforcing struts in the form of greater material thickness along force flow lines.

The device connects a first end-coupler with a second end-coupler, in particular of a piping. A nut is provided with a threaded bore in which the first end-coupler is screwed along a longitudinal axis. In a tightening position, the first end-coupler is in axial stress with a second end-coupler accommodated in the nut. Anti-rotation means are provided between the nut and at least one of the end-couplers to prevent relative rotation except when a torque exceeding a predetermined threshold is applied thereto. The anti-rotation means consist of at least one tab made in the material of the nut to lockingly interfere with substantially planar faces formed on the second end-coupler.

A hoof boot enables a user to cover, protect and / or treat a hoof. The hoof boot comprises an elastic, hoof-enveloping casing. The casing comprises an interior surface area, an exterior surface area, a ground-contacting bottom portion, a hoof-contracting intermediate portion, and a boot-holding upper portion. The interior and exterior surface areas are non-parallel at the intermediate and upper portions for effecting axially-varied inwardly-directed radial return forces under hoof-based tensile stress from the upper to the bottom portion. The interior and exterior surface areas are substantially parallel at the bottom portion for effecting substantially uniform upwardly directed return forces under hoof-based compressive stress. The casing is elastically actuable and returnable during hoof loading / unloading for improving blood circulation in the hoof.

A cover includes a bistable flap mechanism made of a plastic with at least two material components. The cover can be produced in one piece in a multi-component injection molding technique. At a transitional area between a front wall and an edge portion, the plastic is sufficiently stiff (preferably due to greater material thickness) to ensure that an angle μ enclosed in the transitional area from the side wall to the edge portion remains constant in both bistable states. Expansion portions provided in the edge portion ensure that the outer circumference of the edge portion can increase / decrease from one bistable state to the other bistable state. A closing system including the cover is also provided.

To provide a device whose life is less likely to be reduced by deterioration of a light-emitting layer material, an EL display device includes: a pixel electrode, for each pixel, above a substrate; auxiliary wiring in a different region, above the substrate, from the pixel electrode; a transition metal oxide layer on the pixel electrode and the auxiliary wiring; a light-emitting layer in a region, above the transition metal oxide layer, corresponding to the pixel; a common electrode continuously above the auxiliary wiring and the light-emitting layer, and electrically connected to the auxiliary wiring; and a material deterioration suppressing layer continuously on a portion of the transition metal oxide layer above the auxiliary wiring and the light-emitting layer, mainly containing barium, and having a thickness equal to or greater than a size of a single barium atom and smaller than 10 nm.

Disclosed herein is a mechanical coupling arrangement for a lattice support beam having a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction, said mechanical coupling arrangement comprising at least a first chord member, a first diagonal member, and a connector element for joining said first chord member with said first diagonal member, wherein each of said first chord member, said first diagonal member, and said connector element is made of extruded aluminum profile, said connector element comprising at least a first attachment portion having a first contact surface in contact with said first chord member, and a second attachment portion having a second contact surface in contact with an abutment surface of said first diagonal member.

Disclosed herein is a mechanical coupling arrangement for a lattice support beam having a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction, said mechanical coupling arrangement comprising at least a first chord member, a first diagonal member, and a connector element for joining said first chord member with said first diagonal member, wherein each of said first chord member, said first diagonal member, and said connector element is made of extruded aluminum profile, said connector element comprising at least a first attachment portion having a first contact surface in contact with said first chord member, and a second attachment portion having a second contact surface in contact with an abutment surface of said first diagonal member.

Since a second reinforcing rib (24e) protruding from a motor accommodating portion (24) to outside is provided to a portion formed with a weld line (WL) formed by the merger of molten resin (MR), the material thickness of the portion formed with the weld line (WL) can be increased. Therefore, the strength of the portion formed with the weld line (WL) is improved, and the strength of a case (21) as a whole can be improved. The case (21) sufficiently resistible to outer shocks can be achieved, and can be sufficiently used even in adverse environments such as a place near an undercarriage of a vehicle, and high reliability can be obtained. Since a small flange portion is provided on a caliper fixing portion side which supports an output shaft where large running torque is loaded, the weld line can be kept away from the caliper fixing portion, with this small flange portion taken as an inlet portion for the molten resin. Thus, with the caliper fixing portion side of the case inhibited from being distorted, it is possible to reliably inhibit unusual noise and so forth from occurring from an actuator.

A mechanical coupling arrangement for a scaffold is provided. The mechanical coupling arrangement comprises a pole and a mounting collar having attachment means to which elongated support members can be attached. A level of radial play between said pole and said mounting collar in a first relative angular position is larger than the level of radial play between said pole and said mounting collar in a second relative angular position. The second relative angular position corresponds to a fastening position of said mounting collar, and in that said first relative angular position corresponds to an axial sliding position of said mounting collar.

The invention relates to an edge beam for the floor of a vehicle adopting staggered overlap welding. The edge beam is formed by welding two sections, the two sections of edge beam mutually form X-shaped overlapping edges at the welded ended, and the two overlapping edges are welded together in a mutually staggered manner. By adopting the structural design, in the head on collision process of the vehicle, if the impact energy is strong, behind the welding spot of the overlapping edges of the edge beam, the staggered overlapping of the edge beam continues exerting the functions of transmitting and dispersing the energy, so as to improve the impact resistance and better guarantee the safety space of the passenger compartment. At the same time, through the X-shaped staggered overlapping of the edge beam, the bending rigidity and the torsional rigidity of the vehicle body can be enhanced, and the driving comfort can be ensured. The staggered overlapping structure does not need to adopt special techniques and technologies and increase the working procedure or material thickness, the shaping is simple, the structure is easy to realize, and is favorable for the assembly of the front floor and the rear floor.

An intervertebral cage structure that comprises a shell main body, with the shell main body may be configured to receive and substantially encapsulate a main body. The shell main body may be configured in a clam-shell shape that include a first plate and a second plate that are connected by a bridge portion, wherein the first and second plates may comprise a surface pattern.

The invention relates to a backrest structure for a vehicle seat (1), comprising a flat base sheet (30) and another structural part (20, 40) which are connected to each other by at least one weld seam (50) using a laser welding procedure. In the process, at least one tongue (28, 36, 38) of the base sheet (30) is bent by 180 degrees in the region of the weld seam (50) and placed on the remaining base sheet (30), and the at least one weld seam (50) connects the bent tongues (28, 36, 38), the remaining base sheet (30), and the other structural part (20, 40) to one another. The invention additionally relates to a vehicle seat (1) with such a backrest according to the invention.

A gas turbine stage including a rotor blade array having a plurality of rotor blades and an adjacent stator vane array having a plurality of stator vanes which have leading edges facing the rotor blade array. In a first radial position of a rear face of the rotor blade array, a minimum axial gap is formed between this rear face and an opposite first contact region a stator vane leading edges, and in a second radial position of the rear face different from the first position, the minimum axial gap is formed between the rear face and an opposite second contact region. Between the first and second contact regions, this stator vane leading edge has an axial offset of no more than 0.6% of a radial height of the stator vane leading edge.

The present invention belongs to the technical field of an automobile structure, and particularly relates to a back door and an automobile; the back door includes a back door inner panel and a back door outer panel; the back door inner panel and the back door outer panel are fixedly connected to form the back door; the back door outer panel is provided with a first lug boss protruding toward the back door inner panel, and the back door inner panel is provided with a second lug boss protruding toward the back door outer panel; and the top surface of the first lug boss is in abutment with that of the second lug boss so as to form a tail light installation part for installing a tail light at the abutment position of the first lug boss and the second lug boss. By using a back door structure provided by the present invention, the material thickness and local stiffness at an installation position are effectively improved, thereby ensuring the installation stability of the tail light and being beneficial to the weight and consumption reduction of an automobile body.

In a rail switch having a main track and a branch track, wherein each rail of each track is designed as a switch point (3) and can be moved to make contact with the respective outer rail (1), the outer rail (1) has, in the region of the switch point (3), a modified running edge profile, and the running edge (10) of the switch point (3) has a curved progression (6) for which the imaginary extension with the running edge (2) of the outer rail (1) has an overlap or an undercut.