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A dry powder inhaler having improved aerodynamic properties for diluting, dispersing, and metering drug particles for increasing the efficiency of pulmonary drug delivery to a patient is described. The inhaler comprises, in general, a housing having an air intake, an air flow-control / check-valve, a mixing section and a mouthpiece. A cartridge loaded with a single dose of medicament can be installed in the mixing section.

The invention provides instruments and methods for prophylactic treatment of an osteoporotic vertebral body or for treating a vertebral compression fracture (VCF). In one exemplary method, a probe system uses a high speed rotational elastomeric cutter having an optional expandable abrasive surface for abrading or cutting at least one path or region within vertebral cancellous bone. Irrigation and aspiration sources are included in the probe system for removing abraded bone debris. In one embodiment, the high speed rotational abrader uses a tissue-selective abrading surface that abrades or cuts bone but does not cut soft tissue. In another embodiment, an expandable abrading surface allows the treatment of bone with low pressures to create paths or spaces without explosive expansion forces known in prior art balloon procedures that are designed to crush and compact cancellous bone in a vertebra. After the creation of a path or space, an in-situ hardenable bone cement volume is introduced into each path or space to support the vertebra.

The patent teaches an installation suitable for expansive surface area photovoltaic modules. Installation structure comprises conducting rails functioning as a power conduits to convey power from expansive modules. Multiple modules may be mounted on the installation structure in a parallel or series arrangement. The high current carrying capacity rails minimize power loss in conveyance of power. Module installation and electrical connections are accomplished in a facile fashion using mechanical fasteners to thereby simplify and reduce installation cost associated with production of large photovoltaic generating facilities.

A capacitive sensor having a first and a second polymeric conductor are embedded within a non conducting body, wherein the body maintains a fixed separation distance between the first and the second polymeric conductor. The body can include a non conducting web, wherein the web substantially precludes variation in the spacing of the polymeric conductors during use in the intended operating environment.

A B-shaped reinforcement beam is formed from a sheet of material to include vertically spaced upper and lower tubular sections, with a channel-shaped rib formed centrally in the unsupported portion of the front wall over each tube section. The ribs acts to stiffen and stabilize the front wall, causing the actual bending strength of the B beam to be much closer to expected theoretical values. In one form, the ribs have a vertical dimension about 33%-50% of a height of the tubular sections and a depth of about 50%-100% of the rib's height. The rib is particularly effective when the material is less than 2.2 mm, more than 80 KSI, and / or has a significant height-to-depth ratio such as 3:1.

The invention provides a multi-clad fiber, with three claddings or more, where at least one intermediate cladding is inserted between an inner core and an outer core of the multi-clad fiber, for enlarging the cross-section of the fiber core or for increasing the dopant density in the core. The invention also provides an intermediate cladding having a multi-layer structure to better confine the pump power in a suitable pumping region of the fiber.

The invention relates to a multi-beam deflector array device for use in a particle-beam exposure apparatus employing a beam of charged particles, the multi-beam deflector array device having a plate-like shape with a membrane region, the membrane region including a first side facing towards the incoming beam of particles, an array of apertures, each aperture allowing passage of a corresponding beamlet formed out of the beam of particles, a plurality of depressions, each depression being associated with at least one aperture, and an array of electrodes, each aperture being associated with at least one electrode and each electrode being located in a depression, the electrodes being configured to realize a non-deflecting state, wherein the particles that pass through the apertures are allowed to travel along a desired path, and a deflecting state, wherein the particles are deflected off the desired path.

Included are: a prefilter (101) for outputting, based on filter characteristics control data, predetermined frequency components in an input video signal as current image data; encoding means (116) for subjecting the current image data to an encoding process, and outputting encoding parameters together with a bit stream corresponding to current image data as a result of the encoding process; and filter control means (117) for outputting the filter characteristics control data that is set based only on one or two of the encoding parameters.

A primary optical element for a motor vehicle lighting module, comprising a single monoblock input member and a corrective part, the input member having at least one input face intended to receive light, the input member being connected at output to the corrective part. The corrective part comprises a light output face, at least partly in the shape of a substantially spherical dome, the input member and the corrective part forming a monoblock structure, wherein a vertical profile of the input face of the input member has a convex first part and a second part that is planar or concave.