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An absorptive bandstop filter includes at least two frequency-dependent networks, one of which constitutes a bandpass filter, that form at least two forward signal paths between an input port and an output port and whose transmission magnitude and phase characteristics are selected to provide a relative stopband bandwidth that is substantially independent of the maximum attenuation within the stopband and / or in which the maximum attenuation within the stopband is substantially independent of the unloaded quality factor of the resonators. The constituent network characteristics can also be selected to provide low reflection in the stopband as well as in the passband. The absorptive bandstop filter can be electrically tunable and can substantially maintain its attenuation characteristics over a broad frequency tuning range.

An LED lighting device with a heat dissipating structure is disclosed. The lighting device includes a lamp base coupled with a top cover to form an accommodating space for accommodating a first heat dissipating module and a second heat dissipating module. The first heat dissipating module includes a first heat-conducting plate, a first heat pipe and a first heat dissipater. An LED lighting module is connected with the first heat-conducting plate, in which an evaporator section of the first heat pipe is disposed thereon. The first heat dissipater is arranged on a condenser section of the first heat pipe, and the second heat dissipating module includes a second heat-conducting plate and a second heat pipe. The second heat-conducting plate paralleling to the first heat-conducting plate is connected with the LED lighting module. An evaporator section of the second heat pipe is disposed on the second heat-conducting plate, and whose condenser section is connected with an inner surface of the top cover. Whereby, the heat generated from the LED lighting module can be dissipated uniformly and rapidly.

The invention relates to a prosthetic device (30), in particular a foot prosthesis, for fitting leg amputees, with a universal joint mechanism (32), which couples a shaft (34) with a treading attachment (40, 42) through an articulation, wherein the universal joint mechanism (32) comprises a joint element (44) supported such that it is rotatable about a first rotational axis (C) and a second rotational axis (D) differing therefrom. For more accurate modeling of the natural gait of a healthy human foot, the invention provides that the universal joint mechanism (32) comprises a shaft-side joint fork (36) coupleable with the shaft (34) and a treading-side joint fork (38) coupled via the joint element (44) through an articulation with the shaft-side joint fork (36), wherein the shaft-side joint fork (36) is swivellable about the first rotational axis (C) and the treading-side joint fork (38) about the second rotational axis (D) relative to the joint element (44), and wherein the swivel movements of shaft-side and treading-side joint fork (36, 38) relative to the joint element (44) are carried out against the resistance of at least one damping element (90, 92) proximal to the joint element.

A power train for us in a motor vehicle has a prime mover (such as a combustion engine), an automated gearbox which transmits torque to the wheels of the vehicle, a friction clutch between the prime mover and the gearbox, a computerized control unit which receives signals from several sensors, and one or more actuators which operate the clutch and / or the gearbox in response to signals from the control unit. The actuator for selecting the gear ratio of the gearbox and for shifting the gearbox into and from selected gears employs two transmissions each of which has a worm gearing receiving torque from a discrete electric motor of the actuator and a spur gearing which transmits motion from the respective worm gearing to a mobile component of the gearbox. The connection between the worm and spur gearings in at least one of the transmissions can comprise a damper cooperating with one or more sensors serving to transmit signals to the control unit.

An adjustable handcart that provides a horizontal platform for transporting items of cargo or people, such as a patient immobilized upon a spine board. The handcart includes a platform and a platform extension slidably connected at one end and held in place by a lock mechanism. A wheel assembly extends downwardly from the platform to support the platform in a substantially horizontal position off the ground. On the end opposite the platform extension, handles are attached. The handles may be detachable and / or rotatable (to facilitate folding), thereby allowing the handcart to be easily cleaned, stacked, or compacted as needed.

A heat dissipating device includes a heat dissipater and a turbine ventilator. The heat dissipater includes a plurality of heat dissipating fins arranged at interval, wherein a heat dissipating passage is defined between two adjacent heat dissipating fins. The turbine ventilator is connected to one side of the heat dissipater, and the turbine ventilator has a central axis and the axial line of the central axis is in parallel to the heat dissipating passage. An LED lighting module can be attached to one side of the heat dissipater of the heat dissipating device. Therefore, the heat dissipating device dissipates heat of the LED lighting module without consuming additional electrical power.

The invention relates to a method of producing a 3-D microscope flow-through cell, consisting of an upper and a lower substrate between which is located a flow channel, an electrode structure penetrating the flow channel and connected with external contacts and with through-connections at the ends of the flow channel for the connection of fluid inlets and outlets. The invention provides a method of producing 3-D microscope micro flow-through cells that are suitable for the reversible assembly of microscope flow-through cells for the mum-volume range. According to the invention, this is obtained in that a base substrate is first provided with access holes and a flow channel, the flow channel being made of a sandwich of a material non-elastic inside and elastic outside, in that the flow channel for the purpose of a fluid-tight channel closure, is pressed against a second cover glass in order to provide a reversibly sealable flow channel.

The present invention discloses a laser alignment device which has a simple structure, easy operation and economical utility, and which includes a casing, a laser emitting unit that is mounted in the casing and may emit a planar laser beam, a first mounting plane and a second mounting plane connected fixedly to the laser emitting unit, a first and a second electronic obliquity sensing units fixed on the first and the second mounting planes respectively, an automatic adjusting means, a first and a second surfaces both of which may contact with the settling surface of the laser alignment device, said first surface being connected moveably with said laser emitting unit through said automatic adjusting means, and a control circuit connected electrically with said first and second obliquity sensing units and said automatic adjusting means, at least the first one of said first and second obliquity sensing units being a double shaft obliquity sensing unit. Using this configuration, the same laser alignment device may form not only a horizontal planar laser beam but also a vertical planar laser beam, and may sense automatically the deviating degree from the horizontal or vertical for the planar laser beam adjust it automatically, so as to omit the step of adjusting manually and simplify its operation.

A high performance real-time turbo code system is proposed. The proposed system exploits cooperative coding architecture and a proper decoding scheduling to achieve low error rate within a constrained latency. Permutation schemes and hardware embodiments utilizing the cooperative coding are also shown. Various memory saving techniques are provided to reduce memory usage in both encoder and decoder. The proposed system is compatible with 3rd generation mobile standards and cost of designing new parts exclusively for the proposed system can be minimized. This invention can provide substantial coding and system capacity gains for real-time applications in a wireless environment.

An elevator installation control method with zoning provides changes between zones at an interchange floor. Transportation to or from the interchange floor is by at least one feeder-elevator group and at least one connecting-elevator group. The feeder-elevator group has several feeder elevators that travel in a first zone below the interchange floor and the connecting-elevator group has several connecting elevators that travel in a second zone above it. Trip destinations are entered via destination-call input and the feeder-elevator group and the connecting-elevator group are combined into a multigroup that is controlled by a multigroup control. To optimize the elevator installation operation and utilization, the multigroup control allocates a feeder elevator depending on the number of trip destinations in the first zone to be traveled to by this feeder elevator and / or on the number of trip destinations in the second zone.

Process and apparatus for extraction of oil and hydrocarbons from crushed hydrocarbonaceous solids (101), such as oil shale, involving the pyrolyzing of the crushed solids (101) with liquid hydrocarbon (104) and hot gas such as syn gas (103) rich in hydrogen, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide or a solid hydrocarbon such as gilsonite. Crushed hydrocarbonaceous solids are treated with a hydrocarbon and hot gas in a rotary kiln (105) where the crushed solids are cascaded into the hot gas for sufficient time to strip the volatile liquids and gases found in the solids, removing the vaporized liquids, enriched hot gas and spent crushed solids from the kiln, fractionating the vaporized liquids (106) and enriched syn gas into the desired fractions. Use of hot syn gas is particularly suited for use in conjunction with combined-cycle electricity generation (110) and in the preparation of various by-products. The process efficiently recycles heat and energy to reduce harmful atmospheric emissions and reliance on external energy sources.

Process and apparatus for extraction of oil and hydrocarbons from crushed hydrocarbonaceous solids (101), such as oil shale, involving the pyrolyzing of the crushed solids (101) with liquid hydrocarbon (104) and hot gas such as syn gas (103) rich in hydrogen, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide or a solid hydrocarbon such as gilsonite. Crushed hydrocarbonaceous solids are treated with a hydrocarbon and hot gas in a rotary kiln (105) where the crushed solids are cascaded into the hot gas for sufficient time to strip the volatile liquids and gases found in the solids, removing the vaporized liquids, enriched hot gas and spent crushed solids from the kiln, fractionating the vaporized liquids (106) and enriched syn gas into the desired fractions. Use of hot syn gas is particularly suited for use in conjunction with combined-cycle electricity generation (110) and in the preparation of various by-products. The process efficiently recycles heat and energy to reduce harmful atmospheric emissions and reliance on external energy sources.

During an Extended Well Test or Early Floating Production at an offshore hydrocarbon production site, where oil and gas hydrocarbons are produced by a production vessel, applicant stores the natural gas as pressured gas in a storage tank and occasionally transfers the pressured gas to a shuttle vessel which carries the gas to a site where it is used, as by pumping it into a natural gas pipeline. The transfer of natural gas to the shuttle can be accomplished by pumping it through a conduit extending between the vessels to a second tank on the shuttle, or can be accomplished by moving a gas-filled tank on the production vessel to the shuttle.

A combustor system provides high temperature, high-dwell combustion of emission products, as from charcoal kilns, with inner and outer combustion chambers. Multiple inlets receive emission products from multiple heat exchangers omnidirectionally extending for continuous heat exchange connection between the combustor and emission sources. Hot products of combustion are delivered to each heat exchanger, each with multiple ducts in mutual heat exchange relationship including at least a hot products of combustion duct for receiving at the proximal end hot products of combustion from an outlet of the outer chamber, and conveying the hot products of combustion to the distal end at a respective emission source, an emissions inlet duct for receiving emission products at the distal end from the emission source, and a return products of combustion duct for receiving at the distal end the hot products of combustion and returning them to the combustor. The heat exchanger arrangement is such that the hot products of combustion duct and the return products of combustion duct cause heating of the emission products by the heat exchange relationship. A combustion air intake passage provides intake of combustion air for each heat exchanger, which mixes in the combustion chamber with the emission products. Combustion products pass cyclonically from the inner chamber and then by reversal of direction, i.e., from downward to upward, through a concentric outer chamber, to create hot products of combustion which exit into the heat exchangers.

Improved concrete form insert assemblies (20) are provided for use in the construction of thermally insulated poured concrete sandwich wall structures (22). The insert assemblies (20) include a central sheet (32) of insulative material such as synthetic resin foam, which is preferably encapsulated by a sheath (78) to enhance the structural integrity of the sheet (32). A pair of reinforcing bar assemblies (46, 48) preferably made up of welded-together horizontal and vertical bars (50, 52) are respectively positioned adjacent the side surfaces (34, 36) of the sheet (32). The bar assemblies (46, 48) are secured to sheet (32) by means of connector elements (54) extending through the sheet (32) and presenting oppositely outwardly extending, apertured segments (56, 58). Connector bars (60) extend between adjacent horizontal bars (50) and include an elongated channel section (62) abutting the sheet (32) and a pair of endmost ears (64) which are secured to the bars (50) to thereby support the bar assemblies (46, 48) in standoff relationship to the sheet (32). The insert assemblies (20) are preferably prefabricated and installed at a construction site between upright concrete form panels (26, 28), as straight wall and corner units (80). The assemblies (20) may also be field-modified by installation of electrical wiring including boxes (94) and conduit (96). Concrete (30) is then poured, resulting in a complete sandwich wall structure (22). Use of the assemblies (20) significantly reduces construction time and costs, and thereby permits more economical usage of the form panels (26, 38).

The invention relates in one aspect to bispecific antibodies comprising a first antigen-binding site that binds EGFR and a second antigen-binding site that binds Erb B-3, wherein the antibody has a half maximal growth inhibitory concentration (IC50) of less than 200 pM for inhibiting EGFR and / or Erb B-3 ligand induced growth of Bx PC3 cells or Bx PC3-luc2 cells. Further described are method for producing the bispecific antibodies and means and methods for the treatment of subjects with the antibodies.

A method utilizes visible surfaces as an advertising surface for aerial image and satellite recordings and is inexpensive while ensuring a representation that is close to reality. This is achieved by a method for utilizing visible surfaces as advertising surfaces for aerial and satellite recordings wherein a virtual advertising carrier is created according to the dimensions of an advertising surface (4) of a real advertising carrier and the created virtual advertising carrier is incorporated into the virtual representation of the real advertising carrier. Such methods are used for utilizing unoccupied visible surfaces and free surfaces, such as rooftops and squares, as advertising surfaces for aerial and satellite recordings.

The present invention creates a system and method for sharing a prize promotion. The present system comprises various mutual aid groups, a test question bank, and a set of executive and controlling programs. The present system and method can group a plurality of small businesses together by recruiting them in the mutual aid group to jointly run the collective prize promotional campaign. The mutual aid group is created by the administrator of the system or is initiated by a business, and other businesses may request for joining the mutual aid group when the mutual aid group is recruiting. The test question bank includes a lot of test questions, puzzles, and games being used to test the skills of entrants in the promotional contest. The executive programs are to perform the tasks of grouping lots of small businesses together and running the collective prize promotional campaign through the mutual aid group and the test question bank. The controlling programs are to control the executive processes and the transformation of the processes. The present system and method enables the very small business to run the large prize promotion of offering million prizes as a large business can do. Moreover, the integration of both the mutual aid groups and the test question bank makes it easier to run the promotional contest, and greatly cut down the operative cost of the prize promotion.

The invention relates in one aspect to bispecific antibodies comprising a first antigen-binding site that binds EGFR and a second antigen-binding site that binds Erb B-3, wherein the antibody has a half maximal growth inhibitory concentration (IC50) of less than 200 pM for inhibiting EGFR and / or Erb B-3 ligand induced growth of Bx PC3 cells or Bx PC3-luc2 cells. Further described are method for producing the bispecific antibodies and means and methods for the treatment of subjects with the antibodies.

Methods and apparatus utilizing turbulent fluid flow to wash soiled items. A washing chamber (2) is connected to a pump (10) and contains a baffle (5) that divides or partially divides the chamber (2). The baffle (5) contains one or more openings (12) through which fluid surges in response to pressure generated by the pump (10). By using a reciprocating piston or diaphragm-type pump, back-and-forth fluid flow is generated. The fluid turbulence created by the fluid surging through the baffle openings creates a “scrubbing action” upon the surface of the items being washed.

The present inventions relate to the formation of a thin polymer film on a substrate. Apparatus is described for transforming a solid polymer resist into an aerosol of small particles, electrostatically charging and depositing the particles onto a substrate, and flowing the particles into a continuous layer. Apparatus is further described for transforming solid resist into an aerosol of small particles by heating the resist to form a low viscosity liquid such as is compatible with nebulization and applying the techniques of jet or impact nebulization and aerosol particle sizing to form the aerosol. A method is further described of using ionized gas to confer charge onto the aerosol particles and using a progression of charging devices establish an electric field directing the flow of charged particles to the substrate. The progression of charging devices and associated apparatus results in high collection efficiency for the aerosol particles.

The present invention relates to an arrangement for providing a test environment for testing test objects. The arrangement includes a first test case implementation unit and a second test case implementation unit, as well as a first test object and a second test object. In one embodiment, the test environment is configured such that at least the first test case implementation unit is coupled to at least one of the first test object and the second test object for implementing a test case.