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Methods and apparatus are disclosed for applying acoustic energy to the skin whereby the wavefront can be controlled to confine the focused energy to a desired subsurface region. Acoustic waveguides are disclosed which compensate for distortions that otherwise occur when a focused acoustic beam crosses a boundary, such as the transition from a treatment device to a target region of skin. The invention is especially useful with devices that focus ultrasound energy by condensing a propagating wavefront. The invention compensates for the mismatch in acoustic properties of the device's waveguide and the biological tissue that typically cause portions of the collapsing wavefront to lag behind other portions and, thereby, limit the focusing capabilities of acoustic treatment devices.

Methods and apparatus are disclosed for dispensing fluid in an apparatus for applying acoustic energy to the skin. Acoustic waveguides are disclosed which compensate for distortions that otherwise occur when a focused acoustic beam crosses a boundary, such as the transition from a treatment device to a target region of skin. The invention is especially useful with devices that focus ultrasound energy by condensing a propagating wavefront. The invention compensates for the mismatch in acoustic properties of the device's waveguide and the biological tissue that typically cause portions of the collapsing wavefront to lag behind other portions and, thereby, limit the focusing capabilities of acoustic treatment devices.

Bioadhesive Compositions which comprise a hydrophobic polymer wherein the concentration of the polymer at the surface of the adhesive is greater than its concentration in the bulk of the adhesive are described; and biomedical electrodes, fixation products and wound dressings containing them.

A capacitive sensing system is used to measure a time-varying ion current through a channel, such as an ion channel or protein pore. Such a capacitive system does not suffer problems of electrode corrosion and, when used with methods to control a build up of ion concentration, allows the use of measurement volumes around the channel with dimensions on a scale of nanometers.

A predistortion control device (1). The device has a first predistortion control input connectable to a power amplifier output (21); a second predistortion control input (11) connectable to a signal contact of a predistortion device; and a predistortion control output (12) connectable to a control contact of the predistortion device. The predistortion control device (1) further includes a cross-correlator device (110). The cross-correlator device (110) is connected with a first cross-correlator input (1101, 1101I, 1101Q) to the first predistortion control input and a second cross-correlator input (1102, 1102I, 1102Q) to the second predistortion control input (11). The cross-correlator device (110) is further has a cross-correlator output (1112) at which a cross-correlation signal can be presented, the cross-correlation signal representing a measured cross-correlation of signals presented at the first cross-correlator input (1101, 1101I, 1101Q) and the second cross-correlator input (1102, 1102I, 1102Q). The predistortion control device (1) further has a predistortion function selector device (120)(120), connected with a selector input to the cross-correlator output (1112), and with a selector output to the predistortion control output (12), at which selector output a predistortion control signal can be presented. The predistortion control signal representing a predistortion function determined on the basis of said cross-correlator signal.

In a drill in which a chip discharge groove twisted in the shape of a spiral relative to an axis is formed in the outer periphery of the tip section of a roughly cylindrical drill body that rotates around the axis, and a cutting edge is formed on the intersecting ridgeline between a wall surface facing in the direction of drill rotation of this chip discharge groove and a tip flank of the drill body, together with the section on the tip side of the chip discharge groove continuous with the cutting edge being a narrowed width section in which the helix angle relative to the axis and groove width are constant, a wide width section is formed in the chip discharge groove farther towards the rear end than this narrow width section, in which the helix angle is equal to the narrow width section and in which the groove width is widened relative to the narrow width section in the direction of drill rotation and towards the rear in the direction of drill rotation and has a constant width.

There is a ground-fault resistance measurement circuit which measures a ground-fault resistance between a conductive frame body of electrical equipment and a charge section insulated from the frame body. This ground-fault resistance measurement circuit includes: a capacitor which is connected between the charge section and the frame body; a switch which opens and closes a connection path between the charge section and the capacitor; a charging unit which charges the capacitor to a predetermined voltage; a voltage measurement section which measures a charging voltage of the capacitor; a discharge control section which connects the capacitor and the charge section after the capacitor is charged, and discharges the capacitor; and a calculation section which calculates a resistance between the charge section and the frame body, based on a change in the charging voltage of the capacitor.

Frozen aerated packaged ice confection with very high softness at −18° C. which keeps this property without shrinkage or layering up to the final consumer over the product shelf life contains polyol and vegetable fiber.

The disclosed invention relates to novel norbornene-type monomers containing pendent lactone or sultone groups. The invention also relates to norbornene-type polymers and copolymers comprising one or more repeating units represented by the formula:and containing pendent lactone or sultone groups. These polymers and copolymers are useful in making photoimagable materials. The photoimagable materials are particularly suitable for use in photoresist compositions useful in 193 and 157 nm photolithography.

A valve assembly for controlling the amount of coolant exiting an engine is provided. The valve assembly includes a valve housing that is mounted to the engine and defines a passage that is in fluid communication with a coolant outlet in the engine. A motor in the valve housing drives a valve shaft that extends into the passage and on which a butterfly valve plate is mounted. The physical geometry of the inventive assembly is not significantly effected by changes in coolant temperature or coolant contamination and the integrates the valve member and actuator in a single assembly to improve packaging and material use and eliminates potential coolant leak points.

The invention discloses a computer input device with Bluetooth hand-free handset comprises: an electric source module, for providing power to the computer input device, comprising a voltage step-up circuit and a battery, in which the battery can be an one-time-battery or a rechargeable battery used as the electric source for the computer input device; an optical mouse circuit, for detecting movement vector caused by a movement of the computer input device by the principles of optical transmitting and receiving; a Bluetooth module, coupled to the optical mouse circuit, wherein the module is further connected to an antenna for transmitting / receiving signals, a power LED for indicating whether the computer input device is powered, and a link LED for indicating whether the computer input device is in a communication state; an echo cancellation circuit, coupled to the Bluetooth module and used for canceling echoes of audio signals; a sound receptor, coupled to the echo cancellation circuit for receiving the audio signals; an audio signal amplifying circuit, coupled to the echo cancellation circuit for receiving and amplifying the audio signals outputted from the echo cancellation circuit; and a loudspeaker, coupled to the audio signal amplifying circuit for playing sounds corresponding to the audio signals from the audio signal amplifying circuit.