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An electronic cigarette including an atomizer, a cartridge, a mouthpiece, a power switch, and an electronic cigarette refilling apparatus for use therein is disclosed. A method of dispensing a liquid into an electronic cigarette and a method of inhaling a vapor from an electronic cigarette are also disclosed.

By providing a plurality of cooperating, foldable panel members in combination with a plurality of foldable wheel assemblies, a unique wagon or cart construction is attained which is capable of being folded into a small, compact area, whenever desired, and then quickly and easily deployed into a fully erected and operational position, which enables virtually any desired object to be easily transported. In addition, in the preferred construction of this invention, an automatically deployed structural supporting member is incorporated into the wagon / cart for providing inherent strength and rigidity to the wagon / cart when fully erected. In this way, heavy objects previously incapable of being transported are capable of being accommodated with ease.

A set of sheets includes an upper sheet with a top panel and a lower sheet with a bottom panel. In conjunction, the upper and lower sheets are sized, structured and configured to enclose a mattress. A waterproof panel is positioned between the upper sheet and the top of the mattress to protect the mattress from damaging exposure to moisture and liquids, including bodily fluids. In several embodiments, the upper sheet and waterproof panel are removable for washing and changing thereof while the lower sheet remains fitted to the mattress, thereby avoiding the need to lift or move the mattress when changing the sheets. The waterproof panel may be independently removable to selectively control air permeability of the sheets, and particularly the upper sheet. In a further embodiment, a minor waterproof panel is removably attachable in covering relation to a portion of the top surface of the upper sheet to protect the upper sheet and mattress from becoming soiled, and thereby extending the period of time between laundering and changing of the set of sheets.

The invention provides an optical-scanning examination apparatus with a simple configuration, in which the resolution of acquired images can be freely changed and in which the fluorescence image intensity and examination depth can be adjusted to suit the purpose of examination. The optical-scanning examination apparatus includes a light source unit; a focusing lens for forming a first intermediate image of excitation light; an imaging lens; a first objective lens; an optical fiber bundle; a second objective lens; and an imaging unit for imaging return light that returns via the second objective lens, the optical fiber bundle, the first objective lens, and the imaging lens. In addition, a scanning mirror device, which is disposed at the first intermediate image position, is formed of a plurality of mirrors that simultaneously receive the first intermediate image and that can be selectively turned on and off.

A wrapping device provides at least a circular track structure which forms a closed track, and a film feeding device which is arranged to circulate along the track and to feed a film around a piece to be wrapped. The film feeding device includes a frame structure with a rotatable film roll and a feeding mechanism through which the film is arranged to be fed at a desired film tension. The frame structure can be disconnected from and reconnected to the film feeding device for the change of the film roll, and for the change of the film roll, the wrapping device also includes an automatic change system for the change of the frame structure. The frame structure is an integrated unit which can be independently disconnected from and reconnected to the film feeding device. The carriage device of the wrapping device is intended to carry along the film feeding device, and it includes several carriages placed one after the other and coupled to each other, wherein at least one the frame structure is placed or can be placed in one or more carriages.

A combination barbecue, smoker and fire pit assembly having removable and changeable components to selectively put the assembly in a barbecue mode, a food smoker mode, and a fire pit mode. While in the barbecue mode, the assembly includes a base for defining a heat source and a grid above the heat source for supporting food to be cooked. A lid is secured on top of the body. While in the fire pit mode, the assembly includes a non-enclosed housing between the lid and the base which defines the heating area. The heat source is moved to the top of the base. While in the smoker mode, an enclosed housing defining the smoker area replaces the non-enclosed housing. In this mode, the grid for supporting food is moved to the top of the enclosed smoker housing and the heat source support is at the bottom of the base. At least one additional support for supporting smoke-generating components is secured between the grid and heat source support.

In a goggle lens interchange system, a goggle frame has a ledge on which a lens is removably placed, wherein the ledge is able to be exposed so that a lens of the goggles is able to be removed from the ledge, and another or replacement lens is able to be placed on the ledge.

There is described a web-fed or sheet-fed printing machine for security papers, in particular banknotes, comprising a machine frame in which is located a main printing group, the printing machine further comprising an additional printing group, independent of the main printing group, placed upstream of the main printing group with respect to a direction of displacement of the web or sheets for performing additional printing of the security papers prior to printing by said main printing group. The additional printing group comprises an inking module containing at least one inking device, and a printing module comprising a cylinder arrangement including a plurality of cylinders, the printing module being interposed between the inking module and the machine frame of the printing machine. The additional printing group is constructed in such a manner that the printing module can be decoupled from the inking module and the machine frame for replacement by another printing module without this requiring removal of said inking module from the printing machine.

A display method and apparatus for navigation system for specifying the destination easily and quickly. The navigation system is designed to enable a user to quickly select a street name and easily specify the address number of the destination through a map image of the selected street. The navigation system includes a menu for changing a keyboard screen or other input screen to a map screen showing the image of the selected street. A user can find a location of the destination on the image of the selected street. Various display methods are provided to promote quick and easy operations for finding the location on the selected street. When there are two or more streets having same street name with different street types or street prefixes, the navigation system displays selection means for a user to select one of the streets.

A ball joint assembly and work holding device where the ball joint assembly provides a movable mount for different work holding devices that each provide for holding an item, such as a fire arm, archery bow and / or the like, where the ball joint assembly is for seating on, or mounting onto, a table top, bench, or like surface. The ball joint assembly includes a cylindrical housing slotted on opposite sides thereof from a center opening in the housing top and contains a ball that rests on a plunger top end of a jacking screw that is turned in a round nut by a lever arm, and the ball joint assembly is fitted into the housing. Turning of the lever arm that is fitted through a housing lateral slot extends the plunger top into the ball, lifting the ball to lock it against a housing top concave surface, and which ball includes a stem extending through the housing top to tilt between the slots and pivot when the ball in unlocked, and the ball stem end includes a tool mounting for connection to a work holding devices, and two of which work holding devices: a shooting rest and an archery bow mount are unique to the invention.

In a goggle lens interchange system, a goggle frame has a ledge on which a lens is removably placed, wherein the ledge is able to be exposed so that a lens of the goggles is able to be removed from the ledge, and another or replacement lens is able to be placed on the ledge.

A wall-mounted display device, which uses a light guiding panel for an LED light source includes display body 1 with an optical panel 11 housed in a box-like optical diffusion case 15 with flanges 14 formed on the periphery of a substrate 13. A reflection case 12 fits in the optical diffusion case 15, which has a U-shaped cross section and flanges 14 formed on the upper and lower ends of the substrate16. LED light sources 18 are respectively disposed on the right and left flanges 14 of the reflection case 12 to supply incident light into the light guiding panel 11. Frame members 22, each having a U-shaped cross section, fit in the upper and lower ends of the display body 1, respectively. Each U-shaped frame member is securely fixed with a screw 21 inserted through the rear surface of the frame member, in such a way that the screw 21 is not exposed from the front side of the display body. Frame members 20, each having an L-shaped cross section, are respectively fixed on the right and left ends of the display body 1, with a magnet 23. A transparent cover panel 3 is disposed detachably between the frame member 20 and the optical diffusion case 15. Brackets 4 are fastened on the U-shaped frame members with screws 21 to allow wall mounting.

A laminate panel especially well suited to help form an overhead stowage bin door on an aircraft, wherein the door includes a portion of a high contrast color advertising mural or message integrally formed therewith. The door includes a honeycomb support layer on which at least one fiberglass pre-preg layer is formed. A polyvinyl fluoride (PVF) film is used as a substrate for the color mural or message. A ultraviolet (UV) curable ink is deposited directly on the PVF film via an ink jet printing process that produces a high color density, high color contrast image. The PVF film in one form is a Tedlar® PVF film. The ink is cured virtually immediately after it is deposited on the PVF film. An additional layer of PVF film is then secured to a side of the printed-on PVF film opposite to that on which the ink is deposited via a layer of embossing resin to form the laminate panel. The laminate panel is then secured via a suitable adhesive to the fiberglass pre-preg and honeycomb support layer in a subsequent manufacturing step. The stowage bin door and process of making same enable a portion of a high color density, high contrast image, advertising mural or message to be integrally formed with the door.

A card reorienting mechanism and an input hopper of plastic card processing equipment, for example a desktop plastic card printer. The card reorienting mechanism is a modular unit that permits the entire mechanism to be inserted or removed as a single unit from the printer. In addition, the input hopper is designed as an interchangeable system that permits alteration in the card capacity of the hopper.

A composite-construction treatment equipment has a frame (12) with a connected blade holder (15) made of a composite material. The blade holder (15) has a blade (16) and a separate backing blade (18). The blade holder (15) is removably adapted to the frame (12) using a pair of form-locking counter clamps (19). The form-lock is arranged tight in the lateral direction of the blade (16) and essentially free in the axial direction of the blade (16).

A cover for decorating a motorcycle helmet, including a substantially circular exterior material portion, having variable decoration, connected anteriorly and at the sides to a substantially circular interior mesh material portion by a seam. The enclosure provides two openings on either side of the invention, providing spaces through which the helmet's chinstraps can be threaded through. The seam ends in the posterior of the enclosure to provide an opening in the back of the invention through which the helmet may be inserted. Both pieces of fabric provide corresponding non-permanent fastening agents which are used to secure the invention around the helmet inserted inside. Alternatively, the invention may be a cover for decorating a motorcycle helmet, including a substantially circular / helmet shaped silicon skin / elastic material portion, having an opening on either side of the enclosure through which the helmet's chinstraps can be threaded through, and a formed lip around the edge of the enclosure which wraps around the exterior of the helmet to fit on the interior, as to secure the invention to the helmet in a non-permanent fashion.

A portable device is provided for heads-up display in a motor vehicle without requiring permanent physical attachment to the vehicle. The heads-up device has a portable housing with inputs for wirelessly obtaining a multitude of parameters related to vehicle operation. The input signals are transformed into visual signals and a projector in the housing projects the visual signals as a heads-up display image on the windshield of the vehicle.

A small shelter having an integral mount for detachably displaying an advertising panel having predetermined dimensions is provided. The small shelter includes a plurality of vertical wall panels joined together to define an interior portion of the small shelter. At least one of the plurality of vertical wall panels has an inner surface defining at least a portion of the interior space of the shelter and an outer surface defining at least a portion of the exterior surface of the shelter. The exterior surface of the shelter includes at least two integral, co-planar, advertising panel slots, which extend along opposing vertical margins of a portion of the shelter. Each of the advertising panel slots is adapted to retain a vertical edge of the advertising panel to detachably mount the first advertising panel to the exterior surface of the shelter.

A mounting for precisely positioning a sensor on an apparatus while allowing removal and replacement without disturbing the precise positioning is shown. A single combination mechanical / electrical connector is used to fix a sensor in its mounting.

A hand held implement and a clip intended for use on a hand held implement with the clip including graphical or imprinted material on a removable piece. The clip further includes a base plate upon which the removable piece is placed in typical construction and use and a transparent cover which is fitted onto the base plate to create a unitized assembly in which the removable piece is sandwiched between the base plate and cover. The removable piece may thereafter be quickly and easily replaced or modified to change, revise or otherwise update the imprinted material viewed through the transparent cover of the clip.

A digital programmable driver for a solenoid valve comprises at least one valve driver circuit for opening and closing the valve and a controller capable of sending an output signal to the valve driver circuit. The valve driver circuit comprises a power switch for providing current to the valve in order to open the valve. The output signal sent by the controller directs the power switch of the valve driver circuit to provide current to the valve, thereby causing the valve to open. The controller receives a plurality of parameter values, and responsive to the plurality of parameter values, calculates a rise time, a pull-in duty cycle, a fall time, and a hold duty cycle so as to modify the output signal sent to the valve driver circuit. The plurality of parameter values comprises valve resistance, valve inductance, supply voltage, valve pull-in current, valve hold current, and valve pull-in time.

A tool for beveling the end of a pipe is comprised of a hollow, tubular body having a central, longitudinal axis of rotation, an inboard coupling end, and an opposite outboard working end. A plurality of longitudinally spaced, transversely directed latching pin bores of equal size are defined through the wall of the tubular body. A core member is disposed coaxially within the tubular body. The core member includes a beveling cutter head and a longitudinal stem having a radially inwardly directed, circumferential latch position groove. A transversely oriented latching pin is engaged in a selected one of the latching pin bores in the body and with the latch position groove of the core stem. This allows alternative selection of each of the latch position bores for insertion of the latching pin. The particular bore selected determines the longitudinal position of the core stem latch position groove within the body that will be aligned with the latching pin. This, in turn, determines the extent of protrusion of the core member cutter head from the outboard end of the tubular body, and thus the depth of the beveling cut in the pipe.

In a method for adjusting the transmission characteristic of a hearing aid, the characteristic being defined by hearing aid-specific parameters, a data processing device is used that has a screen and a pointer device. On a graphics user interface of the data processing device, an object displayed in a first area of the screen is selected and copied with the pointer device and the copy is moved into the second area of the screen and stored there, with the transmission characteristic of the hearing aid being able to be changed by the stored object. Settings selected for a hearing aid or a hearing program thus can be transferred quickly and easily to a second hearing aid or a second hearing program.