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Devices, systems and methods for performing image guided interventional and surgical procedures, including various procedures to treat sinusitis and other disorders of the paranasal sinuses, ears, nose or throat.

Devices, systems and methods for performing image guided interventional and surgical procedures, including various procedures to treat sinusitis and other disorders of the paranasal sinuses, ears, nose or throat.

Devices, systems and methods for performing image guided interventional and surgical procedures, including various procedures to treat sinusitis and other disorders of the paranasal sinuses, ears, nose or throat.

Devices, systems and methods for performing image guided interventional and surgical procedures, including various procedures to treat sinusitis and other disorders of the paranasal sinuses, ears, nose or throat.

Devices, systems and methods for performing image guided interventional and surgical procedures, including various procedures to treat sinusitis and other disorders of the paranasal sinuses, ears, nose or throat.

A semiconductor range-finding element and a solid-state imaging device, which can provide a smaller dark current and a removal of reset noise. With n-type buried charge-generation region, buried charge-transfer regions, buried charge read-out regions buried in a surface of p-type semiconductor layer, an insulating film covering these regions, transfer gate electrodes arranged on the insulating film for transferring the signal charges to the buried charge-transfer regions, read-out gate electrodes arranged on the insulating film for transferring the signal charges to the buried charge read-out regions, after receiving a light pulse by the buried charge-generation region, in the semiconductor layer just under the buried charge-generation region, an optical signal is converted into signal charges, and a distance from a target sample is determined by a distribution ratio of the signal charges accumulated in the buried charge-transfer regions.

A light guide module of optical mouse is disclosed. The light guide module comprises a LED die within a light guide input of light guide means. The light guide input comprises an internal paraboloid. Light emitted by the LED die and parallel reflected from the paraboloid is impinged on a light guide output.

The present disclosure relates to the preparation and deletion mutants of chondroitinase proteins and their use in methods for promoting the diffusion of therapeutic composition into tissues and their use for neurological functional recovery after central nervous system (“CNS”) injury or disease.

A cast metal article is formed with an internal cavity. The internal cavity is formed by a ceramic core which is removed from the cast metal article to leave the cavity. The ceramic core is formed with a cavity to facilitate removal of the core from the cast metal article. To remove the core from the cast metal article, the cavity in the core is filled with a leaching liquid.

A blood clot removal device for removing blood clots from the vascular system of a patient is implantable in the patient's body. The blood clot removal device comprises a blood flow passageway, a filter provided in the blood flow passageway for filtering blood clots, and a cleaning device for cleaning the filter. By means of such blood clot removal device and system, the risk of blood clots reaching sensitive areas of the patient's body, such as the brain, is reduced.

A small cannulated bone screw is provided having an optimized combination of strength, cannula size and thread depth. A set of such strong and small size screws is also provided where the smallest sizes can have one performance ratio emphasized over another, and the larger sizes can have the emphasis reversed. In particular, the smallest screws optimize the combination of their strength and cannula size with the larger screws optimizing the combination of their strength and thread depth. In any event, each of the screws in the set has an optimized combination of strength, cannula size and thread depth throughout the full range of screw sizes in the set, e.g. 3.0 mm to 7.5 mm major diameters.

A data storage system using compression to increase performance. The system has a hardware compression / decompression engine for performing data compression on a data block and performing data decompression of the data block. A controller is coupled to the hardware compression / decompression engine and is for storing compressed data of the data block in a primary region of a data storage device and is further for storing any overflow from the primary region in an overflow region of the data storage device. The overflow region is dedicated to the primary region. There may be a number of such primary regions and a number of such secondary regions, with the secondary regions mapped one-to-one to the primary regions.

Methods and apparatus for removing noise from signal traces collected during a seismic gather, particularly removing the aliased energy in the time-slowness (tau-P) domain so that aliasing noise does not lead to high noise levels in the inverse transformed data are provided. Removal of the aliasing noise may provide for quieter seismic traces and may increase the likelihood for successful three-dimensional (3-D) tau-P interpolation and detection of seismic events.

The invention relates to a staged membrane bioreactor device, for treating sewage or micro-polluted source water, with a water container, pertaining to the environmental protection technology field. The device consists of a half-reaction zone, an anaerobic reaction zone, an aeration reaction zone and a pure water zone. The half-reaction is communicated with the bottom of the aeration zone, the bottom of the half-reaction is provided with an empty valve, one side of the half-reaction zone has a water inlet pump, the inside of the half-reaction has an internal ring filled with stuff, and the top of the half-reaction is provided with a stirrer, and the effluent of the half-reaction automatically flows into the anaerobic reaction zone. The top of the anaerobic reaction zone is provided with a stirrer, the bottom thereof is provided with a sludge empty valve, and a sludge empty device is shaped like a horn mouth and positioned in the anaerobic reaction zone, and the top of the anaerobic reaction zone is provided with a drug feeding mouth. The bottom of the aeration reaction zone has an internal return pump, the lower part of the aeration reaction zone is provided with an aeration pipe with an air inlet positioned at one side of the aeration reaction zone, and a fan is connected to the aeration pipe through the air inlet; the top of the aeration reaction zone is provided with an overflow pipe, the bottom of the aeration reaction zone is provided with an empty valve, while the middle is provided with a membrane component. The pure water zone is divided into two units, and the inside of each unit is provided with an effluent valve. The invention has the advantages of good effluent quality, multi purposes, small land occupancy, flexible and convenient using method, and is applied to the treatment of domestic sewage and micro-polluted source water, and can widen and facilitate the application of membrane bioreactor water treatment and water resource reutilization technique.

The present invention is directed to a tamper-resistant storage container. The storage container includes a container and lid portion having formed channels and surfaces along their perimeters configured to interlock securely to each other to attach the lid to the container. The lid includes at least one open area spanned by a breakaway stringer defining an area of weakness along a perimeter of the lid such that removing or attempting to remove the lid from the container breaks the stringer to provide a visible indication that the container has been opened or tampered with.

Eyewear is provided, namely, sunglasses with an integral securing mechanism that enables the lenses to be removed and replaced as necessary. Each of the lenses may retained within the frame of the eyewear / sunglass device as by corresponding channels or recesses formed on each corresponding side of the sunglass frame. For separate lenses, a securing mechanism is provided for securing each of the lenses. In a mono lens configuration, a single securing mechanism may be used to secure both lenses. A securing mechanism is placed in a locked position to hold the lens(es) in place during use. The securing mechanism is placed in an unlocked position by sliding or shifting the securing mechanism, enabling removal of the lens(es). Various constructions can be adopted for maintaining the securing mechanism in the locked position, such as by frictional force, magnetic force, or combinations thereof.

A method for the reduction of noise in an image including identifying neighboring pixel values in pixels proximate to a subject pixel; comparing the neighboring pixel values to a preset tolerance range; using neighboring pixel values within the tolerance range to calculate a pixel intensity correction value; and applying the pixel intensity value to the subject pixel.

The invention relates to a preparation method of new purification material with catalytic oxidation formaldehyde and sterilization function. The preparation method comprises the following steps of: 1,taking a porous adsorption material as a carrier; step 2, loading noble metal with a catalytic oxidation formaldehyde function, rare-earth metal material, substance containing silver, zinc or copperwith sterilizing active component on a carrier material; step 3, synthetizing the carrier material loaded with the active functional component with the high molecular material to form the fiber; step4, processing the fiber into a non-woven fabric to finish the preparation of the purification material. By bonding the carrier material containing formaldehyde catalytic oxidation active component andsterilizing active component with high-molecular material such as polyester, polyethylene, polypropylene and nylon, after heating and melting, bonding the active component with the fiber, and forminga strong active layer inside and outside the fiber, the new purification material with catalytic oxidation formaldehyde and sterilization function has the advantages that the specific surface area ofthe material is increased, the dispersion of the active component is facilitated, the formaldehyde can be fully contacted with the catalyst, and the formaldehyde has good purification function.

To provide an inorganic waterborne coating agent and its aqueous solution: wherein, with the surface of the base material highly-hydrophilizated, the contaminant such as oil-based contaminant and inorganic dust adhered onto the surface of the base material can be removed easily with water, and at the same time, the antistatic effect can be achieved due to its dust-repelling property; which can be applied by anyone (non-skilled) with ease without considering the base material being organic or inorganic, compared with conventional coating agents, such as photocatalyst and polysilazane-based glass coating agent that have limited range of use; and which has little limit in conditions of use, and is inexpensive and applicable to any places, thereby securing the original goal of antifouling property. To provide an inorganic waterborne coating agent comprising: alkaline colloidal silica, a sodium phosphate compound and a potassium phosphate mixture, and boric acid.

A device for hardening an Ethernet switch is disclosed. The device provides cooling for the switch, and, suppresses electrical transients and electromagnetic interference, which could affect the power supply, and data transmission of the Ethernet switch. Using this device, the Ethernet switch can be used in harsh industrial environments, such as those present in power utility substations.

A process of amplifying a nucleic acid template dependent on partial destruction of primer molecules which have extended onto the template molecule followed by strand invasion of the partially destroyed primer template by a replacement primer. The destruction of the primer molecule may be performed by either endonuclease or exonuclease digestion. A signal generation from the amplified products may be obtained by the use of adaptors capable of binding probe molecules as well as the amplified product.

Methods and apparatus for removing noise from signal traces collected during a seismic gather, particularly removing the aliased energy in the time-slowness (tau-P) domain so that aliasing noise does not lead to high noise levels in the inverse transformed data are provided. Removal of the aliasing noise may provide for quieter seismic traces and may increase the likelihood for successful three-dimensional (3-D) tau-P interpolation and detection of seismic events.

A turbocharger system for a combustion engine and method of installing a turbocharger system includes a turbocharger having an oil inlet configured for being coupled to a pressure side of an oiling system and an oil outlet, an exhaust inlet and outlet and an air charge inlet and outlet. An oil pump is connected to the oil outlet of the turbocharger and is further connected to the oiling system. A pressure driven check valve is coupled to the oil inlet of the turbocharger to prevent oil from flowing into the turbocharger when the pressure on the pressure side of the oiling system drops below a predetermined level. The turbocharger system also includes mounting hardware for mounting the turbocharger to an exhaust pipe and away from the engine and at or below the oil level of the oiling system. In one embodiment, the method of installing the turbocharger system includes removing an existing muffler from the vehicle and mounting the turbocharger in the location of the existing muffler.