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A flexible, resistive touch screen includes a transparent, flexible substrate; a first conductive layer located on the flexible substrate; a flexible transparent cover sheet having integral compressible spacer dots; and a second conductive layer located on the flexible transparent cover sheet, the peaks of the integral compressible spacer dots extending through the second conductive layer, whereby, when a force is applied to the touch screen at the location of one of the compressible spacer dots, the compressible spacer dot is compressed to allow electrical contact between the first and second conductive layers.

A microlens substrate is provided having a plurality of first microlenses and a plurality of second microlenses which are located between the plurality of first microlenses. The second microlenses are smaller than the first microlenses.

Apparatus and a system for thermally comforting a patient include pneumatic, convective providing thermal treatment for persons or animals, which is adapted for use in combination with a clinical garment such as a hospital gown, robe, bib, and other equivalents. The pneumatic convective device provides convective warming focused or directly primarily on the thorax or body core. The pneumatic convective device includes at least one inlet for being accessed through a clinical garment, a region in distribution with the inlet for distributing a stream of pressurized, thermally treated air, and a permeable member for emitting pressurized, thermally treated air from the distribution region.

A suture passer comprises a longitudinally extending hollow cannula having a central passage slidingly receivable of a surgical suture; a manually graspable handle connected to the hollow cannula for manipulation thereof, the handle having an upper surface; first guide means, connected to the upper surface of the handle, proximate a distal end of the handle for releasably, guidingly, holding the surgical suture; second guide means, connected to the upper surface of the handle, proximate to the first guide means, for releasably, guidingly, holding the surgical suture. The suture passer can be provided in a kit, for use in the suturing of internal tissue, along with a cannula bender, various hollow surgical needles and surgical suture material. The suture passer finds particular use in the suturing of internal tissues which are at least partially accessible through a body cavity, e.g. arthroscopic surgery.

A shape memory alloy wire actuator includes a first body member, a second body member and a strand of shape memory alloy wire. The first body member and the second body member extend along a longitudinal axis and are slidably engageable with one another along the longitudinal axis. The first and second body members move in a linear, coaxial fashion relative to one another between an extended state and a contracted state. The first and second body members are resiliently biased away from one another by a spring. The strand of shape memory alloy wire interconnects the first and second body members in a serpentine manner. When the shape memory alloy wire is energized, such as by an electrical current, the shape memory alloy wire shortens causing the first body member and the second body member to move from the extended state to the contracted state. When the shape memory alloy wire is de-energized, i.e., the electrical current is shut off, the shape memory alloy wire lengthens causing the first body member and the second body member move from the contracted state to the extended state under the force of the spring.

A pressure sensor operates on the principle of a differential pair of capacitors having a movable plate that is constituted by the deformable membrane of the sensor. It comprises a measurement circuit for measuring the capacitance of the capacitor, which circuit is incorporated in the housing of the sensor and is made up of first and second double-sided interconnected circuits which are situated on either side of the membrane and which are connected thereto in its peripheral region by connection means. The faces of the circuits which face the membrane serve to mount respective stationary plates of the capacitor, and the faces of the circuits which face away from the membrane comprise respective regions on which components that are sensitive to the displacement of the membrane towards one or other of the fixed plates are mounted, and a region that is insensitive to stray capacitance is also provided on one of the faces that face away from the membrane, for receiving the components forming the remainder of the measurement circuit.

A cable connector is provided for connecting a cable to an electrical box. The cable connector has a body with an axial passage for receiving the cable where the body has a first end and a second end. The first end of the body is connected to the electrical box by a coupling member. Two spaced apart spring arms extend from the second end of the body and are angled inwardly to engage the cable and couple the cable to the connector. In one embodiment, the spring arms extend from a top portion of the body inwardly toward the axial center of the body. The first end of the connector includes a coupling tab for coupling to the electrical box and attaching the connector to the electrical box. In one embodiment, the coupling tab is formed with the front end of the body. In a second embodiment, the coupling tab is formed with the forward end of the coupling spring.

An organic light emitting display (OLED) apparatus and a method of manufacturing the same, the OLED apparatus including: a substrate; an active layer formed on the substrate; a gate electrode insulated from the active layer; source and drain electrodes insulated from the gate electrode and electrically connected to the active layer; a pixel defining layer formed on the source and drain electrodes, having an aperture to expose one of the source and drain electrodes; an intermediate layer formed in the aperture and comprising an organic light emitting layer; and a facing electrode which is formed on the intermediate layer. One of the source and drain electrodes has an extension that operates as a pixel electrode. The aperture exposes the extended portion. The intermediate layer is formed on the extended portion.

The present invention relates to an aneurysm stent for implantation into a living body, in particular for treatment of aneurysms, in order to implant the stent in the compressed state in a vessel and expand the stent after positioning it in the vessel, having a grid or mesh structure and at least one membrane (2) or a plurality of membranes (2) for covering at least one or more stent cells (1; 3) in the grid or mesh structure, thereby matching the permeation characteristics of the stent structure to the particular characteristics of the aneurysm.

An improved two-piece container seal suitable for sealing a container having a removable closure and for lining the closure comprises a flexible sealant sheet and a flexible liner sheet bonded thereto. The sealant sheet and liner sheet are of the same size and shape. The sealant sheet has a sealing surface and a first thermoplastic surface, and the liner sheet has an outer surface and a second thermoplastic surface. The first and second thermoplastic surfaces are in opposed, congruent contact with each other, and the first thermoplastic surface is ultrasonically welded to the second thermoplastic surface by an array of spaced, frangible ultrasonic welds, forming an adhesive-free interface therebetween. A method of manufacturing a two-piece container seal and a sealed container comprising a two-piece container seal are also described.

An organic light-emitting display device including a TFT comprising an active layer, a gate electrode comprising a lower gate electrode and an upper gate electrode, and source and drain electrodes insulated from the gate electrode and contacting the active layer; an organic light-emitting device electrically connected to the TFT and comprising a pixel electrode formed in the same layer as where the lower gate electrode is formed; and a pad electrode electrically coupled to the TFT or the organic light emitting device and comprising a first pad electrode formed in the same layer as in which the lower gate electrode is formed, a second pad electrode formed in the same layer as in which the upper gate electrode is formed, and a third pad electrode comprising a transparent conductive oxide, the first, second, and third pad electrodes being sequentially stacked.

A metal cutting bandsaw blade includes a strip and a recurring group of teeth projecting therefrom. The recurring group of teeth has a setting pattern and a height pattern. The setting pattern has at least three units selected from the following setting types:(a) unset teeth(b) teeth set to the right(c) teeth set to the left.The setting pattern includes at least one of each of the setting types. The height pattern has at least two selected from the following height types:(a) high teeth(b) low teeth.The height pattern includes at least one of each of the height types. The total number of teeth in the recurring group is the product of the number of setting units and the number of heights units. The number of setting units is incommensurable with the number of height units. The number of teeth set to the right in the recurring group is equal to the number of teeth set to the left. All of the set teeth in the group have substantially equal setting widths.

A decubitus mat includes a plurality of individual cells (16) which are pressurized by air from an air supply (10) through air supply lines (12) and metering orifices (14). A polymer sensor / vent structure (20) is mounted on a top surface of each cell to be contacted by a body (22) resting on the mat. The sensor / vent structure defines a plurality of polymer-filled channels (28) and a vent valve (26) which is biased to a closed position. As the body heats the polymer, it undergoes a phase change and expands causing biasing forces (30) which bias the vent valve to open. When the vent valve opens, the air in the cell is released, providing an air flow to remove pooled moisture under the body. The vented cell collapses, transferring support to adjoining cells until it no longer contacts the body. Once removed from the body, the air flow in the cell cools the polymer, closing the vent, allowing the cell to re-pressurize. The polymer is selected such that the cells slightly over and under-deflate in each cycle, creating a massaging action.

The device for metering the volume of gas flowing in a pipe, downstream from an expander-regulator, comprises in succession a flow straightener, a velocity-measuring flowmeter, and a silent flowrate limiter. The straightener comprises a support ring in which there are mounted a first perforated plate having holes distributed over its surface, together with a first porous plate and a spacer in the form of an annulus co-operating with the first perforated plate. The limiter comprises an upstream web defining a second perforated plate perforated by a defined number of calibrated holes, the total flow section thereof being much less than the total flow section of the first perforated plate, a second perforated plate, and a downstream web defining a third perforated plate having holes of total flow section that is much greater than the total flow section of the second perforated plate of the upstream web.

A centrifugal separator for separating oil from a gas stream, particularly for venting the crankcase of an internal combustion engine, having a housing (2) in which the flow guiding means are arranged. The flow guiding means are connected to a drive shaft (3). A gas inlet (5) opens into the housing (2), and a gas outlet (6) and an oil outlet (7) lead out of the housing (2). An easily produced and functionally reliable arrangement is obtained if the housing (2) is non-rotatably mounted and an impeller (14) with blades (11) that produce a centrifugal flow is disposed in the housing (2) such that it is rotatable about the longitudinal axis (4) of the drive shaft (3).

A carabiner provided with a load bearing apex portion having a rubber sleeve for preventing side-to-side slippage of said carabiner on a rounded handle of a mobile vehicle such as a stroller or shopping cart.

The invention is for a waterproof Inhaler Usage Indicator with or without a replaceable battery (6), to provide a count of the amount of drug remaining inside the canister (4) with the counter (1) still attached to the canister (4). It is not limited to inhalers alone, but any type of canister (4) that dispenses through a nozzle (24) when placed inside an housing (2) in order to count the number of displacements between the canister (4) and housing (2). The status of the drug can be checked at any time by a quick movement of the inhaler in any axis to allow the motion sensor (40, 41) to initiate the display of the amount of remaining drug uses. The counter assembly (1) is attached to the top of the canister (4) and uses the displacement between the canister (4) and housing (2) to count the number of uses.

The invention pertains to a special process and devices for the production preferably by machining of workpieces with non-circular outer and inner contours such as squares, hexagons, ellipses, polygons and the like, or eccentric circular bores and / or tappets. In the claimed process, the workpiece is rotated at constant angular velocity while a tool (e.g. the blade of a lathe tool) set eccentrically in relation to the workpieces if moved without rotating about is own axis at controllable speed in a circular path, workpiece and tool being moved towards one another in cycles with the appropriate advance. This ensures that apart from a small cuttings volume far each advance, very narrow tolerances can be set.

A container (1) for volatile substances which can be evaporated by an evaporation device is disclosed having a container body (2) in which the volatile substances are contained. A container neck (3) extends away from the container body (2) in which a container opening (4) is formed. Furthermore, a wick retaining insert (8) in the form of a cylindrical sleeve is provided that can be placed in the container opening (4) of the container neck (3). There is an insert wick passage (9) for the insertion of the wick (10) having an outside wall (13) which presses, at least partially, against an inside container neck wall (15) in a wick clamping connection when inserted. Wick retention is provided by the insert so that wick (10) is secured from being pulled out of the container (1) when inserted. According to the invention wick (10) can be inserted through wick passage (9) of wick retaining insert (8) when the wick retaining insert is not inserted. The wick clamping connection for the wick retention is at least partially made in form of a clamping connection (26) which wedges the wick (10) against an inside wall of wick retaining insert which secures it from being pulled out when the wick retaining insert (8) is inserted.

A sun shield for protection of the back of the head, ears, and nape of the neck that can be worn directly on the head or attached to headgear to provide lightweight, air permeable protection from the hazardous rays of the sun. The sun shield includes a flexible, breathable fabric sun shield attached to a closed loop elastic band that adjustably fits the user's head or headgear. At least one weight is attached to the lower edge of the fabric sun shield so that the sun shield will not be lifted by the wind during use. The weight may be permanently or removably attached to the fabric. Supplemental restraining devices may be attached to the sun shield for securing it to the headgear or sunglasses of the wearer. The weights and attachment devices of the sun shield ensure that the sun protection remains in place under windy conditions.

A crossbow having an increased powerstroke and reduced noise. The powerstroke is increased by inverting the limb orientation from the standard crossbow arrangement and locating string guides at least partially forward and rearward of the ends of the limbs. The bowstring is drawn from the tops of the string guides to maximize the powerstroke, reducing noise and increasing the retained and delivered energy over existing crossbows.

A electrical connector includes an insulating body having a tongue plate, a plurality of upper conductive terminals having upper contact portions, and a plurality of lower conductive terminals having lower contact portions; the upper and lower conductive terminals are buried and molded in the insulating body, the upper contact portions and the lower contact portions are vertically aligned one by one and respectively exposed on an upper surface and a lower surface of the tongue plate; the upper conductive terminals vertically corresponding to the lower conductive terminals one by one so as to form a plurality of corresponding columns, and the upper and lower conductive terminals of at least one corresponding columns are fixedly connected with each other by riveting.

An electrically heatable liquid line in which a heating wire is arranged on an inner plastic layer and an electrically insulating tape is helically wound around the plastic layer and the heating wire. This object is met in the liquid line of the above-type by providing the insulating tape as an adhesive tape whose adhesive can be glued to the plastic layer.

A single motor transmission shifting mechanism with exactly one electric motor for generating drive motions for selecting, and for generating drive motions for shifting gears of a motor vehicle transmission device, and with a threaded spindle for switching from a mode, in which selection motions can be effectuated, into a mode, in which shifting motions can be effectuated, and with a shifting shaft, which can be moved in axial direction for selecting, and which can be rotated around its longitudinal axis for shifting, wherein all components, transferring the drive load for shifting from the electric motor to the shifting shaft during shifting operation, maintain their axial position relative to the longitudinal axis of the threaded spindle during this shifting operation.

The invention provides a medical device for treatment of an obstructed vessel, the apparatus comprising: (a) an external conduit comprising a proximal end, a distal end, a cylindrical outer surface sized for passage through a blood vessel, and an internal lumen, the conduit lumen being threaded within at least a portion of the length of the conduit at the distal end, and (b) a shaft comprising a proximal end, a distal end, an internal lumen, and a cylindrical outer surface fitted inside the conduit lumen and having external threading over at least a portion of the length of the shaft at the distal end; where the shaft threading engages the external conduit threading allowing the shaft to be advanced through the lumen by rotation of the shaft.

A fruit tester provides a motor driven intrusive plunger with associated sensors to determine digital data indicative of plunger position, force resisting plunger intrusion and constant pressure creep. Sensor data is presented to a computer for storage, analysis and feedback control of the plunger. The plunger powering train includes a belt driven ball screw translator to convert rotary to linear motion and an "S" type stress block with plural bridge interconnected strain gauges to sense pressure resisting intrusion to allow accurate measurements. Methods of analysis are disclosed to determine both resistance to plunger penetration and plunger creep at fixed pressure, in each of at least two concentric zones of a fruit, which are related by software for accurate determination of fruit condition as a function of time, both present and future.

A method and apparatus for manufacturing a continuous metal tube having a plurality of electrical conductors disposed therein, by using a spring member to depress the electrical conductors while a flat metal strip is formed into a tubular member and welded to enclose the electrical conductors. The spring member functions to protect the electrical conductors from heat damage. The welding occurs completely downstream of the spring member in order to avoid excessive heat buildup in the spring member.