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Reactive halogen-ion plasmas, having for example, generating chloride ions, generated from low-pressure halogen gases using a radio-frequency plasma are employed for producing low-friction carbon coatings, such as a pure carbon film, at or near room temperature on a bulk or thin film of a compound, such as titanium carbide.

The invention relates to apparatus for surface treatment by impact, the apparatus comprising a vibrating surface and at least one projectile suitable for being projected towards the surface to be treated by said vibrating surface. The apparatus includes retaining means for keeping each projectile captive in the apparatus.

Devices and methods are provided for the treatment of ocular disorders. An ocular implant has a body comprising material that includes a therapeutic drug. The body has an inlet portion and an outlet portion. The inlet portion is configured to reside in an anterior chamber of an eye when the outlet portion is disposed in a physiological outflow pathway of the eye. The outlet portion has an outflow opening such that the body drains fluid from the anterior chamber to the physiological outflow pathway. One method of treating an ocular disorder involves introducing an implant comprising a therapeutic drug into the eye such that the implant drains aqueous humor into a physiological outflow pathway and the therapeutic drug reaches eye tissue.

Disclosed are methods and apparatus for safe, simple and effective broad-spectrum treatments of chronic rhinosinusitis and other common and less common infections of the sino-nasal tract which may implicate not only a wide range of bacterial species but also fungi and viruses. Electromagnetic radiative energy including visible, and optionally, thermal RF, microwave or other longer wavelengths, is applied to target internal surfaces of the sino-nasal tract to destroy or incapacitate superficial microorganisms without the use of antibiotics. The treatment can be controlled to permit regrowth of healthy microflora. A handheld energy applicator has a light output head receivable into, or engageable with, the treatment subject's nostril which may be provided with extensions to reach the sinuses. Useful embodiments of the invention include pretreatment of target sino-nasal surfaces with a photosensitizing agent such as an oxidizing agent or a complementary stain. For example methylene blue can be used with orange or red light. The combination treatment of photosensitizer and application of visual wavelength energy provides a flexible treatment regimen which enables low concentrations of stains to be employed, minimizing aesthetic problems.

Surgical methods and related medical devices for treating glaucoma are disclosed. The method comprises trabecular bypass surgery, which involve bypassing diseased trabecular meshwork with the use of a seton implant. The seton implant is used to prevent a healing process known as filling in, which has a tendency to close surgically created openings in the trabecular meshwork. The surgical method and novel implant are addressed to the trabecular meshwork, which is a major site of resistance to outflow in glaucoma. In addition to bypassing the diseased trabecular meshwork at the level of the trabecular meshwork, existing outflow pathways are also used or restored. The seton implant is positioned through the trabecular meshwork so that an inlet end of the seton implant is exposed to the anterior chamber of the eye and an outlet end is positioned into fluid collection channels at about an exterior surface of the trabecular meshwork or up to the level of aqueous veins.

Surgical methods and related medical devices for treating glaucoma are disclosed. The method comprises trabecular bypass surgery, which involves bypassing diseased trabecular meshwork with the use of a stent implant. The stent implant is inserted into an opening created in the trabecular meshwork by a piercing member that is slidably advanceable through the lumen of the stent implant for supporting the implant insertion. The stent implant is positioned through the trabecular meshwork so that an inlet end of the stent implant is exposed to the anterior chamber of the eye and an outlet end is positioned into fluid collection channels at about an exterior surface of the trabecular meshwork or up to the level of aqueous veins.

An electronic conference support system having a structure in which one main common information processing apparatus having a common display unit having a size sufficiently large for attendants to commonly look and some personal information processing apparatuses for permitting each attendant to exclusively create, display and edit information adjacent to each attendant are connected to one another to form a network communication structure through a data communication passage. When a certain attendant acquires an operation right, an information input space is displayed on the personal display unit of the attendant while permitting the attendant to input information. Information inputted to the information input space is, after completed and as an information object, displayed on the common display unit of the common information processing apparatus and the personal display units of all of the personal information processing apparatuses. The attendant of the conference is enabled to easily input information and other attendants who look the attendant's operation are enabled to be free from adverse stimulus.

Methods and systems for improving nerve stimulation are disclosed and are termed enhanced transcutaneous electrical stimulation (eTENS). One embodiment can be used for enhancing the excitation properties of neural tissue. In one embodiment, systems and methods are provided to enable the selective modulation of specific (targeted) neural substrate, while minimizing the activation of adjacent (non-targeted) nervous tissue, or differentially providing different modulation signals to tissue targeted by different implants. In one embodiment, the system consists of an implant that is used to modify the extracellular potential (i.e. activating function) generated by an independent electrical stimulus generator. Certain aspects of this technology can be applied to any part of the central and peripheral nervous systems. Particular embodiments of this technology provide for therapy related to urological disorders.

A method is disclosed for intermittently mitigating hazardous sulfur compounds, such as hydrogen sulfide, mercaptans and sulfur oxides, from a fluid in the head space of a wellbore. The method comprises contacting the fluid with a foamed aqueous stream comprising an active scavenging agent, such as a triazine, and a stiff foaming agent. The scavenging agent reacts with hazardous sulfur compounds to eliminate the compounds from the fluid stream in the vapor space of the wellbore without withdrawing the hydrocarbon from the wellbore and without releasing hazardous sulfur compounds to the environment.

Surgical methods and related medical devices for treating glaucoma are disclosed. The method comprises trabecular bypass surgery, which involve bypassing diseased trabecular meshwork with the use of a seton implant. The seton implant is used to prevent a healing process known as filling in, which has a tendency to close surgically created openings in the trabecular meshwork. The surgical method and novel implant are addressed to the trabecular meshwork, which is a major site of resistance to outflow in glaucoma. In addition to bypassing the diseased trabecular meshwork at the level of the trabecular meshwork, existing outflow pathways are also used or restored. The seton implant is positioned through the trabecular meshwork so that an inlet end of the seton implant is exposed to the anterior chamber of the eye and an outlet end is positioned into fluid collection channels at about an exterior surface of the trabecular meshwork or up to the level of aqueous veins.

Object: To provide a time stamping system for electronic documents making it possible to easily provide a time stamp certifying date and time of a document prepared with general purpose document preparation software and also to easily and accurately verify the time data and a program medium for the same. Solution: The electronic document preparing organization 20 at a client site has a first document preparation terminal device 30 and a second document preparation terminal device 40. When the document preparation terminal device 30 transmits the prepared document and a time stamp request message 31 to the time stamp issuing server 12, and time stamp issuing server 12 assigns electronic signatures with the signature generation secret keys Ks1, Ks2 and returns the data to the document preparation terminal device 30. The document preparation terminal device 40 a document file with the time stamp received from the terminal device 30 assigned therein and a time stamp verification request message 41 to the time stamp verification server 13. The time stamp verification server 13 verifies the time stamp with the signature verification secret key Kv2, and returns a result of the verification. The terminal device 30 and the terminal device 40 can verify the signature and the result of verification respectively with the signature verification public key Kv1.

A fixation clamp for use in an external fixation system for holding bone fragments adjacent to each other with the help of fixation elements has at least one clamping assembly having a pair of jaws with at least two different size grooves to accommodate a bone fixation element such as a pin or rod. An alternate clamping assembly has at least three grooves wherein at least two of the grooves have a different size adapted to accommodate a correspondingly sized bone fixation element such as a bone pin. The longitudinal axes of the grooves define a polygon. The jaw pairs can be rotated about a central longitudinal axis to present different size reception cavities towards the pins or rocks depending on their diameter.

The invention provides systems and methods for neuromuscular electrical stimulation to muscle tissue. Stimulation electrodes may be provided on a stimulation pad, configured to provide electrical stimulation to a target tissue. A system for neuromuscular electrical stimulation may also include pressure generating mechanisms that may provide a compressive force to a region with the target tissue, thereby removing some excess third space fluid from the region.

The invention provides systems and methods for neuromuscular electrical stimulation to muscle tissue. Stimulation electrodes may be provided on a stimulation pad, configured to provide electrical stimulation to a target tissue. A system for neuromuscular electrical stimulation may also include pressure generating mechanisms that may provide a compressive force to a region with the target tissue, thereby removing some excess third space fluid from the region.

A knee brace including a lateral hinge component and a medial hinge component, a lower member encompassable about a lower leg portion and having a lateral element and a medical element each extending upwardly and connectingly engaged respectively to the hinge components, an upper member encompassable about an upper leg portion and having a lateral element extending downwardly and connectingly engaged to the lateral hinge component and a medial element extending downwardly to a distal end terminating above the medial hinge component. The distal end has a configuration non-obstructingly complementarity to an upper shape of the medial hinge component for full and uninterrupted flexion of the lower leg at the knee joint. A medially disposed arm is connectingly engaged to the medial hinge component and extends upwardly from the hinge component to be adjacent the medial element of the upper member for connection to each other with a releasably securable slidable engager. The arm and medial element are slidable and securable against each other to thereby laterally inwardly and outwardly position the upper member in angular relationship to the lower member and consequently treat inward or outward leg curvature through correction of knee joint orientation.

The present invention provides a cover glass for flat panel displays, which can simplify an edge treatment and is excellent in design, and a method for producing the same. The method includes: a local heating step S3 of locally heating regions 1b to be the bent portions 33 of the cover glass 30 in the sheet glass 1; and a bending step S4 of forming the skirt portions 32 by bending the sheet glass 1 at the regions 1b to be the bent portions 33, during or after the local heating step.

The invention provides surface treatments that reduce or eliminate marine biofouling of various surfaces. A surface that is to be subjected to a marine environment can be treated with a mPEG-DOPA. The treated surface is thus rendered less susceptible to fouling of the surface.

The present invention proposes a manufacturing method of a display device that accomplishes a lower production cost of a display device by using means for partially forming a resist film and means for partially forming a film and etching or ashing by plasma treatment at or near the atmospheric pressure. The manufacturing method of the display device according to the invention is characterized by including a step of partially forming a conductor film at or near the atmospheric pressure and forming wirings. Here, the wirings include all kinds of wirings such as connection wirings for sending signals from external input terminals to a pixel portion, wirings for connecting thin film transistors (TFT) to pixel electrodes, and so forth, besides wirings operating as gate wirings and source wirings at the pixel portion of an active matrix type display device.

The invention provides an initiator assembly that can be easily manufactured without increasing cost, and can be easily and securely connected to a connector when it is used. The initiator assembly includes a priming for being used in a motor vehicle, an initiator used for igniting the priming and having at least one conductive pin and a metal collar for fixing the initiator assembly on an inflator that are integrally formed by an insulating material injection-molded therebetween. The insulating material is a resin made of a plastic material that surrounds a metal eyelet of the initiator.

An object of the present invention is to provide a phosphor capable of improving the light emitting efficiency of a plasma display panel and restraining the deterioration of luminance and a change in chromaticity with the passage of time, and also provide a manufacturing method of this phosphor and the plasma display panel using this phosphor. To achieve this object, the surfaces of phosphor particles for a plasma display panel are covered with a metallic oxide generated by the hydrolysis of a metallic alkoxide. A manufacturing method of the phosphor particles for the plasma display panel is characterized in that the metallic alkoxide is attached to the phosphor particle surfaces and is burned. In this manufacturing method, the phosphor particle surfaces are covered with a close film of the metallic oxide. The plasma display panel uses the phosphor particles having surfaces covered with the metallic oxide.

Non-food plant biomass is subjected to hot-water extraction in a pressurized vessel at an elevated temperature up to about 250° C. and at a pH below about 7.0, to yield an aqueous extract containing hemicellulosic components, other wood-derived compounds, and a lignocellulosic residue. The separated aqueous extract or liquor is purified and concentrated through a multi-step process producing fermentable sugars. At each stage, inhibitory chemicals such as acetic acid, lignin, and furfural are separated and eventually recovered as commercial chemicals. The lignocellulosic residue may be further processed, as a material with enhanced resistance to sorption of water, for manufacture of improved pulp and paper, construction materials, pellet fuel, and / or other useful products.

Provided are a heat-resistant glass fiber which has excellent heat resistance, which is also easy to spin and less expensive and which is suitable as an acoustic material for use in an automobile muffler, and a process for the production thereof. The heat-resistant glass fiber has a composition comprising, substantially by weight %, 56 to 58.5% of SiO2, 12 to 17% of Al2O3, 16 to 27% of CaO, 1 to 9% of MgO, 0 to 1% of Na2O and 0 to 1% of K2O as the entirety of the fiber and containing neither B2O3 nor F2, and has a surface layer portion made of a silicic glass having an SiO2 content of at least 90% by weight. The process comprises treating the surface of the above fiber having the above composition with a mineral acid, to produce the heat-resistant glass fiber.

The present invention includes an apparatus and method for processing solid waste products. The invention features periodic removal of water preferably while the contents are under pressure. The apparatus comprises a rotatably mounted cylindrical vessel having a first end, a second end and an interior surface, at least one end terminating in a hatch that may be opened to allow access to the interior of the vessel and sealably closed to allow pressurization of the vessel; a steam inlet for injecting stem disposed at one or both ends; and one or more valves for exhausting water periodically as the waste mass is being processed.

One type of dryer, namely a laundry dryer (1), comprises a water tank (20) and a drum (30). At the time of drying laundry, the interior of the drum (30) functions as a hermetically closed drying chamber (170). The air in the closed drying chamber (170) is sucked into a circulation duct (171) and heated by means of a heater (173) to a hot air before being blown into the closed drying chamber (170). The hot air having absorbed moisture from the laundry comes into contact with dehumidification water in a cooling chamber (174) within the circulation duct (171), thereby being dehumidified. The dehumidification water is sprayed by a mist generator (180). In the drying process, the mist generator (180) generates mist of metal ion water which has passed through an ion dissolving unit (100) and sprays the mist to the laundry.

A glove with electrodes comprises a pair of flat electrodes 3, 4 which are disposed with a space therebetween on the surface of the palm side of a glove body 2 which is made of an electrical insulating material, an operation panel 30 which is fitted in the vicinity of the wrist on the back or the palm of the glove body 2 to control to supply electricity to the flat electrodes 3, 4, and lead wires 5, 6 which are fitted to the glove body 2 and electrically connect output terminals 40 of the operation panel 30 and the respective flat electrodes 3, 4. The respective flat electrodes 3, 4 are touched with a little space between them to a portion of the human body, and a current is passed to the portion for treatment. Thus, the glove body 2 can be put on one hand only to easily treat from a wide area to a small portion by passing a current to any portion of the human body.

In a particle multibeam lithography apparatus an illumination system (242) having a particle source (203) produces an illuminating beam (205) of electrically charged particles, and a multibeam optical system (208) positioned after the illumination system (242) and comprising at least one aperture plate having an array of a plurality of apertures to form a plurality of sub-beams focuses the sub-beams onto the surface of a substrate (220), wherein for each sub-beam (207) a deflection unit (210) is positioned within the multibeam optical system and adapted to correct individual imaging aberrations of the respective sub-beam with respect to the desired target position and / or position the sub-beam during a writing process an the substrate surface. Preferably, for each sub-beam the respective aperture of the first aperture plate defines the size and shape of the sub-beam cross-section and the multibeam optical system produces a demagnified image of the aperture on the substrate surface, with a demagnification of at least 20:1.

A dielectric barrier discharge plasma generator includes a dielectric chamber. The chamber contains or incorporates a solid surface that is to be treated with non-thermal plasma. The dielectric chamber can be substantially sealed and confine an atmosphere therein. An atmosphere control system is provided for controlling the atmosphere within the chamber. At least one or two electrodes are located outside of the dielectric chamber. When actuated by an appropriate source of plasma generating electrical power the electrodes cause the generation of a solid surface modifying non-thermal plasma in a plasma zone within the dielectric chamber. A transport system is provided for moving the electrode and the dielectric chamber relative to one another. A plasma zone is confined within the dielectric chamber adjacent to the electrodes, and remains substantially stationary relative to the electrodes. The dielectric chamber carries the solid surface through the plasma zone. The solid surface remains substantially stationary relative to the dielectric chamber.