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A suture anchor includes a threaded anchor body having a first central bore in communication with a second central bore. The suture anchor includes an internal eyelet formed of a loop disposed at least partially inside the first central bore. The ends extending from the loop are tied together to form at least one knot which is housed in the second central bore provided at the distal end of the anchor body. The knot increases the pullout strength of the suture even in soft bone, provides increased suture fixation, and eliminates the anchor “pull back.”

A sliding guide rail assembly (20, 20a, 20b) is provided for slidably mounting a drawer or equipment (10) within a cabinet or chassis. The rail (33a) is formed from a sheet metal into a T-shaped section onto which a sliding means (40, 40a, 40b, 40c) fits and slides smoothly thereon. Guides (50, 120, 150, 160) also formed from a sheet metal into C-sections fitting over the sliding means (40, 40a, 40b, 40c) and operable to slide smoothly therewith. This enables the drawer / equipment mounted on the slide (20, 20a, 20b) to be drawn in and out with little effort or wear and tear.

A tightening system can be used with a helmet or other wearable article. The tightening system can have a forehead strap that is space apart from a yoke, which can be configured to engage a back side of a wearer's head. A lace can extend between the forehead strap and the yoke and a tightening mechanism can be configured to adjust tension on the lace. One or more intermediate tenders can engage the lace in the gap between the forehead strap and the yoke so that the lace path between the forehead strap and the yoke is non-linear. The yoke can have a height adjustment mechanism. The tightening mechanism can be configured to provide a clicking sound during rotation in both the tightening direction and the loosening direction. The tightening mechanism can include a rotation limiter to prevent over-tightening and / or over-loosening of the tightening mechanism.

A method and device provides features for the temporary “parking” of sutures with respect to a cannula. In the preferred embodiments the features are slots that maintain tension on, and orientation of, sutures placed therein. The slots or features may be integral with the cannula or part of a separate device which may be removably affixed to the external portion of a cannula. The invention eliminates the multiple steps inherent in current suture management techniques for arthroscopic procedures, particularly rotator cuff repair and assists in tensioning / advancement of tissue into its repair site.

A cervical spine fixator and a screwdriver used therefore is disclosed wherein the fixator comprises plates (12, 212) for being adjoined to a cervical spine fixation region and a plurality of screws (14, 214). The plurality of screws are fixedly inserted into a patient's cervical spine and simultaneously coupled to the plates, wherein an adjacent region coupled with the screws in the plates is fixed with screw head fixture members (16, 216) having a protruder, which is deformed under the effect of pressure by a screw head when the screws are inserted and returns to their position of origin when the screw head is completely accommodated into the plates to be hitched by the screw head. The plates are formed thereon with receiving grooves (22, 222) for accommodating the screw head and the screw head fixture member. The receiving grooves are formed with openings into which the screws are inserted and a recess into which the screw head is received. The screw (214) formed with a groove of concaved curvature is installed or removed by a screwdriver (230) formed with a protruder of convex curvature, such that it is easy to manufacture, and the thickness of the plates is reduced, thus eliminating the feeling of a foreign substance after a surgical operation.

The present invention relates to a ceramic sheet having uniform quality over its entire surface with a decreased number of defects such as foreign matters and flaws. When the ceramic sheet was divided into sections of 30 mm square or smaller, each divided section has 5 or less defects detected based on an image obtained with a charge coupled device (CCD) camera. The present invention also relates to a method of producing the ceramic sheet. In this method, a green sheet or a calcined sheet mainly including spherical ceramic particles having an average particle diameter of 0.1 to less than 5 μm was used as a spacer. By using this spacer, the green sheet for ceramic sheet slides smoothly on the spacer surface when it shrinks in baking, and the friction resistance between the green sheet for ceramic sheet and the spacer is lowered. In this manner, the method of the present invention can mass-produce the above-described high quality ceramic sheets.

An electronic percussion instrument that allows for a performance sensation that is similar to that of an acoustic HiHat cymbal. A sliding mechanism of a top cymbal pad section and a bottom cymbal pad section of an electronic HiHat cymbal where the top cymbal pad section and the bottom cymbal pad section are both fixed so that they can swing together when the top cymbal pad section is struck. Even when the first cymbal pad is struck and swings coming into contact with the second cymbal pad, the gliding contact between the first pad and the second pad is carried out smoothly and allows for a natural striking sensation comparable to that of an acoustic HiHat cymbal.

A T-bar mounting bracket assembly for a luminaire fixture frame having a bracket, a clip vertically adjustable relative to the bracket, the clip extending through an opening in the bracket, a fastener extending through the bracket and the clip and, the fastener spaced from a location where the clip passes through the opening.

The invention relates to a special triangle instrument for the teaching field, and specifically relates to a triangle instrument which is provided with an aluminium-chromium alloy step slot corner pointer and is adjustable in the same plane. As the improvement, an upper contour of a rotary disk is provided with an arched convex beam; an upper plane of an edge scale is provided with a step convex trail; a transition convex bar is arranged between the step convex trail and the upper plane of the edge scale, and is centrosymmetric; a step groove is formed in a lower plane of a sliding plate; a transition groove is arranged between the step groove and the lower plane of the sliding plate, and is centrosymmetric; ball base step holes are formed in the lower plane of the sliding plate, and are symmetrically arranged at two sides of the transition groove; the outer protruding sphere of the outer side surface of a sliding ball base on an outer half piece of the sliding ball base on the sliding ball touches the upper plane of the edge scale sliding plate; the step groove on each movable plate is slidingly coordinated with the step convex trail on the adjacent movable plate; and specifically on the upper plane corner scales of the edge scale are corresponding to a corner pointer on the back of the lower plane of the sliding plate on the location so that the rotation angle between the rotary disk part and the scale plate part can be controlled conveniently and visually.

A stabilizing assembly includes a retaining device settled between a drawable carrier and a cabinet body for preventing the drawable carrier from swinging in sliding. The retaining device includes two rails fixed to two opposite laterals of the drawable carrier. Each of the rails has a rack. Two gears engaging with the racks are connected by a rod and rotate simultaneously. Two bushes at two ends of the rod are received in supporting seats that are fixed on the cabinet body or the drawable carrier and allowed to shift vertically. Two stop portions, as a stop unit, each extending from the rail toward a side of the rod opposite to another side of the rod facing the rack on the rail are closely adjacent to the retained portions so that the bushes are retained and stopped by the stop unit, and disengagement between the racks and the gears is prevented.

Disclosed is an ice supply system provided at a door and freezer in a refrigerator. The ice supply system of the refrigerator of the present invention includes an icemaker, a container, a crusher and an ice discharger. The icemaker produces the ice by using cool air of the freezer and drops the ice to a lower part of thereof. The container is provided at a lower part of the icemaker, enabling to be inserted into and withdrawn from the door. In this case, the container includes an open top, a first opening provided at a side thereof, a transfer device rotating and transferring the ice to the first opening, and an outlet for discharging the ice. The crusher crushes the ice transferred by the transfer device and the ice discharger is provided for discharging the ice to an ice chute provided at the door by controlling an opening and closing amount of the outlet.

An electronic device includes a main body having a connection portion for electrically connecting the electronic device to an external device; a sheath for the main body to be slidably received therein; at least one positioning component provided in the sheath, for fixing the main body when the main body is sliding toward a first terminal of the sheath and arrives at a fixing position such that the connection portion is protruded from a first opening formed at the first terminal in order to use the electronic device; and at least one first elastic component provided in the sheath, for pressing the main body to move toward a second terminal of the sheath when the main body is released from the fixing position and is sliding toward the first terminal of the sheath, such that the connection portion is received in the sheath in order to store the electronic device.

The present invention discloses a drill rig relocation system. Lift frames are provided at opposite ends of a base box of a drill rig substructure. A lift cylinder and bearing mat assembly are rotatably connected beneath the lift frame. The bearing mat assemblies may be rotated to the desired direction for moving the drill rig. The lift cylinders are then expanded, placing the bearing mat assemblies onto the ground and lifting the base boxes and drill rig off the ground. The drill rig is supported on linear sleeve bearings slideably mounted in the bearing mat assemblies. Translation cylinders on the bearing mats expanded to move the rig by translating the linear sleeve bearings along the shafts. After the lift cylinder expands to place the bearing mat on the ground, the translation cylinders are retracted, providing the linear bearing with the full length of the shaft for the next movement.

A suture anchor includes a threaded anchor body having a first central bore in communication with a second central bore. The suture anchor includes an internal eyelet formed of a loop disposed at least partially inside the first central bore. The ends extending from the loop are tied together to form at least one knot which is housed in the second central bore provided at the distal end of the anchor body. The knot increases the pullout strength of the suture even in soft bone, provides increased suture fixation, and eliminates the anchor “pull back.”

A slide type communication terminal designed to allow a sliding operation to be smoothly completed by means of a driving unit and a travel-enlarging member. In the communication terminal having a first body and a second body, a driving unit includes a motor and a pinion connected to the motor. A first hinge has a rack gear meshed with the pinion and a travel-enlarging member connected to the rack gear. A second hinge has a contact member protruded therefrom to contact the travel-enlarging member. Rotation of the pinion in response to the drive force of the driving unit is converted into a linear movement of the rack gear, and a distance of the linear movement of the rack gear is enlarged by means of the travel-enlarging member, so that the second body fixed to the second hinge is slid to an enlarged travel distance.

An automobile door checker includes a check plate, a shoe holder housed in a case, a shoe that is held by the shoe holder and the shoe slides on the check plate accompanying relative movement between the case and the check plate, and a check spring that resiliently urges the shoe holder toward the check plate in order to press the shoe against the check plate. The shoe is axially supported in the shoe holder so that the shoe can swing from a neutral position to forward and backward swing limits. The shoe is provided with return-to-neutral means for exhibiting a return force that makes the shoe return to the neutral position. The contact area between the shoe and the check plate is arranged so that the frictional force in the contact area becomes the smallest when the shoe reaches the shoe swing limits.

A normally open hydraulic control valve includes: a linear solenoid unit; a spool driven by an output force of the linear solenoid unit to move forward; a valve body in which the spool is fitted; and a return spring for biasing the spool in a retreating direction. The valve body includes: a reaction force oil chamber for introducing hydraulic pressure, which presses the spool in a direction against a biasing force of the return spring, from the output port; and a damper oil chamber which suppresses vibration of the spool. The damper oil chamber is adjacent to the reaction force oil chamber with the third land portion of the spool therebetween. A slide gap which leaks and supplies oil from the reaction force oil chamber to the damper oil chamber is provided between the third land portion and the valve body. Thus, it is possible to quickly supply the oil to the damper oil chamber at the early stage of the operation without restriction on the arrangement, and to prevent delay in operation of the damper oil chamber.

An ice supply system of a refrigerator is provided. The ice supply system of the refrigerator includes an icemaker, a container, a crusher and an ice discharger. The icemaker produces the ice by using cool air of the freezer and drops the ice to a lower part of thereof. The container is provided at a lower part of the icemaker. The container is insertable into and detachable from the door of the refrigerator. The container includes an open top, a first opening at a side thereof, a transfer device rotating and transferring the ice of the first opening, and an outlet for discharging the ice. The crusher crushes the ice transferred by the transfer device and the ice discharger is provided for discharging the ice to an ice chute at the door by controlling a size of an opening of the outlet.

The invention discloses an anti-shaking synchronizing mechanism for slide rails and relates to a slide rail auxiliary mechanism. The slide rail auxiliary mechanism comprises a pair of parallelly arranged slide rail supports and a pair of slide rails arranged on the slide rail supports. The anti-shaking synchronizing mechanism is arranged between the two slide rail supports and comprises a long rod-shaped connecting rod striding between the pair of slide rail supports, gears are connected to two ends of the connecting rod respectively, the gears on two sides are movably connected to the corresponding slide rails respectively and meshed with racks arranged on the slide rail supports, the installing positions of the rack agree with the push-pull directions of the slide rails, and the lengths of the racks correspond to a push-pull stroke of the slide rails. The anti-shaking synchronizing mechanism improves using touch of the slide rails.

A clamping device includes a first handle, a second handle, and a positioning unit. The positioning unit includes a sleeve pivotally mounted on the first handle, a rack pivotally mounted on the second handle and movably mounted in the sleeve, a control member pivotally mounted on the sleeve and having a first end extended into the sleeve, and a locking member mounted on the first end of the control member to move therewith and detachably engaged with the rack to limit movement of the rack. Thus, the locking member on the sleeve is normally engaged with the rack, so that the first handle and the second handle are positioned by the positioning unit rigidly and stably, thereby facilitating a user operating the claimping device.

A tightening system can be used with a helmet or other wearable article. The tightening system can have a forehead strap that is space apart from a yoke, which can be configured to engage a back side of a wearer's head. A lace can extend between the forehead strap and the yoke and a tightening mechanism can be configured to adjust tension on the lace. One or more intermediate tenders can engage the lace in the gap between the forehead strap and the yoke so that the lace path between the forehead strap and the yoke is non-linear. The yoke can have a height adjustment mechanism. The tightening mechanism can be configured to provide a clicking sound during rotation in both the tightening direction and the loosening direction. The tightening mechanism can include a rotation limiter to prevent over-tightening and / or over-loosening of the tightening mechanism.