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A flexible tip electrode for an ablation catheter and methods for making the same are disclosed. The electrode has a surface configuration that improves flexibility of the electrode. Also, the surface configuration may allow electrode lengthwise freedom of movement, such that the electrode may be shortened when pressed against the target tissue. A coil may be located in the electrode to bias the electrode toward a predetermined configuration.

To provide an endoscopic surgical instrument, which enables to perform ligation in a body without pulling out a suture thread outside the body every time in an endoscopic surgery and to perform the operation safely and easily, and further, a user can easily learn how to use the endoscopic surgical instrument. Therefore, in the endoscopic surgical instrument having a needle holding part configured by a movable jaw and a fixed jaw at a front end of a tubular shaft that is an insertion part into an abdominal cavity, the movable jaw is disposed so as to be capable of rotating around the fixed jaw through a pivot shaft due to the remote control; the opposite side across the pivot shaft of the movable jaw is formed as a thread locking part; when the movable jaw is opened, the thread locking part slightly protrudes outside a tubular shaft; and when the movable jaw is closed, the thread locking part is prevented from protruding outside the tubular shaft.

The present disclosure relates to a multi-type wind turbine. The present disclosure may be configured such that a plurality of arms are combined with one tower in a radial direction, and a unit generator having a blade is provided at the plurality of arms, respectively, and at least two of the unit generators are rotated in opposite directions to each other. Furthermore, both ends of the arm may be located both sides thereof on the basis of the height directional central line of the tower to be fixed thereto or both ends of the arm may be located at one side of the tower to be rotatably combined therewith. Furthermore, the rotation speed and tilt angle of the blade of the unit generator may controlled in an individual manner or controlled in a grouped manner. Furthermore, the unit generator may include a main blade and a sub-blade which is smaller than the main blade.

A semiconductor module has metallic radiator plates provided at central regions of principal surfaces of a sealing resin so as to expose from these principal surfaces. The metallic radiator plates and the principal surfaces of the sealing resin are bonded via grease gaps to heat receiving members. The grease gaps are widened in outer regions far from the metallic radiator plates compared with inner regions adjacent to the metallic radiator plates, to prevent external air from entering into the grease gaps even when the semiconductor module causes repetitive thermal expansions and contractions.

A display device of the invention includes a display panel attached to one face side of a light transmissive circuit board and a light transmissive substrate attached to the other face side of the circuit board. A mounted component is mounted on the other face side of the circuit board. The circuit board includes a light transmissive junction layer for joining the circuit board to the light transmissive substrate at a position avoiding the mounted component. The junction layer includes a core substrate formed of a resin, an adhesive layer formed on one face of the core substrate, and a bonding layer formed on the other face of the core substrate and cured. The adhesive layer is adhered to the circuit board, and the bonding layer is firmly fixed to the light transmissive substrate.

To increase the force to draw the armature of an electromagnetic valve gear for driving a valve for opening or closing a high-pressure liquid passage and to alleviate valve bouncing, the surface of the core with a coil embedded therein is shaped flat and the surface of the armature facing to the surface of the core is shaped convexly spherical, or the surface of the core is shaped convexly spherical and the surface of the armature is concavely spherical such that the curvature radius of the concavely spherical surface is larger than that of the convexly spherical surface, or the armature is composed by piling thin plates of different diameters such that the surface of the armature facing to the surface of the core forms an approximate convexly spherical surface, so that the gap between the surfaces of core and armature is smaller in the central part compared to that in the peripheral part of the surfaces. By this, the interference of the surfaces is prevented with smaller initial gap in the central portion of the faces even when the armature is installed aslant caused by insufficient accuracy of the component parts, and strong electromagnetic attraction can be secured because the smaller the gap is, the stronger the electromagnetic attraction is.

A novel diamond disc is disclosed. The diamond disc comprises a plurality of diamond grains 2 bound on a disc. The diamond grains 2 are arranged in such a manner that a distance m1 between diamond grains 2 which are located on a common rotational track of the diamond disc and are located forward and rearward in a rotational direction R is set longer than a distance m2 between diamond grains 2 which are located on adjacent tracks in a radial direction so as to be close to each other.

An integrated air intake system may include an integrated body formed by combining a cylinder head cover at the top of an engine with an air cleaner body at a side of the cylinder head cover, an air duct connected to a side of the air cleaner body to make a channel for air sucked from the outside into the air cleaner body, an upper cover combined in contact with the air cleaner body at the top thereof, an intake hose connected to a side of the upper cover to supply purified air to an engine intake port, and an intake filter disposed in a space formed in the air cleaner body and the upper cover to purify the air sucked from the outside.

An instrument having two branches such as a pair of scissors, or the like. The two branches thereof are connected with a coupling element, which is attached to one of the branches and extends through a hole in the other branch. The coupling element has a locking body situated on the outside of the other branch. Both the locking body and the hole are out of round so that the locking body can be brought through the hole in a certain angular position but not in another. According to the invention, the coupling element is screwed into the first branch. Furthermore, the locking body has a shape that is adapted in such a way to the shape of the hole that the coupling element can be turned by means of the second branch.

A semiconductor module has metallic radiator plates provided at central regions of principal surfaces of a sealing resin so as to expose from these principal surfaces. The metallic radiator plates and the principal surfaces of the sealing resin are bonded via grease gaps to heat receiving members. The grease gaps are widened in outer regions far from the metallic radiator plates compared with inner regions adjacent to the metallic radiator plates, to prevent external air from entering into the grease gaps even when the semiconductor module causes repetitive thermal expansions and contractions.

There is disclosed a heat exchanger for transferring heat between at least two fluids and a method for forming the heat exchanger. The heat exchanger preferably includes one or more end tanks, one or more inlets and outlets, one or more tubes, one or more fins, and one or more improved baffle combinations including at least one single piece double baffle. The improved single piece double baffles act as part of a baffle system, with advantages over multiple-piece only double baffle systems due to being assembled in one piece.

It is an object of the present invention to reduce fretting between strands in a steel cord, to suppress reduction in cord strength caused by running, to enhance rubber penetrability, and to improve tire durability. The steel cord includes a cord main portion 19 of a triple layer-stranding structure including: a core 16 formed from one core strand f1, an inner sheath 17 including N (2 to 5) inner sheath strands f2 stranded with a stranding pitch Pi around the core; and outer sheath 18 formed from M (6 to 11) outer sheath strands f3 stranded with a stranding pitch Po around the inner sheath. Diameters of the strands f1, f2 and f3 are equal to each other, and stranding directions of the sheaths 17 and 18 are the same. A difference (|Ai−Ao|) between a stranding angle Ai of the inner sheath strand f2 and a stranding angle Ao of the outer sheath strand f3 is greater than 1° and smaller than 3°.

A wig is fabricated by: a masking sheet, having a great number of openings around 10 mm in diameter formed therein, being applied to a side of a wig base which is to face the scalp of a wearer; a silicone adhesive agent being applied to the wig base through the openings; one end of a tablet formed of a silicone substance, which can be placed within the opening, being adhered to the silicone adhesive agent, and further, a silicone adhesive agent being applied to a surface of the tablet and dried; following which the masking sheet is removed, thereby providing silicone protrusions fixed to the side of the wig base which is to face the scalp of the wearer.

An organic light emitting diode display having a pixel array structure capable of maximizing space use, and a method for manufacturing the same. The organic light emitting diode display includes pixels of a first color, pixels of a second color, and pixels of a third color, each having a longitudinal direction that extends along one of two diagonals of the display and not along a row or a column direction. Furthermore, each of the pixels are arranged in pairs, each pixel of each pair being of a same color and being arranged near each other, extending in a same direction, and being symmetrical about a vertex of a unit area. Each pair of pixels is produced by deposition of an emission material into a single opening in a fine metal mask, leading to improved aperture ratio and improved use of space.

An electronic device comprises a first structure including a first plate providing a first surface and a second surface and a second structure coupled to surround at least a portion of the first structure and configured to guide the first structure in a direction parallel with the first surface or the second surface. The device also includes a roller mounted on an edge of the second structure and a flexible display including a first area mounted on the first surface and a second area extending from the first area. The device also includes at least one support sheet mounted on the roller and wound around the roller as the roller rotates. The support sheet is wound around the roller when the second area is received inside the second structure, and is unfolded inside the second area when the second area is exposed to the outside of the second structure.

In a layout for a semiconductor device, each active region comprises a first active region, a right active region on the right side of the first active region, a left active region on the left side of the first active region, an upper active region on the upper side of the first active region and a lower active region on the lower side of the first active region, wherein the first active region, the right active region, the left active region, the upper active region and the lower active region each have an inclined portion having a bit-line contact region; and first and second portions having a storage node contact region, first and second ends formed on left and right ends of the inclined portion at a predetermined tilt angle with respect to the inclined portion, the active region being intersected by two word lines and one bit line.

An assembled battery includes: a holder including a plurality of cell hold portions each having a first surface and a second surface facing an opposite side to the first surface and each having a holding hole, which is a hole penetrating through between the first surface and the second surface, and a connection portion that connects the plurality of cell hold portions to each other; a plurality of cells each having an outside diameter smaller than an inside diameter of the holding hole and inserted into the holding hole of each of the plurality of cell hold portions; and an adhesive provided so as to be solidified in a gap between an outer peripheral surface of a part of the cell which is placed inside the holding hole and an inner peripheral surface of the cell hold portion which constitutes the holding hole.

In a microphone having a microphone body stored in a substantially cylindrical metal casing, the casing per se is formed as a ground terminal while a plus terminal is disposed in the center of a lower end surface of the microphone body. A holder is formed to have a bottom wall portion extending from a lower end portion of the holder to a lower end surface of the microphone. An outer circumferential edge portion and a center portion of the bottom wall portion are made of electrically conductive rubber so as to serve as first and second electrically conductive portions electrically connected to the two terminals respectively. Sufficient contact areas of the two electrically conductive portions with electrically conductive patterns of an external board is obtained while a sufficient gap is ensured between the two electrically conductive portions.

An arrangement incorporates a sink and a hand dryer which extends over the sink. The hand dryer is of the type which uses an air-knife mechanically to wipe the water from the user's hands. The hand dryer comprising two elongate air-knife discharge outlets—each outlet discharging a respective air-knife down onto a hand of the user—the air-knife outlets being arranged side-by-side over the basin of the sink. Each air-knife outlet is arranged on an angle such that the inboard end the air-knife outlet is below the outboard end of the air-knife outlet.

To provide a rotation detecting system of a type having a high detecting resolution, in which the rotational position can be detected accurately, in which a sufficient gap can be secured between the sensor and the rotating body and which is effective to simplify assemblage and processing to thereby reduce the manufacturing cost, the rotation detecting system is provided with a multiplying section 4 for multiplying the pulses, generated by the sensor 3, by a multiplication factor to form multiplied pulses Pb and a speed detecting section 5 for detecting an period average speed of the encoder 71 during the interval, in which the latest N pieces of the multiplied pulses Pb have been generated where N represents the multiplication factors by which the multiplied pulses Pb have been multiplied.

In a starting device including a centrifugal-pendulum vibration absorbing device, while lock-up is released, a flow of working oil directed from a lock-up piston side toward a damper mechanism is produced in a clutch engagement chamber. A thrust force in the axial direction directed from the lock-up piston toward the damper mechanism is applied to a weight, of a mass body of the centrifugal-pendulum vibration absorbing device, disposed on the lock-up piston side. A support member of the centrifugal-pendulum vibration absorbing device is provided with weight support protrusions that project in the axial direction of an input shaft of a speed change device toward the weight disposed on the lock-up piston side.

In an information display panel, in which one or more groups of display media having light reflectance and charge characteristic, constituted by at least one group of particles, are sealed between opposed two substrates, at least one substrate being transparent, and, in which the display media, to which an electrostatic field is applied, are made to move so as to display information, in order to seal a space between one substrate and the other substrate, a gap-space maintaining member is formed at either one or both of an outer side and an inner side with respect to a sealing-agent arranging portion arranged at an outer peripheral portion of an information display region of the panel.

A door handle apparatus for a vehicle is provided with a handle base to be fixed to a door of the vehicle and an operating handle. One end of the operating handle is pivotally coupled to the handle base. On the other end of the operating handle, an operating leg protrudes. The operating leg portion includes a stopper protrusion for butting with a part of the handle base to define a termination of a rotating stroke of the operating handle is provided. The operating leg portion further includes a shake preventing protrusion on a free end side of the stopper protrusion.

A semiconductor nonvolatile memory cell array includes a plurality of semiconductor nonvolatile memory cells. Each memory cell has a control electrode (30); a pair of impurity diffusion regions (21, 22) to provide first and second main electrodes; a pair of variable resistance sections (24, 26); and a pair of charge storage sections (50, 52). The array has a word line (33) electrically connected to the control electrodes of the semiconductor nonvolatile memory cells and bit lines provided perpendicular to the word line and composed of the impurity diffusion regions; and layer insulation layers (57, 58) provided between the charge storage sections and the word line.

An integrated air intake system may include an integrated body formed by combining a cylinder head cover at the top of an engine with an air cleaner body at a side of the cylinder head cover, an air duct connected to a side of the air cleaner body to make a channel for air sucked from the outside into the air cleaner body, an upper cover combined in contact with the air cleaner body at the top thereof, an intake hose connected to a side of the upper cover to supply purified air to an engine intake port, and an intake filter disposed in a space formed in the air cleaner body and the upper cover to purify the air sucked from the outside.

A door handle apparatus for a vehicle is provided with a handle base to be fixed to a door of the vehicle and an operating handle. One end of the operating handle is pivotally coupled to the handle base. On the other end of the operating handle, an operating leg protrudes. The operating leg portion includes a stopper protrusion for butting with a part of the handle base to define a termination of a rotating stroke of the operating handle is provided. The operating leg portion further includes a shake preventing protrusion on a free end side of the stopper protrusion.

A wig is fabricated by: a masking sheet, having a great number of openings around 10 mm in diameter formed therein, being applied to a side of a wig base which is to face the scalp of a wearer; a silicone adhesive agent being applied to the wig base through the openings; one end of a tablet formed of a silicone substance, which can be placed within the opening, being adhered to the silicone adhesive agent, and further, a silicone adhesive agent being applied to a surface of the tablet and dried; following which the masking sheet is removed, thereby providing silicone protrusions fixed to the side of the wig base which is to face the scalp of the wearer.

A multi-type wind turbine is provided such that a plurality of arms are combined with one tower in a radial direction, and a unit generator having a blade is provided at the plurality of arms, respectively, and at least two of the unit generators are rotated in opposite directions to each other. Furthermore, both ends of the arm may be located both sides thereof on the basis of the height directional central line of the tower to be fixed thereto or both ends of the arm may be located at one side of the tower to be rotatably combined therewith. Furthermore, the rotation speed and tilt angle of the blade of the unit generator may controlled in an individual manner or controlled in a grouped manner. Furthermore, the unit generator may include a main blade and a sub-blade which is smaller than the main blade.