A high-current fusible switch includes a nonconductive base, a nonconductive removable top, a plurality of conductive fuse clips, and a fuse having blade-type terminals. The fuse clips are fixedly mounted within the base. The fuse is retained within the top. Switching is accomplished by inserting or removing the top so that the fuse completes or breaks the circuit to which the switch is connected. The switch is connected to the circuit directly at the fuse clips so that a compact design is achieved that eliminates undesirable multiple electrical contacts.

1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to switches generally. In particular, it relates to pull-out fusible switches having the ability to interrupt high-current DC circuits by extraction of a fuse.
2. Related Art
Switches that are capable of interrupting high-current DC circuits are utilized in numerous environments. One such use is in the telecommunications industry. The DC side of a telecommunications power plant often includes circuits attached to high amp-hour battery strings that provide back-up DC power. Switches that operate in such circuits are often required to withstand up to 100,000 Amps of short-circuit current.
DC switches previously used in such applications had power fuses that were bolted inside the switch. Replacement of a blown fuse in such a device requires the use of metal tools, such as wrenches, to loosen the nuts that secure the fuse to the switch. The potential for a metallic tool or a piece of metallic hardware coming into contact with a copper busway, rectifier, or battery compartment poses the risk of causing the equipment to short-circuit. Existing DC switches are also bulky, complicated, and expensive.
U.S. Pat. No. 3,418,615 to Canney discloses a removable fuse holder for converting unfused transformers into fused transformers. The fuse holder of Canney includes a fuse container with a cover member that fits on the container. The cover includes a pair of fuse brackets that carry a pair of cylindrical fuses. The relatively thin ferrule-type terminals of the cylindrical fuses are not well suited for the frictional wear associated with repeated removal of the fuse from the fuse clips while switching. A pair of fuse clips are mounted to each compartment of the fuse container. One fuse clip has a bar-like projection that extends out through a side surface of the container for electrical connection to a terminal of a transformer. The other fuse clip has terminal member that also projects out through a side surface of the container. The additional bar member and terminal member represent additional electrical contacts. Additional electrical contacts are disadvantageous because they result in increased resistance and the associated increase in operating temperature, as well as higher voltage drops (or watt losses).
U.S. Pat. No. 4,536,046 to Erickson discloses a pull-out fusible switch for use in circuit-breaker boxes. The switch includes a base and removable cover. The base includes terminal contacts that extend out of the side of the base. Fuse clips are mounted to the base and are used to retain cylindrical fuse elements. The fuses are mounted within the base member and remain within the base when the cover is removed. The cover has a downwardly extending blade that makes an electrical connection with the base. Separate bar-like members provide an electrical connection between the fuse clips and the side terminals. As noted above, these additional electrical contacts are not desirable.
U.S. Pat. No. 3,139,499 to Cosgrove discloses a fuse adapter capable of replacing circuit breakers. The adapter has a body with a removable cover. The cover includes fuse clips that carry a cylindrical fuse element. The cover also has a lamp that indicates whether a fuse has blown. Separate electrical contacts are mounted to the base and electrically connect the fuse to terminals via wire leads.
U.S. Pat. No. 2,091,204 to Horn discloses a fuse box that can be inserted into a three-phase power supply to an electric power tool. The fuse box includes a base and a removable top. The top has a fuse carrier clip member that carries a cylindrical fuse. The fuse is electrically connected to side terminals by separate U-shaped contact clips and a bar-like member screwed to each contact clip.
U.S. Pat. No. 3,272,947 to Kobryner discloses a pull-out switch arrangement. The switch has a tub or base and a puller or top. The top has fuse clips that retain the terminals of a fuse member. Separate flange and bus bar fingers are screwed to the base and electrically connect the fuse to the bus bar when the top is inserted into the base. Once again, the additional electrical contacts formed by this construction results in increased resistance and the associated increase in operation temperature, as well as high voltage drops (or watt losses).
U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,966,561 and 5,186,637 to Norden each discloses a fuse holder having a receptacle and a fuse carrier. Separation of the fuse carrier from the base is facilitated by a cam-action lever. The fuse carrier has a pair of terminal brackets that contact the ends of a cylindrical fuse element. A separate U-shaped contact is screwed to the terminal brackets. Each leg of the U-shaped contact is held by a pair of contact fingers which are mounted to the receptacle, thereby electrically connecting the fuse to the receptacle by multiple electrical contacts. A separate clamp member receives an electrical connector inserted through an aperture in the side of the receptacle. The resulting construction is complicated and has multiple electrical connections.


An automated system for validating Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus adapters or PCI-X bus adapters has a computer, motherboard, a PCI-X bus and isolated test slot for operatively coupling a PCI/PCI adapter under test through the PCI-X bus to the motherboard. The isolated test slot is adapted and arranged to minimize degradation of data flow on the PCI-X bus such that a PCI-X adapter, mounted in the isolated test slot, can negotiate a required operating rate greater than PCI operating rates. It can be configured as a low profile slot in a low profile computer system, such as a 2U low profile system. A method for validating the PCI/PCI-X bus adapters comprises operatively coupling the bus adapter under test to the motherboard, negotiating to the required operating rate and testing the functionality of the adapter. The operating rate of the bus adapter can be verified to ensure the PCI/PCI-X bus adapters are tested at required PCI/PC-X rates.

Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) local bus is a common input/output (I/O) bus standard developed for higher end computer systems. PCI bus adapters are circuit boards and/or integrated circuit adapters that provide input/output I/O processing on the PCI bus and physical connectivity between servers and storage devices transferring 32 or 64 bit data at a clock speeds of 33 MHz or 66 MHz.
PCI-X bus, an enhancement to conventional PCI bus specification, increases bus capacity enabling systems and devices to operate at bus frequencies above 66 MHz and up to 133 MHz using 32 or 64 bit bus width. Many of the differences of the PCI-X bus from the PCI bus relate to bus operation, wait states and protocol enhancements. Card form factor, pin-outs, connector, bus widths and general protocols are the same. PCI-X components, such as bus interfaces, PC bridges and extenders, are backward compatible allowing such components to be operable in conjunction with conventional PCI components. However, in such cases the PCI-X bus is designed to revert back to conventional PCI mode and the operating frequency is adjusted to match that of the slowest device on the bus.
Manufacturers of PCI bus adapter boards routinely perform functional testing on PCI bus adapters so as to validate the functionality of the adapters during production. Such functionality tests are achieved by connecting the adapter board to be tested to a server or host machine and running a test program on the host machine to control power and signals to the connected adapter board. The adapter board is connected to the host machine using an isolated test slot which enables the adapter board to be added and removed without powering down the entire host system. Such a technique enables functional testing to be performed without having to use expensive steps and provides substantial time and labor savings during production testing.
A known isolation test slot used in existing manufacturing test systems for testing PCI and/or PCI-X bus adapters consists of a stackup of boards; an bus isolation extender, such as for example a ADEX™ isolation extender, stacked on the motherboard, followed by a riser card stacked on the isolation extender and a wearout connector stacked on the riser card. The riser card and the wearout extender serve to protect the connector of the bus isolation extender from being worn out by repeated insertions of the bus adapters for testing and ensure that the bus is extended outside the host machine to facilitate insertion and removal of the PCI/PCI-X adapters.
One major drawback of the aforementioned existing test systems is that the systems are incapable of validating PCI-X adapters operating at PCI-X clock rates, that is, rates up to 133 MHz. In fact, PCI-X adapters can only be tested by such test systems at clock speeds of 33 MHz or 66 MHz, that is, at PCI clock rates, even though the PCI-X bus adapters are capable of operating up to the higher 133 MHz clock rates.
There is, therefore, a need to provide a test system and methodology for testing the functionality of PCI/PCI-X bus adapters which is capable of testing PCI-X adapters operating at higher PCI-X rates in a reliable manner.
The embodiments disclosed herein therefore directly address the shortcomings of known techniques for testing PCI/PCI-X bus adapters by providing a system and methodology which ensures that PCI-X adapters can be tested at required PCI-X rates, that is, at clock rates higher than standard 33 MHz-66 MHz PCI rates.

Method and system for validating PCI/PCI-X adapters


Provided is a positive electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery including a positive electrode active material particle and an electrolyte-containing metal oxide coating layer having a porous structure and a method of manufacturing the same. A lithium secondary battery to which the positive electrode active material including the electrolyte-containing metal oxide coating layer is applied can have improved charge/discharge efficiency and lifespan characteristics at the same time.

Recently, with the development of portable devices, such as portable phones, laptop computers, and camcorders, the demand for small-sized secondary batteries such as lithium secondary batteries has increased. In particular, a vast amount of research has been conducted into lithium secondary batteries using lithium and a non-aqueous solvent serving as an electrolyte because it is highly likely to form small-sized, lightweight batteries having a high energy density.
Positive electrode active materials of lithium secondary batteries include lithium cobalt oxide (LCO)-based materials (e.g., LiCoO2), nickel cobalt manganese (NCM)-based materials (e.g., LiNi1/3Co1/3Mn1/3O2 or LiNi0.5Co0.2Mn0.3O2), and OLO-based materials, which have layered crystal structures, LMO-based materials (e.g., LiMn2O4) having spinel crystal structures, and lithium iron phosphate (LFP)-based materials (e.g., LiMPO4) having olivine structures.
The LCO-based materials, which are typical positive electrode active materials, have excellent lifespans and conductive characteristics but have small capacities and require expensive raw materials. Also, since the NCM-based positive electrode active materials can obtain neither high charge/discharge efficiency nor high temperature characteristics, the NCM-based materials do not have reliable battery safety yet.
In addition, the LFP-based materials are very stable at high temperatures and have attracted much attention as inexpensive positive electrode active materials because the LFP-based materials do not require high-priced elements, such as cobalt or nickel. However, when a battery is configured by bonding a positive electrode formed using an LFP-based material as an active material with an electrolyte, a negative electrode, and a separator, a transition metal M may be eluted into the electrolyte. Also, when the eluted transition metal reacts with the electrolyte and generates gases, battery safety may be threatened. Furthermore, when the eluted transition metal is precipitated in a metal phase on the opposite negative electrode, intercalation and deintercalation of lithium ions may be hindered, thereby causing a voltage drop or shortening the lifespan of the battery.
Thus, many attempts have been made to improve lifespan characteristics of positive electrode active materials for lithium secondary batteries in the field of batteries, and there is still a demand for positive electrode active materials with improved lifespan characteristics.
Among such attempts, to increase the lifespan characteristics of the positive electrode active material for the lithium secondary battery, a method of forming a metal oxide coating layer 30 on the surface of a positive electrode active material 10 by blending the positive electrode active material 10 with a metal oxide precursor 20 has been proposed as shown in FIG. 1. However, this method may actually lower efficiency because the metal oxide coating layer 30 formed on the surface of the positive electrode active material 10 does not have ionic conductivity.
Therefore, the present inventors discovered that when a porous metal oxide containing a material having lithium ion conductivity is coated on a conventional positive electrode active material, conduction of lithium ions between an external electrolyte and the positive electrode active material under coating layer may be facilitated, thereby maintaining lifespan characteristics and improving efficiency, and thus completed the present invention.

Positive electrode active material for lithium secondary battery, method of manufacturing the same, and lithium secondary battery including the material


A cup for a hip replacement is disposed in a first relationship in an operating room with an object providing a sighting for the cup rotation in a first plane. The cup is thereafter rotated in the first plane through a first angle (e.g., 20°-30°). The cup is then disposed in a planar relationship in the operating room with another object providing a sighting for the cup rotation in a second plane transverse (e.g. perpendicular) to the first plane. The cup is subsequently rotated through a second angle (e.g. 40°-45°) in the second plane. In this way, the cup is properly positioned in the acetabulum socket. The length of the leg receiving the hip rotation is then adjusted so that the leg length matches the length of the patient's other leg. This adjustment is provided without affecting the offset position of the center of the ball on the femur.

Great progress has been made in the field of hip replacements. Considering that hip replacements may not have even existed a generation ago, hip replacements are now relatively common in younger as well as older patients. In spite of the considerable progress which has been made, hip replacement instrumentation can be imprecise.
For example, an acetabular component is provided for the femoral head in a patient and for providing for a stable rotational and angular movement of the ball in the socket in accordance with the movements of the patient's leg. The acetabular component includes a cup which has to be disposed in an inclined and horizontally tilted relationship in the patient's pelvis. If the cup is not disposed in a proper relationship to the bony acetabulum, the femoral head will become displaced from the cup (hip dislocation) when the patient moves his or her leg about the cup as a fulcrum. This is often painful and incapacitating and can require the hip replacement operation to be repeated. Since the operation and the subsequent recovery are long, expensive and painful and carry significant medical and surgical risks, a repeat of a hip replacement operation is not to be taken lightly.
Until now, the proper disposition of the acetabular component within the bony acetabulum for a proper rotational movement of the ball and socket joint has been relatively imprecise. In most instances, orthopedic surgeons have held an instrument (holding the cup) for positioning the cup and have judged on an eyeball basis the initial positioning of the instrument and the manual rotation of the instrument in each of two (2) coordinate directions in an attempt to position the cup properly relative to the acetabulum.
More recently, computer guidance in association with pre-operative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI and computed tomography (CT), and/or x-ray techniques have been employed to assist in determining the coordinates through which the cup has had to be moved to be oriented in a proper relationship to the pelvis. Such techniques have been costly and labor intensive, particularly since the determinations made as by magnetic resonance techniques have had to be registered in the operating room by time consuming point Verification to connect the operative bony anatomy to the pre-operative image data. The application of these techniques by using such imaging studies in the operating room have added substantial time and cost to the operative procedure and have raised a question as to the true value of such techniques. As a result, any initial advantage provided by such techniques such as the magnetic resonance imaging or computed tomography outside of the operating room have been nullified.
As a result of the imprecise instrumentation now being provided to position a cup and femoral component properly relative to the pelvis and bony acetabulum and femur, approximately 2 to 10% of hip replacement operations have suffered the complication of dislocation as a result of component malpositioning. Considering that hip replacement operations are painful and expensive and the recovery can be lengthy and painful, full recovery from a hip replacement operation usually requires months until the recovery can be considered to be at all complete. Rigid exercise schedules during the period of recovery have often had to be imposed.
In a hip replacement operation, certain trial components are utilized prior to placing the actual prosthesis. For example, the ball (femoral head) disposed at the top of the femur and providing the rotational relationship with the socket in the acetabulum is replaced by a metal ball. Furthermore, a liner made from a suitable plastic having low frictional characteristics is disposed on the acetabulum to receive the metal ball. These removals, replacements and insertions affect the length of the patient's leg receiving the hip replacement. If the length of this leg does not match the length of the patient's other leg, the patient will walk with a limp. Techniques to match the length of the leg receiving the hip replacement to the length of the other leg have not been entirely satisfactory.
When attempts have been made to match the length of the patient's leg receiving the hip replacement to the length of the patient's other leg, the position of the center of the cup has become offset from its optimum position. This can affect the ability of the femur ball to rotate in the acetabulum socket and can also affect the ease with which the rotation occurs. This problem has not been satisfactorily addressed in the prior art.

Apparatus for, and method of, preparing for and inserting hip joint prosthesis using computer guidance


A water supply apparatus arranged in a door of a refrigerator, for conveying water to an icemaker of the refrigerator. The apparatus has a water tube for delivering water from a water source, a support block attached to an inner surface of the door, a fill tube assembled to the support block and in fluid communication with the water tube, and a gasket disposed between the support block and the door for sealing an insulator in the door. The gasket has a hole through which the fill tube extends to convey the water from the water tube to the icemaker.

The current disclosure relates generally to refrigerators. More specifically, the current disclosure relates to a water supply apparatus used in a refrigerator for conveying water to an icemaker of the refrigerator, a refrigerator door incorporating the water supply apparatus, and a refrigerator incorporating the door.
Generally, a refrigerator includes a freezer compartment and a fresh food compartment, which are partitioned from each other to store various foods at a low temperature in an appropriate state for a long time. It is now common practice in the art of refrigerators to provide an automatic icemaker to speed up the ice-making operation.
In a "bottom freezer" type refrigerator where the freezer compartment is arranged below a top fresh food compartment, convenience necessitates that the icemaker is disposed in the access door of the top mounted fresh food compartment and delivers ice through an opening in the access door of the fresh food compartment, rather than through the access door of the freezer compartment. In this case, a working medium (i.e., coolant), such as air or a mixture of propylene glycol and water, is cooled, directly or indirectly, by the cooling system. The working medium is then delivered through a passageway to the icemaker to maintain the icemaker at a temperature below the freezing point of water. To further improve consumer convenience, the icemaker has been integrated into the fresh food door of the refrigerator, to which end waterline is run through the fresh food door to supply purified water to the icemaker.
Traditionally, the waterline includes a water tube extending upwardly within the fresh food door. The water tube is typically a ¼ inch diameter waterline entering a fill cup disposed above the icemaker and in fluid communication with the icemaker. One disadvantage of the traditional water supply device is that excessive water splash can be created in the fill cup due to the size of the water tube. Another disadvantage of the traditional water supply device is that sweating on the outer surface of the fresh food door and freezing of the waterline adjacent to the icemaker cannot be effectively prevented. The freezing of the waterline can cause ice build-up in the water tube adjacent to the icemaker, which would in turn blocks water flow to the icemaker. Yet another disadvantage of the traditional water supply device is, when an open pour or so-called "clam-shell" foaming process (which will be described later) is used for forming the door, lining up the water supply with the fill cup can be difficult.
Therefore, a water supply device within the fresh food door of a refrigerator, which effectively prevents the occurrence of the above sweating and freezing as well as water splash and overcomes the difficulties in lining up the water supply with the fill cup, is desired.


A valve flow-directing vessel (42) comprising a sleeve (44) having a threaded installation portion (84) for connection to a receiving member, a plunger (46) movable within the sleeve (44) between a closed position and an opened position, and an orifice insert (48/50) fixedly attached to the sleeve (44). The orifice insert (48/50) defines an orifice (132) that is sealed when the plunger (46) is in the closed position and unsealed when the plunger (46) is in the opened position. The orifice (132) is the entrance to a passageway (130) having an exit (134) communicating with a delivery passage of the receiving member, and this exit (134) is positioned beyond the threaded installation portion (84) of the sleeve (44).

A solenoid valve commonly comprises a solenoid assembly and a flow-controlling vessel which controls flow in response to energization of the solenoid assembly. The flow-controlling vessel can include a sleeve and a seal-carrying plunger that moves between a closed position and an opened position within the sleeve. For example, when the solenoid assembly is energized, the plunger can be motivated to move from a closed position to an opened position and, when the solenoid assembly is de-energized, the plunger can be mechanically biased to return to the closed position.
A solenoid valve is often used with a valve-receiving member, such as a manifold, to selectively deliver fluid to a particular piece of equipment. A receiving member can include one or more supply lines, one or more interfacing cavities, and one or more delivery lines. The interfacing cavities can each includes a passage communicating with the supply line(s) and a passage communicating with the delivery line(s). The valve, when in an open condition, forms a flow path from the supply line(s) to the respective delivery line(s) so that fluid can be provided to the corresponding equipment.
The sleeve of the valve has an installation portion which mates with a valve-installation portion of the interfacing cavity to create a fluid-tight connection therebetween. Typically, for example, the sleeve has external threads and the interfacing cavity has corresponding internal threads whereby the valve may be screwed into the receding member. In any event, when the valve is installed in the receiving member, a flow path is formed between the supply line and the respective delivery line, and an orifice forms part of this flow path. When the plunger is in the closed position, it seals the orifice and no fluid is delivered to the equipment. When the plunger is in the opened position, it does not seal the orifice and fluid is delivered to the equipment via the delivery line. Thus, by selectively energizing and/or de-energizing the solenoid assembly, the flow of fluid to the equipment can be controlled.
The orifice, and the seal-seating area surrounding the orifice, are often very important to the proper operation of a valve. In many instances, the dimensions of the orifice and seating area must be very precise, and within very tight tolerances, to insure the necessary accuracy of flow rate and/or other parameters. Particularly, for example, the diameter of the orifice and the curvature of the surrounding edge, are often critical to obtaining correct flow characteristics. Thus, these elements must be machined or otherwise made under extreme accuracy. Moreover, as the durability of the orifice and seating area essentially dictates the life of the valve, these elements must be able to maintain this accuracy.


A silver halide color photographic photosensitive material which has been spectrally sensitized to light of wavelengths greater than of about 670 nm in which are highly sensitive to light of wavelength greater than about 670 nm and sufficiently insensitive to visible light having a shorter wavelength. The photosensitive materials comprises a silver halide photosensitive layer containing the yellow coupler, a silver halide photosensitive layer containing a magenta coupler, a silver halide photosensitive layer containing a cyan coupler and at least one non-photosensitive hydrophilic layer. Each of the photosensitive layers are spectrally sensitized such that they have different peak spectral sensitivities at light wavelengths greater than about 670 nm. The photosensitive material also comprises at least one first dye which has an absorption peak wavelength in the wavelength region longer than 400 nm but at least 20 nm shorter than the shortest of the wavelengths which form the peak values of the spectral sensitivities of the photosensitive layers. This first dye can be included in a photosensitive layer and/or a non-photosensitive hydrophilic colloid layer. The photosensitive material can also contain at least one second dye which has an absorption peak wavelength at a wavelength region of 670 nm to 1000 nm.

This invention relates to silver halide color photosensitive materials used in forming full color images by exposure to near infrared light and color development processing.
The color photosensitive materials which have been widely used in the past are photosensitive to visible light and so they must be shielded from visible light during handling, for example, while being developed and processed in a dark room. This is very inconvenient in that it has been essentially impossible to visually observe the processing situation.
On the other hand, photographic materials comprising a support having thereon at least three layers (i.e., silver halide photosensitive layers) which contain silver halide emulsions which have been spectrally sensitized so as to be photosensitive to the near infrared light which is emitted from semiconductor lasers or light emitting diodes, and color couplers for colored image forming purposes, as well as methods for forming colored images by color development processing after subjecting these materials to a scanning exposure using three types of light beam with different wavelengths, have been disclosed in recent years. Examples of these materials and methods have been disclosed in JP-A-63-197947, JP-A-62-295048, JP-A-61-137149, JP-A-55-13505, U.S. Pat. No. 4,619,892 and European Patent 0,183,528A2. (The term "JP-A" as used herein signifies an "unexamined published Japanese patent application".)
Even though each of the photosensitive layers employed in these photosensitive materials have been spectrally sensitized to the infrared region, the spectral sensitivity in the visible region is still quite high. This is a general phenomenon which cannot be avoid and which is based upon the fact that the absorption bands of spectrally sensitizing dyes are wide with the edges of the absorption band extending over a wide range on the short wavelength side of the peak wavelength of the spectral absorption. Hence, photosensitive materials which have been spectrally sensitized to three different wavelengths in the infrared region must still be handled under very dim safe-lighting and they also must be processed in a state of darkness for safety. These requirements make the use of these materials disadvantageous particularly in the area of operability. Hence, an improvement that allowed these materials to be handled under bright safe-lighting in what is called a light room would be desirable from the operability viewpoint. However, the handling of photosensitive materials which have peak spectrally sensitized wavelengths of more than 670 nm under safe-lighting of the light room type is very difficult for the reasons outlined above. Accordingly a choice has to be made between using those materials which can be handled in bright safe-lighting but which are of low sensitivity and require very bright exposures of long duration, and those materials which must be handled under dark safe-lighting but which have a high sensitivity and can be used with short exposure times. However, the material must have a high sensitivity in those cases where a scanning exposure of a large image must be carried out in a very short period of time using i.e., semiconductor lasers or light emitting diodes as light sources. Hence, there is a need for sensitive materials which have an adequately high photographic speed with respect to near infrared light sources but which have a photographic speed with respect to visible light so low that it can be effectively disregarded.

Silver halide color photosensitive materials


Methods of managing data associated with an entity include providing an address book entry for the entity in an address book of a user. The address book entry has an associated name and includes a plurality of identifications associated with the entity. Data records associated with the entity are automatically obtained from a plurality of applications based on the plurality of identifications associated with the entity, including a communications service of the entity. The obtained data records and the address book entry are formatted to provide an address book record for the entity in the address book. The address book record includes contact information for the entity and includes an identification of communications between the user and the entity and/or common appointments of the user and the entity.

The present invention generally relates to the field of communications services and, more particularly, to user databases for communications services.
A wide variety of means exist for communication between users. For example, a user may be contacted via a home phone, work phone, mobile phone etc. In addition, users may also communicate using devices such as PC's, PDA's, pagers, etc. using, for example, email and instant messaging.
Managing such a wide variety of communications for these devices can be difficult, such as, when a user changes location. For example, while traveling, it may only be possible to reach a user via the user's mobile phone. However, the user may best be reached by email while at work. Also, the user may wish to implement various rules for receiving and controlling communications. For example, to be reached at home, the user may want the home phone to ring three times before forwarding the call to a mobile phone. As another example, the user may wish to be paged each time an email is received from a particular person while away from the office, all of which may be unknown to those who wish to contact the user. Tracking people with their voicemails, emails, phone calls, appointments and the like may be difficult to organize, much less keep track of over time.

Methods for managing aggregated address books


Disclosed herein are bicyclic pyridines, such as thienopyridine, pyrrolopyridine, furopyridine compounds, and methods for treating cancers.

CDK8 and CDK19, two closely related transcription-regulating kinases, have become a burgeoning novel cancer drug target (Philip, S. et al., J Med Chem 2018, 61, 5073-5092). In particular, CDK8/19 inhibitors were shown to be efficacious in castration-refractory prostate cancer (CRPC) (Chen, Roninson, U.S. Pat. No. 9,636,342), in acute myeloid leukemia (Pelish et al., Nature. 2015 Oct. 8; 526(7572):273-276), in hepatic metastases of colon cancer (Liang et al., Cancer Res. 2018 Dec. 1; 78(23):6594-6606), in estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer when combined with anti-estrogens (McDermott et al., Oncotarget. 2017 Feb. 21; 8(8):12558-12575), and in HER2-positive breast cancer when combined with HER2-targeting agents (McDermott et al., International Patent Pub. No. WO 2016/018511). Furthermore, CDK8/19 inhibitors prevent the induction of genes that promote metastasis and drug resistance in cancer cells of different tumor types, treated with conventional DNA-damaging chemotherapeutic agents or radiation (Porter, D. C., et al., Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2012, 109, 13799-804). In vivo administration of a CDK8/19 inhibitor also improved the effect of a chemotherapeutic drug doxorubicin in a lung cancer model (Porter et al., ibid.), indicating the utility of CDK8/19 inhibitors for the treatment of different cancers when combined with a variety of DNA-damaging agents.
Aside from cancer, CDK8/19 inhibitors show promise in inflammation-associated diseases (US Patent Pub. No. 2014/0309224 to Porter, D. C.; Johnannessen, L., et al., Nat Chem Biol 2017, 13, 1102-1108); cardiovascular diseases (Hall, D., et al., JCI Insight 2017, 2; International Patent Pub. No. WO 2016/100782 to Roninson, I. B.); ribosomopathies; conditions characterized by reduced number of hematopoietic stem cells and/or progenitor cells; and bone anabolic disorders (International Patent Pub. No. WO 2017/076968 to Flygare, J.).
A number of CDK8/19 inhibitors have been reported (Philip et al., J Med Chem. 2018 Jun. 28; 61(12):5073-5092. doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.7b00901). These include certain quinazoline-based compounds developed by some of the instant inventors that are highly selective for CDK8/19, such as SNX2-1-53 (a.k.a. Senexin A) (Porter, D. C., et al., Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2012, 109, 13799-804; U.S. Pat. No. 8,598,344 to Porter, D. C.) and SNX2-1-165 (a.k.a. Senexin B) (U.S. Pat. No. 9,321,737 to Roninson, I. B.), as well as highly CDK8/19-selective quinoline-based compounds [U.S. Patent Appl. Nos. 62/720,774 and 62/720,776]. Other CDK8/19 inhibitors have been reported recently (Hatcher, J. M. et al., ACS Med Chem Lett 2018, 9, 540-545; Nakamura, A. et al., Oncotarget 2018, 9, 13474-13487; Han, X., et al., Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2017, 27, 4488-4492).
Thienopyridines are a class of compounds having a bicyclic aromatic ring. Various thienopyridines have been disclosed, including in U.S. Pat. No. 6,964,956, U.S. Patent Pub. 2007/0219234, International Patent Pub. WO 2017/076968, Saito, K. et al., Bioorg Med Chem 2013, 21, 1628-42, and Saito et al., Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2019, 29, 1769-73. U.S. Pat. No. 6,964,956 discloses several thienopyridines inhibit the IKB kinase (IKK) complex. Saito and U.S. Patent Pub. 2007/021923 disclosed several thienopyridines having potential bone anabolic activity. Compound 15w was shown to have the highest bone anabolic activity in a cell-based assay (Saito, 2013). Kinome profiling also showed 15w (or DBA-7) and 15k (or DBA-6) to be selective inhibitors of CDK8 and CDK19 (WO 2017/076968). Despite 15w showing high bone anabolic activity in vitro, 15w had poor pharmacokinetics (PK) with low Cmax (Saito, 2013).
None of the CDK8/19 inhibitors have yet demonstrated clinical efficacy, which is determined not only by the ability of a compound to inhibit CDK8/19 but also by its off-target activities, which can be either beneficial for therapy or may cause adverse effects, as well as by the pharmacokinetics (PK) of the compound.

Bicyclic pyridine compositions and methods of using the same for cancer therapy


A laser and string animal toy having a base assembly and an arm assembly comprising a stand post that extends upward from the base assembly and a horizontally protruding flexible member attached to the stand post. A housing is attached to the flexible member. A first actuator assembly is located within the housing and a string attached to the first actuator assembly first actuator assembly moves (via a motor) the string moves around and up and down. The housing also retains a second actuator assembly that produces a downward directed laser dot. The second actuator assembly moves the laser dot across the floor.

Cats and other pets not only need their physical requirements of food, water and shelter to be met, but they also have emotional needs such as companionship, love and entertainment that should also be met. The stresses and time demands of modern life often make it difficult for pet owners to fulfill the physical requirements of pets. To help, automated food feeders and full, large water bowls can help tend to the physical needs of pets even when the owner is not present or busy. However, the emotional needs of pets are often difficult for absent or busy pet owners to provide.
Emotional needs are even more critical for young kittens that may find themselves alone for the first time in their lives. In the wild there would be an abundance of stimulation. But in a house with an absent or busy pet owner there is little to stimulate or entertain a kitten. Such lack of stimulus can lead to life-long insecurity which may manifest itself in destructive habits such as scratching. While the foregoing has generally described cats, other pets have similar emotional needs.
Accordingly, there is a need for a toy that can provide cats and other pets with stimulating entertainment not only when the owner is around but when the owner is not present or is otherwise unavailable for play.


A rider-controllable skimboard includes a planar board having a top surface and a connection mechanism mounted to the top surface and proximate a nose of the planar board. The connection mechanism has a vertical pivoting mechanism and a lateral pivoting mechanism. The skimboard further includes a handle mechanism connected with the vertical pivoting mechanism and the lateral pivoting mechanism of the connection mechanism for respective limited vertical pivoting and lateral pivoting of the handle relative to the planar board. The handle mechanism has a length of 80 to 120 percent of a length of the board, such that in a non-pivoted position a handgrip connected with the handle mechanism is positioned within 20 percent of the length of the board from the tail, and such that the limited vertical pivoting of the handle by the rider positions the upper stem portion substantially horizontal and proximate the rider's waist.

Skimboarding, also called "skimming" is a boardsport in which a thin, typically fin-less board, i.e. a skimboard, is used to skim glide along the surface of water. Skimboards are typically smaller and lighter than surfboards, and are usually carried by a rider from a dry beach to a thin wash of beach break, and then dropped free into the water with as much forward momentum as possible or desired. Riders then run and hop onto the moving skimboard, and, use their momentum to skim along a thin layer of wash in a straight fashion or to perform tricks (called "flatlanding"), or to catch the wash out to the beach break, which a rider can then ride much like conventional surfing.
Conventional skimboards are controllable only by a rider's stance and weight shift. Problems can exist when a rider drops the skimboard onto the water, since the rider can no longer control the direction, speed or other movement of the skimboard until after only mounting the skimboard. Likewise, control of the direction, speed and movement of a mounted skimboard is limited to a stance and weight-shifting of a rider once the rider has mounted the skimboard.


A process of fabricating a flexible TFT back-panel on a glass support includes a step of providing a flat glass support member sufficiently thick to prevent bending during the processing. A layer of etch stop material is positioned on the upper surface of the glass support member and an insulating buffer layer is positioned on the layer of etch stop material. A TFT back-panel is positioned on the insulating buffer layer and a flexible plastic carrier is affixed to the TFT back-panel. The glass support member is etched away, whereby a flexible TFT back-panel is provided. The TFT back-panel can include a matrix of either OLED cells or LCD cells.

There is a strong interest in flexible TFT back-panels (including insulation and hermetic sealing, if required) because of the strong interest in wearable electronics with high information content displays and/or sensors. The key challenge in this technology is the processing substrate. To produce good electrical performance, the processing substrate has to survive high temperature and all kinds of chemical treatments without deformation. Furthermore, the processing substrate has to remain flat for lithography purposes. No flexible substrate can achieve these requirements. The only solution is to mount the flexible TFT back-panel onto a rigid glass support using an adhesive for processing purposes and removing the flexible TFT back-panel from the glass support by de-bonding after the processing is complete. There are a lot of challenges in finding the adhesive material and the suitable flexible TFT back-panel that can maintain the necessary dimensional stability.
For most flexible substrates the coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) is 50 to 100 ppm per degree Celsius, but for glass substrates the CTE is only a few ppm per degree Celsius. For temperature excursions of 300 degrees Celsius the deformation in plastic substrates can be as large as a few percent. Thus, to hold the shape when using a glass support with a flexible TFT back-panel there will be a strong stress to bend the glass. The thicker the material used in the TFT back-panels, the stronger the force tending to bend the glass support. For typical TFT back-panels including plastic of 100 to 200 microns thick (e.g. insulating layers), the force is so strong even the glass substrate is bent. Therefore, it is advantageous to use a plastic material that is as thin as possible. For handling purposes a plastic substrate added to the TFT back-panel has to be sufficiently thick to deal with the handling after the de-bonding.
The de-bonding process is also tedious and can require high temperature or laser illumination. Also, the de-bonding process can damage the back plane and may not be compatible with display/sensor device processing, such as the fabrication of OLED or organic photodiodes. For example, OLEDs or photodiodes cannot survive temperatures over 100 degrees Celsius. Even finished LCD cells cannot survive the high temperature that is required for de-bonding. Such limitations can force the de-bonding process to be carried out before the display/sensor device processing. However, if the flexible substrate/glass support is de-bonded before the display/sensor device processing, the display/sensor device processing has to be carried out on the flexible substrate, which is more difficult to handle. Because of these problems and others, it is very difficult to fabricate good flexible backplanes and flexible displays/sensors with high information content.
The advance of metal oxide thin film transistors (MOTFT) enables high performance TFTs to be made at lower temperatures. However, the decrease in performance and stability in MOTFETs is still an issue even for MOTFETs made at low temperature. Therefore, it is advantageous to be able to make flexible backplanes at high temperatures up to 300 degrees Celsius. Thus, the use of a rigid supporting element to hold a flexible substrate rigid during processing is still desirable.
In the prior art various attempts to fabricate flexible substrates on glass supports have been made. One example is described in U.S. Pat. No. 8,258,694, entitled "Method for Manufacturing Flexible Display Device Having an Insulating Overcoat and Flexible Display Device Having the Same", issued Sep. 4, 2012 and a divisional thereof, U.S. Pat. No. 8,257,129. In this type of process, an insulating protection layer is formed on a rigid substrate (e.g. glass). Display elements are formed on the insulating protection layer and a flexible substrate is formed in an overlying relationship on the display elements. The rigid substrate is then removed by etching or the like. To perform the etching step, the material of the rigid substrate must have at least an etching selectivity 20 times greater than the insulating protection layer. It is important to note that the insulating protection layer does not stop the etching but is only etched at a much slower rate. That is to say, in all known prior art some of the insulating protection layer is removed in the process of etching the glass substrate. Since the amount removed affects the efficiency of the insulating protective layer (i.e. the protection provided by the layer) some compensation must be provided in advance. However, forming a thicker insulating protection layer in advance increases the stress on the glass substrate. Generally, many of these prior art fabrication methods have either been extremely difficult to use, usually because of the severe requirement for the selection of materials, or have failed completely because the etching step is too rigorous.
It would be highly advantageous, therefore, to remedy the foregoing and other deficiencies inherent in the prior art.
Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a new and improved process for fabricating a flexible TFT back-panel on a glass support.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new and improved process for fabricating a flexible TFT back-panel on a glass support member wherein a step of etching the glass support member is greatly simplified in both the etching process and the selection of materials.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new and improved process for fabricating a flexible TFT back-panel on a glass support member wherein a step of etching includes the use of reusable noble metals to greatly reduce the cost.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new and improved flexible TFT back-panel on a glass support.

Flexible TFT backpanel by glass substrate removal


A method is presented for sending a message to a secure element connected to a mobile equipment, wherein the secure element is coupled to a user of the mobile equipment. The method comprises the steps, performed in an application manager server of: receiving, from an application server, an application message and an identifier of a destination secure element; generating a secure element message from the application message; from a plurality of connectivity providers, selecting a connectivity provider capable of communicating with the destination secure element; and sending the secure element message to the selected connectivity provider for forwarding to the destination secure element. A corresponding application manager server, computer program and computer program product are also presented.

Near Field Communication (NFC) is a technology enabling many different kinds of useful services. In particular value based services have been discussed, such as payment, ticketing, physical access and coupons. In this type of services, there is a natural desire to implement the applications in a secure way.
One solution to securely implement an NFC application is to install the application on a secure element. An example of such a secure element could be the UICC (Universal Integrated Circuit Card) of a mobile equipment, but also other choices are possible such as a secure element embedded within the mobile equipment or a secure element in the form of a secure digital card.
The secure element is normally not managed by the end-user himself, but by some entity with which the end-user has a billing relationship (operator) or other relationship (terminal manufacturer).
It has been proposed that there is a need for a brokering entity between service providers utilizing the secure element and the entities managing the secure elements. This brokering entity is referred to as a Trusted Service Manager (TSM).
Today applications are loaded onto the SE at manufacturing time (this is the common way of managing SIMs (Subscriber Identity Module) and Eurocard-Mastercard-VISA (EMV) application. Some SEs however utilizes the Global Platform card management system. These SEs are referred to as multi application SEs. The Global Platform (GP) card management system is not dependent on any specific connection protocol to the SE, but is mostly used during manufacturing time. However, with the advent of mobile phones other means have surfaced, and it has recently been described how to use GP in conjunction with the SIM application toolkit. However, this leads to a system where the TSM needs to be a very complex entity that handles the various different types of low level communication and the different types of application logic.
The resulting TSM lacks much of the flexibility needed to adapt the TSM for the brokering role.

Method, server, computer program and computer program product for communicating with secure element


A shielded connector (A) has a housing (20) for accommodating terminal fittings (40) connected with ends of wires (10). A metallic shielding shell (30) is provided in the housing (20), and a tubular connecting member (50) connects an end of the shield (11) and the shielding shell (30). Thus, the shielding shell (30) can be connected with grounding members of a mating housing when the housing (20) is connected with the mating housing. Thus, it is not necessary to connect the shield (11) with the grounding members in addition to a connecting operation of the housing (20).

1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a shielded connector.
2. Description of the Related Art
Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. H08-96919 discloses a known shielded conductor path with a plurality of wires surrounded by a tubular shield made of a braided wire. Terminal fittings are connected with ends of the respective wires and are accommodated in a housing. A cable is formed by twisting an end of the shielding member and is branched off from the conductor path. A grounding terminal then is secured to an end of the branched cable and is connected with a grounding member, such as a body or a piece of equipment.
The above-described construction for branching a grounding circuit from a conductor path requires the connection of a grounding terminal and the connection of the housing with a mating housing. Thus the known construction requires several operation steps, and presents poor operational efficiency.
The invention was developed in view of the above problem and an object thereof is to improve operational efficiency.


In an audio signal processing device which processes audio signals and outputs the audio signals, on the recalling setting data representing a setting status of the device, protection setting defining a group which is not recalled at the time of recalling the setting data among a plurality of groups constituting the setting data is accepted as a local setting for each setting data and a global setting common to each setting data separately, and an enabled or disabled setting of the protection setting for the setting data is accepted for each setting data, wherein when the setting data is recalled, the recall is performed in accordance with the local protection setting when the protection setting for the setting data is enabled, and in accordance with the global protection setting when the protection setting for the setting data is disabled.

1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to an audio signal processing device which processes audio signals and outputs the audio signals, and a computer program for causing a computer to function as such an audio signal processing device.
2. Description of the Related Art
In an audio signal processing device such as a digital mixer or the like which processes audio signals and outputs the audio signals, generally the audio signal processing is controlled in accordance with current data representing the current status of the device, and the current data is changed in accordance with operation of controls to enable edition of the contents of the audio signal processing. For the current data, such processing is performed that a user selects a scene number and gives an instruction of "store", whereby the data is stored in a scene memory as a scene (setting data) of the selected number, and that conversely the user selects a scene number and gives an instruction of "recall", whereby the scene of the number can be loaded and made the current data. Such a function is provided to enable wide-ranging setting to be loaded by a simple operation and reflected on the signal processing.
In addition, an audio signal processing device provided with such a store/recall function is also known in which, at the time of recalling a scene, part of data included in the scene is omitted from recall object so that current data before the recall can be left as it is.
In the owner's manual of "DM2000 (trade name)" commercially available from YAMAHA Co. Ltd., for example, a digital mixer is described in which data of a scene is divided into a plurality of groups for each of which protection setting determining whether the parameters are affected or unaffected by a recall can be made. In this digital mixer, the protection setting can be made for each input channel or each output channel, for each parameter group in a selected channel, or for each effector.
Processing executed at the time of recalling a scene in such a digital mixer is, for example, one shown in a flowchart of FIG. 9.
More specifically, first, in Step S101, data of a selected scene is loaded from a setting data memory into a work memory. Then, in Step S102, setting is made such that the contents of a current memory during rewriting are not reflected on the control of the signal processing and the like until the rewriting at the time of recall is finished.
Thereafter, through the processing in Steps S103 to S107, the protection settings are referred to for each group, and only parameters of the group for which being unaffected by a recall (protection) is not set are loaded from the work memory and written over corresponding data of the current data stored in the current memory so as to be made current data.
After the overwriting of all the necessary parameters is finished, setting is made such that the contents of the current memory are reflected again on the control in Step S108, and the processing is ended.
By performing the processing described above, original current data can be left without change for the parameters for which the protection is set even at the time of recalling the scene. Consequently, the digital mixer described above enables operation of recalling only part of a scene or of recalling a scene while holding parameters which are desired to be manually controlled depending on the situation on each occasion, leading to improved operability of the recall function.
However, the channels and parameters which are desired to be omitted from the object to be recalled may often be different depending on scenes. In such a case, in the digital mixer described in the aforementioned owner's manual of "DM2000 (trade name)," the setting of being affected/unaffected by a recall needs to be performed again every time the channels and parameters which are desired to be omitted from the recall object change, bringing about a problem that the operation becomes complicated.


The present invention is a method of manufacturing an organic EL display device including a display part arranged with a plurality of pixels including an organic EL light emitting layer, and a terminal part arranged with a plurality of terminals each connected to the organic EL light emitting layer respectively, the method comprising forming a TFT drive circuit layer controlling the organic EL light emitting layer and forming the plurality of terminals connected to the TFT drive circuit layer on a first substrate; forming the organic EL light emitting layer connected to the TFT drive circuit layer over the TFT drive circuit layer; forming a sealing film over the organic EL light emitting layer; adhering a second substrate covering the display part in a position corresponding to the first substrate; forming a touch panel sensor substrate and an electrode layer over the second substrate; and exposing the plurality of terminals by etching a part of the sealing film.

In recent years, the development of organic EL display devices is progressing with the goal of achieving thinner display panels, high luminosity and high speed. An organic EL display device is a display device arranged with pixels structured from organic light emitting diodes. Since the reaction speed is fast because there are no mechanical operations and each pixel itself emits light, in addition to being able to display at high luminosity, because a thin panel is possible due to the lack of a need for a backlight, the next generation of display devices are anticipated.
FIG. 1 is a vertical cross-sectional diagram showing an example of a stacked structure of an organic EL display device 10. As is shown in FIG. 1, an organic EL light emitting layer 1 is formed above a hard substrate 2 such as glass. Although a detailed depiction is omitted in FIG. 1, the organic EL light emitting layer 1 may be formed by stacking a TFT (Thin Film Transistor), a drive circuit layer, a reflection electrode, a hole injection layer, a hole transport layer, an electrode transport layer, a hole injection layer, a transparent electrode in this order from the substrate 2 side.
The organic EL light emitting layer 1 degrades rapidly when exposed to the water component within the atmosphere, it is necessary to seal the layer from outside air. Thus, as is shown in FIG. 1, the surface of the organic EL light emitting layer 1 is covered by a transparent sealing film 3 comprised from a CVD formed silicon nitride (SIN) film for example. In addition, the surface of the sealing film 3 is sometimes covered by a transparent resin 4, 5. A substrate 7 formed with the organic EL layer 1 and sealing film 3 shown in FIG. 1 is referred to as [first substrate 7] below. The organic EL display device 10 is formed by adhering an opposing substrate 6 comprising from a hard transparent component such as glass via the resin 4, 5 above the first substrate 7.
The organic EL display device 10 arranged with this type of structure is arranged with a display part 12 arranged with a plurality of pixels including the organic EL light emitting layer 1, the display part being a region for displaying an image, and a terminal part 13 which is a region arranged with a plurality of terminals 13a which carry out an electrical connection with an exterior circuit. FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing an approximate structure of the organic EL display device 10 and shows the structure of the first substrate 7 arranged with the display part 12 and terminal part 13, and the structure of a second substrate 8 and third substrate 9 arranged facing the first substrate 7. Here, the second substrate 8 and third substrate 9 shown in FIG. 2 correspond to the opposing substrate 6 shown in FIG. 1. The opposing substrate 6 is not limited to the structure shown in the diagram and may also be formed including a plurality of other substrates according to the specifications of the organic EL display device 10. The second substrate 8 may be a color filter substrate arranged with a color filter formed corresponding to each pixel. The third substrate 9 may be a touch panel arranged with a sensor device etc including a touch panel function.
As is shown in FIG. 2, in the terminal part 13, the plurality of terminals 13a are formed exposed without being covered by the opposing substrate 6 including the sealing film 3, resin 4, 5 and second substrate 8 and third substrate 9 shown in FIG. 1. The parts of the plurality of terminals 13a which are exposed are connected to an external circuit for supplying a drive signal such as a FPC (Flexible Printed Circuit) substrate. In addition, the plurality of terminals 13a is connected to the organic EL light emitting layer 1 via wiring etc formed above the substrate 2.
In this way, in the manufacturing process of the organic EL display device 10, in the case where the sealing film 3 which covers the organic EL light emitting layer 1 is formed covering the entire surface of the substrate 2, it is necessary to perform a process (also referred to below as [terminal extraction]) for exposing the plurality of terminals 13a from the sealing film 3.
A conventional method is known in which after forming the sealing film 3 above the terminal part 13, the sealing film 3 above the terminal part 3 is removed using tape peeling or etching (dry or wet) as a method for exposing the plurality of terminals 13a. In the case of removing the sealing film 3 above the terminal part 13 using etching, etching is performed after the first substrate 7 and second substrate 8 are bonded together. In this way, because the second substrate 8 itself apart from the terminal part 13 becomes a hard mask, it is possible to remove the sealing film 3 above the terminal part 13 without etching the sealing film 3 of the display part 12.
Here, for example 5 μm or less of a SiN film or 1 μm of an acryl stacked film (for example, SiN/organic resin film (acryl)/SiN, SiN/SiO (or a/Si)/organic resin film (acryl)/SiN) is sometimes used for the sealing film 3. When an etching process is performed using a plasma on the sealing film 3 comprising this type of SiN film or acryl stacked film, there is a danger that the organic EL light emitting layer 1 formed in the first substrate 7 is damaged due to heat. For example, when the temperature of the first substrate 7 rises above 100° C., degradation or crystallization occurs in the organic EL material included in the organic EL light emitting layer 1 and there was a danger that reliability of the organic EL display device 10 would be lost.
In order to reduce the effects on a display device due to this heat, a structure in which a heat sink comprised from a line shaped or mesh shaped metal material is arranged between a light emitting panel and a diffusion plate for example was used in a conventional display device (for example, refer to patent document 1 [Japanese Laid Open Patent 2007-328339]).
However, in the case of a structure in which a heat sink is arranged on the side of a light emitting panel as in the conventional display device described above, there was a danger that the effects of heat on the organic EL light emitting layer 1 due to a heat sink could not be reduced. That is, in the case of performed a terminal extraction process by removing the sealing film 3 formed in the first substrate 7 corresponding to a light emitting panel by etching, there was a danger that heat would be transmitted to the organic EL light emitting layer 1 via the second substrate 8 due to performing an etching process from the side of the adhered second substrate 8.
In addition, in the case of not using this type of etching method, for example, removing the sealing layer 3 covering the terminal part 13 by a peeling method, there was a danger that the peeling interface would not be uniform leaving peeling behind. In addition, in the case of forming the sealing film 3 which does not cover the terminal part 13 using a mask, because a separate process is necessary for cleaning the mask and a high level of accuracy is demanded for positioning, there was a danger that the manufacturing process becomes complex and yield decreases.

Organic EL display device and method of manufacturing the same


A strainer for a water pump includes a bottom panel and an upwardly extending side panel forming a cavity. The base of the water pump is received within the cavity and is removably secured to the filter.

The present invention relates generally to the field of water pump filters and more particularly, to a removable strainer for an evaporative cooler.
Evaporative coolers are well know and used in warm arid climates to cool the air. Conventional evaporative coolers work by drawing air from outside through a rigid media soaked with water. As the air flows through the media soaked with water, the water is evaporated by the outside air thereby lowering the temperature of the air. The cooled air is then directed into the area to be cooled.
Conventional evaporative coolers include a number of elements stored in a housing. These elements typically include an air blower, a media pad, a water distribution system, and an electric motor. The water distribution system includes a water pump that draws water from a collection pan in the bottom of the housing and pumps the water through tubing to the top of the media pad or pads. Some of the water in the media pads is evaporated as air is drawn through the media. The remaining water that is not absorbed in the media returns to the collection pan in the bottom of the housing. In this manner the water is recirculated. Fresh water is added only to replace the water that has been evaporated.
It is not desirable to circulate any debris, that may fall into the collection pan. The debris can both clog the pump and/or the media. Debris may fall into the housing during installation of the evaporative cooler or during replacement of the media. Additionally, since the water is being recirculated any minerals in the water tend to build up overtime in the collection pan. One method of removing the mineral buildup is to intentionally replace the water in the collection pan on a periodic basis. To minimize debris from entering the water pump a filter or strainer may be used. One such filter or strainer is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,046,900 issued on Jul. 31, 1962 to Pollak which illustrates a two piece filter element that fits on top of a portion of the pump. Since this filter only covers the top of a base portion of the of the water pump, debris that is on the bottom of the collection pan may still enter the pump.
Another attempt to introduce a filter is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,856,971 issued on Aug. 15, 1989 to Koble. The filter disclosed in Koble includes a number of thin slits that are formed directly through the lower portion of the base. Similarly, Koble does not filter any debris located on the base of the pan.
Since, the collection pan is typically not completely planar debris is able to enter below the lower edge of the housing. As soon as an opening exists between the lower edge of the water pump and the collection pan, debris can enter this opening and be circulated by the pump and/or clog the pump. Additionally, since the slits are part of the pump itself if the slits become clogged it is necessary to remove the entire pump in order to clean the filter portion.
Accordingly, there is a need for a filter for a water pump that filters out debris located on the bottom of the collection basin. There is also a need for a filter that can be easily removed from the water pump housing for cleaning and or replacement.


The invention relates to novel UVB/UVA-absorbing chromophores that are present in the natural products of a marine hydroid, and derivatives thereof, useful as sunscreening agents. Furthermore, the present invention relates to methods for protecting skin from the damaging effects of solar ultraviolet radiation. This method comprises topically applying to the skin an effective coating of a sunscreen composition of the present invention. Additional embodiments of the invention use these natural UV-absorbing compounds, or derivative thereof, as additives as a means of providing UV-protective plastics, paints, and waxes.

1. Field of Invention
This invention relates to natural ultra-violet absorbing compounds, and derivatives thereof, useful as broadly effective UVB/UVA-screening compounds for topical application to skin, and other surfaces where enhanced UV protection against the damaging effects of sunlight is desired.
2. Description of Prior Art Solar ultraviolet light is known to cause significant damage to human skin. Excessive exposure to solar UVB (i.e., wavelengths of the solar spectrum from 290 to 320 nm) causes erythema (sunburn), and chronic exposure can increase the risk of developing skin tumors. The UVA region of sunlight (i.e., wavelengths between 320 and 400 nm) penetrates more deeply into the skin than does UVB and was previously thought to have a minimal impact on the skin other than to promote tanning. However, UVA is now known to accelerate skin wrinkling and aging, negatively affect the immune system, and possibly increasing the risk of developing skin cancer. Thus significant effort has been devote toward finding effective means of protecting human skin and other materials from the damaging effects of both the UVB and UVA components of sunlight.
These efforts, by a great number of people, have resulted in the development and patenting of numerous synthetic organic compounds that absorb ultraviolet light, primarily UVB, to protect skin from the damaging effect of sunlight. Most commonly, mixtures of these UV-absorbing compounds are dispersed in lotions, creams, or sprays that are applied topically to the skin.
As early examples: U.S. Pat. No. 4,264,581 to Kerkhof et al. (1981) discloses a sunscreen composition containing a mixture of 2-ethythexyl dimethyl para-amino benzoate and 2-hydroxy-4-methoxy-benzophenone; U.S. Pat. No. 3,751,563 to Richardson (1973) discloses a sunscreen composition containing a mixture 2-ethoxyethyl para-methoxycinnimate, amyl para-dimethylamino benzoate, homo-menthyl salicylate, and 2-hydroxy4-methoxybenophenone; and U.S. Pat. No. 3,636,077 to Stauffer (1972) discloses a sunscreen composition containing salts of 5-benzoyl-4-hydroxy-2-methoxy benzene sulfonic acid and 4-aminobenzoic acids or esters. These pioneering compositions effectively absorbed UVB but have limited abilities to absorb in the UVA region of the solar spectrum.
More recently, efforts have focused on producing effective UVA blockers. One of the first patented UVA blockers to be included in sunscreens was 4-t-butyl4'-methoxydibenzoylmethane, also known as Octyl Methoxy Dibenzoyl Methane (CTFA), available from Givaudan Corporation under the trade name Parsol 1789. Since 1990, an increasing number of U.S. patents have been issued for novel UVA-absorbing compounds--examples include U.S. Pat. No. 5,210,275 to Sabatelli (1993), U.S. Pat. No. 5,298,647 to Robert et al. (1994), and U.S. Pat. No. 5,338,539 to Raspanti (1994).
Commonly, these synthetic compounds absorb most effectively in either the UVB or UVA region. Thus, for a sunscreen composition to be a broadly effective across the entire solar UV spectrum, it must contain a mixture of UVB-absorbing and UVA-absorbing compounds. Sabatelli et al. in U.S. Pat. No. 5,210,275 (1993) attempt to address this issue by synthesizing compounds containing both a UVB- and a UVA-absorbing chromophore. Alternatively, if a single chromophore had a very broad absorption band that was optimally situated within the solar UV spectrum, a compound containing such a chromophore could function as a broadly effective UVB/UVA screen.
Although nearly all UV-blocking compounds currently offered commercially in sunscreening compositions are synthetic materials, the patenting of naturally occurring UV-absorbing compounds is becoming more common. This interest in natural sunscreens is being driven, in part, by consumer preferences which are shifting away from synthetic materials and toward natural substances that can perform the same task with equal or greater efficiency. The diverse sources of novel, natural UV screens include, for example, terrestrial plants (U.S. Pat. No. 5,152,983 to Nambudiry et al. (1992)! and marine invertebrates (U.S. Pat. No. 5,352,793 to Bird et al. (1993)!. Several of these natural compounds, however, have significant limitations related to their stability and water solubility that prohibit their use in sunscreening compositions, and in particular "water-resistant" formulations.

Sunscreening compositions comprising natural products of a marine hydroid, and derivative thereof


A method for providing a gray water reclamation system includes connecting one or more gray water sources and one or more black water sources to a main drain line. A collection valve is also connected to the main drain line, the collection valve having (i) an inlet connected to the main drain line down stream from at least one of the black water sources, and (ii) an outlet connectable to either a gray water drain line or a black water drain line. A black water flow sensor is configured to detect water flow from a black water source, wherein the black water flow sensor is operable to transmit a black water event signal upon detecting water flow from the black water source, and wherein the collection valve is operable to connect the outlet to the black water drain line if the black water event signal is received thereby.

The present invention relates to water reclamation systems, and in particular to gray water reclamation systems.
As known in the art, "gray" water refers to water containing low levels of contaminants and which is typically not potable, but can be recycled and used in particular applications, such as irrigation water, toilet water, as well as some industrial applications. "Black" water is distinguished from gray water in that black water contains a high amount of particulates and/or contaminants which requires heavy water treatment. Fresh or "white" water is water which is most commonly used by people for drinking and cooking.
While fresh water is absolutely essential for life, it has become a diminishing resource around the world. As populations in arid areas continue to expand, drought conditions affect wide spread areas, and pollution from factories and plants contaminate water reserves, fresh water is becoming more difficult to obtain, and increasingly expensive when it is possible to do so. In certain areas around the globe, fresh water has been completely exhausted or contaminated, and this trend is expected to become more pervasive in larger and more industrial areas.
Gray water reclamation has been a central point in proposed approaches to conserve fresh water resources. Many of these approaches have been guided by the fact that gray water and black water are often produced by different sources within the same system (e.g., in a residential plumbing system gray water collected from a shower and black water collected from a kitchen garbage disposal), and have thus attempted to meet the needs of such a system by separately plumbing the collection systems of the black and gray water sources. This approach is exceedingly expensive to implement, as two separate drainage systems under such an approach would need to be installed and maintained. Retrofitting an existing plumbing system would be even more expensive, if it is possible to do so at all.
Others have anticipated these problems, and have proposed a somewhat more shared system in which gray and black water are collected. In one approach, U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,217,042 and 5,498,330 propose using the same footprint of an existing plumbing line to plumb a two-in-one drain line. This approach suffers from some of the aforementioned difficulties, in that extensive retrofitting of the single drain line to a two-in-one drain line is required. Further, the resulting black and gray water drain lines are significantly reduced in their respective diameters, leading possibly to an increased number of blocks, and maintenance time and expense. In another of these approaches described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,112,972, an upstream portion of the drain line is used to collect gray water, and a downstream portion is used to collect black water. This approach is limited to those structures in which black water sources are located down stream from gray water sources, an arrangement which is not feasible for most structures, given the number of different black water sources and their varied locations throughout the structure.
What is therefore needed is an improved gray water system which can be implemented in most existing structures without extensive retrofitting.

This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.

Gray water reclamation system and method for providing and operating same


A magnifying assembly comprising a housing; a magnifying lens coupled to the housing; and a cover slidable along the housing; wherein the cover is slidable relative to the housing in a first direction so as to cover at least part of the magnifying lens and slidable relative to the housing in a second direction so as to expose the magnifying lens. Preferably, the housing comprises a frame within which the magnifying lens is secured, and a battery compartment; wherein the frame and battery compartment are integrally formed.

The present invention relates generally to magnifiers and in particular, to a magnifier with a slidable cover that achieves an improved overall compact construction, among providing other features and advantages.
The prior art has examples of "pop-up" type magnifiers, examples of which are described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,822,813; 5,754,249 and D394,272. However, it is believed that there are deficiencies in the prior art that would be desirable to overcome.
For example, it is believed that the prior art devices do not minimize the otherwise necessary dimensions of the device. In addition, the prior art devices are perceived to have more moving parts than desirable and therefore may be more likely to break or malfunction, due to wear or the like.
As such, it would be desirable to provide a magnifying assembly that includes a cover that is retractable relative to the housing so as to expose the magnifying lens, while the size of the magnifying assembly does not change, length or widthwise, as set forth herein. In this way, an improved magnifying assembly may be provided.
Accordingly, further advances in the art are believed to be desirable. In particular, a magnifying assembly that overcomes the aforementioned deficiencies and achieves the aforementioned and below mentioned objectives is desirable, and believed to be provided by the present invention.

Leading Extreme Optimist Industries, Ltd.


Processes, methods, systems, containers, and apparatus for making and processing pasta filata cheese in dome containers that are packaged in plastic. The novel invention uses a rigid see through plastic dome to safely store the cheese within and can be heat sealed in a bag with a plastic film across the top of the bag and open end of the dome. Another embodiment uses only a plastic film to seal off the open end of the dome without using a bag. The process eliminates the need for a water tank to hold the cheese balls before packaging, where water has allowed for cross contamination of all the balls if one ball is contaminated with bacteria and germs. The plastic dome allows for an aesthetically appearing cheese package that maintains a semi-spherical ball shape with the dents and deformations that occur with the prior art plastic bag packaged cheeses.

FIG. 1 is a flowchart of the prior art general steps for plastic packaging soft pliable cheese, such as pasta filata cheeses that include mozzarella. A first step includes taking molded cheese balls and dropping the still pliable cheese balls from a molding machine into a cold water recirculating tank, 1. Next, the cold water recirculating tank is rolled to a cooler for the cheese balls to further chill, 2. Step 3 has the chilled still pliable cheese balls removed from the recirculation tank and loaded into pre-formed plastic bags that are placed into a heat sealing machine. Step 4 has the plastic bags containing the pliable cheese balls being processed through the heat sealing machine with plastic film sealed to the open top of the bags completing the packaging process.
The prior art process requires a chilled open top water tank which causes many problems. For example, the tank can cause cross-contamination of all the cheeses being stored therein from bacteria and germs caused by workers that put their hands in the water tanks. Contamination can also be caused by airborne germs, dirt, dust, and the like, that come into contact with the exposed water. Any contamination will potentially cross-contaminate not just one but all of the cheese balls in the tank.
Additionally, the prior art generally requires the water be chilled, which means that energy costs are incurred to chill the water so that the balls can be inserted inside. Still furthermore, each of the balls when removed from the water tank need to be dried off before being heat sealed in the plastic bags with the film cover, since the heat sealing will not adequately seal the bags if water is on the plastic bags and/or film covers. The labor to shake off or dry the water remnants on the bags is another expense to the process. Additionally, the extra handling by the worker to try to dry off the bags also adds to additional contamination of the cheese.
Finally, the bagged cheese does not have an aesthetic pleasing appearance. Packaging the pliable cheese in a thin filmed plastic bag allows for indentations, such as from fingers of handlers, to pass through the flexible bag to the cheese causing the cheese to be deformed resulting with indentations causing an ugly undesirable appearance on the shelves of markets.
Thus, the need exists for solutions to the above problems with the prior art.

Method of making and processing cheese in dome containers


A method system for a novelty greeting card combined with an embodied 3-D sculpture model kit is contained within a postal envelope. The invention's items are at least one or more inscribed parallel planar rectangular sheets bound in dependant form to enable an open and close greeting card function. The envelope is inscribed with systematic directions to guide construction of the novelty card's embodied sculpture model kit. The card is signed by a sender including a recipient's name; said sender gives card as a gift to a recipient to apply methods of the invention's intent. As recipient deploys invention's construction system by implementing tools and parts embodied in novelty card. The sender's actual signature and recipient's name are conveyed though the method of construction and retained upon the final resulting sculpture of the invention. All construction elements, tools and parts derive solely from the planar sheets that comprise the invention.

This submitted inventions field of endeavor is the giving and receiving of greeting/novelty gift cards, similar to a single sheet folded or bound in two equally dimensional panels. In addition, the card invention combines a hobby model/sculpture building system embodied within a greeting card. This card invention is applied by a sender personally inscribing a recipient's name, then giving said card within an envelope to a recipient for occasions such as birthdays and holidays. The invention's intent is for the recipient to construct/apply the card into a model/sculpture to commemorate the occasion for which it is given. The sender saves time acquiring a card and sculpture gift combined.
Once the recipient constructs the card into a model sculpture, the sender's personally signed inscriptions, e.g. signature, plus the recipient's inscribed name are conveyed though to the final result model sculpture. Hobby model kit building has always attracted people seeking "break apart put together" amusement related to creativity with their interest in design style and mechanics for the sake of renewed hobby fulfillment. This card invention allows a hobbyist and non-hobbyist to fulfill his/her cursory interest in the progression of constructing a novelty model without a huge time commitment and skill level or toxic materials. The invention's applied activity greatly enhances the sentimental value of a card, beyond the traditional birthday greeting card or such similar novelty cards.
Greeting cards and gift cards alike have always been popular gifts where packaged and wrapped gifts were less suitable due to the sender's limited yet valued relationship with the recipient. This invention gives the card sender the option to send furthermore a card that can be constructed into a novelty gift sculpture, synonymous to a two-in-one physical gift item.
This invention can fit within a broad field of possibilities. In cases where the recipient is a child or young adult, the invention can include certain additional educational inscriptions revealed through the construction procedure of the model sculpture allowing means to further general knowledge along with an initial cursory action toward mechanical arts. The card can also have physical therapy applications to rehabilitate disabilities of "finger dexterity" and coordination, plus an implementation for learning braille. Public municipal schools can form a curriculum taking the phases of the inventions development to teach current design and art skills, engineering processes and math, file optimization, technical writing, basic machining and manufacturing. These are great possibilities for a real, hands-on, interesting and fun course for students wanting to learn. Due to technology advancements, such a course around the system and method of this invention could be far more affordable than before.

Greeting card, 3-D sculpture model kit combination, assembly system


A system and method for integrating point of sale (POS) data with electronic article surveillance (EAS) data, comprising a general-purpose computer for receiving and processing POS and EAS data is disclosed. The system and method preferable comprise reporting analyzed and collated data to a user.

The present invention relates to the collection, transporting, processing and reporting of information and, in particular, the collection, transporting, processing and reporting of EAS and POS information.
Upon initial installation of an EAS system, a purveyor of goods (i.e., articles or products), such as a wholesaler or retailer, typically realizes a significant return on investment ("ROI") in the reduction of shrinkage. In this context, "shrinkage" refers to the loss of goods through the unauthorized taking or shoplifting of such goods by customers as well as employees. For an EAS system to be effective, a purveyor's employees must respond to all EAS alarms. For example, retail organizations need to be able to identify which retail locations do and do not comply with its response policies. Currently, POS and EAS systems are divergent technologies with no way to combine data into a correlated event. As a stand-alone, an EAS system helps control non-employee related shrinkage. However, a majority of retailer's shrinkage is due to internal employee theft, which is not substantially addressed by the stand-alone EAS systems.
FIG. 1 illustrates a conventional POS system 100. The system 100 includes one or more combination scanner and deactivators 102, register units 104 and a POS controller 106 connected by a POS network 108. The combination scanner and deactivator 102 can scan a product bar code label and also deactivate a tag attached to the product or to the bar code label. Once the bar code label is scanned, bar code information is provided to the register unit 104 through a link 103. The register unit 104 does not receive any information upon deactivation of the tag. The register unit 104 may query the POS controller 106 to obtain pricing for the product associated with the bar code label. These devices may be connected with other equipment through an in-store network 110. The conventional POS system 100 can flag monetary cash register exceptions such as voided transactions, returns and overcharges, but cannot identify and track shrinkage where EAS tags on goods have been deactivated but are not scanned for payment.
Purveyors who do keep track of EAS alarms conventionally use manual, paper-based logs. A conventional paper log 200 is shown in FIG. 2. When an alarm event occurs by, e.g., a customer exiting the store through or near an EAS detector, an employee may inscribe information relating to the alarm event on the paper log 200. The information may include activity information 210, such as an indicator number 212, date 214, time 216, person who entered the information, 218 and/or an activity code 220, which explains in broad terms the reason for the alarm event. The information may also include a "failure to deactivate" section 230, which is used to record the department 232, cashier information 234 and/or a public relations ("PR") code 236. The PR code may explain the customer's reaction to the alarm event, for example whether the customer was pleasant, understanding, agitated or hostile. The paper log 200 may also record recovery data 240, such as dollar value ("$ Val.") 242, department ("Dept.") 244, description 246 of the product and/or reference information 248.
These logs have proven to be very inaccurate with no sure way for a purveyor, such as a retailer, to verify the correctness of the entries in the paper-based logs or cross-reference information from and to the logs. Also, it is very labor intensive, expensive and a waste of time to get these paper logs into an electronic form, and to do so for data that may not even be accurate due to human error or otherwise.
In addition to the above, more and more retailers are requiring manufacturer product source tagging. There is no known method for determining source tagging compliance other than through manual inspection of a purveyor's stock or inventory.

Integrated electronic article surveillance (EAS) and point of sale (POS) system and method


A thermally-protected varistor (TPV) device that includes a voltage-sensitive body; a first conductive lead frame adjacent the voltage-sensitive body; a second conductive lead frame adjacent the voltage-sensitive body and including a raised pad; a first conducting terminal including an end portion for contacting the raised pad when the TPV device is in a first, conducting position; a fusible material releasably connecting the end portion to the raised pad of the second conductive lead frame when the TPV device is in a first, conducting position; and a biasing element biasing the end portion such that the end portion of the first conducting terminal is configured to move away from the raised pad of the second lead frame when the temperature-sensitive fusible material releases the end portion of the first conducting terminal from the raised pad in response to heat generated by the voltage-sensitive body.

Metal oxide varistors (MOVs) are common electrical components typically used to protect electrical circuits and equipment from high voltage transients. MOV's are highly non-linear devices whose characteristics result from the double Schottky barrier formed across the grain boundaries formed during the sintering process. The polycrystalline structure is primarily zinc oxide, but also has small additions of Bi2O3, Sb2O3, SiO2 and other oxide constituents. The number of grain boundaries between conductive plates and the cocktail of oxides used in the formulation of the MOV determine the threshold at which an MOV begins to conduct. MOV's are placed in parallel with the systems to be protected and are therefore subject to constant electrical stress.
Further, MOV's are subjected to periodic transient voltages and overvoltage conditions which apply further electrical stress. As a result of these stresses MOV's tend to degrade over time resulting in higher leakage current. At the end of their electrical lives, MOV's tend to fail catastrophically. End-of-life failures come in various forms. Failure due to fragmentation caused by excessive transient voltage is one type of end-of-life failure. Another failure type is thermal runaway caused by either degradation of the MOV and/or a sustained abnormal overvoltage condition. A thermal disconnect is used to open the device in the event of sustained overvoltage or thermal runaway due in part to the aforementioned electrical stresses noted above. It is desirable to have the thermal disconnect mechanism in very close proximity to the MOV disk so that thermal response time is as fast as possible. Therefore the purpose of a thermal disconnect MOV is to provide for relatively benign failure when subjected to conditions leading to thermal runaway.
Although thermally protected varistors are presently available, the currently available thermal disconnect varistors comprise complicated assemblies and are costly to manufacture. A drawback of known approaches of thermally protected varistors is that they are one-time use components that must be replaced once the thermal disconnect has been triggered. As the thermal disconnect is typically enclosed in a casing, an individual maintaining the equipment may be unable to easily determine when the thermal disconnect has been triggered and needs to be replaced.
Thus, there presently exists a need for an efficiently-constructed varistor for protecting sensitive electrical circuits and equipment from abnormal overvoltage transients that can be easily maintained and serviced.