An iterative method and a device for decoding received signals transmitted in data frames via various channels. In order to be able to utilize the computing capacity of digital signal processors (DSPs) as efficiently as possible, it is proposed that, starting at a first channel, the quality of the decoded signal transmitted via the first channel is checked following every iteration and switchover takes place to at least one further channel if a specifiable switchover condition exists. The switchover condition may, for example, be a specifiable quality of the decoded signal transmitted via the channel under consideration. To determine the quality of the decoded signal a cyclic redundancy check (CRC), in particular, is proposed following every iteration.

The present invention relates to an iterative method of decoding a received signal transmitted in data frames.
The invention relates, in addition, to an iterative method of decoding received signals transmitted in data frames via various channels.
Furthermore, the present invention relates to a device for decoding received signals by means of an iterative method.
The invention also relates to a device for receiving received signals transmitted in data frames with at least one device for decoding the received signals by means of an iterative method.
The invention furthermore relates to a base station of a radio telecommunications system having a multiplicity of mobile-radio units, having at least one further base station, the base stations being in radio contact with the mobile-radio units, and at least one control device for controlling the radio telecommunications system that is in contact with the base stations.
Finally, the present invention relates to a radio telecommunications system having a multiplicity of mobile-radio units, having a plurality of base stations that are in radio contact with the mobile-radio units, and having at least one control device for controlling the radio telecommunications system that is in contact with the base stations. The invention is based on a priority application EP 01 440 100.4 which is hereby incorporated by reference.
Decoding methods of the type mentioned at the outset are used in the prior art, for example in decoding devices of base stations of radio telecommunications systems. FIG. 2 shows a block diagram of a known so-called turbo decoder, such as is used, for example, for decoding a channel in a node B of UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) radio telecommunications systems. More detailed items of information on the known turbo decoder can be found in 3-GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) specification 25.212 V.3.4.0, to which reference is expressly made. A received signal applied to the turbo decoder is denoted by the reference symbol 1. The input signal is transmitted in data frames according to a CDMA (code division multiple access) method. It is first fed to a so-called unpuncturing unit 2, which matches the received signal 1 transmitted in the data frames to specified data frames of the decoder. This is done, for example, by adding bits omitted in the frame of the data transmission. The added bits have the amplitude zero. They are treated in the decoding frame as bits having a low reliability and weighted low according to the amplitude. The unpuncturing is part of a so-called rate matching. Applied to the unpuncturing unit 2 are an output signal e and two redundancy signals y1, y2 for the purpose of error correction.
The output signal e and the first redundancy signal y1 are fed to a first so-called constituent decoder 3 having a so-called soft output at the output 4. A soft output means that the entire bandwidth of real numbers can be applied to the output 4 instead of, as in the case of the so-called hard output, where only +1, −1 (physical bits) or 0, 1 (logic bits) may be applied at the output. As a result, errors in the decoding of a transmitted received signal subject to interference are reduced. In the case of the soft output, the bits have various amplitudes corresponding to their reliability and are weighted according to their amplitude. Used as constituent decoders are, typically, decoders of the MAP (maximum a posterior) type or, for example of the LogMAP, MaxLogMAP, SOVA or Viterbi types.
The output 4 of the decoder 3 is fed to an interleave unit 5, which rearranges the bits within the data frames so that originally adjacent bits are as far away from one another as possible. In this connection, it is assumed that errors in the transmission of the received signal affect not only individual bits but, as a rule, a multiplicity of consecutive bits. Whereas the decoding of a data frame containing occasionally occurring defective bits is possible in a relatively problem-free manner, decoding of a data frame having a multiplicity of consecutive defective bits is very expensive or even impossible. For this reason, the bits are rearranged by the interleave unit 5 in order to generate a data frame containing defective bits that occur only occasionally and that can readily be decoded despite a transmission error that occurs in an accumulated manner and that affects a multiplicity of consecutive bits.
The output of the interleave unit 5 is fed, together with the second redundancy signal y2, to a second constituent decoder 6. From the point of view of structure, the latter corresponds to the first constituent decoder 3. According to the prior art, the output of the second constituent decoder 6 is regularly fed back eight times via a feedback 7 and a de-interleave unit 8 disposed therein to the input of the first constituent decoder 3. After eight iterations have taken place, the output of the second constituent decoder 6 is emitted via a threshold detector 9 and a further de-interleave unit 10. The output 11 of the further de-interleave unit 10 is the decoded signal (the so-called estimated hard bits).
Turbo decoding involving eight iterations of a received signal that is transmitted via a 384 kbit/s data channel requires a computing capacity of 78×106 instructions/s (78 Mips). At a clock rate of 180 Hz and 60% capacity utilization, a conventional digital signal processor (DSP) of the TigerSHARC type can make available about 108×106 instructions/s (108 Mips). Consequently, according to the prior art, a maximum of 384 kbit/s data channel can be decoded by a DSP.

Iterative method of decoding a received signal


This invention effectively utilizes a solid type honeycomb-shaped NO.sub.x removal catalyst which has been used in a catalytic ammonia reduction process and hence reduced in NO.sub.x removal power, and thereby provides an inexpensive catalyst having NO.sub.x removal power equal to that of a fresh catalyst. The nitrogen oxide removal catalyst of this invention, which is useful in a process wherein ammonia is added to exhaust gas and nitrogen oxides present in the exhaust gas are catalytically reduced, has a two-layer structure composed of a lower layer comprising a spent solid type nitrogen oxide removal catalyst and an upper layer comprising a fresh TiO.sub.2 -WO.sub.3 -V.sub.2 O.sub.5 ternary or TiO.sub.2 -WO.sub.3 binary catalyst powder which has been applied to the lower layer so as to give a coating thickness of 100 to 250 .mu.m. Moreover, the catalyst power constituting the upper layer is a catalyst powder obtained by pulverizing a spent solid type nitrogen oxide removal catalyst.

1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to a nitrogen oxide removal catalyst which is useful for the removal of nitrogen oxides present in combustion exhaust gases such as exhaust gas from boilers.
2. Description of the Related Art
Conventionally, in order to remove nitrogen oxides (hereinafter referred to as NO.sub.x) produced in boilers and various combustion furnaces for the purpose of preventing air pollution, a catalytic ammonia reduction process wherein ammonia is used as a reducing agent and nitrogen oxides are catalytically decomposed to nitrogen and water with the aid of a catalyst is being widely employed. Most of the NO.sub.x removal catalysts currently used for practical purposes are honeycomb-shaped catalysts which have through-holes of square cross section in order to prevent clogging with dust present in exhaust gas and increase the gas contact area. With respect to catalyst components, titanium oxide is highly suitable for use as a principal component, and vanadium, tungsten and the like are used as additional active components. Thus, TiO.sub.2 -WO.sub.3 binary catalysts and TiO.sub.2 -V.sub.2 O.sub.5 -WO.sub.3 ternary catalysts are popularly used.
However, when a NO.sub.x removal catalyst is used for the treatment of combustion exhaust gas, its NO.sub.x removal power tends to be gradually reduced. Of various NO.sub.x removal catalysts, those used for the treatment of exhaust gas from oil-fired boilers pose no problem because their reduction in NO.sub.x removal power is insignificant. In contrast, NO.sub.x removal catalysts used for the treatment of exhaust gas from coal-fired boilers show a considerable reduction in NO.sub.x removal power with the lapse of time, and hence require some counter-measure. In order to maintain the required NO.sub.x removal power, it is necessary to replace the spent catalyst with a fresh one. However, this is disadvantageous from an economic point of view because a fresh catalyst is expensive and the spent catalyst requires a cost of disposal.
Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to effectively utilize a spent solid type (i.e., the type in which the catalysts themselves form a shaped body) honeycomb-shaped NO.sub.x removal catalyst for use in a catalytic ammonia reduction process (in particular, a spent NO.sub.x removal catalyst which has been used for the removal of NO.sub.x from the exhaust gas of a coal-fired boiler) and thereby provide an inexpensive catalyst having NO.sub.x removal power equal to that of a fresh catalyst.


An elongated exhaust conduit comprises a first end receiving hot exhaust gas from a marine engine and a second end discharging the exhaust gas. An elongated cooling water jacket extends adjacent to the exhaust conduit. The cooling water jacket conveys the raw cooling water adjacent to the exhaust conduit to thereby cool the exhaust conduit and warm the raw cooling water therein and discharges the warmed cooling water to cool the marine engine. The cooling water jacket comprises first and second channels that are separate from each other. The cooling water is oriented in a helical flow around the exhaust conduit.

U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/939,039, filed Nov. 3, 2010, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference in entirety, discloses an outboard motor including an internal combustion engine, a driveshaft housing, a molded adapter plate connecting the internal combustion engine and the driveshaft housing; and an elongated exhaust conduit conveying hot exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine, the exhaust conduit extending from a first end portion located proximate to the internal combustion engine to a second end portion located proximate to the driveshaft housing. The exhaust conduit and adapter plate are separate components.
U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/944,454, filed Nov. 11, 2010, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference in entirety, discloses a cooling system for a marine engine. The cooling system has an elongated exhaust conduit comprising a first end receiving hot exhaust gas from the marine engine and a second end discharging the exhaust gas; and an elongated cooling water jacket extending adjacent to the exhaust conduit. The cooling water jacket receives raw cooling water at a location proximate to the second end of the exhaust conduit, conveys raw cooling water adjacent to the exhaust conduit to thereby cool the exhaust conduit and warm the raw cooling water, and thereafter discharges the warmed cooling water to cool the internal combustion engine.

This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.

Apparatuses for cooling exhaust components of marine engines


A vehicle-mounted receiver system includes a receiver apparatus that is controlled for receiving, in common, transmissions from a plurality of external devices such as a remote key, smart key, etc., having respectively different transmission frequencies. The receiving frequency at the current time is selected based on criteria such as the insertion/non-insertion status of the ignition key, or whether an interrogation signal has been transmitted to a specific external device so that a response transmission is be received from that device during a specific time interval and the receiving frequency is to be set accordingly during that specific interval.

1. Field of Application
The present invention relates to a receiver system for installation in a vehicle, which receives signals that are respectively transmitted by a plurality of devices or systems for such purposes such as vehicle door unlocking, conveying tire pressure information, etc.
2. Description of Related Art
Various types of remote control or remote detection systems and devices are now utilized with motor vehicles, such as a tire pressure detection apparatus that detects the air pressure within each of the vehicle tires and transmits a signal conveying information relating to the detected pressure values, a keyless entry system that locks/unlocks a vehicle door in response to transmissions from a device such as a "remote key", a "smart entry" system (Smart Entry is a registered trade mark) having functions such as enabling switch-on of the vehicle ignition and/or engine starting only if a security cipher transmitted from a "smart card" indicates that the driver is a valid user of the vehicle, etc.
At present, the various signals that are transmitted by such systems are received by respectively different receiver apparatuses, with the communication frequency, data specifications and operation timings being different between each of the receiver apparatuses, e.g., respective receiver apparatuses for the tire pressure detection apparatus, the keyless entry system, the smart entry system, etc. An example of this is described in Japanese patent publication No. 2004-189072.
However this has the problem that the number of components required to constitute the plurality of receiver apparatuses is high, so that the manufacturing cost is accordingly high.
It should be understood that the term "receiver apparatus" or receiver system" as used in descriptions herein and in the appended claims is used with the significance of "wireless receiver apparatus" or "wireless receiver system".

Vehicle receiver system in which a single receiver circuit is controlled to receive signals transmitted from a plurality of remote devices having respectively different transmission frequencies


A connecting member for releasably connecting a first part to a second part is provided. The connecting member includes a housing and a first locking member. The housing has a first opening and a second opening. The first locking member has a first tab and a first button. The first locking member is in the housing such that the first locking member biases the first tab through the first opening and the first button through the second opening. The first tab is releasably connectable to the first part over the housing when the first tab is biased through the first opening. Further, the first button remains uncovered by the first part when the first part is releasably connected to the first tab.

The present disclosure is related to connecting members. More particularly, the present disclosure is related to connecting members and methods for releasably connecting implements to extension poles.
Extension poles have been used to extend the reach of a variety of tools and implements (hereinafter "implements"). For example, extension poles are used to extend the reach of mop heads, drywall sanding implements, light bulb removing implements, pool skimming attachments, window washing implements, and many others. Typically, the implement and the extension pole are releasably connectable to one another.
Some prior art assemblies have used a threaded connection to releasably connect the implement and the pole. However, the normal use of the assembly can induce a torque sufficient to loosen the threaded connection and, thus, at least partially release the implement from the pole.
Other prior assemblies have used one or more outwardly biased locking tabs positioned on the implement or on the extension pole. When the locking tabs are positioned on the implement, a portion of the implement is positioned in the inner diameter of the extension pole. Here, the locking tabs, when in their outermost position, lock into openings on the extension pole. When the locking tabs are positioned on the extension pole, a portion of the implement is positioned over the outer diameter of the extension pole. Here, the locking tabs, when in their outermost position, lock into openings on the implement. These applications of locking tabs have proven effective at preventing torque related loosening of the implement from the extension pole. Unfortunately, the locking tabs are shielded by the device being locked such that the user can not depress the tab to its innermost position, which makes removal difficult.
Many extension poles are formed from extruded aluminum sheets that are rolled into a cylindrical shape and welded. In order to provide a pleasing aesthetic appearance, the weld line is typically formed in the inner diameter of the extension pole. In the prior devices were the implement is positioned in the inner diameter of the extension pole, the weld line causes one or more problems. For example, the inner diameter of the extension is typically oversized with respect to the implement resulting in a loose connection.
Accordingly, there is a continuing desire for connecting members and methods that alleviate, mitigate, and/or overcome one or more of the deleterious effects and deficiencies of prior art devices.

Connecting members and methods for connecting implements to extension poles


An articulating door generally includes a first door panel having a bottom section, the bottom section defining a first bottom portion, a second bottom portion and a first bottom channel therebetween. A second door panel is coupled for rotation with the first door panel. The first door panel and the second door panel moving between an open condition and a closed condition. The second door panel has a top section proximate the bottom section of the first door panel. The articulating door also includes a blocking member having a ramp portion. The blocking member extends from the top section of the second door panel. At least a portion of the blocking member is received by the first bottom channel of the first door panel in the closed condition. The ramp member is disposed between the first bottom portion of the first door panel and the top section of the second door panel.

Overhead or garage doors are utilized in all types of residential and commercial applications to close off various building openings. Also, these types of doors are utilized in over-the-road trucks. Typically, the doors include horizontal panels which are hinged together and move vertically with respect to the opening. The panels include rollers at their ends, which move in tracks. In addition, springs or elastic members may be coupled to the panels. The rollers and the spring may assist in vertical movement.
As the doors move vertically, the panels articulate with respect to one another typically creating an opening between two adjacent panels about a hinge. The opening increases in size as the panels further articulate about one another. As the opening size increases, the propensity of the opening to receive foreign objects or debris increases. Moreover, exposure of the hinge increases as the opening size increases.


An elongate track member includes a spring biased slide block, with the slide block arranged for inter-engaging and locking relative to the track structure. The slide block includes a U-shaped clamp bar having spaced legs, with each leg including a clamp jaw to secure a bicycle frame therewithin. The spring structure within the track member permits ease of lowering and raising of the organization.

1. Field of the Invention
The field of invention relates to storage apparatus, and more particularly pertains to a new and improved bicycle rack apparatus wherein the same is arranged for the vertical repositioning of a bicycle structure mounted within the organization for ease of storage thereof.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Rack structure of various types for mounting bicycles in various orientations has been available in the prior art. Typically, such structure is in the form of hooks and hangers such as exemplified in U.S. Pat. No. 3,829,936 to Hoenig. A bicycle wall rack having rotatable arm members for storage of a bicycle is indicated in U.S. Pat. No. 3,976,200 to Munns.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,700,845 to Fretter sets forth a bicycle storage system wherein various hangers are mounted relative to a shelf structure that in turn is fixedly secured to a garage wall.
Accordingly, it may be appreciated there continues to be a need for a new and improved bicycle rack apparatus as set forth by the instant invention which addresses both the problems of ease of use as well as effectiveness in construction for the compact mounting and manipulation of a bicycle and in this respect, the present invention substantially fulfills this need.


Presented herein are probabilistic flow management techniques in which flow objects are probabilistically evaluated in view of the current contents of a flow table to determine if the flow object should be added to the flow table. An untrusted packet flow may be received at a feature or function of a networking device. The feature initiates addition of an untrusted flow object corresponding to the untrusted packet flow into a flow table. A probabilistic flow management mechanism determines if the number of untrusted flow objects in the flow table is below a predetermined lower limit. If the number of untrusted flow objects exceeds the lower limit and prior to addition of the untrusted flow object into the flow table, the probabilistic flow management mechanism probabilistically determines if the untrusted flow object may be added to the flow table.

In computer networks, data is transmitted in the form of packets (sometimes referred to as datagrams, segments, blocks, cells or frames) from a source to a destination via networking devices (e.g., routers, switches, etc.). A sequence of packets transmitted from a source to a destination is referred to as a network or packet flow.
Certain networking devices include hardware and/or software features that are configured to process (i.e., perform operations with or on) a packet flow that passes through the networking device. These networking device features may include, for example, a firewall feature, a Network Address Translation (NAT) feature, a flow export feature, etc.


Described are methods and apparatuses for synchronizing two or more sensors of an UAV. In the implementations described, a synchronization event is performed such that identifiable signals of the synchronization event can be collected by each sensor of the UAV. The synchronization event may be generated by a synchronization event component that generates multiple output signals (e.g., audio, visual, and physical) at approximately the same time so that different sensors can each collect and store at least one of the output signals. The collected signals are then compared and the sensors are adjusted to align the signals.

Unmanned aerial vehicles ("UAV") are continuing to increase in use. For example, UAVs are often used for surveillance. UAVs often include multiple devices or sensors that collect data while the UAV is in-flight. For example, a UAV may include a camera, a global positioning system ("GPS") receiver, an accelerometer, an inclinometer, etc. As the UAV aerially navigates, these devices or sensors collect and store data that includes a timestamp, indicating the time at which the data was collected.
While implementations are described herein by way of example, those skilled in the art will recognize that the implementations are not limited to the examples or drawings described. It should be understood that the drawings and detailed description thereto are not intended to limit implementations to the particular form disclosed but, on the contrary, the intention is to cover all modifications, equivalents and alternatives falling within the spirit and scope as defined by the appended claims. The headings used herein are for organizational purposes only and are not meant to be used to limit the scope of the description or the claims. As used throughout this application, the word "may" is used in a permissive sense (i.e., meaning having the potential to), rather than the mandatory sense (i.e., meaning must). Similarly, the words "include," "including," and "includes" mean including, but not limited to.

Unmanned aerial vehicle sensor synchronization


A system and method for providing user-specified data to participating venues includes a system services environment having a website or App, and that facilitates communication between a user and a venue. The system includes functionality for uploading a plurality of user preferences for storage by the system environment server and/or decentralized blockchain nodes, identifying the presence of each user interface device that is physically located at or near a venue, generating a report containing the cumulative favorite selections within each preference category submitted by each of identified user interface devices, submitting the report to the venue and/or environmental devices and/or nodes, and changing the environmental conditions of the venue in real time based on the report.

The statements in this section merely provide background information related to the present disclosure and may not constitute prior art.
Venues such as restaurants, bars, clubs, gyms, shopping establishments, and gathering places rely on events and/or repeat customers to stay in operation. In this regard, venues typically establish a business plan which focuses on providing a pleasant customer experience. The customer experience is often based on personal preferences of a customer which range from atmospheric preferences such as lighting and temperature, entertainment preferences such as music or television offerings, and/or food and beverage preferences such as drink specials, for example.
To this end, such preferences are considered by the venue management who endeavor to satisfy customers based solely on quantitative data that has been compiled over time. For example, a venue may decide to offer a particular drink special on a particular month based on sales data from the same month the previous year. While this is useful in establishing past preferences, such methodologies do not take into account the quantitative data about the likes and dislikes of the people on-site, and in real time.
In addition to the above, many venues have started "geo locational" marketing campaigns, where consumers who are close to the business get texts for special offers. Again, such a system may be useful for attracting the attention of a potential customer, but does nothing to enhance the customers experience when they are at the venue, and therefore do not increase the likelihood of that customer returning to the establishment in the future.
Rather than relying on past preferences, or pushing information to a potential customer, as has been the norm, it would be beneficial to provide a system and method for providing user-specified data to participating venues, in order to allow the venue to make solid and sound business decisions dynamically based on the real-time interests of customers that are currently at their location.

System and method for adjusting environmental conditions at a venue based on real time user-specified data


The present invention provides a method of identifying a tumor homing molecule that homes to angiogenic vasculature by contacting a substantially purified NGR receptor with one or more molecules and determining specific binding of a molecule to the NGR receptor, where the presence of specific binding identifies the molecule as a tumor homing molecule that homes to angiogenic vasculature. The invention also provides a method of directing a moiety to angiogenic vasculature in a subject by administering to the subject a conjugate including a moiety linked to a tumor homing molecule that exhibits specific binding to an NGR receptor, whereby the moiety is directed to angiogenic vasculature. In addition, the invention provides a method of imaging the angiogenic vasculature of a tumor in a subject by administering to the subject a conjugate having a detectable moiety linked to a tumor homing molecule that exhibits specific binding to an NGR receptor and detecting the conjugate.

1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates generally to the fields of cancer biology and drug delivery and, more specifically, to peptides that selectively home to a tumor, particularly a malignant tumor, to compositions comprising an agent such as a therapeutic agent conjugated to such tumor homing molecules, and to methods of using such molecules to target an agent to a tumor.
2. Background Information
Continuous developments over the past quarter century have resulted in substantial improvements in the ability of a physician to diagnose a cancer in a patient. For example, antibody based assays such as that for prostate specific antigen now allow early diagnosis of cancers such as prostate cancer. More recently, methods of genetic screening are becoming available to identify persons that may be particularly susceptible to developing a cancer. Genetic screening methods are based on the identification of one or more mutations in a gene that correlates with the development of a cancer. For example, the identification of genes such as BRCA1 and BRCA2 allowed the further identification of mutations in these genes that, in some cases, can correlate with susceptibility to developing breast cancer.
Unfortunately, methods for treating cancer have not kept pace with those for diagnosing the disease. Thus, while the death rate from various cancers has decreased due to the ability of a physician to detect the disease at an earlier stage, the ability to treat patients presenting with more advanced disease has advanced only minimally.
A major hurdle to advances in treating cancer is the relative lack of agents that can selectively target the cancer, while sparing normal tissue. For example, radiation therapy and surgery, which generally are localized treatments, can cause substantial damage to normal tissue in the treatment field, resulting in scarring and, in severe cases, loss of function of the normal tissue. Chemotherapy, in comparison, which generally is administered systemically, can cause substantial damage to organs such as bone marrow, mucosae, skin and the small intestine, which undergo rapid cell turnover and continuous cell division. As a result, undesirable side effects such as nausea, loss of hair and drop in blood cell count occur as a result of systemically treating a cancer patient with chemotherapeutic agents. Such undesirable side effects often limit the amount of a treatment that can be administered. Thus, cancer remains a leading cause of patient morbidity and death.
Efforts have been made to increase the target specificity of various drugs. For example, where a unique cell surface marker is expressed by a population of cells making up a tumor, an antibody can be raised against the unique marker and a drug can be linked to the antibody. Upon administration of the drug/antibody complex to the patient, the binding of the antibody to the marker results in the delivery of a relatively high concentration of the drug to the tumor. Similar methods can be used where a particular cancer cell or the supporting cell or matrix expresses a unique cell surface receptor or a ligand for a particular receptor. In these cases, the drug can be linked to the specific ligand or to the receptor, respectively, thus providing a means to deliver a relatively high concentration of the drug to the tumor.
Tumors are characterized, in part, by a relatively high level of active angiogenesis, resulting in the continual formation of new blood vessels to support the growing tumor. Such angiogenic blood vessels are distinguishable from mature vasculature. One of the distinguishing features of angiogenic vasculature is that unique endothelial cell surface markers are expressed. Thus, the blood vessels in a tumor provide a potential target for directing a chemotherapeutic agent to the tumor, thereby reducing the likelihood that the agent will kill sensitive normal tissues. Furthermore, if agents that target the angiogenic blood vessels in a tumor can be identified, there is a likelihood that the agents can be useful against a variety of different types of tumors, since it is the target molecules in the angiogenic vessels that are recognized by such agents and not receptors specific for the tumor cells. However, the use of molecules that can bind specifically to tumor vasculature and target a chemotherapeutic agent to the tumor has not been demonstrated.
While linking a drug to a molecule that homes to a tumor can provide significant advantages for treatment over the use of a drug, alone, use of this method is severely limited by the scarcity of useful cell surface markers expressed in a tumor. Thus, a need exists to identify molecules that can selectively home to a tumor, particularly to the vasculature supporting the tumor. The present invention satisfies this need and provides related advantages as well.
The present invention provides a method of identifying a tumor homing molecule that homes to angiogenic vasculature of a tumor. The method includes the steps of contacting a substantially purified NGR receptor with one or more molecules and determining specific binding of a molecule to the NGR receptor, where the presence of specific binding identifies the molecule as a tumor homing molecule that homes to angiogenic vasculature of a tumor. In a method of the invention, the substantially purified NGR receptor can be, for example, CD13/aminopeptidase N. If desired, the substantially purified NGR receptor can be immobilized on a support such as a plate or a bead.
The invention also provides a method of identifying a homing molecule that homes to angiogenic vasculature using substantially purified NGR receptor. The method includes the steps of contacting a substantially purified NGR receptor with one or more molecules and determining specific binding of a molecule to the NGR receptor, where presence of specific binding identifies the molecule as a homing molecule that homes to angiogenic vasculature. The invention provides homing molecules that home to non-tumor angiogenic vasculature.
The present invention also provides a method of directing a moiety to angiogenic vasculature of a tumor in a subject by administering to the subject a conjugate including a moiety linked to a tumor homing molecule that exhibits specific binding to an NGR receptor, whereby the moiety is directed to angiogenic vasculature of a tumor. In a method of the invention, the tumor homing molecule can be, for example, a peptide containing the sequence NGR, and, if desired, can be part of a conjugate in which the moiety is a cytotoxic agent, drug or cancer therapeutic agent, for example, doxorubicin. A tumor homing peptide containing the sequence NGR can have, for example, the sequence CNGRCVSGCAGRC (SEQ ID NO:3), NGRAHA (SEQ ID NO:6), CVLNGRMEC (SEQ ID NO:7) or CNGRC (SEQ ID NO:8). In a method of the invention for directing a moiety to angiogenic vasculature of a tumor in a subject, the tumor homing molecule also can be, for example, an aminopeptidase inhibitor such as bestatin, o-phenanthroline, actinonin, amastatin, 2,2xe2x80x2-dipyridyl or fumagillin and can be linked, if desired, to a drug moiety.
Further provided herein is a method of imaging the angiogenic vasculature of a tumor in a subject by administering to the subject a conjugate having a detectable moiety linked to a tumor homing molecule that exhibits specific binding to an NGR receptor, whereby the conjugate selectively binds the angiogenic vasculature, and detecting the conjugate. A detectable moiety for imaging angiogenic vasculature can be, for example, a radionuclide. A useful tumor homing molecule for imaging angiogenic vasculature can be, for example, a peptide containing the sequence NGR, such as a peptide containing the sequence CNGRCVSGCAGRC (SEQ ID NO:3), NGRAHA (SEQ ID NO:6), CVLNGRMEC (SEQ ID NO:7) or CNGRC (SEQ ID NO:8). A tumor homing molecule for imaging angiogenic vasculature also can be, for example, an aminopeptidase inhibitor such as bestatin, o-phenanthroline, actinonin, amastatin, 2,2xe2x80x2-dipyridyl, fumagillin or another molecule that inhibits an aminopeptidase.
The invention also provides inhibitors of angiogenesis that are NGR receptor binding molecules. Such inhibitors can be, for example, an NGR receptor antibody or an aminopeptidase inhibitor such as bestatin, o-phenanthroline, actinonin, amastatin, 2,2xe2x80x2-dipyridyl or fumagillin, or a conjugate of such angiogenesis inhibitors to a drug or toxin.

NGR receptor and methods of identifying tumor homing molecules that home to angiogenic vasculature using same


The invention is to provide a recording apparatus and a recording method, capable of automatically specifying a type of a recording medium by a simple and inexpensive structure, thereby automating a sheet type setting operation and avoiding an error of user in such sheet type setting operation. The apparatus is equipped with first detectors for detecting a width dimension of a recording medium, a second detector for detecting a surface characteristic of the recording medium, and a discriminator for discriminating the type of the recording medium based on the results of the first and second detectors.

1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a recording apparatus and a recording method provided with judgment means which automatically identifies a type of a recording medium.
2. Related Background Art
A recording apparatus in a printer, a facsimile apparatus, a copying apparatus, or a composite equipment or system including the same records an image on a recording medium such as a recording paper sheet based on image information, and is based on various recording methods such as an ink jet recording system, a laser beam system or a thermal transfer system. Such recording apparatuses are recently faced with an increasingly stronger request for a higher definition in image formation, and, for example in an ink jet recording apparatus, particularly in a color ink jet recording apparatus, executing an image recording by discharging inks, there is required an image formation comparable, in image clarity and image quality, to a silver halide-based photograph. A finer particle formation in the discharged ink and a more exact ink discharge are necessary for meeting such requirement, but improvements are also necessitated in the recording medium.
Among the recording media, those having various surface states (surface characteristics) such as a glossy surface, a semi-glossy surface and a matted (non-glossy) surface have been developed for reproducing an image texture of silver halide-based photographs, and the user can now select these recording media according to the taste. In addition to such photo-like recording media, the recording is also executed on a plain paper, a coated paper, a postcard, an ink jet-purpose postcard, an OHP film and the like, and the system of the recording apparatus is required to selectively adapt to such recording media.
In general, the recording media often show, depending on the material coated on the surface, difference in a color developing state and an ink absorbing state. For this reason, it is often conducted to optimize an image color processing and an ink deposition amount according to the type of the recording medium, in order to record a satisfactory image. The selections for such optimization are executed on a printer driver, stored in a host computer connecting to the recording apparatus. However, the selection of the recording medium to be used is done by the user, and it is necessary for the user, at the printing operation, to execute an operation, on a display image screen of the printer driver, of selecting the type of the recording medium on which the recording is to be made.
Also the recording apparatuses are becoming to be used in diversified methods, such as, in addition to the use by connecting to a host computer, a direct connection to a digital camera and a printing by a direct insertion of a memory card. Also in such cases, there are required input operations for the size and the type of the recording medium to be used by the user, in the same manner as in the case of connection to the host computer. Since such operations are cumbersome and often result in an error when executed by an unskilled user, a recording apparatus equipped with detection means which automatically judges the recording medium is recently developed. As disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,109,236, an optical sensor is principally utilized as the detection means.
In the prior recording apparatus, however, it is insufficient, for obtaining a print of a desired image quality, merely to judge the recording medium by receiving a detection result signal form the detection means and to execute a printing by optimizing the image color process and the ink deposition amount based on such result. The user is required to input a size of the recording medium on an image of an application or a printer driver, and also to simultaneously set the recording medium of a matching size on a sheet feeding unit. Otherwise, the printing area does not match the recording medium in size, but overflows from or is excessively smaller than the recording medium. Such size entering operation is also cumbersome for an unskilled user and often result in a mismatching of the image and the recording medium in size.

Recording apparatus and recording method


An image forming apparatus that forms images, while continuously conveying, a long flexible recording medium in a constant conveyance direction on a conveyance path, the image forming apparatus comprising: a belt conveyance mechanism that is disposed on the conveyance path and is configured by an endless belt wound between at least two rollers; and an image forming unit that conducts image forming on the long flexible recording medium being conveyed in a state where the long flexible recording medium is flatly disposed on the endless belt of the belt conveyance mechanism disposed on the conveyance path.

1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an image forming apparatus that forms an image on a long flexible recording medium.
2. Description of the Related Art
Among commonly used image forming apparatus, there are exposure apparatus, such as scanning type printed board exposure apparatus, laser photoplotters and laser printers, that form a desired image on a recording medium by scanning the recording medium with a light beam.
In such exposure apparatus, in the case of a printed board exposure apparatus, for example, image forming is conducted by scanning, with laser light, a board material for a printed wiring board that is a recording medium. The board material for the printed wiring board used here is made by forming a thin film conductor on an insulating layer and covering the thin film conductor with a photoresist.
The printed board exposure apparatus exposes a desired board pattern on the photoresist layer by scanning the board material with laser light modulated on the basis of image data.
The exposed board material for the printed wiring board is removed from the printed board exposure apparatus and photo-etched, whereby a printed board is completed.
In conventional printed board exposure apparatus used in this manner, a long, band-like recording medium in a sheet roll is stretched between a loader, which feeds the recording medium, and an unloader, which collects the recording medium. The stretched portion of the recording medium is placed and fixed on an image forming surface of an image forming table by fixing means (a mechanism), and the image forming table is configured to be slidable with high precision by sliding means (a mechanism). A scanning optical system that scans the recording medium with laser light is disposed directly above the recording medium stretched between the loader and the unloader.
The image forming table, on whose image forming surface the stretched portion of the recording medium is fixed by the fixing means, is conveyed with high precision by the sliding means. As the recording medium is slid with high precision together with the image forming table, the scanning optical system scans the recording medium with laser light modulated on the basis of image data, whereby image forming is conducted.
In such conventional printed board exposure apparatus, image forming is again started after the first image forming ends. Thus, the fixing means of the image forming table is released, the recording medium is fixed by a clamp roller pair of the loader and by a drive roller pair of the unloader so that the recording medium stretched between the loader and the unloader becomes immovable, and the image forming table is moved towards the loader by the sliding means. Next, the recording medium is fixed on the image forming surface of the image forming table by the fixing means of the image forming table. Next, the clamp roller pair of the loader is opened and the recording medium is reeled out by a reel roller pair of the loader to form slack. Next, the image forming table is moved towards the unloader by the sliding means, the recording medium fixed on the image forming surface of the image forming table is scanned by the scanning optical system, the recording medium is collected inside the unloader by the drive roller pair of the unloader, and the next image forming ends. When the next image forming is to be conducted, the above operation is repeated the necessary number of times (e.g., see Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open Publication (JP-A) No. 2000-235267).
In such conventional printed board exposure apparatus, from when image forming ends to until the next image forming starts, the next image forming operation cannot begin until the operation of releasing the fixing means of the image forming table, fixing the recording medium with the loader and the unloader, moving the image forming table towards the loader with the sliding means, fixing the recording medium on the image forming surface of the image forming table with the fixing means of the image forming table, releasing the clamp roller pair of the loader, and reeling out the recording medium with the reel roller pair of the loader to form slack ends. For this reason, there may be a lot of waiting time outside the time in which exposure processing is being conducted.


The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a tail structure for a rotary wing aircraft, the structure comprising:                a tubular portion or duct (63) presenting two ends and including two collars or flanges (66, 70) extending respectively from each of said two ends; and        two curved fairing side walls (45, 47) extending respectively around the two collars or flanges; said two side walls being made of a composite material comprising an organic matrix and reinforcement; in a method of the invention, the side walls are united by solidifying the matrix.

Patents U.S. Pat. No. 5,498,129 and FR 2 719 553 describe such a structure that is secured to the rear end of a tail boom extending the fuselage and that receives a rotor for opposing the torque exerted on the fuselage by the main rotor for providing the aircraft with lift and propulsion.
That structure comprises an annular (or tubular) wall forming a duct defining a flow tunnel for the stream of air driven by the anti-torque rotor which is housed in the duct.
In general, such a duct presents in succession, from upstream to downstream: a converging inlet portion; a cylindrical portion (constant radius); and a diverging portion that terminates by a tunnel outlet having a rounded edge; each end of the duct includes an annular flange or collar.
The tail structure also includes two side flanks (a left flank and a right flank) or fairing side walls, each having an orifice and secured via the edge of said orifice to a respective one of the two flanges of the tubular duct.
The tail structure further includes a substantially vertical fin or stabilizer secured to the side walls of the fairing and extending above them, substantially along a fore-and-aft vertical plane of general symmetry of the aircraft fuselage, or else inclined at an angle relative to said plane.
Such a tail structure is generally obtained by assembling at least four main parts, to which there need to be added reinforcing parts extending between the side walls of the fairing that they unite, and also at least one connection part for securing said tail structure to the tail boom.
Those various parts are generally made of a composite material comprising an organic matrix and reinforcing fibers; a portion of the fairing side walls and of the annular duct wall described in those patents further comprises a honeycomb layer (or the equivalent).
In order to make each of those parts, the usual technique is to place one or more layers of a preimpregnated fabric or "prepreg" on a male mold (projecting in relief) or in a female mold (recessed) of a shape that matches that of the part, the prepreg generally being constituted essentially by fibers (e.g. carbon fibers) coated with a thermosetting resin; during that "draping" operation, the fibers are oriented along one or more predetermined directions in order to obtain the desired mechanical characteristics for the part.
When the part that is to be made includes a thick core such as a honeycomb, the procedure generally comprises a first draping operation to form a skin (internal or external), followed by depositing the core, and then generally a second draping operation covering the core for the purpose of forming a second skin (respectively external or internal).
The preform as obtained in that way is then made rigid by applying heat, and where appropriate a vacuum, in an autoclave or oven in which a complete mold (male and female) is placed that surrounds the preform; that step serves to polymerize or cross-link the organic matrix.
The operations of making the preform are generally performed manually, thereby leading to losses of composite material, and it does not enable the mechanical characteristics of the parts in a series of parts of identical shape to be made in completely reproducible manner.
In order to mechanize the draping operation, it is known to use a fiber placement technique whereby the preimpregnated fibers are deposited by a machine on the outside surface of a mandrel mounted to rotate about an axis of rotation, as described in particular in patents FR 2 766 407 and U.S. Pat. No. 6,613,258.
Nevertheless, that technique is generally restricted to making parts of convex shape and presenting circular symmetry, which does not apply to a tail structure for a rotary wing aircraft with a ducted tail rotor. In particular, the front zone where the tail and the body of the fairing join together presents shapes that are complex, having multiple curvatures: zones in which curvature is reversed where a concave wall is adjacent to a convex wall, and zones of small radius of curvature.
The manufacture of such a tail structure then requires the various composite material parts to be assembled together, by applying adhesive to portions of these parts that are placed in mutually overlapping positions, by riveting, by adhesive and riveting, and/or by using other bonding means.
Those bonding techniques likewise are not suitable for obtaining a resulting assembled structure presenting mechanical characteristics that are completely reproducible. Those bonding techniques also lead to a harmful increase in the weight of the resulting assembled structure.

Method and apparatus for manufacturing a helicopter rotor fairing, and a fairing obtained thereby


In a wider flow path 4a surrounded with a shaft 3, a thrust plate 6 and an inner circumferential corner portion 1c of a bearing sleeve 1 in a small clearance 4 between a lower side radial bearing section 13 and an upper surface thrust bearing section 14, chamfering is performed at the inner circumferential corner portion 1c of the bearing sleeve 1, wherein a width of the wider flow path 4a in the radial direction in rotation is formed so as to be wider than a width of a communication hole 16 located below the wider flow path 4a in the radial direction in rotation to thereby render a flow of a lubricating fluid 5 flowing into the wider flow path 4a from the communication hole 16 smooth.

In recent years, various proposals have been offered on a dynamic pressure bearing device for supporting various kinds of rotating bodies such as a magnetic disc, a polygon mirror and an optical disc which are rotated at a high speed. For example, in FIG. 13, there is shown a dynamic pressure bearing device mounted to a spindle motor for a hard disc driving device. Arrow marks in a solid line in FIG. 13 indicate directions along which pressures in a lubricating fluid in bearing portions work.
As shown in FIG. 13, a rotary shaft 110 is inserted in a bearing sleeve 100 in a freely rotatable manner. A lubricating fluid 120 such as oil is fed in a small clearance in a radial direction between an inner circumferential surface of the bearing sleeve 100 and an outer circumferential surface of a rotary shaft 110. Radial dynamic pressure bearing sections 130 and 131 at two sites spaced from each other are formed on the upper side and the lower side in the small clearance in the rotation axis.
A thrust plate 140 is joined to the rotary shaft 110. Both end surfaces of the thrust plate 140 in the rotation axis direction is arranged so as to face the bearing sleeve 100 and a counter plate 150 attached to the bearing sleeve 100 in the rotation axis direction with a small clearance interposed therebetween. The lubricating fluid 120 is fed in the small clearance so as to be in continuation from the radial bearing section 130.
Thrust dynamic pressure bearing sections 160 and 161 are formed on the top surface and bottom surface of the thrust plate 140 in the rotation axis direction. Besides, communication holes 170 are formed so as to cause the thrust dynamic pressure bearing sections 160 and 161 to communicate with each other. The lubricating fluid 120 is circulated to the radial dynamic pressure bearing sections 130 and 131 and to the thrust dynamic pressure bearing sections 160 and 161 through the communication holes 170.
The lubricating fluid 120, however, flows into a flow path 180 in the small clearance between the lower side radial bearing section 131 and the top surface thrust bearing section 160 from the communication holes 170 and collides with an inner circumferential corner portion 101 formed in the flow path 180 of the bearing sleeve 100. Hence, a flow of the lubricating fluid 120 is disturbed. Since no relief in space is available in the small clearance in the neighborhood of the inner circumferential corner portion 101 of the bearing sleeve 100, the intrinsic flow of the lubricating fluid 120 and a flow thereof created by collision thereof with the inner circumferential corner portion 101 of the bearing sleeve 100 are affected by each other. Therefore, a behavior of the lubricating liquid 120 is altered. As a result, vibrations are generated by causes of the collision of the lubricating fluid 120 with the bearing sleeve 100 and alteration in behavior thereof. This further creates a vibration problem of a spindle motor to which the dynamic pressure bearing device is mounted and a noise problem caused by the vibrations.


A thermosensitive recording material having a satisfactory high speed recording performance and whiteness and capable of forming colored images thereon having a high storage persistency for a long time, comprises a thermosensitive colored-image-forming layer formed on a sheet substrate and comprising a colorless dye precursor, a color-developing agent comprising benzyl p-hydroxybenzoate, a colored image-stabilizing agent comprising a member selected from aromatic aziridine compounds with one aziridine group and at least one aromatic cyclic group, and aromatic, aliphatic and cycloaliphatic aziridine compounds with two or more aziridine groups, and a binder.

1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a thermosensitive recording material. More particularly, the present invention relates to a thermosensitive recording material free from a white powder-forming phenomenon on colored images, having a high whiteness, and capable of recording thereon colored images having an excellent persistency.
2. Description of the Related Arts
It is known that a conventional thermosensitive recording material comprises a supporting substrate, for example, a paper sheet, synthetic paper sheet, or plastic resin film, and a thermosensitive colored image-forming layer formed on a surface of the supporting substrate and comprising an electron-donative dye precursor, for example, a leuco basic dye, an electron-acceptive color-developing agent consisting of an organic acid substance, for example, a phenol compound, and a binder. When the thermosensitive colored image-forming layer is heated, colored images are recorded thereon by a reaction of the dye precursor with the color-developing agent.
This type of thermosensitive recording material is disclosed in Japanese Examined Patent Publication Nos. 43-4,160, 45-14,039 and 48-27,736, and is widely employed in practice.
Namely, the thermosensitive recording material is advantageous in that colored images can be easily formed only by heating, and the recording apparatus can be made relatively compact and small size, at a low cost, and is easily maintained, and thus is useful as an information-recording material for various outputs or printers used with, for example, computers, thermosensitive facsimile machines, automatic ticket-vending machines, scientific measurement recorders, and CRT medical measurement recorders.
Current information-recording machines can be operated at a very high speed not possible in the past, and in line with this increase in the operating speed of the information-recording machines, the thermosensitive recording material now must have a significantly enhanced thermosensitivity.
Many attempts have been made to meet the requirement of an enhanced thermosensitivity of the recording material, and among these attempts, important is a development of a new type of color-developing agent, able to replace a conventional color-developing agent, consisting of 4,4'-isopropylidenediphenol (referred to as BPA hereinafter). BPA is advantageous in that the price is low and colored images having a relatively high persistency can be formed thereon.
Nevertheless, BPA is disadvantageous in it has an unsatisfactory thermal sensitivity, due to a relatively high melting temperature of 156.degree. C. thereof.
Many attempts have been made to provide a new type of color-developing compound usable in place of BPA, and some of those attempts are disclosed in Paper and Pulp Technology Times, Vol. 30, No. 5 (1987) to Vol. 31, No. 2 (1988). The disclosures in the above-mentioned publication, led to the development of several hundred types of compounds for BPA.
Among the new compounds, Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication (JP-A) No. 52-140,483 discloses benzyl p-hydroxybenzoate, which exhibits a high sensitivity and a high suitability for a high speed recording machine.
Although benzyl p-hydroxybenzoate effectively causes the resultant recording material to exhibit a high suitability for a high speed recording machine, the resultant colored images developed thereon are disadvantageous in that, when stored for a long time, an undesirable white powder is formed on the colored image surfaces. This phenomenon is referred to hereinafter as a white powder-forming phenomenon.
Also, the colored images exhibit an unsatisfactory resistance to oily or fatty substances and plasticizers, and therefore, if an oily or fatty substance or plasticizer-containing resin article is brought into contact with the colored images, the images fade and ultimately disappear.
Various attempts have been made to eliminate the above-mentioned disadvantages of the conventional thermosensitive recording material, by adding a phenolic antioxidant to the thermosensitive colored-image forming layer or by forming a protective surface layer on the thermo-sensitive colored image-forming layer.
For example, Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication Nos. 60-78,782, 59-167,292, 59-114,096 and 59-93,387 disclose a thermosensitive colored image-forming layer containing a phenolic antioxidant.
Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 56-146,796 discloses a protective layer formed from a hydrophobic polymeric compound emulsion on a thermosensitive colored image-forming layer.
Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 58-199,189 discloses an intermediate layer formed from a water-soluble polymeric compound solution or a hydrophobic polymeric compound emulsion on a thermosensitive colored image-forming layer, and a protective surface layer formed by applying an oil paint containing, as a resinous component, a hydrophobic polymeric material on the intermediate layer.
In the thermosensitive colored image-forming layer containing, as a color-developing agent, benzyl p-hydroxybenzoate, the addition of the phenolic antioxidant, which effectively enhances a resistance of the resultant colored images to oily or fatty substance or to a plasticizer, is disadvantageous in that the resultant thermosensitive colored image-forming layer is easily stained in the ground thereof, and thus exhibits a lowered whiteness, and when stored at a relatively high temperature, for example, about 60.degree. C., non-color-developed portions of the colored image-forming layer exhibit an undesirably increased color density.
Also, the improvement in the resistance of the resultant colored images to oily or fatty substances or a plasticizer, due to the phenolic antioxidant, is still not satisfactory.
Furthermore, the phenolic antioxidant does not satisfactorily inhibit the white power-forming phenomenon on the resultant colored image surface.
Also, the arrangement of the protective layer on the colored image-forming layer does not result in a satisfactory persistency of the resultant colored images under high temperature-high humidity conditions.
Further, when a recording material having a protective layer formed on a colored image-forming layer is subjected to a cutting procedure or an adhering procedure, an oily or fatty substance penetrates the colored image-forming layer through the cut edges thereof, and thus the resultant colored images fade and ultimately disappear. Therefore, the protective layer cannot completely eliminate the disadvantages of the conventional recording sheet.


Described is an intra-nasal clip, and more particularly a nasal clip that diffuses the aromas or fragrances, such as those used in aromatherapy, of an aromatherapy sphere without irritation through direct contact with the inner nasal septum. The intra-nasal clip includes a bendable bridge extending between its outer distal ends, in which the distal ends comprise hollows with inlets. Aromatherapy spheres are within the hollows that contain aromatherapy materials.

Various aromas/medications give relief in various forms including nausea in people such as pregnant women with morning sickness, people undergoing chemotherapy, people with motion sickness, and people with other various ailments that may cause dizziness or queasiness. Aromatherapy is the practice of using aromatic substances for the treatment of illnesses or to enhance the health and well-being of the patient. Aromatherapy may use essential oils such as those from volatile plant oils or pure essence of a plant that is generally broken down and distilled from various parts of a plant. It can also use other aromatic materials that enhance patient's quality of life that can have an energizing effect.
Aromatherapy is practical as it can enhance a patient's quality of life by easing certain symptoms such as nausea deriving from various ailments. This happens because the aroma of certain oils or substances may stimulate the brain to trigger a reaction. Inhalation is the principal method of administration, but doing so usually requires extra-nasal administration. For example, using a handkerchief that is dabbed in essential oils may allow for inhalation of the aromatic substance, but may be impractical for those substances, especially of the concentrated kind, that are irritable to the skin. There are many other methods for utilizing the aromatic substances for aromatherapy, but many of them such as steamers, candles, clay pots, etc are all products that diffuse the scent of the oil outside the nose and affect everyone in the area that would smell the product.
There are nasal clips that are used in aromatherapy, but many of them are extra-nasal clips that diffuse the oil outside the nose and emit fragrances from outside the nostril. However, in these extra-nasal clips, the clips may lose most of the aromas to the air outside of the nose, where the aromas are emitted, and not directly into the nostrils. This would make the extra-nasal clips to not have as potent an effect on the patient as an intra-nasal clip. Nasal administrations of medicines by direct contact from squirting or pumping medicine may irritate nasal tissue of the user. Clips that hold open the nasal septum would not be desirable in this context as user would want the administration of the aromatherapy to not be lost outside of the nasal septum.
Therefore, there is a need to provide an intra-nasal clip, which diffuses aromatherapy efficiently into the nasal septum of the user without risk of being an irritant to the inner nasal septum by exposing the user to irritating contact of the aromatherapy material.


A miniature surface-mount electronic component which can ensure sufficient impact resistance and vibration resistance especially in an application to a severe use environment such as a vehicle-mounted coil, by putting some contrivance into a method for fixing a coil in a molding process and a method for holding a core and terminals. A miniature surface-mount electronic component including a bar-shaped core 2 on which a winding wire 3 is wound, and metal plates 5, with an outer casing 7 made of an insulating resin molded, includes flanges 2b substantially quadrangular in section at both ends of the bar-shaped core 2, and vertical grooves a and b are provided on side surfaces of the flanges 2b of the bar-shaped core 2 as fixing portions for preventing positional displacement occurring when the outer casing 7 is molded.

1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a miniature surface-mount electronic component in which a coil wound on a ferrite core is resin-molded. A miniature surface-mount electronic component according to the present invention includes an antenna applicable to a vehicle-mounted transponder or the like, an inductor for a communication device, a choke coil or the like.
2. Related Art
Various types of miniature surface-mount electronic components have been conventionally proposed, and have been in practical use. As one of them, a miniature surface-mount electronic component applicable as a vehicle-mounted antenna or a transponder has been proposed recently. In miniature surface-mount electronic components applied to such a use, cores made of ferrite favorable in high-frequency characteristic are generally used. The configuration in which a coil wound on the core by the required number of windings, and an outer periphery of the core including the winding wire with the winding wire terminals of the coil connected to metal terminals provided at both ends in a longitudinal direction of the core are molded of an insulating resin is adopted.
In order to satisfy the required characteristics such as an inductance value, a Q value and self-resonance frequency characteristics required of this kind of coil, a core slim and longer in a winding axis direction of the coil is generally used as a core.
However, the core is a brittle sintered body, and is originally weak against impact and vibrations as earthenware. In addition, for the above described reason, the core tends to be weak against impact and vibrations, and cannot help being formed into a slim and long shape. Therefore, in the case of the vehicle-mounted coil which is always exposed to impact and vibrations, it is important how to realize the structure excellent in impact resistance and vibration resistance.
From such a point of view, for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 7-130556 discloses a coil which is entirely covered with resin molding.
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2003-31803 discloses the coil improved in impact resistance and vibration resistance by covering the entire body with an insulating resin, and putting some contrivance into the shape of a core, the terminal structure and the like.
However, in these coils, core breakage due to the terminal holding structure of the core becomes a problem. There exist the problems of core breakage occurring because positional displacement or the like of the coil occurs in the molding process of coating the entire body with an insulating resin and the terminals are fixed, and wire breakage occurring because fixation of the terminals and the core becomes loose and the winding terminals are pulled.
The present invention is made in view of the above described problems, and has an object to provide a miniature surface-mount electronic component which can ensure sufficient impact resistance and vibration resistance especially in an application to a severe use environment such as a vehicle-mounted coil, by putting some contrivance into a method for fixing a coil in a molding process and a method for holding a core and terminals.

Miniature surface-mount electronic component and method for manufacturing the same


An eyeglass frame assembly for coupling clip-on auxiliary spectacles to primary spectacles. The primary spectacles having a pair of cavities formed on one of the frame and the inside surface of rear extensions. The clip-on spectacles having a pair of insertable members mounted on a pair of hinged extensions, wherein the insertable members are capable of positively engaging the cavities. The hinged extensions allow the clip-on spectacles to swing up and to place the auxiliary lenses mounted within the clip-on spectacles to be outside the vision path of the user.

1. Field of the Invention
The invention disclosed broadly relates to eyeglasses, and more particularly relates to an improved arrangement for attachment of an auxiliary or "clip-on" pair of lenses to a primary pair of eyeglasses.
2. Description of the Related Art
To alleviate the need to carry multiple pairs of eyeglasses, various types of "clip-on" auxiliary lenses have been introduced. Primarily, this allows clip-on sunglasses to be attached to a pair of primary prescription eyeglasses. The market success of the inventions within this art is often measured by such factors as security of attachment, aesthetic appearance, and comfort to the user.
One type of invention found in the prior art is shown in FIGS. 1-4B. The configuration consists of a set of primary eyeglasses 100 and a separate set of auxiliary lenses 200 containing a number of claws 210. The claws 210 are used to attach or clip the auxiliary lenses 200 to the frame 102 of the primary eyeglasses 100. FIG. 4 illustrates the arrangement of the primary 100 and auxiliary lenses 200 in a decoupled state (FIG. 4A) and a coupled state (FIG. 4B). This arrangement has a number of shortcomings. For one thing, the arrangement is cumbersome and unattractive. Furthermore, the attachment members can often cause scratching of the primary lenses 100 as the auxiliary lenses 200 are taken on and off. This is, especially problematic where the primary lenses 100 and/or the auxiliary lenses 200 are made of plastic which is more prone to scratching as opposed to harder surfaces such as those made from glass.
Yet another class of clip-on inventions (shown in FIGS. 5-9B) uses magnets as the primary means of attaching the auxiliary lenses 600 to the primary eyeglasses 500. Magnets 610 on the auxiliary lenses 600 line up with corresponding magnets 510 on the frames 502 of the primary eyeglasses 500 to form a surface area that is designed to hold the auxiliary lenses 600 in place. FIG. 8 illustrates the arrangement of the primary 500 and auxiliary lenses 600 in a decoupled state (FIG. 8A) and a coupled state (FIG. 8B). FIG. 9 contains a view of the cross-sectional area of intersection of the magnets 610 on the auxiliary lenses 600 with the magnets 510 on the primary eyeglass frames 502.
However, there are several drawbacks associated with the various attachment implementations that use magnets. One drawback is that since magnets are heavy, the magnets required on both the auxiliary lenses 600 and the primary eyeglasses 500 tend to add a substantial amount of weight to the overall assembly. The additional weight results in discomfort to the user. Another drawback is that magnets often cause drawbacks when placed near electronic equipment such as computers or floppy disks. In other words, inadvertently placing either the auxiliary or primary spectacles near such equipment can result in property damage as a result of the magnetic fields that are generated.
A more fundamental drawback with magnetic clip-on lenses 600 concerns the integrity of the attachment to the primary eyeglasses 500. Since most magnetic attachment implementation do not account for dynamic loads in all directions, jarring movements that occur during, for example, exercise will cause the auxiliary lenses 600 to become suddenly detached from the primary spectacles 500. Furthermore, regardless of how secure the attachment mechanism is at the time of manufacture, a number of factors can and often will cause the effectiveness of the magnets to degrade over time.
Additionally, both previous styles of clip-on lenses are separate, detachable pieces that must be attached or detached when going from indoors to outdoors, or vice versa. The person wearing the glasses must scramble to find the auxiliary lenses and reattach them. This process is clumsy and time consuming. Also, the chances of misplacing or losing the auxiliary lenses are increased.
Previous styles of clip-on lenses utilize clip-on frame extensions, such as the clip-on frame extensions 612 illustrated in FIGS. 6 through 9B. These clip-on frame extensions protrude from the clip-on frame device and can tear or scratch materials or surfaces with which they come into contact. In addition, these clip-on frame extensions are often light and fragile in order to reduce the weight and bulk of the clip-on lens device. The often fragile construction of the clip-on frame extensions make them subject to breakage or damage from contact with surfaces or material. For example, clip-on frame extensions often catch on the material of a shirt pocket when the clip-on frame extension is placed into or removed from that pocket, possibly resulting in a tear of the pocket material or the bending or breakage of the clip-on frame extension.
Therefore a need exists to overcome the drawbacks and problems with the prior art as discussed above, and particularly for an improved arrangement for attachment of an auxiliary or "clip-on" pair of lenses to a primary pair of eyeglasses.


A mobile machine having a machine frame with a lateral outer wall, an operator station having an outer side edge, an actuating system configured to move the operator station between a retracted position and a fully extended position that is laterally outward of the retracted position, wherein in the fully extended position, the outer side edge is a first distance outward of the lateral outer wall, a moveable component moveable between a first position and a second position, a sensor configured to send a signal indicative of the moveable component being in the first position, and a controller configured to limit the distance the operator station may move laterally outward of the retracted position to a second distance in response to receiving the signal from the sensor, wherein the second distance is less than the first distance.

Various types of machines used, for example, in the construction industry, include operator stations. The operator stations contain various systems and controls by which an operator can control the machine to perform an operation (e.g., a paving operation, a milling operation, and/or the like). Such operator stations are generally arranged at the rear of a machine frame, which may obstruct the operator's visibility and/or interfere with the operator's ability to oversee aspects of the operation.
Some machines may include a moveable operator station to improve the operator's visibility while operating the machine in specific circumstances. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 10,100,471, to Berning et al. discloses an automotive construction machine having an operator's platform that is moveable on the machine frame transversely to the direction of travel and outwards beyond the lateral outer wall of the machine frame. When extended laterally outwards, the machine driver in the operator's platform can observe the lateral outer wall and the area next to the outer wall.
On some machines, however, a moveable operator station may interfere with one or more other components of the machine that could cause damage to the components, the operator station, and/or the system for moving the operator station.

Movable operator station movement limiting system


A roll bar is provided behind seats of an open car, and there is provided a wind deflector to deflect air flow coming from the vehicle rear during the open-state driving on the roll bar. The wind deflector is configured so as to have air permeability in such a manner that an air permeability rate of its upper section is greater than that of its lower section. Part of air flow passes through the wind deflector. Since the amount of the air flow passing through the lower section of the deflector directed to the neck portion is suppressed compared to the air flow passing through the upper section, both the reducing of the air flow beyond the wind deflector and the suppressing of the passenger feeling displeasure with the air flow (against the neck portion) can be attained, and thereby the passenger can be prevented effectively from feeling displeasure.

The present invention relates to a wind deflector of an open car.
In a so-called open car, in which an upper portion thereof above a belt line except a windshield is foldable so as to be stored rearward, it is known that at a rear end portion of a cabin behind a driver seat is provided a wind deflector to prevent air having passed above the car from coming into the cabin, specifically into the vicinity of a passenger's head, from a vehicle rear (see U.S. Pat. No. 5,702,150).
In such an open car, particularly a so-called two-seater open car equipped with only driver and assistant seats, there is also generally provided a roll bar having a specified height in case of a rollover of the vehicle during an open-state driving. Since such a roll bar is provided behind the seats, like the above-described wind deflector, it may be preferable for the wind deflector to be provided integrally at the roll bar, from viewpoints of attachment or designing of the vehicle. The wind deflector disclosed in the above-described patent is fixed to the roll bar accordingly.
However, it may be difficult to shut off fully the air flow coming in from the vehicle rear by the above-described wind deflector. Particularly, since the height of the wind deflector is limited to a certain degree in order to ensure a necessary rear view for the driver via a rear view mirror, it may be inevitable that part of the air flow comes into the cabin beyond the wind deflector. Namely, in the event that the vehicle running speed increases exceeding a specified speed, the above-described part of the air flow beyond the wind deflector also increases, result in the air flow coming into the portion around the passenger's head. Accordingly, there still exists problems that the passenger would feel displeasure or an effective temperature which the passenger feels would decrease.


A method for detecting renal disease or a method for assisting diagnosis of renal disease that is superior in sensitivity and specificity, as well as a kit that can be used therefor is provided. The present invention provides a method for detecting renal disease or a method for assisting diagnosis of renal disease comprising a step of detecting or quantifying free AIM in a biological sample derived from a test subject, as well as a kit for examining or assisting diagnosis of renal disease comprising an antibody that binds to free AIM.

AIM (apoptosis inhibitor of macrophage; also referred to as CD5L, api6, or Spα) is a secretory protein having a molecular weight of approximately 50 kDa that is specifically produced by tissue macrophage (Non-Patent Literature 1). AIM has a structure of tandemly connected three scavenger receptor cysteine-rich (SRCR) domains which are specific sequences containing a large number of cysteine residues, and it is thought to have a compact spherical conformation due to each cysteine residue being bound to one another by disulfide bonds within each domain.
AIM is an adhesive protein, and various molecules have been reported as binding partners thereof. For example, it is known to recognize the pathogen-associated molecular pattern (PAMPs) of bacteria and fungus such as lipoteichoic acid (LTA) and lipopolysaccharide (LPS), and have the ability to aggregate bacteria (Non-Patent Literature 2). There are also many cells in the body that bind AIM on their surface or incorporate it into the cell, and it has been reported that AIM is incorporated into macrophage itself which is the producer cell, or that it is incorporated by endocytosis via scavenger receptor CD36 in fat cells to induce fat degradation (Non-Patent Literature 3).
It has also been long known that AIM binds to IgM in blood (Non-Patent Literature 4). In recent years, it has been reported that binding to IgM is closely involved in order for AIMs to be not excreted into urine and to exist stably in blood, and that nearly all AIMs are bound to IgM in the blood and they are rarely present as monomers (Non-Patent Literatures 5 and 6).
There have been several reports thus far on the relationship between AIM and renal disease. For example, Patent Literature 1 discloses a method for diagnosing or examining AIM-associated disease comprising measuring the AIM concentration in a sample collected from a test subject, wherein renal disease is listed as a said associated disease.
Non-Patent Literature 7 describes the correlation between AIM expression in renal tissue macrophage of a SHRsp rat and the number of macrophage invasion, suggesting that expression of AIM is key to the progression of nephrosclerosis.
Non-Patent Literature 8 describes that insufficient blood AIM significantly increases the risk of progressing from a renal disorder event to a chronic renal failure.
Non-Patent Literature 9 describes that in the process of investigating the role of AIM in the onset and progress of renal disorder, in a unilateral urinary obstruction model or a renal ischemia reperfusion model, renal tissue disorder accompanied by tubular necrosis is significantly enhanced in an AIM-deficient mouse compared to a wildtype mouse.
However, there have been no reports thus far regarding the relationship between AIM that is present in free form not bound to other binding partners and renal disease.


An actuator for an intake manifold tuning valve to regulate airflow in an intake manifold of an internal combustion engine. The actuator includes a motor, control circuit, and sensor all mounted in a housing that has an opening through which an output shaft extends. The output shaft carries a valve blade that is positioned within the intake manifold when the actuator is assembled in place. The sensor provides the control circuit with feedback data indicating the position of the valve blade and this data permits the actuator itself to provide closed loop control of the position of the valve blade using an actuator command received from the engine's electronic control unit. The housing includes a stop member that engages the valve blade at a certain rotational position to thereby enable diagnostic checks of the valve to determine if the blade is present and functioning.

In 1970, Congress passed the Clean Air Act and established the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) which initiated a series of graduated emission standards and requirements for maintenance of vehicles over extended periods of time. In the beginning there were few standards, however, in 1988, the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) developed a set of diagnostic test signals, and the EPA adapted most of the SAE standards for On-Board Diagnostic programs and recommendations (OBD). Currently, the second generation of these diagnostic standards (OBD-II) have been adopted by the EPA and, as such, internal combustion engine vehicles must now meet the federally mandated OBD-II standards for the life of the vehicle.
A main focus of the EPA in regard to internal combustion engines is on the emissions of the engines. To meet the current federally mandated emission standards prescribed by OBD-II, an internal combustion engine requires management of air flow through an intake manifold. In addition, regulatory requirements mandate that the components used to ensure compliance of the emission standards be continuously monitored over the life of the vehicle. This is in an effort to ensure that the emissions performance over the useful life of the vehicle is not degraded due to a component or system malfunction. For the air intake manifold, one device used in some engines to obtain improved emissions and engine performance is an intake manifold tuning valve which can be used to join intake manifold plenums at a certain range of engine speeds. Generally, the actuators used to control the intake manifold tuning valves (herein referred to as IMTV actuators) have been constructed as two position actuators, having a fully open position and a fully closed position. In addition, the actuators generally do not provide position feedback capability to indicate which position the actuator is in. This two position operation of the IMTV actuator limits its ability to regulate the air flow through the intake manifold, and thus, can restrict the ability of the engine to operate at its a maximum performance level and can limit the ability of the engine to meet emissions and fuel economy goals.
The OBD-II regulations require that the presence and functionality of emission systems components be monitored. Generally, the monitoring function may be performed using one or more external sensors connected to the vehicle engine controller. This approach adds to the complexity of the emission system assembly, for example by adding additional components and wire connections. In addition, the added external components increase the amount of communication and analysis burden on the engine controller. Though the current OBD-II emission control system requirements come at an increased cost, the manufacturer has little option but to take on these expenses, as a result of having to meet the federally mandated standards.


A method and system of managing business transactions includes receiving at least one business transaction, determining whether the business transaction satisfies at least one configurable business rule, and establishing a subsequent business transaction based on the results.

Deregulation in the energy industry has created a complex set of business requirements for market participants such as utility companies and energy suppliers. The introduction of retail choice among energy suppliers requires data flow between market participants to facilitate business events such as customer enrollment/switching, metered usage/billing/payment, load aggregation and settlements, customer account data maintenance, and other business events. Business transactions make up the business events which are validated using business rules.
Market participants may be required to exchange data in the form of business transactions with other market participants. However, these market participants may be located in different jurisdictions including other states or other countries which may have different laws, rules, and regulations. Moreover, the market participants may have adopted different business events, business rules, and business transactions having different standards, protocols, and formats.


A movable stuffing machine for producing silage is disclosed wherein the silage is stored on the bottom and is used for filling a tubular film. The stuffing machine comprises a stuffing wall (1) which is disposed perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the stuffing machine and the direction of stuffing. A driven worm-type compactor is mounted on the stuffing wall (1), is aligned at a right angle from a longitudinal direction of the stuffing machine, is disposed in a horizontal direction, and is embodied as a pronged rotor (3) encompassing conveying prongs (9) which are offset in a helical manner. A feeding device (4) encompassing a metering mechanism (6) is placed upstream of said worm type compactor. The stuffing machine also comprises a roll (7) of silo film, which is mounted thereabove and from which the silo film (30) is directed to the guiding wall through at least one deflection roller (8).

(1) Field of the Invention
The Invention relates to a wheeled tamping machine for the production of silage stored on the floor, for filling of a foil tube.
(2) Description of Related Art Including Information Disclosed Under 37 CFR 1.97 and 1.98
Tamping machines are known, where the silage material is placed in the receiver storage and is transferred with a conveyor to a filling device. The filling device comprises a tamping wall, wherein the tamping wall is disposed perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the tamping machine and to the tamping device and wherein a guide wall joins toward the top and the side to the tamping device, and wherein the foil tube slides over the guide wall during filling. The tamping wall is continued downwards and forwardly with a press jacket, wherein the press jacket forms the lower part of a press trough. A pronged rotor disposed at a right angle relative to the tamping direction and aligned with the longitudinal direction of the tamping machine is disposed horizontally at the press jacket and supported rotating from below to the top as a conveyor press, wherein the pronged rotor grips through the tamping wall into the tamping chamber and wherein cleaner strippers downwardly directed engage between the prongs of the rotor. A metering device is applied at a distance to the entrance point of the silage material and ahead of the entrance of the silage material into the region of the conveyor press. A roll of foil is supported above the tamping machine aligned at a right angle relative to the tamping direction, wherein the cut open foil above and downwardly on two sides is guided over the guide wall by the roll of foil.

Movable stuffing machine for the production of silage stored on the bottom by means of a tubular film


Systems and techniques for displaying information associated with multiple accounts of multiple social media websites owned by an owner. In one implementation, a webpage accessed by a user can be determined to be a webpage of a social media website; data can be obtained from the webpage identifiable with an owner of an account of the social media website in which the owner of the account is not the user; based on the data from the accessed webpage identifiable with the owner, another social media webpage associated with another account of the owner for another social media website can be identified; data associated with the other social media webpage can be obtained; and the data associated with the other account can be provided for display with the accessed webpage.

The systems and techniques disclosed herein relate to digital data processing and, in particular, to providing data associated with social media websites.
Various social media websites allow people to post content that is viewable over the web by others. Example social media websites include web blogs, microblogs, social networking, podcasts, photo sharing websites, video sharing websites, and so on. A user can have accounts with multiple social media websites.

Providing social graph information for a webpage


A lift detection method for an optical mouse and an optical mouse with a lift detection function are presented. An average brightness value of pixels captured by part of sensing units of an image sensor is computed after each scanning, and two average brightness values obtained from two adjacent times of scanning are compared, to determine a brightness change of the pixels in each scanning, thereby acquiring a placing state of the optical mouse accordingly.

1. Field of Invention
The present invention relates to an optical mouse, and more particularly to a lift detection method for an optical mouse and an optical mouse with a lift detection function.
2. Related Art
With the increasing popularization of personal computers, various types of computer peripheral products are increasingly proposed to meet different requirements of the consumers, among which the mouse capable of controlling the motion of the cursor on the computer screen is the most widely used. According to its motion detection modes, the mouse can be classified into two types, namely, non-optical mechanism and optical mechanism. The non-optical mechanism performs motion detection through the rolling of the spherical scroll wheel in the bottom portion of the mouse. The optical mechanism performs motion detection by capturing an image reflected by the desktop with an image sensor.
The mouse using the optical mechanism is generally referred to as an optical mouse. In the optical mouse, an optical source, for example, a light emitting diode (LED), formed at the bottom side of the mouse emits light on the desktop, and a 2D image sensor is used to capture a special pattern formed by the micro texture of the desktop irradiated by the optical source. Thus, the change of the captured image pattern caused by the motion of the mouse is converted into a displacement according to a corresponding image processing mechanism, so as to appropriately reflect the amount of motion and direction of the cursor on the computer screen.
When the optical mouse is lifted from the working plane, an error may occur. That is to say, when the optical mouse in an inactive state is lifted from the working plane, the image sensor may detect an image formed by an external optical source and irrelevant to the motion of the optical mouse, and compute a false motion value according to the image irrelevant to the motion. Further, due to the detection of the image irrelevant to the motion of the optical mouse, the optical mouse in a power-saving state is activated by mistake, thus wasting the power consumption.
In the current designs of the lift detection function of the optical mouse, for some designs, an additional optical source and optical sensor are disposed near the original optical module, to detect the distance between the original optical mouse and the working plane, thereby determining whether the original optical mouse is lifted from the working plane. However, in the above design method, an additional set of optical sensing modules are added, thereby increasing the manufacturing cost of the optical mouse, and as most of the added optical sensing modules are formed by electronic components, the lifetime of the mouse is limited, so that the optical mouse still needs to be improved.

Lift detection method for optical mouse and optical mouse with lift detection function


Methods of refining a whole crude oil stream. The methods involve first processing the crude either through a hydrotreating reactor comprising a dewaxing reactor bed or a flash evaporation separator. The treated streams are then further processed through a demetalization reactor bed, a hydroprocessing reactor bed, or both. The stream can then be still further processed via additional hydrotreating, distillation, or both.

Conventional crude oil supplies tend to be sour heavy crude. That is crude oil high in heteroatoms (e.g., sulfur, nitrogen) and other contaminates. Refining sour heavy crude conventionally comprises heating and distilling the crude oil into separate product streams. The product streams are then individually hydrotreated to reduce sulfur and other contaminants. This step is especially important in light of modern low sulfur fuel requirements. However, the multiple hydrotreating reactors consume significant quantities of hydrogen and have a high operational energy cost/carbon footprint.
Tight oil, also known as shale oil, is light sweet crude with a low heteroatom content. Development of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal well drilling technologies has significantly increased the supply of tight oil available for refining. Refining tight oil in process flows originally developed for conventional crude oil may be inefficient. The low contamination levels of tight oil may present opportunities to reconfigure traditional crude oil process flows by reordering and/or eliminating some process and thus reduce capital investment, operational energy cost/carbon footprint and maximize revenue.

Methods of whole crude and whole crude wide cut hydrotreating and dewaxing low hetroatom content petroleum

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