A cooking and storage system comprises a refrigeration device, a cooking device and controller for controlling the cooking device, and the refrigeration device provides to the controller temperature information relating to the temperature within the refrigeration device.

1. Field of the Disclosure
The invention relates to cooking and storage systems.
2. Discussion of the Background Art
It is of course known to store food in refrigeration devices, such as fridges and freezers, and to heat or cook food in a variety of different oven types, such as microwave ovens, convection ovens and combination ovens which use a combination of microwave and conventional heating.
Often the refrigeration device and the cooking device are placed in close proximity to each other, which makes it convenient for a user to remove food from the refrigeration device and place it in the cooking device. In some cases this is done at the point of sale, in which case the food may be moved from the refrigeration device to the cooking device by the seller of the food product or by the purchaser. The latter method is sometimes used where food is sold at petrol service stations, and this allows customers to heat their own food products, either before or after paying for them, without involving the staff.


A potent peptide inhibitor (SuperSog) of TGF-β family growth factor signaling, peptide variants thereof and nucleotide coding sequences therefore are provided by the invention. The Super-Sog peptide comprises a fragment of the Drosophilia short gastrulation (Sog) gene which includes the CR-1 cysteine-rich repeat of Sog. Methods and compositions for use of Super-Sog in therapeutic and diagnostic applications are also provided.

1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to a peptide and homologues thereof which inhibit the activity of TGF-β family growth factors in vertebrates, as well as TGF-β-like growth factors in Drosophilia. Specifically, the invention relates to a highly potent fragment of the product of the Drosophilia short gastrulation gene (Sog).
2. History of the Related Art
During vertebrate development growth factors in the TGF-β superfamily control a number of events in tissue differentiation and morphogenesis. Included in the TGF-β superfamily are the bone morphogenic proteins, which promote the growth of new bone tissue and differentiation of osteoblasts. Examples of members of this family of BMPs are BMP-4 and BMP-7, which suppress neurogenesis during early embryonic development and are active in aspects of adult physiology.
BMP-4 has been highly conserved through evolution and has a functional and structural homologue in Drosophilia, known as Dpp. BMP-4 can substitute for Dpp in Drosophilia (Padgett, et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 90:2905-2909 (1993)) and Dpp is active in vertebrate tissues (Sampath, et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 90:6004-6008 (1993)). In vertebrates, chordin is a high affinity BMP-4 binding protein which inhibits BMP-4 and BMP-7 activity (Sasai, et al., Cell, 779-790 (1994)); in flies, the short gastrulation (Sog) protein inhibits Dpp activity (Francois, et al., Genes & Dev., 8:2602-2616 (1994)). Again chordin and Sog are functional and structural homologues (Schmidt, et al., Development, 121:4319-4328 (1995) and Francois, et al., Cell, 80:19-20 (1995)). In particular, Sog inhibits BMP-4 activity in vertebrates in a manner similar to chordin (Schmidt, et al., id.). It is highly probable that Sog inhibits the activity of other members of the TGF-β family such as BMP-7, which is also inhibited by chordin.
Abnormal activity on the part of BMP-4 has been linked to human cancer, including osteosarcoma and certain leukemias. Interestingly, over-expression of BMP-4 (which is potentiated by BMP-7) has also been shown to stimulate the onset of alopecia (male pattern baldness) in mice, perhaps due to an effect on hair follicle development. Control of such activity can have therapeutic benefit in these and other conditions related to abnormalities in the functioning of TGF-β family growth factors, especially on the part of BMP-4.

Peptide inhibitor of TGF-β growth factors

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A process for sharpening arrays of field emitter tips of field emission cathodes, such as found in field-emission, flat-panel video displays. The process uses sputtering by high-energy (more than 30 keV) ions incident along or near the longitudinal axis of the field emitter to sharpen the emitter with a taper from the tip or top of the emitter down to the shank of the emitter. The process is particularly applicable to sharpening tips of emitters having cylindrical or similar (e.g., pyramidal) symmetry. The process will sharpen tips down to radii of less than 12 nm with an included angle of about 20 degrees. Because the ions are incident along or near the longitudinal axis of each emitter, the tips of gated arrays can be sharpened by high-energy ion beams rastered over the arrays using standard ion implantation equipment. While the process is particularly applicable for sharpening of arrays of field emitters in field-emission flat-panel displays, it can be effectively utilized in the fabrication of other vacuum microelectronic devices that rely on field emission of electrons.

The present invention relates to fabrication of field emitters, particularly to sharpening of field emitter tips, and more particularly to sharpening the tips using high-energy ions incident along or near the longitudinal axis of the field emitter.
In field emission flat-panel displays, the emitted current for a certain applied gate voltage is strongly influenced by the sharpness of the emitter tip. This is a consequence of the electric field enhancement that results from decreasing tip radius or sharpness and the shape of the shank of the emitter below the tip. The effect is present independent of the nature of the tip structure (e.g., cones, filaments, pyramids, or wires). As the dimensions of the emitters and associated elements (e.g., gate diameters) decreases, sharpening of the emitter tips becomes more difficult and, usually, is not performed. However, increasing the sharpness of the tips reduces the gate voltage required for a given emission current and, consequently, the required power. The power required to operate the emission part of the flat panel display is the product of the capacitance and the square of the gate voltage; thus, there is significant incentive to decrease the gate voltage.
Various prior efforts have been directed to sharpening the field emitter tips. Previous attempts to sharpen such tips using ions were limited to low-energy ions (e.g., less than 10 keV) or to focused ion beams. These low-energy ion and focused ion approaches are respectively exemplified by O. Auciello et al., "Ion Bombardment Sharpening of Field Emitter Arrays", International Vacuum Microelectronics Conference, Abstracts, p. 192-196 (1995); and M. Takai et al., "Modification of Field Emitter Array (FEA) Tip Shape by Focused Ion Beam Irradiation", International Vacuum Microelectronics Conference, Abstracts, p. 52-55 (1995). Low-energy ions provide some sharpening, but the sharpness is limited by lower sputtering yields (i.e., number of atomic ejections per ion) and to the region near the top of the tip and does not modify the shape of the tip sufficiently to maximize the field enhancement factor. The use of focused ion beams is constrained by the diameter of the focused ion beam and is a serial sharpening process, which is not an acceptable manufacturing option because of the large number of emitters required (i.e., more than 500 emitters per pixel).
Recently, efforts have been directed to fabricating field emitters with sharp emitting points, wherein the metal emitters are formed by electroplating, and the shape of the formed emitter is controlled by the potential imposed on the gate as well as on a separate counter electrode. Such a process is described and claimed in copending U.S. application Ser. No. 08/847,086, filed May 1, 1997, entitled "Electrochemical Formation of Field Emitters", assigned to the same assignee. Also, sharpening of previously formed field emitter tips has been carried out, wherein tip sharpening is done by electroetching/polishing using the grid (gate) of the field emission structure, such as a field emission triode structure, as a counter electrode. Such a process is described and claimed in copending U.S. application Ser. No. 08/847,087 filed May 1, 1997 entitled "Electrochemical Sharpening of Field Emission Tips", assigned to the same assignee.
The present invention provides a more efficient process for sharpening field emitter tips and is adaptable to manufacturing operations for fabricating tips of gated arrays. This is accomplished by using high-energy (30 keV or more) ion beams rastered over the arrays using standard ion implantation equipment. The high-energy ion are incident along or near the longitudinal axis of the field emitters to sharpen the tips with a taper from a sharp point down to the shank of the emitter. The process will sharpen tips down to radii of less that 12 nm with an included angle of about 20 degrees. Also, the process can be utilized to shorten the length of the field emitter after the tip has been sharpened.

Sharpening of field emitter tips using high-energy ions

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A matrix multiplier used in a picture transforming coder is provided for multiplying an input signal matrix by a coefficient matrix configured to comprise as many constant multipliers as absolute values of coefficients in the transform coefficient matrix for handling the signal matrix as common multiplicands, a plurality of selectors for selecting values necessary for computing elements of the matrix product from multiplication results output by the constant multipliers and a respective accumulator assigned to each of the selectors for accumulating the selected values to finally provide an element of the matrix product. As a result, since the processing can be done by merely performing as many fixed multiplications as absolute values of the coefficients in the transform coefficient matrix, the multipliers can be implemented as a relatively simple combination of adders, allowing the entire size of a picture information transforming coder or the like to be reduced.

(1) Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a matrix multiplier and a picture transforming coder using the matrix multiplier. In particular, the present invention is applicable to a coder and decoder for audio signals and standstill as well as moving picture information and relates to a matrix multiplier utilized in a transforming/coding unit for matrix multiplication of a coefficient matrix used in the coder by a signal matrix and a picture transforming coder utilizing the matrix multiplier.
(2) Description of the Prior Art
In many cases, a technique referred to hereafter as DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform) is used in an apparatus for efficiently coding a picture signal or the like. DCT is a kind of frequency transformation which is similar to Fourier transformation. For example, let input picture information be treated as a block of pixels comprising 8 horizontal rows and 8 vertical columns. Such a block of pixels is represented by a matrix [x] each element of which corresponds to a pixel. DCT results, or what is called DCT coefficients, are represented by a matrix [X]. Using transform coefficients [C] and its transposed matrix t[c], the relations between the matrices [x] and [X] are given by Equation (1). In many cases, DCT and inverse DCT processings are carried out in accordance with the matrix relations given by Equation 1.
Equation (1): EQU DCT [X]=[C].times.[].times..sup.[T C] EQU Inverse DCT []=.sup.T [C].times.[X ].times.[C]
where t[ ] denotes a transposed matrix and the matrix [C] is expressed by the following equation: ##EQU1##
FIG. 1 shows a general configuration of a DCT processing apparatus for executing DCT and inverse DCT manipulations. In the case of the DCT processing, the picture information matrix [x] is used as an input matrix 11. As for the inverse DCT processing, it is the DCT coefficient matrix [X] which is used as the input matrix 11. The input matrix 11 is multiplied by transform coefficients 12 stored in a coefficient bank 104 by means of a matrix multiplier (A) denoted by reference numeral 101. The results of the matrix multiplication are stored temporarily in a transpose buffer 102. The results stored in the transpose buffer 102 are further multiplied by transform coefficients 13 stored in a coefficient bank 105 by means of a matrix multiplier (B) denoted by reference numeral 103. The results of the matrix multiplication are obtained as an output matrix 14. In this case, the coefficient matrices 12 and 13 are the transform coefficients [C] and its transposed matrix t[C] respectively.
FIG. 2 shows a typical configuration of the conventional matrix multiplier for performing the DCT and inverse DCT manipulations. In other words, FIG. 2 shows the configuration of the matrix multiplier (A) or (B) denoted by reference numeral 101 or 103 in FIG. 1. Each multiplier 201 is used for multiplying an element on a row (or column) of an input matrix 21 by an element on a column (or row) of a transform coefficient matrix 23 coming from a transform coefficient generator 205. The result of the multiplication is stored in an accumulator 203 through an adder 202. The multiplication is repeated for all elements on each row (column) of the input matrix 21 and for all elements on each column (row) of the transform coefficient matrix 23 and the result of each multiplication is added to the contents of the accumulator 203. As all the elements are multiplied, the accumulators 203 are selected one after another by a selector 204 in order to output their contents sequentially as an output matrix 22.
A typical configuration of the multiplier 201 is shown in FIG. 3. For the Ith bit of a multiplier 32, a multiplicand 31 is arithmetic-left-shifted I times, where I=0 to n. Note that arithmetic-left-shifting the multiplicand 31 I times is equivalent to multiplying the multiplicand 31 by the Ith power of 2. If the Ith bit of the multiplier 32 is a `1` then the arithmetic-left-shifted result is selected by a selector 301 and added to an output by an adder 302. If the Ith bit of the multiplier 32 is a `0` however the arithmetic-left-shifted result is not selected by the selector 301 and, thus, not added to the output by tile adder 302.

Matrix multiplier and picture transforming coder using the same


A housing of a separation apparatus includes therein a zeolite membrane complex. A sheath includes therein the housing. A fluid supplied to the inside of the housing has a temperature higher than the temperature around the sheath. A second exhaust port is used to exhaust a permeated substance that has permeated through the zeolite membrane complex in the fluid to the outside of the housing. The permeated substance exhausted from the housing can be led into an exterior space between the sheath and the housing through the second exhaust port and can be exhausted through an exterior exhaust port. At least part of the zeolite membrane complex is included in an inter-port space surrounded by the sheath, the second exhaust port, and the exterior exhaust port. This structure reduces energy required for fluid separation performed under high temperatures.

Various studies and developments are currently underway on forming a zeolite membrane on a porous support to obtain a zeolite membrane complex and using a molecular sieving function of the zeolite in applications such as specific molecular separation or molecular adsorption.
For example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2003-159518 (Document 1) and Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2015-044162 (Document 2) propose techniques for separating a mixed gas, using a zeolite membrane. Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2011-189335 (Document 3) discloses a method of using a gas separation structure that performs gas separation under high temperatures as high as 100° C. to 650° C.
Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2009-039654 (Document 4), Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2009-066503 (Document 5), and Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2009-226374 (Document 6) disclose separation membrane modules that separate water from a mixed solution that contains water and an organic solvent. In these separation membrane modules, a plurality of tube-shaped membrane separation members is arranged inside a cylindrical module body. Each membrane separation member includes a tube-shaped zeolite separation membrane and a housing that surrounds the separation membrane. The mixed solution flows through a cylindrical space between the separation membrane and the outer cylinder. The water in the mixed solution permeates radially inward through the separation membrane, passes through a space on the inner side of the separation membrane, and is discharged out of the module body. The organic solvent in the mixed solution passes through the space between the separation membrane and the outer cylinder and is discharged out of the module body.
"IPA Purification for Lens Cleaning by Vapor Permeation Using Zeolite Membrane," by M. Kondo, et. al., Separation and Purification Technology, 32 (2003), pp. 191-198 (Document 7) discloses a double cylindrical separation membrane module in which a group of double cylindrical tubes is placed in a vacuum container. In each double cylindrical tube, feed vapor flows through a cylindrical space between an outer cylinder and an inner cylinder (zeolite membrane), and components with an affinity for the zeolite membrane permeate radially inward through the inner cylinder. The vapor that has permeated through into the inner side of the inner cylinder flows out from an outer-cylinder end (i.e., one open end of the inner cylinder) into the vacuum container and exhausted to the outside of the vacuum container under suction through an exhaust port provided in the vicinity of the direction of the vapor flow. In this module, the vacuum container is provided with a heater in order to prevent the condensation of the feed vapor.
Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2019-084497 (Document 8) discloses a gas separation apparatus that includes a separation membrane module including a gas separation membrane element in a housing, a casing including the separation membrane module, and a heat source for adjusting the temperature in the casing.
Incidentally, in the case where a separation membrane module as described above performs fluid separation under high temperatures, it is necessary to heat a fluid to be supplied to the module in advance to a temperature higher than a separation temperature in consideration of, for example, heat dissipation from the housing in which the fluid flows. Or, as in Documents 7 and 8, it is necessary to heat the module or the inside of the casing with use of an external heat source such as a heater. Thus, a great deal of energy is necessary to heat the fluid, which results in an increase in energy required for fluid separation. In particular, in the case where the housing or the module body has a flange structure, the area of heat dissipation increases and accordingly the aforementioned heat dissipation increases. This further increases the energy required for fluid separation.
Moreover, in Document 7, the exhaust port of the vacuum container is provided in the vicinity of the housing end through which the vapor flows out, so as to make it possible to speedily exhaust the vapor that has permeated through the zeolite membrane and flowed out of the outer cylinder into the vacuum container. Thus, the vapor having permeated through the zeolite membrane flows toward the outside of the vacuum container with almost no contact with the outer surface of the housing. Accordingly, the separation membrane module according to Document 7 has only a small effect of suppressing a temperature drop in the housing caused by heat dissipation to the outside.

Separation apparatus and method of operating separation apparatus


We provide VHZ for use in a method of treatment, prophylaxis or alleviation of a cancer in an individual selected from the group consisting of: colon cancer, lung cancer, squamous cell carcinoma including lip, larynx, vulva, cervix and penis cancer, pancreatic cancer, brain cancer, oesophageal cancer, stomach cancer, bladder cancer, kidney cancer, skin cancer, ovary cancer, prostate cancer and testicular cancer. We provide an anti-VHZ agent for the treatment, prophylaxis or alleviation of such a cancer. The anti-VHZ agent may comprise SEQ ID NO:4 or SEQ ID NO: 5, or both.

VHZ is a phosphatase that shares about 28% amino acid sequence identity with human PRL-PTPs. VHZ was previously reported to be expressed in many tissues and located in the cytosol and in nucleoli (Alonso et al., 2004a).
However, the role of VHZ was largely unknown; despite its conservation through evolution with orthologues in frogs, fish, fly, and the Archaea. VHZ, as well as VHR, belongs to a separate subgroup of VH1-like PTPs (Alonso et al, 2004b). VHR has been reported to have a function in regulating cell cycle progression (Rahmouni et al., 2006).
Cancer is a serious health problem across the world. It is estimated that 7.6 million people in the world died of cancer in 2007. In the UK for example, cancer is responsible for 126,000 deaths per year. One in four people die from cancer. Known treatments for cancer include surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Many cancers can be cured if detected early enough.
There is a need for improved cancer detection and therapy.

VHZ for diagnosis and treatment of cancers

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The present invention provides a MIMO antenna. The MIMO antenna includes a regular octagonal substrate and eight antenna components with a same structure arranged along eight edges of the regular octagonal substrate, and the eight antenna components are distributed in an annular array. The present disclosure further provides a terminal applying with the MIMO antenna. The eight antenna components in the MIMO antenna provided by the present disclosure are distributed in an annular array, so that an area occupied by the MIMO antenna in the terminal is greatly reduced; and moreover, the antenna components have good isolation therebetween and are simple in form, and the MIMO antenna has a higher bandwidth.

With successive implementation of 5G standards, 5G related frequency bands have been basically determined, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of People's Republic of China has issued a notice on the use of Sub-6GHz frequency bands (frequency bands ranging from 3300 MHz to 3600 MHz and frequency bands ranging from MHz 4800 to 5000 MHz) in the 5G system for mobile communication.
5G ultra-dense networking will be the main technical means to meet the demand of mobile data traffic in 2020 and the future. Typical application scenarios of the ultra-dense networking include offices, stadiums, subways, underground parking lots and other areas. 5G ultra-dense networking will greatly increase the number of indoor small base stations. Moreover, the 5G communication system has higher requirements for data transmission rate. One way to improve the data transmission rate is to further increase the number of antennas included in a single base station at a base station terminal.
MIMO (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) technology is the core technology of 5G antenna. The design difficulty of the MIMO antenna lies in how to integrate multiple antenna components in limited space and obtain high isolation. In the related art, linear layout is mainly adopted in MIMO antenna layout. In order to reduce the overall size, the antenna components have compact layout, close relative distance, strong coupling and poor isolation.
Therefore, it is necessary to provide a novel MIMO antenna and a novel terminal to solve the above-mentioned problems.


A card type device is mounted on a card slot of an electronic appliance. A transparent cylindrical-shaped roller is provided at an edge portion of a housing such that an outer peripheral plane of the roller is projected from the edge portion. A one-dimensional image sensor is provided inside the roller, which acquires one-dimensional fingerprint data of a finger of a user, and this fingerabuts against the outer peripheral plane of the roller. Since the finger abutting against the outer peripheral plane of the roller is moved, the roller is rotated, so that one-dimensional fingerprint data which are continuously acquired by the one-dimensional image sensor are synthesized with each other to produce fingerprint data as a two-dimensional image. The synthesized fingerprint data is transmitted to the electronic appliance which carries out fingerprint identification.

1. Field of the Invention
The present invention is related to a card type device having a fingerprint reading function and a fingerprint identification system using the card type device.
2. Description of the Related Art
Very recently, since electronic appliances are gradually utilized in the network form, communications are freely established among these electronic appliances connected to each other via networks, so that various sorts of information thereof may be accessed everywhere. In connection with such a network operation, needs of security aspects capable of preventing illegal accesses made by third party are increased.
As one of such security techniques, a method capable of identifying a regular user by checking a fingerprint has been proposed, and a fingerprint reading sensor is provided on a PC card. When a user depresses his finger on a fingerprint sensor of such a PC card, a fingerprint of this finger is acquired. Then, user identification is carried out based upon this acquired fingerprint, so that an access to such an information having high secrecy may be controlled.
Such a PC card may have the following structure. That is, a fingerprint reading sensor constructed of a CCD (charge-coupled device) is provided on a surface of this PC card itself. Alternatively, a fingerprint reading unit is mounted on any position except for an insertion portion of the PC card.
However, if the fingerprint reading sensor is provided on the surface of the PC card, then the following problem may occur. That is, when this PC card is loaded on a card slot of an electronic appliance, the fingerprint reading sensor is located inside the card slot, so that the user cannot be identified by operating this fingerprint reading sensor under such a condition that this PC card is loaded on the electronic appliance. Also, if the fingerprint sensor is provided on any position other than the PC card insertion portion, then another problem may occur. That is, when this PC card is loaded in the PC card slot, since this PC card is largely projected out from the PC card slot, the PC card equipped with such a fingerprint reading sensor can be hardly carried while this PC card is continuously loaded on the electronic appliance.
On the other hand, both the fingerprint reading sensors are manufactured in plane rectangular shapes on which the finger can be mounted. Since these fingerprint reading sensors employ such expensive semiconductor devices as a CCD, higher cost is required. Furthermore, since two-dimensional CCD chips necessarily require mounting areas thereof, fingerprint reading sensors cannot be provided with microminiture type memory cards which are known as a CF card (Compact Flash Card), an SD memory card (Secure Digital Memory Card), an MMC card (Multi-Media Card), and a USB-connection portable type flash memory card. These memory cards are used as extended memories employed in a portable telephone and a PDA (Personal Digital Assistance). As a result, information stored in these memory cards cannot be protected by utilizing the fingerprint identification. Moreover, the fingerprint identification functions cannot be extended to the portable telephone and the PDA by way of such memory cards.
The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and therefore, has an object to provide a microminiture card type device on which a fingerprint reading sensor is mounted, and also to provide an identification system using this card type device.

Card type device capable of reading fingerprint and fingerprint identification system


Provided are a system for integrated analysis of a real-time polymerase chain reaction and a DNA chip and a method for integrated analysis using the same, and more particularly to an apparatus for integrated analysis of a real-time polymerase chain reaction and a DNA chip and a method for integrated analysis using the same. According to the method for integrated analysis of a biomaterial of the present invention, gene amplification proceeds and subsequently hybridization proceeds in a single reactor, thereby preventing contamination of the sample due to external factors, which may be caused while the sample is transferred for reaction, and automating a series of procedures such as injection of the sample, reaction of the biomaterial, and detection and analysis of results.

Currently, methods for analyzing a target gene of an analyte, that are widely conducted in a molecular diagnosis field, may be largely classified into two, a relative or absolute quantitative method of measuring expression degree of the target gene and the copy number thereof and a qualitative method of analyzing presence or absence of the target gene and the genotype thereof.
Among the methods for analyzing a target gene of an analyte, the real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a representative quantitative method, which is employed in measuring the expression degree of the target gene and the copy number thereof.
The real-time PCR method employs an apparatus where a PCR apparatus (thermal cycler) and a spectrophotometer are integrated with each other, and analyzes the amount of DNA or RNA fed or present at the early time by monitoring a procedure of producing amplification products of the target gene in real time during an amplification procedure, without a separate electrophoresis procedure for confirming PCR products after the PCR procedure. More specifically, the real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR), where a fluorescent material is applied to the PCR method, may real-time detect and quantitatively analyze the degree of emission of the fluorescent material increasing in proportion to amplification of a target gene existing in the specimen during the reaction, thereby promptly and accurately analyzing the expression type of the target gene and the copy number thereof. As for the method of obtaining the fluorescent signal in the real-time polymerase chain reaction, there are largely a non-specific detection method and a specific detection method. As for the non-specific detection method, a fluorescent body (e.g., SYBR Green I, BEBO, BOXTO, EvaGreen, etc.) emitting a fluorescent material signal when being intercalated in the DNA double strands is used, and the entire fluorescent signal of double strands formed during the gene amplification is measured. As for the specific detection method, a fluorescent body is intercalated in a short oligonucleotide strand having a specific sequence that is complementarily bindable to a target gene to thereby form a probe (e.g., TaqMan probe, Molecular Beacon, Light-Up probe, Hybridization probe, or the like), and when the short oligonucleotide probe is amplified together with the target gene, a fluorescent signal generated from the short oligonucleotide probe in proportion to gene amplification is measured.
In the real-time polymerase chain reaction using the TaqMan probe in the specific detection method, a principle thereof is the same as that of a general PCR in view of using two primers, but an oligonucleotide probe chemically bound to a fluorescent material needs to be used. As for the TaqMan probe, FAM or the like as a reporter fluorescent material is attached to a 5′ end thereof and TAMRA or the like as a quencher material of offsetting a fluorescence of the reporter fluorescent material is attached to a 3′ end thereof. When the TaqMan probe is added to the PCR reactive solution, the TaqMan probe is annealed to the template DNA due to annealing with the template DNA during the PCR procedure, but the fluorescence is not detected by the offsetting action of the reporter and the quencher material. When the TaqMan probe hybridized with the template DNA is disintegrated due to activation of 5′. 3′ exonuclease of the Taq DNA polymerase at the time of extension by the Taq DNA polymerase during the PCR procedure, FAM or the like, which is a fluorescent material, is isolated to thereby cancel the offset by the quencher material, resulting in emitting a fluorescence. Hence, the amount of amplified products generated may be measured by analyzing the amount of fluorescence detected.
Meanwhile, in the real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using SYBR Green I in the non-specific detection method, the entire fluorescence is monitored. This method employs a principle where a fluorescent material is intercalated in the double strand DNA chain. SYBR Green I, which is a fluorescent material, is added at the time of PPCR reaction, to thereby detect the amount of fluorescence emitting in proportion to amplification of PCR products, and thus, the generation amount of amplified products may be measured and the melting point of the amplified DNA may be measured.
In addition, as for qualitative method used in analyzing the presence or absence of a target gene and the genotype thereof among the methods of analyzing a target gene, there is recently a DNA microarray (DNA chip) method capable of simultaneously detecting several tens to several tens of hundreds of kinds of genes on one sheet of slide through the combination of molecular biological technology and electronic engineering technology.
More specifically, as a method of using a microarray-fixed chip where oligonucleotide, PAN, or cDNA, capable of detecting a target gene is used as a probe, there is a microarray chip. According to this method, the amplified products after the PCR reaction is hybridized with a target microarray chip, to thereby be bound to several kinds of probes (oligonucleotide, PAN, or cDNA) immobilized on a surface of the chip solid (glass, plastic, membrane, silicon, etc.), and then the presence or absence of the binding may be determined by a fluorescent material signal labeled on the amplified product, and thus, this method is useful in analyzing various types of genotypes. However, the test procedure is complicated and a somewhat large amount of time is required, and the results are not visually confirmable by the naked eyes to thereby require a separate fluorescent analysis apparatus.
Recently, in the case of diseases by infectious bodies in a molecular diagnosis field as above, as various concepts of diagnosis and therapy are applied, the method of analyzing a target gene of an analyte simultaneously and complexly requires quantitative information of the copy number for confirming the infectious degree through a real-time polymerase chain reaction and qualitative information of the genotype by utilizing a microarray chip for prescription of an appropriate therapeutical agent by confirming the kind of infectious body. According to this purpose, the real-time polymerase chain reaction and the microarray chip analysis method are independently used in combination with each other.
However, according to the combination of the analysis methods above, experiments for the analysis methods are sequentially carried out in different reactors, and analyzed, and thus, a large amount of labor and time are still required and inconvenience remains. In addition, it is difficult to automate the analysis methods in a single device. Even though an apparatus for automating the simple combination of the analysis methods is manufactured, a large space for the installing the apparatus is required and the apparatus is very expensive, and thus, it is not easy to routinely use the apparatus for molecular diagnosis in a hospital. Therefore, development of a technology for solving these problems is really needed.

System for integrated analysis of real-time polymerase chain reaction and DNA chip and method for integrated analysis using the same


Is provided herein a method of non-homogeneously magnifying objects comprising providing an information element adapted to be displayed on a display and surrounded by a margin thereof; displaying the information element and its margin on a display; defining a standardized object adapted to respectively include therein the information element and at least a portion of the margin; magnifying the standardized object; defining a size of the magnified information element by removing an unmagnified size of the at least a portion of the margin to the size of the magnified standardized object; and displaying the magnified information element with its surrounding margin.

Computers can come with a variety of display sizes. Desktop computers are adapted to be connected to large screen while mobile computers are required to deal with much smaller displays.
Magnifying information elements on a display generally requires magnification and reduction of the subject object displayed to maximize the use of the display area. Magnifying and reducing objects on a display equally magnifies intervening between-objects portions that do not need to be magnified because they do not add more meaning to the subject objects. Magnifying intervening between-objects portions use more display area that could be used more usefully by other objects.
Layout of objects can vary in accordance with a variety of possible uses. A problem arises with webpages, especially when seen on small screens like PDA's or mobile phones, which need to be magnified. Magnification of a webpage can be required for, for instance, becoming readable. Under some circumstances the magnification of the text is required for readability although the magnification of the margins around the text or enclosures in the text, like publicity or even images, might no be desirable considering the small size of the display area.
For instance, objects on a web page can include text and images that bring meaning to a reader. The text and the images are generally separated with margins thereof. Magnifying, for instance, a virtual newspaper to read it with, illustratively, a mobile phone, is going to also magnify the margins that are of no help for the reader since their smaller size, when they are not magnified, is sufficient to clearly distinguish the text from the images. In other words, their magnification is a non-optimal use of the display area that is available.
Similar principles can be applied to menu items using, for example, icons or the like in a predetermined graphical arrangements. Intervening margins between the menu items are magnified with the menu items and space is lost on the display area of the display while their enlargement (the margins) is of little help for the user since their smaller size was already sufficient to allow proper use of the menu items.
Today's information management systems are dealing with tremendous amounts of documents and other files. Files management systems are evolving toward a more graphical environment to facilitate document navigation and management. United States Patent Application Publication No.: US 2007/0214169 A1, published on Sep. 13, 2007 discloses a Multi-dimensional locating system and method (title). The patent application discloses ways for managing and displaying axes of documents and other computer-readable files. An axis of documents that groups a plurality of documents along a predetermined order, inter alia, is taught.
The use of only a small number of documents on a display might result in a poor use of the usable display area. A larger number of documents on an axis might be desirable. Similarly, a plurality of axes of documents might also be desirable to provide more information to a viewer. A number of challenges need to be addressed in order to provide some functions performed on a significant quantity of documents and/or a plurality of axes.
One of these challenges is to maximize the use of a display area when a number of documents on a single axis, or disposed on many axes displaying documents thereon, are simultaneously displayed. Magnifying (or reducing) the documents and/or the axes equally magnifies (or reduces) the margins around the documents and the axes. The magnification of the margins with the same magnification level for the documents and the axes might not be desirable. A small margin can be sufficient even with a strong magnification. The magnification of margins proportionally increases the non-useful area on the display.
In view of the prior art it appears that improvements over the prior art is desirable to improve the user experience and usability either with innovative graphical, structural or functional improvements.

Non-homogeneous objects magnification and reduction


Functionalized microspheres for being dispersed in matrix materials to reduce the density and weight of the materials may be configured to include a covalently bound surface component which is configured to covalently bond with the matrix material so that when combined with the matrix material a strong, light-weight matrix material may be produced.

For most products which are to be handled and/or carried by consumers, the consumer typically prefers lighter weight products while not wanting to lose any product quality or durability. Lighter weight products, in addition to being more desirable for consumers, are often also preferred by manufactures in order to reduce shipping and handling costs. Essentially everything from raw materials and parts to finished products need to be shipped from their point of origin to the consumer.
Energy is required to move an object, whether that object is in a gravitational field or not. In a gravitational field an object has weight, and outside a gravitational field an object has mass. It takes fuel to move an object from a point A to a point B. Energy is required to accelerate the object to get it moving, and also to sustain the speed of movement according to the relationship mass times velocity squared. The energy needed to move an object may be expressed in terms of watts, where a watt is the ability to lift one kg one meter in one second against the force of gravity.
It also takes energy to hold an object against the force of gravity. Fuel is required to supply the energy. For vehicles, such as ships and trains, the fuel is typically a hydrocarbon mixture. For a human being or other animal, the fuel is glucose, and for a rocket, the fuel is often liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen. The heavier the object the more fuel it takes to move the object. In addition, for the human body, the necessity of carrying around heavier objects may lead to added soreness in the shoulders and spine. Thus, there is a need for lighter weight objects that are essentially as strong and durable as the heavier objects that are being replaced.
Other issues may also arise from the selection of the types of materials used for product production. Electronic products are constantly being improved and upgraded, and environmental impacts can result from the large volumes of consumer electronic products that enter into and phase out of the market each year. Certain materials used to produce products for consumers and industries require manufacturing processes that are energy intensive and generate large amounts of greenhouse gas and environmental waste. In addition, many waste products end up in landfills, and the materials may persist in the environment for thousands of years.
Therefore, there is an increased need for ultra-lightweight materials that are not energy intensive to produce, and which are easy to recycle and preferably biodegradable, but significant technological needs remain unmet. New lightweight and ultra-lightweight materials are needed that are durable (i.e. impact-, crack-, rupture-, fatigue-, and corrosion-resistant), formable, transparent, non-toxic, inexpensive to fabricate, manufactured using low environment impact processes, and biodegradable. For certain applications, improved thermal conductivity, electrical conductivity, and optical transparency may also be relevant. Materials having reduced density/weight would be useful for applications in space, aerospace, vehicles, industrial products, consumer products, and everyday life in the human world.


Energy absorbing flexible foams can be produced by reacting an isocyanate with a first polyol, prepared at least in part by an active double metal cyanide catalyst and a second polyether polyol is prepared at least in part by a basic or acidic catalyst.

Numerous substrates are known in the art for abating energy and sound produced by appliances and automobiles. Known substrates include non-woven textile fabrics, such as shoddy pads, and foamed polyurethane materials. See for example, U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,056,161; 4,966,799; 5,266,143; and 5,068,001. It is also known in the art to use flexible polyurethane foam as a sound absorbing material. See U.S. Pat. No. 6,337,356. However, it is not known in the art to prepare an energy absorbing flexible foam containing an organic isocyanate, a first polyol prepared with a double metal cyanide ("DMC") catalyst and a second polyol prepared with a basic catalyst.
It is known in the art to use DMC catalysts to produce polyether, polyester and polyetherester polyols, which are useful in polyurethane coatings, elastomers, sealants, foams and adhesions. DMC catalysts are typically obtained by reacting an aqueous solution of a metal salt, such as zinc chloride, with an aqueous solution of a metal cyanide salt, such as potassium hexacyanocobaltate, in the presence of an organic complexing ligand. The preparation of typical DMC catalysts is described, for example in U. S. Pat. Nos. 3,427,256, 3,829,505 and 5,158,922. DMC-catalyzed polyols are typically produced in a batch or semi-batch process, a high molecular weight polyol starter and DMC catalyst are charged to a reactor all at once, heated and then reacted with a small amount of epoxide. After DMC catalyst activation, more epoxide is continuously added to the reactor to complete polymerization.
It is also known in the art to produce molded polyurethane foams having enhanced physical properties from isocyanate-terminated-prepolymers prepared from poly(oxy)alkylene polyether polyols having low unsaturations, as disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,700,847. Similarly, it is known in the art to prepare polyurethane slab or molded foam by the reaction of an isocyanate and a DMC catalyzed polyol in the presence of a catalyst, a chain extender and a surfactant. See U.S. Pat. No. 6,008,263.
Similarly, it is known in the art to produce high resilience (HR) foam prepared by reacting an isocyanate with a poly(oxypropylene/oxyethylene) polyol component manufactured at least in part with a DMC catalyst. See U.S. Pat. No. 5,605,939. HR foams produced in accordance with U.S. Pat. No. 5,605,939 have resiliency values of greater than 50%.
However, there remains a need in the art to produce an energy absorbing flexible foam wherein a portion of the polyol prepared with a basic catalyst can be replaced with a more economical polyol produced with a DMC catalyst.

Energy absorbing flexible foams produced in part with a double metal cyanide catalyzed polyol


A disposable object form line for use in horizontal casting of building panels from settable material in which at least one side has an exposed face of embedded objects. The object form liner is comprised of a thin support sheet having an adhesive coating on one side. A closed cell plastic grid having ridges which define openings sized to fit the outer perimeter of the intended objects is provided. The grid is adhered to the adhesive coating on the support sheet. Retarder strips may be inserted in each opening to prevent contamination of the face of the object during the pouring process. The form liner is placed in the bottom of a horizontal mold. The objects, such as bricks, are positioned in the openings provided in the layout form liner and the settable material is poured into the mold to form a construction panel. After setting, the panel and disposable form liner are removed from the mold and the liner is stripped from the panel to expose the objects embedded in the surface.

Over the years there has been a number of solutions that have been tried to resolve the many problems that are encountered in the construction of walls and panels using concrete and other settable materials. A bare, exposed concrete wall is esthetically boring and displeasing to the eye. For this reason, a number of methods have been proposed to texture or provide a surface finish to the outer surface of concrete structures to provide an architecturally pleasing appearance.
As a result of these proposals, different arrangements have been tried to adhere or embed articles within the surface of the structure or to texture the surface of the finished concrete structure with varying degrees of success. As is well known in the prior art, different methods have also been attempted to hold bricks and other objects within a concrete mold, usually positioned horizontally, while the concrete is poured over the objects so as to embed and hold the objects in the surface of the finished concrete panel. The panels are then assembled for constructing the finished wall. While in many cases bricks have been used as the surface treatment, other objects can be used, such as tiles, blocks, stones or the like which provide a visually pleasing appearance.
Many of the prior art solutions have been quite expensive and cost prohibitive which eliminates them as a viable solution. In addition, the prior art forms and molds do not seal the face surface of the object from concrete grout seepage creating a considerable additional labor cost for cleaning the exposed surface of the finished wall or panel.
In order to eliminate many of these existing problems, it is desirable to provide a lightweight layout form liner product which will securely position objects and allow these objects to be held in the mold without shifting during the pouring of the settable medium. An additional aspect of the novel approach which is addressed in the present invention is the ability to seal or neutralize any seepage that might get to the face surface of the object. These two attributes are in direct correlation to each other and this is why the present invention is so innovative and unique.

Disposable layout form liner for structures


In one embodiment, a vertical MOS transistor is formed without a thick field oxide and particularly without a thick field oxide in the termination region of the transistor.

The present invention relates, in general, to electronics, and more particularly, to methods of forming semiconductor devices and structures.
In the past, the semiconductor industry formed vertical MOS transistors with various device structures using various semiconductor processing methods. The prior vertical MOS transistors generally had a field oxide region that was positioned to overlie a portion of a field termination region of the vertical MOS transistor. These field oxide regions were formed by thermal oxidation. The field oxide regions were used to reduce electric fields in the termination region and to assist in providing a high breakdown voltage for the vertical MOS transistor. However, forming these thermally grown field oxide regions typically required at least one or more masks and related processing steps which increased the cost of the vertical MOS transistor.
Accordingly, it is desirable to have a vertical MOS transistor that has fewer processing steps and that has a lower cost.
For simplicity and clarity of the illustration, elements in the figures are not necessarily to scale, and the same reference numbers in different figures denote the same elements. Additionally, descriptions and details of well-known steps and elements are omitted for simplicity of the description. Although the devices are explained herein as certain N-channel or P-Channel devices, a person of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that complementary devices are also possible in accordance with the present invention. It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the words during, while, and when as used herein are not exact terms that mean an action takes place instantly upon an initiating action but that there may be some small but reasonable delay, such as a propagation delay, between the reaction that is initiated by the initial action. For clarity of the drawings, doped regions of device structures are illustrated as having generally straight line edges and precise angular corners. However, those skilled in the art understand that due to the diffusion and activation of dopants the edges of doped regions generally may not be straight lines and the corners may not be precise angles.
In addition, the device of the present invention will be illustrated to show either a cellular design (where the body regions are a plurality of cellular regions) or a single body design (where the body region is comprised of a single region formed in an elongated pattern, typically in a serpentine or a stripe pattern). However, the device of the present invention will be described as a single base design throughout the description for ease of understanding. It should be understood that it is intended that the present invention encompass both a cellular design and a single base design.

Vertical MOS transistor and method therefor

Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC


A system information sending method is provided, to resolve a technical problem that UE may not receive a paging message when a DRX cycle is greater than an MP. A network device may separately set a modification period (namely, a first period) for first-type system information (which, for example, may include paging configuration information), to ensure that the first-type system information is not to be modified in the first period. For example, the first period may be greater than a DRX cycle. In this way, when a terminal device wakes up based on the DRX cycle, a time when the terminal device wakes up is still in the first period. The terminal device may normally receive a paging message indicating that the paging configuration information is to be modified, thereby obtaining new paging configuration information in time and avoiding missing a subsequent paging message.

A discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle is a new power-saving working mechanism introduced in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system. In the DRX cycle, user equipment (UE) does not need to listen on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) when the user equipment is in an idle state (IDLE), thereby saving power.
In the LTE system, a concept of a modification period (MP) is defined. System information may be transmitted for a plurality of times in one MP. However, in a same MP, content of some system information (for example, paging configuration information) remains unchanged. When a base station needs to modify some (for example, paging configuration information) of system information, the base station first notifies, in an MP by using a paging message, UE that the paging configuration information is to be changed (but the base station does not send or use new paging configuration information in the current MP), and uses the new paging configuration information at a boundary at the beginning of a next MP. In the next MP, the base station sends the new paging configuration information. However, if a DRX cycle of the UE is greater than the MP, the UE may not receive the paging message indicating that a paging configuration information is to be modified, and consequently cannot obtain the new paging configuration information.
For example, referring to FIG. 1, FIG. 1 shows a process of updating paging configuration information in an LTE system. In FIG. 1, a base station intends to update paging configuration information in MP n+1, and therefore needs to notify, in a paging message in MP n, that the paging configuration information is to be changed. However, because a DRX cycle of UE is greater than an MP, MP n does not include a paging occasion (PO) of the UE. In other words, the UE does not wake up in MP n. Therefore, the UE can receive only a paging message in MP n−1, namely, a paging message 1, but cannot receive the paging message in MP n, namely, a paging message 2, and further, cannot receive the new paging configuration information. Therefore, when the UE wakes up based on the DRX cycle, the UE misses a subsequent paging message, for example, misses a paging message 3 in FIG. 1.

System information sending method, system information update method, and device


A securing apparatus for selectively securing an ablating element of an ablation instrument proximate to a targeted region of a biological tissue. The securing apparatus includes a support base affixed to the ablation instrument relative the ablating element, and having a support face adapted to seat against the biological tissue proximate to the ablation element. The support base further defines a passage having one end communicably coupled to a vacuum source and an opposite end terminating at an orifice at the support face. The support face together with the biological tissue forms a hermetic seal thereagainst during operation of the vacuum source to secure the ablation instrument thereagainst. Essentially, the hermetic seal and the vacuum source cooperate to form a vacuum force sufficient to retain the ablation device against the biological tissue.

1. Field of Invention
The present invention relates, generally, to ablation instrument systems that use electromagnetic energy in the microwave frequencies to ablate internal bodily tissues, and, more particularly, to antenna arrangements and instrument construction techniques that direct the microwave energy in selected directions that are relatively closely contained along the antenna.
2. Description of the Prior Art
It is well documented that atrial fibrillation, either alone or as a consequence of other cardiac disease, continues to persist as the most common cardiac arrhythmia. According to recent estimates, more than two million people in the U.S. suffer from this common arrhythmia, roughly 0.15% to 1.0% of the population. Moreover, the prevalence of this cardiac disease increases with age, affecting nearly 8% to 17% of those over 60 years of age.
Although atrial fibrillation may occur alone, this arrhythmia often associates with numerous cardiovascular conditions, including congestive heart failure, mitral regurgitation, hypertensive cardiovascular disease, myocardial infarcation, rheumatic heart disease, and stroke. Regardless, three separate detrimental sequelae result: (1) a change in the ventricular response, including the onset of an irregular ventricular rhythm and an increase in ventricular rate; (2) detrimental hemodynamic consequences resulting from loss of atroventricular synchrony, decreased ventricular filling time, and possible atrioventricular valve regurgitation; and (3) an increased likelihood of sustaining a thromboembolic event because of loss of effective contraction and atrial stasis of blood in the left atrium.
Atrial arrhythmia may be treated using several methods. Pharmacological treatment of atrial fibrillation, for example, is initially the preferred approach, first to maintain normal sinus rhythm, or secondly to decrease the ventricular response rate. While these medications may reduce the risk of thrombus collecting in the atrial appendages if the atrial fibrillation can be converted to sinus rhythm, this form of treatment is not always effective. Patients with continued atrial fibrillation and only ventricular rate control continue to suffer from irregular heartbeats and from the effects of impaired hemodynamics due to the lack of normal sequential atrioventricular contractions, as well as continue to face a significant risk of thromboembolism.
Other forms of treatment include chemical cardioversion to normal sinus rhythm, electrical cardioversion, and RF catheter ablation of selected areas determined by mapping. In the more recent past, other surgical procedures have been developed for atrial fibrillation, including left atrial isolation, transvenous catheter or cryosurgical ablation of His bundle, and the Corridor procedure, which have effectively eliminated irregular ventricular rhythm. However, these procedures have for the most part failed to restore normal cardiac hemodynamics, or alleviate the patient's vulnerability to thromboembolism because the atria are allowed to continue to fibrillate. Accordingly, a more effective surgical treatment was required to cure medically refractory atrial fibrillation of the heart.
On the basis of electrophysiologic mapping of the atria and identification of macroreentrant circuits, a surgical approach was developed which effectively creates an electrical maze in the atrium (i.e., the MAZE procedure) and precludes the ability of the atria to fibrillate. Briefly, in the procedure commonly referred to as the MAZE III procedure, strategic atrial incisions are performed to prevent atrial reentry and allow sinus impulses to activate the entire atrial myocardium, thereby preserving atrial transport function postoperatively. Since atrial fibrillation is characterized by the presence of multiple macroreentrant circuits that are fleeting in nature and can occur anywhere in the atria, it is prudent to interrupt all of the potential pathways for atrial macroreentrant circuits. These circuits, incidentally, have been identified by intraoperative mapping both experimentally and clinically in patients.
Generally, this procedure includes the excision of both atrial appendages, and the electrical isolation of the pulmonary veins. Further, strategically placed atrial incisions not only interrupt the conduction routes of the common reentrant circuits, but they also direct the sinus impulse from the sinoatrial node to the atrioventricular node along a specified route. In essence, the entire atrial myocardium, with the exception of the atrial appendages and the pulmonary veins, is electrically activated by providing for multiple blind alleys off the main conduction route between the sinoatrial node to the atrioventricular node. Atrial transport function is thus preserved postoperatively as generally set forth in the series of articles: Cox, Schuessler, Boineau, Canavan, Cain, Lindsay, Stone, Smith, Corr, Change, and D'Agostino, Jr., The Surgical Treatment Atrial Fibrillation (pts. 1-4), 101 THORAC CARDIOVASC SURG., 402-426, 569-592 (1991).
While this MAZE III procedure has proven effective in ablating medically refractory atrial fibrillation and associated detrimental sequelae, this operational procedure is traumatic to the patient since substantial incisions are introduced into the interior chambers of the heart. Consequently, other techniques have thus been developed to interrupt and redirect the conduction routes without requiring substantial atrial incisions. One such technique is strategic ablation of the atrial tissues through ablation catheters.
Most approved ablation catheter systems now utilize radio frequency (RF) energy as the ablating energy source. Accordingly, a variety of RF based catheters and power supplies are currently available to electrophysiologists.
However, radio frequency energy has several limitations including the rapid dissipation of energy in surface tissues resulting in shallow "burns" and failure to access deeper arrhythmic tissues. Another limitation of RF ablation catheters is the risk of clot formation on the energy emitting electrodes. Such clots have an associated danger of causing potentially lethal strokes in the event that a clot is dislodged from the catheter.
As such, catheters which utilize electromagnetic energy in the microwave frequency range as the ablation energy source are currently being developed. Microwave frequency energy has long been recognized as an effective energy source for heating biological tissues and has seen use in such hyperthermia applications as cancer treatment and preheating of blood prior to infusions. Accordingly, in view of the drawbacks of the traditional catheter ablation techniques, there has recently been a great deal of interest in using microwave energy as an ablation energy source. The advantage of microwave energy is that it is much easier to control and safer than direct current applications and it is capable of generating substantially larger lesions than RF catheters, which greatly simplifies the actual ablation procedures. Typical of such microwave ablation systems are described in the U.S. Pat. No. 4,641,649 to Walinsky; U.S. Pat. No. 5,246,438 to Langberg; U.S. Pat. No. 5,405,346 to Grundy, et al.; and U.S. Pat. No. 5,314,466 to Stern, et al, each of which is incorporated herein by reference.
Most of the existing microwave ablation catheters contemplate the use of longitudinally extending helical antenna coils that direct the electromagnetic energy in a radial direction that is generally perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the catheter although the fields created are not well constrained to the antenna itself. Although such catheter designs work well for a number of applications, such radial output, while controlled, is inappropriate for use in MAZE III procedures for example which require very strategically positioned and formed lesions. Thus, it would be desirable to provide microwave ablation catheter designs that are capable of effectively transmitting electromagnetic energy that more closely approximates the length of the antenna, and in a specific direction, such as generally perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the catheter but constrained to a selected radial region of the antenna.

Vacuum-assisted securing apparatus for a microwave ablation instrument


In a state in which a first divisional core and a second divisional core are arranged in a state spaced from each other and adjacent to each other, a first coil and a second coil are each wound around a tooth. The first coil and the second coil are in the same phase. In a state in which a plurality of divisional cores are arranged annularly so that their teeth are oriented in a radially inward direction, the first divisional core and the second divisional core are not adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction. A plurality of connection wires are shaped to converge at an end surface of a stator core. This facilitates the winding of the coils around the divisional cores. Further, the connection wires can be shortened.

The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a stator and a stator manufactured with the manufacturing method.
Japanese Laid-Open Patent Publication No. 2002-176753 describes a method for manufacturing a stator for an inner-rotor type rotating electrical machine. The stator has an annular stator core. The stator core includes an annular portion and a plurality of teeth extending radially inward from the annular portion. A coil is wound around each tooth. A connection wire extends from one coil to another coil.
The stator core may be divided into a plurality of divisional cores to increase the lamination factor of the coils. The divisional cores are formed by dividing the stator core in the circumferential direction. Each divisional core has a single tooth.
The above publication discloses a first winding method and a second winding method for forming coils. With the first winding method, the plurality of divisional cores are arranged in a single line so that their teeth are parallel to one another. A film insulator extends at a basal end of each tooth between the two sides in the circumferential direction. A gap is formed between adjacent divisional cores so that their film insulators overlap each other. In this state, a wire is wound continuously around the teeth to form a coil on each tooth.
With the second winding method, the divisional cores are arranged so that adjacent divisional cores are connected to each other so that they are pivotal relative to one another. In this state, the plurality of divisional cores are arranged annularly so that their teeth are oriented in an outward direction. In this state, a wire is wound continuously around the teeth to form a coil on each tooth. After the coils are formed, the divisional cores are reversed in a manner that their teeth are oriented in a radially inward direction.
With the first winding method, the gap formed between the adjacent divisional cores is determined by the dimensions of their film insulators in the circumferential direction. In other words, the gap between the adjacent divisional cores is relatively small. As a result, space formed on the two sides of each tooth is greater in this arrangement than in the assembled state of the stator core. However, even with such greater space, teeth or coils adjacent to a tooth around which the wire is to be wound may interfere with the wire winding operation of the tooth.
With the second winding method, greater space is formed on the two sides of each tooth as compared with when the first winding method is used. However, each tooth still has a pair of divisional cores arranged on the two sides of the tooth. Such adjacent teeth or coils may interfere with the wire winding operation of each tooth. In this way, the first winding method and the second winding method both fail to provide sufficient space permitting smooth wire winding operations on the teeth.
With both the first winding method and the second winding method, the plurality of divisional cores are simultaneously moved and arranged annularly after the coils are wound. Thus, the connection wires need to be long enough to permit such movement of the divisional cores. In other words, each connection wire needs to be longer than the circumferential direction distance between two divisional cores that are connected by the connection wire in the assembled state of the stator core. Further, with the first winding method, the gap formed between the adjacent divisional cores further lengthens each connection wire.
The electric resistance of each connection wire increases and the motor efficiency decreases as each connection wire becomes longer. Further, long connection wires require a complicated process for shaping the connection wires after the divisional cores are moved and arranged annularly. Moreover, long connection wires increase the size of the stator in the axial direction.
The connection wires may be eliminated by using a bus bar or a current supply wire to electrically connect the coils to one another. However, the use of a bus bar or a current supply wire increases the number of components and increases the number of processes.

Manufacturing method of stator, and stator


A removable computer host housing assembly includes a hollow and penetrated host housing having an interior thereof defined as a front accommodating chamber and a rear accommodating chamber; a rear housing having a plurality of rectangular accommodating cells therein and an upper long rectangular accommodating cell at and upper section thereof; wherein each rectangular accommodating cell is assembled with a power supply module, each upper long rectangular accommodating cell is assembled with one interface circuit module, and the rear housing is assembled into the rear accommodating chamber; and one server module appearing as a rectangular housing, and being vertically inserted into the rear accommodating chamber. A plurality of interface circuit modules, power supply modules, server modules can be speedily assembled with or disassembled from an interior of the host housing, thereby accomplishing maintenance or module expansion with speed and convenience.

(a) Field of the Invention
The invention relates to a removable computer host housing assembly, and more particularly, to an industrial host housing that can be quickly assembled to or disassembled from power supply modules, interface circuit modules, server modules or other expansion circuit card modules, thereby providing speedy and convenient maintenance as well as assembly process thereof.
(b) Description of the Prior Art
Host modules, server modules and power supply modules of prior industrial computer hosts are designed based on modules with specifications required by workload of computer device terminals. For instance, supposed a computer is capable of controlling tasks of five operating machines, when a provisional operating machine, a near-end or far-end monitor system, or an interface module such as a data card or a circuit card is required for expansion, an original host housing cannot be installed with the additional host, server, power supply or interface card modules in a timely fashion. Instead, a new host control module is necessarily purchased for satisfying the new equipment.
Moreover, various modules in a prior host housing mainly adopts fastening methods by screwing or buckling. Therefore, time is wasted when assembling or disassembling the various modules by going through unfavorable operations.
In view of the above shortcomings, it is a vital task of the invention as how to provide a host housing capable of speedily assembling with or disassembling from various power supply modules, server modules and interface circuit modules therein.

Removable computer host housing assembly


An external segment of a telescoping handle comprises an outer segment configured for receiving an internal segment. The outer segment comprises a hole configured to receive a locking pin attached to the internal segment. The external segment further comprises a reinforcing mechanism inserted into the hole that is configured to distribute forces imparted by the locking pin in such a manner that the hole does not deform as easily as in conventional baggage.

1. Field of the Inventions
The field of the invention relates generally to wheeled carrying or transporting devices and more particularly to telescoping handles used to facilitate convenient conveyance of such devices.
2. Background Information
Recently, wheeled baggage, for example, has been equipped with telescoping handles. A conventional telescoping handle often comprises two telescoping poles, one on either side of the bag, each of which comprises two segments, an inner telescoping segment and an outer segment affixed to the bag itself. The telescoping poles allow the user to extend the handle to a comfortable length while pulling the bag. But the telescoping poles can be collapsed to allow the handle to be retracted whenever it is convenient, e.g., when the bag is stowed.
Locking pins are often used to secure the extended position of the handle to prevent handle from collapsing unexpectedly. Sometimes, the locking pins are spring loaded bearings that require substantial axial force to collapse the telescoping pole. In other cases, the locking pins are mechanically coupled to an actuator on the handle which does not disengage the lock unless the button is depressed. In other instances, a combination of an actuator and spring loaded bearings can be used. In any event, the locking pins must be received by a hole in opposite segment of the telescoping pole. Typically, the segments are hollow tubes with their inner width or diameters decreasing in size so as to allow each successive segment to fit inside one another.
FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating how a locking mechanism is configured in relationship to two segments a telescoping pole. In the collapsed configuration illustrated on the left, a large portion of internal segment 102 resides within external segment 104. In the extended configuration illustrated on the right, a small portion of internal segment 102 can reside within external segment 104. It can be locked in this configuration with a locking mechanism comprising hole 106 in the external segment and locking pin 108 on the internal segment. The configuration is locked when locking pin 108 engages hole 106. Often, the locking pin 108 is mechanically coupled to a button (not shown) to retract the locking pin 108 when the user wishes to unlock the telescoping pole from the extended configuration.
When extended such that pin 108 is engaged with hole 106, the associated bag can be pulled by the handle. This can, however, introduces stress along the length of the telescoping pole. The heavier the bag and/or rougher the terrain across which the bag is being pulled, the greater the stresses can be. Further, some users have been known to lift a bag by the telescoping handle to overcome an obstacle. Such lifting can relieve all the weight from the wheels and impart the weight into a longitudinal force on the telescoping handle. The brunt of the stresses created along the handle is often imparted directly on the portion of segment 104 that form hole 106. The stresses are often enough to cause hole 106 to deform. In fact, even the act of extending a telescoping handle can cause stresses on hole 106 that can lead to deformation of hole 106.
Eventually, hole 106 can deform to such a degree that pin 108 will no longer engage hole 106 sufficiently. When this occurs, the handle will often collapse unexpectedly rendering the bag somewhat useless, at least for its intended purpose of being able to be wheeled about.
FIG. 2 illustrates the consequence of prolonged or intense longitudinal forces on a hole 106 of a telescoping handle. As can be seen on the right, hole 106 can become enlarged and distorted as a result of excessive or prolonged exposure to longitudinal forces from locking pin 108. Again, the result of the distortion is that the locking pin 108 no longer engages the hole in a secure manner, leading to play in the telescoping handle even when locked. This can lead to instability in navigating the bag, possibly to the point of rendering the telescoping handle inoperable.
One cause for the resulting distortion illustrated in FIG. 2 is the fact that pole segment 104 is often comprised of a light weight weaker material, such as aluminum, as compared to locking mechanism 108, which is often made from a more durable stronger material such as steel or iron.

Systems and methods for reinforcing lockable telescoping poles


Methods and apparatus for processing a substrate are provided. The apparatus, for example, can include a process chamber comprising a chamber body defining a processing volume and having a view port coupled to the chamber body; a substrate support disposed within the processing volume and having a support surface to support a substrate; and an infrared temperature sensor (IRTS) disposed outside the chamber body adjacent the view port to measure a temperature of the substrate when being processed in the processing volume, the IRTS movable relative to the view port for scanning the substrate through the view port.

Fanout packaging wafers (substrates) are composite in structure, and contain silicon dies of varying dimensions that are packaged on, for example, an epoxy substrate. Typically, the wafers are heated in a low-pressure chamber condition, and non-contact temperature measurements can be used to monitor a temperature of the wafers. The temperature of the wafers is controlled so that the wafers do not become damaged, e.g., due to warping. Due to the heterogeneous structure of the wafer, however, accurately measuring the wafer temperature with a normal incidence infrared (IR) sensor is difficult, since the temperature measurement mainly depends on an emissivity of a substance that the IR sensor views. Additionally, customer wafer patterns are frequently unknown, thus design of an IR sensor architecture and calibration for normal incidence is difficult, as the IR sensor can detect, capture, or otherwise determine different materials.

Method and apparatus for processing a substrate using non-contact temperature measurement


Pumpable water-containing surfactant concentrates containing alkyl glycosides, sulfosuccinates and amphoteric and/or zwitterionic surfactants, and to their use for the production of surface-active formulations.

1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to pumpable water-containing surfactant concentrates containing alkyl glycosides, sulfosuccinates and amphoteric surfactants, and to their use for the production of surface-active formulations.
2. Statement of Related Art
Alkyl oligoglycosides, more particularly alkyl oligoglucosides, are nonionic surfactants which are acquiring increasing significance by virtue of their excellent detergent properties and their high ecotoxicological compatibility. The production and use of these substances have been described just recently in a number of synoptic articles, of which the articles by H. Hensen in Skin Care Forum, 1, (October 1992), D. Balzer and N. Ripke in Seifen-Ole-Fette-Wachse 118, 894 (1992) and B. Brancq in Seifen-Ole-Fette-Wachse 118, 905 (1992) are cited as examples.
In some respects, however, the use of alkyl oligoglucosides is attended by problems. For example, it is not possible to produce pumpable water-containing concentrates with a solids content above 40% by weight without the sugar component undergoing partial decomposition in the course of the concentration process. The glycosides share this property with most anionic surfactants which form a viscous gel phase above an active substance content of around 35% by weight. In addition, alkyl oligoglucosides tend to crystallize during storage at low temperatures which significantly complicates their subsequent use.
Numerous surfactant mixtures containing alkyl glycosides as one component are already known from the prior art but do not solve any of the problems mentioned above.
Thus, mixtures of short-chain alkyl glycosides with sulfosuccinates for the production of hair shampoos and baby foam baths are described, for example, by G. Proserpio et al. in Rivista Italiana 56, 567 (1974). Mixtures of alkyl glycosides with sulfosuccinates for use as collectors in flotation are known from EP-A 0 219 057 (Henkel). EP-A 0 280 143 (Henkel) describes manual dishwashing detergents containing dioctyl sulfosuccinates. Mild surfactant mixtures containing sulfosuccinates, preferably monoalkyl sulfosuccinates, are claimed very broadly in EP-A 0 358 216 (Kao) and in WO 90/01441 (Henkel Corp.). The use of alkyl glycosides for regulating the viscosity of sulfosuccinate pastes is proposed in WO 91/04313 (Henkel Corp.) and in DE-A 4 007 757 (Henkel). In addition, liquid cleaning formulations which may contain alkyl glycosides and sulfosuccinates as components are known from DE-A 4 139 935 (Kao) and from EP-A 0 572 776 (Huls).
Finally, EP-A 0 453 238 (Unilever) claims mild shampoos containing anionic surfactants (for example fatty alcohol ethersulfates and sulfosuccinates), amphoteric surfactants (for example betaines) and nonionic surfactants (for example fatty alcohol polyglycol ethers and alkyl glycosides). However, the solids content of the mixtures is well below 20% by weight. In addition, combinations of alkyl glycosides, sulfosuccinates and amphoteric surfactants are not expressly mentioned.
Combinations of alkyl glycosides with amphoteric surfactants of the betaine type are described, for example, in the following documents: US 4,668,422 (Henkel Corp.), EP-A 0 250 181 (Helene Curtis), EP-A 0 341 071 (Unilever), EP-A 0 508 507 (Berol Nobel) and DE-A 4 234 487 and DE-A 4 311 114 (Henkel).
There is a need in the market for concentrated surfactant mixtures based on alkyl and/or alkenyl oligoglucosides which are flowable and pumpable, despite a solids content above 30% by weight and preferably from around 40 to 45% by weight, and show a significantly reduced tendency towards crystallization, i.e. improved stability in storage. Since surfactant compounds of the type in question are mainly used in the cosmetics field, skin-cosmetic or rather dermatological compatibility is also of paramount importance.
Surfactant concentrates are a particularly convenient commercial formulation for manufacturers and users alike because they have been minimized in regard to their water content and hence incur lower transport and storage costs. Nevertheless, it is desirable that surfactant concentrates should have a sufficiently high viscosity for use in the end products, which are of course heavily diluted and have a solids content of 20 to 30% by weight, and should be readily thickenable using known additives.
Accordingly, the complex problem addressed by the present invention was to provide pumpable water-containing surfactant concentrates with high skin cosmetic compatibility based on alkyl and/or alkenyl oligoglycosides which would be distinguished by high stability in storage, would have a Brookfield viscosity of at most 10,000 mPa.s and a solids content of 30 to 50% by weight and would readily lend themselves to thickening to a viscosity of at least 2,000 mPa.s on incorporation in cosmetic formulations with a water content of at least 50% by weight.


Systems and methods for responding to a data transfer are disclosed. One embodiment comprises a method that includes the following steps: determining a sustainable data transfer rate for data transfers to/from an external memory medium, acquiring a data stream, transforming the data stream, and selecting a value for at least one operational parameter associated with acquiring or transforming the data stream in response to the sustainable data transfer rate.

Many consumer devices are now constructed to generate and/or use digital data in increasingly large quantities. Portable digital cameras for still and/or moving pictures, for example, generate large amounts of digital data representing still images, video clips, and for some devices audio tracks. To provide for this type of data storage application, the storage memory should be relatively low in cost for sufficient capacities of around 10 MB to 1 gigabyte (GB) or more. The storage memory should also be low in power consumption (e.g., <<1 Watt) and have relatively rugged physical characteristics to cope with the portable battery powered operating environment. Preferably the memory should have a short access time (preferably less than one millisecond) and moderate transfer rate (e.g., 20 Mb/s).
One form of storage currently used for application in portable devices such as digital cameras is flash memory. Flash memory meets the desired mechanical robustness, power consumption, transfer, and access rate characteristics mentioned above. However, the read/write speeds of flash memory cards varies greatly from card to card, vendor to vendor, and for individual cards read/write speeds can degrade with age and/or use of the card. The variance in data transfer rates to/from a particular external memory medium can make certain features unavailable in such applications, for example streaming video at the highest resolution and frame rate acquirable on a digital camera.

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The present invention is a coffee bean roster attachment for conventional home rotisserie overs. The invention features a roasting tube made of mesh or thin-walled perforated metal and a variety of different components to adapt the roasting tube to the rotisserie apparatus supplies with the conventional home rotisserie oven.

This invention relates to attachments for home appliances and, in the preferred embodiments, to home rotisserie oven attachments for roasting coffee.
The present invention, in its preferred embodiments, provides a coffee roaster attachment for a home rotisserie oven. In one preferred embodiment, the roaster is a cylindrical stainless steel mesh container enclosed at one end by a gear wheel. Green coffee beans are poured into this cylinder and the open end is closed by a second gear wheel. The roaster is then advantageously placed into a conventional home rotisserie oven appliance with one of the gear wheels meshed with a motor-driven gear within the oven proper. The oven is then turned on causing rotation of the coffee beans in the container proximate to the oven""s electrical heating element.
One of the many features of the preferred embodiments of the invention is that the coffee roaster advantageously incorporates the gear driven assembly normally supplied with a home rotisserie oven, thereby both substantially lowering the cost of the unit to the ultimate consumer and simplifying assembly and disassembly of the coffee roaster.
The gourmet coffee industry has been one of the fastest growing segments of the food processing business in the last few years. The present invention brings to consumers the ability to roast coffee in their homes in an efficient and economical way. The preferred embodiments of this invention enable gourmet coffee drinkers to cut their costs by as much as 50% and have even fresher coffee. For those who buy canned coffee, they now can, for mere pennies more than they are currently paying, enjoy gourmet coffee.

Coffee roaster attachments for home rotisserie oven appliance


A-Track is a tracking process that is driven by automatic target recognition techniques (ATR), mobility analysis using digital maps and exploitation of other constraining information. It is structured as an optimization problem amenable to the formalism from classical relaxation labeling algorithm. The novel combination of techniques in A-Track provides a new approach to the temporal problem of establishing and extending target tracks through a sliding time window involving a sequence of multiple data frames. A data frame is a collection of sensor reports taken from one scan of a predetermined surveillance area that is being systematically and repeatedly scanned over time. The relative time differences between reports within a frame are generally much smaller than the time difference between different frames. A-Track is especially designed to handle cases having relatively large time intervals between frames that cause problems for conventional tracking algorithms based on predictive models.

Remote surveillance of airborne and ground vehicles rely upon strategic or theatre-level systems (e.g., satellites, AWACS) for detecting and identifying targets by sensing radiated or reflected electromagnetic energy from target vehicles. Generally, these surveillance systems provide automatic target recognition (ATR) capabilities wherein the multi-spectral and spatial characteristics of each return can identify the type of vehicle. Enhanced range or surveillance or additional spectral bandwidth is often obtained by data fusion, using data from a number of different surveillance platforms.
Once one or more targets of interest have been located and identified, cooperative action may be directed against the targets. The location and characterization of the target of interest is handed off to a tactical platform (e.g., aircraft, missile, directed energy weapon) for action. These tactical platforms require a high-degree of knowledge of current and predicted future location of the target in order to engage. This resolution of tracking is not available from the surveillance platforms. Consequently, a tracking system (e.g., tracking radar system) rapidly scans a narrow aerial volume or surface area about the location received from the surveillance system. The repetition rate of sweeps produces frames of returns that have time difference between respective frames that is relatively short as compared to the mobility of the identified targets. Thus, linking returns between frames is a straightforward matter of linking the most closely spatially related returns between frames. Predicting future locations of the target is made by extrapolating the track of previous returns.
Even with rapid sweep repetitions, the amount of processing required is high. Attempts to increase the number of targets that may be tracked generally requires increasing the time difference between returns, and thus adding a degree of complexity to the predictions required to link returns. For instance, U.S. Pat. No. 5,537,119 to Poore, Jr. is an example of a predictive technique in tracking targets. In particular, Poore, Jr. relies upon an iterative Lagrangian Relaxation technique to link returns between each processed frame in order to assign a track respectively to each target.
While Poore, Jr. provides certain processing advantages over other known preditive techniques, Poore, Jr. shares the general limitation of other predictive techniques in that time differences between frames must still be relatively short as compared to the mobility of the targets. In addition, these predictive techniques presume that each target is present frame to frame in order to maintain a track. Often, returns for a target are not present in a given frame due to factors such as aspects of the target that present a small return, relative velocities, intervening obstructions or atmospheric interference, limitations of the targeting system, etc.
Consequently, a significant need exists for a system and method for tracking that allows larger time intervals between frames and that may more robustly handle tracking when returns are missing in certain frames.

ATR trajectory tracking system (A-Track)

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