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A method for selecting an electronic content to be displayed on a display of an electronic device controlled by means of a user interface a first electronic content already being displayed on the display of the electronic device said method comprising the steps ofDetecting a first input on a first specific element of the user interface said specific element pointing toward at least a second electronic content to be displayedDisplaying at least a portion of the second electronic content on the display of the electronic device said portion of the second electronic content overlapping the first electronic content a measurement of the portion of the second electronic content to be displayed being proportional to an offset between a starting position of a second input on a second specific element of the user interface of the electronic device and an ending position of the second input on a third specific element of the user interface of the electronic deviceDetecting a third input on a fourth specific element of the user interface said detection triggering the display of the second electronic content on the display of the electronic device.

Further even when two or more web browser windows are opened only one of the web pages is displayed in a web page window 204.Thus the user can only view the web page currently being displayed in the web page window 204.More specifically when the user moves a pointing cursor 210 to one of the tabs e.g.the tab PAX of the tab window 203 other than the tab corresponding to the web page currently being displayed in the web page window 204 a preview window 205 is displayed that provides a preview of the web page corresponding to the tab PAX.

The method of any one of claims 1 to 5 further comprising transmitting the captured fingerprint data to an authentication server 450 to determine if the captured fingerprint data matches the stored fingerprint data.

In the abovementioned apparatus for preventing unauthorized use the first controller may make the authentication unit determine an authentication result if a users input with which the authentication unit can authenticate is made when a certain time period has passed after an authentication result by the authentication unit was previously obtained.

The method of any one of Claims 4 to 7 comprising determining a first cost for sending data from the first server computer to the client computer determining a second cost for sending data from the third server computer to the client computer assigning for the client computer the first server computer to a first level and the third server computer to a second level when the first cost is less than the second cost sending to the client computer the first address and the second address with data indicating that the first address is assigned to the first level and the second address is assigned to the second level.

According to another feature of the invention the step of checking is carried out using an algorithm with a space complexity equal or less than OCS with C the number of content and S the number of surrogate servers.

A method for facilitating a transfer between a vessel 1 and an offshore structure 4 using a docking device characterized in that a docking device is used comprising a first docking component mounted on said vessel 1 and a second docking component 5 mounted on said offshore structure whereby the first and second docking components 5 are connected and bow 2 or stern of the vessel 1 are elevated in the connected state.

The length of the damper 140 can be changed so that the balance position of the damper 140 simultaneously moves.By changing the length of the damper 140 corresponding to the balance position of the damper 140 the mutual balance position of the mooring device 100 and the vessel 200 can be changed in other words the position to which the damper 140 strives to return the vessel 200.The restoring force generated by the dampers 140 can be increased by using the vessels 200 own propulsion device and the vessels 200 steering devices.

Method 10 according to claim 7 wherein the Ethernet switch 9 comprises an Avionics FullDuplex Switched Ethernet AFDX switch and wherein the Ethernet packets comprise AFDX packets.

One embodiment is a methodology that inserts into each packet or frame at the ingress port of a packet switch an internal tag so that at an aggregation point e.g.an egress port the tag can be used to identify the ingress port from which the frame arrived.In addition to facilitating identification of the ingress port of a packet the tag can facilitate implementation of schemes for fair bandwidth allocation traffic shaping using the tag as a discriminator at the egress ports and accumulation of statistics of the distribution of traffic according to ingressegress port pairs.

A method according to Claim 2 further comprising resetting at least one of the first and second counters in an instance in which the filtered value equals or exceeds the current value of the current frame.

A motioncompensation video signal generation section 14 performs motion compensation on the delay video signal S12 using the motion vector MV and outputs a reference video signal S3.In this regard as shown in Fig.3 if a sufficient characteristic can be ensured practically the reference video signal S3 here may be generated by simply delaying the output video signal S2 for one field or one frame by the delaysignal generation section 12.

The method of claim 1 wherein receiving pairing requests further includes obtaining each request from a device controller associated with each peripheral when that device controller is powered up step 211.

The network communications interface 209 provides a communications interface for the IPEnabler 201 to allow it to communicate with an external network e.g.network 103 established by a gateway device 105 and via it to a wider network such as the Internet 107.Examples of network protocols over which the network communications interface 209 may make connections include connected protocols such as Ethernet and USB and wireless protocols such as WiFi UWB ZigBee 3G and 4G.

Agricultural vehicle 1 according to claim 2 wherein the hydraulic system is operative to control the steerable valve 20 21 to connect the hydraulic cylinder 7 to the accumulator 25 when the rollover situation is detected and to connect the hydraulic cylinder 7 to the open oil reservoir 24 when the pressure in the hydraulic system is below a threshold value.

The first or the second intervention mode are selected by the system according to the invention on the basis of the size of the deviation of the action straight line of the resultant R of the forces applied with respect to a vertical symmetry plane L of the vehicle and of acceleration states or of roll motions or of pitch motions said acceleration states and said motions determining the risk of overturning of the vehicle.

The method of any of claims 17 wherein the allocated transmission resource for each respective transmission comprises a numbers of subcarriers and a number of transmission symbols.

The basic principle of Node B controlled time and rate scheduling is to allow theoretically only a subset of the user equipments to transmit at a given time such that the desired total noise rise at the Node B is not exceeded.Instead of sending updown commands to expandreduce the Node B controlled TFC Subset by one step a Node B may update the transport format combination subset to any allowed value through explicit signaling e.g.by sending a TFCS indicator which could be a pointer.

A method 200 comprising receiving pairing requests from two separate peripherals over a LocalArea Network step 210 and establishing a unique secure session with each peripheral using a secure protocol 220.

The interfaces 205 207 and 209 are a mix of electronic circuitry for data communication and software for controlling the interface hardware to communicate according to specified protocols.Similarly the microcontroller 203 is hardware programmed to perform particular tasks associated with the IPEnabler device 301c functionality.

An apparatus for an electronic shopping assistant comprising means for acquiring information from labels of consumer products in a store said labels identifying the consumer products means for acquiring positioning information at the time of each acquisition said positioning information enabling determination of a location of the apparatus at the time of each acquisition and means for transmitting information acquired from a label and identifying the corresponding consumer product and the positioning information to a location management computer for an update of the location of the consumer product.

According to a first aspect there is provided a method for updating a retail planogram comprising the steps of reading an electronic transmission from at least one RFID tag in a retail environment located in proximity to a product using a personal shopper device having a location sensing mechanism a memory a software means and an RFID reader wherein an initial planogram is stored therein collecting said read electronic location information transmitted from said at least one RFID tag by said shopper device analyzing and comparing said collected location information by said software means of said shopper device with said initial planogram inrelation to initial location information of said product with collected location information for said product from said collected information updating said initial location information for said product in said initial planogram in response to collected location information to provide an updated planogram to display current location information for said product in a current planogram arrangement in said retail environment.

The method of claim 9 wherein the step of analyzing each of the plurality of voicetotext converted messages to determine the measure of validation for each of the plurality of voicetotext converted messages comprises determining if read back is appropriate for the voicetotext converted message and comparing the voicetotext converted message to the voicetotext converted read back message.

Method 100 for reducing and detecting readback and hearback errors continues by optionally displaying the transcribed text of the outbound voice communication i.e.the readback to the transmitting station to assist the transmitting station with the hearback step 135.FIG.5 depicts an exemplary display screen 32 of an exemplary display device 24b FIG.3 at a transmitting station with the transcribed text of the outbound voice communication i.e.the readback.As depicted in FIG.5 the transcribed text of the inbound voice communication the request for pilot action may be displayed along with the transcribed text of the readback.Hearback errors are thereby reduced.In addition under ideal circumstances any discrepancy between the request for pilot action inbound voice communication and the acknowledgment readback in the outbound voice communication would immediately be detected by the transmitting station by visually comparing the text of the inbound communication and the outbound communication displayed on the display screen of display device 24b as depicted in FIG.5.If a material discrepancy exists between the request for pilot action and the readback the readback is determined to be in error i.e.a material discrepancy indicates a readback error.The discrepancy may relate to an incomplete readback an incorrect readback or both.A material discrepancy may relate to the call sign the parameter the parameter value or combinations thereof.In an embodiment a timeout alert may be outputted if the inbound voice reply to the readback is not transmitted within a predetermined time interval after the readback.

The device 100 of any one of the preceding claims wherein the at least one processor 101 is configured to determine a deviation 450 of the noise contribution 401 of the given synchronization symbol 201 20112013 and the reference noise contribution 402 of the at least one further symbol 201 20112013 202120214 wherein the at least one processor 101 is configured to execute a threshold comparison between the deviation 450 and a predefined thresholdwherein the at least one processor 101 is configured to selectively consider the given synchronization symbol 201 20112013 when determining the coupling coefficient based on the executed threshold comparison.

FIG.3 illustrates an embodiment of a crosstalk training method 300 which may be used to improve crosstalk training in a DSL system e.g.the DSL system 100 and account for impulse noise andor other noise sources.For instance the crosstalk training method 300 may be implemented by the VTUR 204 and the impulse noise monitor 205 in the crosstalk training system 200.The method 300 may begin at block 310 where a downstream signal may be received.For example the VTUR 204 at the CPE 104 may receive a tone in a DMT symbol from the VTUO at the central office.At block 320 an error in the received downstream signal may be measured.The error may be caused by crosstalk interference impulse noise andor other noise sources.For example the VTUR 204 may measure the error value in the received signal based on the expected signal value of the tone in the symbol.At block 330 the method 300 may determine whether the measured error is corrupted by impulse noise andor other noncrosstalk noise source.For example the impulse noise monitor 205 may process the measurederror andor received signal to detect any relatively large bursts due to impulse noise any substantially high levels that exceed the dynamic range any relatively large error values andor error due to RFI.The method 300 may proceed to block 340 if the condition in block 330 is met.Otherwise the method 300 may proceed to block 345.

The system according to claim 7 wherein the operation of adjusting the control end time TGnend and the control start time TGnstart includes the operation of adjusting the control end time TGnend and the control start time TGnstart in a reverse order starting from the Nth group to the first group by moving ahead the control start time TGnstart and the control end time TGnend of a first controlled group as much as the overlapped time.

FIG.3 is a flow chart illustrating an exemplary method 84 of operating a wind farm according to aspects of the present technique.The method 84 includes monitoring wind speed at individual wind turbine generators block 86 and transmitting signals from the wind turbine generators to the wind farm control system based on the monitored wind speeds block 88.The signals are then sequenced by the central controller of the wind farm control system based on operating conditions of individual wind turbine generators block 90.The method 84 further includes monitoring ramp rate of collective power output of the wind farm block 92 and controlling the power ramp down rate of the wind farm based on a maximum specified power ramp down rate via coordinating of operational states of the wind turbine generators block 94.Block 94 includes authorizing one or more wind turbine generators to shut down or curtail power output while queuing up signals received from other wind turbine generators such that power ramp down rate of the wind farm does not exceed the maximum specified power ramp down rate.

The ophtalmic composition according to claim 3 wherein the prostaglandin analogue compound is latanoprost.

The inclusion of hydroxypropylbetacyclodextrins together with sodium hyaluronate in a new ophthalmic solution of this invention provides a protective and beneficial environment for the latanoprost molecule because the active ingredient is housed in the lipophilic cavity of the cyclodextrins and at the same time the hydrophilic surface contributes to the solubility in water while the sodium hyaluronate covers the formed complex.The interaction of the drug with the hydroxypropylbetacyclodextrins and the sodium hyaluronate results in the reduction of the decomposition which grants protection to the active labile in an aqueous environment.

Seamless quenched and tempered steel pipe according to any one of the preceding claims wherein the chemical composition consists of 0.0500.090 wt C 0.901.35 wt Mn 0.100.35 wt Si 0.100.40 wt Cr 0.050.40 wt Ni 0.070.40 wt Mo 00.070 wt V 0.0200.040 wt Al 0.00080.0030 wt Ca 0.0000.035wt Nb 0.0000.015 wt Ti 0.00300.0070 wt N 0.000.20 wt Cu 0.0000.002 wt S 0.0000.015 wt P 0.00000.0005 wt B 0.0000.015 wt Zr 0.0000.015 wt Ta the remaining being iron.

Ni 0.02 to 1.0 Ni is an element that improves the hardenability of steel enough to improve the strength of thick wall pipes.This effect is remarkable with a content of not less than 0.02.However since Ni is an expensive element and the effect is saturated by excessive addition the upper limit should be 1.0.

The method according to claim 6 or 7 further comprising receiving from the server information related to content providers which provide a content to a content receiver connected to the device and transmitting to the server a user selection signal in order to select one of the content providers.

Preferably the system according to the present invention further comprises a viewing history holding unit for holding a viewing history.For instance a viewing history may comprise information regarding programs that have been watched or otherwise consumed by a user or via a terminal device in the past.Information may be used to optimally select content to be recommended to a particular user.More specifically the viewing history comprises information about a user having watched particular episodes of a TV series that have been broadcast in the past but not having watched having missed other episodes of the series.Preferably the viewing history holding unit maintains a single viewing history for a terminal device.Such an option is sufficient if the terminal device is usually used by one and the same user or group of users such as a family.

The mobile terminal100 of claim 7 wherein the controller180 is further configured to change modes of the mobile terminal100 between a background image setting mode and an object edit mode based on a detection of receipt of a mode selection control the display151 to display the selected at least one image transparently or semitransparently when the mobile terminal100 is in the object edit mode and control the display151 to display the preview screen transparently or semitransparently when the mobile terminal100 is in the background image setting mode.

FIG.4 illustrates a background image setting process and a background image display state according to the present invention.Referring to FIG.4 a predetermined image is displayed as shown on an eleventh screen 310 and in such a state when the user selects the option menu to set the partial region of the predetermined image as the background image in the Step 205 the controller 110 displays the selection region frame 321 on the predetermined image as shown on a twelfth screen 320.The selection region frame refers to a frame for displaying when the partial region not all of the predetermined image is set as a final background image the region of the predetermined image to be set as the background image according to the present invention.Simply the image of the region belonging to the selection region frame 321 among the whole image is displayed as the background image in idle mode.In the present invention the selection region frame 321 includes a vertical screen frame 323 and a horizontal screen frame 325.The vertical screen frame 323 refers to a frame indicating the region that is substantially displayed on the display screen as the background image among the region selected by the selection region frame 321 in vertical display screen mode.In the vertical display screen mode the vertical screen frame 323 has the same vertical side to horizontal side ratio as a vertical side to horizontal side ratio of the display screen and possibly has the greatest size withinthe selection region frame 321.The horizontal screen frame 325 refers to a frame indicating the region that is substantially displayed on the display screen as the background image among the region selected by the selection region frame 321 in horizontal display screen mode.In the horizontal display screen mode the horizontal screen frame 325 has the same vertical side to horizontal side ratio as the vertical side to horizontal side ratio of the display screen and possibly has the greatest size within the selection region frame 321.The vertical screen frame 323 and the horizontal screen frame 325 are moveable within the selection region frame 321 in response to users input according to the present invention.In other words the vertical screen frame 323 is moveable leftright along the horizontal side of the horizontal screen frame 325 within the selection region frame 321 and the horizontal screen frame 325 is moveable updown along the vertical side of the vertical screen frame 323 within the selection region frame 321.In displaying the selection region frame 321 the arrow indicating the movement direction can be displayed together.

A hearing assistance device comprising a molded interconnect device MID housing a flexible circuit module having conductive surface traces the flexible circuit module configured to be inserted into the MID housing and one or more hearing assistance electronic modules configured to connect to the MID housing using direct compression without the use of wires or solder.

In various embodiments the substrate 441 is made of a flexible material including but not limited to Liquid Crystal polymer LCP polyphtalamide PPA Teflon thin plated plastic or combinations thereof.In some embodiments the substrate is in a rigid 3D form using plated plastic or ceramic.In various embodiments the substrate is fabricated in an flat arrayed format using traditional injection molding processes.After the arrayed parts are molded conductive traces are integrated with the substrate.In one embodiment forming the conductive traces includes metalizing the parts with a conductive layer such as copper applied to one or more of the substrate surfaces.The desired conductive pattern is then laser cut into the metallization.A chemical process is used to etch away undesired metalized regions.Desired metalized areas are plated.Plating materials include but are not limited to nickel gold or a combination thereof.The arrays are separated into individual parts.Electronics are assembled onto the individual parts and the parts are tested.Having the substrate in a flat configuration as opposed to a 3D form allows for more efficient assembly of the electronics to the substrate and also simplifies subsequent testing.In various embodiments one or more electronic components may be added and tested before the arrayed parts are separated.It is understood that other materials and processes forforming and assembling the substrate are possible without departing from the scope of the present subject matter.

Process according to one of the preceding claims wherein the weight ratio between a the first random propylene copolymer fraction RPP1 produced in step a and the second random propylene copolymer fraction RPP2 produced in step c is 2080 to 8020 andor b the matrix M i.e.the random propylene copolymer RPP after step c and the elastomeric propylene copolymer E produced in the steps e to g is 5050 to 8020.

The first phase A of the inventive propylene copolymers comprises a semicrystalline phase containing 215 mol preferably 212 mol comonomer.The second phase B of the inventive propylene copolymers comprises an elastomeric phase containing 2070 mol preferably 2565 mol comonomer.The propylene copolymer of which the first phase of the inventive random copolymer is comprised may be a binary copolymer or may be comprised of more than two comonomers e.g.be a terpolymer.The propylene copolymer of which the second phase of the inventive random copolymer is comprised may also be a binary copolymer or may be comprised of more than two comonomers e.g.be a terpolymer.Examples of the comonomers are ethylene 1butene 1pentene 4methyl1pentene 1hexene 1heptene or 1octene.Preferred are ethene andor 1butene.Examples for the propylene copolymer of the first phase are propyleneethylene propylenebutene and propyleneethylenebutene polymers.Examples for the propylene copolymer of the second phase are propyleneethylene and propyleneethylenebutene polymers.

The rechargeable battery 400 of claim 6 or 7 wherein the protruded portion 742 of the safety device 74 has a streamline crosssection structure.

Referring to FIG.6 and FIG.7 the positive electrode current collecting tab 35 and the negative electrode current collecting tab 36 according to the presentexemplary embodiment are respectively bonded by welding to the positive electrode uncoated portion 11a and negative electrode uncoated portion 12a of the electrode assembly 10 to which the safety member 40 and the auxiliary plates 37 are prewelded.

The device 100 of claim 6 wherein the at least one processor 101 is configured to determine the reference noise contribution 402 of the at least one further symbol 201 20112013 202120214 based on an average of noise contributions of the plurality of data symbols 202120214.

To avoid the disruptive effects of impulse noise outofrange signals andor clipped signals on the crosstalk training process the VTUR at the CPE 104 may send a special or reserved error signal to the VCE 109 in response to detecting impulse noise outofrange signals andor clipped signals.When the reserved signal is received by the VCE 109 the crosstalk training process may be paused e.g.until a subsequent proper error feedback signal that properly represents crosstalk noise is received from the VTUR.Additionally or alternatively the VTUR may send an error feedback signal that comprises a flag to indicate to the VCE 109 that impulse noise an outofrange signal andor a clipped signal has been detected at the CPE 104.

The method of claim 1 wherein each service board generated for the STB applications is outputted in a layer structure.

In the drawing the card object BROADCAST 610 displaying broadcasting images the card object NETCAST 620 representing a list of content providers CP and the card object APP STORE 630 representing a list of provided applications which are displayed on the display unit 180 are exemplarily shown.

The apparatus of claim 7 including a pump to flow a noblemetal containing electroplating solution to the supply conduit and into the cooling cavity.

The electroplating solution in the tank T comprises any suitable noble metalcontaining electroplating solution for depositing a layer of noble metal layer on surface area 20.For purposes of illustration and not limitation the electroplating solution can comprise an aqueous Ptcontaining KOH solution of the typedescribed in US Patent 5788823

The method of claim 8 wherein the second transmission mode corresponds to a high speed mode for a controller area network CAN protocol and further including steps of actively driving the signal bus to both the recessive value and the dominant value.

When the packet data 105a to be transmitted iswritten to the transmission data register 200 the bus output control section 201 transmits the packet data to the data bus 104 in synchronism with the clock signal 103 which is output from the output driver 208 by using an arbitrary one of the PP output driver 206 and the OD output driver 207.Furthermore the bus output control section 201 outputs an OD output signal to the protocol analysis section 202 in an OD output period.Furthermore the bus output control section 201 stops transmission of the packet data when receiving the data differential signal from the protocol analysis section 202.

The communication device 11 as claimed in any one of claims 8 to 12 wherein the displaying is performed at a specified time prior to a time of the scheduled conference call.

A related problem is associated with preestablished calendar appointments made via a calendar application of the mobile station.Such calendar appointments are stored in memory of the mobile station and are typically associated with calendar information which includes a date time andor time period of the appointment.The calendar information of the calendar application may be automatically synchronized with a corresponding calendar application on a computer e.g.a PC of a local area network LAN via the wireless communication network.Thus such calendar information may be received from the user interface of the mobile station or via the wireless communication network.The calendar appointment may or may not be for an anticipated scheduled voice call e.g.a conference call utilizing the mobile station.If the calendar appointment is for such a scheduled call wireless coverage is required for the mobile station.That is at the date and time of the appointment the mobile station must be located within RF coverage range of the wireless communication network to make or receive the call for the appointment.If not the user may miss or be late for the scheduled call.Note that the user may not be aware of any RF coverage problem until the calendar application reminds the user of the appointment at or near the date and time of the appointment.This problem is more generally associated with any stored appointment oritem in the mobile station having a preestablished scheduled date andor time such as a task appointment of a task application.

The removable notepaper dispenser as claimed in Claim 1 2 or 3 wherein mating columns 17 and mating holes 18 are set at the opposite corners of the openings.

The right casing 2 is also a hollow eggshaped structure and is aligned symmetrically with the left casing 1 to form a combined body.The casing 2 is provided with an internally disposed columnar sleeve 20 to be in contact with the sleeve 10 of the left casing 1.A stepped reducing ring flange 201 with a protruding end is formed at the inner end of the sleeve enabling secure locking of the aforementioned flexible hook 101.A guiding coupling portion 202 in the form of a plurality of grooves is set symmetrically on the circumference of the free end of the sleeve 10.In this embodiment the grooves can be mated securely with the aforementioned ribs.On the circumference of the right casing 2 the following parts are provided two parallel supporting bars 21 for stable standing a curved wall 22 with one side connected with a sawtooth structure 220 for tearoff of the selfadhesive notepaper and the other side terminating adjacent a rectangular opening 23.At least one coupling portion 24 is set onto the circumference of the right casing 2 and aligned with the coupling portion 14 of the left casing 1.In this embodiment the bosses are combined.An arched slot 26 is set within the circumference of the right casing 1.The slot 26 is connected with an aperture 25 on the circumference.

Apparatus according to claim 7 wherein each respective opening 16 18 is connected to a respective transducer via a respective tube and each respective transducer is mounted in the aircraft wing 10 such that drainage of water away from the transducer is facilitated.

Sensor 10 has a bubble or blister type probe housing 20 that is aerodynamically smooth from a generally hemispherical or part spherical leading end shown at 22 which curves outwardly from the surface of the mounting plate 14 along a front edge 24 a desired distance indicated generally by the double arrow 16 in Figure 3.The front edge 24 of the leading end 22 joins a radius surface that is rounded to cause a minimum disruption of airflow which is flowing in the direction indicated by the arrow 26 at 0 angle of attack.The semiflush sensor or probe housing 20 smoothly transitions from the front end 22 outwardly to a generally longitudinally extending line 30 at the maximum lateral extension of the housing from the mounting surface.The line 30 may taper slightly inwardly toward the support surface 14 in rearward downstream direction.In cross section as shown in Figure 4 top and bottom walls 28 and 29 of the housing have outer surfaces 46A and 46B that converge from the peripheral edges of the housing at the support surface 14 laterally outwardly to a rounded part cylindrical outer endwall 48 on which line 30 lies.These top and bottom walls converge toward a central bisecting plane 31.Stated another way the top and bottom walls diverge from the part cylindrical wall 48.

A computerreadable medium having computerexecutable instructions stored thereon that when executed implement a method according to any one of claims 1 to 6.

Processor 104 may record usage and other information in activity log database 107 including which operations were performed the begin and end times of each operation the biometric traits of the operator the identity of the operator as well as particular characteristics of the operation e.g.telephone number dialed a website visited etc.among others.This information may later be used for example as evidence to prove which persons actually participated in the operation of the device.Furthermore in some situations processor 104 may also record the operation itself in activity log database 107.For example where the device is telephone the telephone conversation may be stored in database 107 along with the associated usage information.

A method for securely storing and transmitting private information on a mobile terminal the method comprising initiating a voice call on the mobile terminal determining whether the voice call includes transmission of the private information locating the private information in a secured memory location and authenticating a user initiating the voice call including the transmission of the private information.

Due to the portability of smart cards the data contained in nonvolatile memory is susceptible to misappropriation.Since the provisioning information for a mobile device is typically stored on the SIM card a user who misappropriates another users SIM card may be able to make and receive phone calls access email and send and receive SMS messages on the misappropriated cellular account.In addition sensitive and confidential information stored on the smart card is vulnerable to misappropriation.Consequently systems and methods for securing mobile devices and the data stored on a smart card for use in mobile devices are needed.

Process according to claim 1 or 2 characterized in that the amount of C3 to C8alcohol is 1 to 20 by weight based on the total mass of the finished gel preferably 2 to 15 by weight.

In the above method of reducing the formation of coagulated gel deposits the alcohol may comprise methanol ethanol propanol isopropanol butanol isobutanol tertiary butanol or mixtures thereof.In the method above of reducing the formation of coagulated gel deposits the plugpreventing additive may comprise 12octanediol 12hexanediol 19nonanediol 12decanediol 110decanediol or a mixture thereof In the above method of reducing the formation of coagulated gel deposits the polyacrylate thickener may be selected from the group consisting of carbomers acrylatesC 1030 alkyl acrylate crosspolymers copolymers of acrylic acid and alkyl C5 C10 acrylate copolymers of acrylic acid and maleic anhydride and mixtures thereof.

A method of recommending content of a server which provides an image display apparatus with content recommendation information the method comprising receiving from the image display apparatus information related to a plurality of content receivers of the image display apparatus and a plurality of content providers which correspond to the plurality of content receivers and a user viewing history generating content recommendation information based on the viewing history out of contents provided by all of the plurality of content providers and transmitting the content recommendation information to the display apparatus.

Current catchup TV services are mainly accessed using a personal computer PC which is typically equipped with a network interface preferably broadband that allows connecting to the Internet.However recently also consumer electronic CE devices are being equipped with broadband network interfaces.For example current digital television sets DTV may comprise a broadcast interface such as based on satellite cable or terrestrial broadcast technologies and additionally a broadband service network interface.The broadcast interface allows the reception of broadcast information and programs while the broadband interface allows connection to the Internet or more generally to a service network.Alternatively a DTV may be solely equipped with a service network interface.In this case the single interface is used for both receiving broadcast information and programs for instance based on an IPTV technology and connecting to the Internet or other network services.An example of an IPTVbased application is the VIERA CAST system recently developed by Panasonic Corporation.VIERA CAST provides access to catchup TV services via TV devices that are equipped with a network interface connecting to the Internet.

The living body information detection apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 3 wherein the image 312 associated with the living body information has a shape which is asymmetric in the vertical direction.

The data of the items displayed on the screen of the upper surface display unit 16 can be changed on the basis of an input operation through the switch input unit 13.In addition if the data of any of the items is changed the item concerned is automatically displayed on the upper surface of the display unit 16.

The light bar structure 10 as claimed in claim 1 wherein the powerinput terminal 300 includes a connector 302 electrically connected to the circuit board 100.

In each row individual electrodes of the lightemitting devices 11 are connected by the bonding wires 17 to electrodes with opposite polarities of the individual lightemitting devices 11 arranged adjacent thereto in a direction in which the row extends.To be specific as illustrated in FIG.17 a positive electrode of a lightemitting device 11 disposed midway in the row is connected to a negative electrode of a lightemitting device 11 located on one side next thereto and a negative electrode of the lightemitting device 11 is connected to a positive electrode of a lightemitting device 11 located next thereto on the other side.This means that the plurality of lightemitting devices 11 forming each row are electrically connected in series.Accordingly the lightemitting devices 11 of the same row emit light all together when the row is energized.

The method of claim 12 wherein steps a.through d.and optional step e.are repeated until the thickness of film is established.

Sterically hindered imidazole ligands are disclosed along with the syntheses of the same which when complexed to a Group 2 metal form highly volatile and stable complexes that are exceptionally useful as precursor molecules for CVD ALD and the like thin film deposition processes.

The data retransmission method of claim 1 or 2 further comprising the sending side attaching a sequence number to the data the receiving side attaching that sequence number to the transmission confirmation signal and when the transmission confirmation signal indicates that reception was proper the sending side deleting data having a sequence number that is less than the sequence number that is attached to the transmission confirmation signal.

In contrast if a positive result is obtained in step ST112 this means that the confidence i.e.the confidence of the then demodulated ACK signal found at confidence calculator 211 through use of the table described above with reference to FIG.8 is not reliable enough and thereupon ACKNACK decider 212 proceeds to step ST113 and makes a decision result of a NACK signal which is different from the demodulation result and outputs this to scheduler 251.

The network monitoring device of claim 8 wherein at least one of a or b a when the network monitoring device detects the one or more transactions at the at least one tap point corresponding to the network interface the network monitoring device further correlates the request data with the response data for the transaction based on at least one of a sequence number and a transaction identifier b the process when executed is further operable to classify each transaction of the one or more transactions as at least one of an ingress transaction or an egress transaction based on an Internet Protocol IP source address of the request data and the response data.

An alternative embodiment offers the use of multiple monitoring reference points through the traffic paths.The network delay difference between reference points therefore results in network delay per path segment.This information may be used for troubleshooting.

The device of claim 12 wherein the audio based haptic effect signalcomprises a plurality of frequencies or wherein the audio based haptic effect signal is generated by determining a plant model of the device and transforming the audio based haptic effect signal based on the plant model.

According to the embodiment the system detects a timing and a characteristic of the haptic effect patterns included within the haptic signal such as when each haptic effect pattern begins and ends and whether or not each haptic effect pattern is a texture haptic effect pattern.The system further shifts the haptic effect patterns in time in order to match a response time of the standarddefinition haptic output device and assigns a specific vibrotactile haptic effect pattern to each haptic effect pattern based on the type and duration of each haptic effect pattern.The system can further limit a duration of the vibrotactile haptic effect pattern to a maximum in order to maintain a pleasant haptic experience.The vibrotactile haptic effect patterns can be derived automatically using preset devicespecific parameters or can be created to fit any type of haptic output device.The system can be part of a device and the transformation of the haptic signal into a special type of haptic signal that includes a collection of vibrotactile haptic effect patterns can either be executed online or offline.Alternatively the system can be part of a server or microprocessor that is external to thedevice and the vibrotactile haptic effect can be streamed to the device or embedded within a multimedia file that is transmitted to the device.The system can transform any type of haptic signal and is not limited to multimediarelated haptic signals.

The liquid ejection device according to claim 7 or claim 8 wherein the controller is configured to control the first sensor to detect the liquid ejection and the second sensor not to detect the liquid ejection when power is supplied to a device main unit.

The second density nonuniformity compensation information calculation unit 126 calculates second density nonuniformity compensation information relating to lowfrequency density nonuniformity caused by change in the diameter of the liquid droplets ejected from the ejection unit or the landing diameter of the liquid droplets on the basis of the second test pattern which has been read in by the inline detection unit 90.The second density nonuniformity compensation information calculation unit 126 sends the calculated second density nonuniformity compensation information to the third density nonuniformity compensation information calculation unit 128.

The adhesive of any of the preceeding claims wherein the adhesive polymer 322 has a photopolymerization property.

Each microcapsule 1 has an outer diameter set to a value of not less than 2 m and less than 3000 m more preferably not less than 5 m and less than 1000 m.Here the outer diameter of each microcapsule 1 is set to fall within such a range because if the outer diameter is less than 2 m the outer wall 2 fails to be crushed even when subjected to an external force of not less than 150 Ncm2 with the result that the moisturecuring adhesive 3 fails to be released without serving its purpose while on the other hand if the outer diameter is more than 3000 m an inconvenience may arise that the outer wall 2 is crushed to release the moisturecuring adhesive 3 undesirably during application of microcapsules 1 at an external force of not more than 10 Ncm2.

The infusion set according to claim 1 wherein said needle or cannula is aligned with said moving direction of said slide member wherein preferably a tab on said slide member is received by an opening in said base member when said slide member is in said second position thereby locking said slide member to said base member.

In Figure 11B a curved profile or release buckle 418 which is part of the opening of the medical or diabetes therapy device 450 tilts the locking lever or levered retaining pin 364.Thus the pivoting retaining hook 341 is no longer blocked or secured.

The injector 1 according to any one of the preceding claims characterized in that the casing element 5 comprises at least one gripping element 8.

The present invention generally pertains to the delivery of ophthalmically acceptable pharmaceutically active agents to the back of the eye and more particularly to an apparatus for delivery of precise amounts of a liquid or phase transition drug under controlled back pressure and flow conditions.

The electronic device of any one of claims 2 to 4 wherein the frame enclosure is provided to enclose at least a side surface of the molding enclosure and wherein the frame enclosure is spaced apart from the support member.

The window 140 may be allowed for recognition of users touch input and for inputting of information commends signals etc..

The method of any of claims 1 to 12 wherein the cell culture medium comprises soy hydrolysate.

The present invention allows the filtration of a fibrinogen solution through filters having a nominal pore size smaller than 35 nm under conditions of processing time filtration area and protein recovery which allow the industrial application thereof in the production of purified fibrinogen as a therapeutic product.This filtration is achieved through the prior freezing and thawing of the purified fibrinogen solution under controlled conditions.The inventors have surprisingly found that with this controlled freezing and thawing insoluble aggregated or partially denatured material is precipitated that would in practice prevent the filtration of the solution through pore sizes smaller than 35 nm.Separation of the precipitated material allows nanofiltration to a pore size smaller than 35 nm.

A method of performing tomographic imaging of a sample in a chargedparticle microscope comprising the following stepsProviding a beam of charged particles that propagate along a particleoptical axisProviding the sample on a sample holder that can be tilted relative to said beamIn an imaging step directing the beam through the sample so as to form and capture an image of the sample at an image detectorRepeating this procedure at each of a series of sample tilts so as to acquire a corresponding set of imagesMathematically processing images from said set so as to construct a composite image of the sample characterized in that in said imaging step a sequence of component images is captured at a corresponding sequence of focus settings.

A method of threedimensional image reconstruction that achieves the abovedescribed obj ect in accordance with the teachings of the present invention obtains a 3D image of a specimen by tilting the specimen at plural tilt angles gaining a TEM image at each of the tilt angles and reconstructing the 3D image of the image based on the gained TEM images.At each tilt angle of the specimen the following process steps a and b are carried out.a The position of the positive focal point of the objective lens of the transmission electron microscope is detected.b The position of the focus of the objective lens is set to plural positions deviating from the position of the positive focal point by amounts of defocus f1...fn respectively.At each of these set focal point positions a TEM image is acquired.

An ink cartridge comprising an ink storing portion 42 configured to store ink therein an ink outlet tube 43 forming an ink outlet path 43a configured to place an interior of the ink storing portion 42 in fluid communication with an exterior of the ink storing portion 42 the ink outlet tube 43 comprising a first outlet tube portion 45 and a second outlet tube portion 44 a first valve 450 comprising a sealing member 450 configured to selectively close the first valve 450 by elastically deforming and reforming and disposed at the first outlet tube portion 45 a second valve 60 disposed at the second outlet tube portion 44 in the ink outlet path 43a the second valve 60 comprising a valve seat 61 disposed at the second outlet tube portion 44 separately formed from the sealing member 450 and integrally formed with the second outlet tube portion 44 such that the valve seat 61 forms at least a portion of a wall at the second outlet tube portion 44 a valve member 62 disposed at the second outlet tube portion 44 and configured to selectively contact and separate away from the valve seat 61 to close and open the second valve 60 respectively wherein the valve member 62 is configured to move in a moving direction that is substantially parallel to the first outlet tube portion 45 and the second outlet tube portion 44 and the valve member 62 has at least one contact surface formed thereon facing the valve seat 61 a biasing member 63 disposed at the second outlet tube portion 44 in the ink outlet path 43a between the valve member 62 and the interior of the ink storingportion 42 the biasing member 63 comprising a first end and a second end opposite the first end wherein the first end of the biasing member 63 contacts at least one surface of the valve member 62 opposite to the contact surface and the second end of the biasing member 63 contacts a connection portion 42a of the ink storing portion 42 and the ink outlet tube 43 wherein the biasing member 63 is configured to bias the valve member 62 toward the first valve 450 and the valve seat 61 in a biasing direction that is substantially parallel to the moving direction to close the second valve 60 and wherein the first valve 450 is disposed between an exterior of the ink cartridge and the second valve 60.

As shown in Fig.5 an opening 92 is formed in the front surface 34 of the frame 50 at a position close to its bottom in other words under the detection box 140.A cylindrical valvehousing room 54 is formed inside the frame 50 so as to be continuous with the opening 92.The valve housing room 54 extends in the direction from the first wall 34 to the ink chamber.The valve housing room 54 communicates with the ink chamber 102 via a communication port.

A method for managing identity of a mobile device at a subscriber identity server wherein the mobile device has a primary subscriber identity associated therewith and wherein a first home zone is associated with the primary subscriber identity the method comprising determining that the mobile device is connected to a wireless network in a visited zone other than the first home zone selecting a temporary subscriber identity from a plurality of available identities wherein the selected temporary subscriber identity has a second home zone associated therewith and wherein the second home zone corresponds to a current location of the mobile device and transmitting the selected temporary subscriber identity to the mobile device.

According to the present invention the handset 10 and more specifically the SIM 40 incorporated therein also includes a component 43 programmed such that on recognising that the handset has registered with a visited network 12 14 it signals a request 34 to a server 18 associated with its home network 11 to obtain a local subscription.

A diamond film for cuttingtools according to claim 1 or 2 characterized in that a film layer B having a film thickness of 0.5 m or more and 10 m or less is formed on the outermost layer the average crystal grain diameter of the film layer B as measured along an imaginary line parallel to the base material surface when the crosssection is observed using a crosssectional TEM method is less than that of the film layerandwhen observed using a SEM method the breakout section of film layer B has more unevenness than the breakout section of the film layer.

The blast life is the time until the coating directly under the nozzle is removed and the base metal appears during blast bombardment under the conditions described below.Under blast bombardment the diamond coating is gradually removed and the bombarded portion peels off exposing the base metal when the coating thickness is reduced to a certain thickness.When adhesion between the coating and the base metal is low the remaining coating peels off while still relatively thick and when adhesion is high the remaining coating does not peel off until the thickness thereof is relatively small.

The device 1 according to claim 1 being arranged such that the at least one access right is one of a read access right and a write access right.

Provisioning the secure memory may comprise generating a unique devicespecific authentication key programming the authentication key into the secure memory and initializing data structures within the secure memory to initial default values.

Method according to Claim 7 comprising for each N stages of each compressor size defining a single size of Nth volute 20 or at most two sizes of volute for the Nth stage and for a given compressor choosing the single size of Nth volute or one of the at most two sizes of Nth volute for at least one volute.

Next pinion 14 that drives a compressor assembly 22 aligned in the main air service path 24 is selected.The selection of pinion 14 further narrows the discharge pressure capability of compressor 10 associated with the selected frame size to a more specific range of discharge pressures for main air service.There are three stages of compression associated with main air service path 24.For each frame size the first and second stages of compression are associated with pinion 13 and the third stage of compression is associated with pinion 14.In accordance with thepresent invention there is a fixed size of pinion 13 for each frame size and two sizes available for pinion 14.The pinion size selections for pinion 14 correspond to different speeds fast and slow.The pinions will determine the speed of the impellers and dictate the amount of compression each compression assembly can accomplish.Therefore the fast pinion selection is associated with a high range of output pressure and the slow pinion selection is associated with a low range of output pressure.There is overlap between the high and low ranges.

The LED socket 1 according to any preceding claim further comprising a spring member 40 having an elastic arm 44 for pressing the LED module 50 accommodated in the LED module accommodating space 12 toward the heat sink 60.

Figure 4 shows a cross section through the heat sink 1 and the holder unit 15 when the holder unit with the PCB is mounted in the heat sink.The fastening means 20ab of the holder unit cooperate with corresponding fastening means 30ab on the inside of the heat sink to form a mechanical attachment between the holder unit and the heat sink.The fastening means 20ab 30ab are adapted to form a snapfit joint between the holder unit and the heat sink.One of the corresponding fastening means comprises a recess and the other comprises a protruding part.In this example the holder unit includes a recess 20ab and the fastening means of the heat sink includes a protruding part 30ab.The recess and the protruding part form a snapfit joint.This is possible due to the fact that the holder unit is resilient.The fastening means holds the holder unit in a fixed position relative the heat sink.The position of the holder unit relative the heat sink is chosen so that the holder unit the PCB and the diode are surrounded by the heat sink and the diode is positioned at a distance below the upper edge of the heat sink.Further the position of the holder unit relative to the heat sink is chosen so that the connector pins protrude on the outside of the lower part of the heat sink.The heat sink is provided with one opening for receiving the holder unit when the holder unit is mounted and another hole in the opposite end of the heat sink through which the connector pins are protruding.Preferably the shape of the inside of the heat sink is such that it guides the holder unit during the mounting of the holder unit in the heat sink and so that it supports the holder unit when it is positioned inside the heat sink.

The light emitting device or the backlight module of claim 12 wherein the lens further comprises a connecting surface and the connecting surface is interconnected between the bottom surface and the light output surface.

In the specification of the present application radian is used as an angle notation unless otherwise noted.The lightoutgoing surface 2b has i a convex curve part that is axisymmetrical with respect to the reference light axis Z and ii a recession continuing to the convex curve part at an area encompassing the intersection of the lightoutgoing surface 2b and the reference light axis Z.Where i 2 is an angle between the reference light axis Zand a straight line that passes through the reference point O to arbitrary point P4 on the lightoutgoing surface 2b and ii R2 is a distance between the reference point O and point P4 on the lightoutgoing surface 2b R2 monotonically increases as 2 increases at least in the range of 2lt3.

A method according either of claims 11 or 12 wherein the protection circuit assembly 20 comprises a circuit board 21 and the hole 70 270 470 570 extends through said circuit board 21.

In addition since the circuit device 342 is positioned at a space between the resin molding 144 and the first auxiliary resin molding 346 it is not interfered by other components.In addition since the first lead 345a of the fuse element 345 is formed at an area corresponding to the resin molding 144 an unnecessary electrical short between since the first lead 345a of the fuse element 345 and the cap plate 141 can be prevented.

A portable electronic device according to any preceding claim wherein the engine section comprises a memory a processor and a transceiver.

The upper housing 101b is provided with the antenna 102 the transceiver portion 103 the vibrator portion 104 the receiver portion receiver 108 the camera portion 110 the hall element 111 the display portion 112 and the display portion 113.

The control method as claimed in claim 9 wherein the receiving the terminal information comprises receiving the terminal information S140 of the new terminal device 300 from the authentication terminal device 200 in response to the new terminal device 300 being located within a preset distance from the authentication terminal device 200.

With technological advancement and growing user demands such electronic apparatuses are upgraded to perform not only independent functions but various additional functions.For example electronic apparatuses establish a network to perform data communication with each other thereby enabling users to use various and complicated functions through interactions and communications between the electronic apparatuses and of the different functions.For instance electronic apparatuses form a network system within a limited range such as a home network established by electronic apparatuses which are in a users home.

The turbomachine casing assembly according to claim 1 wherein the separator is arranged in compression between the inner and outer casing elements to urge the portion of the inner casing element against the lip.

In an alternative arrangement the energy absorbing element takes the form of a fusible or stretchable fastener 142 such as a bolt as shown in Figure 3.The stretchable bolt 142 connects the first end 112 of the first casing element 110 to the first end 122 of the second casing element 120.As shown in Figure 5 these fasteners 142 extend through holes 144 in a forward rail 118 extending across the width of the first end 112 of the first casing element 110.As a further alternative these holes 144 further comprise slots 146a146b as shown in Figures 4a and 4b.The use of slotted holes allows the first end 112 of the first casing element 110 to hinge and move axially whilst the fasteners 142 stretch to failure.

The separator of claim 1 wherein the organic material comprises first organic particles and second organic particles having a larger particle size than the first organic particles and a ratio of particle sizes of the first organic particles to the second organic particles ranges from 11.5 to 17.

The first and second polymeric binder may preferably be respectively included in an amount of about 70 to 99 parts by weight and about 1 to 30 parts by weight based on the total weight of the polymeric binder.

The apparatus of any preceding claim wherein the secondary cutting element is configured to selectively move between a retracted position and an extended position wherein the secondary cutting element is disposed within the cartridge when the secondary cutting element is in the retracted position wherein at least a portion of the secondary cutting element extends through a longitudinally extending channel in the cartridge when the secondary cutting element is in the extended position.

As described above the cam 2322 can engage rails andor channels 2334 in the distal cavity 2332.Furthermore the rails andor channels 2334 can be arranged at an angle relative to the staple deck 2302 of the staple cartridge 2330.In variousembodiments the rails andor channels 2334 can be arranged at an angle such that the cam 2322 and the distal cutting blade 2324 move distally as the blade 2324 deploys from the distal cavity.In various circumstances arranging the rails at such an angle can reduce the amount of force required to actuate the firing member 2326 by aligning a component of the movement of the cam 2322 and the blade 2324 along a longitudinal axis along which the firing member 2326 moves.Arranging the rails at such an angle can also reduce the likelihood of binding between the cam 2322 and the firing member 2326 andor between the cam 2322 and the rails andor channels 2324 in the distal cavity 2332.

A gas turbine engine airfoil component in particular a gas turbine engine blade or vane having a surface area of an internal wall defining a trailing edge cooling cavity therein wherein the surface area has an electroplated metallic layer thereon and wherein the gas turbine engine airfoil component is made by a method in accordance with one of the claims 1 to 6.

Electroplating takes place in a tank T containing the electroplating solution with the vane segment 5 held submerged in the electroplating solution on electrical currentsupply fixture or tooling 27 Figure 7.The fixture or tooling 27 can be made of polypropylene or other electrical insulating material.The tooling includes electrical anode contact stud S connected to electrical power supply 29 and to an electrical current supply anode bus 31.The anodes 30 receive electrical current via extensions of electrical current supply bus 31 connected to the anode contact stud that is connected to electrical power supply 29.The vane segment 5 is made the cathode in the electrolytic cell by an electrical cathode bus 33 in electrical contact at the shroud region 12 and extending through the polypropylene tooling 27 to the negative terminal of the power supply 29.

The turbine blade damping system of any preceding claim further comprising a root extending radially inwardly from the radiallyinward side of the platform.

The damper pin 230 may have some play or space within the damper pocket 200 and the undercut 180.Once the bucket 100 obtains full speed however the damper pin 230 will engage the upper surface of the damper pocket 200 and the undercut 180 viacentrifugal force such that both buckets 105 220 are engaged.As such the vibration of the buckets 105 220 is dissipated by the contact between the damper pin 230 and the buckets 105 220.

A medical kit comprising the dermaceutic andor the medical device according to any one of the preceding claims and a stressreducing agent for administration per os in the form of live or thermally inactivated Lactobacillus reuteri DAN080 strain with deposit number DSM 15693 cultures at a dose of 106 cells for daily administration during treatment with dermaceutic or during contact of patients body tissues with the medical device.

This technology is oriented towards clinical use specifically the treatment of patients with varying degrees of burns and different types of skin wounds.This invention involves a probiotic formulation based on hydrocolloid plasters and viable lactic acidproducing probiotic strains.

A gateway for managing requests to configure digital subscriber lines in a network wherein each digital subscriber line is associated with one of a plurality of communications providers said gateway adapted to provide access for the plurality communication providers to configure a first set of service parameters of the digital subscriber lines associated with each respective communication provider restrict access for the communication providers to configure a second set of service parameters wherein the second set of service parameters comprise service parameters associated with a digital subscriber line that when modified also have an effect on the service on another digital subscriber line in the network.

The object of the present invention is to provide an access system according to the preamble allowing a physical connection between a plurality of service providers and subscribers said access system being simple and compact and in particular deployable in a location where only limited space is available.

The honeycomb structure according to any one of claims 1 to 4 wherein in the cells arranged on the first line segment a cell pitch of the cells formed in the central region excluding the respective five or less cells arranged in the extending direction of the first line segment has the same cell pitch as that of the cells formed in the circumferential region excluding the respective five or less cells arranged in the extending direction of the firstline segment.

As the latter honeycomb structure 10 there can be mentioned 1 a honeycomb structure such as shown in Fig.12 wherein a partition wall group 13 consisting only of partition walls 2 having a thickness larger than the average partition wall thickness is provided in the portion of honeycomb structure near the outer peripheral portion and a partition wall group 12 consisting only of partition walls 1 having a thickness smaller than the average partition wall thickness is provided in the central portion located inside the portion near the outer peripheral portion and 2 a honeycomb structure such as shown in Fig.13 wherein a partition wall group 12 consisting only of partition walls 1 having a thickness smaller than the average partition wall thickness is provided in a portion including the central portion located inside the portion near the outer peripheral portion and having a tetragonal section surrounded by four sides connecting to the peripheral wall of honeycomb structure and a partition wall group 13 consisting only of partition walls 2 having a thickness larger than the average partition wall thickness is provided in other portionincluding part of the portion near the outer peripheral portion.

A method for preparing a chocolate beverage comprising the steps of providing a kit according to any of claims 1 to 11 transferring at least a portion of the contents of the first container into a beverage receptacle anddispensing a beverage medium from a beverage preparation machine into the beverage receptacle whereby the beverage medium is formed by passing an aqueous medium through the second container.

It is advantageous according to the present invention to provide a kit for the preparation of a milkbased instant drink comprising at least two capsules wherein a first capsule comprises milk powder a creamer component andsugar and wherein a second capsule comprises milk powder a main flavour component and sugar.

An information processing apparatus comprising a display unit which displays a screen in which is performed an operation for controlling another apparatus and a control unit which manages an error occurring in the other apparatus and controls displayingnondisplaying of error information which indicates an occurrence of the error wherein the control unit controls the displayingnondisplaying of the error information based on a relationship between the error occurring and the screen displayed by the display unit.

After creating the print data 41A which is the main constituent of the print file 31A S101 the personal computer 11A creates the identification code information 45A which includes at least the IP address 42A the job name 43A and the user name 44A S102.Then the personal computer 11A transmits the print file 31A with the identification code 45A attached to the print data 41A to the printer 21 S103 S108.

The pressuresensitive adhesive composition according to claim 1 or claim2 comprising a hetero ringcontaining vinyl monomer as the pressuresensitive adhesive composite.

In the present invention the polymerizable composition forming the pressuresensitive adhesive layer such as the specific acrylic polymerizable composition may contain other additives as long as curing of the present invention is not impaired.Examples of other additives include a tackifier such as rosin derivative resin polyterpene resin petroleum resin and oilsoluble phenolic resin a plasticizer a filler an antiaging agent and a surfactant.In addition a crosslinking accelerator may be used.

An antenna structure 100 FIG.1FIG.5c comprising a feed terminal d1 for connecting a feed signal Sf1 FIG.2 an intermediate grounding terminal hg1 for conducting to a ground plane G1 FIG.1 via an intermediate impedance z1 FIG.2 during a second operation mode and ceasing conducting via the intermediate impedance during a first operation mode a tail grounding terminal g1 for connecting the ground plane a head section sa1 being conductive extending from the feed terminal to the intermediate grounding terminal along a loop 102 and an intermediate section sb1 being conductive extending from the intermediate grounding terminal to the tail grounding terminal along the loop.

As the first and second antennas 210 220 may be physically connected to each other along the metal perimeter by metal e.g.by a metal insertfilling or by sharing the ground connection G12 it will be understood that the first and second antennas 210 220 may each include a metal outer surface that physically contacts the metal outer surface of the other antenna.The first and second antennas 210 220 may thus collectively define an uninterrupted metal outer surface that is a continuouslymetal outer surface in the outer surface edges E andor the metal front outer surface F of the wireless electronic device 100.In other words respective metal outer surfaces of the first and second antennas 210 220 may physically connect to provide a combined metal outer surface that onlyexclusively includes metal.Accordingly portions of the outer surface edges E andor the metal front outer surface F that include a combination of the first and second antennas 210 220 may be free of nonmetal e.g.plastic glass ceramic etc.discontinuities and may thus provide a more continuous metal look andor feel to the exterior of the wireless electronic device 100.

The femtocell access point of claim 8 wherein the base station cell parameter difference is a difference in a frame start between the femtocell access point and each neighboring base station.

Or the storage unit 403 may be configured to storage a mapping relation of the Femtocell EI the neighbor macro cell ID the FemtocellcellID and the Femtocell SFNoffset wherethe Femtocell SFNoffset is an SFN offset between a Femtocell equipment and a neighbor macro cell of the Femtocell equipment.In this case the Relocation Request message received by the receiving unit 401 includes an offset between the SFN of a Femtocell that acts as a handover target and the SFN of a source macro cell where the UE is located a cell ID of the source macro cell where the UE is located and a cell ID of the Femtocell that acts as a handover target.The processing unit 402 is configured to search the SFN offsets which are between a plurality of Femtocell equipments and neighbor macro cells of the plurality of Femtocell equipments and are stored in the storage unit 403 for an SFN offset that matches the offset carried in the Relocation Request message and determine Femtocell equipments which corresponds to the source macro cell ID the matched SFNOffsets of the Femtocell and the cell ID of the Femtocell that acts as a handover target as candidate target Femtocells according to the mapping relation of the Femtocell EI the neighbor cell ID the FemtocellcellID and the Femtocell SFNoffset where the SFN offset is between the SFN of the Femtocell equipment and the SFNs of the neighbor macro cells of the Femtocell equipment.

Method according to one of claims 1 and 2 wherein in the third step S3 said chosen secondary evolved Node B 3 estimates a velocity of said user equipment 1 from said received history cell information data.

A secondary cell SCell is configured to form a pair of a PCell and a serving cell in accordance with the UE capability.In downlink a carrier corresponding to SCell is a downlink secondary component carrier DL SCC.In uplink a carrier corresponding to SCell is an uplink secondary component carrier UL SCC.

The display controlling method of claim 7 wherein the step of scaling the 3Dholographic virtual object according to changes in the area of the eyeball that is not covered by the eyelid of the user comprises decreasing a distance between the 3D holographic virtual object and the user when the area of the eyeball that is not covered by the eyelid of the user becomes smaller and increasing the distance between the 3D holographic virtual object and the user when the area of the eyeball that is not covered by the eyelid of the user becomes greater.

Further when the mobile terminal 100 has entered the eye tracking mode the controller 180 determines whether a first gesture through the eye has been obtained S20 and displays a guide screen in response to the first gesture S30.

The pressure compensated subsea electrical system according to claim 1 or 2 wherein the first housing portion comprises a tank wall 8c for transferring heat from the power converter.

Heat sink 20 provides a large contact area with the dielectric liquid 13.The heat sink thus efficiently takes up heat from the dielectric liquid and transfers it to wall 17 from where it is dissipated into the surrounding water.

A lightemitting device comprising a lightemitting element that emits light having aluminescence peak in a wavelength range of 250 to 500 nm and a fluorescence lightemitting layer containing a yellow lightemitting phosphor that receives light from the lightemitting element and emits yellow light said yellow lightemitting phosphor being the phosphor according to claim 1.

The yellowemitting luminescent material of this embodiment includes an inorganic compound having a crystal structure substantially the same as Sr2Al3Si7ON13 as a base material and a part of the constituent element M is substituted by the luminescence center ion Ce.The composition of each element is specified within a predetermined range.In this case the luminescent material exhibits preferable characteristics such as high efficiency wide luminescence emission spectrum half width and temperature property.

The mobile device 102 of claim 10 or claim 12 wherein the first communication session 108 is a packet switched PS session and the second communication session 110 is a circuit switched CS session.

The present invention relates to the field of communications especially to a domain transferring method for single radio voice call continuity SR VCC which is accessed the architecture of the long term evolutionsystem architecture evolution LTESAE of the next generation mobile communication networks.

A method of tuning the downconversion circuit 30 according to claim 4 or 8 comprising generating an oscillating test signal having a frequency which is offset by a frequency df from a harmonic of the LO frequency wherein the frequency df falls within a passband 390 or transition band 395 of a channelselection filter 370 arranged to filter the combined output signal injecting the oscillating test signal into the ports of the first and second passive switching mixers 70 80 tuning components of the passive output combiner network 90 byfirst tuning tunable resistors 100ab 110ab of the passive output combiner network 90 for determining a resistor tuning setting that minimizes the power contribution of theoscillating test signal at the output of the channel selection filter 370 for a default setting of tunable capacitors 120 130 of the passive output combiner network 90 andthereafter tuning said tunable capacitors 120 130 of the passive output combiner network 90 for determining a capacitor tuning setting that minimizes the power contribution of the oscillating test signal at the output of the channel selection filter 370 for said determined setting of said tunable resistors 100ab 110ab of the passive output combiner network 90 and applying said determined resistor tuning setting and said determined capacitor tuning setting to the tunable resistors 100ab 110ab and the tunable capacitors 120 130 respectively.

Figure 8 shows a flow chart 100 illustrating the process described above.In step 101 the first local oscillator signal LO1 is generated as a square wavewith a duty cycle13.Alternatively as mentioned above the duty cycle may be23.In step 102 the second local oscillator signal L02 is gener ated as a modified square wave with a duty cycle23 of which one part has a positive amplitude and another part has a negative amplitude.In step 103 the first local oscillator signal L01 is delayed by 14 of the period time to achieve a phase shift of 2 between the two local oscillator signals.In a practical implementation the two local oscillator signals may just be generated with the appropriate phase shift.The LO1 signal is then used in step 104 for mixing the input signal in the multiplier 4 to obtain a first downconverted signal.The L02 signal is used in step 105 for mixing the input signal in the multiplier 5 to obtain a second downconverted signal.In step 106 one of the downconverted signals is then multiplied by a precalculated factor e.g.the gain factordescribed above to ensure that the 5th and 7th harmonics are cancelled.Finally in step 107 the two downconverted signals are added together to achieve the desired output signal.

A method as in any of claims 8 to 13 wherein said processing of the digital data comprisesprocessing the digital data and generating a trigger signal upon the occurrence of a trigger event storing digital data for a waveform in response to the event trigger signal rasterizing stored waveforms to generate rasterized waveforms and generating the timedomain bitmap using a summation of the rasterized waveforms.

In some embodiments the processor 125 collects a plurality of sequential bitmaps subtracts the plurality of sequential bitmaps from a single reference bitmap to produce a plurality of difference bitmaps that represent a plurality of different measurement intervals measures the density differences of each of the difference bitmaps to produce a plurality of density difference measurements and then provides those density difference measurements in the form of a display of density difference versus measurement interval.In this manner the processor 125 may help a user identify the period of intermittent interference signals present in the input signal.

The method of claim 6 wherein the header comprises at least one of a version value and a type identifier ID.

Specifically an input method for example remote input method may be set on the touchscreen mobile phone.When needing to perform input the touchscreen mobile phone goes to the input interface for example editing a short message writing a mail or adding a memo.In this case the input method of the touchscreen mobile phone is switched to the remote input method.Then the touchscreen mobile phone automatically sends an input request message within the wireless signal range in a wireless manner for example Bluetooth infrared WiFi or the like.

The method according to claim 11 or 12 further comprising unlocking the device if at least one access right is set.

As discussed hereinbefore memory for the processor 128 may be in part implemented as a bank holding a plurality of OTP fuses 120.Configuration settings for the OTP fuses 120 may be stored in the flash memory 116.

Method according to any of claims 3 and 4 wherein in step d the step data recorded by the second device 2 for said first time period are transferred 22 to the first device 1.

In an exemplary embodiment the shock button 54 or tap button 54 generally corresponds to a shock sensor that is preferably located within the housing 16 and is operably connected to the controller 18 such as a printed circuit board of the controller 18.FIG.8a shows a schematic view of a printed circuit board of the controller 18.The controller 18 includes lead interfaces 18a that cooperate with the USB connector 24.The board operably supports the shock sensor 54 generally proximate a periphery of the board which also positions the shock sensor at a periphery of the housing 16.Thus the shock sensor 54 is operably connected to the controller 18 and may be a piezo shock sensor in this exemplary embodiment.Even when positioned proximate a periphery the acceleration sensed at the periphery location is generally very close to the acceleration at the center location such as from a user tapping generally at a center of the screen 39.It is understood that the shock button 54 may be located in alternate positions on the controller 18 or in the housing 16.For example the shock sensor 54 may be located proximate a center of the board as shown in phantom lines in FIG.8a which generally corresponds to a center of the housing 16 and underneath a center point of the crystal 39.The shock sensor can take other forms other than a shock sensor and may also be an accelerometer in one exemplary embodiment.For example FIG.8b shows a printed circuit board of the controller 18 wherein a shock button 54 is in the form of an accelerometer and positioned at a periphery of the board.As shown in phantom lines the accelerometer may also be positioned proximate a center of the board and therefore proximate a center of the housing 16.As discussed the shock button 54 in any of its forms is generally positioned within the housing 16 and beneath the crystal 39 FIG.7.It is understood that the shock sensor 54 shown in FIG.8a may have lesser power requirements than the accelerometer sensor 54 shown in FIG.8b.It is understood that the accelerometer 54 shown in FIG.8b could be a threeaxis accelerometer and have additional function in addition to sensing the tap input or third input.For example the accelerometer could be used to wakeup the device upon motion as well as speed and distance measurement for the user.The wakeup functionality may be used to return the device from a sleep mode e.g.to save power to a mode in which the devices display is activated an athletic activity tracking function is automatically activated andor one or more input devices are activated e.g.a touch screen is activated to accept touch input while touch input might not be accepted in a deactivated or sleep state.Alternatively or additionally the wakeup functionality may automatically trigger signal detection for locationdetection sensors andor to begin detecting sensors andor requestingreceiving data from one or more sensors e.g.accelerometers.A wakeup function may also be triggered based on other input such as a spectrum andor intensity of light a time of day week andor year and the like.For example the watch 10 mayrecognize a typical workout time of day week andor year and automatically return the watch 10 to an active state at that particular time andor a predefined amount time therebefore.

Method for cutting plants comprising the consecutive steps ofproviding 1 a plant to a carrier for transporting the plant to a cutting areaproducing 2 a first image of the plant by a first camera systemanalysing 3 the first image so as to determine at least one cutting position where the plant is to be cutpositioning 4 the plant for cuttingcutting 6 the plant at the cutting position into at least two parts characterised in that the cutting is performed by using 5 information from a second image made of the plant in the cutting area.

One image representing just one view of the plant often will not satisfy for determining a proper cutting position.The structure of most plants is too complex to allow finding the proper cutting position from one view only.Therefore it may be preferred to obtain images of the plant from different view points by moving the plant and the image taking device with respect to each other.Usually the plant has tobe cut at the stem.Rotating the plant in front of a camera around its stem or more general along an axis that is parallel to its stem may provide additional information to obtain a more complete picture of the plant.More in particular a kind of three dimension view of the plant may be constructed to determine the proper cutting position or positions.

The branching unit 210 of any previous claim whereinthe branching unit 210 comprises a plurality of bypass switches for a corresponding plurality of optical cables connectable to the branching unit 210at least one of the bypass switches of the plurality of bypass switches is electrically powered using electrical power provided via the corresponding optical cable of the plurality of optical cablesat least one of the plurality of bypass switches is configured for operating in a first mode or in a second modethe plurality of bypass switches are configured to operate such that in case of an interruption of the electrical power on one of the plurality of optical cables an optical signal provided by the one of the plurality of optical cables is replaced by an optical signal provided by another one of the plurality of optical cables.

On the other hand repeaters 71 and 72 are inserted in lines referred to as branch lines L5 and L6 interconnecting the branch station 53 and the optical branching device 54.The branch station 53 is situated for example on an island located in the ocean between the terminal stations 51 and 52.

An information processing program that moves a virtual camera in a virtual space within a predetermined movable range in response to a movement andor an orientation of a controller 5 characterized in that the information processing program causes a computer to change a correspondence relation between the movement andor the orientation of the controller 5 and a capturing direction andor a viewing point position of the virtual camera after the capturing direction andor the viewing point position of the virtual camera reaches a limit of the movable range in response to the movement or the orientation of the controller 5 in a predetermined direction.

The distance curve data 513 indicates association between the switching time t and the virtual camera distance Kk for each of the left virtual camera Hk and the right virtual camera Mk which is used for switching from the planar view image to the stereoscopically visible image as described in the first embodiment.However in the present embodiment the distance curve data 513 represents association between the horizontal rotation angle Sk and the virtual camera distance Kk as shown in FIG.12 by way of example unlike the distance curve data 510 of the first embodiment.The distance curve data 513 is read when the game program is read from the internal data storage memory 35 as described below.

The method of claim 1 wherein each of the group of users receives a same first service identification over a downlink common control channel being sent to all of the group of users.

Also a multicast server is divided into a downlink shared channel DSCH control frame size period as shown in FIG.1 and performs a transmission to each mobile station via a downlink shared channel DSCH.Otherwise as shown in FIG.2 the multicast server individually loads a downlink shared channel DSCH control frame area and a downlink shared channel DSCH data frame area on a downlink shared channel DSCH.

A predictive motor vehicle driver assistance system according to any one of the preceding claims wherein the Waypoint Matching function is designed to search for the Waypoint spatially closest to the current motor vehicle positionbased on a scoring function in which the direction of travel of the motor vehicle is included in the scoring criteriononly when the motor vehicle is in motionbased on a threshold distance such that if the search finds no Waypoint with the necessary characteristics within this threshold distance then a new Waypoint is defined.

The present invention relates to a method and a corresponding system that enables an improvement in the driving efficiency of a vehicle by providing various indications to the driver of the vehicle reflecting the efficiency of his driving said indication being based on the comparison of the currently recorded parameters and parameters recorded during previous drives of the same route or with parameters recorded by similar systems of other vehicles.

The ophtalmic composition according to anyone of claims 1 to 5 wherein the content of the hyaluronic acid is between 0.01 and 1.0 wv based on the total ophtalmic composition.

In a preferred embodiment of the invention the aqueous ophthalmic solution is characterized by including latanoprost at a concentration of 0.005 a pH damper system that may be selected from boric acid citric acid sorbic acid acetic acid sodium borate monobasic sodium phosphate dibasic sodium phosphate sodium citrate and sodium acetate in a range of concentration from 0.001 to 5.0 one or more agents that increase the viscosity such as hydroxypropylcellulose carbooxylmethylcellulose sulfate chondrointin formal glycerol methyldinoglycerol and cyclodextrins in a concentration ranging from 0.05 to 20.00 one or more tensoactive agents moisturizers such as polyoxyl 40 stearate polysorbate 80 poloxamer and tyloxapol in concentrations ranging from 0.01 to 20.0 one or more osmolarity regulating agents such as sodium chloride sorbitol manitol and dextrose at a concentration ranging from 0.6 to 1.8 expressed as chemical equivalents of sodium chloride one or more preservatives such as benzalkonium chloride benzetonium chloride thiomersal phenylmercury acetate or nitrate parabens chlorohexidine gluconate ethylic alcohol cetrimide sodium perborate and chlorobutanol in adequate concentration in order to provide an antimicrobian effect.It may also contain one or more antioxidant agents such as disodic edetate sodium metabisulfite sodium bisulfite acetylcysteine sodiumthiosulfate and thiourea in adequate concentration in order to give the required effect.

The method of claim 1 wherein the first color space and the third color space are the same color space.

Referring now to FIG.1 Block 10 depicts the computation of luminance values from color digital image data which can be RGB image data.A suitable conversion would beLR2GB4

The display apparatus of claim 2 wherein in response to a third photo being received from the first portable apparatus through the communicator the controller is configured to reduce the second photo to generate a reduced image of the second photo and control the display to display the received third photo and overlap the reduced image of the first photo and the reduced image of the second photo with a part of the third photo.

Each computer system may include inter alia one or more computers and at least a computer readable medium allowing a computer to read data instructions messages or message packets and other computer readable information from the computer readable medium.The computer readable medium may include computer readable storage medium embodying nonvolatile memory such as readonly memory ROM flash memory disk drive memory CDROM and other permanent storage.Additionally a computer medium may include volatile storage such as RAM buffers cache memory and network circuits.

An infant or adult diaper 10 according to any one of the preceding claims the second bridge element 80 and a portion of the wall element 76 are provided from one sheet of material.

The inventors of the present invention have conducted intensive studies for attaining the abovedescribed object and have completed an absorbent article having a novel structure.

The vehicle testing method of claim 4 wherein said applying a test action to the vehicle comprises resetting vehicle onboard diagnostic monitors of the vehicle computer wherein said monitoring the signal of the vehicle computer associated with said test action comprises monitoring a noncontinuous monitor of the vehicle computer and wherein said determining whether the signal of the vehicle computer associated with said test action meets said expected response comprises evaluating whether the noncontinuous monitor of the vehicle computer obtains a set condition prior to meeting said expected response.

Meanwhile every time a predetermined period of time elapses the CPU 11a of the automatic charging apparatus 10 executes the diagnosis calculation start routine shown in FIG.8 from step 800 thereof.In step 805 the CUP 11a judges whether a policing code has been received.When the result of the judgment in step 805 becomes Yes the CPU 11a proceeds to step 810.When the result of the judgment in step 805 is No the CPU 11a proceeds to step 895 so as to end the present routine.Accordingly when a policing code is transmitted from the monitor apparatus 20 the result of the judgment in step 805 is Yes and the CPU 11a proceeds to step 810.In step 810 the CPU 11a immediately transmits a response signal to the monitor apparatus 20 within 5 seconds after transmission of the policing code.The response signal includes a special code indicating reception of a policing code and an ID code allotted to each automatic charging apparatus 10 specification information peculiar to the individual automatic charging apparatus 10.

A system for controlling a wind farm when a ramp up or ramp down rate of the wind farm deviates from a gridcode or corresponding criteria the system comprising an operation unit for receiving information on wind conditions from outside determining whether or not the ramp up or ramp down rate of the wind farm deviates from the gridcode due to a change in wind speed and whether or not the wind speed is within a range of wind power generation reference speed determining the number of wind turbines NWT to be controlled simultaneously if the ramp up or ramp down rate of the wind farm deviates from the gridcode grouping the wind turbines into first to Nth groups and determining a control start time TGnstart and a control end time TGnend of each group and a control unit for controlling the wind turbines based on the control start time TGnstart and the control end time TGnend determined by the operation unit.

The sequencing module 74 comprises an algorithm adapted to sequence the requests received from the wind turbine generators based on operating conditions of the wind turbine generators and the instantaneous rolling average of the wind farm power ramp rate computed by the ramp rate estimation module 72.Input to the sequencing module 74 may comprise operating conditions of individual wind turbine generators including wind speed turbine speed turbine power rate of change of turbine speed rate of change of turbine power blade pitch angle projected wind speed and so forth communicated by respective turbine level control systems 58.The sequencing algorithm is discussed in greater detail with reference to FIG.4.

The computerimplemented method of predicting with high accuracy a descent trajectory of claim 10 wherein the deceleration segment is selected from a leveloff segment 230 and a speed reduction 240 250.

At 570 the candidate aircraft intents are evolved by the computer system.The calculation uses evolutionary algorithms to evolve the candidate aircraft intents to reflect the actual aircraft intent better.The evolutionary algorithms use the multiobjective cost function to drive the evolution.That is the evolutionary algorithm evolves new candidate aircraft intents calculates the correspondingtrajectories and calculates a new value for the cost function with the aim of minimising the cost function value.The evolutionary algorithm seeks on the one hand to minimise the root mean square deviation between the trajectories and to ensure the root mean square difference is within the threshold value while on the other hand the evolutionary algorithm seeks to maximise the number of time intervals over which the root mean square deviation falls within the threshold.These two competing demands lead to candidate aircraft intents that form a set of Pareto solutions occupying a Pareto front.These candidate aircraft intents are equally valid solutions and may arise either because they represent equally good estimates or because they both represent valid aircraft intents remembering that multiple aircraft intents may give rise to any particular trajectory.Further explanation of this step follows below.

Beverage production device 1 for receiving a capsule 5 for the preparation of a beverage comprisinga first enclosing part 2 comprising a cavity 15 a second enclosing part 3 the first and second enclosing parts 2 3 being moveable relative to one another between an open position in which a passage 10 is left for insertion of the capsule and a closed position in which the capsule is enclosed between the first and second enclosing parts 2 3 and the capsule is at least partially received in the cavity 15 for the preparation of the beverage a sliding ramp 32 being positioned in a preset guiding position in the open position of the enclosing parts 2 3 for guiding the capsule during insertion in the passage to an intermediate position in the passage 10 wherein the sliding ramp 32 is inclined relative to the vertical in the preset guiding position and towards the cavity 13 and capsule holding means to support the capsule in the intermediate position against gravity characterized in that the holding means comprises a capsule support member 34 which comprises a receiving surface 35 69 for preventing the capsule in intermediate position from falling under gravity which is positioned at distance from the cavity 15 of the first enclosing part 2.

In Fig.7 the capsule is shown now resting in place in the holding chamber 18 both on the cylindrical surfaces 20 and against the ramp surfaces of the transversal retaining means 25 in a slightly inclined position.The enclosing members are still spaced apart one another.

Control system according to one of the preceding claims wherein a motion of said movable coil 50 51 52 53 51 52 comprises translation andor rotation.

Thus the automated transport vehicle 3 disposed on the supplyside line 4 is allowed to pass through the entry 7a1 and move forward on the outward line section 7A of the buffer line 7 up to the fixed position 8 to pass through the exit 7b2 and move forward on the homeward line section 7B until it first encounters an empty carrier 2 and to travel all the way along the supplyside line 4 to move a workpieceloaded carrier 2 or an empty carrier 2.

A device as claimed in claim 1 wherein the cannula shaft is of a polymeric material with a shore hardness of about 63D.

In treating spontaneous traumatic or iatrogenic pneumothorax or for evacuating air from the chest following thoracic surgery or percutaneous lung biopsy the vent kit may be used as follows1.Select a site preferably at the second interspace in the midclavicular line or at another appropriate location.2.Prepare the site using standard procedure.Place a fenestrated drape over the site.3.Infiltrate local anesthesia into the chest wall at the site indicated.4.Using a scalpel make a small incision at the selected site.5.Place a guidewire into the site using standard technique.Tract overdilation will ease placement.6.Introduce the removable cannula 30 into the vent unit 10 through the introducing port 22.The distal end of the cannula 74 should extend slightly beyond the end 80 of the catheter.7.Thread the guidewire through the removable cannula 30.8.Peel away the center portions of the paper cover from the selfadhesive strip 92.9.Introduce the removable cannula 30 and catheter 20 into the pleural space over the guidewire.10.Stop advancing the cannulacatheter assembly when the catheter end has entered the pleural cavity.11.Advance the catheter over the guidewire while holding the cannula stationary until the full length of the catheter is introduced into the pleural cavity.12.Remove the cannula and the guidewire from the vent unit.13.Check the indicator 46 for proper function.14.Peel away the paper from the side flaps of the selfadhesive strip 92 and adhere the strip to the chest wall.Make sure the chest surface is dry.15.If the patient is expected to be active place sutures through the adhesive patch and suture holes on top of the device to further anchor it in place.16.Fluids collected in the reservoir 16 can be extracted using the drainage port 60.17.The fluid passage leading from the catheter port 24 can be sealed by placing the plug 40 into the introduction port 22.18.When the pneumothorax is resolved the indicator will stop fluctuating.Confirm and the vent unit can be removed.

A method for authenticating a user comprising the steps of at a server computer generating a symbol arrangement generating a series of a plurality of authentication instructions with associated human intelligible text representing the series of instructions and computerexecutable code for performing the series of instructions on a machine wherein at least some of the instructions relate to performing actions on the symbol arrangement and wherein applying the series of instructions on the symbol arrangement yields a nonambiguous instruction series result executing the computerexecutable code for performing the series of instructions on a machine thereby obtaining the instruction series result and transmitting the symbol arrangement and the human intelligible text representing the series of instructions from the server computer to a user computer at the user computer displaying the symbol arrangement and the human intelligible text representing the series of instructions on the display of the user computer receiving a user input and transmitting the result of the user input from the user computer to the server computer at the server computer comparing the received result of the user input with the instruction series result and authenticating the user if the received result of the user input corresponds to the instruction series result.

Typically in accordance with the present disclosure the computer program is further configured tooptionally arrange a set of alphanumeric characters and a set of images derived out of dot matrix combinations in the form of 5x7 matrices respectively optionally enable the user to select at least one of the set of alphanumeric characters and the set of images derived out of dot matrix combinations for the purpose of registration prompt the user to select for the purpose of registration at least one of a plurality of alphanumeric characters from the set of alphanumeric characters and a plurality of images from the set of images derived out of dot matrix combinations track the order in which at least one of a plurality of alphanumeric characters from the set of alphanumeric characters and a plurality of images from the set of images derived out of dot matrix combinations are selected by the user during the registration store the order in which the user selects at least one of a plurality of alphanumeric characters from the set of alphanumeric characters and a plurality of images from the set of images derived out of dot matrix combinations generate and transmit an authentication challenge of the form of a secondary matrix having entries selected form the group of entries consisting of numerals alphabets and the images derived out of dot matrix combinationsinstruct the user to select the entries of the secondary matrix in the same order as that in which at least one of the plurality of alpha numeric characters and the plurality of images were selected during the registration compare the order in which the user selects the entries in the secondary matrix with the order in at least one of the plurality of alpha numeric characters and the plurality of images were selected during the registration and authenticate the user if the order in which the user selects the entries in the secondary matrix is same as the order in which at least one of the plurality of alpha numeric characters and the plurality of images were selected from the 5x7 matrix during the registration.

The method or use of any of claims 1 to 3 wherein said preparation is subjected to filtration or the filtration is performed for at least about 48 hours up to about 7 months and preferably about 72 hours up to about 3 months.

A preferred method of carrying out the present invention will be described hereinafter.The material resulting from this clarification diluted to a concentration lower than or equal to 1.5 mgml in thepresence of at least one amino acid preferably arginine at a concentration between 0.1 and 8 weightvolume and a temperature between 18 and 37C preferably in both cases and previously clarified through filters having a greater pore size is filtered through a nanofilter having a pore size smaller than 35 nm preferably about 20 nm with protein recovery greater than 80.The filter area required to carry out this nanofiltration is between 10 and 1000 cm2 per litre of solution to be filtered depending on the protein concentration of the solution and the pore size of the nanofilter used.The processing time is usually shorter than 12 hours.

A method for adapting earthfault protection settings in a threephase electric network the method comprising detecting an earth fault in the threephase electric network determining a value for a directional phasor quantity at a measuring point in the threephase electric network and comparing the determined value for the directional phasor quantity with predetermined boundaries on a complex plane characterized in that the method comprises determining on the basis of the comparison a neutral earthing state of the electric network and adapting one or more earthfault protection settings on the basis of the determined neutral earthing state of the electric network.

According to an embodiment the closed area is defined by a circle or an ellipse whose centre point is offset from the origin of the admittanceplane towards the negative susceptance B direction andor towards the negative conductance G direction.Figure 4 shows an example of an operation characteristic which comprises a circle 401 which is setoff from the admittance plane origin by settings GN1 and BN1.The circle radius is defined by setting YN1.Operation of the protection is achieved when the determined neutral admittance moves outside the closed area defined by the circle 401.In mathematical form this can be expressed as follows realY0GN12imagY0BN12YN1YN1gt0 where Y0 is the measured neutral admittance.

The hybrid prosthesis of claim 1 wherein the branch further comprises a support structure.

Fig.6 shows a delivery system according to the invention to deliver the surgical stent graft.This delivery system includes a handle 3 a piece of string 5 and a shaft 4.One end of the handle is provided with a tube port 301.The string 5 is fixed at one end on the shaft 4 and at the other end on the handle 3.One end of the stent graft 6 is inserted into the tube port 301 and bound on the shaft 4 by the string 5 and said shaft 4 extends through the tube port 301 of the handle.This delivery system further comprises a core bar 7 with a core bar hole and a guide wire 8 wherein said core bar is provided with a bulletlike tip 9 at its head.Said handle 3 is provided with a through hole in which the end of said core bar 7 is fixed and external guide wire 8 can extend over the tip 9 through the core bar hole.The shaft 4 is formed by a stainless metal wire and has a ring handle 401 at its end.In operation insert the stent graft 6 into the aortic cut port to be treated fix the handle 3 by one hand and pull the stainless metal shaft 4 by the other hand and then the stent graft will release and expand automatically away from the tube port 301 of the handle.

The method of any of the claims 112 further comprising the portable electronic device 306 recording a video that captures a result of the impact of the sport ball 106 by the individual during the course of an athletic activity.

In one embodiment one or more of the reference motions may include a series of discrete movements.In some embodiments data associated with the plurality of reference motions may include acceleration data magnetic field data andor timing data.Of course the nature of the identifying matching athletic motion may depend on the particular application and algorithms used to establish the match.Also the nature of the matching athletic motion may change based on the athletic activity that the individual 100 is participating in as well as particular object 104 that is being monitored.In one embodiment related to basketball the matching athletic motion may be for example a pass motion an shot motion an jumpshot motion a dunk motion a postup motion a crossover dribble motion a shot blocking motion a steal motion or a rebound motion.

The receiver of any of claim 14 wherein the step of applying an inverse of the transformation applied to data symbols at the transmitter comprises applying an inverse of corresponding transformation matrix wherein rows and columns of the transformation matrix are orthogonal.

The antenna 601 receives signals combining signals transmitted by the transmitter device 50 and interference signals transmitted by another transmitter device.The reception unit 602 performs downconversion and analogdigital conversion on received signals thus generating modulation signals.

A method of manufacturing a fireresistant composite electrical panel for use as part of an electrical harness of a vehicle the method comprising arranging a layered structure comprising a fire protection layer comprising a fibrous material impregnated with an intumescent material the fire protection layer forming an outer layer of the layered structure a first organic matrix composite layer comprising fibres and resin at least one electrical conductor and a second organic matrix composite layer comprising fibres and resin the at least one electrical conductor being positioned between the first and second organic matrix composite layers the method further comprising curing the layered structure so as to form the fireresistant composite electrical panel.

The wrapping contains a number of pleats 712 gaps in the pleats are exaggerated in Figure 7 in practice these gaps would be minimal or nonexistent.In the case of a fire the intumescent paint grows as it forms char and this growth causes the wrapping to expand by the unfolding of the pleats.Significantly this expansion allows the wrapping 710 to maintain its coverage of the char.More particularly if the wrapping did not expand the char could burst through the wrapping and the unprotected char could then detach from the raft.Thusthe pleated wrapping can significantly prolong the fireheat protection afforded by the paint and hence can prolong the operational effectiveness of the raft 702.