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The apparatus of claim 7 wherein if the first state is a locking state and the second state is an unlocking state the state switching information comprises an unlocking password and first identification information the first identification information being for notifying the terminal to switch the realtime state from the first state to the second state or if the first state is an unlocking state and the second state is a locking state the state switching information comprises second identification information the second identification information being for notifying the terminal to switch the realtime state from the first stateto the second state.

The service terminal 20 is a terminal for purveying a variety of information such as music picture map or the like information or selling commercial goods installed on a street or in a store an ATM terminal provided in a bank a wicket gate in a station as means of traffic seats in public means of conveyance such as aircraft or electrical car or a device embedded in a wall of a building for furnishing a wide variety of services.The communication may be had between the portable equipment 10 and the service terminal 20 by the user 30 contacting a contact point 29 of the service terminal 20such as by touching with a finger or the palm of his or her hand.

The method of claim 1 or 2 wherein each output port scheduler OPS builds a transmission schedule table TS for each of its adjacent upstream output ports schedulers OPS.

The purpose of the GATE message is to grant transmission windows to ONUs for both discovery messages and normal transmission cycles.A single MPCP GATE can convey up to four individual grants from which the first one is used in the current cycle and the following are scheduled by the OLT into the future indicated by the value of the appropriate Grant n Start time fields.The number of grants conveyed within a single GATE can also be set to 0 when the GATE is simply used to keep the connection between the OLT and ONU alive in order to prevent ONUs automatic deregistration under very light traffic conditions.The MPCP GATE 0002 is an instance of a generic MPCPDU message and has the following data fields see FIG 8Destination Address DA.The DA in a MPCPDU is the MAC Control Multicast address as specified in the annexes to IEEE 802.3 ah clause 31 or the individual MAC address associated with the port to which the MPCPDU is destined Source Address SA.The SA in a MPCPDU is the individual MAC address associated with the port through which the MPCPDU is transmitted.For MPCPDUs originating at the OLT end this can be the address of any of the individual MAC ports.These MAC ports may all share a single unicast address as explained in IEEE 802.3 ah clause 64.1.2 LengthType.MPCPDUs are always Type encoded and carry the MACControlType field value as specified in IEEE 802.3 ah clause 31.4.1.3 Opcode.The opcode identifies the specific MPCPDU being encapsulated.Values are defined in IEEE 802.3 ah Table 31A1 Timestamp.The timestamp field conveys the content of the localTime register at the time of transmission of the MPCPDUs.This field is 32 bits long and counts 16bit transmissions.The timestamp counts time with a 16 bit time granularity 1 TQ16 ns2 B1 Gbps Flags.This is an 8 bit register that holds the following flags Table 1o The Number of grants field contains the number of grants composed of valid Length Start Time pairs in the MPCPDU.This is a number between 0 and 4.If Number of grants is set to 0 the sole purpose of the message is conveying a timestamp to an ONU o The Discovery flag field indicates that the signaled grants would be used for the discovery process in which case a single grant shall be issued in the gate message o The Force Report flag fields ask the ONU to issue a REPORT message related to each corresponding grant number at each corresponding transmission opportunity indicated in this GATEGrant n Length.Length of the signaled grant this is a 16 bit unsigned field.The length is counted in 16 bit time increments.There are 4 Grants that are possibly packed into the GATE MPCPDU.The laserOnTime syncTime and laserOffTime are included in and thus consume part of the Grant n Length Grant n Start Time.Start time of the grant this is a 32 bit unsigned field.The start time is compared to the local ONU clock to correlate the start of the grant with the predefined moment of time estimated by the OLT scheduler relative to the OLT clock.Transmitted values shall satisfy the condition Grant n Start Time lt Grant n1 Start Time for consecutive grants within the same GATE MPCPDUSync Time.This is an unsigned 16 bit value indicating the required synchronization time of the OLT receiver.During the synchronization time the ONU shall send IDLE codepairs.The value is counted in 16 bit time increments.The advertised value takes into account the synchronization requirements for all receiver elements including PMD1 PMA2 and PCS3.This field is present only when the gate is a discovery gate as signaled by the Discovery flag and is not present otherwise PadReserved.This is an empty field that is transmitted as zeros and ignored on reception when constructing a complying MPCP protocol implementation.The size of this field depends on the used Grant n LengthStart Time entrypairs and accordingly varies in length from 13 to 39.

Arrangement 100 according to one of the claims 1 to 7 further comprising a fourth holding device 180 comprising a fourth end frame 181 for holding a fourth root end 141 of a fourth blade 140 and a fourth centre frame 182 for holding a fourth centre section 142 of the fourth blade 140 in such a way that the fourth centre section 142 is spaced from a fourth tip end 143 of the fourth blade 140 wherein the fourth end frame 181 is formed for being coupled to the supporting base and wherein the fourth holding device 180 is formed for holding the fourth blade 140 within the second holding plane 102 wherein the fourth centre frame 182 is coupled to the second centre frame 162.

The main frame structure 33 has room for three rows of root frame structures 5 each row having room for two spars 2.The main frame support means 18 is in the form of a crossbar on which the first root frame structure 5 is arranged.As can be seen in Fig.8 two crossbars 18 are arranged in a raised position and a lower crossbar is arranged between the two raised crossbars.Furthermore each main frame support means 18 has a main frame connection means 36 in the form of a set of studs for receiving a root frame structure 5.The root frame structure 5 has indentations 22 for receiving the studs and thus fasten the root frame structure onto the main frame structure 33.

The preform according to any one of claims 9 to 12 characterized in that the polymer material of the intermediate layer further comprises titanium oxide TiO2 in a proportion of 2 to 8 by weight.

In an embodiment said synthetic polymer is polyethylene terephthalate PET or polypropylene PP and among the coloring agents which can be used there is titanium oxide TiO2 white colorant in solid or liquid form and carbon black or carbon black colorant in solid powder or liquid form.In a more specific embodiment the method of the present invention comprises using polyethylene terephthalate PET or polypropylene PP with from 0.01 to 2 by weight of carbon black or activated carbon and from 3 to 10 by weight of active ingredients of titanium oxide TiO2 as primary molding material of the first layer or inner layer and using polyethylene terephthalate PET or polypropylene PP with from 3 to 10 by weight of active ingredients of titanium oxide TiO2 as overmolding material of the second layer or outer layer.This composition is suitable for manufacturing twolayered preforms intended for obtaining milkcontaining bottles in which the outer layer must provide a barrier effect againstlight by reflection and furthermore offer a final aesthetic appearance of the bottle in relation to its content i.e.a white appearance which is as pure as possible and in which the object of the inner layer is to provide a barrier effect against light by absorption.

A fixed type constant velocity universal joint comprising an outer member 23 in which six track grooves 22 that extend in an axial direction are formed on an inner spherical surface 21 an inner joint member 26 in which six track grooves 25 that extend in an axial direction are formed on an outer spherical surface 24 six torque transmission balls 27 which are arranged one by one in ball tracks that are formed by pairs of the track grooves 22 of the outer joint member 23 and the track grooves 25 of the inner joint member 26 and a cage 28 that is interposed between the inner spherical surface 21 of the outer joint member 23 and the outer spherical surface 24 of the inner joint member 26 to hold the torque transmission balls 27 wherein a cage thickness at a pocket center position of the cage 28 is tCAGE a pitch circle radius of the balls 27 when an operating angle is 0 is PCRBALL and tCAGEPCRBALL which is a ratio of the cage thickness and the pitch circle radius is equal to or higher than 0.20 and equal to or lower than 0.23.

Thus the maximum pocket load was approximately 30 higher in Example then in Comparative Example Fig.21.In this experiment the same load torque was applied but the joints were operated at different operating angles The joint of Example was operated at a higher operating angle 56 than the joint of Comparative Example 50.The specifications for the joints of Comparative Example and Example are shown in Table 3.Table 3Parameters Comparative Example ExampleDod 3.7 4.1td 0.26 0.32wd 1.8 1.90 5.15fPCR 0.017 0.09

The diaper 10 according to any one of the preceding claims wherein the barrier element 70 is made of or comprises a laminate which comprises an elastic material or a nonwoven 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.

A realtime image editing method for an electronic device having a touch panel comprising executing a recording program a timing program and an image editing program showing an image editing option menu when detecting an input signal receiving at least one select signal of a user via the image editing option menu and generating an editing result storing the editing result in a register and generating an output video according to the editing result and a raw video generated by the recording program by the image editing program when the recording program stops.

Figure 3 provides a schematic illustration of a part of the system which is used for generating the highlight summary of the football match.In Figure 3 an ingestion processor 30 is arranged to receive the event log for example in a form of the flash memory 12 and is also arranged to receive the recording of the football match fromeach of the cameras 1 2 3 for example in the form of recorded DVDs 32 34 36.Also received by the ingestion processor 30 is an editing action list 38 although this may have already been preloaded into the ingestion processor 30.The editing action list 38 specifies for each of the possible event codes which the operator 4 may have selected during the football match actions which are to be performed on the recording or recordings of the football match to produce automatically the highlight summary of the football match.

The method as claimed in claim 13 or claim 14 wherein the first program is a USB host driver and wherein the second program is a program where a hub class driver a mass storage class driver and enumeration are removed from the USB host driver.

More specifically if interrupt is caused by the data interface unit 112 that is if a specific operation command is input by the data interface unit 112 the control unit 120 stores data from the second memory unit 140 into the first memory unit 130 which is accessible by the USB driver in the normal mode.In this case all hardware becomes active and if the USB driver begins its operation the control unit 120 processes the interrupt and subsequently following events.

A mobile device comprising a display a near field communicator configured to perform authentication in response to being tagged with a door lock apparatus a communicator configured to receive status information on each of a plurality of external apparatuses from the door lock apparatus in response to the authentication being performed anda controller configured to control the display to display the status information in response to the status information being received.

Selective setting of whether the door lock control mode of the door lock apparatus 2 should be set to the automatic lock mode or the sequential lock mode in the present example is performed through the monitoring control apparatus 3 by an operator as hereinafter described when the door lock apparatus 2 is attached.

The neutron capture therapy apparatus 1A 1B according to any one of claims 1 to 3 further comprising a control portion 102 which controls emission of the charged particle beam P based on the size of the current value detected by the current detection portion 60.

As shown in FIG.4 in a neutron beam irradiation apparatus according to a modified example the beam duct 48 see FIG.2 connected to the neutron beam generating unit 36 is divided into a downstream target T side beam duct 48x and an upstream beam duct 48y.An annular spacer 56 formed of an insulator such as ceramic is interposed between the beam ducts 48x and 48y and thus the downstream beam duct 48x is electrically insulated from the other parts.In this state by measuring current which is generated from the target T by irradiating the target T with the charged particle beam P and which flows from the target T to the downstream beam duct 48x by the use of an ammeter 58 the dose of the charged particle beam P with which the targetT is irradiated may be measured in real time.The relationship between the current flowing in the downstream beam duct 48x and the dose of the charged particle beam P with which the target T is irradiated is calculated in advance.

The metallic nanoparticle dispersion according to claim 1 comprising a dispersionstabilizing compound according to Formula I wherein Q represents the necessary atoms to form a five membered heteroaromatic ring

Anchor groups for the metallic metal precursor and metal oxide nanoparticles may comprise low molecular weight MW lt 300 aliphatic amines or aromatic amines thioethers thiols disulfides optionally substituted aryl or aralkyl groups 2pyrrolidone amide ester acrylic Scontaining heteroaromatic compounds Ncontaining heteroaromatic compounds optionally substituted thiiranes thioacetals oxathioacetals sultams thiophenes benzothiophenes cyclic and alicyclic amines lactams imidazolidones oxazolidinones hydantoins urazoles 2Hazirines 3pyrrolines 2pyrrolines 1pyrrolines maleimides 2isoxazolines 2oxazolines 2imidazolines pyrazolines pyrroles imidazoles benzimidazoles pyrazoles indazoles 123triazoles 123benzotriazoles 124triazoles tetrazoles 1substituted tetrazoles 5substituted tetrazoles 15disubstituted tetrazoles optionally substituted imidazol2ones benzimidazol2ones 13oxazoles benzoxazoles isoxazoles 13thiazoles benzothiazoles 134oxadiazoles 124oxadiazoles 134thiadiazoles indoles oxindoles indolines carbazoles azaindoles isoindoles indolizines indolizinones pyridines dihydropyridines 2pyridones pyrimidines 135triazines quinolines tetrahydroquinolines 12dihydroquinolines isoquinolines 34dihydroisoquinolines 18napthyridines quinazolines 4quinolones 13imidazoles thioamides morpholine derivatives piperazine triazaindolizines or nucleic acid derivatives such as adenine guanine cytosine thymine uracile or a combination thereof.

The method of claims 1 to 4 wherein the anode comprises nickel when the component is made of Ni base superalloy.

Referring to Figures 2 and 7 a vane segment 5 is shown having a watertight flexible mask 25 fitted to the shroud region 10 to prevent plating of that masked shroud area 10 where the cavity 16 has open end 16a.The other shroud region 12 is covered by a similar mask 25 to this same end the mask 25 being attached on the fixture or tooling 27 Figure 7.The masks can be made of Hypalon material rubber or other suitable material.The mask 25 includes an opening 25a through which the noble metalcontaining electroplating solution is flowed into each cooling cavity 16.To this end an electroplating solution supply conduit 22 is received in the mask opening 25a with the discharge end of the conduit 22 located between the anodes 30 proximate to cavity open ends 16a to supply electroplating solution to both cooling cavities 16 during at least part of the electroplating time either continuously or periodically or otherwise to replenish the Ptcontaining solution in the cavities 16.Alternatively the conduit 22 can be configured and sized to occupy most of the mask opening 25a to this same end with the anodes 30 extending through and out of the plastic conduit 22 for connection to electrical power supply 29.The plastic supply conduit 22 is connected a tankmounted pump P which supplies the electroplating solution to the conduit 22.The electroplating solution is thereby supplied by the pump P to both cooling cavities 16 via the mask opening 25a.For purposes of illustration and not limitation a typical flow rate of the electroplating solution can be 15 gallons per minute or other suitable flow rate.The conduit 22 includes back pressure relief holes 22a to prevent pressure in the cooling cavities 16 from rising high enough to dislodge the mask 25 from the shroud region 10 during electroplating.

The power tool of claim 1 further comprising a first reverse current blocking element coupled in series between the first battery and the first switching element and a second reverse current blocking element coupled between the second battery and the second switching element.

Specific examples of the present teachings are described above in detail but these examples are merely illustrative and place no limitation on the scope of the patent claims.The technology described in the patent claims also encompasses various changes and modifications to the specific examples described above.

An image forming apparatus comprising an image bearing member capable of bearing a developer image the developer carrying member according to any one of claims 1 to 8 which forms the developer image by developing an electrostatic latent image on the image bearing member and applying means for applying a voltage to the developer carrying member.

The following materials were mixed by stirring them by a stirring motor and dissolved and mixed in MEK so as to obtain a total solid content of 30 by mass.Thereafter the mixture was uniformly dispersed by a sand mill to obtain a coating material for forming a surface layer.Polyol compound A 62 parts by mass on a solid basis Isocyanate compound D 38 parts by mass on a solid basis Urethane resin particle No.39 15 parts by mass Alumina trade name AluC805 manufactured by Nippon Aerosil Co.Ltd.85 parts by mass Carbon black trade nameMA100 manufactured by Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation 20 parts by mass.

The method of claim 12 wherein the recommended order is determined based on at least one of a users broadcast content view history an audience rating and a number of recommendations of other people.

Note that in case no desired date is displayed in the airdate select menu bar 293 a desired date can be selected by pressing any of Previous day button Last week button Next day button and Next week button displayed in the datetime selectwindow 291.

A laundry treatment device 100 comprisinga casing 2 including a front wall 4 defining a continuous front surface 4a and having a panel aperture 15a control panel assembly 1 for controlling operation of the laundry treatment device 100 said control panel assembly including an outer dashboard 11 which is structured to be coupled to said front wall 4 at said panel aperture 15 and to be operated by a user characterized in that it further includes a mechanical coupling device of a first type 20 and a mechanical coupling device of a second type 30 said first type being different from said second type so configured to couple said outer dashboard 11 to said front wall 4 at said panel aperture 15.

The machine body 3 comprises a retaining portion 416 in contact with the abutment surface 415.The retaining portion 416 is interposed between the abutment surface 415 and a zone in front of the faceplate 2 and outside the electrical household appliance 1.

The method of claim 12 wherein assigning the weight further comprises at least one of including at least one of a storing time a last playing time a playing count or an accumulated playing time of the audio data in the history information of the audio data and checking probability of playing on the audio data based on at least one of how the audio data is adjacent to audio data being played in time or order whether the audio data exists in the same play list as the audio data being played or a playing order in a specific play list.

When Equation 2 is used to determine the evaluation functions K for files A to F which are retained in the music player 30 as indicated in the examples shown in Figs.2 and 3 the values outside the parentheses are obtained as indicated in Fig.3.Thus file C is selected as the file to be deleted.When Equation 4 is used to determine the evaluation functions K the parenthesized values shown in Fig.3 are obtained.Thus file C is selected as the file to be deleted.

Computer software for carrying out a method according to any one of claims 9 to 16.

In order to achieve the above object an information medium used in a system of the present invention is an information medium 100 800 which can record compressed music data music data compressed by AAC ATRAC3 MP3 WMA and the like distributed from a music distribution system 700.Note that music data music data of linear PCM or lossless compression PCM transcoded based on the audiocompressed music data and source compressed music data music data compressed by AAC ATRAC3 MP3 WMA and the like can be stored in a single file an AREMD.ARO file or a coupled file group.Also information for applying usage rules having the same contents as contents usage rules UR appended to the music contents to the transcoded audio data music data of linear PCM or lossless compression PCM coupled contents management information can be stored.

The lightcurable ink composition for ink jet recording according to Claim3 wherein the monofunctional methacrylate is at least either one of phenoxy ethyl methacrylate and benzyl methacrylate.

Particular preferred pigments are C.I.Pigment Yellow 1 3 10 12 13 14 17 55 65 73 74 75 83 93 97 109 111 120 128 138 139 150 151 154 155 175 180 181 185 194 and 213.

A solid composition according to any of claims 78 wherein the composition comprises an additional detersive surfactant selected from the group consisting of alkylethoxy sulphate alkylethoxy alcohol and a combination thereof.

Suitable anionic detersive surfactants are described in more detail below.The anionic detersive surfactant in the particle can be linear alkylbenzene sulfonate.Or the anionic detersive surfactant in the particle can be alkyl ethoxylated sulphate

The system of claim 1 wherein the data authority function 134 changes a standby data authority application to a next data authority application when the data authority application fails to establish a CPDLC session with the next data authority.

Figure 4 is a flow chart illustrating a method for implementing a nonintegrated FANSATN CPDLC solution of one embodiment of the present invention.The method begins at 410 with arbitrating access between a first set of screens generated by a FANS CPDLC application executed on a first computing system and second set of screens generated by an ATN CPDLC application executed on a second computing system wherein the first computing system is not integrated with the second computing system.As shown at 420 arbitrating access further comprises restricting access to one or more of the first set of screens generated by the FANS CPDLC application based on a logon status of the ATN CPDLC application.At 430 arbitrating access further comprises restricting access to one or more of the second set of screens generated by the ATN CPDLC application based on a logon status of the FANS CPDLC application.In one embodiment the arbitrating process is performed by executing a manager function at a Human Machine Interface device coupled to the first computing system and the second computing system.In one such embodiment the Human Machine Interface displays one or more default screen generated by the manager function that displays CPDLC logon selection options.In one embodiment the manager function is executed at the Human Machine Interface device.Alternately in another embodiment the manager function is distributed comprising a first component executed by the first computing system and a second component executed by the second computing system.In one embodiment the method further comprises disconnecting any FANS CPDLC connection and preventing access to one or more of the first set of screens when an ATN CPDLC logon occurs and disconnecting any ATNCPDLC connection and preventing access to one or more of the second set of screens when a FANS CPDLC logon occurs.

An agricultural baler 10 comprising a main bale chamber 26 for the compressing of crop material into bales the main bale chamber having a floor 52 and an outlet 32 for discharge of compressed crop material in the form of bales a bale ejection system 56 at least partially incorporated in the floor 52 for moving the bales substantially throughout the main bale chamber 26 and a partial bale ejection system 60 at least partially incorporated in the floor 52 for moving a bale out the outlet 32 the partial bale ejection system 60 arranged to move and eject a rearward bale proximate to the outlet 32 of the main bale chamber 26 characterized in that the partial bale ejection system 60 comprisinga tine extensionretraction device 66an actuator 62 for moving the rearward bale the actuator 62 being coupled to the tine extensionretraction device 66 andat least one tine 64 that is pushed into the rearward bale by the tine extensionretraction device 66 prior to the actuator 62 moving the rearward bale alone toward and out the outlet 32.

In embodiments of the present invention both shuttle assemblies 2 3 are adapted for reciprocating independently from the reciprocating plunger 13 and substantially parallel to the forward direction D.The integration of such a reciprocating shuttle assembly 2 3 in a wall 12 of the baleforming chamber 11 is well documented in the prior art for example in US 5540144

The gas turbine engine compressor or gas turbine engine of claim 10 wherein the first aft engagement feature 116b comprises a notch.

The spoke 80 provides a reduced area subject to the thermomechanical fatigue TMF across the relatively high temperature gradient between the blades 64 which are within the relatively hot core gas path and the rotor disk 66 which is separated therefrom and is typically cooled with a secondary cooling airflow.

A method according to claim 1 wherein said at least one header is created by the protocol conversion gateway.

The invite field contains the invitees URI for identifying the invitee.The from field contains the initiators URI for identifying the initiator.The to field contains the contact address for contacting the invitee.The contact address may be different from the invitees URI in some cases such as if the invitees identification is different than the invitees contact address andor if the invitee has more then one contact address.In general the URI as an identifier is a username with or without a domain name or a telephone number e.g.01122334455.

The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein when detecting the input signal the image editing program acquires a time from the timing program and stores the time to the editing result.

As already explained above the event log includes event codes and a time at which the corresponding events represented by those event codes occurred in the football match.Correspondingly when the cameras 1 2 and 3 recorded the football match the recordings may be generated with respect to a temporal reference such as a match clock or real time.Thus as a first operation the ingestion processor aligns the time reference with respect to which the event codes were logged with respect to the match clock used as a temporal reference for the continuous recordings produced by the cameras 1 2 and 3.If the event code and the recordings were made with respect to the same temporal reference such as a match clock or realtime then this temporal alignment may not be necessary since the accuracy of the time of recording the event codes with respect to the time of the recording the performance need not be high.The ingestion processor then reviews the event log and for each event code which is identified by sequentially parsing the event log performing appropriate actions specified by the editing action list 38 to take corresponding sections of the recording produced by each of the cameras identified as corresponding to the time at which the event code was logged with respect to the time of the recording and providing a corresponding section of the recording to form an edited highlight summary automatically.Figure 4 provides an example of the editing action list 38.

A body of a beauty device comprising a head mount unit from which a first head which is the head according to claim 1 or a second head having a structure different from that of the first head can be attached to and detached a drive source configured to apply torque to the first head or the second head a first transmission mechanism configured to transmit torque to the first head and a second transmission mechanism configured to transmit torque to thesecond head wherein a rotational speed transmitted to the first head by the first transmission mechanism is higher than a rotation speed transmitted to the second head by the second transmission mechanism.

An object of the invention is to provide a cosmetic device that is able to suppress unevenness of the size of bubbles to generate fine bubbles.

The method of one of the preceding claims further comprising determining a direction of wind wherein controlling the wind turbine to reduce noise emission from the wind turbine is carried out in accordance with the determined direction of wind.

According to a further embodiment wind turbine 10 may be equipped with a rotation sensor as described above.Thus the noise signal detected by microphone 80 can be correlated with the rotational positions of the blades 8.Accordingly the pitch control system may base its control also on the rotational position of the rotor blades as described above.

A method according to claim 16 wherein the base station is a femtocell base station and the method further comprising positioning the femtocell base station so that a location area boundary for the femtocell base station is in a desired position.

Although in the examples described above the IMSI of subscribers to particular services are provided to every femto cell base station that supports that service in some situations this may be impractical.This may be particularly the case for certain services where there would be insufficient storage capacity in the femto cell base stations to store the details of many millions of subscribers.Also it may be desirable for security reasons not to store this information in femto cell base stations.In these circumstances the location server 200 may provide information to the femto base stations providing the services requiring those femto base stations to provide a notification to the location server 200 of any user equipment registrations which occur.The notification will include the IMSI of the user equipment an identifier for the femto base station together with details of when the registration occurred in a similar manner to that described above.The location server 200 or application server 100 would then determine from the IMSI whether the user equipment was subscribed to a service provided by that femto base station.

The wireless communications device of claim 12 wherein shortrange communication comprises communication over a Bluetooth communication protocol.

In the example of fig.1 a user 107 who arrives in the underground area 109 and who has not yet subscribed to the electronic ticket service may subscribe to the service by connecting his Bluetooth device 107a to a Bluetooth access point 104 of the service provider via a Bluetooth service device 104a.At the access point 104 the customer 104 may perform a payment transaction select a desired subscription and receive a link key.With the link key the users Bluetooth device 107a may subsequently establish secure Bluetooth connections with the Bluetooth transceivers 101 and 102af.

The Xray interferometer according to any of the preceding claims wherein the grating period P122 of the phase grating andor the grating period P123 of the absorption grating is equal or less than 5 m equal or less than 4 m or equal or less than 3 m.

It should be noted that a first element or arrangement is considered to be coupled to a second element or arrangement with reference to the electromagnetic radiation if at least some electromagnetic radiation emanating from the first element or arrangement is incident on the second element or arrangement.

The compound cycle engine as defined in claim 1 wherein the reaction ratio of the first stage turbine is a pressurebased reaction ratio having a value of at most 0.2 and the second stage turbine has a pressurebased reaction ratio having a value of at least 0.25.

Referring to Figs.34 a compound cycle engine 10 according to a particular embodiment is schematically shown.In this embodiment two rotary units 12 in the form of Wankel engines are included with the two eccentric portions 42 of the output shaft 16 being angularly offset at 180 from one another for balancing of the compound cycle engine 10.In other embodiments more or less rotary engines may be provided.

A method for manufacturing a single crystal diamond in which a single crystal diamond seed substrate obtained by vapor phase synthesis is placed on a stage and vapor phase synthetic single crystal diamond is additionally deposited thereon the method comprising 1 a step of measuring flatness of the single crystal diamond seed substrate prior to additional deposition of the vapor phase synthetic single crystal diamond 2 a step of determining whether or not to flatten the single crystal diamond seed substrate based on the measurement result of the flatness and 3 any one of the following two steps of 3a a step of additionally depositing the vapor phase synthetic single crystal diamond after flattening the single crystal diamond seed substrate for which the flattening is necessary based on the determination and 3b a step of additionally depositing the vapor phase synthetic single crystal diamond without flattening the single crystal diamond seed substrate for which the flattening is not necessary based on the determination.

In this invention when the synthesis by plasma assisted CVD is effected in a clean vacuum apparatus with the concentration of the supplied carbon source set to 0.0250.3 as the first concentration level the film forming rate is 0.13mh or less and a highquality homoepitaxial diamond thin film with atomic level surface flatness is synthesized.When the carbon source concentration is thereafter changed to 0.31.0 as the second concentration level a homoepitaxial diamond thin film is formed at the rate of 0.150.4mh with no change in the high quality of the film.In other words the invention was accomplished based on the discovery that imparting an ideal state to the surface of the substrate during the initial phase of diamond growth enables formation of a highquality film thereafter even if the epitaxial growth reflecting the new surface ground surface is increased to a high rate.

The information processing program according to claim 2 wherein the operation means includes direction indication means 13A13G for enabling a direction indication operation with respect to at least two directions and the display range offsetting means offsets the first display range in a direction indicated by the direction indication operation made on the direction indication means.

In the monitor game image generation process step 45 and the terminal gameimage generation process step 46 of the second embodiment images representing the result of the game control process are generated respectively as in the first embodiment.For example the monitor game image is generated as a threedimensional CG image which is generated through the steps of arranging the second virtual camera in the virtual world based on the parameters relating to the second virtual camera which are represented by the virtual camera data Dbj arranging the player object Po and the like in the virtual world based on the actionattitude data Dbg and the position data Dbi and calculating a scene of the virtual world viewed from the second virtual camera.The terminal game image is generated as a threedimensional CG image which is generated through the steps of arranging the first virtual camera in the virtual world based on the parameters relating to the first virtual camera which are represented by the virtual camera data Dbj arranging the player object Po and the like in the virtual world based on the actionattitude data Dbg and the position data Dbi and calculating a scene of the virtual world viewed from the first virtual camera.

The power tool of any preceding claim wherein the plurality of indexing features comprises a plurality of recesses separated by peripheral surface portions.

FIG.25 is a cross section of the impact driver attachment head 108.The impact driver attachment head 108 includes a motor pinion 216 that includes the central opening 134 for receiving the motor drive shaft projection 144 or 145 and transfers rotational motion of the motor 102 to a hammer 217 with the cooperation of a cam shaft 218 a ring gear 219 and planetary gears 221 FIG.24.The hammer 217 rotates freely and then impacts an anvil 223 to provide a high torque impact which is transferred to an output shaft 224 by way of a spiral bevel pinion 225 and spiral bevel gear 226.The output shaft 224 is coupled to a sleeve 228 by way of a retainer ring 229 an upper spring washer 230 a spring sleeve 231 balls 232 and a Cring 233.Together the output shaft 224 and sleeve 228 form the coupler 212.The output shaft 224defines a longitudinal output axis D oriented perpendicular to the axis A.The total gear ratio of the impact driver attachment head 108 is about 9.33.In other constructions the impact driver attachment head 108 may have other desirable gear ratios.

The lubricating oil composition as claimed in claim 3 wherein the alcohol based fuel is an ethanol based fuel preferably bioethanol.

Table 11Examples Comp.Exs.1 2 3 1 2Formulation mass Base oil A1 20.00 20.00 20.00 20.00B2 61.78 61.58 61.78 56.87C399.50D45.00ZnDTP A5 0.70 0.90 0.70 0.70B6Antioxidant A7 0.30 0.30 0.30 0.30 0.50B8Fatty acid amide A9 0.20 0.200.20B100.20Polybutenylsuccinimide A11B12Ca sulfonate13Pcontaining extreme pressure agent A14B15Viscosity indeximprover A16 14.00 14.00 14.00 14.00B17 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00Metal deactivator18Deformer19 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02FeCu immersion test Iron piece corrosion no no no no noCopper piece 1b 1b 1b 1a 3aPercent Cu loss mass 0.007 0.009 0.008 0.044 0.001Sludge before hexane washing pa pa pa p1 p1after hexane washing no no no no paOxidation stability test Deposit on glass container sludge no no noInsoluble matter mass 0.00 0.00 0.00Friction coefficient0.57 0.59 0.56pa particles remained p1 small amount of white precipitation p2 medium amount of white precipitation p3 large amount of white precipitationTable 12Comparative Examples3 4 5 6 7Formulation mass Base oil A120.00S261.53C3 98.50 98.5099.00 99.40D4ZnDTP A5B6 0.50 0.500.50Antsoxidant A7 0.50 0.50 0.30 0.50 0.50B80.20Fatty acid amide A9 0.50B10Polybutenylsuccinimide A110.50B120.30Ca sulfonate13Pcontaining extreme pressure agent A140.100.10B150.50Viscosity indeximprover A1614.00B173.00Metal deactivator180.05Deformer190.02FeCu immersion test Iron piece corrosion no no heavy heavy heavyCopper piece 3b 3b 4a 3b 4aPercent Cu loss mass 0.131 0.010 0.002 0.004Sludge before hexane washing p1 p3 p3 p2 p1after hexane wasting no no no pa p1Oxidation stability test Deposit on glass container sludgenoInsoluble matter mass0.00Friction coefficient0.58pa particles remained p1 small amount of white precipitation p2 medium amount of white precipitation p3 large amount of white precipitation

The computing device 400 as claimed in claim 11 wherein the computing device 400 further comprising a usage monitoring module 416 to retrieve the historical data 428 of a userspecific usage pattern of the computational resources 402 406 506 508 510 512 at regular time intervals based on a plurality of context parameters and wherein the plurality of context parameters comprises time of day day of week month year users locations users network cell users mobility and users network usage.

Figure 2 is a block diagram of one embodiment of a mobile device 200 with a user application process communicating with daemon processes that are executing in a mix of low and high importances.In Figure 2 and in one embodiment the operating system 202 of the mobile device 200 has a daemon process 212 that runs as one of the higher importance processes 208.In addition the operating system 202 includes other daemon processes 206AN that are running as lower importance processes 210 and the user application process 204.Furthermore the user application process 204 makes service requests to low importance process daemons 206AB and high importance process daemon 212.

The system of claim 1 wherein the channel units are implemented using reconfigurable hardware and the channel units are configured to send a release signal to the contention logic when they no longer need allocated resources.

Fig.3 shows the components associated with the present invention in the mobile station 30.As shown in Fig.3 the mobile station 30 is comprised of a location measuring part 33 incorporating GPS equipment and configured to measure the location of the mobile station 30 a quality calculator 34 for calculating a reception quality at the mobile station 30 of a pilot signal from the base station 10 and a transmissionreception part 32 equipped with an antenna 31 and configured to perform transmission and reception of packet data and send the location information of the mobile station 30 and the reception quality information of the reference signal to the base station 10.

The mobile device of claim 4 wherein the first housing includes an outer face opposite the first housing inner face and having a display.

The rotation motion units 150 may include a first and second rotation motion units 150a and 150b.The rotation motion units 150 may be connected to each of the first and second bodies 110 and 120 and generate a relative rotation of the first and second bodies 110 and 120.The rotation motion units 150 may be mounted in the second case 142.

The biological information displaying method according to claim 11 wherein a range of each of the parameters in each of the radar charts is divided into at least the normal and abnormal ranges the ranges displayed in different colors or textures.

The pressurepulsewave detecting probe 36 constructed as described above is pressed against the body surface 50 of the cervical portion 38 right above the carotid artery 46 so that the pressurepulsewave sensor 54 detects a pressure pulse wave i.e.a carotid pulse wave wc which is produced from the carotid artery 46 and is transmitted to the body surface 50 and supplies a pressurepulsewave signal SM2 representing the detected carotid pulse wave wc to the control device 32 via an AD converter not shown.An example of the carotid pulse wave wc represented by the pressurepulsewave signal SM2 continuously supplied from the pressurepulsewave sensor 54 is indicated at solid line in Fig.5.

Method according to claim 1 or 2 wherein the end of a program subsequence is determined in dependency of at least one of the following input variables a user selectable input variablea working parameter of the laundry drum 18 a working parameter of a process air fan 8 a working parameter of the heat pump system 4 a working parameter of an electric driving motor 32 a working parameter of the compressor 14 a working parameter of a liquid pump or condensate pump a time parameter of a counter a drying progress status parameter or a status parameter of the laundry to be dried a status of a liquid or condensate level an environment parameter of the treatment apparatus environment and a machine alarm status parameter.

Not at last the invention provides efficient help in controlling the temperatures within the heat pump unit to avoid excesses and establish substantially constant operating temperatures within given ranges.This will greatly improve the appliances flexibility for functioning in a variety of circumstances given by varying ambient temperatures and loads.

The method of claim 11 wherein the circuit unit includes a second inductor connected in series to the first inductor and connected in parallel to the first output capacitor a second output capacitor connected in parallel to the first output capacitor a first switch connected in parallel to the second inductor and a second switch connected in series to the second inductor.

Now operation of the charging apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure will be described in more detail.

A nontransitory computerreadable recording medium having stored thereon a program which when executed by a computer system causes the computer system to perform the method of claim 12.

Using the speaker dependent recognition in some embodiments the speaker can be verified using the voice command portion of the voice signal which may comprise the entire voice signal.Hence there is no need to input a separate wakeup command.For example when the speaker is verified using unique voice characteristics of the user there is no need to input the separate wakeup command.Accordingly in these embodiments the voice command can also operate as the wakeup command.Thus in steps 202 and 204 the specific voice of the particular user is recognized and wakeup command is automatically detected via this speech recognition.

The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the proactively control of execution comprises one of a remove pause and preempt execution of at least one of the one or more foreground applications 102 104.

Figure 3A is a block diagram one embodiment of a mobile device 300 with a user application process 304 communicating with a daemon process 306A and the importance of the daemon process 306A is promoted.In Figure 3A the mobile device 300 includes an operating system 302 that manages the execution of a user application process 304 and daemon processes 306AN.In addition the user application process 304 is running at a high importance and the daemon processes initially execute at a lower importance.When the user application process 304 requests a service from a daemon process the daemon process is promoted to a higher importance to process this service request.In one embodiment this daemon process 306A is an adaptive daemon because the importance of this process can be adapted to the environment the process is operating in.For example and in one embodiment the user application process 304 makes a service request to the daemon process 306A via message 312.In one embodiment the message is an interprocess communication IPC message.In response to the message being queued for the daemon the importance of the daemon is promoted to a higher importance daemon 316.While in one embodiment the importance of the promoted daemon 316 is the same as the requesting user application process 304 in alternative embodiments the promoted importance of the daemon 316 can be greater or lesser than the importance of the requesting user application process 304.

Method and system according to any of claims 1 to 12 characterized by analyzing a scene for classifying a traffic situation into a set of possible situation hypotheses specifying a situation hypothesis by a prototypical combination of traffic participants andor infrastructure elements of the scene and their dynamics including at least one of maneuver options and state changes that can be identified selecting of candidate situations from the situation hypotheses calculating of a risk map each situation hypothesis andevaluating of the predicted risk from the at least one risk map to support the vehicle driving control.

Such a roadterrain detection method comprises sensing the environment of the vehicle with the at least one sensor 11a 11b transforming the sensor signal S11a Sllb into at least one confidence map of local properties of the environment by using at least one base classifier generating spatial features for the local properties based on the at least one confidence map and classifying locations in the environment of the vehicle 20 to a certain category of road terrain based on the generated spatial features.An entry of the confidence map contains confidence information about whether a corresponding location e.g.a pixel position or a cell in a metric space has a certain property.A confidence map thus represents for each location e.g.in a space representations the confidence about the property of each location.A base classifier is for visual boundary classification in order to find visual features that discriminate a road boundary such as curbstones from a roadlike area.Risk of collisions between the ego vehicleand other traffic participants is estimated by the processing means.

A method of streaming multimedia content from a media server to different media players the method comprising receiving via a network multimedia signals associated with a single multimedia program splitting the multimedia signals into separate video and audio streams transmitting a video stream and an audio stream to a primary media player having a display and a speaker transmitting an audio stream to a secondary media player having a display and a speaker and coordinating substantially simultaneous display of different audio streams associated with the single multimedia program on the different media players using a digital program clock as a common reference.

Receiver 1202 communicates with each of speakers 1206a1206h with a respective communication signal 1210a1210h to provide corresponding audio data.For example communication signals 1210a1210h may be BLUETOOTH communication signals or communications signals according to another protocol.Receiver 1202 and speakers 1206a1206h may each have a corresponding BLUETOOTH communication module.Furthermore as shown in FIG.12 each of speakers 1206a1206h has a respective one of latency calculators 502a502h.Each latency calculator 502a502h compares a present output latency for a respective one of speakers 1206a1206h against a desired output latency and adjusts a rate of sound output accordingly to synchronize audio of speakers 1206a1206h.

The UV curable inkjet printer according to claim 14 wherein the UV curable inkjet printer includes a recirculation circuit for the safeguard liquid connected to the continuous ink flow printhead for the free radical UV curable white inkjet ink.

The ink is composed so as to at least form an image.The ink preferably contains at least one polyerizable or crosslinkable material and further a polymerization initiator a lipophilic solvent a coloring agent and other components depending on necessity.

The rotor blade 100 assembly as in any preceding claim wherein said vortex generator accessory 102 comprises a single said protrusion member 108 extending from said base portion 104.

The mounting plate 90 further comprises a peeloff layer 92 which is removed prior to retrofitting the VG devices 70 to the exterior of the blade section 10.The VG devices 70 are then adhered with the inner side of the VG devices 70 to the exterior of the blade section 10 by applying the first side 91 of the mounting plate 90 onto the area of application on the exterior of the blade section 10 after which the mounting plate 90 is removed thusas shown in Fig.12leaving the VG devices 70 on the exterior of the blade section 10 due to the use of the adhesive strips in the recesses of the VG devices 70.The VG devices 70 may simply be adhered to the exterior of the blade section 10 by applying pressure to the mounting plate 90.

The method 500 of any preceding claim wherein ascertaining the CDM value is based at least in part on measuring of a physical parameter or finite element analysis or predictive algorithms associated with the part.

CMMP 300 also includes maintenance task database 308 that includes information relating to maintenance tasks performed on aircraft in the fleet and intervals of performance of the maintenance tasks.The maintenance tasks and or maintenance intervals stored in database 308 are changed when further analysis of the data as described above indicates a maintenance task procedure or interval may be optimized to facilitate reducing the number of performance parameters values that are outside the range of acceptable values during future operation of the aircraft.

The mobile terminal of claim 1 wherein the controller transmits the private information using DualTone MultiFrequency DTMF tones transmitted over a voice channel of the mobile terminal.

FIG.7 shows example implementation steps involved in the selective authentication initialization process As above the access controller application 304 via the mobile device 130 processor and hardwaresoftware architectures 200 300 receives a request to access the SIM 105 to store data step 701.Inresponse the access controller application 304 via the mobile device 130 and hardwaresoftware architectures 200 300 may prompt the user to identify the data being stored to the SIM as secure data requiring authentication prior to subsequent access or unsecured data not requiring authentication prior to subsequent access step 702.If the data to be stored in the SIM 105 is secure data then an authenticationrequired flag is set to TRUE step 703.Then data is stored in the SIM 105 with the authenticationrequired flag attached step 704.If the data to be stored in the SIM 105 is unsecured data then the authenticationrequired flag is set to FALSE step 705.Then data is then stored in the SIM 105 with the authenticationrequired flag attached step 704.This authenticationrequired flag may be a single bit i.e.0 or 1associated with each memory address or part of the structure of data stored in the SIM.After the data is stored in the SIM 105 the access controller application 304 exits the routine and awaits the next data request step 706.

The rack bushing according to claim 2 further comprising a plurality of axial slits the axial slits extending in the axial direction alternately from a pair of axial ends of the rack bushing to a middle portion of the rack bushing in the axial direction such that the axial slits are separated from one another at regular intervals in a circumferential direction in a staggered manner and a meandering portion including a plurality of axial portions extending in the axial direction such that the axial portions and the axial slits are alternately disposed in the circumferential direction the meanderingportion being continuous in the circumferential direction while meandering in the axial direction the rack bushing being enabled to be elastically reduced in diameter wherein the outer recessed portions the partitioning portion the inward protruding portion the thinwalled portions and the thickwalled portion are disposed on each of the axial portions of the meandering portion.

When attaching the guide bush 18a described above to a fitandhold portion 36a provided on a part near the sides of both ends in the axial direction of the first housing portion 11a of the housing 9a the widths of the slits 28 29 are reduced by using acylindrical jig or the like the cylindrical fitting portion 25 in a state of being reduced in diameter is inserted in this fitandhold portion 36a the rack shaft 7 is then inserted into this cylindrical fitting portion 25 and this cylindrical fitting portion 25 is elastically increased in diameter.Thereby the elastic rings 26 26 are elastically compressed held between the bottom surfaces of the catching grooves 31 31 and the inner peripheral surface of the fitandhold portion 36a.Together with this the flange portion 27 is engaged with an engagement groove 34 formed at the outer end portion opening side end portion in the axial direction of this fitandhold portion 36a and the elastic ring 33 is elastically compressed between the bottom surface of the catching groove 32 and the inside surface in the axial direction of an inward flange portion 35 provided at the outer end edge opening end edge in the axial direction of the first housing portion 11 a.Thereby the guide bush 18a and thus the rack shaft 7 are prevented from rattling in the first housing portion 11a.

The display apparatus 100 of claim 1 in combination with a server wherein the object information comprises keyword information corresponding to the object information and the server generates the recommendation information by information retrieval based on the keyword information through an Internet network.

As described above according to the embodiment the digital TV 1 identifies a user who is viewing a program displayed on the LCD panel 3 from video image captured by the camera 60.The digital TV 1 stores the program that the user is viewing in association with the user as view history and searches program guide data for a recommended program similar to programs viewed by the user in the past using a keyword based on the view history stored in association with the user.The digital TV 1 creates a program advice message and displays it on the LCD panel 3.In this manner the digital TV 1 automatically identifies a user andinforms the user of a recommended program.Thus without setting operation such as to program timer recording the user is less likely to miss a program that heshe wishes to view.

A control unit for use with a display comprising a plurality of pixels comprising a means for setting a portion out of the plurality of pixels to different values to reduce the image retention e.g.to darker or black for obtaining offpixels b means for reducing the resolution of the displayed image to a predefined value and c means for sequentially switching the position of the pixels driven by different values to reduce the image retention e.g.darker or black or offpixels over the plurality of pixels comprised by the display wherein the display has a number of N pixels and the portion is M pixels out of the plurality of pixels N which are set to the second image values that are lower than the first image values to reduce the image retention there being NM pixels for display of the arbitrary image on the display so that the resolution of the displayed image is reduced to the predefined value determined by the number of pixels NM whereby M is 50 of N or to 75 of N.

In a method and electronic device according to a third embodiment of the present invention an initiating row of the display element used beginning at which the use of the display of a certain part is desired is selected from the display element and the part of the display element surrounded the selected part is switched off when the display is used in standby mode to present a certain amount of information.In order to avoid the appearing of permanent marks to the display element the used part of the display element is changed so that the same part of the display element is not constantly used to display the same information.The changes in position can be realised e.g.by moving the currently used zone of the display element to a certain direction by certain steps e.g.up down to the side or diagonally the next position is randomly selected or the next position is selected in some other way.When a larger display area is needed to present a larger amount of information a larger part of the display element or the whole display element can be activated.

An infant or adult diaper 10 according to claim 1 wherein the wall element 76 comprises a proximal end which is generally adjacent to the topsheet 22 and a distal end opposite the proximal end and wherein the bridge element 72 is arranged at the distal end.

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 exhaust gas purifying catalyst composition according to any one of claims 2 to 4 wherein the other transition metals are contained at a rate of 0.05 to 20 mass relative to a content of Cu.

Furthermore although the cerium oxidezirconium oxidebased mixed metal oxide of the present invention can contain 1 to 20 of one type or two or more types of oxides selected from oxides of rare earth elements excluding cerium transition metal elements aluminum and silicon in this case this can be accommodated in the present step by adding a prescribed amount of one type or two or more types of a metal salt selected from the group consisting of metal salts of rare earth elements excluding cerium transition metal elements aluminum and silicon.

The ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus of claim 1 wherein the controller determines a focal region for each scan line in which the ultrasound signals are to be focused based on the at least one focal point.

FIG.2 is a block diagram showing an illustrative embodiment of an ultrasound diagnostic system.Referring to FIG.1 the ultrasound diagnostic system 10 may include a probe 11 a beam forming unit 12 an image processing unit 13 and a display unit 14.The ultrasound diagnostic system 10 will be described below in terms of its operation in color Doppler mode.The color Doppler mode may include a velocity mode a power mode a variance mode a power Doppler mode a 3D power Doppler mode and the like.

The method of claim 12 wherein the cermet material is WC12Co.

Any suitable thickness of a single layer and a multilayer erosionresistant coating 64 may be used so long as it is effective to provide increased erosion resistance over that of the material of airfoil surface 32.In one embodiment for a single layer of TiN an effective layer thickness includes a minimum thickness of about 5 microns and single layer thickness in the range of 510 microns and a residual compressive stress of at least about 3792 MPa.In another embodiment of a multilayer that includes a plurality of Ti and TiN layers in an alternating arrangement a minimum thickness per layer of about 5 microns and a maximum overall thickness of about 60 microns with at least four layers of Ti and TiN is effective.An effective thickness range for at least one TiTiN combination and more preferably four or more Ti and TiN layers is about 560 microns and more particularly about 2560 microns and even more particularly about 4560 microns.In yet another exemplary embodiment of a single layer of WCCoCr as the erosionresistant coating 64 an effective layer thickness includes aminimum thickness of about 3 mils and single layer thickness in the range of 37 mils and a residual compressive stress of at least about 3792 MPa.The minimum thickness will be that effective to provide erosionresistance greater than that of the bare airfoil surface 32 which generally will be a layer thickness sufficient to insure complete coverage of the surface including features such as filmcooling holes etc.while avoiding coating defects sometimes associated with thin layers such as pinholes.The maximum thickness may be any suitable thickness but will generally be a thickness that is effective to provide a desired service life to the airfoil surface in a predetermined operating environment while also maintaining a desired level of adherence or bond strength to the airfoil surface 32 or sacrificial coating 62 to which it is applied as the case may be.The maximum thickness will typically be a function of the method used to dispose the erosionresistant material on the airfoil surface 32 or the sacrificial coating 62 the associated sacrificial coating 62 used and the overall minimum amount of residual compressive stress desired within airfoil coating 61.A minimum amount of overall residual compressive stress is desirable in airfoil coating 61 and erosionresistant coating 64 generally an amount that is at least as large as any minimum amount of residual compressive stress imparted to the airfoil surface 32 so that the airfoil coating 61 does not have the effect of decreasing the residual compressive stress in the airfoil surface 32 below the desired minimum amount and so that the airfoil coating 61 also maintains the desired minimum amount of residual compressive stress.

The optical amplification stage 1 according to any one of the preceding claims wherein each of the first and second optical reflector is a Bragg Grating reflector.

In this process the signal lights and the probe light 121 partly being branched by the optical fiber coupler 23 connected to the output sections of the optical amplifierrepeaters 22 reach the wavelengthselective reflecting device 24.The wavelengthselective reflecting device 24 reflects only the probe light 121.The reflected probe light 121 is transmitted by the optical fiber coupler 23 in the reverse direction passes the optical fiber coupler 27 and is coupled with the down link.The probe light 121 outputted to the down link after being transmitted by the optical transmission path enters into the optical transmission path monitoring apparatus 1.

The secure access method according to any one ofClaims 1 to 4 the secure access device 1 being coupled between a main memory 31 which is loaded with the operating system 311 and a storage device 4 characterized in that the first control regulation includes at least one of a onetime access regulation and a onetome instruction regulation the onetime access regulation being an access regulation on instructions transmitted by the legit app program to the secure access device 1 the onetime instruction regulation being a code regulation on instructions for the secure access device 1 and the legit app program and characterized in that the onetime access regulation of the first control regulation includes an access regulation on an instruction transmitted by the legit app program to the secure access device 1 for accessing a hidden area of the storage device 4 the hidden area being unable to be detected read or written by the operating system 311.

FIG.4A shows an example of the instruction document and terminal application data 1022 needs to be analyzed to obtain position information as described in this instruction document.This analysis may be carried out using a card application but since the analysis is difficult it is usually performed outside and the result is stored.

Method according to the claim 6 or 7 further comprising calculating the estimated heat input HIengmodel HIexpected from the corrected heat input HIiso the inlet air pressure PT7 and the inlet air temperature Tinlet.

Flexible fuels that are burned in gas turbines often range in composition and associated calorific value.Compared with regular natural gas flexible fuel composition variations can create certain combustion problems including elevated emissions combustion noise dynamics undesirable flame holding events and inefficient burning.Adjusting combustor properties to optimize combustion as a function of fuel composition has traditionally been addressed by using a mass spectrometer calorimeter or other fuel measurement techniques such as a Wobbe Index meter.However such devices are expensive inaccurate and have a slow response time.In certain traditional systems at least three Wobbe Index meters are needed along with buffer tanks and other expensive infrastructure for determining the fuel composition variations and addressing the related combustion problems.

Method according to claim 1 wherein the payment of the money amount by remote transactions is possible i.e.when the payment mobile phone is far away from the reception payment mobile phone and wherein the paying party activates the transaction unilaterally by choosing among the receipt parties in a list or by typing the mobile telephone number or the ID of the recipient party the money amount to be credited the payment reason and the authorization PIN.

When however step 26 has resulted in a positive outcome i.e.a match OK result 28 the transaction identified by the transaction information is authorized in step 29.Step 29 can result in an actual message to the first andor the second entity that the transaction is authorized but can alternatively or additionally result in a further communication scenario as for example illustrated in Fig.1b.Subsequent to a match OK result the server may extract bank details of the second entity in step 30 either from a serverstored database or the second message from the second entity or an additional message received from the second entity.Depending on the bank details extracted the server may contact a payment company in step 31 and the server may trigger a money transfer from the second entity to the first entity in step 32.In case of a positive outcome of step 32 the server receives money transfer confirmation or any other clearing message indicating that a money transfer can be definitely expected.Subsequent to the reception of such a confirmation or clearing message in step 33 the server can send a confirmation to the first andor the second entity in step 34 that everything was OK and the money transfer transaction has successfully been completed.Then based on this message received from the server subsequent to step 34 the first entity can finally handout the product or allow an access to a service or can perform any other action which has been paid by the money transfer triggered by the server in step 32.

A surgical stapler comprising an end effector comprising a plurality of deployable staples and a firing elementa motor configured to drive said firing element wherein said motor comprises a primary set of coils and a control system in signal communication with said motor wherein said control system comprises a battery and a pulse width modulation circuit configured to control the duration of current pulses supplied from said battery to said primary set of coils.

The loading unit 169 may incorporate or be configured to incorporate various end effectors such as vessel sealing devices linear stapling devices circular stapling devices cutters etc.Such end effectors may be coupled to endoscopic portion 140 of powered surgical instrument 10.The loading unit 169 may include a linear stapling end effector that does not articulate.An intermediate flexible shaft may be included between handle portion 112 and loading unit.It is envisioned that the incorporation of a flexible shaft may facilitate access to andor within certain areas of the body.

The repair element 6 according to claim 13 characterized in that a plurality of wall connectors 7a is provided that interconnect adjacent roller layers 7d 7e 7f of said helically rolledup honeycomb wall element 7.

In this example as shown in Figures 89 a rolled adhesive mat 70 is then inserted into the deformed aperture 44a during the step 54.After insertion the adhesive mat 70 is folded and manipulated until the adhesive mat 70 lines the deformed aperture 44a.In this example a first end portion 72 of the adhesive mat 70 is folded back over a portion of the first side 62 and a second end portion 74 of the adhesive mat 70 is folded back over a portion of the second side 64.Thus the adhesive mat 70 directly contacts the first side 62 and the second side 64 as well as lining the chamfers 66 and 68 and lining the remaining portions of the deformed aperture 44a.

A surgical instrument comprising an elongated shaft assembly defining a longitudinal tool axis a surgical end effector operably coupled to the elongated shaft assembly for selective articulation relative thereto the surgical end effector being configured to perform at least one surgical procedure in response to firing motions applied theretoan articulation system operably interfacing with the elongated shaft assembly for applying articulation motions to the surgical end effector a firing member assembly operably interfacing with the elongated shaft assembly to apply the firing motions to the surgical end effector a motor configured to generate rotary actuation motions and means for selectively applying an output motion from the motor to each of the articulation system and the firing member assembly.

With continued reference to FIGS.9 and 11 a drive tube 302 a bung 304 and firing rod 306 are also included.Drive tube 302 includes internal threads not explicitly shown along at least a portion of its length and is rigidly attached to actuator gear 300.Bung 304 is threadably engaged with internal threads of drive tube 302 and is translatable within drive tube 302 with respect to actuator gear 300.FIG.9 shows bung 304 near its proximalmost position and FIG.11 illustrates bung 304 near its distalmost position.Firing rod 306 is rigidly connected to bung 304 and extends distally therefrom.In an embodiment of the disclosure firing rod 306 extends at least to distal portion 142 of endoscopic portion 140.

The magnetic drill of claim 3 wherein the alternate power source circuit includes a battery and a detector that monitors the DC voltage output by the converter and electrically couples the battery to the electromagnet in the absence of a DC voltage output from the converter.

FIG.5 is a flow chart showing processes in a magnetic base drilling device according to asecond embodiment of the portable drilling device according to the present invention.FIG.6 is a flow chart showing processes following FIG.5.In FIGS.5 and 6 steps having the same processes as those in steps in FIGS.3 and 4 are denoted by the same numerals.

A protocol conversion gateway 200 according to any of claims 1115 wherein said received first SIP message from the client 210 is a REGISTER request message.

The SIPX server 324 may execute a database query using for example the username part or domain part of the invitees URI.If the invitee is within the domain of the SIPX server 324 the query will return information indicating so.The information may include additional identification information pertaining to the invitee to be used to communicate to the invitee.Thus if the URI is registered the SIPx server 324 assumes SIP messaging between the initiator and the invitee.

A method as claimed in claim 11 or 12 wherein the converting comprises using a 1 bit sigma delta converter with a pulse density modulation output.

Each of the two ADCs has a control circuit in the form of a voltage reference source 22a22b for setting the voltage on one input of the differential ADC converters and a high impedance element 24a24b between the ADC input terminals.In the example shown this comprises two back to back diodes.These do no conduct as the input voltage from the microphone is of the order of 100mV and therefore below the conduction threshold of the diodes.They could be replaced by a different high impedance element.Each ADC circuit has a constant gain.

A hearing assistance system according to claim 5 wherein each of the first and second parts of the hearing assistance system comprises one of a Tx and Rxground electrode exhibiting substantially equal virtual Tx and Rxground potentials established via a capacitive coupling to an external ground at least partly via the users body.

The speaker unit 108 of the hearing instrument 100 includes one or more loudspeakers not shown for reproducing sound received by the hearing instrument 100.The one or more loudspeakers may be miniature neodymium magnet speakers.The speaker unit 108 may be located in a housing designed to fit snugly in the ear or the ear canal of the user.

The power tool according to any preceding claim wherein said flywheel comprises a flywheel ring and said flywheel ring rotates at a speed in a range of from about 5600 rpm to about 10000 rpm.

The crosssection of the driving block 5 has an I shape.The upperside 52 of the driving block has a fixed pin axis 85 the underside 51 is coupled to the outer bulge of the driving block 5 the middle part is settled in the arcuate slot 192 of the slot board 19 and holds the driving block 5 fixed in the slot board and allows it to slide relatively.

A disc brake assembly comprising a caliper arranged to be mounted over a rotor the caliper having a rotor receiving region and an opening in which first and second brake pads are received on either side of the rotor receiving region the disc brake assembly further comprising a spring member arranged to provide a biasing force to each of the first and second brake pads to retain them within the caliper wherein the spring member comprises at least one pad alignment feature the pad alignment feature being arranged to allow the spring member to be properly assembled on the caliper only when a corresponding one or both of the brake pads isare aligned with its friction material facing a rotor receiving region of the caliper and when the brake pad further comprises a corresponding alignment feature arranged to engage the pad alignment feature of the spring member.

Figures 17 to 20 show a variant of a tab 178A similar to tab 178 but wherein a recess 190 has been provided by a semi shearing process.A brake pad spring 191 includes a tang 192 which fits into recess 190 thereby correctly positioning spring 191 relative to the brake pad.As shown in figures 17 to 20 a projection on the brake spring engages a recess in the brake pad.In an alternative embodiment a projection on the brake pad may engage a recess on the brake spring to fulfil the same function.

Cast film according to claim 9 characterised in that the composition has a content of form crystals of 1050 measured by Wideangle xray scattering WAXS

The melt flow index melt flow rate MFR of the linear polypropylene according to the present invention is more preferably within the range of 1 g10 minutes to 10 g10 minutes 230C load 21.18 N and is particularly preferably within the range of 2 g10 minutes to 5 g10 minutes 230C load 21.18 N in terms of filmforming properties.The melt flow index MFR is made to fall within that range by for example a method of controlling an average molecular weight andor a molecular weight distribution.

Bend obtainable by a seamless steel pipe according to claim 1 having maximum hardness values measured at 1.5 mm to 2 mm depth from the surface not higher than 235 HV10 preferably not higher than 230 HV10.

Round billets were heated in the pipe making heating conditions shown in Tables 2 to 5 and hollow pipes were produced by use of a feed roll piercing machine.The hollow pipes were finishrolled by use of a mandrel mill and a sizer whereby steel pipes having wall thickness of 30 mm to 50 mm were obtained.Thereafter these pipes were cooled in the quenching conditions described in Tables 2 to 5.Namely after pipe making any one of the following three processes were adopted the first one is cooling immediately the second one is charging immediately to a reheating furnace for isothermal treatment and then quenching and the last one is cooling once to room temperature and reheating and then cooling again.Thereafter tempering was executed in the conditions described in Tables 2 to 5 to obtain the finished products.

The liquid ejection method according to claim 22 further comprising determining whether or not the detecting with the second principle is performed based on the first detection result.

The first density nonuniformity compensation information calculation unit 124 calculates on the basis of the first test pattern read by the inline sensor 90 first density nonuniformity compensation information relating to highfrequency density nonuniformity caused by landing position error in the ejection unit.Furthermore the first density nonuniformity compensation information calculation unit 124 sends the calculated first density nonuniformity compensation information to the third density nonuniformity compensation information calculation unit 128.Moreover the first density nonuniformity compensation information calculation unit 124 also sends the first density nonuniformity compensation information to the density compensation processing unit 122 in accordance with requirements.

A computer readable storage medium comprising instructions which when executed cause a data processing apparatus to carry out the steps of the method of any one of the claims 913.

When the read out time validity flag 310 since the scheduled transmission time 30 has been already judged to be invalid all the information are not updated see Step 56 in Fig.11.When the time validity flag 311 and the scheduled transmission time 30 does not exist within the uncertain area 93 since the scheduled transmission time 30 is still valid all the information are not updated see Step 57 in Fig.11.

A plurality of silicon domains according to any of claims 1 to 6 whereby the silicon domains are grains.

In order to identify the particle size distribution of silicon nanoparticles of the powder of the negative active materials prepared in Example 1 and Comparative Example 1 transmission electron microscope TEM images thereof were analyzed.An image of the distributed silicon nanoparticles was obtained by using the TEM and a dispersion according to the size of the silicon nanoparticles was obtained by using an image analyzer.TEM images of Example 1 and Comparative Example 1 are shown in FIGS.4 and 5.

An aeronautical gas turbine engine comprising a compressor section a combustion section located downstream of the compressor section a turbine section located downstream of the combustion section the turbine section mechanically coupled to the compressor section by one or more shafts an electrical machine in mechanical communication with the one or more shafts the electrical machine including a starterelectric generator 108 for generating electrical power anda controller 122 operably connected to the starterelectric generator 108 the controller 122 configured to reduce an amount of electrical power drawn from the starterelectric generator 108 to an amount below a desired amount to be drawn in order to facilitate a desired amount of thrust production by the gas turbine engine to facilitate the desired amount of thrust production by the gas turbine engine more quickly or to maintain a stall margin.

Specifically the power control device 29 obtains information such as the operating conditions of the jet engine 10 or the flight conditions of the aircraft from the engine control device 35 step S11 in FIG.4 and regulates the power output of the first electric generator 21 by manipulating the first power regulation device 25 on the basis of the information obtained step S12 in FIG.4.Steady or slow and relativelylong cycle variations in power demand are thus handled mainly by the first electric generator 21.

The removable notepaper dispenser as claimed in Claim 1 wherein said holding space can be individually set or separated into a few small spaces by a partition.

An arched notepaper holder 3 is provided with at least one compartment 30 for receiving a notepaper supply.In this embodiment the holder 3 has seven compartments 30.Thenotepaper holder 3 can be placed into the buttjointed slots 16 26 of the left casing 1 and right casing 2.

The lubricating oil composition according to claim 1 or 2 wherein the polymethacrylate viscosity index improver is a nondispersant type polymethacrylate viscosity index improver.

Examples of the group represented by E1 and E2 can specifically include a dimethyl amino group a diethylamino group a dipropylamino group a dibutylamino group an anilino group a toluidino group a xylidino group an acetylamino group a benzoylamino group a morpholino group a pyrrolyl group a pyrrolino group a pyridyl group a methylpyridyl group a pyrrolidinyl group a piperidinyl group a quinonyl group a pyrrolidonyl group a pyrrolidono group an imidazolino group and a pyrazino group.

The settlement terminal device of claim 7 wherein when the second display content includes the signature input screen or the handwritten PIN input screen and an aspect ratio in the second display unit is less than a predetermined ratio the second information processing unit controls the direction of the seconddisplay content in accordance with the detection result of the orientation detection unit.

In this context an activated display area may be where the particular display area is driven at full capacity for visual presentation of information whereas a deactivated display area may mean no capacity for visual presentation of information by for instance powering off the deactivated display area or putting it in an idle or powersave mode or at least less than full capacity for visual presentation of information for instance by driving the deactivated display area with a reduced display brightness or color spectrum.

Method according to any previous claim wherein the preferred call set up scheme is a scheme having the lowest tariffs associated with the connection between the user terminal and the callee terminal.

Second the subscriber communication device can be provisioned so that all call appearances can be associated with a single bridging field.There is thus no need to provision a separate extension for each call appearance to effect bridging.This avoids unnecessary consumption of scarce communications and processing resources and expense for businesses due to the need to upgrade to a system having an appropriate number of extensions.

A gas turbine component according to one of claims 110 wherein the gas turbine component is a gas turbine bucketnozzle.

The surface of the airfoil 12 is protected by a TBC system 20 represented in Figure 2 as including a metallic bond coat 24 that overlies the surface of a substrate 22 the latter of which is typically the base material of the blade 10 and preferably formed of a superalloy such as a nickel cobalt or ironbase superalloy.As widely practiced with TBC systems for components of gas turbine engines the bond coat 24 is preferably an aluminumrich composition such as an overlay coating of an MCrAlX alloy or a diffusion coating such as a diffusion aluminide or a diffusion platinum aluminide all of which are wellknown in the art.Aluminumrich bond coats develop an aluminum oxide alumina scale 28 which grows as a result of oxidation of the bond coat 24.The alumina scale 28 chemically bonds a TBC 26 formed of a thermalinsulating material to the bond coat 24 and substrate 22.The TBC 26 of Figure 2 is represented as having a straintolerant microstructure of columnar grains.As known in the art such columnar microstructures can be achieved by depositing the TBC 26 using a physical vapor deposition PVD technique such as EBPVD.The invention is also applicable to noncolumnar TBC deposited by such methods as plasma spraying including air plasma spraying APS.A TBC of this type is in the form of molten splats resulting in a microstructure characterized by irregular flattened and therefore noncolumnar grains and a degree of inhomogeneity and porosity.

A private mobile network system as claimed in claim 13 or 14 wherein the private mobile network system is based on a terrestrial trunked radio and a the context information of interest is transmitted in a short data service type 4 message specifying that the message contains context information of interest or in a status message or in a short data service type 1 message or in a short data service type 2 message or in a short data service type 3 message.

In an embodiment of the invention the CIRD may comprise one or more identifiers identifying a communicating party that the terminal recording communications is communicating with.The communicating party may be identified by the identifier of the terminal of the party identifier of the communicating party andor a group identifier.Accordingly the stored identifiers may comprise at least one from the group of one or more subscriber 420 andor group identifiers 422 the communications item is sent to and one or more subscriber 420 andor group identifiers 422 the communications item is received from.

The method according to any of claims 11 to 13 further comprising providing an assignment of access rights to at least a part of the stored device configuration.

The present application provides a factory mode for a secure device.The factory mode allows the secure device to execute unsigned operating system code or operating system code signed by an entity other than an entity trusted by the OEM collectively referred to herein as untrusted software.To support execution of untrusted operating system code in a secure manner the secure device may be adapted to prevent data of predetermined type from being loaded on the secure device while the secure device is in the factory mode.In contrast to the factory mode the secure mode of the secure device is referred to herein as a product mode.There develops a need to manage in a secure manner transitions between the product mode and the factory mode.

The image processing device 3 according to claim 1 wherein the pattern collating unit 36 instructs the display control unit 32 to display the composite image 113 without performing the determination when the image pattern transmitted from the pattern specification unit 35 to each of the invehicle cameras 2a to 2d after the display switching condition is satisfied and the image pattern before the display switching condition is satisfied are identical.

A mapping table selector 41 selects the type of a synthesized image to be displayed and specifies one of the mapping tables MPT in accordance with the type of the image in need.This selection may be carried out either manually or automatically depending on the condition of the vehicle e.g.gear position steering angle or the ONOFF states of blinkers.A signal specifying the mapping table MPT to be selected is also output to an alert message selector 26 as well as to the mapping table searcher 22.

Fiber reinforced composition according to any one of the preceding claims wherein said propylene polymer PP is selected from a propylene homopolymer HPP and a random polypropylene copolymer RPP with a comonomer content in the range of 1.0 to 5.0 wt.based on the random polypropylene copolymer RPP.

Accordingly the object of the present is to provide a fiber reinforced composition with excellent flowability without compromising the mechanical properties like flexural modulus impact strength and elongation at break.

The compound cycle engine as defined in claim 1 wherein the reaction ratio of the first stage turbine is a pressurebased reaction ratio having a value of at most 0.25.

The power turbine 26 is connected to the output shaft 16 through an appropriate type of transmission 28 for example a planetary star offset or angular gear system.The outlet of the power turbine 26 is in fluid communication with an inlet of the turbocharger turbine 22.Energy is extracted from the exhaust gas exitingthe power turbine 26 by the turbocharger turbine 22 to drive the compressor 20 via the connecting shaft 24.

The apparatus according to claim 4 or 5 wherein the second area of the base substrate includes a first throughhole for introduction of the light emitted from the light source and the wavelength converter is disposed in the first throughhole.

The reflecting mirror 114 is an exemplary optical component provided commonly to a plurality of semiconductor light emitting diodes 102a102e and is arranged to surround the light source 120 from behind above and sides of the light source 120.In this manner the reflecting mirror 114 reflects light generated by the light source 120 ahead thereby making that light incident on the lens 104 and then making the lens 104 irradiate that light toward the emitting direction.Thus the reflecting mirror 114 can irradiate light emitted by a plurality of semiconductor light emitting devices 102a102e toward the emitting direction.

Method according to claim 13 further comprising prior to the step of performing the measurement of modification of the surface features moving using a stage actuator the support structure relative to the sample carrier in a direction parallel to the reference surface said moving being performed between at least a first position allowing said measuring andor modifying of the surface features and a second position allowing placement and removal of the heads onto and from said working positions.

Figure 5 shows a picture of a small array 2x4 of assembled individual probe modules 51.On the underside of the platform 45 cantilevers and lower parts of the handling means are visible.The tip to tip distance in this example array is about 1mm.A pitch range from 1 mm down to 50 m is of particular interest in arrays with a rectangular periodic arrangement.

A node in a network comprising a congestion measurement manager to determine a level of network congestion a feedback manager to use the level of network congestion to determine if feedback should be sent to nodes having a higher rank than the node wherein the feedback is configured to change a quality of service QoS level of an upstream flow of packets and a packet manager to receive the upstream flow of packets according to a bandwidth indicated by the QoS level.

In this example packets of type A classification willbe given the highest priority.If the total bandwidth is insufficient to support the required bandwidth for the type A application 802 Class A bandwidth gt new guaranteed value then the session will be terminated if theres an ongoing session 803 Terminate Class A session.Else packets of type A will be given all the bandwidth it requires 804 Allocate full bandwidth for class A packets.After all allocation to packets of type A then the remaining bandwidth will be allocated the types B C and D for example in the ratio of 721 respectively 805 Allocate 70 of remaining bandwidth for Class B 806 Allocate 20 of remaining bandwidth for Class C and 10 of remaining bandwidth for Class C.For packets of type B C and D classification bandwidth correction is performed by transmission rate control packets dropping and delaying the packets transmission.Packets from the different classes are queued according to their allocated bandwidth and class.Based on this number the threshold values for each type are computed 807 Reset threshold with respect to new allocated bandwidth.Packets will also be marked as in profile or out profile depending on whether the threshold is reached.If bandwidth usage exceeds the threshold e.g.for type B which can be a video encoder application the QoS controller may interface with the video encoder and instruct it to encode at a lower bit rate.

The use according to claim 13 wherein the lithium ion battery is an automotive lithium ion battery.

An opening size of a mesh of the sieve is appropriately selected depending on the intended purpose without any limitation but it is preferably 0.025 mm to 2 mm more preferably 0.025 mm to 1.5 mm and particularly preferably 0.075 mm to 1 mm.When the opening size of the mesh is smaller than 0.025 mm a recovery rate of the valuable material from the undersize particles may be low.When the opening size of the mesh is greater than 2 mm iron dusts or the like are mixed and included in undersize particles and therefore a further step of sorting may be required.When the opening size of the mesh is within the aforementioned particularly preferable range it is advantageous as a recovery rate of the valuable material improves.

The method of claim 8 wherein the bounded portion includes a plurality of position markers.

These zones are shown in Figure 5 with Figs.5a to 5d depicting respectively a zone labelled Focus and adjacent North South East and West priority zones.

The gas turbine engine compressor of claim 1 or 2 wherein a first fore sealing surface 120b and a second aft sealing surface 122c are bonded together.

The spoke 80 provides a reduced area subject to the thermomechanical fatigue TMF across the relatively high temperature gradient between the blades 64 which are within the relatively hot core gas path and the rotor disk 66 which is separated therefrom and is typically cooled with a secondary cooling airflow.

The stereoscopic display apparatus according to any of the preceding claims wherein the display module outputs a left image and a right image alternately.

In an exemplary embodiment in addition to using switching fluids with low rotational viscosity and higher birefringence in the Picells to achieve faster switching from opaque to clear state the Picells are made optically too thick so that the wave state is achieved at less than full relaxation.Normally the Picell thickness is adjusted so that in its relaxed state it forms a wave retarder.However making the Picells optically too thick so that the wave state is achieved at less than full relaxation resultsin faster switching from opaque to clear state.In this manner the shutters 106 and 108 of the exemplary embodiments provide enhanced speed in opening versus prior art LC shutter devices that in an exemplary experimental embodiment provided unexpected results.

The transmitting apparatus according to claim 3 wherein the information adding portion inserts the stream identifier into a continuity counter area within a header of the transport stream packet and adds the time stamp either forward or backward with respect to the transport stream.

An approximately 5second portion of the low quality TS packet stream 11 input from the second processor 9 to the first processor 8 is input to the buffer B6 and output from the first processor 8 as a single burst 15.The first processor 8 generates broadband burst data 15 for shortterm zapping from the transport stream 11 containing low quality data using the same process applied to the high quality data.The burst 15 contains TS packet block S0 for zapping.This TS packet block S0 is equivalent to the low quality TS packet stream 11 and has the same PID address.

A settopbox that supports 3dimensional 3D video content the settopbox comprising an HDMI port a processor memory that stores computer executable instructions which when executed by the computer implement transmitting video content from the HDMI port of the settopbox to a display device at a first resolution characterized in thatswitching means are provided which in response to a change in the HDMIVideoFormat field or in the 3DStructure field of an HDMI Vendor Specific InfoFrame switch the set top box to transmitting video content from the HDMI port of the settopbox at a second resolution and after the switch to the second resolution switch the set top box back to transmitting video content from the HDMI port of the settopbox at the first resolution in order to trigger a resync operation at the display device.

Since switching from 2D video to SidebySide 3D video is performed in this manner the switching is performed stably and safely.However when HDCP is enabled a black screen appears for about two seconds.Therefore there is a problem that it takes a long time to switch from 2D video to SidebySide 3D video.

A method for WLAN Access Network WLANAN selection by an User Equipment UE for access to a mobile network PLMN said selection including for an UE roaming in a Visited PLMN VPLMN and requiring a Packet Data Network Gateway PDNGW in its Home PLMN HPLMN selection of a WLANAN having connectivity to at least one PDNGW in said HPLMN based on information on connectivity to at least one PDNGW in said HPLMN of WLANANs candidate for said selection referred to as connectivity information.

The multimode capability of the mobile station here also permits its communication with a WLAN 26.Here multiple WLANs are shown with overlapping coverage areas that include the location at which the mobile station is positioned.The communication protocols used by the WLANs are of any of various schemes including for instance Wimax 802.11a b g n GERAN UTRAN LTE or any of various other IP or other networktypes.In the arrangement shown in Figure 1 the mobile station 12 is positioned within coverage areas encompassed by each of the WLANs 26.And the mobile station potentially is able to communicate with andby way of any of the WLANs 26.While the mobile station is potentially able to communicate with one or more of the WLANs 26 homenetwork services are accessible by way of the home network of the mobile station.While communications are carried out by way of a WLAN in order to access the HPLMN services access must be made to the HPLMN.In the arrangement shown in Figure 1 the mobile station is beyond the coverage area of the HPLMN.And in other scenarios even if within the coverage area of the HPLMN there sometimes are reasons for which to prefer that the communications with the mobile station be carried out by way of a WLAN.

The input device according to anyone of claims 1 to 13 wherein the detector comprises a light source an optical scanner that is configured to scan light from the light source and a light receiver that is configured to receive reflected light by the indicator of the light that has been scanned by the optical scanner.

On the other hand in the case of positive determination result at the step S521 the control unit 117 determines whether the absolute value of the moving velocity v continuously detected for the predetermined number of frames is less than the threshold value vt S523.Then in the case of positive determination result the control unit 117 identifies an inproximity shading operation operation corresponding to the static gesture S525 and in the case of negative determination result the control unit 117 identifies an inproximity shaking operation operation corresponding to the repetitive movement gesture S527.

The capacitive environmental sensor of claim 7 or claim 8 operable to make a differential capacitive measurement to determine the presence of the target substance by making a plurality of measurements of capacitance of at least some of the electrodes in respective different electrode configurations applying a scaling factor to at least some of the measurements to compensate for sensitivity of the sensor to factors other than the presence of the target substance and determining the presence of the target substance by evaluating the differences between the measurements wherein the number of measurements of capacitance made is at least two more than the number of factors other than the presence of the target substance compensated.

Figs.3a and 3b illustrate a sensor design with stacked electrodes wherein a first group or layer of electrodes 3 is arranged at a first upper plane in a sensitive layer 2 and a second group or layer of electrodes 5 is arranged at a second lower plane an intermetal oxide 4.The cross section of one repeating unit of an electrode structure is displayed with two configurations a normal configuration in Fig.3a and alternative one in Fig.3b with the corresponding field lines shown.In the normal configuration of Fig.3a the central electrode of the lower group has a negative potential whereas the electrodes of the upper group and those of the lower group underneath the upper group electrodes have a positive potential.The resulting field lines are illustrated in Fig.3a.Inthe alternative configuration shown in Fig.3b the leftmost electrodes of both groups are kept at the same potential whereas the rightmost electrodes are switched the negative potential.The center electrode of the lower group is floating and thus has a negligible effect on the electric field shown in Fig.3b.Obviously this electrode layout pattern may be repeated resulting in a interdigitated stacked electrode arrangement of any length.

The process according to claim 4 is characterized by the continuous mixing of the manure inside the sun drying hall together with the continuous addition of olive mill wastewater.

The process for the treatment of effluents and residues from olive oil production units through the utilisation and reprocessing of cork industry residues the subject of this invention can be applied to the treatment of effluents and residues from olive oil production units in the following situationsThrough the separate treatment of the residue and the effluent husks and olive mill wastewater Through the joint treatment of the residue and the effluent humid husks.

A lamp apparatus 1 comprising an apparatus body 2 including a housing 6 having a cap 25 at one end side 6a and at least one thermal conducting fin 7 provided on an inner surface 6f of the housing 6 extending from the one end side 6a along the other end side 6b of the housing 6 and projecting inward of the housing 6 a thermal radiation plate 3 attached to the other end side 6b of the housing 6 in a state in which one surface side 3b is in contact with the thermal conducting fin 7 a lightemitting body 4 attached to the other surface side 3a of the thermal radiation plate 3 and a lighting circuit 5 disposed in the housing 6 and configured to light the lightemitting body 4.

Through holes 26 26 26 and 26 are provided in the center part of the heat radiation plate 21.Lead wires indicated by dashdotted lines in the figure 27 and 27 connecting to each other the drive circuit section 3 and the light source module 1 accommodated in the cavity 25 penetrate the through holes 26 26 26 and 26.On the outer peripheral surface of the fixed cylinder 23 a plurality of heat radiation fins 22 22 22...elongated in the axial length direction of the fixed cylinder 23 are provided in parallel to each other in the circumferential direction of the fixed cylinder 23.The heat radiation fins 22 22 22...are fixed to the outer peripheral surface of the fixed cylinder 23.Then one end 22A thereof is fixed to the other surface of the heat radiation plate 21.The dimension measured from the outer peripheral surface of the fixed cylinder 23 to the edge of the heat radiation fin 22 decreases from the one end 22A on the heat radiation plate 21 side toward the other end 22B.The heat radiation plate 21 the fixed cylinder 23 and the heatradiation fins 22 22 22...are made of aluminum and formed as a unit.The insulating part 6 is attached to the other end 22B side of the heat radiation fins 22 22 22....

The method of any one of Claims 4 to 8 comprising determining that the third server computer is associated with a content delivery network assigning for the client computer the first server computer to a first level and the second server computer to a second level based at least in part on determining that the second server computer is associated with the content delivery network 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.

Preferably a request from a user contains an identifier of a set of real contents each of said real content being contained in the content delivery network in this case the process further comprises before the step of checking a step of selecting a real content of the set according to the request of the user and the step of checking comprises checking whether the closest surrogate server has the selected real content.In this case the step of selecting a real content is preferably carried out according to information related to the user.This userrelated information related to the user may be selected amongtechnical characteristics of a device of the user a location of the user past behaviour of the user a subnetwork of the user identity of the user.