Abstract: Vaporizable material is supported within a vessel to promote contact of an introduced gas with the vaporizable material, and produce a product gas including vaporized material. A heating element supplies heat to a wall of the vessel to heat vaporizable mateiral disposed therein. The vessel may comprise an amoule having a removable top. Multiple containers defining multiple material support surfaces may be stacked disposed within a vessel in thermal communication with the vessel. A tube may be disposed within the vessel and coupled to a gas inlet. Filters, flow meters, and level sensors may be further provided. Product gas resuting from contact of introduced gas with vaporized material may be delivered to atomic layer deposition (ALD) or similar process equipment.

Abstract: A condiment dispenser includes two chambers that are connected at a center section that has a removable tip. The dispenser is folded at the center section so that the two chambers are adjacent to each other. The condiment is removed from the dispenser by opening the tip and squeezing the two chambers together.

Abstract: A position and electromagnetic field sensor is provided. The sensor relies upon an oscillator such as a Robinson marginal oscillator to generate an rf or microwave electromagnetic field. As an inhomogeneously-shaped object, such as a metallic toothed wheel, for example, moves through the resultant field, the field experiences a change in electric or magnetic susceptibility. This in turn causes energy losses in the oscillator the magnitude of which can be output as a d.c. signal related thereto. To detect non-moving objects which nevertheless generate an electromagnetic field or have attached to them a source thereof, the sensor may also include a giant or colossal magnetoresistive structure located adjacent the oscillator coil, the structure having an imaginary magnetic susceptibility which is strongly dependent upon the magnitude and direction of the field generated by or at the object to be sensed.

Abstract: A vaporizer delivery system for use in semiconductor manufacturing processes including a plurality of vertically stacked containers for holding a vaporizable source material. Each of the vertically stacked containers includes a plurality of vented protuberances extending into the interior of the each stacked container thereby providing channels for passage of a carrier gas between adjacent vertically stacked containers.

Abstract: Structure helps support material in a container with an increased exposed surface area to help promote contact of a gas with vaporized material. For at least one disclosed embodiment, the structure may help support material for vaporization in the same form as when the material is placed at the structure. For at least one disclosed embodiment, the structure may help support material with an increased exposed surface area relative to a maximum exposed surface area the material could have at rest in the container absent the structure. For at least one disclosed embodiment, the structure may define one or more material support surfaces in an interior region of the container in addition to a bottom surface of the interior region of the container. For at least one disclosed embodiment, the structure may define in an interior region of the container one or more material support surfaces having a total surface area greater than a surface area of a bottom surface of the interior region of the container.

Abstract: A vaporizer delivery system for use in semiconductor manufacturing processes including a plurality of vertically stacked containers for holding a vaporizable source material. Each of the vertically stacked containers includes a plurality of vented protuberances extending into the interior of the each stacked container thereby providing channels for passage of a carrier gas between adjacent vertically stacked containers.

Abstract: The system and methods of this invention provide specific component design objects that include design guideline properties. The system and methods of this invention also provide means for storing the completed design information upon completion of the design. One embodiment of the method and system of this invention is a distributed method and system utilizing the World Wide Web.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a cream cheese-like product where non-casein protein replaces casein protein and a method for making such product. More specifically, the invention is directed to a process which is effective for making a cream cheese-like product substantially free of casein, wherein the process comprises: mixing (1) proteins other than milk caseins, (2) fat such as butter fat or other food grade fat, and (3) water to form a mixture; subjecting the mixture to a first homogenization to form a protein matrix stabilized emulsion system; heating the protein matrix stabilized emulsion system to a temperature effective to denature the proteins to form a denatured protein matrix stabilized emulsion; adjusting the pH of the denatured protein matrix stabilized emulsion to about 4 to about 6; subjecting the pH-adjusted emulsion to a second homogenization to form the cream cheese-like product; and packaging the cream cheese-like product. Optional ingredients such as stabilizers (e.g.

Abstract: This invention provides for metal surfaces which when derivatized with &agr;-&ohgr; bis-functionalized substantially linear aliphatic, including fluoroaliphatic acids and metal salts thereof exhibit changes in surface properties. In particular, composites formed from polymers and metallic surfaces derivatized according to a process of the present invention exhibit surprising durability.

Abstract: Systems, methods and computer program products for sharing state information between a stateless server and a stateful client are provided. A client request to perform an action on the server is accompanied by an encrypted token which contains state information. The server receiving the client request decrypts the token using a symmetric key generated from variable data. The server verifies that the received token is valid and uses the state information contained therein to perform the requested action. The server also provides clients with encrypted tokens using a symmetric key generated from variable data.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products for authorizing a client request to a web server to execute a CGI application are provided. A web server receives a client request to execute a CGI application from a client. Authentication routines shared by a set of CGIs are executed by the requested CGI application to determine if the request is accompanied by an authentication token. If one is not received, then the CGI attempts to authenticate the client. Upon successful authentication, the CGI creates an authentication token using an authentication key and transmits the token to the client. The authentication token contains token data which is verifiable by the CGI application. Subsequent client requests to execute this or other CGI applications in this set of CGIs instrumented with the authentication routines are accompanied by the authentication token. The requested CGI executes its authentication routines to validate the authentication token and returns the requested output.

Abstract: A suspension system damper includes a hydraulic rebound cut-off feature without unduly limiting active travel. A spring separates a rebound cut-off piston from the rod guide. The rebound cut-off piston has an oversized center hole. The outer periphery of the rebound cut-off piston is sized for a close slip-fit within the tube with a number of small slots acting as restrictive and tunable flow control features when the system enters a cut-off mode. When the top of the damping piston assembly comes into contact with the rebound cut-off piston, the cut-off mode is entered. Hydraulic flow is cut-off by blocking fluid flow through the center hole. This generates hydraulic loads on the piston rod by virtue of the high pressure generated between the rebound cut-off piston and the rod guide. Fluid is restricted to exiting the rebound cut-off region via the small slots in the outer periphery of the damping piston assembly.

Abstract: A method for introducing an injectable medicament into a subarachnoid space of a patient includes advancing a subarachnoid needle into the subarachnoid space. The subarachnoid needle has an elongate passage with a sidewall, a proximal end and a distal end that has a closed point and at least two openings through the sidewall located at a distance from the closed point. The method includes establishing a fluid communication between the subarachnoid space and the passageway through the openings, then introducing the medicament into the subarachnoid space of the patient through the passageway.

Abstract: A device for dislodging an object, for example a cap that is close fit over the top of a pipe, in which a handle and a grip, each formed to be held by the respective hands of a user, are interconnected with a weight member and an impact member, such as a pair of tongs. Slide bars fixed to the weight member are disposed through one end of the grip and connected to the handle. A shank is slidably disposed through the weight, connected to the grip on one side of the weight and to the tongs on the other side of the weight. The tongs include a plurality of pivotally connected links and are formed with elongate arms terminating distally with jaws formed to impact against a horizontally disposed surface of the cap. The tongs tend to close when freely suspended from the shank so as to slip over the cap on a pipe, contacting it from below the cap. Lifting of the handle impacts the weight against the grip to transmit a hammering force to the jaws, dislodging the cap.

Abstract: A batch mixing process for the preparation of a beverage syrup which results in a requirement for significantly lesser quantities of water in the syrup mixing process, primarily by reducing the amount of rinse water required to rinse between the mixing of the separate components of the beverage syrup. The syrup batching loop employs a main syrup tank and a subsidiary premixing tank for premixing selected components of the beverage syrup with a quantity of water to dilute each premixed component. A feed line extends from the premixing tank to the syrup tank, such that after dilution, each diluted premixed component can be pumped therethrough from the premixing tank to the main syrup tank.