Abstract: A computing device includes a heat dissipation component, a heating or cooling apparatus, and a printed circuit board. The heating or cooling apparatus includes a heating or cooling component and a wire, and the heating or cooling component is affixed to a surface of the heat dissipation component. The printed circuit board includes a printed circuit board component, and the heat dissipation component is affixed to the printed circuit board component and configured to heat or cool the printed circuit board component.

Abstract: A razor blade having a substrate with a cutting edge being defined by a sharpened tip and novel dimensions is provided. The substrate has dimensions of volumes, cross-sectional areas, and thicknesses at or near the ultimate tip (e.g., at a distance up to about 2 micrometers from the sharpened tip). The substrate is coated with one or more materials and has novel volumes, cross-sectional areas, and thicknesses at or near the ultimate tip (e.g., at a distance up to about 2 micrometers from the sharpened tip). The thickness of the substrate at 2 micrometers back from the ultimate tip is at or below about 0.977 micrometers and at or below about 1.173 micrometers for a coated substrate at the same distance. These dimensional values are measured robustly with an atomic force microscope and provide reduced cut forces for improved blade performance.

Abstract: A razor blade having a substrate with a cutting edge being defined by a sharpened tip and novel dimensions is provided. The substrate has dimensions of volumes, cross-sectional areas, and thicknesses at or near the ultimate tip (e.g., at a distance up to about 2 micrometers from the sharpened tip). The substrate is coated with one or more materials and has novel volumes, cross-sectional areas, and thicknesses at or near the ultimate tip (e.g., at a distance up to about 2 micrometers from the sharpened tip). The total volume of the substrate at 2 micrometers back from the ultimate tip is at or below about 27.3 cubic micrometers and at or below about 33 cubic micrometers for a coated substrate at the same distance. These dimensional values are measured robustly with an atomic force microscope and provide reduced cut forces for improved blade performance.

Abstract: A razor blade having a substrate with a cutting edge being defined by a sharpened tip and novel dimensions is provided. The substrate has dimensions of volumes, cross-sectional areas, and thicknesses at or near the ultimate tip (e.g., at a distance up to about 2 micrometers from the sharpened tip). The substrate is coated with one or more materials and has novel volumes, cross-sectional areas, and thicknesses at or near the ultimate tip (e.g., at a distance up to about 2 micrometers from the sharpened tip). The total area of the substrate at 2 micrometers back from the ultimate tip is at or below about 1.093 square micrometers and at or below about 6.511 square micrometers for a coated substrate at the same distance. These dimensional values are measured robustly with an atomic force microscope and provide reduced cut forces for improved blade performance.

Abstract: A method of optimizing a manufacturing process or a blade array of a razor cartridge using spatial information for a tip portion of a razor blade comprises the steps of: measuring, using an atomic force microscope including a probe having a high aspect ratio of a length to a half side angle and a probe tip with a radius less than a radius of an ultimate tip of the tip portion of the razor blade, the spatial information by traversing the probe across the tip portion of the razor blade; analyzing, by one or more processors, the spatial information as measured by the atomic force microscope, to determine one or more blade characteristics; and using the blade characteristics to adjust the manufacturing process to improve a design of the razor blade or to adjust a design characteristic of the blade array to improve a design of the razor cartridge.

Abstract: An adapter for supporting a vaporizable concentrate product on a torch in a position heatable thereby to release inhalable concentrate vapor. The adapter has a first end, an opposing second end, an attachment element residing proximate said first end and configured for attachment to said torch to support the adapter thereon, and a receptacle residing proximate said second end and configured to hold said vaporizable concentrate therein. Installed on the torch with the attachment element engaged around a flame tube of the torch, the adapter places the receptacle in working relation to an outlet end of the flame tube for heating of the receptacle via the flame emitted from the outlet end of the flame tube. The receptacle is movably supported on the adapter to enable optimized placement thereof relative to the outlet end of the flame tube.

Abstract: An animal trap features entrance encouraging mechanism for urging an animal into an enclosure of the trap. The mechanism features a pushing unit pivotally supported outside the interior space of the enclosure adjacent an access-way that opens into same. The pushing unit is pivotal about an axis generally parallel to a plane of the access-way for movement between a withdrawn position in which the access-way is unobstructed and a working position in which the pushing unit substantially obstructs the access-way. An actuator coupled to the pushing unit is triggered by an animal detection device at an approach area outside the enclosure within a travel path followed by the pushing unit, whereby the pushing unit urges the animal toward and through the access-way into the interior space of the enclosure. A one way gate prevents exit of the trapped animal after return of the pushing unit to the withdrawn position.

Abstract: An animal trap features entrance encouraging mechanism for urging an animal into an enclosure of the trap. The mechanism features a pushing unit pivotally supported outside the interior space of the enclosure adjacent an access-way that opens into same. The pushing unit is pivotal about an axis generally parallel to a plane of the access-way for movement between a withdrawn position in which the access-way is unobstructed and a working position in which the pushing unit substantially obstructs the access-way. An actuator coupled to the pushing unit is triggered by an animal detection device at an approach area outside the enclosure within a travel path followed by the pushing unit, whereby the pushing unit urges the animal toward and through the access-way into the interior space of the enclosure. A one way gate prevents exit of the trapped animal after return of the pushing unit to the withdrawn position.

Abstract: The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition that includes: (a) at least one of a non-aminoglycoside antibiotic and an anti-inflammatory agent; and (b) a biofilm-dissolving agent.

Abstract: A highly durable cable hose assembly for connecting a welding machine to the conductor tube portion of a pressurized air cooled welding torch includes a cable hose, a rear connector portion for connecting to a welding machine and a front connector portion for connecting to the conductor tube. The cable hose portion includes a gas hose for passage of inert gas, a plurality of cooling air tubes for conducting cooling air, conductive stranding for conveying electrical current for arc welding and a flexible outer hose jacket for enclosing the gas hose, the plurality of cooling air tubes and the conductive stranding in a generally tightly bundled fashion.

Abstract: A process and structure for an improved collector-up bipolar transistor. The base is formed after the emitter is implanted to eliminate base damage during oxygen implantation typical in prior art collector-up bipolar transistors. In a preferred embodiment, an emitter layer of GaAlAs is implanted with oxygen in the extrinsic emitter region to damage the material and make it insulative. The base is epitaxially grown at low temperature to insure the emitter material remains damaged and insulative.