Abstract: A new Bidens plant particularly distinguished by its upright character, compact plant habit, reduced seed set and golden yellow flowers. Flowering time is from April till November, depending on the temperature. Better resistance to Botrytis and Powdery mildew than Bidens ferulifolium.

Abstract: A distinct cultivar of Impatiens plant named Ovation Deep Orange, characterized by its vibrant and rich orange flower color, deep green leaves, early flowering, long-lasting flowering, self-branching and vigorous habit.

Abstract: A distinct cultivar of Syngonium plant named ‘Glo-Go’, characterized by its compact, dense, rounded, symmetrical and non-vining growth habit; relative high vigor; freely and early branching habit; and leaves with a striking, distinct, and well-defined greenish white pattern on a dark green background.

Abstract: ‘Ruby’ is a new and distinct short-day cultivar of strawberry plant, which produces large conic shape, glossy red color, sweet, juicy and firm fruits. The production is higher than ‘Camarosa’ and the semi-early maturity is similar to ‘Camarosa’ when grown in central and south Florida. ‘Ruby’ plant has the characteristics of low chilling requirement, open plant type, long fruit stem, easy harvesting characteristics which is adapted to growing in the major fruit production areas of the Southeastern United States.

Abstract: A distinct cultivar of Dahlia plant named ‘Gallery Monet’, characterized by its upright, somewhat outwardly spreading and rounded plant habit; freely branching, full and dense plants; decorative inflorescence form; pink and white bi-colored ray florets with yellow towards the base; and good garden performance.

Abstract: Portulaca ‘Summer Joy Rose’ is a new variety of Portulaca oleracea. This plant has a vigorous, spreading plant growth which produces large, bright reddish purple flowers having a yellow center.

Abstract: A distinct cultivar of Dahlia plant named ‘Gallery Cobra’, characterized by its upright, somewhat outwardly spreading and rounded plant habit; freely branching, full and dense plants; decorative inflorescence form; orange-colored ray florets; and good garden performance.

Abstract: A distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant named ‘Regal Yolompoc’, characterized by its upright, outwardly spreading and uniformly mounded plant habit; freely branching, dense and full plants; dark green foliage; uniform flowering; early flowering, eight-week response time; very freely flowering with about eight inflorescences per lateral stem; daisy-type inflorescences that are about 6.3 cm in diameter; dark purple-colored ray florets and bright yellow disc florets; and excellent postproduction longevity with inflorescences and leaves maintaining good substance and color for about three weeks in an interior environment.

Abstract: A new Verbena plant particularly distinguished by its large white flower, early flowering, no seed set, and a semi-erect habit that becomes spreading as plant develops.

Abstract: A distinct cultivar of Impatiens plant named Ovation Salmon, characterized by its salmon-orange flower color, large flower diameter, bright green leaves, continuous, and long-lasting flowering, self-branching and vigorous habit.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Petunia plant named ‘Balrufvein’, characterized by its light purple with dark veined double flowers; mounded and eventually trailing plant habit; and very freely basal-branching habit.

Abstract: A distinct cultivar of Impatiens plant named Ovation Purple, characterized by its deep red-purple flower color, large flower diameter, bright green leaves, continuous, and long-lasting flowering, self-branching and vigorous habit.

Abstract: A new Verbena plant particularly distinguished by its burgundy flower, early flowering, no seed set, and with a spreading habit.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Begonia plant named ‘Bacchus’, characterized by its compact and freely branching plant habit; fully double intense red flowers that are about 6 to 8 cm in diameter; short peduncles and short pedicels; and excellent postproduction longevity.

Abstract: A new and distinct highly ornamental variety of Syringa meyeri×Syringa microphylla is provided. A Lilac plant having a neat and compact growth habit is described. Highly attractive trusses of wine-colored buds are formed which open during late spring to display pink blossoms having a spicy fragrance. Good winter hardiness is made possible and the plant has been relatively free of insect and disease problems during observations to date. The plant is particularly well-suited for growing as an ornamental specimen or as a mass planting in the landscape.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of geranium plant named ‘Fiscoral’, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by the combined features of orange-red flower color, double flower form, compact, rounded inflorescence, intense green foliage with slight zonation, and moderately vigorous growth, in combination with a well-branched and uniformly developed plant habit.

Abstract: A Swamp Cypress tree named ‘Cascade Falls’ having weeping branches.

Abstract: A new ‘Sanvitalia’ plant particularly distinguished by its proliferous character, dark leaves, stems with anthocyanin, good floridity with bright yellow flowers and green center. Flowering time is almost year round, depending on the growing conditions (especially temperature).

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Poinsettia plant named ‘Fisson Gold’ characterized by having light to medium-pink bract color; medium-sized, star-shaped inflorescence with distinctly pointed bracts; bicolored foliage with dark-green main color and bright yellow-colored center of the leaves; light, slightly yellowish stems and petioles without chlorophyll but with strong reddish infusion in parts; and weak growth and compact, low plant habit.

Abstract: A wafer processing apparatus includes a common path, extending in a Y-axis direction, in which one wafer or a plurality of wafers are conveyed, a plurality of process units stacked on both sides of the common path to constitute multi-stage structures, a main handler moved in the common path in the Y-axis direction and rotated about a Z axis at an angle &thgr; to load/unload the wafer into/from the process units, an arm section arranged to move in the main handler in the Z-axis direction, a plurality of holding arms arranged in the arm section to constitute a multi-stage structure so as to respectively hold the wafers, each holding arm being advanced and retreated on an X-Y plane from the arm section, an optical sensor, arranged in the arm section, for detecting a holding state of the wafer in each of the plurality of holding arms, and a controller for controlling an operation of the main handler, an operation of the arm section, and operations of the plurality of holding arms on the basis of a detection resul

Abstract: Apparatus for filling sterile containers is disclosed which defines an elongated but narrow sterile zone in which a number of operating stations are disposed. An elongated vertical wall is carried by an elongated frame and a cabinet type enclosure cooperates with the vertical wall to define the sterile zone. The plurality of operating stations are disposed in sequential relation over the length of the sterile zone, and an elongated container conveyor is disposed within the sterile zone to convey the containers through the plurality of operating stations. The conveyor is vertically oriented, consisting an endless belt mounted on end wheels that rotate on horizontal axes. Each of the operating stations includes an operating portion disposed within the sterile zone. Actuating means are included for each of the operating stations as well as the elongated conveyor, each of which is disposed outside the sterile zone.

Abstract: A drag conveyor consists of a uniquely-configured trough and correspondingly-shaped outer edges of chain-driven paddles which enable the trough construction to provide physical support for a return of the chain. The cross-sectional shape of the trough further restricts the paddles from tending toward lifting above the trough bottom and climbing or twisting as they carry material toward the outlet end of the conveyor. The paddle shape results in a self-cleaning conveyor, even enabling handling of materials heretofore not feasible with conventional U-shaped trough conveyors. Elimination of obstructing idler sprockets and cross shafts of the prior art enables a productivity increase of as much as 15% for the same designated size of conveyor.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for optically assaying a targeted substance in a sample using a diffraction anomaly grating sensor. The optical sensor has a diffraction grating coated with at least one dielectric layer such that the sensor is sensitized to interact with the targeted substance. Upon interaction, light incident upon the sensor at a particular angle propagates through the dielectric, thereby exhibiting a dip in zero-order reflectance. Advantages of the present invention include facilitating increased sensitivity while protecting the metal grating from tarnishing and degradation. The present invention also allows for the construction of sensors that are sensitized to a plurality of substances, thus eliminating the need for an operator to reconfigure the sensing system in order to assay different substances.

Abstract: An improved image acquisition system allows the angular displacement between two detectors to be adjusted between 90° and 180° to reduce the imaging time for both 360° and 180° scans. A patient table is displaced vertically and horizontally from a lateral axis to allow the body of a patient to be positioned next to the detectors and to improve resolution.

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit of registers and combinational logic circuits connected between the registers is generated by a top-down design technique. When performing the logic synthesizing of such a semiconductor integrated circuit by making use of data of register transfer level, a combinational logic circuit with a critical path is driven with power from a high-voltage source, a combinational logic circuit without a critical path is driven with power from a low-voltage source, and a level converter capable of converting an input signal of low voltage level into a high-voltage-level output is arranged in a register located upstream of a combinational logic circuit with a critical path. Compared with a technique in which only critical paths are driven with power from a high-voltage source, it becomes easier to determine where to arrange level converters. Additionally, the number of level converters required can be reduced, thereby facilitating design work.

Abstract: Palettized image data for two or more images, represented by color lookup table (CLUT) indices, are mapped to an index space. Blended pixels are generated from the pixels in the index space using alpha blending. The blended pixels are mapped back to CLUT indices to generate palettized blended image data. In a preferred embodiment, in which the CLUT is generated based on a characterized structure in YUV space, the CLUT indices are mapped to Y and UV indices in a YUV index space. The Y and UV indices are then used to generate three-coordinate blended pixels. The three-coordinate blended pixels are then mapped back to CLUT indices of a palettized blended image. Table lookups are used to generate the blended pixels from the Y and UV indices and to map the blended pixels back to CLUT indices.

Abstract: To protect integrated circuits as efficiently as possible against electrostatic discharges, by putting a diode in avalanche mode without untimely triggering of this avalance mode by overvoltages of non-electrostatic origin, the following solution is proposed: through an insulated gate surrounding the cathode of the diode, the threshold for transition into avalanche mode of the diode is modified according to the slope of the overvoltages appearing at the terminal to be protected. The gate is connected to the terminal by an integrating circuit in such a way that the overvoltages are applied to the gate with a certain delay, inducing a potential difference between the cathode and the gate which is all the greater as the front of the overvoltage is steep. The avalanche triggering threshold is higher in the latter case than in the former one, and it is thus distinguish between overvoltages of diverse origins.

Abstract: Heteroarylpiperidines, pyrrolidines, and piperazines are useful as antipsychotic and analgesic agents, the compounds are especially useful for treating psychoses by administering to a mammal a psychoses-treating effective amount of one of the compounds. Depot derivatives of the compounds are useful for providing long acting effects of the compounds. The compounds are also useful as analgesics by administering a pain-relieving effective amount of one of the compounds to a mammal.

Abstract: An spinal fixation device for stabilizing vertebrae. A hollow screw is inserted into a hole saw recess in each adjoining vertebrae. A channel is cut into the vertebrae into which a joining rod is inserted such that no part of the device protrudes above the bone. A locking cap is used to secure the rod to the screws.

Abstract: An apparatus or article of manufacture composing a jacket, vest, coat, shirt or similar clothing article which is convertible into a covering or blanket. The jacket or vest is assembled with a pocket formed between a portion of the jacket, such as a jacket outer covering, and a portion of a blanket wherein a portion of the blanket is foldably received into and stored within a pocket for removal and unfolding when use of the blanket is required. The pocket may be at any location on the jacket including at the front, back and inside. The manufacture of the vest or jacket is principally a blanket or fabric unit or portion integral with the vest or jacket portion. The blanket or fabric portion is contained, by folding, in the pocket. The vest or jacket is worn and utilized as any jacket or vest garment.

Abstract: A shower cap comprising an elastic strap (14) that is permanently attached to the elastic band (11) located at lower edge (16) of a shower cap. The elastic strap has fasteners (12 & 12a) on each end that allow it to form a loop and suspend from a shower curtain rod, towel rack, doorknob, or hook/nail in the wall. This suspension also allows the shower cap to thoroughly dry. The elastic strap permits convenient storage of the shower cap and that helps to eliminate the possibility of it being misplaced. The fasteners on each end of the elastic strap can be easily pulled apart and reattached because they are in the form of hook and loop fasteners (VELCRO tabs).

Abstract: A helmet restraint and head and neck stabilizing system for use with a helmet worn by an operator or occupant of a land vehicle, boat, airplane or other motion apparatus, in conjunction with a shoulder belt system or a suit worn by the operator or occupant. The helmet restraint and head and neck stabilizing system preferably includes two end connecters, two releasable buckles, two flexible end belts, and a flexible middle belt. The two end connecters are separately attachable to the shoulder belt system or the suit worn by the operator or occupant on opposite sides of the helmet worn by the operator or occupant. The two end belts each have one end affixed to one end connecter and an opposite end connected to one buckle, respectively. The middle belt has one end connected to one buckle and an opposite end connected to the other buckle. The length of the first or second end belt or the middle belt is adjustable.

Abstract: A compressible, air freshening toilet seat adapted for being secured to a toilet bowl includes a cushioning top layer, a rigid bottom layer, an inner periphery, an outer periphery, a compressible chamber, and a plurality of receptacle structures. The top layer is formed of a resilient, cushioning material. The bottom layer has sufficient rigidity for supporting a body weight of a user, and is fixedly attached to the top layer about the peripheries. The chamber is enclosed and defined by the top layer, the bottom layer, and the peripheries. Each of the receptacle structures has an open first end with a retaining lip, and is defined at a predetermined location within the top layer or the bottom layer. Each of the receptacle structures is dimensioned and configured for receiving and removably containing an air freshening element and for permitting a sufficient amount of air freshening agent from the air freshening element to be directed into the atmosphere.

Abstract: A drain cover locking device which fits into a drain pipe for the purpose of receiving and holding in place a standard drain cover. In general, the locking device is made of a solid generally rectangular piece of bar material, usually of metal, with one hole drilled through the center of the bar for receiving a fastener, such as a screw, and preferably a tamper-proof screw head, which is first inserted through a center hole in the drainer cover. A threaded rod having an “L” shaped hanger is threaded into each end of the bar material and the “L” shaped piece fits over the drain pipe for holding the mechanism in place. The center piece or generally rectangular piece of bar material is then turned with a wrench or other device until the bar material is firmly held in place over the pipe and the drain screw is then placed over the pipe with the center hole aligned with the center hole of the center bar.

Abstract: A vacuum toilet system for a vehicle, notably a passenger aircraft, comprising a plurality of toilets (1), a collecting tank (4), a duct system (3) which connects the toilets (1) with the collecting tank (4) via one flush valve (2) per toilet, a vacuum generator (5) which is connected to the collecting tank (4) in a fluidic manner, a flush water tank (8) and a flush water system (9), which connects the toilets (1) via one flush water valve (10) each and/or via a flush water pump with the flush water tank (8). A flush control (11) which acts on the flush valve (2) and the flush water valve (10) or flush water pump of the individual toilets (1) and can be actuated via an actuating means (12) assigned to the toilet. A standard flush program is stored in said control.

Abstract: A bridge for the transfer of passengers between an elevated level of a terminal building has a vestibule attached to the terminal building. A first bridge unit extends from the vestibule to a rotunda assembly and is rotatably attached to the rotunda assembly and the vestibule. The rotunda assembly has an elevation system for changing the slope of the first bridge unit relative to the horizontal. A second bridge unit extends from the rotunda assembly and has a bubble attached at its outer end. The second bridge unit has telescoping sections and is movable vertically, telescopically and radially upon operation of a driving system connected at the outer end of the second bridge unit. A telescoping brow extends away from the second bridge unit. The slopes of the first bridge unit and the second bridge unit are controlled to be less than 12 percent with the bubble being movable over a wide range of locations and with a substantial range of vertical motion.

Abstract: A brush scrubbing apparatus is made up of a wafer holder which retains a wafer, a brush which removes a particle on the wafer, a driver which rotates at least one of the wafer holder and the wafer, an alignment mechanism which defines a relative position between the brush and the wafer holder, and controller which controls the alignment mechanism responding to a driving power supply voltage in the driver. The brush scrubbing apparatus can precisely get the reference position for deciding the pushing distance without using the eye measurement.

Abstract: A brush alignment apparatus and method of using the same for aligning a hollow cylindrical brush on a cylindrical roller member comprising first and second ends and an outer surface defining a internal cavity, provided with a plurality of orifices extending from the outer surface to the internal cavity, a first receptacle having a channel running therethrough in fluid communication with the first end of the roller member, a second receptacle, a spine member, a first support arm supporting the first end of the roller member and a second arm supporting the second end of the roller member.

Abstract: A toothbrush incorporating an indicator comprising a pressure indicating material which provides an optical signal without the provision of a power supply. Preferably, the pressure sensitive material is a piezochromic material, such as a liquid crystal cholesterol ester.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for creating a faux finish on a surface where the apparatus has a dual roller handle, a pair of roller covers each mounted for independent rotation, and at least one raised foam pattern on each roller cover. In one embodiment, the raised foam pattern is a nonrepresentational design that is sized, shaped and positioned on each roller cover to create smoothly contoured edges and a non-uniform gap between adjacent edges of the raised foam pattern. When two paints having at least one different visually perceptible characteristic are respectively applied to the surface by the roller covers using the handle in an overlapping and arcing motion, a faux marble finish results from the effect of the edges of the raised foam pattern on the paint discharged to the surface by the raised foam pattern. In another embodiment, the raised foam pattern is a representative design that is used in the same manner to provide a faux texture finish.

Abstract: The present invention provides a dust collect device for an eraser. It is related to a box, which has an inside box to separate the inside of the box into an inner space and an outer space. An inhaler component is set in the inside box, and it connects the inner space with the outer space. A dust bag, which is ventilated, is placed in the inner space, and it connects a dust guide pipework with the eraser to form a connective structure, so that users can operate the inhaler component at any time to absorb the dust into the dust bag. Thus, the dust is collected instead of floating and spreading in the air, so the environment can stay clean.

Abstract: A joint or articulation (1), especially for connecting sidepieces of a multi-purpose ladder that can be folded up, has two joint legs (2, 3) that are pivotable relative to one another about a joint shaft (4). One of the joint legs (2) forms an outer joint portion having outer shells (7) and a joint connector (8), while the other joint leg (3) is embodied as an inner joint portion having inner disks (9) and joint connectors (10). A spring-loaded locking member (24) is movable essentially radially or tangentially relative to the joint shaft (4) and is engageable in at least one recessed portion (42) of one joint leg (2). In order to achieve a simpler construction of the joint or articulation (1), recessed portions (12) are provided in the inner disk (9), whereby the locking member (24) extends transverse to the plane of the inner disk through the recessed portions (12). The locking member (24) cooperates with a lever (20) that is pivotable about a journal (19) that is spaced from the joint shaft (4).

Abstract: A hinge assembly has a first hinge rod unit and a second hinge rod unit. The first hinge rod unit is fixed at its upper end to the bottom of a hood by means of a first hinge pin and at its lower end to a fender apron by means of a second hinge pin. The second hinge rod unit is fixed at its upper end to the bottom of the hood by means of a third hinge pin and at its lower end to the fender apron by means of a fourth hinge pin. The first and third hinge pins are spaced apart by a first interval, while the second and fourth hinge pins are spaced apart by a second interval longer than the first interval. Each of the first and second hinge rod units comprises a first hollow hinge rod, a second hinge rod slidably inserted into the first hinge rod, and a means for locking the second hinge rod to the first hinge rod, that is breakable when a force greater than a predetermined certain amount is applied.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming an airlaid fibrous web on a moving surface can include a contoured foraminous member (62) having a first side portion (66), a laterally opposed second side portion (68), and a depth contour. A longitudinally extending, first side-masking member (52) can be located superjacent the first side portion (66) of the foraminous member (62), and can have a first inboard side wall surface (70). At least a second, separately provided, longitudinally extending, side-masking member (53) can be located superjacent the second side portion (68) of the foraminous member (62), and can have a second inboard side wall surface (72). Either or both of the first and second side-masking members (52, 54) are at least laterally movable relative to the foraminous member (62). A releasable attachment system (74) can selectively hold at least the first side-masking member (52) at a substantially fixed position relative to the foraminous member (62).

Abstract: A buckle joint includes a clasp member, a catch member, a latch member, and an urging member. The clasp member has a stud with an outer periphery formed with an annular groove. The catch member has a first through-hole, a first tongue portion projecting into the first through-hole, and a recess. The stud projects into the first through-hole. The first tongue portion engages releasably the annular groove. The latch member is mounted slidably in the recess, and has a second tongue portion projecting into the first through-hole for engaging releasably the annular groove. The latch member is slidable into and out of the first through-hole from the recess between a locking position, in which the second tongue portion engages the annular groove, and an unlocking position, in which the second tongue portion disengages the annular groove. The urging member is mounted in the recess for urging the latch member to move to the locking position.

Abstract: A tool for mounting of disk valves in motor cylinder heads includes a shaft and a spring-loaded tap that may be pressed into the shaft, and two vaulted clamping arms placed on opposite sides of the shaft, with the purpose of holding two locking bodies in connection with the occasion when these bodies are to be transferred to the rod of the valve. On the individual clamping arm there are protrusions that protrude relative to an axially straight inside on the clamping arm and serve as carriers for the individual locking body. Each protrusion has support surfaces that are obliquely positioned relative to the clamping arm in order to hold a convexly vaulted outside on the locking body placed against the concave inside of the clamping arm, when the locking body is dislocated from the tap to grooves in the valve rod, thereby distancing the front edge of the locking body from the external envelope surface of the valve rod.

Abstract: The dismounting device includes, in order that a fastening member is dismounted from a base material, the fastening member comprising a head and a body, the body being inserted into a fastening hole formed in a base material, the head contacting a peripheral edge of the fastening hole into a fastened state with the body, a cutting member for cutting a boundary region between the head and the body from the head toward the body to separate the head from the body, the cutting member removing the fastening member from the base material.

Abstract: A first member having a pair of claws and an engagement recess provided between the pair of claws and a second member having an engagement portion are prepared. In a state where the engagement portion of the second member is disposed in the engagement recess of the first member, the pair of claws is externally held by a side face jig. Then, a punch having a trapezoid recess composed of a pair of inclined parts and a horizontal part between the inclined parts is brought to contact with front end portions of the caulking claws. The punch is pushed to bent the caulking claws along the inclined parts, and is further pushed to upset the caulking claws by the horizontal part. As a result, the first member is securely caulked with the second member.

Abstract: A part is stamped from a steel sheet having a textured surface. The stamped part is coated with a zinc layer. The zinc layer is coated with a chromate conversion layer, either yellow-colored or black-colored. Preferably, the textured surface is produced by embossing the steel sheet. Alternatively, the textured surface is produced by etching, shot peening, or sand blasting the sheet steel. An exterior surface comprised of at least some of the textured surface of the part, as coated with such layers, has a finish simulating the similarly-colored, textured finish that the part would have if the part were stamped from a steel sheet so that the part would have a smooth, exterior surface and if the smooth, exterior surface were to be electrostatically coated with a black-colored, epoxy powder, which would be heat-cured.

Abstract: The technique of shrink fitting technique described herein is used to bond crystalline sapphire pieces to each other, in particular, the shrink fitting of a c-axis sapphire post to a c-axis sapphire puck. The sapphire dielectric resonator is used successfully from cryogenic temperatures to well above room temperature. The shrink fit bond yields a high strength and rigid attachment which can withstand high shock levels. Since there is no loss, the resonator Q is a maximum, being limited by the sapphire loss tangent only.