Abstract: A medical device includes a syringe assembly and a shield system for delivering medicament to a patient. The syringe assembly includes a barrel defining a medicament reservoir, and a needle cannula coupled to the barrel and in fluid communication with the reservoir. The shield system has a hub coupled to the syringe barrel, a shield movably arranged on the hub, the shield being movable from a first position disposed from the needle cannula tip to a second position during insertion of the needle into a patient and movable from the second position to a third position covering the needle cannula tip after the needle cannula is removed from the patient. An urging member urges the shield to the third position upon removal of the needle cannula from the patient. A cover sleeve connected to the needle barrel surrounds the hub and the urging member.

Abstract: Methods of acoustic imaging provide images with reduced reverberation noise and images of nonlinear scattering and propagation parameters of the object, and estimation methods of corrections for wave front aberrations produced by spatial variations in the acoustic propagation velocity. The methods are based on processing of the received signal from transmitted dual frequency band acoustic pulse complexes with overlapping high and low frequency pulses. The high frequency pulse is used for the image reconstruction and the low frequency pulse is used to manipulate the nonlinear scattering and/or propagation properties of the high frequency pulse. Through filtering in the pulse number coordinate and corrections for nonlinear propagation delays and optionally also amplitudes, a linear back scattering signal with suppressed pulse reverberation noise, a nonlinear back scattering signal, and quantitative nonlinear forward propagation and scattering parameters are extracted.

Abstract: A lighted architectural mesh includes a plurality of interconnected wires forming a plurality of transverse openings. At least one light carrier is slidably received within at least one of said transverse openings. The at least one light carrier includes light nodes emitting light through the interstices on the front and/or rear side of the architectural mesh. The at least one light carrier further comprises a plurality of connecting elements, wherein the light emitter nodes of the at least one light element are releasably interconnected in series by the connecting elements.

Abstract: A memory device removably insertable into or otherwise removably connected to a plurality of host devices includes a first memory storing multimedia data. A first circuit portion of the memory device determines the host device capabilities when the memory device is connected to a host device and a second circuit portion feeds the multimedia data to the host device in a format compatible with the determined capabilities of the host device.

Abstract: A swivel motor has a plurality of work chambers and a join system between the work chambers that joins the work chambers at least by pairs. The arrangement of the joined work chambers is carried out in such a way that the work chambers which are connected to the first pressure medium connection alternate with those which are connected to the second pressure medium connection. At least two work chambers associated with different pressure medium connections are connected to a pressure compensation element, and the pressure compensation element is formed by a compensation space that is divided by a movable dividing element. A partial compensation space is connected in each instance to at least one work chamber of a pressure medium connection, and the dividing element is held in an initial position by oppositely acting springs. The spring force characteristic is formed by a spring arrangement which comprises a plurality of springs and has at least one coil spring and one elastomer spring.

Abstract: An LED semiconductor element having at least one first radiation-generating active layer and at least one second radiation-generating active layer which is stacked above the first active layer in a vertical direction and is connected in series with the first active layer. The first active layer and the second active layer are electrically conductively connected by a contact zone.

Abstract: This invention provides novel stem cell-based methods for treating a number of conditions. These methods employ CD34? stem cells, and have a tremendous advantage in that they do not require myeloablation in the subject being treated. The CD34? stem cells used in the instant methods can be genetically modified or not, depending on the disorder treated.

Abstract: A device for counting the rotations of a tire on a vehicle using the deformations that the tire undergoes on each rotation of the wheel, comprising a casing, a sensor intended to generate an electrical signal on each rotation of the wheel, and connection means intended to mechanically connect the casing and the sensor to the surface of the tire. The sensor is in the form of a passive sensor in one piece with the casing, whereof the signals emitted are in proportion with the variations over time in a magnetic flux through the said passive sensor, and a magnetic field generator is arranged opposite the passive sensor. The connection means mechanically connect the casing to a first surface A and the magnetic field generator to a second surface B, the two surfaces A and B being substantially coplanar and offset from one another in a direction D by a given distance L. The electrical signal is produced by the relative displacements of the said passive sensor and the said magnetic field generator.

Abstract: A lens barrel, an image pickup apparatus, a lens drive method and a method of producing a shape memory alloy used for the drive device are disclosed. A drive device includes: a lens group for guiding light from a subject; a shape memory alloy adopted to be deformed by an electricity supplied to the shape memory alloy, for moving the lens group in a direction of an optical axis; and electricity-supply controlling means for controlling an amount of the electricity supplied to the shape memory alloy; and a detecting means for detecting whether a movement of the lens group starts or not. In the drive device, a movement amount of the lens group in the direction of the optical axis is controlled based on the amount of electricity supplied when the detecting means detects the movement of the lens group.

Abstract: A method for producing a multiplicity of semiconductor lasers (100) comprising the steps of providing a carrier wafer (30), producing an assembly (70) by applying a multiplicity of semiconductor laser chips (4) to a top side (31) of the carrier wafer (30), and singulating the assembly (70) to form a multiplicity of semiconductor lasers (100). Each semiconductor laser (100) comprises a mounting block (3) and at least one semiconductor laser chip (4). Each mounting block (3) has a mounting area (13) which runs substantially perpendicular to a top side (12) of the mounting block (3), on which top side the semiconductor laser chip (4) is arranged. The mounting area (13) is produced during the singulation of the assembly.

Abstract: A circuit arrangement for operating a discharge lamp, wherein the circuit arrangement comprises a commutation device, which has an input which is coupled to a DC source, and has an output which can be coupled to a discharge lamp. The commutation device is designed in such a way that it couples the DC source to the output, and the polarity at which the DC source is coupled to the output can be commutated by a control device. The control device has a sync input, and the polarity of the DC source is commutated in synchronism with sync pulses of a sync signal which can be applied at the sync input. The control device has a measuring input, which is coupled to a measuring device which is designed to provide a measured value which is a measure of the size of electrode peaks. The control device suppresses at least one commutation if the measured value overshoots or undershoots a predetermined threshold value.

Abstract: The object of the invention is an end part (1) of an air dryer, the air dryer being applicable for drying a pulp web, such as a cellulose web or the like. The end part comprises a fan tower (11), and a roll tower in which a number of turn roll (27, 37) are arranged mainly on top of each other in order to turn the travelling direction of the pulp web in the air dryer, the longitudinal axis of the roll. towers being parallel, and a fan tower arranged at a distance from the roll tower, adjacent to it, comprising a number of fans arranged on top of each other, a single fan being arranged to blow heated air as drying air to a dryer group. The end part further comprises one or more centrifugal fans (14) arranged in the direct vicinity or the roll tower, and a number of end drying means (13) arranged between the roll tower and the dryer group of—the fan of the fan tower, to which end drying means drying air is supplied with said centrifugal fan or fans.

Abstract: A method of finding the prediction direction during intraframe video image coding.

Abstract: A timepiece includes a casing having a casing interior having a viewer's side provided with a viewing opening, a base side provided with a sound aperture, and an annular surface surrounding the sound aperture. A membrane extending over the sound aperture closes the base side of the casing interior, the membrane having a circumferential region in sealed connection with the annular surface. A tensioning device maintains the membrane at a desired tension in the radial direction. A vibration generator arranged in the casing interior produces a sound whose frequency can be adjusted by adjusting the tension of the membrane.

Abstract: A torque transmission device for a ship for optionally transmitting a drive torque from a main drive or from an auxiliary drive to a propeller shaft of the ship, with a gear unit which can be driven by the main drive and which can be connected to the propeller shaft by a first clutch, and with a second clutch by which the auxiliary drive can be connected to the propeller shaft. The gear unit is received in a gear unit housing, the first clutch and/or second clutch are/is received in a clutch housing that is separate from the gear unit housing, and the first clutch, the second clutch and/or the auxiliary drive are arranged on the side of the gear unit remote of a propeller.

Abstract: A delivery unit for delivering fuel in a fuel tank comprises a prefilter and swirl pot which are produced as one piece. The prefilter is produced during die-casting of the swirl pot. The invention allows the delivery unit to be produced in an especially inexpensive manner.

Abstract: In a mobile terminal, a control section monitors a battery residual amount at a power supply section, if the battery residual amount is less than a preset threshold, it refers to the states of various flags stored in a flag table at a memory section. Subsequently, if the control section judges it is before exit after entry for a service for the object of a lock temporary release and an entry and exit usage service, it changes a noncontact IC card function section to a lock temporary release state. This allows the noncontact IC card function to be in a lock temporary release state, just before the power supply is turned off, even if the battery residual amount is low. Therefore, when the commuter gets off a train and passes through a station ticket gate, the commuter may use the noncontact IC card function.

Abstract: A torsional vibration damper with a primary side and a secondary side, wherein rotation of the primary side relative to the secondary side causes displacement of hydraulic fluid from at least one displacement chamber and compression of pneumatic fluid in at least one compensating chamber. A first displacement chamber assembly includes a pair of axially opposed end walls bounding each displacement chamber in both axial directions and a circumferential wall bounding it in one radial direction, and a second displacement chamber assembly bounds it in the other radial direction. At least one circumferential recess provided in one of the first and second displacement chamber assemblies is engaged by at least one projection provided on the other of the first and second displacement chamber assemblies to limit the relative rotation.

Abstract: A frame synchronization method and device. The method determines the frame start position D. That position D is the same as a position of a window H sliding along the received frame Tr. For various possible positions of the window H and for various blocks Bi of the window H, the method computes a syndrome Sd(i), and the start position D of the received frame Ti is that for which the number of null elements of a syndrome Sd(i) is highest.

Abstract: The present invention provides a text-to-speech conversion system (TTS) for interlocking synchronizing with multimedia and a method for organizing input data of the TTS which can enhance the natural naturalness of synthesized speech and accomplish the synchronization of multimedia with TTS by defining additional prosody information, the information required to interlock synchronize TTS with multimedia, and interface between these this information and TTS for use in the production of the synthesized speech.