Abstract: A trench drain assembly including a flow channel and a frame for supporting the channel in a trench. Sidewalls of the frame have a gradually increasing height between ends of the frame so that the frame creates a gradual slope for the assembly to properly drain. In addition, sidewalls of the frame include spaced lugs that extend outwardly and sidewalls of the channel include spaced lugs that extend inwardly to create an interference fit with the lugs of the frame so that the channel can be easily attached to the frame. During assembly, the frame is lowered onto the channel so that the lugs of the frame are received between the lugs of the channels and the frame is then slid with respect to the channel until the lugs of the frame are positioned below the lugs of the channel to secure the frame to the channel.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an ultrasonic probe comprising a group of piezoelectric elements consisting of a plurality of piezoelectric elements of a narrow card shape arrayed in a long-axis direction thereof and a rotational mechanism that rotates and oscillates said group of piezoelectric elements to the left and right in a short-axis direction thereof about the center of said long-axis direction; wherein said rotational mechanism is provided with a first bevel gear having teeth in at least an arc shape, a second bevel gear meshing with said first bevel gear and rotating in the horizontal direction, and a drive motor that rotates said second bevel gear; and also at least one of said first bevel gear and said second bevel gear is made of a synthetic resin.

Abstract: An organic photosensitive optoelectronic device includes an anode, an organic photosensitive layer formed on the anode and having a donor portion and an acceptor portion, a hole blocking layer formed on the organic photosensitive layer so as for the organic photosensitive layer to be sandwiched between the anode and the hole blocking layer, and a cathode formed on the hole blocking layer so as for the hole blocking layer to be sandwiched between the cathode and the organic photosensitive layer. The highest occupied molecular orbitals (HOMO) of the hole blocking layer is at least 0.3 eV higher than that of the donor portion. Therefore, the optoelectronic device efficiently suppresses dark current so as to enhance sensitivity when applied to a detector.

Abstract: A lens measuring device and method applied therein. The lens measuring device includes a light source, a first polarizer, a second polarizer, and an image analysis module. The method includes enabling the light source to orderly pass through the first polarizer, a lens to be measured, and the second polarizer to generate a light beam to be measured, and then enabling the image analysis module to analyze image-related information of the light beam to be measured, consequently deducing the structural center and energy distribution of the lens to be measured, and then further analyzing errors in polarity and skewness of the lens to be measured. By applying a common light source, the method is spared complicated correction that is otherwise required when a conventional collimating laser light source is applied, and the method can also easily and simultaneously test a plurality of lenses to be measured.

Abstract: A superconductivity utilizing support mechanism comprises a superconductive coil and a ferromagnetic body. One of the ferromagnetic body, so constituted as to slide in a direction of a center axis of the superconductive coil, and the superconductive coil, so constituted as to slide in a direction of the center axis thereof, is floated and supported relative to the other by axial magnetic attraction caused by a center plane of the superconductive coil and a center plane of the ferromagnetic body moving apart from each other.

Abstract: A platform Smart Scalpel system using rapid real-time feedback for effecting laser treatment. The platform system includes an imaging system for rapid real-time detection of tissue characteristics, a processing system for processing the detected characteristics, and a treatment system for effecting treatment in accordance with results of the processing. The platform system provides for preprogramming and real-time inputting conditions and parameters for diagnosis using the imaging system and/or treatment using the treatment system.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus forming an image of image data on a recording medium, is characterized by, when forming the image by synthesizing the image data with specific information including an image different from the image data, varying the number of pieces of the specific information according to a size of a specific information imparting region to which the specific information is imparted. Thereby, when the specific information imparting region is small, such as in the case of a postcard and a name card, it is possible to surely detect the specific information by increasing the number of pieces of the specific information. Further, when reading an image, the image processing apparatus varies, on the basis of a detected number of pieces of the specific information, a threshold value for determining whether or not the specific information is adopted, according to a size of the recording medium.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing trichlorosilane, including: a reaction vessel in which a supply gas containing silicon tetrachloride and hydrogen is supplied to an internal reaction passageway to produce a reaction product gas containing trichlorosilane and hydrogen chloride; a heating mechanism having a heater that heats the interior of the reaction vessel; a gas supply section that supplies the supply gas in the reaction vessel; and a gas discharge section that discharges the reaction product gas from the reaction vessel to the outside, wherein the heater is disposed in the center of the reaction vessel, and the reaction passageway is disposed in the periphery of the heater.

Abstract: A polyol composition contains a polyaminochlorophenylmethane mixture (A) and a polyol (B), in which the component (A) is uniformly dissolved in the component (A) in a weight ratio of 30/70 to 60/40. The component (A) includes 50 to 70% by weight of a specific binuclear polyaminochlorophenylmethane compound, 20 to 40% by weight of a specific trinuclear polyaminochlorophenylmethane compound and 5 to 10% by weight of a specific tetranuclear or higher polyaminochlorophenylmethane compound. The polyol composition exhibits excellent miscibility and dissolution stability, is liquid and enables molding of a foamed article for abrasive in a simple two-component mixing casting machine. According to the present invention, water serving as a foaming agent can be added to the polyol composition containing MBOCA, and the composition for a two-component curable abrasive foam can be held to a temperature equal to or lower than the boiling point of water, thus avoiding water from evaporating upon molding.

Abstract: The device including a plurality of stratum corneum-piercing microprojections, and a solid coating disposed upon the microprojections, wherein the solid coating includes at least one beneficial agent and a biocompatible carrier is provided. The device is applied to the skin of a living animal (e.g., a human), causing the microprojections to pierce the stratum corneum and deliver an effective dose of the agent to the animal.

Abstract: The present invention relates, e.g., to an isolated polypeptide from a cyanobacterium, Microcystis viridis, which binds specifically to an oligosaccharide comprising the tetrasaccharide Man-alpha-(1?6)Man-beta (1?4) GlcNAc-beta(1?4)GlcNAc. The polypeptide can be obtained, for example, from a cell that expresses a recombinant nucleic acid that encodes a MVL-like polypeptide. The invention also relates to an isolated polypeptide comprising one or more copies of the sequence GPLWSNXEAQXXGPX (SEQ ID NO: 1) and/or one or more copies of the sequence FTGQWXTXVEXXMSV (SEQ ID NO: 2), wherein the polypeptide binds specifically to the above-mentioned oligosaccharide. Conjugates comprising such polypeptides and an effector molecule are also disclosed, as are methods of using such polypeptides or conjugates, e.g., for inhibiting infection by a virus, such as HIV, or for removing a virus, such as HIV, from a sample, such as a bodily fluid or an inanimate object.

Abstract: A dome type security camera structure with a reinforced waterproofing function is disclosed. The camera structure includes a housing (100) having an outside wire insert hole (110), and a pair of opposite guide grooves (120). Each guide groove communicates with an outside via a discharge hole (130). A mounting bracket (200) has a coupling protrusion (210) guided by each guide groove, and is gradually inclined outwards from a center thereof so that an edge thereof presses a lower surface of the housing and thus the mounting bracket is coupled to the housing. A holder (300) is provided on a lower surface of the mounting bracket in such a way as to perform rotation on 2 or 3 axes, with a camera module mounted to the holder. A dome screen (400) is mounted to the mounting bracket, and surrounds the holder.

Abstract: Provided is a filter bag for use in a dust collector which increases a filter area greatly even with a simple structure, and which makes size of the dust collector compact, to thereby reduce an installation area of the dust collector, and uniformly distributing an air pressure to thereby increase a dust removal effect as well as to enable a worker to easily manufacture the dust collector regardless of a quality of a material to thus provide a wide application range.

Abstract: An antenna is disclosed to efficiently ionize the atmosphere for the purpose of reducing the aerosol counts, and therefore the number of poluted particles in suspension in the atmosphere, by deposition to ground. The antenna includes peripheral nodes and a central node. Each of the peripheral nodes is connected to adjacent peripheral nodes through peripheral spokes. The peripheral nodes are also connected to the central node through radial spokes. Electric power is applied to the peripheral spokes and the radial spokes causing the antenna to charge the atmosphere through the emission of ions. The antenna minimizes an attenuation factor that reduces ionization efficiency and reduces the land requirements for its installation.

Abstract: A cationic polyurethane resin aqueous dispersion wherein a cationic polyurethane resin (B) including a structural unit (A) represented by the following general formula (I) is dispersed in aqueous medium, and the content of a cationic amino group of the structural unit (A) in the cationic polyurethane resin (B) is 0.005 to 1.5 equivalents/kg. (In the formula, R1, represents an alkylene group which may include an alicyclic structure, a residue of bivalent phenol or polyoxyalkylene group, R2 and R3 each independently represents an alkyl group which may include an alicyclic structure, and R4 represents a hydrogen atom or a residue of the quaternizing agent which is introduced by the quaternizing reaction, and X? represents an anionic counter ion.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods and compositions for the treatment of diseases associated with aberrant microsatellite expansions. Methods of the present invention comprise the use of recombinant adeno-associated virus vectors containing a transgene encoding at least one muscleblind protein. The present invention also provides an animal model for a disease associated with aberrant microsatellite expansion.