Abstract: A bioactive glass having a composition substantially comprising 30 to 60 mol % of CaO, 40 to 70 mol % of SiO2 and 20 mol % or less of Na2O has low glass transition temperature and/or crystallization temperature, and a sintered calcium phosphate obtained by using the bioactive glass as a sintering aid has excellent biocompatibility, mechanical strength and sinterability.

Abstract: A control unit 10 controls brake forces of brake systems of a pair of brake operation elements L1, L2 operated independently to perform an anti-lock brake control for eliminating a locked state of a wheel. The control unit 10 applies the brake force to one of the wheel brakes B1, B2 of the brake system which differs from the brake system of the operated brake operation element when the brake operation elements L1, L2 is operated. When one or both of the brake operation elements L1, L2 are operated and so the wheel likely falls in a locked state, the control unit 10 performs an anti-lock brake control on the brake system of the wheel likely falling in the locked state and also performs a brake force application control on the other brake system which is different from the brake system of the wheel likely falling in the locked state.

Abstract: Laminated composite material usable to make articles of manufacture, such as boots or other sports articles in particular. The laminate is a new basic material particularly directed to articles of manufacture having drastic mechanical requirements and which are very inexpensive and lightweight. The laminate has a sandwich structure having a core between two layers. More particularly, the core and the two layers are composites, and at least a portion of the fibers of the core have a mechanical strength significantly lower than that of at least a portion of the fibers of one and/or the, other layers. In a particular embodiment, the laminate has a thickness of 3 mm or less. The layers are sheets of carbon fabric embedded in an epoxy resin, and the core is made from non-woven polyamide micro-fibers having a thickness equal to 0.32 mm. The invention also relates to the manufacture of the laminate.

Abstract: A system and method for evaluating a material body by a scattered light observation system which observes a gel state or a gel-formable sol state material body illuminated with a coherent light through a two dimensional image recognizing means, including measuring a gel state or a change in sol-gel state of said material body using a light section formed on an image forming surface or conditions of a speckle pattern.

Abstract: A noise shaper for shaping a power spectral density of an input signal which consists of signal intervals, wherein each signal interval has a corresponding signal amplitude being constant for a variable interval duration time of the signal interval, said noise shaper comprising a calculation unit having at least one serial connected integrator wherein each integrator calculates an integrated signal of different order from said input signal, and a weighting unit for weighting each integrated signal with a corresponding adjustable weighting coefficient according to a noise transfer function.

Abstract: A main body of a tray is provided with, at its lower part, a button, and a fixing hook part moved up and down by the button to adjust an opening/closing a door formed on the front surface of the main body. Eventually, since a user's hand will not come into contact with the door though the button when it is operated by separating the button from the door, the opening/closing structure of the present invention is capable of eliminating an inconvenient feeling due to use of the tray and improve reliability of the items in the tray. The main body of the tray for storing these items and having a through-hole at its lower end is provided with the door. The door is opened by rotating upward by a rotary means at the front surface of the tray. The door is provided with a hooking hole formed at the position corresponding to the through-hole of the main body. A button part is installed at a lower end of the main body.

Abstract: A carrier structure has an inside member formed of a plastic material, an outer member formed of steel coupled to the inside member, and a bracket formed at a lower end of the outer member for reducing the weight of the carrier. The bracket is coupled to the inner member at a portion for mounting a radiator by an over-molding method, thereby enhancing the mounting strength of a cooling system.

Abstract: A communication apparatus and method utilizing a Digital Subscriber Line (xDSL) modem that is selectively connected to a central communication apparatus to perform a full duplex communication. A communicator transmits a plurality of Mode Request (MR) signals to the central communication apparatus. The plurality of MR signals requesting that the central communication apparatus respond by transmitting a plurality of Mode Select (MS) signals to the communication apparatus. The plurality of MS signals designate a particular communication mode. First frequencies utilized by the plurality of MR signals and second frequencies utilized by the plurality of MS signals belong to a mutually different band. Further, the plurality of MR signals carry identical data with an identical timing, but have different carrier frequencies.

Abstract: A telecommunications system determines a telecommunications service provider's routing preference for routing a call for a subscriber. The telecommunications system includes a storage that stores call routing data and a call routing service application for determining the routing preference using the call routing data. The call routing data includes an indicator that indicates when the subscriber subscribes to resold local switching services and when the subscriber subscribes to unbundled local switching services. The telecommunications system also includes a processor that executes the call routing service application, and that generates call routing instructions for routing the call according to the determined routing preference.

Abstract: Disclosed is a diagnosis supporting system that acquires a reference image signal of a subject that is illuminated with visible light and a fluorescent image signal of the subject that is excited by irradiation with excitation light, calculates a difference between brightness level of a pixel in the reference image signal and brightness level of a pixel in the fluorescent image signal at the corresponding position for all of target pixels and generates an observation image signal by converting the pixels in the reference image signal whose differences are larger than a predetermined value into red pixels. In the case of high contrast, all of the pixels become target pixels to be processed. In the case of low contrast, the number of the target pixels is reduced to ¼ of all the pixels.

Abstract: A welding head which can easily move the torch portion of the welding head in the circumferential direction and the vertical moving direction of the outer circumference of the to-be-welded tubes even in a narrow gap, includes a torch rotating ring that rotates on the outer circumferences of the tubes by matching with the central axis of the to-be-welded tubes and a torch vertical moving ring disposed concentrically with the ring inside the ring, provided with a torch base for supporting a torch on the front ends, a first gear group for driving and rotating the ring around the tubes, a second gear group that is disposed in parallel to the first gear group and drives and rotates the ring around the tubes, a drive shaft for driving the two gear groups, and a torch rotating motor for driving the drive shaft, and a third gear group that can drive the ring while rotating it in the same direction as or in reverse to that of the ring at a speed equal to or higher or lower than that of the first gear group for rotatin

Abstract: A method of generating an authentication for updating a mobile communications device's 40 location to a second communications device 60 is disclosed herein. The mobile communications device 40 is registered to a home network 30 comprising a proxy server but roams to a foreign network 40 with a different network number. The method proposes that, at the time of performing the location update, the second communications device and the proxy server each provides an input to a hash function to generate a shared secret; and using the shared secret as the authentication when the proxy server or the mobile communications device transmits the location update to the second communications device.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a reinforced slide chassis structure of an audio/video system, more particularly, to a reinforced slide chassis structure of an audio/video system for a motor vehicle, capable of preventing deteriorations in the slide chassis by reducing a total weight of the slide chassis yet reinforcing a deformation-sensitive portion of the slide chassis.

Abstract: Process and apparatus for operating a machine of the tobacco processing industry. The process includes guiding at least one wrapper strip along a conveyor path from a wrapping strip supply to a garniture device, and fixing the at least one wrapper strip in at least one preset position along the conveyor path The instant abstract is neither intended to define the invention disclosed in this specification nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.

Abstract: A wide-angle lens system includes a positive front lens group, a diaphragm, and a positive rear lens group. The front lens group includes a negative first-sub-lens group and a positive second-sub-lens group. The negative first-sub-lens group includes a negative lens element, a positive lens element, and a negative lens element. The front lens group satisfies the following conditions: 0.5<f/|f1a|<0.75??(1) 0.5<|f1a|/f1b<1.0??(2) 0.35<f/f1bi<0.6??(3) wherein f: the focal length of the entire lens system; f1a: the focal length of the negative first-sub-lens group; f1b: the focal length of the positive second-sub-lens group; f1bi: the focal length of the most image-side surface of the positive second-sub-lens group; r1bi: the radius of curvature of the most image-side surface of the positive second-sub-lens group; and N1bi: a refractive index of the most image-side lens element of the positive second-sub-lens group.

Abstract: A massaging apparatus is provided with a treating section having a length longer than a width for massaging a body of the user in a tapping movement. The treating section includes a first treating part and a second treating part which are arranged in the longitudinal direction of the treating section. The apparatus is further provided with a switcher which switches over the position of the second treating part relative to the first treating part in a tapping direction to selectively change from a first state where the first treating part and the second treating part are flush with each other to a second state where the second treating part protrudes relative to the first treating part, and vice versa.

Abstract: A driving method of an air conditioning system is disclosed. The air conditioning system includes a first cooling device combined with a heating function and having a compressor, an outdoor heat exchanger, an expansion device, a passage control device and an interior heat exchanger, a second cooling device provided at an outlet side of the blower and having a cooling pad containing moisture and ventilating, a tank storing refrigerant, a pump, a sprayer and a filter, a control unit electrically connecting to the first and second cooling devices and a humidity sensor and alternatively driving the first cooling device and the second cooling device according to humidity of outdoor air delivered from the humidity sensor during air conditioning mode.

Abstract: A confocal probe emits a scanning beam to a target and receives light returned therefrom to obtain an image thereof. The confocal probe has a chamber accommodating an optical system. The optical system includes an optical fiber through which a light beam is introduced to the optical system, a converging lens that converges the light beam introduced by the optical fiber, an optical element having a light incident surface, a first surface and a light emerging surface which statically define an optical path of the light beam, and a deflecting device mounted on the first surface of the optical element. The light beam enters the optical element through the light incident surface, enters the deflecting device through the first surface, and is dynamically deflected by the deflecting device. The deflected beam is output through the light emerging surface, as the scanning beam, toward the target.

Abstract: Disclosed are a novel organic acid salt of amlodipine, its preparation method, and a pharmaceutical composition containing the same as a therapeutically active ingredient.