Abstract: A sectoral reduction gear is arranged between a motor portion and a link mechanism. The sectoral reduction gear rotates in a reciprocating manner in a predetermined angle range on the basis of a forward rotation and a reverse rotation of the motor portion. An outer periphery of the sectoral reduction gear defines an imaginary circle. An inner region of the imaginary circle has an operating range in which the sectoral reduction gear, which rotates in a reciprocating manner, passes, and a non-operating range, in which the sectoral reduction gear does not pass. As seen from an axial direction of an output shaft, a part or the whole of the output shaft is arranged in the non-operating range.

Abstract: A method and system for providing a personal information control service for a mobile communication terminal are disclosed. The method for providing personal information control service for a mobile communication terminal includes: transmitting, by a service client, a loss registration control command to a service operating system; notifying, by the service operating system, that a mobile communication terminal of a user has been lost by using one of a method of transmitting a particular form of loss control message to the user mobile communication terminal and a method of originating a call using a particular origination number to the user mobile communication terminal in response to the loss registration control command; and activating, by a control agent provided in the user mobile communication terminal, a service function of the control agent to protect personal information of the mobile communication terminal based on the notification about the loss.

Abstract: This invention relates to a number of bird sex-identification oligonucleotides and their use in determining the sex of birds in various families.

Abstract: A transparent optical component (10) comprises at least one transparent set of cells (15) juxtaposed parallel to a surface of the component, each cell being separated by walls (18) parallel to the component surface, hermetically sealed and containing at least one substance having an optical property, and at least one absorbing coating (30), placed on the walls on one side extending parallel to said component surface. The optical component can be cut out along a predefined contour and optionally drilled. The invention also comprises a method for producing such optical component and its use for producing an optical element. The optical element may be a spectacle lens in particular.

Abstract: A method of providing video information to a display monitor within an elevator located in a building, which includes receiving first data defining a category of video information, receiving second data, associated with the category of video information and defining at least one source of the video information; and retrieving from the source, over a data communications path and on the basis of the first data and the second data, the video information to be displayed on the monitor within the elevator.

Abstract: The clamp fitting for a pipe, in particular, a plastic pipe or a plastic-metal composite pipe, is provided with a fitting body having a support sleeve onto which one end of a pipe to be connected can be pushed. Clamp fitting further comprises a clamping sleeve having a wall that has a slot running between its axial ends that is delimited by opposing flanks of the wall and is expandable, wherein clamping sleeve surrounds support sleeve and end of the pipe to be connected in the state when it has been pushed onto the support sleeve. To maintain the expanded state of clamping sleeve, a removable spacer, against which flanks of the wall that delimit slot of the expanded clamping sleeve are supported, is arranged in slot.

Abstract: A multimedia player includes an execution button for generating an execute instruction when operated, an auxiliary card associated with a file managing instruction, an auxiliary card reader for electrically connecting with the auxiliary card, and a control unit electrically connected to the execution button and the auxiliary card reader. The control unit is operable, in response to the execute instruction from the execution button, to execute the file managing instruction associated with the auxiliary card that is electrically connected to the auxiliary card reader.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for plasma-assisted chemical vapour deposition for coating or material removal on the inner wall of a hollow body (42). The method involves introducing a gas lance (44) into the hollow body (42) and forming a cavity plasma (45) to form a plasma cloud arranged at the tip of the gas lance by applying an electric radio-frequency field to an RF electrode (41).

Abstract: In one aspect, in general, a method is provided for detecting temperature and protein denaturation of a tissue during thermal therapy. The method includes generating a plurality of MR pulse sequences that include a first group of pulse sequences and a second group of pulse sequences, and receiving a plurality of response signals that include a first and second group of response signals in response to the first and second groups of pulse sequences, respectively. A first information associated with a degree of protein denaturation of the tissue is determined based on the first and second groups of response signals. A second information associated with a temperature of the tissue is determined based on at least some of the plurality of response signals.

Abstract: A method of preparing a taste-masking oral dosage form is provided. The method includes providing a first solution comprising a pharmaceutically active ingredient and a starch, providing a second solution comprising a hydrophilic polymer and a surfactant, blending the first and second solution to form a plurality of microparticles by a granulating process, wherein the microparticle is a co-crystal structure comprising the pharmaceutically active ingredient and the starch, and performing a compression-molding process to form the tablet.

Abstract: In a bottle filling installation, an apparatus for gripping PET bottles when transferring bottles from a spider element to a spider element/ filling element/rinsing element includes a thrust body that opens and closes grippers; a guide, which is vertical in the operational position, that engages the thrust body; a first spring for exerting a force on the body in a lifting and lowering direction; and a roller for moving the thrust body around a control curve.

Abstract: Disclosed are a transcoding apparatus and method between two codecs each including a deblocking filter. The transcoding method between first and second codecs each including a deblocking filter, may include decoding input data encoded according to the first codec, according to the first codec so as to generate decoded data; and encoding the decoded data according to the second codec. The decoded data may include data on which deblocking filtering is not performed by the first codec, or data on which deblocking filtering is adaptively performed by the first codec. The decoded data may further include data on which deblocking filtering is performed by the first codec. The decoded data may be used as input data when the second codec performs encoding and/or when the second codec performs motion estimation.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method of treating infection by methicillin-nonsusceptibale bacteria, vancomycin-nonsusceptibale bacteria, penicillin-nonsusceptibale bacteria, clarithromycin-nonsusceptibale bacteria, or metronidazole-nonsusceptibale bacteria by administering to a subject in need thereof an effective amount of a compound of the following formula:

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a dryer having a function of spraying steam onto laundry. The dryer includes a cabinet, a drum rotatably disposed inside the cabinet, an exhaust part communicating with the drum and provided with a ventilation fan, a drive unit rotating the drum and the ventilation fan; and a drive force transmission unit selectively transmitting a drive force from the drive unit to the ventilation fan. A method of controlling the dryer is also disclosed.

Abstract: A disk enabling modification of the power of an optical component consists of a Fresnel lens. The disk is initially formed with a general rounded shape which corresponds to the shape of the optical component. In this way, the disk does not lose its shape or does not lose it very much when it is applied against the component. It does not cause image distortion or optical aberration when an object is observed through the component provided with the disk. Such a disk is particularly adapted to obtain correction of ametropia or to a solar mask initially lacking optical power.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for image interpolation based on low pass filtering are provided. The apparatus includes an edge direction detector detecting an edge direction for a pixel nearest to a to-be-interpolated pixel among pixels and determining the edge direction of the to-be-interpolated pixel as the detected edge direction, a pixel value calculator calculating pixel values of interpolation points located in a lattice filtering window having a predetermined size by using pixel values of pixels located adjacent to the interpolation points, and a filtering unit performing low pass filtering on the to-be-located pixel according to a low pass filter corresponding to the determined edge direction of the to-be-interpolated pixel, the low pass filter being one of low pass filters corresponding to predetermined vertical, horizontal, left diagonal and right diagonal directions respectively.

Abstract: A differential gear for a wind power plant includes a gearbox with three inputs and outputs. One input is connected to the rotor of the wind power plant, the first output is connected to a generator and the second output is connected to the input shaft of a continuously variable gearbox, the output shaft of which is connected to the generator side output of the gearbox. The input shaft of the continuously variable gearbox is connected to the output shaft of the gearbox via a variable gearbox.

Abstract: The inventive method consists in transferring a pattern (P) onto the optical article (1) in the form of one or several portions of transferable material (3) retained by a pressure-sensitive adhesive material layer (2) and in applying transferable material portions with the aid of a pad by placing the adhesive material layer between the pad and a pattern receiving article. The use of the pressure-sensitive adhesive material makes it possible to use the different materials in the form of a transferable material. Said method is particularly suitable for producing patterns, in particular in the form of holograms on optical lenses, in particular ophthalmic lenses.

Abstract: In a small-volume reverse osmosis system with a reverse osmosis module, a concentrate line leading from the reverse osmosis module to an outlet line, a permeate line leading from the reverse osmosis module to a storage tank, as well as a permeate pump connected to the concentrate line and to the permeate line with a displacement unit and two control channels, the invention proposes that two valves that are alternately switched by the displacement unit (12) depending on the position be integrated into a joint control slide and control channel opening combination.

Abstract: A method for retro-fitting wind-energy conversion system includes disconnecting a first set of multiple windings from active circuitry; shorting together the first set of multiple windings; and connecting a second set of multiple windings to the active circuitry.