Abstract: An apparatus for providing an indication of rotational position of a shaft by parameter change. The apparatus includes a resilient, serpentine-shaped middle portion, a first end portion located at one end of the middle portion, and a second end portion at another end of the middle portion. The second end portion is for location adjacent to the first end portion to permit securing of the first and second ends together subsequent to the middle portion being resiliently extended around the shaft. The serpentine-shaped middle portion is sized to be taut on the shaft and is shaped to have a plurality of undulations. The undulations providing a plurality of event members each having at least one characteristic that causes a change of a parameter that can be sensed by a sensor when the event member rotates past the sensor.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus that can conduct elastic modulus measurement with high accuracy without enlarging the circuit scale. A calculator 3 uses a signal from a receiver-transmitter 2 to calculate the motion velocity or the move displacement of body tissue and the strain variation of the body tissue. A frequency analyzer 4 conducts frequency analysis of the motion velocity and the move displacement of the body tissue found in the calculator 3. A strain induced by stress and elastic wave separator 5 separates a frequency component with strain of an arterial wall caused by blood pressure change caused by pulsation of the heart, a frequency component of vibration caused by flow of blood into the lumen of artery, and a frequency component of noise based on the determination result of the frequency analyzer 4.

Abstract: A plug-in unit includes a breaker electrically connected with a busbar at a power supply side and an electric device electrically connected with the breaker. Joint surfaces making contact with each other are formed at the breaker and the electric device, respectively. The breaker includes a terminal metal fitting connecting the busbar thereto and a plug-in terminal metal fitting installed at the joint surface of the breaker, and the electric device includes a plug terminal, which is installed at the joint surface thereof and capable of being connected with the plug-in terminal metal fitting. The breaker is detachably joined with the electric device by an engaging member including an engaging unit and an engagement receiving unit. The engaging unit and the engagement receiving unit are installed at the joint surfaces of the breaker and the electric device, respectively, and detachably engaged with each other.

Abstract: The invention concerns a device for capturing the motion of a structure consisting of N articulated segments, characterized in that it comprises: first means (ML) that deliver at least one item of information able to restore an absolute acceleration vector {right arrow over (a)}1 of a point on the segment of rank 1 in a reference frame forming a reference, at successive times tk, k being an integer number greater than or equal to 1, and second measuring means (MD1, MDn) distributed over the various segments and which deliver, for each segment of rank 1 to N, at each time tk, a measurement (M1, Mn) representing an orientation vector ({right arrow over (?)}1, {right arrow over (?)}n) of the segment in the reference frame. Application to biomechanical analysis, telemanipulation, animation of characters, etc.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a polar modulation transmitter that can perform adaptive distortion compensation processing without the need for a synchronization adjustment circuit for synchronizing an input baseband signal and an output signal of a power amplifier.

Abstract: The shower heated by solar energy comprises a platform (2), to a base (2a) of which is connected a piping (3) containing a water supply. A tubular body (4) is connected superiorly to the platform (2), bearing a shower head (5) at a top thereof. The platform (2) internally exhibits a plurality of conduits (7) for retaining water, which plurality of conduits (7) is exposed to solar rays.

Abstract: A swing away or pivotable mailbox support includes a lower post anchored in the ground and pivotally connected to an upper post having a horizontally projecting mailbox support arm. The upper post is pivotally movable in response to horizontal loads applied to the support arm. Adjacent connecting ends of the posts have aligned centrally located mounting bores for receipt of a mounting shaft. A bearing and detent assembly is mounted to the connecting ends of the posts to provide support and relative rotational movement between detent-engaged stable rotational positions. A kit including a bearing and detent assembly and a shaft is also provided for converting a stationary mailbox support to a swing away or pivotable support in accordance with the invention.

Abstract: In an electronic component placement method in which electronic components are picked up from a plurality of component supply sections which supply electronic components using a plurality of mounting heads which are provided corresponding to the respective component supply sections, and the electronic components are transferred and mounted on a substrate in a same placing stage, in performing the component transferring and mounting operations, head interference areas which constitute exclusive operating regions to which only the specified mounting heads are allowed to access are set for every placing turn. Due to such a constitution, in the component placement operation, it is possible to rationally set the accessible region without causing the interference of one mounting head with another mounting head thus shortening a placing tact time by excluding wasteful standby times of the mounting heads.

Abstract: A capacitor includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a separator placed between the first and second electrodes, and an electrolyte. The first electrode includes a first collector made of metal foil, a first electrode layer containing carbon formed on the surface of the first collector, and a first protector covering the cross section of the first collector. The second electrode includes a second collector made of metal foil, a second electrode layer containing carbon formed on the surface of the second collector, and a second protector covering the cross section of the second collector.

Abstract: A humidity control device is for controlling the humidity of air in a target space, and the humidity control device comprises: a processor for controlling the humidity of air in the target space by passing air through a hygroscopic liquid L; a regenerator for regenerating the hygroscopic liquid L used for the process by the processor; a hygroscopic-liquid pipe path (50), provided so as to pass through a ventilation opening (70) intended for ventilating the target space, for transferring the hygroscopic liquid L from the processor to the regenerator; and a discharged-air-utilizing regeneration unit (60) for regenerating the hygroscopic liquid L by passing air to be discharged from the target space through the ventilation opening (70) through the hygroscopic liquid L flowing through the hygroscopic-liquid pipe path (50) toward the regenerator. A humidity control device whose energy utilization efficiency is improved is thus provided.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for gaining access to an object and/or to a service of an object or service provider. A biometric reference parameter of at least one user is recorded in a personal mobile station. The user orders an object or service from a remote server by means of his personal mobile station. An actual biometric parameter is recorded by a biometric sensor of the object or service provider and the recorded actual biometric parameter is compared to the reference parameter. On a successful comparison, access to the object or service is permitted. The invention further relates to a system with the components mentioned.

Abstract: A cooking appliance includes a cabinet forming an oven cavity, a broil heating element, a bake heating element, a convection heating system and a controller. The convection heating system develops a flow of heated air into the oven cavity, and includes a fan and a convection heating element. The controller controls activations of the broil, bake and convection heating elements during an oven cavity preheating operation in which the broil heating element and the bake heating element are alternately activated while the convection heating element is activated.

Abstract: A device for clearing obstructions from a medical tube, such as a chest tube, is disclosed in various embodiments. The device features a clearance member in the form of a loop. The loop desirably has a diameter that substantially corresponds to the inner diameter of the medical tube. Also desirably, the loop presents a substantially unobstructed pathway therethrough for the flow of material from a location in the medical tube distal to the loop to a location in the medical tube proximal to the loop regardless whether the clearance member is being translated or is at rest in the medical tube. Methods of utilizing such a device are also disclosed.

Abstract: There is provided a processing method for performing a recovery process on a damaged layer formed on a surface of a low-k film of a target substrate by introducing a processing gas containing a methyl group into a processing chamber. The method includes: increasing an internal pressure of the processing chamber up to a first pressure lower than a processing pressure for the recovery process by introducing a dilution gas into the processing chamber maintained in a depressurized state; then stopping the introduction of the dilution gas, and increasing the internal pressure of the processing chamber up to a second pressure as the processing pressure for the recovery process by introducing the processing gas into a region where the target substrate exists within the processing chamber; and performing the recovery process on the target substrate while the processing pressure is maintained.

Abstract: A molded and undivided medical penetrating device comprises a first portion and a second substantially tubular portion having an outer surface, a proximal end and a distal end. The proximal end of the second substantially tubular portion of the device is joined to and is integral with the first portion of the device and is adapted to be maintained essentially outside a body while the first portion of the device is adapted to be retained within the interior of the body. The device includes an opening that extends through the first and second portions of the device and provides access to the interior of the body from outside the body. The opening and the outer surface of the substantially tubular second portion of the device define a wall that is thinner at the proximal end of the second portion than towards the distal end of the second portion.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for manufacturing a plurality of CBRAM memories, each comprising a memory cell in a chalcogenide solid electrolyte, an anode, and a cathode, the process comprising implementing a sublayer of a high thermal conductivity material, higher than 1.3 W/m/K, which covers the set of contacts, then providing, on said sublayer, a triple layer comprising a chalcogenide layer, then an anodic layer, and a layer with second contacts (36), and finally an etching step.

Abstract: A waterproof, vapor-permeable and gas-permeable sheet material and a method of making are provided. The sheet material includes a waterproof microporous layer and a thermoplastic layer attached to the microporous layer. The thermoplastic layer is vapor-permeable and air-permeable. The microporous layer is at least partially integrated with the thermoplastic layer to form a zone that prevents passage of water droplets, while permitting passage of water vapor and air, when a chemical is present on the sheet material that would otherwise cause the microporous layer to permit passage of water droplets. The Zone can be considered to be resistant to chemical interference with at least the waterproof property of the microporous layer and inhibits detachment of the layers.

Abstract: A coil device includes first and second coils and a package for sealing the first and second coil. The first coil has a first winding including a first conductor wire wound about a first winding axis, and first and second ends which are both ends of the first conductor wire. The second coil has a second winding including a second conductor wire wound about a second winding axis, and third and fourth ends which are both ends of the second conductor wire. The second winding axis is arranged with the first winding axis. The second end of the first coil is connected with the third end of the second coil. The first end of the first coil and the fourth end of the second coil are adapted to be connected to an outside of the package. This coil device reduces magnetic flux leakage to outside of the package.

Abstract: A wireless communication system is disclosed. The present invention mainly includes a transceiver, a first filter unit, a second filter unit, and a first amplifying unit, wherein the first filter unit is a harmonic oscillation circuit having an inductive component and a capacitive component serially coupled to each other, and the harmonic oscillation circuit as well as the circuit of the second filter unit efficiently filter out a local oscillation frequency signal and intermediate frequency signal traveling along with a radio frequency signal, thereby preventing neighboring communication systems from electro-magnetic interference due to radiation of the local oscillation frequency signal and intermediate frequency signal into air via an antenna after being amplified by the first amplifying unit.