Abstract: Coatings for medical devices which include polycationic peptides such as L-arginine and methods for fabricating the coatings are disclosed.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention is an organic electroluminescence element including an anode which is a hole injection electrode; a cathode which is an electron injection electrode, the cathode facing the anode; an organic light emitting layer between the anode and the cathode, the organic light emitting layer including a molybdenum oxide layer, the molybdenum oxide layer including a crystal molybdenum oxide and an amorphous molybdenum oxide, and the crystal molybdenum oxide and the amorphous molybdenum oxide being mixed or stacked.

Abstract: A system, nozzle assembly, and method for coating a stent with a solvent and polymer are provided. The polymer can include a therapeutic substance or a drug. The polymer and solvent can be discharged from separate tubes disposed within another tube carrying moving air. The polymer and the solvent mix together when they are discharged and are atomized by the air. The ends of the tubes can be concentric with each other.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device may include a first substrate; a second substrate; a first polarizing plate on the first substrate; a second polarizing plate arranged on the second substrate, and so that a direction of an absorption axis of the second polarizing plate being perpendicular to a direction of an absorption axis of the first polarizing plate; a liquid crystal layer arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate; a color filter layer arranged between the liquid crystal layer and the first or the second substrate, the color filter layer having a plurality of pixels of two or more colors. The retardation thin film has in-plane birefringence index satisfying 0.75??n[fr]/?d[fr]?1.35 for a region corresponding to a reflection part of a pixel and satisfying ?n[t]<1.2 ×10?3 for a region corresponding to a transmission part of a pixel.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention is an transparent thin film transistor which has an substantially transparent substrate, a gate line made of a thin film of a substantially transparent conductive material, a substantially transparent gate insulating film, a substantially transparent semiconductor active layer, a source line made of a thin film of a metal material and a drain electrode made of a thin film of a substantially transparent conductive material. In addition, the source line and the drain electrode are formed apart from each other and sandwich the substantially transparent semiconductor active layer. Moreover, at least any one of the thin film of the gate line and the thin film of the source line is stacked with a thin film of a metal material.

Abstract: There is disclosed a liquid discharge method in a temperature controller having a refrigerant circulation line circulating a refrigerant to a target of temperature control and a heater heating the target, wherein the refrigerant is circulated so as to control the temperature of the target with the refrigerant and the heater in the case where the temperature of the target is controlled to be a first temperature lower than or equal to a room temperature, wherein the circulation of the refrigerant is stopped so as to control the temperature of the target with the heater in the case where the temperature of the target is controlled to be a second temperature higher than the room temperature, wherein in the case of changing the setpoint of the target from the first temperature to the second temperature.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method for charging for services in an IP based communication system, comprising: establishing an accounting session between a network element and a charging function for the session; and initiating a change in the accounting session at the charging function.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a drug-delivery coating for a stent is disclosed. The method comprises covering the outer surface of the stent; applying a first composition to the inner surface of the stent to form a first coating; covering the first coating on the inner surface of the stent; and applying a second composition to the outer surface of the stent to form a second coating.

Abstract: With abluminal side of a stent masked, the luminal side of the stent is selectively coated with a substance, such as an anti-coagulant, a platelet inhibitor and/or a pro-healing substance. The stent can be masked by inserting it into a rigid mandrel chamber or by compressing a masking sleeve onto the outer side of the stent. A spray nozzle inserted into the masked stent spray coats the substance onto the luminal side. The sprayed coating can be cured onto the stent such as by inserting an electrical-resistance heater bar into the stent.

Abstract: A vehicle suitable in consideration of each of an electric power supply amount to a motor and a mounting space of a fuel cell or the like is provided. The outputs of a fuel cell and a battery are raised in voltage by a voltage raising device, and electric power of these raised voltages is supplied to a motor. A total output voltage of the fuel cell and the battery, and their total volume can be correspondingly reduced. The total volume of a group is reduced including the fuel cell, the battery and the voltage raising device, and a mounting space of the group in the vehicle. A space of a frame on an upper side of a floor panel and a lower side of a seat in a vehicle interior space can be utilized effectively as the mounting space of the group, without enlarging the space of the frame.

Abstract: The invention provides a system, method, and network elements for providing a service, preferably an advice of charge, AoC, service requested by a user equipment at a session set-up or during a session. An application server provides information for the requested service to the user equipment. In an embodiment, authorization information and the information for the requested service may be sent to the user equipment. Depending on an input by the user or other type of confirmation such as expiration of a timer, the user equipment may initiate continuation of the session, for example by generating an authorization response based on the received authorization information, and sending the generated authorization response to the application server for verification.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus are provided, the apparatus includes a correlator configured to correlate samples of a frame format signal with a reference signal; an adder block configured to sum the correlation results over a given time period; a comparator configured to compare the sum with a given reference value; a controller configured, if the sum exceeds the reference value, to make the decision that a frequency correction channel has been detected, store the position of the frequency correction channel in the frame format signal and cease the correlation process; and otherwise configured to control the correlation and comparison to continue until the time reserved for the correlation process ends, to retain the value in the adder block; and to control the apparatus to resume the above process when a new time reserved for the correlation process is due.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition of a first single enantiomer homopolymer and a separate stereocomplex formed of a second single enantiomer homopolymer and it mirror image enantiomer, wherein the first and second single enantiomer homopolymers can be the same or different.

Abstract: A power unit which makes it possible to reduce power transmitted from a prime mover to a driven part via an electrical path, to thereby increase the efficiency of driving the driven part. A first rotating machine of the power unit inputs and outputs energy between a stator and first and second rotors thereof, via magnetic circuits formed by generation of a rotating magnetic field, and the rotating magnetic field, and the rotors rotate while maintaining a linear relation in which respective differences in rotational speed between the rotating magnetic field and the second rotor, and between the second and first rotors are equal. The rotors are mechanically connected to a prime mover and a transmission, respectively. A second rotating machine of the power unit is mechanically connected to a drive part without via the transmission, and electrically connected to the stator.

Abstract: Distance measuring apparatus has a rough distance measuring circuit (18) using a time delay circuit and a precise distance measuring circuit (31) for measuring the orientation of the vector of a carrier wave to determine the distance, the sum of which is the final output. The rough distance measuring apparatus (18) has a long measurement span but low precision. The precise distance measuring apparatus (31) has a short measurement span but high precision. The combination provides distance measuring apparatus having a long measurement span and high resolution and capable of implementing precise measurement.

Abstract: A vascular valve constructed from a biocompatible material that is designed to be surgically implanted in a patient's blood vessel, such as the right ventricular outflow tract. At the first end of the valve there is an orifice defined by at least two opposing free edges, and which can occupy either a first, closed position or a second, open position. At the second end of the valve there are at least two flexible members attachable to an anterior and a posterior wall of a patient's blood vessel. A length of the orifice between said at least two opposing free edges when the orifice is generally closed is equal to about 1.5 to 2 times the diameter of a patient's blood vessel. Optionally, the two flexible members to a stent or tubular graft. The valved stent or tubular graft can be inserted into a patient's blood vessel or heart.

Abstract: A pumping system for assisting the circulatory system of a patient, wherein the system includes a rotary flow blood pump by a first cannula connected to a portion of the left side of the heart and a second cannula connected to the aorta; and characterised in that the pumping speed of said pump is adjusted in accordance with measurements from a pressure sensor mounted in or on an inner wall of a portion of the left side of the heart.

Abstract: A radiation delivery source, such as a stent, and method for making radioactive a delivery source are disclosed. A drug delivery source and method for making a drug delivery region on the drug delivery source are also disclosed.

Abstract: In a baffle device 20 fixedly provided in an air passage of a mechanism for blowing out hot air to a solder treatment portion, vanes inclined with a predetermined inclination angle with respect to an air flow are provided substantially radially with a predetermined interval. Also, in a nozzle to be attached to the hot air blower for solder treatment, the baffle device 20 is fixedly provided in an in-nozzle air passage. Moreover, in the hot air blower for solder treatment which blows out hot air to the solder treatment portion, the baffle device 20 is fixedly provided in an in-blower air passage.