Abstract: An object is to provide a user with motivation to enjoy waking up in the morning and guide the user to sufficient awakening by generating a breeding event in a breeding game of a virtual life form when the user wakes up in the morning. A game server that manages progress of a breeding game of a virtual life form can provide a user with motivation to enjoy waking up in the morning and guide the user to sufficient awakening by generating a breeding event in a breeding game of a virtual life form when the user wakes up in the morning. The game server includes circuitry configured to acquire a wake-up time of a user; and a update the breeding game in accordance with the acquired wake-up time.

Abstract: A full-flat rear seat is a collapsible full-flat rear seat including a seatback board mounted on a rear surface of a backrest of the rear seat of a vehicle and providing a flat support surface together with a luggage board of the vehicle in being selectively unfolded, when the rear seat rotates, and the seatback board includes: a center seatback board mounted on a rear surface of the rear seat of the vehicle; an upper seatback board provided at an upper side of the center seatback board and configured to move relative to the center seatback board; and a lower seatback board provided at a lower side of the center seatback board and hinged thereto and configured to hingedly rotate toward one surface of the center seatback board.

Abstract: A downflow polymer product withdrawal system includes a withdrawal line to collect a product including a powder and a carrier gas. The line may include at least one downward sloped descending section and is absent of any non-self draining regions. The downflow system may further include a lock hopper, a fill valve between the line and the lock hopper, and a discharge valve downstream of the lock hopper. An upflow polymer product withdrawal system includes a withdrawal line to collect and discharge a product comprising a powder and a carrier gas. The line may include at least one non-vertical section including at least one upward sloped ascending section and at least one downward sloped descending section, and is absent of any non-self draining regions. The upflow system may further include a lock hopper, a fill valve between the line and the lock hopper, and a discharge valve.

Abstract: A disinfection device for disinfecting a female medical connector. The device includes an inner housing having an absorbent material that includes a disinfectant or antimicrobial agent that receives the connector. The device also includes an outer housing having an outer wall that receives the inner housing wherein the inner housing is rotatable within the outer housing. An indicator is located between the outer wall and a transparent collar that includes at least one rib. The indicator includes a first visual indicator and a second visual indicator concealed by the first visual indicator. The inner housing includes a boss element that extends through the outer wall and indicator and is attached to the collar. Rotation of the collar causes rotation of the absorbent material and causes the rib to remove sufficient portions of the indicator to expose the second visual indicator to provide visual indication that the connector is disinfected.

Abstract: A portable, resealable storage container and a method for manufacture are provided. The container includes a body having a bottom opposite an opening, and sidewalls attached to the bottom, wherein the body defines a storage cavity. A top having an attachment band and a flap operable to connect to and disconnect from the attachment band covers the opening of the body when connected to the body. A ridge is disposed along an outer surface of the sidewalls and is configured to provide a seat for the attachment band of the top. A mating surface disposed at an upper end of the sidewalls above the ridge and is operable to contact the attachment band of the top. When the top is positioned to sit atop the ridge, the attachment band is in substantially continuous contact with the mating surface. The top is securely fastened to the body.

Abstract: A disinfection cap or device for disinfecting medical connectors. The cap includes a visual indicator that changes color after sufficient scrubbing effort and time have been expended by a clinician to disinfect the medical device, giving positive visual feedback to the treating clinician. An external housing of the cap includes a disinfection medium, such as a disinfectant sponge that is coupled to a rotating collar. The housing is oriented so that the sponge contacts the medical device to be cleaned. Collar rotation in turn rotates the disinfectant sponge against the VAD, providing scrubbing action. A visualization chamber within the cap contains two isolated fluids of distinct colors. As the collar is rotated it mixes the two isolated fluids, changing color of the resultant mixture. When the visualization chamber shows the new, mixed third color, the medical device is disinfected.

Abstract: An air conditioner for a vehicle capable of preventing a situation in which an occupant's head gets hot by improving a vertical temperature difference between a defrost vent and a floor vent, includes an air conditioning case in which an air flow path is formed, and a cooling heat exchanger and a heating heat exchanger provided sequentially on the air flow path of the air conditioning case in an airflow direction, wherein a defrost vent, a face vent, and a floor vent are formed on the air conditioning case, wherein a hot air duct configured to allow hot air at a downstream side of the heating heat exchanger to flow to an outlet of the floor vent is provided on the air conditioning case.

Abstract: Described herein are oral care compositions comprising a surfactant system comprising an amino acid derived surfactant, and an amphoteric surfactant; a zinc salt; and a stannous ion source. Methods of making and using the same are also described.

Abstract: In a vibration damping device in which a separate stopper member is accommodated in an accommodation recess opening in an axial direction, a retaining part protruding toward an inner circumference is provided at an opening of the accommodation recess. The stopper member having a substantially quadrilateral outer shape is provided with lip-shaped parts protruding from the corner portions toward the outer circumference, and the lip-shaped part is located in the accommodation recess further inward than the retaining part and overlaps the retaining part in the axial projection. A rod insertion hole is formed through the stopper member in the axial direction, and a pair of facing side portions on an outer circumferential surface of the stopper member are spaced apart from an inner circumferential surface of the accommodation recess to an inner circumference in a region extending to both outer sides of the rod insertion hole between the lip-shaped parts.

Abstract: A method and a device for timing control in a non-terrestrial network are provided. The method includes: transmitting, to a UE, first system information including a first scheduling offset; determining a first update period of the first scheduling offset; transmitting, to the UE, a first message including information about the first update period; and transmitting, to the UE, a second message including information about a scheduling offset updated according to the first update period.

Abstract: A three-dimensional fabrication apparatus includes a fabrication section, a liquid discharge unit, a housing, and a gas replacer. The fabrication section forms a powder layer with a fabrication material in a fabrication area. The liquid discharge unit discharges a fabrication liquid onto the powder layer to form a fabrication layer. The housing has an internal space accommodating at least one of the fabrication section or the liquid discharge unit. The gas replacer to generate and supply a laminar flow of a predetermined gas other than an air into the internal space of the housing to replace an ambient gas in the internal space from the air to the predetermined gas.

Abstract: A system and a method for extinguishing a fire of a high voltage battery for a vehicle, which supply a fire-extinguishing liquid to a fire extinguishing case in a form of a container when a fire occurs in a high voltage battery provided in a vehicle, submerging the high voltage battery in the fire-extinguishing liquid, include a battery cell assembly, a fire extinguishing case to accommodate the battery cell assembly, a fire-extinguishing liquid tank connected to the fire extinguishing case, wherein a fire-extinguishing liquid is stored in the fire-extinguishing liquid tank, a supply valve provided between the fire-extinguishing liquid tank and the fire extinguishing case and configured to supply or block the fire-extinguishing liquid from the fire-extinguishing liquid tank to the fire extinguishing case, and a controller electrically connected to the supply valve and configured to open the supply valve to supply the fire-extinguishing liquid to the fire extinguishing case when the controller concludes that t

Abstract: An injection pen, comprising a housing, a lead screw axially moveable in the housing, a dose set member for dose setting and dose correcting, threadably connected to the housing and having a first mating feature, a setback member having a second mating feature for engaging the first mating feature, a clicker that generates an audible or tactile indication during operation, the clicker being operatively connected to the dose set member, and a push button operatively connected to the setback member to cause the second mating feature to engage the first mating feature during an injection, the push button receiving the clicker, wherein the first mating feature is disengaged from the second mating feature during dose setting and dose correcting and engaged with the second mating feature during an injection.

Abstract: A system and a method for extinguishing a fire in a high voltage battery for a vehicle, which supply cooling water flowing in an upper portion of a high voltage battery to the high voltage battery when a fire occurs in the high voltage battery, extinguishing the fire, include a battery cell assembly, an upper cooling passage which is provided in an upper portion of the battery cell assembly and through which cooling water flows, an upper plate including at least one through-hole and disposed between the battery cell assembly and the upper cooling passage to separate the battery cell assembly and the upper cooling passage, and solderings disposed in the at least one through-hole in the upper plate at intervals and configured to be melted at a predetermined temperature. When a temperature of the battery cell assembly due to the fire is predetermined temperature or higher, the solderings are melted and the cooling water is supplied to the battery cell assembly.

Abstract: A safety lock syringe assembly comprising a barrel including a distal end and a proximal end, one or more lugs extending outwardly from an outer surface of the barrel, and a needle extending from the distal end, and a sleeve having threads that engage the one or more lugs, the sleeve includes a sleeve locking mechanism, wherein the sleeve threadably rotates in a first direction to a first position that exposes the needle, the sleeve threadably rotates in a second direction to a second position that shields the needle, and the sleeve threadably rotates in the second direction to a third position that engages the one or more lugs to the sleeve locking mechanism to irreversibly lock the shield to the barrel.

Abstract: A golf club head with an improved striking face is disclosed. More specifically, the present invention relates to a golf club head. The golf club head includes a striking face portion that includes a frontal striking surface and a rear internal surface that combine to include a thickened central region, a central transition region, a thinned intermediate region, a thickened stress reducing region, and a thinned perimeter region. The thickened stress reducing region includes a pocket and a weight.

Abstract: A method for providing an integrated composite article made of a metal and a resin is provided. A crystalline thermoplastic resin composition is provided as a resin material. A plate material of various kinds of Al alloys having a thickness of 0.5 to 1.5 mm and having been subjected to a chemical treatment of NMT and cut out to be of a form and a dimension is placed in a metallic mold for an injection molding and injecting the crystalline thermoplastic resin composition into the metallic mold to form the integrated composite article having a final plate shape including curved face portion. The integrated composite article is provided as a roof of an automobile, and contribute to promotion of lighter weight of a vehicle, reduction of CO2, coping with problems of global warming.

Abstract: A bowl filter cartridge has an annular trap to catch and collect any contaminant, debris, or unfiltered fuel remaining in the filter housing during filter service. This prevents material being collected in the trap from being transferred to the clean side of a new filter, thereby reducing engine exposure.

Abstract: An output device communicably connected with a post-processing apparatus for executing post-processing on an output product output from the output device, the output device includes circuitry to receive a processing setting pattern that is determined in accordance with an output condition of the output product and corresponding to an operation to be performed by the post-processing apparatus, the output condition, and image data of an image to be formed on the output product and control output of the image data using the post-processing apparatus based on the processing setting pattern and the output condition.

Abstract: An air conditioner for a vehicle with an improved structure so that hot air is not directly discharged to a defrost vent in a floor mode or a mix mode, includes an air conditioning case in which an air flow path is formed, and a cooling heat exchanger and a heating heat exchanger provided sequentially on the air flow path of the air conditioning case in an airflow direction, wherein a defrost vent, a face vent, and a floor vent are formed on the air conditioning case, wherein the defrost vent includes a first defogging flow path allowing air passing through the heating heat exchanger to be discharged directly, and a second defogging flow path allowing air passing through the cooling heat exchanger or the heating heat exchanger to be mixed and discharged therethrough.