Abstract: The present invention is directed toward a free flowing powdered blend of a polysaccharide and a crystalline polyol for use as an edible adhesive for particulate materials such as seasonings and flavorings. The powdered adhesive blend can easily be mixed with seasonings or flavorings and will melt during a heating process to a sticky viscose liquid capable of adhering seasoning particles to the food substrate. The blends of the present invention have the benefits of being easy to prepare, use and store as they will stay a free flowing powder under most ambient conditions.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for increasing the grain size of a polysilicon layer, which includes exposing a silicon oxide wafer in a deposition chamber to an amount, effective for the purpose, of nitrogen at a flow rate of at least about 240 standard liters per minute (slm). The instant invention further relates to a method for inhibiting the formation of a polysilicon seed in a furnace, which includes the treatment as noted above. The invention also relates to a method for forming a polysilicon layer, including: forming a silicon oxide layer on a substrate, the silicon oxide layer having a plurality of oxygen molecules therein; exposing the silicon oxide layer to a predetermined amount of nitrogen-containing gas in a furnace, whereby a plurality of nitrogen molecules in the nitrogen-containing gas replaces at least part of the oxygen molecules in the silicon oxide layer; and forming a polysilicon layer on the silicon oxide layer.

Abstract: A leadscrew set is installed on a stepping motor which comprises a coil bobbin, the leadscrew set includes a leadscrew, which has a shaft body, a screw portion formed on periphery of the shaft body, a magnet connecting portion connected on an end of the shaft body, two gluing portions formed concave on the magnet connecting portion, each gluing portion has a gluing surface; a magnet part, which has a barrel body, a leadscrew fitting hole formed inside the barrel body and positioned at inward of the coil bobbin and the magnet connecting portion of the leadscrew; and a glue member, which glued between the gluing portions of the leadscrew and the leadscrew fitting hole of the magnet part.

Abstract: A solenoid is disclosed to include a mount seat has a receiving housing forming a receiving room; a magnet assembly has a magnet part installed inside the receiving room of the mount seat; a spindle set has a spindle, a coil wound around the spindle and positioned inside the magnet part of magnet assembly, and a actuating against portion connected at an end of the spindle; a spring member has a spindle connect portion connected to the spindle set, a spring-back portion connected to the spindle connect portion and providing elastic deformation and spring back, and a seat connect portion connected between the spring-back portion and the receiving housing of the mount seat.

Abstract: An air pump includes a mount member having a main body and a chamber. An air bag set has a substrate, two air bags, each of which have an air chamber and a linking portion. An insulating plate has a plate member, two inlets and two outlets communicated with the air chambers of the air bags respectively. A ventilation part has a pad member, two inlet valves and two outlet valves, both of which are communicated with the inlets and the outlets of the insulating plate respectively. An air guide device has a main member, two inlets and two outlets, both of which are communicated with the inlet and outlet valves of the ventilation part respectively. A linking assembly has rotary base and a linking portion connected to the linking portion of the air bag set.

Abstract: A method for identifying a specific communications protocol used in a vehicle's on-board diagnostic system, wherein the method is implemented using a handheld automotive diagnostic device and cable having a first and second connector, wherein the cable has unique physical layer features that may be correlated to a specific communications protocol. The method comprises connecting the first connector to an input/output connector on the diagnostic device; powering up and initializing the diagnostic device; retrieving cable identification data unique to the physical layer features of the cable; and comparing the retrieved cable identification data with at least one look-up table to identify a correlated communications protocol.

Abstract: A handheld diagnostic device and method for displaying bitmapped graphic characters is provided which utilizes a condensed bitmap library. In particular, the present invention provides a method for condensing extremely large graphically-based bitmapped character sets, such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean or any other graphically-based bitmapped character set, and storing them in simple and economical handheld automotive diagnostic devices.

Abstract: A vehicular diagnostic tool is provided for receiving vehicular diagnostic codes from a vehicle on-board computer, and translating the diagnostic codes into diagnostic descriptive data. An input port is provided for receiving vehicular diagnostic codes output from a vehicle under test. A code parser parses the received diagnostic codes into diagnostic code segments. A code translator translates diagnostic code segments into corresponding diagnostic descriptor segments. And, a combiner is provided for combining the code descriptor segments to derive composite diagnostic code descriptors, wherein the composite code descriptors being collectively representative of the received diagnostic code.

Abstract: A device for, when connected to a vacuum system, conducting aspiration fluid away from a surgical site includes a conduit having a portion adapted for insertion into the surgical site. The device also includes a flow limiter interposed between the vacuum system and the conduit and in fluid communication with the conduit. The flow limiter has at least two orifices arranged in series and a flow path interconnecting the at least two orifices. The flow path has a flow area that is greater than a flow area of each one of the at least two orifices. Aspiration fluid flows through the conduit and the flow limiter in response to a pressure drop between the surgical site and the vacuum system. The flow limiter produces a non-linear relationship between a rate of aspiration fluid flow and the pressure drop.

Abstract: The present invention relates to laser ablation patterns to correct refractive errors of the eye (60) such as nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism, and higher order aberrations of the eye (60). The laser ablation patterns used to control the laser (10) prevent induced aberrations by compensating for post-procedure epithelial smoothing. The position of laser pulses (12) is also controlled to optimize the achievement of the intended ablation pattern.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to novel molecules capable of, inter alia, modulating apoptosis in mammalian cells and to genetic sequences encoding same. More particularly, the present invention relates to a novel member of the Bcl-2 family of proteins, referred to herein as “Bmf”, and to genetic sequences encoding same and to regulatory sequences such as a promoter sequence directing expression of Bmf. Bmf comprises a BH3 domain which facilitates interaction to pro-survival Bcl-2 family members thereby triggering apoptosis. Bmf is regarded, therefore, as a BH3-only molecule. The molecules of the present invention are useful, for example, in therapy, diagnosis, antibody generation and as a screening tool for therapeutic agents capable of modulating physiological cell death or survival and/or modulating cell cycle entry.

Abstract: A tachometer used to measure a speed of an engine. The tachometer includes a pickup, a counter circuit, a conversion circuit, an automatic switching device, an indicator and a meter display. The inductive pickup may be disposed around a spark plug wire of the engine to generate a pulse signal in response to a current flowing through the spark plug wire. The pulse signals are then counted by the counter circuit and input to the conversion circuit therefrom. The conversion circuit typically includes a plurality of lookup tables, each having mapped information correlating the pulse signals to the engine speed for a particular number of engine cylinders. The automatic switching device is operative to call up alternate lookup tables, e.g. each time when the electrical system of the engine is turned on. The display may be display the number of engine cylinders called up by the automatic switching device and measured engine speed.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for measuring a retinal sublayer characteristic of an eye. A plurality of axial scans are performed over an area of the retina of the eye. Reflections are measured during the axial scans to determine a plurality of sets of reflection intensity values. A given set of reflection intensity values is associated with one of the plurality of axial scans. A progressive refinement boundary detection algorithm is performed using the plurality of sets of reflection intensity values to determine at least one boundary location associated with the retinal sublayer for each of the plurality of sets of reflection intensity values. The retinal sublayer characteristic is determined in response to the determined boundary locations.

Abstract: Techniques are provided for isolating failed routing resources on a programmable circuit. Failing test patterns and the test logs are fed to a Statistical Failure Isolation (SFI) tool. The SFI tool extracts failing paths from the test patterns. A statistical analysis is performed on interconnect resources related to failing paths. The resources on the paths are then tallied to create a histogram of resources. These resources are then be fed into an Adaptive Failure Isolation (AFI) tool to auto-generate verification patterns. A tester uses the verification patterns to isolate failed interconnect resources.

Abstract: Systems and methods provide convexity map data associated with captured surface image data of a cornea The convexity map data is determined by transforming an elevation map data set into a convexity map data set. Convexity is computed as the negative of the Laplacian of the local elevation. One or more statistical parameters can be associated with the convexity map data set and employed to derive indices. The indices can be utilized to diagnosis a corneal condition.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for increasing the grain size of a polysilicon layer, which includes exposing a silicon oxide wafer in a deposition chamber to an amount, effective for the purpose, of nitrogen at a flow rate of at least about 240 standard liters per minute (slm).

Abstract: An IC component test socket assembly having an error protection device includes a test socket, a first detection device set and a control unit. The IC component test socket assembly serves to detect whether the IC component is correctly inserted into the test socket and determine whether further electric functionality test operations for the IC component is going to be performed or not. A second detection device set is further provided in the test socket, and a mark is provided on an IC component to enhance the functionality of this test socket assembly. Moreover, the IC component test socket assembly is applicable to semi-automatic or completely automatic system level test equipments to avoid burnout of IC components and damages to the test equipments.

Abstract: A tachometer used to measure a speed of an engine. The tachometer includes a pickup, a counter circuit, a conversion circuit, an automatic switching device, an indicator and a meter display. The inductive pickup may be disposed around a spark plug wire of the engine to generate a pulse signal in response to a current flowing through the spark plug wire. The pulse signals are then counted by the counter circuit and input to the conversion circuit therefrom. The conversion circuit typically includes a plurality of lookup tables, each having mapped information correlating the pulse signals to the engine speed for a particular number of engine cylinders. The automatic switching device is operative to call up alternate lookup tables, e.g. each time when the electrical system of the engine is turned on. The display may be display the number of engine cylinders called up by the automatic switching device and measured engine speed.

Abstract: An IC component test socket assembly having an error protection device includes a test socket, a first detection device set and a control unit. The IC component test socket assembly serves to detect whether the IC component is correctly inserted into the test socket and determine whether further electric functionality test operations for the IC component is going to be performed or not. A second detection device set is further provided in the test socket, and a mark is provided on an IC component to enhance the functionality of this test socket assembly. Moreover, the IC component test socket assembly is applicable to semi-automatic or completely automatic system level test equipments to avoid burnout of IC components and damages to the test equipments.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an eyewear comprising an auxiliary frame and a main frame which are magnetically connected to each other. In a preferred embodiment, the auxiliary frame comprises an auxiliary lens retaining mechanism for accommodating a pair of auxiliary lenses; and an attachment mechanism resiliently and pivotably joined to the auxiliary lens retaining mechanism. The attachment mechanism is provided with an auxiliary magnetic apparatus for magnetically coupling to a corresponding main magnetic apparatus on the main frame. In a more preferable embodiment, the present invention utilizes the nature of resilience of a resilient sheet to allow the main frame to be selectively stopped at different angular orientations during its pivotal action with respect to the auxiliary frame.