Abstract: A method for displaying time-correlated medical event data including the steps of: providing time-correlated event data to a display device; selecting a first event to be displayed; and displaying the first event together with a time-correlated second event on the display device. In another embodiment, the invention is a method for displaying time-correlated medical event data including the steps of: manually entering data comprising a first event into a display device; time-correlating the first event with data comprising a second event collected by a medical device; and displaying the first event together with the second event on the display device.

Abstract: A method for displaying time-correlated medical event data including the steps of: providing time-correlated event data to a display device; selecting a first event to be displayed; and displaying the first event together with a time-correlated second event on the display device. In another embodiment, the invention is a method for displaying time-correlated medical event data including the steps of: manually entering data comprising a first event into a display device; time-correlating the first event with data comprising a second event collected by a medical device; and displaying the first event together with the second event on the display device.

Abstract: A control jacket houses a line, such as a fiber optic ribbon cable or other conductor, and limits the amount of bending and twisting movement of the line. The jacket preferably includes a multi-dimensional matrix of engagement elements separated by a plurality of gaps and connected by an underlying web structure. As the jacket is bent or twisted, adjacent engagement elements move together into engagement with each other, limiting the bend radius or twist angle of the jacket, and thus of the fiber optic ribbon cable or other protected line. The jacket preferably includes at least one fastening mechanism, allowing the control jacket to be opened along its length for easy insertion and removal of the line as needed. Multiple jackets can be placed end-to-end along the line, to create a composite jacket of any desired length. Additionally, a control jacket according to the invention includes two slideable jacket portions.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing memory arbitration which allows multiple hardware functions implemented in a single ASIC to utilize a single shared memory unit or multiple shared memory units. The memory arbitration technique establishes a priority among multiple memory access requesters and is particularly well-suited for use in a set top box processing system. A plurality of memory access requests are received from a plurality of processing elements in a set top box processing system. The processing elements include a transport stream demultiplexer, a host central processing unit and a graphics processor. The processing elements are permitted to access a shared memory in accordance with an established priority. The established priority assigns a higher priority to the graphics processor than to the host central processing unit, and may be in the order of graphics processor, transport stream demultiplexer, and central processing unit.

Abstract: An apparatus for burning crude oil has a conduit (12) without a flow restriction orifice and which receives oil to be burned. The conduit (12) has a plurality of inclined nozzles (28) which are also arranged about the longitudinal axis of the bore (30) so as to be substantially tangential to the interior surface. A supply of high velocity air is passed through an inlet manifold (32) and inside a housing (18) surrounding the conduit (12) in the vicinity of the nozzles (28) where it passes through the nozzles (28) into the bore (30) of the conduit (12). The high velocity air breaks the fuel up into particles and pounds the particles with an angular velocity causing the particles to swirl or rotate as a fine mist in one direction about the longitudinal axis at the outlet (16).

Abstract: A structure and a method for connecting multiple interconnect layers on an integrated circuit structure (10) using landed or non-landed vias. An integrated circuit structure (10) has an interconnect trace (11) formed over a surface. A dielectric layer (13) is formed over the integrated circuit structure (10) and a photoresist layer (14) having an opening in the area where a via is desired is formed on the dielectric layer (13). The dielectric layer (13) is isotropically etched in an upper portion (16) through the opening in the photoresist layer (14) and then anisotropically etched to expose the interconnect trace (11). The photoresist layer (14) is removed and the dielectric layer (13) subjected to a high pressure sputter etch for smoothing the surfaces of the via opening and for filling voids (18) in the dielectric layer (13).

Abstract: A lifting bail adapted to be made integral with a machine having a center of gravity includes a lift eye plate located substantially near the machine center of gravity, a first locator member having openings for locating the lift eye plate substantially near the machine center of gravity and a second locator member having openings for locating the lift eye plates substantially near the machine center of gravity. The openings for locating the lift eye plate relative to the center of gravity are oriented along the first and second locator members so that when the first and second locator members are made integral with the machine, the openings are aligned and thereby provide the location for the lift eye plates substantially near the machine center of gravity.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for hardsurface cladding a workpiece such as a tip shroud notch face of a turbine bucket configured for contact engagement with an adjacent tip shroud notch face. A continuous wave laser beam is generated in a Nd:YAG laser and directed on the notch face at a spot to provide heat thereat. A hardsurface cladding wire is dispensed at the spot under a shielding gas for being melted by the laser beam to form a molten cladding layer on the notch face. The laser beam and wire are traversed over the notch face to form a cladding layer over the entire notch face, which is cooled and solidified in a hardsurface cladding layer integrally bonded to the notch face.

Abstract: The present invention is drawn to pesticidal strains and proteins. Bacillus strains which are capable of producing pesticidal proteins and auxiliary proteins during vegetative growth are provided. Also provided are the purified proteins, nucleotide sequences encoding the proteins and methods for using the strains, proteins and genes for controlling pests.

Abstract: A reverberation room comprising walls, ceiling and floor having specific dimensions and spatial relationships used in an automotive testing laboratory to analyze sound for the purposes of measuring transmission loss and sound absorption. The room possesses two transmission loss test windows. One window is placed in the ceiling and one is placed in a side wall. Samples for testing can be mounted horizontally in the ceiling window. A rotating microphone boom is used in combination with the room to sample the sound field in the reverbration room and in reception chambers attached thereto. Three loudspeakers are also positioned in the room to generate the sound field in the reverberation room and indirectly in the reception chambers.

Abstract: A liquid distributor for use within a cylindrical tower containing tower packing to provide dispersed liquid to the packing comprising (a) a plurality of cordially disposed feed liquid conduits interconnected one to another to form, at least, one coplanar essentially continuous loop, (b) a feed entry for feeding the liquid to the conduits, and (c) sprayers for dispersing the liquid onto the packing. The distributor is of particular value in the sulfric acid manufacturing field as a drying tower, sulfur dioxide stripping tower, sulfur trioxide absorption tower and an oleum tower. The distributor provides improved irrigation across the tower and, particularly, adjacent the tower wall.

Abstract: A propellant driven deodorant composition for topical application to the human skin, comprising a deodorant active material comprising a cosmetically acceptable. polyhexamethylene biguanide salt, a cosmetically suitable vehicle comprising a short chain monohydric alcohol, and a non polar propellant composition having a Hildebrand Solubility Parameter of less than 14.5 MPa.sup.1/2, characterized in that the composition additionally comprises an effective amount of water.

Abstract: A composite tube transducer cylinder is manufactured from molded material in which embedded strips of resistive and conductive material are exposed to the inside surface and wherein a piston operating within the cylinder may make contact between a conductive and a resistive strip as a means for determining piston position.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for operating an annular combustion chamber (15) which is equipped with combined burners (1) for liquid (4) and gaseous fuels (9), in particular burners of the double-cone design, each burner (1) having a fuel lance (3), with at least one additional air passage (7), for feeding the liquid fuel (4) and an airblast nozzle (2) for atomizing the liquid fuel (4), into which airblast nozzle (2) atomizing air (5) is fed from outside the burner hood (13), and an adjusting mechanism being provided for at least partly throttling the inflow of the atomizing air (5) during gas operation, wherein the adjusting mechanism is an external valve (21) which is arranged in a main feed line (19), coming from the compressor outlet (18), for the atomizing air (5), the main feed line (19) leading into a ring line (20), and the ring line (20) being connected to the head (24) of each fuel lance (3) via one branch line (23) each.

Abstract: A two stage reaction for the production of steel from iron carbide is carried out in two separate but interrelated reactors. In the first reactor, iron, carbide, with slag formers, is fed into a feed end and the reaction is well-mixed by the vessel geometry, the stirring action below-surface injection of oxygen and iron carbide feed, and the evolution of gases from the liquid metal bath. The product, containing about 0.5-2% carbon, is fed into the second reactor where it is refined with subsurface-injected oxygen. The second reaction is autogenous, and the evolved carbon monoxide is fed to the first reactor where it is burned with oxygen in a foamy slag, which, with post-combustion burning in the slag of CO evolved in the first reactor, and with iron carbide preheating with the sensible heat of the off-gas from the first reaction, makes that reaction also essentially autogenous.

Abstract: This invention discloses an apparatus for stabilizing a payload assembly including a payload, a maintaining apparatus for at least temporarily maintaining the payload in an airborne environment, and an elongate connection apparatus, which when extended has a vertical length greatly in excess of the combined vertical lengths of the payload and the maintaining apparatus, whereby angular stabilization is a function of the vertical length of the connection apparatus when extended.A method for stabilizing a payload assembly is also disclosed.