Abstract: An assist grip structure is made for a vehicle, including an opening portion formed in a side surface of the vehicle and a sliding door configured to slide in a vehicle front-rear direction to open and close the opening portion. The assist grip structure is attached to a side edge defining the opening portion at a position closer to an inner end in a vehicle width direction of the side edge and overlapping in the vehicle width direction with the opened sliding door. The assist grip structure includes: a grip part extending in a vehicle up-down direction; an extending part extending from the grip part toward an opening direction of the sliding door; and a cup holder provided at a position ahead, in the opening direction of the sliding door, of the grip part and interior, in the vehicle width direction, to the extending part.

Abstract: An assist grip structure is made for a vehicle, including an opening portion formed in a side surface of the vehicle and a sliding door configured to slide in a vehicle front-rear direction to open and close the opening portion. The assist grip structure is attached to a side edge defining the opening portion at a position closer to an inner end in a vehicle width direction of the side edge and overlapping in the vehicle width direction with the opened sliding door. The assist grip structure includes: a grip part extending in a vehicle up-down direction; an extending part extending from the grip part toward an opening direction of the sliding door; and a cup holder provided at a position ahead, in the opening direction of the sliding door, of the grip part and interior, in the vehicle width direction, to the extending part.

Abstract: A system and method of managing media content for coordinated content playback at a vehicle, the method including: receiving a vehicle playback indication, wherein the vehicle playback indication indicates that media content is or recently was being presented on a personal content playback device; receiving media content playback information concerning playback of the media content to be carried out at the vehicle and/or playback of the media content at the personal content playback device; obtaining media content based on the media content playback information; and sending the media content to the vehicle, wherein the vehicle is configured to present the media content at the vehicle using one or more vehicle-user interfaces that are installed in the vehicle.

Abstract: A method for controlling an autonomous vehicle includes the use a software application to order the use of the autonomous vehicle. Thereafter, the software application can be used to determine an amount of control over the autonomous vehicle held by one or more passengers of the trip. The software can be used remotely from the autonomous vehicle, as opposed to being used by the one or more passengers.

Abstract: A screen assembly includes an anchor arm, a cover arm, a spool arm, a spool, and a flexible screen. The anchor arm is connected to a component of the vehicle within the passenger cabin. The spool arm is disposed between the anchor arm and the cover arm. The spool is inserted onto the spool arm and can rotate relative to the spool arm. The flexible screen is attached to the spool and includes first and second portions. The first portion has a first edge attached to the spool arm and a second edge attached to the anchor arm. The second portion includes a first edge attached to the spool arm and a second edge attached to the cover arm. The first and second portions are dispensed in opposite directions when at least one of the cover arm and the anchor arm moves relative to the spool arm.

Abstract: A process for recovering titanium as synthetic rutile from an ilmenite unsuited to the standard Becher process by treating the ilmenite in a reducing atmosphere in the presence of a carbonaceous reductant to yield reduced ilmenite in which iron oxides in the ilmenite have been reduced to metallic iron, and separating the metallic iron to obtain a synthetic rutile product. The ilmenite is treated at an elevated temperature lower than that for which the TiO2 content of the synthetic rutile product is highest but at which there is substantially no reoxidation of metallic iron. The carbonaceous reductant comprises coal selected for a gasification reactivity that increases the rate of reduction of iron oxides and titanium species that at least partly offsets the lowered TiO2 content of synthetic rutile product resulting from the lower elevated temperature, and achieves a TiO2 content of ?90% in the synthetic rutile product.

Abstract: A process for recovering titanium as synthetic rutile from a titaniferous ore, for example a secondary ilmenite, includes the steps of treating the ore in a reducing atmosphere at elevated temperature above 1075° C. in the presence of a carbonaceous reductant whereby to convert the ilmenite to reduced ilmenite in which iron oxides in the ilmenite have been reduced to metallic iron, and separating out the metallic iron so as to obtain a synthetic rutile product. The carbonaceous reductant comprises a coal selected for a moisture content below 40%, a volatiles content greater than 30%, ash content below 10%, and a gasification reactivity that results in an increased rate of reduction of iron oxides and titanium species effective to achieve a TiO2 content of 90% or greater in the synthetic rutile product.

Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for stabilization and fusion of adjacent bone segments. Also disclosed are methods for manufacturing a surgical bone implant. Surgical bone implants constructed in accordance with the invention receive improved structural stability and accurate sizing, particularly under expansion and shrinkage caused by hydration and dehydration of the implant.

Abstract: A helical antenna has a helix supported by a helix support. The helix support includes at least one piece of flexible sheet having its two surfaces covered with a layer antistatic material. The flexible sheet is curlable into a revolution surface configuration to form a revolution surface-shaped support section for at least partially supporting a portion of the helix component there around. A grounding mechanism electrically grounds the external sheet surface to the helix and the two sheet surfaces to one another when in the revolution surface configuration while a locking mechanism locks the flexible sheet in the revolution surface configuration. The combination of the helix and the flexible support renders the antenna structurally relatively rigid in all directions.

Abstract: A helical antenna has a helix supported by a helix support. The helix support includes at least one piece of flexible sheet having its two surfaces covered with a layer antistatic material. The flexible sheet is curlable into a revolution surface configuration to form a revolution surface-shaped support section for at least partially supporting a portion of the helix component there around. A grounding mechanism electrically grounds the external sheet surface to the helix and the two sheet surfaces to one another when in the revolution surface configuration while a locking mechanism locks the flexible sheet in the revolution surface configuration. The combination of the helix and the flexible support renders the antenna structurally relatively rigid in all directions.

Abstract: An electric toothbrush has an eccentric unbalanced drive shaft extension constrained by a brush head to rotate freely about a longitudinal axis inside a cavity in the brush head. The shaft extension and the brush head are flexibly coupled to a drive shaft and a remote end of a shank, respectively. When the shaft is rotated by an electric motor in a handle of the toothbrush, the brush head is caused to vibrate. The handle is not caused to vibration to any significant extent.

Abstract: An electric toothbrush has a balanced mass provided on a shaft extension that rotates freely about a longitudinal axis, inside a cavity in a brush head The shaft extension and the brush head are flexibly coupled to a drive shaft and to a remote end of a shank respectively. When the shaft is rotated by an electric motor in a handle, of the toothbrush, an off-set stub axle, effectively at a remote end of the shaft extension and fitted to a bearing in the brush head, causes the brush head to vibrate. The shank is not caused to vibrate to any extent.

Abstract: This invention relates to genes involved in the biosynthesis of trehalose. The genes encode trehalose-6-phosphate synthase (trehalose synthase) and trehalose-6-phosphate phosphatase (trehalose phosphatase).

Abstract: A heatable hair crimper has a hollow handle and a comb formed of metallic prongs in rows and columns. Alternate rows are mounted to a metal base plate heated by a pad. When a plunger is squeezed the plate is moved so that hair extending across the comb in the columns is formed and held in tortuous paths while heat is applied via the prongs. Jointed levers are disposed within the hollow handle and are straightened by squeezing action on the plunger.