Abstract: Methods of determining prognosis of a subject with cancer or determining risk of cancer progression by assessing expression of B7-H4, or B7-H1 and B7-H4 in combination.

Abstract: Methods of determining prognosis of a subject with cancer by assessing expression of B7-H1 and survivin in combination.

Abstract: Methods of determining prognosis of a subject with cancer or determining risk of cancer progression by assessing expression of B7-H4, or B7-H1 and B7-H4 in combination.

Abstract: Methods of determining prognosis of a subject with cancer by assessing expression of B7-H1 and survivin in combination.

Abstract: Methods of determining prognosis of a subject with cancer by assessing expression of B7-H1 and survivin in combination.

Abstract: An automotive vehicle includes a vehicle body and at least one reservoir containing a fire suppressant agent. A distribution system receives the fire suppression agent from the reservoir and conducts the agent to at least one location about the vehicle's body in response to the determination by a sensor system and controller that the vehicle has been subjected to a significant impact. The reservoir includes a multifunction valve element which controls pressure and vacuum within the reservoir during standby operation, while causing the fire suppressant agent to be directed through the distribution system if the propellant activates.

Abstract: Methods of determining prognosis of a subject with cancer or determining risk of cancer progression by assessing expression of B7-H4, or B7-H1 and B7-H4 in combination.

Abstract: An automotive vehicle includes a vehicle body and at least one reservoir containing a fire suppressant agent. A distribution system receives the fire suppression agent from the reservoir and conducts the agent to at least one location about the vehicle's body in response to the determination by a sensor system and controller that the vehicle has been subjected to a significant impact. The sensor system and controller determine not only the magnitude of an impact upon the vehicle, but also track subsequent motion of the vehicle, as well as the time which has elapsed since an impact, so as to decide if and when the fire suppressant agent should be dispersed. Alternatively, the fire suppressant agent may be dispersed following activation of a manual switch.

Abstract: The travel trailer includes a chassis having wheels and a trailer body attached to the chassis. The trailer body includes sidewalls, a front end wall, a rear end wall, a roof, and a floor. The sidewalls, end walls, roof, and floor form an internal living space of the trailer body. A slide-out area is slidably extendable outward from the trailer body. The slide-out area is extendable from a retracted position received substantially within the trailer body to an extended position extended outward from the trailer body. The slide-out area has a roof, sidewalls, a bottom wall, and a front end wall. The front end wall of the slide-out areas is adapted to seal against the trailer body in the retracted position.

Abstract: The travel trailer includes a chassis having wheels and a trailer body attached to the chassis. The trailer body includes sidewalls, a front end wall, a rear end wall, a roof, and a floor. The sidewalls, end walls, roof, and floor form an internal living space of the trailer body. A slide-out area is slidably extendable outward from the trailer body. The slide-out area is extendable from a retracted position received substantially within the trailer body to an extended position extended outward from the trailer body. The slide-out area has a roof, sidewalls, a bottom wall, and a front end wall. The front end wall of the slide-out areas is adapted to seal against the trailer body in the retracted position.

Abstract: The travel trailer includes a chassis having wheels and a trailer hitch for towing the travel trailer. The travel trailer further includes a trailer body attached to the chassis defined by sidewalls, a front end wall, a rear end wall, a roof, and a floor. The sidewalls, end walls, roof, and floor form an internal space of the trailer body. A slide-out area is slidably extendable outward from the trailer body. The slide-out area is extendable from a retracted position received within the trailer body to an extended position extended outward from the trailer body. The slide-out area includes a peaked roof, sidewalls, a bottom wall, and a front end wall. The front end wall includes a flange extending around the perimeter thereof. A sealing gasket is attached to the flange to face the trailer body for sealing against the trailer body in the retracted position of the slide-out area.

Abstract: The travel trailer includes a chassis having wheels and a trailer hitch for towing the travel trailer. The travel trailer further includes a trailer body attached to the chassis defined by sidewalls, a front end wall, a rear end wall, a roof, and a floor. The sidewalls, end walls, roof, and floor form an internal space of the trailer body. A slide-out area is slidably extendable outward from the trailer body. The slide-out area is extendable from a retracted position received within the trailer body to an extended position extended outward from the trailer body. The slide-out area includes a peaked roof, sidewalls, a bottom wall, and a front end wall. The front end wall includes a flange extending around the perimeter thereof. A sealing gasket is attached to the flange to face the trailer body for sealing against the trailer body in the retracted position of the slide-out area.

Abstract: A fuel system 10 which selectively receives, stores and delivers volatile fuel 16. Fuel system 10 includes a variable volume fuel tank 12 having a movable piston 22 which is attached to a pair of bellows diaphragm members 26, 28. Members 26, 28 selectively contract and expand to move piston 22 within tank 12, effective to alter the volume of the fuel containing portion 14 of tank 12, thereby maintaining fuel 16 in a pressurized state and substantially preventing the accumulation of vapors within tank 12.

Abstract: A fuel assembly 10 which selectively receives volatile fuel 26 and which communicates the vapors to a carbon canister 42 for treatment prior to being released into the atmosphere or environment 38. The canister 42 is coupled to the fuel 26 by the use of various valves 30, 32, transducer 34, and conduits 35, 39, which are sealed from the environment 38.

Abstract: A fuel system 10 which selectively receives and stores volatile fuel. System 10 includes a dynamic seal or air intake inhibitor 26 which is operatively disposed within fuel filler pipe 20 and which minimizes the amount of air ingested by fuel tank 12. System 10 further includes an air separation portion or chamber 16 that includes a recirculation aperture 30 and tapered valve 34 that are effective to automatically regulate the rate of vapor recirculation within system 10 based upon the amount of fuel and vapor within portion 16.

Abstract: A fuel tank filler pipe neck assembly, a fuel tank system and a method for refueling a fuel tank each employ a chamber having formed therein a liquid fuel dispensing nozzle entry port and a liquid fuel exit port. There is also disposed within the chamber a liquid fuel dispensing nozzle seat, where the liquid fuel dispensing nozzle seat is sized to accept and seal a rim of a liquid fuel dispensing nozzle introduced into the liquid fuel dispensing nozzle entry port while allowing flow of a liquid fuel from the liquid fuel dispensing nozzle through the liquid fuel dispensing nozzle seat. Finally, there is also disposed within the chamber a means for resiliently and flexibly biasing the liquid fuel dispensing nozzle seat against the rim of the liquid fuel dispensing nozzle while resiliently and flexibly sealing the liquid fuel dispensing nozzle seat to the liquid fuel exit port.

Abstract: A fuel tank fabrication, a fuel system and a method for refueling a vehicle each employ a fuel tank having contained at least in part therein a liquid fuel and a fuel vapor. The at least one of the liquid fuel and the fuel vapor is then cooled while employing a Stirling cooing apparatus such that upon refueling the fuel tank there is attenuated an escape of the fuel vapor from the fuel tank.

Abstract: A tank pressure control valve is provided for controlling the discharge of fuel vapor from a fuel tank. In one embodiment, the tank pressure control valve is configured to use pressurized fuel vapor to control a flexible diaphragm operable between a closed position blocking discharge of fuel vapor from the fuel tank and an opened position allowing such discharge. In another embodiment, the tank pressure control valve is configured to use pressurized fuel vapor to move a flexible diaphragm to move a rigid valve member between a closed position and an opened position.

Abstract: An automotive fuel delivery system for an internal combustion engine has a saddle type fuel tank with two lobes, a primary lobe and a secondary lobe, straddling vehicle components therebetween. A primary fuel pump is mounted in the primary lobe with a fuel delivery line extending therefrom for carrying pressurized fuel from the primary fuel pump to the engine, and a pressure actuated auxiliary fuel pump is mounted in the secondary lobe for pumping fuel therefrom to the primary lobe. The auxiliary fuel pump has a drive chamber for receiving pressurized fuel from the input line to urge a drive diaphragm to an extended position, and high hysteresis relief valve means for controllably releasing pressurized fuel from the drive chamber to the secondary lobe to allow the drive diaphragm to contract to a retracted position.

Abstract: A self-regulating fuel supply pump for supplying fuel from a fuel tank to a fuel rail of an engine includes a housing having an inlet, an outlet, an inlet pressure chamber, a vane surplus chamber, a pumping chamber, an outlet pressure chamber, an inlet pressure passage, and an outlet pressure passage; a rotor drive shaft; a pressure regulation spring; a reference pressure piston; an outlet pressure piston; a vane seal; a cylindrical rotor; and vanes slip-mounted in the rotor. Fuel is drawn into the inlet by the rotor and vanes rotating on the rotor drive shaft within the pumping chamber and compressed by reducing vane width via the eccentric orientation of the rotor in the pumping chamber. Pressure regulation spring combines with reference pressure piston and outlet pressure piston to vary vane length according to the pressure differential between inlet pressure chamber and outlet pressure chamber, as provided by inlet pressure passage and outlet pressure passage.