Abstract: The present invention incorporates the use of model-driven and data-driven methodologies to attenuate multiples in seismic data utilizing a prediction model which includes multiply-reflected, surface-related seismic waves. The present invention includes beam techniques that account for beam azimuth, and convolving a predicted multiples beam with a segment of a modeled pegleg beam to obtain a convolved multiples beam. The convolved multiples beam can then be deconvolved to attenuate the multiples that are present in the original input beam.

Abstract: The present invention incorporates the use of model-driven and data-driven methodologies to attenuate multiples in seismic data utilizing a prediction model which includes multiply-reflected, surface-related seismic waves. The present invention includes beam techniques and convolving a predicted multiples beam with a segment of a modeled pegleg beam to obtain a convolved multiples beam. The convolved multiples beam can then he deconvolved to attenuate the multiples that are present in the original input beam.

Abstract: A commercial vehicle wheel includes a wheel hub surface formed with alternating raised and recessed segments that allows mounting two of the wheels upon a single axle hub.

Abstract: A heated washer fluid assembly for heating washer fluid is provided to clean a windshield of a motor vehicle. The motor vehicle includes an engine and a fluid reservoir. The heated washer fluid assembly includes a first conduit has a receiving end fluidly connected to the fluid reservoir and an opposing delivery end for transferring washer fluid from the fluid reservoir to the delivery end. The first conduit also includes a middle segment disposed between the receiving and delivery ends and abutting a portion of the engine such that washer fluid passing through the middle segment is heated by the heat generated by the engine. The heated washer fluid assembly also includes a blanket covering said middle segment of said first conduit and the portion of the engine for insulating the heated washer fluid in said middle segment of said first conduit.

Abstract: An apparatus for generating a pressure wave for activating a fusion reaction in fusionable material in a liquid medium is disclosed. The apparatus includes a plurality of pressure wave generators having respective moveable pistons, the pistons having respective control rods connected thereto. The apparatus also includes a plurality of transducers coupled to the liquid medium and means for causing the pistons of respective ones of the plurality of the pressure wave generators to be accelerated toward respective ones of the plurality of transducers. The apparatus further includes means for causing restraining forces to be applied to respective control rods to cause respective pistons to impact respective transducers at respective desired times and with respective desired amounts of kinetic energy such that the respective desired amounts of kinetic energy are converted into a pressure wave that converges toward the fusionable material in the liquid medium.

Abstract: The invention is directed toward a photoresist-free method for depositing films comprising ferroelectric materials from metal complexes. More specifically, the method involves applying an amorphous film of a metal or metal oxide complex to a substrate. The metal complexes have the general formula MaM?bLcL?d, wherein M and M? are independently selected from the group consisting of Li, Al, Si, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Ni, Co, Cu, Zn, Sr, Y, Zr, Nb, Mo, Ru, Rh, Pd, Ag, In, Sn, Ba, La, Pr, Sm, Eu, Hf, Ta, W, Re, Os, Ir, Pt, Au, Pb, Th, U, Sb, As, Ce, and Mg, and L and L? are preferentially a ligand selected from the group consisting of acac, carboxylato, alkoxy, azide, carbonyl, nitrato, amine, halide, nitro, and mixtures thereof. These films, upon, for example, light or electron beam irradiation, may be converted to the metal or its oxides. By using either directed light or electron beams, this may lead to a patterned ferroelectric film in a single step.