Abstract: A procedure for the preparation of the radioactive tracer 3?-deoxy-3?-[18F]fluorothymidine ([18F]FLT) comprises the following steps: a) preparation of anhydrous [18F]F-fluoride; b) labelling of a precursor, for example 3-N-Boc-1-[5?-O-(4, 4?-dimethoxytrityl)-3?-O-nitrophenylsulfonyl-2?-deoxy-?-D-lyxofuranosyl] thymidine; c) hydrolysis of the mixture obtained by means of the previous steps; d) purification of the mixture to obtain the radioactive tracer [18F]FLT. In this procedure steps a), b) and c) are carried out by means of known methods. In step d) the mixture obtained after step c) is purified by means of the passage through a ventilated filter and one or more cartridges of the cationic exchange type (e.g. a Chromafix PS-H+), one or more cartridges of the reversed phase type, and finally a passage through cartridges either of the alumina N type, or diol cartridges, or anionic exchange cartridges or a combination thereof.

Abstract: In one aspect of the presently described embodiments, the system comprises an inlet to receive at least a portion of the fluid containing algae, a curved channel within which the fluid containing algae flows in a manner such that the neutrally buoyant algae flow in a band offset from a center of the curved channel, a first outlet for the fluid with algae within which the band flows, and, a second outlet for the remaining fluid.

Abstract: A clarification system may comprise a channel having an inlet and an outlet, a length, bottom, and a height sufficient to contain a liquid having a depth. The clarification system may include one or more gas injectors disposed within the channel, configured to inject gas bubbles into a suspension flowing in the channel. In some embodiments, at least one gas injector injects gas bubbles having average or median size that does not exceed 100 microns in diameter. Some gas injectors inject bubbles having mean size below 50 microns. Some gas injectors inject gas via the precipitation of gas bubbles from a supersaturated liquid including a dissolved gas. Certain embodiments may be configured to form a quiet zone, typically near the top of the flowing suspension, in which turbulence may be minimized or substantially eliminated. Certain systems include a plurality of gas injectors disposed at different lengths along the channel.

Abstract: A system and method for treatment of water. An inlet is operative to receive source water having particles therein. A spiral mixer has a defined spiral channel operative to mix the source water with a coagulant material and an alkalinity material. The spiral mixer is formed to perform in-line coagulation and flocculation processes within the defined spiral channel to form aggregated floc particles. A buffer tank is operative to receive the aggregated floc particles from the spiral mixer. Spiral separator segregates contents of the buffer tank into affluent and waste water that has the aggregated floc particles therein. An outlet is operative to provide a first path for the affluent, and a second path for the waste water having the aggregated floc particles.

Abstract: Composition for conditioning sludge, comprising a mineral compound that is lime and an organic compound that is a cationic organic coagulant having a weight average molecular weight less than or equal to 5 million g/mol and greater than or equal to 20,000 g/mol, the said cationic organic coagulant being chosen from the group of linear or branched polymers based on diallyldialkyl ammonium salts.

Abstract: A method and system for treating a fluid stream includes inputting a fluid stream to an input section of the fluid treatment system and receiving the fluid stream via spiral mixer-conditioner. The spiral mixer-conditioner mixes and conditions the input stream. Thereafter the mixed and conditioned fluid stream is input to a spiral separator where the mixed and conditioned fluid stream is separated into at least two fluid streams, a first fluid stream having particulates in the input stream removed, and the second fluid stream having the particulates in the input fluid stream concentrated.

Abstract: Various methods and apparatus are described for pool water replenishment to desired levels. One embodiment (FIG. 1) depicts a skimmer basket chamber (22) with a skimmer basket (14) inside, designed with a latitudinal mounting plate (26/28) for supporting a fluid controller such as a toilet fill valve (10). The replenishment of pool water to desired levels is accomplished by making adjustments to the fluid controller, which opens when water levels become sufficiently low allowing water to be added from a fluid supply conduit (18) that is routed through a lateral water overflow tube (17) and attached to a reliable water supply source. All embodiments have distinct advantages over prior art that are achieved by utilizing simple and efficient methods and apparatus, designed to provide convenient, safe, reliable, low cost and inconspicuous installation and operation. Many ramifications are described for the mounting of fluid controllers and the routing of water supply conduit (18).

Abstract: A device and method for cleaning up spilled oil and other liquids that are relatively less dense than water, that have spilled on the water or are borne on water or an other relatively dense liquid, and for separating oil and other liquids that are relatively less dense than water, from water or an other relatively dense liquids comprising an oil/water separation column having a lower end forming a bottom opening oriented substantially parallel to the surface of the body of water in fluid communication with the water and spilled oil, an air pump in airtight engagement with, and proximate the upper end of the oil/water separation column and adapted to draw water and the spilled oil into the oil/water separation column; and an oil pump in liquid tight engagement with and proximate the upper end of the oil/water separation column and adapted to draw the spilled oil from the oil/water separation column.

Abstract: Method and device for treating a liquid effluent, in which this effluent enters a vessel. An intermediate level of liquid in the vessel is detected; an influx of a dilution liquid into the vessel is instigated; a high level of liquid in the vessel is detected; the influx of dilution liquid is stopped and a discharge of the fluid is instigated; a low level of liquid in the vessel is detected; the discharge of the liquid is stopped; and, while it is being discharged, the discharged liquid is exposed to light radiation in at least one treatment channel.

Abstract: In a method of treating a liquid, a liquid to be treated is introduced into a space, a mechanical cavitation element acts upon the liquid while gas is supplied into the region of the surface of the cavitation element and introduces the gas into the liquid by moving the cavitation element, and sound waves are introduced directly into the liquid by at least one acoustic power transducer.

Abstract: The invention provides a method for the separation of solids from a semi-solid viscous mass, the method comprising treating a solids-containing semi-solid viscous mass in an apparatus comprising a separating member incorporating a substantially flat solid surface and a supporting member, wherein the separating member is adapted to selectively impart directional momentum to the solids, thereby facilitating separation of the solids from the semi-solid viscous mass. Preferably the separating member comprises a substantially flat solid surface adapted for vibrational motion, the vibrational motion causing the solids material to be displaced from the remainder of the semi-solid viscous mass.

Abstract: The fiber webs described herein may be incorporated into filter media and filter elements. The fiber webs may exhibit a low surface electrical resistivity. The fiber webs may also be sufficiently flexible and/or deformable so that they may be processed to include a series of waves (also known as flutes) that extend along the cross-machine direction.

Abstract: A method of extracting or removing a liquid phase from a whole sample using a centrifugal force is disclosed. Centrifugal forces are used to apply pressure to a whole sample and drive a liquid phase through a passage region that can be perforated and/or porous and maintain a drier portion within a separate container. The whole sample can be drier, which includes a remaining sample where excess or a selected amount of liquid is removed. Direct access to the separate container or area can then be made to provide for an efficient withdrawal of the drier material from the separation container.

Abstract: Contemplated whole blood separators tubes include a curable composition with a density intermediate to the density of serum and the cell-containing fraction. After centrifugation, the curable composition is located between the serum and the cell-containing fraction and preferably irradiated with UV light to initiate a curing reaction in which the curable composition solidifies to a barrier that is immobilized and resistant to breakdown at freezing temperatures and extended storage.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods provide individual blades driven by drives configured to reduce a tendency of sludge to be moved in an undesired return direction. Drive configurations apply “pull” and “pull” forces that only pull on tensile structures, avoiding a need in actual commercial practice for use of extra structural drive members having high resistance to both tension and compressive forces exerted parallel to a sludge movement direction. Each of two separate tensile structures carries one blade, or a separate set of blades, with blade(s) of one structure adjacent to, and alternating with, blade(s) of the other structure. Embodiments move sludge from a corner of a basin and across a floor of the basin. The reduced tendency of sludge movement in the return direction results from moving one tensile structure and blade(s) in the sludge movement direction as the other tensile structure and adjacent opposed blade(s) move in the return direction.

Abstract: A server rack assembly includes a base with a pair of opposite stands, a rack spanning between the stands, and a pair of mounting apparatuses respectively mounted on two ends of the rack. Each stand defines one first positioning hole therein. Each mounting apparatus includes a fixing member comprising a hook thereon for engaging with the corresponding first positioning hole of one of the stands, and a locking member comprising of a restriction portion slidably positioned on the fixing member and moveable between a first position and a second position. In the first position, the restriction portion is received in the corresponding first positioning hole. In the second position, the restriction portion is out of the corresponding first positioning hole.

Abstract: The present invention provides a system that allows for a single panel of the invention to be easily modified, preferably without the use of tools, to fit on a server rack, where the single panel is so modified as to cover the desired amount of open space on a server rack as a single piece, where the panel is preferably fire-rated, and where the modified panel may be easily installed onto the server rack to as to cover any open space thereon, and prevents the circular flow of warm air output from entering the cooler air input of the servers housed on the server rack.

Abstract: An equipment rack panel system using one or more rack extension panels with optional raceway to interconnect equipment cables to service cables through connectors within the rack extension panel. The rack extension panel is either fastened to or integral with one of the posts of the equipment rack or otherwise adjacent to the equipment rack and extends away from the equipment rack so as not to occupy space within the equipment rack normally reserved for equipment.

Abstract: A cable management assembly, and method related thereto, including a riser panel having an interface portion and a plurality of cable management devices. The interface portion having a plurality of shaped apertures. The cable management devices having attachments that correspond to the shaped apertures to secure the cable management devices to the panel at selected vertical and horizontal locations. The cable management assembly being configured to extend between two adjacent telecommunications racks or to couple to the end of a telecommunications rack.

Abstract: A rack for holding and displaying cookbooks. The rack is generally comprised of a shelf unit, a swivel arm, a slide and a tray. The swivel arm is pivotally attached to the base of shelf. The slide fits over the swivel arm and is able to slide the length of the swivel arm. The tray is attached to the slide and can display a cookbook or fold up into the shelf unit for easy storage.

Abstract: An adjustable pusher tray mountable on a top of a shelf for holding objects thereon. The tray includes a platform adapted to be mounted on the top of the shelf; and at least one pushing device adapted to be mounted on the platform for pushing the objects towards a front of the tray. Each pushing device has a longitudinal plate adapted to be mounted on the platform, a pusher tab slidably mounted on the longitudinal plate, and a coiled spring having one end mounted on the pusher tab and another end mounted on the longitudinal plate for biasing the pusher tab against the objects positioned between the pusher tab and the front of the tray.

Abstract: An apparatus for storing gloves includes a storage arm that has a first surface and a second surface that extends substantially parallel to the first surface. At least one notch is formed in the storage arm and extends from the first surface towards the second surface for defining a plurality of projections. At least one of the notch and the projection being capable of receiving a mouth of a glove.

Abstract: A sample tube holder (10) having a generally flat elongate flexible body (12) and one or more of sets of non circular apertures (16) each having a length dimension and a width dimension perpendicular to the length dimension, in the body, each set having two or more apertures (16) arranged in a line such that each set of apertures defines at least one inner portion (30) between adjacent apertures (16) of the set and at least one outer portion (32) adjacent each aperture at the end of the line extending away from the respective inner portion.

Abstract: The invention relates to interlocking compartments which are assembled to form a display unit. In some embodiments, the interlocking compartments include a first compartment and a second compartment having a top surface, a bottom surface and a rear surface. The bottom surface of the second compartment includes a tongue and the top surface of the first compartment includes a groove for receiving the tongue. The rear surface of the second compartment includes a projection and the rear surface of the first compartment and the top surface of the first compartment form a corner having an indentation for receiving the projection. In some embodiments, the length of the bottom surface of the first compartment is greater than the length of the bottom surface of the second compartment, and the length of the bottom surface of the second compartment is greater than the length of the bottom surface of the third compartment.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a rear yard crane for an automatic terminal. The rear yard crane includes a support, a first carrier rail and a first carrier, a second carrier rail and a second carrier, a rotation mechanism and a hoisting mechanism. The support includes a beam positioned along a second orientation and posts supporting the beam. The beam extends to cover ground carrier rails and truck operation areas of the automatic terminal. The second carrier rail is positioned on the beam and the second carrier moves along the second carrier rail. The first carrier rail is positioned along a first orientation being perpendicular to the second orientation on the second carrier and the first carrier moves along the first carrier rail. The rotation mechanism is assembled on the first carrier and is able to rotate at least 90°. The hoisting mechanism is assembled on the rotation mechanism and rotates with the rotation mechanism. The hoisting mechanism includes a spreader for hoisting containers.

Abstract: Colic can be a particular problem for babies feeding on liquid feed from a feeder bottle. The colic can be formed by air from various sources in the liquid feed. Typically, there is less air in the liquid feed towards the bottom of the liquid feed container in the feeding position than towards the top of the liquid feed. The present invention provides apparatus for drawing milk from the bottom of the feeding apparatus chamber when the feeder is held in the operating position. This is achieved by positioning a flow restrictor for allowing the passage of liquid feed from a main chamber into a flexible feeding teat at a suitable location. The present invention also provides a resiliently-biased cartridge to assist in priming and/or draining of the flexible feeding teat. The present invention also provides a construction in which the flow restrictor is always provided in the correct position regardless of the relative angular orientation of the elements of the feeder.

Abstract: A plastic material container, e.g. a beverage bottle, having a neck which requires the use of a smaller amount of plastic than the bottle necks of the prior art, and which is able to ensure a complete functionality for coupling the cap, ensuring at the same time the possibility of implementing the traditional supporting; sealing and handling operations of the bottle carried out during the various steps of manufacturing the same.

Abstract: A bottle cap includes an upper cap and a lower cap. The upper cap is connected to the lower cap, and can be buckled to the lower cap. An internal thread matching a bottle body is arranged in the lower cap. A spout is disposed on the lower cap, and an air vent is opened in the lower cap. A cone-shaped protrusion for sealing the air vent is disposed on the upper cap. A plastic gasket and a shim are disposed in a cavity of the lower cap. The plastic gasket is tightly pressed and fixed in the cavity of the lower cap by the shim. The plastic gasket is ring-shaped. One quarter of a semicircle is recessed at the ring. A notch is arranged at the ring of the plastic gasket. Round through-holes are evenly distributed in the shim. A buckling structure is disposed between the upper cap and the lower cap. The bottle cap is advantageous in that it enables people to drink liquid in a bottle easily, has a simple structure, and is capable of preventing the liquid from leaking when the bottle falls down.

Abstract: The invention describes a bottle cap in which a detachable section (9) can be ruptured from the remainder of the cap using a common tool such as, for example, a hex key. A frangible seal (13), recessed below the upper surface (6) of the cap, connects the detachable section to the remainder of the cap and thus, when the detachable section is withdrawn, the risk of spillage is minimized.

Abstract: A device to provide identification that may include a container and an elastic band being expandable to detachably connect to the container. The elastic band may include a writable surface to accept indicia, and the writable surface may be erasable. The container may be a glass or the container may be a bottle. The band may be color-coded.

Abstract: A fabricating method of an embedded package structure includes following steps. First, a first circuit structure and a second circuit structure are formed respectively on a first board and a second board which are combined to form an integrated panel. The first board and the second board are then separated. Next, an embedded element is electrically disposed on the first circuit structure. At least one conductive bump is formed on the second circuit structure. Thereafter, a semi-cured film is provided, and a laminating process is performed to laminate the first circuit structure on the first board, the semi-cured film, and the second circuit structure on the second board. The semi-cured film encapsulates the embedded element and the at least one conductive bump pierces through the semi-cured film and electrically connects the first circuit structure.

Abstract: In one preferred aspects, methods are provided to produce a three-dimensional feature, comprising: (a) providing a nano-manipulator device; (b) positioning an article with the nano-manipulator device; and (c) manipulating the article to produce the three-dimensional feature. The invention relates to production of nanoscale systems that can be tailored with specific physical and/or electrical characteristics or need to have these characteristics modified. Methods and apparatus are presented that can construct three-dimensional nanostructures and can also modify existing nanostructures in three dimensions.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus may operate to position a sample within a processing chamber and operate on a surface of the sample. Further activities may include creating a layer of reactive material in proximity with the surface, and exciting a portion of the layer of reactive material in proximity with the surface to form chemical radicals. Additional activities may include removing a portion of the material in proximity to the excited portion of the surface to a predetermined level, and continuing the creating, exciting and removing actions until at least one of a plurality of stop criteria occurs.

Abstract: There is provided a crystal resonator (crystal element) in which the probability of chipping occurring in separation is small when there is one supporting section with respect to a frame section of a crystal wafer, and inclined surfaces due to the anisotropy of etching are eliminated. The present invention relates to a crystal resonator manufacturing method such that an AT-cut crystal wafer is etched, a large number of rectangular crystal elements are joined with frame sections by supporting sections, and the crystal elements are mechanically cut away from the frame sections. On both sides of the +X-axis one end section of the crystal element, at least the outer side surface has a planarly tapered projection having a triangular inclined surface with an apex in the ?X-axis direction, and the tip end of the projection has processing traces of the etching in the +X-axis direction.

Abstract: In a method of reusing a consumable part for use in a plasma processing apparatus, a silicon carbide (SiC) lump is formed by depositing SiC by chemical vapor deposition (CVD), and a consumable part for the plasma processing apparatus is manufactured by processing the SiC lump, the consumable part having a predetermined shape. A first plasma process is performed on a substrate by using the manufactured consumable part. A surface of the consumable part that has been eroded by the plasma process is subjected to a clean process for a specific period of time. SiC is deposited on the cleaned surface of the eroded consumable part by CVD. A consumable part having the predetermined shape is remanufactured by processing the eroded consumable part having the surface on which the SiC is deposited. A second plasma process is performed on a substrate by using the remanufactured consumable part.

Abstract: A resin-molded vacuum valve has an internally hermetically sealed vacuum vessel, a fixed axis having a fixed electrode at one end thereof, and a movable axis having a movable electrode at one end thereof and facing the fixed axis in the vacuum vessel. The fixed and movable electrodes are fixedly and movably attached, respectively, to respective ends of the vacuum vessel with a contact therebetween. Further, a conductor connected to the fixed axis extends from a pull-out opening. First, second, and third electric field concentration alleviating shields are disposed near the fixed axis, near the movable axis, and near the pull-out opening, respectively. Buffer layers cover the outer peripheries of the vacuum valve and the conductor, and a resin insulator allows the movable axis to be movable, and buries and fixes the fixed axis, the vacuum vessel, the conductor, the buffer layers, and the electric field concentration alleviating shields.

Abstract: An overvoltage arrester includes at least two electrodes and a melt element that connects one of the electrodes to an outer terminal of the overvoltage arrester. An extinguishing device is designed to extinguish an electric arc.

Abstract: A supply chute 11 has a nut send-in port 14 at its upper end, and is composed of an inclined chute 12 inclined obliquely downward, and a curved chute 13 coupled to the lower end of the inclined chute 12 and curved like an arc obliquely downward. A nut support mechanism 40 is disposed at a nut send-out port 15 provided at a terminal end of the curved chute 13, for supporting the nuts 60 being forwarded so that their bonding side 62 may be in an oblique downward position nearly orthogonal to the axial line of a guide rod 20. The inclined chute 12, the curved chute 13, the guide rod 20, and driving means 25 for moving the guide rod 20 back and forth in an oblique downward direction are mounted on a stand 22 installed rotatably on a support member 33 by way of a horizontal support shaft 35, and the support member 33 is coupled and fixed to a main body arm 2 of the bonding machine 1.

Abstract: A method (and structure) of thermally treating a magnetic layer of a wafer, includes annealing, for a predetermined short duration, a magnetic layer of a single wafer.

Abstract: A cutting head for a cutting machine, the cutting head having a holder arranged to support a cutting device, the holder being secured to an arm assembly that is adapted to be mounted to the cutting machine, a first servo motor to drive the arm assembly to effect rotational movement or swivel of the torch holder and a second servo motor to drive the arm assembly to effect tilt of the holder about a vertical axis whereby, in use, as the holder tilts and swivels to impart a bevel cut to a work piece the tip of the cutting device is held stationary.

Abstract: Laser hybrid welding systems adapted to identify and/or fix a weld defect occurring during a laser hybrid welding process are provided. Embodiments of the laser hybrid welding system may include one or more devices that provide feedback to a controller regarding one or more weld parameters. One embodiment of the laser hybrid welding system includes sensors that are adapted to measure the weld voltage and/or amperage during the welding process and transmit the acquired data to the controller for processing. Another embodiment of the laser hybrid welding system includes a lead camera and a lag camera that film an area directly in front of the weld location and directly behind the weld location.

Abstract: An injection molded laser cutting nozzle tip made from an electrically conductive polymer is provided. Suitable electrically conductive polymers include, but are not limited to, polyphenylene sulfide (PPS), polyaniline, polythiophene, polypyrrole, and polyacetylene.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to optical scanners. The invention has advantageous applications e.g. in the field laser technology, such as coating and machining with cold ablation technology. An optical scanner according to the invention has a rotating mirror (210), and the reflecting surface (214) of the mirror has an angle in relation to the axis of rotation (216), which varies as a function of the position in the mirror. This way it is possible to provide an optical scanner without discontinuation points and an accurate scanning speed throughout the scanning area.

Abstract: A laser is used to both score and emblazon a sheet to thereby provide a scored, emblazoned sheet. That scored, emblazoned sheet is then used to wrap an item (such as, but not limited to, a foodstuff item). By one approach this can comprise providing a plurality of lasers and exposing a substantially taut sheet to this plurality of lasers. So configured, these lasers are used substantially contemporaneously with one another such that each laser both scores and emblazons a corresponding portion of the substantially taut sheet to provide the aforementioned scored, emblazoned sheet.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for arranging through-openings in a flexible, movable band, said through-openings being arranged in series in at least one row, wherein each through-opening is arranged in the bottom of one of a plurality of depressions for receiving electronic components, said depressions being arranged in series in at least one row, wherein a laser device with at least one laser beam is arranged so as to act on sides of bottoms of the depressions facing away from the depressions, wherein the laser device is designed in such a way that, by means of the at least one laser beam, the through-openings can be burned into a predefinable portion of the band at predefinable positions on the bottom sides, within a predefinable period of time.

Abstract: Methods and systems for laser-scribing lines within a controlled separation from previously-formed lines are provided. A laser-scribing method includes providing a workpiece having a plurality of previously-scribed lines, forming a first adjacent scribed line adjacent to a first previously-scribed line, using an imaging device to measure a position of a previously-scribed line, using the imaging device to measure a position of the first adjacent scribed line, and using the measured positions to control the formation of a second adjacent scribed line adjacent to a second previously-scribed line.

Abstract: A panel, in particular a floor panel, has a core of a wooden material, in particular MDF or HDF, or a wooden material/plastic mixture. A pattern is arranged on a visible side. The visible side is provided on at least one side edge (I, II) with a chamfer running at an angle ? hereto and a length (L). The angle ? of at least one of the chamfers varies over the length (L).

Abstract: A welding system including a welding power supply coupled to a wire feeder via a spool gun connection is provided. The welding system is adapted to utilize the power and control capabilities originating from the spool gun connection for wire feeder operations during an initial period. The wire feeder is adapted to utilize the welding arc power and an internal controller to power and control wire feeder operations after the initial period.

Abstract: A welding system including a fine tuning knob and a coarse adjustment knob for setting a weld wire feed speed are provided. The welding system may include a welder having the coarse adjustment knob and a spool gun having the fine tuning knob. A user may adjust the knob on the welder to set a coarse adjustment wire feed speed and may adjust the knob on the spool gun to fine tune the wire feed speed setting.

Abstract: A controller for a welding system adapted to determine a value of a weld secondary parameter across a weld secondary component based on a sensed parameter is provided. The controller may also be adapted to compare the determined value to a reference value range and to alert a user to a presence and location of a weld secondary error when the determined value is outside the referenced value range.