An imaging system for use in medical intervention procedure planning includes a medical scanner system for generating a volume of cardiac image data, a data acquisition system for acquiring the volume of cardiac image data, an image generation system for generating a viewable image from the volume of cardiac image data, a database for storing information from the data acquisition and image generat...

A centrifugal separator includes a rotor (2B). In the rotor (2B), contact portions (32) each for coming into contact with an outer surface of the cap (6) of a sample tube (4) are formed in open end (31) sides of storing holes (3). The contact portions (32) respectively have notches (33) at portions thereof which face an axis (X). An adapter for a centrifugal separator is also disclosed.

A flexible, disposable centrifuge bag (226) for receiving and holding a fluid sample, comprising one or more tubes (248, 250) and upper and lower flexible sheets (234, 236) having doughnut shaped configurations. The upper and lower sheets are superimposed and completely sealed together at their outer perimeters (238) to define an outer perimeter (240) of the centrifuge bag. The inner perimeter of ...

A method and apparatus are described which provide a memory device with sense amplifiers extending in a first direction and corresponding digit lines extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. A pair of complementary digit lines may originate from different memory sub-arrays. The arrangement is particular useful for memory arrays having 6F**2 feature size.

A lead storage battery electrode and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The lead storage battery electrode includes a substrate, which is casted or expanded using lead, an active material coated on the substrate with electrochemical activities, and support layers and formed by embedding porous nonwoven fabric to a predetermined depth from both surfaces of the active material. The su...

Certain embodiments include a computed tomography system including an electron beam source for generating an electron beam, an ion clearing electrode for removing ions from the electron beam using electrical fields, an ion trap for allowing ions to accumulate in a downstream region of the electron beam so that the ions do not drift upstream, a beam tube for housing the ion trap, and a grounded tub...

A conveying device has: a moving member provided so as to be movable; a rotating member rotatably supported at the moving member; and a holding member rotatably supported at the rotating member, and able to hold a sheet. In a state in which the holding member is holding the sheet, the holding member conveys the sheet by at least one of movement of the moving member, rotation of the rotating member...

The force between tire and road is calculated using two groups of parameters. One group concerns conditions of the vehicle and of the surroundings and these values are provided by sensors. The other group involves fixed values concerning the tire properties, which are fed in initially. The parameters are used in a learning cycle to predict the limiting friction value that is fed to an ABS or ESP s...

The method for making the fiber optic Fabry-Perot sensor includes securing an optical fiber to a substrate, and forming at least one gap in the optical fiber after the optical fiber is secured to the substrate to define at least one pair of self-aligned opposing spaced apart optical fiber end faces for the Fabry-Perot sensor. Preferably, an adhesive directly secures the at least one pair of optica...

PURPOSE: A navigation device is provided to visually display recommended paths on a screen thereby enabling users to recognize the recommended paths easily. CONSTITUTION: A navigation device includes a path searching member(101), a position detector(102), an orientation determining member(104), a renderer(105), and a display(3). The path searching member extracts a recommended path. The position d...

The present invention is related to a liquid low concentration sodium-containing silicate solution as electrolyte for lead-acid storage batteries and its applications. Such an electrolyte is prepared by mixing a silica gel containing 40~60 wt % SiO2, the weight units of such a silica gel are 5~15; add 15-25 weight units water and stir until the concentration of the mixture is 0.65~0.85 0Be' measur...

A pneumatic splicer (7) has a controlled water supply (26) to assist the splicing action with difficult yarns. A capacitance sensor (13) in the yarn clearer (8) is connected to an evaluation unit (12) to produce an alarm signal if the moisture content drops below a threshold value, e.g. 0.02 ml below the target value, which is kept below 0.15 ml, especially below 0.1 ml.

The invention is a method or a device for wrapping the rubber strip around the forming drum while extruding an unvulcanized rubber strip from an injection device, wherein the rubber strip is pressed by a guide roll against the forming drum under tension, as well as a space for absorbing variations in an amount of extrusion of the rubber strip is formed between the guide roll and an extrusion outle...

Producing pressed parts comprises pouring a predetermined amount of metal powder into a matrix bore (12) of a press; adjusting lower (16) and upper stamps (14) of the press in a predetermined first and/or second position; further adjusting the lower stamp and optionally the upper stamp and simultaneously measuring pressing force of the lower stamp; and stopping the adjusting movement of the lower ...

An apparatus for vacuum packaging a continuous packaged body of the invention is so constructed that a seal bar 35 and a seal table 36 are mounted in the respective skirt parts 39, 40 of seal blocks 22, 23 opposite to each other with a tube film 20 interposed between them, and in the case of nipping the tube film 20 by both seal blocks 22, 23, plural intermittent teeth 44, 45 spot close the tube f...

The present invention includes a method for transacting business over a network between multiple buyers and sellers. In an exemplary embodiment, the invention operates within an improved extranet system which is a secure, limited access network which operates within the larger public packet switched network (Internet) and allows only registered buyers and sellers to access the website while the sy...

A device for measurement of the spectral reflectance of a surface where the reflectance factor of light with a certain wavelength can be measured in a wide wavelength range, including the UV range, and in which a reference reflectance factor can be easily obtained. The device for measurement has a light source part with a xenon lamp; a fiber on the incidence side; a measurement head which emits th...

A direct injection type engine comprising a variable speed transmission. Engine control lines indicating the relationship between the engine rotational speed and required torque necessary for obtaining a required output are comprised of a first control line and a second control line at the high torque side and low speed side of the first control line. When the degree of activation of the exhaust g...

Carcass reinforcement is placed on a main cylindrical surface (101). At least one lateral edge is above and offset from a cylindrical resting surface (141). This surface is coaxial with, and has a smaller diameter than, the main surface (101). A profile of rubber compound is deposited on this end, which is then turned back around the rubber mixture profile. The rubber mixture is kept essentially s...

The cross-cutter has at least one cutter shaft (13) with a cutter block (19) extending axially over a large part of a cutting region (48), with at least one peripheral blade held in a carrier. The shaft ends (14) are engaged by bearings (12) and/or a drive (17) and are connected to the specially manufactured cutter block. At least one shaft end is made of high strength material, esp. steel, with a...