A calf rest is provided for a patient chair. The calf rest may comprise a plate-shaped calf rest pad and a mounting is be mounted on the patient chair by means of a joint arrangement. The joint arrangement may be designed so that the calf rest pad is movable between an inactive moved-away end position, in which the extent of the calf rest pad is substantially parallel to one side of the patient ch...

A thermowelding station for producing thermoformable and thermoweldable containers of the type comprising welding means for thermowelding predetermined portions of two thermoweldable material strips, thereby defining the contours of a central zone and at least a mouth zone which opens outwards and communicates with the central zone. The thermowelding station further comprises means for forming the...

An artificial intervertebral disc includes housing members including spaced inner surfaces facing each other and oppositely facing outer surfaces for engaging spaced apart vertebral surfaces. Bearing surfaces extend from each of the inner surfaces for engaging each other while allowing for low friction and compression resistant movement of the housing members relative to each other while under com...

PURPOSE: A method and an apparatus for determining a reference picture and a block mode for estimating a high speed motion are provided to enable the reference picture and the block mode to determine through more small quantity of calculation. CONSTITUTION: A predetermined size of video data block is divided into 2M(M is integer above 1) first sub blocks(210). Among N reference blocks, each refere...

The present invention provides a cross-tie having an elongated body that comprises a reaction rail supporting section, two running rail supporting sections and a power rail supporting section. The reaction rail supporting section is adapted for supporting a reaction rail and the two running rail supporting sections are each adapted for supporting a respective running rail. The power rail supportin...

The apparatus for correction presbyopia comprises a photorefractive surgery laser beam device operating by means of a control program capable of managing the following instructions: extent of at least a first circular area of intervention, which determines at least first laser beam aiming parameters; at least a first depth of intervention in the first area of intervention, which determines at leas...

PURPOSE: A holographic ROM system is provided to apply a conical prism instead of a conical mirror. CONSTITUTION: A light source(200) generates a laser beam requested for holography. A PBS(Polarizer Beam Splitter)(206) separates the laser beam generated from the light source(200) into the first and second beams having different polarizations. The first reflective mirror(210) reflects the first bea...

A re-usable and washable protective panty for wear by an incontinent person is described. The panty comprises an outer elastic fabric cut and stitched to define a waist opening and leg openings. The panty defines a front panel and a rear panel. The rear panel has a seat area. A crotch region is defined between the front and rear panels and extends between the leg openings. A non-breathable, non-st...

PURPOSE: A system for interworking between a wireless local area network and a universal mobile telecommunication system is provided to realize close interworking by using a data transmitting element and a data delivering element through the Internet. CONSTITUTION: An MIP(Mobile Internet Protocol) exists between a home agent(20) and a WIP-GW(Wireless Local Area Gateway)(30) of a PLMN(Public Land M...

An AMDF supporting Flow-Through management, allows a telecommunications provider OSS co maximize the automation of provisioning subscribers to services. Accordingly once a subscriber order is entered into the OSS, the remainder o f the provisioning process may be automated, where-by the OSS communicates the connect and/or disconnect order to the AMDF EMS, which in turn communications with the AMDF...

PURPOSE: A housing combination structure of a starter motor for a vehicle is provided to cut down the production cost by easily assembling a lever and a hook of a magnet switch on a full assembly line of the starter motor by changing the shape of a housing and to improve durability and reliability of goods by preventing the reduction of combining force caused by self-vibration of the motor. CONSTI...

PURPOSE: A bobbin structure is provided to allow for ease of assembly of bobbin regardless of temperature change, and prevent a deformation of bobbin caused due to overheat of motor. CONSTITUTION: A bobbin(8) wound with an exciting coil has a cut-out portion(84) formed at the top of the bobbin. The cut-out portion is formed by cutting upper blades and inner surface of the bobbin. The bobbin has a ...

A catalyst which purges a diesel engine exhaust gas of HC, CO, and SOF and reduces the emission of particulates as well and a method for the production thereof are provided. The catalyst for purifying a diesel engine exhaust gas has deposited on a refractory three-dimensionalstructure a catalyst component comprising silica-alumina supporting at least one noble metal selected from the group consist...

PURPOSE: A core network having a handover function between a cellular system and a wireless local area network, enabling a user to easily judge a service existing in a specific geographical area is provided to easily perform handover of a wireless transmitting and receiving unit between a cellular network and a wireless local area network. CONSTITUTION: A database(23) is accessed through a core ne...

PURPOSE: A method of correcting CD(Critical Dimension) variation due to the tilt of a stage and non-uniformity of a photo mask surface is provided to improve the uniformity of CD by performing a defocus correction exposure using a defocus exposure pattern. CONSTITUTION: The heights of a photo mask surface is measured by using an electron beam exposure apparatus(100). The shape of the surface is tr...

PURPOSE: A semiconductor device and a forming method thereof are provided to restrain leakage current and to improve the reliability of the device by forming the second pad contact plug between a resistor and a metal contact plug. CONSTITUTION: A semiconductor substrate(100) includes a cell array region(A) and a peripheral region(B). A lower interlayer dielectric(102) is formed on the substrate. A...

PURPOSE: A dye responding solar cell is provided to prevent the recombination of electrons and to improve fill factor and conversion efficiency by adding the second oxide layer to the first oxide layer using an electrical chemical process. CONSTITUTION: The first oxide(23) is formed on a transparent electrode(22). The second oxide(24) is formed on the first oxide. The total thickness of the first ...

The invention relates to the use of the human recombinant thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) labelled with radioisotopes suitable for the administration in vivo, having a good stability and specific activity, as scintigraphic tracer and/or as radiomedicament respectively for the diagnosis and therapy of differentiated thyroid tumors and the respective metastases.