The present invention provides a wheelchair capable of radiographing with the wheelchair as is by using a general radiographic device, without a need to switch to a different chair. The wheelchair includes a seat portion, a backrest portion provided with upper frame bodies mounted approximately perpendicular to the seat portion and a main body detachably mounted to the upper frame bodies transvers...

An induction plasma torch comprises a tubular torch body, a gas distributor head located at the proximal end of the torch body for supplying at least one gaseous substance into the chamber within the torch body, a higher frequency power supply connected to a first induction coil mounted coaxial to the tubular torch body, a lower frequency solid state power supply connected to a plurality of second...

In picture encoding that generates prediction pictures from picture information of frames previously encoded and encodes picture information for each area, the encoding efficiency is improved. A plurality of motion vector candidates are stored in advance in a motion vector storage memory (107). A motion vector selection section (109) selects a motion vector to be used from the plurality of motion ...

Use of selective antagonists of the 5-HT6 receptor and 5-HT2A receptors for the preparation of medicaments and corresponding pharmaceutical compositions useful for the treatment of cognitive disorders are presented.

A deblocking unit may include a buffer, an edge mask generator, and a deblocking filter. The buffer may store video data including blocks. The blocks may correspond to at least a portion of a macroblock. The edge mask generator may generate a particular edge mask that defines edges between blocks to be deblocked. The edge mask generator may include an edge mask memory to store a number edge masks ...

A curable resin which exhibits excellent heat resistance while including an extremely smaller amount of volatile component is disclosed, and an electronic component device having excellent reliability in heat resistance and the like which contains the above curable resin is provided. A curable resin obtained in reaction of at least one compound (a) selected from the group consisting of the silane ...

Although the beam forming is quite a good scheme, if there exist particularly a plurality of users, the characteristic deterioration occurs in an associated communication line due to the tight radio resource on the reverse line and delay in the transmission time caused by the feedback of information exceeding the required information. The transmitter 1 in a radio communication system receives sign...

A corrected channel estimating apparatus is disclosed, which is capable of removing side-lobe components mutually leaking into transmission paths from channel estimates to increase the accuracy. A channel estimation unit calculates channel estimates for a plurality of transmission paths due to a signal that arrives through multipath. A channel estimate correction unit removes side-lobe components ...

It is an object of the present invention to provide a specific apparatus and process for producing a diol by taking a cyclic carbonate and an aliphatic monohydric alcohol as starting materials, continuously feeding the starting materials into a continuous multi-stage distillation column A in which a catalyst is present, carrying out reactive distillation in the column A, continuously withdrawing a...

A heat-curable resin composition has excellent printability, non-tackiness, matte and electrical properties. The heat-curable resin composition includes a heat-curable resin (A) and silicone powder (B). Preferably, the silicone powder (B) is spherical or substantially spherical, and has a specific gravity of 0.95 to 1.5 and a particle diameter of 0.01 to 10 mum. The heat-curable resin (A) preferab...

A reverse acting rupture disc is provided having a laser defined electropolished line-of-weakness recess, and an improved method of forming an electropolished line-of-weakness recess in a reverse acting rupture disc that assures full opening of the disc upon reversal. A rupture disc blank is pre-bulged, final bulged, and then provided with a layer of resist material. A laser is used to remove at l...

Embodiments of a cable connector are provided that include an inner connector assembly and an outer connector housing. In use, the cable connector securely fastens or splices together at least two cables or cable sections and in electrical communication while also providing fluid communication therebetween. The cable connector further protects, and preferably seals off, the connection interface be...

A belt drive system having a belt having a belt body. A tensile cord disposed in the belt body running along a longitudinal axis. A plurality of belt teeth disposed on an outer surface of the belt body, the belt teeth oriented transverse to the longitudinal axis. A belt land disposed between the belt teeth. A driver sprocket attached to an engine crankshaft, the engine having a plurality of cylind...

A conduit testing body having a structure in which spherical portions (11, 12, 13) are connected by bar-like portions (21, 22). Although the spherical portions (11, 12, 13) has a size close to the inner diameter of a conduit (50), they are less likely to interfere with the inner peripheral surface of the bent conduit (50) because sections between spherical portions are the bar-like portions (21, 2...

Disclosed is an electrophoretic particle comprising a polymer component on a surface thereof which polymer component is a copolymer obtained from materials comprising at least a monomer component represented by a following general formula (I): wherein R represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and a monomer component represented by a following general formula (II): wherein R1 represents a hyd...

In order to compensate for performance degradation caused by inferior low-cost analog radio component tolerances of an analog radio, a future system architecture (FSA) wireless communication transceiver employs numerous digital signal processing (DSP) techniques to compensate for deficiencies of such analog components so that modern specifications may be relaxed. Automatic gain control (AGC) funct...

An apparatus for processing data includes a processor operable in a plurality modes including at least one secure mode being a mode in a secure domain and at least one non-secure mode being a mode in a non-secure domain. When the processor is executing a program in a secure mode the program has access to secure data which is not accessible when the processor is operating in a non-secure mode. The ...

A system and method for retrieving information. A command key (12) of a platform has an operation and an address of an information source mapped thereto. When the command key (12) is activated, the platform performs the operation and also initiates the retrieval of information from the information source using the address.; A system and method for retrieving information. A command key (12) of a pl...

A device capable of assisting a user's motion in an appropriate rhythm from the viewpoint of bringing a user's motion rhythm close to its target rhythm while totally harmonizing the motion rhythms of different parts of the user's body and a rhythm for assisting the user's motion is provided. The inventive walking assist device (200) generates a first oscillator x which attains mutual entrainment w...

The present invention concerns an intervertebral disc prosthesis designed to be substituted for fibrocartilaginous discs ensuring connection between the vertebra of the vertebral column or the end of the latter. The invention increases stability of such a prosthesis by providing a translation or rotation stop to its nucleus (2), or inducing an angular correction between its plates (1, 3) in conta...