A surgical stapling device comprising a housing, an elongated portion, an en d effector, and a movable handle disposed in mechanical cooperation with the housing and movable between a first open position and a second approximated position for affecti ng a function of the end effector. A ratchet mechanism is disposed in mechanical cooperation with the movable handle and is configured to substantial...

The invention relates to a method for the open-loop control of an internal combustion engine, which is operated with a fuel blend of an initial and at least one second fuel, the internal combustion engine having a fuel metering system, a tank fill-level gauge for determining the tank content and a change in the tank content, a sensor for the detection of the cylinder charge for determining an air ...

Disclosed are systems and methods for selecting and placing advertisements via one or more advertising agents and/or advertising mediums. In one aspect of the present invention, the advertising agents are retail merchants who utilize a common card processing service and the advertisements are text, logos, coupons, or the like printed on the face of a card receipt. In another aspect, the rights to ...

The present invention provides methods and systems that can render INE content to a web browser. Various methods and approaches are disclosed that when implemented would enable an INE to place some of INE's contents in a web browser of a user. The INE content can be in the form of a tool bar or interstitial content. The invention can provide one or more of the following advantages: a) provide an o...

The present invention relates to providing improved hydrogen peroxide assays, as well as droplet actuators for conducting such assays. The droplet actuators of the invention may be used to conduct droplet-based hydrogen peroxide assays. They may also be associated with detectors for analyzing the results of the hydrogen peroxide assays of the invention. They may be provided as components of system...

A low-complexity optimal soft MIMO detector is provided for a general spatial multiplexing (SM) systems with two transmit and N R receive antennas . The computational complexity of the proposed scheme is independent from the operating signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and grows linearly with the constellation order. It provides the optimal maximum likelihood (ML) solution through the introduction of an ...

A face-mounted carrier for transporting a refiner plate segment for refining lignocellulosic material to a refiner disk. The refiner plate segment may contain threads that facilitate bolting to the face-mounted carrier and bolting to the refiner disk.

Method for enclosing the points of connection between the elongated hollow parts (3), such as steel pipes, of steel frameworks, more particularly of the load-bearing steel frameworks of buildings or bridges, with enclosure pieces, in which points of connection the joint is implemented with joint elements. The invention is implemented such that the joint is formed from three or more hollow parts (3...

An exercise device comprises an elastic member with foot straps its ends fo r attachment to a user's feet, which is secured to a vest which encircles uppe r chest region, and passes through an inverted "U" enclosed pathway affixed to the vest. Additional elastic members are provided that attach to the first elastic member, and to grasping elements that attach to a user's hands. The additional elas...

A system and method of providing a clock signal to a navigation satellite receiver (266) in a device (100) is disclosed. A clock signal generated by a voltage controlled temperature compensated crystal oscillator (VCTCXO) (400) in a cellular engine (221) of the same device (100) is appropriated to clock a numerically controlled oscillator (NCO) (490) programmed to generate an adjusted clock signal...

There are described a machine and a process for stacking thermoformed articles, wherein the thermoformed articles are ejected from a moving mould (1) and held in a moving collection plate (10) for a certain number of cycles, then transferred to a moving transfer plate (20) and taken to a stack forming station (30) composed of a plurality of fixed parallel seats (37) with axes lying on a single pla...