While clean, disinfected hands are widely recognized as a principle means for controlling the spread of infections, disease, and similar health problems to both self and others, the prompt and repeated application of such materials as soap and water or waterless gels is necessary to maintain sanitary hands. So well recognized is this fact that many professional and governmental guidelines backed b...

A carrying case or bag that includes a soft pouch portion that is supported with a more rigid support structure. The soft pouch portion is supported by a cross-brace support system that allows limited movement relative to the support structure.

Disclosed is an ablation method and apparatus used to close veins for treatment of venous insufficiency disease. The apparatus includes a catheter proportioned for insertion into a vein, a pair of inflatable balloons spaced apart on the catheter body, and an ablation electrode array disposed between the balloons. According to the disclosed method, the catheter is introduced into the vein to be tre...

Provided are electrochemical circuits with electrodes having a main body section and at least one neck section wherein the width of at least a portion of the neck section is less than the width of the narrowest portion of the main body section, and an insulative layer over a portion of the conductive layer such that at least a portion of an electrode neck section is not covered by the insulative l...

A method and apparatus for a compact dual transmission filter design is provided. More precisely, a single filter housing is adapted to accommodate a primary filter and an auxiliary filter in fluid communication with a primary pump and auxiliary pump, respectively. The single filter housing having two filters disposed therein is more compact than a conventional design incorporating a separate filt...

A system and method are provided for automatically detecting intrusion in an off-limits zone. The system includes a transmitter transmitting a signal along a path likely to encounter an intruder to the off-limits zone and a modulating reflector for receiving the transmitted signal. The modulating reflector includes a modulator receiving the received signal and generating a modulated signal having ...

The present invention provides a method of and a device for measuring the stress in a semiconductor material. An excitation light is irradiated on a semiconductor material formed with a silicon germanium layer and a strained silicon layer in a multilayer structure on a single crystal silicon substrate from the direction of the strained silicon layer. An internal stress of the semiconductor materia...

A method and a device for producing holes in workpieces by using at least one laser beam, in particular a short-pulse or ultrashort-pulse laser beam, whereby a process gas is supplied to the point of contact of the laser beam with the workpiece. At least one parameter of the process gas, i.e., its composition, pressure, volume flow, for example, is selected and the process gas is supplied to the i...

A target containing an indium oxide and a tin oxide is used and sputtered particles from the target are transported by a forced gas flow of a sputter gas onto an organic substrate and deposited on the organic substrate while applying a DC bias voltage or an RF bias voltage to the organic substrate. The organic substrate is close to the target so that it is positively acted on by plasma. Thus, an I...

The present invention discloses the semiconductor device having the substrate that reflects the laser beam on a surface; that absorbs the laser beam therein; or that partially reflects the laser beam on the surface and partially absorbs the laser beam in the laser annealing. Moreover, the substrate has a poly-crystalline semiconductor film having a large grain size. The present invention suppresse...

A network switch including at least one data port interface supporting a plurality of data ports, at least one stack link interface configured to transmit data between the network switch and other network switches, and a CPU interface configured to communicate with a CPU. A memory management unit in communication with the at least one data port interface and the at least one stack link interface i...

The invention relates to a method and device for shaping material of work pieces using a laser beam which is injected into a stream of liquid. The liquid whi ch is to be formed into a stream by a nozzle channel is fed to the nozzle channel openin g such that the flow does not swirl, especially without flow components which are tangential to the nozzle channel axis. The laser irradiation is focusse...

According to a first aspect, a first conveyor system is provided that is adapted to deliver substrate carriers within a semiconductor device manufacturing facility. The first conveyor system includes a ribbon that forms a closed loop along at least a portion of the semiconductor device manufacturing facility. The ribbon is adapted to (1) be flexible in a horizontal plane and rigid in a vertical pl...

An ink ejection arrangement for an inkjet printhead is provided. The arrangement comprises an ink chamber, a nozzle defined in a first wall of the ink chamber and an ink ejector positioned within an aperture defined in an opposite, second wall of the ink chamber. The ink chamber is arranged in fluid communication with an ink supply channel via the aperture so as to supply ink to the nozzle. The in...

A medical probe assembly, system, and methods for the use thereof to treat tissue are described. The system optionally comprises an energy source, two internally-cooled probe assemblies, and one or more cooling devices to provide cooling to at least one of the probe assemblies. The probe assemblies may be configured in a bipolar mode, whereby current flows preferentially between the probe assembli...

A coating apparatus coats a liquid material on a substrate in a coating chamber. A first liquid supply system that supplies the liquid material is provided in the coating chamber. A second liquid supply system is provided in the first liquid supply system that supplies a liquid that cleans or that deactivates the liquid material remaining in the coating chamber and/or in the first liquid supply sy...

This metal containing waste water treatment method introduces a metal containing waste water from above into a submerged membrane separation tank 1 in which a reaction section 2 , a submerged membrane section 3 having a submerged membrane 5 and a precipitation section 4 are arranged in order from top to bottom, causes a reaction by adding a pH adjuster to the reaction section 2 , subsequently sepa...