A stent for supporting part of a blood vessel which stent includes a supporting portion which can be placed within part of an intact blood vessel other than a graft so that the stent internally supports that part and the supporting portion of the stent is of a shape and/or orientation whereby flow within the vessel is caused to follow a non-planar curve. By maintaining non-planar curvature in the ...

PCT No. PCT/SE94/00318 Sec. 371 Date Oct. 10, 1996 Sec. 102(e) Date Oct. 10, 1996 PCT Filed Apr. 11, 1994 PCT Pub. No. WO95/27667 PCT Pub. Date Oct. 19, 1995A package, comprising a container (1) which contains a liquid (2) and a substance (8), such as a flavourant or nutrient additive, enclosed in an openable capsule (4) or the like, which substance is intended to be mixed with the liquid, where t...

Implant (2) for rear insertion into the intervertebral articular space. According to the invention, said implant comprises two superimposed blade sections, each contacting one of the two vertebral plates, means (8, 9) being provided for separating the front portions of both blade sections (6) from the rear, without separating the rear portions thereof.

The invention relates to a dispenser for marker disks which limit the depth of penetration of root-canal preparatory instruments or the like. The dispenser is composed of a box assembly composed of base 1 and cover 2. The space between the base 1 and cover 2 at least in part evinces a height approximately equal to the thickness of the marker disks. A guide 8 is provided to select the marker disks ...

A multithreaded processor for executing multiple instruction streams is provided. This multithreaded processor includes: a plurality of functional units for executing instructions; a plurality of instruction decode units, corresponding to the multiple instruction streams on a one-to-one basis, for respectively decoding an instruction, and Producing an instruction issue request for designating to w...

A system for intersomatic fusion and setting of vertebrae. The system includes at least one open internal cage arranged for receiving spongy bone or bone substitute and is designed to be interposed between two vertebrae during diskectomy. The cage (1) includes on its anterior face (5) an external element forming a plate (12) extending in a plane substantially perpendicular to the insertion plane o...

A prosthesis liner for below-knee amputees comprising a polymer liner, such as silicone, incorporating a pre-flexed shape having an angle at the knee selected from 20 to 60 degrees, at least one thickened upper silicone band, an appropriate anatomical shape and taper and a flexible connector piece at the bottom portion of the liner adapted for connection to a walking piece. An anti-bacterial agent...

A sports, leisure and/or fitness device consists of a shoe (1) with a sole (2) and several rolling elements, in particular wheels (3), rotatively mounted one behind the other in the longitudinal direction of the sole (2) on bearing blocks (4) in the area of the sole (2) of the shoe (1). The axes (5) of the rolling elements extend perpendicularly to the length of the sole (2). In order to make such...

A method and apparatus for controlling the thickness of press-cured composite articles during the manufacture thereof. The method includes a preparatory or prefabrication stage wherein prepreg plies are layed up and compacted to form a plurality of laminates that define a final laminate package that defines the uncured configuration of the composite article. The final laminate package may include ...

PCT No. PCT/CA98/00047 Sec. 371 Date Sep. 29, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Sep. 29, 1998 PCT Filed Jan. 29, 1998 PCT Pub. No. WO98/33724 PCT Pub. Date Aug. 6, 1998A microwave energy heating element has a plurality of spaced microwave components generally arranged in a closed loop pattern. Each of the microwave components (42, 44) has a non-resonant length. When the heating element is in a loaded conditio...

A prosthetic stent with a tubular wall (1) having local inwardly or outwardly formed elevations (7) is presented. Stents having such elevations (7) have a higher mechanical stability if bend according to the curvature of the body vessels to be supported or repaired. Also a method for manufacturing a stent with such elevations (7) is described.

Bei einem Implantat mit einer strukturierten Oberfläche an den mit einem Knochen in Kontakt gelangenden Flächen ist zwecks Erzielung einer gezielten Porosität die strukturierte Oberfläche wie folgt gestaltet: Die strukturierte Oberfläche ist aus vollem Material gebildet und mit einer Vielzahl zylindrischer Vertiefungen (1), insbesondere Bohrungen, mit Durchmessern von 0,3 bis 1 mm, vorzugsweise 0,...

Ein Gelenk-Prothesenimplantat weist einen ersten Implantatteil (1), der an einem ersten Knochenende, und einen zweiten Implantatteil (2), der an einem zweiten Knochenende zweier ein Gelenk bildender Knochenenden ansetzbar ist, auf, wobei der erste Implantatteil (1) und der zweite Implantatteil (2) jeweils Gelenkflächen zur Bildung eines Schwenkgelenks aufweisen, und wobei ein Gleitteil vorgesehen ...

The instructions CRGT or CRLT involve a high speed greater-than and less-than computation which readily computes maximums and minimums when used repeatedly. The arithmetic and logic unit, ALU (21), operates coactively to compare the content of accumulator (23) to ACCB (31), by subtraction, to obtain the sign of the arithmetic difference. The greater or lesser value depending on the instruction CRG...

The error detection procedure associates each word (11,12,13) of the program sequence with a bit of the address word so that the order of the program words corresponds to a predefined order of bits in the address word. One bit (16) of each program word is not used in determining the instruction. The value of this unused bit is delivered to a logic function whose result is used to set the address w...

An implantable device having a body of matrix material made up of insoluble collagen fibrils, and disposed therewithin(a) a plurality of vertebrate cells; and(b) a plurality of microspheres each of which consists primarily of one or more of the following materials: collagen, polystyrene, dextran, polyacrylamide, cellulose, calcium alginate, latex, polysulfone, or glass.

Compounds of the formula: where R is hydrogen, hydroxyl, alkyl or acyl, R min and R sec together are oxo, hydroxyimino or alkoxyimino, and R min and R sec independently are hydrogen, hydroxyl, acyloxy, or amino substituted by any of hydrogen, alkylcarbonyl, arylcarbonyl, aralkylcarbonyl, alkoxycarbonyl, aralkoxycarbonyl, alkylsulfonyl or arylsulfonyl, and n is 0 or 1, and the pharmaceutic...

The redundancy decoder circuit is capable of receipt of burst length information of address signals for first reading out an address of two addresses to be multi-selected and also judging address to be substituted in accordance with other address to be concurrently read out by means of switching, by the burst length signal, the combination logic of the lower bits of the address already prepared.

This invention provides a package for complex semiconductor devices and a ceramic terminal block useful for the package. For example, the package might contain a semiconductor laser diode and a Peltier device for cooling the laser diode. A ceramic terminal block has metallized electrode patterns formed thereon which extend inside and outside the package. Grooves are formed in some of the metallize...

To minimize the number of fuses for the block write redundancy discrimination, a semiconductor memory of the invention having a block write function of eight columns comprises; a first and a second memory cell array (MCA1 and MCA2) both driven by a common row decoder (RD1), logic of LSB (Y0) of the column address of the first memory cell array being '0' and that of the second memory cell array bei...