This relates to methods and devices for treating reversible chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and more particularly, relates to a device for exchanging energy with airway tissue such as that found in the airway of human lungs. The exchange of energy with this airway tissue in the airways reduces the ability of the air ways to constrict and/or reduces the resistance within the airway to the fl...

A selective catalytic reduction apparatus has at least first and last catalyst layers in series for reducing nitrogen oxides in a flue gas, at least one interstage heat exchanger located after the first layer and before the last layer, that lowers flue gas temperature, and that acts as a mixing body to lower the standard deviation of the NH₃/NO ratio entering catalyst layers after the f...

A polyester film for forming which is excellent in formability especially at low temperatures and low pressures and in solvent resistance and heat resistance and is reduced in environmental burden. The polyester film for forming is a biaxially oriented polyester film comprising a copolyester as a component, and is characterize in that (1) the stress at 100% elongation of the film in each of the ma...

Black polyurethane foams that exhibit higher strength black colorations without the need for concomitant increases in black colorants therein are provided. Such a resultant jetter black foam article is possible through the unexpectedly effective introduction of small amounts of certain toner compounds or combinations that exhibit specific measurable appearance characteristics. Such toners exhibit ...

The present invention relates to a process for the production of a cellular composite, and to the resultant cellular composites. This process comprising (A) preparing a mixture of a polyisocyanate, water, and, optionally, one or more additives; (B) adding this mixture under low shear mixing to inorganic hollow microspheres; (C) completely filling a mold with the mixture; and (D) heating the mold c...

The present invention relates to transducers, their use and fabrication. The transducers convert between mechanical and electrical energy. Some transducers of the present invention include a pre-strained polymer. The pre-strain improves the conversion between electrical and mechanical energy. The present invention also relates to devices including an electroactive polymer to convert between electr...

A biosensor apparatus and method with sample type and cell volume detection. The apparatus includes a sine wave generator to apply an AC signal to a biosensor cell containing a sample, a current-to-voltage converter, a phase shifter, a square wave generator, a synchronous demodulator, and a low pass filter which yields a signal proportional to the effective capacitance across the biosensor cell, w...

This relates to methods and devices for achieving contact between the wall of a cavity or passageway and a medical device when used in tortuous anatomy.

A system for controlling a mobile machine is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system comprises an integrated guidance system coupled with a steering component. The integrated guidance system comprises a position determining system for determining the geographic position of the mobile machine. A guidance system coupled with the position determining system is for determining a deviation of the mobi...

A multi-tiered server management architecture is employed including an application development tier, an application operations tier, and a cluster operations tier. In the application development tier, applications are developed for execution on one or more server computers. In the application operations tier, execution of the applications is managed and sub-boundaries within a cluster of servers c...

A device for automatic error detection on booting a motherboard includes a storage device, and an automatic error detection speech unit. The storage device stores BIOS program code and a system status table for the motherboard, the BIOS program code being executed by a processor when the motherboard is booting, the system status table of the motherboard storing at least one motherboard element sta...

A computer system comprising a memory system that comprises a plurality of memory modules; and a memory controller that accesses the plurality of memory modules to service memory requests. The computer system also comprises an error-type memory controller that configures the noted access such that the memory controller can continue to access a failed one of the plurality of memory modules that inc...

Methods and apparatus to reinitiate failed processors in multiple-processor systems are described herein. In an example method, a failure associated with a first processor of a plurality of processors in a multiple-processor system is detected by a second processor of the plurality of processors. In response to detection of the failure associated with the first processor, the second processor rest...

A method and apparatus is provided for fault notification based on a severity level. The method comprises detecting a fault associated with a processing tool that is adapted to process one or more workpieces, determining a fault severity level of the detected fault and selecting at least one user to notify of the fault based on the severity level of the fault.

Techniques and apparatus are disclosed for detecting and responding to the malfunction of a host coupled to a communications bus through a bus transceiver.

Disclosed are methods of producing superabsorbing polymeric networks of polyaspartates from crosslinked polysuccinimide. In one preferred method aspect, polysuccinimide is first reacted with an organic crosslinking agent, preferably an organic base containing at least two primary amine groups to form crosslinked polysuccinimide. The crosslinked polysuccinimide is then hydrolyzed to a polymeric net...

A method of manufacturing a polyolefin solution continuously and in a stable manner with a high yield which comprises kneading a polyolefin resin with a liquid being composed of a solvent for the polyolefin resin, and is characterized in that; (1) a continuous kneader having a self-cleaning action is used, and (2 ) a starving state is maintained in the internal sections of the kneader at a polyole...

"DISPOSITIVO ELETRÈNICO PREMIADOR INTEGRADO UTILIZADO EM áREAS COMERCIAIS". A presente invenção refere-se a um dispositivo de premiação integrada composto por componentes eletrónicos, utilizados em lojas e demais estabelecimentos comerciais, que efetua premiações durante a realização de compras de produtos e/ou serviços de qualquer natureza. Este dispositivo torna as compras em tais áreas muito ma...

L'invention concerne un appareil d'éclairage comprenant un support de lampe amovible muni d'un système d'optique, dans lequel le support de lampe amovible est muni d'un dispositif de connexion à une alimentation électrique solidaire de l'appareil, et dans lequel le support de lampe constitue un ensemble (désigné comme ensemble "tiroir" ou "panier") muni d'accessoires divers agissant sur et/ou perm...

A parallel recording of diffractive storage system is provided. The recorded information is cellular for its designation. A laser beam is data modulated through a single reference beam and a plurality of object beams positioned at different angles. These object beams intersect the reference beam within a recording medium to form a plurality of data loaded pattern simultaneously.