The present invention is a device and method for specifying the orientation of a magnetic field produced in a patient to aid surgical procedures involving an implanted magnet. The device includes a processor (54), a pointing device (100), a magnet assembly generating a magnetic field, a display (56), and a medical imaging device that provides three-dimensional imaging of an operating region of a p...

Video adapter hardware and software permitting the display of computer information and television signals across several display devices. The video adapter hardware includes two graphics user interface accelerators, two television tuners, one or more video decoders, and one or more video multiplexers. Each accelerator is coupled to a memory unit for access to graphics data. One television tuner ac...

The present invention relates to a data processing unit comprising a register file, a register load and store buffer connected to the register file, a single memory, and a bus having at least first and second word lines to form a double word wide bus coupling the register load and store buffer with said single memory. The register file has at least two sets of registers whereby the first set of re...

An allogenic intervertebral implant (10) for fusing vertebrae is disclosed. The implant (10) is an annular plug conforming in size and shape with end plates of vertebrae. The implant has either an exterior surface identical to that of the harvest bone or an exterior surface machined to have a uniform shape such as an oval or a rectangle. The top and bottom surfaces (14, 16) of the implant (10) hav...

A laparoscopic surgical technique is provided for preparing a site for implantation of a novel fusion device or implant. In accordance with one embodiment of the technique, laparoscope (170) is provided having an outer sleeve (171) with distraction fingers (173) at one end to distract the disc space. The laparoscope (170) provides a sealed working channel to the disc space, through which the disc ...

Fluid flow in a body chamber such as the eye (42) during surgery may be managed using an aspiration tube (22) and an irrigation tube (20), one being disposed within the other. A method and apparatus for supplying fluid to and withdrawing fluid from the chamber (42) during surgery includes a first tube (22), and a second tube (20) disposed around the first tube (22) and forming a space around the f...

The invention concerns a safety insert designed to be mounted in a motor vehicle tyre and a rim assembly, such that the insert generates multiple vibrating signals of the tyre rotation frequency.; Insert de sécurité destiné à être monté dans un ensemble comprenant un pneumatique et une jante d'un véhicule, tel que l'insert génère des signaux vibratoires multiples de la fréquence de rotation du pne...

Packaging for mounting a centrally-apertured disc (20) during storage, transportation and/or display, which packaging includes a flexibly-resilient, planar backing card (15) for mounting the disc and protecting one face thereof. Said card being provided substantially in the plane of the face with three triangulated fixing points defined in the card and so disposed thereon that the edges of the dis...

2-amino-N-(1,2-diphenyl-1-methylethyl)acetamide (remacemide) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and L-dopa, are useful in conjuction with one another in the treatment of Parkinson's disease. Pharmaceutical products and formulations comprising these active agents are provided.

The invention provides a method of making a flexible carrier web, comprising the steps of a) forming on a planar surface of a flexible backing a pattern consisting of at least one flat land area and at least one recess, said recess having base and walls, said recess having an average depth of at least about 5 micrometers, and b) applying to said land area a layer of a silicone, and c) crosslinking...

The knowledge based system functions in a machine initiated maintenance environment to provide efficient and timely maintenance of customer equipment. The knowledge based system provides the failure evaluation function through the use of an expert or knowledge based system that is installed in the customer equipment. The knowledge based system makes use of a set of rules and hypotheses to operate ...

A laminate for use in microwave cooking which includes a susceptor formed by depositing a thin layer of microwave-interactive material on a plastic base sheet, and then extrusion bonding that susceptor to a plastic coated paper sheet, without the use of an adhesive.

An undersampling digital testability circuit 20 includes a means for carrying data transfers 15, a data capture array 22 and a divider circuit 18. Divider circuit 18 provides an enablment signal to data capture array 22 that undersamples data travelling along the means for carrying data transfers 15 at high data rates thereby effectively testing the integrity of high data rate transfers without th...

The invention relates to an arrangement in a drive unit (2) for an ultrasound sealing unit (1). The drive unit (2) is of the type which has a number of piezoelectric ceramic plates (7) disposed with interjacent, conductive metal sheets (8) coupled to an a.c. source. The ceramic plates (7) and the metal sheets (8) are held together with a counterweight (9) by a clamping screw (10) which partly secu...

A self-emulsifying, liquid treatment composition comprises the polysiloxane reaction product of (a) at least one alkoxysilane, alkoxysiloxane, or siloxane compound comprising at least one hydrophobic moiety selected from the group consisting of alkyl, aryl, aralkyl, and alkaryl moieties; (b) at least one alkoxysilane, alkoxysiloxane, or siloxane compound comprising at least one hydrophilic moiety ...

The present invention relates to the field of raster-scanned video apparatus having a memory where pixel data for each scan line is stored in adjacent locations in said memory, such that each word accessed from said memory includes the data for at least one pixel. The present invention provides a method for providing filtered pixel data for a display, said method being characterized in that it com...

The invention relates to a refractory for cast molding to be used as, for example, lining of a molten metal container, which contains a proper amount of an organic foaming agent generating an incombustible gas upon decomposition, such as 4,4-oxybis(benzenesulfonohydrazide). This refractory can solve the conventional problem of explosive cracking to be caused upon drying the refractory by heat.

A bottom lead semiconductor package includes a plurality of outer leads, wherein an outer portion of each of the outer leads is downwardly bent, and inner leads extend from a corresponding one of the outer leads respectively and are bent at least once upwardly and folded over onto a corresponding upper surface of the outer leads. A semiconductor chip is attached to an upper surface of each of the ...

The arrangement has a device for measuring the vertical acceleration of the tire or a connected vehicle part and the longitudinal vehicle speed, and an evaluation device which derives the tire pressure from the measurement data. The evaluation device includes a trainable estimation unit (8), especially a neural network, trained with different pressures and speeds and able to determine tire pressur...

Biohybrid joint surface prosthesis consists of a three-dimensional porous substrate, in which cartilaginous cells can be cultivated in vitro and/or in vivo to a 3-dimensional cell composite, and can be attached to the exposed bone in the defective joint region after cell grown and optionally development of tissue. The novelty is that the side of the substrate to be attached to the bone has an agen...