A method and apparatus are disclosed for establishing communication in a cased wellbore with a data sensor (16) that has been remotely deployed, prior to the installation of casing in the wellbore, into a subsurface formation (20) penetrated by the wellbore. Communication is established by installing an antenna (18) in an opening in the casing wall (24). A data receiver (60) is inserted into the c...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To avoid rapidly changing of braking/driving behavior of an automobile when it is dislocated from a control region, releasing inter-vehicle distance control while gradually relaxing deceleration in accordance with a car speed or the lapse of time, in the case of releasing the inter-vehicle distance control for exceeding the control region. SOLUTION: An inter-vehicle distance ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automatic stopping/starting device whereby a shock of a hydraulically-operated automatic transmission can be prevented when an internal combustion engine is restarted after automatically stopped, and power consumption is also suppressed at car stopping time by not using an electric motor-driven oil hydraulic pump. SOLUTION: When an internal combustion engine 1 i...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To actuate a winding tube magazine even in a severe environmental condition by forming a connecting device between storage columns of a storage unit and a winding tube carrying carriage out of a controllable winding tube gripper arranged in a gripper support body capable of traveling in the vertical direction. SOLUTION: A gripper support body capable of traveling in the verti...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent an unintentional displacement (or movement) of an actual load in a weight balance device particularly for a medical equipment when a spring is broken. SOLUTION: A drum 17 loaded by the force of a spiral spring element 19 is mounted to store a main rope 15 loaded by an actual load. A safety device 44 is mounted to actuate an locking device when the spiral spring ele...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electrolyte which contains silicon, is not solidified and minimizes the vulcanization phenomenon of a battery by mixing a silicon compound into a dilute sulfuric acid aqueous solution to obtain a gelatinous solid, pulverizing it into fine grains, and mixing the fine grains into a new dilute surface acid aqueous solution. SOLUTION: A silicon compound is mixed int...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To cut a semiconductor wafer quickly into a large number of chips by a method wherein a laser beam is made to irradiate scribe lines to form cutting holes successively scanning the semiconductor wafer in the directions of X and Y at a prescribed pitch so as to separate chips into discrete pieces. SOLUTION: Cut pitches in the directions of X and Y corresponding to the dimensio...

A data processing system for implementing transaction management of auction-based trading for specialized items such as fixed income instruments. The data processing system provides a highly structured trading protocol implemented through a sequence of trading paradigms. The system employs a distributed computer processing network linking together a plurality of commonly programmed controlled work...

A centrifuge has a hub and a first bowl section extending about the hub. The first bowl section has a given diameter at a downstream end of a heavy phase transport path along the first bowl section. The centrifuge further comprises a second bowl section having an input end at the downstream end of the first bowl section. The input end of the second bowl section has a diameter which is greater than...

A medical system has an X-ray apparatus with an X-ray system having an X-ray source and an X-ray receiver, and a therapy unit with a source of focused acoustic waves, the therapy unit being detachably coupleable to the X-ray apparatus. A method for coupling the therapy unit to the X-ray apparatus is also disclosed. The coupling is performed so that after the therapy unit has been coupled to the X-...

A combination of double and triple cell ganging which resolves any incompatibility between the number of detector channels and the lower number of DAS channels without requiring any significant hardware and software changes is described. In one specific embodiment, at least some detector cells on one side of the detector outside the FOV are wired in pairs, i.e., ganged, to form a set of 2 mm chann...

A stand for a hair dryer includes a base, an adjustable neck and a clamp for gripping the dryer. With the dryer inserted into the clamp, a dryer nozzle is directed in a preferred direction by adjusting the neck of the stand. An upper C-clamp loosely holds the dryer and is sized for encompassing the air moving portion of the dryer. A lower C-clamp holds or grips the dryer and is sized for encompass...

An oro/nasopharyngeal airway comprises an arcuately shaped tubular member adapted for insertion into a patient's pharynx, either through the mouth or nasal passage, to prevent obstruction during the administration of anesthesia. According to a preferred embodiment, an inhalant gas, typically oxygen (O2), is delivered to the airway via a gas line connected to the proximal end of the tubular member,...

A laryngeal mask of the type used to facilitate lung ventilation and the insertion of endo-tracheal tubes or related medical instruments through a patient's laryngeal opening as used during general anesthesia, intensive care, or critical patient care. The mask includes an inflatable positioning shield formed to fit within a patient's oropharynx and seal around the circumference of the laryngeal op...

A shading device includes an abbreviated height umbrella having a articulating ball attachment structure on both its upper and lower sides and attached to a pivoting arm through a series of universal connectors and joints having spherical articulating balls secured in articulating ball joints with tension force provided by joint retention screws. The umbrella can be either supported from the botto...

An umbrella supported by a mast located alongside the umbrella canopy. The umbrella canopy includes a radial arm connected to an element slidably mounted along the mast. A brace pivotably attaches to the arm and extends to the top of the mast. A flexible line extends from a winder within the mast, over a fixed pulley located at the top of a mast, a second pulley mounted on the sliding element, and...

Depositing a selected pattern of solder droplets onto a substrate on which one or more electronic components are to be mounted, the substrate being mounted on a substrate support and moved relative to a solder ejector along a scan axis, the droplets being deflected along a fan axis that is transverse to the scan axis by selectively applying a charge and passing the charged droplets through an elec...

A computer-implemented vehicle controller (VCON) is positioned in the passenger compartment of a vehicle on a test track. The VCON communicates with a base computer for receiving commands therefrom. In response, the VCON, which includes a servo controller and associated servos that are coupled to the controls of the vehicle, operates the controls of the vehicle to drive the vehicle around the test...

An automatic steering system which reduces formation of a wheel track by changing a relative position of a vehicle with respect to a road. A reference line is provided along a road so that a vehicle moves along the reference line. The vehicle moves on the road while an amount of shift from the reference line is controlled to be equal to a target amount of shift. The amount of shift is a distance b...