The present invention relates to systems, methods and apparatus for improving the yield for separating components of fluids, for example biological or sensitive fluids such as blood, and improving the component yield, for example, from donated whole blood by separating its components by density in a centrifuge bowl with a multi-axial lumen. The apparatus, system, and method eliminate the need to b...

Disclosed are a marketing lottery card and an online marketing method using the card. The lottery card includes a matrix of rows and columns, and characters or gift symbols printed on the matrix. The on-line marketing method using the lottery card includes the steps of connecting a customer to a free gift-offering site, identifying whether the customer is a member of the site, displaying a pop-up ...

Wellbore apparatus including an elongated tubular adapted for disposal within the wellbore. The tubular having an elongated recess formed on its exterior surface along the longitudinal axis. The recess is adapted to accept and house a component therein. A shield disposed within the recess and adapted to slide to a selected position therein, covering a housed component. The sliding shield and house...

The gas separation apparatus comprises a flexible wall which is maintained in a placed position on an upper end of an adsorbant material; the volume between the wall and an upper dome communicates with one of inner and outer chambers on both sides of the adsorbant (4). The invention can be used to separate air components.

Disclosed is a system decoder of a digital TV. Particularly, the system decoder brings about the effect of remultiplexing packet data input from different channels by giving an ID to each channel, using it as an extension field of a packet ID (PID) and an extension field of a table ID of a section that are defined in the ISO/IEC 13818-1, and storing the channel ID information in the buffer transmi...

It is described a composition comprising an effective amount of the HMGB1 protein or functional parts thereof, or HMGB1 expressing vectors, for the treatment of tissue damage and/or to promote tissue repair and regeneration. It is further described a composition comprising an effective amount of an antagonist of the HMGB1 protein for the treatment of adverse effects induced by necrotic tissue, suc...

Processable rubber compositions comprising a vulcanized elastomer dispersed in a matrix of a thermoplastic polymeric material. In one embodiment the matrix forms a continuous phase and the vulcanized elastomeric material is in the form of particles forming a non-continuous phase. The compositions are made by combining a curative, an uncured fluorocarbon elastomer, and a reactive oligomer, and heat...

Disclosed are a solid-solution powder, a method for preparing the solid-solution powder, a cermet powder including the solid-solution powder, a method for preparing the cermet powder, a cermet using the cermet powder and a method to prepare the cermet. According to the present invention, the problem of low toughness due to high hardness that conventional cermets (especially TiC or Ti(CN) based cer...

An optical head including a light source for emitting luminous energy recordable on a recording medium, a heat radiating section, in contact with the light source, for radiating heat which accompanies the light emission thereof, and a resin-made bench for mounting and fixing the aforementioned elements, or an optical head having a light source for generating luminous energy required for recording ...

Procédé de gestion d'une unité d'entraînement d'un véhicule comportant un moteur (10), une boîte de vitesses (30) et un convertisseur de couple (20) installé entre le moteur (10) et la boîte de vitesses (30).Lorsque se produit une variation de charge on règle au moins un paramètre de fonctionnement du moteur (10), de sorte qu'une grandeur caractérisant le couple fourni par le moteur (10) au con...

The integral mounted command mechanism has a container with a heat conduction base plate (20) and cover (13). There is an internal space which holds conductor tracks (10), connected to electronic components (13). The heat from the components passes to the base plate. The base plate has a plug (22) mounted on the underneath and connected to pins on the conductor track, covering a side space of the ...

The secure transaction delivers an order to the merchant and confirms the order using a secret code. The secret code is sent by the customer to a secure site other than the merchant's site, and the transaction validated in the secure site by processing the secret code along with an identification message sent by the merchant site. The identification message is provided in part by the customer.

The operating condition detection device calculates the operating condition of the drive train provided by the clutch and the drive transmission using the ratio (NV) between the engine revs (N) and the vehicle velocity (V) and the rate of variation in this ratio. An Independent claim for a device for detecting the operating condition of an automobile drive train is also included.

The invention relates to a motor vehicle comprising a drive motor and a gearbox with a device for automatically actuating a clutch in the drivetrain, and to a control method. According to said method, if the gear ratio is less than a threshold value and the actuation of a driving pedal is not equal to zero and is less than a threshold value, warning measures are initiated to alert the driver to mi...

A method to transmit commands across a gaming network is implemented wi th digitally signed messages. The command messages are generated upon a triggering event, such as the winning of a bonus. The messages are digitally signed by the transmitting node and transmitted to the subservient device. When the subservient device receives the message, it verifies the signature and executes the command. If...

For decreasing the residual amount of a solvent in a water soluble nonionic alkylene oxide resin, an apparatus having an evaporation vessel to which a resin solution is charged and a stirring blade having a helical ribbon-shaped portion disposed in the evaporation vessel, in which the stirring blade is disposed so as to scrape-up a resin solution and coating the same to the inner wall surface of t...

A monofilament with longitudinally oriented grooves and fabrics made thereof having reduced air permeability, wherein the reduced permeability is achieved without using additional coatings or stuffer yarns. Bicomponent monofilaments made from these grooved monofilaments using solution or wire coating have improved coating adhesion and may also include a conductive coating. In addition, the grooved...

An electric shaver in which a plurality of mutually separated cutter blades provided in an inner cutter are moved in relative terms while making sliding contact with an outer cutter that is formed with a plurality of hair introduction openings, so that hair that enters into the hair introduction openings of the outer cutter is cut by the cutter blades, wherein the cutter blades are caused to inter...

High-solids aqueous polymer dispersions, their preparation and use A description is given of an aqueous polymer dispersion derived from at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer and with a solids content of at least 60% by weight, based on the polymer dispersion. The polymer dispersion comprises at least one salt of a phosphorus acid. The preparation takes place by free-radical emulsion polym...

An infrared emissive first insulating portion, which radiates heat transferred from a WCSP corresponding to an electronic part to a first conductive portion as infrared radiation with high efficiency, is formed on the first conductive portion lying in a through hole provided in a printed wiring board with the WCSP mounted thereon.