The invention concerns an image processing method for medical engineering support of stereotactical operations. In this method, at least two non-coplanar projection images of the operation area are used, and lines which lie on a cylindrical surface, which is centred round a needle trajectory with a radial separation from this needle trajectory which can be preset, are faded into these projection i...

There are herein disclosed an additive for a lubricant or a fuel which comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of substituted hydroxyaromatic ester derivatives represented by the general formulae (I) and (II) wherein R1 to R5 are each an organic group having 6 or more carbon atoms, a, b, d, e, k and m are from 1 to 3, c, f, g, i and j are from 0 to 3, and h is from 0 ...

An improved tonometric catheter (20) has tubing (22),luer lock (24), closed end (32), and perforations (34). A permeable membrane (36) encloses perforations(34) and forms sampling chamber (40). Also on tubing (22) are sensors (42) located within membrane (36) to sense a desired property.

A biosensing meter is provided that determines a value of an analyte in a biological sample. The meter employs an algorithm for determining the analyte value, which value is dependent upon ambient temperature about the biological sample when it is present in a reaction zone. The biosensing meter includes a processor and a temperature sensor. The temperature sensor is positioned within the meter's ...

PURPOSE:To provide the storage pen which can change easily an ink cartridge. CONSTITUTION:This pen consists of a case main body 1, an ink tank 3, a capillary tube 4 provided successively in the lower part of this ink tank 3, and an ink nozzle 5, and also, consists of an ink cartridge 6 provided in the case main body 1, ink 2 obtained by mixing a proper amount of magnetic material particles filled ...

PURPOSE:To enable a beginner also to easily execute operation matched with a schedule by combining a schedule managing function and a human machine interface(HMI), displaying an HMI only for items required for a user corresponding to the date and automatically starting software to be executed at first. CONSTITUTION:This automatic HMI control system is constituted of a LOGIN managing means 3 for ma...

PURPOSE:To register the network user who is registered at a certain network site to another network site as a new network user by means of a portable recording medium. CONSTITUTION:The information on the network user USER1 registered in a network (a) is recorded on a portable recording medium A from a client (a) in a log-out state of the network (a). Then the medium A is put into a recording mediu...

PURPOSE:To directly operate an aerial image formed by the display part of a CG image and an optical system by an observer, etc., and to heighten the interest and game feeling of the observer. CONSTITUTION:The CG image of a butterfly, etc., displayed on a CRT 11 on space set in a dark state by a cover 6, etc., is displayed in the neighborhood of an observation window 12 as the aerial image by a con...

PURPOSE:To securely and independently eject respective memory cards from a device where the memory cards are connected one over another through the mechanism which ejects the memory cards from a connector. CONSTITUTION:Slide bars 51 and 52 for ejection are provided corresponding to the memory cards C1 and C2 which are stacked in stages, one to one, and one slide bar 51 is fitted with a detachment ...

PURPOSE:To provide the two-stage type card connector device of an ejecting mechanism which enables two IC cards, etc., to be inserted and used at the same time and also enables one card to be replaced. CONSTITUTION:This device is equipped with a frame 2 which has individual storage parts 13 and 14 for two cards C in two upper and lower stages and is provided with a card insertion slot at the front...

PURPOSE:To put a connector in such a simple, small-sized, and high-density structure as can be operated easily by hands. CONSTITUTION:A base 1 and a frame 4 are coupled with each other by two toggles 10, and both toggles are in bent condition, and the coupling 11 of each toggle is positioned inside an eject button 13, and they are coupled with each other by a link pin 12. A drive spring 14 is inco...

PURPOSE:To prevent infiltration of water content into a moisture-proofing material, or generation of shrinkage of the moisture-proofing material by setting the whole layer thickness of an end surface light emission type electroluminescence element and a gap between an upper surface of the element and an upper part lower surface of a cover member to satisfy a specific relation. CONSTITUTION:For an ...

PURPOSE:To provide an electroluminescence element of a long life and a high brightness which is suitable for downsizing because of a surface of an electroluminescence layer almost equal to a surface of the whole body of the element. CONSTITUTION:After forming an electroluminescence light emission layer 2, an insulation layer 3, and a back electrode 4 laminated on a transparent electrode 1 in this ...

PURPOSE:To manufacture electroluminescence lamps at a low cost in mass quantity, fix an electrode lead-out part strongly, and set a dielectric breakdown voltage high. CONSTITUTION:A back sealing material 4 is bound to cover part of an electrode takeout part 8. A sealing binding agent layer 10 to bind the back sealing material 4 to the electrode takeout part 8 leaks from a boundary line between the...

PURPOSE: To obtain a new substance characteristic by doping an activator atom on a semiconductor host material of quantum size. CONSTITUTION: A product has a layer, composed of particles of a semiconductor substance containing a dopant inside. These particles have a size of not more than 100 Angstroms, and this dopant is an activator of a light-emitting body, and the particles are a host of the li...

PURPOSE:To provide a dispersion type electroluminescence element of which light emission color can be regulated as desired, and of which adhesion property between a phosphor layer and a transparent electrode is improved. CONSTITUTION:Coloring agent including at least fluorescent dye, phosphor powder, and binder resin are mixed with each other to be paste, a silane coupling agent is mixed with this...

PURPOSE:To provide a dispersion type field light emission element of which light emission color can be set by a user as desired in accordance with user's taste by dispersing phosphor, and dye or pigments as necessary, in binder, for the user to blend ink-like light emmission layer material to provide the light emission color in accordance with the user's taste. CONSTITUTION:Phosphor, and dye or pi...

PURPOSE:To provide an organic thin film electroluminescence element of high light emission efficiency which can be driven at a low voltage. CONSTITUTION:An organic light emission layer 22 and a hole transport layer 23 are provided between a pair of electrodes 21, 24 in which one electrode 21 is of magnesium film formed in a vacuum deposition method. The magnesium film 21 is formed by vaporization ...

PURPOSE:To exactly attain facsimile or telephone reception by temporarily interrupting the recording of interception data at the time of calling from a communicating opposite side connected through a telephone line during the recording of the interception data. CONSTITUTION:This device is equipped with an interception recording function, and when a communication control part 38 detects a calling s...

An aluminum nitride sintered body is mainly composed of aluminum nitride, contains 0.01 to 1.0 percent by weight of a rare earth element and 0.001 to 0.5 percent by weight of oxygen, and has thermal conductivity of at least 180 W/mK. According to a method of manufacturing such an aluminum nitride sintered body, aluminum nitride powder (201) is first prepared. At least one compound (203) containing...