A surgical suturing apparatus includes a suture housing, a needle mounted within the suture housing for movement about an arcuate path, a drive assemb ly operably associated with the needle for controlling movement of the needle with a suture secured thereto about the arcuate path in a manner facilitating application of the suture to tissue, and a collapsible vacuum chamber containing the suture h...

A combustor is provided having one or more apertures adapted to asymmetrical ly introduce air adjacent the fuel nozzles to reduce smoke resulting from unburned hydrocarbons in a gas turbine engine combustion system by impeding escape of unburned hydrocarbons.

Predmetni se izum odnosi na područje platnih kartica koje se mogu ponovno puniti. Predmetni se izumodnosi na postupak plaćanja unaprijed plaćenom bankovnom karticom koju dobavlja financijski posrednik transakcije s trgovcem, koji postupak obuhvaća korake ponovnog punjenja koji se sastoje od promjene informacija o saldu dostupnom nositelju bankovne kartice na upravljačkom poslužitelju, koji karakte...

A method and apparatus for performing a manufacturing operation at a plurali ty of locations along the length of a flexible conduit results in a prefabricated conduit assembly having integrally joined fittings or other manufactured components. The apparatus comprises a driving mechanism, a manufacturing station, and a support device. The conduit is fir st fed through the manufacturing station and ...

A process of producing a substituted polyacetylene electrolyte membrane which is a solid electrolyte membrane having a sulfonic group uniformly introduced thereinto, with its electrode assembly being useful as an electrochemical device or a fuel cell and an electrolyte membrane using the same are provided. A process of producing a sulfonic group-containing substituted polyacetylene membrane, which...

A solid electrolyte fuel cell comprising a cathode layer 12 formed on one side of a solid electrolyte layer 10 and an anode layer 18 formed on the other side of the solid electrolyte layer 10, wherein the cathode layer 16 comprises a first cathode layer 12 formed in contact with the solid electrolyte layer and a second cathode layer 14 formed covering the first cathode layer 12, the second cathode...

Provided is a hydrogen generator which is capable of reducing a size of an entire apparatus and reducing a running cost by utilizing heat of a heat exchanger (1) for hydrogen reforming in a reformer (2), and which can particularly preferably be used in a facility such as a hospital, a restaurant, or a hotel utilizing both steam and electricity, and a fuel cell system using the hydrogen generator. ...

A water heater having a water storage tank an inlet conduit and an outlet conduit is provided. The inlet conduit has a top end portion coupled to an inlet of the water storage tank, a bottom end portion extending into an interior o f the water storage tank, and a passage for water flow from the top end portion to the bottom end portion. The top end portion of the inlet conduit defines at least one...

A water heater inlet conduit having a top end portion configured to be coupl ed to an inlet port of a water heater is provided. The bottom end portion of th e inlet conduit is configured to extend into an interior of the water heater. A passage within the inlet conduit is provided for water flow from the top end portion to the bottom end portion. The top end portion of the inlet conduit defines at...

Displaying a map on a wireless communications device includes downloading map data from which the map is to be rendered, rendering portions of the map for which the map data has been fully downloaded, and then graphically overlaying on a portion of the map for which the map data has not yet been fully downloaded a graphical indication, such as hatching, crosshatching or shading, to indicate that f...

Labels can be rendered on a map displayed on a wireless communications device by using pre-rendered characters. The pre-rendered characters can be pre-rotated to one of a number of angular orientations and stored as a variable transparency bitmap for rapid overlaying on the map. The bitmap can include an array or grid of characters wherein each row has a unique orientation, for example, ranging fr...

Displaying a map on a wireless communications device includes steps of obtaining map data for rendering the map to be displayed on the wireless communications device, determining a rotation that, when applied to the map, will orient a selected path in a selected direction, such as a current direction of travel, generating a corrected rotation by applying a spherical correction factor, e.g. based o...

In displaying a map on a wireless communications device, a method is provided that resolves labelling of sharp curves. The method entails a determination of whether a curvature of a map element associated with the map feature exceeds a predetermined threshold (e.g. whether a rate of change in slope of a path or the change in angular orientation of each successive character in the label exceeds a t...

The invention is directed at a method and system of providing a visual indication on the face of the mobile communication device, a user may easily and quickl y glance at the mobile electronic device to learn the device status or state. The method and system for indicating mobile electronic device status comprises the steps of retrieving colour information associated with a mobile electronic devic...

A wireless communications device obtains sets of map data for rendering portions of a map on a display of the device. The map data includes label data for rendering labels on the map for identifying map features. Once the map data is obtained, the wireless device generates a list of all the labels to be rendered on the map, and for each duplicated label in the list, determines whether the map feat...

A method of displaying a map on a wireless communications device includes obtaining map data for rendering the map to be displayed on the wireless communications device, the map data including label data for rendering labels on the map. The device generates a collision-avoidance array representative of the map to be rendered for testing potential label positions prior to actually rendering the lab...

A system and method are set forth for distributing map content from a server to a communication device by transmitting a request from the communication device to the map server for a maplet index of map data covering a specified area and identified by coordinates for defining the map data, receiving the request at the map serv er and in response transmitting the maplet index to the communication d...

A mobile communication device having an interface for performing a function is provided. The interface comprises a reduced set of functions which are accessed by actuating one or more of the input devices, the reduced set of functions comprising a set of application--sensitive functions which are derived from a full-function set of functions associated with the application. >

A mobile communication device having a user interface for invoking a command displays a reduced set of commands accessed by actuating an input device on the mobile communication device, the reduced set of commands comprises a set of context-sensitive commands derived from a full-function set of commands associated with an application. The inp ut device may be a dedicated input device, such as a tr...

A map version control method of providing updates of network-maintained ma p data sets in mobile communication devices includes the steps of receiving a version of map data from a network database through a wireless communication network; causing the map to be visually displayed in a display in accordance with the version of the map data; maintaining storage of the version of the map data in a cac...