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A surgical suturing apparatus for performing a surgical procedure with a body cavity includes a flexible member having a distal end attached to a suturing body for insertion of the suturing body through an orifice and into a body cavity. The suturing body includes a suture housing in which a needle and drive assembly are housed for movement of the needle with a suture secured thereto about an arcuate path facilitating application of the suture to tissue. A non-visible spectrum sensing member is associated with the suturing body for communicating a parameter of the procedure to a visual display.
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A method for formatting a magnetic recording disk with patterned nondata islands having alternating magnetization polarity in the along-the-track direction involves clocking write pulses to switch the magnetization direction of alternate, i.e., every other, nondata island. The clocking is controlled by the previously determined phase of the regions containing the nondata islands and the known offset along-the-track between the read head and write head. In each nondata region, every other nondata island in the along-the track direction has the same magnetization direction, with adjacent nondata islands having antiparallel magnetization directions. The disk may be either a horizontal magnetic recording disk, wherein the antiparallel magnetization directions are in the plane of the recording layer and parallel to the along-the-track direction, or a perpendicular magnetic recording disk, wherein the antiparallel the magnetization directions are “into” and “out of” the recording layer.
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A magnetic tape cartridge includes a cartridge casing and a single reel which is contained in the cartridge casing for rotation. The reel has a reel hub in the form of a cylindrical member which has a bottom wall and is provided with an opening and a stopper gear formed on the bottom wall. A brake member is provided with a brake gear and is movable up and down between an operative position where the brake gear is brought into engagement with the stopper gear to prevent rotation of the reel and a retracted position where the brake gear is disengaged from the stopper gear to permit rotation of the reel. The brake member is normally urged toward the operative position and moved to the retracted position by a pusher member of a tape drive system which acts on the brake member through the opening in the reel hub when the magnetic tape cartridge is loaded in the tape drive system. A continuous wall portion is erected around the opening in the reel hub, and the brake member includes a horizontal portion and a continuous skirt portion which extends downward from the horizontal portion and is in contact with the continuous wall portion of the reel hub to close the opening together with the horizontal portion. The brake member is moved between the operative position and the retracted position with the skirt portion kept in contact with the continuous wall portion of the reel hub.
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The present invention provides a biopsy instrument with improved needle penetration for piercing dense tissue. The device may comprise a needle slidably retained in a housing. The device may further comprise an actuation member that may be adapted to communicate longitudinal motion to the needle in a first direction. The device may further include a propulsion element that provides the needle with return motion in a second direction. The device may be fired multiple times to create repeating reciprocal motion. In one version, the device may reciprocate several times as a result of a single engagement of the actuation member.
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Methods and apparatus are provided for controlling writing and reading of data in an array of A storage fields of a probe-based data storage device in which data is written to and read from the array of storage fields by a corresponding array of probes. One method provides error-tolerance by exploiting the inherent parallelism of the probe storage array. A user data block to be written to the A-field array is first coded to produce a plurality of C-byte codewords, such that r.C=k1.A where r is the number of codewords and k1 is an integer≧1. A sub-blocks of k1 bytes are produced from the codewords by selecting successive bytes of each sub-block cyclically from the r codewords. The A sub-blocks are then written via respective probes to the corresponding storage fields of the storage field array.
摘要翻译:提供了用于控制在基于探针的数据存储设备的A个存储区域阵列中的数据的写入和读取的方法和装置,其中通过相应的探针阵列将数据写入存储区阵列并从存储区域读取数据。 一种方法通过利用探针存储阵列的固有并行性来提供容错性。 要写入A场阵列的用户数据块首先被编码以产生多个C字节码字,使得r C = k 1 A其中r是码字数,k <1> SUB>是整数> = 1。 通过从r个码字周期性地选择每个子块的连续字节,从码字产生k 1个字节的子块。 然后通过相应的探针将A个子块写入存储字段阵列的对应存储字段。
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A microminiature cantilever structure is provided having a cantilever arm with a piezoresistive resistor embedded in at least the fixed end of the cantilever arm. Deflection of the free end of the cantilever arm produces stress in the base of the cantilever. That stress changes the piezoresistive resistor's resistance at the base of the cantilever in proportion to the cantilever arm's deflection. Resistance measuring apparatus is coupled to the piezoresistive resistor to measure its resistance and to generate a signal corresponding to the cantilever arm's deflection. The microminiature cantilever is formed on a semiconductor substrate. A portion of the free end of the cantilever arm is doped to form an electrically separate U-shaped piezoresistive resistor. The U-shaped resistor has two legs oriented parallel to an axis of the semiconductor substrate having a non-zero piezoresistive coefficient. A metal layer is deposited over the semiconductor's surface and patterned to form an electrical connection between the piezoresistive resistor and a resistance measuring circuit, enabling measurement of the piezoresistive resistor's resistance. Finally, the semiconductor substrate below the cantilever arm is substantially removed so as to form a cantilevered structure, and a tip is connected to the free end of the cantilever arm to facilitate the structure's use in an atomic force microscope.
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A method for removing blow molds from a forming device for transforming plastic preforms into plastic containers may include arranging a multi-piece blow mold on a blow mold carrier. The method may include separating the blow mold in at least partly assembled state from the blow mold carrier.
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Systems and methods are provided for calibrating a receiver in an RF system having a device under test (DUT) configured to receive at least one input signal and output at least one response signal. A method comprises setting a drive level of the RF system and making a pair of measurements at the drive level. Each of the measurements is made in a different gain state at a receiver. The method also comprises calculating a calibration factor for the receiver which is a ratio of the pair of measurements. These systems and methods can be used to calibrate receivers while preserving vector information and removing dynamic match effects.
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A lock device for adding and removing containers to and from a vacuum treatment chamber includes carrier plates for the containers. The carrier plates are fastened to revolving transport chains and are transported through lock channels provided in straight sections along the transport chains. The carrier plates also achieve a sealing effect with the channels as they are moved past suction or ventilation openings in the lock channels to form a differential pressure stage.
摘要:
A blow mold having at least two mold parts, mold support shells containing the mold parts, a mold support at least for supporting the mold support shells, motion drives for opening and closing the blow mold, and a locking means adjustable at least in the direction of the mold cavity axis relative to the mold support shells for locking the closed blow mold and for supporting the mold parts against forces from the blow molding process. The locking means has at least one locking sleeve with an at least conical inner wall manufactured using high-strength fiber material, which can be slid with the inner wall onto conical outer surface areas of the mold support shells and supports the mold parts across essentially the complete height of the mold cavity in a locking manner.