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20090252560 | Segmental retaining wall blocks designed for curved or straight alignment - A segmented retaining wall block has one side wall that is rearwardly tapered so as to allow the block to turn a radius when placed in adjacent position with respect to another similar block. The block also has a rear wall provided with a protruding wing that projects laterally away from the tapered side wall. The rear wall is also provided with a bay that extends inwardly in the side wall that is opposite to the tapered side wall. The wing and bay have front edges designed as congruent arcs. The wing may be sized and shaped so as to protrude into the bay of an adjacent similar block to create a barrier when the adjacent blocks are in straight, convex or concave alignment for preventing infiltration of backfill material such as soil, into voids that exist between the backs of the blocks when installed. | 10-08-2009 |
20110203212 | FACING ELEMENT AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THEREOF - A facing element for at least partially covering a structure. The facing element has at least one pair of first and second rigid engagement connectors affixed to a rear surface of the facing element. Each of the first and second engagement connectors forms first and second apertures between the connectors and the rear surface of the facing element. The first and second apertures are coaxially located. The facing element also has at least one joining bar joining the first and second engagement connectors. The top portion of the facing element is hung to the structure by means of the first engagement connector. Contact of the bottom portion of the facing element with the structure is offset by the second engagement connector. A method for fabricating such a facing element is also disclosed. | 08-25-2011 |
20120068485 | MULTIPLE-UNIT INDEXING CLAMP WITH MATING VERTICALLY-GROOVED STACKING UNITS - Disclosed is multiple-unit indexing, mechanical scissor clamp for handling one or more modular segmental retaining wall units, also called “SRW blocks” having opposite ends each provided with a vertical groove. This clamp allows the user to move SRW blocks from a shipping pallet to a wall. The clamp and blocks are lifted using traditional construction machinery such as a backhoe, crane, bobcat, etc. The significant innovation of this clamp/block system is the ability to lift and place more than one large segmental retaining wall block with each installation cycle, substantially increasing installation efficiency. | 03-22-2012 |
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20080236704 | UTILIZATION OF COLORATION TO IMPROVE THE DETECTION OF "HIT OR MISS" DEFECTS WHEN USING SCANNER EQUIPMENT AND AN AUTOMATED SAW TO REMOVE DEFECTS IN WOOD PIECES - In a wood processing plant, planks are typically split into strips and then passed through an automated cross-cutting saw station to remove defects such as knots, cracks or flash. One defect which also occurs is the hit and miss defect caused by a planer and/or a sander. In order to improve the performance of the cross-cutting saw station, color is applied to the wood prior to being planed and sanded. The cross-cutting saw station is then modified to optically inspect the wood for the presence of color, indicating a hit and miss defect, and to remove the portions of the wood containing color. | 10-02-2008 |
20090102232 | HARDWOOD TRUCK FLOORING WITH WOOD PRESERVATIVES - A hardwood floor used for making trailers in the transportation industry is treated, at least for a portion thereof, with a water-based wood preservative. The preservative is preferably a borate-based preservative. When the floor is provided with a steel plate at a rear thereof, the wood preservative located in the vicinity of the steel plate prevents the formation of fungi and increases the useful life of the floor. | 04-23-2009 |
20090280346 | METHOD FOR IMPREGNATION OF WOOD COMPONENT WITH SOLID PARAFFIN WAX, APPARATUS THEREFOR AND WOOD COMPONENT SO IMPREGNATED - A method for treating a piece of wood impregnates the piece of wood with a water repellent, wherein the water repellent is solid at ambient temperatures. The method includes the steps of providing a piece of wood to be treated; heating the piece of wood for a predetermined period of time, the piece of wood being heated at a temperature A; subsequently immersing at least a portion of the piece of wood in a bath of liquefied water repellent, the bath being at a temperature B, for a predetermined period of time. Thereafter the piece of wood is removed from the bath and allowed to cool. The temperature A is above 100° C. and the temperature B is below 100° C. but above a liquefying point for the water repellent, and a differential between temperatures A and B is at least 60° C. | 11-12-2009 |
20130014464 | WOODEN LAMINATED FLOOR FOR THE TRANSPORT INDUSTRY COMPOSED OF SOFTWOOD LUMBER - A cargo carrying flooring system, made of planks of wood arranged side by side. Each plank is made of a plurality of rows of wood strips, the strips being connected end to end by shaped coupling portions, and side by side. At least some of the rows of wood strips are made of machine graded softwood lumber. | 01-17-2013 |
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20100131717 | CACHE MEMORY BYPASS IN A MULTI-CORE PROCESSOR (MCP) - This invention describes an apparatus, computer architecture, memory structure, memory control, and cache memory operation method for multi-core processor. A logic core bypasses immediate cache memory units with low yield or deadly performance. The core mounts (multiple) cache unit(s) that might already be in use by other logic cores. Selected cache memory units serve multiple logic cores with the same contents. The shared cache memory unit(s) serves all the mounting cores with cache search, hit, miss, and write back functions. The method recovers a logic core whose cache memory block is not operational by sharing cache memory blocks which might already engage other logic cores. The method is used to improve reliability and performance of the remaining system. | 05-27-2010 |
20130124840 | SECURE BOOT UP OF A COMPUTER BASED ON A HARDWARE BASED ROOT OF TRUST - A method includes performing a boot up of a computer having a system on-chip having multiple processors and a nonvolatile read-only machine-readable medium. The boot up includes enabling a first processor of the multiple processors, while maintaining others of the multiple processors in a disabled state. The boot up includes retrieving initial stage instructions from the nonvolatile read-only machine-readable medium. The boot up also includes executing the initial stage instructions and validating multiple stages of firmware separately. The boot up includes, in response to validating the multiple stages of firmware, executing the multiple stages of firmware in consecutive stages of the boot up, wherein executing of each stage of the multiple stages of firmware enables a different set of disabled hardware components of the computer. The boot up also includes validating an operating system and, in response to validation, transferring control of the computer to the operating system. | 05-16-2013 |
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20110301681 | ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY FOR A STIMULATING MEDICAL DEVICE - An electrode assembly comprising a low-profile, low-volume elongate electrode carrier and a corresponding guide tube for introducing the carrier into the cochlea to place electrodes disposed at the distal end of the carrier at desired locations along the tonotopically-mapped cochlea. The electrode assembly facilitates intra- and extra-cochlea atraumatic implantation of the unobtrusive electrode carrier of the present invention thereby minimizing adverse impact to natural auditory functioning. For example, the electrode assembly may be utilized to implant the low-profile, low-volume elongate electrode carrier into the scala tympani without damaging the delicate structures of the cochlea and without interfering with the natural hydrodynamic nature of the cochlea such as the natural flow of perilymph in the cochlea canals. In one particular embodiment, the carrier is pre-curved to attain a perimodiolar position in the scala tympani to facilitate accurate delivery of electrical stimulation with a minimum stimulation current and power consumption. | 12-08-2011 |
20130046360 | IMPLANT MAGNET SYSTEM - A magnetic alignment system that can form part of a cochlear implant system. The magnetic alignment system prevents substantial movement of a magnet of an implanted component during an MRI procedure or allows for easy removal of the magnet to facilitate the MRI procedure. | 02-21-2013 |
20140052148 | COCHLEAR IMPLANT ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY INSERTION TOOL - An insertion tool having an insertion guide tube that maintains a perimodiolar or other pre-curved electrode assembly in a substantially straight configuration while preventing the electrode assembly from twisting in response to stresses induced by the bias force which urges the assembly to return to its pre-curved configuration. This generally ensures that when the electrode assembly is deployed from the distal end of the insertion guide tube, the electrode assembly and insertion guide tube have a known relative orientation. | 02-20-2014 |
20150119967 | Stimulating Assembly Fixation Features - Embodiments presented herein are generally directed to a stimulating assembly of a cochlear implant. The stimulating assembly comprises one or more fixation features configured to be inserted into a recipient's cochlea via an opening in the cochlea. Following insertion, the one or more fixation features are configured to engage an inner surface of the cochlea adjacent to the opening to prevent movement of the stimulating assembly out of the cochlea through the opening. | 04-30-2015 |
20160015964 | VESTIBULAR STIMULATION DEVICE - A vestibular stimulation array is disclosed having one or more separate electrode arrays each operatively adapted for implantation in a semicircular canal of the vestibular system, wherein each separate electrode array is dimensioned and constructed so that so that residual vestibular function is preserved. In particular, the electrode arrays are dimensioned such that the membranous labyrinth is not substantially compressed. Furthermore, the electrode array has a stop portion to limit insertion of the electrode array into the semi-circular canal and is stiff enough to avoid damage to the anatomical structures. | 01-21-2016 |
20160059015 | INTRA-COCHLEAR STIMULATING ASSEMBLY INSERTION - Presented herein are intra-operative techniques for setting the angular insertion depth of a stimulating assembly during implantation into a recipient's cochlea. In certain embodiments, the angular insertion depth is monitored in real-time and advancement of the stimulating assembly is terminated when a selected angular insertion depth is achieved. In further embodiments, a linear insertion depth that corresponds to a selected angular insertion depth is intra-operatively calculated and advancement of the stimulating assembly is terminated when the calculated linear insertion depth is achieved. | 03-03-2016 |
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20130103112 | ELONGATE IMPLANTABLE CARRIER MEMBER HAVING AN EMBEDDED STIFFENER - An apparatus including a flexible elongate carrier member configured to introduce a therapeutic element into the recipient and a stiffening member, permanently embedded in and longitudinally extending through at least a first region of said carrier member, configured to decrease said flexibility of said carrier member region so as to prevent deformation of said first region during implantation into the recipient. | 04-25-2013 |
20150049888 | Hearing Prosthesis Echo Location - Presented herein are echo location techniques to obtain information about an implantable component of a hearing prosthesis relative to a recipient's tissue. The hearing prosthesis may comprise an elongate stimulating assembly configured to be implanted in a recipient's where an echo transmitter is disposed in the stimulating assembly. The echo transmitter is configured to emit an energy pulse within the recipient and an echo receiver disposed in the stimulating assembly is configured to detect a portion of the energy pulse reflected from tissue of the recipient. | 02-19-2015 |
20160022990 | Implanted Medical Devices Having Electrode Assemblies - Disclosed herein are electrode assemblies configured for use with a medical device, such as an implantable medical device. In one aspect, the disclosed electrode assembly includes at least a first electrode and a second electrode, each of which is configured to deliver electrical stimuli to a body part of a recipient. The electrode assembly also includes a first wire that is attached at one end to the first electrode and comprises a conductor that has a first diameter, and a second wire that is attached to the second electrode and comprises a conductor that has a second diameter, with the first diameter being greater than the second diameter. Additionally, each of the first wire and the second wire pass through a proximal end of the assembly is configured to connect the one of the electrodes to a stimulation unit of a medical device. | 01-28-2016 |