An apparatus and method for at least one of stiffening a rotor blade of a gas turbine engine and raising a natural vibration frequency of the blade. The blade has a recess extending radially and inwardly into the blade. A reinforcing element is provided in the recess at a selected position to thereby allow a large blade chord at the tip end of the blade.

A photoconductive imaging member including a hole blocking layer, a photogenerating layer, and a charge transport layer, and wherein the hole blocking layer contains, for example, a metal oxide; and a mixture of a phenolic compound and a phenolic resin, and wherein the phenolic compound can contain at least two phenolic groups.

A GPS receiver includes a CPU for synchronously acquiring the GPS satellites by using software correlating and a hardware section composed of multiple hardware correlating units that execute a correlating process for tracking the GPS satellites synchronously acquired by the CPU. Increase in a product size due to tracking can be thereby suppressed in the GPS receiver that synchronously acquires the GPS satellites by the software correlating.

A system for detecting picture freeze within a video signal wherein a video signal processing portion for connection to a video signal source comprising digital video luma samples and digital video clock and timing signals separately detects motion across the vertical axis of the video picture and across the horizontal axis of the video picture and wherein a frozen picture indicating portion connected to the output of the video signal processing portion determines the number of motionless video ...

A case having a rectangular parallelepiped shape includes a rigid board inserted into a pocket defined in a lateral and bottom sides of the case. The board maintains the shape of the case in cooperation with wheel housings and a bracket attached to the bottom and lateral sides. A telescoping handle is also attached to the reinforcing board.

An eye cover for use as sunglasses, eye shields, eye glasses or other eye wear, is formed of an elongated and flexible sheet of transparent plastic material adapted to extend horizontally over both eyes and temples of a wearer, to a location forward of the ears of the wearer. The sheet has a central nose engaging area, a pair of viewing areas on opposite sides of the nose engaging area and a pair of temple engaging areas each extending from one of the viewing areas. Each of the temple areas have...

A single use applicator for dispensing and applying a thin layer of viscous fluid, comprising an outer body of chemically inert deformable material open at one end, a crushable glass ampoule therein containing fluid to be dispensed and applied, and an application element of synthetic fiber strands in said tube, wherein fluids flows by capillary action, with an internal reservoir inside the tube adjacent the ampoule, a fluid control valve welded to the tube at its approximate mid point, to contro...

Provided is a method for providing location information in a mobile communication system. The method includes the steps of: a) receiving coordinates of current location of a GPS terminal and a request for location information which includes coordinates of geographical features adjacent to the GPS terminal from the GPS terminal; b) generating location information having coordinates of the geographical features adjacent to the GPS terminal; and c) transmitting the location information to the GPS t...

Provided are a method and apparatus for performing frame rate conversion. With the apparatus, current video data and previous video data are compared with each other and a motion vector is detected based on the compared result; an error in the detected motion vector is compensated for based on adjacent motion vectors; and one of the detected motion vector and a compensated motion vector is selected as a final motion vector, based on errors in the detected and compensated motion vectors. Accordin...

A disposable single-use applicator assembly includes a package that sealably contains a fluid to be dispensed in and around an applicator for dispensing the fluid. The applicator has a handle and a fluid holding element at a first end portion of the handle. Prior to use, the fluid holding element is disposed in the package that contains the dispensable fluid. A hermetic closure is provided between a first end portion of the package and an intermediate portion of the handle. A second end portion ...