The present device discloses a grasping forceps with side channel. A grasping forceps channel connects a clamp to a handle. The clamp is shut to close off the gall bladder to prevent gall stones from traveling from the gall bladder into the cystic duct and into the bile duct. The side channel is provided that is substantially parallel to the grasping forceps channel. The side channel directs a catheter into the ampulla on the side of the clamp proximate to the bile duct. This catheter has a need...

The content of a banking transaction inputted through a terminal of specifying the transaction is executed if the transaction has sufficient related financial evidence (for example balance). In turn, in the case that there is no financial evidence or insufficient financial evidence, (for example, where the cash is selected as a transaction financial source and the cash is not deposited yet or a balance of the deposit selected as a financial source is lacking) an execution of the transaction is t...

An interpolation system generates an interpolated value in response to an input value. The interpolation system includes a function value store comprising a plurality of function value storage tables for storing function values for alternating domain coordinate values in a domain. An address generator, in response to an input value, generates address signals identifying locations in the function value storage tables to enable the function value storage tables to transmit function values in paral...

An improved epikeratophakia utilizing electrofusion to graft donor corneal tissue to patient's cornea.

Apparatus for forming can blanks into elongated can bodies comprising a support structure having first and second gears rotatably mounted on the support structure and drive means for rotating the first and second gears so that the second gear rotates in a direction opposite to the direction of rotation of the first gear. A redraw assembly and can forming and ironing dies located adjacent to the support structure. A ram mounted on the support structure for reciprocating linear movement with porti...

A motif performing apparatus for use in an electronic musical instrument, which effects an automatic performance of a motif only while sounds are being radiated. The motif performing apparatus is able to store information representing motifs to be played, and to read and output information representing each of the motifs, separately, while instruction units for instructing a radiation of musical sounds are operated. Accordingly, even if the operation of an instruction unit is unchanged, the perf...

A method for use with a rule-based expert system provides a technique for determining a recent previous consistent state of execution of the expert system after a change is made to a rule or variable. Several queues contain state history information of an inference engine. When changes are made to a rule or variable, these history queues are examined to determine a recent consistent state. If the current state is inconsistent due to the change, the user can be informed that the system is now in ...

An apparatus and method for photometrically analyzing a fluid in which the fluid is deposited in a deformable container, the container is squeezed between two windows to form a sample cell with a precise cell length, and then the optical density of the fluid in the container is measured with a photometer. The cell forming means is designed such that the majority of the fluid in the deformable container is forced into the sample cell so that the dimensions of the sample cell can be maximized for ...

A method and apparatus for performing an electrosurgical operative procedure which is particularly useful in sterilizing a human female by cutting and coagulating the fallopian tubes. The procedure includes inserting an active terminal of an electrosurgical apparatus through the abdominal wall, and inserting the ground terminal through the vagina and into the uterine cavity. Thus when the surgical current is applied to the fallopian tubes, the current travels a very short distance through the bo...

The invention provides a machine for performing cultivation under plastics, wherein there is a framework, a ploughshare to make a furrow in the ground, a support bearing a roll of plastic sheet and arranged in such a way that the sheet is positioned on the ground above the furrow, means for perforating the sheet before positioning same on the ground, perforations being made in the sheet vertical to the burrow.