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User-operated amusement apparatus for kicking the user's buttocks
An apparatus including a user-operated and controlled apparatus for self-infliction of repetitive blows to the user's buttocks by a plurality of elongated arms bearing flexible extensions that rotate under the user's control.
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| 7430898 | Methods and systems for analyzing a specimen using atomic force microscopy profiling in combination with an optical technique A system that includes an optical subsystem and an atomic force microscope probe is provided. The optical subsystem is configured to generate positional information about a location on a surface of the specimen. The system is configured to position the probe proxima... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7076871 | Method of manufacturing a carbon nanotube device A method of manufacturing a carbon nanotube device including an inner electrode, having connecting step, connecting a carbon nanotube to the inner electrode, wherein the connecting step comprises: attaching a conductor to an end or periphery thereof of a needle-shap... | 07/18/2006 |
| 6692430 | Intra vascular imaging apparatus An invasive imaging apparatus comprising: a flexible catheter with a proximal end and a distal end, the distal end being shaped for insertion into a blood vessel along a guide wire thereby to reach remote places in the vasculature or other organs, an opti... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6683316 | Apparatus for correlating an optical image and a SEM image and method of use thereof An instrument system is controlled to acquire an optical image of an object, with the optical image defining a first coordinate system. The object is positioned in a second coordinate system and a point in the optical image is selected. The object is repo... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6677697 | Force scanning probe microscope A force scanning probe microscope (FSPM) and associated method of making force measurements on a sample includes a piezoelectric scanner having a surface that supports the sample so as to move the sample in three orthogonal directions. The FSPM also inclu... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6677567 | Scanning probe microscope with improved scan accuracy, scan speed, and optical vision A scanning probe microscope uses two different scanners (also called "scanning stages") that are completely detached each from the other, and are physically separated by a stationary frame. One scanner (called "x-y scanner") scans a sample in a plane (als... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6655196 | Scanning probe microscope At the forefront of a probe is formed a carbon nanotube having an armchair type crystal structure or of which the forefront is chemically modified with modifying molecules.... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6653630 | Tailoring domain engineered structures in ferroelectric materials Scanning probe apparatus, including a tip-electrode which is coupled to be held at a substantially ground potential, a counter-electrode which is positioned in proximity to the tip-electrode, a voltage source, coupled to maintain the counter-electrode at ... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6649902 | Summing the output of an array of optical detector segments in an atomic force microscope A high sensitivity beam deflection sensing optical device, such as an atomic force microscope, including one or more of the following: specified means in the path of the incident beam for adjusting the size and/or power of the incident beam spot, means fo... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6645824 | Combined optical profilometry and projection microscopy of integrated circuit structures A metrology method and system of structures on a wafer includes obtaining a projection image of at least a first portion of the structures on the wafer using a first metrology apparatus. A profile of at least a second portion of the structure on the wafer... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6246901 | Detecting, localizing, and targeting internal sites in vivo using optical contrast agents A system for detecting, localizing and targeting a medical instrument toward a target tissue within the body using an optical contrast agent in which a light source (102) is optically coupled to the tissue to be diagnosed (135), a light detector (174) is ... | 06/12/2001 |
| 5116782 | Method and apparatus for processing a fine pattern A method and apparatus for processing a fine pattern of a sample of one of an electronic device, molecular device and bioelement device, wherein a needle having a sharpened tip is disposed in opposed relation to the sample with a gap therebetween. A volta... | 05/26/1992 |
