Author: claimsbot

1. A system for improving the total water qualities in an eutrophicated and contaminated water area utilizing the water purifying functions of various plants and microorganisms, the system comprising:
a floating inland with plants; wherein the plants, which have functions of absorbing eutrophication components from the roots and thus purifying water, are planted and grown on the island;
an anchor for fixing the floating island with plants to the bottom;
a weight for controlling the floating conditions of the floating island with plants; and
a connecting member for connecting the floating island with plants, an anchor the a weight, wherein an aquatic plant or an aerobic or anaerobic microorganism capable of absorbing eutrophication components is stuck to at least any of the lower part of the floating island with plants, the anchor, the weight and the connecting member in a manner suitable for the environmental conditions of the water area in which the system is provided, thereby achieving an effect of improving the water qualities simultaneously at all of the water surface, the under water part and the bottom.
2. The system for improving the total water qualities in an eutrophicated and contaminated water area utilizing the water purifying functions of various plants and microorganisms as claimed in claim 1, wherein as buoyancy conformation part of botanical floating island, waste tires, tire tubes, and waste foam materials are utilized.
3. The system for improving the total water qualities in an eutrophicated and contaminated water area utilizing the water purifying functions of various plants and microorganisms as claimed in claim 1, wherein buoyant materials such as waste resin foams are stuffed into the middle of waste tires to increase the overall buoyancy of the island.
4. The system for improving the total water qualities in an eutrophicated and contaminated water area utilizing the water purifying functions of various plants and microorganisms as claimed in claim 3, wherein the buoyant materials such as waste resin foams are stuffed into the middle of waste tires, and a metal netting made from stainless steel is used.
5. The system for improving the total water qualities in an eutrophicated and contaminated water area utilizing the water purifying functions of various plants and microorganisms claimed in claim 1, wherein metal net materials like stainless steels shaped into concaves to match the empty center of waste tires.
6. The system for improving the total water qualities in an eutrophicated and contaminated water area utilizing the water purifying functions of various plants and microorganisms as claimed in claim 1, wherein in order to form a gap of around 2 to 5 centimeters made from cushion materials are inserted between the metal met materials like stainless steels and the surface of waste tires.
7. The system for improving the total water qualities in an eutrophicated and contaminated water area utilizing the water purifying functions of various plants and microorganisms as claimed in claim 4, wherein the waste resin foams are stuffed into the hollow parts of waste tires, where bolts and nuts are used to fix the metal net material lying between buoyant materials.
8. The system for improving the total water qualities in an eutrophicated and contaminated water area utilizing the water purifying functions of various plants and microorganisms claimed in claim 1, wherein the buoyant materials like waste resin foams are put into bags with air permeability and retractility, packed with natural rubber, and then stuffed into the waste tires.
9. The system for improving the total water qualities in an eutrophicated and contaminated water area utilizing the water purifying functions of various plants and microorganisms as claimed in claim 1, wherein all the under-parts, anchors, weights and joints of the floating island are made from materials which can touch the water surface as widely as possible to fully take advantage of plants\u2019 and microbes’ function in water purification.
10. The system for improving the total water qualities in an eutrophicated and contaminated water area utilizing the water purifying functions of various plants and microorganisms as claimed in claim 1, wherein the anchors are made from multi-aperture stones in the form of hook or acute angle to be easily fixed to the bottom.
11. The system for improving the total water qualities in an eutrophicated and contaminated water area utilizing the water purifying functions of various plants and microorganisms as claimed in claim 1, wherein the weights are made from multi-aperture stones.
12. The system for improving the total water qualities in an eutrophicated and contaminated water area utilizing the water purifying functions of various plants and microorganisms as claimed in claim 1, wherein one or end portion of the sewage is divided to make multi-stage purification tanks, oxygenation-aeration equipment utilizing different drop height is provided on each of the purification tank so as to purify one by one the raw water taken from the entrance of sewage disposal, the bottom of purification tanks is covered with multi-aperture materials suitable for the growth of attached plants and microbes which are chosen to match the features of raw water in purification. and an water area is set to distinguish the raw water from the disposed water, so that no artificial energy source is consumed in the whole process. and all the plants and microbes are taken advantage of to improve water and meanwhile to dispose eutrophication.
13. The system for improving the total water qualities in an eutrophicated and contaminated water area utilizing the water purifying functions of various plants and microorganisms as claimed in claim 1, wherein manageable and profitable plants which can grow in water to absorb nitrogen and phosphorus without causing harm to surroundings are chosen to dispose water.
14. The system for improving the total water qualities in an eutrophicated and contaminated water area utilizing the water purifying functions of various plants and microorganisms as claimed in claim 13, wherein roses vegetables like Chinese toona, coleus blumei and Hibiscus cannabinus can act as purification plants.
15. The system for improving the total water qualities in an eutrophicated and contaminated water area utilizing the water purifying functions of various plants and microorganisms as claimed in claim 1, wherein funguses which are obligate halophile, proteolytic or lipolytic, or can decompose plant fibers, or can solidify air and nitrogen in water are chosen as microbes for purification, and one combination or diverse combinations are used subject to the quality of water area for the optimal effect.
16. The system for improving the total water qualities in an eutrophicated and contaminated water area utilizing the water purifying functions of various plants and microorganisms as claimed in claim 15, wherein aspergillus, mucor or bac. subtllus can act as proteolytic and lipolytic fungi, Bac. methanigenes and Bac. thermofibrincolus rich in cellulase are used as fungi to decompose plant fibers, Bac. asterosporus and Clostridium pastorianum are used as fungi to solidify air and nitrogen in water, and Torulaarten and Saccharomyces carlsberginesis are used as obligate halophile.
17. A system for improving the total water qualities in an area of eutrophicated and contaminated water, the system comprising:
an island floating on the surface of the water and on which are grown plants that absorb eutrophication components from the roots of the plants;
an anchor tethering the floating island to the bottom of the water area;
a weight that controls the floating conditions of the floating island;
a connecting member that connects the floating island, the anchor, and the weight together, wherein
an aquatic plant or an aerobic or anaerobic microorganism capable of absorbing eutrophication components is provided on at least a lower part of the system, the system thereby improving the water qualities at all of the water surface, beneath the water surface, and at the bottom of the water area.
18. A method of improving the total water qualities in an area of eutrophicated and contaminated water, the method comprising:
providing a system including an island floating on the surface of the water and on which are grown plants, an anchor that tethers the floating island to the bottom of the surface area, a weight that controls the floating conditions of the floating island, a connecting member that connects the floating island, the anchor, and the weight together, and an aquatic plant or an aerobic or anaerobic microorganism provided on at least a lower part of the system, the method comprising:
drawing eutrophication components from the water into the roots of the plants and, using the plants, absorbing the eutrophication components; and
using the aquatic plant or an aerobic or anaerobic microorganism, absorbing eutrophication components from the water, whereby the system improves the water quality at all of the water surface, beneath the water surface, and at the bottom of the water area.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A back-loading input device to receive instruction input for operation of an electronic equipment and display on a screen, comprising at least:
a chassis; and
an operation interface which is located on a backside of the chassis invisible to an operator that are accessible and operable by operator’s fingers upon grasping the chassis, the screen displaying an operation result which is moved and positioned in a mirroring relationship against the position and operation direction of actual components on the operation interface.
2. The back-loading input device of claim 1, wherein the operation interface is a keyboard, the operation result displayed on the screen being a keyboard table, the button keys on the operation interface forming a mirroring relationship against keys on the keyboard table that is same on the upper side and the lower side but is opposite on the left side and the right side.
3. The back-loading input device of claim 2, wherein the chassis has a button key to control displaying or vanishing of the keyboard table on the screen.
4. The back-loading input device of claim 2, wherein the chassis has a front surface printed with another keyboard table which has keys positioned in a mirroring fashion against the actual button keys of the operation interface on the backside and a mark for each key to indicate an input character or function.
5. The back-loading input device of claim 2, wherein displaying or vanishing of the keyboard table is controlled by touching of the button keys by fingers.
6. The back-loading input device of claim 1, wherein the chassis further has a bracing rack on the backside.
7. The back-loading input device of claim 1 further having a thumb grasping area which is an extended plate extending respectively from two sides of the chassis.
8. The back-loading input device of claim 1 further having a thumb grasping area which is a L-shaped plate pivotally coupled on each of two sides of the chassis through a shaft.
9. The back-loading input device of claim 1 further having a thumb grasping area which is a holding plate on each of two sides of the chassis coupling with one or more bracing rod.
10. The back-loading input device of claim 2, wherein characters represented by the fingers accessible area on the keyboard are specially marked on the keyboard table for displaying on the screen.
11. The back-loading input device of claim 2, wherein the button keys have an induction unit to detect the touch position of the fingers.
12. The back-loading input device of claim 11, wherein the induction unit is a condenser Touch-sensitive pad.
13. The back-loading input device of claim 11, wherein the induction unit is a resistor Touch-sensitive pad.
14. The back-loading input device of claim 11, wherein the induction unit is a photo-resistant induction unit.
15. The back-loading input device of claim 1, wherein the operation interface further includes at least one cursor control means which is moved in a mirroring relationship against the operation result displayed on the screen to control movement of the cursor or selection on the screen.
16. The back-loading input device of claim 1, wherein the operation interface further includes two cursor control means to jointly control movement of the cursor on the screen.
17. The back-loading input device of claim 15, wherein the cursor control means is a Touch-sensitive pad.
18. The back-loading input device of claim 15, wherein the cursor control means is a joystick.
19. The back-loading input device of claim 15, wherein the cursor control means is a five-way button.
20. The back-loading input device of claim 15, wherein the cursor control means is a track ball.

1. A coating composition comprising a transition metal oxide compound dispersed in a resin that is photochemically inert to UV radiation and resistant to oxidation by hydroxyl radicals:
2. The composition of claim 1 wherein the transition metal compound is selected from the group consisting of TiO2, W03, ZnO, SnO2, ZrO2, Cr02, Sb04 and mixtures thereof.
3. The composition of claim 1 wherein the transition metal compound is TiO2 predominantly in the anatase form.
4. The composition of claim 1 wherein the resin is selected from the group consisting of fluoropolymers and liquid crystal polymers.
5. The composition of claim 1 wherein the binder is a fluoropolymer type.
6. The composition of claim 1 wherein the binder is a liquid crystal polymer.
7. The composition of claim 1 wherein the transition metal compound is present in an amount of from about 1% to about 10% by weight of the coating composition.
8. The composition of claim 1 wherein the transition metal compound is present in an amount of from about 2% to about 5% by weight of the coating composition.
9. The composition of claim 1 which also includes poly(tetrafluoroethylene).
10. The composition of claim 1 wherein the transition metal compound particle size is in the range of from about 5 to about 80 nm.
11. The composition of claim 1 wherein the transition metal compound particle size is in the range of from about 10 to about 50 nm.
12. A method of preparing a self-decontaminating surface coating comprising providing a clean surface which it is desired to render self-decontaminating; spraying the composition of claim 1 on the surface; and allowing the surface to dry.
13. The coating of claim 1 wherein the coating is clear or translucent.
14. A self-cleaning self-decontaminating surface comprising a substrate coated with the composition of claim 1.
15. The coating of claim 1 wherein the coating is pigmented.
16. An organic coating formulation produced by the addition and dispersion of a colloidal suspension of anatase TiO2 nanoparticles in an organic resin system or solvent utilizing ultra centrifugation and a technique selected from ultra-sonic dispersion, ball milling, calendaring, high shear blade mixing and combinations thereof.
17. A coating that is sufficiently self-cleaning so as to keep the surface active in order to further or continue to expose the anatase to UV radiation.
18. A clear or translucent organic coating according to claim 1 containing an amount of anatase nanoparticles that is sufficient to allow the UV reaction to occur on the surface in the presence water or moisture.
19. The coating of claim 1 wherein the coating is gloss, semi-gloss or lusterless.
20. A clear coating according to claim 1 capable of protecting coatings underneath from the harmful effects of UV radiation while still maintaining the ability to destroy harmful and toxic substances.
21. The surface of claim 13, which is the exterior surface of a vehicle, aircraft, building, ship or construction equipment.
22. The surface of claim 14, which is the interior surface of a vehicle, aircraft, building, air duct, or tunnel that is exposed to UV radiation.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A magnetic recording medium being a plate-like body and comprising:
a substrate;
a recording layer formed in a predetermined concavo-convex pattern over the substrate, the recording layer including recording elements for recording information formed as convex portions of the concavo-convex pattern; and
a non-magnetic material filling concave portions between the recording elements, wherein
the recording elements are formed in a data region at a pitch of 200 nm or less,
side faces of the recording elements are inclined to face a surface of the plate-like body on a side toward which the recording elements project in the concavo-convex pattern, and
an inclination angle of the side faces of the recording elements with respect to a direction perpendicular to the surface is smaller than 90\xb0 and 5\xb0 or more.
2. The magnetic recording medium according to claim 1, wherein the inclination angle is 16\xb0 or more.
3. The magnetic recording medium according to claim 1, wherein the inclination angle is 45\xb0 or less.
4. The magnetic recording medium according to claim 2, wherein the inclination angle is 45\xb0 or less.
5. The magnetic recording medium according to claim 1, wherein a thickness of the recording layer is 25 nm or less.
6. The magnetic recording medium according to claim 2, wherein a thickness of the recording layer is 25 nm or less.
7. The magnetic recording medium according to claim 3, wherein a thickness of the recording layer is 25 nm or less.
8. The magnetic recording medium according to claim 4, wherein a thickness of the recording layer is 25 nm or less.