Author: claimsbot

CLAIMS:

1. A shoe transpiring upper wherein it comprises at least one transpiration system consisting of:
a portion of perforated upper for the passage of air;
an intermediate element in water-impermeable and air-transpiring material for covering the internal side of said perforated portion and attached with its peripheral edge along a line of the internal side of the upper surrounding said perforated portion; and
a final element in naturally air-transpiring material or rendered transpiring by means of holes through its thickness for covering said intermediate element and attached with its peripheral edge along the peripheral contacting linea between said perforated portion and said intermediate element for the protection of said intermediate element;
and wherein the attachment of at least one of said intermediate element or final element is water-impermeable or water-proofed.
2. An upper accoding to the previous claim, wherein said attachments of said intermediate and final elements are made by stitching or gluing or welding.
3. An upper according to any one of the previous claims, wherein said perforated portion of the upper extends over a zone of the upper or over the whole upper.
4. An upper according to any one of the previous claims, wherein said upper comprises a transpiration system provided at the internal side part of the upper in a substantially central position of the latter.
5. An upper according to any one of the previous claims, wherein said intermediate element is preferably in Goretex or Simpatex or another equivalent transpiring and impermeable material.

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

What is claimed is:

1. A method of controlling the production of particulates in a subterranean wellbore comprising the steps of:
(a) preparing a permeable cement composition comprising a hydraulic cement, water, and a degradable material capable of undergoing an irreversible degradation downhole;
(b) placing the permeable cement composition in an annulus between a screen and the walls of the well bore adjacent to a fluid producing zone; and
(c) allowing the permeable cement composition to form a permeable cement mass in the annulus.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the permeable cement composition further comprises a dispersant present in an amount sufficient to disperse the hydraulic cement and the degradable material within the permeable cement composition.
3. The method of claim 2 wherein the dispersant is present in the permeable cement composition in an amount ranging from about 0.1% to about 5% by weight of the permeable cement composition.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein the hydraulic cement comprises calcium, aluminum, silicon, oxygen, or sulfur.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein the hydraulic cement comprises a Portland cement, pozzolana cement, gypsum cement, high alumina content cement, silica cement, high alkalinity cement, or low-density cement.
6. The method of claim 1 wherein the hydraulic cement is present in the permeable cement composition in amount ranging from about 30% to about 70% by weight of the permeable cement composition.
7. The method of claim 1 wherein the hydraulic cement is present in the permeable cement composition in an amount ranging from about 50% to about 60% by weight of the permeable cement composition.
8. The method of claim 1 wherein the water is present in an amount sufficient to make the permeable cement composition a pumpable slurry.
9. The method of claim 1 wherein the water comprises fresh water, salt water, or brine.
10. The method of claim 1 wherein the water is present in an amount ranging from about 15% to about 40% by weight of the permeable cement composition.
11. The method of claim 1 wherein the permeable cement composition further comprises a fluid loss additive.
12. The method of claim 11 wherein the fluid loss additive is present in the present in the permeable cement composition in an amount ranging from about 0.1% to about 25% by weight of the permeable cement composition.
13. The method of claim 1 wherein the permeable cement composition is mixed on-the-fly.
14. The method of claim 1 further comprising before step (a) blending the permeable cement composition and transporting the permeable cement composition to the wellsite.
15. The method of claim 1 wherein the degradable material comprises a degradable polymer or a dehydrated salt.
16. The method of claim 15 wherein the degradable polymer comprises polysaccharides, chitins, chitosans, proteins, aliphatic polyesters, poly(lactides), poly(glycolides), poly(-caprolactones), poly(hydroxybutyrates), polyanhydrides, aliphatic polycarbonates, poly(orthoesters), poly(amino acids); poly(ethylene oxides), or polyphosphazenes.
17. The method of claim 14 wherein the degradable polymer further comprises a plasticizer.
18. The method of claim 1 wherein the degradable material comprises a stereoisomer of a poly(lactide).
19. The method of claim 14 wherein the dehydrated salt comprises anhydrous sodium tetraborate or anhydrous boric acid.
20. The method of claim 1 wherein the degradable material is present in an amount ranging from about 5% to about 70% by weight of the composition.
21. The method of claim 1 wherein the degradable material comprises particles having a rod-like shape.
22. The method of claim 1 wherein the permeable cement mass comprises channel-like voids.
23. The method of claim 1 wherein the cement is a Portland cement and present in an amount of from about 30% to about 70% by weight of the permeable cement composition; the water is fresh water and is present in an amount of from about 15% to about 40% by weight of the cement composition; and the degradable material is a poly(lactic acid) particulate present in an amount of from about 5% to about 70% by weight of the permeable cement composition.
24. A method of providing sand control in a subterranean formation penetrated by a well bore comprising the steps of:
(a) providing a permeable cement composition comprising a hydraulic cement, water, and a degradable material capable of undergoing an irreversible degradation downhole;
(b) placing the permeable cement composition into the subterranean formation by way of a well bore penetrating the formation; and
(c) allowing the permeable cement composition to set therein to form a consolidated permeable cement mass to provide sand control.
25. The method of claim 24 wherein the permeable cement composition further comprises a dispersant present in an amount sufficient to disperse the hydraulic cement and the degradable material within the permeable cement composition.
26. The method of claim 25 wherein the dispersant is present in the permeable cement composition in an amount ranging from about 0.1% to about 5% by weight of the permeable cement composition.
27. The method of claim 24 wherein the hydraulic cement comprises calcium, aluminum, silicon, oxygen, or sulfur.
28. The method of claim 24 wherein the hydraulic cement comprises a Portland cement, pozzolana cement, gypsum cement, high alumina content cement, silica cement, high alkalinity cement, or low-density cement.
29. The method of claim 24 wherein the hydraulic cement is present in the permeable cement composition in amount ranging from about 30% to about 70% by weight of the permeable cement composition.
30. The method of claim 24 wherein the hydraulic cement is present in the permeable cement composition in an amount ranging from about 50% to about 60% by weight of the permeable cement composition.
31. The method of claim 24 wherein the water is present in an amount sufficient to make the permeable cement composition a pumpable slurry.
32. The method of claim 24 wherein the water comprises fresh water, salt water, or brine.
33. The method of claim 24 wherein the water is present in an amount ranging from about 15% to about 40% by weight of the permeable cement composition.
34. The method of claim 24 wherein the permeable cement composition further comprises a fluid loss additive.
35. The method of claim 34 wherein the fluid loss additive is present in the present in the permeable cement composition in an amount ranging from about 0.1% to about 25% by weight of the permeable cement composition.
36. The method of claim 24 wherein the permeable cement composition is mixed on-the-fly.
37. The method of claim 24 further comprising before step (a) blending the permeable cement composition and transporting the permeable cement composition to the wellsite.
38. The method of claim 24 wherein the degradable material comprises a degradable polymer or a dehydrated salt.
39. The method of claim 38 wherein the degradable polymer comprises polysaccharides, chitins, chitosans, proteins, aliphatic polyesters, poly(lactides), poly(glycolides), poly(-caprolactones), poly(hydroxybutyrates), polyanhydrides, aliphatic polycarbonates, poly(orthoesters), poly(amino acids); poly(ethylene oxides), or polyphosphazenes.
40. The method of claim 38 wherein the degradable polymer further comprises a plasticizer.
41. The method of claim 24 wherein the degradable material comprises a stereoisomer of a poly(lactide).
42. The method of claim 38 wherein the dehydrated salt comprises anhydrous sodium tetraborate or anhydrous boric acid.
43. The method of claim 24 wherein the degradable material is present in an amount ranging from about 5% to about 70% by weight of the composition.
44. The method of claim 24 wherein the degradable material comprises particles having a rod-like shape.
45. The method of claim 24 wherein the permeable cement mass comprises channel-like voids.
46. The method of claim 24 wherein the cement is a Portland cement and present in an amount of from about 30% to about 70% by weight of the permeable cement composition; the water is fresh water and is present in an amount of from about 15% to about 40% by weight of the cement composition; and the degradable material is a poly(lactic acid) particulate present in an amount of from about 5% to about 70% by weight of the permeable cement composition.
47. The method of claim 24 wherein the wellbore comprises a sand screen.
48. A method of providing sand control in a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation comprising the steps of:
placing a perforated shroud having perforations, the perforations being sealed by a temporary sealant, in the wellbore adjacent to a chosen subterranean interval;
providing a permeable cement composition, the permeable cement composition comprising a hydraulic cement, water, and a degradable material capable of undergoing an irreversible degradation downhole;
placing the permeable cement composition in an annulus between the perforated shroud and the chosen subterranean interval;
allowing the permeable cement composition to set to form a permeable cement mass in the annulus; and
removing the temporary sealant sealing the perforations of the perforated shroud to restore fluid communication between the well bore and the subterranean formation.
49. The method of claim 48 wherein the degradable material comprises a degradable polymer or a dehydrated salt.
50. The method of claim 49 wherein the degradable polymer comprises polysaccharides, chitins, chitosans, proteins, aliphatic polyesters, poly(lactides), poly(glycolides), poly(-caprolactones), poly(hydroxybutyrates), polyanhydrides, aliphatic polycarbonates, poly(orthoesters), poly(amino acids); poly(ethylene oxides), or polyphosphazenes.
51. The method of claim 49 wherein the degradable polymer further comprises a plasticizer.
52. The method of claim 48 wherein the degradable material comprises a stereoisomer of a poly(lactide).
53. The method of claim 49 wherein the dehydrated salt comprises anhydrous sodium tetraborate or anhydrous boric acid.
54. The method of claim 48 wherein the degradable material is present in an amount ranging from about 5% to about 70% by weight of the composition.
55. The method of claim 48 wherein the degradable material comprises particles having a rod-like shape.
56. The method of claim 48 wherein the permeable cement mass comprises channel-like voids.
57. A permeable cement composition for forming a permeable cement mass for use in subterranean sand control operations comprising:
(a) a hydraulic cement;
(b) water,
(c) and a degradable material capable of undergoing an irreversible degradation downhole.
58. The composition of claim 57 wherein the permeable cement composition further comprises a dispersant present in an amount sufficient to disperse the hydraulic cement and the degradable material within the permeable cement composition.
59. The composition of claim 58 wherein the dispersant is present in the permeable cement composition in an amount ranging from about 0.1% to about 5% by weight of the permeable cement composition.
60. The composition of claim 57 wherein the hydraulic cement comprises calcium, aluminum, silicon, oxygen, or sulfur.
61. The composition of claim 57 wherein the hydraulic cement comprises a Portland cement, pozzolana cement, gypsum cement, high alumina content cement, silica cement, high alkalinity cement, or low-density cement.
62. The composition of claim 57 wherein the hydraulic cement is present in the permeable cement composition in amount ranging from about 30% to about 70% by weight of the permeable cement composition.
63. The composition of claim 57 wherein the hydraulic cement is present in the permeable cement composition in an amount ranging from about 50% to about 60% by weight of the permeable cement composition.
64. The composition of claim 57 wherein the water is present in an amount sufficient to make the permeable cement composition a pumpable slurry.
65. The composition of claim 57 wherein the water comprises fresh water, salt water, or brine.
66. The composition of claim 57 wherein the water is present in an amount ranging from about 15% to about 40% by weight of the permeable cement composition.
67. The composition of claim 57 wherein the permeable cement composition further comprises a fluid loss additive.
68. The composition of claim 57 wherein the fluid loss additive is present in the present in the permeable cement composition in an amount ranging from about 0.1% to about 25% by weight of the permeable cement composition.
69. The composition of claim 57 wherein the permeable cement composition is mixed on-the-fly.
70. The composition of claim 57 further comprising before step (a) blending the permeable cement composition and transporting the permeable cement composition to the wellsite.
71. The composition of claim 57 wherein the degradable material comprises a degradable polymer or a dehydrated salt.
72. The composition of claim 71 wherein the degradable polymer comprises polysaccharides, chitins, chitosans, proteins, aliphatic polyesters, poly(lactides), poly(glycolides), poly(-caprolactones), poly(hydroxybutyrates), polyanhydrides, aliphatic polycarbonates, poly(orthoesters), poly(amino acids); poly(ethylene oxides), or polyphosphazenes.
73. The composition of claim 71 wherein the degradable polymer further comprises a plasticizer.
74. The composition of claim 57 wherein the degradable material comprises a stereoisomer of a poly(lactide).
75. The composition of claim 71 wherein the dehydrated salt comprises anhydrous sodium tetraborate or anhydrous boric acid.
76. The composition of claim 57 wherein the degradable material is present in an amount ranging from about 5% to about 70% by weight of the composition.
77. The composition of claim 57 wherein the degradable material comprises particles having a rod-like shape.
78. The composition of claim 57 wherein the cement is a Portland cement and present in an amount of from about 30% to about 70% by weight of the permeable cement composition; the water is fresh water and is present in an amount of from about 15% to about 40% by weight of the cement composition; and the degradable material is a poly(lactic acid) particulate present in an amount of from about 5% to about 70% by weight of the permeable cement composition.
79. A permeable cement mass useful in well bores penetrating a subterranean formation as a sand control means having voids created by a degradation of a degradable material.
80. The composition of claim 79 wherein the degradable material comprises a degradable polymer or a dehydrated salt.
81. The composition of claim 80 wherein the degradable polymer comprises polysaccharides, chitins, chitosans, proteins, aliphatic polyesters, poly(lactides), poly(glycolides), poly(-caprolactones), poly(hydroxybutyrates), polyanhydrides, aliphatic polycarbonates, poly(orthoesters), poly(amino acids); poly(ethylene oxides), or polyphosphazenes.
82. The composition of claim 80 wherein the degradable polymer further comprises a plasticizer.
83. The composition of claim 79 wherein the degradable material comprises a stereoisomer of a poly(lactide).
84. The composition of claim 80 wherein the dehydrated salt comprises anhydrous sodium tetraborate or anhydrous boric acid.
85. The composition of claim 79 wherein the degradable material is present in an amount ranging from about 5% to about 70% by weight of the composition.

1. A backlight module, comprising:
a lamp tube set having a lamp housing and a first lamp tube;
a light guide plate having a side for inserting said light guide plate into said lamp tube set; and
a non-perforated positioning body having a base, a first flange, and a second flange where the outer walls of the positioning body are insertably coupled to an inner wall of said lamp housing, whereby said first lamp tube directly contacts a sidewall of said first flange and a sidewall of said second flange; said light guide plate positioned to contact said non-perforated positioning body to form a protective gap between said first lamp tube and said light guide plate; said protective gap extending along the length of said first lamp tube,
wherein said non-perforated positioning body is movable from said lamp housing,
wherein said first flange and said second flange each having a slope vertically diverging outwardly from said base,
wherein a cross sectional area of said first flange and said second flange each decrease as said flanges vertically extends outwardly from said base toward said light guide plate.
2. The backlight module of claim 1, further comprising an optical film disposed on said light guide plate.
3. The backlight module of claim 1, further comprising a reflector disposed on said inner wall.
4. The backlight module of claim 2, wherein said light guide plate is positioned to contact with said positioning body so as to form a protective gap between said optical film and said lamp housing.
5. The backlight module of claim 1, wherein said first lamp tube is disposed between said first flange and said second flange to form a first space and a second space respectively.
6. The backlight module of claim 5, wherein said first flange and said second flange vertically extend from said base.
7. The backlight module of claim 1, wherein said lamp tube set further comprises a second lamp tube separated from said first lamp tube by said first flange.
8. The backlight module of claim 1, wherein said cross sectional area of said first flange continuously decreases as said first flange vertically extends outwardly from said base toward said light guide plate, and a sharp edge is formed on a top portion of said first flange.
9. The backlight module of claim 1, wherein said sidewall of said first flange and said base are entirely flat, and said sidewall of said first flange and said base converge to form an angled corner.
10. The backlight module of claim 9, wherein said angled corner is an obtuse angle.
11. The backlight module of claim 1, wherein a distance between said sidewall of said first flange and said sidewall of said second flange increases along an entire length of said sidewall of said first flange and an entire length of said sidewall of said second flange in an outward direction away from said base.
12. The backlight module of claim 5, wherein first lamp tube contacts said first flange at a first contact area, said first lamp tube contacts said base at a second contact are and said first lamp tube contacts said second flange at a third contact area.
13. The backlight module of claim 12, wherein said first space is disposed between said first contact area and the second contact area and said second space is disposed between said second contact area and said third contact 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. An implantable delivery device comprising at least
a body,
an inlet,
an outlet, and
actuating means,
wherein the actuating means comprise at least an actuator displacing a piston in a rotating cylinder forming at least one variable volume chamber, the volume of which is varied by rotation of said cylinder thereby pumping liquid such as a drug from a reservoir through said inlet and expelling said pumped liquid from said variable volume chamber through at least a first temporary chamber and said outlet by variation of said volume,
wherein the delivery device is an implantable delivery device, and
wherein the actuating means comprise an eccentric system in which the cylinder rotates around a first axis and the piston rotates around a second axis both said axes being coaxial and laterally offset.
2. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said temporary chamber is situated between said cylinder and said piston.
3. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said temporary chamber is over said piston.
4. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the device comprises two temporary chambers.
5. The device as claimed in claim 4, wherein the device comprises a first disk in which said temporary chambers are formed, said disc being attached to said cylinder.
6. The device as claimed in claim 5, wherein the device comprises a second disc with two openings being connected to said inlet and said outlet, said first disc rotating with respect to said second disc.
7. The device as claimed in claim 6, wherein said discs are made of metal, plastic, silicon or ceramics.
8. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the device comprises a variable volume chamber at each end of the piston.
9. The device as defined in claim 1, wherein the piston comprises at least one seal.
10. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said second axis is not cylindrical and has sectors with different radius.
11. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the actuator is realized by pressure, in such a way that the pressure of the liquid in said inlet is higher than the pressure of the liquid in said outlet thereby displacing said piston by this pressure differential.
12. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the actuating means comprise a motor linked to an energy source and calculating means.
13. The device as defined in claim 12, wherein the motor andor the energy source andor the calculating means are inside said device.
14. The device as defined in claim 13, wherein the energy source is outside the device, the motor is inside the device and energy is transmitted telemetrically to the motor.
15. The device as defined in claim 12, wherein the motor andor the energy source andor the calculating means are outside said device.
16. The device as claimed in claim 12, wherein the device is able through its calculating means to decide to deliver a therapeutic dose on the basis of predetermined parameters delivered by a sensing system.
17. The device as defined in claim 16, wherein said parameters are physiological parameters.
18. The device as defined in claim 16, wherein the delivery by the sensing system to the calculating means is made wirelessly or via a physical connection.
19. A delivery chamber for a device as defined in claim 1, wherein the chamber comprises at least an elastically compliant chamber, an inlet catheter and an outlet catheter connected to said chamber.
20. A delivery chamber as defined in claim 19, wherein the outlet catheter comprises a stop valve.
21. A delivery chamber as defined in claim 20, wherein the stop valve has the shape of a deformation.
22. A drug delivery system that can be implanted through a trocar, wherein the system comprises at least a delivery chamber as defined in claim 19.
23. A reservoir for a device as defined in claim 1, wherein the reservoir cooperates with a septum used to fill said reservoir.
24. A reservoir as defined in claim 23, wherein the reservoir is elastically compliant.
25. A reservoir as defined in claim 23, wherein said reservoir contains a piston cooperating with a spring, said piston delimiting two variable volume parts in said reservoir, said spring being in compression in order to transfer via the piston a positive pressure on the fluid present in one of said variable chamber.
26. A reservoir as defined in claim 23, wherein the reservoir cooperates with a delivery device through a catheter.
27. A drug delivery system that can be implanted through a trocar, wherein the system comprises at least a reservoir as defined in claim 23.
28. A system comprising a device as defined in claim 1, a delivery chamber, and a reservoir.
29. A drug delivery system that can be implanted through a trocar, wherein the system comprises at least a device as defined in claim 1.