Author: claimsbot

1. A vehicle with a wheelchair-positioning mechanism, comprising in combination:
an automobile having a compartment, the compartment having a floor, a rear end, and a front end;
a foldable wheelchair lift apparatus positioned adjacent the rear end of the compartment;
driving control apparatus positioned adjacent the front end of the compartment;
a rail system disposed on the floor and extending from the rear end adjacent the wheelchair lift apparatus to the front end adjacent the driver control apparatus, the rail system including a pair of spaced, parallel C-shaped rails;
a motorized carriage mounted on the rail system for movement thereon from the rear end adjacent the wheelchair lift apparatus to the front end adjacent the driver control apparatus;
a motorized wheelchair receiving platform mounted on the motorized carriage, the motorized wheelchair receiving platform having an upper surface and a lower surface mounted to a motorized member, the motorized wheelchair receiving platform being selectively rotatable through 360\xb0 in a horizontal plane;
a pair of parallel longitudinal grooves formed in the upper surface for receiving rear wheels of the wheelchair, each of the longitudinal grooves having a front end and a rear end;
wherein the grooves form parallel channels in the upper surface; and
a respective semi-cylindrical protuberance disposed in each of the grooves at each of the respective front ends and rear ends to prevent the wheelchair from easily rolling out of the grooves.
2. The vehicle according to claim 1, further including means for stabilizing the wheelchair when the wheelchair-receiving platform is adjacent said driving control apparatus.
3. The vehicle according to claim 1 wherein said wheelchair lift apparatus includes:
a pair of risers having upper ends and lower ends;
a wheelchair loading platform vertically movable on the risers from the lower ends to the upper ends; and
an off-load ramp adjacent the upper ends of the risers, the off-load ramp traversing a space between the upper ends of the risers and the pair of rails.
4. The vehicle according to claim 1, wherein said carriage is constrained to forward and rearward movement in the vehicle compartment, said platform being selectively rotatable to permit an occupant to alternately face forward and rearward in the compartment.
5. The vehicle according to claim 1, further including a control device for remotely operating said chair lift apparatus, said carriage, and said wheelchair receiving platform.
6. A vehicle with a wheelchair-positioning mechanism, comprising in combination:
an automobile having a compartment, the compartment having a floor, a rear end, and a front end;
a foldable wheelchair lift apparatus positioned adjacent the rear end of the compartment;
driving control apparatus positioned adjacent the front end of the compartment;
a rail system disposed on the floor and extending from the rear end adjacent the wheelchair lift apparatus to the front end adjacent the driver control apparatus, the rail system including a pair of spaced, parallel C-shaped rails;
a motorized carriage mounted on the rail system for movement thereon from the rear end adjacent the wheelchair lift apparatus to the front end adjacent the driver control apparatus, the carriage having a motorized wheelchair receiving platform mounted thereon, the motorized wheelchair receiving platform having an upper surface and a lower surface, the platform being selectively rotatable through 360\xb0 in a horizontal plane;
a pair of parallel longitudinal grooves formed in the upper surface for receiving rear wheels of the wheelchair, each of the longitudinal grooves having a front end and a rear end;
a respective semi-cylindrical protuberance disposed in each of the grooves at each of the respective front ends and rear ends to prevent the wheelchair from easily rolling out of the grooves; and
means for stabilizing the wheelchair when the wheelchair receiving platform is adjacent the driving control apparatus;
wherein said means for stabilizing including a pair of exteriorly threaded stabilizing bars, a pair of support members adapted for attachment to the wheelchair for receiving the stabilizing bars therethrough, and openings defined in said wheelchair receiving platform and said floor for receiving the stabilizing bars therein.
7. The vehicle according to claim 6, wherein the openings in said floor are threaded openings.
8. The vehicle according to claim 7, further including receptacles adapted for mounting on the wheelchair for retaining the stabilizer bars therein when the bars are not in use.

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 connector system, comprising:
a housing;
a paddle card supported by the housing, the paddle card including a first and second end and have a first layer and a second layer, the first end configured to engage terminals;
a first and second ground trace positioned on the first layer and extending respectively from a first and second ground contact pad positioned toward the first end to a common area positioned toward the second end, the first and second ground trace separated at the first end and joined together at the common area;
a third ground trace positioned on the first layer between the first and second ground trace and extending from a rear edge to the common area; the third ground trace separate from the first and second ground trace between the rear end and the common area; and
a first and second dampening element respectively coupling the first and second ground trace to the third ground trace, the first and second dampening element positioned a predetermined distance from the common area.
2. The system of claim 1, further comprising a cable with a first end and a second end, the first coupled to the connector, the cable including a ground shield electrically coupled to the common area.
3. The system of claim 2, further comprising a second connector coupled to the cable on the second end, the second connector configured as the first connector and coupled to the ground shield of the cable.
4. The system of claim 1, wherein the first and second dampening element are positioned closer to the first end than the second end.
5. The system of claim 4, wherein the predetermined distance is configured to equate to a quarter wave length of a predetermined frequency.
6. The system of claim 1, further comprising two signal contact pads positioned between the first and second contact pad, the two signal contact points coupled to signal traces provided in the second layer.
7. The system of claim 6, wherein the third ground trace extends to a point between where the dampening elements are coupled to the third ground trace and the two signal contact points.
8. The system of claim 1, wherein the dampening elements comprise resistors.
9. The system of claim 1, wherein the dampening elements are positioned along a line that extends perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the paddle card, the longitudinal axis extending from the first end to the second end.
10. The system of claim 1, further comprising a fourth, fifth and sixth ground trace positioned on the first layer, the fourth and fifth ground trace configured to be arranged with respect to each other substantially the same as the first and second ground trace are arranged, the fourth and fifth ground trace spaced apart from the first and second ground trace, the sixth ground trace positioned between the fourth and fifth ground trace and configured substantially the same as the third ground trace.
11. The system of claim 1, wherein the paddle card construction is selected from the group of a multilayer circuit card and a single dielectric layer with the first layer on a first side and the second layer on a second side.
12. A circuit card, comprising:
an insulative layer that extends from a first edge to a second edge;
a first and second ground contact pad positioned along the first edge on opposite sides of a pair of signal contact pads;
a first ground trace extending from the first ground contact pad to a common area;
a second ground trace extending from the second ground contact pad to the common area;
a third ground trace with a rear edge positioned between the first and second ground trace and extending to the common area; and
a first and second dampening element coupling the third ground trace respectively to the first and second ground trace, the first and second dampening element positioned a predetermined distance from the common area.
13. The circuit card of claim 12, further comprising a third and fourth ground contact pad positioned in a row formed by the first and second ground contact pad, wherein a fourth, fifth and sixth ground trace are positioned on the insulative layer, the fourth ground trace coupled to the third ground contact pad and the fifth ground trace coupled to the fourth grand contact pad, the fourth and fifth ground trace configured to be arranged with respect to each other substantially the same as the first and second ground trace are arranged, the fourth and fifth ground trace spaced apart from the first and second ground trace, the sixth ground trace positioned between the fourth and fifth ground trace and configured substantially the same as the third ground trace.
14. The circuit card of claim 13, wherein the dampening elements are resistors.
15. The circuit card of claim 14, wherein the resistors have a value of about 30 ohms.
16. The circuit card of claim 12, wherein the predetermined distance is configured to provide an electrical length of one quarter of a separated electrical length of a ground terminal configured to mate with the circuit card.

What is claimed is:

1. A control method of competitive buying and selling system, said control method comprising:
a first step in which a server opens a subject of buying and selling and a successful bid evaluation function thereof to a plurality of clients;
a second step in which each of said clients makes a participant determine said subject of buying and selling and a bidding price thereof by using said successful bid evaluation function, and notifies a determined result to said server; and
a third step in which said server select a bidding price of a participant who has indicated a highest evaluation value based on said successful bid evaluation function among all bidding prices notified from the clients and designates the participant as a successful bidder.
2. A control method of competitive buying and selling system according to claim 1, wherein said successful bid evaluation function is based on past bidding prices per unit volume and utilization efficiencies of resources knocked down in past.
3. A control method of competitive buying and selling system according to claim 2, wherein said successful bid evaluation function is based further on a resource occupation rate in bidding of this time.
4. A control method of competitive buying and selling system according to claim 2, wherein said successful bid evaluation function is a function of multiplying said past bidding prices per unit volume by said utilization efficiencies of resources knocked down in past.
5. A control method of competitive buying and selling system according to claim 4, wherein said successful bid evaluation function is a function of dividing a product value obtained by said multiplying by said resource occupation factor in bidding of this time.
6. A control method of competitive buying and selling system according to claim 1, wherein said control method can be applied to a simultaneous bidding method and a competitive bidding method.
7. A competitive buying and selling system comprising a server and clients,
said server comprising:
first means for opening a subject of buying and selling and a successful bid evaluation function thereof to a plurality of clients; and
third means for selecting a bidding price of a participant who has indicated a highest evaluation value based on said successful bid evaluation function among all bidding prices notified from the clients and designates the participant as a successful bidder,
each of said clients comprising:
second means for making a participant determine said subject of buying and selling and a bidding price thereof by using said successful bid evaluation function, and notifies a determined result to said server.
8. Recording media of competitive buying and selling system having a server side program and client side programs recorded thereon,
said server side program comprising:
a first control program for opening a subject of buying and selling and a successful bid evaluation function thereof to a plurality of clients; and
a third control program for selecting a bidding price of a participant who has indicated a highest evaluation value based on said successful bid evaluation function among all bidding prices notified from the clients and designates the participant as a successful bidder,
each of said client side programs comprising:
a second control program for making a participant determine said subject of buying and selling and a bidding price thereof by using said successful bid evaluation function, and notifies a determined result to said server.
9. A control method of competitive buying and selling system, said control method comprising:
a first step in which a server sets a bidding flag assigned to each participant;
a second step in which said server opens a part of a subject of buying and selling to a plurality of clients;
a third step in which each of said clients makes a participant determine a part of said subject of buying and selling and a bidding price thereof, and notifies a determined result to said server;
a fourth step in which said server designates a person who has indicated a highest or lowest bidding price among participants each having a set bidding flag, as a successful bidder; and
a fifth step in which said server resets the bidding flag of the participant who has made a successful flag,
wherein said second step to said fifth step are repeated.
10. A control method of competitive buying and selling system according to claim 9, wherein if said participant who has made a successful bid has made a successful bid for at least a predetermined occupation factor of the bidding subject, the bidding flag of said participant who has made a successful bid is reset in said fifth step.
11. A control method of competitive buying and selling system according to claim 9, wherein if said participant who has made a successful bid has made a successful bid for the bidding subject at least a predetermined number of times, the bidding flag of said participant who has made a successful bid is reset in said fifth step.
12. A competitive buying and selling system comprising a server and clients,
said server comprising:
means for setting a bidding flag assigned to each participant, before bidding;
means for opening a part of a subject of buying and selling to a plurality of clients;
means for designating a person who has indicated a highest or lowest bidding price among participants each having a set bidding flag, as a successful bidder; and
means for resetting the bidding flag of the participant who has made a successful flag,
each of said clients comprising:
means for making a participant determine a part of said subject of buying and selling and a bidding price thereof, and notifying a determined result to said server.
13. Recording media of competitive buying and selling system having a server side program and client side programs recorded thereon,
said server side program comprising:
a control program for setting a bidding flag assigned to each participant, before bidding;
a control program for opening a subject of buying and selling to a plurality of clients; and
a control program for designating a person who has indicated a highest or lowest bidding price among participants each having a set bidding flag, as a successful bidder; and
a control program for resetting the bidding flag of the participant who has made a successful flag,
each of said client side programs comprising:
a control program for making a participant determine a part of said subject of buying and selling and a bidding price thereof, and notifying a determined result to said server.

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 facial treatment device which gives beauty treatments to a face of a person to be treated comprising:
a probe which has a high thermal conductivity and abuts the face of the person;
a Peltier element which is placed adjacent to the probe;
a current supply means for supplying current to the Peltier element;
a current direction switching means for switching the direction of the current which is supplied by the current supply means to the Peltier element between forward and backward directions;
a radiating means for radiating heat which has been stored in the Peltier element;
a blower fan for sending air and cooling the radiating means; and
a vibration generating means for vibrating the probe.
2. The facial treatment device of claim 1 wherein the vibration generating means comprises:
a vibrating motor; and
a weight which is eccentrically attached to the motor, and the motor is driven to vibrate the prove.
3. The facial treatment device of claim 1 wherein
the vibration generating means comprises a weight which is eccentrically attached to a blade of the blower fan, and
the blower fan is driven to vibrate the probe.