Author: claimsbot

1. A radiation detector that detects radiation in a first energy range and radiation in a second energy range, comprising:
a first photo detector having a first scintillator layer extending along a first direction, a first photo-detecting device extending along the first direction, and a first substrate provided with the first photo-detecting device, for detecting radiation in the first energy range; and
a second photo detector having a second scintillator layer extending along the first direction, a second photo-detecting device extending along the first direction, and a second substrate provided with the second photo-detecting device, for detecting radiation in the second energy range, wherein
direction of extension of the first substrate and direction of extension of the second substrate are identical to each other,
in the direction of extension of the first substrate, one edge portion of the first substrate is located outside further than one edge portion of the second substrate, and
in the direction of extension of the second substrate, the other edge portion of the second substrate is located outside further than the other edge portion of the first substrate.
2. The radiation detector according to claim 1, further comprising a mechanism having a front step portion formed with an opening and having a rear step portion, wherein
the first substrate of the first photo detector is fixed to the front step portion of the mechanism, and
the second substrate of the second photo detector is fixed to the rear step portion of the mechanism.
3. The radiation detector according to claim 2, wherein
the first photo detector and the second photo detector are interposed between the front step portion and the rear step portion of the mechanism.
4. A radiation detector that detects radiation in a first energy range and radiation in a second energy range, comprising:
a first photo detector having a first scintillator layer extending along a first direction and a first photo-detecting device extending along the first direction, for detecting radiation in the first energy range; and
a second photo detector having a second scintillator layer extending along the first direction and a second photo-detecting device extending along the first direction and having a plurality of second photo-detecting sections, for detecting radiation in the second energy range, wherein
the second scintillator layer has a plurality of scintillator portions disposed so as to oppose each of the second photo-detecting sections, and a reflection layer provided so as to separate the scintillator portions from one another, and
the first scintillator layer has a length in a direction perpendicular to the first direction longer than that of the scintillator portions in a direction perpendicular to the first direction.
5. The radiation detector according to claim 4, wherein
the first scintillator layer and the second scintillator layer are brought in contact with each other via the reflection layer so as to slid in contact.
6. A radiation detector that detects radiation, comprising:
a photo detector having a scintillator layer extending along a first direction and a photo-detecting device extending along the first direction, for detecting radiation;
a mechanism having an opening for directing radiation to the photo detector; and
a slit structure being supported by the mechanism and having a slit portion extending along the first direction, wherein
the slit structure has a plate-like member having a wall portion protruding therefrom in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and
the wall portion is disposed inside the opening of the mechanism.
7. The radiation detector according to claim 6, wherein
in a direction perpendicular to the first direction, a width of the scintillator is wider than that of the slit portion.
8. The radiation detector according to claim 6, wherein
the photo detector includes a first photo detector for detecting radiation in the first energy range and a second photo detector for detecting radiation in the second energy range,
the scintillator layer includes a first scintillator layer extending along the first direction for the first photo detector and a second scintillator layer extending along the first direction for the second photo detector, and
the photo-detecting device includes a first photo-detecting device extending along the first direction for the first photo detector and a second photo-detecting device extending along the first direction for the second photo detector.
9. A radiation detector that detects radiation in a first energy range and radiation in a second energy range, comprising:
a first photo detector having a first scintillator layer extending along a first direction, a first photo-detecting device extending along the first direction, and a first substrate provided with the first photo-detecting device, for detecting radiation in the first energy range;
a second photo detector having a second scintillator layer extending along the first direction, a second photo-detecting device extending along the first direction, and a second substrate provided with the second photo-detecting device, for detecting radiation in the second energy range;
a mechanism having a front step portion, formed with an opening and having a rear step portion, wherein
the first substrate of the first photo detector is fixed to the front step portion of the mechanism,
the second substrate of the second photo detector is fixed to the rear step portion of the mechanism, and
the first photo detector and the second photo detector are interposed between the front step portion and the rear step portion of the mechanism.

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 method for the treatment of eyelid dermatitis andor dermatitis of the periorbital area, which comprises applying to the eyelid andor periorbital area, respectively, of a subject in need of such treatment, an anti-inflammatory effective amount of a dermatological composition comprising loteprednol etabonate and a dermatologically acceptable carrier therefor.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein said composition further comprises:
(a) a compound having the formula
wherein R is H or CH3 and the dotted line in ring A indicates that the 1,2-linking is saturated or unsaturated, the amount of the compound of formula (I) being sufficient to enhance the anti-inflammatory activity or duration of action, or both, of loteprednol etabonate; or
(b) a compound selected from the group consisting of hydrocortisone, corticosterone and 11-deoxycortisol, the amount of the compound selected from said group being itself subtherapeutic but sufficient to enhance the anti-inflammatory activity or duration of action, or both, of loteprednol etabonate.
3. The method according to claim 1, wherein said composition is applied to the eyelid only.
4. The method according to claim 2, wherein said composition is applied to the eyelid only.
5. The method according to claim 2, wherein said composition comprises cortienic acid, \u03941-cortienic acid, cortienic acid methyl ester or \u03941-cortienic acid methyl ester.
6. The method according to claim 2, wherein said composition comprises hydrocortisone, corticosterone or 11-deoxycortisol.
7. The method according to claim 2, wherein said composition comprises \u03941-cortienic acid or hydrocortisone.
8. The method according to claim 2, wherein said composition comprises \u03941-cortienic acid.
9. The method according to claim 4, wherein said composition comprises cortienic acid, \u03941-cortienic acid, cortienic acid methyl ester or \u03941-cortienic acid methyl ester.
10. The method according to claim 4, wherein said composition comprises hydrocortisone, corticosterone or 11-deoxycortisol.
11. The method according to claim 4, wherein said composition comprises \u03941-cortienic acid or hydrocortisone.
12. The method according to claim 4, wherein said composition comprises \u03941-cortienic acid.
13. The method according to claim 1, wherein said composition is in the form of an ointment, a cream, a gel, a cream gel or a lotion.
14. The method according to claim 2, wherein said composition is in the form of an ointment, a cream, a gel, a cream gel or a lotion.
15. The method according to claim 3, wherein said composition is in the form of an ointment, a cream, a gel, a cream gel or a lotion.
16. The method according to claim 4, wherein said composition is in the form of an ointment, a cream, a gel, a cream gel or a lotion.

1. A device for interfacing with an advanced switching (AS) platform, used for interfacing a Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH)Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) network with an AS platform, comprising:
in the direction from the SDHSONET network to the AS platform,
a first line side interface processing module, for searching a frame header of received SDHSONET frames and descrambling the received SDHSONET frames;
a de-framing processing module, for de-framing signals outputted by the first line side interface processing module to obtain payloads of the SDHSONET frames;
a packaging module, for packaging a part of the payloads which is able to be scheduled by the SDHSONET network into one or more AS packets according to a packet format of the AS platform; and
a first AS interface processing module, for sending the AS packets outputted by the packaging module to a crossing structure of the AS platform; wherein
if the payloads of the SDHSONET frames are lower order traffic, the packaging module packages each of the lower order traffic into an AS packet or the packaging module splits each of the lower order traffic into several parts and packages each part into one AS packet; if the payloads of the SDHSONET frames are higher order traffic, the packaging module splits each of the higher order traffic into several parts and packages each part into one AS packet;
in the direction from the AS platform to the SDHSONET network,
a second AS interface processing module, for receiving AS packets sent by the AS platform;
an un-packaging module, for un-packaging the AS packets received by the second AS interface processing module and obtaining payloads of SDHSONET frames from the AS packets;
a mapping module, for mapping the payloads into SDHSONET frames; and
a second line side interface processing module, for scrambling the SDHSONET frames outputted by the mapping module, and transmitting the frames to the SDHSONET network.
2. The device of claim 1, further comprising:
a crossing module, configured between the de-framing processing module and the packaging module, for performing a time-divided crossing process; or
a crossing module, configured between the packaging module and the first AS interface processing module, for performing a packet crossing process.
3. The device according to claim 2, wherein
the first line side interface processing module and the second line side interface processing module are integrated together; and
the first AS interface processing module and second AS interface processing module are integrated together.
4. The device according to claim 1, further comprising:
a crossing module, configured between the un-packaging module and the mapping module, for performing a time-divided crossing process; or
a crossing module, configured between the un-packaging module and the second AS interface processing module, for performing a packet crossing process.
5. The device according to claim 4, wherein
the first line side interface processing module and the second line side interface processing module are integrated together; and
the first AS interface processing module and second AS interface processing module are integrated together.
6. The device according to claim 1, wherein
the first line side interface processing module and the second line side interface processing module are integrated together; and
the first AS interface processing module and second AS interface processing module are integrated together.
7. A method for interfacing an AS platform, used for interfacing a SDHSONET network with an AS platform, comprising:
in the direction from the SDHSONET network to the AS platform,
receiving SDHSONET frames, searching the frame header of the SDHSONET frames and descrambling the SDHSONET frames;
de-framing the descrambled frames to obtain payloads of the SDHSONET frames; and
packaging a part of the payloads which is able to be scheduled by the SDHSONET network into one or more AS packets according to the packet format of the AS platform and transmitting the AS packets to the AS platform;
in the direction from the AS platform to the SDHSONET network,
receiving and un-packaging AS packets switched by the AS platform to obtain the payloads of SDHSONET frames from the AS packets;
mapping the payloads into SDHSONET frames;
scrambling the SDHSONET frames and transmitting the frames to the SDHSONET network;
wherein the packaging comprises: if the payloads of the SDHSONET frames are lower order traffic, packaging each of the lower order traffic into an AS packet or splitting each or the lower order traffic into several parts, and packaging each part into one AS packet; and if the payloads of the SDHSONET frames are higher order traffic, splitting each of the higher order traffic into several parts, and packaging each part into one AS packet.
8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the process of splitting each of the lower or higher order traffic into several parts comprises averagely splitting the traffic by columns.
9. The method according to claim 8, further comprising:
before packaging the traffic, pre-determining the number of packets into which each of the traffic is to be packaged according to at least one of the following factors: the size of granule for crossing dispatching, the allowable time delay, the data packet utilization ratio, the allowed maximum length of an AS packet, and the maximum packet length actually supported by physical chips.
10. The method according to claim 8, further comprising:
performing a time-divided crossing process of the obtained payloads per time slot before packaging the payloads; or
performing a packet crossing process of the obtained AS packets after packaging the payloads and before transmitting the packets.
11. The method according to claim 8, further comprising:
performing a packet crossing process of the received AS packets before un-packaging the received AS packets; or
performing a time-divided crossing process of the payloads obtained by un-packaging per time slot after un-packaging the received AS packets and before mapping the payloads to SDHSONET frames.
12. The method according to claim 7, further comprising:
before packaging the traffic, pre-determining the number of packets into which each of the traffic is to be packaged according to at least one of the following factors: the size of granule for crossing dispatching, the allowable time delay, the data packet utilization ratio, the allowed maximum length of an AS packet, and the maximum packet length actually supported by physical chips.
13. The method according to claim 7, further comprising:
performing a packet crossing process of the obtained AS packets after packaging the payloads and before transmitting the packets.
14. The method according to claim 7, further comprising:
performing a time-divided crossing process of the obtained payloads per time slot before packaging the payloads.
15. The method according to claim 7, further comprising:
performing a time-divided crossing process of the payloads obtained by un-packaging per time slot after un-packaging the received AS packets and before mapping the payloads to SDHSONET frames.
16. The method according to claim 7, further comprising:
performing a packet crossing process of the received AS packets before un-packaging the received AS packets.
17. The method according to claim 7, further comprising:
inserting useful overheads while packaging the payloads according to actual demands.

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 flame retardant resin composition comprising
(A) 100 parts by weight of a bio-plastic,
(B) 5 to 100 parts by weight of an ammonium polyphosphate surface treated with a surface treating agent which does not generate formaldehyde under room temperature conditions, does not generate halogen upon combustion, and imparts water resistance, and
(C) 0 to 80 parts by weight of a flame retardant co-agent.
2. The flame retardant resin composition of claim 1 wherein the bio-plastic (A) is an aliphatic polyester resin derived from a natural product.
3. The flame retardant resin composition of claim 2 wherein the aliphatic polyester resin has an incipient pyrolysis temperature of 240\xb0 C. to 360\xb0 C.
4. The flame retardant resin composition of claim 2 wherein the aliphatic polyester resin is a polylactic acid.
5. The flame retardant resin composition of claim 1 wherein the surface treating agent in component (B) comprises
a co-hydrolytic condensate obtained through co-hydrolytic condensation of (i) 100 parts by weight of an organosilicon compound having the general formula (1) and (ii) 0.5 to 49 parts by weight of an amino group-containing alkoxysilane having the general formula (2) or a partial hydrolyzate thereof in the presence of an organic acid or inorganic acid, or
a co-hydrolytic condensate obtained through co-hydrolytic condensation of (i) 100 parts by weight of an organosilicon compound having the general formula (1), (ii) 0.5 to 49 parts by weight of an amino group-containing alkoxysilane having the general formula (2) or a partial hydrolyzate thereof, and (iii) 0.1 to 10 parts by weight of a microparticulate inorganic oxide andor (iv) 0.1 to 20 parts by weight of a bis(alkoxysilyl) group-containing compound having the general formula (3) or a partial hydrolyzate thereof in the presence of an organic acid or inorganic acid,
the general formulae (1), (2) and (3) being:
(R1)a(OR2)bSiO(4-a-b)2\u2003\u2003(1)

wherein R1 is a C1-C6 alkyl group, R2 is a C1-C4 alkyl group, a is a positive number of 0.75 to 1.5, b is a positive number of 0.2 to 3, satisfying 0.9<a+b\u22664,
R3R4NR5\u2014SiR6d(OR2)3-d\u2003\u2003(2)

wherein R2 is as defined above, R3 and R4 are each independently hydrogen or a C1-C15 alkyl or aminoalkyl group, R5 is a divalent C1-C18 hydrocarbon group, R6 is a C1-C4 alkyl group, and d is 0 or 1,
(R1)k(OR2)3-kSi\u2014Y\u2014Si(R1)k(OR2)3-k\u2003\u2003(3)

wherein R1 and R2 are as defined above, Y is a divalent organic group, \u2014(OSi(R7)2)mO\u2014 or \u2014R\u2014(SiR72O)mSiR72\u2014R\u2014, R7 is a C1-C6 alkyl group, R is a divalent C1-C6 hydrocarbon group, m is an integer of 1 to 30, and k is 0, 1 or 2.
6. The flame retardant resin composition of claim 5 wherein the organosilicon compound (i) is a siloxane dimer represented by CH3(OR2)2Si2O wherein R2 is as defined above.
7. The flame retardant resin composition of claim 5 wherein the bis(alkoxysilyl) group-containing compound (iv) is selected from the group consisting of:
(CH3O)3SiCH2CH2CH2CH2CH2CH2Si(OCH3)3, (CH3O)2CH3SiCH2CH2CH2CH2CH2CH2SiCH3 (OCH3)2, (CH3O)3Si(OSi(CH3)2)6OSi(OCH3)3, (CH3O)3Si(OSi(CH3)2)8OSi(OCH3)3, (CH3O)3Si(OSi(CH3)2)10OSi(OCH3)3, (CH3O)3SiCH2CH2(Si(CH3)2O)5Si(CH3)2CH2CH2Si(OCH3)3, (CH3O)3SiCH2CH2(Si(CH3) 20)7Si(CH3)2CH2CH2Si(OCH3)3, (CH3O)3SiCH2CH2(Si(CH3)2O)9Si(CH3)2CH2CH2Si(OCH3)3, (CH3O)3SiCH2CH2C4F8CH2CH2Si(OCH3)3, and (CH3O)3SiCH2CH2C6F12CH2CH2Si(OCH3)3.
8. The flame retardant resin composition of claim 1 wherein the surface treating agent in component (B) is a polyester resin.
9. The flame retardant resin composition of claim 1 wherein the surface treating agent in component (B) is a polyvinyl alcohol resin.
10. The flame retardant resin composition of claim 1 wherein the ammonium polyphosphate in component (B) has a molecular weight of 2,000 to 10,000,000 and an average particle size of up to 30 \u03bcm.
11. The flame retardant resin composition of claim 1 wherein the flame retardant co-agent (C) is talc and compounded in an amount of 1 to 80 parts by weight.
12. The flame retardant resin composition of claim 1 wherein the flame retardant co-agent (C) is expandable graphite and compounded in an amount of 1 to 80 parts by weight.
13. The flame retardant resin composition of claim 1 wherein the flame retardant co-agent (C) is a melamine cyanurate compound and compounded in an amount of 1 to 80 parts by weight.