Author: claimsbot

1. A disk drive suspension having along a longitudinal axis a base portion, a rigid portion and a bendable spring portion having left and right edges, said spring portion being extended along said longitudinal axis a given extent, said spring portion left and right edges having separate local stiffening structures interrupted at a locus intermediate said spring portion length, whereby the locus of said spring portion bending extends longitudinally less than said given extent and is defined by said locus of interruption.
2. The disk drive suspension according to claim 1, in which said base portion and said spring portion are separately formed and joined together solely by welding, said spring portion separate local stiffening structures having distal and proximate extents on opposite sides of said locus of interruption, said distal and proximate extents being distal of said welding.
3. The disk drive suspension according to claim 2, in which said base portion has a distal edge margin, and said spring portion has a proximate edge margin, said distal and proximate edge margins being joined solely by welding.
4. The disk drive suspension according to claim 3, in which said separate local stiffening structures include a pair of left and right hand proximate stiffening structure extents and a pair of left and right hand distal stiffening structure extents, said pairs being laterally opposed, the distal and proximate stiffening structure extents being longitudinally spaced across said locus of interruption.
5. The disk drive suspension according to claim 4, in which said spring portion has a proximate section adjacent said proximate edge margin that is free of welding, said proximate local stiffening structures extending vertically from said proximate section in proximate section stiffening relation.
6. The disk drive suspension according to claim 5, in which said spring portion has a center section distal of and contiguous with said proximate section, the longitudinal extent of said proximate section being such that the heat of welding said spring portion proximate edge margin to said base portion distal edge margin does not substantially reduce the temper hardness of said center section.
7. A disk drive suspension having along a longitudinal axis a base portion, a rigid portion and a bendable spring portion, said spring portion being extended along said longitudinal axis a given extent and having edge rails that are interrupted at a locus, bending of said spring portion being limited by said edge rails except at their interruption, whereby the locus of said spring portion bending extends longitudinally less than said given extent and is defined by said locus of interruption, said base portion and said spring portion being separately formed and joined together solely by welding, said spring portion edge rails having distal and proximate extents on opposite sides of said locus of interruption, said distal and proximate extents being distal of said welding.
8. The disk drive suspension according to claim 7, in which said base portion has a distal edge margin, and said spring portion has a proximate edge margin, said distal and proximate edge margins being joined solely by welding.
9. The disk drive suspension according to claim 8, in which said edge rail extents include a pair of left and right hand proximate edge rail extents and a pair of left and right hand distal edge rail extents, said pairs being laterally opposed, the distal and proximate edge rail extents being longitudinally spaced across said locus of interruption.
10. The disk drive suspension according to claim 9, in which said spring portion has a proximate section adjacent said proximate edge margin that is free of welding, said proximate edge rail extents extending vertically from said proximate section in proximate section stiffening relation.
11. The disk drive suspension according to claim 10, in which said spring portion has a center section distal of and contiguous with said proximate section, the longitudinal extent of said proximate section being such that the heat of welding said spring portion proximate edge margin to said base portion distal edge margin does not substantially reduce the temper hardness of said center section.
12. The disk drive suspension according to claim 11, in which laterally opposed pairs of said left and right rail extents are substantially parallel.
13. A disk drive suspension having along a longitudinal axis a base portion, a rigid portion and a bendable spring portion, said spring portion being extended along said longitudinal axis a given extent and having edge rails that are interrupted at a locus, bending of said spring portion being limited by said edge rails except at their interruption, whereby the locus of said spring portion bending extends longitudinally less than said given extent and is defined by said locus of interruption said rigid portion and said spring portion being separately formed and joined together solely by welding, said spring portion edge rails having distal and proximate extents on opposite sides of said locus of interruption, said distal and proximate extents being proximate of said welding.
14. The disk drive suspension according to claim 13, in which said rigid portion has a proximate edge margin, and said spring portion has a distal edge margin, said proximate and distal edge margins being joined solely by welding.
15. The disk drive suspension according to claim 14, in which said edge rail extents include a pair of left and right hand proximate edge rail extents and a pair of left and right hand distal edge rail extents, said pairs being laterally opposed, the distal and proximate edge rail extents being longitudinally spaced across said locus of interruption.
16. The disk drive suspension according to claim 15, in which said spring portion has a distal section adjacent said spring distal edge margin that is free of welding, said distal edge rail extents extending vertically from said distal section in distal section stiffening relation.
17. The disk drive suspension according to claim 16, in which said spring portion has a center section proximate of and contiguous with said distal section, the longitudinal extent of said distal section being such that the heat of welding said spring portion distal edge margin to said rigid portion proximate edge margin does not substantially reduce the temper hardness of said center section.
18. The disk drive suspension according to claim 17, in which laterally opposed pairs of said left and right rail extents are substantially parallel.
19. The disk drive suspension according to claim 17, in which said base portion and said spring portion are separately formed and joined together solely by welding, said spring portion edge rails having distal and proximate extents on opposite sides of said locus of interruption, said distal and proximate extents being distal of said welding.
20. The disk drive suspension according to claim 19, in which said base portion has a distal edge margin, and said spring portion has a proximate edge margin, said distal and proximate edge margins being joined solely by welding.
21. The disk drive suspension according to claim 20, in which said edge rail extents include a pair of left and right hand proximate edge rail extents and a pair of left and right hand distal edge rail extents, said pairs being laterally opposed, the distal and proximate edge rail extents being longitudinally spaced across said locus of interruption.
22. The disk drive suspension according to claim 21, in which said spring portion has a proximate section adjacent said proximate edge margin that is free of welding, said proximate edge rail extents extending vertically from said proximate section in proximate section stiffening relation.
23. The disk drive suspension according to claim 22, in which said spring portion has a center section distal of and contiguous with said proximate section, the longitudinal extent of said proximate section being such that the heat of welding said spring portion proximate edge margin to said base portion distal edge margin does not substantially reduce the temper hardness of said center section.
24. A disk drive suspension having along a longitudinal axis a base portion, a rigid portion and a bendable spring portion, said spring portion having locally stiffened left and right edges extending from said base portion to said rigid portion but interrupted at a locus intermediate said base portion and said rigid portion, whereby bending of said spring portion is limited to said locus.
25. A disk drive suspension comprising a load beam having a base portion, a spring portion and a beam portion, said spring portion being normally bendable over a given axial extent between proximate and distal edge margins, said spring portion being locally stiffened by stiffening structure extending from said proximate and distal edge margins and having an interruption between said proximate and distal edge margins, whereby said spring portion is bendable only at said interruption.
26. The disk drive suspension according to claim 25, in which said stiffening structure interruption is intermediate the spring portion distal and proximate edge margins.
27. The disk drive suspension according to claim 26, in which said spring portion stiffening structure comprises interrupted right and left hand rails providing said local stiffening.
28. A disk drive suspension comprising a base portion, a beam portion and a spring portion therebetween, said spring portion having a proximate edge margin welded to said base portion, and a distal edge margin welded to said beam portion, and a center region between said proximate and distal edge margins, said center region having a proximate section contiguous with said proximate edge margin and subject to loss of temper hardness during welding of said proximate edge margin to said base portion, a distal section contiguous with said distal edge margin and subject to loss of temper hardness during welding of said distal edge margin to said rigid portion, and a center section between said proximate and distal sections that is sufficiently distant from said proximate and distal edge margins to not be subject to loss of temper hardness from welding at said edge margins, said spring portion normally being bendable throughout its said center region, said spring portion center region being locally stiffened in its proximate and distal sections to limit spring portion bending to said center section, whereby said spring portion bending is localized in said center section and unaffected by edge margin welding.
29. A method of limiting the bendable region of a disk drive suspension spring portion, including supporting said spring portion between a suspension base portion and a suspension rigid portion, stiffening said spring portion locally to limit the bendable region of said spring portion to the part of the spring portion free of local stiffening with a stiffening structure extending from said suspension base portion to said suspension rigid portion, and interrupting said stiffening structure to define said spring portion part free of local stiffening.

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 accessing a network by a piece of user equipment, the method comprising:
sending, by a source side access device, an access indication message to a piece of user equipment (UE), wherein the access indication message is used to instruct the UE to access the target side access device; or sending, by a source side access device, a first notification message to a target side access device, wherein the first notification message is used to instruct the target side access device to send, to the UE, access information used to instruct the UE to access the target side access device; and
in a process in which the UE accesses the target side access device, maintaining, by the source side access device, a connection between the UE and the source side access device, wherein the connection comprises a control plane connection between the UE and the source side access device or a user plane connection between the UE and the source side access device.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein before sending, by a source side access device, an access indication message to a UE, the method further comprises:
receiving, by the source side access device, the access indication message sent by a centralized control node.
3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the access indication message comprises: information used to indicate an access feature of the target side access device and information used to indicate a resource reserved by the target side access device for the UE.
4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the access indication message is further used to: after the UE accesses the target side access device, instruct the UE to maintain the connection between the UE and the source side access device, or disconnect the connection between the UE and the source side access device.
5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:
sending, by the source side access device, a first bearer transfer message to the UE, wherein the first bearer transfer message carries a bearer identifier of a bearer between the UE and the source side access device, and the bearer identifier is used to instruct the UE to transfer a bearer corresponding to the bearer identifier to the target side access device.
6. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:
sending, by the source side access device, a bearer identifier of a bearer between the UE and the source side access device to the target side access device, wherein the bearer identifier of the bearer between the UE and the source side access device is used to instruct the target side access device to send a second bearer transfer message to the UE, wherein the second bearer transfer message is used to instruct the UE to transfer a bearer corresponding to the bearer identifier to the target side access device.
7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the access indication message is further used to: after the UE accesses the target side access device, instruct the UE to enter a discontinuous reception (DRX) mode.
8. A method for accessing a network by a piece of user equipment, the method comprising:
receiving, by a piece of user equipment (UE), an access indication message sent by a source side access device, wherein the access indication message is used to instruct the UE to access a target side access device; or receiving, by a UE, access information that is sent by a target side access device and used to instruct the UE to access the target side access device; and
accessing, by the UE, the target side access device according to the access indication message or the access information, wherein in a process in which the UE accesses the target side access device, the UE maintains a connection between the UE and the source side access device, wherein the connection comprises a control plane connection between the UE and the source side access device or a user plane connection between the UE and the source side access device.
9. The method according to claim 8, wherein before receiving, by the UE, an access indication message sent by a source side access device, the method further comprises:
detecting, by the UE, the target side access device; and
reporting, by the UE, a first discovery message to the source side access device, wherein the first discovery message is used to indicate the target side access device detected by the UE.
10. The method according to claim 8, wherein the access indication message comprises: information used to indicate an access feature of the target side access device and information used to indicate a resource reserved by the target side access device for the UE.
11. The method according to claim 8, wherein the access indication message is further used to: after the UE accesses the target side access device, instruct the UE to maintain the connection between the UE and the source side access device, or instruct the UE to disconnect the connection between the UE and the source side access device.
12. The method according to claim 11, if a indication information comprised in the access indication message is used to instruct the UE to disconnect the connection between the UE and the source side access device, after accessing, by the UE, the target side access device, the method further comprises:
disconnecting, by the UE, the connection between the UE and the source side access device.
13. The method according to claim 8, further comprising:
receiving, by the UE, a first bearer transfer message sent by the source side access device, wherein the first bearer transfer message carries a bearer identifier of a bearer between the UE and the source side access device, and the bearer identifier is used to instruct the UE to transfer a bearer corresponding to the bearer identifier to the target side access device; or receiving, by the UE, a second bearer transfer message sent by the target side access device, wherein the second bearer transfer message is used to instruct the UE to transfer a bearer corresponding to a bearer identifier to the target side access device.
14. An access device, comprising:
a transmitter, configured to:
send an access indication message to apiece of user equipment (UE), wherein the access indication message is used to instruct the UE to access a target side access device, or
send a first notification message to a target side access device, wherein the first notification message is used to instruct the target side access device to send, to a UE, access information used to instruct the UE to access the target side access device; and

a processor, configured to: in a process in which the UE accesses the target side access device, maintain a connection between the UE and the source side access device, wherein the connection comprises a control plane connection between the UE and the source side access device or a user plane connection between the UE and the source side access device.
15. The access device according to claim 14, further comprising:
a receiver, configured to: before the transmitter sends the access indication message to the UE, receive the access indication message sent by a centralized control node.
16. The access device according to claim 14, wherein the access indication message comprises: information used to indicate an access feature of the target side access device and information used to indicate a resource reserved by the target side access device for the UE.
17. The access device according to claim 14, wherein the access indication message is further used to: after the UE accesses the target side access device, instruct the UE to maintain the connection between the UE and the source side access device, or disconnect the connection between the UE and the source side access device.
18. The access device according to claim 14, wherein the transmitter is further configured to:
send a first bearer transfer message to the UE, wherein the first bearer transfer message carries a bearer identifier of a bearer between the UE and the source side access device, and the bearer identifier is used to instruct the UE to transfer a bearer corresponding to the bearer identifier to the target side access device.
19. The access device according to claim 14, wherein the transmitter is further configured to:
send a bearer identifier of a bearer between the UE and the source side access device to the target side access device, wherein the bearer identifier of the bearer between the UE and the source side access device is used to instruct the target side access device to send a second bearer transfer message to the UE, wherein the second bearer transfer message is used to instruct the UE to transfer a bearer corresponding to the bearer identifier to the target side access device.
20. The access device according to claim 14, wherein the access indication message is further used to: after the UE accesses the target side access device, instruct the UE to enter a discontinuous reception (DRX) mode.

1-34. (canceled)
35. A method of tracking the location of features of a specimen across a set of images of the specimen captured at different reference points, the set of images comprising a plurality of cycles of images, each cycle comprising different images, each image comprising signals having a single color, wherein the signal color is different for each of the different images, said method comprising the steps of:
(a) selecting a subset of images, wherein the images of the subset depict signals corresponding to features of the specimen, and wherein the images of the subset are captured at different reference points;
(b) selecting a primary image from the subset of images, comprising:
(i) selecting the different color images from a single cycle within the subset of images,
(ii) merging signals from at least two different color images of each cycle into a candidate primary image for said cycle,
(iii) repeating steps (i) and (ii), thereby forming a plurality of candidate primary images, and
(iv) selecting the candidate primary image from among the candidate primary images that includes the most signals, thereby obtaining a primary image;

(c) registering the signals depicted in the images of the subset of images with the signals depicted in the primary image, so as to determine the location of the signals depicted in the images with respect to each other, thereby producing signal clumps;
(d) selecting a signal from each of said signal clumps, thereby forming a template that permits the identification of the locations of features of said specimen; and
(e) registering remaining images in said set of images with said template.
36. The method of claim 35, wherein each cycle comprises four different images.
37. The method of claim 35, wherein said specimen comprises at least one tile comprising an array of molecules.
38. The method of claim 37, wherein said specimen comprises a plurality of tiles.
39. The method of claim 37, wherein said array of molecules comprises a plurality of features.
40. The method of claim 39, wherein a feature of said plurality of features comprises multiple copies of a molecule of said array of molecules.
41. The method of claim 40, wherein said molecule comprises a nucleic acid.
42. The method of claim 41, further comprising providing a labeled nucleotide base to said array of molecules, thereby extending a primer hybridized to a nucleic acid within a feature so as to produce a signal corresponding to a feature comprising said nucleic acid.
43. The method of claim 42, wherein the different color corresponds to a different nucleotide base.
44. The method of claim 43, wherein each image of the set of images comprises signals having a single color selected from at least four different colors.
45. The method of claim 44, wherein four different labeled nucleotide bases are provided to said array of molecules so as to produce four different images, thereby producing a cycle of four color images that corresponds to the four possible nucleotides present at a particular position in said nucleic acid.
46. The method of claim 45, wherein said primary image comprises either a single image or a compilation of multiple merged images.
47. The method of claim 35, further comprising the step of selecting a secondary image, wherein said secondary image is the candidate primary image that includes the second most signals.
48. The method of claim 47, wherein said secondary image comprises either a single image or a compilation of multiple merged images.
49. The method of claim 48, further comprising registering the signals from the secondary image with the signals from the primary image.
50. The method of claim 49, further comprising registering signals from nonselected images with the signals from the secondary image, wherein said nonselected images are obtained from the image cycle from which the primary image was obtained.
51. The method of claim 50, further comprising registering signals from remaining images in the subset with signals from the primary image.
52. The method of claim 35, wherein the signals from at least two different color images are subject to cross-talk, and wherein cross-talk between two signal channels allows signals from one color image to appear in the other color image.
53. The method of claim 43, wherein the signals from at least two different color images comprise signals corresponding to A and C.
54. The method of claim 35, wherein said template that permits the identification of the locations of features of said specimen is saved to a locations file.

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 paper with a grammage of 10-100 gm2 comprising:
at least 20 wt. % of microfilaments, and
at least 20 wt. % of a non-resinous binder, wherein
the microfilaments have an average filament length in the range of 2-25 mm and a titer less than 1.3 dtex, and
the non-resinous binder comprise at least one of fibrids or pulp.
2. The paper according to claim 1, wherein the paper comprises at least 20% of fibrids the non-resinous binder.
3. The paper according to claim 1, wherein the paper comprises at least 20% of pulp as the non-resinous binder.
4. The paper according to claim 1, wherein the paper comprises at least 20% of cellulose pulp as the non-resinous binder.
5. The paper according to claim 1, wherein the microfilaments are aramid microfilaments.
6. The paper according to claim 1, wherein the paper comprises aramid fibrids as the non-resinous binder.
7. The paper according to claim 6, wherein the aramid fibrids comprise meta-aramid fibrids andor para-aramid fibrids.
8. The paper according to claim 1, wherein the length of the microfilaments is at least 3 mm.
9. The paper according to claim 1, wherein the microfilament titer is less than 1.2 dtex.
10. The paper according to claim 9, wherein the microfilament has a titer of at least at least 0.3 dtex.
11. The paper according to claim 1, wherein the microfilaments have an average diameter of 1 to 499 nm.
12. The paper according to claim 1, wherein the paper has a grammage of less than 60 gm2.
13. The paper according to claim 1, wherein the filaments have an aspect ratio of a least 4 mmdtex.
14. A fuel cell, a battery, a capacitor, a printed wiring board, a honeycomb, a packaging, a separator for electrical isolation, or a filter comprising the paper according to claim 1.
15. (canceled)
16. The paper according to claim 2, wherein the paper further comprises at least 20% of pulp as the non-resinous binder.
17. The paper according to claim 5, wherein the aramid microfilaments are para-aramid microfilaments.
18. The paper according to claim 1, wherein the length of the microfilaments is at least 4 mm.
19. The paper according to claim 1, wherein the length of the microfilaments is at most 15 mm.
20. The paper according to claim 1, wherein the length of the microfilaments is at most 8 mm.
21. The paper according to claim 1, wherein the microfilaments have an average diameter of particular 50-300 nm.