All The Claims

1. A motion restrictor device for use with a protective helmet to reduce the risk of head or spine injury caused by injurious movement of the helmet, said motion restrictor device comprising:
a harness wearable by a user of the helmet;
at least one strut member having first and second ends, the first end of the at least one strut member adapted to be associated with a protective helmet and the second end of the at least one strut member adapted to be associated with a harness assembly worn by the user;
said at least one strut member permitting relative motion between the first and second ends of the at least one strut member; and
an arresting assembly associated with the at least one strut member,
said arresting assembly being shiftable into and out of a first locked configuration in response to the injurious movement to stop substantially all relative motion between the first and second ends of the at least one strut member, and thereby generally prevent helmet movement relative to the harness.
2. The motion restrictor device of claim 1,
said at least one strut member including strut elements shiftably connected to one another to define a variable length dimension between the first and second ends,
said strut elements being shiftable between a retracted position where the variable length dimension has a minimum value and an extended position where the variable length dimension has a maximum value larger than the minimum value,
said arresting assembly being shiftable into the first locked configuration when the strut elements are between the retracted and extended positions.
3. The motion restrictor device of claim 1,
said at least one strut member comprising first and second tubular members,
said first tubular member being telescopically received within the second tubular member for relative motion between the first and second tubular members,
said arresting assembly being associated with the at least one strut member and including at least one wedge member engageable with an interior wall surface of one of the tubular members to substantially prevent relative motion between the first and second tubular members.
4. The motion restrictor device of claim 3,
said at least one wedge member being associated with the first tubular member,
said second tubular member having a plurality of grooves formed in the interior wall surface of the second tubular member, with the at least one wedge member being engageable with at least one of the plurality of grooves.
5. The motion restrictor device of claim 1,
said at least one strut member comprising first and second tubular members,
said first tubular member being telescopically received within the second tubular member for relative motion between the first and second tubular members,
said arresting assembly being associated with the at least one strut member and including an actuatable latching system engageable with one of the tubular members to substantially prevent relative motion between the first and second tubular members.
6. The motion restrictor device of claim 2,
said latching system being associated with the first tubular member,
said second tubular member including profiles for engagement with the latching system.
7. The motion restrictor device of claim 6,
said profiles being selected from the group consisting of grooves formed on the second tubular member inner surface and teeth on the second tubular member inner surface.
8. The motion restrictor device of claim 6,
said arresting assembly including a centrifugal brake assembly coupled to the first and second elongated members and responsive to a threshold rate of movement between the helmet and the harness to arrest relative movement of the first and second elongated member, and to arrest helmet movement relative to the harness.
9. The motion restrictor of claim 8,
said centrifugal brake assembly comprising a base member having a planar surface, a recess formed within the planar surface having indentations on the recess outer periphery, an elongated connecting member in the recess affixed with a pin and rotatable about the pin, and a pawl pivotingly coupled to an end of the connecting member.
10. The motion restrictor of claim 9; and
a coupling between the centrifugal brake assembly and the first elongated member,
said coupling rotating the connecting member in response to movement between the first and second elongated members, with the pawl being configured to pivot into engagement with an indentation in response to applied centrifugal force of the rotating connecting member.
11. The motion restrictor of claim 10,
said applied centrifugal force corresponding to the threshold rate of movement between the helmet and the harness.
12. The motion restrictor of claim 8,
said threshold rate of movement between the helmet and the harness corresponding to at least one of a force applied to the helmet or acceleration experienced by the helmet that can cause injury to the user of the helmet.
13. The motion restrictor of claim 9;
a first coupling between the centrifugal brake assembly and the second elongated member, with the first coupling comprising an affixing fastener; and
a second coupling between the centrifugal brake assembly and the first elongated member, with the second coupling comprising intermeshed teeth that convert linear motion to rotational motion.
14. The motion restrictor of claim 9; and
a coupling between the centrifugal brake assembly and the first and second elongated members comprising intermeshed teeth that convert linear motion to rotational motion.
15. The motion restrictor of claim 8,
said centrifugal brake assembly comprising a base member having a planar surface, a recess formed within the planar surface having teeth on the recess outer periphery, an elongated connecting arm in the recess affixed with a pin and rotatable about the pin, a slot formed on the elongate end of the connecting arm, and a sliding member provided in the slot and slidable past the connecting arm outer periphery.
16. The motion restrictor of claim 15; and
a coupling between the brake assembly and the first elongated member,
said coupling rotating the connecting member in response to movement between the first and second elongated members, with the sliding member being configured to slide into engagement with teeth in the recess in response to applied centrifugal force of the rotating connecting arm.
17. A motion restrictor device for use with a protective helmet, said motion restrictor device comprising:
a harness wearable by a user of the helmet;
at least three struts operable to connect the harness to the helmet so as to reduce the risk of a head or spine injury, with a pair of the struts being located on opposite sides of the user’s head when the harness is worn and another one of the struts being located behind the user’s head when the harness is worn,
each of said struts including first and second elongated strut members that are shiftably engaged with one another and presenting first and second ends, with each of the first ends adapted to be associated with the helmet and each of the second ends coupled to the harness,
said first and second elongated strut members being shiftable with respect to one another in response to relative movement between the first and second ends; and
a brake assembly coupled to the first and second elongated strut members and responsive to a threshold rate of movement between the first and second elongated strut members to restrict helmet movement relative to the harness and to distribute loads from the helmet to the harness.
18. The motion restrictor of claim 17,
said brake assembly being configured to arrest relative shifting of the strut members and thereby generally prevent helmet movement relative to the harness responsive to the threshold rate of movement.
19. The motion restrictor of claim 17,
said brake assembly comprising a centrifugal brake assembly,
said centrifugal brake assembly comprising a base member having a planar surface, a recess formed within the planar surface having indentations on the recess outer periphery, an elongated connecting member in the recess affixed with a pin and rotatable about the pin, and a pawl pivotally coupled to an end of the connecting member.
20. The motion restrictor of claim 19; and
a coupling between the centrifugal brake assembly and the first elongated member,
said coupling rotating the connecting member in response to movement between the first and second elongated members, with the pawl being configured to pivot into engagement with an indentation in response to applied centrifugal force of the rotating connecting member.
21. The motion restrictor of claim 20,
said applied centrifugal force that causes the pawl to pivot into engagement with an indentation corresponding to the threshold rate of movement between the helmet and the harness.
22. The motion restrictor of claim 17,
said threshold rate of movement between the helmet and the harness corresponding to at least one of a force applied to the helmet or acceleration experienced by the helmet that can cause injury to the user of the helmet.
23. The motion restrictor of claim 19;
a first coupling between the centrifugal brake assembly and the second elongated member, with the first coupling comprising an affixing fastener; and
a second coupling between the centrifugal brake assembly and the first elongated member, with the second coupling comprising intermeshed teeth that convert linear motion to rotational motion.
24. The motion restrictor of claim 19; and
a coupling between the centrifugal brake assembly and the first and second elongated members comprising intermeshed teeth that convert linear motion to rotational motion.
25. The motion restrictor of claim 17,
said brake assembly comprising a centrifugal brake assembly,
said centrifugal brake assembly comprising a base member having a planar surface, a recess formed within the planar surface having teeth on the recess outer periphery, an elongated connecting arm in the recess affixed with a pin and rotatable about the pin, a slot formed on the elongate end of the connecting arm, and a sliding member provided in the slot and slidable past the connecting arm outer periphery.
26. The motion restrictor of claim 25; and
a coupling between the centrifugal brake assembly and the first elongated member,
said coupling rotating the connecting member in response to movement between the first and second elongated members, with the sliding member being configured to slide into engagement with teeth in the recess in response to applied centrifugal force of the rotating connecting arm.
27. A method of restricting motion of a protective helmet to be worn by a user, said method comprising the steps of:
linking the helmet to a portion of the user’s torso by a coupling that comprises relatively shiftable first and second members, with the first member being affixed to the helmet and the second member being connected to a portion of the user’s torso; and
upon the occurrence of an injurious condition corresponding to injury to the head or spine of the user, arresting relative movement between the first and second members so as to prevent corresponding relative movement between the helmet and the user’s torso.
28. The method of claim 27,
said arresting step including the step of coupling a centrifugal brake assembly between the first member and the second member,
said centrifugal brake assembly including a connecting element having a member responsive to shifting movement between the first and second members,
said member of the brake assembly being extendable by a threshold centrifugal force into engagement with a profiled surface, wherein the engagement prevents connecting element rotation and arrests shifting movement between the first and second member.
29. The method of claim 28,
said threshold centrifugal force corresponding to a force applied to the helmet or an acceleration experienced by the helmet that could injure the helmet user.
30. The method of claim 28,
said linking step including the steps of affixing the centrifugal brake assembly to the second member and rotatingly coupling the centrifugal brake assembly to the first member.
31. The method of claim 28,
said linking step including the step of rotatingly coupling the centrifugal brake assembly to the first and second members.
32. The method of claim 28,
said member of the brake assembly comprising a pawl pivotingly connected to an elongate end of the connecting element.
33. The method of claim 28,
said member of the brake assembly comprising a sliding element provided in a slot formed on an elongate end of the connecting element.
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 adhesive composition applicable to skin consisting of
(i) coconut oil;
(ii) one or more polymers from the group consisting of styrene isoprene styrene (SIS), styrene butadiene styrene (SBS), styrene ethylene-butylene styrene (SEBS), styrene-ethylene-styrene (SES), styrene-propylene-styrene (SPS), and ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA);
(iii) mineral oil, and
(iv) a tackifier.
2. An adhesive composition applicable to skin consisting of
(i) coconut oil;
(ii) one or more polymers from the group consisting of styrene isoprene styrene (SIS), styrene butadiene styrene (SBS), styrene ethylene-butylene styrene (SEBS), styrene-ethylene-styrene (SES), styrene-propylene-styrene (SPS), and ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA); and
(iii) a tackifier.
3. The adhesive composition of either of claim 1 or 2, wherein the tackifier is selected from the group consisting of natural rosin, modified rosin, glycerol ester of natural rosin, glycerol ester of modified rosin, pentaerythritol ester of natural rosin, pentaerythritol ester of modified rosin, phenolic-modified terpene resin, aliphatic petroleum hydrocarbon resin, and cycloaliphatic resin.
4. The adhesive composition of either of claim 1 or 2, wherein the ratio of polymer to the total amount of oil present in the composition ranges from about 1:1 to about 1:2 by weight.

1-85. (canceled)
86. A method for sorting cells comprising:
combining a sample having a plurality of target cells with a plurality of modular polynucleotide-encoded capture agent sets, each capture agent comprising a tetramer of an antigen-presenting MHC attached to an optimized streptavidin scaffold molecule and an encoding polynucleotide attached to the scaffold molecule, wherein the MHC specifically binds to a predetermined target cell and the encoding polynucleotide specifically binds to a complementary substrate polynucleotide and wherein each set of capture agents binds the same target cells and binds the same complementary substrate polynucleotides;
forming target cell complexes of capture agents bound to the target cells;
combining the target cell complexes with a plurality of complementary substrate polynucleotide sets attached to a substrate; and
hybridizing the encoding polynucleotides to complementary substrate polynucleotides to sort target cell complexes.
87. The method of claim 86, wherein each capture agent has three encoding polynucleotides attached to the scaffold molecule.
88. The method of claim 86 further comprising a plurality of sets of capture agents, wherein each set of capture agents has encoding polynucleotides orthogonal to the encoding polynucleotides of each other set of capture agents and an MHC tetramer that binds to a target cell surface antigen different from the target cell surface antigen to which the other sets of MHC tetramers bind.
89. The method of claim 88, wherein the encoding polynucleotides of each set of capture agents encodes a restriction site different from the restriction enzyme site of the encoding polynucleotides of the other sets of capture agents.
90. The method of claim 89, wherein substrate bound target cells complexes are combined with restriction enzymes.
91. The method of claim 86, wherein the encoding polynucleotides are ssDNA oligomers.
92. The method of claim 86, wherein the capture agent further comprises a labeled molecule.
93. The method of claim 92, wherein the labeled molecule is selected from the group consisting of radioactive isotopes, fluorophores, chemiluminescent dyes, chromophores, enzymes, enzyme substrates, enzyme cofactors, enzyme inhibitors, dyes, metal ions, nanoparticles, metal sols, and ligands.
94. The method of claim 93 further comprising detecting a labeling signal.
95. The method of claim 86, wherein the MHC is an MHC class I, II or III protein.
96. The method of claim 95, wherein the MHC binds a T cell receptor.
97. The method of claim 86, wherein the target cells are selected from the group consisting of CD8, CD4, CD3 or antigen specific T cells.
98. The method of claim 97, wherein the T cell antigen is selected from the group consisting of MART-1, OVA, CMV, and tyrosinase.
99. The method of claim 86, wherein the optimized streptavidin scaffold molecule further comprises an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO:2.

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. Motor vehicle comprising:
an electric seat adjuster for a seat, and
an occupant protection system comprising a belt assigned to the seat, which belt, in a buckled condition, restrains an occupant in an event of a vehicle impact,
wherein, as a function of the buckling condition of the belt, an adjusting range of the seat adjuster is limited to a narrow adjusting range if the belt is not buckled and is limited to a wider adjusting range if the belt is buckled.
2. Motor vehicle according to claim 1, wherein, if, at a start of the motor vehicle, the belt is not buckled and the seat is adjusted in a position outside the narrow adjusting range, the seat is automatically moved into a position within the narrow adjusting range andor a warning signal is emitted.
3. Motor vehicle according to claim 1, wherein, if the belt is opened up during the driving operation and thus the buckling condition changes from \u201cbelt is buckled\u201d to \u201cbelt is not buckled\u201d, the seat automatically moves from a position outside the narrow adjusting range into a position within the narrow adjusting range andor a warning signal is emitted.
4. Motor vehicle according to claim 2, wherein the seat can be moved from a position outside the narrow adjusting range to a position within the narrow adjusting range only above a predefined minimal speed of the motor vehicle.
5. Motor vehicle according to claim 3, wherein the seat can be moved from a position outside the narrow adjusting range to a position within the narrow adjusting range only above a predefined minimal speed of the motor vehicle.
6. Motor vehicle according to claim 2, wherein the seat is moved so slowly into the narrow adjusting range that the moving of the seat is perceived by the occupant as not being disturbing or is almost not perceived.
7. Motor vehicle according to claim 3, wherein the seat is moved so slowly into the narrow adjusting range that the moving of the seat is perceived by the occupant as not being disturbing or is almost not perceived.
8. Motor vehicle according to claim 2, wherein the moving of the seat is acoustically, haptically or visually indicated to the occupant.
9. Motor vehicle according to claim 3, wherein the moving of the seat is acoustically, haptically or visually indicated to the occupant.
10. Motor vehicle according to claim 1, wherein a narrow adjusting range and a wide adjusting range are provided for at least one electrically adjustable component of the seat.
11. Motor vehicle according to claim 2, wherein a narrow adjusting range and a wide adjusting range are provided for at least one electrically adjustable component of the seat.
12. Motor vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the seat is automatically moved into a position within the narrow adjusting range after the stoppage of the motor vehicle and after the occupant has left the motor vehicle.
13. A vehicle seat assembly comprising:
a vehicle seat,
a seat belt assigned to the seat and operable in a buckled condition to restrain a seat occupant during a vehicle impact event,
a seat adjuster, and
a seat adjuster controller operable to control an adjusting range of the seat adjuster as a function of whether the seat belt is buckled or unbuckled.
14. An assembly according to claim 13, wherein the seat adjuster controller is operable to change the adjusting range between a predetermined narrow range and a predetermined wider range.
15. An assembly according to claim 14, wherein the seat adjuster is operable to adjust a spacing between a vehicle airbag and the seat, and
wherein the seat adjuster changes to the narrow range when the belt is unbuckled.
16. An assembly according to claim 14, wherein the adjuster is operable to adjust a plurality of seat components,
wherein the seat adjuster is operable to adjust a spacing between a vehicle airbag and at least one of said seat components.
17. An assembly according to claim 16, wherein the seat adjuster changes to the narrow range when the belt is unbuckled.
18. An assembly according to claim 15, comprising warning means for providing a warning signal when the narrow range is selected by the seat adjuster controller.
19. An assembly according to claim 17, comprising warning means for providing a warning signal when the narrow range is selected by the seat adjuster controller.
20. An assembly according to claim 14, wherein, if the belt is opened up during the driving operation and thus the buckling condition changes from \u201cbelt is buckled\u201d to \u201cbelt is not buckled\u201d, the seat automatically moves from a position outside the narrow adjusting range into a position within the narrow adjusting range andor a warning signal is emitted.
21. An assembly according to claim 14, wherein the seat can be moved from a position outside the narrow adjusting range to a position within the narrow adjusting range only above a predefined minimal speed of the motor vehicle.
22. An assembly according to claim 14, wherein the seat is moved so slowly into the narrow adjusting range that the moving of the seat is perceived by the occupant as not being disturbing or is almost not perceived.
23. An assembly according to claim 14, wherein the moving of the seat is acoustically, haptically or visually indicated to the occupant.
24. An assembly according to claim 14, wherein the seat is automatically moved into a position within the narrow adjusting range after the stoppage of the motor vehicle and after the occupant has left the motor vehicle.
25. A method of operating a vehicle seat assembly comprising:
a vehicle seat,
a seat belt assigned to the seat an operable in a buckled condition to restrain a seat occupant during a vehicle impact event,
a seat adjuster, and
a seat adjuster controller operable to control an adjusting range of the seat adjuster as a function of whether the seat belt is buckled or unbuckled,
said method including automatically changing the adjusting range from a wider to a narrower adjusting range whenever the belt is unbuckled.