All The Claims

1. A method for treating presbyopia of a patient having an eye, the eye having a cornea, a retina, and a pupil, the method comprising the step for:
defining an intra-ocular lens for implantation into the eye so as to alter the optics of the eye, the altered eye having a presbyopia-mitigating quantity of negative spherical aberration such that the altered eye forms an image, in a plane between the cornea and the retina, of a point source at a viewing distance from the treated eye, and such that the image has a central area with a central intensity surrounded by a peripheral area with a peripheral intensity, the central intensity being higher than the peripheral intensity; and
implanting the intra-ocular lens into the eye.
2. A method for treating presbyopia of a patient having an eye, the eye having a cornea, a retina, and a pupil, the method comprising:
implanting an intra-ocular lens into the eye so as to alter the optics of the eye so that the effect of presbyopia is mitigated, the altered eye having a quantity of negative spherical aberration corresponding to a range from about 0.05 to about 0.4 microns of negative spherical aberration across a 6 mm aperture such that the altered eye forms an image, in a plane between the cornea and the retina, of a point source at a viewing distance from the treated eye, and such that the image has a central area with a central intensity surrounded by a peripheral area with a peripheral intensity, the central intensity being higher than the peripheral intensity.
3. The method of claim 2, further comprising sharpening the image using residual accommodation of the eye.
4. The method of claim 3, wherein the negative spherical aberration is in a range from about 0.1 to about 0.3 microns of negative spherical aberration across the pupil.
5. The method of claim 4, wherein the negative spherical aberration is in a range from about 0.15 to about 0.25 microns of negative spherical aberration across the pupil.
6. The method of claim 3, wherein the negative spherical aberration comprises a radially symmetric negative spherical asphericity.
7. The method of claim 6, wherein the negative spherical aberration corresponds to at least one high-order Zernike polynomial coefficient.
8. The method of claim 7, wherein the negative spherical aberration corresponds to a plurality of high-order Zernike polynomial coefficients.
9. The method of claim 6, wherein a combined alteration to the optical properties of the eye is imposed by the implanting of the intra-ocular lens, wherein the combined alteration corresponds to a combined prescription comprising a refractive defect-correcting prescription for the eye.
10. The method of claim 9, further comprising
measuring refractive aberrations of the eye with a wavefront aberrometer;
determine wavefront Zernike coefficients of the measured refractive aberrations; and
defining the combined prescription for the eye by combining the wavefront Zernike coefficients with at least one high-order Zernike coefficient corresponding to the quantity of negative spherical aberration.
11. The method of claim 3, further comprising:
identifying the quantity of high-order negative spherical aberration; and
determining a presbyopia prescription providing the identified quantity of spherical aberration;
wherein implanting the intra-ocular lens imposes the presbyopia prescription on the eye.
12. The method of claim 3, further comprising creating the intra-ocular lens.
13. A method for treating presbyopia in a patient having an eye with a pupil, the method comprising altering refraction of the eye by implanting an intra-ocular lens into the eye so that the altered eye has a negative spherical aberration corresponding to a range from about 0.05 to about 0.4 microns of negative spherical aberration across a 6 mm aperture so that the effect of presbyopia is mitigated.

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

1-13. (canceled)
14. A laundry deflector apparatus for a domestic laundry appliance, the laundry deflector apparatus comprising:
a plurality of deflector elements, at least one of the deflector element having a base face and a pair of side faces each joined to the base face, the pair of side faces delimiting two sides of a triangle, the base face delimiting the third side of the triangle, the pair of side faces being joined to one another along an edge face facing away from the base face, the base face of the at least one deflector element having a first end and a second end, and the at least one deflector element having an edge pattern along the edge face in which a respective portion of the edge face in the vicinity of the first end of the base face extends increasingly outwardly from the base face in a direction from the first end of the base face toward the second end of the base face at a relatively gradual slope and in which another respective portion of the edge face in the vicinity of the second end of the base face extends increasingly outwardly from the base face at a relatively steep slope, and at least a portion of the second end of the base face has an undercut.
15. The laundry deflector apparatus as claimed in claim 14, wherein the undercut extends along the entire another respective portion of the edge face in the vicinity of the second end of the base face.
16. The laundry deflector apparatus as claimed in claim 15, wherein, in an installed disposition of the laundry deflector apparatus on a domestic laundry appliance in which the laundry deflector apparatus one of the side faces of the at least one deflector element faces the outer environment of the domestic laundry appliance as a front side face and the other side face of the at least one deflector element faces the interior of the domestic laundry appliance as a rear side face, the front side face and the rear side face each delimit a border of the undercut at the second end of the base face, and the front side face extends relatively longer than the rear side face at the second end of the base face.
17. The laundry deflector apparatus as claimed in claim 14, wherein the respective portion of the edge face in the vicinity of the first end of the base face extends increasingly outwardly from the base face in the direction from a start that is essentially flat with the domestic appliance on which the at least one deflector element is disposed such that there is an essentially smooth transition from the domestic laundry appliance on which the at least one deflector element is disposed into the shape of the at least one deflector element.
18. The laundry deflector apparatus as claimed in claim 14, wherein the shape of the second end of a deflector element is configured such that there is an essentially smooth transition from the domestic laundry appliance on which the at least one deflector element is disposed into the shape of the at least one deflector element.
19. The laundry deflector apparatus as claimed in claim 14, wherein the at least one deflector element is configured as a single piece.
20. The laundry deflector apparatus as claimed in claim 14, wherein the at least one deflector element is disposed on an elastic seal of the domestic appliance, the seal connecting an opening of an outer tub of the domestic appliance to a door opening of the domestic laundry appliance.
21. The laundry deflector apparatus as claimed in claim 20, wherein the laundry deflector apparatus is configured as a single piece with the seal.
22. The laundry deflector apparatus as claimed in claim 20, wherein the at least one deflector element is disposed on the seal in such a manner that it is disposed in a plane parallel to a plane of a loading opening of the domestic laundry appliance.
23. The laundry deflector apparatus as claimed in claim 14, wherein another one of the deflector elements is configured in a corresponding manner with the at least one deflector element and these two deflector elements are disposed symmetrically in relation to an axis of symmetry of the seal of the domestic laundry appliance.
24. The laundry deflector apparatus as claimed in claim 23, wherein the two deflector elements are configured as separate components and are disposed at a distance from one another.
25. The laundry deflector apparatus as claimed in claim 23, wherein the two deflector elements are connected to one another and are configured as a single piece.
26. A domestic laundry appliance comprising:
a tub having an opening;
a laundry drum supported in a rotatable manner in the tub, the laundry drum having a loading opening for loading laundry into and out of the laundry drum and the loading opening being operatively aligned with the tub opening;
a housing, the housing having a door opening operatively aligned with the loading opening of the laundry drum and having an elastic seal that connects the tub opening and the door opening; and
a laundry deflector apparatus disposed on the seal and positioned in an upper region of the tub opening, the laundry deflector apparatus including a plurality of deflector elements, at least one of the deflector elements having a base face and a pair of side faces each joined to the base face, the pair of side faces delimiting two sides of a triangle, the base face delimiting the third side of the triangle, the pair of side faces being joined to one another along an edge face facing away from the base face, the base face of the at least one deflector element having a first end and a second end, and the at least one deflector element having an edge pattern along the edge face in which a respective portion of the edge face in the vicinity of the first end of the base face extends increasingly outwardly from the base face in a direction from the first end of the base face toward the second end of the base face at a relatively gradual slope and in which another respective portion of the edge face in the vicinity of the second end of the base face extends increasingly outwardly from the base face at a relatively steep slope, and at least a portion of the second end of the base face has an undercut.

1. A rearview assembly for a vehicle comprising:
a mirror mounting structure including a mirror housing and adapted to be mounted to the vehicle;
electronic circuitry contained in said mirror housing;
an antenna for a wireless telephone mounted to said mirror mounting structure; and
an electromagnetic shield provided between said electronic circuitry and said antenna to substantially block electromagnetic radiation generated by said electronic circuitry from reaching said antenna.
2. The rearview mirror assembly of claim 1, wherein said antenna is mounted to said mirror housing.
3. The rearview mirror assembly of claim 1, wherein said electromagnetic shield is electrically coupled to a ground of said antenna to function as a ground plane.
4. The rearview mirror assembly of claim 1, wherein said electromagnetic shield includes a conductive coating on an inside surface of said mirror housing.
5. The rearview mirror assembly of claim 4, wherein said mirror housing includes an aperture extending from an outside surface of said housing to the inside of said housing and through said conductive coating, said antenna is part of an antenna structure that is mounted to said mirror housing, and a portion of said antenna structure extends through said aperture.
6. The rearview mirror assembly of claim 5, wherein at least one electrical lead from said antenna extends through said aperture.
7. The rearview mirror assembly of claim 1, wherein said electronic circuitry is disposed between two circuit boards, and wherein said electromagnetic shield includes a shielding gasket disposed between the two circuit boards and surrounding said electronic circuitry.
8. The rearview mirror assembly of claim 1, wherein said mirror housing exhibits an electromagnetic interference level less than about 41 dB\u03bcVm for emissions in the frequency range from about 0.4 MHz to about 20 MHz.
9. An electrical circuit for a vehicle comprising:
at least one microphone transducer for generating an electrical signal representing a received audio signal;
a processing circuit coupled to said microphone transducer for processing the electrical signal;
a voice recognition circuit coupled to said processing circuit for performing voice recognition on the processed electrical signals generated by said processing circuit; and
a wireless telephone transceiver coupled to said processing circuit for transmitting the processed electrical signal through a wireless telephone link,
wherein said processing circuit processes the electrical signal received from said microphone transducer differently for output to said voice recognition circuit than for output to said wireless telephone transceiver, and wherein at least one of said voice recognition circuit, processing circuit, microphone transducer, and wireless telephone transceiver is supported by a rearview mirror assembly mounted to the vehicle.
10. The electrical circuit of claim 9, wherein said processing circuit includes a first output terminal coupled to said wireless telephone transceiver and a second output terminal coupled to said voice recognition circuit.
11. The electrical circuit of claim 9, wherein said processing circuit includes a digital signal processor.
12. A telematics system for installation in a vehicle having an electronic module configured to control a feature of the vehicle that affects the ability of the vehicle to be driven, said telematics system comprising:
a global position identification component for identifying the location of the vehicle;
a telephone transceiver component coupled to said global position identification component for transmitting the location of the vehicle to a remote system; and
a controller component coupled to said global position identification component and said telephone transceiver component,
wherein at least one of said components is configured to periodically communicate with the electronic module and to thereby acknowledge that each of said components is present and functional such that if the electronic module does not receive periodic acknowledgement of the presence andor functionality of said components, the electronic module affects the ability of the vehicle to be driven.
13. The telematics system of claim 12, wherein said at least one component is said controller component, wherein said controller component verifies the presence and status of said telephone transceiver component and said global position identification component.
14. The telematics system of claim 13, wherein said controller component periodically transmits a signal to the electronic module to acknowledge the presence and status of the telematics system.
15. The telematics system of claim 13, wherein said controller component responds to periodic polling signals from the electronic module to acknowledge the presence and status of the telematics system.
16. The telematics system of claim 12, wherein said at least one component and the electronic module communicate with one another using a rolling code sequence.
17. The telematics system of claim 12, wherein at least one of said components is associated with a rearview mirror assembly of the vehicle.
18. The telematics system of claim 12, wherein all of said components are associated with a rearview mirror assembly of the vehicle.
19. The telematics system of claim 12 and further including a battery back-up to allow a distress call to be made when power is otherwise disrupted to the telematics system.
20. The telematics system of claim 12 and further including a telephone antenna coupled to said telephone transceiver component.
21. The telematics system of claim 20, wherein said antenna is mounted to a rearview mirror assembly of the vehicle.
22. The telematics system of claim 12, wherein the electronic module disables the vehicle upon detection that one of said components is not present or non-functional.
23. A telephone system for installation in a vehicle having an electronic module for determining whether an ignition key has been inserted into the vehicle ignition and for communicating the presence of the key in the ignition, said telephone system comprising:
a telephone transceiver for transmitting calls over a wireless communication link; and
a control circuit coupled to said telephone transceiver and in communication with the electronic module, said control circuit disables at least some functions of said telephone transceiver when an ignition key is not detected in the vehicle ignition.
24. The telephone system of claim 23, wherein said control circuit disables the ability of the telephone system to make at least some calls using said telephone transceiver.
25. The telephone system of claim 23, wherein said control circuit disables the ability to make calls to telephone numbers not previously stored in a memory component of said control circuit.

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. Device for storing liquids, comprising a plastic container manufactured by a blowing process and having a single-layer or multilayer wall, and at least one filling and emptying hole, the container (1) further comprising at least two separately manufactured and largely identical container parts (2, 3), each of which has an approximately rectangular cross section with an underside (4) and an upper side (5), and a height that is considerably greater than the largest cross-sectional dimension, wherein each of the container parts has a lower and an upper flow socket (10, 11) on one side thereof, and wherein the container parts are joined in the area of the flow sockets (10, 11) to form a single piece.
2. Device in accordance with claim 1, wherein each container part has a wall (7) with a middle section, and wherein the middle section of the wall (7) of the container parts (2, 3) is provided with stiffening corrugations (8) that run all the way around the wall.
3. Device in accordance with claim 2, wherein the underside (4) and the upper side (5) have stiffening corrugations (9) that extend to the region of the wall (7).
4. Device in accordance with claim 3, wherein the stiffening corrugations (8, 9) have differenct depths andor cross sections.
5. Device in accordance with claim 1, wherein the facing flow sockets (10, 11) of the two container parts (2, 3) have approximately the same cross section.