All The Claims

1. In a system for providing protection during impact against highway crash barriers of the type comprising horizontally extending rails adapted to be supported along a roadway by attachment to vertical supporting posts anchored in the ground, the improvement comprising: a cladding complex comprising a plurality of planar surfaces arranged in the form of concentric rings adapted to extend along the height of said supporting posts and having their opposed ends terminating in a housing structure which engages opposed sides of each post, the housing structure having an open end to allow it to be attached to said posts, the concentric rings extending outwardly from the post in the direction of the roadway beyond the roadway facing side of the post, the concentric rings each having a thickness that decreases progressively from their ends which attach to the housing to reach a minimum thickness at their central portions which extend from the post in the direction of the roadway.
2. The system of claim 1 further comprising a series of longitudinally spaced protuberances formed along the side of the rails which face the roadway to absorb energy of a vehicle impacting the rail.
3. The system of claim 1 in which the sections of the housing which engage the posts are formed with teeth to achieve better attachment to the posts.
4. The system of claim 1 in which the housing is open at its extremity away from the roadway and is terminated at its outer side by two clamp sections disposed opposite to each other designed to receive an attachment bar joined at its ends to the two clamp sections to support the core on the post supporting the barrier rail.
5. The system of claim 1 in which the concentric rings are formed of a deformable flexible plastic with the ability to reassume their concentric relationship when an impacting force is removed.
6. The system of claim 1 wherein the complex comprises three planar surfaces arranged in the form of concentric rings.
7. The system of claim 1 in which the housing is attached to its supporting post by an adhesive.

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 medical electrical lead system configured to be at least partially implanted in a body of a subject, comprising:
a lead body comprising a proximal end and a distal end and a first lumen extending at least partially therebetween;
at least one electrode in the proximity of the distal end of the lead body; and
a reservoir in fluid communication with the first lumen and in the form of a second lumen of the lead body or a protrusion extending from the first lumen of the lead body, wherein the protrusion is configured to be refilled whether the protrusion is implanted in the body of the subject or external to the body of the subject during use,
wherein the reservoir is located at a position removed from the distal end of the lead body.
2. The lead system of claim 1, wherein the lead system is configured to be at least partially implanted in neural tissue of a subject.
3. The lead system of claim 2, wherein the lead system is configured to be at least partially implanted in a brain of a subject.
4. The lead system of claim 1, wherein the reservoir is located in the proximity of the proximal end of the lead body.
5. The lead system of claim 1, wherein the reservoir is configured to be activated by a pump.
6. The lead system of claim 1, wherein the reservoir is in the form of a protrusion extending from the first lumen of the lead body, wherein the protrusion is configured to be refilled whether the protrusion is implanted in the body of the subject or external to the body of the subject during use.
7. The lead system of claim 6, wherein the protrusion extends from the first lumen of the lead body and surrounds a portion of the lead body.
8. The lead system of claim 1, wherein the lead system is configured to allow at least one bioactive agent to passively advance from the reservoir through the first lumen of the lead body.
9. The lead system of claim 1, wherein the lead system is configured for release of at least one bioactive agent therefrom by at least one of diffusion, elution, or effusion.
10. The lead system of claim 1, wherein the reservoir is configured to be secured to a skull of a subject.
11. The lead system of claim 1, further comprising at least one conductor disposed within the lead body.
12. The lead system of claim 11, wherein the at least one conductor is wound around the first lumen.
13. The lead system of claim 12, wherein the at least one conductor is coiled around the first lumen.
14. The lead system of claim 1, wherein the distal end of the lead body is formed of at least one permeable material.
15. The lead system of claim 14, wherein the proximal end of the lead body is formed of at least one substantially impermeable material.
16. The lead system of claim 1, wherein the proximal end of the lead body is formed of at least one substantially impermeable material.
17. The lead system of claim 1, wherein the lead system is configured to be connected to an implantable medical device.
18. The lead system of claim 1, wherein the lead body is integral with the reservoir.
19. The lead system of claim 1, wherein the reservoir is in the form of a second lumen of the lead body.
20. The lead system of claim 19, wherein the reservoir is refillable.
21. The lead system of claim 1, further comprising a valve located between the reservoir and the first lumen.
22. The lead system of claim 21, wherein the valve comprises a check valve.
23. The lead system of claim 1, wherein the reservoir comprises MRI-visible markers.
24. The lead system of claim 1, wherein the reservoir comprises radiopaque markers.

1. A method of associating information with a digital map comprising:
extracting at least one local identifier from at least one image, the at least one image also having positional data; and
determining the location of each of the at least one extracted local identifier using the positional data of the corresponding image;
creating at least one cluster of common or similar extracted local identifiers based on at least one of:
(i) the distance of the extracted local identifiers from each other; and
(ii) the distance of the extracted local identifiers from one or more segments of the digital map; and
associating the at least one cluster with at least one segment of the digital map.
2. The method according to claim 1 wherein the extracted at least one local identifier is a street name.
3. The method according to claim 1 wherein the at least one extracted local identifier is extracted from the at least one image by using character recognition.
4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the positional data comprises data relating to one or more of:
global navigation satellite system data;
cellular network data;
local wireless network data; and
pseudolite data.
5-10. (canceled)
11. The method according to claim 1,
wherein the at least one cluster is further based on the orientation of the at least one extracted local identifier with.
12. (canceled)
13. The method according to claim 1, wherein the segments of the digital map are derived from probe data.
14. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer program code to make a computer execute the method as claimed in claim 1.
15. (canceled)
16. A digital map created using the method of claim 1.
17-20. (canceled)
21. An apparatus for associating information with a digital map comprising:
a processor configured to:
extract at least one local identifier from at least one image, the at least one image having positional data relating to the location at which the image is captured;
determine the location of each of the at least one extracted local identifiers using the positional data of the corresponding image;
create at least one cluster of common or similar extracted local identifiers based on at least one of:
(i) the distance of the extracted local identifiers from each other; and
(ii) (ii) the distance of the extracted local identifiers from one or more segments of the digital map; and
associate the one or more clusters with at least one segment of the digital map.

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 chemical analysis apparatus for inserting a sample serving as a substance to be analyzed and a reagent into a reaction container and agitating them by irradiating sound waves to said reaction container, said chemical analysis apparatus comprising:
a piezoelectric element generating said sound waves, wherein the piezoelectric element comprises a multi-segmented sound supply portion;
a measuring unit for analyzing physical properties of the sample;
a driver for driving said piezoelectric element,
a controller for operating components of the chemical analysis apparatus, and
a slant reflecting surface adapted to reflect said sound waves generated by the piezoelectric element and propagated through the reaction container, wherein the slant reflecting surface is disposed opposite to the piezoelectric element with respect to the reaction container and reflects said sound waves in a direction below said sound wave and toward a position where no liquid surface is presented;
said driver comprising: a wave form producing device for producing an oscillation waveform having a fundamental frequency of said sound waves to be irradiated; an auxiliary waveform producing device for producing an oscillation wave form having a frequency lower than that of said oscillation waveform; a multiplying circuit for creating a multiplied waveform between said waveform and the wave form having the lower frequency; and, a power amplifier for power-amplifying said multiplied waveform,
wherein the driver is configured to select and drive one or more segment of the multi-segmented sound supply portion such as to irradiate a lateral sound wave of the multiplied waveform toward a irradiating zone including a liquid surface of a mixture of the sample and the reagent based on a height of the liquid surface,
wherein the lateral sound wave and the sound wave reflected from the slant reflecting surface induce a swirling circulation flow of the mixture in the reaction container,
wherein the lateral sound wave is intermittently irradiated toward the reaction container, and
wherein, said wave form producing device is configured to perform frequency-modulation with a prescribed frequency width.
2. The chemical analysis apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of segments of sound sources of the multi-segmented sound supply portion of the piezoelectric element are oriented to a depth direction of said reaction container.
3. The chemical analysis apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said driver selects and drives a segment corresponding to the sound irradiating area including a surface of a mixing liquid of the sample and the reagent in the plurality of segments of sound sources using said wave form producing device or said auxiliary waveform producing device.
4. The chemical analysis apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said driver receives the information concerning the liquid quantity of the mixing liquid to be agitated, and selects and drives said segment according to said information.
5. The chemical analysis apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said driver intermittently irradiates said sound wave in said reaction container and generates a swirling flow in the mixing liquid of the sample and the reagent in the reaction container using said wave form producing device or said auxiliary waveform producing device.