All The Claims

1. A device for dispensing a dental material, comprising a piston for extruding the material, the device having a threaded spindle and a cooperating threaded nut that are rotatable relative to each other about a rotation axis, wherein a rotation of the nut and the spindle relative to each other causes the spindle and the nut to displace axially relative to each other along the rotation axis and to move the piston, and wherein the device is adapted for rotationally driving the spindle and the nut individually.
2. The device of claim 1, wherein the device is adapted to drive the spindle and the nut for rotating in the same direction andor in opposite directions.
3. The device of claim 1, being adapted to drive the spindle and the nut at different rotations speeds.
4. The device of claim 1, being adapted to temporarily stop one or both of the spindle and the nut from rotating.
5. The device of claim 1, having a spindle drive member for rotationally driving the spindle, wherein the spindle drive member and the spindle are adapted such that the spindle drive member and the spindle are locked against rotation relative to each other but axially movable relative to one another.
6. The device of claim 5, wherein the spindle has a spline which extends in a direction generally axially to the rotation axis, and a key movable within the spline and locking the spindle drive member and the spindle against rotation relative to one another.
7. The device of claim 5, in which the nut and the spindle drive member are axially coupled such that an axial movement of the nut and the spindle relative to one another causes the same axial movement of the spindle drive member and the spindle relative to one another.
8. The device of claim 5, having a first motor cooperating with the spindle drive member via a first transmission to rotationally drive the spindle.
9. The device of claim 8, adapted such that the first motor cooperates with the nut via a second transmission to rotationally drive the nut.
10. The device of claim 8, having a second motor cooperating with the nut via a second transmission to rotationally drive the nut.
11. The device of claim 8, wherein the first and second transmissions have different transmission ratios.
12. The device of claim 9, in which the first and second transmissions comprise a gear transmission.
13. The device of claim 12, at least one of the first and second transmissions forms a component of a planetary gear drive.
14. A device for dispensing a dental material, comprising:
a piston for extruding the material, the device having a threaded spindle and a cooperating threaded nut that are rotatable relative to each other about a rotation axis, wherein a rotation of the nut and the spindle relative to each other causes the spindle and the nut to displace axially relative to each other along the rotation axis and to move the piston, and wherein the device is adapted for rotationally driving the spindle and the nut individually,
a receptacle for receiving the material in the form of two material components;
a mixer shaft for receiving and driving a mixer for mixing the components; and
at least two pistons for advancing the components toward at least one outlet to which the mixer is connectable.
15. The device of claim 14, being adapted for driving the mixer shaft wherein a transmission is provided between the mixer shaft and at least one of the spindle and the nut.
16. The device of claim 14, wherein the device is adapted to drive the spindle and the nut for rotating in the same direction andor in opposite directions.
17. The device of claim 14, having a spindle drive member for rotationally driving the spindle, wherein the spindle drive member and the spindle are adapted such that the spindle drive member and the spindle are locked against rotation relative to each other but axially movable relative to one another.
18. The device of claim 14, in which the nut and the spindle drive member are axially coupled such that an axial movement of the nut and the spindle relative to one another causes the same axial movement of the spindle drive member and the spindle relative to one another.

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 apparatus for monitoring a communication device that is communicatively coupled to a first network, the apparatus being connected to a second network, comprising:
a receiver configured to receive, using a first protocol, device information of the communication device, the device information including (1) status information received from sensors of the communication device, and (2) a device identification of the communication device;
a memory configured to store the received device information;
a processor configured to identify, of the received device information, desired device information to be transmitted, wherein the processor is further configured to identify a destination of the desired device information, the destination being connected to the first network; and
a transmitter configured to transmit the desired device information to the identified destination connected to the first network using e-mail.
2. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:
a determining unit configured to determine whether the transmitter should transmit the desired device information or not, based on the device information of the communication device that is received by the receiver.
3. An method for monitoring a communication device that is communicatively coupled to a first network, the apparatus being connected to a second network, comprising:
receiving, using a first protocol, device information of the communication device, the device information including (1) status information received from sensors of the communication device, and (2) a device identification of the communication device;
storing the received device information;
identifying a destination of the desired device information, the destination being connected to the first network;
identifying, of the received device information, desired device information to be transmitted; and
transmitting the desired device information to the identified destination connected to the first network using e-mail.
4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:
determining whether to transmit the desired device information or not, based on the received device information of the communication device.
5. An apparatus for monitoring a communication device that is communicatively coupled to a first network, the apparatus being connected to a second network, comprising:
a receiver configured to receive, using a first protocol, device information of the communication device, the device information including (1) status information received from sensors of the communication device, and (2) a device identification of the communication device;
a memory configured to store the received device information;
a processor configured to determine which destination, of a plurality of destinations, the received device information should be sent, the destination being connected to the first network; and
a transmitter configured to transmit the received device information to the determined destination connected to the first network.
6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein
the processor is configured to identify the destination of the desired device information from among a plurality of destinations.

1. A method of cataloguing a data collection composed of a plurality of data symbols, said data symbols having a defined order with respect to one another within the data collection, said method of cataloguing being characterised by;
(i) forming a first data element from an initial sequencing of symbols present within the data collection, said data element being stored at a storage location within the data collection having a storage address,
(ii) transforming the first data element into a first data item, said data item being capable of being ranked with respect to other data items,
(iii) storing the first data item using an ordered catalogue data structure which defines a plurality of sequentially arranged storage positions,
(iv) associating with the first data item the storage address from which the first data element was retrieved,
(v) consecutively repeating steps (i) through (iv) for each adjacent data element from the data collection, where each subsequent adjacent data element is formed from the same number of symbols as that used to form the first data element, and
(vi) sorting the ordered catalogue data structure by ranking the data item stored within said catalogue data structure.
2. A method of cataloguing a data collection as claimed in claim 1, wherein the size of the catalogue data structure is substantially equivalent to the size of the data collection.
3. A method of cataloguing a data collection as claimed in claim 1, wherein the catalogue data structure is formed from an array.
4. A method of cataloguing a data collection as claimed in claim 1, wherein data items are associated with storage addresses through the provision of a parallel address data structure.
5. A method of cataloguing a data collection as claimed in claim 4 wherein the parallel address data structure is formed from an array.
6. A method of cataloguing a data collection as claimed in claim 1 wherein data items are associated with storage addresses throughout the storage of storage addresses within the content data structure.
7. A method of cataloguing a data collection as claimed in claim 1 wherein data items are associated with storage addresses through the provision of a duplicate based data structure.
8. A method of cataloguing a data collection as claimed in claim 1 wherein the transform process applied to data elements provides numeric format data elements.
9. A method of cataloguing a data collection as claimed in claim 1 wherein the transform process applied to data elements is implemented by a direct hash function.
10. A method of cataloguing a data collection as claimed in claim 1 wherein the transform process applied to data elements is implemented by a lossy hash function.
11. A method of cataloguing a data collection as claimed in claim 10 wherein a retrieval validation process is executed within a search process which uses the catalogue data structure.
12. A method of cataloguing a data collection as claimed in claim 1 wherein the most significant symbol of data items is not stored within the resulting sorted catalogue data structure.
13. A method of cataloguing a data collection as claimed in claim 1 wherein a class data structure is provided.
14. A method of cataloguing a data collection as claimed in claim 13 wherein a class data structure is provided by an array which defines a number of storage positions equal to the number of unique most significant symbols present within data items.
15. A method of cataloguing a data collection as claimed in claim 1, further characterised by;
(vii) forming at least one ordered content data structure which defines a number of storage positions equal to the maximum number of unique data elements which can exist,
(viii) associating with each storage position at least one data element, and
(ix) storing within each storage position of the content data structure a positive or negative indicator depending on whether said at least one data element associated with the storage position is present within the data collection.
16. A method of cataloguing a data collection as claimed in claim 15 wherein the content data structure is formed from an array.
17. A method of cataloguing a data collection as claimed in claim 1 wherein the catalogue data structure is used to find specific data element symbol sequences by running a plurality of search queries generated from a data element symbol sequence.
18. A method of cataloguing a data collection as claimed in claim 17 wherein the plurality of search queries run are generated using a sliding window process.
19. A method of cataloguing a data collection as claimed in claim 18 wherein the results generated by the plurality of search queries run are processed by a search pattern sequence detection process.
20. A method of cataloguing a data collection as claimed in claim 19 wherein the search pattern sequence detection process detects the presence of a pattern on inspection of the spatial relationship between storage addresses associated with data elements found by said search queries.
21. A method of cataloguing a data collection as claimed in claim 20 wherein an error tolerance threshold is used to test whether matching pattern sequences have been detected.
22. A method of detecting the presence of search patterns within a data collection catalogued in accordance with claim 1, said method being characterised by;
i) receiving a search pattern sequence,
ii) forming a plurality of search queries by running a sliding window process over the received search pattern sequence,
iii) retrieving a plurality of storage addresses from the catalogue data structure, said search addresses being associated with data elements which match the search queries formed, and
iv) detecting the presence of the search pattern sequence received by inspecting the spatial relationship between the storage addresses received.
23. A method of pattern detection as claimed in claim 22 wherein an error tolerant threshold is used to test whether matching pattern sequences have been detected.
24. Computer executable instructions stored on a computer readable medium, said computer executable instructions being adapted to execute the method of cataloguing a data structure as claimed in claim 1.
25. A computer readable medium with computer executable instructions stored therein, said computer executable instructions being adapted to execute the method of cataloguing a data structure as claimed in claim 1.
26. (canceled)

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 electrostatic chucking device comprising:
an electrostatic chucking portion which includes a plate-like body, a principal surface of which is used as a mounting surface that mounts a plate-like specimen, an electrostatic adsorption electrode provided in the plate-like body and a power-feeding terminal that applies a direct-current voltage on the electrostatic adsorption electrode; and
a base stage that is provided on the other principal surface and supports the electrostatic chucking portion,
wherein the plate-like body is made of a corrosion-resistant ceramic, and
a circular insulation member is provided in a circumferential edge portion between the electrostatic chucking portion and the base stage, and a heat radiation plate is provided on a principal surface of the base stage on an electrostatic chucking portion side.
2. The electrostatic chucking device according to claim 1, wherein the corrosion-resistant ceramic is made of one or two or more selected from a group consisting of yttrium aluminum oxide composite oxides, rare earth element-added yttrium aluminum oxide composite oxides and yttrium oxide.
3. The electrostatic chucking device according to claim 1, wherein the heat radiation plate is made of metal or an organic resin having thermal conductivity.
4. The electrostatic chucking device according to claim 1, wherein the mounting surface includes a plurality of protrusion portions having a diameter smaller than the thickness of the plate-like specimen.
5. The electrostatic chucking device according to claim 1, wherein the surface roughness Ra of an end surface of the power-feeding terminal on an electrostatic adsorption electrode side is in a range of 0.05 \u03bcm to 1.0 \u03bcm.
6. The electrostatic chucking device according to claim 1, wherein an insulation layer is provided under the electrostatic adsorption electrode, and the insulation layer and the heat radiation plate are adhered to each other via an organic adhesive layer.
7. The electrostatic chucking device according to claim 6, wherein the circular insulation member is provided to surround the electrostatic adsorption electrode, the organic adhesive layer and the heat radiation plate, and the distance between the electrostatic adsorption electrode and the base stage is larger than the distance between the circular insulation member and the base stage.
8. The electrostatic chucking device according to claim 1, wherein the circular insulation member is made of an insulating ceramic which has a thermal conductivity which is larger than that of the corrosion-resistant ceramic of the plate-like body.