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This invention relates to an analog space-time relay method and apparatus for a wireless communication channel. Wireless relays have shown potential for extending communication range and providing good quality of experience. In general, there are two broad relay schemes which can be categorized based on the processing ...
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Often, transferring data in phones can be very cumbersome. In particular, modern phones may hold multiple gigabytes of data comprising pictures and other graphical representations, address records, emails, etc. A lot of overhead going through the applications creates a data bottleneck for service stations and other sto...
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Various methods, and filtration installations that operate according to those methods, are known for filtering liquid products, such as drinks, including beer. A known way to filter drinks is the conventional precoat filtration method. In this method, the unfiltrate comprises the product to be filtered and a filtration...
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1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a silicide joint and a method for manufacturing the silicide joint (hereinafter also referred to simply as “joint” and “method”) and, more particularly, to a silicide joint that may suitably be used as a high-temperature-resistant electrode material for heaters...
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A polymethine dye is a dye having a linearly conjugated system with an odd number of methine (—CH═) groups, where the terminal heteroatoms N, O, or S, eventually are included in two terminal heterocycles Het1 and Het2. As described herein, polymethines are a delocalized π (pi) electron system, represented by at least i...
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Circuit interrupting and reclosing devices function to isolate a fault condition in a power distribution system and upon clearing of the fault condition to reclose the circuit. Faults in a power distribution system can occur for any number of reasons and are typically transient. Detection and isolation of the fault mit...
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1. Field of the Invention The invention is related to ultracapacitors also known as supercapacitors. The applications of the ultracapacitors may include hybrid/electric vehicles, spacecrafts, uninterrupted power supplies and memory backup power supplies. Also, the invention is related to transition metal nitrides and t...
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1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to devices for monitoring around a vehicle in which target extraction is carried out by subjecting an image captured by an infrared camera device to a binary thresholding method. 2. Description of Related Art Devices for monitoring around a vehicle have been propo...
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In a manufacturing process of electronic devices such as a semiconductor device and a liquid crystal display device, for example, an etching process for etching a film on a substrate in a desired pattern is performed to form a predetermined circuit pattern on the substrate. A plasma processing apparatus has been widely...
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Screw-threaded connectors and pulling caps for optical fibre cables are described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,579,014 and 6,648,520 of Corning Cable Systems, but these are relatively expensive and slow to install, which is a serious commercial handicap when large numbers of such connections are to be made. One or more aspects ...
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1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a string tuning adjuster, in particular to an adjuster which enables to fit onto a string peg of a cello, a viola or a violin to do fine tune adjustment. 2. Description of the Prior Art Strings on a cello, a viola or a violin tend to be loose after a period of ...
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Sealing around metal roof-penetrating pipes to prevent ingress of water and moisture presents problems. The metal pipes expand and contract with varied temperatures that a roof encounters. Ordinary seals and tars under stress over time periods, crack, become loose, and admit water and moisture to penetrate roofs around...
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Conventional anthraquinone blue dyes such as C. I. Disp. Blue 56 have been used to dye polyesters for a long time. However, they have several deficiencies such as: low hue intensity which incurrs extra costs for the dyeing process; tendency to easily contaminate other fibers than those to be dyed; likelihood of uneven ...
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Field of the Disclosure This application relates generally to a training firearm that is functional but incapable of firing live ammunition. The present disclosure also relates to methods for modifying a fully functional firearm into a readily identifiable firearm capable of functioning, but incapable of firing live am...
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The repetoire of digital computers commonly contains a count ones instruction, which instruction computes the number of bits in a data word which are equal to binary "1". This computer count ones instruction may be implemented either under discrete logical or microprogrammable control. The generalized prior art compute...
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‘BRU-1’ is a new and distinct variety of hop plant discovered by the inventor as a chance seedling in a cultivated ‘Cascade’ (not patented) hop field near Toppenish, Wash. ‘BRU-1’ variety has been asexually reproduced by cuttings near Toppenish, Wash. and has been observed to remain true to type over successive asexual...
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1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a toner and a developer for use in electrophotography. In addition, the present invention also relates to a developer and an image forming method using the toner. 2. Discussion of the Background In a typical electrophotographic apparatus or electrostatic record...
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1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for ascertaining the position, velocity and direction of travel of a vehicle at a remote location and for transmitting such information to a network-based server using a wireless communication system. 2. Description of the Related Art Va...
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Conventional semiconductor storage devices, such as MRAM, need to have a resistive element in the circuit design. For example, a typical resistive element led using an active area or gate wiring of a memory cell array has a low sheet resistance, a high parasitic capacitance or bad temperature characteristics. For such ...
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Further, a drug delivery device comprising a piston rod is disclosed. The drug delivery device may be e.g. a pen-type injector. It is an object to provide for a bearing which facilitates an improved assembly to a piston rod body. It is another object to provide for a piston rod arrangement which facilitates improved as...
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Dish racks are commonly positioned next to a kitchen sink for drying tableware after hand washing. The water from washed plates, bowls, cups and utensils will typically drip onto a base mat, into a storage basin, or sometimes be directed into the sink with a spout. An example of a typical wire basket dish rack is U.S. ...
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1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a display apparatus and a manufacturing method thereof. More particularly, the present invention relates to a display apparatus having substantially reduced power consumption and improved display quality, and a method of manufacturing the same. 2. Description o...
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Image compression and hybrid video compression consists of partitioning a frame into blocks, predicting each block and transforming the residual error using a block transform. Video compression algorithms generally use motion compensation from previous frames, whereas image compression algorithms may use previously enc...
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Field of the Invention This invention relates generally to digital imaging, and more particularly to high dynamic range (HDR) pixel arrays. Description of the Background Art Color sensitive digital imagers are well known. Typically color imagers are comprised of a plurality of image sensor pixels, each being sensitive ...
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FIG. 1 depicts a block diagram of telecommunications system 100 in the prior art. Telecommunications system 100 comprises telecommunications terminal 101, call server 102, local area network 103, internet protocol-based network 104, and web application server 105, interconnected as shown. Telecommunications terminal 10...
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The present invention relates to the irradiation of food products using ionizing radiation such as x-rays. The invention is also applicable to irradiation in industrial, medical, sterilization or other fields in which efficient irradiation of materials is desired. Diseases caused by contaminated food are one of the mos...
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An EL indicating panel generates electro-luminescence when an electric field is applied to a film composed of zinc sulfide with small amounts of some transition metal such as Mn and rare earth elements. EL indicating panels have been known and used for quite some time and generally consist of a thin film construction c...
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1. Technical Field Embodiments described herein relate generally to a semiconductor integrated circuit and, more particularly, to a semiconductor integrated circuit capable of controlling a read command. 2. Background Typically, a semiconductor integrated circuit operates by synchronizing a command signal and an addres...
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Sputtering is a physical vapor deposition (PVD) process in which high-energy ions impact and erode a solid target and deposit the target material on the surface of a substrate such as a semiconductor substrate, a specific example being a silicon wafer. In semiconductor fabrication, the sputtering process is usually acc...
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Technical Field This disclosure relates to a sheet discriminator to discriminate sheet types, an image forming apparatus including the sheet discriminator, and an image forming system incorporating the sheet discriminator included in the image forming apparatus. Related Art In known image forming processes, to achieve ...
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.gamma.-Poly(glutamic acid) (hereinafter ".gamma.-PGA") is a polymer which is biodegradable. However, the utility of .gamma.-PGA has been limited. For example, synthetic methods typically result in a .gamma.-PGA polymer, or corresponding side chain ester derivatives, having a molecular weight of less than about 10,000,...
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Multi band antennas are antennas providing wireless signals in multiple radio frequency bands, i.e. two or more bands. They are commonly used and are well known in wireless communication systems, such as GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, LTE, and WiMax systems. This type of multi band antenna often comprises a reflector structure...
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One of mankind's greatest challenges has been the design of an odorless litter box which does not have to be cleaned very often but is easy to clean when such is necessary. This challenge is documented by the issuance of literally hundreds of patents over the years for new types of litter boxes and litter box apparatus...
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1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a lens tube of a microscope having a plurality of observation ports, and particularly, to optical path switching means to an observation port. 2. Related Background Art Conventionally, a lens tube of a microscope having a plurality of observation ports is secur...
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Post-herpetic neuralgia is the predominant morbidity associated with development of herpes-zoster, also known as shingles. The neuralgia typically lasts for from one to six months and is often excruciatingly painful. Evidence has accrued in recent years which shows that herpes-zoster is caused by reactivation of latent...
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The present invention relates to receiver equalizers used in television broadcasting to provide signal delays compensating for complementary delays in television receivers. Government established broadcasting standards for color television service set forth a uniform format for the color television signal which are tra...
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1. Field of the Invention: This invention relates to textile treatment preparations based on condensation products of carboxylic acids or carboxylic acid derivatives with hydroxyalkyl polyamines. The preparations show particularly good dispersibility in water through the addition of dispersion accelerators which are pr...
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1. Field of the Invention The invention relates to a portable electronic device and, more particularly, to form factor configuration of a portable electronic device. 2. Brief Description of Prior Developments Ultra thin telephone products have emerged in the market, pioneering a new approach in mechanical architecture ...
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Conventionally, the sliding bearing used in turbochargers of internal combustion engines has been required to have corrosion resistance and wear resistance properties, and it has been made of brass in which grains of Mn—Si compounds are dispersed in a matrix of the brass. There has been proposed such a sliding bearing ...
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As a brushless motor, there is a so-called inner rotor type motor having a stator on which a coil is wound and a rotor rotatably provided in a radial inside of the stator. A plurality of permanent magnets are disposed on an outer circumferential surface of the rotor of this type so that magnetic poles thereof are dispo...
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Wind turbines convert wind energy to electrical energy by using the wind to drive the rotor of generator, either directly or by means of a gear box. The frequency of the AC power that is developed at the stator terminals of the generator is directly proportional to the speed of rotation of the rotor. The voltage at the...
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The present invention concerns a transfer element for the transfer of molten steel between an upstream container such as a tundish and a downstream vessel such as a continuous casting mold, the said element having a body delimiting a steel entrance zone, a channel and a steel exit zone. In the field of continuous casti...
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1. FIELD OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to bulk polymerization processes for making vinyl aromatic/vinyl cyanide copolymers, and more particularly relates to bulk polymerization processes having a vapor phase additive which inhibits popcorn formation. 2. DESCRIPTION OF THE RELATED ART Mass or bulk polym...
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This invention relates to severing and sealing thermoplastic material and, more particularly, to apparatus for using a hot wire to sever a plurality of plies of the thermoplastic material and sealing the severed margins thereof to form bags or similar containers. In the process of manufacturing thermoplastic bags or ot...
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It is desirable to convert analog signals to digital form, typically because a physical variable is in analog form and processing of it is more practical if it is in a digital form such as a stream of values representing samples of the analog signal. Analog to digital converters are well known and are frequently implem...
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1. Field This document relates to a display device. 2. Related Art As the information technology is advancing, the markets of display devices, connection mediums between users and information, are expanding. Accordingly, the use of flat panel displays (FPDs) such as a liquid crystal display (LCD), an organic light emit...
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1. Technical Field The present invention relates to a semiconductor device that includes a multilayer interconnect structure. 2. Related Art To cope with the recent growing demand for higher operating speed for semiconductor chips, various studies are being aggressively made on employing a material having a lower diele...
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Microarrays are a powerful and established tool in genomics.1 In contrast, the development of antibody (Ab) microarrays into an equivalent tool for proteomics has been limited by: (1) the availability of high affinity and specificity antibodies for capture and detection of protein biomarkers; (2) the susceptibility of ...
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Protein phosphorylation is now well recognized as an important mechanism utilized by cells to transduce and regulate signals during different stages of cellular function (Hunter, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 353: 583–605 (1998); Chan et al., Annu. Rev. Immunol. 12: 555–592 (1994); Zhang, Curr. Top. Cell. Reg. 35: 21–68...
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Numerous reports of the past 25 years suggest that supplementation of dietary omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (w-3 PUFA) with linseed, canola, or fish oils has beneficial effects in human discases and laboratory animals (1. De Caterina, R., S. Endres, S. D. Kristensen, and E. B. Schmidt, editors. 1993. n-3 Fatty Ac...
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Unless otherwise indicated herein, the materials described in this section are not prior art to the claims in this application and are not admitted to be prior art by inclusion in this section. Electric motor actuators for robotic and automation systems often require a transmission (speed reducer) in order to operate w...
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The present invention relates to a lock assembly of a DIN type connector, which includes a first cover and a second cover associated with a coupling to provide a lock system for locking the connector. In the prior art, most DIN type connectors do not provide any means for locking the connection elements. Parts of the p...
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The present invention relates to steam traps and in particular to a float-type steam trap having an improved temperature responsive control arrangement. Float-type steam traps are well known and are effective in applications where the trap is in constant use. In these traps a float controls a flow of water from a float...
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A multilayered printed circuit board so-called a multilayered built-up circuit substrate is manufactured by a semi-additive method and the like and produced by reciprocally layering conductor circuits of copper and the like and interlaminar resin insulating layers on a resin substrate reinforced with a 0.5 to 1.5 mm-th...
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RLC protocol performance is governed by, among other factors, the RLC window size (WS). The window size of a protocol indicates how many blocks of data (blocks) that a transmitter can send without the need to receive acknowledgment information from the receiver. Both of the peer RLC transmitter and receiver have an RLC...
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1. Technical Field The present invention relates in general to improved communications and in particular to improved notification of an availability of a user to communicate via a particular communication medium. Still more particularly, the present invention relates to automatically inferring an availability status of...
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1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to toilet flush valves and, more particularly, to a double flush toilet valve and the method for providing a double flush conversion for a standard toilet. The valve of the preset invention is very similar to a standard toilet flush valve except that it has an add...
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In active matrix displays (AM-LCD) having an integrated non-linear device as a switching device typified by a non-linear two terminal device such as a variable resistor or diode, and a non-linear three terminals device such as a thin film transistor (TFT), liquid crystal compositions having a high voltage holding ratio...
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1. Field Subject matter disclosed herein relates to monitoring a concentration of an analyte in a physiological compartment. 2. Information The pancreas of a normal healthy person produces and releases insulin into the blood stream in response to elevated blood plasma glucose levels. Beta cells (β-cells), which reside ...
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A machine plant, such as for example a power plant for generating electricity, has an electrical generator and at least one turbine, the turbine driving the generator. For this purpose, the turbine and the generator are arranged on a common shaft train. It is possible to provide couplings in the shaft train in order to...
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The present invention relates to the art of internal combustion engines and, more particularly, to a method and apparatus for generating and delivering gaseous fuel vapor to the air induction passage of an internal combustion engine. Many efforts have been made heretofore to provide apparatus and systems for generating...
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1. Field of the Invention The present invention generally relates to manufacturing methods of electronic devices, and more specifically, to a manufacturing method of an electronic device, the method including a step of removing a resist by ashing after P (phosphorus) ions are implanted. 2. Description of the Related Ar...
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The present invention relates generally to a system for detecting a displacement between an objective lens and a surface to be measured and more particularly, to the system using the optical astigmatic method. The non-contact measuring method such as the optical astigmatic method, critical angle detecting method, or kn...
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a. Field of the Invention This invention relates to the field of miniaturized data input/output and character recognition systems. B. Prior Art While miniaturization of electronic circuitry for data storage and processing applications has progressed to a highly sophicated state, the benefits which would otherwise deriv...
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The present invention relates generally to nanodevices, and more specifically, to sequencing using an integrated nanowire/nanosheet nanogap and nanopore device. Nanopore sequencing is a method for determining the order in which nucleotides occur on a strand of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). A nanopore (also referred to a...
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Serial communication links have become indispensable in data transfer, primarily in chip-to-chip communications over printed circuit boards and backplanes. Data rates of 10 Gbps may be common and rates as high as 30 Gbps may be feasible. Multi-Gigabit SerDes transceiver devices may be utilized in many backplane environ...
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German Patent Specification DE No. 3,143,121 which corresponds to U.S. Pat. No. 4,440,833, describes such a synthetic resin composition and a fibrous substrate material for printed circuit boards, in particular paper, in which a phenol-formaldehyde resin is impregnated which is mixed with a softening polyurethane compo...
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Heat generation of vapor spray is known. Illustrative of this type of prior art are U.S. Pat. No. 2,128,263 to Ofeldt and U.S. Pat. No. 2,790,063 to Bok et al. The Ofeldt patent shows an apparatus for generating a spray in which the fluid to be sprayed is passed through a heating coil 4. Heat is provided to the heating...
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The present invention relates to a communicating method between an IPv4 terminal and an IPv6 terminal and to an IPv4-IPv6 converting apparatus. More particularly, the invention relates to method and apparatus for realizing a communication between an IPv4 terminal using IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4) as a communicat...
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It is often difficult to acquire a global positioning system (“GPS”) signal, even with a high-quality receiver and antenna, in very low (i.e., “deep fade”) signal environments, such as in urban canyons, underground, and inside steel-reinforced buildings. In the limited situations where a GPS signal can be acquired indo...
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Optical communication systems have become widely implemented in todays telecommunication networks. The Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) is a standard for Synchronous Telecommunication Signals used for optical transmission based on the synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH). SONET can provide the ability to combine and ...
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I. Field of the Invention This invention relates generally to an array type connector and, more specifically, to a board to board array type connector that connects a lower PCB and a upper board, the structure and fastening method is simple, the pins on he connector have evenly stress for better connectivity, the pins ...
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1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a transportation wheel for a treadmill, and more particularly to a transportation wheel having an engraved pattern on a roller where the pattern is similar to a pattern on the inner surface of the traveling belt. Because of the similar patterns, the transportat...
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1. Field of the Invention This invention relates to zener diodes and more specifically to zener diodes made by a temperature gradient zone melting process. 2. Description of the Prior Art Heretofore, zener diodes have been made by diffusion processes or epitaxial growth techniques. The diffusion process employed inhere...
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1. Field The present disclosure relates to a composite structure of graphene and a polymer, and more particularly, to a composite structure of a three-dimensional polymer structure and a graphene layer disposed on a surface of the three-dimensional polymer structure, and methods of manufacturing the complexes. 2. Descr...
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Field of the Invention Embodiments of the invention relate to the field of display technology, and specifically, to a display panel, a method of manufacturing the same, and a display device. Description of the Related Art With development of wireless mobile communication, information display devices and display panels ...
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Methods for preparing samples for analysis generally rely on dangerous chemical reagents, hazardous conditions, and long preparation times. The United States Pharmacopoeia (USP) method for TiO2 determination requires digesting a sample with boiling H2SO4 for 8 hours with subsequent filtration of the solution. This proc...
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Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are a heterogeneous group of fatal neurodegenerative disorders that occur in humans, ruminant herbivores, mink, and cats. Sheep scrapie is the prototype of this group. TSEs are characterized by deposition of prion proteins (also denoted as PrP-Scrapie or PrPSc, the infec...
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1. Technical Field The present disclosure relates to clock and data recovery circuits, and more particularly to clock and data recovery circuits operating at high speeds and having reduced phase errors. 2. Discussion of the Related Art In high-speed data communications, serial data transfers have more advantages compar...
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The conventional water heater includes a tank to contain water to be heated and an outer jacket or casing which is spaced from the tank. It has been the practice in the past to insulate the water heater by a layer of fiber glass which is positioned in the space between the tank and the outer jacket. More recently, wate...
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Roller conveyors typically include a plurality of rollers mounted along and between a pair of opposite sidewalls of the conveyor. The rollers may be divided into zones, each of which may include a powered or driven or motorized roller and a plurality of idler or slave rollers interconnected to the powered roller. The r...
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Digital visual interface and high-definition multimedia interface are high speed serial interconnect standards to transmit graphical data from a source to some type of display. The standards operate over a large range of data rates at very low differential voltage levels. The interface connection is limited to relative...
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1. Field of Invention The present invention relates to a mounting case to accommodate an electro-optical device, such as a liquid crystal panel, which is used as a light valve of a projection display apparatus, such as a liquid crystal projector, an electro-optical device encased in a mounting case, in which the electr...
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It is known in the prior art that thermoplastic materials such as, for example, polystyrene foam sheet, may be thermoformed into various articles by preheating the sheet to an elevated forming temperature and thereafter deforming the preheated sheet to the desired configuration utilizing a pair of matched metal molds. ...
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The present invention relates to a probe adapted to be used with a pulse oximeter which enables measurement of oxygen saturation of arterial blood (SpO2) while being attached to a finger of a hand or a toe of a foot of a subject. For measurement of the oxygen saturation of arterial blood of a subject, there has hithert...
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This application is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 749,907 filed June 28, 1985, now abandoned. This invention relates to products for absorbing aqueous fluids and, in particular, products for absorbing body fluids. The invention is specifically directed toward compositions for producing crosslinked poly...
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This invention relates generally to modems and communication systems for the transmission of data over a switched network. More particularly, this invention relates to an intelligent synchronous modem and a communication system incorporating an intelligent synchronous modem which will permit the interface of a microcom...
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Search engines are commonly used by Internet users to acquire information. One type of search engine that is used in ecommerce platforms is a category based search engine. On such a platform, the user enters query keywords, which correspond to one or more categories such as sports, entertainment, etc. The typically cat...
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Although organic polymers have replaced metals in many structural contexts, thus far they have failed to replace metals when the latter are used as electrical conductors or semiconductors. The impetus for such replacement includes, among others, lower cost, lower weight of materials, and increased processing variabilit...
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Membrane biogenesis is essential for cell growth and differentiation. During membrane biogenesis in eukaryotic cells, newly synthesized phospholipids must be transported from their sites of synthesis to their sites of function. Vesicular traffic in eukaryotic cells is characterized by two steps of membrane rearrangemen...
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In conventional microcircuits, large numbers of electrons flow and their collective action can be characterised in terms of conventional current. However, in quantum microcircuits, the dimensions of circuit component parts are constructed to be sufficiently small that the flow of individual electrons is controlled and ...
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1. Field of the Invention This invention relates to a process for separating contaminants from the exhaust gases generated from combustion of fossil fuels and from chemical processes, and more particularly, to the removal of nitrogen and sulfur oxides from a cold stream of gaseous combustion products such as the remova...
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In wireless communications networks, a base station is a network element providing an air interface between the radio units of mobile subscribers and the networks infrastructure (sometimes referred to as Switching and Management Infrastructure, SwMI). The base station is responsible for radio transmission and reception...
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1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to methods of manufacturing electronic components. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method of manufacturing an electronic component including chip surface mount devices including electrodes at both ends thereof. The chip surface mount devices ...
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Augmented reality (AR) is a live view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are augmented by computer-generated graphics. Information about the augmented objects is overlaid onto the real world. Augmentation is conventionally in real time and in visual context with environmental elements. With the help o...
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1. Field of the Disclosure This invention is related to controllers for power supplies. In particular, the invention is related to controllers that control two parameters of a switching signal that controls a switch in a switching power supply. 2. Background In a typical application, an ac-dc power supply receives an i...
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The present invention relates to semiconductor devices and their manufacture, and more specifically to a structure and method of making a stacked transformer structure using through-silicon vias (TSVs). A transformer is a device that transfers electrical energy from one circuit to another through inductively coupled co...
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1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a counter control method in a microcomputer including a plurality of counters. 2. Description of the Prior Art FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating the start/stop operation for counters included in a microcomputer of this type. A clock signal (count pulse) tr...
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Relaxed silicon-germanium (SiGe) virtual substrates, including a tensilely strained layer and a relaxed underlying layer, enable the production of novel silicon (Si)-, germanium (Ge)-, and SiGe-based devices such as field-effect transistors (FETs). A “virtual substrate” includes a layer of SiGe that has been relaxed to...
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Spreadsheet applications provide many well known benefits including data organization, computation, analysis and presentation. Spreadsheet applications allow users to work in offline data editing sessions, as well as online data editing sessions where spreadsheet applications may be linked to databases from which data ...
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