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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a semiconductor integrated circuit device which is designed considering testability. The present invention also relates to a test method for testing such a semiconductor integrated circuit device.
2. Description of the Background Art
FIG. 1 is a plan view showi... | {
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Video recording devices are being adopted by law enforcement agencies and other organizations to provide factual visual, audio, and metadata (such as date, time, latitude, longitude, temperature, and other metadata about the video, audio, and situation being captured) evidence of encounters with citizens and situations... | {
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In general, this invention relates to nucleic acid and amino acid sequences involved in fat metabolism regulation and the use of these sequences as targets for the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of obesity and obesity-related diseases. In addition, the invention relates to screening methods for identifying modula... | {
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The present invention relates to a throttle valve position controlling apparatus for an engine and a slip controlling apparatus, and more particularly, to a throttle valve position controlling apparatus and a slip controlling apparatus which does not use any throttle valve position sensor to detect the opening degree o... | {
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Numerous wood products in use today, such as fence posts, railroad ties, and dimensional lumber are dependent upon diminishing forest reserves as a source of material. For numerous applications, wood products are especially vulnerable to rot and decay from excessive exposure to moisture, insects, dry-rot and other cond... | {
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The invention relates to a device for introducing gas into a liquid which is contained in a tank or similar container. The invention relates more particularly to such a device which is especially suitable for the oxygen treatment of water containing sewage sludge or similar waste products, which would be normally react... | {
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In practice dental treatments, teeth extracted from human bodies and animals have conventionally been used so as to experience the grinding sensation of a natural tooth. However, there are hygienic problems associated with extracted teeth and infection may occur if hygiene control is not sufficiently conducted. Thus it... | {
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The subject matter discussed in the background section should not be assumed to be prior art merely as a result of its mention in the background section. Similarly, a problem mentioned in the background section or associated with the subject matter of the background section should not be assumed to have been previously... | {
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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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The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device; and, more particularly, to a method for forming a capacitor dielectric having a zirconium oxide layer and a tantalum oxide layer, and a method for manufacturing a capacitor using the capacitor dielectric.
A stacked structure of hafnium ... | {
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This section is intended to introduce the reader to various aspects of art that may be related to various aspects of the presently described embodiments. This discussion is believed to be helpful in providing the reader with background information to facilitate a better understanding of the various aspects of the prese... | {
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The present invention relates generally to the art of electric motors. More particularly, the invention relates to an improved rotor assembly for use in an electric motor and the casting process by which the rotor assembly is made.
Typically, the rotor assembly of an AC induction motor will be constructed as a "squirre... | {
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In IPTV (Internet protocol television) or other video transmission applications, video signals are processed at different stages. A video signal is usually compressed into a bitstream, which may also be referred to as an elementary stream (ES). The bitstream or ES may be then packetized into a transport stream (TS) and... | {
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The Internet is a well-known, global network of cooperatively interconnected computer networks. The World Wide Web portion of the Internet is a collection of server computers (referred to as “web sites”) on the Internet, which store hyper text transfer language “HTML” documents that can be publicly accessed by computer... | {
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The invention relates generally to peripheral devices, and more particularly to Universal Serial Bus (USB) devices.
A Universal Serial Bus (USB) compatible peripheral device (e.g., printer, scanner, digital camera, etc.) is attached to a USB host device, such as a personal computer, either directly through a USB interf... | {
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The following descriptions and examples do not constitute an admission as prior art by virtue of their inclusion within this section.
Deposition processes are commonly used in semiconductor manufacturing to deposit a layer of material onto a substrate. Other processes are used to remove layers, define features (e.g., e... | {
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Many computer-implemented displays consist of two-dimensional arrays of individual picture elements, or pixels. To form an image, a display driver selectively colors the pixels. Because the individual pixels are so small, the display appears to a human viewer to be a continuous rendering of an image. This illusion is p... | {
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Social networking is a concept that an individual's personal network of friends, family colleagues, coworkers, and the subsequent connections within those networks, can be utilized to find more relevant connections for dating, job networking, service referrals, activity partners, and the like.
A social network typicall... | {
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Signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT) proteins are transcription factors which transduce signals from various extracellular cytokines and growth factors to a nucleus. Seven (7) subtypes of STAT proteins (i.e., STAT1, STAT2, STAT3, STAT4, STAT5a, STAT5b and STAT6) are currently known, and generally the... | {
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This invention relates in general to thermal insulating products and, more specifically, to high temperature flame resistant thermal insulation using a combination of polyimide foam and porous, lightweight inorganic particles in insulating products.
Lightweight, porous inorganic materials such as pumice, expanded vermi... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a received data compensating device provided between a receiving circuit constituting a physical layer and a processing device utilizing received data and having the function of recovering the received data.
2. Description of the Related Art
FIG. 8 shows a diag... | {
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The present document is a national stage application of PCT/JP99/06920, filed on Dec. 9, 1999.
This invention relates to an automatic coating method for carrying out coating operations in various colors automatically by selectively loading and unloading paint cartridges of different colors into and from a coating appar... | {
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Synchronization of a decoding and presentation process for received bitstreams is a particularly important aspect of real-time digital data delivery systems. For example, the Moving Pictures Experts Group (MPEG) has promulgated several standards relating to digital data delivery systems. The first, known as MPEG-1 refe... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The invention described herein relates to the methodology of forming a fused composite color image from source gray level images, with application to visualizing the fusion of video imaging in the infrared spectrum (e.g., thermal infrared) with video imaging in the reflective spectrum (e.g., v... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an interconnector to electrically connect a plurality of electronic device elements in a serial direction or a parallel direction. Particularly, the present invention relates to a planar type interconnector employed in the connection of solar cells for artifici... | {
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This invention relates to systems and methods of rapid prototyping and production (or called additive manufacturing or 3D printing). Especially, this invention relates to fabricating 3D prototypes, articles, components and molds at improved surface finish and increased speed.
Existing major rapid prototyping (also know... | {
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When a chip component is mounted on a printed board, a method is typically used in which the chip component and the printed board are electrically connected through soldering. Further, in order to add a function to vary wiring pitches and a function to perform rewiring, an interposer may be placed between the chip comp... | {
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A gas turbine engine generally includes a fan and a core arranged in flow communication with one another. Additionally, the core of the gas turbine engine general includes, in serial flow order, a compressor section, a combustion section, a turbine section, and an exhaust section. In operation, air is provided from the... | {
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The present invention is concerned with treatment of hypertension using certain tripeptides of the thyrotropin releasing hormone type.
Thyrotropin releasing hormone (TRH) is a known tripeptide, L-pyrogulutamyl-L-histidyl-L-proline-NH.sub.2, having thyroid stimulating, antidepressant and lactation promoting activities [... | {
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An individual with a disease, particularly a chronic disease, may be required to monitor various health parameters on a regular basis in support of any treatment or therapy that he or she is undergoing or receiving. Today, advances in medical research enable a range of therapeutic options to treat a given disease, or a... | {
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Several publications and patent documents are referenced in this application in order to more fully describe the state of the art to which this invention pertains. The disclosure of each of these publications and documents is incorporated by reference herein.
Plants may be viewed as model systems for the large-scale pr... | {
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This invention relates to a stop valve for shutting off a flow of fluid, and in particular to a stop valve having a main valve body formed with a central aperture and a secondary valve body to close or open the aperture. | {
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The present invention relates to a light absorptive antireflector and a process for its production.
Heretofore, antireflection and shielding of electromagnetic waves for e.g. a screen portion of a display, have been accomplished by laminating a low refractive index dielectric film, a high refractive index dielectric fi... | {
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There are currently many finger image sensors available from various vendors. For example, various fingerprint sensors and systems (including fingerprint swipe sensors, fingerprint placement sensors, and fingerprint sensors of other types) are described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,459,804, 6,289,114, 5,177,802, 4,933,976, and ... | {
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Cement manufacture, a complex capital intensive process, is currently conducted in kilns, commonly using coal as fuel. The process starts with mixing the raw materials, usually limestone or chalk, as a source of calcium carbonate, and clay or shale, as a source of aluminum silicates, with small quantities of other mine... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
Embodiments of the invention relate to Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) power-saving systems. In particular, embodiments of the invention are related to Mobile WiMAX systems.
2. Description of Related Art
Current enhanced voice codecs, such as G.723.1A, G.729B, and 3GPP ... | {
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1. Technical Field of the Invention
This invention pertains to IP packet filtering. More specifically, it relates to a use of small, optimized sequences of binary 6-tuples representing filter rules to achieve very fast IP packet filtering.
2. Background Art
Internet protocol (IP) network address translation (NAT) and I... | {
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Area surveillance is important in a variety of applications in both military and civilian settings. A key challenge stems from the typical situation in which the number of locations needing surveillance is larger than the number of sensors available for collecting information. The complexity of the resulting surveillan... | {
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The evaluation of the shade of a tooth can be performed visually by a dentist. It is performed, for example, by comparing a tooth to be replaced with a number of reference teeth of a dental shade guide. There are several types of dental shade guides. Generally, dental shade guides have various color ranges, and for eac... | {
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Wireless data usage has experienced, and continues to experience, significant growth. Some estimates provide for growth in data usage exceeding one thousand times current usage in the near future. Contributing factors to this growth include higher data usage on mobile devices such as smartphones or tablets, as well as ... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to alternating pressure pads, and in particular alternating pressure pads of the kind used in prevention and management of decubitus ulcers in bedridden patients.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The formation of decubitus ulcers, commonly known as bedsores, results from,... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to packaged semiconductors, semiconductor packages, leadframe assemblies therefor, and more particularly, but not by way of limitation, to semiconductor packages that can accept semiconductor chips of various sizes without having to change the footprint of the sem... | {
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The present invention relates to an ultraviolet and infrared radiation absorbing glass having a high visible light transmittance and a green tint. More particularly, the invention relates to an ultraviolet and infrared radiation absorbing green glass which, when heat-tempered before use, is inhibited from changing in c... | {
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This invention relates to a system including a variable rate modulator for (1) varying the rate at which signals are modulated in accordance with variations in the rate of introduction of digital data to the system and (2) for processing the modulated signals to provide output signals at a fixed sampling frequency.
In ... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a heat exchanger and a method of producing the same, and more particularly to a heat exchanger for use in a cryogenic refrigerator, such as a reversed Stirling cycle refrigerator, a Gifford-MacMahon cycle refrigerator, a pulse tube refrigerator, and the like.
2... | {
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Treatments for chronic diseases often require repeated and prolonged access to the vascular system to, for example, provide therapeutic agents thereto and/or remove fluids therefrom. However, complications are associated with most of the various methods for providing this access. | {
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1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to a system and a method of distinguishing multiple touch points and more particularly relates to a system and a method of distinguishing multiple touch points applied to an optical touch system.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Recently, image display technique is consta... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention is directed generally to multi-port or multi-outlet cassettes.
2. Description of the Related Art
Multiple communication ports or outlets may be housed inside a cassette that is mountable in a patch panel. Unfortunately, currently available cassettes suffer from a number o... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention is directed to wagering games, gaming machines and networked gaming systems and methods and, more particularly, to wagering games, gaming machine and networked gaming systems and methods including multiple-progressive wheel games.
2. Description of the Related Art
Reel ga... | {
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The present invention relates in general to an optimistic, robust, distributed data base system, and in particular to a system for merging virtual partitions in a distributed data base system.
The purpose of a database system is to reliably store data and to process valid, authorized read and write requests on that dat... | {
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1. Technical Field of the Invention
This invention relates to nonwoven composites and particularly to nonwoven composites used in absorbent articles.
2. Description of Related Art
There are several known topsheets formed of either nonwoven materials or formed films that have been designed to handle viscous exudate such... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
This application is directed toward a two-piece track system for use in building construction, particularly for use in the interior and/or exterior wall of a building.
2. Description of the Related Art
Two-piece track systems for use in building construction are generally well known, as are tw... | {
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Mirrors for motor vehicles, especially outside mirrors, are continually incorporating more electronic components, which serve, for example, for the control of positioning motors, for control display devices, and for sensors and the like. DE 199 04 778 A1 discloses, for example, an outside mirror for commercial vehicles... | {
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1. Technical Field
Aspects of the present documents relate to gangable electrical units which are mounted adjacent other electrical device mounting boxes for the installation of electrical components contained therein.
2. Background Art
Electrical outlets for powering electrical equipment are typically installed in box... | {
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The present invention relates to a color cathode ray tube in which the amounts of horizontal and vertical deflection of a plurality of electron beams is individually controlled to correct coma caused by a deflection magnetic field, and convergence errors of the plurality of electron beams are suppressed to thereby obta... | {
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One of the more recent developments in the field of cigarette technology involves cigarettes which contain a non-tobacco fuel source which typically heats tobacco contained within a cigarette.
One problem encountered in producing such cigarettes is the availability of a suitable wrapper. The burning of tobacco in conve... | {
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1. Field of Invention
This invention relates to an antenna using stripline for microwaves.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Conventionally, a stripline antenna for micro waves is electrically fed at the center of an antenna array 1 as shown in FIG. 1. The two feeding points are indicated as 2 and 2' respectively, and th... | {
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Conventional printed circuit boards (PCBs) consist of laminated non-conductive dielectric substrates that rely on drilled and plated through holes (PTHs) to form a connection between the opposite sides and/or inner layers of a board. Electroless plating is a well-known process for preparing metallic coatings on surface... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to a ceiling fan which can regulate humidity and temperature in buildings.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The conventional ceiling fan includes an electric motor suspended on a ceiling and a plurality of blades drivingly connected and disposed under the electric motor. ... | {
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This invention pertains to the adsorption of SO.sub.2 from gas mixtures and in particular to the use of crosslinked polymers of N-glycidylpiperazine or N-glycidyl polyalkylpiperazines as the adsorbents.
Power plant gas effluents as well as other industrial waste gases contribute to the general environmental air polluti... | {
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Motors of this kind can be used in a variety of applications for example in automotive engineering for drives supporting brake system control, or pumps and fans. Other application areas include ventilator fans in power supply units, or spindle motors in disk drives for data processing systems, just to mention a few.
An... | {
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The invention relates to a device or devices for sensing specified conditions in and out of fluid and has particular application as a swimming pool alert alarm for sensing persons or animals in or around the swimming pool as well as sensing a man overboard.
There are a number of sensing devices for this purpose availab... | {
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There are known a laminator that pressure-bonds a film containing a photosensitive material (a photoresist) onto one side or each of both sides of a substrate with use of a pair of pressure-bonding rolls. The laminator supplies the substrate into between the pair of pressure-bonding rolls and also supplies the film ont... | {
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Drug addiction remains a scourge of all societies, whether supplier or consumer. The predominant drugs used today are cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine in the order of their usage. There is no present antagonist for cocaine, as there is for heroin. Cocaine acts in an entirely different way from heroin in blocking the... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates generally to exercise systems, and more specifically it relates to a portable exercise system designed to adapt a conventional wheelchair for use as a stationary exerciser, facilitating exercise of arms and upper body without requiring any modifications to the whe... | {
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The invention relates to a mounting assembly for structurally mounting a peripheral device to a portable computer. In particular, although not exclusively, the invention relates to a mounting assembly for structurally mounting a wireless communication unit to a portable computer of a mobile telemetry monitoring apparat... | {
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The laws of conservation of kinetic energy and momentum explain why a hard bouncing ball hitting a line of similar balls stops completely along with the other balls except the one at the far end, which moves away after the collision with substantially all the kinetic energy.
Similarly, the laws of conservation of kinet... | {
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The subject matter disclosed herein relates generally to methods and systems for displaying system parameter information, and more particularly to displaying system parameter information on a display of an ultrasound imaging system.
Diagnostic medical imaging systems typically include a scan portion and a control porti... | {
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Among vehicles, there are automobiles of the hatchback type including a back door. In a vehicle body rear part of the vehicle of this type, a back door opening section having a round structure opened and closed by the back door is provided.
In the past, as a method of securing rigidity of the vehicle body rear part of ... | {
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The invention relates to a method for keyframe-based displaying of a video presentation whilst enabling a user to select among said keyframes, and through such selecting, displaying a substantially continuous video stream based on said presentation, and which method displays various such keyframes in parallel in a redu... | {
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Integrated circuits are made possible by processes which produce intricately patterned material layers on substrate surfaces. Producing patterned material on a substrate requires controlled methods for removal of exposed material. Chemical etching is used for a variety of purposes including transferring a pattern in ph... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates generally to a reference standard block and a method of manufacturing reference standard blocks for use in calibrating eddy current nondestructive testing probes. More particularly, the invention relates to reference standard blocks having superficial flaws that simulate ... | {
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The pace of change and improvement in the realms of power generation, aviation, and other fields has accompanied extensive research for manufacturing components used in these fields. Conventional manufacture of metallic components generally includes milling or cutting away regions from a slab of metal before treating a... | {
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The present invention relates to homeotropic alignment liquid crystal films. The homeotropic alignment liquid crystal films of the present invention alone or in combination with other optical films may be used as optical films such as retardation films, viewing angle compensators, elliptical polarizers, and brightness ... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a light emitting display apparatus, and more particularly, to an organic light emitting display apparatus and a method of driving the same.
2. Description of the Related Art
Organic light emitting display apparatuses are display apparatuses that display an imag... | {
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In semiconductor technology, due to the high mobility values, Group III-Group V (or III-V) semiconductor compounds are used to form various integrated circuit devices, such as high power field-effect transistors, high frequency transistors, and High Electron Mobility Transistors (HEMTs). A HEMT is a field effect transi... | {
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One method for reducing the fuel consumption of internal combustion engines, in particular vehicles, is start/stop operation, in which the vehicle engines are switched off, for instance, when stopped for a relatively long time in front of traffic lights. As soon as the driver wants to continue driving, the vehicle engi... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a water base ink set for ink-jet recording to be used for an ink-jet recording apparatus, the ink-jet recording apparatus including the same, and an ink-jet recording method.
2. Related Art
The ink-jet recording system is a recording system that inks of several... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The invention is directed to a forming device, especially to an internal high-pressure forming device, with a multiple-part forming tool and a clamping device which holds the parts of the forming tool together against the deforming action.
2. Description of the Related Art
In internal high-pre... | {
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Life expectancy in the United States, and around the world, has been slowly rising each year. Cleaner water, better sanitation and nutrition, and a greater access to medical services has allowed individuals to live fuller and longer lives. Medical science continues to forge ahead in discovering new treatments and proce... | {
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The public interconnected computer networks—commonly called the Internet and colloquially called the web—have made possible a number of applications that were hitherto unthinkable. In general, a user visits web pages using a browser program executing on a client computer. When the user visits a web page, a document suc... | {
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Locating the position and direction of a target item regardless of the surroundings has long held promise as particularly desirable. Thwarting child abductions, for example, is greatly simplified if the location and direction of travel of a child is available at all times to a parent. Additionally, monitoring the direc... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The present application relates to a transmitter optical module, in particular, a transmitter optical module having a plurality of optical signal sources.
2. Background Arts
An optical transmitter module that installs four laser diodes (herein after denoted as LDs) each emitting an optical bea... | {
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Mass spectrometers are commonly used for the determination of the mass of analyte molecules. In these instruments, ionized molecules are typically either created or introduced into a high vacuum chamber and accelerated to a known kenetic energy. Magnetic fields and electric fields are then used in various methods and f... | {
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Silicon as a device platform is nearing a fundamental limitation to further advances in device miniaturization. Key issues that motivate a new material and device structure include silicon's limited carrier mobility and limits to gate control over the MOSFET (metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor) channel (... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to urological warming and cooling devices and more particularly to a warming catheter and method of warming the urethra of a patient during ablative surgery. The apparatus is particularly useful in cryosurgery to prevent damage to tissues surrounding a surgical si... | {
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Known internal combustion engines typically comprise cylinder blocks containing individual cylinders that are closed at one end by an engine cylinder head that is attached to the engine block. In a spark-ignition engine, the cylinder head contains threaded spark plug holes, each of which is open to a respective cylinde... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a semiconductor integrated circuit comprising a plurality of functional blocks such as signal processing circuits. In particular, power consumption of each functional block can be realized.
2. Related Art
A conventional method of measuring power consumption of ... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to the field of ophthalmology, and particularly to an improved design for haptics for an intraocular lens ("IOL"), the haptics being suitable for implantation of an appropriate optic in either a phakic or an aphakic eye.
2. Description of the Related Art
Ophthalmo... | {
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According to the theory of signal transmission, the demodulation of a signal corresponds to the mixing of the modulated signal with the sampling signal, and then the integration of the resulting product. The corresponding mixing step may be done using mixer circuits.
The basic element for many mixer circuits is a dual-... | {
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Automatic power control (APC) of light emitting devices allows for a constant and a consistent output from these devices. Generally, automatic power control of edge emitting laser devices is easily achieved because edge emitting devices emit light from two ends. Thus, enabling one of the light emitting ends to be used ... | {
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The present invention generally relates to semiconductor devices and processes for producing semiconductor devices. In particular, the present invention relates to a process for producing a semiconductor device, the process including forming a pattern by printing. The present invention also relates to a semiconductor d... | {
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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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Many types of detectors for materials of unknown chemical or biological composition have been developed. For example, arrays of biological and chemical probes having a variety of specific binding properties have been made, often referred to as biochips or labs-on-a-chip. Myriad other devices are available for identific... | {
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The escalating demands for high density and performance associated with non-volatile memory devices, such as electrically erasable programmable read only memory (EEPROM) devices, require small design features, high reliability and increased manufacturing throughput. The reduction of design features, however, challenges... | {
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Catalyst compositions based on well defined donor ligand containing metal complexes, referred to as post-metallocene complexes have been shown to give products having narrow molecular weight distribution and high molecular weights. However, these catalysts often have poor high temperature stability and suffer from poor... | {
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The present invention relates to a new and improved counting system having notable utility in registers of the type employed in fuel dispensing apparatus for registering the volume and cost amounts of fuel delivered and, for example, utility in the factory modification and/or field or factory conversion of existing fue... | {
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This invention relates to foam blowing agent blends of 1-chloro-1,1-difluoroethane ("142b") and 2-chloro-1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane ("124b"), more particularly to nonflammable blends containing up to about 70 weight % of 142b and at least about 30 weight % of 124, and to nonflammable premixes and polyurethane foam compo... | {
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It is known to have food products such as rations for back-packer, adventurers and military forces, which comprise sealed packages of pre-cooked food. Conveniently, the food is hermetically sealed, within a vacuum; the food can be heated, on demand, since the food will not need to be cooked, as such. Such food products... | {
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The invention concerns a process and a device for sealing barrier constructions in subterranean galleries, especially in salt mines.
In subterranean mining, the task of sealing hollow spaces relative to a stressing medium, which can be either fluids or gasses, falls to the transversal seals. In horizontal mines, these ... | {
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