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A seal for a sensor element of a gas sensor is known, for example, from German Published Patent Application No. 195 32 090 A1, in which the sensor is mounted into a longitudinal bore of a housing by way of at least two sealing members and a deformable auxiliary seal arranged between the sealing members. The two sealing... | {
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The present invention relates to cleaning brushes for electrostatic copiers of the type utilizing photoreceptors, usually in the form of a rotatable drum or film type belts, zinc oxide, mylar, cadmium, etc., onto which toner particles are electrostatically deposited and which must be removed after each copy has been pr... | {
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The present invention relates to color-separating prism systems for video cameras, and is, in part, an improvement of the prism system set forth in the copending application of Arthur Cox and Rudolf Hartmann, Ser. No. 06/005,187 filed on even date herewith and assigned to the assignee of the present invention, now aban... | {
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This invention is directed to apparatus having successively accessible images in memory and, in particular, to the spatial scanning of a laser beam by successively accessing gratings with different line spacings.
Apparatus, in which successive images may be accessed simply and rapidly, can have complex applications suc... | {
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The present invention relates generally semiconductor fabrication and, in particular, to systems and methods of forming electroless conductive layers in semiconductor polymer memory devices.
The volume, use and complexity of computers and electronic devices are continually increasing. Computers consistently become more... | {
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In the exploration of oil, gas and geothermal energy, drilling operations are used to create boreholes, or wells, in the earth. Modern drilling rigs may have two, three, or even four mast sections for sequential connection and raising above a substructure. The drilling rigs are transported to the locations where drilli... | {
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Prior lead wire forming methods of this type may be divided into two types. According to the first method as shown in FIG. 1, the lead wires of an electric part 1 is pushed by a pushing means 2 in a direction indicated by arrow A, so that they are forced into a pair of lead wire grooves 3a and 3b of the forming means 3... | {
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The invention relates to a turbine ring assembly for a turbine engine, the assembly comprising a plurality of ring sectors, each made of a single piece of ceramic matrix composite (CMC) material, together with a ring support structure.
The field of application of the invention is in particular that of gas turbine aeroe... | {
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The present invention relates to a semiconductor memory device and more specifically to the circuit arrangement of a semiconductor memory device operations of which are synchronized with a high-frequency clock signal. This application is based on Japanese Patent Application No. 10-364613, filed Dec. 22, 1998, the conte... | {
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U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/743,932, filed Dec. 23, 2003, teaches a finished lubricant that has less than 8 weight percent VI improver made having a lubricating base oil made from Fischer Tropsch wax having particularly desired aromatic and cycloparaffinic molecular composition and at least one lubricant additi... | {
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Coaxial cables are widely used to carry high frequency electrical signals. Coaxial cables enjoy a relatively high bandwidth, low signal losses, are mechanically robust, and are relatively low cost. A coaxial cable typically includes an elongate inner conductor, a tubular outer conductor, and a dielectric separating the... | {
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There is a known solid state imaging device provided with a photoelectric conversion portion having a plurality of photosensitive regions to generate respective charges according to incidence of light, and a potential gradient forming portion having an electroconductive member arranged opposite to the photosensitive re... | {
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1. The Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to dental bleaching compositions and methods for treating tooth surfaces. More particularly, the present invention is directed to a stable one-component viscous/gelled dental bleaching composition that has a high concentration of bleaching agent. The dental bl... | {
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This invention relates to phosphor compositions, and in particular to phosphor compositions excited by ultraviolet radiation to emit in the red region of the visible spectrum.
Europium activated yttrium oxide (YOE) is a well known red emitted phosphor. It is used in many devices such as cathode ray tubes and lamps. Thi... | {
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The present invention relates to a structure in an article for personal care like diapers, training pants, absorbent underpants, adult incontinence products, bandages and feminine hygiene products, which can accept and distribute liquid.
Personal care articles include such items as diapers, training pants, feminine hyg... | {
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The International Organization for Standardization is currently developing a standard specifying the coded representation of video for digital storage media, supporting a continuous data transfer rate of 1.5 Mbits/sec., which standard is described in the document ISO-IEC JTC1/SC2/WG11; CODING OF MOVING PICTURES AND ASS... | {
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Field of Disclosure
The present disclosure relates to a vehicle seat. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to a bicycle seat.
Description of Related Art
A bicycle seat is one of the most important parts of a bicycle touching a rider riding the bicycle. The fit of a bicycle seat and the adjustment of a ride... | {
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Some surgical staplers are operable to clamp down on one or more layers of patient tissue, form staples through the layers of tissue to substantially seal the layers of tissue together near the formed staples, and cut through the layers of tissue for forming severed ends of operatively sealed tissue. An exemplary stapl... | {
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Surgery, whether of the spine or other areas of the body, is often complex and routinely involves the need for highly experienced medical staff, in addition to well-designed and well-manufactured implants, made to exacting specifications. Often the implants take the form of various types of hardware. In the area of spi... | {
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The instant invention relates to a novel wafer type semiconductor and a forming method therefor. More particularly, this invention relates to a semiconductor including a high resistance layer and wherein resistance layer formation is effected by selective diffusion from one wafer layer to another.
Prior wafer type semi... | {
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The present invention relates generally to semiconductor memory devices, and in particular, the present invention relates to organization of memory arrays for global bit-line architecture in high-performance semiconductor memory devices.
Memory devices are typically provided as internal storage areas in the computer. T... | {
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The present invention relates to a method of improving the control behavior of an anti-lock and/or traction-slip controlled brake system, wherein the rotational behavior of the individual wheels is measured and evaluated for determining a vehicle reference speed, the wheel slip, the deceleration and acceleration of the... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a hinge, and more particularly to a triple positioning hinge that is compact and securely retains a monitor of a portable electronic device at three determined positions permanently.
2. Description of Related Art
A hinge is mounted between a base and a monitor ... | {
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Bone plates can be engaged to adjacent bony portions of a bone or of a bony segment to stabilize the bony portions. Anchors or fasteners, such as bone screws, can be used to engage bone plates to bony portions. To prevent the anchors from backing out of the plate, various retaining devices have been developed for engag... | {
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Generally, devices, such as printers and multifunction printers (MFP), perform printing or copying using paper media. However, in order to develop a paperless environment, various means for replacing newspapers, books, and conference materials, which are made of paper, are being studied. Currently, many people tend to ... | {
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The present disclosure relates generally to imaging members, such as layered photoreceptor devices, and processes for making and using the same. The imaging members can be used in electrophotographic, electrostatographic, xerographic and like devices, including printers, copiers, scanners, facsimiles, and including dig... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to a driving force control system for a four-wheel drive vehicle including a pair of front wheels, and a pair of rear wheels, one of the pairs being main drive wheels, and another of the pairs being auxiliary drive wheels, the driving force control system controlling eng... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for controlling transportation of a tape medium. In particular, the present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for controlling transportation of a tape medium during data writing to the tape medium.
2. Description of the Re... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a DCxe2x80x94DC converter circuit for converting DC voltage to another DC voltage, a power supply selection circuit for selecting one of a plurality of power supplies, and an apparatus provided with such a DCxe2x80x94DC converter circuit.
2. Description of the ... | {
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Asphalt shingles have become a widely used roofing material, giving protection and many years of service. These shingles typically come in longitudinal strips having two transverse slots therein forming three rectangular portions which project downwardly from an upper longitudinal body portion. The first step in applyi... | {
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Recently, as an element for a head of a magnetic recording medium used in a hard disk drive, floppy disk drive or the like, a magnetoresistive element (hereinafter, referred to as "MR (magnetoresistive) element") has been used widely. In the head using the MR element (hereinafter, referred to as "MR head"), since a rep... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The invention is directed to both a system and a technique for remote chemical analysis. More particularly, the invention provides for the use of a solid-state acousto-optic device in combination with fiber optic technology in order to provide a system for the remote chemical analysis of a spe... | {
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This invention relates to a power transmission device having a combined arrangement of balls and a screw for converting rotary to linear motion.
A variety of devices of the class have been known as circulatory fixed or other types. Any of the known devices operates to transmit power at a substantially equal reduction r... | {
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The present invention relates generally to mechanical seals, and more particularly, to rotary end face seals designed for use in severe environments in which the primary seal is formed between mating faces of two metal seal rings of special alloy compositions lying in opposed relation to each other and making contact a... | {
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The present application relates generally to the field of toilets. More specifically, the present application relates to improved systems and methods for installing a toilet (e.g., coupling the toilet to a trap assembly and/or mounting the toilet to the floor).
There is an increasing demand from consumers for toilets h... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to machine learning techniques and computational chemistry. More particularly, embodiments of the invention relate to techniques for estimating the accuracy of a molecular properties model, and for estimating the accuracy of predictions gen... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a semiconductor memory device having a shallow trench isolation (STI) structure. In particular, the present invention relates to a semiconductor memory device including a static random access memory cell (SRAM cell).
2. Description of the Related Art
In recent ... | {
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The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for non-contact temperature measurement of a moving semiconductor wafer employing both a pyrometer and a reflectometer to provide temperature and reflectivity data respectively to a general purpose computer.
During the fabrication of semiconductor wafers, numerous... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention is directed a medical electrode of the type having an insulating sleeve containing at least one electrical conductor, the conductor providing an electrical connection between a pulse generator at a proximal end of the electrode device and an electrode surface of the elect... | {
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(1) Field of the Invention
This invention relates to integrated circuit (IC) packaging.
(2) Brief Description of Related Art
In the IC packaging art, the IC chip size tends to be smaller as time progresses. In cutting such small dimensions, chemical etching now replaces the mechanical sawing, because the damage caused ... | {
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Deep brain stimulation can be useful for treating a variety of conditions including, for example, Parkinson's disease, dystonia, essential tremor, chronic pain, Huntington's Disease, levodopa-induced dyskinesias and rigidity, bradykinesia, epilepsy and seizures, eating disorders, and mood disorders. Typically, a lead w... | {
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The present Application deals with related subject matter in co-pending U.S. patent application entitled METHOD FOR REDUCING TENSILE STRESS ZONES IN THE SURFACE A PART, filed on the same day as the present application and having the same inventor in common.
This invention relates to a method and an apparatus for impart... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates generally to a radio communication apparatus comprising part of a radio communication system such as a code division multiple access (CDMA) communication system. More specifically, it relates to a radio communication apparatus employing a rake receiver which combines the... | {
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The leukocyte differentiation antigen CD33 is a 364 amino acid transmembrane glycoprotein with sequence homology to members of the sialoadhesin family, including myelin-associated glycoprotein and CD22, as well as sialoadhesin itself (S. Peiper, 2002, Leucocyte Typing VII, White Cell Differentiation, Antigens, Proceedi... | {
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Naturally occurring signals, such as speech, geophysical signals, images, etc., have a great deal of inherent redundancies. Such signals lend themselves to compact representation for improved storage, transmission and extraction of information. Efficient representation of one and multidimensional signals, employing a v... | {
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Given that volatile memory (also sometimes referred to as “main memory”) is becoming cheaper and larger, more data can be cached from disk storage to volatile memory. Such caching allows the data to be accessible faster, and for the application that uses the data, to perform work in a speedier fashion.
However, a numbe... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to the field of consumer devices, and in particular to the field of automated home control systems.
2. Description of Related Art
Home automation is becoming increasingly popular. Standards continue to be developed which will allow devices of varying types and varying ve... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a method of depositing rare earth oxide thin films. In particular, the invention concerns a method of growing yttrium, gadolinium and lanthanum oxide thin films by Atomic Layer Deposition (referred to as ALD hereinafter).
ALD has previously been known as Atomic... | {
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This invention relates generally to angle measurement devices and more particularly to such devices in which the measurement is made with respect to gravity using a resistive sensor in conjuction with lead circuitry.
Several angle measurement devices are known in the prior art, of which U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,503,622, 4,707,... | {
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From our French patent application No. 7803475, U.S. patent application Ser. No. 3,414 filed Jan. 15, 1979, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,288,263 it is known that the reservoir front and rear walls are made from plates and that the side walls consist of lateral moving bands which move with the conveyor and which bear against the... | {
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Defibrillators are implanted in patients susceptible to cardiac arrhythmias or fibrillation. Such devices provide cardioversion or defibrillation by delivering a high voltage shock to the patient's heart, typically about 500-750V. High voltage capacitors are used in defibrillators to accumulate the high voltage charge ... | {
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The invention relates to a device for packaging comprising a forwardly transported foil web, two sealing jaws for welding of the foil web, whereby the shaped foil web is clamped between the sealing jaws and is welded in this manner, and the first sealing jaw can be moved toward the foil web, with the foil web and away ... | {
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Prior to this invention, when continuous lengths of filament from an extrusion operation or from another source have been cut, substantial difficulties have been encountered in handling and removing the cut filament. The incoming uncut filament travels at relatively high rates of linear speed. When cut, the filament te... | {
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The present invention relates to a fuel cap that can be inserted into an open end of a fuel tank filler neck, and particularly, to a fuel cap that can be locked after insertion into the filler neck to prevent removal of the fuel cap from the filler neck. More particularly, the present invention relates to a lockable fu... | {
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1. Field
Example embodiments of the following description relate to a method and apparatus for processing a virtual world, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for applying information of a real world to a virtual world.
2. Description of the Related Art
Currently, an interest in experience-type games has b... | {
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Electronic devices having touch screens are increasingly favored by consumers, for example, devices such as a smartphone, a tablet computer, and a personal digital assistant (PDA). Usually a user performs slide and touch operations on a touch screen to perform zooming processing on a browsed page. For multi-touch of a ... | {
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Advances in semiconductor manufacturing technology have resulted in ever decreasing physical dimensions for the various circuit elements, such as, for example, field effect transistors, which are used in forming integrated circuits. In turn, the smaller dimensions of such circuit elements have allowed the integration o... | {
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(1) Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to X-ray imaging apparatuses and methods, or more particularly, to an apparatus and method for non-destructively examining the inside of an entity.
(2) Description of the Related Art
Imaging apparatuses to be used to non-destructively observe the inside of a samp... | {
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Semiconductor device geometries have dramatically decreased in size since such devices were first introduced several decades ago. Smaller feature sizes have resulted in the presence of increased aspect ratio gaps for some applications, for example, between adjacent conductive lines or in etched trenches. The aspect rat... | {
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The process by which the mammalian immune system recognizes and reacts to foreign or alien materials is a complex one. An important facet of the system is the T lymphocyte, or "T cell" response. This response requires that T cells recognize and interact with complexes of cell surface molecules, referred to as human leu... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention is directed to a method and system for coordinating multiple software components to communicate and share a portion of a computer monitor or display.
2. Discussion of the Background
Numerous program display control systems have been used to coordinate the display of some ... | {
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1. Field
Exemplary embodiments of the inventive concept are directed to a semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device. More particularly, exemplary embodiments of the inventive concept are directed to a semiconductor device including a through-electrode for an electrical connection and a... | {
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White light emitting LEDs (“white LEDs”) include one or more photoluminescence materials (typically inorganic phosphor materials), which absorb a portion of the blue light emitted by the LED and re-emit light of a different color (wavelength). The portion of the blue light generated by the LED that is not absorbed by t... | {
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The invention described herein may be manufactured and used by or for the United States Government for Governmental purposes without the payment of any royalties.
The present invention generally relates to magnetic sensors. The present invention also relates generally to the tracking of magnetic objects, and more parti... | {
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Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO; also known as IDO1) is an IFN-γ target gene that plays a role in immunomodulation. IDO is an oxidoreductase and one of two enzymes that catalyze the first and rate-limiting step in the conversion of tryptophan to N-formyl-kynurenine. It exists as a 41 kD monomer that is found in severa... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to pressure transmitters. More specifically, the present invention is directed to a pressure transmitter using a sealed pressure transmitting system including a barrier diaphragm facing a fluid being monitored.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Pressure transmitters... | {
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Additive Manufacturing (AM) is a technique to repeat layering of material in order to create structural components. Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) and Selective Laser Melting (SLM) are two excellent ways in the art. As to fabricate a targeted object, a powder is deposited onto a work surface first. Then, laser irradia... | {
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Technical Field
The present invention relates to a breakwater, particularly relates to a quickly-detachable airbag-type floating breakwater, and belongs to the field of breakwaters.
Background Art
A breakwater system is one of important technical measures for guaranteeing offshore and ocean platform safety operations. ... | {
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The present invention relates to a method of making an optical beam switching device described herein and which is claimed in co-pending application 09/714,253 filed on the same day as this invention namely Nov. 16, 2000.
The growing demand for increased data rate transmission throughout communication networks has rece... | {
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Benefits of medical data display systems include rapid presentations and storage of data of monitored health conditions for a patient. At least some of this information may be generated by electronic sensors configured to detect at least one medical condition of a patient and produce an electronic signal based on that ... | {
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The basestations used by the providers of current day multiple channel wireless communication services, such as cellular mobile telephone (CMT) and personal communication systems (PCS), typically designate signal processing equipment for each single receiver channel. This is probably a result of the fact that each base... | {
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The invention relates to a method for the production of cement clinker from raw cement meal which is preheated in at least one heat exchanger string, through which the exhaust gas from a rotary tubular kiln flows, and is burnt in the sintering zone of the rotary tubular kiln to form cement clinker which is cooled in a ... | {
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Endoscopic surgical techniques allow a surgical procedure to be performed on a patient's body through a relatively small incision in the body and with a limited amount of body tissue disruption. Endoscopic surgery typically utilizes a tubular structure known as a cannula which is inserted into a small incision in the b... | {
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There are many types of computer data storage devices. One type of computer data storage device is random access memory (RAM). RAM is used to temporarily store data while a computing device is powered on. RAM may be implemented using integrated circuits in the form of a memory module, such as a dual-inline memory modul... | {
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1. Technical Field
The present invention relates generally to computer graphics, and more particularly to a method and apparatus for efficiently rasterizing polygons in two dimensions.
2. Description of the Related Art
Computer graphics designers commonly model objects with polygons defined by a fixed set of vertices a... | {
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This invention relates to a novel class of cephalosporin antibiotics. In particular it relates to 3-halo cephalosporins represented by the following generalized formula ##STR1## wherein R is hydrogen or an acyl group derived from a carboxylic acid, R.sub.1 is hydrogen, a carboxylic acid protecting ester group or a phar... | {
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This invention relates generally to systems for identifying military vehicles as friendly or hostile and, more particularly, to identification systems that rely on infrared emissions of the military vehicles.
Friend or foe identification systems used by military aircraft are generally radar-based systems, which operate... | {
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Certain devices within distributed power systems can operate on different types (e.g., direct current (DC), alternating current (AC)) and/or amounts (e.g., 24V, 2 A, 120V, 50 mA) of power relative to the type and amount of power that feeds the distributed power system. Further, the devices receiving power from the devi... | {
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The purpose of cross-system analytics is to consolidate, transform and clean data from source systems and thereby provide a central and consistent view for reporting and analyzing data within an organization.
When data is exchanged among several source systems, it is very likely that the data does not fit together from... | {
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The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a filter element for use in a dust collector such as those used in, for example, a factory for separating particles contained in gas kept at a temperature from room temperature up to 160.degree. C., for collecting powder products or environmental safety or used... | {
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The present invention relates to an electronic circuit that can be applied to a pixel circuit and a sensing circuit, and electronic device such as an electro-optical device and a detection device, and electronic apparatus.
Recently, interest has arisen for electro-optical device having an electro-optical element such a... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to integrated circuits in general and, more particularly, to a computer chip including a programmable input/output processor.
2. Description of Related Art
The concepts of integrated circuits and computer systems are generally well known. A typical computer system is mad... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a method for fabricating an integrated circuit or more concretely to a semiconductor circuit having a matrix device (including an electro-optic display and semiconductor memory) having a matrix structure and a MOS or MIS (metal-insulator-semiconductor) type fie... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to techniques for communicating optical signals. More specifically, the present invention relates to an optical device with a thermally tunable optical waveguide.
2. Related Art
Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) is widely used to communicate modulated data at... | {
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As semiconductor technology continues to inch closer to practical limitations in terms of increases in clock speed, architects are increasingly focusing on parallelism in processor architectures to obtain performance improvements. At the chip level, multiple processing cores are often disposed on the same chip, functio... | {
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The present invention relates to an improved carrier particle for use with a toner in an electrostatic copying process. Such processes are now commonly used by laser printers and photocopy machines.
Electrostatic processes typically use developers that have two components: toner particles and carrier particles. The car... | {
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Highwall mining is a form of surface mining, in which spaced apart tunnels (sometimes called holes or entries) are cut into an exposed face of the seam at predetermined intervals to create the pillars for supporting the overburden. A typical highwall mining system is comprised of a cutter (or miner module), a conveying... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention pertains to lighting, and more particularly to fluorescent bench worklights.
2. Description of the Related Art
Fluorescent bulb-type lamps that include a threaded connector that screw into a complimentary-shaped threaded connector are relatively common. Such lamps, called... | {
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In an era when lower data rates and smaller data volumes (or sizes) were required by users, a single storage unit may have been sufficient to accommodate all of a user's data needs. But, in recent years, reducing data reading/writing periods and/or securing larger-capacity storage spaces have become important, for inst... | {
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This invention relates to the field of data processing systems. More particularly, this invention relates to the field of data processing systems having a plurality of execution mechanism for executing program instructions and between which a selection may be made as to which execution mechanism is active to execute th... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a displaying apparatus, and more particularly to a liquid crystal display and driving method thereof.
2. Background of the Related Art
Generally, a liquid crystal display (LCD) includes a thin film transistor (TFT) liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panel, a back... | {
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The present disclosure relates to a rotary changer for welding torches configured to automatically replace a torch component such as a cylindrical nozzle or a contact tip bar to be screwed on, and coupled to, a tip portion of the body of a welding torch for use in arc welding.
Changer assemblies for replacing torch com... | {
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The present invention relates generally to operations performed and equipment utilized in conjunction with a subterranean well and, in an embodiment described herein, more particularly provides an electrically operated deep set safety valve.
It is sometimes desirable to set a safety valve relatively deep in a well. For... | {
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1. Field
The present disclosure generally relates to composite columnar structures, and deals more particularly with a composite tubular strut internally stiffened to maximize the strut's strength-to-weight ratio.
2. Background
Columnar structures formed of composites are used in a variety of applications because of th... | {
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The present invention relates to a recombinant yeast cell having the ability to produce a desired fermentation product, to the construction of said yeast cell by genetic modification and to a process for producing a fermentation product wherein said yeast cell is used.
Ethanol production by Saccharomyces cerevisiae is ... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
This invention pertains to improvements in memory cell array layouts and designs, and more particularly to improvements in memory cell bit line structures, and still more particularly to improvements in twisted bit line structures and methods for making same.
2. Relevant Background
An electric... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a mechanical timepiece comprising an oscillator, the oscillating motion of which is maintained by a mainspring, in which a periodic energy storage device is disposed between this mainspring and an escapement associated with said oscillator.
2. Description of Re... | {
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The following methods are conventionally used to control or determine a light emission amount when an image is sensed by using a flash of an image sensing apparatus.
First method: Flash light is emitted toward an object to receive the reflected light from the object by a sensor. When the obtained integral value has rea... | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a method for preparing a catalyst used in producing methacrolein and methacrylic acid by the gas-phase catalytic oxidation of isobutylene or tert-butanol.
2. Description of the Prior Art
A large number of catalysts are known in regard to the production of metha... | {
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Embodiments of the inventive subject matter generally relate to the field of communication systems and, more particularly, to a coordinated back-off mechanism for path selection in a hybrid communication network.
Hybrid communication networks typically comprise multiple networking technologies (e.g., wireless local are... | {
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