363results about "Glass wings" patented technology

A communication system and method enabling bi-directional I2C communications is disclosed. In the communication system having a master and at least one slave that communicate with each other through an I2C bus comprising a Serial Clock line (SCL) and a Serial Data line (SDA), the master and slave are directly connected on an interrupt line, and, if the slave sends to the master an interrupt requesting communications, the master performs communications with the slave through the SCL and the SDA. Therefore, the communication system and method enables slaves to generate an interrupt to request communications to the master, so bi-directional communications between microprocessors can be achieved in a simple hardware implementation.

A refrigerator is provided with an airflow passage for an ice making compartment of the refrigerator. In the refrigerator, a main body has an opened side, and a door selectively closes the opened side of the main body. An ice making compartment is formed in the door, the ice making compartment being insulated from the outside and being kept at a low temperature. A duct is formed in the main body for exchanging cooling air with the ice making compartment, and a cooling air passage is formed at an outer surface of the ice making compartment to connect the duct with the ice making compartment. A switching unit closes the cooling air passage when the door is opened, and opens the cooling air passage when the door is closed. With this arrangement, the cooling air can be sufficiently supplied to the ice making compartment without the penetration of foreign substance.

A stacked MCM is manufactured at reduced cost without using expensive apparatus. A first wiring and a second wiring are formed on a surface of a semiconductor chip of a first semiconductor device through an insulation film. A glass substrate having an opening to expose the second wiring is bonded to the surface of the semiconductor chip on which the first wiring and the second wiring are formed. A third wiring is disposed on a back surface and a side surface of the semiconductor chip through an insulation film and connected to the first wiring. And a conductive terminal of another semiconductor device is connected to the second wiring through the opening.

A stacked MCM is manufactured at reduced cost without using expensive apparatus. A first wiring and a second wiring are formed on a surface of a semiconductor chip of a first semiconductor device through an insulation film. A glass substrate having an opening to expose the second wiring is bonded to the surface of the semiconductor chip on which the first wiring and the second wiring are formed. A third wiring is disposed on a back surface and a side surface of the semiconductor chip through an insulation film and connected to the first wiring. And a conductive terminal of another semiconductor device is connected to the second wiring through the opening.

A rail system for holding a panel, such as a plate glass pane, in a door and / or wall partition. The rail system includes a housing and a clamp member having a wedging geometry so that when the clamp member is actuated with respect to the housing in a first direction, at least a portion of the clamp member will move in a clamping direction, which is different than the first direction to clamp the panel.

A refrigerator is provided with an airflow passage for an ice making compartment of the refrigerator. In the refrigerator, a main body has an opened side, and a door selectively closes the opened side of the main body. An ice making compartment is formed in the door, the ice making compartment being insulated from the outside and being kept at a low temperature. A duct is formed in the main body for exchanging cooling air with the ice making compartment, and a cooling air passage is formed at an outer surface of the ice making compartment to connect the duct with the ice making compartment. A switching unit closes the cooling air passage when the door is opened, and opens the cooling air passage when the door is closed. With this arrangement, the cooling air can be sufficiently supplied to the ice making compartment without the penetration of foreign substance.

A 3D image display device includes a display panel, a barrier, a controller, and a barrier driver. The barrier includes: a first substrate; a plurality of first electrodes disposed on the first substrate and extended in a first direction; a plurality of second electrodes respectively disposed between adjacent first electrodes; a second substrate opposing the first substrate; a plurality of third electrodes disposed on the second substrate and extended in a second direction crossing the first direction; a plurality of fourth electrodes respectively disposed between adjacent third electrodes; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first and second substrates. The barrier driver receives a barrier control signal from the controller, and applies a reference voltage to the first electrodes, the second electrodes, the third electrodes, and / or the fourth electrodes, and applies a liquid crystal driving voltage to one or more other ones of the first to fourth electrodes.

According to an example embodiment of the present invention, the microelectronic cleaning agent may include a fluoride component, an acid component, a chelating agent, a surfactant and water. Example embodiments of the present invention provide a microelectronic cleaning agent which can selectively remove, for example, a high-k dielectric layer. The microelectronic cleaning agent includes from about 0.001 weight % to about 10 weight % of a fluoride component, from about 0.001 weight % to about 30 weight % of an acid component, from about 0.001 weight % to about 20 weight % of a chelating agent, from about 0.001 weight % to about 10 weight % of a surfactant, and water (H2O). The water may comprise the remainder of the cleaning agent. According to another embodiment of the present invention, a method of fabricating a semiconductor device using the microelectronic cleaning agent is also provided.

An awning-type insulated glazing assembly includes an insulated glazing having a first glazing pane and a second glazing pane mounted parallel to and spaced from the first glazing pane. The first glazing pane has a marginal portion extending beyond the second glazing pane in at least a first direction in a plane of the first glazing pane. A mounting hinge defines a hinge axis and is secured to the insulated glazing for hingedly mounting the insulated glazing for awning-type movement about the hinge axis. A window regulator is secured to the insulated glazing for controlling the awning-type movement of the insulated glazing about the hinge axis.

A method for producing α-alumina powder is described. The method comprises the steps of removing water from a compound containing the following (1), (2), (3) and (4), and calcining the results: (1) α-alumina precursor, (2) seed crystal, (3) water, (4) nitrate ion in an amount of from 2.8 to 3.3 mol per mol of aluminum (Al) contained in the α-alumina precursor and the seed crystal.

The present invention relates to a flip chip type nitride semiconductor light emitting device having p-type and n-type nitride semiconductor layers, and an active layer in between. The invention also has an ohmic contact layer formed on the p-type nitride semiconductor layer, a light-transmitting conductive oxide layer formed on the ohmic contact layer, and a highly reflective metal layer formed on the light-transmitting conductive oxide layer.

A stacked MCM is manufactured at reduced cost without using expensive apparatus. A first wiring and a second wiring are formed on a surface of a semiconductor chip of a first semiconductor device through an insulation film. A glass substrate having an opening to expose the second wiring is bonded to the surface of the semiconductor chip on which the first wiring and the second wiring are formed. A third wiring is disposed on a back surface and a side surface of the semiconductor chip through an insulation film and connected to the first wiring. And a conductive terminal of another semiconductor device is connected to the second wiring through the opening.

Embodiments of the invention provide a video display technique with which a stable video with a high contrast can be obtained according to brightness of a screen. In one embodiment, a video signal processing system for a video display apparatus which performs display on the basis of a video signal comprises a gain control module configured to provide a feedback signal based upon maximum luminance level information and average luminance level information of a luminance signal corresponding to the video signal, the feedback signal being used to control a gain of the luminance signal; and a correction module configured to apply a gamma correction based upon the average luminance level information to the video signal after the gain of the luminance signal has been controlled by the gain control module.

A door entry system for operating a door using a wireless transmitter device containing identification credentials of a user. The system includes a door operable by an uncoupling or releasing securing mechanism, a door controller capable of operating the uncoupling or releasing securing mechanism and a door handle for grasping by the user to operate the door, the handle having a cavity, the handle being secured to the door and spaced away from a surface thereof. The system includes a wireless device reader disposed in the handle cavity and a power source connected to the card reader. The wireless transmitter may be presented in the vicinity of the reader in the door handle and, upon verification of the credentials transmitted from the wireless transmitter device, the reader sends a signal to the door controller to uncouple or release the securing mechanism and permit the door to open.

The invention provides a voice-operated privacy shower room, which comprises a shower room body consisting of two fixed glass doors and a moving glass door. The moving glass door is disposed between the two fixed glass doors, rotary shafts are symmetrically mounted at the top and the bottom of the moving glass door, the moving glass door is connected with a pull bar above the moving glass door through the rotary shaft at the top of the moving glass door, the moving glass door is also connected with another pull bar fixed on a stone base and below the moving glass door through the rotary shaft at the bottom of the moving glass door, the moving glass door is respectively connected with the two fixed glass doors through the upper pull bar and the lower pull bar, and the two fixed glass doors are respectively fixed on the stone base and connected with the wall through glass door fastening brackets on respective sides of the two fixed glass doors. The voice-operated privacy shower room further comprises a speech recognition voice-operated switch mounted on the outer wall of the shower room, and the two fixed glass doors and the moving glass door are all made of switchable glass. According to the technical scheme, the voice-operated privacy shower room has the advantages that the shower room is high in flexibility, convenient in control and attractive in overall appearance, the shower room is transparent when not in use and opaque when in use, and the like.

An edge rail for a pane or panel of glass or like material to be used as a door or partition is made of mating male and female rail sections defining a channel for reception of and secure attachment to an edge portion of a pane or panel. The two rail sections have portions thereof cut away and defining a recess or chamber for reception of a door or partition supporting structure directly within the rail and not as an appendage thereto. The edge rail has substantially universal application as either a top rail or a bottom rail and for either a right hand mount or a left hand mount. The rail is relatively small, slim and compact and imparts an esthetically pleasing appearance to the panel assembly.

A small broadband monopole antenna having a perpendicular ground plane with an electromagnetically coupled feed is provided. The small broadband monopole antenna may be realized as a small antenna having a size of 0.085λ0×0.085λ0×0.085λ0 by positioning a folded strip line under a shorted square disc. A resonance of the shorted square disc may be coupled to a resonance of the square folded strip line so as to form a wide bandwidth of about 36.6% of a central frequency of 2.313 GHz based on a VSWR≦2. Also, rectangular slits may be inserted into the perpendicular ground plane to improve a distortion of a radiation pattern that forms on the perpendicular ground plane so as to reduce a backward radiation by 3 dBi or more. The small broadband monopole antenna exhibits a forward radiation pattern similar to that of a general monopole antenna and has a gain of about 2.6 dBi within a bandwidth.

The invention relates to a vacuum sound-insulation glass door. The vacuum sound-insulation glass door comprises a glass piece and a frame. The frame comprises a fixed frame and a fixed rotary shaft, the fixed rotary shaft is sleeved with an isolation sash, the outside of the isolation sash is coaxially sleeved with a rotary cylinder, and the rotary cylinder is connected with the isolation sash through a one-way bearing. A glass clamping piece is arranged on the outer cylindrical wall of the rotary cylinder. A one-way air guiding channel is further arranged between the rotary cylinder and the glass clamping piece. The vacuum sound-insulation glass door further comprises an air exhausting cylinder. A circular-arc-shaped piston rod is further arranged in the air exhausting cylinder and can perform airtight reciprocating motion in the air exhausting cylinder. One end of the piston rod is fixed to the glass clamping piece, and a one-way air valve is arranged at the other end and only permits air to be discharged out of the air exhausting cylinder. The vacuum sound-insulation glass door is novel in structure and good in air tightness, can keep the vacuum degree between sound-insulation glass for a long time and improve heat-preservation and sound-insulation effects.

A window system for installing windows which enables easy cleaning and substantially eliminates the need for window frames. The window system comprises at least one pane of glass having each of a predetermined width, height and thickness for at least partially covering an opening formed in a wall of a structure. There are at least two hinges disposed along the predetermined height of the pane of glass on a predetermined side thereof. The first one of the at least two hinges being secured to the predetermined side adjacent one end thereof and a second one of the at least two hinges being secured to the predetermined side adjacent a radially opposed end thereof. There is at least one magnet secured to the pane of glass or to such opening formed in such building and at least one metallic member disposed on an opposite one of the pane of glass and such opening formed in such building for maintaining the pane of glass in a closed position.

There is described a door assembly for a bathing enclosure, comprising: a frame; a rotatable panel rotatably securable to a wall; and a slidable panel slidably secured to the frame, wherein a sliding motion of the slidable panel triggers a rotation of the rotatable panel, wherein the door assembly is movable between an open position and a closed position, wherein when the door assembly is in the closed position, the rotatable and slidable panels are adjacent to one another and are unparallel and wherein when the door assembly is in the open position, the rotatable and slidable panels overlap one another and are parallel together.

There is provided a window / door system with a flat track having “”-shaped roller supports to provide a nice appearance and to improve air tightness and water tightness by reducing the number of grooves exposed on a window / door frame when a window / door is opened, by using the roller supports in a cross sectional shape of “” which is open at one side.

The invention discloses glass door clamps. Glass doors are clamped in the glass door clamps and are mounted in the building main body through the glass door clamps; each glass door clamp comprises an oppressing component and a tightening component; and the tightening component is oppressed through the match of the oppressing component and the glass door to generate a pre-stressing force to tighten the glass door. In the glass door clamps provided by the invention, the oppressing component is matched with the glass door to oppress the tightening component together to generate the pre-stressing force; the glass door becomes a master control element to generate the pre-stressing force; the tightening component is made of elastic material; and under the action of external forces, stable pre-stressing force is formed at the inner part of the material and stored to form a stable pre-stressing force system with the glass door and the oppressing component together. Corner cutting or hole opening on the glass edges is not needed; the original internal force balance of the glass cannot be damaged; the glass door is enabled to be safer in use and more convenient and faster in mounting; reworking, the scraping of the materials and the like caused by the glass hole opening and the like can be avoided; and remarkable contribution is achieved to improve the work efficiency and save the labor cost.

A door package or door assembly is disclosed that includes multiple door panels. A top frame member has one or more tracks upon which one or more door panels may slide relative to a door opening to close the door opening when in a fully extended position and to open the doorway when in a retracted position. When in its retracted or open position, a plurality of door panels may also pivot about a pivot plate attached to the floor to a broken open position essentially perpendicular to the plane of the doorway opening. Upper and lower magnetic latch assemblies are provided that automatically decouple to permit pivoting of the entire door panel assembly when the panels are fully retracted, and when the panels are not fully retracted, are automatically actuated to prevent pivoting of the door panel assembly.

A method for producing α-alumina powder is described. The method comprises the steps of removing water from a compound containing the following (1), (2), (3) and (4), and calcining the results:(1) α-alumina precursor,(2) seed crystal,(3) water,(4) nitrate ion in an amount of from 2.8 to 3.3 mol per mol of aluminum (Al) contained in the α-alumina precursor and the seed crystal.