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A method of fabricating a microstructure having an inside cavity. The method includes depositing a first layer or a first stack of layers in a substantially closed geometric configuration on a first substrate. Then, performing an indent on the first layer or on the top layer of said first stack of layers. Then, depositing a second layer or a second stack of layers substantially with said substantially closed geometric configuration on a second substrate. Then, aligning and bonding said first substrate on said second substrate such that a microstructure having a cavity is formed according to said closed geometry configuration.

In a process for fabricating a thin-film transistor in which a gate electrode 4 is to be formed on a substrate 1, the process has the steps of forming the gate electrode 4 on the substrate 1, forming a metal oxide layer 7 in such a way as to cover the gate electrode 4, forming a source electrode 6 and a drain electrode 5, and carrying out annealing in an inert gas to change part of the metal oxide layer 7 into a channel region.

The present invention provides an electro-optic unit. A lens unit disposed at an upper portion of a display panel has a plurality of lens part. An electro-optic unit is disposed between a display panel and a lens unit, and includes an electro-optic material layer formed as a graded refractive index lens in an electric field. A display device shows a two-dimensional and a three-dimensional image according to a mode of the electro-optic unit. A driving part may form the graded refractive index lens to have the same pitch as the pitch of the lens part. The graded refractive index lens may be formed as a convex lens or a Fresnel lens. The electro-optic unit is displayed to form the Fresnel lens. A driving method enhancing mode conversion velocity of the electro-optic unit is displayed.

A semiconductor device having SRAM cell units each comprising a pair of driving transistors, a pair of load transistors and a pair of access transistors, in which each of the transistors has a semiconductor layer projecting upward from a substrate plane, a gate electrode extending on opposite sides of the semiconductor layer so as to stride over a top of the semiconductor layer, a gate insulting film interposed between the gate electrode and the semiconductor layer, and a pair of source/drain areas formed in the semiconductor layer; a longitudinal direction of each semiconductor layer extends along a first direction; and between the adjacent SRAM cell units in the first direction, the semiconductor layer in one of the corresponding transistors is located on a center line of the semiconductor layer in the other transistor which center line extends along the first direction.

A continuous film of desired electrical characteristics is obtained by successively printing and annealing two or more dispersions of prefabricated nanoparticles.

A matrix-type board-to-board electrical connector for horizontally and electrically engaging a daughter board with a mother board includes an insulative housing having a top surface and a bottom surface and defining a plurality of first and second passageways therethrough. Each first passageway receives a C-shaped resilient signal contact therein for transmitting high or low frequency signals. Each second passageway receives a substantially triangular shaped resilient power contact for carrying a large power current. The first passageways receiving the contacts which transmit high frequency signals either have a circular recess defined therearound for receiving a corresponding cylindrical shielding shell or are located between shielded first passageways thereby providing all of the contacts which transmit high frequency signals with shielding properties. The passageways are defined in the housing of the connector so that the contacts serving the same function are disposed in the same general area of the connector.

The present invention relates to a mouthpiece device of an electronic cigarette, Which includes an atomizing device for vaporizing tobacco liquid into aerosol and a liquid reservoir for storing tobacco liquid in an inhaling shell. The atomizing device includes an atomizing cup with an atomizing chamber, and an atomizer held in the atomizing chamber. The atomizing cup is molded by an integrated process. The mouthpiece device further includes a cap at another end of the liquid reservoir, and an aerosol passage therein. The cap defines a stepwise slot for filtering tobacco particles in aerosol. The stepwise slot is communicated with the aerosol passage. The present invention mainly solves such problems of the existing mouthpiece device as complicate manufacturing, high cost, bad heat insulation, and failing to filter tobacco particles; and obtains simple manufacturing, lower cost, good heat insulation and well filtering tobacco particles.

Disclosed is a backlight unit that includes: a light guide plate that guides light, using internal total reflection; a plurality of short wavelength light sources that are disposed on a side of the light guide plate and radiate short wavelength lights into the light guide plate; a three-color light source array that is disposed on the bottom or the top of the light guide plate and includes a plurality of color conversion materials exciting the short wavelength lights from the short wavelength light sources into red or green or blue; and a lenticular lens array sheet that is disposed between the three-color light source array and the liquid crystal panel and refracts the three color lights emitted from the three-color light source array into the subpixels.

A case of a portable equipment for communication to an external system comprises a body portion and an operation portion acting as a function member. At least a portion of the case is provided with a decorative film having a resin film having transparency and a print layer printed on a back surface of the resin film in a predetermined pattern, and a resin base member formed on a back surface of the decorative film so as to contact the print layer. The front surface of the decorative layer is exposed as a most outside surface of the case.

A light source comprising an excitation light source (110) for providing excitation light, and an optical wavelength conversion member disposed at a distance from the excitation light source. The optical wavelength conversion member comprises an optical wavelength conversion material (150) for converting the excitation light into stimulated light. The light source also comprises an optical-guiding member that allows the excitation light to be incident on the optical wavelength conversion material, and an optical-collecting member (130A) for collecting stimulated light originating from the optical wavelength conversion material. To separate the paths of the stimulated light and the excitation light, the etendue of the optical-guiding member is less than or equal to ¼ of the etendue of the optical-collecting member. This allows the optical-guiding member to draw in the excitation light while preventing the excessive escape of the stimulated light through the optical-guiding member. The advantages of the light source are that it can separate the paths of the excitation light and the stimulated light, the light path is simple, and the optical members are easy to manufacture.

The invention belongs to the energy-storage field of electrochemistry, and discloses a battery, wherein the battery comprises a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a diaphragm and an electrolyte, wherein the active substance of the positive electrode is made of one of reversible separation-embedding materials; the negative electrode uses metals; the electrolyte is a solution containing positive separable embedded ions and negative metal ions. The reversibility of the positive electrode of the batter is realized by the embedding or separation of the separable embedded ions on the positive active material; and the reversibility of the negative electrode is realized by the electrochemical deposition and dissolution of the metal ions on the surface of the negative electrode. Compared with the lead-acid battery, the battery disclosed by the invention is more environmental, and cheaper than the battery which adopts nickel as the positive electrode; the energy density is higher; the self-discharging problem of zinc-bromine battery is avoided; and the battery is cheaper than lithium batteries, and convenient for producing and repairing. The battery disclosed by the invention is expected to displace lead-acid batteries in short term; and simultaneously, the battery is expected to be used in electric vehicles and large energy-storage projects.

A holding member (1) for holding a pipe (P), and a mounting member (2) for fixing the pipe (P) to a body panel (B) are previously connected together by a thin connecting portion (9). The holding member (1) and the mounting member (2) in the integrated state are set in a forming die. The connecting portion (9) is collapsed with the closing of such the die that the holding member (1) and the mounting member (2) are separated from each other. A coupling member (3) is formed in this state. Accordingly, the working efficiency can be improved as compared with the case where the holding member and the mounting member are individually set in the die. The holding member (1) and the mounting member (2) are coupled together by the coupling member (3). Since the coupling member (3) is formed of a rubber material, vibration caused in the pipe (P) can be prevented from being transferred to the body panel.

An electrical connector has an insulating housing defining a front wall. The front wall has a mating portion defining a plurality of passageways extending frontward and rearward in a top surface and a bottom surface respectively. A first terminal module has a plurality of first conductive terminals and a first base for restraining the first conductive terminals. The first conductive terminals have contacting portions extended outside the first base and arranged side by side to form one row for being received in the passageways defined in the top surface. A second terminal module disposed under the first terminal module has a plurality of second conductive terminals and a second base for restraining the second conductive terminals. The second conductive terminals have contacting portions extended outside the second base and arranged side by side to form one row for being received in the passageways defined in the bottom surface.

The chapstick dispensing apparatus provides convenient use and asymmetrical, tactile geometry, aiding manual determination of the disposition of the device. The cap for the chapstick dispensing apparatus is slidably, pivotably, or hingeably attached to a housing so that no separate cap is present with its accompanying risk of loss or of being dropped. The housing is generally asymmetrical and may have an asymmetrical series of tactile protrusions to help determine the disposition or attitude of the chapstick dispensing apparatus, even though manual dexterity is limited as by gloves or mittens. A cover having a cap and finger cradle may slidably engage the housing to open or close the dispensing apparatus. The lip balm product is disposed within the housing and may be ejected or retracted by an ejector such as a threaded rod and turnwheel or an elevator controlling a platform. The housing may form a channel for the lips to facilitate application of the lip balm product. The cover may pivotably or hingeably attach to the housing and form a snap-fit in conjunction with the housing and/or oppositely opposed finger grips present on the housing. A lanyard ring may also provide additional utility by allowing the chapstick dispensing apparatus to be hung around a person's neck or wrist.

An illumination apparatus comprises:

• • (a) at least one light source;
  • (b) a light guide for accepting light from the at least one light source and for guiding the light using total internal reflection, the light guide having a top surface;
  • (c) a light extracting film having an input surface optically coupled with the top surface and an output surface for providing light,
  • wherein the input surface comprises a plurality of features which are optically coupled to the top surface of the light guide, such features having:
    • (i) a first side comprising two or more planar segments; and
    • (ii) a second side comprising two or more planar segments, and
  • wherein either the length of at least some of the features is less than the width of the film or the first and second sides intersect at an apex.

A shaver comprising a handle with an elongated handgrip portion and a mounting portion, a shaver head attached to the mounting portion, the shaver head having a back structure. A removable cartridge is attached to the shaver head through an elastic member provided on the back structure of the shaver head.

A tool head for use with a modular shank tool includes at least two preforms. Each preform of the at least two prefroms is made separately from the other preform of the at least two preforms from granular materials and then put together and jointly compressed and integrally bonded.

The invention discloses a preparing method of annular polyhydroxy nitriketone with structure as formula I, which comprises the following steps: 1) reacting hemiacetal as formula II and O-methyl hydroxylamine hydrochlorate under alkaline condition; obtaining methyl oxime ether with structure as formula III; 2) reacting the methyl oxime ether with structure as formula III and methane sulfonyl chlo-ride to produce methanesulfonates with structure as formula IV; 3) releasing aldehydo of methanesulfonates as formula IV under acid condition; obtaining the aldehydo as formula V; 4) acting the aldehydo as formula V and hydroxylamine hydrochlorate under alkaline condition; obtaining the product (R1, R2 and R3 is alkyl, alkenyl, aromatic radical or substituted aryl).

A personal table including a table top supported by a support assembly is disclosed. The table top is preferably constructed from blow-molded plastic and the support assembly preferably includes a first leg and a second leg that are pivotally connected. The legs desirably have a generally X-shaped configuration when the legs are placed in an upright position and the legs can be collapsed into a storage position. Each of the legs may include a lower portion, a body portion and an upper portion that is preferably selectively connected to the table top. The legs, for example, can be connected to the table top by inserting the upper portions of the legs into leg receiving recess. Desirably, the table top includes a plurality of leg receiving recesses and the legs can be selectively attached to the leg receiving recesses in order to vary the height of the table.

A reclosable disposable container for small quantities of liquid or semi-liquid products such as shampoo, conditioner, toothpaste, ointments, creams and the like. The container has a flexible body or reservoir for the contents and a spout which is opened by removing the end to create an opening. A foldable portion is provided to create a fold between the opening and the remaining contents. When this portion is folded the container is closed. A tab is provided on the foldable portion which cooperates with a slot in the container to maintain the fold and keep the container closed. The container is reopened by taking the tab out of the slot and unfolding the foldable portion. A container closure is also described and comprises a spout which is reclosable by folding and is maintained in a closed position by a tab which cooperates with a slot.

A phase-locked loop (PLL) circuit includes an input for receiving a timing reference signal, a phase detector circuit coupled to receive the timing reference signal, a controllable oscillator circuit controlled according to an output of the phase detector circuit, and a feedback divider circuit having an output coupled to the phase detector and an input coupled to the controllable oscillator circuit. The phase-locked loop circuit is coupled to output one of a plurality of output signals having an arbitrary frequency relationship to each other according to a frequency selection mechanism, the frequency selection mechanism including one or more input terminals coupled to control a divide ratio of the feedback divider circuit. The frequency selection mechanism selects one of a plurality of stored values. The selected stored value controls, at least in part, a divide ratio of the feedback divider circuit, thereby providing a pin programmable device capable of selecting among output frequencies having an arbitrary relationship to each other.

In a microstructure: minute pores are formed at a surface of a substrate in such a manner that the minute pores are dispersedly distributed over the surface, and the gaps between the minute pores are 1 micrometer or smaller; minute metal particles are arranged at the minute pores and have such sizes that the minute metal particles can cause localized plasmon resonance; the minute metal particles have head portions protruding from the surface; and the diameters of the head portions are greater than the diameters of the minute pores. In Raman spectrometry, a specimen material is absorbed by the surface from which the head portions protrude, light is applied to the surface, and a spectrum of scattered light is obtained.

A semi-transmissive film is provided underneath a transparent electrode of an organic EL element for a specific color. The optical length of the interval between the upper surface of the semi-transmissive film and the lower surface of a counter electrode serving as a reflective layer is configured such that this interval functions as a microresonator for selecting light having a specific wavelength. In an organic EL element for another color, the semi-transmissive film is omitted. According to this arrangement, emissive efficiency of an organic EL element for a color naturally having low emissive efficiency can be selectively enhanced.

The present invention is a closure capable of being applied to an existing flexible container structure in order to form a releasable closure thereon. The closure includes base formed of a flexible material having an adhesive disposed on one side thereof in order to attach the closure to the exterior of a container. The closure also includes a pair of releasably engageable zipper sections secured to the base on opposite sides of a gap formed in the base having an open end and a closed end. The closure further has a liner located between the zipper sections and the base that extends over the gap to finction as a positioning device for properly locating the closure on the flexible container. The base and the liner also limit the size of any opening formed in the container to the size of the closure.

A unitary fan-motor grill assembly that integrates a fan-motor subassembly within a grill assembly and a fan-motor housing is disclosed. The fan-motor housing is configured to receive a fan-motor subassembly and includes motor latches and posts for fixing the fan-motor subassembly in place. The grill assembly is provided with housing latches to secure it in place in front of the fan blade of the fan-motor subassembly by attaching to the fan-motor housing. The fan-motor housing includes mounting latches for fixing the integrated fan-motor grill assembly in place on an evaporator housing or similar receptacle. The unitary fan-motor grill assembly may be installed or removed in a single step without requiring the use of non-integral fasteners.

A turbine blade damper-seal assembly includes a seal nested within a damper such that both the seal and damper are disposed to provide sealing between adjacent blade platforms. The seal traverses the seal slot in the damper and seals the gap between adjacent blade platforms for the full axial length of the neck cavity between adjacent blades. The damper is located in an aft most position and includes features to facilitate vibration-dampening performance. The damper also includes features that cause entrapment between blades and therefore avoids the conventionally required protrusions on the blade to retain it in the assembled position.

A microfluidic chip formed with multiple fluid channels terminating at a tapered electrospray ionization tip for mass spectrometric analysis. The fluid channels may be formed onto a channel plate that are in fluid communication with corresponding reservoirs. The electrospray tip can be formed along a defined distal portion of the channel plate that can include a single or multiple tapered surfaces. The fluid channels may terminate at an open-tip region of the electrospray tip. A covering plate may substantially enclose most portions of the fluid channels formed on the channel plate except for the open-tip region. Another aspect of the invention provides methods for conducting mass spectrometric analysis of multiple samples flowing through individual fluid channels in a single microfluidic chip that is formed with a tapered electrospray tip having an open-tip region.

The present invention discloses a seating system that includes a seat back (20) with one or more plastic panels (22) that extend across a lateral distance of the seat back (20). The seat back (20) preferably includes one or more reinforcements (30) attached to the plastic panels (22).

This invention relates to a super-small resonator including a mum or a mm wave resonator with a negative permeability medium occupying the left space, in which, the resonant frequency of a resonator does not rely on the size of the resonator any more and one dimension structure is prior for the applied inverted medium (negative dielectric medium and negative permeability medium) according to the tunnel effect generated at the cross of the media.

A spatial focal field type glasses display product can present virtual images at different distances simultaneously. The product is a frame type glasses or corneal contact lens and comprises a projection component and a display control device. The projection component comprises a plurality of projection units, each projection unit projects a plurality of elementary beams. The elementary beams projected by the same projection unit diverge and do not intercept with each other. The elementary beams projected by different projection units intersect near the retina after passing through the crystalline lens. The intersection point is a cluster focus. All cluster focuses form a spatial focal field which envelop the retina. When the diopter of the crystalline lens changes, the spatial focal field displaces and deforms accordingly, so different cluster focuses fall on the retina to be seen clearly, while the other cluster focuses tend to disperse and cannot be seen clearly.