200results about How to "Ensure flexibility" patented technology

A walking sensor is attached to a shoe of the user and cooperates with an input device including a detection section detecting a movement of a user's leg, a signal conversion section converting a detection result of the detection section into a control signal, and an output section outputting the control signal to an external device.

A grill shutter unit comprises a shutter unit provided in back of a traveling-air introductory port formed at a front end of a vehicle body and including shutter members, and a traveling-air guide member including a guide frame portion provided at an outer peripheral edge portion of the shutter unit and a seal portion provided to extend forward continuously from a front end of the guide frame portion and be made from soft synthetic resin having more flexibility than the frame portion, wherein the grill shutter unit is configured such that when the shutter members are closed, a seal portion of the traveling-air guide member is pressed against an outer peripheral wall face of the traveling-air introductory port by pressure of traveling air shut off by the shutter members closed.

A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a first transistor which is formed of a first gate extending in a first direction and a first diffusion region and which is capable of being active, a second transistor which is formed of a second gate extending in the first direction and a second diffusion region and which is arranged adjacent to the first transistor in a second direction intersected at a right angle with the first direction, and a third gate which extends in the first direction and which is arranged adjacent in the second direction to the first transistor on an opposite side to the second transistor. A space between the first gate and the second gate is larger than a space between the first gate and the third gate.

A method and apparatus for booting a microprocessor system using a serial (e.g., NAND-type) flash memory array having a random-access (parallel, e.g., NOR-flash type) interface. The method includes loading a boot code loader stored in the serial (e.g., NAND-type) flash memory array into a RAM when power is turned on, according to a routine of a read-only memory (ROM) of the microprocessor; loading boot code stored in the serial flash memory into an internal or external (main) RAM of the microprocessor according to the boot code loader; loading application code stored in the serial flash memory into the main (RAM) memory according to the boot is code; and executing the application code. The system may be manufactured at a low cost compared to NOR-Flash based systems, while ensuring flexibility of a microprocessor.

A sculptable, decorative light system includes a number of modules of differing lengths which can respond to commands either in parallel or time delay to create pre-selected light colors and sequences. Three miniature connectors are used to create a direct current fed system which has the potential to even out a current demand. Interconnectable lamp modules are provided in sets of 1, 2, 3, 4, and more lengths to create decorative light displays. Each lamp module or string of modules may include a male / plug end and a female / receptacle end.

Provided is a housing type pipe joint to enable the confirmation of an appropriate fastening degree of a joint and reduce a load of a fastening work. The housing-type pipe joint includes a pair of joint segments, an elastic seal ring, and a fastening means fastening the pair of joint segments, in which the joint segments each have an arc portion, flange portions extending from both ends of the arc portion, a concave groove formed in an inner peripheral surface of the arc portion to have the elastic seal ring fit therein, and in which the fastening means makes the flanges of the both joint segments approach each other to make the arc portions bend so that radii of curvature of the arc portions become smaller, and when, as a result of the bending, peripheral edges of the arc portions match outer surfaces of the pipes that are to be coupled, the coupling of the pipes is completed, the housing-type pipe joint including marks on the peripheral edge regions of the arc portions, wherein, when the peripheral edges of the arc portions corresponding to the marks come into contact with the outer surfaces of the pipes, the coupling of the pipes is completed.

The invention provides a structural member of different materials having no different-material-bonded part between aluminum alloy material and steel material to be assembled. The structural member of different materials comprised of steel and aluminum alloy includes a first structural member including steel, and a second structural member having a part including steel and a part including aluminum alloy, the part including steel and the part including aluminum alloy being bonded by different-material bonding. The first structural member and the second structural member are bonded together only by bonding of steels between the part including steel of the second structural member and the first structural member.

A method for managing the context of the mobile station (MS) is applied in an MS handover process of a wireless access network. The function entity identification information of acting on the MS is carried in the context of the MS, and the MS addresses based on the function entity identification information and handovers to the target base station. By adding the identifications of various logic entities acting on the MS to the context information of the MS, the correct addressing of these logic entities is ensured during the handover. The different local policies of the source and destination ends are considered during conveying the context of the MS, in which the destination end may update certain context of the MS according to its own local policy during conveying; and the hierarchy of the context conveying of the MS during the handover is also considered.

A global reconciliation software tool is provided to standardize reconciliation processes across various corporate lines of business. The reconciliation tool provides standard templates for entering transaction and account data. In this manner, open accounting items are more readily identified and reconciled. The software tool includes a plurality of components allowing for greater scalability and operability across various computer systems and accounting programs.

A graphene-iron oxide complex consists of graphene and needle-like iron oxide nanoparticles grown on a surface of the graphene, and a fabricating method thereof includes (A) preparing a reduced graphene dispersed solution, (B) mixing the dispersed solution with a solution containing iron oxide precursors to prepare a mixture, (C) stirring the mixture to prepare a graphene-iron oxide dispersed solution containing the graphene-iron oxide complex that needle-like iron oxide nanoparticles are grown on the surface of the graphene, and (D) separating the graphene-iron oxide complex from the graphene-iron oxide complex dispersed solution.

Disclosed herein is a television unit including a thin platelike display unit, a stand for rotatably supporting the display unit, and a speaker. The stand has a mounting portion adapted to be mounted at a suitable position and a swiveling portion rotatably connected to the mounting portion for supporting the display unit. The speaker is provided in the swiveling portion of the stand.

Disclosed is a flexible display device capable of forming a display device on a glass substrate and simultaneously ensuring flexibility, and a fabrication method thereof, the method including preparing a glass substrate having a display region and a non-display region defined on a front surface thereof, forming a display device on the display region defined on the front surface of the glass substrate, preparing a metal foil substrate, bonding the metal foil substrate to the glass substrate such that a front surface of the metal foil substrate faces the front surface of the glass substrate so as to seal the display device, attaching a first passivation film on a region of a rear surface of the glass substrate, the region corresponding to a part or all of the non-display region defined on the front surface of the glass substrate, and attaching a second passivation film on an entire rear surface of the metal foil substrate, performing a first etching with respect to the display region of the rear surface of the glass substrate by using the first passivation film as a mask, removing the first passivation film, and performing a second etching with respect to the display region and the non-display region of the rear surface of the glass substrate, removing the second passivation film, and mounting a display device driving unit on the non-display region defined on the front surface of the glass substrate.

In an electrostatic-capacitance-type acceleration sensor, water, etc. penetrating into a sealed space incorporating an acceleration detector having a movable electrode 6, and sticking of the movable electrode 6 to a cap 8 due to static charge accumulated on the cap 8 during the anodic bonding being performed are prevented. A conductive shielding film 9 that can be extendedly transformed on the entire inner face of the cap 8 constituting the sealed space is provided, which is not only extendedly arranged so as to be sandwiched between a bonding frame 7 and the cap 8, but also electrically connected to the movable electrode 6; thereby, even if unevenness exists on the surface of the bonding frame 7, not only sufficient anodic bonding between the bonding frame 7 and the cap 8 becomes possible, but also the electric field due to the static charge accumulated in the cap 8 can be shielded.

Disclosed are a nanostructure array substrate, a method for fabricating the same, and a dye-sensitized solar cell by using the same. The nanostructure array substrate includes a plurality of metal oxide nanostructures vertically aligned on the substrate while being separated from each other. The metal oxide nanostructures include nanorods having a ZnO core / TiO2 shell structure or TiO2 nanotubes. The method includes the steps of forming ZnO nanorods vertically aligned from a seed layer formed on a substrate; and coating a TiO2 sol on the ZnO nanorods and sintering the ZnO nanorods to form nanorods having a ZnO core / TiO2 shell structure. The transparency and flexibility of the substrate are ensured. The photoelectric conversion efficiency of the solar cell is improved if the nanostructure array substrate is employed in the photo electrode of the dye-sensitized solar cell.

The invention discloses a cloud technology-based commodity traceability and consumption flow statistical analysis method and system. According to the cloud technology-based commodity traceability and consumption flow statistical analysis method and system, a cloud technology architecture in which a cloud computing platform and a cloud computing terminal coordinate with each other is adopted, wherein the cloud computing platform is responsible for coding, compression, encryption, generation and activation, assignment and management of hundred-million-level encrypted two-dimension codes and providing traceability services for consumers and providing consumption flow statistical analysis services for enterprises, and the cloud computing terminal is responsible for assigning identifiers for the encrypted two-dimension codes of commodities; since the powerful computing ability and performance of cloud technologies are utilized, and a convenient automated centralized management mode is adopted, the operational efficiency, reliability, flexibility and robustness of the system can be ensured.

The invention relates to cooling costume for distribution network hot-line work, which is characterized in that a phase-change material bag and a circular cooling water pipe are arranged in a mesh vest; the circular cooling water pipe is clamped between the phase-change material bag and the mesh vest; the circular cooling water pipe is provided with a cooling water pipe joint on the edge of the mesh vest; the cooling water pipe joint is connected to a circular cooling water joint on a cool storage tank through a connecting pipe; the cool storage tank comprises an ice storage box, a control module capable of controlling the circulation of cooling water, a water pump and a cell; the opening of the ice storage box is connected with the water pump; the water pump is connected to the circular cooling water joint; and the control end of the water pump is connected with the control module. According to the invention, the cooling costume is a device for reducing temperature in insulting costume when distribution network hot-line workers carry out maintenance operation at high-temperature / humidity weather; ice is used as cool storage material; circular cooling water is made as refrigeration source; the cold air of the circular cooling water and heat quantity in the insulating costume are absorbed by phase-change material; thus, heat comfort in the insulating costume is ensured.

Disclosed is a portable communication terminal having a display unit using a panel-type waveguide. The portable communication terminal includes a body having an optical unit; a panel-type waveguide having a display unit mounted on the body while facing the body, displaying a source image emitted by the optical unit; and an information input / output device positioned in parallel with the panel-type waveguide while being adjacent to the display unit.

The below-deck space of an aircraft may be selectively configured as a freight hold or alternatively as a passenger sleeping cabin space by arranging a sleeping cabin container therein. An air conditioning system for this below-deck space provides air in a supply air main line (31), which branches off to at least one supply air delivery line (19). A first flange (23) is provided at the end of the supply air delivery line (19), and a seal collar (25) seals the end relative to the freight hold wall (29). When a sleeping cabin container is to be arranged in the below-deck space, a flap door (24) is pivoted into an open position, and the flange (28) at the end of a ventilation duct (27) of the sleeping cabin is connected directly to the flange (23). When the sleeping cabin container is removed from the freight hold, the flap door (24) is pivoted into a closed position, in which it covers the mouth opening of the flange (23), and allows an air flow into the freight hold only through the smaller restricted cross-section of an air throughflow opening (26) in the flap door (24). The air supply arrangement can be easily adjusted to meet the different air flow requirements of the sleeping cabin configuration and the freight hold configuration without requiring any recalibration of the air-conditioning system itself.