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A substrate support assembly for supporting a substrate during processing is provided. In one embodiment, a support assembly includes a ceramic body having an embedded heating element and a base plate. The base plate and the ceramic body define a channel therebetween adapted to supply purge gas to a perimeter of a substrate disposed on the support assembly. The base plate is fastened to the body by brazing, adhering, fastening, press fitting or by mating engaging portions of a retention device such as a bayonet fitting.

An apparatus, system, and method for automatically dispensing and embedding components into three-dimensional parts. In an example embodiment, a direct wire embedding head can be fixed on an automation motion system. The direct wire embedding head begins and terminates an embedded wire pattern on a layer or on a surface of a three-dimensional part in order to automatically create the embedded wire pattern. A sensor is located on an embedding surface wherein the embedded wire pattern is embedded. The sensor can measure the distance between the direct wire embedding head and the embedding surface. A predefined distance can be maintained to ensure successful embedding results for the embedded wire pattern by automatically adjusting a position of the direct wire embedding head in response to feedback from the sensor.

Physical neural network systems and methods are disclosed. A physical neural network can be configured utilizing molecular technology, wherein said physical neural network comprises a plurality of molecular conductors, which form neural network connections thereof. A training mechanism can be provided for training said physical neural network to accomplish a particular neural network task based on a neural network training rule. The neural network connections are formed between pre-synaptic and post-synaptic components of said physical neural network. The neural network generally includes dynamic and modifiable connections for adaptive signal processing. The neural network training mechanism can be based, for example, on the Anti-Hebbian and Hebbian (AHAH) rule and / or other plasticity rules.

A semiconductor wafer processing apparatus, and more specifically, a semiconductor substrate support pedestal having a substrate support, an isolator, and first and second heat transfer plates for providing a controllable, uniform temperature distribution across the diameter of a semiconductor wafer. A semiconductor wafer placed upon the pedestal is maintained uniformly at a predetermined temperature by heating the wafer with one or more electrodes embedded within the substrate support and cooling the wafer with a fluid passing through the first and second heat transfer plates.

Methods and systems are presented for assessing wireless communication quality in a communications network, in which a network application broadcasts reporting criteria to base stations in the network that requests reporting of RF signal strength from powered RF devices, and the base stations send messages to RF devices to request the RF devices to RF quality information according to the reporting criteria. The base station sends reported RF quality information to the network application, which processes the reported information to provide an assessment of RF network quality for all or a subset of the RF coverage areas served by the network.

A rotation rate sensing apparatus is configured from an acoustic wave device comprising a plurality of interdigital transducers for the SAW configuration or electrodes for vibration beams configuration. Such sensors are configured upon an elastic substrate. In the SAW configuration, the plurality of interdigital transducers includes a first interdigital transducer, a second interdigital transducer and a third interdigital transducer. A generator(s) can be formed from the first and third interdigital transducers, wherein the generator generates a standing wave subject to a Coriolis force by adding two progressive waves at each of the first and third interdigital transducers. In the vibration beams configuration, a drive beam(s) and pickup beam(s) can be implemented such that the vibration beams are excited through an RF signal and a Coriolis force excites the pickup beam(s) in order to obtain angular / rotation rate data.

Generally, a system and method for processing a substrate is provided. In one embodiment, a system for processing a substrate comprising a polisher, a first motion device, a second motion device and a load cup. The polisher has one or more polishing heads and one or more platens. The polishing heads are adapted to retain the substrate against the platens during processing and provide motion therebetween. The first motion device is disposed proximate the polisher's first side and moves along the first side between at least a first position and a second position. The second motion device is coupled to the first motion device and the load cup. The second motion device moves the load cup between at least a first position that is adjacent the first side and a second position that is inward of the first side.

Integrated circuits as well as fabrication and operating methods are presented in which user circuitry of the IC is selectively disabled in response to detection of a single event latchup condition in a sensing circuit that is prone to latchup in response to ionic radiation at a specific linear energy transfer level.

A temporal optical correlator is disclosed. The example optical correlator includes a light source, a set of White cells and a micro-mirror array. The micro-mirror array and set of White cells cooperate to produce a correlated summed output signal. A method for processing signals using the example optical correlator is also disclosed.

A high pressure water injection humidifier includes a a high pressure pump driven by a stepper motor, which provides pressurized water to a plurality of exit nozzles, each exit nozzle having a precision orifice that atomizes the pressurized water into a mist, where the volume rate of the mist is dependent only on the motor speed and the diameter of the precision orifice. Proper nozzle flow can be determined by monitoring the torque of the stepper motor.

An oil quality sensor apparatus includes a housing that includes an oil flow path through which oil flows through the housing. One or more photo-detectors can be provided in association and a plurality of light-emitting devices located within the housing and proximate to the oil flow path. At least one light-emitting device among the plurality of light-emitting devices is sensitive to large particulates associated with the oil and at least one other light-emitting device among the plurality of light-emitting devices is sensitive to small particulates associated with the oil to thereby provide an indication of differences among particulates associated with the oil.

A Hydraulic Gravity Harvester is disclosed; having a plural of slip buckets, each slip bucket has a piston that works with a valve that is connected to the lower end of each piston; each slip bucket reciprocates vertically within a cylinder. When the valve is in the closed position and the slip bucket is on the down stroke, it creates a positive pressure in the cylinder pushing fluid up to a reservoir positioned high above the slip buckets. Each slip bucket on the down stroke is connected so that the opposite valve is in the open position and on the up stroke, so the weight of the fluid that has pushed this slip bucket down now rest on the bottom of the cylinder. This allows the slip bucket that is on the down stroke to turn a shaft creating a rotational torque.

Many mechanical systems contain rotating parts used to transfer power from one part of the system to another. The system's efficiency and longevity can be increased by measuring the speed and loading of the rotating parts. Passive wireless sensors are ideal for instrumenting rotating parts because they require no connecting wires and no stored energy. The sensor measurements contain read errors when the stationary interrogation circuit and the rotating sensor are not ideally aligned. The read errors are a function of the angular offset between the stationary interrogation circuit and the passive sensor. As such, the read errors are deterministic. A measurement of the angular offset between the stationary interrogation circuit and the passive sensor is used to determine a correction factor that cancels out the read error to produce a compensated sensor signal.

An acoustic wave acceleration sensor comprises an acoustic wave device including a plate that functions as a propagation medium and at least one interdigital transducer configured upon the plate. One or more antennas can be integrated with the acoustic wave device, wherein the antenna(s) communicates with interdigital transducers. Such antennas can receive wireless interrogation signals and transmit signals indicative of acceleration data.

Processes for the liberation of oxygen and hydrogen from water are provided allowing for mass scale production using abundant sources of catalyst materials. A metal oxide based anode is formed by the simple oxidation of metal in air by heating the metal for a specified time period. The resultant anode is then contacted with water and subjected to a voltage from an external source or driven by electromagnetic energy to produce oxygen at the surface of the anode by oxidation of water. These processes provide efficient and stable oxygen or hydrogen production.

A system and method are disclosed for displaying different captions for selective viewing. A display is used for showing the captions in different color and / or polarization combinations, and color-selective filters and / or polarizers are used for separately viewing the individual captions.

To facilitate understanding of correspondence between a motion contrast image acquired through OCTA and structure information acquired through OCT or the like, when an image is displayed, a first image within a first area of an object to be inspected is acquired, and interference signal sets corresponding to a plurality of frames, which are acquired with an intention to acquire the same cross section, are acquired for a plurality of different cross sections. Then, a motion contrast image within a second area included in the first area is generated based on the interference signal sets corresponding to the plurality of frames, and information acquired from a part of the motion contrast image is superimposed for display onto a corresponding position of the first image.

An extensible adaptive classification framework and method can include multiple feature detection modules, and a platform for integrating the multiple feature detection modules utilizing a plurality of AHaH nodes as adaptive classifiers over a feature space of multiple and extensible feature factory modules, thereby configuring the platform as an extensible and continuously adaptive pattern recognition platform.

The present invention relates to method of replaying video images by placing a bookmark on the particular thumbnail image of the broadcast content using thumbnail method and replaying it from the position a user wants. The method of the present invention extracts a plurality of thumbnail images from a broadcast content, placing a bookmark on a thumbnail image being most recent one before the user'request for stopping replaying the broadcast content that is being replayed. Accordingly, the user is allowed to understand roughly the broadcast content watched by the user using the thumbnail image that a bookmark is placed on, and the broadcast content can be replayed.

A voltage regulator module (VRM) includes a first interface configured to couple to a first substrate interface at a first voltage. The VRM also includes a second interface configured to couple to a first processor interface at a second voltage. A first regulator module couples to the first interface and to the second interface. The first regulator module is configured to receive power at the first interface, to convert power to the second voltage, and to deliver power to the first processor interface at the second voltage. A method for providing power to a processor includes receiving power from a first substrate interface at a first voltage. The received power is regulated to generate power at a second voltage. The regulated power is provided to a processor at a first processor interface coupled to the processor. The processor interface delivers power to a logic group of a plurality of logic groups of the processor.

A thermodynamic RAM circuit composed of a group of AHaH (Anti-Hebbian and Hebbian) computing circuits that form one or more kT-RAM circuits. The AHaH computing circuits can be configured as an AHaH computing stack. The kTRAM circuit(s) can include one or core kT-Cores, each partitioned into AHaH nodes of any size via time multiplexing. The kT-Core couples readout electrodes together to form a larger combined kT-Core. AHaH Computing is the theoretical space encompassing the capabilities of AHaH nodes. At this level of development, solutions have been found for problems as diverse as classification, prediction, anomaly detection, clustering, feature learning, actuation, combinatorial optimization, and universal logic.

The present invention provides methods of detecting an antigen in a sample comprising contacting the sample with affinity agents to form an antigen-affinity agent-label complex, separating the antigen-affinity agent-label complex from uncomplexed components, partitioning label from the separated sample into multiple partitions, and detecting the presence of the label in one or more partitions. Compositions and kits for detecting an antigen in a sample are also provided.

A processor having a dependency matrix comprises a first array comprising a plurality of cells arranged in a plurality of columns and a plurality of rows. Each row represents an instruction in a processor execution queue and each cell in the first array represents a dependency relationship between two instructions in the processor execution queue. A clear port couples to the first array and clears a column of the first array. A producer status module couples to the clear port and the first array and determines an execution status of a producer instruction, wherein the producer instruction is an instruction in the processor execution queue. An available-status port couples to the first array and the producer status module and sets a read wordline column corresponding to the producer instruction based on the execution status of the producer instruction. The available-status port deasserts the read wordline column in response to a selection of the producer for execution. The available-status port reasserts the read wordline column in the event the producer status module determines the producer instruction has been rejected. The clear port clears the column of the first array corresponding to the producer instruction in the event the producer status module determines the producer instruction has been executed.

A method comprises generating a test pattern for a device under test (DUT), wherein the DUT comprises a plurality of scan chains coupled to a plurality of multiple input shift registers (MISRs). The plurality of faults detected by a first MISR and by a second MISR are identified. In the event the plurality of faults detected by the first MISR does not include any of the plurality of faults detected by the second MISR and the plurality of faults detected by the second MISR does not include any of the plurality of faults detected by the first MISR, the first MISR and the second MISR are coupled as an independent MISR pair. The test pattern is applied to the DUT to generate a scan chain output. The independent MISR pair captures the scan chain output to generate a test signature. The test signature is compared with a known good signature.

A method and apparatus for verifying content of partially printed purge sheets of confidential documents just after shredding the purge sheets but before the individual strands become separated and disassociated is disclosed. The purge sheet can be passed through a single nip paper transport to a shredder and then to a scanner in order to verify the content of the purge sheets. The scanned document can also be stored on a DFE (digital front end) disk, which provides visual documentation of, purge sheet destruction and can be utilized for later reconciliation. The individual strands of the purge sheet(s) can be separated and disassociated to a container in order to ensure destruction. A small electronic controller board associated with the scanner provides function control and communications to the DFE.

The invention relates to a method for determining the homeostasis of hairy skin in vitro, to test kits and biochips for determining markers of hairy skin, in addition to the use of proteins, mRNA molecules or fragments thereof as markers of hairy skin. The invention also relates to a test method for detecting the effectiveness of cosmetic or pharmaceutical active substances for treating hairy skin in addition to a screening method for identifying cosmetic or pharmaceutical active substances for treating hairy skin and to a method for producing a cosmetic or pharmaceutical preparation for treating hairy skin.

This invention relates to an apparatus, device or method for manufacturing a grip plectrum or pick formed from a first material (such as, for example, plastic or like material), the plectrum having in one embodiment a generally triangular shaped body with a broad top portion, an intermediate portion, and a narrow bottom portion, with the top and intermediate portion being substantially covered with a second material that has a greater degree of grip than the first material. The plectrum has a generally triangular (and preferably tear-drop) shaped body being made from a first material. A top and intermediate portion of the plectrum are substantially or completely covered by a second material on all four sides (front surface, back surface and both side surfaces) and is adapted to be gripped by the user between the thumb and index finger, with a bottom portion being used to pluck the instrument strings. In one embodiment, the second material is preferably a non-slip material such as rubber or the like.

A multi-layered 3D printed laser direct structuring method and apparatus for electrical interconnect and antennas. 3D printed components can be configured with structurally integrated metal connections (e.g., bulk highly conductive metal) that traverse multiple layers (some embedded and others external) of a structure fabricated using an additive manufacturing system enhanced with an iterative laser activated plating processes, which includes a novel well side-wall vertical interconnect.