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There is provided a flexible display having a new wire structure and a new insulating layer structure. A flexible display includes a flexible substrate having a first area and a second area. The second area is curved in a non-zero angle relative to the plane of the first area. The flexible display further includes a plurality of wires that extend over from the first area to the second area of the flexible substrate. Each of the wires is covered by an upper insulating pattern, which is separated from other upper insulating pattern. Each upper insulating pattern covering the wire has substantially the same trace pattern shape of the corresponding wire thereunder. Accordingly, by adopting the above-described wire structure and upper insulating layer structure, crack generation and propagation in the wires and the insulating layers from bending of the flexible display can be minimized.

Relaxed germanium buffer layers can be grown economically on misoriented silicon wafers by low-energy plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition, in conjunction with thermal annealing and/or patterning, the buffer layers can serve as high-quality virtual substrates for the growth of crack-free GaAs layers suitable for high-efficiency solar cells, lasers and field effect transistors.

A surgical device integrating a suction mechanism with a coagulation mechanism is provided for improving lesion creation capabilities. The device comprises an elongate member having an insulative covering attached about means for coagulating soft tissue. Openings through the covering expose regions of the coagulation-causing elements and are coupled to lumens in the elongate member which are routed to a vacuum source. A fluid source to passively transport fluid along the contacted soft tissue surface may be provided in order to push the maximum temperature deeper into tissue.

The method includes nodes transmitting quality-of-service (QoS) route requests to discover traffic routing based upon a QoS parameter, and the QoS route requests including a traffic flow identifier. Each node calculates a node QoS tag value to make traffic admission control decisions, and each node determines whether to admit traffic in response to QoS route requests based upon the calculated QoS tag value and the QoS parameter of QoS route requests. Also, each node replies to QoS route requests to indicate whether the node can support the QoS parameter of the route request and admit the traffic, and each node polices admitted traffic based upon the traffic flow identifier to ensure that admitted traffic does not exceed the QoS parameter of the QoS route request.

A single subscriber station of a wireless metropolitan area network is shared among multiple households through a local AC power line that serves the households. The WMAN is connected to a power line network through a dual medium bridge modem located, for example, in the general proximity of a power transformer.

Electrical treatment apparatus (100) for use with an associated molecule source, comprising: at least one electrode (106); a power source (120) for electrifying said at least one electrode; and a controller, which is programmed to activate the power source (120) to selectively electrify said at least one electrode (106) to apply at least one electric field including a transport effect for transporting a molecule in a desired manner and a non-excitatory control effect for controlling the activity of at least a part of a non-cardiac excitable tissue, said programming selected to achieve a desired provision of said molecule into said at least a part of an excitable tissue or associated vasculature, said desired provision being at least assisted by an interaction between the transport effect and the control effect.

Methods of providing therapy to a patient are provided. In one method, the patient has a neuron to which a sub-threshold biological electrical stimulus is applied. The method comprises applying electrical noise energy to the neuron, wherein resonance between the biological electrical stimulus and the electrical noise energy is created, such that an action potential is propagated along the axon of the neuron. In another method, the patient has a neuron to which a supra-threshold biological electrical stimulus is applied. This method comprises applying supra-threshold electrical noise energy to the neuron, thereby preventing an action potential from being propagated along the axon of the neuron. Still another method comprises applying an electrical stimulus to a neuron, and applying supra-threshold electrical noise energy to the neuron, thereby preventing or reversing any neurological accommodation of the neuron that may occur in response to the electrical stimulus.

A lithographic projection apparatus for EUV lithography includes a foil trap. The foil trap forms an open structure after the EUV source to let the EUV radiation pass unhindered. The foil trap is configured to be rotatable around an optical axis. By rotating the foil trap, an impulse transverse to the direction of propagation of the EUV radiation can be transferred on debris present in the EUV beam. This debris will not pass the foil trap. In this way, the amount of debris on the optical components downstream of the foil trap is reduced.

Apparatus (800) for targeted release of a molecule carried in a circulating reservoir, comprising: at least one electrode (804); and a controller (810) adapted to electrify said electrode (804) with at least one electric field, said electric field operative to have at least one desired effect related to said circulating reservoir with said molecule, wherein said electrode and said electrification are adapted such that at least one of said effects is selectively applied to a particular blood vessel that carries blood through tissue and wherein said at least one effect that is selectively applied comprises a release effect, which releases said molecule from said circulating reservoir that circulates in said blood vessel.

A surgical device integrating a suction mechanism with a coagulation mechanism is provided for improving lesion creation capabilities. The device comprises an elongate member having an insulative covering attached about means for coagulating soft tissue. Openings through the covering expose regions of the coagulation-causing elements and are coupled to lumens in the elongate member which are routed to a vacuum source. A fluid source to passively transport fluid along the contacted soft tissue surface may be provided in order to push the maximum temperature deeper into tissue.

Discussed is an organic light emitting display device including a substrate having a display area in which a plurality of plurality pixels are disposed, a non-display area outside of the display area, and at least one open hole area defined between the plurality of pixels, and a stacked layer structure disposed on the substrate and defining the plurality of pixels in the display area, the stacked layer structure including at least one organic layer, wherein the at least one open hole area includes at least one open hole penetrating through the substrate and at least one partition disposed along a circumference of the at least one open hole between the at least one open hole and the plurality of pixels adjacent thereto to separate the at least one organic layer from a corresponding layer that extends to the at least one open hole.

A secondary light source is provided comprising a narrowband light source (11) that emits narrowband light as a primary light source, an optical waveguide (5) having a proximal and a distal end (9), a coupling-in device (13) that is arranged at the proximal end (7) of the optical waveguide (5) and serves for coupling the narrowband light into the optical waveguide (5), and a phosphor region (19) that is present at or before the distal end (9) of the optical waveguide (5), said phosphor region being provided with a converter phosphor. The converter phosphor of the phosphor region (19) is chosen with respect to the narrowband light emitted by the narrowband light source (11) in such a way that it increases the wavelength of at least part of the narrowband light.

Components in an information processing system are represented by software objects whose properties can be changed through function calls. Setting a property of an object controls the associated component. Properties are connected through routes that propagate state changes throughout the system without the need for a running client application. Two-way property routes are used to keep consistence among a controlled object and multiple controlling objects without the risk of endless loops. To achieve this, the two-way route is executed to change a state of a specific one of the properties upon a change of state of another one of the properties if the change of state of the other property was caused by an effect other than the route itself.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus for performing video conferencing is provided that includes an I-frame injector element operable to intercept I-frame requests from one or more end points and to attempt to service the I-frame requests such that at least a portion of the requests are prevented from propagating back to an originating sender. In more specific embodiments, when a receiver endpoint sends a fast video update (FVU) request upstream, it is intercepted by the I-frame injector element and rather than passing the FVU request to the sender the I-frame injector element replaces a next P-frame from the sender with an I-frame, whereby the I-frame is constructed so that when decoded, it matches the P-frame that it replaced. In still more detailed embodiments, the I-frame injector element operates in one of three modes that are associated with bandwidth parameters.

A fault tolerant processing circuit comprising at least three processor groupings, a synchronizing circuit and a fault logic circuit. Each of the processor groupings have a plurality of processor grouping inputs and a plurality of processor grouping outputs. The synchronizing circuit comprises a plurality of output synchronizers, wherein each output synchronizer communicates with a corresponding respective processor grouping for synchronizing the output of each processor grouping. A fault logic circuit communicates with the synchronizing circuit. The fault logic circuit comprises a fault detection circuit and a fault mask circuit. The fault logic circuit compares the plurality of processor group outputs to detect errors in any one of the plurality of processor group outputs. An error is detected when none of the at least three processor groups is in a majority of the processor groups. Upon a detected fault, the fault mask circuit masks the output of the respective processor grouping associated with a detected error and signals a detected error. The error signal latch is then used to reset the processor groupings.

There is provided assemblies for combining a group of laser sources into a combined laser beam. There is further provided a blue diode laser array that combines the laser beams from an assembly of blue laser diodes. There are provided laser processing operations and applications using the combined blue laser beams from the laser diode arrays and modules.

An ultrasonic transducer may comprise: a substrate; a barrier wall on the substrate; a diaphragm fixed to the barrier wall and defining a cavity, together with the barrier wall and the substrate; a pair of electrodes, facing each other with the cavity therebetween, configured to receive a driving voltage for driving the diaphragm; and/or a plurality of posts in the cavity and having a height smaller than that of the barrier wall.

A system and a method for creating and controlling electronic agreements. In general, the system includes a server and at least one client interconnected through a communications medium. In operation, the system only allows access to authorized users. Once a user gains access, the user inputs commands and data that are necessary to create an electronic document. Upon completion of the electronic document, the user can invoke a signature process. During the signature process, the parties to the agreement enter electronic signatures. The present invention operates to encrypt the electronic document and then encrypts each of the signatures using an encryption key that is based, at least in part, on the contents of the electronic document. This aspect of the system prevents the creation of fraudulent versions of the electronic document because any modifications to the electronic document will invalidate the encrypted signatures. Finally, the system operates to transfer the electronic agreement to a secure server. The server maintains the authoritative copy of the electronic agreement, thereby providing control of the electronic agreement.