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This invention relates to an organic light emitting diode display device that is adaptive for preventing a characteristic change of a device which drives the organic light emitting diode and for securing reliability of the device. The organic light emitting diode display device includes: a pixel array having a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines that cross each other, a plurality of power voltage supply lines to which a high level power supply voltage is supplied and that are substantially parallel to the data lines, a plurality of reset lines substantially parallel to the scan lines, a plurality of organic light emitting diodes that emit light due to the high level power supply voltage from the power voltage supply line, and a plurality of organic light emitting diode drive circuits that drive the organic light emitting diode with data from the data line in response to a scan signal from the scan line and that is initialized in response to a reset signal from the reset line; a scan drive circuit that supplies the scan signal to the scan lines; a reset drive circuit that supplies the reset signal to the reset lines that initializes the organic light emitting diode drive circuit; and a data drive circuit that supplies the data to the data lines respectively, wherein the scan drive circuit and the reset drive circuit are on a substrate including the pixel array.

A method and system for providing head is disclosed. The method and system include providing a first pole, a second pole, a write gap, at least one coil and an Fe₃Pt alloy. The write gap separates the first pole from the second pole. The first and second poles are for writing to a medium. The coil(s) have a plurality of turns and reside between the roles. The Fe₃Pt alloy is in proximity to the first pole and the second pole. The Fe₃Pt alloy is configured to counteract expansion of the first pole and the second pole.

A memory controller analyzes read data received from a memory device and first error correction code (ECC) data of the read data. A control unit generates a plurality of sub-data from write data to be written in the memory device where the number of error bits in the read data is greater than a number of error bits that can be corrected using the first ECC data. An ECC block generates the first ECC data and second ECC data by using substantially the same algorithm to correct errors in each of the sub-data. The control unit transmits each of the sub-data, the first ECC data and the second ECC data to the memory device.

Concurrently branch predicting for multiple branch-type instructions demands of high performance environments. Concurrently branch predicting for multiple branch-type instructions provides the instruction flow for a high bandwidth pipeline utilized in advanced performance environments. Branch predictions are concurrently generated for multiple branch-type instructions. The concurrently generated branch predictions are then supplied for further processing of the corresponding branch-type instructions.

An integrated circuit device having vias having good resistance to migration causing the breaking of a wiring line, or an integrated circuit device having a wiring structure that is fined by breaking the limit of lithography technique is provided. The former device comprises a plurality of elements fabricated on a semiconductor substrate, wiring lines for making the elements and the integrated circuit device function, and vias for interconnecting wiring lines in separate layers, the via being formed of one or more cylindrical structures made up of carbon atoms. The latter device comprises a plurality of elements fabricated on a semiconductor substrate and wiring members for making the elements and the integrated circuit device function, at least part of the wiring members being formed of one or more cylindrical structures made up of carbon atoms. The latter device is preferably manufactured by a method comprising using a CVD process for the formation of the cylindrical structures, while applying a direct current electric field so as to grow the cylindrical structures in one direction, or applying an alternating current electric field so as to grow the cylindrical structures in two directions. A semiconductor device using a carbon nanotube and a method of forming a pattern using a carbon nanotube as a mask are also disclosed.

The invention discloses a database fault automatic detection and transfer method which is configured with a client (100), a cache memorizer (200), an MDHA module (210), a management terminal (500) and a plurality of database server groups (300 and 400), and comprises the main steps that each database server group is divided into a master server (300) and a slave server (400); the MDHA module (210) is arranged between the client (100) and a database and is used for detecting the database; when the client connection is started, a detection thread is set up; when in running, the client (100) can be used for detecting the master server (300) through the MDHA module (210); when the master server (300) is detected to be abnormal, the MDHA module (210) leads the access of the client to be automatically switched into the slave server; and when the master server is recovered, intermediate leads the access of the client to be switched into the master server. The method can be applied into a small and medium size data base management systems adopting a My SQL system, can guarantee the continuity of the service operation of a network server, and improves the reliability.

Improvements in a smoke alarm are presented. The multifunction smoke alarm unit includes separate sensors within a single enclosure for detecting smoke and occupancy, sounding a distinctive audible alarm when combustion is detected or the presence of a person within the area of the sensor. The multifunction smoke alarm can replace an existing single function smoke alarm. Multiple multifunction smoke alarms are networkable together for various purposes. Additional features include intruder alarm, visitor annunciator, integrated illumination source, external lighting control, HVAC system control, ceiling fan control, ventilation control, and/or fire safety system control. The proposed multifunction smoke alarm provides much-needed improvements for security, energy saving, safety, and user convenience without the need for completely separate systems for each purpose.

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming printed circuit board (PCB) having an embedded interposer. A semiconductor chip or a semiconductor package is mounted onto the embedded interposer using a conductive adhesive agent. The embedded interposer has substantially the same coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) as the semiconductor chip. The embedded interposer is formed using a semiconductor wafer.

An electronic dimming system for use in projection displays is provided. In a first embodiment, the dimming system comprises a first non-absorbing polarizer, a variable polarization rotator, a second non-absorbing polarizer and a heat absorber. The first non-absorbing polarizer receives light from a light source and passes the light of a selected polarization to the variable polarization rotator. The variable polarization rotator selectively rotates the polarization of the received light. The light passes from the variable polarization rotator to the second non-absorbing polarizer. The second non-absorbing polarizer passes only light of a second selected polarization. The light that passes the second non-absorbing polarizer is passed to the display, where it is used to illuminate the display. The system provides the ability to control the amount of light passed to the display by selectively rotating the polarization of the light with the variable polarization rotator.

A highly flexible implantable lead that offers improved flexibility, fatigue life and fatigue and abrasion resistance improved reliability, effective electrode tissue contact with a small diameter and low risk of tissue damage during extraction. In one embodiment the lead is provided with both defibrillation electrodes and pacing/sensing electrodes. For defibrillation/pacing leads, the lead diameter may be as small as six French or smaller. The construction utilizes helically wound conductors. For leads incorporating multiple separate conductors, many of the helically wound conductors are arranged in a multi-filar relationship. Preferably, each conductor is a length of wire that is uninsulated at about the middle of its length to create an electrode, wherein the conductor is folded in half at about the middle of the length to create first and second length segments that constitute parallel conductors.

In a seal portion of a liquid crystal display device, column spacers are formed on a counter substrate side, organic passivation films are formed so as to face the column spacers on a TFT substrate side, and the gap between the TFT substrate and the counter substrate is controlled by the column spacers and the organic passivation films. A sealing material covers the column spacers and the organic passivation films and is in contact with an inorganic film formed on the TFT substrate on the TFT substrate side. Therefore, the adhesive force of the sealing material is improved to ensure the reliability of the seal portion.

The invention provides a coiled tubing clamping device and an injection head using the same, belonging to the field of oil production and drilling equipment. The clamping device includes a saddle-type clamping block and a clamping block seat, wherein the saddle-type clamping block is connected to the clamping block seat. The clamping device is characterized in that two sides of the saddle-type clamping block are provided with tongue-like platforms, the tongue-like platform is provided with an opening hole, the back part of the saddle-type clamping block is provided with a recess, two sides of the clamping block seat are respectively provided with a pair of bosses, the recess of the saddle-type clamping block is inserted into a slot formed by the clamping block seat bosses, a running clearance is left between the recess and the slot, and the clamping block seat is provided with a positioning screw for limiting the position of the saddle-type clamping block. The injection head comprises an oil pipe clamping mechanism and a transmission chain, wherein the oil pipe clamping mechanism is mounted on the transmission chain through two hinge pin holes on the clamping block seat. The technical proposal has the advantages that the abrasion of the oil pipe can be effectively reduced, the clamping device has operational reliability, and the clamping blocks are convenient in replacement.

The invention discloses a fault detection and link restore method which is based on a two-way forwarding link, including the following the steps of: configuring the linkage of the next hop of a strategy router and the BFD conversation; configuring the BFD detection parameters under the interfaces of routing equipment; establishing a BFD conversation: carrying out the consultation of BFD detection parameters between two parties after the up of the BFD conversation: generating the IP FRR main standby router; carrying out the BFD detection on a forwarding layer; being down for the forwarding layer after the detection of link overtime; carrying out the IP FRR switch the forwarding layer according to the strategy router configuration, so as to switch to a backup router and notice the application layer of the strategy router. The invention provides the fast and high efficient fault detection and restore method of the next hop of the forwarding layer, which can improve the reliability of the forwarding in the actual network environment, effectively solve the link frequent vibration which is caused by link fast switch, ensure the stability of the link and enrich the application of BFD protocol in the network detection simultaneously.

A short-circuit protecting circuit is composed of a time delay circuit for holding the sampled output current level of power unit for PWM switching power supply for a certain time and slowly lowering it to become a continuous signal, a short-circuit current threshold setting-up circuit for generating threshold level, an over-current detecting circuit for comparing the output of time delay circuit with the said threshold level and making judgement, and a lagging circuit for forming window comparactor, elongating short-circuit protecting signal, feeding the short-circuit protecting signal back to threshold setting up circuit, and improving the anti-interference power of over-current detecting circuit.

A power module includes a semiconductor chip, a first coupling conductor with one main surface coupled to one main surface of the semiconductor chip, a second coupling conductor with one main surface coupled to the other main surface of the semiconductor chip, a coupling terminal supplied with electrical power from the direct current power source, and resin material to seal the semiconductor chip, and in which the resin member has a protruding section that protrudes from the space where the first and second coupling conductors are formed opposite each other, and the coupling terminal is clamped on the protruding section, and at least one of the first or second coupling conductors is coupled to a coupling terminal by way of a metallic material that melts at a specified temperature.

There is a need for decreasing a variation in times for writing to TFT elements for pixels in a direction along the extension of a gate line in a liquid crystal display apparatus. A display apparatus includes a display panel having multiple gate lines and multiple drain lines arranged in a matrix and a data driver for outputting a display data signal to each drain line. The data driver includes: an internal control signal generation circuit for generating an internal control signal for setting a timing to output a data signal to a drain line of each block on a block basis by dividing the plurality of drain lines into multiple blocks; and a register circuit for recording a setting for division of the block, a setting foradelay direction and a delay width of a timing to output the data signal, and a setting for rising and falling of an internal control signal.

A method of operating a memory controller includes reading data from a first block of a memory device; detecting degraded pages from a plurality of pages of the first block and counting a number of the degraded pages in the first block; and recharging or reclaiming the first block, which includes the degraded pages, based on the counted number of the degraded pages.

A repeater amplifier boosts weak control signals on a PLC network, with noise discrimination and signal firewall protection. The AC supply voltage is filtered by a high frequency blocking filter to block external noise signals. Operating power for network signaling devices and the repeater amplifier is derived from the clean AC supply voltage. Noise discrimination and signal firewall protection are provided by amplifying and repeating only those receiver pulse signals that (a) have an analog amplitude that exceeds a predetermined analog threshold value, (b) occur during intervals that control data signal modulation is being applied to the filtered AC supply voltage and (c) occur at a frequency within a predetermined frequency band centered on the transmitted power line carrier (PLC) modulation frequency.

A coupled Lamb wave resonator filter includes first and second Lamb wave resonators. The first Lamb wave resonator includes a first resonant layer, and first and second electrodes on opposite sides of the first resonant layer. The second Lamb wave resonator includes a second resonant layer, and third and fourth electrodes on opposite sides of the second resonant layer. One of the sides of the first resonant layer belongs to a plane parallel to a plane corresponding to one of the sides of the second resonant layer. Both planes pass through the third and fourth electrodes of the second Lamb wave resonator. A periodic lattice acoustically couples the first and second resonant layers.

A highly reliable semiconductor device provided herein can prevent a junction between a pad and a wire from coming off, and pads from peeling off an underlying insulating layer on the interface thereof. The semiconductor device has plugs formed in a region in which an electrode pad is formed over a substrate. The plugs protrude into the electrode pad.

A sensing structure of a touch panel includes a substrate, a plurality of sensing electrodes, a plurality of electro static discharge (ESD) protection electrodes, a plurality of first bridges, and a passivation layer. The sensing electrodes, the ESD protection electrodes, and the first bridges are disposed on the substrate. The passivation layer is disposed between the sensing electrode and the first bridge, and disposed between the ESD protection electrode and the first bridge. The passivation layer has a plurality of contact holes, and at least one sensing electrode is electrically connected to the ESD protection electrode via the contact hole and the first bridge.

An image forming apparatus can change an operating state between a normal mode and a power saving mode having power consumption lower than that of the normal mode. The image forming apparatus sets a detection range based on at least one of an angle of a manipulation panel, existence or non-existence of an output to the sheet discharge unit, and existence or non-existence of placement of the authentication device. The image forming apparatus detects an approach of a human body when the operating state is in the power saving mode. When a sensor detects that the human body approaches the detection range, the image forming apparatus returns the operating state from the power saving mode to the normal mode.

Disclosed is a vehicle steering apparatus (1; 301) equipped with a control device (12; 322) which controls the actuation of an electric motor (18; 317). First and second housings (23, 24 325,312), which are in contact with each other, partition off an accommodation chamber (100; 324) which contains the control device (12; 322). The first housing (23; 325) is at least one part of the motor housing (25; 323). The first housing (23; 325) includes a first interior wall surface (101; 401) which partially partitions the accommodation chamber (100; 324). The second housing (24; 312) includes a second interior wall surface (102;402) which partially partitions the accommodation chamber (100; 324). The first and the second interior wall surfaces (101,102; 401, 402) are opposite each other with respect to the axial direction (X1) of a rotatable shaft (37; 352) of an electric motor (18; 317). The second interior wall surface (102; 402) includes the flat annular surface that surrounds a central axis (C1) of the rotatable shaft (37; 352) and an extension (C2) of the central axis (C1). The flat circular surface is orthogonal to the central axis (C1) and the extension (C2) of same.

There is provide a flip chip semiconductor package comprising: an electrode pad formed a semiconductor substrate; a lower metal bonding layer formed on the electrode pad; an upper metal bonding layer formed on the lower metal bonding layer and having a post shape of a predetermined height; and a conductive bump formed on the upper metal bonding layer, and a solder bump covers at least partially the surface of the upper metal bonding layer. An insulating layer for electrode reconfiguration is formed around the electrode pad on the substrate, and the insulating layer has a predetermined thickness to prevent the penetration of a particles from the solder bump. The semiconductor package may further comprise an oxidation preventing layer between the solder bump and the upper metal bonding layer. In accordance with the present invention, there is realized the flip chip semiconductor package which improves the adhesive strength of the solder bump and which more improves the reliability in the flip chip bump structure of fine pitches.

An integrated circuit structure includes a chip having a first region and a second region. A first metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor is formed in the first region. The first MIM capacitor has a first bottom electrode; a first top electrode over the first bottom electrode; and a first capacitor insulator between and adjoining the first bottom electrode and the first top electrode. A second MIM capacitor is in the second region and is substantially level with the first MIM capacitor. The second MIM capacitor includes a second bottom electrode; a second top electrode over the second bottom electrode; and a second capacitor insulator between and adjoining the second bottom electrode and the second top electrode. The second capacitor insulator is different from the first capacitor insulator. The first top electrode and the first bottom electrode may be formed simultaneously with the second top electrode and the second bottom electrode, respectively.

Provided is a distributed storage system capable of improving reliability and continuous operability while minimizing increases in management workload. A distributed storage system (100) includes storage devices (31 to 39) that store data and interface processors (21 to 25) that control the storage devices (31 to 39) in accordance with requests from a user terminal (10). Each of the storage devices (31 to 39) and the interface processors (21 to 25) store therein a node list containing an IP address of at least one of the storage devices (31 to 39). The interface processors (21 to 29) control the storage devices (31 to 39) based on the node lists. Each of the storage devices (31 to 39) make a request for the node list to a different interface processor every time. The interface processor that has received the request adds, to its own node list, the IP address of the storage device that has made the request.

The invention discloses an implementation method for an SDN Controller Pool. The resource pool is composed of a plurality of SDN controllers, wherein each controller in the pool is in the load-sharing working state, if faults happen to any controller, fault controller can be taken over by the other controllers in a lossless mode, synchronous states and dynamic data are sent to other nodes through an elected main node, and lossless taking over can be conducted when node faults occur. The implementation method mainly includes the step of resource pool construction, the step of data synchronization, the step of SDN switch connection establishment, the step of fault detection and the step of fault taking over.

The invention discloses a hybrid excitation E-shaped iron core axial magnetic field permanent magnet brushless motor, which comprises two stators, permanent magnets (4), three-phase concentrated armature windings (6), single-phase concentrated excitation windings (7) and a rotor (2). A fan-shaped permanent magnet is arranged between every two E-shaped stator iron cores; the three-phase concentrated armature windings are wound on the teeth of the two stators; and the excitation windings are wound on the middle teeth of the E-shaped stator iron cores. By the excitation windings and the armature windings, the capability of adjusting and controlling an air gap magnetic field of the motor is improved; the speed adjustment range of the motor is effectively broadened; the motor is ensured to have higher torque output capability and higher power density; by two sets of excitation sources provided by the permanent magnets and the excitation windings, the operation reliability of a system is greatly improved, and the fault-tolerant operation of the motor is realized; by a simple rotor structure, the operation reliability and the dynamic performance of the motor are improved; and because the motor has a smaller axial size, the motor is very suitable for places requiring thin installation strictly, such as a hub driving motor for an electric vehicle and the like.

The invention provides a high-reliability Bluetooth earphone wireless communication method. The high-reliability Bluetooth earphone wireless communication method comprises the following steps: intelligent equipment transmits the maximal retransmission times N1 of an audio data packet to a main earphone; the intelligent equipment transmits the preceding N2-1 times of the audio data packet to the main earphone; the main earphone replies one NACK packet to the intelligent equipment; if the intelligent equipment transmits a certain time in the preceding N2 times of the audio data packet to the main earphone; the main earphone receives the audio data packet, and after the intelligent equipment transmits the audio data packet to the main earphone at the N2-th time, the main earphone replies oneACK packet to the intelligent equipment, wherein N2 is more than 2 and N2 is less than or equal to N1; and a secondary earphone monitors and receives the audio data packet which is transmitted to themain earphone by the intelligent equipment at each time. By the high-reliability Bluetooth earphone wireless communication method, the reliability of signal transmission between the intelligent equipment and the Bluetooth earphone can be effectively improved on the basis of reasonably occupying a time resource.

This invention relates to a load balancing method and system applied to a distributed application system. The method comprises the steps of: receiving a request sent by a client; judging whether the client establishes a connection with a server, when no connection is established, selecting a server with lighter load to establishing a connection with the client; when the connection is established between the client and the server, judging whether the load of server is excessive; when the load of server is excessive, releasing the connection of the client with the server and re-selecting other servers with lighter load to establish a connection; and submitting the request to the connected server for execution. The invention avoids that the server can continuously process the request of the client under the condition of excessive load of the server, and ensures balance distribution of the load among the servers, thereby improving the reliability of the load balancing. .