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A T-shaped pole tip portion of an upper pole of a write element for a magnetic disk drive is provided. One end of the pole tip portion, constituting the bottom of the “T,” forms a narrow nose segment at an air bearing surface, while a wing segment at the opposite end of the pole tip portion constitutes the cross-bar top of the “T.” A transition segment extends between the nose segment and the wing segment. A yoke portion of the upper pole includes a surface that is parallel to the air bearing surface and recessed therefrom by a P3R depth. The transition segment does not widen significantly until after the P3R depth, accordingly, the wing segment is recessed from the air bearing surface by more than the P3R depth.

Instruments for use in minimally invasive carpal tunnel release include a cannula and a cutting member movable longitudinally within the cannula to advance a cutting blade of the cutting member along a longitudinal slot in the cannula to sever a transverse carpal ligament disposed over the slot. A dilating member is provided for creating a subligamentous space to accommodate the cannula and/or for removing adhered synovium from a lower surface of the ligament. A method for minimally invasive carpal tunnel release involves establishing a subcutaneous pathway to the carpal tunnel from an incision in the forearm, introducing the cannula in the carpal tunnel via the pathway, and severing the transverse carpal ligament with the cutting blade of the cutting member, all of which steps are performed under direct endoscopic visualization.

Methods of manufacturing stair-type structures and methods of manufacturing nonvolatile memory devices using the same. Methods of manufacturing stair-type structures may include forming a plurality of thin layers stacked in plate shapes, forming a mask on an utmost thin layer, patterning the utmost layer using the mask as an etch mask, escalating a width of the mask and etching each of the thin layers at a different width of the mask to form a stair-type structure of the thin layers. Control gates may be formed into the stair-type structures using the methods of manufacturing stair-type structures.

A display apparatus and a display method thereof are provided. According to an exemplary embodiment, a display method of a display apparatus includes: displaying a plurality of display items corresponding to a plurality of content items comprising a first display item displayed in a first region and remaining display items; displaying the first display item using a first display scheme and displaying the remaining display items using a second display scheme; and in response to sensing a user interaction for moving the display items, changing the display scheme of the first display item while moving the first display item in a direction corresponding to the user interaction, displaying the first display item using the second display scheme and changing the display scheme of second display items of the removing to the first region among the rest display items to the first display scheme.

A fin field-effect transistor (FinFET) device includes a fin-shaped semiconductor active region vertically protruding from a substrate and a gate structure on an upper surface and sidewalls of the fin-shaped semiconductor active region at a first portion thereof. The FinFET further includes a semiconductor epitaxial extension layer on the upper surface and sidewalls of the fin-shaped semiconductor active region at second portions thereof on opposite sides of the gate structure. The semiconductor epitaxial extension layer has a width that is greater than a width of the fin-shaped semiconductor active region at the first portion thereof. Related methods are also discussed.

An optical fingerprint sensor module comprises a first light-transmitting substrate, a second light-transmitting substrate located below the first light-transmitting substrate, and a backlight source located below the first light-transmitting substrate. The backlight source is located on the lateral side of the second light-transmitting substrate. The optical fingerprint sensor module further comprises a fingerprint sensing layer which is located on the lower surface of the second light-transmitting substrate. The performance of the optical fingerprint sensor module is improved, and the quality of a fingerprint image obtained through the optical fingerprint sensor module is improved.

An amplifier generates a tri-level output signal in response to an input signal that is pulse-width modulated. The amplifier is filterless and DC free. The amplifier includes an integrator, a signal generator, comparator, a switch pulse logic block, a driver, and a control block. The control block supplies a multitude of pulse-width modulated (PWM) signals in response to the received digital input signal. A pair of the PWM signals are applied to the signal generator which in response supplies a signal to the integrator. The integrator's output signal is compared to a reference signal by the comparator. The switch pulse logic block receives the output of the comparator and a pair of delayed PWM signals and in response generates a multitude of driver signals applied to the driver. The driver supplies an output signal that is adapted to vary between first, second and third voltages.

A method for producing a diaper of the present invention includes the steps of: folding back a first strip-shaped portion 13 and a second strip-shaped portion 23; successively forming pairs of first and second belts 1 and 2 by cutting first and second separate webs W1 and W2; placing pairs of the first and second belts 1 and 2 at a predetermined interval P in a carrying direction Y of a continuous piece; temporarily attaching the first and second belts 1 and 2 to a portion of the continuous piece to be a back portion; fixing the belts 1 and 2 to the continuous piece; and severing the continuous piece with the belts 1 and 2 fixed thereon at a predetermined pitch into individual diapers.

An STI field oxide element in an IC which includes a layer of epitaxial semiconductor on sidewalls of the STI trench to increase the width of the active area adjacent to the STI trench and decrease a width of dielectric material in the STI trench is disclosed. STI etch residue is removed from the STI trench surface prior to growth of the epitaxial layer. The epitaxial semiconductor composition is matched to the composition of the adjacent active area. The epitaxial semiconductor may be undoped or doped to match the active area. The STI trench with the epitaxial layer is compatible with common STI passivation and fill processes. The thickness of the as-grown epitaxial semiconductor layer is selected to provide a desired active area width or a desired STI dielectric width.

The invention provides a wind deflector. The wind deflector comprises a first wind deflector body and a second wind deflector body. The first wind deflector body is provided with a containing cavity. A wind deflector outlet is formed in the length direction of the first wind deflector body, a part of or all of the second wind deflector body is arranged in the containing cavity, and the second wind deflector body can stretch from the wind deflector outlet towards the wind guide direction. Due to the fact that the second wind deflector body stretches from the containing cavity of the first wind deflector body towards the wind guide direction, steps descending in the wind guide direction are formed on the upper surface and the lower surface, in the wind guide direction, of the whole wind deflector body, air supply resistance cannot be increased, the width of the wind deflector is increased, and the air supply effect is improved. Due to the fact that the second wind deflector body is supported by the upper surface and the lower surface of the containing cavity, stress is uniform, and motion is more stable. Due to the fact that the wind deflector is arranged, an air conditioner is good in air supply effect and stable in motion.

The invention relates to a preparation method for a zirconium-based amorphous alloy as well as powder and a large-sized block of the zirconium-based amorphous alloy, which belongs to the field of amorphous alloys, and is characterized by comprising the component of Zr61(Cu, Ni)27.5Al10Re1.5(at%), wherein Re is Y, La, Ce, Nd, Gd and Er, and adopting a manner of combination of the gas atomization powder milling technology and the spark plasma sintering technology. The preparation method comprises the following steps: preparing raw materials according to components of the amorphous alloy, and placing the raw materials into an induction crucible of gas atomization powder milling equipment; vacuumizing and filling inert gas for shielding; smelting to obtain an alloy solution with uniform components under the action of induction heating; pouring the alloy solution after smelting into an insulation bag at a constant speed slowly, and filling high-pressure inert gas as an atomizing medium at the same time; atomizing the alloy solution flow into small droplets under the impact of high-pressure airflow, and finally cooling to form amorphous alloy powder; collecting and screening the amorphous alloy powder; and under the protection of the inert gas, utilizing the spark plasma sintering technology to perform sintering on the amorphous alloy powder at different temperatures and pressure to obtain an amorphous alloy block.

A piezoelectric inkjet printhead capable of reducing a crosstalk and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The inkjet printhead includes an upper substrate, an intermediate substrate, and a lower substrate that are sequentially stacked, wherein the upper substrate includes piezoelectric actuators on an upper surface of the upper substrate and pressure chambers and first restrictors on a lower surface of the upper substrate, the first restrictors extending from the pressure chambers and having a width smaller than a width of the pressure chambers, the intermediate substrate includes dampers passing therethrough, the dampers corresponding to the pressure chambers and second restrictors extending between the first restrictors and a manifold formed from a lower surface of the intermediate substrate and the lower substrate includes nozzles passing therethrough, the nozzles corresponding to the dampers.

A method and circuit, for use with a parallel data bus of defined width, which provide a parallel data transmission and reception rate which is greater than the defined width of the parallel data bus. With respect to improving transmission, provided is a width-reduction circuit element, having at least two inputs through which are received a first set of parallel digital data signals and having one or more outputs through which are transmitted a second set of parallel digital data signals where the second set is both smaller than the first set and representative of the information contained within the first set. The one or more outputs interface with a parallel connector which is sufficient to form an operable connection with the parallel data bus of defined width. With respect to improving reception, provided is a width-expansion circuit element having one or more inputs through which are received a second set of parallel digital data signals and having at least two outputs through which are transmitted a first set of parallel digital data signals where the first set is both larger than the second set and representative of information encoded within the second set. The one or more inputs interface with a parallel connector sufficient to form an operable connection with the parallel data bus of defined width.

A reciprocating pump assembly includes a power frame that houses a crankshaft. The crankshaft is mechanically connected to a large gear or bull gear on each end that is in mechanical engagement with a small gear or pinion bearing. A bearing housing is integrally formed as part of the power frame with an increased width and a constant inner diameter. A pinion bearing assembly, comprising an inner race, an outer race, and spherical bearings is placed around the shaft of the pinion bearing. The pinion is installed in the reciprocating pump assembly such that the bearing assembly rests on the bearing housing, which is integrally formed as part of the power frame. The bearing assembly is free to float in the bearing housing and provides for some lateral movement of the shaft and bearing assembly during operation of the reciprocating pump assembly.

When forming sophisticated high-k metal gate electrode structures on the basis of a replacement gate approach, the fill conditions upon filling in the highly conductive electrode metal, such as aluminum, may be enhanced by removing an upper portion of the final work function metal, for instance a titanium nitride material in P-channel transistors. In some illustrative embodiments, the selective removal of the metal-containing electrode material in an upper portion of the gate opening may be accomplished without unduly increasing overall process complexity.

In a hybrid transmission, input and output side motor/generators (MG1, MG2) and input and output portions (In, Out) are coupled to two sets of the differential units (G1, G2) in such a manner that, under a selection of a first predetermined gear ratio, in a revolution speed order, the input side motor/generator (MG1), the input portion (In) from a prime mover (engine), the output portion (Out) toward a vehicular drive system, and the output side motor/generator (MG2) are coupled to the respective revolvable elements of the two sets of the differential units (G1, G2) and the output side motor/generator is coupled to any one of the revolvable elements of the two sets of the differential units including those revolvable elements thereof which do not contribute to a revolution of the output portion.

The invention discloses a pixel structure and an organic light emitting display adopting the same. The pixel structure comprises a plurality of pixel units, wherein each pixel unit takes a rhombus structure formed by an upper half part and a lower half part; the adjacent pixel units are arranged in a staggered manner; each pixel unit comprises a plurality of sub pixels; a first sub pixel forms one of the upper half part and the lower half part of the rhombus pixel unit; a second sub pixel and a third sub pixel are arranged side by side to form the other of the upper half part and the lower half part of the rhombus pixel unit together; pixels in the same color of the pixel units in the adjacent rows are arranged adjacently. By integrating the same sub pixels together, the width of the corresponding vapor deposition Mask hole diameter can be enlarged, the difficulty of the Mask technology can be reduced, and the display PPI (Pixel Per Inch) can be improved; meanwhile, because of the staggered arrangement manner of the pixel units in the adjacent rows, the adjacent edges of the second sub pixel and the third sub pixel with the first sub pixel can be longer, main light emitting of the pixel units can be relatively concentrated, and the light mixing effect is good.

Provided is a superconducting fault current limiter capable of reducing a fault current in a power application field, such as a lossless power transmission line, a superconductive magnet for generating a strong or very stable magnetic field, an energy storage, a motor, a generator, and so on, of generating or transporting a large amount of current, and a traffic application field such as a superconducting magnetic levitation train, a superconducting propulsion ship, and so on. In accordance with the present invention, after the inner bobbin is disposed in the outer bobbin, the wires are wound around the inner and outer bobbins to be connected through the current introduction terminal in directions opposite to each other to thereby constitute the superconducting module, and the module is symmetrically formed through the connecting member, thereby completing the current limiter. Therefore, it is possible to obtain a higher insulation resistance by locating an input terminal and an output terminal of the current limiter opposite to each other to stabilize insulation characteristics, though using the same length as a conventional superconducting wire. In addition, it is possible to reduce a temperature increasing width, and rapidly recovering a re-cooling speed of the current limiter.

The rotary electric shaver comprising; cutter circumferential rims (24), each of which is separately provided for each outer cutter (16) and which holds the outer cutter by surrounding the outer periphery of the outer cutter, and pivotal supporting sections (22) which pivotably and removably hold the cutter circumferential rim on a pivotal axis (C) passing the center (Q) of the outer cutter. The upper surface of the cutter circumferential rim is extended out over the pivotal supporting sections, thus increasing the width of the upper surface of the cutter circumferential rim.

The invention relates to a residual convolutional neural network image classification method based on multi-path feature weighting. The residual convolutional neural network image classification method based on multi-path feature weighting includes the following steps: 1) an input image of a model is an original image which is preprocessed, and the preprocessed image is cut into a fixed size; 2) alarge size of convolution operation and pooling operation are performed on the image; 3) the features output from the step 2) are transmitted to a first multi-path feature weighting residual module;and 4) the output of the multi-path feature weighting residual module in the step 3) is continuously transmitted to the next multi-path feature weighting residual module, and after passing a pluralityof multi-path feature weighting residual modules, the size of the output feature image is gradually reduced until to become a smaller size, and then the smaller size is reduced to be a feature pointthrough an average pooling layer; and the obtained feature point is directly sent into a classification layer for classification or for classification after passing a full connection layer. The residual convolutional neural network image classification method based on multi-path feature weighting is applied to a complicated image classification task, enriches feature expression, and avoids the problem of gradient loss caused by increase of neural network depth.

A vertical rotary blow molding machine with dual cavity molds includes two coextrusion flow heads for extruding multi-layer parisons for capture and blowing in the dual cavity molds.

The invention discloses a color film substrate, a liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display device. The color film substrate comprises a red filter layer, a green filter layer, a blue filter layer, a first shade layer isolating the red and green filter layers, a second shade layer isolating the green and blue filter layers, and a third shade layer isolating the blue and red filter layers. The third shade layer is wider than the first and second shade layers. According to the embodiments, the shade layer between the blue and red filter layers is widened, color shift of the liquid crystal display panel is significantly decreased, and display effect of the liquid crystal display panel is improved.

The implant is a fixation device shaped in the form of a plate for use in the fixation and stabilization of the thoracolumbar spine. The design and the configuration of the device allows for an anatomic fit of the plate in the spine. The improved fixation allows for an anatomical and biomechanicat advantage in stabilizing thoracolumbar spine trauma both in a primary fashion and/or in conjunction with vertebral body replacement. Its anatomic design allows the application of an ingrowth surface at the host/implant interface and encourages an additional point of fixation in cases at high risk for delayed or non-union such as severe trauma or malignancy. The thoracolumbar spine plate is anatomically designed to fit snugly against the thoracolumbar vertebral bodies through a twist around the Z (longitudinal) axis of the generally rectangular plate.

A gap filler assembly for filling a gap between adjacent sections of a bed. The gap filler assembly has a mattress portion that has an extension at one end thereof that extends between a gap between a first section of the bed and an adjacent second section of the bed. The mattress portion may be a supplemental mattress that is adjacent a side of a main mattress. The mattress portion may also have a hinged slider component on a bottom surface thereof.

Some embodiments provide a method for automatically generating several design solutions that remedy a design rule violation committed by a set of shapes in an IC design layout. The method receives a marker that indicates the design rule violation and contains information about the violation. The marker in some embodiments can be rendered as a geometric shape in the IC design layout. Based on the marker, the method generates several solutions each of which will cause the set of shapes to meet the design rule when the solution is applied to the set. Each solution requires moving at least one edge of a shape in the set of shapes.

The invention relates to a solar battery diffusion method which is characterized by comprising a step I of first oxidation, a step II of diffusion and a step III of second oxidation. The step II of diffusion comprises primary diffusion, the secondary diffusion and tertiary diffusion. In the solar battery diffusion method provided by the invention, a P-type silicon wafer is used as a diffusion source substrate; through three sub-steps of diffusion in the diffusion stage, the inlet flow of nitrogen and oxygen turns from large to small, and the inletting time turns from long to short; in the step III, the concentration of a phosphorus source is driven into the substrate from high to low, thus the surface concentration is gradually reduced, and the surface recombination and defect concentration is reduced; gradient doping is formed, the P-N junction area is widened, and the open-circuit voltage is increased; and meanwhile, through the relatively deep junction, the series resistance can be reduced, and the conversion efficiency of a solar battery is improved. The solar battery diffusion method does not need an additional process, is relatively low in cost and can be used for improving the conversion efficiency of the crystalline silicon solar battery.

The invention discloses a clamping spring structure of a relay socket. The clamping spring structure consists of two reeds made of banded cooper alloy; one end of each reed is a free end and the other ends of the two reeds are connected together to form opposite fixed ends; the middle parts of the free ends of the two reeds are respectively provided with a bending part; a V shape serving as an input port is formed by tail ends of the free ends of the two reeds through the bending parts; and end heads of the tail ends of the free ends of the two reeds are respectively provided with a chamfering surface arranged vertically. By improvement on the input port of the clamping spring structure, the width of the input port of a clamping spring is increased so as to facilitate the insertion of leading feet of a relay into the input port of the clamping spring; a line-to-surface contact between the tail ends of the free ends of the reeds and the surface of a plastic partition wall is changed into a surface-to-surface contact to make the application of the relay socket more convenient; and the insulating wall is difficult to damage so that the performance of voltage withstand and insulation of the relay socket are improved and the service life of the relay socket is prolonged.

Spinal surgery is carried out under direct visualization through a relatively small opening formed in a patient's skin. Intervening tissue between the opening and the surgical site is displaced so as to form a keyhole channel therethrough. The channel is characterized in that it increases in width as it progresses from the opening to the surgical field. The use of the keyhole channel maximizes the surgeon's access to the surgical field while minimizing tissue trauma. Also disclosed are surgical retractors used to provide the channel.

A plurality of trenches for defining active regions are formed in a semiconductor substrate, using a plurality of trench masks. A gap fill insulating layer is formed on the resulting structure to fill a gap region bounded by the trench and the trench masks. Next, the trench mask and the gap fill insulating layer are patterned to form a trench mask pattern and a gap fill insulating pattern for defining a slit-type opening, extending across and exposes the active region. A gate pattern is formed in the slit-type opening and the trench mask pattern is removed to form a contact opening exposing the active region. Next, a contact plug is formed to fill the contact opening. Here, the contact opening is self-alignedly formed using an etch selectivity between the trench mask and the gap fill insulating layer. The resulting contact opening is a vacancy in a rectangular parallelepiped shape.

The invention is an improved planar waveguide device comprising a plurality of optical waveguides and one or more crossover regions where two waveguides intersect at an angle. In accordance with the invention, loss and crosstalk produced by the crossover are reduced by segmenting the waveguides across the region of intersection. Advantageously, the segments are also enlarged in width (as compared to transmission regions of the waveguide remote from the crossover) and offset with respect to the longitudinal axis of the waveguide. In regions where the segments intersect, they merge into a complex segment having a shape corresponding to the periphery of the segment intersection.