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This invention relates to an electrophoretic display comprising cells of well-defined shape, size and aspect ratio which cells are filled with charged pigment particles dispersed in a solvent, and novel processes for its manufacture.

The circuitry of a programmable logic device (for example, an FPGA) includes a configurable logic portion and a configuration memory. The configuration memory stores configuration data that configures the configurable logic portion to realize a user-defined circuit. The configurable logic portion is disposed on a first die whereas the configuration memory is disposed on a second die. The second die is bonded to the first die in stacked relation. Each bit of configuration data passes from the second die to the first die through a pair of micropads. One micropad of the pair is disposed on the first die and the other micropad of the pair is disposed on the second die. When the first die and second die are brought together in face-to-face relation, the two micropads form an electrical connection through which the configuration data bit passes from the second die to the first die.

In a system and method for analyzing and treating a body lumen, a lumen-expanding balloon catheter with integrated one or more delivery waveguides and one or more collection waveguides is used to perform optical analysis of the tissues surrounding the lumen during expansion. The catheter can comprise an angioplasty catheter with integrated delivery waveguides and collection waveguides to perform spectroscopy of a stenotic plaque during angioplasty.

An antenna, including a planar dielectric substrate and a conductive ground plane formed on the substrate. A conductive monopole is formed on the substrate and has an end point located in proximity to a feed region of the ground plane. A conductive coupling element is formed on the substrate and is coupled to the ground plane at a coupling region of the ground plane. The coupling element is folded around the monopole.

Building-integrated photovoltaic devices can be provided, which function as sensors, wherein the output parameters from the device are used to provide information about light intensity and ambient temperature, in addition to providing power, to an intelligent building energy management system.

An automatic charging station for an autonomous mobile machine includes a base, a housing, and a signal transmitter. The base is mounted on the ground or on a planar surface. The housing is rotatably mounted on the base, having at least one guide member and a plurality of electrically conductive members on a surface thereof. The electrically conductive members are located on the housing. The signal transmitter is mounted on the housing for transmitting a signal. When the autonomous mobile machine senses the signal transmitted by the transmitter while moving, the autonomous mobile machine moves along a route towards the housing and then forces the guide member to enable the housing to rotate for facing and accommodating the autonomous mobile machine and to further enable the autonomous mobile machine to contact against the housing to have its electrodes in contact with the electrically conductive members for charging.

This invention relates to an electrophoretic display comprising cells of well-defined shape, size and aspect ratio which cells are filled with charged pigment particles dispersed in a solvent, and novel processes for its manufacture.

An antenna, including a planar dielectric substrate and a conductive ground plane formed on the substrate. A conductive monopole is formed on the substrate and has an end point located in proximity to a feed region of the ground plane. A conductive coupling element is formed on the substrate and is coupled to the ground plane at a coupling region of the ground plane. The coupling element is folded around the monopole.

A head-mounted display system comprises: a display device freely detachable and attachable on a user's head; a direction detector for detecting the orientation of the user's head in at least the horizontal direction, the direction detector being disposed on the display device; an image generator for generating an image in accordance with the orientation of the user's head detected by the direction detector; a displacement-calculating unit for calculating displacement, the displacement being the difference between directional data of the current orientation of the user's head detected by the direction detector and directional data of the orientation of the user's head detected a predetermined amount of time ago; and an image processor for sending an image generated in the image generator to the display device after shifting the image in at least the horizontal direction in accordance with the displacement calculated by the displacement-calculating unit.

The present invention provides a radio control helicopter toy including a mast mounted projecting to the upper side of an airframe so as to be rotated by a main motor, a rotor mounted on the upper part of the mast via a rotor head with the blade surface of a rotor blade capable of inclining, a blade inclining mechanism having an arm with one end part side thereof mounted rotatably on the airframe side and the other end part side thereof is mounted to be driven to approach to the above-mentioned rotor head side by an actuator, for inclining the blade surface of the above-mentioned rotor by the magnetic force generated between magnets mounted on the end part of the arm and the above-mentioned rotor head or between a magnet and a ferromagnetic material, and a receiver loaded on the above-mentioned airframe for controlling the operation of the above-mentioned main motor and the actuator.

To achieve, in an oxide semiconductor thin layer transistor, both the stability of threshold voltage against electric stress and suppression of variation in the threshold voltage in a transfer characteristic. A thin film transistor includes an oxide semiconductor layer and a gate insulating layer disposed so as to be in contact with the oxide semiconductor layer, wherein the oxide semiconductor layer contains hydrogen atoms and includes at least two regions that function as active layers of the oxide semiconductor and have different average hydrogen concentrations in the layer thickness direction; and when the regions functioning as the active layers of the oxide semiconductor are sequentially defined as, from the side of the gate insulating layer, a first region and a second region, the average hydrogen concentration of the first region is lower than the average hydrogen concentration of the second region.

A power semiconductor device and a method for its production. The power semiconductor device has at least one power semiconductor chip, which has on its top side and on its back side large-area electrodes. The electrodes are electrically in connection with external contacts by means of connecting elements, the power semiconductor chip and the connecting elements being embedded in a plastic package. This plastic package has a number of layers of plastic, which are pressed one on top of the other and have plane-parallel upper sides. The connecting elements are arranged on at least one of the plane-parallel upper sides, between the layers of plastic pressed one on top of the other, as a patterned metal layer and are electrically in connection with the external contacts by means of contact vias through at least one of the layers of plastic.

Processing techniques for various surface mount modular components provide various structures for single device components (10) and multiple device components (FIGS. 6 and 7) suitable as character displays. The technique beings with a slab of substrate material 12 patterned on both sides. Plated through holes (33, 43) connecting back side terminals (19, 20) to front side connective strips (22, 24) are formed. Devices (15, 16) are mounted to land areas (13, 34) and wire bonded to connecting pads (14). The front side is coated with epoxy to encapsulate the devices in a layer having an outer surface formed into optional lenses (262, 263). The slab is then separated to provide the modular components.

A pair of through-holes 41a and 41b having the same shape are formed and aligned in a flexible board 4 on which a wiring pattern 42 is formed. A piezoelectric actuator 3 made of a piezoelectric bi-morph device is inserted into the first through-hole 41a and then into the second through-hole 41b from the opposite surface side. As a result, both the ends in the longitudinal direction of the piezoelectric actuator 3 contact the same surface of the flexible board 4. The flexible board 4 is disposed so that it contacts a touch sensor portion except for a part of the flexible board 4. Thus, a high performance force sense feedback function caused by the panel that deforms corresponding to an input operation can be accomplished at low cost.

Nanoparticles comprising tungsten, methods of manufacturing nanoparticles comprising tungsten, and applications of nanoparticles comprising tungsten, such as electronics, optical devices, photonics, reagents for fine chemical synthesis, pigments, and catalysts are provided.

In order that spaces, including a space in the central portion, inside a steel cord used as a reinforcement by being embedded in a tire or the like are filled with an uncured rubber, the uncured rubber is coated on plural steel filaments 115 which are then stranded in case of a single layer steel cord, the uncured rubber is coated on all of plural core filaments 329 which are then stranded along with outer layer filaments 330 in the same direction at the same pitch in case of a 2-layer steel cord of 1 stranding process, and the uncured rubber is coated on all or 2 to 4 core filaments 218 or on at least one of 3 or 4 steel filaments 408, 408' to form a core strand and outer layer filaments 410, 410' are stranded therearound in case of 2-layer steel cord of 2 stranding process. Consequently, it is possible to exhibit satisfactory corrosion resistance and satisfactory fatigue resistance as a steel cord, shorten a curing time in tire component assembling or the like to attain energy saving and prolong the life of a steel cord itself and the life of a tire or the like using the same as a reinforcement. Further, production can be performed at low cost.

An optical probe includes a tubular outer envelope and a optical fiber which extends in the longitudinal direction of the outer envelope inside the outer envelope. By fixing a light deflecting element to the optical fiber and rotating the optical fiber by a driver, the light deflecting element is rotated. A protective member which has a higher resistance to wear than the outer peripheral surface of the optical fiber is fixed to a part of the outer peripheral surface of the optical fiber in a position near the front end of the optical fiber and is borne for rotation by a bearing portion on the probe outer envelope.

A method of mass producing polarizes comprises designing by rigorous diffraction theory an optimized grating profile, replicating the profile in a polymer or other substrate, and slope evaporating a metal onto the substrate. The angle of slope evaporation, the metal, and the thickness of the metal are optimized for a given wavelength using rigorous diffraction theory. The polarizer may be coated with a protective coating, such as an acrylic based lacquer or Magnesium Fluoride (MgF2). The optical effect of the coating is also taken into account in the design using rigorous diffraction theory.

An endoscope system has an insertion portion and a control portion connected to a base end portion of the insertion portion. An illumination system includes a light guide having a front end positioned near the front end of the insertion portion and a rear end positioned rearward of the base end of the insertion portion, phosphors disposed in the light guide toward the front end thereof and an illumination light source which is positioned toward the rear end of the light guide and emits stimulating light exciting the phosphors.

A freeze indicator employs, as active indicator element, dispersion of solid particles in a liquid medium which can be water or aqueous and which coagulates to provide an irreversible appearance change when subject to freezing. The liquid dispersion can be contained in an indicator volume around which extends a vapor block layer. The vapor block layer can prevent loss of liquid vapor from the dispersion and consequent drying out and dysfunctionality of the freeze indicator. For containing an aqueous medium, bilayer and trilayer laminate materials can be used which have a low water vapor transmission rate. The active indicator element can be a dilute colloidal dispersion of a metal such as gold or silver or other inorganic pigment material in water or an aqueous medium. Some embodiments avoid use of dispersants and the like and employ an active indicator element consisting of inorganic pigment particles, water and optionally an ice nucleating agent. Heavy water, or deuterated water can be components of the water, if desired.

A personalized video system that combines user-supplied data and digital visual images or view with stored archival stock video footage and popular music works of the last century to generate a personalized life story documentary movie. The personalized video system gathers input from the user about the recipient such as age, gender, and relationship to the user and allows the user to upload personal digital images or video of the recipient. The user then inputs the dates of each digital image or video uploaded so that the personalized video system can chronologically order the items in the video. The personalized video system combines the user-supplied information and digital media with archived stock video footage of significant events and famous personalities to place the recipient's life story in a historical context. The personalized video system also provides a music soundtrack and synchronizes the display of the digital media and archived footage to the selected soundtrack. One embodiment allows the user to upload birth certificates, marriage certificates, newspaper clippings or other digitally scanned material for use in the video. Another embodiment allows the user to record or upload a voiceover narrative, sound effects or other audio content.

The present invention relates to an optical mask at low cost and so on having a structure capable of reducing further a peak of beam intensity caused by diffraction. The optical mask is constructed by overlapping a first mask and a second mask. The first mask and second mask each are a serrated aperture mask. The schematic shapes of the respective apertures of the first mask and second mask are almost rectangular and identical to each other. The fringe defining the aperture of the first mask is machined in a serrated shape, and the fringe defining the aperture of the second mask also is machined in a serrated shape. In the optical mask, the first mask and second mask are overlapped so that the serrations of the fringes defining the respective apertures of the first mask and second mask are located alternately.

The present invention relates to microfluidic devices and to their method of manufacture. The microfluidic devices are original by their specific structure (of sandwich type) and by the materials from which they are made (mainly glasses, glass ceramics, ceramics), and also by their specific method of manufacture, which is based on a vacuum-forming operation. The microfluidic device includes a first assembly including a microstructure and a first substrate, wherein the microstructure is constructed and arranged on the substrate under vacuum. A second assembly includes a second substrate positioned on the microstructure after the first assembly is presintered and adhered thereto by heat treatment to form a one-piece microstructure defining at least one recess between the first and second substrates.

The present invention discloses a metallic nanowire-graphene bridge structural composite material which comprises multiple layers of grapheme and metallic nanowires and is characterized in that the metallic nanowires are arranged at one side or two sides of the surface of a grapheme sheet layer, the metallic nanowires are welded to the metallic nanoparticles at the surface of the grapheme, and a metallic nanowire-graphene bridge structural composite material is formed. According to the composite material, the transmittance is larger than 85% to 92%, the surface resistance is smaller than 1 Omega at the same time, in an optimal embodiment, a transparent conductive film with the transmittance larger than 90% and the surface resistance smaller than 1 Omega is realized, and the current and future industrial application requirements are fully satisfied. Through growing the metallic nanoparticles with proper density at the surface of the single-layer or few-layer grapheme and assembling and welding the metallic nanowires (such as silver nanowires and copper nanowires) on the metallic nanoparticles, grapheme-metallic nanowires are formed and are assembled and processed to form a grapheme-metallic nanowires bridge structure, a transport path is provided for electrons, and thus the surface resistance of a grapheme assembly film is greatly reduced.

The main object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing an EL element for realizing the high luminous efficiency, the high light takeout efficiency, the simplicity of the production process, and the formation of highly fine patterns. In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention provides a method for producing an EL element wherein at least one organic EL layer constituting the EL element is patterned by the use of a photolithography method.

A charged particle beam detection system (10) that includes a Faraday cup detector array (FCDA) for position-sensitive charged particle beam detection is described. The FCDA is combined with an electronic multiplexing unit (MUX) (2) that allows collecting and intgrating the charge deposited in the array, and simultaneously reading out the same. The duty cycle for collecting the ions is greater than 98%. This multiplexing (2) is achieved by collecting the charge with a large number of small and electronically decoupled Faraday cups. Because Faraday cups collect the charge independent of their charge state, each cup is both a collector and an integrator. The ability of the Faraday cup to integrate the charge, in combination with the electronic multiplexing unit (2), which reads out and empties the cups quickly compared to the charge integration time, provides the almost perfect duty cycle for this position-sensitive charged particle detector (10). The device (10) measures further absolute ion currents, has a wide dynamic range from 1.7 pA to 1.2 μA with a crosstalk of less than 750:1. The integration of the electronic multiplexing unit (2) with the FCDA further allows reducing the number of feedthroughs that are needed to operate the detector (10).