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Disclosed in a hybrid built-in self test (BIST) architecture for embedded memory arrays that segments BIST functionality into remote lower-speed executable instructions and local higher-speed executable instructions. A standalone BIST logic controller operates at a lower frequency and communicates with a plurality of embedded memory arrays using a BIST instruction set. A block of higher-speed test logic is incorporated into each embedded memory array under test and locally processes BIST instructions received from the standalone BIST logic controller at a higher frequency. The higher-speed test logic includes a multiplier for increasing the frequency of the BIST instructions from the lower frequency to the higher frequency. The standalone BIST logic controller enables a plurality of higher-speed test logic structures in a plurality of embedded memory arrays.

A folded optical element waveguide that allows a minimum width bezel to be used around the perimeter of a light-based touch screen display. The apparatus and method includes a touch screen and a waveguide substrate provided adjacent the touch screen. The waveguide substrate includes a plurality of waveguides and a plurality of optical elements provided adjacent the touch screen. The waveguides include an internally reflective surface to reflect light perpendicular to the surface of the touch screen. The emitting and detecting waveguides are thus folded and provided around the side edges of the display. As a result, the width of the bezel around the display can be minimized.

An electrochromic device is provided. The device may be inserted within a frame. The device may include a substrate, an electrochromic coating, and a patterned layer. The electrochromic coating may overlie a portion of the substrate within a visible region of the substrate. The electrochromic coating may have an outer edge that is spaced from an outer boundary of the visible region of the substrate. The outer edge of the electrochromic coating and the outer boundary of the visible region may define a working region. The patterned layer may be deposited within the working region. The patterned layer may include a plurality of spaced apart shapes.

A disposable cushioned aspirator which forms part of a dental or medical aspirating system. The disposable cushioned aspirator appliance described herein is intended principally to be used in dental and medical procedures where body fluids and rinse water is evacuated from the site of a procedure. An elongate tubular element has a connection end and a patient end. The patient end is exteriorly lined with a layer of soft cushioning material such as a soft thermoplastic elastomers, styrene based polymers, rubber or a porous polymer foam material to define an aspirator tip that protects the soft tissues in and around the mouth of a patient. The soft aspirator tip has external longitudinal pressure relief channels and recessed aspiration openings within the channels for control of aspiration characteristics. The aspirator tube is capable of being manually bent to a desired configuration and has an embedded structural member such as wire extending along its length and being pliable to permit bending and yet of sufficient structural integrity to maintain the aspirator in the desired configuration during use.

Disclosed herein is a detergent supplying apparatus of a washing machine comprising a drawer 254 partitioned so that either of a bleach supplying part 311 and a softener supplying part 312 is positioned at a side and a front of the other. The present invention enables the drawer 254 to be made compact, and softener and bleach to be injected with the drawn width of the drawer 254 minimized.

A hanger / dryer device causes rapid drying of a wet wetsuit while providing a superior hanging arrangement for the wetsuit, which minimizes stress and lessens deterioration of the wetsuit's neoprene materials.

Disclosed herein is a detergent supplying apparatus of a washing machine comprising a drawer partitioned so that either of a bleach supplying part and a softener supplying part is positioned at a side and a front of the other. The present invention enables the drawer to be made compact, and softener and bleach to be injected with the drawn width of the drawer minimized.

A successive approximation analog / digital converter is provided, which includes a successive approximation register supplying a digital / analog converter, first means of comparing an input signal of the analog / digital converter to an output signal of the digital / analog converter delivering a first comparison signal, said successive approximation analog / digital converter being synchronised by a clock signal coming from a conversion clock. A method such as this includes dynamic adaptation of the conversion clock period based on at least one parameter.

In a Pure Fill Via Area (PFVA) extraction design flow, the extracted PFVAs may violate the minimum via spacing rule with the existing vias and may also violate the minimum via spacing rule among themselves. Such extracted PFVA violations may be corrected in an automatable design flow not requiring user intervention by removing any portion of a PFVA falling within a minimum via spacing rule of an existing via, to form a DRC-clean PFVA relative to existing vias, and removing any portion of a DRC-clean PFVA falling within the minimum via spacing rule of another DRC-clean PFVA.

High resolution images are imprinted onto precise and consistent lawns and fields by use in combination of a global positioning system; a processor for generating a desired pattern which is translated into patterning instructions; and a patterning implement which is used for generating detailed patterns and for imprinting said patterns on any of natural or artificial lawns and fields, covered areas, and landscapes.

An electronic device & accessory support is a sash shaped structure which enables a user to “put on” and “wear” an electronic device & its connectivity accessories as easily as wearing a shoulder bag. The electronic device & accessory support securely holds a small electronic device and connected wire sets which extend through and exit the support from the upper end of the loop near the shoulder. The overall “sash” configuration stabilizes the support and the shoulder exit for ear bud speakers.

A mating connector for connecting a connector, locking means for securing the connector to the mating connector, and a release mechanism for the locking means are provided. The locking means includes a pair of hook members extending along respective opposite side surfaces of a housing, fulcrum portions rotatably supporting respective hook members with respect to the housing, engagement pieces provided on the hook members, engagement recesses provided to the mating connector side for engagement with the engagement pieces, and spring pieces provided on the hook members for urging the engagement pieces in a direction toward the engagement recesses. The release mechanism is arranged so that by movement of a slide cover slidable in an axial direction of a cable with respect to the housing, the hook members are rotated such that the engagement pieces are disengaged from the engagement recesses.

An image sensor panel (2) has a light receiving section (22) consisting of a plurality of photoelectric detectors (21) two-dimensionally arranged close to corners on a substrate (20). The image sensor panel (2) has a scintillator (3) formed successively from the surface of the light receiving section (22) to sidewall parts (25) close thereto. A screen is enlarged by butting the sidewall parts (25) against each other.

A substrate includes a stacked trace formed from a trace and a first buildup trace stacked on the trace. The first buildup trace contacts and is electrically connected to the trace along the entire length of the trace. The current carrying cross-sectional area of the stacked trace is greater than the current carrying cross-sectional area of the trace. Accordingly, a plurality of the stacked traces can be formed with a small width and thus small pitch yet with a large current carrying cross-sectional area.

The invention relates to a treatment unit with a cutting tool (1) for treating wood, plastic or the like. Said treatment unit comprises a suction hood (6) with a ring (17) that encircles the tool (1) completely in the circumferential direction and at least partially in the axial direction. The suction hood (6) is located on the side of the drive spindle of the tool (1). A chip receiving opening (10) is provided in the tool (1) in the vicinity of the blade (4), said opening traversing the tool (1) in both the axial and the radial direction. A chip formed at the blade (4) is transported through the chip receiving opening (10) to the suction hood (6) from where the chip is removed by air suction.

Apparatus and methods for resizing electronic displays are provided. The display includes a front plate, a back plate, a perimeter seal spacing the front and back plates apart, image-generating medium contained in an area between the plates, and polarizing layers and / or other films on the outer surfaces of the plates. A target portion of the display is identified, and a saw is passed along a cut line to create a channel that extends through the polarizer to the outer surface of the top plate. A scriber tool is passed along the cut line within the channel to create a scribe line in the outer surface of the top plate. The display is inverted, and the process repeated to cut a channel and scribe the bottom plate. The plates are broken along the scribe line, and a seal is applied along the exposed edge, which may penetrate between the plates.

A method and apparatus for imprinting high resolution images onto fields, such as sports fields and landscapes is disclosed. In one embodiment, precise and consistent lawn and field patterning is accomplished by use in combination of a global positioning system; a processor for generating a desired pattern which is translated into patterning instructions; and a patterning implement which is used for generating detailed patterns and for imprinting said patterns on any of natural or artificial lawns and fields, covered areas, and landscapes. The patterning implement comprises a plurality of independent printing mechanisms incorporated within said patterning implement, each of the independent printing mechanisms coupled to receive patterning instructions from the processor and operate selectively in response thereto. The invention also comprises means for guiding the patterning implement to position it along a desired path at least in part with information from said global positioning system; and means for individually controlling each of said independent printing mechanisms incorporated within said patterning implement responsive to said patterning instructions and in coordination with positioning of said patterning implement along said desired path.

The present invention has an object of improving wear resistance of a thrust bearing portion. A pressure is generated by a dynamic pressure effect of a lubricating oil in a thrust bearing gap C between a thrust bearing surface 11a including dynamic pressure generating grooves and a smooth thrust receiving surface 11b so as to rotatably support a shaft member 2 in an axial direction. The thrust receiving surface 11b is formed as a flat surface, whereas an inclined plane 17 is provided on the thrust bearing surface 11a so as to provide a reduced portion 15 having a decreasing axial width in a radially outward direction in the thrust bearing gap C.

An adjuster for a strut located between first and second friction members for a drum brake. The strut has a shaft that is free to rotate in a first end member and threaded into the second end member. A lever pivots during a brake application and engages a ratchet wheel on the shaft to rotates the shaft and expand the strut to maintain a minimum running clearance with respect to a rotatable member. A bi-metal coil strip that is fixed to the strut has a free end that is aligned with the lever arm. The strip responds to a predetermined temperature by moving the lever arm away from the ratchet wheel such movement of the lever does not rotate the ratchet wheel and expand the strut. Thus, on termination of a brake application a current running clearance is sustained without being affected by the predetermined temperature.

A planar lightwave circuit coupler including first and second waveguides with curved coupling portions having radii of curvature selected such that the coupler has a splitting ratio that is substantially wavelength and polarization insensitive.

Apparatus and methods for resizing electronic displays are provided. The display includes a front plate, a back plate, a perimeter seal spacing the front and back plates apart, image-generating medium contained in an area between the plates, and polarizing layers and / or other films on the outer surfaces of the plates. A target portion of the display is identified, and a saw is passed along a cut line to create a channel that extends through the polarizer to the outer surface of the top plate. A scriber tool is passed along the cut line within the channel to create a scribe line in the outer surface of the top plate. The display is inverted, and the process repeated to cut a channel and scribe the bottom plate. The plates are broken along the scribe line, and a seal is applied along the exposed edge, which may penetrate between the plates.

A single-level rack serving apparatus for transporting load units, which comprises two chassis halves each having a pair of rollers and each having an extendible arm, a storage region between the chassis halves and a connection structure, wherein the chassis halves are connected to one another by the connection structure and travel on running rails by the rollers. The arms serve to pull up or push down load units onto or from the storage region which comprises at least two first and second lateral supporting plates for supportingly carrying the load units. The size of the storage region can be varied by varying the spacing between the arms together with the lateral supporting plates. A further third supporting plate is arranged between the first and second lateral supporting plates such that it supports a load unit centrally from below in the storage region irrespective of the size of the storage region.