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Driver training methods, systems, and computer readable media are disclosed. A training method receives sensor information from a vehicle driven along a driving route by an individual, assesses performance of the individual based on the sensor information and an individual mastery level, and adjusts the individual mastery level based on the assessed performance of the individual. The method may be embodied in a computer readable media. A driver training system includes a receiver that receives vehicle sensor information associated with a vehicle being driven along a driving route by an individual and a processor coupled to the receiver that assesses performance of the individual based on the received sensor information and an individual mastery level and adjusts the individual mastery level based on the assessed performance of the individual. Driver training protocols and systems and methods for implementing and transforming driver training protocols are also disclosed.

A method of making a light emitting device includes mixing a glass powder with a phosphor powder including at least one of a sulfide phosphor, an aluminate phosphor and a silicate phosphor to produce a mixed powder in which the phosphor powder is dispersed in the glass powder, heating and softening the mixed powder to provide an integrated material, and subsequently solidifying the integrated material to provide a phosphor-dispersed glass, and fusion-bonding the phosphor-dispersed glass onto a mounting portion on which a light emitting element is mounted by hot pressing, and simultaneously sealing the light emitting element with the phosphor-dispersed glass on the mounting portion.

It is an object to provide a liquid crystal display device and a driving method of a liquid crystal display device in each of which deterioration of an image display function can be suppressed and power consumption can be sufficiently reduced. In the liquid crystal display device, a fixed potential is input to a capacitor before a power source is turned off, so that a potential difference between electrodes of the capacitor disappears (capacitance becomes almost zero) such that electric field is not applied to liquid crystals, whereby the liquid crystals are in an initial state. When the supply of the power source is stopped after an initial-state image is displayed, unnecessary electric field is not continuously applied to the liquid crystals in an off state, whereby the liquid crystals can be in the stable initial state; therefore, the liquid crystals can be prevented from deteriorating.

The invention relates to pig concentrated feed which does not contain antibiotic and hormone. The pig concentrated feed is mainly prepared from the following materials: protein materials, calcium hydrogen phosphate, calcium carbonate, iodinated salt, amino acid, zinc sulfate, sodium selenite, magnesium sulfate and the like. As the pig concentrated feed does not contain the materials such as the antibiotic, the hormone and the like and is added with a proper amount of microelements, the pig concentrated feed can supplement nutrient components of conventional feed, prevent feed quality degradation, improve palatability of the feed, improve the feed utilization rate for pigs, improve disease resistance of the pigs, prompt normal development and quick growth of the pigs, and improve the growth quality of the pigs; and after the pig concentrated feed which serves as an additive is prepared into complete feed, residue of mineral elements in pork and livers of the pigs (the component content is controlled to be within the safety value during the fattening period) is reduced, edible safety of pork products is ensured, the feed cost is lowered, and the environmental pollution of swine waste is reduced on the premise of not influencing growth performance of the pigs.

A battery pack includes a secondary cell, a selection unit, a judging unit, an elapsed time period comparing unit, and a control unit. The selection unit selects either a first operation state or a second operation state. The control unit controls the selection unit to switch from the first operation state to the second operation state when the elapsed time period is longer than a predetermined time period. The control unit also controls the selection unit to switch from a second operation state to a first operation state either (a) when judged as being in an used state by the judging unit while the second operation is selected (b) when a voltage of the second cell becomes equal to or less than a second voltage threshold value which is smaller than a first voltage threshold value while the second operation state is selected.

A semiconductor apparatus including: a semiconductor substrate having a through hole; an electrode pad provided on a first surface of the semiconductor substrate so as to cover the through hole; an external connection terminal provided on a second surface of the semiconductor substrate; a conductive wiring passing through the through hole and allowing conduction between the electrode pad and an external connection terminal; a first insulating film provided on the first surface of the semiconductor substrate; and a second insulating film provided on a second surface of the semiconductor substrate and on an inner surface of the through hole to insulate the semiconductor substrate from the conductive wiring; the conductive wiring being connected to the electrode pad via the connection opening formed in at least one of the first insulating film and the second insulating film that are formed in such a way that at least a part of the first insulating film and a part of the second insulating film overlap, in a direction vertical to the first surface of the semiconductor substrate, the bottom surface of the through hole, and the connection opening being formed so as to avoid a periphery of the bottom surface of the through hole. This provides a semiconductor apparatus with a highly-reliable through electrode and a method of producing the apparatus.

A semiconductor device includes: a lower hydrogen-barrier film; a capacitor formed on the lower hydrogen-barrier film and including a lower electrode, a capacitive insulating film, and an upper electrode; an interlayer dielectric film formed so as to cover the periphery of the capacitor; and an upper hydrogen-barrier film covering the top and lateral portions of the capacitor. An opening, which exposes the lower hydrogen-barrier film where the lower hydrogen-barrier film is located around the capacitor, and which is tapered and flares upward, is formed in the interlayer dielectric film, and the upper hydrogen-barrier film is formed along the lateral and bottom faces of the opening, and is in contact with the lower hydrogen-barrier film in the opening.

A display apparatus includes a flat panel display (FPD), a touch screen panel provided on a front surface of the FPD, and a sealing material formed to surround external surfaces of the FPD and the touch screen panel.

The present invention provides a light emitting device comprising: an excitation light source which radiates excitation light; a wavelength converting member which absorbs and converts the wavelength of at least part of the excitation light radiated from the excitation light source, and releases light with a predetermined wavelength band; a light guide for guiding the excitation light radiated from the excitation light source to the wavelength converting member, with one end at the excitation light source and the other end at the wavelength converting member, wherein the refractive index of the cross-sectional center region (core) is higher than that of the circumferential region (clad); and a thermally conductive transparent film which contacts with the wavelength converting member.

The present invention relates to an electro-luminescence display and a driving method thereof wherein a thin film transistor is prevented from the deterioration, to thereby improve a picture quality. An electro-luminescence (EL) display, including: a plurality of drive voltage supply lines; N compensation voltage supply lines; EL cells at each crossing of a plurality of data lines and a plurality of gate lines in a matrix, wherein the EL cells emit light in response to currents applied from the drive voltage supply lines; driving thin film transistors (TFT) connected between the EL cells and compensation voltage supply lines that control the current applied to the EL cells; and a bias switch, connected between the N-1th compensation voltage supply line and a control terminal of the driving TFT connected to the Nth compensation voltage supply line that applies a bias voltage to the driving TFT when a scan pulse is supplied to the N-1th gate line.

There is disclosed a plate member for a fuel cell which is laminated together with a membrane-electrode assembly to constitute a fuel cell having cells and is provided with a channel forming portion which forms a fluid channel to supply and discharge a fluid to/from the membrane-electrode assembly and/or the cells. The plate member for the fuel cell includes a first covering portion which covers the channel forming portion, and a second covering portion which covers an edge of the first covering portion together with a portion around the edge of the first covering portion.

Provided is a lithium ion secondary battery including: a positive electrode; a negative electrode; a separator; and an electrolyte solution, the electrolyte solution including an additive A containing sulfur, and at least one of a cyclic carbonate additive B which is different from the additive A and which has an unsaturated bond and a cyclic carbonate additive C which is different from the additives A and B and which has a halogen. A molar ratio of the additive A relative to a total molar amount of the additive A, the additive B, and the additive C is smaller than a total of a molar ratio of the additive B and a molar ratio of the additive C relative to the total molar amount.

The present invention discloses enzyme Laiyang pear paste and a preparation method and an application thereof. The disclosed Laiyang pear paste is prepared by low-temperature fermentation of 7-14 jin of Laiyang pears and 1 part of traditional Chinese medicine decoction, and low-temperature and negative-pressure distillation and concentration. The enzyme Laiyang pear paste is characterized in that, the 1 part of the traditional Chinese medicine decoction is prepared by boiling the following medicinal materials: 8-13 grams of each of liquorice, dried gingers, red dates, buckwheat, radix puerariae, haws, smoked plums, wrinkled gianthyssop herbs, fructus amomi, poria cocos, Chinese wolfberry fruits, chrysanthemums, and fructus momordicae, 4-8 grams of semen sterculiae lychnophorae, 2-5 grams of each of rhizoma imperatae and bulbus lilii, and 5-9 grams of radix platycodonis. The present invention also discloses the preparation method of the Laiyang pear paste. Compared with the prior art, the active plant enzymes of the pear paste has effects of moistening lungs and stopping cough, clearing and benefiting throats, reducing fire and promoting salivation, harmonizing stomach and reducing phlegm, beautifying features and nourishing skins, preventing and treating haze syndromes, relieving toxins, lowering blood lipids, blood pressure, and cholesterol, and more effectively preventing and curing cancers, liver and kidney diseases, etc.

An information processing apparatus and method for splicing first compressed image data with second compressed image data. The method includes performing a decoding process for a first decoding interval that includes a first editing point set to the first compressed image data to produce a first non-compressed image signal. A second decoding process includes a second editing point set to the second compressed image data to produce a second non-compressed image signal. A re-encoding process re-encodes an interval of a third non-compressed image signal and the first and second non-compressed image signals are spliced at the first and second editing points to produce third compressed image data.

A manufacturing method for semiconductor devices having MOSFET gate insulation films. The method includes forming a silicon oxide film, forming a silicon nitride film, nitriding the silicon nitride film, and heat treatment.

Provided is a bill handling device which prevents a rejected deposit bill from collapsing in the interior of a money slot, and which has favorable operability for the user. A money slot unit of the present invention is provided with a bill accommodating part, a separation mechanism, an accumulation mechanism, an operation plate, a passage sensor for detecting a bill conveyed to the accumulation mechanism, and a control unit for controlling the operation of each part, and the invention is characterized in that when bills accommodated in the bill accommodation part are separated in the separation mechanism, the control unit moves the operation plate in the direction in which the accumulation mechanism is provided in a case where a bill being conveyed to the accumulation mechanism has been detected by the passage sensor.

A touch sensing device comprises a display panel including a plurality of data lines and a plurality of sensor interconnection lines, the plurality of data lines connected to a plurality of pixels of the display panel, and the plurality of sensor interconnection lines connected to a plurality of touch electrodes of the display panel, each pixel including a plurality of sub-pixels that each display a distinct color. A pattern of sub-pixels is arranged in the display panel such that a same number of sub-pixels for each distinct color is arranged adjacent to a first side and adjacent to a second side of one or more of the plurality of sensor interconnection lines, each of the sub-pixels for each distinct color being adjacent to either the first side or the second side of a corresponding one of the sensor interconnection lines.

A power supply device includes battery equipment and voltage detecting circuitry. The battery equipment includes positive-side and negative-side battery blocks that are connected to each other at a reference midpoint. The voltage detecting circuitry detects the respective voltage values of serially-connected battery modules of the battery equipment. The voltage detecting circuitry includes positive-side and negative side voltage management ICs with respect to the reference midpoint. The positive-side and negative side voltage management ICs manage the voltage conditions of the battery modules in the positive-side and negative-side battery blocks, respectively. Positive-side and negative-side voltage power lines of each of the positive-side and negative side voltage management ICs are connected to positive-side and negative-side output terminals of the battery equipment so that all the battery modules supply electric power to each of the voltage management ICs. The voltage management ICs have a common ground line.

One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method and a device for encoding/decoding an image using a bi-directional intra prediction. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for encoding/decoding an image using a bi-directional intra prediction for enhancing the efficiency of an intra prediction by adaptively using not only a uni-directional prediction but also a bi-directional prediction in making the intra prediction.

The invention relates to a lithium polyacrylate, a preparation method and uses thereof, and a lithium ion battery. The preparation method comprises: taking polyacrylic acid having a molecular weight of 200000-600000, and carrying out a mixing reaction on the polyacrylic acid and lithium hydroxide to obtain the lithium polyacrylate. According to the invention, the lithium polyacrylate used as the lithium-rich manganese-based lithium ion battery binder, the preparation method and the uses thereof are provided, and the lithium polyacrylate preparation method is simple, is suitable for industrialproduction, and has outstanding advantages in the improvement of the performances of lithium-rich manganese-based lithium ion batteries.

A display panel drive circuit and a display panel are provided which are simple in structure but free from initial failure leading to impossibility to perform scanning. The display panel drive circuit of the present invention is structured such that thin film transistors constituting a signal input circuit connected to a circuit outside the display panel are formed in a structure having a dielectric breakdown strength higher than those of thin film transistors constituting other circuits. Specifically, countermeasures are taken by transistor formation in multi-gate structure, gate width broadening, resistance insertion between an input terminal and a transistor or the like. In the present invention, the circuit to which signals are externally inputted or thin film transistors of the same circuit is structured to withstand high voltage, thereby preventing the transistors from being deteriorated by high voltage and occurrence of initial failure while being simple in structure.

Disclosed is a breaker for providing successive trip mechanism based on PTC current-limiting device, which includes a first switch having first fixed/movable contact points; a second switch having second fixed/movable contact and connected to the first switch in parallel; PTC current-limiting device connected to the first and second switches in parallel or series and allowing a change of current flow direction from the first switch to the second switch at a fault current; a movable arm to which the movable contact points are installed at an interval therebetween and opening/closing the switches by operating the movable contact points; a fixed arm including first and second fixed arm conductors for guiding current flow toward the first fixed contact point in a normal load current mode and guiding current flow toward the second fixed contact point via the PTC current-limiting device in a fault current mode; and a successive trip means for elastically biasing the second switch by operation of the movable arm in a closing direction when both switches are closed and successively tripping both switches using time taken for releasing the elastic bias of the second switch when the movable arm is operated in a tripping direction.

An image reading apparatus includes: an ADF driven by a motor; an image reading unit transmitting charges accumulated in a photoelectric conversion element as a shift pulse to a shift register; and a shift pulse control unit controlling an output timing of the shift pulse based on rotation of the motor. When the rotation of the motor stops, the shift pulse control unit outputs the shift pulse to transmit the charges accumulated in lighting of a light source immediately before the stoppage of the motor.

A hydrogen sensor includes a thin film layer formed over a substrate of resin or the like, and a catalyst layer formed on a surface of the thin film layer. When contacted by leaked hydrogen gas, the catalyst layer quickly hydrogenates the thin film layer through its catalytic action, thereby causing a change in optical reflectance of the thin film layer. The hydrogen sensor includes a protective film formed at least either between the substrate and the thin film layer or on a surface of the catalyst layer.

Provided is an apparatus and method to restore a signal using minimum value sampling, more particularly, a signal restoring apparatus and method using minimum value sampling, which are capable of effectively preventing deterioration of a restored signal caused by aliasing occurring when minimum value sampling of an input signal is performed in order to restore a signal. The apparatus to restore a signal using the minimum value sampling includes a storage unit to store a sample value obtained through the minimum value sampling of an input signal in a predetermined sampling interval; a position determination unit to determine the position of the sample value in the sampling interval; and a restoration unit to restore the input signal using the stored sample value with respect to the determined position.

A pulse shower device including a water dispersion plate and an impeller is provided. The water dispersion plate includes an inner surface and an outer surface, and a plurality of shower holes that are provided from the water surface to the outer surface, The impeller includes shower hole blocking portions that are formed over a predetermined circumferential length along the inner surface in a downstream portion of the inner surface of the water dispersion plate, and or the plurality of shower holes; shower hole opening portions that open toward the inner surface; a plurality of vanes; an inner peripheral portion; and an outer peripheral portion. The impeller is provided on an upstream portion of the inner surface of the water dispersion plate, and rotates around an axis due to a water stream hitting the vanes,

In a heating mode, a heat-pump water-heating device (100) adjusts the amount of a refrigerant flowing into injection piping (4c) by controlling a second restriction device (14a), and in a cooling mode, the amount of refrigerant flowing into the injection piping (4c) is adjusted by controlling a third restriction device (14b).

Provided is a sodium secondary battery capable of operating at a low temperature. More particularly, the sodium secondary battery according to the present invention includes: an anode containing sodium; a cathode containing a transition metal and an alkali metal halide; and a sodium ion conductive solid electrolyte provided between the anode and the cathode, wherein the cathode is impregnated in a molten salt electrolyte containing a sodium.metal halogen salt including at least two kinds of halogens.

Provided is a seal tape that can prevent deterioration of a light modulating layer by an intermediate film that includes a plasticizer and that can also improve workability during the production of a light modulating structure. The seal tape (10) comprises: a band-like base material (11); an adhesive section (12) formed by the provision of an adhesive on both edges (11a) in the longitudinal direction of the base material (11); an exposed section of base material (11b) that extends in the longitudinal direction of the base material (11) and is a region between both edges (11a) of the base material (11) located on the surface on which the adhesive section (12) is formed; and a releasing material (13) which covers the adhesive section (12) on both edges (11a) of the base material (11).

The invention relates to a kitchen ignition and fire monitoring and judging method which comprises the following steps: starting an ultrasonic detection module according to a preset detection condition and acquiring ultrasonic data detected for continuous preset times in a preset monitoring space, the ultrasonic data comprising echo time and an echo intensity value corresponding to the echo time;acquiring environmental parameters including temperature data; and judging whether a fire source exists or not or whether fire using abnormity occurs or not according to the echo intensity value change intensity degree and the temperature data. The method has the beneficial effects that the method can be applied to kitchens and other application scenarios such as cooking and cooking and can monitor the state of a fire source and judge ignition, dry burning, flameout and other conditions and can inform users in time when abnormal conditions such as dry burning and stove fire extinguishing occurso that further deterioration of the conditions is avoided and life and property safety of the users is guaranteed.