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A dual panel-type active matrix organic electroluminescent device includes: first and second substrates spaced apart from each other; a driving thin film transistor on an inner surface of the first substrate; a connection electrode layer connected to the driving thin film transistor and formed of a first conductive material having a first hardness; a first electrode on an inner surface of the second substrate; an organic electroluminescent layer on the first electrode; and a second electrode on the organic electroluminescent layer, the second electrode connected to the connection electrode layer and formed of a second conductive material having a second hardness, wherein the first hardness is different from the second hardness.

A LED chip is bonded on a large submount serving as a heat sink. The submount is punched out from a thin metal sheet together with two other sections of lead frames for the LED and held together with insulating material. The planar structure makes the package thin. A transparent lens may be mounted over the submount. More than one LED of same or different color can be mounted on the submount.

The present invention provides a process for production of a cyclic ester by depolymerization of an aliphatic polyester. In the process, a mixture containing the aliphatic polyester and a specific polyalkylene glycol ether, which has a boiling point of 230-450° C. and a molecular weight of 150-450, is heated under normal or reduced pressure to a temperature at which depolymerization of the aliphatic polyester takes place. Then, a substantially homogeneous solution phase, consisting of the melt phase of the aliphatic polyester and the liquid phase of the polyalkylene glycol ether, is formed. Heating of the solution phase is continued to form the cyclic ester by depolymerization and distil out the cyclic ester together with the polyalkylene glycol ether, and then the cyclic ester is recovered from the distillate. The present invention also provides a process for purification of a crude cyclic ester by use of the specific polyalkylene glycol ether described above.

A starter generator has an electric rotating machine having a rotating shaft and designed to carry two reverse operations—motor and generator. A first clutch is connected between the rotating machine and the first rotating shaft for transmitting rotations of the rotating machine to the first rotating shaft. A second clutch is connected between the rotating machine and the second rotating shaft for transmitting rotations of the second rotating shaft to the rotating machine. A continuously variable transmission is provided for changing the number of rotations transmitted from the second rotating shaft to the rotating machine. The rotating machine is supplied with electric power to rotate the rotating shaft, or the number of rotations of the rotating shaft is kept constant by controlling a transmission ratio of the continuously variable transmission.

An electrical connector including a housing provided with an opening through which a flat circuit device is inserted into the housing, a plurality of conductive contacts arranged on the housing, a conductive shell mounted on the housing for covering partially the same and provided with a holding member for engaging with the flat circuit device inserted in the housing to hold the same, and a releasing member formed in the housing with a first end portion thereof operative to be in contact with the holding member and a second end portion thereof operative to project from the inside to the outside of the conductive shell, wherein the releasing member is moved so that the first end portion thereof causes the holding member to be released from engagement with the flat circuit device inserted in the housing when the second end portion thereof is pushed toward the inside of the conductive shell under a condition wherein the holding member is put in the engagement with the flat circuit device inserted in the housing.

A toner cartridge (20) has a shutter (40) adapted to be changed between a closed posture (S1) and an open posture (S1) for opening a toner supply port (322), a lever (50) to be operated manually to change the posture of the shutter (40), and a postural-change restriction mechanism (60) for controlling a postural change of the shutter (40). The postural-change restriction mechanism (60) includes a lock groove (53) in the lever (50), and a restriction pawl (62) integrally formed with a cartridge body (30). The restriction pawl (62) engages the lock groove (53) when the lever (50) is operated to set the shutter (40) in the closed posture (S1), to block a postural change of the shutter (40), and to be elastically deformed when the cartridge body (30) is attached to a development device, in a manner to allow the postural change.

In the transmitting jack, a housing has a seat for mounting multiple metallic electrically conductive pieces, and has a passage seat for extending therethrough of transmitting lines in a communication line. The transmitting lines are located in slots provided on the seat for the metallic electrically conductive pieces; prongs provided on the metallic electrically conductive pieces can be extended through insulating coats on the transmitting lines for electric conduction. The housing is pivotally connected with a pair of tailing seats enveloping the communication line. The tailing seats each has therein an inclined block; the blocks move along inclined surfaces on the tailing end of the passage seat when they are closed up to each other; and the tailing seats will push the passage seat frontwardly of the housing, so that the transmitting lines in the passage seat are pierced by the prongs for connecting. By this, there is no tool required for completing assembling of the entire jack.

A dual panel-type organic electroluminescent device includes first and second substrates spaced apart from each other, a gate line, a data line, and a power line formed over the first substrate, a switching thin film transistor connected to the gate and data lines, a driving thin film transistor connected to the power line and the switching thin film transistor, the driving thin film transistor including a driving semiconductor layer, a driving source, a driving drain, a first driving gate underneath the driving semiconductor layer, and a second driving gate above the driving semiconductor, an electrical connector over the first substrate, the electrical connector including a connection electrode layer connected to the driving thin film transistor, first and second thin film transistor connectors connecting the switching thin film transistor to the driving thin film transistor, and an organic electroluminescent diode on the second substrate, the organic electroluminescent diode connected to the electrical connector.

The present invention relates to a TFT-LCD array substrate and a driving method thereof. The TFT-LCD array substrate comprises a substrate, on which pixel regions arranged in matrix are formed, a first pixel electrode and a first thin film transistor located in an odd column and a second pixel electrode and a second thin film transistor located in an even column are formed in each pixel region; a first gate line and a second gate line are formed in each pixel region, the first gate line is connected to gate of the first thin film transistor, and the second gate line is connected to gate of the second thin film transistor; one data line is formed in each pixel region, and the data line is connected to source of the first thin film transistor and source of the second thin film transistor, respectively. The present invention reduces the number of data lines and the number of data driving chips or the pins thereof, or, reduces the number of the gate lines and the number of scan driving chips or the pins thereof, and reduces the production cost of the TFT-LCD.

A hexapod actuator device, notably used in flight simulators or driving simulators, includes six legs. A first end of each leg is notably mobilizable along a straight segment by virtue of a motorized carriage. The hexapod actuator comprises notably six segments of straight lines that may be coplanar or inclined with respect to the ground. A second end of each leg may be mounted free on a ball joint with three degrees of freedom in rotation. Each of the ball joints is secured to a mobile platform. The device lies in the field of systems allowing motion to be imparted to pilot cabins for example.

The present invention discloses a scheduling method and system based on a hybrid variable neighborhood search and gravitational search algorithm. The method includes: 1 setting parameters of the algorithm; 2 initializing an initial solution of the algorithm; 3 performing local search based on a gravitational search algorithm (GSA); 4 updating the initial solution; 5 determining whether an algorithm termination condition is satisfied; if yes, outputting the global optimal solution searched for by the algorithm, otherwise, returning to the step 3. According to the present invention, a near-optimal solution for the continuous batch processing problem based on position learning effect and linear starting time can be obtained, so that an enterprise can make full use of production resources thereof to the utmost extent, and thus reduce production costs and improve the enterprise service level and the customer satisfaction level.

The invention is directed to an ion plasma deposition (IPD) method adapted to coat polymer surfaces with highly adherent antimicrobial films. A controlled ion plasma deposition (IPD) process is used to coat a metal or polymer with a selected metal/metal oxide. Exposing the coated surface to ultraviolet light significantly improves the antimicrobial properties of the deposited coatings.

According to the invention, there is provided a steering damper (10) in which the interior of a cylinder (12) is divided into two oil chambers (A), (B) by a piston (14) which slides in the cylinder (12) as a steering operation takes place, an oil hole (15) is formed in the piston (14) for providing a communication between the two oil chambers (A), (B) and a bypass passageway (16) is provided for allowing oil in one (A or B) of the oil chambers to flow into the other oil chamber (B or A) by bypassing the oil hole (15), the motorcycle steering damper being characterized in that a subsidiary chamber (17) is defined at an intermediate position along the length of the bypass passageway (16), and in that a check ball (18) is provided in the subsidiary chamber (17), the check ball is adapted to move so as to close the bypass passageway (16) when a steering speed exceeds a predetermined value and a differential pressure between the two oil chambers reaches or exceeds a certain value.

Consequently, according to the invention, the mechanical operation of the motorcycle steering damper (10) can be ensured without needing an electrical control, and the vibration of a front wheel system due to disturbance can be suppressed while attempting to reduce the production costs by decreasing the number of components involved and to secure high reliability.

Provided is a method of producing D-psicose using a D-psicose epimerase derived from Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Provided are a protein having an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:1 and having a psicose 3-epimerase activity, a gene encoding the protein, a recombinant expression vector containing the gene, and a method of producing D-psicose by reacting the protein produced on a mass scale with D-fructose. The method of producing D-psicose is an environmentally friendly method using a new enzyme, in which an inexpensive substrate is used, and the activity of the enzyme can be retained for a prolonged time period. Thus, the method can be efficiently used for the mass production of D-psicose.

A semiconductor device having a capacitor integrated in a damascene structure. In one embodiment, the capacitor is formed entirely within a metallization layer of a damascene structure, having therein a semiconductor device component. Preferably, the capacitor is formed within a trench, having been etched in the dielectric material of the metal layer and the capacitor includes a first capacitor electrode formed within the recess in electrical contact with the device component of the metallization layer. An insulator may be formed over the first capacitor electrode, with a second capacitor electrode formed over the insulator. These elements are preferably conformally deposited within the trench, thereby forming a recess, a portion of which extends within the trench. A subsequently fabricated device component may then be placed in electrical contact with the second capacitor electrode.

A chip package structure includes a semiconductor component, a plurality of conductive pillars, an encapsulant and a redistribution layer. The semiconductor component includes a plurality of pads. The conductive pillars are disposed on the pads, wherein each of the conductive pillars is a solid cylinder including a top surface and a bottom surface, and a diameter of the top surface is substantially the same as a diameter of the bottom surface. The encapsulant encapsulates the semiconductor component and the conductive pillars, wherein the encapsulant exposes the top surface of each of the conductive pillars. The redistribution layer is disposed on the encapsulant and electrically connected to the conductive pillars.

A manufacturing method for a semi-floating gate device, mainly comprising a manufacturing method for a floating gate and a floating gate opening area, and the specific process thereof is: reserving a hard mask layer after a U-shaped groove is formed, growing a gate dielectric layer on a surface of the formed U-shaped groove, depositing and etching back a first layer of polysilicon to protect the gate dielectric layer, etching away the exposed gate dielectric layer and hard mask layer, then covering a formed structure to deposit a second layer of polysilicon, then etching a formed polysilicon layer by a photoetching process and an etching process so as to form a floating gate, and forming a floating gate opening area in a self-aligning way. The manufacturing method can simplify the existing manufacturing process for a semi-floating gate device, reduce the difficulty in manufacturing the semi-floating gate device with a U-shaped channel, and improve the yield of the semi-floating-gate device.

The detachable insert-type cutting tool is provided with a holder, a head member which has an insert seat on which a cutting insert is detachably mounted and which is detachably attached to a head portion of the holder so that an attachment surface of the head member is closely in contact with an attachment surface of the holder, a coolant hole which is formed inside the holder so as to be opened on the attachment surface of the holder, and a first groove which is formed on the attachment surface of the head member, communicating with the coolant hole opened on the attachment surface of the holder and extending so as to be opened toward a cutting edge of the cutting insert mounted on the insert seat.

Provided are a flexible film package module and a method of manufacturing the same that can be adapted for manufacture at lower cost and/or to adapt the characteristics of the flexible film package module for specific applications. The lower-cost flexible film package module includes a tape film that combines both a first insulating substrate, typically formed from a higher-cost polyimide material, and a second insulating substrate, typically formed from an insulating material or materials that are less expensive and/or provide modified performance when compared with the first insulating material. Both the first and second substrates will include complementary circuit patterns that will be electrically and physically connected to allow the composite substrate to function as a unitary substrate. The first and second substrates will also include connection regions that may be adapted for connection to printed circuit boards and/or electronic devices such as liquid crystal displays.

An electrical connector for connecting a cable, includes an insulating body and a first terminal group received in the insulating body. The first terminal group includes a ground terminal, a power terminal, and first and second high-speed signal terminals. The first high-speed signal terminal has a first contacting portion, a first bending portion and a first soldering portion from front to rear. The extending direction of the first bending portion is different from that of the first contacting portion. The second high-speed signal terminal has a second contacting portion, a second bending portion, a reverse bending portion and a second soldering portion from front to rear. The second bending portion extends in a bending direction toward the first bending portion. The reverse bending portion reversely bends from the second bending portion. The spacing between the first and second soldering portions and the space for accommodating the cable are enlarged.

Centrifugal impeller (14) of centrifugal air blower (1) has main plate (15); a plurality of blades (18); ring-shaped plate (20); and a cylindrical wall (22). The blades (18) are circumferentially disposed on the side of the outer periphery of front side (17) of main plate (15). Ring-shaped plate (20) is attached to tip sections (19) of blades (18). Cylindrical wall (22) is disposed on the back side (21) of the main plate (15) so as to be concentric therewith. The structure above provides centrifugal impeller (14) and centrifugal air blower (1) with improved air-blow efficiency and noise-reduced operations.

A wafer level package of micro electromechanical system (MEMS) microphone includes a substrate, a number of dielectric layers stacked on the substrate, a MEMS diaphragm, a number of supporting rings and a protective layer. The MEMS diaphragm is disposed between two adjacent dielectric layers. A first chamber is between the MEMS diaphragm and the substrate. The supporting rings are disposed in some dielectric layers and stacked with each other. An inner diameter of the lower supporting ring is greater than that of the upper supporting ring. The protective layer is disposed on the upmost supporting ring and covers the MEMS diaphragm. A second chamber is between the MEMS diaphragm and the protective layer. The protective layer defines a number of first through holes for exposing the MEMS diaphragm. The wafer level package of MEMS microphone has an advantage of low cost.

A pressing force sensor that includes a sensor element configured with a piezoelectric film, a lead terminal for connection to an external circuit, a wiring conductor which connects pressing force detection electrodes and the lead terminal, and a flexible printed circuit board which withstands solder reflow temperatures. The flexible printed circuit board has the pressing force detection electrodes formed on a first principal surface thereof, and is folded via a folding line while the first principal surface faces inward. The sensor element is deflected by a pressing force applied to a second principal surface which faces outward and is in a first area of the flexible printed circuit board which is on one side with respect to the folding line, and a signal corresponding to the pressing force is thus taken out from the pressing force detection electrodes.

The invention provides a production process of glycolide comprising the respective steps of: Step 1 of heating a mixture containing a glycolic acid oligomer and a high boiling polar organic under normal or reduced pressure to reflux the mixture and at that time, conducting a total reflux operation in a reflux time within a range of 0.1 to 20 hours under conditions that substantially the whole amount of a distillate distilled out of a reflux system containing the mixture is refluxed into the reflux system; Step 2 of heating the mixture after the total reflux operation or a mixture obtained by adding the high boiling polar organic solvent to a glycolic acid oligomer component recovered from the mixture after the total reflux operation to conduct depolymerization; and Step 3 of collecting glycolide from a co-distillate.

A light module with LED light source for LCD panel. Light-receiving surfaces of LGP (light guide plate), light-receiving surfaces of LGS (light guide stick) or light-emitting surfaces of LGS are coated with the mixed fluorescent powder and the white light with triple wavelength is made by the light rays emitted from UV LED to excite the mixed fluorescent powders. It could replace the white light LED with double wavelength of Nichia to reduce the production cost and increase the color performance of LCD.

A method for preparing III-VI₂ nanoparticles and a thin film of polycrystalline light absorber layers. The method for preparing I-III-VI₂ nanoparticles comprises the steps of: (a1) preparing a mixed solution by mixing each element from groups I, III and VI in the periodic table with a solvent; (a2) sonicating the mixed solution; (a3) separating the solvent from the sonicated mixed solution; and (a4) drying the product resulted from the above step (a3) to obtain nanoparticles.

In a coordinate measuring machine or any other kind of machine having at least one translational movement axis, correction values are determined by moving the mobile head of the machine along a defined path of movement. First and second position data are recorded by means of first and second position measuring devices. The first position data originate from position measuring devices of the machine. The second position data result from a reference measurement. The correction values are determined as a function of the first and second position data. A defined number of correction values is determined for each section of the path of movement, with the defined number varying in the sections as a function of the error profile defined by the correction values.

The present invention relates to an ink composition for light sintering, a wiring board using the same, and a method of fabricating the wiring board. The present invention aims to provide formation of a wiring pattern without damage to thin and soft wiring boards such as a flexible printed circuit board. The present invention provides an ink composition for light sintering including copper oxide nanoparticles having copper oxide films, a reducing agent for reducing copper oxidized by light irradiation to form copper nanoparticles, a dispersing agent, a binder, and a solvent

The present invention relates to towers for wind generators or other large structural applications and uses a new construction concept, based on polymeric concrete. Polymeric concrete is composed of thermosetting resin and aggregates such as sand or gravel. Polymeric concrete has low maintenance costs and exceptional high resistance to corrosion, thus justifying its main usage in non-structural applications. Additionally, polymeric concrete has been used as mortar in the rehabilitation of civil structures, especially retrofitting of bridges and heritage buildings. Its advantages for these applications are the adherence to the traditional materials, higher compressive strength than traditional concrete and low specific weight. The tower (1), according to the invention, is built of two or more superimposed ring sections (2) in conical or cylindrical shape, each ring (2) being built of one or more shell segments and the said segments being fixed by means of mechanical and/or chemical couplings, and being made of prefabricated polymeric concrete.

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