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A plasma processing apparatus includes an upper electrode that is installed within a processing chamber so as to face a lower electrode, supplies a gas through a plurality of gas supply holes provided in a facing surface and is vertically movable; a cover body installed above the upper electrode so as to airtightly seal a top opening of the processing chamber; a multiple number of gas exhaust holes provided in the facing surface; a ring-shaped member that is arranged along a circumference of the upper electrode, is vertically movable along with the upper electrode, and forms, at a lowered position, a processing space surrounded by the lower electrode, the upper electrode and the ring-shaped member; a multiplicity of gas supply holes opened in an inner wall of the ring-shaped member; and a plurality of gas exhaust holes opened in an inner wall of the ring-shaped member.

Disclosed herein is a method of cleaning oxide from a surface in the fabrication of an integrated device using reducing radicals and UV radiation. For silicon surfaces, the cleaning may be performed at a temperature at which a hydrogen-terminated passivated surface is stable, such that the surface remains protected after loading into the chamber until the cleaning is performed. Performing the cleaning at a lower temperature also consumes a reduced portion of the thermal budget of a semiconductor device. Epitaxial deposition can then be performed over the cleaned surface.

The present invention discloses a structure of device package comprising a first substrate with a die metal pad, a first wiring circuit on top surface of said first substrate and a second wiring circuit on bottom surface of said first substrate. A die is disposed on the die metal pad. A second substrate has a die opening window for receiving the die, a third wiring circuit on top surface of the second substrate and a fourth wiring circuit on bottom surface of the second substrate. An adhesive material is filled into the gap between back side of the die and top surface of the first substrate and between the side wall of the die and the side wall of the die receiving through hole and the bottom side of the second substrate.

A system having a machine having the function of reproducing an information recording medium, in which the system executes a program recorded on the recording medium by sending a machine actuating command signal to the machine by user actuation and by receiving signals from the machine. The system includes a main body portion of a machine, and a control unit for controlling the machine connected to the main body portion of the machine. The control unit has a housing, a plurality of control sections mounted on the housing actuated by the user with fingers, and a vibration motor mounted via a vibration motor mounting portion provided in the housing. The vibration motor includes a motor casing, a shaft rotatably supported by the motor casing, and an eccentric member mounted on the shaft. The eccentric member has a rotor and a plurality of coils mounted on the rotor which is mounted on the shaft. The vibration motor also includes a magnet mounted on the casing for facing the eccentric member, and a supplying member for supplying the driving current to each coil. The eccentric member is rotated when the driving current is supplied to each coil to cause vibrations of the vibration motor itself, with the vibrations being supplied via the housing to the user. This permits the vibrations to be felt by the user to make possible execution of the program excellent in simulated presence feeling.

The present invention discloses a semiconductor device package and the method for the same. The method includes preparing a first substrate and a second substrate; opening a die opening window through the second substrate by using laser or punching; preparing an adhesion material; attaching the first substrate to the second substrate by the adhesion material; aligning a die by using the aligning mark of the die metal pad and attaching the die onto the die metal pad with force by the adhesion material; forming a first dielectric layer on top surfaces of the second substrate and the die and pushing the first dielectric layer into gap between the side wall of the die and the side wall of the die opening window under vacuum condition; opening a plurality of via openings in the first dielectric layer; and forming a redistribution layer in the plurality of via openings and on the first dielectric layer.

An epinephrine auto-injector that is constructed and arranged to reduce the likelihood of accidental discharge of the injector The epinephrine injector may also be constructed and arranged to be safer to use and / or dispose of after use. As such, the present invention provides a epinephrine injector that may include a locking mechanism, an actuation mechanism, or both, to help prevent the accidental discharge of the injector. In addition, the epinephrine injector may include a two-part housing and may include means for covering the needle after the epinephrine injector has been used to help dispose of the epinephrine injector after use.

An optical transmitting apparatus is configured such that K pieces of output ports of optical path switching units whose input port is connected to k-th input transmission path are connected to first to K-th output transmission paths except for the k-th output transmission path and to the k-th input port of a dropping unit, and the optical path switching units and the dropping unit outputs light of wavelength which is part or all of WDM light received from said input port from a specific output port, and can output light having a wavelength different from that of the light output from said specific output port from an output port different from said specific output port. Accordingly, while largely reducing the number of optical fiber patch cords necessary in an optical transmitting apparatus and largely reducing the number of spare ports, the flexible expansion of apparatus function can be realized.

A polarization separation device includes a first end surface on which incident light is incident, a polarization separation surface that reflects an s-polarized light component and transmits a p-polarized light component, a second end surface that is arranged to be opposed to the first end surface, converts the p-polarized light component transmitted through the polarization separation surface to the s-polarized light component, and reflects the converted light component to an optical axis direction which is the same as the incident light, a third end surface from which the s-polarized light component reflected by the polarization separation surface without transmitting through the polarization separation surface is output, and a fourth end surface that is arranged to be opposed to the third end surface and from which the s-polarized light component reflected by the second end surface and the polarization separation surface is output.

A method for entering text at a user interface for an electronic device, and a text entry user interface for an electronic device. The text entry user interface comprises a display for displaying characters and entered text, an input device for issuing commands to browse and select characters, and a processing unit for controlling the operation of the user interface. The processing unit is further configured to generate, for browsing, a character subset made up of characters to be browsed, the character subset including the characters of a character set from among which, according to an inference logic configured into the processing unit, the next character for the text is most probably selected, and display the character subset on the display for browsing the characters and for selecting the next character by using the input device.

A light emitting device comprises: an LED chip mounted in a recess formed in a mounting substrate; a wavelength converting member that is disposed so as to cover the recess and the edge area around the recess and that is excited by light emitted from the LED chip to emit light of a wavelength different from an excitation wavelength; and an emission control member disposed at a light output side of the wavelength converting member so as to allow emission of light coming from an area of the wavelength converting member that corresponds to the recess and to prevent emission of light coming from an area of the wavelength converting member that corresponds to the edge area around the recess. This can prevent variations in color between light emitted from the central part of the wavelength converting member and light emitted from the part of the wavelength converting member that is located on the edge area around the recess of the mounting substrate, thereby reducing unevenness of color on the irradiation surface.

Image lights formed by a light emitting device and a virtual-image forming member and external light transmitted through a visibility adjusting member and the virtual-image forming member can be observed in parallel in a see-through manner. In the observation of the external light, the visibility adjusting member enables visibility adjustment corresponding to the eyesight of a wearer. Therefore, the wearer can observe the external light without wearing a device for visibility adjustment such as glasses. Therefore, it is possible to suppress an increase in the size of a virtual image display device.

A method and device for rapidly changing at least one of the temperature and the state of a liquid in a container is provided. The container is rapidly rotated about its longitudinal axis. A source of a thin film of a medium having a different temperature than the liquid in the container is provided to thermally affect the container while rotating the container. The container is positioned at an angle to the horizontal of less than 45°, and the position of the container with respect to the thin film source is controlled by angling the axis of the container skewed from the axis of the rotating mechanism. The device can be used to cool liquids such as beverages, warm liquids such as infant formula, and / or make ice cream.

An apparatus and corresponding method of use extracts, cools, and transports effluents from subterranean, sub-sea oil formations to distant shore based processing facilities. The effluents, mostly crude oil, are conveyed rapidly to a cold flow generator near the oil wellhead on the sea bottom using the cold seawater to chill the effluents to a dispersed mixture including generated solids. The mixture is transported close to sea bottom temperatures, slowly, with small pressure drops, in low-cost submerged bare pipes over long distances to on or near shore processing facilities that can produce useful hydrocarbon products more cost effectively than at sea processing facilities. The apparatus eliminates or minimizes the need for heated or insulated pipe, the need for large floating processing structures, the need for sub-sea processing equipment, and / or the need for chemical additions to production flow.

There is provided an image blur correction device including: a correction lens; a first movable frame; a second movable frame; a fixed frame; a first main guide shaft and a first auxiliary guide shaft; a second main guide shaft and a second auxiliary guide shaft; a first driving part; and a second driving part. The first auxiliary guide shaft is shorter than the first main guide shaft and the second driving part is placed between the first auxiliary guide shaft and the correction lens. The second auxiliary guide shaft is shorter than the second main guide shaft and the first driving part is placed between the second auxiliary guide shaft and the correction lens.

A metal-oxide-semiconductor transistor device for high voltage (HV MOS) and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The HV MOS transistor device comprises a field oxide region with an indented lower surface combined with a plurality of field plates to elongate the path for disturbing the lateral electric field, therefore the transistor device has a relatively small size.

Disclosed herein is a battery cell configured to have a structure in which an electrode assembly including a separator disposed between a cathode and an anode is mounted in a battery case, wherein the battery case includes an upper case and a lower case, the upper case and / or the lower case being provided with a receiving part, in which the electrode assembly is mounted, the electrode assembly includes a plurality of electrodes or unit cells stacked in a height direction on the basis of a plane, two or more of the electrodes or the unit cells having different planar sizes, and the receiving part of the battery case is provided with stair-like steps corresponding to an external appearance of the electrode assembly.

A device for removal of at least a portion of carbon dioxide from an aqueous fluid includes at least one membrane through which carbon dioxide can pass to be removed from the fluid and immobilized carbonic anhydrase on or in the vicinity of a first surface of the membrane to be contacted with the fluid such that the immobilized carbonic anhydrase comes into contact with the fluid. The first surface exhibits carbonic anhydrase activity of at least 20% of maximum theoretical activity of the first surface of the membrane based on monolayer surface coverage of carbonic anhydrase in the case that the carbonic anhydrase is immobilize on the first surface.

A detent crest member is integrally rotatably mounted on a dial knob. On the other hand, on a peripheral surface of a plunger mounting member which is rotatably operated using a motor, a plurality of plunger members which generates clicks in a dial knob together with the detent crest member is mounted. In changing over click feeling, the motor is rotated thus selectively bringing one of the plunger members mounted on the plunger mounting member into resilient contact with concave / convex patterns of the detent crest member which form the pair with one plunger member.

A vertical device geometry for a carbon-nanotube-based field effect transistor has one or multiple carbon nanotubes formed in a trench.

An electronic device substrate is provided with a thin-plate core substrate; a metal electrode provided on the core substrate and electrically connected to an electrode of an electronic component to be packaged thereon; and an electrical insulation layer on which is mounted the electronic component, and which is provided to surround the metal electrode.

A self-contained respiratory apparatus, including a blower delivering a gas, a headgear integrated with the blower to support a respiratory interface, and a sensor embedded in the headgear and mounted to deliver data to a microprocessor integrated with the blower, the blower being controlled through the response of the sensor and the control of the microprocessor to support the respiratory interface through the headgear.

A light source device which produces illumination light for illuminating a target illumination area on a predetermined light receiving surface includes: a light source which emits light; a superimposing illumination element which superimposes the light emitted from the light source and applies the light to the target illumination area; an optical path converting unit disposed on an optical path between the light source and the superimposing illumination element to convert the optical path of the light emitted from the light source and supply the light having the converted optical path to the superimposing illumination element; and a shift unit which shifts the optical path converting unit.

Disclosed is an imaging lens having a small F-number, high resolution, a sufficiently wide angle of view, and a small size.An imaging lens includes: a first lens with a meniscus shape having a concave surface facing an object side; a second positive lens; a third negative lens with a meniscus shape having a convex surface facing an image side; and a fourth lens having a convex surface facing the object side. The first to fourth lenses are arranged in this order from the object side. The imaging lens satisfies the following conditional expression:0.25<D / f<4.0(where D indicates the distance between the first lens and the second lens on the optical axis and f indicates the focal length of the entire system).

The active sludge-biomembrane compounding integral sewage treating method includes the first leading the sewage to be treated to the anoxic area through stirring for mixing sewage to be treated and active sludge, the subsequent leading the sewage to aerobic area with stuffing for aeration treatment with combined active sludge and biomembrane, and final leading the sewage to the precipitation area for natural deposition to separate sludge and water, leading out purified water, reflowing the mixed sludge liquid to the anoxic area and draining the residual sludge. The present invention also relates to the corresponding sewage treating apparatus. The present invention has the advantages of high treating capacity, resistance to impact load, simple operation, etc. and is especially suitable for use in medium and small towns.

A method and device for rapidly changing at least one of the temperature and the state of a liquid in a container is provided. The container is rapidly rotated about its longitudinal axis. A source of a thin film of a medium having a different temperature than the liquid in the container is provided to thermally affect the container while rotating the container. The container is positioned at an angle to the horizontal of less than 45°, and the position of the container with respect to the thin film source is controlled by angling the axis of the container skewed from the axis of the rotating mechanism. The device can be used to cool liquids such as beverages, warm liquids such as infant formula, and / or make ice cream.

An optical deflector includes a mirror having a reflective plane; a torsion bar extending outwardly from a side of said mirror; a support surrounding said mirror; a piezoelectric cantilever including a supporting body and a piezoelectric body formed on the supporting body, one end of said piezoelectric cantilever being connected to said torsion bar, the other end of the piezoelectric cantilever being connected to said support, said piezoelectric cantilever, upon application of a driving voltage to the piezoelectric body, exhibiting a bending deformation due to piezoelectricity so as to rotate said torsion bar, thereby rotarily driving said mirror through said torsion bar; and an impact attenuator connected to said support, the impact attenuator being disposed in a gap between said mirror and said support.

A magneto-resistive device has a high reproducing output and is suitable for use as a CPP-GMR device. The magneto-resistive device has a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer, and a non-magnetic spacer formed between the first and second magnetic layers. The first magnetic layer contains a magnetic material whose conduction electrons belong to a first energy band, and the second magnetic layer contains a magnetic material whose conduction electrons belong to a second energy band. The first and second energy bands are attributable to orbitals of the same kind, thereby increasing the ratio of change in magnetoresistance and adjusting the electric resistance.

An apparatus to deliver air to a patient through a mask, including an air blower (33) where the impeller (5) is rotated by an electromotor including a rotor (3) and a stator (8), the stator having at least three sectors (8a, 8b and 8c), the rotation of the rotor being enabled by changes of the polarity of the sectors, each sector's polarity configuration constituting one step of the rotor's rotation, the apparatus including a driving unit (36) changing the sectors' polarity when the rotor is at its optimal position, so that the efficiency of the electromotor enables the blower to have fast accelerations and decelerations within one patient's breath step, the breath step consisting of one inspiration and one expiration.

A light emitting apparatus has: a plurality of surface mount device (SMD) type light emitting diode elements; a circuit board on which the plurality of SMD type light emitting diode elements are mounted; and a plurality of convex lenses each of which covers the light extraction side of corresponding one of the plurality of SMD type light emitting diode elements. The lens optical axis of at least one of the plurality of convex lenses does not coincide with an axis that passes through the center of corresponding one of the plurality of SMD type light emitting diode elements and is perpendicular to the circuit board.