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A stent design is disclosed which has a flexible connector which has flexible arcs and flexible struts aligned similarly to the radial arcs and radial struts, such that the alignment of the flexible connector within the stent decreases the likelihood of the stent's catching on a non-smooth surface.

A hybrid vehicle driving device is capable of causing a motor-powered travel of a hybrid vehicle in which only an electric motor is used as a drive force source, by driving the electric motor with electric power from an electric storage device while a rotational driving of an internal combustion engine has been stopped. A control device for the hybrid vehicle driving device includes a rotational drive portion that determines whether or not supply of a lubrication oil to at least a portion of the power transmission device by the lubrication oil supply device is necessary based on a travel distance in the motor-powered travel following a stop of the rotational driving of the internal combustion engine, and rotationally drives the internal combustion engine based on determination as to need for the supply of the lubrication oil.

A method of reducing the scattering losses that involves smoothing of the core/cladding interface and/or change of waveguide geometry in high refractive index difference waveguides. As an example, the SOI-based Si/SiO₂ waveguides are subjected to an oxidation reaction at high temperatures, after the waveguide patterning process. By oxidizing the rough silicon core surfaces after the patterning process, the core/cladding interfaces are smoothened, reducing the roughness scattering in waveguides.

An image blur correction device is provided. The device includes a correction lens, a first movable frame, a second movable frame, a fixed base, a driving part and a guide mechanism. The correction lens is configured to correct an image blur in a lens system. The first movable frame holds the correction lens. The second movable frame supports the first movable frame to be movable in a first direction perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens system. The fixed base supports the second movable frame to be movable in a second direction perpendicular to the optical axis of the lens system and perpendicular to the first direction. The driving part moves the first movable frame in the first direction and moves the second movable frame in the second direction. The guide mechanism has at least one guide shaft guiding both the first movable frame and the second movable frame.

An infinitely-variable transmission with double mode power transmission for a motor vehicle, provided with a combustion engine, including a first power transmission path with a composite epicyclic gear train connecting the combustion engine to the vehicle wheels, a second power transmission path with a simple epicyclic gear train, two electric motors providing a continuous speed variator, a second simple epicyclic gear train for mode change, and an engagement/disengagement unit that can block or release a mode-changing body in the second epicyclic gear train, according to the operating mode. The engagement/disengagement body includes a sliding sleeve with a dog tooth, which can be displaced by a hydraulic actuator and with two sets of dog teeth fixed to a mode-changing body in the second epicyclic gear train.

A sealing and repair technique is provided for forming complex and multiple seal configurations for fuel cells and other electrochemical cells. To provide a seal, for sealing chambers for oxidant, fuel and/or coolant, a groove network is provided extending through the various elements of the fuel cell assembly. A source of seal material is then connected to an external filling port and injected into the groove network, and the seal material is then cured to form the seal. There is thus formed a “seal in place”, that is robust and can accommodate variations in tolerances and dimensions, and that can be bonded, where possible, to individual elements of the fuel cell assembly. To repair part of an electrochemical cell stack, some elements are removed and either repaired or replaced. The cell assembly is then put together again and a bore is provided for injection of fresh seal material. This bore can either have been formed in the original assembly or is formed by mechanical removal of part of the original seal material

Techniques are disclosed relating to microwave ovens. In one embodiment, an apparatus is disclosed that includes a microwave heating unit. The microwave heating unit is configured to radiate microwaves into a cavity and includes an antenna array coupled to one or more amplifiers. The antenna array is configured to generate the radiated microwaves. In some embodiments, the microwave oven is configured to measure temperatures of a item within the cavity, and to steer a microwave beam produced by the antenna array based on the measured temperatures.

A console device for a vehicle includes a housing body fixed by a side face to the ceiling part of the vehicle. The device has a recessed part formed by an opening in another side face, and a cover body that pivots on the housing body. The recessed part can be closed by moving the cover body into place over the recessed part of the housing body. A storage portion formed on the surface of the cover body opposite the recessed part allows small articles to be stored inside it and removed from it only when the recessed part is opened. An illumination portion that radiates light to the inside of the vehicle cabin is formed on another surface of the cover body.

A hydraulically actuated electronically controlled fuel injection system comprises a pressure intensifier (6, 7) associated with a hydraulically controlled differential valve (4) having a poppet valve (27) opening into a working chamber (10) of the pressure intensifier (6, 7). An external groove (8) is provided on the plunger (7) of the intensifier (6, 7) for connection of the plunger's compression chamber (12) with a nozzle's locking chamber (17) during an injection cut-off period.

A cartridge-like chemical sensor is formed by a housing having a base and a cover fixed to the base and provided with an input opening, an output hole and a channel for a gas to be analyzed. The channel extends in the cover between the input opening and the output hole and faces a printed circuit board carrying an integrated circuit having a sensitive region open toward the channel and of a material capable to bind with target chemicals in the gas to be analyzed. A fan is arranged in the housing, downstream of the integrated device, for sucking the gas after being analyzed, and is part of a thermal control system for the integrated circuit.

A system for removing paint and other coatings from hard surfaces is mounted on a truck for over-the-road travel. The truck bed carries a high power vacuum pump, a self propelled tractor with an attached blast head, a liquid reservoir, a sump or vacuum tank, and a ramp for loading the tractor. The reservoir is connected to a low pressure pump that transfers water to the high pressure pump. The high pressure pump is connected to the blast head by a high pressure hose. A vacuum hose is connected to the sump which has an internal enclosure for separating the waste materials from the liquid for easy dumping of semi dried materials.

A cascade bridge-type DC-AC power converter device includes a low-frequency bridge-type power converter including an AC terminal and a DC bus and a high-frequency bridge-type power converter including an AC terminal. A power conversion method includes: serially connecting the AC terminal of the high-frequency bridge-type power converter and the AC terminal of the low-frequency bridge-type power converter; operating frequency of the low-frequency bridge-type power converter synchronized with frequency of an AC source and operating the high-frequency bridge-type power converter with high-frequency PWM to generate a multilevel AC voltage. A DC power source connects to the DC bus of the low-frequency bridge-type power converter. No additional power supply circuit will be required for power supply to a DC bus of the high-frequency bridge-type power converter. Accordingly, the power circuit is simplified and the manufacturing cost is reduced.

A universal fitness machine includes an upright frame formed of a base and a post, a swivel arm mechanism, which has a transverse bar fastened to the top end of the post and two cantilever units respectively rotatably connected to the two distal ends of the transverse bar, each cantilever unit having an elastic rope that has an inner end connected to the respective cantilever unit and an outer end extending to the free end of the respective cantilever and mounted with a grip, a lifter, which has a slide coupled to the post, a seat pad affixed to the front side of the slide and two handles fastened to two opposite lateral sides of the seat pad. By means of pulling the elastic rope or lifting the lifter, the universal fitness machine is used for multiple weight-training exercises.

A female terminal (20) has a rectangular tubular box (30) with an outwardly bulging lance locking portion (53). The female terminal (20) is inserted into a cavity (11) of a connector housing (10) and retained by the lance locking portion (53) being locked by a locking lance (13) in the cavity (11). A first wall (37) of the rectangular tubular box (30) has a closely folded structure obtained by folding the metal plate (70) into a U shape. The lance locking portion (53) is formed on the metal plate (70) in an outermost layer of the closely folded structure, and a first deformation restricting portion (55) to be engaged with a second wall (35) adjacent to the first wall (37) is provided on an end part of the metal plate (70) in the outermost layer on a side opposite to a U-shaped folded portion (51).

The present invention provides an optical pickup and a disc drive apparatusx` that make it possible to record information signals to and reproduce information signals from disc-shaped recording mediums of three different types by means of a single objective lens. The optical pickup includes a first light emitting element that emits a laser beam of a first wavelength, a second light emitting element that emits a laser beam of a second wavelength, a third light emitting element that emits a laser beam of a third wavelength, an objective lens that focuses the laser beams emitted from the first through third light emitting elements onto the signal recording surface of a disc-shaped recording medium, first and second diffracting sections arranged on the light paths of the first through third laser beams and adapted to diffract at least one of the laser beams of the first through third wavelengths, and a light receiving element that receives the return light reflected by the disc-shaped recording medium, the first diffracting section being adapted to substantially transmit one or two of the laser beams of the first through third wavelengths.

Architecture of an aircraft braking system comprising:

• • a brake (20) comprising a plurality of electromechanical actuators (25), with each electromechanical actuator (25) comprising a power module and a digital communication module (26), with the brake digital communication modules being interconnected to form a digital network (30);
  • two control units (22a, 22b) adapted for generating digital signals for controlling electric motors;
  • one network interconnection member (23) connected to two control units and incorporated in the digital network for distributing the digital control signals to the digital communication modules via the digital network.

A seam of a seat front part is joined to a clip inside a groove on a surface of a seat pad, and tucked into the groove. In a vehicle seat having an airbag unit, inside the seat corresponding to a seam of a seat side part, a webbing is provided along a side part in an area corresponding to the airbag unit on an inner side of the side part. The webbing is sewn together with a seat cover at the seam of the seat side part, and is joined to a non-woven fabric between a seam and the clip in the seat front part on the seam side.

A system for using conversational similarity for dimension reduction in deep analytics, comprising a self-learning interaction optimizer that receives string-based data from a contact center and analyzes it to produce a plurality of information similarity vectors, provides the vectors to a neural network and receives output vectors from the neural network, and produces context data from the output vectors and associates the context data with the original string-based data.

There is provided a collapsible lens barrel including plural barrels of different outside diameter from one another and enabled to move coaxially and perform relative movement in an axial direction, and an image-capturing optical system disposed within the plural barrels; wherein the image-capturing optical system includes at least two lens holding frames arranged in a direction of an optical axis of the image-capturing optical system; and, considering an object side is set as a front side and an opposite side is set as a rear side, each of a rearmost lens holding frame, placed at a rearmost position, and one of the lens holding frames placed immediately in front of the rearmost lens holding frame, are respectively movably supported by a corresponding guide mechanism to move in the direction of the optical axis and to move in the direction of the optical axis by a corresponding drive mechanism.

A coaxial electrical connector includes an outer conductor (11) having a cylindrical fitting section (14) to fit onto the counter connector (60), a dielectric (12) placed in the outer conductor (11) and a center conductor (13) which is held by the dielectric (12). It further includes a cover section (16) to cover the other opened end of the cylindrical fitting section (14), and a surrounding section (17) to surround the cable C, which is connected to the connecting section (24) of the center conductor. The cover section (16) and the surrounding section (17) are bent at a linking section (18). The cover section (16) has a receiving section (19) on the inner surface which contacts with the tongue (22) of the dielectric (12), in order to place at least a part of the tongue (22) therein.

In accordance with the invention, a lateral dimension of a microscale device on a substrate is reduced or adjusted by the steps of providing the device with a soft or softened exposed surface; placing a guiding plate adjacent the soft or softened exposed surface; and pressing the guiding plate onto the exposed surface. Under pressure, the soft material flows laterally between the guiding plate and the substrate. Such pressure induced flow can reduce the lateral dimension of line spacing or the size of holes and increase the size of mesas. The same process also can repair defects such as line edge roughness and sloped sidewalls. This process will be referred to herein as pressed self-perfection by liquefaction or P-SPEL.

A non-volatile memory device having a substrate, an n type well, a p type well, a control gate, a composite dielectric layer, a source region and a drain region is provided. A trench is formed in the substrate. The n type well is formed in the substrate. The p type well is formed in the substrate above the n type well. The junction of p type well and the n type well is higher than the bottom of the trench. The control gate which protruding the surface of substrate is formed on the sidewalls of the trench. The composite dielectric layer is formed between the control gate and the substrate. The composite dielectric layer includes a charge-trapping layer. The source region and the drain region are formed in the substrate of the bottom of the trench respectively next to the sides of the control gate.

A tire for an aeroplane and, in particular, to the crown of a tire for an aeroplane, having reduced dimensions and mass of the pieces of tread in the event of accidental tire tread separation, without the use of additional devices external to the tire and therefore without penalizing the payload of the aeroplane, having a tread intended to come into contact with the ground via a tread surface, and extending radially between a bottom surface and the tread surface, the tread comprising at least two circumferential ribs adjacent to at least one circumferential groove, each circumferential rib extending radially between the bottom surface and the tread surface, axially between two lateral faces and circumferentially around the entire periphery of the tire, wherein the tread comprises rows of cavities formed in at least one circumferential rib and opening onto the tread surface, the rows of cavities, which are parallel to one another, are inclined with respect to the circumferential direction (XX′) of the tire at an angle (i) at least equal to 45°, and the rows of cavities are distributed circumferentially over at least part of the periphery of the tire with a circumferential spacing (p) at least equal to 0.02 times and at most equal to 0.12 times the circumferential length of the periphery of the tire.

The present invention provides a lithographic apparatus, including: a substrate table constructed to hold a substrate; a projection system configured to project a radiation beam through an exposure slit area onto a target portion of the substrate; a patterning device configured to import the radiation beam with a pattern in its cross-section to form a patterned radiation beam, the patterned radiation beam at the target portion of the substrate being in focus over a depth of focus; and a measurement system that is arranged to measure a surface topography of at least part of the target portion, wherein the projection system is arranged to adjust a dimension of the exposure slit area to form an adjusted exposure slit area over which surface topography variations are equal to or smaller than the depth of focus.

A circuit board structure and a method for fabricating the same are proposed. A plurality of conductive bumps and a first solder mask are formed on a carrier board, and the first solder mask is filled in the gaps between the conductive bumps and the conductive bumps are exposed. A first circuit layer and a first heat sink are formed on the first solder mask and the conductive bumps. A second heat sink is formed on the first heat sink, and a dielectric layer is formed on the first circuit layer and the first solder mask except the first and second heat sinks. A second circuit layer is formed on the dielectric layer and is electrically conductive to the first circuit layer. A third heat sink is formed on the second heat sink and a heat sink used for a chip mounting thereon is embedded in the dielectric layer. Therefore, the dimension of the circuit board is reduced and it is conformed to the dimension minimization progress of electronic devices.

An example method comprises receiving historical sensor data of a renewable energy asset for a first time period, identifying historical log data in one or more log sources, retrieving dates of the identified historical log data, retrieving sequences of historical sensor data using the dates, training hidden Markov models using the sequences of historical sensor data to identify probability of shifting states of one or more components of the renewable energy asset, receiving current sensor data of a second time period, identifying current log data in the one or more log sources, retrieving dates of the identified current log data, retrieving sequences of current sensor data using the dates, applying the hidden Markov models to the sequences of the current sensor data to assess likelihood of the one or more faults, creating a prediction of a future fault, and generating a report including the prediction of the future fault.

Methods for patterning a film stack are provided. In one embodiment, a method for patterning a film stack disposed on a substrate includes performing a first etching process to etch a film stack disposed on a substrate, wherein the film stack includes a patterned photoresist layer disposed on an upper layer on a lower layer disposed on the substrate, wherein the patterned photoresist layer comprises openings defined between features and the features have a first pitch, wherein the first etching process removes between about 40 percent and about 95 percent of the lower layer exposed by the patterned photoresist layer from the film stack, performing a second etching process on the film stack, and upon completion of the second etching process, transferring the features into the upper or lower layer in the film stack having a second pitch, wherein the second pitch is shorter than the first pitch.

A base member includes a base through-hole which interconnects an upper opening and a lower opening. An insulating sheet portion is disposed at a lower surface side of the base member. The insulating sheet portion covers at least a portion of the lower opening. Lead wires extending from coils extend to the lower surface side of the base member through the base through-hole. The lead wires extend radially outward along a lower surface of the insulating sheet portion while making contact with the insulating sheet portion. The lead wires are soldered to land portions of a circuit substrate. The lower opening is covered with a sealing material. The circuit substrate includes a first region. The insulating sheet portion is defined by a smaller number of layers than the first region.