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The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for processing the flow of semiconductor wafers through a furnace tool having a front-opening unified pod (FOUP) material handling system. The invention provides for an automated control flow to realize greater efficiency and assure process quality. In one aspect of the invention the wafer batch completing its operation is discharged simultaneous with the charging of the next batch. Essentially the operation takes place by overlapping processing operations. An embodiment of the invention includes a process comprising the steps of: providing a first batch of semiconductor material, and loading the first batch into a carrier which transports the first batch into a semiconductor manufacturing process, and while the first batch undergoes the process, forming a second batch of semiconductor material, and pausing a second batch process operation until the first batch completes processing, to reduce the idle time of said process.

The invention relates to an adjustment armature comprising a fixed component (11) which is associated with part the seat and an adjustable component (12) which is connected to the backrest. The components of the armatures (11, 12) are joined to each other by means of an actuating member (13). An adjusting and locking device, having the form of a gear, is provided in order to adjust the relative positions of the two armature components (11,12). The adjusting member (13) comprises an eccentric segment (14), whereby one of the armature components (12) is mounted thereon. The other armature component (11) acts as a bearing for the eccentric segment (14). The eccentric segment (14) is comprised of wedge segments (27), which rest against each other and partially overlap a catch (20). Said eccentric segment is also provided with a catch segment (29) between the narrow sides thereof and an energy accumulator which moves the wide ends of, the wedge segments (27) apart. The actuating member (13) optionally comprises a central receiving section for a rotationally fixed connection to the transmission rod. The catch (20) is made up of a bushing (21), and a ring (26), which is rotationally fixed to said bushing and consists of a catch segment (29), whereby no free movement can be felt when the armature (10) is initially displaced for adjustment purposes. The catch ring (26) is mounted on the armature component (11) and acts as a bearing for the wedges (27) in a peripheral region of said ring, which does not contain said catch segment (29).

Systems and methods for reducing delays between successive write and read accesses in multi-bank memory devices are provided. Computer circuits modify the relative timing between addresses and data of write accesses, reducing delays between successive write and read accesses. Memory devices that interface with these computer circuits use posted write accesses to effectively return the modified relative timing to its original timing before processing the write access.

The present invention provides an S-shaped acceleration and deceleration control method for changing speed and position of an object on line. The method comprises the acceleration phase speed planning, the deceleration phase speed planning, the constant speed phase speed planning, the real speed reduction point predication, the maximum speed processing, the surplus distance compensation, the online object speed changing algorithm and the online object position changing algorithm. An acceleration and deceleration discretization speed planning method is employed and the user input parameters are combined to calculate the operation time of a seven-phase speed planning phase. It is determined whether the maximum acceleration and the maximum speed can reach the criterion or not, the integration problem of a sampling period Ts according to the acceleration / deceleration acceleration, the acceleration / deceleration speed and the final position L after discretization is considered, and the real reachable acceleration / deceleration acceleration, the acceleration / deceleration speed and the feed rate are corrected. The S-shaped acceleration and deceleration control method for changing speed and position of the object on line greatly simplifies an original calculation formula and saves lots of operation time of a computer, and the surplus distance employs a one-time compensation method in the speed reduction process.

A graphics processor may be operated in a reduced power mode to render frames at rate equal to or less than the rate at which frames are presented on an interconnected display. Graphics processor clock speeds are controlled to reduce the time during which the graphics processor is idle between rendering frames. The graphics processor clock speed may thus be slowed without impacting the quality of rendered images. At the same time the voltage applied to power the graphics processor may be reduced. Optionally, a back bias voltage may further be applied to the processor substrate to reduce power consumption. Clock speed and voltage levels may be adjusted using closed-loop control.

A multiprocessor system has a transmitting processor and a receiving processor. In response to a transmission request, the transmitting processor implements means for selecting one of two communication buffers of a shared memory in accordance with a given rule; write inhibit means for changing the selected communication buffer to a write-disabled state in order to inhibit writing of the selected communication buffer by other processors; data writing means for copying data from a local memory to the selected communication buffer; write-completion notifying means for notifying a receiving processor of completion of writing; and transmission-end discriminating means for discriminating end of transmission processing. In response to a reception request, the receiving processor implements means for selecting one of the two communication buffers of the shared memory by a rule identical with that of the communication buffer selecting means of the transmitting processor; read wait means for causing this processor to wait until the selected communication buffer attains a read-enabled state; data reading means for copying data from the selected communication buffer to a local memory; read completion notifying means for changing the communication buffer to a write-enabled state after data is read in; and means for discriminating end of reception processing. The communication band-width performance is enhanced.

A method for providing training to agents of an automatic call distribution center includes determining whether an agent is idle and, in response to determining that the agent is idle, initiating playback of a recorded training call to the agent. Additionally, the method includes receiving an incoming call from a caller for connection with one of a plurality of agents. Also, the method includes terminating playback of the recorded training call and connecting the agent to the incoming call.

A capsule endoscope swallowable in a body is provided, and includes an image pickup device for picking up an image in the body. A transmitter externally transmits information of the image. By use of an acceleration sensor, a capsule moving speed is detected in the body. A CPU as pixel number changer changes a pixel number of the image, namely resolution of the image according to information of the capsule moving speed. The CPU sets the pixel number lower according to lowness of the capsule moving speed. Also, the CPU sets the pixel number lower according to lowness of a capsule moving distance, and / or according to highness of similarity degree between plural consecutive images. Preferably, the CPU sets the pixel number by at least one of pixel binning, pixel thinning and pixel averaging.

An LRU array and method for tracking the accessing of lines of an associative cache. The most recently accessed lines of the cache are identified in the table, and cache lines can be blocked from being replaced. The LRU array contains a data array having a row of data representing each line of the associative cache, having a common address portion. A first set of data for the cache line identifies the relative age of the cache line for each way with respect to every other way. A second set of data identifies whether a line of one of the ways is not to be replaced. For cache line replacement, the cache controller will select the least recently accessed line using contents of the LRU array, considering the value of the first set of data, as well as the value of the second set of data indicating whether or not a way is locked. Updates to the LRU occur after each pre-fetch or fetch of a line or when it replaces another line in the cache memory.

Exemplary embodiments of methods and apparatuses to manage a power of a data processing system are described. One or more constraint parameters of a system are monitored. The data processing system is forced into an idle state for a first portion of a time while allowed to operate for a second portion of the time based on the one or more constraint parameters, wherein the system is forced into the idle state in response to comparing a target idle time to an actual idle time. The target idle time of the system is determined, in one embodiment, based on the one or more constraint parameters. The actual idle time of the system may be monitored to take into account interrupts which disrupt an idle time and idle times resulting from no software instructions to execute. The system may be allowed to operate based on comparisons of the target idle time and the actual idle time.

The invention particularly discloses a dependence-based parallel task packet scheduling method used on an isomorphic multi-core cluster server. Through calculating the dependence between execution paths and under the premise of not increasing the maximum loads of the execution paths, execution paths with large dependence are combined, compared with the original algorithm, the method can reduce unnecessary task duplication expenditure, communication expenditure between processors and the idle time energy consumption of the processors are reduced, the load of the processors is more balanced, and the overall energy consumption is lowered. The dependence-based parallel task packet scheduling method has the greatest features that the number of the processors is effectively reduced, the resource utilization efficiency is improved, the load of the processors is more balanced, and accordingly, the overall energy consumption is reduced.

The present invention discloses a mobile APP software platform based residential maintenance comprehensive disposal system. The system comprises a mobile client, a maintenance personnel mobile terminal, a background processing platform, and a server to which the mobile client, the maintenance personnel mobile terminal, and the background processing platform are connected. The mobile client is provided with an APP client port program, and the program comprises a repair service issuing unit, a repair processing unit, and a client information storage unit; the maintenance personnel mobile terminal is provided with an APP maintenance port program, the program comprises a maintenance task order dispatching unit, a maintenance recording unit, a maintenance order acquisition unit, and a maintenance assistant unit; and the background processing platform comprises a repair form database, a repair task assignment unit, a repair progress monitoring unit, an information query and statistic unit, an employee management module, and a user information feedback module. The system disclosed by the present invention can accurately send the repair information at the first time from the residents to the maintenance personnel in a maintenance unit, so that the repair service can be disposed at the first time. In addition, the present invention also discloses an operation method according to the system.

A communication technique enables the efficient transmission of data through a low bandwidth and / or time delayed communication link and minimizes the idle time of the communication link by using a deferred acknowledgment of message bundles to temporally pack the communication link. The transmitting system stores messages to be transmitted in a pending message queue and applies a dynamic window to the pending message queue to define a message bundle to be sent through the slow communication link. The transmitting system requests an acknowledgment for at least one message within the bundle, but does not require an acknowledgment for every message within the bundle. Transmitted messages are temporarily stored as outstanding messages in a retransmission queue until the transmitted messages are acknowledged or until a time-out period associated with the messages has lapsed. When the transmitting station receives a timely acknowledgment in response to a requested acknowledgment, the transmitting station removes all outstanding messages associated with that acknowledgment from the retransmission queue.

The invention discloses wireless parallel test system and test method based on ZigBee, which relate to the technical field of test. The invention solves the problems of large field wiring construction amount and influence of a test signal by field wiring quality caused by the fact that the traditional test system acquires a test signal in a wire communication way. The test system forms a ZigBee network by adopting main wireless communication equipment and a plurality of wireless communication modules; the main wireless communication equipment is connected with a test control terminal by adopting a UART interface; and the wireless communication module in each kind of test equipment is connected with a built-in test module by adopting the UART interface. In the method for realizing test of the test system, the test control terminal is connected with the main communication equipment by the UART interface to realize the transmission of a test command and a test result, and the main wireless communication equipment and a plurality of kinds of equipment to be tested realize data communication by adopting the ZigBee network. The invention is suitable for a modern automatic test system, can realize the mutual coordination of hundreds of equipment to realize communication, and has high test efficiency.

Method and apparatus for scheduling access requests for a multi-bank low-latency random read memory (LLRRM) device within a storage system. The LLRRM device comprising a plurality of memory banks, each bank being simultaneously and independently accessible. A queuing layer residing in storage system may allocate a plurality of request-queuing data structures (“queues”), each queue being assigned to a memory bank. The queuing layer may receive access requests for memory banks in the LLRRM device and store each received access request in the queue assigned to the requested memory bank. The queuing layer may then send, to the LLRRM device for processing, an access request from each request-queuing data structure in successive order. As such, requests sent to the LLRRM device will comprise requests that will be applied to each memory bank in successive order as well, thereby reducing access latencies of the LLRRM device.

Described herein are method and apparatus for scheduling access requests for a multi-bank low-latency random read memory (LLRRM) device within a storage system. The LLRRM device comprising a plurality of memory banks, each bank being simultaneously and independently accessible. A queuing layer residing in storage system may allocate a plurality of request-queuing data structures (“queues”), each queue being assigned to a memory bank. The queuing layer may receive access requests for memory banks in the LLRRM device and store each received access request in the queue assigned to the requested memory bank. The queuing layer may then send, to the LLRRM device for processing, an access request from each request-queuing data structure in successive order. As such, requests sent to the LLRRM device will comprise requests that will be applied to each memory bank in successive order as well, thereby reducing access latencies of the LLRRM device.

A user equipment issues a job for a plurality of documents to a printing system by one operation. The user equipment assigns attributes to the job, the attributes including the specification of collation / uncollation, the designation of processing start instruction wait, the designation of exclusive processing, and the designation of password input wait. The printing system effects printing of the plurality of documents corresponding to attributes of the documents under control of a job scheduling device. The job scheduling device carries out the pausing of documents included in the job, the modification of attributes, addressing of document receiving failures, and search of a document whose format is to be converted, thereby making it possible to efficiently print the plurality of documents.

PCT No. PCT / CH96 / 00305 Sec. 371 Date Jun. 26, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Jun. 26, 1997 PCT Filed Sep. 5, 1996 PCT Pub. No. WO97 / 09256 PCT Pub. Date Mar. 13, 1997Process and apparatus for controlling the channeling of parceled goods to be delivered via a delivery conveyor, which includes at least one buffer conveyor, a call-up conveyor, and a channeling conveyor, to free locations on an acceptance conveyor running at a constant speed. The acceptance conveyor and the delivery conveyor are arranged to encompass an angle alpha , and the delivery conveyor is provided with a parcel measuring device. The process includes measuring a length of a parcel to be channeled, determining a length of time t2 utilized in measuring the length of the parcel, and determining a momentary parcel speed; a speed of the channeling conveyor to which the parcel will be transferred; a distance on the call-up conveyor on which acceleration of the parcel occurs prior to a transfer of the parcel to the channeling conveyor; and a position of a next free space on the acceptance conveyor. The process also includes synchronizing movement of the parcel to the next free space by one of (a) accelerating and decelerating and (b) decelerating and accelerating the parcel on the call-up conveyor at a constant acceleration a, and without intermediate stopping of the call-up conveyor, transferring the parcel from the call-up conveyor to the channeling conveyor, and synchronously transferring the parcel to the next free space on the acceptance conveyor. The apparatus includes a measuring device to measure a length of a parcel to be transferred from the delivery conveyor to the acceptance conveyor, wherein the measurement of the length occurs in a time t2, a control device provided for determining a momentary speed of parcel; a speed of the channeling conveyor to which the parcel will be transferred; a distance on the call-up conveyor on which acceleration of the parcel occurs prior to a transfer to the channeling conveyor; and a position of a next empty space on the acceptance conveyor. The control device also is provided to adjust one of (a) an acceleration and deceleration and (b) a deceleration and acceleration of the parcel on the call-up conveyor, without intermediate stopping of the call-up conveyor, to synchronize the movement of the parcel to the next empty space on the acceptance conveyor.

The invention discloses a method of quickly repairing a cadmium polluted cultivated land by crop rotation of a cadmium super-enriching plant and an energy plant. The method comprises the following step: planting the cadmium super-enriching plant and the energy plant in the cadmium polluted cultivated land in the natural growth periods thereof for conventional cultivation to achieve the purpose ofrepairing the cadmium polluted cultivated land by means of adsorbing and enriching abilities of the cadmium super-enriching plant and the energy plant, wherein the cadmium super-enriching plant is sedum plumbizincicola and the energy plant is sorghum or oilseed rape. The invention provides a planting mode which is not limited by growth seasons. Based on one year as the repair period, the soil repair efficiency of the polluted cultivated land is increased by means of a relatively long growth period in multi-cropping plantation, and the method is short in repair period, high in operability and low in cost, and repairs the land more thoroughly.

A video coding apparatus, a decoder and a method for deferring the decoding of blocks of pixel data not yet ready for decoding during which other blocks of pixel data can be decoded nearly immediately. By deferring decoding and allowing the decoder to continue to successive blocks, the decoder can reduce stalls in the decoding process, which in turn, can decrease idle time in the decoder as well as power consumption that otherwise occurs during such idle time. In one embodiment, an exemplary method decodes a bit stream representing video images. The method includes deblocking blocks of a first frame as first frame blocks, determining a block of a second frame depends on a reference block of the blocks, and deferring decoding of the block. In at least one embodiment, the method can include decoding other blocks of the second frame at least partially concurrent with deferring decoding of the block.

The invention discloses a tool mechanism for clamping a frame workpiece of a robot workstation. The mechanism comprises frame workpiece supports matched with the frame workpiece, wherein frame positioning blocks matched with workpiece frames are arranged on four frame supports; ejection air cylinders are arranged on inner sides of the frame positioning blocks; ejection rods of the ejection air cylinder are ejected, so that four frames of the frame workpiece are fixed and positioned stably in positions corresponding to the frame positioning blocks; and workpiece ejection mechanisms are arranged corresponding to the frames of the frame workpiece on the frame supports. The tool mechanism for clamping the frame workpiece of the robot workstation is ingenious and reasonable in structure; and the four scattered frames of the frame workpiece are directly positioned and fixed on the frame workpiece supports through arrangement of the ejection air cylinders and the frame positioning blocks, so that a complex underneath electric welding process in which positioning errors are prone to occur is not required, the workpice supports can be directly fixed and welded, the work efficiency is greatly improved, and the work errors are also greatly reduced.

A network routing apparatus in which packet forwarding units for performing a packet forwarding process are arranged in parallel to one another, a packet distribution unit for distributing packets to the packet forwarding units arranged in parallel to one another, a packet rearrangement unit for rearranging outputs of the packet forwarding units are provided in the network routing apparatus, and packet retrieving units for retrieving packet headers in the packet forwarding units are further arranged in parallel to one another.

The invention relates to an LED plant growth lamp for light supplement for plants. The growth lamp comprises an LED light source and a control circuit thereof, wherein the LED light source comprises a substrate and LED bulbs uniformly arranged on the substrate; the lamp bulbs are red and blue bulbs and bulbs with a fixed wavelength for adjusting the plant growth; and the control circuit comprises an MCU main control unit, a constant-current output unit connected with the MCU main control unit, a voltage supply unit for supplying working voltage to the constant-current output unit and a radio signal receiving unit. The plant growth lamp is convenient to research and produce different light supplement objects (plants) in the same space; the plant growth lamp can perform light environment optimization or programmed regulation and control on the same light supplement object at different growth and development stages, enhance the effectiveness of light energy, promote the growth of the light supplement object and shorten a production period; and the plant growth lamp effectively regulates and controls the growing development process and morphological characteristics of the light supplement object, improves the use efficiency of facilities and lowers the comprehensive cost.

A computing appliance includes a processor, an interface to an external network, an interface to a local area network, software executing on a machine-readable medium, wherein the software provides, a function for determining the ratio of busy time compared to idle time affecting a worker during task and multitask performance, a function for assigning a value defining a natural capacity of the worker to process a specific task type without developing a significant backlog, a function for assigning new tasks to the worker performing significantly under a natural capacity value for the type of task or tasks being processed, and a function for withholding one or more tasks from the worker performing near or at the natural capacity with developing backlog.

The invention relates to a low-energy consumption sleeping monitoring method synchronous relative to time of a wireless sensor network. The traditional method is high in energy consumption. The method in the invention comprises the following steps: in the stage of creating a relative synchronization table at a new node, broadcasting addition request network packets by the new node firstly to obtain synchronizing information of a neighbourhood node; then estimating clock skew, and linearly fitting multigroup of synchronization information of the neighbourhood node to estimate clock drift; and finally saving the sleeping period of the neighbourhood node, the estimated clock skew and the clock drift into the relative synchronization table; and in the stage of prediction and transmission of data packets of the node, realizing relative synchronization with a target node by the node according to the created relative synchronization table, then predicting the waking time at the next time according to the sleeping period of the node, setting a transmission timer, and finally transmitting data packets by a short permeable when the transmission timer is triggered. According to the invention, the energy overhead for sending the data packets by the node can be saved, and the idle time of a transmitting node is reduced, and the sleeping time of the transmitting node is increased.

An access method of image data includes storing multiple pixel line of image block into one line of storage space, automatically switching line when storage edge in met and calculating composite address of said image block, continuously storing data of the other image block at blank position of this line storage space if a line space in not fully occupied by data of said image block, picking up data of said image block according to composite address of said image block. Two decoding methods of image data and their devices are also disclosed.

The invention discloses a method for cleaning a chemical vapor phase deposition chamber, which comprises such procedures as vacuuming the deposition chamber, heating the deposition chamber, inputting clean air to remove any attachment in the deposition chamber, and turning off the clean air. The method can substitute a wet cleaning method to clean completely the deposition chamber, is easy and rapid to operate, can reduce the idle time of equipment and improve the productivity.

The invention relates to a wire electrode (1, 1') for electric discharge cutting processes and a method for the production thereof. The wire electrode (1, 1') has a core (2) containing a metal or a metal alloy, and a coating (3, 4; 3, 4, 5) that surrounds the core (2) and includes one or more coating layers (3, 4, 5), at least one (3) of which contains a phase mixture of beta-brass and / or beta'-brass and gamma-brass. In said at least one coating layer (3) containing beta-brass and / or beta'-brass and gamma-brass, the beta-phase and / or beta'-phase and the gamma-phase are arranged next to each other in a fine-grained structure in which the mean size of the beta-brass and / or beta'-brass grains and the gamma-brass grains amounts to a maximum of 5 [mu]m relative to the cross-section extending perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the wire electrode (1, 1'). In order to produce the wire electrode (1, 1'), a wire is used that has a coating layer predominantly containing gamma-brass, and a homogenizing step is carried out in which the gamma-brass is substantially transformed into a beta-brass having a minimum zinc concentration of 51 percent by weight at temperatures exceeding 600 DEG C, and the wire (1, 1') is finally cooled, a process during which zones of gamma-brass are separated from the supersaturated solid solution of beta-brass.

The invention discloses a vehicle idling start and stop control system and method. The control system judges whether a vehicle has idling start and stop conditions by monitoring the water temperatureof an engine, the capacity of a storage battery, a safety belt and other information, judges whether the vehicle has conditions of stopping the engine by monitoring the rotating speed of the engine, the speed of the vehicle, the brake air pressure and other conditions, and judges whether the vehicle has conditions of starting the engine by monitoring the gear of a gearbox, the speed of the vehicle, a hand brake and other information. When the relevant conditions are met, start and stop work signals are sent to the engine though a CAN bus. In order to guarantee the reliability of frequent startand stop of the engine, the system strengthens flywheel gear rings of a starter and the engine. In order to ensure that the battery does not lose power, a storage battery capacity sensor is added tothe system on the basis of increasing the capacity of the storage battery, and the idling start and stop are allowed when the state of charge (SOC) of the storage battery satisfies a safe starting threshold. The idling start and stop control system has advantages of low cost and high reliability, and is especially suitable for commercial vehicles.

The invention discloses a method and a device for realizing instruction cache path selection in a superscaler processor, wherein the method comprises the following steps of: judging a fetch mode at least according to an instruction fetch request, performing path prediction with a path history mode according to fetch mode attributed to sequence fetch scenes, and performing path prediction with a path prediction mode according to the fetch mode attributed to non-sequence fetch scenes. Therefore, the energy efficiency of the superscaler processor is integrally increased; and the overall energy consumption of the superscaler processor is reduced as a large amount of unnecessary path Tag comparisons and Data access are not needed and less extra resources are used.