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An apparatus has a holder member (21) which holds a sample (3), and a removing beam source (13) which irradiates an inert ion beam onto a cross section (4) of the sample (3) held by a holder member (21) and removes a fracture layer on the cross section (4). Then, the removing beam source (13) is disposed on the holding end side of the sample (3) with respect to the normal L of the cross section (4) so that the irradiating direction of the inert ion beam is tilted at the tilt angle θ to the normal L with respect to the cross section (4).

A wired flexure comprises a metallic substrate, a polyimide layer formed on the metallic substrate, and read conductors and write conductors formed on the polyimide layer. The polyimide layer has a thick-walled portion and a thin-walled portion that are different in thickness. The read and write conductors extend covering the thick- and thin-walled portions. In order to obtain a desired impedance, the width of the conductors in the thin-walled portion is smaller than that of the conductors in the thick-walled portion.

An apparatus is provided for transmitting uplink fast feedback information in a wireless communication system. In the apparatus, a channel encoder generates uplink fast feedback information to transmit, and outputs 3-bit codewords being set according to the fast feedback information. A noncoherent modulator modulates transmission symbols corresponding to the codewords using a noncoherent modulation scheme, and allocates the modulated transmission symbols to each of subcarrier bundles. An inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) unit IFFT-processes a transmission signal comprised of the subcarrier bundles before transmission.

Provided is a lighting device, comprising: a light source module comprising: at least one light source disposed on a printed circuit board; and a resin layer disposed on the printed circuit board so that the light source is embedded; a light reflection member formed on at least any one of one side surface and another side surface of the resin layer; and a diffusion plate having an upper surface formed on the light source module, and a side wall which is integrally formed with the upper surface and formed to extend in a lower side direction and which is adhered onto the light reflection member, wherein a first separated space is formed between the light source module and the upper surface of the diffusion plate, whereby flexibility of the product itself can be secured, and durability and reliability of the product can be also improved.

A twisted string actuator as a light-weight and space saving actuator includes a small motor and a twisted string having a structure in which two strings are twisted with each other loosely. A first end of the twisted string is connected to a finger joint, and a second end of the same is connected to a rotation shaft of the motor via a power transmission mechanism. When the rotation shaft of the motor rotates, a twisted state of the two strings of the twisted string is tightened or loosened, so that a length of the twisted string is decreased or increased. As a result, the finger joint is driven to rotate about the axis.

A combined cycle power plant for frequent stops and startups comprises at least one gas turbine, a heat recovery steam generator, at least one steam turbine and a thermal energy storage and retrieval system utilizing latent heat of fusion. Phase change materials receive thermal charge from two sources: (a) renewable energy generation plants, when their production exceeds demand and (b) gas turbine exhaust heat. The thermal energy storage and retrieval system, discharges efficiently thermal energy for steam production, which keeps the at least one steam turbine preheated and ready for fast startups, thus increasing the plant's flexibility and efficiency.A novel two stage latent thermal energy storage system provides at least supercritical steam.

Provided is a lighting device, including: a light source module comprising at least one light source on a printed circuit board, and a resin layer in which the light source is embedded; a light reflection member which is adjacent to at least any one of one side surface and the other side surface of the resin layer; and an optical plate comprising a side wall which is closely adhered to the light reflection member, and an upper surface which covers an upper part of the light source module, wherein a haze of the optical plate is less than 30%.

A radio communication apparatus having a radio modem for processing a signal in a radio frequency band, a signal processor for processing a base band of a transmission or reception signal, and a CPU for processing a protocol. The signal processor includes signal processing blocks implemented by programmable software. Each of the signal processing blocks processes a signal of reception signal data input from the radio modem or from a preceding stage of one of the signal processing blocks or a signal of transmission signal data input from the CPU or from the preceding stage of signal processing block on the basis of a control signal input together with the transmission signal data or the reception signal data. The control signal can include information required by all the signal processing blocks in a common format.

The present invention provides a method for decoding a video signal using an adaptive separable graph-based transform, comprising the steps of: receiving a transform index for a target block from the video signal, wherein the transform index indicates a graph-based transform to be applied to the target block; deriving a graph-based transform kernel corresponding to the transform index; and decoding the target block based on the graph-based transform kernel.

Provided is a flexible display apparatus in which flexibility is secured and reliability of products is improved, and a method of manufacturing the same. The flexible display apparatus includes a display panel including a flexible area and a non-flexible area and having one surface and the other surface opposite to the one surface; a protective film attached to the one surface of the display pane; a first adhesive layer interposed between the flexible area of the display panel and the protective film and configured to have a first storage modulus; and a second adhesive layer interposed between the non-flexible area of the display panel and the protective film and configured to have a second storage modulus.

A clutch pawl includes a synthetic resin body member and a metallic reinforcing member. The synthetic resin body member is pivotally mounted to a clutch cam. The metallic reinforcing member integrally pivots with the body member and reinforces the body member. The toggle spring member divides and biases the clutch pawl to the engaged position and the separated position.

An airbag-releasing structure capable of smoothly releasing an airbag in the vehicle, an inner case, and an airbag device are provided. In one form, the inner case of the present invention includes the inner panels connected to the inside of the outer panel, and the side walls defining the space for housing the retainer. Each inner panel includes the supporting portion connected to the fixing portion of the outer panel, the flap portion welded to the door portion, and the hinge portion formed between the supporting portion and the flap portion. The hinge portion has the apex section, the connecting section adjacent to the supporting portion, which connects the supporting portion and the apex section, and the connecting section adjacent to the flap portion, which connects the flap portion and the apex section. The connecting section adjacent to the supporting portion and the connecting section adjacent to the flap portion each have a straight section extending in the direction in which the airbag is released.

A probe sheet or a connecting sheet with good transmission characteristics and flexibility comprising contact terminals capable of contacting at a plurality of points and in high density, without applying damages on an electrode pad which is a contact subject is provided. Further, a high-speed transmission circuit capable of designing signal wirings with aligned impedance to have wide width even with a thin insulating film is achieved to provide a probe sheet or a connecting sheet with reduced loss of high-speed transmission signals. Moreover, the transmission circuit is applied to a probe card using a probe sheet, an inspecting method of (a method of manufacturing) a semiconductor device using the same, and a connecting sheet having an excellent high-frequency characteristic.

Disclosed is a keypad assembly and a method for manufacturing the keypad assembly in which a base film member and a button member of the keypad assembly are integrally formed. The keypad assembly includes a base film member, a button member integrally formed with the base film member, and a processed part formed by recessing a space between buttons keys of the button member in a predetermined depth to be spaced apart from the base film member, the processed part being formed on the base film member. The keypad assembly is manufactured such that the button member and the base film member to be recessed between a button key including a pattern of the button member and an adjacent button key in a predetermined depth of the base film member so as to form a processed part. Therefore, the button member can be formed through UV-molding and the press of the button member is simplified.

A process for producing easily in high efficiency an inner liner having strip pieces obtained by cutting a ribbonlike rubber strip at given length arranged in parallel relationship in the across-the-width direction, aligned in the direction of tire circumference and bonded together. The process comprises spirally winding ribbonlike rubber strip (21) round liner forming drum (10) at given pitch so as to make partial superimposition, thereby obtaining tubular matter (20), and cutting the tubular matter (20) at one position on the circumference thereof in the across-the-width direction so as to provide a sheet wherein severed strip pieces (21A) are bonded to each other in the state of being aligned in parallel relationship, having a length corresponding to the length of liner circumference on a forming drum in the tire forming step, and wherein the two ends on the starting side and terminating side of the spirally winding can be joined together on the forming drum.

A pneumatic tire has a tread pattern including a lateral groove extending in a direction intersecting a tire circumferential direction and a shoulder block comparted by the lateral groove. A depression region in which a plurality of depressions extending in the tire circumferential direction are arranged in a tire width direction are formed on a surface of the shoulder block in an outer side in the tire width direction than a ground-contact end. The depressions are open to the lateral groove, and are segmented in a center portion in the tire circumferential direction of the shoulder block.

On a surface of a film substrate made of an insulating synthetic resin, which is formed by connecting an approximately quadrangular first film substrate and an approximately quadrangular second film substrate through a bent portion, a ground electrode formed to cover at least a part of the second film substrate, and a first electrode layer formed of one of the wiring patterns on a part of the first film substrate are formed. An insulating film made of an insulating resin is formed on the first electrode layer, a second electrode layer formed of the other of the wiring patterns is formed on a surface corresponding to the part of the first film substrate of the insulating film, and the film substrate, the first electrode layer and the insulating film are bent in the bent portion such that the rear surfaces of the film substrate face each other.

A brush apparatus includes a brush and a brush holder. The brush includes a pigtail embedded in a wider side thereof so that the longitudinal side in cross-section of the pigtail extends in parallel with a surface of the brush coming into contact with a commutator. The brush holder includes a brush holding member, a brush spring for pressing the brush against the commutator for sliding contact, a base for holding the brush holding member and electrically connecting the same to an earth circuit, and a connection lug on the base. The brush holding member is formed with a notch on a wider side from an upper end thereof for allowing a downward movement of the pigtail when the brush wears and hence is pressed downward. A distal end of the pigtail is connected to the connection lug.

An aspect of the present invention is directed to a method for forming a mirror-reflecting film on a waveguide in an optical wiring board, characterized in that a multilayer film, in which a base, a metal layer and an adhesive layer are layered in this order, is used, and the metal layer is transferred and bonded to an inclined face for mirror-reflecting film formation provided on the waveguide, with the adhesive layer of the multilayer film intervening. The present invention provides a method which, when forming a mirror-reflecting film on a waveguide in an optical wiring board, enables inexpensive and easy formation of the mirror-reflecting film, using the smallest quantity of metal possible and employing comparatively simple facilities and techniques.

Disclosed herein are an RF module and a method of manufacturing the same. According to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the RF module includes: an RF IC device provided with a via through which upper and lower surfaces thereof are connected to each other; an electronic component mounted on the upper surface or the lower surface of the RF IC device; a molding material having the electronic component sealed therein to protect the electronic component and formed on the upper or lower surface of the RF IC device; and an auxiliary substrate coupled with the upper or lower surface of the RF IC device and providing a place at which other electronic components other than the electronic component sealed in the molding material are mounted, wherein the auxiliary substrate is provided with a through hole having a predetermined size to mount the other electronic components therein.

A lens drive device may include a support body, a movable body having a lens, a magnetic drive mechanism having a coil mounted on the movable body and a magnet mounted on the support body for magnetically driving the movable body in a lens optical axis direction, two spring pieces which are connected between the movable body and the support body for supporting the movable body and which is used as a power supply member to the coil, and two binding pins which are provided in the movable body and around which coil ends of winding start and winding end of the coil are wound. Portions of the coil ends which are wound around the binding pins are electrically connected with the spring pieces.

A method for the production of a tubular article resulting from joining by insertion a tubular body possessed of a layer having of a thermoplastic resin composition containing a styrene type elastomer and a polyolefin type resin and a tubular body having of a thermoplastic resin composition containing a polyolefin, having the ratio of the outside diameter of a thin tube and the inner diameter of a thick tube (outside diameter of thin tube / inside diameter of thick tube=X) in the range of 1<X<1.25, interposing an absorbent having an absorption wavelength of 700-2,500 nm in the connected part of the tubular body and / or the tubular body, and irradiating the tubular bodies with a laser beam. By connecting tubular bodies using specific resin compositions and having specific inside diameter and outside diameter, the connected parts can be made to adhere strongly.

An ink surface detecting system has an ink cartridge and a first optical detector, and a second optical detector positioned above the first optical detector. The ink cartridge has an ink chamber and a pivoting member having a detected portion and a floating portion. A first distance between the center of pivotal movement of the pivoting member and a first end of the pivoting member is different from a second distance between the center of pivotal movement and a second end of the pivoting member.

There is provided a magnetic field shielding sheet for wireless power transmission. The present disclosure to provide a magnetic field shielding sheet for wireless power transmission that includes a first shielding sheet for shielding a magnetic field generated from a first wireless power transmission antenna operable in a magnetic induction method, a second shielding sheet for shielding a magnetic field generated from a second wireless power transmission antenna operable in a magnetic resonance method, and a third shielding sheet which is stacked on the same surface of the first shielding sheet and the second shielding sheet so as to cover the first shielding sheet and the second shielding sheet, for shielding the magnetic field generated from the second wireless power transmission antenna.

There is provided a magnetic field shielding sheet for wireless power transmission. The present disclosure to provide a magnetic field shielding sheet for wireless power transmission that includes a first shielding sheet for shielding a magnetic field generated from a first wireless power transmission antenna operable in a magnetic induction method, a second shielding sheet for shielding a magnetic field generated from a second wireless power transmission antenna operable in a magnetic resonance method, and a third shielding sheet which is stacked on the same surface of the first shielding sheet and the second shielding sheet so as to cover the first shielding sheet and the second shielding sheet, for shielding the magnetic field generated from the second wireless power transmission antenna.