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The image forming apparatus detects a predetermined image data included in image data and transmits an electromagnetic signal to a memory card within a predetermined vicinity of the image forming apparatus. The memory card is configured to carried by a user of the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus receives identification information of the user from the memory card and has a memory which stores predetermined function information. The predetermined function information is associated with to the identification information of a predetermined user and defines functions of the image forming apparatus which the predetermined user is authorized to use. When the predetermined image data is detected by the detector, the image forming apparatus restricts the functions of the image forming apparatus based on the predetermined function information associated with the identification information of the predetermined user.

A three-dimensional (3D) semiconductor structure with high density and method of fabricating the same are disclosed. The 3D semiconductor structure comprises at least a first memory cell and a second memory cell stacked on the first memory cell. The first memory cell comprises a first conductive line and a second conductive line. The second memory cell comprises another first conductive line opposite to the first conductive line of the first memory cell, and the second conductive line formed between said two first conductive lines of the first and second memory cells. The first and second memory cells share the second conductive line when the 3D semiconductor structure is programming and erasing, and each of the first and second memory cells has a diode.

An optical element mounted on a wiring board is sealed by a sealing resin except an optical function region. Wires connecting the wiring board with the optical element are also sealed by the sealing resin. The optical function region is exposed as a bottom surface of a recess whose side surface is formed by the sealing resin. The recess has a two-level structure of a bottom recess and a portion located over the bottom recess. A stepped portion extends from an upper end of a first side surface of the bottom recess to a lower end of a second side surface of the bottom recess.

A system used for alignment of a vehicle suspension and axle includes a pear-shaped cam that is rotatable relative to one of two spaced plates of a hanger bracket. An aperture and nose in the cam plate is aligned with an elongated opening in the bracket plate. The cam further includes a pin that is configured for insertion and movement within an arcuate aperture in the bracket plate. A fastener extends through the aperture and the nose of the cam, through the elongated openings in the bracket plates, and through the suspension control arm. Rotation of the cam causes a corresponding movement of the pin along the arcuate-shaped aperture of the bracket and of the fastener along the elongated openings of the bracket.

The present invention provides a hologram recording method which enables obtaining floating and high-quality images which can be stereoscopically viewed from wide viewing angles of 360° in a low-cost and simple production method and to provide a hologram recording apparatus and a hologram recording medium. Thus, the present invention relates to a hologram recording method which includes irradiating a coherent object beam virtually simultaneously to almost all the surface of a recording object to make the reflected object beam from the surface incident on a photosensitive surface of a photosensitive material, making a coherent reference beam incident on the opposite surface of the photosensitive material with respect to the photosensitive surface to generate interference fringes by the object beam and the reference beam, and recording the interference fringes on the photosensitive material, and a hologram recording medium and a hologram recording apparatus using the method.

The present invention relates to a horizontal biosensor, comprising a reduced graphene oxide layer formed on a substrate; a molecular linker formed on the reduced graphene oxide layer; and a metal nanoparticle layer formed on the molecular linker.

A method for making a nano-optical antenna array includes following steps. First, an insulative substrate is provided. Second, the insulative substrate is hydrophilicly treated. Third, a monolayer nanosphere array is formed on the insulative substrate. Fourth, a film is deposited on the monolayer nanosphere array. Fifth, the monolayer nanosphere array is removed.

An improved system used for alignment of a vehicle suspension and axle includes a cam plate that is rotatable relative to one of two spaced plates of a hanger bracket about an axis of rotation extending through a center of the cam plate. An aperture in the cam plate is aligned with an elongated opening in the bracket plate and defines a cam surface. A bushing may be disposed in the aperture and ride on the cam surface. A fastener extends through the bushing, the elongated openings in the bracket plates, and the suspension control arm. Rotation of the cam plate and movement of the bushing and the fastener along the cam surface of the aperture displaces the fastener along the elongated openings of the bracket.

An electronic apparatus includes, for example, a circuit board with an electronic component and a piezoelectric element, a reference potential pattern that gives a reference potential to at least one of the electronic component and the piezoelectric element, and a solder land connected to the reference potential pattern. On the circuit board, the electronic component is located on a downstream side in a transport direction of the circuit board during mounting of the piezoelectric element and the electronic component on the solder land, and the piezoelectric element is located on an upstream side in the transport direction.

A method of generating a composite output includes the steps of: a) capturing a live image; b) generating an electronic map; and c) generating a composite output including at least one of a live image portion corresponding to the live image captured in step a), and an electronic map portion corresponding to the electronic map generated in step b).

A drive unit for a hybrid vehicle includes an internal combustion engine with a crankshaft, a friction clutch with a pressure plate, which can be moved in the axial direction by an actuating arrangement, with a clutch plate, and with a clutch disk arrangement, positioned between these first two components and is connected to the crankshaft. The drive unit also includes an electric machine, which is arranged between the internal combustion engine and the friction clutch, with a stator attached to a stator carrier and with a rotor. The friction clutch comprises a clutch hub, which serves to create at least an indirect connection of the clutch disk arrangement to the crankshaft is detachably connected to the clutch disk arrangement outside the radial dimension of the pressure plate and the clutch plate. An assembly method for assembling such a drive unit is also described, where a preassembled unit including at least the electric machine and the friction clutch is attached to an internal combustion engine.

The invention provides a fusion protein comprising the Plasmodium merozoite surface protein-1 (MSP1) and the Plasmodium apical membrane antigen 1 (AMA-1), the encoding DNA sequence, the vector containing the sequence, the host cell containing the vector, and the genetic engineering method for preparing the fusion protein and the usage for producing anti-malarial vaccine. The AMA-1 / MSP1 fusion protein of the present invention has excellent immunogenicity and can cause an effective immune response against Plasmodium in individuals.

The invention relates to a new enantioselective process for producing useful intermediates for the manufacture of NEP inhibitors or prodrugs thereof, in particular NEP inhibitors comprising a γ-amino-δ-biphenyl-α-methylalkanoic acid, or acid ester, backbone.

A conventional optical signal processing device had a disadvantage where the temperature dependency of the spectroscopic characteristics of a spectroscopic element causes a deteriorated performance. In order to solve the temperature dependency, there has been a method to form a plurality of grooves for dividing a core on the array waveguide of the AWG. However, this method cannot avoid an excess loss and causes a high manufacture cost. By directly controlling the modulation characteristic profile formed by an element device of a spatial light modulator, athermalization can be achieved in a simpler and low-cost manner. This consequently provides a remarkable reduction of the light coupling loss in the spatial optical system of the optical signal processing device. More accurate temperature compensation can be realized that copes with an actual behavior of the device to a temperature fluctuation, including causing factors of a complicated temperature fluctuation of the optical system.

A fluorene copolymer, method for preparation thereof, and use thereof are provided. Said fluorene copolymer comprises copolymer represented by formula (I), wherein R1-R2, R5-R8 are selected from H or C1-C20 alkyl, R3-R4 are selected from H, C1-C20 alkyl, C1-C20 alkoxyl, phenyl or phenoxyl, x+y=1, x≠0, y≠0; n is an integer of 1 to 200, Ar1 is thiophene unit-containing group. On account of thiophene unit and thienopyrazine unit, the fluorene copolymer has wide spectrum response range and favorable stability.

Method for connecting an integrated circuit to a substrate and corresponding circuit arrangementThe present invention provides a method for connecting an integrated circuit (C1), in particular a chip or a wafer or a hybrid, to a substrate (C2), which has the following steps: provision of a first electrical contact structure (KF1, BP, LB; KF1, BP′) on a first main area (HF1) of the integrated circuit (C1); provision of a corresponding second electrical contact structure (KF2) on a second main area (HF2) of the substrate (C2); at least one of the contact structures, the first electrical contact structure (KF1, BP, LB; KF1, BP′) or the second electrical contact structure (KF2), being elastic; placement of the first electrical contact structure (KF1, BP, LB; KF1, BP′) onto the corresponding second electrical contact structure (KF2), so that both are in electrical contact and under mechanical compression pressure (P); and connection of a region of the main area (HF1) surrounding the first electrical contact structure (KF1, BP, LB; KF1, BP′) to a corresponding region surrounding the second electrical contact structure (KF2) of the second main area (HF2) by an adhesive layer (KS), so that the first electrical contact structure (KF1, BP, LB; KF1, BP′) and / or the second electrical contact structure (KF2) are compressed in the connected state. The invention likewise provides a corresponding circuit arrangement.

A method for cooling a cryostat configuration (1, 1′) during transport, wherein the cryostat configuration (1) comprises a superconducting magnet coil (2) in a helium tank (8) containing liquid helium (9), which is surrounded by at least one radiation shield (10), wherein the cooling inside the cryostat configuration (1, 1′) in stationary operation is performed entirely without liquid nitrogen by means of a refrigerator, characterized in that during transport, the refrigerator is switched off and instead, liquid nitrogen (6) is conducted from an external nitrogen vessel (4) via a supply tube (7) from the nitrogen vessel (4) to the cryostat configuration (1, 1′) and brought into thermal contact with the radiation shield (10) by means of a thermal contact element (11) in the cryostat configuration (1, 1′). In this way, the consumption of liquid helium during transport can be greatly reduced and the possible transport time of a charged superconducting magnet configuration increased.

The present invention is a method and system for detecting position errors in robotic motion According to the method, a Doppler motion detector unit is placed proximate a critical position of a robot. Signals from the Doppler motion detector unit are monitored. Robot position errors are detected in the robot at least partially based on the signals from the Doppler motion detector unit. The industrial robot can be halted upon detection of an error and / or an alarm signal can be activated. The system includes the robot, the detector with a low-pass filter and a control system operatively connected to the detector and low-pass filter.

Using fabrication-time variation predicting means that predicts this fact, the variation is predicted beforehand at the design stage prior to fabrication and is stored in variation prediction storage means. Rather than measuring a delay, testing an operation is performed (by a pass / fail determination) by actual-speed logic operation testing means for checking, after fabrication, whether a flip-flop (FF) operates at a specified operation frequency. As a result, the variation is estimated using the non-operation flip-flop (FF) information and the predicted value of the variation from the fabrication-time variation predicting means, and a delay value which corrects for the variation is inserted into a fabricated semiconductor integrated circuit by post-fabrication delay insertion position / value determining means using the variation value that has been estimated.

A power semiconductor substrate with an insulating sheet-like base, having at least one sequence of layers of: a thin adhesion promoting layer, a sintered metal layer and a conductive layer arranged on at least one main area of the substrate. The associated process includes the steps of: coating at least a portion of the one main area with the adhesion promoting layer; arranging a pasty layer of the sintered metal and a solvent on at least a portion of the adhesion promoting layer; arranging the conductive layer on the sintered metal layer; and applying pressure to the conductive layer of the power substrate.

An X-ray line-scan camera utilizes an image transferring means to alter the optical path and thus eliminates the X-ray radiation damage on the electrical components of the camera system. The camera comprises a layer of scintillating material, a fiber optic face plate (FOFP) block, and an array of image sensors. One face of the FOFP block is bonded to the surface of the image sensors. The layer of scintillating material is placed on other face of the FOFP block and used to convert an impinging X-ray beam into visible light. The FOFP block is used to transfer the visible light from the scintillating layer onto the image sensor array, which in turn converts the visible light into electrical video signals. The FOFP block has a rotation angle of 32 to 40 degree relative to the impinging X-ray beam to prevent direct impingement of the X-ray beam onto the image sensors.

A three-dimensional (3D) semiconductor structure with high density and method of fabricating the same are disclosed. The 3D semiconductor structure comprises at least a first memory cell and a second memory cell stacked on the first memory cell. The first memory cell comprises a first conductive line and a second conductive line. The second memory cell comprises another first conductive line opposite to the first conductive line of the first memory cell, and the second conductive line formed between said two first conductive lines of the first and second memory cells. The first and second memory cells share the second conductive line when the 3D semiconductor structure is programming and erasing, and each of the first and second memory cells has a diode.

The invention provides a fusion protein comprising the Plasmodium merozoite surface protein-1 (MSP1) and the Plasmodium apical membrane antigen 1 (AMA-1), the encoding DNA sequence, the vector containing the sequence, the host cell containing the vector, and the genetic engineering method for preparing the fusion protein and the usage for producing anti-malarial vaccine. The AMA-1 / MSP1 fusion protein of the present invention has excellent immunogenicity and can cause an effective immune response against Plasmodium in individuals.

[Problems]To provide a simple and low cost method for imparting excellent hydrogen resistance to various types of articles such as a rare earth metal-based permanent magnet.[Means for Resolution]A method for imparting hydrogen resistance to an article of the present invention is characterized by forming a metal coating film by pulse plating on the surface of the article.

A light emitting element (10) is provided, which includes luminescent glass (13), a metal layer (14) formed on the surface of the luminescent glass (13), wherein periodic micro and nano structure is provided on the metal layer (14), and the chemical constituent of the luminescent glass (13) is rare-earth-ion doped silicate. Further provided are manufacturing and luminescence methods of the light emitting element. The luminescent glass (13) in the present invention includes a metal layer (14) with periodic micro and nano structure, which can enhance the luminous efficiency and luminous homogeneity and stability of the luminescent glass, and can be used on superluminescent and high-speed operating light emitting devices.

A radiation damage resistant linear X-ray detector system based on a unique image transferring principle to alter the optical path and thus reduces or eliminates the X-ray radiation damage on the electrical components of the detector system. The system includes a layer of scintillating material, a fiber optic face plate (FOFP), and an array of image sensors. One face of the FOFP is bonded to the surface of the image sensors. The layer of scintillating material, such as Gd2O2S:Tb (GOS or GADOX), CsI(TI), or CdWO4, is placed on other face of the FOFP and used to convert the impinging X-ray energies into visible light which can be detected efficiently by the image sensor array. The FOFP is used to transfer the visible light from the scintillating layer onto the image sensor array after the X-ray flux has been converted. The photon energy of the visible light is collected with a scanning image sensor array that converts the photon energy proportionally into electrical video signals and enables the signals to be processed using standard image processing software and equipment.

The present invention provides a method of treating a surface of a substrate, the method comprising: a) growing a microbe on the surface of the substrate to be treated to form a layer of microbial structures, wherein the microbe is selected from fungi, algae, lichens and any combination thereof; and b) coating the microbial structures to form a first coating thereon, wherein the first coating has a thickness of no more than 1 μm. The present invention also provides an article comprising a layer of microbial structures, optionally made by using the method of the present invention.