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In one embodiment, a phase-change memory device has an oxidation barrier layer to protect against memory cell contamination or oxidation and a method of manufacturing the same. In one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device comprises a molding layer overlying a semiconductor substrate. The molding layer has a protrusion portion vertically extending from a top surface thereof. The device further includes a phase-changeable material pattern adjacent the protrusion portion and a lower electrode electrically connected to the phase-changeable material pattern.

To provide an organic electroluminescent element having uniform luminescence properties stable in operation and excellent in life property, an organic electroluminescent element in which a luminescent layer is provided between a positive electrode and a negative electrode, wherein a buffer layer constituted with a transition metal oxide (for example, molybdenum oxide) is provided between the negative electrode and the luminescent layer.

A blowing mechanism for a column type electric fan comprises an impeller, a driving motor, a tube-like air ducting assembly, and a swing mechanism. The driving motor is mounted onto a supporting plate which is attached to a housing of the fan. A micromotor of the swing mechanism is fixed onto a connecting disc-like part of the housing. The air ducting assembly at least partly encloses the impeller from outside. The air ducting assembly comprises a top part, a bottom part and a flow guiding plate and a flow deflecting plate connected between the top part and the bottom part, and is provided with an air inlet and an air outlet. An upper supporting shaft for the impeller is rotatably attached to the housing through a bearing, and a lower supporting shaft for the impeller is connected to an output shaft of the driving motor. A guiding lattice is arranged at the air outlet of the air ducting assembly. Bearing rollers are disposed on the supporting plate. The air ducting assembly is movably carried on the bearing rollers, the air ducting assembly is equipped with retainers for preventing the air ducting assembly from moving beyond desired limit angular positions during its swing motion. A link rod of the swing mechanism is movably connected to a rocker which extends from the air ducting assembly.

The object of the invention is to achieve stable operation of a communication device which includes an information transmission means and a power transmission means while maintaining communication quality. A mobile device of the invention has an information transmission means for executing non-contact transmission, a power transmission means, a first control means for controlling the information transmission means to repeat an active period and a sleep period, and a second control means for controlling the power transmission means to transmit a power during the sleep period.

An object of the present invention is to ensure the stable operation of a vacuum pump for discharging an unused source gas and reaction byproduct gases from a low-pressure processing chamber, to recover the reaction byproducts efficiently for the effective utilization of resources and reduction of running costs. A low-pressure CVD system has a processing vessel (10) for carrying out a low-pressure CVD process for forming a copper film, a source gas supply unit (12) for supplying an organic copper compound as a source gas, such as Cu(I)hfacTMVS, into the processing vessel (10), and an evacuating system (14) for evacuating the processing vessel (10). The evacuating system (14) includes a vacuum pump (26), a high-temperature trapping device (28) disposed above the vacuum pump (26) with respect to the flowing direction of a gas, and a low-temperature trapping device (30) disposed below the vacuum pump with respect to the flowing direction of a gas. The high-temperature trapping device (28) decomposes the unused Cu(I)hfacTMVS contained in a gas sucked out of the processing vessel (10) to trap metallic copper. The low-temperature trapping device traps Cu(II)(hfac)2 produced as a reaction byproduct.

In a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) employing a hybrid system using both an internal combustion engine and a second motor / generator as a propelling power source for vehicle propulsion, and also employing a first generator driven by the engine for power generation, an integrated HEV control system is provided to control the engine, and the first and second motor / generators. The integrated HEV control system permits operation of only the second motor / generator as the propelling power source to establish a motor propelled vehicle driving mode and simultaneously basically inhibits operation of the engine, when satisfying at least a condition that the engine misfire occurs. If a power generation requirement or a battery recharge requirement is present during the misfire period, operation of the engine is temporarily permitted for driving the first motor / generator only for a battery recharge.

In a pulse frequency modulated (PFM) voltage regulator, a PFM switching controller is provided to generate a PFM switching signal for converting a DC voltage source to an output voltage. A minimum OFF-time controller provides the PFM switching signal with a minimum OFF-time. In response to the output voltage, a feedback circuit generates a feedback signal. When the output voltage is lower than a predetermined target voltage, an OFF-time prolonging circuit prolongs the minimum OFF-time in response to the feedback signal. In other words, a time of delivering energy to a capacitor from an inductor may be prolonged by the OFF-time prolonging circuit. Therefore, a ripple of the output voltage is effectively reduced when the PFM voltage regulator is operated in a heavy loading condition.

A memory cell array employs a memory element as a memory cell. The memory element is constructed of a gate electrode formed via a gate insulation film on a semiconductor layer, a channel region arranged under the gate electrode, diffusion regions that are arranged on both sides of the channel region and have a conductive type opposite to that of the channel region, and memory function bodies that are arranged on both sides of the gate electrode and have a function to retain electric charges. When first and second power voltages VCC1 and VCC2 supplied from the outside are lower than a prescribed voltage, a rewrite command to a memory circuit 34 that includes the memory cell array is inhibited by a lockout circuit 33a. With this arrangement, there are provided a semiconductor storage device capable of achieving storage retainment of two bits or more per memory element and stable operation even if the device is miniaturized and preventing the occurrence of a malfunction of rewrite error and so on attributed to a reduction in the power voltage supplied from the outside and a control method therefor.

Disclosed are an inorganic electroluminescent diode and a method of fabricating the same. Specifically, this invention provides an inorganic electroluminescent diode, which includes a semiconductor nanocrystal layer formed of inorganic material, an electron transport layer or a hole transport layer formed on the semiconductor nanocrystal layer using amorphous inorganic material, and a hole transport layer or an electron transport layer formed beneath the semiconductor nanocrystal layer using inorganic material, and also provides a method of fabricating such an inorganic electroluminescent diode. According to the method of fabricating the inorganic electroluminescent diode of this invention, an inorganic electroluminescent diode can be fabricated while maintaining the properties of luminescent semiconductor material of the semiconductor crystal layer, and also an inorganic electroluminescent diode which is stably operated and has high luminescent efficiency can be provided.

An optical device includes an insulation layer formed on a lead electrode of an electrode, an electrode having an indium doped tin oxide in which indium / tin is 1.5 or less by the element ratio, an electrode having a laminate including an oxide layer in which indium is doped to tin and a tin oxide layer, and an electrode having conductive particles as a first layer, a polymeric layer as a second layer and a current collector as a third layer, and the second layer is disposed between the first layer and the third layer. A control device controls a driving current to an electrode in accordance with a temperature and a current supply supplies a current to an electrode for supplementing a dissolved portion of electrodeposited material. The optical device includes a polarization device which polarizes an electrode to an oxidation direction before electrodeposition on the electrode.

In a control system for an internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders whose operation of the engine can be switched between full-cylinder operation during which all of the cylinders are operative and cut-off-cylinder operation during which some of the cylinders are non-operative, and running control, i.e., either cruise control during which the vehicle is controlled to run at a desired vehicle velocity or preceding vehicle follow-up control during which the vehicle is controlled to run at a desired vehicle velocity to maintain a desired inter-vehicle distance from a preceding vehicle, is performed in response to an instruction of an operator, it is judged whether a velocity error between a detected vehicle velocity and the desired vehicle velocity and load of the engine are equal to or smaller than corresponding threshold values. If the result is affirmative when the running control is in progress, it is determined that running condition of the vehicle is stable and the engine operation is switched to the cut-off-cylinder operation, thereby preventing a control hunting from happening, while ensuring to improve fuel consumption by utilizing the cut-off-cylinder operation as much as possible.

A power conversion apparatus, such as a UPS, includes a first waveform reference signal generator circuit operative to generate a first waveform reference signal responsive to an AC bus, and a second waveform reference signal generator circuit operative to generate a second waveform reference signal, e.g., a more consistently sinusoidal signal produced by another source. The apparatus further includes a control circuit that selectively generates a third waveform reference signal from the first and second waveform reference signals, and a power converter circuit (e.g., a rectifier and / or inverter) coupled to the AC bus and operative to transfer power to and / or from the AC bus responsive to the third waveform reference signal. In particular, the control circuit may be operative to weightedly combine the first and second waveform reference signals to generate the third waveform reference signal. The control circuit may weightedly combine the first and second waveform reference signals responsive to an operating parameter of the power converter, such as a voltage, a current, a power factor, a source impedance, a voltage distortion and / or a harmonic input current.

A printed wiring board includes a glass substrate provided with through-holes, conductive patterns provided on both surfaces of said glass substrate in such a manner as to be made conductive to each other via said through-holes, and a sealing member composed of a silver paste containing an epoxy resin as a binder provided to fill said through-holes. This printed wiring board is advantageous in that circuit parts can be connected to each other without use of any planar special region and moisture does not reach the circuit parts through the printed wiring board. A display apparatus capable of stably displaying pictures for a long-period of time is provided by using the printed wiring board.

An expander for the lower part of the body is provided with a lumbar band (1) having corresponding catching members (2), an elastic strip (7) insertably fitted into and woven with the lumbar band (1), and a sole contact plate (6) having inserting portions (3) for both feet mounted thereon. The elastic strip (7) is woven around a substantially back half of the lumbar band (1), and coupling rings (7b) mounted at the opposite outer ends of the elastic strip (7) pulled out from the opposite sides of a front part of the lumbar band (1) are coupled to corresponding upper-end hooks (20a) of length-adjustable straps (20) connected with side portions (6a) of the sole contact plate (6) in a looped state.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a display apparatus which can be miniaturized and is operated stably even at high resolution.The display apparatus according to the present invention includes a pixel array unit, a signal line driving circuit, and a scanning line driving circuit, each of which is formed by using a polysilicon TFT on a glass substrate, a control circuit, and a graphic controller IC. Since the graphic controller IC rearranges digital pixel data DATA in the inside, it is unnecessary to provide a gate array. Since the cycle of a clock signal CLK is twice as much as that of the digital pixel data DATA, the clock signal CLK having a frequency at which the polysilicon TFT normally operates can be supplied to the signal line driving circuit. Further, since the edge of the clock signal CLK is deviated from the changing position of the digital pixel data DATA and they are outputted, the signal line driving circuit can effectively capture the digital pixel data DATA.

Swirl tube separator for separating solids from a gas-solid containing feed comprising a tubular housing, an inlet for introducing a gas-solids mixture at one end of said housing, a solids outlet opening at the opposite end of said housing, and a co-axial positioned tubular gas outlet conduit placed at an end of said housing, wherein along the axis of the tubular housing a vortex extender pin is present.

An intelligent elevator controlling method and device based on distributed multi-channel CAN bus is disclosed. Said device is composed of a cluster operating controller, single-elevator controllers communiated with said cluster operating controller via CAN bus, and the cage controllers, floor calling controllers, LCD controllers and speech floor reporting controllers respectively for each of elevators. Its control method is also disclosed.

Since a first layer (a carbon layer 2a) whose chief ingredient is carbon and a second layer (Li absorbing layer 3a) containing particles having a theoretical capacity greater than that of graphite are formed on anode collector 1a, high capacity and high operation voltage can be realized. Since a element having a theoretical capacity equal to or less than that of graphite is added to the particles constituting this second layer, expansion and contraction of volume according to the charge and discharge are suppressed. This enables capacity deterioration to be suppressed even though cycles go on.

A clock duty ratio correction circuit corrects a duty ratio of internal clock signals at 1:1. The clock duty ratio correction circuit comprises a clock buffer unit, a charge pump unit, a comparison control unit, a voltage comparison unit, a counter and a D / A converter. The clock duty ratio correction circuit converts a differential internal clock signal into a voltage level corresponding to the pulse width of the differential internal clock signal, and compares the voltage level to generate a count signal. Additionally, the clock duty ratio correction circuit divides a reference voltage at a predetermined ratio in response to the count signal to generate a duty ratio correcting signal, and corrects the duty ratio of the differential internal clock signal by using the voltage level difference of the duty ratio correcting signal.

The invention discloses a production technology for recovering ammonium thiosulfate and ammonium thiocyanate from the desulfuration waste liquid, whose technological steps are: pretreating the waste liquid containing sulfur, concentrating the waste liquid containing sulfur, crystallizing and separating, and purifying the ammonium thiosulfate. The invention has simple technology and stable operation, which performs machining and processing to the waste liquid containing sulfur in the producing process of HPF desulfuration in a plant, thus, the extracted ammonium thiosulfate and ammonium thiocyanate have good quality and yield, thereby effectively solving the recovering process of the waste water containing sulfur in the producing process of HPF desulfuration. The invention not only reduces the waste water exhausting and environmental pollution, but also recovers the chemical industrial material at the same time, increasing the economic benefits of the enterprises.

The invention discloses an energy-saving low-temperature multiple-effect seawater desalting device, which is used for solving the problems of high operation cost and unstable operation of a desalting device. The energy-saving low-temperature multiple-effect seawater desalting device comprises a steam ejector, evaporators and a condenser, wherein multiple effect evaporators are connected in series; after improvement, the heat source of the device consists of a steel mill off-gas pipeline and a waste heat boiler; the waste heat boiler converts steel mill waste heat off-gas into saturated steam and overheat steam; the saturated steam and overheat steam are introduced into the first effect evaporator through the steam ejector; and the outlet of the last effect evaporator is connected with the condenser. The energy-saving low-temperature multiple-effect seawater desalting device has the advantages that: a, the waste heat boiler is introduced, the steel mill off-gas is fully utilized, the energy is saved, the operating cost of the device is reduced, and the pollution of the steelmaking off-gas on the environment is reduced; and b, the heat of finished water and strong brine is fully utilized, the temperature of the seawater at the inlet and outlet of the condenser is kept stable through intelligent pipeline control despite of the change of the temperature of seawater, and the equipment has the stable and optimized running state.

A passive optical network system based on label exchanging protocol of universal multi-protocol is prepared as connecting optical line terminal OLT to multiple optical network unit ONU by wideband passive optical distribution network , using OLT and ONU as edge router and GMPLS domain of said exchanging protocol for being connected to the other GMPLS router in said multi-protocol by communication link , using OLT as intermediate router of integrated service in system individually for controlling all communication activities , using ONU as inlet router of integrated service in system for executing command of OLT .

The present invention is a vibration-generating small-sized motor that comprises within an external housing case thereof a stator and a rotor, a commutation mechanism, a power supply terminal that connects electrically with an electrode or a power supply land of the electronic equipment, and a terminal-blade mount on which the power supply terminal is mounted, wherein the power supply terminal includes a pair of resilient terminal blades that are located on the terminal-blade mount provided at a face of the external housing case of the motor, facing each other and pressing together, and the electrode or the power supply land on the circuit board are clamped between the resilient terminal blades, whereby the vibration-generating small-sized motor can be electrically connected to the power supply of the electronic equipment. Accordingly, the power supply terminal of the vibrating motor mounted in the portable electronic equipment can be electrically connected to the electrode or the power supply land on the circuit board in the electronic equipment with high reliability and this connection can be maintained continually over a long period.

The invention discloses a wearable type somatosensory control mechanical arm. The wearable type somatosensory control mechanical arm comprises a mechanical arm body, a wireless terminal data processing and transmitting system, a human body arm posture data collecting system and an arm control end data processing and transmitting system. The mechanical arm body is connected with the wireless terminal data processing and transmitting system, the human body arm posture data collecting system is connected with the arm control end data processing and transmitting system, and the arm control end data processing and transmitting system is in data communication with the wireless terminal data processing and transmitting system through wireless signals. The mechanical arm control scheme for directly controlling the mechanical arm body through the human body arm somatosensory can be applied to the industrial control field, the defect of a traditional mechanical arm control scheme is avoided, and rapid and effective control can be efficiency carried out through the human body.

The present invention provides a CTCS-3 onboard device for automatic train operation and a rail transit vehicle, wherein the CTCS-3 onboard device for automatic train operation comprises: an interface module (10) and a train control command generating module (11), wherein the interface module (10) is connected to the train control command generating module (11), an automatic train protection device (20), and a train control interface (21), respectively; the train control command generating module (11) exchanges information with the automatic train protection device (20) and the train control interface (21) via the interface module (10); and the train control command generating module (11) is used to generate train control commands according to information received via the interface module (10), and transmit the train control commands to the train control interface (21) via the interface module (10), so that devices connected to the train control interface (21) can obtain and execute the commands. The CTCS-3 onboard device for automatic train operation and the rail transit car according to the present invention can efficiently and automatically control a high-speed train, which in turn enables the smooth operation and stopping precision, thereby improving passenger comfort and satisfaction.

The invention discloses batch calibration equipment and a batch calibration method for intelligent pointer-type pressure gages. The batch calibration equipment comprises a horizontal calibration platform, a horizontal testing pipe, a plurality of quick connectors for being installed on a plurality of calibration pressure meters respectively, two image acquisition devices which are located in front of the horizontal calibration platform, an image processing device, a pressurization device and a pressure regulation device which regulates pressure in the horizontal testing pipe. The batch calibration method comprises the following steps of: firstly, doing a preparation work before calibration; secondly, inputting and matching models of the pressure gages to be calibrated; thirdly, obtaining data of dial plate templates; fourth, acquiring and dividing images of dial plates, and detecting straight lines at which pointers are located; fifth, matching the templates; sixth, obtaining numberical reading of the pressure meters, and the numberical reading obtaining process comprises the following steps of: obtaining dial plate image information to be processed, matching binocular stereo-vision images and processing the data. The batch calibration equipment disclosed by the invention is reasonable in design, simple and convenient in use and operation, has a good use effect, and calibration efficiency and calibration accuracy of the pointer-type pressure gages are greatly improved.

The present invention provides a secondary battery controller and a method for controlling a secondary battery that can increase the continuous operating time of an apparatus in which a plurality of secondary batteries are switched and used, and an electronic apparatus. The secondary battery controller includes the following; a plurality of temperature detectors that detect temperatures of a plurality of secondary batteries having the same rating, respectively; a switching device that connects an output of any one of the plurality of secondary batteries to a load; and a control portion that selects which secondary battery to use from the plurality of secondary batteries and controls the switching device to switch between the secondary batteries based on temperature information of each of the plurality of secondary batteries obtained by the temperature detectors. The control portion connects the selected secondary battery to the load, and then switches the secondary battery connected to the load to another non-selected secondary battery in sequence when the first selected secondary battery reaches a predetermined threshold temperature, and further reconnects the first selected secondary battery to the load when the last selected secondary battery reaches the threshold temperature after all the secondary batteries have been selected.

To provide a refrigerating apparatus that can control the supercooling degree of liquid refrigerant irrespective of changes in circulating refrigerant amounts in a refrigeration cycle, a refrigerating apparatus includes a refrigeration cycle having one or more compressors or inverter compressor, a condenser, an expansion valve, and an evaporator; a liquid introduction circuit that guides decompressed refrigerant obtained by extracting one part of high pressure liquid refrigerant from the refrigeration cycle and decompressing, to a supercooling heat exchanger provided in the refrigeration cycle to perform heat transfer between the decompressed refrigerant and high pressure liquid refrigerant, and then introduces the refrigerant into refrigerant for intake into the compressors or inverter compressor or an intermediate pressure part of these compressors; a controller controlling shutdown of the compressors or driving frequencies of the inverter compressor based on suction pressure detection values with respect to pressure setting values for suction pressure of the compressors or inverter compressor; and a flow controller controlling the amount of high pressure liquid refrigerant flowing through the liquid introduction circuit based on the circulating volume of refrigerant in the refrigeration cycle.

In an endoscope apparatus of the present invention, an one-side gap between a tube main body of an overtube and an insertion portion is set at 0.5 mm to 1.5 mm. Lubricity is improved because a lubricating liquid such as water supplied from the injection port to the base end side of the tube main body is sufficiently supplied to the whole area of the gap between the tube main body and the insertion portion by setting the one-side gap at not less than 0.5 mm. Also, the snaking of the insertion portion with respect to the tube main body can be held to a minimum by setting the one-side gap at not more than 1.5 mm. As a result of this, the insertion and extraction operability of the insertion portion with respect to the overtube is improved.