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Electronic display devices and methods are described. In one embodiment, a display device comprises a housing and a display area provided within the housing to display content for a user. Memory is provided within the housing to hold data that is to be rendered into user-viewable content. An electrophotographic assembly is provided within the housing and is configured to electrophotographically render user-viewable content from the data that is held in the memory. A loop of material is disposed proximate the electrophotographic assembly and is configured to receive electrophotographically rendered content and present the content for user viewing within the display area. A control area is provided on the housing and includes one or more user-engagable structures to permit a user to interact with the device. The control area is positioned on the housing to accommodate one-handed use of the device. In one embodiment, the control area is provided on a sidewall that extends between front and back faces of the housing. The user-engagable structures can comprise any suitable user engagable structure, with an exemplary structure comprising a rocker-type switch which accommodates one-handed use of the display reader.

Devices are provided for the controlled exposure or release of contents stored in hermetically sealed reservoirs. The devices comprise a primary substrate having a front side and a back side, and including one or more hermetic sealing materials; a plurality of reservoirs in the primary substrate positioned between the front side and the back side; reservoir contents, which comprise chemical molecules (such as drugs) or a secondary device (such as a glucose sensor), located inside the reservoirs; a hermetic sealing substrate having a surface composed of one or more hermetic sealing materials; and a hermetic seal formed between and joining the primary substrate and the hermetic sealing substrate, wherein the hermetic seal independently seals the reservoirs.

Microelectronic imager assemblies comprising a workpiece including a substrate and a plurality of imaging dies on and / or in the substrate. The substrate includes a front side and a back side, and the imaging dies comprise imaging sensors at the front side of the substrate and external contacts operatively coupled to the image sensors. The microelectronic imager assembly further comprises optics supports superimposed relative to the imaging dies. The optics supports can be directly on the substrate or on a cover over the substrate. Individual optics supports can have (a) an opening aligned with one of the image sensors, and (b) a bearing element at a reference distance from the image sensor. The microelectronic imager assembly can further include optical devices mounted or otherwise carried by the optics supports.

The intervertebral implant is in the form of a three-dimensional structure (10) comprising (a) a top side (1) and an underside (2) which are designed to rest against the end plates of two adjacent vertebras, (b) a left side face (3) and a right side face (4), (c) a front face (5) and a rear face (6), (d) a horizontal center plane situated between the top side (1) and the underside (2), (e) a vertical center plane (8) situated between the left side face (3) and the right side face (8) and (f) a plurality of boreholes (9) passing through the implant structure (10) that are designed to receive longitudinal affixation elements (20), the axes (19) of said elements intersecting the horizontal center plane (7). At least one of the boreholes (9) is designed in a manner that the affixation element (10) received in it can be rigidly connected to the intervertebral implant. Said connection is implemented using a thread or by matching conical surfaces.

A transparent four rank memory module has a front side and a back side. The front side has a third memory rank stacked on a first memory rank. The back side has a fourth memory rank stacked on a second memory rank. An emulator coupled to the memory module activates and controls one individual memory rank from either the first memory rank, the second memory rank, the third memory rank, or the fourth memory rank based on the signals received from a memory controller.

The present invention provides a fixed format display panel having a front side and a rear side and comprising a plurality of rows of addressable pixelated reflective light modulating means and at least one longitudinal light guiding structure having at least one emissive light source at at least one of a first and second end. Light coming from the at least one emissive light source is projected across the display panel through the at least one longitudinal light guiding structure and is reflected by said light modulating means through an angle towards the front side.

In a multilayer wiring board comprising a core board, and a wiring layer and an electrically insulating layer that are stacked on one surface of said core board, a thermal expansion coefficient of said core board in XY directions falls within a range of 2 to 20 ppm, a core member for said core board is a core member selected from silicon, ceramics, glass, a glass-epoxy composite, and metal, said core board is provided with a plurality of through holes that are made conductive between the front and the back by a conductive material, and a capacitor is provided on one surface of said core board, wherein said capacitor comprises an upper electrode being the conductive material in said through hole, and a lower electrode disposed so as to confront said upper electrode via a dielectric layer.

A plastic film bag with an air cushion has a bag body (14) composed of a front side (17a) and a back side (17b) made by folding a tubular material (11) which has a plurality of plastic film long cells (12) which are arranged and connected in parallel at substantially a center with respect to a direction of longer dimensions of the cells (12) and by fusing the folded portion at both sides (16), a flap (20) which is extended from an open end (18) of the back side of the bag body and which comprises a plurality of cells (21) which communicate with the cells (12) formed in the bag body, and air injection means (31, 32, 33) which is provided for the bag body to inject air into the cells (12, 21). When the cells are filled with air after an item (A) is contained in the bag body, the flap is pressed between the item contained in the bag body and the front side swollen with air, and the flap does not come out easily.

The invention relates to the field of printed security documents and, more particularly, to security documents and methods of making security documents bearing enhanced security features. The security documents may include identification documents or any other known documents of value. The security document includes a transparent window area with an ultraviolet blocking agent incorporated therein. Invisible ultraviolet fluorescent ink patterns are printed on respective opposite sides of the ultraviolet blocking agent within the region of the transparent window area. When either the face side or back side of the security document is illuminated with ultraviolet light, only the pattern printed proximate that side within the area of the transparent window becomes visible. When both face and back sides are simultaneously illuminated with ultraviolet light, the patterns printed on both sides of the ultraviolet blocking agent within the area of the transparent window become visible at the same time.

A dual light emission panel (panel capable of displaying images on both screens) is mounted in a display device or a portable information terminal to achieve a module with a small volume. The display device of the invention comprises a display screen, a first housing and a second housing that are connected to each other, and a dual light emission panel including display screens each on the front side and the back side. The dual light emission panel is connected to the first housing, disposed between the first housing and the second housing when overlapping the first housing, and rotated around a connecting point of the dual light emission panel and the first housing.

Provided is a method of displaying a user interface of a portable terminal having a two-sided touch screen where a first touch sensor and a second touch sensor are formed to the front side and the backside of a display unit. The method includes displaying a user interface including at least one of a background screen and at least one or more contents in the display unit. The method also includes changing brightness of the user interface according to a detected state of the portable terminal based on a touch event.

A method for electronically transmitting or transferring checks between financial institution(s) particularly between an Originating Depository Financial Institution (ODFI) and a receiving banking financial institution (RDFI) comprising scanning each of the check(s) to electromagnetically read “MICR” line information printed on each check; capturing an image of the front and back of each check; forming a computer document file of the scanned MICR line information for each check; transmitting the computer file over the internet via e-mail to the receiving depository financial institution (RDFI) upon which the check is drawn using the e-mail address consisting of the ABA routing number and the corresponding domain name of the receiving depository financial institution (RDFI) as currently maintained by the RDFI financial institution and returning the original check(s) to the maker(s) account or a substitute image thereof.

An equipment fan has a housing (100) which is configured as a plug-in module for an equipment rack. The housing has a front side (102) and a back side (104), the latter being slid into the equipment rack (320) first upon installation. For latching into this kind of equipment, the housing (100) has at least one resiliently deflectable detent member (142, 152), which, for its actuation, is associated with a respective actuation member (144, 154) that is operable from the front side of the housing. Troughs (160, 170) are located on the front side (102), and a respective actuator (146, 148, 156, 158) for each deflectable member is located in each. The detent member (142, 152) has pretensioning which urges the detent member away from the housing (100) so that, when the housing is slid into a piece of equipment, latching of the housing (100) therein is accomplished.

A modular data center includes a plurality of racks, each of the racks having a front face and a back face, wherein the plurality of racks is arranged in a first row and a second row, such that the back faces of racks of the first row are facing the second row, and the back faces of the racks of the second row are facing the first row, a first end panel coupled between a first rack of the first row and a first rack of the second row, the first end panel having a bottom edge and a tope edge, a second end panel coupled between a second rack of the first row and a second rack of the second row, the second end panel having a top edge and a bottom edge, and a roof panel coupled between the top edge of the first panel and the top edge of the second panel.

The method of forming pleated filter media includes providing a generally planar web of filter material, folding the web to form a pleated web having a plurality of fold lines, arranging the plurality of pleats in a first spaced configuration defined by a first distance between adjacent pleat tips, applying a continuous strand of adhesive to the web, and adjusting the arrangement of the plurality of pleats into a second spaced configuration defined by a second distance between adjacent pleat tips. The web has a front face and a rear face. Each fold line is intermediate oppositely sloping first and second wall surfaces. The plurality of fold lines form a plurality of pleats having a first plurality of pleat tips and a second plurality of pleat valleys. The second distance is different from the first distance.

A display device for capturing and displaying images along a single optical axis. The device includes a display panel having a front side and a back side, said display panel capable of being placed in a first display state which allows displaying of an image on said front side for viewing of an image and a second transmissive state wherein said display panel becomes substantially transmissive so as to allow capture of an image of an object positioned in front of said front side of said display panel. An image capture device is provided for capturing said objective image through said display panel when said display device is in the second transmissive state. An image supply source is provided for providing an image to said display panel when said display panel is in said first display state and a mechanism for alternating placing said display panel between said first display state and second transmissive state such that an image can be viewed on said display screen and said object can be captured in a manner such that said alternating between said first display state and said second transmissive state is substantially imperceptible to a user of said display panel.

The present discussion generally describes separable playing cards that can be reassembled, methods of separating and reassembling the playing cards, and methods of using the playing cards in a gaming environment. The playing cards are combined from constituent components, which are a face and a back. The face can have a suit marking, a rank marking, or both. The combination of any given face and back represents a pairing. This pairing can be changed or reconfigured by separating the face from the back and reordering at least the faces or the backs. The reordered faces and backs can be assembled back into respective playing cards and used in a subsequent card game. The reordering can be done manually, mechanically, or computationally generated. The playing cards can include unique identifiers that can be read by a machine and used to verify that a sufficient number of the original pairings have been altered.

A solar cell structure has a solar cell unit structure including a heat sink, and a solar cell having a front side, a back side, and a solar-cell projected area coverage on the heat sink. The solar cell has an active semiconductor structure that produces a voltage between the front side and the back side when the front side is illuminated. An intermediate structure is disposed between and joined to the back side of the solar cell and to the heat sink. The intermediate structure has an intermediate-structure projected area coverage on the heat sink and includes a by-pass diode having a diode projected area coverage on the heat sink. The diode projected area coverage on the heat sink may be substantially the same as the intermediate-structure projected coverage on the heat sink. Alternatively, the diode projected area coverage on the heat sink maybe less than the solar-cell projected area coverage on the heat sink, and the intermediate structure further includes a substrate coplanar with the by-pass diode.

In a fold-up type of portable telephone device, the casing to be opened / closed has liquid crystal display devices on its front and back sides, which causes occurrence of noise. In view of this, in the liquid crystal display device of a portable telephone device, a flexible connection substrate is used to integrally form first and second liquid crystal display parts with a driver circuit shared therebetween. The first liquid crystal display part is connected to the flexible connection substrate to which the second liquid crystal display part is connected. The second liquid crystal display device is formed by adding the flexible connection substrate to the first liquid crystal display part, and both are driven by the driver circuit. Not only an alternative display but also simultaneous displays can be selectively performed.

The present invention is a filter that includes a length of filter media and a continuous, substantially nonlinear adhesive strand. The filter media has a front face and a rear face. The filter media has a plurality of pleats defined by a plurality of fold lines, each fold line being intermediate oppositely sloping first and second wall surfaces. The plurality of fold lines comprise a first plurality of pleat tips and a second plurality of pleat valleys. The adhesive strand is provided on the front face of the filter media in discontinuous contact with the filter media. The adhesive strand contacts the filter media at a pleat tip and contacts the filter media at a portion of a first wall surface and contacts the filter media at a portion of a second wall surface.

A display system (1) having improved viewability and reduced in size and manufacturing cost has a display device (10) which includes an image forming layer (111) capable of emitting display light toward both front and back sides, and which can produce a display on a first surface (11) by a display light portion emitted toward the back side and produce a display on a second surface (12) at the back of the first surface by a display light portion emitted toward the back side. The display also has an optical transmission control device (20, 21) which is placed along at least one of the first surface and the second surface, and which can control transmission of at least one of background light from a position at the back of the second surface as viewed from the first surface side and background light from a position at the back of the first surface as viewed from the second surface side.

A fuel cell including primarily (a) a membrane electrode assembly, which comprises (i) a proton exchange membrane having a front face and a rear face, (ii) an anode being coupled to the front face, and (iii) a cathode being coupled to the rear face; (b) a fuel permeation-controlling member positioned in front of the anode; the member being substantially impermeable to an organic fuel or water at an ambient temperature or below, but being permeable at a temperature higher than an activation temperature; (c) heating means in control relation to the fuel permeation-controlling member to activate fuel permeation through the member on demand. The invented fuel cell is compact and lightweight, with significantly reduced fuel crossover and improved fuel utilization efficiency. The fuel cell is particularly useful for powering small vehicles and portable devices such as a notebook computer, a personal digital assistant, a mobile phone, and a digital camera.

An encoded transactional card system comprising a carrier having a first side, a second side, a top side, a bottom side, a front and a back; a card having a first side, a second side, a top side, bottom side, a front and a back, wherein the card is connected to and selectively detachable from the carrier and wherein the carrier generally surrounds the card first side, the top or bottom side and the second side; and a magnetic strip for encoding information wherein the magnetic strip traverses the carrier from the carrier first side across the card to the carrier second side.

An optically or electronically transparent keyboard is disclosed having a key support, a display area, and keyboard transparency enabling keyboard operation from the front or rear. A keyboard, preferably of the QWERTY variety, is provided with transparent keyboard sections overlying one another. The keyboard sections when open dispose keyboard halves. QWERTY alignment is the same on the front and backside of the keyboard so that data entry is intuitive. Operation of the folding transparent keyboard can occur conventionally on a support surface or be enabled by support of the keyboard and miniaturized device in the palms of the user. In the palms of the user, the backside keyboard can be used with transparent viewing of the finger input. The sides of the keyboard are ergonomically shaped to position the hands properly, give better control of the keyboard while also making it easier to enter data.

A wheel retention nut includes a body having a front face and a rear face. A central bore with internal threads extends through the body. A first outer perimeter of a first diameter is positioned adjacent to the front face. The first outer perimeter defines a polygon adapted to receive a wrench. A second outer perimeter of a second diameter, which is larger than the first diameter, is positioned adjacent to the rear face. The second outer perimeter is sized to retain an eccentrically rotating wheel.

A transversely-illuminated display including a transparent sheet with a front face and a rear face wherein the light-transparent sheet includes a light source disposed in a recess in the sheet. The display further includes a front image layer disposed on a front face of the transparent sheet and a rear image layer is disposed on a rear face of the transparent sheet substantially in registry with the front image layer, wherein the front image layer and the rear image layer are positioned so that the light within the transparent sheet will shine onto the rear image layer thereby to enhance illumination of the rear image layer. The display has a structure such that a portion of the light within the transparent sheet forms an image of a halo or aura of light surrounding the rear image layer.

A method for fabricating an imaging system is disclosed. The method starts with a wafer having front and backsides. A plurality of the imaging systems are fabricated on the front side of the wafer, each imaging system includes an imaging array that includes a plurality of pixels. Each pixel converts light incident on that pixel to an electrical signal. Support circuitry surrounds each imaging array. A mask is generated on the backside of the wafer in areas opposite to the support circuitry. The backside of the wafer is then etched in areas not covered by the mask to remove material opposite the imaging array thereby creating ridges surrounding each of the imaging arrays. The ridges have a thickness greater than the thickness of the wafer at locations having the imaging arrays. The method can be used to fabricate backside imagers constructed from either CCD or CMOS imaging arrays

A fabric having a face surface and a back surface forming a fabric plane, wherein the fabric is further processed to produce spaced apart, repeated patterned domes extending out of the fabric plane, the domes forming channels therebetween, producing a molded formed 3-D fabric for evaporative cooling and / or insulation as well as comfort, stretch, compression resistance, decreased weight, and improved drape, softness, and / or conformability, depending upon the yarn component and fabric properties.

A self-supporting, pleated filter, and method of making the same. The method includes forming a plurality of pleats in a filter media that extend along a front face and a rear face. The pleats include a plurality of pleat tips and sloping side surfaces generally perpendicular to the direction of pleating. At least one planar reinforcing strip oriented in the direction of pleating is bonded to the pleat tips on the front face. At least one reinforcing member is positioned along the rear face of the filter media. The filter media is then cut to size. Frame members are applied for some applications. The reinforcing member may be a reinforcing strip oriented in the direction of pleating and bonded to the rear face of the filter media prior to the step of forming the plurality of pleats. A second planar reinforcing strip may optionally be bonded to the reinforcing strip pleat tips. The reinforcing member, the first reinforcing strip and the second reinforcing strip can be aligned to form a truss structure. Alternatively, reinforcing strips oriented perpendicular to the direction of pleating are bonded to the rear face of the filter media prior to the step of forming the pleats. In another embodiment, a reinforcing member is applied to the rear face of the filter media after the pleats have been formed. The reinforcing member is positioned along at least one of the sloping side surfaces of the pleats on the rear face in a direction perpendicular to the direction of pleating. In another embodiment, a scrim is positioned along the rear face of the filter media. The scrim can be bonded to the frame members, the filter media and / or a portion of the frame members extend over a perimeter of the scrim to secure it to the pleated filter.