928 results about "High ratio" patented technology

A method of filling a trench is described and includes depositing a dielectric liner with a high ratio of silicon oxide to dielectric liner etch rate in fluorine-containing etch chemistries. Silicon oxide is deposited within the trench and etched to reopen or widen a gap near the top of the trench. The dielectric liner protects the underlying substrate during the etch process so the gap can be made wider. Silicon oxide is deposited within the trench again to substantially fill the trench.

A system, apparatus, methods, and computer program products enabling an advertiser to increase or maximize sales and / or profits of a company, brand, and / or product by determining the optimum size of an advertising budget and / or optimizing the allocation of an advertising budget to those media channels, operators within any given media channel, program / page provided by any given operator, and / or space within any given program / page, which generates the highest ratio of sales on invested capital, maximum sales, and / or maximum profits. A system and method of enabling an advertiser to input online the parameters of an advertising campaign, including, but not limited to: the product category, the budget, the characteristics of the target customer, and the desired timing; generating an optimum allocation of said budget which generates the highest ratio of sales on invested capital, maximum sales, and / or maximum profits; enabling operators to offer online the availability of advertisement inventory on their programs / pages and / or spaces; automating the process of determining the optimum size of an advertising budget and / or optimizing the allocation of an advertising budget; integrating advertising planning and purchasing into an advertiser's enterprise resource planning system; enabling an advertiser to bid online to advertise on said programs / pages and / or spaces; and matching advertisers and operators to execute the purchase of said advertisement inventory.

This invention relates to a system and method to generate a private, auditable, evidentiary quality record of the location-history of an asset or person. This invention addresses ten critical improvements over existing systems that are proposed or used for metering for payment services for tolling roads, parking or pay-as-you-drive insurance, namely, cost-effective location accuracy in harsh signal environments, evidentiary assurance of location estimation, handling of dynamic and stationary positioning in a single device, high-ratio compression for a set of stationary positions in urban canyon, high-ratio compression for a dynamic tracklog in urban canyon, high-ratio compression for a set of asset motion behaviors, a method of remote device health check, including anti-tampering, removal of residual price assignment errors, anonymous use without on-board maps, and a method of deconsolidating payments to multiple payees with multiple payment regimes. This system can be applied to road-pricing, congestion-pricing, metered-by-the-minute parking and pay-as-you-drive insurance, incorporating privacy management, and legal admissibility of the evidentiary record. This same device can also be applied to vehicular fleets, military ordinance, or other location audits for assets whether motorized or not, as might be needed in evidence of contract fulfillment or other forms of non-realtime geofencing audits.

A magnetic write head provides a significant write field and minimal adjacent track erasure, and lends itself to improved manufacturability. The write head includes a pedestal throat height that defines a bottom pole, P1, and that is substantially recessed from the air bearing surface. The write head further includes a top pole, P2, that defines a nose that is closer to the air bearing surface than the pedestal zero throat. This design achieves a relatively high ratio of the off-track to on-track field. As an example, a 1:4 ratio could be achieved to significantly mitigate the erasure problem of the adjacent tracks resulting from magnetic flux saturation.

Symmetrical / asymmetrical bidirectional S-shaped I-V characteristics with trigger voltages ranging from 10 V to over 40 V and relatively high holding current are obtained for advanced sub-micron silicided CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) / BiCMOS (Bipolar CMOS) technologies by custom implementation of P1-N2-P2-N1 / / N1-P3-N3-P1 lateral structures with embedded ballast resistance 58, 58A, 56, 56A and periphery guard-ring isolation 88-86. The bidirectional protection devices render a high level of electrostatic discharge (ESD) immunity for advanced CMOS / BiCMOS processes with no latchup problems. Novel design-adapted multifinger 354 / interdigitated 336 layout schemes of the ESD protection cells allow for scaling-up the ESD performance of the protection structure and custom integration, while the I-V characteristics 480 are adjustable to the operating conditions of the integrated circuit (IC). The ESD protection cells are tested using the TLP (Transmission Line Pulse) technique, and ESD standards including HBM (Human Body Model), MM (Machine Model), and IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) IEC 1000-4-2 standard for ESD immunity. ESD protection performance is demonstrated also at high temperature (140° C.). The unique high ratio of dual-polarity ESD protection level per unit area, allows for integration of fast-response and compact protection cells optimized for the current tendency of the semiconductor industry toward low cost and high density-oriented IC design. Symmetric / asymmetric dual polarity ESD protection performance is demonstrated for over 15 kV HBM, 2 kV MM, and 16.5 kV IEC for sub-micron technology.

A coated article is provided with a low-emissivity (low-E) layer stack for use in a window unit or the like. The layer stack, or coating, may permit the coated article to achieve one or more of a fairly low solar factor (SF) value, a high selectivity (Tvis / SF) value, substantially neutral color at normal and / or off-axis viewing angles, and / or low emissivity. When high selectivity values are achieved, there is provided a high ratio of visible transmission to SF, which is a desirable feature in certain example instances. In certain example embodiments, a sub-oxide layer (e.g., NiCrOx) may be used as a contact layer under an infrared (IR) reflecting layer in order to permit low SF values, high selectivity, and good coloration to be achieved.

A coated article is provided with a low-emissivity (low-E) layer stack for use in a window unit or the like. The layer stack, or coating, may permit the coated article to achieve one or more of a low solar factor (SF) value, a high selectivity (Tvis / SF) value, substantially neutral color at normal and / or off-axis viewing angles, and / or low emissivity. When high selectivity values are achieved, there is provided a high ratio of visible transmission to SF, which is a desirable feature in certain example instances. In certain example embodiments, a sub-oxide layer may be used as a contact layer under an infrared (IR) reflecting layer in order to permit low SF values, high selectivity, and good coloration to be achieved.

Methods for the preparation of a lipid-nucleic acid composition are provided. According to the methods, a mixture of lipids containing a protonatable or deprotonatable lipid, for example an amino lipid and a lipid such as a PEG- or Polyamide oligomer-modified lipid is combined with a buffered aqueous solution of a charged therapeutic agent, for example polyanionic nucleic acids, to produce particles in which the therapeutic agent is encapsulated in a lipid vesicle. Surface charges on the lipid particles are at least partially neutralized to provide surface-neutralized lipid-encapsulated compositions of the therapeutic agents. The method permits the preparation of compositions with high ratios of therapeutic agent to lipid and with encapsulation efficiencies in excess of 50%.

Disclosed are embodiments of systems and methods to generate background and foreground images for a document, which enables high-quality and high-ratio document compression. In embodiments, high-accuracy layer processing enables text enhancement, paper color removal, and many other advanced image analysis and processing. Embodiments of the systems support several operation modes and its many parameters, such as layer compression ratios, image segmentation, and modulized image processing, may be adjusted to generate optimal compressed files for different purposes.

A process for manufacturing a lubricating base oil, comprising dewaxing a substantially paraffinic wax feed by hydroisomerization dewaxing using a shape selective intermediate pore size molecular sieve under hydroisomerization conditions including a hydrogen to feed ratio from about 712.4 to about 3562 liter H2 / liter oil, whereby a lubricating base oil is produced having a)a total weight percent of molecules with cycloparaffinic functionality greater than 10, and b) a ratio of weight percent molecules with monocycloparaffinic functionality to weight percent molecules with multicycloparaffinic functionality greater than 30. Also a method for producing a base oil having a high ratio of weight percent molecules with monocycloparaffinic functionality to weight percent molecules with multicycloparaffinic functionality by hydroisomerization dewaxing a selected Fischer-Tropsch wax under hydroisomerization conditions including a hydrogen to feed ratio from about 712.4 to about 3562 liter H2 / liter oil. Also a lubricating base oil manufacturing plant.

Unique thermoplastic monofilament fibers and yarns that exhibit heretofore unattained physical properties are provided. Such fibers are basically manufactured through the extrusion of thermoplastic resins that include a certain class of nucleating agent therein, and are able to be drawn at high ratios with such nucleating agents present that the tenacity and modulus strength are much higher than any other previously produced thermoplastic fibers, particularly those that also simultaneously exhibit extremely low shrinkage rates. Thus, such fibers require the presence of certain compounds that quickly and effectively provide rigidity to the target thermoplastic (for example, polypropylene), particularly after heat-setting. Generally, these compounds include any structure that nucleates polymer crystals within the target thermoplastic after exposure to sufficient heat to melt the initial pelletized polymer and allowing such an oriented polymer to cool. The compounds must nucleate polymer crystals at a higher temperature than the target thermoplastic without the nucleating agent during cooling. In such a manner, the "rigidifying" nucleator compounds provide nucleation sites for thermoplastic crystal growth. The preferred "rigidifying" compounds include dibenzylidene sorbitol based compounds, as well as less preferred compounds, such as [2.2.1]heptane-bicyclodicarboxylic acid, otherwise known as HPN-68, sodium benzoate, certain sodium and lithium phosphate salts [such as sodium 2,2'-methylene-bis-(4,6-di-tert-butylphenyl)phosphate, otherwise known as NA-11]. Specific methods of manufacture of such inventive thermoplastic fibers, as well as fabric articles made therefrom, are also encompassed within this invention.

A method of filling a trench is described and includes depositing a dielectric liner with a high ratio of silicon oxide to dielectric liner etch rate in fluorine-containing etch chemistries. Silicon oxide is deposited within the trench and etched to reopen or widen a gap near the top of the trench. The dielectric liner protects the underlying substrate during the etch process so the gap can be made wider. Silicon oxide is deposited within the trench again to substantially fill the trench.

This invention relates to a system and method to generate a private, auditable, evidentiary quality record of the location-history of an asset or person. This invention addresses ten critical improvements over existing systems that are proposed or used for metering for payment services for tolling roads, parking or pay-as-you-drive insurance, namely, cost-effective location accuracy in harsh signal environments, evidentiary assurance of location estimation, handling of dynamic and stationary positioning in a single device, high-ratio compression for a set of stationary positions in urban canyon, high-ratio compression for a dynamic tracklog in urban canyon, high-ratio compression for a set of asset motion behaviors, a method of remote device health check, including anti-tampering, removal of residual price assignment errors, anonymous use without on-board maps, and a method of deconsolidating payments to multiple payees with multiple payment regimes. This system can be applied to road-pricing, congestion-pricing, metered-by-the-minute parking and pay-as-you-drive insurance, incorporating privacy management, and legal admissibility of the evidentiary record. This same device can also be applied to vehicular fleets, military ordinance, or other location audits for assets whether motorized or not, as might be needed in evidence of contract fulfillment or other forms of non-realtime geofencing audits.

A process for easily synthesizing a zeolite substance containing an element having a large ionic radius in the framework at a high ratio. This process comprises the following first to fourth steps: First Step: a step of heating a mixture containing a template compound, a compound containing a Group 13 element of the periodic table, a silicon-containing compound and water to obtain a precursor (A); Second Step: a step of acid-treating the precursor (A) obtained in the first step; Third Step: a step of heating the acid-treated precursor (A) obtained in the second step together with a mixture containing a template compound and water to obtain a precursor (B); and Fourth Step: a step of calcining the precursor (B) obtained in the third step to obtain a zeolite substance.

A method for preparing polybenzimidazole or polybenzimidazole blend membranes and fabricating gas diffusion electrodes and membrane-electrode assemblies is provided for a high temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell. Blend polymer electrolyte membranes based on PBI and various thermoplastc polymers for high temperature polymer electrolyte fuel cells have also been developed. Miscible blends are used for solution casting of polymer membranes (solid electrolytes). High conductivity and enhanced mechanical strength were obtained for the blend polymer solid electrolytes. With the thermally resistant polymer, e.g., polybenzimidazole or a mixture of polybenzimidazole and other thermoplastics as binder, the carbon-supported noble metal catalyst is tape-cast onto a hydrophobic supporting substrate. When doped with an acid mixture, electrodes are assembled with an acid doped solid electrolyte membrane by hot-press. The fuel cell can operate at temperatures up to at least 200° C. with hydrogen-rich fuel containing high ratios of carbon monoxide such as 3 vol % carbon monoxide or more, compared to the carbon monoxide tolerance of 10-20 ppm level for Nafion®-based polymer electrolyte fuel cells.

A method and computer graphics system capable of super-sampling and performing real-time convolution are disclosed. In one embodiment, the computer graphics system may comprise a graphics processor, a sample buffer, and a sample-to-pixel calculation unit. The graphics processor may be configured to generate a plurality of samples. The sample buffer, which is coupled to the graphics processor, may be configured to store the samples. The sample-to-pixel calculation unit is programmable to generate a first subset of pixels by filtering using the rendered samples and a second subset of the output pixels by interpolating using the first subset of pixels and / or the rendered samples. By interpolating a subset of the output pixels, the graphics system may be able to operate at higher resolutions and / or refresh rates since filtering of the samples is computationally intensive. Any ratio of the number of first subset of pixels to the number of the second subset of pixels may be used, and furthermore, a different ratio may be used for different regions of the display screen. A higher ratio of the number of first subset of pixels to the number of second subset of pixels may be used for regions of the screen where a higher quality image is desired and a lower ration may be used for regions where a lower quality image may be sufficient. For example, a higher quality image may be desired close to and around the foveation point where the eye of an observer is focused.

Symmetrical / asymmetrical bidirectional S-shaped I-V characteristics with trigger voltages ranging from 10 V to over 40 V and relatively high holding current are obtained for advanced sub-micron silicided CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) / BiCMOS (Bipolar CMOS) technologies by custom implementation of P1-N2-P2-N1 / / N1-P3-N3-P1 lateral structures with embedded ballast resistance 58, 58A, 56, 56A and periphery guard-ring isolation 88-86. The bidirectional protection devices render a high level of electrostatic discharge (ESD) immunity for advanced CMOS / BiCMOS processes with no latchup problems. Novel design-adapted multifinger 354 / interdigitated 336 layout schemes of the ESD protection cells allow for scaling-up the ESD performance of the protection structure and custom integration, while the I-V characteristics 480 are adjustable to the operating conditions of the integrated circuit (IC). The ESD protection cells are tested using the TLP (Transmission Line Pulse) technique, and ESD standards including HBM (Human Body Model), MM (Machine Model), and IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) IEC 1000-4-2 standard for ESD immunity. ESD protection performance is demonstrated also at high temperature (140° C.). The unique high ratio of dual-polarity ESD protection level per unit area, allows for integration of fast-response and compact protection cells optimized for the current tendency of the semiconductor industry toward low cost and high density-oriented IC design. Symmetric / asymmetric dual polarity ESD protection performance is demonstrated for over 15 kV HBM, 2 kV MM, and 16.5 kV IEC for sub-micron technology.

Phononic crystals that have the ability to modify and control the thermal black body phonon distribution and the phonon component of heat transport in a solid. In particular, the thermal conductivity and heat capacity can be modified by altering the phonon density of states in a phononic crystal. The present invention is directed to phononic crystal devices and materials such as radio frequency (RF) tags powered from ambient heat, dielectrics with extremely low thermal conductivity, thermoelectric materials with a higher ratio of electrical-to-thermal conductivity, materials with phononically engineered heat capacity, phononic crystal waveguides that enable accelerated cooling, and a variety of low temperature application devices.

The invention discloses a method for preparing electrodes of a dissymmetric super capacitor based on nickel foam. The method comprises the steps: washing the nickel foam, soaking the nickel foam into a graphene oxide aqueous solution to obtain nickel foam in which graphene oxide deposits, serving the nickel foam in which the graphene oxide deposits as precursor materials, and respectively adopting a three-electrode method for preparaing a positive electrode and a negative electrode of the dissymmetric super capacitor, wherein the positive electrode is composed of composite materials of graphene, a carbon nanometer tube and the nickel foam, and the negative electrode is composed of composite materials of graphene, manganese dioxide and the nickel foam. The invention further discloses some other methods for preparing the electrodes of the super capacitor based on the similar principle, and products which correspond to the methods. By means of the methods and the products, respective high-ratio capacitance characteristics of the composite materials are fully played, and energy density of the super capacitor is improved. In addition, usage of various combined reagents can be avoided, and accordingly large-batch industrial production is conducted in a mode of convenient control, low cost and low energy consumption.

Disclosed are embodiments of systems and methods to generate a composite image from an captured image, such as from a whiteboard, chalkboard, paper, card, poster, sign, or the like. Systems and methods are disclosed for generating a foreground image layer and mask layer, which enables high-quality and high-ratio document compression. In embodiments, a foreground image layer and mask layer may be generated by identifying non-background pixels in the captured image.

The present invention relates to a bat with improved playing characteristics. Although the present invention will be described generally, the present invention can be employed with softball, baseball and other types of game bats. Specifically, the present invention relates to a bat with a moment of inertia to weight ratio that is higher then conventional bats. This improved ratio is achieved by producing a bat that is lighter than conventional bats without altering the bat's moment of inertia. The higher ratio of the present invention allows for faster swing speeds with no loss in power. These improved playing characteristics can be achieved in either an aluminum or a composite bat.

A Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT) for use in applications where a transmission is desired to change the speed of the motor relative to the speed of the final drive. The CVT has a set of chains or belts that are mounted around a set of pins set in radially cut slots of a set of spindles so that the pattern of pins are able to expand and contract radially around the CVT axis via these slots. Sprockets that freely spin in either direction unless a chain or belt has fully seated on at least one tooth are arranged on the pins so that only one sprocket engages one chain or belt allowing for smooth ratio changes while the load in engaged. The spindles share a set of springs that act to return the transmission to a higher ratio at moments the load is overcome.

Using metal bonding technique in diffusion bonding form, the method bonds gallium nitride LED developed and prepared on sapphire and silicon chip in low resistance together, and realizes ohmic contact. Advantages are: stable bonding technique, high ratio of good produced parts, small area, using material of luminous layer fully, as well as good conductivity and heat conductivity of substrate.

The invention belongs to the catalyst technical field, in particular to a ZSM-5 zeolite catalyst characterized by high ratio of silica and alumina as well as a preparation method and the application thereof. The catalyst, taking a pure silicon compound with activity as a silicon source, is made by a hydrothermal synthesis method by adding trace aluminum. The ratio of silica and alumina in the zeolite catalyst is over 1,000, sub-micron crystal particles with open channels have large surface area and good molecular diffusivity. The catalyst in the reaction of MTP has excellent catalytic activity, high selectivity of propylene, and high ratio of propylene and ethylene. The catalyst has simple regeneration method and good restoration of performance after regeneration.

The invention provides a preparation method of a nano porous metal oxide / carbon lithium ion battery cathode material. The preparation method comprises the following steps: firstly, weighting ferric salt or manganese salt and carboxylate organic ligands, and putting into a high-pressure reaction kettle; and after a polar solvent is added and dissolved, carrying out a hydrothermal reaction for 10-72h at 100-180 DEG C to generate a transition metal coordination polymer precursor; and after the transition metal coordination polymer precursor is washed and dried, decomposing the precursor for 0.5-6h at a temperature of 300-600 DEG C in an inert atmosphere in a tube furnace, thus obtaining a nano porous metal oxide / carbon lithium ion battery cathode material containing iron oxides or manganese oxides. According to the preparation method, since the transition metal coordination polymer precursor which is structurally designable and controllable is used as a template-type precursor, a nano porous metal oxide / carbon lithium ion battery cathode material is obtained by using an in-situ thermal decomposition method. The method is simple in process, and the obtained products have the advantages of high electrical conductivity, high specific capacity, good cycle stability, excellent high-ratio discharge performance and high energy density.

An absorbent article containing a water-absorbent resin composite comprising one nearly spherical water-absorbent resin particle and two or more fibers, wherein one or more of the fibers are partially embedded in the resin particle and are partially exposed from the resin particle, and wherein one or more of the fibers are never embedded in the resin particle but partially adhere to the surface of the resin particle. In the absorbent article, the water-absorbent resin particle is uniformly fixed on the fiber before, during and after water absorption, so that the water-absorbent resin can exist at a higher ratio to the fiber. Thus, the absorbent article characteristically has great softness and high shape stability.

The invention provides a duplicated data deleting method applicable to cloud backup, which mainly comprises there levels of duplicated data deletion. In the first level, duplicated files are primarily deleted according to the modification time and the backup time of the files; in the second level, global file-based duplicated data is deleted; and in the third level, local block-based duplicated data is deleted. The duplicated data deleting method is progressive level by level, achieves excellent balance between data compression ration and duplicated date searching cost and has high ratio of the data compression ration to the searching cost; a large number of duplicated data is deleted within short time, the transmission and the storage of backup data are reduced, and the problems of overlarge backup window and high storage cost in a cloud backup system are solved.

The invention belongs to the pneumatic technology field, and relates to pneumatic artificial muscle. The artificial muscle consists of an outer mesh grid, an inner expansion tube, a sealing component and a sealing component with air vents. The outer mesh grid is aligned with the inner expansion tube at two ends and sleeved on the inner expansion tube, with the original length thereof a little longer than that of the inner expansion tube; and one end of the outer mesh grid is inserted into the sealing component, and the other end thereof is inserted into the sealing component with air vents. The inner expansion tube of the pneumatic artificial muscle is inflated with air with a certain pressure, so that the inner expansion deforms to cause the outer mesh grid to expand in the radial direction, so as to enable the pneumatic artificial muscle to expand in the radial direction, contract in the axial direction and output certain tensile force. The pneumatic artificial muscle has the characteristics of compact structure, simple manufacture, low price, high flexibility, high ratio of output force to dead weight, effective energy conservation, automatic buffer, pollution resistance, etc., and can be widely applied to the fields of robots, auxiliary medical apparatus and instruments, aviation, defense industry, etc.