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The present disclosure discloses a MOSFET and a method for manufacturing the same, wherein the MOSFET comprises: an SOI wafer which comprises a semiconductor substrate, a buried insulating layer, and a semiconductor layer, the buried insulating layer being on the semiconductor substrate, and the semiconductor layer being on the buried insulating layer; a gate stack on the semiconductor layer; a source region and a drain region, which are in the semiconductor layer and on opposite sides of the gate stack; and a channel region, which is in the semiconductor layer and sandwiched by the source region and the drain region, wherein the MOSFET further comprises a back gate, the back gate being located in the semiconductor substrate and having a first doped region in a lower portion of the back gate and a second doped region in an upper portion of the back gate. The MOSFET can adjust the threshold voltage by changing the doping type and doping concentration of the anti-doped region.

The present invention discloses a U-shaped travel pillow having a base cushion and raised cushion fixed to the top side of the base cushion. The inner peripheral walls of the base and raised cushions are mutually flush, while the rear walls are mutually flush and substantially flat for better contact with flat surfaces, such as a headrest, seat, or chair. Furthermore, the rear wall of the raised cushion is thinner than the sides, providing more liberty to adjust head position by easily adapting to the shape of the headrest, seat or chair. A removable cover is adapted to cover the base and raised cushions, while a drawstring with an adjustable cinch mechanism can be used for adjusting the travel pillow around the neck.

An indication of sharpness of focus is provided to a user to assist in focusing a camera. In one embodiment, the camera is coupled to a personal computer. An algorithm is implemented by the personal computer to determine a sharpness of focus based upon differences between the luminance of adjacent pixels in a selected region of an image produced by the camera. A visual or aural indication of the sharpness of focus is provided to the user to enable the user to focus the camera to the sharpest possible focus. Alternatively, the algorithm can be implemented by a processor within a camera so that a visual or aural indicator on the camera provides the indication of sharpness of focus as a user adjusts the focus of the camera.

Modular joint prostheses and components thereof are disclosed. In an embodiment, a joint prosthesis may include a head member, a neck member, and a stem member.

An expandable gripper assembly may be configured for anchoring a tool in a passage. The expandable gripper assembly includes first, second, and third pivotally connected links that are coupled to a tool. The third link is adapted to engage an inner wall in the passage. An actuation mechanism causes the third link to move radially outward from the tool for engagement with the inner wall. The actuation mechanism may comprise a roller mechanism that pushes on an inner surface of the first link for causing the first link to pivot outward away from the body. As the first and second links pivot outward, the third link moves in a radial direction for engagement with an inner wall.

The invention relates to a capsule containing different active substance pellets with at least two different active substances which differ in their release profile in the gastro-intestinal tract, these active substances being selected from among the vitamins, minerals, trace elements, unsaturated fatty acids, amino acids and / or plant extracts and substances. The different release profiles represent rapid, moderate and / or slow dissolving of the active substance pellets. This controlled release leads to a targeted absorption of the active substances in the different absorption areas of the gastro-intestinal tract. Using the preparation provided according to the invention it is also possible to improve bioavailability to a high degree even when a large number of active substances are present.

A task chair including a base, a seat supported by the base, and a pair of uprights connected to the base and extending upwardly from the seat. A pair of armrests are attached respectively to the uprights, and are selectively positionable along the uprights in a manner in which the height of the armrests along the uprights is adjustable. A backrest is also selectively positionable along the uprights, and the height of the backrest with respect to the seat may be adjusted by moving the backrest upwardly or downwardly along the uprights. The armrests and backrest each include mount sleeves telescopingly slidable along the uprights, each of the mount sleeves including a user-operable adjustment mechanism which includes a lever having a portion thereof selectively engagable with one of a series of holes along the uprights. The adjustment mechanisms of the mount sleeves of the armrests and the backrest are easily operated by a user to independently adjust the armrests and the backrest vertically along the uprights.

A mechanical resonator has an electronically adjustable resonance frequency and is especially adapted to be used as a tunable vibration absorber. The mechanical resonator includes an inertial mass mounted on a free end of a spring, which is secured at its other end to the structure that is to be vibrationally damped. In order to vary the resonant frequency of the resonator, an electromechanical converter such as a piezoelectric element is connected to the spring and / or the inertial mass, and a displacement and / or acceleration sensor provides a sensor signal that is dependent on the respective displacement and / or acceleration of the spring and / or the inertial mass. An electronic control circuit generates an actuating signal based on the sensor signal. The actuating signal is applied to the electro-mechanical converter, which responsively exerts an adjusting force onto the spring and / or the inertial mass. The control circuit may include one or more variable amplifiers, inverters, and phase shifters, to control the actuating signal such that the adjusting force exerted by the electromechanical converter either counteracts or reinforces the bending force exerted by the inertial mass on the spring. In this manner, the effective total spring constant of the resonator can be increased or decreased relative to the inherent spring constant of the spring, whereby the resonant frequency is adjusted.

A treadmill system includes a deck, an endless tread belt covering at least a portion of the deck, a position sensor that senses a position of a user when the user is on the tread belt, and a control module that adjusts a speed of the tread belt in response to an output of the position sensor.

Provided is a steering device in which play of a bolt shaft and the like during telescopic adjustment can be prevented using a telescopic adjustment function enabling a driver to adjust a position of a steering wheel in a front-rear direction. The steering device includes a column pipe, an outer housing, a fixed bracket, a stopper bracket, a tightening member having a bolt shaft, a slide guide, an elastic stopper rubber material mounted on the slide guide, and an elastic pushing member in which torsional coil spring portions are formed at both axial ends of a pushing shaft portion. The bolt shaft is passed through a tightening hole of the outer housing and a support hole of the fixed bracket along shaft support portions of the slide guide, and the elastic pushing member is locked and fixed to the fixed bracket.

A boat trailer step assembly is provided with several features making the assembly adjustable in several respects, allowing the step to be placed at varying positions for different trailers and boats. The step is mounted on a support member made of overlapping parts that can be extended or contracted to obtain different heights. The support member is connected to a rotatable plate at a 45 degree angle. This allows the step to be extended outward in various directions. Adjustment of the step location in a generally front-to-rear direction is provided by sliding a clamping device along a beam of the trailer on which it is mounted.

Method for positioning a viewing axis in relation to a distal fixation hole (2) for an intramedullary nail (1). A rigid support (3) is fixed to the proximal end of the nail (1). An adjustable viewing device (9) is mounted on the rigid support (3). A coarse adjustment is done of the length of the rigid support according to the length of the nail (1). A coarse adjustment is done in order to move the viewing device (9) closer to the nail, taking account of the patient's build. A precise adjustment is done of the position of the viewing device in relation to the nail, involving the translational and / or rotational movement of the viewing device in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the viewing device (Z).

Provided is a steering device in which play of a bolt shaft and the like during telescopic adjustment can be prevented using a telescopic adjustment function enabling a driver to adjust a position of a steering wheel in a front-rear direction. The steering device includes a column pipe, an outer housing, a fixed bracket, a stopper bracket, a tightening member having a bolt shaft, a slide guide, an elastic stopper rubber material mounted on the slide guide, and an elastic pushing member in which torsional coil spring portions are formed at both axial ends of a pushing shaft portion. The bolt shaft is passed through a tightening hole of the outer housing and a support hole of the fixed bracket along shaft support portions of the slide guide, and the elastic pushing member is locked and fixed to the fixed bracket.

An image pickup apparatus which can precisely adjust the inclination of CCD sensor relative to an optical axis in a easy and simple manner is disclosed. A mount adjustment mechanism 200 includes a mount 202 for supporting a CCD sensor 130, a steel ball 218 secured relative to a rearward barrel 206 and threaded adjuster members 220, 222 disposed between the mount 202 and the rearward barrel 206. The steel ball 218 defines a mount reference for positioning the mount 204. By changing the depth to which the threaded adjuster members 220, 222 are threaded, an angular orientation of the mount 202 with respect to the rearward barrel 206 is changed to correct the inclination in the CCD sensor.

The invention relates to a device for controlling a winding speed of a winding roll for a screen or shade which adjusts resilience of a torsion spring to increase or decrease the winding speed of the winding roll, preventing mechanical friction with improved operational capability. In the device, a worm wheel is integrally formed in a shaft supporting part receiving an end of the winding shaft, and is rotatably in contact with a stopper plate enclosing a side of an outer shell. Also, an adjustment member having an end penetrating through a front portion of the outer shell is disposed horizontally adjacent to the worm wheel and perpendicular to the winding shaft. Further, the worm wheel is in mesh with a worm integrally formed in a middle portion of the adjustment member.

An oxygenator module for gas exchange between blood and a gas in an extracorporeal lung support system, with several layers of semipermeable, gas-perfusable hollow fibers, wherein the hollow fibers of one of the layers are oriented at an angle of rotation about a central longitudinal axis of the oxygenator module with respect to the hollow fibers of another one of the layers, and with a potting which extends along the central longitudinal axis and in which the hollow fibers are fixed, wherein the potting defines a cavity that extends along the central longitudinal axis and in which the hollow fibers are arranged and which is blood-perfusable in the direction of the central longitudinal axis, wherein the potting has an essentially circular inner sheath surface that limits the cavity radially outward: as well as a method for producing the oxygenator module.

A vehicle seat suspension mat (10) comprises one or more suspension springs (16) for supporting a seat cushion (22) and an occupancy sensor module (24) supported by at least one suspension spring. The module includes a first plate (26) having a switch element (38) arranged thereon and a second plate (28) mounted in a cantilevered manner to the first plate, in such a way that the first and second plates form together a pair of jaws, which the switch element is arranged between. The first and second plates are configured so as to move closer together against their resiliency in response to compressive forces acting on the first and second plates.

An optical imaging device for visually inspecting an optical element is described. The optical imaging device comprises an optical connector interface adapted for connecting the optical imaging device to the optical element, an imaging unit adapted for acquiring image data of the optical element's surface, and a display for visualizing the image data. The optical imaging device further comprises a focus evaluation facility adapted for deriving a focus evaluation value indicating the instantaneous image definition of the acquired image, said focus evaluation value being derived from at least one of: the acquired image data itself and additional signals related to the position of the imaging unit relative to the surface of the optical element. The focus evaluation value is usable as a focussing aid for either automatically or manually adjusting the focus.

Assembly for securing the outer end of the balance-spring (1) of a sprung balance device for a timepiece that includes a balance-spring stud holder (2) for housing a balance-spring stud (10), against which the balance-spring (1) can be locked, a screw (11) for locking the stud, for securing the balance-spring (1) by insertion between the stud (10) and a back face (7), the locking screw (11) including a tip (15) in the extension of the threaded body (12) at the opposite end to the screw head, and the stud (10) including a housing (16) in which the tip (15) can be inserted. The corresponding watch and method of securing the outer end of the balance-spring are also provided.

The present invention provides an optical disk device which optimizes recording power level used when recording data. A controller records test data in a test region of an optical disk and evaluates reproduced signal quality of the test data, so as to determine an optimum recording power level Po (OPC). Subsequently, the controller uses reflected light intensity level B obtained when recording data to make adjustments to the optimum recording power level Po, thereby obtaining recording power level P. The recording power level P is adjusted such that Bm / Pn=constant, where m and n are positive rational numbers satisfying m<n. When m=1, the value of n is greater than or equal to 1.5 and no larger than 10.

A vehicle owner can express a display screen that displays a map in a color that matches an interior design. On a map view screen that displays a map for route guidance on a display screen, icons that indicate current navigation functions, and icons that indicate touch switches that are operated to change current navigation functions are displayed. A color change operation screen is used to change the color of the icons that indicate navigation functions and the icons that are operated to change navigation functions on the display screen. Accordingly, the display screen can be expressed in colors that match the interior design of the vehicle. Moreover, the colors of the map view screen used for route guidance do not change; only the icons that indicate navigation functions and icons that are operated to change navigation functions are changed. The general map colors are thus maintained according to natural usage conditions that blend into the overall design.

A cleaning system has a high velocity fan held within an air-directing casing movably mounted between the lower ends of an inverted U-shaped yoke. The blade configuration of the fan assures that air is directed outwardly in a narrow beam. The system rotates about a vertical extendable support tube and the casing and fan oscillate about a horizontal axis through a vertical angle which can extend from horizontal to near-vertical in the upper and lower direction. A crank arm connects to the U-shaped yoke and to one end of a crank rod which connects to the fan casing. Rotation of the crank arm displaces the crank rod so that the casing and fan oscillate about the horizontal axis. The crank arm is adjustable in length by spaced apart holes. The length of the crank rod is adjustable by using a two piece crank rod with the free end of each crank rod piece being adjustably secured to a connecting rod. The newly designed crank rod having additional spaced apart holes provides additional adjustability features.

In order to provide an optical recording condition setting method which reduces effects from uneven properties of a rewritable or recordable optical disk and an optical recording / reproducing device, and to provide an optical recording / reproducing device which executes the method, (i) a test writing is carried out with respect to an optical disk under various settings of recording-power parameters for use in forming a shortest record-mark (S1 to S3), (iii) a test pattern used in the test writing is reproduced (S4), and then (iv) recording-power parameters that result in a good quality of reproduced signals are selected (S5).

The present invention discloses a multi-stage height-adjustable table, including an operation control member and a table leg assembly arranged on the table board. The inner leg of the table leg assembly is sleeved in the hollow outer leg, and the inner leg has a containing groove for accommodating the elastic element. Operate the control element and move the table board according to the manipulation to drive the operation of the actuation unit of the operating wire linked to the table leg assembly. When the wire is operated on the wire, the inner leg can be lifted and lowered in the hollow outer leg. Then manipulate the operating control to make the operating wire in the pay-off state, and the actuation unit will abut one of the positioning parts of the inner leg post to form a position-fixed state, and adjust the height of the table accordingly.

An auger to assist in ground burrowing or mixing paint or concrete, is used by attaching it to an electric or cordless power source. The major advantages over previous augers are: a hex head design prevents slipping in the drill chuck, an offset boring tip provides better digging, and a removable extension allows for the digging holes from a sitting or standing position possible without straining. The cutting edge of the auger's discs is sharpened and provided with a serrated edge for easier digging in hard soil. A single spring pin lock connects a first shaft to the extension shaft and multiple holes in the extension shaft allow for a multitude of auger heights.

The present invention discloses a C-shaped or an O-shaped travel pillow intended to be worn fastened around the user's neck haying a thinner base collar that is cushioned but stiff and completely closeable and overlapping around the person's neck, attached to a shorter softer raised and further cushion or pillow fixed to the top side of the base collar that can be adjusted to accommodate the person's coin as needed. The top of the peripheral walls of the base are attached to a raised cushion or pillow that is fuller and softer than the base. The base or collar is also cushioned but considerably stiffer and with longer ends than the top pillow, allowing the base collar of the invention to be fitted around the person's neck and closed completely underneath the person's chin to hold the person's neck immobile. Furthermore, the pillow top raised cushion is thicker than the sides, providing even more cushioning, support and stability for the person's head by easily adapting, to the shape of the headrest, seat or chair or the movement thereof.