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A method for forming a modified low-k SiOCH film on a substrate, includes: providing a low-k SiOCH film formed on a substrate by flowable CVD; exposing the low-k SiOCH film to a gas containing a Si—N bond in its molecule without applying electromagnetic energy to increase Si—O bonds and/or Si—C bonds in the film; and then curing the low-k SiOCH film.

A bone plate has an upper surface, a lower surface, and at least one first hole extending through the upper and lower surfaces. The first hole has two or three vertically separate regions, each region communicating with or abutting the adjacent region. The first hole has a first upper region, which is unthreaded and which, from the plate's upper surface to the plate's lower surface, has a curved inward taper. The first hole has a second middle region, which is threaded and which, from the plate's upper surface to the plate's lower surface, has a conical inward taper. The first hole has a third lower region, which is unthreaded and which, from the plate's upper surface to the plate's lower surface, has a conical outward taper. The bone plate is straight, curved, or both straight and curved. The bone plate may have at least one second hole, different from the first hole. The second hole is an elongated hole, which has a compression ramp or which has a threaded portion through part of its perimeter and a non-threaded portion through the other part of its perimeter.

A mounting platform assembly for a stand device includes a connecting platform having two parallel engaging blocks projecting from a bottom surface thereof, each having a positioning hole and forming a slope on an outward face thereof; and a fixing base having two engaging ribs projecting from a top surface thereof, each forming a sliding groove on the top surface of the fixing base corresponding to the slope of each engaging block, and the fixing base having a positioning means including an engaging button and a push rod. When a conical portion of the push rod abuts against a bottom end of the engaging button, the other end of the engaging button projects from the top surface of the fixing base to engage with the positioning hole of the engaging block, thereby achieving the positioning and fixing of the connecting platform.

PCT No. PCT/FR95/00024 Sec. 371 Date Jul. 9, 1996 Sec. 102(e) Date Jul. 9, 1996 PCT Filed Jan. 9, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO95/19302 PCT Pub. Date Jul. 20, 1995The technical field of the invention is that of manufacturing boxes or cases or other packaging volumes which are foldable so as to be transportable in a minimum amount of space when empty: the present invention relates to such rectangular boxes comprising a base, four side faces of held thereon by a rim with two opposite ones of said faces being interconnected by foldable side elements enabling said two walls, when disconnected from the base, to be pressed one against the other, and a lid panel covering and holding said side faces remotely from the base; the two said interconnected faces are rigid insulating panels, the two lateral elements interconnecting them are belt portions, and the other two opposite faces are likewise insulating panels that are independent and that slide between the two first faces and against said belts when they are unfolded.

A game system comprises a pointing device for pointing to an arbitrary point in a game screen displayed on a display device and an acceleration sensor provided in the pointing device. A processor of the game system repeatedly identifies a position of the point pointed to by the pointing device to detect a change in the identified position. Also, the processor determines a movement direction of the pointing device based on an acceleration detected by an acceleration sensor. When detecting a position change, the processor executes game processing based on the position change, and when detecting no position change, the processor executes game processing based on the determined movement direction of the pointing device.

A system and method for locating regions in a target image that match a template image with respect to color and pattern information. The method may comprise performing a first-pass search using color information obtained in a color characterization analysis of the template image in order to find a plurality of color match candidate locations. For each color match candidate location, a region proximal to the location may then be searched in detail, based on pattern information obtained in a pattern analysis of the template image.

The present invention relates to an energy resource-grid-load automatic control system of smart microgrid and control methods thereof, which belong to the field of microgrid control and electrical technology. The energy resource-grid-load automatic control system comprises a distributed renewable energy power generation module, a distributed renewable energy inverter module, a conventional power generation module, a user load module, a bidirectional grid-connected control module, a distributed renewable energy intelligent optimizing power generation control module, an energy storage module, an intelligent energy storage unit adjuster and a storage battery pack. Compared with the conventional microgrid comprising a distributed renewable energy power generation system, the present invention guarantees the stability and the high energy utilization of the power generation system and effectively solves the problem of non-uniform frequency of use of storage batteries to unify the service life of the storage battery pack.

Body temperature measurements are obtained by scanning a thermal radiation sensor across the side of the forehead over the temporal artery. A peak temperature measurement is processed to compute an internal temperature of the body as a function of ambient temperature and the sensed surface temperature. The function includes a weighted difference of surface temperature and ambient temperature, the weighting being varied with target temperature through a minimum in the range of 96° F. and 100° F. The radiation sensor views the target surface through an emissivity compensating cup which is spaced from the skin by a circular lip of low thermal conductivity.

An ink cartridge consists of an ink bag storing ink and a case holding the ink bag. A valve unit is placed on an ink supply path from the ink bag to a recording head. During the printing, the amount of ink discharged from the recording head is measured at predetermined time intervals, and the valve unit is controlled to supply the recording head with the ink by an amount corresponding to the discharged amount. So the pressure inside the recording head is kept approximately constant, improving stability of ink-discharging from nozzles of the recording head. A head internal pressure detecting mechanism detects pressure inside a sub-tank as a value representative of the head internal pressure.

In a medical guide wire (1), a rigid portion (4A) is located at a distal end of a helical spring (4), and the rigid portion (4A) measures 0.5 mm or less which extends from a top end of a head plug (5) to a rear end of a portion in which the helical spring (4) is secured to the head plug (5), and an intermediary location (11) is secured to an intermediary boss portion (9) of a core line (3) to provide a loosely wound portion (8) from a rear end of the head plug (5) to the intermediary location (11) to be elastically expandable due to a clearence (C) appeared between line element turns of the loosely wound portion (8).

An apparatus manages a usage amount associated with each of a plurality of functions included in a work flow. The work flow is executed after it is determined whether an operation of each step included in the work flow can be executed or not.

A method operates at the data link level. Each bridge associates, during a guard time, the port through which a frame is first received with a source MAC address until a unicast reply frame confirms the matching two-way path between the source and destination addresses. Any frame from the same source received through another different port is discarded. Each bridge forwards the received broadcast frames through the rest of the ports, except those involving prohibited (down-up) turns, and deviates (or optionally returns) the unicast frames with an unknown or aged destination address through the spanning tree. The protocol can operate with encapsulation in the border bridges or without encapsulation, using in this case the replacement of universal MAC addresses in the border bridges with local MAC addresses. The establishment and control of paths can optionally be performed proactively by the border bridges, especially the bridges connected to servers.

A pneumatic pogo stick is comprised of an elongate cylindrical housing which forms a cylinder. The housing is formed from a clear polycarbonate plastic. A top cap is attached to one end of the housing to form the top of an air chamber. A plastic piston, slidable within the cylinder, forms the bottom of the air chamber. An elongate shaft is coupled to the bottom of the piston and is moveable therewith, extending from the distal end of said housing as the piston moves within the cylinder. A bottom bracket assembly is attached to the bottom of the housing and a bushing for maintaining the lateral position of the shaft relative to the housing is attached to the bottom bracket assembly. The bushing prevents the shaft from rotating relative to the housing. User foot supports are also attached to the bottom bracket for supporting the feet of the user and handle bars are attached to the top cap for grasping with the hands of a user.

The gas engine electric power generating system in which the electric power generating apparatus composed of an electric power generator connected with a gas engine of a pilot fuel oil ignition type is installed near a coal mine and the recovered methane gas and ventilated methane gas taken out of the mine shaft are introduced into the cylinder of the gas engine while being adjusted to be introduced as a lean methane/air mixture to operate the engine to produce electric power, is established near coal mine in developing country including China, the carbon dioxide emission credit produced by the difference in greenhouse effect index between the case where coal mine methane gas is released to the atmosphere and where said methane gas is utilized by the gas engine electric power generating system to be released to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, is registered on a emission credit market to be traded with credit surcharge payment obligators(or those who want to purchase the emission credit). The invention also includes the affiliated system of mutual patronage relation constituted by one or a plurality of the systems and nearby power generating system or systems using coal bed methane or pre-mining gas as fuel.

An exhaust emission control apparatus is provided which is equipped with an additive injector to inject additive such as a urea aqueous solution into an exhaust pipe through which exhaust emissions flow. The exhaust pipe includes a straight section and a bent section. A catalyst such as a SCR (Selective Catalytic Reduction) catalyst is disposed downstream of the straight section. A hollow protrusion is formed on an outer peripheral wall of the bent section substantially in parallel to a longitudinal center line of the straight section. The protrusion has an opening formed in one of opposed ends thereof which communicates with inside the bent section. The additive injector is designed to produce a cone-shaped spray of additive and installed on the other end of the protrusion to inject the cone-shaped spray of additive into the exhaust pipe without interfering with at least a downstream edge of the opening.

A pharmaceutical composition, method and apparatus for treatment, diagnosis or both treatment and treatment of hyperproliferative malignant and non-malignant diseases of epithelial tissues is disclosed. The invention comprises local application of the pharmaceutical composition to a predetermined area of the tissue characterized by complete and consistent coverage of the tissue, including irregularly shaped tissue. The pharmaceutical composition consists of an active component, such as a photosensitizer or a precursor thereof, and at least one carrier substance including a viscous fluid, a gel, or a fluid that becomes viscous upon contact with the tissue. The gel's viscosity allows it to adhere to the tissue for a sufficient amount of time to transfer the photosensitizer or precursor. In a preferred embodiment the pharmaceutical composition is sprayed onto the surface of the diseased tissue. Optionally, a mechanical device is used to further restrict the composition to a specific areas and can also be used to press the composition onto the tissue. In another embodiment, components of the composition are delivered to and mixed at the treatment site by a suitable delivery device prior to irradiation. The active component is then activated by a suitable wavelength of radiation.

A power module includes an upper arm circuit unit and a lower arm circuit unit each having a power semiconductor element; an insulating substrate with the units mounted on one surface thereof; a metal base bonded onto the other surface of the substrate opposite to the one surface where the units are mounted; a first connection conductor for supplying a high potential to the upper unit from outside; a second connection conductor for supplying a low potential to the lower unit from outside; an insulating sheet interposed between the conductors; and a resin case disposed on the metal base to support the conductors, the conductors are flat conductors and laminated with the sheet sandwiched therebetween; the sheet extends from one end of the laminated structure to secure the creepage distance between the conductors; and the case is furnished with a recess for containing the laminated structure.