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A single- and dual-chamber module-attachable wafer-handling chamber includes: a wafer-handling main chamber equipped with a wafer-handling robot therein, and adaptors for connecting process modules to the wafer-handling main chamber. The adaptors are detachably attached to the sides of the wafer-handling main chamber, respectively, and the process modules are detachably attached to the adaptors, respectively, so that the process modules can be attached to the wafer-handling main chamber, regardless of whether the process modules are of a single-chamber type or dual-chamber type.

A single- and dual-chamber module-attachable wafer-handling chamber includes: a wafer-handling main chamber equipped with a wafer-handling robot therein, and adaptors for connecting process modules to the wafer-handling main chamber. The adaptors are detachably attached to the sides of the wafer-handling main chamber, respectively, and the process modules are detachably attached to the adaptors, respectively, so that the process modules can be attached to the wafer-handling main chamber, regardless of whether the process modules are of a single-chamber type or dual-chamber type.

A multi-part, distributed antenna arrangement including: an antenna element as a first part; and a semiconductor chip as a second part, separated from the first part, wherein the semiconductor chip comprises integrated radio frequency circuitry and a coupling element for wirelessly coupling the integrated radio frequency circuitry with the antenna element.

An objective is to provide a technique for reducing the size of the picture-frame region of the active-matrix substrate and improve the freedom of design, such as the freedom in designing the active-matrix substrate. An active-matrix substrate includes a group of gate lines and a group of source lines crossing the gate lines. At least some of the gate lines have a length that is smaller than the maximum value of the width of the active-matrix substrate as measured in the direction in which the gate lines extend. The active-matrix substrate further includes pixel electrodes connected with the gate lines and source lines, and gate line driving units (11) provided in the display region for switching the gate lines to the selected or non-selected state in response to a supplied control signal. First terminals (12s) for providing data signals from the source driver and second terminals (12g) for providing control signals from the display control circuit are provided in the portion of the picture-frame region that is adjacent a side of the display region.

A battery and a battery pack comprising a rechargeable battery (2) and a circuit substrate (3) integrated therein by a resin mold package (11) are provided. Resin is filled between the rechargeable battery (2) and the substrate (3) electrically connected thereto, so as to unite them as one battery or battery pack. The rechargeable battery (2) includes an engaging member (26) which functions as an anchor to the resin mold package (11) formed onto the battery, whereby the resin mold package (11) is firmly joined to the rechargeable battery (2). A thermo-sensitive element can be incorporated either on the circuit substrate (3) or within the space filled with resin.

A constant-velocity joint includes an outer ring formed with an annular space therein having an opening at one end thereof. The annular space is defined by a radially outer wall and a radially inner wall. One of the radially inner and outer walls is formed with three axially extending track grooves circumferentially spaced apart from each other by 120 degrees. A cage is inserted in the annular space with one end thereof protruding from the opening of the annular space. A second shaft is provided on the one end of the cage. Balls are retained by the cage and adapted to roll in the track grooves. At least one of the outer ring and the cage is formed of a synthetic resin.

A hybrid vehicle is provided with a first transmission passage for transmitting driving force of an engine to driving wheels and a second transmission passage for transmitting driving force of a driving motor to the driving wheels, and driven by selectively using or in combination of the first transmission passage and the second transmission passage. The hybrid vehicle includes: a first input gear for inputting the driving force of the engine; a second input gear for inputting the driving force of the driving motor; and an idle gear meshed with the first input gear and the second input gear, and transmitting at least one of the driving force of the engine and the driving force of the driving motor toward the driving wheels. The driving force to be input from at least one of the first input gear and the second input gear is transmitted to the driving wheels via the idle gear and the final differential gears.

The invention relates to lead- and cadmium-free glass for glazing, enamelling and decorating glasses or glass-ceramics which have a low coefficient of thermal expansion of less than 2x10-6 / K, having the composition (in % by weight) 0-6 Li2O, 0-5 Na2O, 0 to less than 2 K2O, where the sum Li2O+K2+Na2O is between 2 and 12, 0-4 MgO, 0-4 CaO, 0-4 SrO, 0-1 BaO, 0-4 ZnO, 3 to less than 10 Al2O3, 13-23 B2O3, 50-65 SiO2, 0-4 TiO2, 0-4 ZrO2 and 0-4 F, as replacement for oxygen and containing up to 30% by weight of a pigment which is resistant at the firing temperature, where the glass is suitable for glazing, enamelling and decoration in both primary and secondary firing, and both the full-area and sparse glaze, enamel or decoration layers have low abrasion susceptibility after firing, and it relates to processes for the production of a glass-ceramic coated therewith.

The present invention provides a lightweight constant velocity coupling that does not require grease lubrication. The pivot part (11) is assembled in the outer wheel (1), and the outer wheel (1) has a hexagonal hollow hole surrounded by 6 flat surfaces (2) parallel to the axis, and the pivot part (11 ), a first spherical surface (12a) and a second spherical surface (12b) are formed along the circumferential direction, and the first spherical surface (12a) is biased from the central position of the flat surface (2) in the circumferential direction to the circumferential direction The second spherical surface ( 12 b ) is in contact with the flat surface at a position offset from the central position to the other side in the circumferential direction. Since the outer ring 1 and the pivot member (11) are molded of synthetic resin, grease lubrication is not required, and the weight of the constant velocity coupling can be reduced.

A semiconductor device, comprising: a flexible substrate; at least one semiconductor element; at least one electrode for external connection, the element and the electrode being formed on a front surface of the flexible substrate; and at least one wire formed on the front surface to electrically connect the element to the electrode, wherein at least a part of the flexible substrate has a curved form.

The invention discloses an orbital angular momentum vortex wave beam generation apparatus and method. According to the technical scheme, an electromagnetic super-surface structure (3) is formed by M lines and N columns of electromagnetic super-surface reflection units (31) and dielectric substrates (32); a phase-shifting network (4) is formed by the electromagnetic super-surface structure (3) and a metal back plate (2); the metal back plate (2) is positioned on the back surface of the electromagnetic super-surface structure (3), and the metal back plate is also used as an earth plate; a feed source (1) is put in the central axial position of the electromagnetic super-surface structure (3); incident wave from the feed source (1) irradiates on the electromagnetic super-surface structure; and after the incident wave obtains compensated phase position from the electromagnetic super-surface structure, the incident wave is reflected by the phase-shifting network (4) to generate the orbital angular momentum vortex wave beam(5) with an intrinsic mode 1. According to the orbital angular momentum vortex wave beam generation apparatus and method, the problems of complex technical structure, high cost, beam divergence and low efficiency in the prior art are solved; and the apparatus and method can be used for information transmitting and receiving in the communication technology, and the communication capacity can be increased.

A lighting device includes a lighting unit and an enclosure (e.g., a shade) configured to cover a part or all of the periphery of the lighting unit and transmit light from the lighting unit. The lighting unit includes a light source section for lighting configured to radiate light and a video forming section configured to form video light obtained by modulating, on the basis of video information, light from a light source section for video formation configured integrally with or separately from the light source section for lighting and project the video light on the enclosure.

An electronic component comprising a display panel having an image retention characteristic, and a decorative member disposed layered to the display panel. The decorative member passes the display state of at least a portion of the display panel so that the display can be seen.

A light-absorbing layer is selectively formed over an insulating surface, an insulating layer is formed over the insulating surface and the light-absorbing layer, the insulating surface, the light-absorbing layer, and the insulating layer are irradiated with laser light to selectively remove only the insulating layer above the light-absorbing layer in an irradiated region of the insulating layer so that an opening reaching the light-absorbing layer is formed in the insulating layer, and a conductive film is formed in the opening so as to be in contact with the light-absorbing layer. By forming the conductive film in the opening so as to be in contact with the exposed light-absorbing layer, the conductive film can be electrically connected to the light-absorbing layer with the insulating layer interposed therebetween.

The invention relates to a sound-insulating, ventilating and heat transfer enhancing acoustic metamaterial structural unit, which comprises a frame, wherein a restraining body is arranged inside the frame, and at least one of the upper and lower surfaces of the frame is coated with a thin film; and at least one hole is formed in the restraining body and the thin film. In addition, the invention provides an acoustic metamaterial composite plate and an acoustic metamaterial composite structure comprising the acoustic metamaterial structural unit, as well as a frequency modulation method and an assembly method. The acoustic metamaterial structural unit has sound insulation capability superior to that of an ordinary perforated plate or micro-perforated plate within a broadband, can ensure that sufficient heat flow, air flow or liquid flow can pass through smoothly, and increases heat diffusion rate of fluid media on both sides of holes and accelerates heat convection efficiency through unit localized vibration generated by the structure under excitation of acoustic waves. The acoustic metamaterial structural unit and the array composite structure have the advantages of simple assembly technology and stable working performance.

A needle magazine for holding a plurality of injection needles (50) is described. The needle magazine comprises a first opening adapted to receive the device fluid access portion (120) of a medical delivery device. Each needle (50) is selectively moveable from a respective storage position not aligned with said first opening into a needle mounting position aligned with said first opening. The needle magazine further comprises needle positioning means (41). configured to alter the mutual position between a needle selected from said plurality of needles (50) relative to a neighbour needle when said selected needle moves from its storage position to the needle mounting position.

An optical apparatus includes an optical device (LED device or semiconductor imaging device) having a photoreceptor / light-emitting region, a peripheral circuit region and an electrode region, a transparent member having a larger light passing through region than the optical device and including, on one surface thereof, protruding electrodes for connection to the optical device, external connection electrodes for connection to a mounting substrate, conductive interconnects for connecting the protruding electrodes and the external connection electrodes, and a transparent adhesive provided between the optical device and the transparent member. In the optical apparatus, one surface of the optical device in which the photoreceptor / light-emitting region is formed and one surface of the transparent member are arrange so as to face to each other and electrodes of the optical device and the protruding electrodes of the transparent member are electrically connected and also adhered by the transparent adhesive.

A scanner device includes a scanner body formed with a document insertion opening and a document ejection opening and is configured so that an document taken in from the document insertion opening is read and then ejected from the document ejection opening. The scanner device further includes an upper surface cover covering the upper surface of the scanner body and a front surface cover covering the front surface of the scanner body. The front cover is connected at a lower end side thereof to the lower front part of the scanner body and connected at an upper end side thereof to pivotably connected to the front end side of the upper surface cover. By opening the front surface cover from the front surface of the scanner body, the upper surface cover and front surface cover form a document ejection tray.

A semiconductor package substrate is provided. The package substrate includes a mold base and an interposer block embedded in the mold base, said interposer block having a plurality of vertical conductive lines therein. A metallization layer is formed on the surface of the interposer block or the mold base, said metallization layer being electrically connected to at least one of the vertical conductive lines. A semiconductor chip may be mounted on or embedded in the mold base.

Each of excitation elements and receiving elements placed in a frame region of a non-piezoelectric substrate is constructed by forming a comb-like electrode on the front face of a piezoelectric body and forming a plate electrode (solid electrode) on the rear face thereof. The comb-like electrode is composed of a bus electrode and a plurality of V-shaped electrode fingers extended from the bus electrode. Drawn-round wires are provided to connect the comb-like electrode (bus electrode) and plate electrode to external circuits. Surface acoustic waves from the excitation elements located on the upper side and the lower side are simultaneously propagated in two directions respectively and the propagated surface acoustic waves are received by receiving elements located on the left side and the right side respectively.

In a method for manufacture of a liquid crystal display device in which a liquid crystal composition is placed between two substrates, after which ultraviolet irradiation is performed to form a liquid crystal layer, a specific polymerizable compound is used, or specific ultraviolet irradiation conditions are adopted, or processing is comprised midway through the ultraviolet irradiation to activate the molecular motion of liquid crystal molecules or to deform the liquid crystal layer. A method for manufacture of a liquid crystal display device and a liquid crystal display device manufactured by this method are provided, in which an alignment control film is rendered unnecessary, and which has such advantages as improved quality of the liquid crystal panel, enhanced production yields, streamlined manufacturing facilities, simplified processes, and reduced costs.

A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate; multiple active regions of a first conductive type isolated from one another by shallow-trench isolation regions provided on one surface of the semiconductor substrate; multiple silicon pillars including channel silicon pillars formed in the active regions; multiple first semiconductor regions of a second conductive type that are respectively formed on bottom ends of the silicon pillars and to be sources or drains; multiple second semiconductor regions of the second conductive type that are formed on top ends of the silicon pillars and to be sources or drains; multiple gate insulating films surrounding the silicon pillars; and multiple gate electrodes surrounding the gate insulating films. At least one of the channel silicon pillars has a height different from that of another one of the channel silicon pillars.

A refrigerator is disclosed which enables the user to easily take ice out of an ice maker without causing a variation in the capacity of the refrigerator or a limitation on the position of a freezing compartment. The refrigerator includes a refrigerator body (100) which includes a freezing compartment (300) and a refrigerating compartment (200), an ice making compartment (500) which is arranged in the refrigerating compartment, to make ice, a heat exchange (310) which generates cold air for freezing food storing in the freezing compartment, and a cold air guiding device (600) which guides the cold air generated by the heat exchanger (310) to the ice making compartment (500), to enable the ice making compartment to make ice.