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An EEPROM memory cell and a method of forming the same are provided. A portion of a floating gate is formed on walls of a trench formed on the substrate. An inside of the trench is filled with a gate electrode layer constituting a sensing line. This leads to increases in opposite areas of a floating gate and a control gate of a sensing transistor, and a decrease in an area of the floating gate in the substrate. The method of forming an EEPROM memory cell comprises forming a trench in an active area in which a sensing transistor of the substrate will be formed; forming a gate insulation layer including a tunneling insulation layer on an entire surface of the substrate including an inside of the trench; conformally forming a first conductive layer covering the inside of the trench after forming the gate insulation layer; conformally forming a dielectric layer on the first conductive layer; forming a floating gate by patterning the first conductive layer; and stacking and patterning a second conductive layer on the dielectric layer to form a word line and a sensing line.

An electronic ballast includes a microcontroller with software to provide an adaptive lamp preheat and ignition operation. The microcontroller commands a test frequency from the inverter and detects the frequency response of the resonant output circuit by measuring the voltage across the resonant capacitor. The measured voltages are compared to one or more reference voltages as the frequency is varied to select the optimal inverter frequency. An algorithm or look-up table is used to set the inverter frequencies for the lamp preheat and ignition phases.

Electro-thermal feedback is utilized for zeroing the thermal conductance between a bolometer type detector element of a pixel in a thermal radiation sensor assembly and the environments through its mechanical support structure and electrical interconnects, thereby limiting the thermal conductance primarily through photon radiation. Zeroing of the thermal conductance associated with the mechanical support and electrical readout interconnect structures is achieved by electro-thermal feedback that adjust the temperature of an intermediate stage by the heating effect of a bipolar transistor amplifier circuit so that the temperature across the mechanical support and electrical interconnects structures are zeroed thereby greatly improving the thermal isolation, the responsivity and sensitivity of the electromagnetic radiation sensor.

A high-frequency power source supplies high-frequency power to a load whose reflection characteristic for the power varies with time. The power source includes a frequency-variable power generator, a power detector for detecting the power into the load and the power from the load, a reflection coefficient calculator for calculating a reflection coefficient based on the detection of the power into and from the load, a frequency detector causing the power generator to generate high-frequency powers at various frequencies within a predetermined frequency range for obtaining the frequency that gives a minimum value to the calculated reflection coefficient, and a power supply controller for causing the power generator to generate a high-frequency power of the frequency obtained by the frequency detector and for supplying the high-frequency power to the load.

A system, methods, and user-friendly program product to optimize energy recovery for a process or cluster of processes under all possible combinations of given process changes and stream-specific minimum temperature approach values without enumeration, are provided. The systems, methods, and program product can include steps / operations to synthesize multiple heat exchanger network designs according to different process variations schemes, analyze the impact of process variations on each heat exchanger network, and identify which design provides a more optimal heat exchanger network design and which process variation scheme represents a more optimal flexibility index.

A system, methods, and user-friendly program product to optimize energy recovery for a process or cluster of processes under all possible combinations of given process changes and stream-specific minimum temperature approach values without enumeration, are provided. The systems, methods, and program product can include steps / operations to identify a set of common-structure heat exchanger network designs which allow for construction of a physically exchanger network easily retrofittable to accommodate time-dependent new operating modes, disturbances, and uncertainty schemes.

The invention concerns a method (200) and system (100) for charging a battery (110). The method includes the steps of receiving (212) an input power supply signal (300), monitoring (216) the input power supply signal to determine when the input power supply signal reaches first and second predetermined thresholds (314, 316) and in response to the monitoring step, selectively controlling (217) a charging switch (122) that controls the flow of the input power supply signal to the battery. The controlling step can include activating (220) the charging switch when the input power supply signal reaches the first predetermined threshold and deactivating (226) the switch when the input power supply signal reaches the second predetermined threshold.

Provided are a data transmitting and receiving method for a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system, and a transmitter and a receiver using the method. Accordingly, since precoding matrices of a codebook is constituted using a rotation matrix, expansion of the codebook is easy, and since each of the precoding matrices is determined according to the number of transmit antennas, the codebook is systematically created according to a system. In addition the codebook can be applied to even a correlated channel, and the minimum distance between precoding matrices can advantageously be maximized.

Electro-thermal feedback is utilized for zeroing the thermal conductance between a bolometer type detector element of a pixel in a thermal radiation sensor assembly and the environments through its mechanical support structure and electrical interconnects, thereby limiting the thermal conductance primarily through photon radiation. Zeroing of the thermal conductance associated with the mechanical support and electrical readout interconnect structures is achieved by electro-thermal feedback that adjust the temperature of an intermediate stage by the heating effect of a bipolar transistor amplifier circuit so that the temperature across the mechanical support and electrical interconnects structures are zeroed thereby greatly improving the thermal isolation, the responsivity and sensitivity of the electromagnetic radiation sensor.

A contact probe for a testing head effective to test a plurality of semiconductor-integrated electronic devices comprises a rod-like probe body having a cross section of prefixed contour and provided in correspondence with at least one end with an eccentric contact tip. The contact tip is positioned within the contour of the cross section of the probe body.

A system, methods, and user-friendly program product to optimize energy recovery for a process or cluster of processes under all possible combinations of given process changes and stream-specific minimum temperature approach values without enumeration, are provided. The systems, methods, and program product can include steps / operations to identify an optimal set of discrete target temperature values for the process streams for a given heat exchanger network design, to identify which target temperature values of the various process streams have the most significant economic impact on the process or cluster of processes, and to identify process stream supply attribute ranges of variations, e.g., in the form of a criticality list for the plurality of process streams, e.g., resulting from disturbances and / or uncertainty, which have a highly significant or otherwise critical effect on streams target temperature.

The invention concerns a method (200) and system (100) for charging a battery (110). The method includes the steps of receiving (212) an input power supply signal (300), monitoring (216) the input power supply signal to determine when the input power supply signal reaches first and second predetermined thresholds (314, 316) and in response to the monitoring step, selectively controlling (217) a charging switch (122) that controls the flow of the input power supply signal to the battery. The controlling step can include activating (220) the charging switch when the input power supply signal reaches the first predetermined threshold and deactivating (226) the switch when the input power supply signal reaches the second predetermined threshold.

In a pulse width modulation method of the present invention, a digital signal is modulated and a pulse width modulation signal is generated in a pulse width modulator by using a digital signal output unit and the pulse width modulator The pulse width modulation method includes: outputting to the pulse width modulator a first value corresponding to the input signal as a first digital signal at a first timing by the digital signal output unit; determining a limited value range based on the first value by the digital signal output unit; determining a second value corresponding to a new input signal by the digital signal output unit; judging whether or not the second value is included in the limited value range, and when the second value being judged to be included, outputting the second value to the pulse width modulator as a second digital signal, and when the second value being judged not to be included, outputting a value included in the limited value range to the pulse width modulator as the second digital signal at the second timing at which at least one cycle has elapsed from the first timing by the digital signal output unit; and modulating the pulse width of the second digital signal and generating the pulse width modulation signal, by the pulse width modulator.

A motor drive control device for controlling the driving of a brushless motor includes position detecting units (e.g. sensors or Hall elements), a drive signal determining unit and a drive signal outputting unit (an output circuit). The position detecting units are disposed in positions apart from each other by an electric angle of 120 degrees and output position detection signals representing the position of the rotor with respect to the stator. The drive signal determining unit determines drive signals for driving the 3-phase drive coils on the basis of the position detection signals. The drive signal outputting unit generates and outputs, to the 3-phase drive coils, the drive signals that have been determined by the drive signal determining unit.

A semiconductor device is fabricated to include a withstand-voltage assurance layer designed into a multi-dimensional super junction structure and a group of trench gate electrodes, each of which penetrating a body layer in contact with the multi-dimensional super junction structure to reach the multi-dimensional super junction structure, so that dispersions of an on-resistance of the semiconductor device can be reduced. When a position at which the group of trench gate electrodes is created is shifted in one direction, the size of an overlap area common to the group of trench gate electrodes and an n-type column changes. However, the group of trench gate electrodes is oriented in such a way that the changes in overlap-area size are minimized.

A method, system and computer-usable medium for determining an optimal shutter fluttering sequence. The disclosed approach is based on the use of shutter flutter technology, which means that an image can be acquired in such a manner as to encode all information about the moving subject. The disclosed approach involves determining a shutter's fluttering pattern that optimally encodes information at all frequencies. The disclosed approach involves an optimization method for finding a shutter fluttering pattern that maximizes the minimum value of a function defining the plurality of flutter shutter sequences over a frequency domain. The disclosed approach involves eliminating all flutter shutter sequences that contain lost frequencies. The objective of the disclosed approach is to select an optimal flutter shutter sequence for implementation with a flutter shutter camera.

The present invention provides an electric double layer capacitor. An electric double layer capacitor element sandwiches a separator between a cathode and an anode, arranged inside a container comprising a concave shaped containing portion and lid. A first conductive layer on the inner bottom face of a containing portion is covered by an insulating layer, and opening portions formed on the insulating layer penetrate to the first conductive layer. A second conductive layer is formed on the insulating layer and inside the opening portions, and is connected to a cathode through a conductive adhesive. The first conductive layer penetrates through the side wall of the containing portion, and is connected to a connecting terminal. An anode is connected to a third conductive layer through a conductive adhesive, and a collector is connected to a connecting terminal by extending between the containing portion and the lid.