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A wiring board for light-emitting element, comprising a ceramic insulating substrate, and a conductor layer formed on the surface or in the inside of the insulating substrate, and having a mounting region mounting a light-emitting element on one surface of the insulating substrate; wherein the insulating substrate is provided with a heat-conducting pole-like conductor having a thermal conductivity higher than that of said insulating substrate; and the heat-conducting pole-like conductor is extending through the insulating substrate in the direction of thickness thereof from the light-emitting element mounting region of the insulating substrate, and is formed by the co-firing with the insulating substrate. The wiring board is produced inexpensively by co-firing, features excellent heat-radiating performance, is capable of quickly radiating the heat from the light-emitting element when the light-emitting element is mounted, and effectively prevents a decrease in the brightness of the light-emitting element caused by the heat.

A control system and method are provided for a station to dispense fuel to a vehicle, including an electric vehicle, without requiring dedicated access to a communications network, with the advantage that authorization for fleet vehicles or individuals can be obtained from an access management system, using a portable, wireless device, such as a smart phone or a dashboard appliance. The authorization is wirelessly relayed to the station by the wireless device, to enable the dispensing of fuel. Subsequently, a log comprising the transaction is provided to the access management system, through the same or a different wireless, mobile computing device. The log may also report status and other events, such as load shedding.

A stacked microelectronic assembly includes a dielectric element and a first and second microelectronic element stacked one atop the other with the first microelectronic element disposed between the second microelectronic element and the dielectric. The dielectric element has opposed first and second surfaces with conductive features exposed at the first surface and terminals exposed on the second surface. Preferably, the contact-bearing face of the first microelectronic element confronts the first surface of the dielectric with at least some of the conductive features being movable with respect to the contacts or terminals. By providing such movable features, joining units have heights of about 300 microns or less may be joined to the terminals thereby reducing the overall height of the microelectronic assembly to 1.2 mm and less.

Disclosed herein is a thin film transistor including: a semiconductor layer including an amorphous oxide, and a source electrode and a drain electrode which are provided in contact with the semiconductor layer. The source electrode and the drain electrode are formed by use of iridium or iridium oxide.

Dynamic discovery of active peer applications and information related thereof in a network is described. In one embodiment of the present invention, the discovery and information related to peer applications is maintained by a plurality of network device peers. This information is supplemented by device or peer application failure information, which is identified through point-to-point communication initiated by a failure to receive a multicast packet from a particular network peer application.

A communication apparatus has a plurality of interfaces serving a plurality of networks. The communication apparatus selects an interface according to electric wave reception intensity to reduce power consumption and contribute to the maintenance of reliability in communication. The communication apparatus (communication terminal apparatus, the other party's communication terminal apparatus) is used for communication in such a way that the communication apparatuses are connected to the plurality of networks wirelessly to carry out communication through each network. The communication apparatus has the plurality of interfaces (cellular interface CI, WLAN interface WI) responding to the networks. The communication apparatus also has controlling unit (power supply controlling unit) that connects any one of the interfaces to the power supply to actuate the connected interface, and that connects an interface on rest to the power supply in response to a communication state of an interface on communication to change communication connection from the interface on communication to the other interface on rest. The communication apparatus changes the interfaces while maintaining communication with the other party's communication apparatus.

A software-integrated disposable kit contains a series of sterile packages which hold instrumented surgical tools, surgical accessories, user input computer controlling peripherals (e.g. mouse, keyboard), markers, and a one time use digital medium. When image guided surgery is to be performed, the digital medium is inserted into the computer and the user interface is displayed. The digital medium stores a portion of the software which, in combination with software on the computer, provides all of the software necessary for full user functionality (e.g. display diagnostic image information, tracking surgical instruments, superimposition of surgical tools). At the end of a surgical procedure, the digital medium is deactivated or encrypted and the used surgical tools are then disposed of without reuse. The system allows the user to save relevant information obtained from the surgery (e.g. images, notes) on the digital medium which is encrypted against reuse and archived.

A method for handling dynamic state information used for handling data packets, which arrive at a network element node of a network element cluster, said network element cluster having at least two nodes and each node handling separate sets of data packets. In a node there is maintained 206 a first, node-specific data structure comprising entries representing state information needed for handling sets of data packets handled in said node. In said node there is also maintained 208 a second, common data structure comprising at least entries representing state information needed for handling sets of data packets handled in one other node of said network element cluster. The contents of said common data structure effectively differs from the contents of said node-specific data structure. Data packets are distributed 202, 204 to nodes of the cluster by means of distribution identifiers allocated 200 to nodes. Advantageously, information related to the distribution identifiers is included 212 in the entries of the data structures in order to identify to which node a set of data packets represented by a given entry belongs to at a given moment.

There is provided a semiconductor device including: a semiconductor chip having a penetrating electrode penetrating through from a first main surface of the semiconductor chip to a second main surface on the opposite side thereof, a photoreceptor portion formed on the first main surface, and a first wire at a periphery of the photoreceptor portion; a light transmitting chip adhered to the first main surface at the periphery of the light transmitting chip, with a bonding layer interposed between the light transmitting chip and the first main surface, the light transmitting chip covering the light transmitting chip; and a light blocking resin layer formed only on the side surfaces of the light transmitting chip and the bonding layer.

A motor pump aggregate M has a housing 1 defining an oil reservoir with first and second chambers R1, R2. An electromotor 2 is driving via its motor shaft W at least one radial piston pump arrangement P1 provided within said first chamber R2. Both chambers R1, R2 are separated by a separation wall 7. A filling and pressure biasing system V is provided for said first chamber R1 in order to adjust within said first chamber R1 a predetermined oil filling level and a pre-selected oil pressure pre-biasing for said radial piston pump arrangement P1.

A filing system controls block-level storage and selects a required level of performance and reliability for a file stored on a storage system on a file-by-file basis. A policy manager contains at least one rule relating to a RAID level of protection for a file stored on the storage system and the RAID level of protection is selected from a plurality of RAID levels of protection. At least one rule is based on an access pattern of files stored on storage systems. An access manager provides the policy manager with information relating to access patterns of files stored on the storage system. At least two files can be stored on the storage system having different RAID levels of protection, and at least two files can be stored on a same storage unit of the storage system can have different RAID levels of protection.

An optical element (1) for reflecting and/or redirecting light rays (L1) entering therein and again emerging therefrom consists of a transparent base body (2) which is so structured and/or formed that, with the formation of reflection surfaces (8) bounding the base body (2), at least a part of the light rays (L1) impinging upon the reflection surfaces (8) upon emergence from the transparent base body (2) are totally reflected, and at least one cover body (9) arranged behind the reflection surfaces (8). The reflection surfaces (8), and the surfaces of the cover body or bodies (9) towards the reflection surfaces, are adapted to one another such that between them there remains a thin gap (10) or only point contacts exist.

The purpose of this invention is to increase reliability of a switching element while reducing consumption power. In the vertical blanking period, an end pulse signal (ED) changes from the low level to the high level. The potential of first nodes (N1) in the first stage to (m−1)th stage of cascade-connected m-stage bistable circuits included in a shift register of the scanning signal drive circuit is reliably maintained at the low level, and the potential of second nodes (N2) in the first stage to the (m−1)th stage changes from the high level to the low level. In a bistable circuit in the m-th stage, the potential of the first node (N1) in the m-th stage changes from the high level to the low level, and the potential of the second node (N2) in the m-th stage is maintained at the low level. The supply to a bistable circuit of clock signals (CKA, CKB) is stopped. Until a write period in the subsequent vertical scanning period, the potential of the first node (N1) and the potential of the second node (N2) in each stage are maintained at the low level.

A gate driving circuit having improved driving capability and maintaining reliability even after a prolonged period of use includes a shift register having a plurality of stages cascaded to one another, each of the plurality of stages including a pull-up unit, a pull-down unit, a discharging unit, and a holding unit, wherein at least one of the discharging unit and the holding unit includes an amorphous silicon thin film transistor and a polysilicon thin film transistor connected in parallel to each other.