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A biometric monitoring device measuring various biometric information is provided that allows the person to take and / or display a heart rate reading by a simple user interaction with the device, e.g., by simply touching a heart rate sensor surface area or moving the device in a defined motion pattern. Some embodiments of this disclosure provide biometric monitoring devices that allow a person to get a quick heart rate reading without removing the device or interrupting their other activities. Some embodiments provide heart rate monitoring with other desirable features such as feedback on data acquisition status.

An inductor element having good characteristics is formed on a substrate. An inductor element 100 includes two spiral conductors 120, 122 formed on the surface of a semiconductor substrate 110. The upper conductor 120 and the lower conductor 122 have substantially the same shape, and the conductor 120 is used as an inductor conductor, while the conductor 122 is used as a floating conductor. The outer and inner ends of the conductor 120 are connected with lead wires 130, 132, respectively, and the lead wire 132 connected with the inner ene extends outside between the lower conductor 122 and the semiconductor substrate 110.

In an electronic device comprising a first electrodes consisting of a metal oxide and a second electrode consisting of an aluminum alloy film directly contacted and electrically connected to the first electrode, the contact interface between the aluminum alloy film and the first electrode is constructed so that at least a part of alloy components constituting the aluminum alloy film exist as a precipitate or concentrated layer. This construction enables direct contact between the aluminum alloy film and the electrode consisting of a metallic oxide and allows elimination of a barrier metal in such an electronic device, and manufacturing technology therefor.

A method of depolymerizing polyethylene terephthalate, and a method of manufacturing a polyester resin. When heating, melting and depolymerizing polyethylene terephthalate to be recycled, the heating, melting and depolymerization reaction of the polyethylene terephthalate to be recycled are carried out all at once using one or a plurality of extruders or using an extruder and a reactor provided at an outlet of the extruder. When manufacturing a polyester resin, the reactants are irradiated with microwaves, thus promoting the heating of the reactants, and promoting the esterification reaction.

A process and device for detecting electrically conductive particles in a liquid flowing in a pipe section, the liquid being exposed to periodic alternating electromagnetic fields by a transmitter coil which induces eddy currents in the particles, a probe made as a coil arrangement and which has an effective width producing a periodic electrical signal based on the eddy currents. The signal ha a carrier oscillation with an amplitude and / or phase which is modulated by particles passing across the effective width of the coil arrangement, the probe signal being filtered by a frequency-selective first filter unit, the filtered signal being sampled by a triggerable A / D converter stage to obtain a demodulated digital measurement signal, the digital measurement signal being filtered by a digital, frequency-selective adjustable second filter unit to obtain a useful signal, and the useful signal being evaluated to detect passage of electrically conductive particles in the pipe section.

An electronic device includes a plurality of stacked substrates. Each of the substrates includes a semiconductor substrate, a columnar conductor, and a ring-shaped insulator. The columnar conductor extends along a thickness direction of the semiconductor substrate. The ring-shaped insulator includes an inorganic insulating layer mainly composed of a glass. The inorganic insulating layer fills a ring-shaped groove that is provided in the semiconductor substrate to surround the columnar conductor.

An organic light emitting display device includes a substrate and a plurality of pixels defined in the substrate. A pixel includes red subpixel, green subpixel, blue subpixel, and white subpixel. The organic light emitting display device includes an anode electrode formed on the substrate, a cathode electrode opposing the anode electrode, and a red common emission layer, a green common emission layer, and a blue common emission layer formed across each of the red, green, blue and white subpixel areas. The blue common emission layer is disposed above and adjacent to the anode electrode, the green common emission layer is disposed above the blue common emission layer, and the red common emission layer is disposed above the green common emission layer and adjacent to the cathode electrode.

A method for chemically modifying the internal region of a hair shaft. The method comprises applying an oxidising formulation to the hair; de-wetting the hair; applying a monomer composition to the hair, wherein the monomer composition comprises an ethylenic monomer having a molecular weight of 500 g / mole or less and a cosmetically acceptable carrier. Also a kit which comprises: application instructions comprising the method; and the monomer composition.

Provided is a thermoplastic polymer composition, including a thermoplastic elastomer (A) and a polyvinyl acetal (B), wherein the thermoplastic elastomer (A) is a styrene-based thermoplastic elastomer or an olefin-based thermoplastic elastomer. Thus, a thermoplastic polymer composition is provided that has good flexibility as a thermoplastic elastomer composition, is excellent in mechanical properties and formability, and also itself has excellent adhesion to a ceramic, a metal, or a polar polymer. In addition, provided is a shaped article in which the thermoplastic polymer composition is adhered to a ceramic, a metal, or a polar polymer, in particular a shaped article adhered to a glass.

The nitride-based compound semiconductor light emitting device includes a first ohmic electrode, a bonding metal layer, a second ohmic electrode, a nitride-based compound semiconductor layer, and a transparent electrode stacked in this order on a support substrate, and further includes an ohmic electrode formed on a back side of the support substrate.

In an electronic device comprising a first electrodes consisting of a metal oxide and a second electrode consisting of an aluminum alloy film directly contacted and electrically connected to the first electrode, the contact interface between the aluminum alloy film and the first electrode is constructed so that at least a part of alloy components constituting the aluminum alloy film exist as a precipitate or concentrated layer. This construction enables direct contact between the aluminum alloy film and the electrode consisting of a metallic oxide and allows elimination of a barrier metal in such an electronic device, and manufacturing technology therefor.

An object is to reduce occurrence of defective bonding between a base substrate and a semiconductor substrate even when a silicon nitride film or the like is used as a bonding layer. Another object is to provide a method for manufacturing an SOI substrate by which an increase in the number of steps can be suppressed. A semiconductor substrate and a base substrate are prepared; an oxide film is formed over the semiconductor substrate; the semiconductor substrate is irradiated with accelerated ions through the oxide film to form a separation layer at a predetermined depth from a surface of the semiconductor substrate; a nitrogen-containing layer is formed over the oxide film after the ion irradiation; the semiconductor substrate and the base substrate are disposed opposite to each other to bond a surface of the nitrogen-containing layer and a surface of the base substrate to each other; and the semiconductor substrate is heated to cause separation along the separation layer, thereby forming a single crystal semiconductor layer over the base substrate with the oxide film and the nitrogen-containing layer interposed therebetween.

An object of the invention is to provide a method for manufacturing a substrate having a film pattern such as an insulating film, a semiconductor film, or a conductive film with an easy process, and further, a semiconductor device and a television set having a high throughput or a high yield at low cost and a manufacturing method thereof. One feature of the invention is that a first film pattern is formed by a droplet discharge method, a photosensitive material is discharged or applied to the first film pattern, a mask pattern is formed by irradiating a region where the first film pattern and the photosensitive material are overlapped with a laser beam and by developing, and a second film pattern having a desired shape is formed by etching the first film pattern using the mask pattern as a mask.

Etching is performed using mask layers formed by a multi-tone mask which is a light-exposure mask through which light is transmitted to have a plurality of intensity, in a method for manufacturing a display device including an inverted staggered thin film transistor with a channel-etched structure. Further, a gate wiring layer and a source wiring layer are formed over a substrate in the same step, and the source wiring layer is separated (disconnected) at an intersection of the gate wiring layer and the source wiring layer. The separated source wiring layers are connected to each other electrically through an opening (a contact hole) via a conductive layer formed over a gate insulating layer in the same step as formation of source and drain electrode layers.

A double-sided cooling power module may include a lower-end terminal, at least one pair of power semiconductor chips mounted on the lower-end terminal, at least one pair of horizontal spacers mounted on the at least one pair of power semiconductor chips, an upper-end terminal mounted on the at least one pair of horizontal spacers, and at least one pair of vertical spacers disposed between the upper-end terminal and the lower-end terminal.

A method is provided for manufacturing a semiconductor device, wherein a p-type region and / or n-type pattern is formed on a surface of a semiconductor substrate, including ejecting at least one of etching paste, masking paste, doping paste, and electrode paste from an ejecting orifice of a nozzle toward the surface of the semiconductor substrate to form beads formed of the paste between the semiconductor substrate and the ejecting orifice and moving the semiconductor substrate relative to the nozzle thereby the paste is applied to the surface of the semiconductor substrate in a stripe shape.

A pressure swing adsorption (PSA) system using two or more valves for controlling the flow of gases entering or exiting a bed of adsorbents is disclosed, where the two or more valves are opened sequentially (i.e., in at least two actions separated by a delay in time). The sequential opening of the valves may increase the degree to which adsorbed species are purged from the bed, and also facilitates more rapid execution of certain time steps of the PSA cycle, thus increasing adsorbent productivity The sequential opening of the valves may also allow for verification of valve operation by measuring either the absolute value, the slope (derivative) or the rate of change of derivative of the pressure, either in the adsorbent bed, in the downstream manifold, or in a volume of gas held in a buffer vessel.

A turnover device of a liquid crystal panel which comprises: a panel holding portion including a base, a panel face supporting portion having plural pairs of panel face touching portions to support both panel faces of a liquid crystal panel, a supporting arm of a panel long edge having a long edge touching portion to support a long edge of the panel, and a supporting arm of a panel short edge having a short edge touching portion to support a short edge of the panel; and a driving portion including a rotation shift to form a right angle with a bisector to divide an angle formed by the long edge touching portion and the short edge touching portion, and an actuator for turnover to rotate and drive the rotation shaft.

The nitride-based compound semiconductor light emitting device includes a first ohmic electrode, a bonding metal layer, a second ohmic electrode, a nitride-based compound semiconductor layer, and a transparent electrode stacked in this order on a support substrate, and further includes an ohmic electrode formed on a back side of the support substrate.

The present invention relates to an environmentally friendly, simple and economic process for producing xylose. The process comprises the steps of: a) countercurrently extracting tropical fruit biomass by hydrolysis with sulfuric acid to obtain a high-concentration xylose extract; b) adjusting the extract to a pH of 1.5-2.5 and decolorizing and filtering the pH-adjusted extract; c) desalting the filtrate in an electrodialysis device; and d) recycling a waste sulfuric acid solution recovered from step c), to step a), and concentrating and directly recovering the desalted filtrate to obtain xylose crystals.

A glass ceramic material with a base of silica and tin dioxide: the material has a vitreous silica matrix, in which there are dispersed crystalline aggregates of tin dioxide having submicrometric or nanometric dimensions, the dimensions being obtained by means of appropriate control of specific operating parameters of the process of preparation. The material has excellent values of optical transmission in the visible and in the near infrared and high properties of photosensitivity and optical non-linearity, which render the material suitable, in particular, for use in devices for optical telecommunications (integrated in optical fibre or on planar waveguide or in three-dimensional devices) and memories, the devices being obtainable, for example, by direct writing or using laser interferometric techniques.

The present invention provides a method for manufacturing an electron-emitting device, comprising a step for forming a polymer film between a pair of electrodes formed on a substrate, a step for giving conductivity to the polymer film by heating, and a step for providing potential difference between the pair of electrodes.

A process and device for detecting electrically conductive particles in a liquid flowing in a pipe section, the liquid being exposed to periodic alternating electromagnetic fields by a transmitter coil which induces eddy currents in the particles, a probe made as a coil arrangement and which has an effective width producing a periodic electrical signal based on the eddy currents. The signal ha a carrier oscillation with an amplitude and / or phase which is modulated by particles passing across the effective width of the coil arrangement, the probe signal being filtered by a frequency-selective first filter unit, the filtered signal being sampled by a triggerable A / D converter stage to obtain a demodulated digital measurement signal, the digital measurement signal being filtered by a digital, frequency-selective adjustable second filter unit to obtain a useful signal, and the useful signal being evaluated to detect passage of electrically conductive particles in the pipe section.

A device manufacturing method, including: a first process for providing the plural elements on the original substrate via a separation layer in a condition where terminal sections are exposed to a surface on an opposite side to the separation layer; a second process for adhering the surface where the terminal sections of the elements to be transferred on the original substrate are exposed, via conductive adhesive, to a surface of the final substrate on a side where conductive sections for conducting with the terminal sections of the elements are provided; a third process for producing exfoliation in the separation layer between the original substrate and the final substrate; and a fourth process for separating the original substrate from which the transfer of elements has been completed, from the final substrate.

The dock vessel has the tow compartment for placement of tug-boats, and technological compartment. The technological compartment is made as a hangar at the bottom of which a central channel is located, along its upper boundaries, the rack-ledges with symmetrical location to the right and left, toward the hull, are placed on which the technological equipment for the water-oil emulsion treatment is placed. Between the dock-vessel hull walls and side walls of the central channel, the containers for collection of the emulsified oil are placed. The central channel of the technological compartment is equipped with, at least, two bulkheads in which, the hermetically pluggable openings located at different levels are made. The floating boom is made as the sectional net sleeve filled with elastic porous adsorbent and provided with positive buoyancy in the top edge of doubled net forming the net sleeve and negative buoyancy at its lower edge.

The present invention relates to an environmentally friendly, simple and economic process for producing xylose. The process comprises the steps of: a) countercurrently extracting tropical fruit biomass by hydrolysis with sulfuric acid to obtain a high-concentration xylose extract; b) adjusting the extract to a pH of 1.5-2.5 and decolorizing and filtering the pH-adjusted extract; c) desalting the filtrate in an electrodialysis device; and d) recycling a waste sulfuric acid solution recovered from step c), to step a), and concentrating and directly recovering the desalted filtrate to obtain xylose crystals.

An object of the invention is to provide a method for manufacturing a substrate having a film pattern such as an insulating film, a semiconductor film, or a conductive film with an easy process, and further, a semiconductor device and a television set having a high throughput or a high yield at low cost and a manufacturing method thereof. One feature of the invention is that a first film pattern is formed by a droplet discharge method, a photosensitive material is discharged or applied to the first film pattern, a mask pattern is formed by irradiating a region where the first film pattern and the photosensitive material are overlapped with a laser beam and by developing, and a second film pattern having a desired shape is formed by etching the first film pattern using the mask pattern as a mask.

A normal transistor CTFT connected to a data signal line DL and a pixel electrode PX and a spare transistor FTFT in a floating state are formed on a gate line GL. When an operational abnormality occurs in the normal transistor CTFT, the normal transistor CTFT is cut off from the data signal line DL and is cut off from the pixel electrode PX connected via a through hole TH by cutting lines CL. Thereafter, the spare transistor FTFT is connected to the data signal line DL and the pixel electrode PX by repair lines RL.