513 results about "Central layer" patented technology

A rigid and brittle bright metal flake is formed of a central layer of a reflective material supported on both sides by dielectric layers. In a preferred embodiment, the metal layer is aluminum having a thickness of about 100 nm and the dielectrics are either silicon dioxide or magnesium fluoride, each having a thickness of about 100 nm. The result is a very thin three-layered metal flake about 300 nm thick that exhibits a uniaxial compressive strength of about 8 times a corresponding uniaxial tensile strength. As a result, the metal flake is then afforded the benefits of rigidity and brittle fracture during the manufacturing and applicational processes which ultimately provides favorable planar and specular reflectance characteristics in the visible wavelength range.

A method for fabricating an RF enhancement mode FET (30) having improved gate properties is provided. The method comprises the steps of providing (131) a substrate (31) having a stack of semiconductor layers (32-35) formed thereon, the stack including a cap layer (35) and a central layer (33) defining a device channel, forming (103) a photoresist pattern (58) over the cap layer, thereby defining a masked region and an unmasked region, and, in any order, (a) creating (105) an implant region (36, 37) in the unmasked region, and (b) removing (107) the cap layer from the unmasked region. By forming the implant region and cap region with no overlap, a device with low current leakage may be achieved.

A method of fabricating a printed circuit board (PCB) including embedded chips, composed of forming a hollow portion for chip insertion through a substrate, inserting the chip into the hollow portion, fixing the chip to the substrate by use of a plating process to form a central layer having an embedded chip, and then laminating a non-cured resin layer and a circuit layer having a circuit pattern on the central layer. Also, a PCB including embedded chips fabricated using the above method is provided.

Controlled release oral dosage formulations containing one or more active agent, and methods of use thereof, are provided for the once-a-day treatment. The formulation can be in the form of a trilayer tablet containing a core or central layer and one or more barrier layers. The core may contain one or more enteric materials or polymeric materials which modulates the release of the active agent.

The invention relates to a writable magnetic element comprising a stack of layers presenting a write magnetic layer, wherein the stack has a central layer of at least one magnetic material presenting a direction of magnetization that is perpendicular to the plane of the central layer, said central layer being sandwiched between first and second outer layers of non-magnetic materials, the first outer layer comprising a first non-magnetic material and the second outer layer comprising a second non-magnetic material that is different from the first non-magnetic material, at least the second non-magnetic material being electrically conductive, and wherein it includes a device for causing current to flow through the second outer layer in a current flow direction parallel to the plane of the central layer, and a device for applying a magnetic field along a magnetic field direction that is perpendicular to the plane of the central layer.

A package particularly for packaging food products, comprising an inner package sheet, which individually wraps each product of the package and is composed of a coextruded film constituted by two outer layers of a styrene-butadiene copolymer resin and by a central layer chosen among polyethylene, polypropylene and other plastic material, and an outer package sheet, which wraps around a set of products contained in their respective inner packages and is composed of a high-barrier film coupled to a paper film.

A method of fabricating a printed circuit board (PCB) including embedded chips, composed of forming a hollow portion for chip insertion through a substrate, inserting the chip into the hollow portion, fixing the chip to the substrate by use of a plating process to form a central layer having an embedded chip, and then laminating a non-cured resin layer and a circuit layer having a circuit pattern on the central layer. Also, a PCB including embedded chips fabricated using the above method is provided.

The invention relates to a writable magnetic element comprising a stack of layers presenting a write magnetic layer, wherein the stack has a central layer of at least one magnetic material presenting a direction of magnetization that is parallel or perpendicular to the plane of the central layer, said central layer being sandwiched between first and second outer layers of non-magnetic materials, the first outer layer comprising a first non-magnetic material and the second outer layer comprising a second non-magnetic material that is different from the first non-magnetic material, at least the second non-magnetic material being electrically conductive, wherein it includes a device for causing current to flow through the second outer layer and the central layer in a current flow direction parallel to the plane of the central layer, and a device for applying a magnetic field having a component along a magnetic field direction that is either parallel or perpendicular to the plane of the central layer and the current flow direction, and wherein the magnetization direction and the magnetic field direction are mutually perpendicular.

The invention discloses a train communication system and method based on AP (Assess Point) switching. The train communication system comprises a central layer, a trackside layer and a vehicle-mounted layer which are in wireless communication in sequence, wherein the central layer comprises a master wireless controller and an auxiliary wireless controller respectively connected with a server through a backbone network, the trackside layer comprises two or more APs linearly distributed beside a track, and the vehicle-mounted layer communicates with the APs through an STA (single thread apartment). As for the rain communication system and method based on AP switching, firstly, the architecture of a CBTC (communication based train control) system is improved firstly, the wireless controller is introduced on the central control layer of a train, the functional configuration of APs is simplified so that other functional configurations of the APs are transferred upwards and the functions are intensively realized in the wireless controllers; and secondly, a communication channel for the APs and the STA is designed, and the STA can work without searching an appropriate communication channel in the detection stage.

A biological sensor which includes: a porous semiconductor structure comprising a central layer interposed between upper and lower layers, each of the upper and lower layers including strata of alternating porosity; and one or more probes coupled to the porous semiconductor structure, the one or more probes binding to a target molecule, whereby a detectable change occurs in a refractive index of the biological sensor upon binding of the one or more probes to the target molecule. Methods of making the biological sensor and methods of using the same are disclosed, as is a detection device which includes such a biological sensor.

Composite beam with integrated rupture initiator and aircraft fuselage including such beams. A composite beam (18) comprises a web (20) with a sinusoidal-shaped section and a bottom flange (22). The web (20) comprises a stack of at least one central layer of single-directional carbon fibres oriented along the depth of the beam, and aramide fibre and carbon fibre fabrics. The lower part of the beam (18) is designed so that rupture is initiated in it if the aircraft in which the beam is installed crashes. This is achieved by gluing the bottom flange (22) on the sides of the web (20), the bottom edge of each layer of single-directional carbon fibres is setback from the corresponding edges of the fabrics and saw-tooth cut-outs are formed in this bottom edge

The invention relates to an optical filter structure composed of at least two adjacent elementary optical filters, an elementary optical filter being centred on an optimum transmission frequency, characterised in that it comprises a stack of n metallic layers (m1-m3) and n−1 dielectric layers (d2-d3), each metallic layer alternating with a dielectric layer such that the central layer in the stack is a metallic layer (m2), each of the layers in the stack having a constant thickness except for the central metallic layer for which the varying thickness fixes the optimum transmission frequency of an elementary filter.

In thermal sensing devices, such as for calorimetry, a support layer or central layer can have a thermometer element or other thermal sensor on one side and a thermally conductive structure or component on the other. The thermally conductive structure can conduct temperature or other thermal input signals laterally across the support layer or central layer. The temperature or signals can then be provided to the thermometer element, such as by thermal contact through the support layer. An electrically conducting, thermally isolating anti-coupling layer, such as of gold or chromium, can reduce capacitive coupling between the thermally conductive structure and the thermometer element or other thermal sensor.

The invention relates to a writable magnetic element comprising a stack of layers presenting a write magnetic layer, wherein the stack has a central layer of at least one magnetic material presenting a direction of magnetization that is perpendicular to the plane of the central layer, said central layer being sandwiched between first and second outer layers of non-magnetic materials, the first outer layer comprising a first non-magnetic material and the second outer layer comprising a second non-magnetic material that is different from the first non-magnetic material, at least the second non-magnetic material being electrically conductive, and wherein it includes a device for causing current to flow through the second outer layer in a current flow direction parallel to the plane of the central layer, and a device for applying a magnetic field along a magnetic field direction that is perpendicular to the plane of the central layer.

Aspects of the invention are directed to a multi-layer ring seal segment that can incorporate a plurality of material systems. The ring seal segment can include an inner layer, a central layer and an outer layer. The inner layer can be attached to one side of the central layer, and the outer layer can be attached to an opposite side of the central layer. The inner and outer layers can be made of a ceramic matrix composite, such as a hybrid oxide ceramic matrix composite or an oxide-oxide ceramic matrix composite. The central layer can be made of a material that has high shear strength relative to the inner and outer layers. The ring seal segment according to aspects of the invention can take advantage of the benefits of the different materials so as to better withstand the operational loads of the turbine.

The invention relates to a Foley-type catheter constructed to prevent the retention balloon from cuffing, and methods of making the same. In an embodiment, the invention relates to a catheter including an additional sheath layer over the outside surface of the catheter and methods of making and using the same. The catheter includes a central layer that defines a first lumen and a second lumen. The catheter further includes a balloon layer surrounding the central layer and a balloon cavity disposed between the exterior surface of the central layer and the balloon layer. A sheath layer surrounds the balloon layer and extends over the balloon cavity. In an embodiment, the invention relates to a catheter with a retention balloon including ribs and methods of making and using the same. The catheter includes a central layer defining a first lumen and a second lumen and a sheath layer surrounding the central layer. The catheter further includes a balloon cavity. The portion of the sheath layer defining the balloon cavity has a plurality of ribs parallel to the length of the catheter. The ribs include a material that resists stretching more than the material of the sheath layer.

The invention relates to a kind of hydroxyl apatite - zirconia compound biology ceramic material and its producing method, belonging to biology medical material producing technological field. The invention makes zirconia as substance central layer, on its upper and lower surfaces, respectively spread mix middle layer of zirconia and hydroxyl apatite mixed as per different proportion, on the most outside spread a surface layer of pure hydroxyl apatite, to form a kind of gradient nappe structure; in steel mould, at pressure of 10 - 30 MPa, dry press to molding, then at high temperature of 1500 - 1600 Deg. C, sinter without pressure, then can get hydroxyl apatite - zirconia compound biology ceramic material. The compound material produced by the method of the invention, its anti-bending strength is 900 - 1100 MPa, its fracture toughness (KIC) is 7 - 10 MPaíñm1 / 2, its roughness is 0.5 - 5.0 micron; the compound material has good biology compatibility, so can meet the requirement of load bearing planting body of different parts of human body.

The invention provides a silicon and phosphorus modified ZSM-5 molecular sieve and a preparation method thereof; the relative crystallinity of the molecular sieve is at least 75%; the distribution D of the phosphorus is larger than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 0.5, wherein the D is equal to P(S) / P(C); the P(S) shows the phosphorus content at one fifth of the distance of crystal grains of the molecular sieve characterized with a TEM-EDX method from the edge to the center; and the P(C) show the phosphorus content at the center of the crystal grains of the molecular sieve. Compared with the prior art, the phosphorus contained in the silicon and phosphorus modified ZSM-5 molecular sieve provided by the invention is unevenly distributed on the surface layer and central layer of the molecular sieve. When the molecular sieve is used as a catalyst and applied to toluene alkylation with methanol for preparing p-xylene, the molecular not only shows excellent selectivity on the p-xylene and simultaneously has better activity and stability.

A high-density filtration module for separating a liquid from a high viscosity and / or high solids feed comprising sheets of porous filtration membrane being disposed generally concentrically about a central porous tube. The membranes are separated by a sheet of feed liquid spacer material having two sets of generally parallel ribs of similar size regularly spaced apart from one another which project from opposite surfaces of a thin central layer. Permeate carrier layers are disposed adjacent discharge surfaces of the sheet membranes. The sets of ribs are arranged so that each rib is located substantially equidistant from the two adjacent ribs in the opposite set, and the central layer is about 40% or less as thick as the base of a rib where it joins the central layer.

A rated voltage of 35kv or below shallow sea wind farm photoelectrical transmission composite cable comprises a cable core provided with a lead and a water-blocking filling piece, a water-blocking belting layer, a plastic-aluminum composite band layer, an internal sheath, a wire armoring layer and an external sheath, wherein the cable core are externally coated with the water-blocking belting layer, the plastic-aluminum composite band layer, the internal sheath, the wire armoring layer and the external sheath in turn, the cable core is internally provided with a fiber optic communication unit, a steel-tape armoring layer is arranged between the external sheath and the wire armoring layer. The structure of the fiber optic communication unit is as follows: a fiber loose tube is externally coated with an internal sheathing layer, an armoring layer and an external sheathing layer in turn. A conductor of the lead adopts two-tier structure: a central layer conductor is formed by twisting multiple stranded brass wires coated with water-blocking balm, and then coats a central layer semiconductive water-blocking band layer; an external layer conductor is coated outside the central layer semiconductive water-blocking band layer by multiple stranded brass wires coated with water-blocking balm, and then coats an external layer semiconductive water-blocking band layer. The invention has the complex function of optical communication and power transmission, one cable has two uses, thereby saving cost and facilitating laying; in addition, the cable has high strength, excellent wear resistance, corrosion resistance and waterproof function, and can adapt to the requirement for subsea use in long term.

A current perpendicular to plane (CPP) GMR sensor having first and second outer pinned layers and a trilayer free layer therebetween. The free layer includes first and second outer magnetic layers, and a partially oxidized magnetic layer disposed there between. The middle partially oxidized layer is antiparallel coupled with the outer magnetic layers of the free layer by first and second coupling alyers which prevent oxygen migration from the central layer into the outer magnetic layers of the free layer. The partial oxidation of the middle layer provides a limited amount of electrical resistance at a desired location within the free layer to increase GMR.

The present invention relates to a polyamide-based multilayer structure comprising in succession: an upper layer made of a transparent polyamide coming from the condensation: either of a lactam or of an α,Ω-amino acid having at least 9 carbon atoms or of a diamine and of a diacid, at least one having at least 9 carbon atoms; a lower layer capable of adhering to the substrate and optionally, an intermediate tie layer (also called a central layer) between the upper layer and the lower layer, each of the layers exhibiting thermomechanical behaviour (strength as a function of temperature) sufficiently similar to allow the structure to be easily formed under the effect of the temperature. The invention also relates to the objects consisting of these substrates covered with these structures, the lower layer being placed against the substrate.

A system designed to release one or more active substances in different, previously programmable modes, is described. The system is constituted by a tablet in three layers, two of which (the outer layers) vehicularise the active ingredient(s), whilst the third (the central layer) is constituted of a polymeric barrier which does not contain active substance and has the appropriate characteristics of erodibility or gelation. The tablet is completely coated with a film of polymeric material insoluble in water and / or in aqueous fluids, on which one or more incisions delimiting an area of exactly calculated geometric shape and size, have been made through the use of a laser beam of appropriate power and intensity. The removal of the film inside the incision(s) allows the release of the active ingredient(s) into aqueous fluid in predetermined amounts and umes. The procedure for the production of the aforementioned pharmaceutical form is also described.

A pneumatic tire (10) incorporates a plurality of parallel-aligned, tread-stiffening support members (23) typically disposed laterally between the tread (12) and the ply structure (16). The support members (23) inhibit lateral and circumferential tread lift during runflat operation. Support members (23) can each be a monolithic rib (22) made of a fiber reinforced plastic material. An alternative layered rib (24) has two outer layers (40, 44) of a fiber reinforced plastic material while the central layer (42) is an elastomer.

The invention belongs to the technical field of super-surfaces, specifically an adjustable linear polarization wave beam separator based on a gradient super-surface. The separator takes TGMS units as the basis, enables six TGMS units to sequentially rotate 30 degrees in the clockwise direction, and obtains a TGMS super-unit with a phase gradient. The TGMS super-unit is enabled to carry out two-dimensional periodic extension in x and y orthogonal directions in a horizontal plane, and a microstrip bias line at the lower layer of the TGMS is used for the feed of the TGMS units in each row, thereby obtaining the separator with a plurality of functions. The TGMS units are in a three-layer metal structure, wherein the upper layer consists of a pair of the same metal pasters and an opening microstrip line, wherein the opening at the center of the opening microstrip line is used for loading a PIN diode, the central layer is a metal ground plate and the center consists of two metal columns and circular grooves wrapping the upper column, and the lower layer is a brush structure. The separator greatly improves the conversion efficiency (greater than 89%), and achieves the switching and regulation and control of wave beam separation frequency bands.

The invention discloses a high-nickel material coated with aluminum and lithium silicate on the surface and doped with fluorine on a surface layer. The high-nickel material comprises an aluminum and lithium silicate coating layer and a high-nickel ternary material central layer, wherein the thickness of the coating layer is 1-200 nm, and the coating layer is doped with a fluorine element. In addition, the invention discloses a preparation method of the high-nickel material. The preparation method comprises the steps of mixing, drying and screening, lithium-adding sintering and fluorine-addingthermal treatment. The aluminum and lithium silicate fast-ion conductor material coating layer has good lithium-ion conducting performance, doped fluorine ions replace oxygen in the coating layer or the high-nickel material, accordingly the electronic conductivity of the material is improved, finally the surface of the high-nickel material has better lithium-ion and electronic conductivity properties, and playing of the rate capability of an anode material for lithium ion batteries is facilitated. The preparation method of the high-nickel material is low in cost, the process is simple, and industrialization is easy to achieve.

The invention relates to the field of pattern recognition, in particular to a pattern recognition method based on a self-adaptation correction neural network. The method comprises the steps of classifying input training samples through a probabilistic neural network model so as to obtain samples accurate in classification and samples inaccurate in classification; adding an input layer, a central layer and an excitation layer on the basis of the probabilistic neural network model structure so as to construct a self-adaptation correction neural network model structure; for the samples inaccurate in classification in the probabilistic neural network model, using themself as central points, calculating the allowance radius between the the samples and samples of other classifications, clustering error samples of same category so as to realize batch correction of classification patterns and replanning of a judging interface and build the self-adaptation correction neural network; finally, conducting pattern recognition on input testing samples based on the self-adaptation correction neural network model. The pattern recognition method has the advantages of being high in accuracy in mode classification, strong in mode generalization ability, good in classification real-time performance, wide in application prospect, and the like.

The invention concerns multilayered structures useful for forming capacitors, which may be embedded within printed circuit boards or other microelectronic devices. The multilayered structure comprises a pair of parallel electrically conductive layers separated by a pair of dielectric layers and a central polymerizable layer. Each of the dielectric layers and the central layer may include a filler. Capacitors formed from the multilayered structures of the invention exhibit excellent short circuit resistance as well as excellent void resistance.