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A gas injector tube usable in a batch thermal treatment oven including two silicon shells joined together with an adhesive formed of a fine silicon powder and a curable silica-forming agent, such as a spin-on glass, which is ultrasonically homogenized. The tube may have a gas outlet on its distal end or be sealed with a silicon cap and have side outlet holes formed along its side. The silicon injector tube may be used in combination with a silicon tower and a silicon liner so that all bulk parts within the furnace hot zone are formed of silicon.

A stack package usable in a three-dimensional (3D) system-in-package (SIP) includes a first semiconductor chip, a second semiconductor chip, and a supporter. The first semiconductor chip includes a through silicon via (TSV), and the second semiconductor chip is stacked on the first semiconductor chip and is electrically connected to the first semiconductor chip through the TSV of the first semiconductor chip. The supporter is attached onto the first semiconductor chip so as to be spaced apart from an edge of the second semiconductor chip.

A system and computer implemented method for providing a widget are described. The method and system include rendering the widget on a site. The widget dynamically displays multimedia content associated with a campaign. The widget is also embeddable, copyable, and allows for at least one user action. The method and system also include receiving at least one input related to the at least one action and updating the widget based on a goal corresponding to the at least one action.

Methods and systems for producing an encoded information signal having attenuated low frequency spectral components and a substantially constant average energy. An M bit code word is produced for each N bits of an information signal according to the following conditions: (a) each code word includes an equal number of logic zero bits and logic one bits; (b) each code word includes no more than two consecutive identical bits; and (c) M is greater than N. For example, M equals eight and N equals four. Such an encoded information signal is especially useful for generating a magnetic field signal usable for locating an underground object. This is in part because information sidebands of the magnetic field signal to have desired spectral characteristics that are useful in environments that often include harmonically derived interference signals at regular 50 Hz (±0.1 Hz) or 60 Hz (±0.1 Hz) intervals caused by power lines.

A turbine airfoil usable in a turbine engine and having at least one cooling system. The cooling system may be positioned in an outer wall of the turbine airfoil, and the airfoil may include a hot gas receiving cavity positioned in a mid-chord region of the airfoil. The hot gas receiving cavity may have an opening in a tip of the airfoil to enable hot gases to circulate into the hot gas receiving cavity. In at least one embodiment, the cooling system in the outer wall and the hot gas receiving cavity may include a plurality of ribs. Cooling fluids may be passed through the cooling system in the outer wall, and hot combustion gases may be passed into the hot gas receiving cavity to moderate the temperature of the inner portions of the outer wall to reduce the temperature gradient in the outer wall.

The present invention relates to a securized, multifunction, acquisition and processing terminal more particularly usable in the banking sector, in connection with games and / or in the electronic management of documents, characterized in that it comprises: a mother board (13), having an interfacing bus with one or more standardized connectors to which can be connected standard input / output modules, at least one specific input / output module permitting the performance of specific functions incorporating at least one dedicated circuit, said module as its main function the supplying of the mother board with preorganized informations, in real time, concerning the specific functions and able to leave to said mother board any developed software processing of said informations.

In embodiments of the invention, selected aspects of a process' call stacks are hashed, and the hash is used to capture the execution state of the process in a concise form and with minimal impact on the performance of the process and with no modification to the process code. The hash allows vendors and developers to classify failures in order to associate them with their known root causes to support rapid customer feedback and to maximize efficiency of correction. Further, the hash provides a metric usable to prioritize diagnosis of failures. In an embodiment of the invention, the identities of modules on the call stack are hashed in combination with some but not all offset information to minimize the affect of patches and minor changes to the code, and improve the ability to discriminate different execution paths.

A data recovery subsystem for use in a receive system configured to receive a magnetic field signal, the magnetic field signal including a carrier component usable for locating an underground object and at least one modulation sideband. The data recovery subsystem includes a first mixer to mix a Radio Frequency (RF) signal with a first Local Oscillator (LO) signal to produce an Intermediate Frequency (IF) signal representative of the magnetic field signal. A Phase Locked Loop (PLL) phase-locks a second LO signal to an IF carrier component of the IF signal. A second mixer synchronously mixes the IF signal with the second LO signal to produce a baseband signal including a demodulated sideband.

An information device for speeding up relatively simple processing such as data reference with respect to an information device such as a personal computer, and an information electric home appliance, a control method of the information device, and a storage medium storing a control program. The information device including interface sections 3-1 through 3-n, an input / output device 4, a memory 5, a magnetic disk device (HDD) 6, a display 7 and an audio section 8 connected each other via a processor (CPU) 1 and a chipset 2, the information device having a configuration in which a normal operation mode that executes information processing by making entire functions usable and an exclusive operational mode that executes processing such as data reference by making only a part of functions such as data reference usable is selected in accordance with start-up conditions from either a power-off state or a suspend state.

An electronic device may have a display screen usable in at least two orientations, such as landscape orientation and portrait orientation. Provided in this disclosure is selective rendering of a structured document according to the orientation of the display screen. A structured document such as as webpage is rendered (as a first rendered document) for display according to the document object model structure and optionally styles provided with the webpage. The same webpage is rendered (as a second rendered document) by removing or replacing selected objets in the document object model structure, or by applying different style directives than included in the originally received webpage. When the display screen is in a first orientation, the first rendered document is displayed. When a change in orientation of the display screen to the second orientation is detected, the second rendered document is displayed.

A system and computer implemented method for providing a widget are described. The method and system include rendering the widget on a site. The widget dynamically displays multimedia content associated with a campaign. The widget is also embeddable, copyable, and allows for at least one user action. The method and system also include receiving at least one input related to the at least one action and updating the widget based on a goal corresponding to the at least one action.

Transmitted magnetic field signals useable for locating an underground object, and methods and systems for generating the same. The magnetic field signal has desired spectral characteristics. More specifically, the transmitted magnetic field signal includes a carrier component useable for locating an underground object. The carrier component has a carrier component frequency substantially equal to an integer multiple of 300 Hz. This guarantees that the carrier component frequency is substantially equal to an integer multiple of both 50 Hz and 60 Hz. Such a carrier component allows use of maximum information sidebands in environments that often include harmonically derived interference signals at regular 50 Hz (±0.1 Hz) or 60 Hz (±0.1 Hz) intervals caused by power lines. The transmitted magnetic field signal may also include at least one information sideband including sideband energy. A substantial portion of the sideband energy is contained between the carrier component frequency and a frequency spaced 50 Hz from the carrier component frequency.

A turbine airfoil usable in a turbine engine and having at least one cooling system. The cooling system may be positioned in an outer wall of the turbine airfoil, and the airfoil may include a hot gas receiving cavity positioned in a mid-chord region of the airfoil. The hot gas receiving cavity may have an opening in a tip of the airfoil to enable hot gases to circulate into the hot gas receiving cavity. In at least one embodiment, the cooling system in the outer wall and the hot gas receiving cavity may include a plurality of ribs. Cooling fluids may be passed through the cooling system in the outer wall, and hot combustion gases may be passed into the hot gas receiving cavity to moderate the temperature of the inner portions of the outer wall to reduce the temperature gradient in the outer wall.

A meta object facility file is parsed into a plurality of schema elements. For each schema element, it is determined that the definition of the schema element is complete. A computing artifact usable in a database description language database table or a JAVA class is created from the schema element. When the schema element is a meta object facility class, a modeling entity is created to store the computing artifacts derived from the meta object facility file wherein the modeling entity is a JAVA class. The meta object facility class is transformed into a JAVA class, and upon determining that an attribute of the meta object facility class has an array of values, an array table is created and identified in the modeling entity, and an array attribute is added to JAVABEAN information in the modeling entity.

A turbine airfoil usable in a turbine engine and having at least one cooling system. The turbine airfoil may include an interlayer coupled to an outer surface of the outer wall of the airfoil, wherein the interlayer may be formed from a porous material that allows cooling fluids to pass through the interlayer. The floating wall may be coupled to an outer surface of the interlayer, wherein the floating wall may be formed from a plurality of floating wall segments positioned in close proximity to each other but with a film cooling slot positioned between the adjacent wall segments to enable cooling fluids to be exhausted from the elongated hollow airfoil. The cooling system may include an outer wall diffusion chamber positioned in the outer wall and an interlayer diffusion chamber. One or more metering holes may be in communication with the outer wall and interlayer diffusion chambers.

A phase change memory cell includes a resistive heating element for a phase change body that can expeditiously and efficiently heat a portion of the body with the voltage and current usable with MOSFETs. This is achieved through minimizing the area of an interface between a conductive layer and the body by permitting photolithographic techniques to define one dimension of the interface and thin film deposition techniques to define the other dimension.

Providing secure access to a mobile or other device using a network-assisted PIN or other short password is disclosed. In various embodiments, upon entry by a user of a personal identification number (PIN) or other short password, the password and a unique identifier, such as a user and / or device identifier, and / or other data, are sent to a remote server. The remote server returns to the mobile or other device a cryptographic key and / or other data, such as a more secure (e.g., more characters and / or including characters drawn from a larger set of characters) password usable at the mobile device to access encrypted data.

A spread spectrum frequency modulated oscillator circuit usable as a clock comprises a reference component such as a resistor, a voltage controlled oscillator and a first circuit coupled to the reference component and voltage controlled oscillator and configured to supply a first control signal to the oscillator to cause the oscillator to oscillate at a frequency corresponding to a value of the reference component. A second circuit configured to supply a random signal to the oscillator causes the frequency of the oscillator to dither. To cause the oscillator to exhibit random frequency modulation that is fast enough to reduce EMI but not too fast for controlled devices such as switching regulators to track, the oscillator includes a third circuit configured to control (1) a rate of change of the oscillator frequency such that the rate of change is a fixed percentage of the oscillator frequency, and (2) an amount of frequency change in the oscillator frequency such that the amount of frequency change is a fixed percentage of the oscillator frequency.

An image mixing circuit usable in a video camera for mixing images with a continuous gradation characteristic in both the luminance signal and color signal is provided according to the present invention. A color separation circuit separates plural image signals into plural luminance signal components and plural color signal components. A control signal generation circuit then generates the control signal needed for image synthesis from the plural image signals. A luminance signal mixing circuit and a color signal mixing circuit then separately mix the respective luminance signal components and color signal components according to the control signal.

A computer program product for discovering and distributing relevant business information contained in a mashup comprises computer usable program code is configured to interrogate a mashup maker to discover the elements, relationships, and dependencies embodied by a mashup page; assemble this information into a data structure; and make the data structure accessible. A method for updating a configuration management database, where an end user creates a mashup page that embodies the end user's knowledge about the elements and processes required to fulfill a specific task, comprises deriving elements, relationships, and dependencies from the mashup page; creating a data structure representing this information, and communicating this data structure to the configuration management database.

An orthotic insole usable in an article for footwear for aligning a foot with its lower leg to provide balance and support having a support base, an expandable rail section moveable between a receiving position and a grabbed position around an outer edge of the foot, and an expandable rail section moveable from the receiving position to the grabbed position when the foot is placed in the article of footwear.

The present disclosure describes a system for managing a plurality of lockers proximate a theme park attraction, the system having an electronically actuated lock disposed on the plurality of lockers, a guest identifier carriable on the guests person, the identifier usable as an electronic key configured to lock and unlock the lock, an egress sensor positioned at an exit of the theme park attraction and a processor in communication with the lock and the egress sensor and configured to unlock the lock subsequent to being signaled by the egress sensor. A method for using and managing a plurality of lockers is also described.

The present invention relates to a process for purifying anhydrous hydrogen chloride gas (“aHCl”), and preferably the anhydrous hydrogen chloride gas recovered from an isocyanate production process. In the process of the present invention, the content of chlorinated organics may be reduced from up to 1000 ppm by volume to below 10 ppb by volume levels. Generally, the process of the invention allows for chlorinated organic levels to be reduced to from 1 to 100 ppb, rendering the treated hydrogen chloride gas usable in a catalytic oxychlorination process or a Deacon process. The treated gas is also suitable for absorption in water or dilute hydrochloric acid.

Brightness correction and image enhancement are derived to compensate for changes in captured image data by hardware scanners and the like by statistically measuring the captured data and generating or selecting a compensation quantization table to be substituted in image data encoded for compression. Three techniques of compensation usable singly or in combination are provided which may be used in combination with techniques for dynamic range reduction for extreme compression. Thus, improved images which may be enhanced in any desired manner, for example, to conform to an established image standard, may be derived from data having sufficient compression to allow economically acceptable long-term storage in high-speed access storage media even though the data captured is degraded in dynamic range, brightness and the like.

A workpiece transfer robot system including a machine tool provided with a workpiece support section and a robot capable of transferring a workpiece relative to the workpiece support section of the machine tool. The machine tool includes a cover surrounding at least the workpiece support section. The cover includes a first side wall provided with a first opening usable for a workpiece transferring task of the robot. The robot includes a track member defining a traveling axis extending in a direction perpendicular to the first side wall of the cover of the machine tool; a slider attached to the track member and capable of traveling along the traveling axis; a first arm attached to the slider and capable of swinging about a first swing axis; a second arm attached to the first arm and capable of swinging about a second swing axis parallel to the first swing axis; and a workpiece hold section provided on the second arm and capable of accessing the workpiece support section through the first opening of the cover of the machine tool.

The invention discloses a mobile phone usable as a learning platform, a locatable media player and a file processing and searching method thereof. The mobile phone of the invention has a function of identifying the keywords in short messages or electronic books; a user can decide which keywords should be identified, or the keywords can be made by an electronic book publisher; when a short message or an electronic book is opened, a short message reader or an electronic book reader can analyze whether the content includes keywords representing the electronic book or not; if so, the user can directly open the electronic book in the reader and display the content of an appointed chapter, and also can open an audio / video file and locate the audio / video file to the appointed chapter to play. During the playing of the audio / video file, when the user presses the forward or backward button, the media player of the invention directly goes forward to the start point of the next sentence or scene, or goes backward to the start point of the previous sentence or scene to play; and when the user presses the replay button, the player directly goes backward to the start point of the current played sentence to play.

A seal usable between two thermally movable components to prevent fluids from mixing. For instance, the seal may be used to seal thermally movable components of a turbine engine that may include, but are not limited to, leading edge shrouds, isolation rings, ring segments, and vane segments. The seal may be formed from a body having a cross-section generally orthogonal to a longitudinal axis and include a first side, a second side generally opposite to the first side, a first end, and a second end generally opposite to the first end. A compliant material may be coupled to the first or second end, or both, and may absorb thermal expansion of the two thermally movable components. The seal may reduce leakage flow paths between the seal and the thermally movable components.

The invention provides an internet-of-things tampering invasion detection method in combination with abnormal monitoring. Aiming at a periodic environment monitoring network, the technical problem that the real perception data is tampered by malicious node and the credibility of the data is damaged is solved. The method comprises a local abnormal monitoring step, a neighbor invasion detection step and a global invasion detection step. The space-time relativity of the data in the network is considered, and mutual supervision is performed by using the openness of a channel usable for a node and a neighbor node, so invasion detection between neighbors is realized, and the space relativity is detected by using the global invasion detection with a suspicious abnormal event node as the center; by using the result, on one hand, the monitoring and the positioning of the abnormal event are realized, and on the other hand, the invasion node close to the abnormal event can be reversely detected.