A method and apparatus for synthesizing anhydrous ammonia utilizing proton conducting electrolyte having a water vapor dissociating electrocatalyst on one side and a nitrogen dissociating electrocatalyst on the other side. A voltage is provided across the proton conducting electrolyte, protons are separated from the water vapor and transferred through the middle of the proton conducting electrolyt...

A method for synthesizing influenza virus-like particles (VLPs) within a plant or a portion of a plant is provided. The method involves expression of influenza HA in plants and the purification by size exclusion chromatography. The invention is also directed towards a VLP comprising influenza HA protein and plants lipids. The invention is also directed to a nucleic acid encoding influenza HA as we...

This invention provides substituted indole compounds of the general formula: (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salt forms thereof, and methods for using the compounds as inhibitors of the activity of various phospholipase enzymes, particularly phospholipase A2 enzymes, and for the medical treatment, prevention and inhibition of pain and inflammation.

A ferroelectric capacitor (42) is formed over a semiconductor substrate (10), and thereafter, a barrier film (46) directly covering the ferroelectric capacitor (42) is formed. Then, an interlayer insulating film (48) is formed and flattened. Then, an inclined groove is formed in the interlayer insulating film (48), and a barrier film (50) is formed over the entire surface.

An electronic module assembly including a first substrate; a first semiconductor die mounted to a top surface of the first substrate; a second substrate located above the first semiconductor die and electrically and mechanically connected to the top surface of the first substrate; a second semiconductor die mounted to a top surface of the second substrate; a heat spreader located above the second ...

This invention comprises a method of little complexity for selection of an optimized number of subscribers for transmission in wire-free message transmission systems having a plurality of antennas at the base station and having one or more antennas at the receivers, as well as space-division multiple access (SDMA) in conjunction with multiple access in the time domain or frequency domain. Subscrib...

A method of forming a polyol includes the steps of reacting an initiator with an alkylene oxide, and optionally carbon dioxide, in the presence of a double metal cyanide catalyst and a sterically hindered chain transfer agent capable of protonating the growing polyol polymer. The presence of the chain transfer agent reduces the polydispersity of the resultant polyol.

A memory system comprises an encryption engine implemented in the hardware of a controller. In starting up the memory system, a boot strapping mechanism is implemented wherein a first portion of firmware when executed pulls in another portion of firmware to be executed. The hardware of the encryption engine is used to verify the integrity of at least the first portion of the firmware. Therefore, o...

A thin peripheral devices for mating with electrical connectors where the thickness of the device is less than the dimensions needed for mechanical engagement with the connector, has a body including electronic circuitry and a selectively deployable plug arrangement. The plug arrangement includes a first plug portion including a plurality of electric contacts and a second plug portion. At least pa...

The present invention provides a production method with which a porous carrier can be allowed to evenly carry a polysaccharide derivative. That is, the present invention provides a method of producing an enantiomeric isomer-separating filler, including bringing a porous carrier and a solution of a polysaccharide derivative into contact with each other through a stirring operation in a stirring dev...

When fail signals from first and second inverters are rendered inactive, i.e., when all inverters are proper, an ECU renders first and second shut down permit signals active for output to first and second AND gates regardless of the operating state of motor generators. The first AND gate takes an AND operation of the fail signal from the second inverter and the first shut down permit signal to out...

There is disclosed a fuel cell system in which a poisoned electrode catalyst can be recovered while meeting a demand for an output power. When a controller detects that an electrode catalyst is positioned, the controller derives a target operation point adequate for recovering a function of the poisoned electrode catalyst to realize shift of an operation point so that the output power is kept cons...

A molding die and a method for molding a molded article including a foam layer made up of faces extended in a plurality of directions are provided, by which all of the faces can grow up to a predetermined expansion ratio or more. To this end, a molding die 1 includes a stationary die including a main die 2 and a slide die 3 movable relative to the main die 2, and a movable die 4. The slide die 3 p...

A control device (40) converts a torque instruction value of an AC motor (M1) into a current instruction of AC motor (M1), and employs current control in which feedback is performed by PI control to match an actual current value with the current instruction. Further, the control device (40) sets a target flow rate of cooling water flowing through a coolant passage (50 - 56) based on the converted ...

An objective is to inflate an inflation portion to an upward position, corresponding with a temple area of an occupant, at the time of a side impact. At a shoulder portion of a seatback 26 of a vehicle seat 12, there is an inflation-time cross-sectional shape regulation component 22, through which an occupant restraint webbing 16 passes. The occupant restraint webbing 16 has an inflation portion 1...

In a power output apparatus of the invention, a battery 36 is constructed by a lithium ion battery satisfying a first requirement of Sb/Pm2max >0.09 (m 2 /kW) as a relation of a total electrode area Sb of the battery to a rated output (maximum output) Pm2max of a motor MG2 in power operation and a second requirement of Sb/(|Pm1min+Pm2min|) >0.04 (m 2 /kW) as a relation of the total electrode area ...

A method and apparatus is disclosed that enables the periodic calculation of the relative phase of the left eigenvector for a vibrating conduit. During normal operation, two drivers are used in tandem to excite the main bending mode of the conduit. Periodically, first one, then the second, of the two drivers is disabled, allowing measurements that enable the determination of the relative phase of ...

An apparatus for surveying the pressure of fluids housed in tanks or flowing through ducts comprises a device ( 100 ), an envelope ( 1 ) with axial symmetry which forms the external covering of the device ( 100 ), said envelope ( 1 ) being kept in distal position with respect to a connecting body ( 2 ) by a counter spring ( 3 ); the envelope ( 1 ) axially slides with respect to the body ( 2 ) to a...

Methods of reading a memory cell, and memory arrays that use these methods, are described. A group of memory cells is arranged in a rectangular array having rows (X-dimension) and columns (Y-dimension). Within a row, the sources and drains of the memory cells are coupled to form a linear chain. A common word line is coupled to each gate in the row. A separate column line is coupled to each node be...

A disclosed image forming apparatus comprises: a conveying belt conveying a record medium attracted to the conveying belt using electrostatic force; a recording head for ejecting droplets on the record medium and forming an image; and a voltage waveform applying unit applying voltage waveforms, in which the shape of a positive waveform and the shape of a negative waveform are different, to the con...