The present invention is a steel excellent in toughness of a weld heat affected zone characterized by containing, by mass%, C: 0.02 to 0,06%, Si: 0.05 to 0.30%, Mn: 1.7 to 2.7%, P: 0.015% or less, S: 0.010% or less, Ti: 0.005 to 0.015%, O: 0.0010 to 0.0045, and N: 0.0020 to 0.0060% and comprising a balance of iron and unavoidable impurities, having an amount of intermixture of impurities limited...

A service coupling (20) for use with either a push-type or a screw-type port valve of a charge port (22) is provided that includes a body portion (58) and an axially moveable valve housing (82). Axial movement of an actuator (70) permits both the selective axial movement of the valve housing (82) from a rearward position toward a forward position and the selective disengagement of the port valve (...

A method for manufacturing a semiconductor component using a sacrificial masking structure. A semiconductor device is formed from a semiconductor substrate and a layer of dielectric material is formed over the semiconductor substrate and the semiconductor device. The layer of dielectric material may be formed directly on the semiconductor substrate or spaced apart from the semiconductor substrate ...

A method and apparatus for digitally amplifying a desired signal, the method comprising: receiving a gain represented in a logarithm format; determining a difference between the received gain and a gain offset; converting the difference, represented in the logarithm format, to an output gain represented in a linear format; and digitally multiplying the desired signal with the output gain.

The present invention relates to compounds of Formula I, II or III, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, ester, or prodrug, thereof: (I), (II), (III), wherein W is a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic ring system. The compounds inhibit serine protease activity, particularly the activity of hepatitis c virus (HCV) NS3-NS4A protease. Consequently, the compounds of the present invention inte...

A refrigerator (1) having a freezing chamber (4) partitioned to the left and right by a vertical partition wall (20). The refrigerator (1) has a cooler (7) for producing cool air, a rear face discharge opening (13) placed on the rear face of the freezing chamber (4) and discharging the cool air produced by the cooler (7), first and second cool air ducts (21, 23) arranged in the vertical partition ...

Method and installation for vacuum foaming refrigerator cabinets ( 11 ), freezers and the like; the installation comprises a rotary drum ( 21 ) supporting a first and at least a second foaming jig ( 35 ), selectively actuated to move each foaming jig ( 35 ) along a circular path from a bottom position towards an underlying table ( 26 ) supporting the cabinets ( 11 ) to be closed into foaming jigs ...

A printer is permitted to obtain printed matter of high picture quality from print data transferred in the state changed into 1 bit for the purpose of shortening data transfer time. A multi-value conversion unit (23) converts CMYK respective 1 bit binary data from an expansion unit (22) into multi-valued data. The multi-value conversion unit sets values that a remarked pixel should take, which cor...

The present invention provides an image signal processor for providing a color image. In this apparatus, an image file reader (51) reads an image data file having appended thereto information indicative of how the color and gradation representation of image data encoded in the standard color space has been adjusted as information for reproducing color and gradation information on the image data. I...

A process for producing a silicon compound can minimize the number of steps and can form a desired compound in a low-temperature environment. The process comprises: allowing a radical of a halogen gas to act on a member 11 to be etched, which is disposed within a chamber 1 and is formed of a material containing an element capable of forming a compound with Si, while keeping the member 11 at a rela...

A system ( 50 ) and method ( 10 ) providing a user with a qualitative indication of a freshness of location information with minimal user disruption can include the steps of obtaining ( 12 ) presentation data, associating ( 14 ) a location indication representative of a location when the presentation data was obtained, and altering ( 16 ) a data characteristic of the presentation data over time to...

The invention provides an apparatus and method for controlling transmission by use of an internal flow control and credit extension method that incorporates sufficient buffer memory to maximize throughput of an extended link providing connectivity of fibre channel storage area networks across wide geographical distances.

A cached memory system that can handle high-rate input data and ensure that an embedded DSP can meet real-time constraints is described. The cached memory system includes a cache memory located close to a processor core, an on-chip memory at the next higher memory level, and an external main memory at the topmost memory level. A cache controller handles paging of instructions and data between the ...

The present invention relates to processes for improving or optimizing a catalyst for the preparation of phthalic anhydride by gas-phase oxidation of o-xylene and/or naphthalene, which comprises the following steps: a) provision of a starting catalyst (C) comprising at least one first catalyst zone located towards the gas inlet and a second catalyst zone located closer to the gas outlet, with the ...

The present invention relates to the use of a catalyst comprising at least one first catalyst zone located towards the gas inlet, a second catalyst zone located closer to the gas outlet and a third catalyst zone located even closer to or at the gas outlet for the preparation of phthalic anhydride by gas-phase oxidation of o-xylene and/or naphthalene, with the catalyst zones preferably each having ...

There is provided a cooler for heater-containing box in which an outside air fan for carrying air on an outside air path and an inside air fan for carrying air on an inside air path are arranged such that a rotating shaft of each fan is in parallel with an air intake direction, and a heat exchanger for exchanging sensible heat of outside air and inside air is arranged between the outside air path ...

A method of representing an object appearing in a still or video image, by processing signals corresponding to the image, comprises deriving a plurality of sets of co-ordinate values representing the shape of the object and quantising the co-ordinate values to derive a coded representation of the shape, and further comprises quantising a first co-ordinate value over a first quantisation range and ...

A jacket material into which a gas adsorbing device and core material are inserted is decompressed in a vacuum chamber, the opening is sealed, and then the jacket material is exposed to the atmosphere. In the atmospheric pressure, a pressure of about 1 atm which is equivalent to the pressure difference between the inside and outside is applied to the jacket material of the heat insulator. The jack...

Allocation of resources in a heterogeneous computing environment is facilitated. A resource manager of the heterogeneous computing environment obtains information that describes which nodes of the heterogeneous computing environment are capable of supporting additional operating systems and platforms over and above their native operating systems and platforms. This information is then used by the ...

A telephone capable of placing or receiving calls over the PSTN or a packet network. The telephone can store multiple telephone numbers for each potential called party along with preferences that govern the order of selecting telephone numbers to service any given outgoing call. Some or all of the telephone numbers can be associated with a presence service. Presence indicators stored in the teleph...