The present invention discloses a vacuum cleaner which can remove substances from the bottom by a rotary force of a brush and a vacuum pressure operated on a suction head by rotatably installing the brush on the suction head. The vacuum cleaner consults a user's convenience by preferentially sucking thin and long substances such as hairs or furs of a pet dog not to be wound around the brush. The v...

An improved multi-channel demodulator (44) is provided. The improved demodulator includes an automatic gain control (28), a data buffer (26, 30) and a demodulation engine (44). Data from various RF channels are processed by AGC in order to keep the data at their respective constant levels. Output from AGC (28) is passed to the data buffer for storage (30). Corresponding data from a selected channe...

A multi-stack optical data storage medium ( 30 ) for recording and reading using a focused radiation beam ( 40 ) entering through an entrance face ( 41 ) of the medium ( 30 ) is described. It has a first substrate ( 31 a) with present on a side thereof a first recording stack ( 33 ) named L₀, comprising a recordable type L₀ recording layer ( 35 ), formed in a first L₀

A power storage apparatus mounted with a plurality of connected power storage modules and capable of charging or discharging an electric power, and in which a housing is partitioned by a partition plate to be divided into a power storage area and a control device area; in the power storage area, an opening is formed, and the power storage modules are contained therein; in the control device area, ...

Downlink traffic channel data rate options and methods of indicating to a wireless terminal a utilized downlink data rate option are described. The downlink traffic channel rate option for a segment is conveyed using an assignment signal and/or a block in the downlink traffic channel segment which is not used for user data. Downlink segment assignment signals in some implementations allocate fewer...

Provided is a process in which a polycrystalline silicon ingot improved in life time characteristics, which are correlated with the conversion efficiency of solar wafers, is inexpensively produced by the ordinary-pressure hydrogen-atmosphere melting method. In the process, the generation of oxygen and impurities in the silicon melt is inhibited and light-element impurities are removed through reac...

Provided are a conductive contact holder and a conductive contact unit that are applicable even when a circuit structure of an inspection subject transmits a high-frequency signal and are excellent in strength and durability. The conductive contact holder includes a holder substrate that is made of a conductive material and has a first opening section formed thereon that holds conductive signal co...

To improve accuracy of the flatness and parallelism regardless whether a substrate having a wiring pattern has been deformed. To achieve the object, a probe card includes a plurality of probes that are made of a conductive material and come into contact with the semiconductor wafer to receive or output an electric signal; a probe head that houses and holds the probes; a substrate that has a wiring...

The invention provides a tablet feeder that is simple in construction and yet capable of accurately preventing drawbacks from occurring due to jamming of medicine or the like. A motor 6 installed on a case support block 3 is driven to rotate a rotor 9 disposed in a medicine receiving case 1 through a plurality of gears. The tablets received in the medicine receiving case 1 are held in the pockets ...

A chemical processing apparatus that utilizes a ceramic media sintered at a lower temperature than the apparatus' maximum exposure temperature is described. The media's physical and chemical properties may contribute to its thermal stability when exposed to temperatures that exceed the media's sintering temperature by at least 50° C.

The present invention provides a semiconductor device fuse, comprising a metal layer and a first semiconductor layer that electrically couples the metal layer to a fuse layer, wherein the fuse layer is spaced apart from the metal layer. The semiconductor device fuse further comprises a second semiconductor layer that forms a blow junction interface with the fuse layer. The blow junction interface ...

An apparatus comprising a printed circuit board having a front side and a back side, and having therein a plurality of conductive layers, each conductive layer including one or more signal channels; a stub extending from the front side to the back side, the stub being electrically coupled to at least one signal channel; and an impedance matching terminal electrically coupled to the stub and to a g...

Training symbol formats are provided for use in a MIMO based wireless communication system that uses adaptive power loading. In at least one embodiment, a training symbol format is used that is capable of enhancing training symbol signal to noise ratio (SNR).

Method and apparatus are described for a memory cell includes a substrate, a body extending vertically from the substrate, a first gate having a vertical member and a horizontal member and a second gate comprising a vertical member and a horizontal member. The first gate is disposed laterally from the body and the second gate is disposed laterally from the first gate. The horizontal member of the ...

An improved processing system for tracking commerce on the Internet provides for subvariable processing and includes web page scanning to discern fraud or improper content to insure proper promotion of select products within the network environment.

Methods and apparatus for storing, manipulating, retrieving, and forwarding state, e.g., context and other information, used to support communications sessions with one or more end nodes, e.g., mobile devices, are described. Various features are directed to a mobile node controlling the transfer of state from a first access node to a second access node during a handoff operation thereby eliminatin...

The present invention relates to peptidomimetic compounds according to formula 1 useful as protease inhibitors (1), particularly as serine protease inhibitors and more particularly as hepatitis C NS3 protease inhibitors; intermediates thereto; their preparation including novel steroselective process to intermediates. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions and to methods for ...

A cassette conveyance system for conveying large-sized heavy objects such as substrates and cassettes having grown in size, where production of dust and the space the system occupies can be suppressed. A cassette (3) above a conveyance path (4, 7, 9a, 9b) is levitated by a levitation device (6) and horizontally moved along the conveyance path with the levitated cassette (3) held by a pair of casse...

If a reference frame displayed at the reproduction side immediately before a current image frame to be encoded is an inter encoding image frame, a quantization control device (999) appropriately corrects the level (quantization value) of an intra encoding so as to visually reduce I-frame flicker caused by a difference between the inter encoding noise characteristic of the inter encoding image fram...

A method and apparatus for determining a location of a wireless device within an environment. A wireless device, which is operable in a wireless communication system, comprises a transmitter for transmitting a first signal to a transponder, where the transponder operates independent of the wireless communication system. The wireless device further includes a receiver for receiving a second signal ...