Provided is a liquid discharge head substrate including: a substrate; a heating resistor layer formed on the substrate; a flow path for a liquid; a wiring layer stacked on the heating resistor layer and having an end portion which forms a step portion on the heating resistor layer; and a protective layer covering the heating resistor layer and the wiring layer including the step portion, and forme...

A method of manufacturing razor blades from a strip material includes reducing the thickness of a lengthwise-extending blade edge region of the strip material.

A method and apparatus for a wireless communication system, using a repetition factor to determine how many times a acknowledgement should be repeated in response to receiving a first data transmission, selecting an acknowledgement transmission (ACK TX) pattern, wherein the ACK TX pattern comprises of resources information of a plurality of blocks used for transmitting the first acknowledgement, a...

The light irradiation device is provided that can reduce moire interference with a simple and low-cost arrangement without sacrificing a compact design by comprising a transparent plate 31 which has a predetermined thickness and one of whose surfaces is arranged as an object facing surface 31a to face an object W such as a product on which light is to be irradiated, multiple reflecting sections ...

A rotating and pressing operation type electronic component (10) reduced in the number of parts and a man-hour for assembly and reduced in height dimension and floor surface area, comprising a frame formed of first and second bases (20) and (80), a tubular rotatingly operating body (60) rotatably supported on the inside of the frame, first and second contact pieces (30) and (35) as elastically def...

The present invention relates to processes for the production of arachidonic acid containing oils, which preferably are substantially free of eicosapentaneoic acid. The invention also relates to compositions containing oils having very high amounts of arachidonic acid in triglyceride form, and to uses of such oils. In a preferred embodiment, Mortierella alpina is cultivated using conditions which ...

Provided is a steel plate in which a tensile residual stress is applied to an end portion of at least one side in the width direction and a portion to which compressing residual stress is applied exists in the inner portion in the width direction of the end portion to which the tensile residual stress is applied.

The present invention provides a high-strength steel material capable of suppressing formation of blowholes during welding even if the strength thereof is improved by nitriding, and a method of manufacturing such a high-strength steel material by using a low rolling force. A high-strength steel of the present invention contains 0.05% (percent by mass unless otherwise specified in describing chemic...

A fuel addition valve that adds fuel into the exhaust gas passage of the engine in the form of fine fuel droplets, an upstream NOx adsorption-reduction catalyst, and a downstream NOx adsorption-reduction catalyst are arranged in this order. Platinum Pt and palladium Pd, as noble metal, are supported on the downstream NOx adsorption-reduction NOx catalyst such that the ratio of the mole number of t...

Methods and apparatus are provided for secure communication techniques in a communication system. The system can include a first device which communicates with a second device over a channel. A security association can be established during a first session between the devices via an asymmetric key exchange. The security association comprises a Traffic Encryption Key (TEK) and a first state vector....

A hot rolled wire material which comprises 0.005 to 0.6 mass % of C, and has a structure wherein pseudo-pearlite, bainite and ferrite account for 10 vol % or more, 75 vol % or less and 60 vol % or less, respectively, and the relationship that the sum of (pseudo-pearlite + bainite + ferrite) = 90 vol % is satisfied. A method for producing the above hot rolled wire material which comprises rolling a...

The invention relates to a semiconductor laser devcie, including a semiconductor laser element, or a number of individual lasers mounted parallel to each other, with a number of output surfaces, from which laser light can escape, having a treater divergence in a first direction (Y) than in a second direction parallel to the above and at least one reflecting means, at a distance from the output sur...

A servo controller which drives one movable member 1 by means of a plurality of motors including one main motor 31 and at least one sub motor 41 includes: a main-motor controlling unit 30 for controlling driving of the main motor 31; and at least one sub-motor controlling unit 40 for controlling driving of the at least one sub motor 41. The sub-motor controlling unit 40 includes a sub-motor positi...

The present invention provides a semiconductor device having dual nitride liners, which provide an increased transverse stress state for at least one FET and methods for the manufacture of such a device. A first aspect of the invention provides a method for use in the manufacture of a semiconductor device comprising the steps of applying a first silicon nitride liner to the device and applying a s...

A method for making a semiconductor device structure, includes: providing a substrate; forming on the substrate a first gate with first spacers, a second gate with second spacers, respective source and drain regions of a same conductive type adjacent to the first gate and the second gate, an isolation region disposed intermediate of the first gate and the second gate, silicides on the first gate, ...

The device is fitted with two exchangeable cutting plates (20), each provided with a wedge-shaped cutting edge formed by their upper (24) and front surfaces (28). The inclined main cutting edges (28) are combined to form a transversal cutting area interrupted by a central gap. The upper surfaces (28) are positively inclined in relation to the direction of motion, while the central inclinations (56...

The invention relates to a tread (1) application device for applying a tread on a building drum (20) for a tire, comprising a tread conveying device (15) for conveying a tread to a building drum, from a feed side (12) of the tread conveying device to a discharge side (13) of the tread conveying device in a conveyance direction, and a positioning device for positioning the tread on the building dru...

A mechanical support configuration for a probe card of a wafer test system is provided to increase support for a very low flexural strength substrate that supports spring probes. Increased mechanical support is provided by: (1) a frame around the periphery of the substrate having an increased sized horizontal extension over the surface of the substrate; (2) leaf springs with a bend enabling the le...

Disclosed is a method and an apparatus, as well as a computer recording medium for handwriting input. The invention is implemented by capturing images including raw strokes with a digital camera and receiving writing sounds with a microphone, when a user writes on a writing surface with a stylus having a special mark (such as special color point or light point), said images and sounds are time-sta...

The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for improving SIP parse performance. The method comprising the steps of: receiving a text-based SIP message to be sent to a SIP server; according to a SIP message filter table, determining whether the text-based SIP message needs to be transformed to a token-based message; and in the case that the text-based SIP message needs to be transfor...