A system and method is provided for communicating with a device disposed in a wellbore. Signals are communicated between a surface location and the device via a hardwired section of wellbore and a wireless section of wellbore. The signal is sent downhole or uphole over a portion of the distance via a communication line and over another portion of the distance via wireless communication.

Disclosed herein is an automobile lead-acid battery, which comprises a case internally divided into a plurality of separate cells by a plurality of partitions, a plurality of positive plates and a plurality of negative plates alternately interleaved with one another within each of the plurality of cells. A separator is disposed between the positive and negative plates to separate them. An electrol...

The process guidance method has the electrical operating parameters during an arc discharge determined by measuring the time characteristic of the discharge current, with comparison of the detonation point (T D) and the discharge resistance (R E) obtained from the discharge current characteristic with required values for providing control and regulation signals for alteration of the process condit...

A system and method for serving clients requesting a service from a service provider is disclosed. The system includes a queue server (1) with wireless access to a mobile terminal operated by the client. When a client wants to access a service, he/she will contact the service provider from the client terminal, supplying the service provider with the ID of the client terminal, a desired notificatio...

A hierarchical system configuration method and an integrated scheduling method for offering a multimedia streaming service on a two-level double cluster system are provided. The hierarchical system configuration method includes the steps of: determining whether one server node exists; if one server node exists, determining whether one virtual server node/specific network storing and merging block ...

In a data generating system, a basic pattern generating part (2331) generates patterning data having a basic pattern data block into which basic pattern CAD data is converted and a correct rule adding part (3332) adds a correct rule obtained from a database (3142) on the basis of a rule adding index indicating a patterning condition and an object pattern element to the above patterning data as a c...

A ferroelectric/paraelectric multilayer thin film having a high tuning rate of a dielectric constant and small dielectric loss to overcome limitations of a tuning rate of a dielectric constant and dielectric loss of a ferroelectric thin film, a method of forming the same, and a high frequency variable device having the ferroelectric/paraelectric multilayer thin film are provided. The ferroelectric...

Disclosed is a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor structure formed by a metal interconnection process of trench-exposed metal layers formed on stacked interlayer insulating layers. The MIM capacitor uses a conductive layer conformally formed on the metal interconnection and/or trench regions to enlarge constituent electrode surface areas.

The present invention disclosed herein is a semiconductor capacitor and a method for fabricating the same. A semiconductor capacitor with multitiered metal oxide layers, including at least one metal oxide layer, wherein oxygen ions are implanted therein using a rapid thermal oxidation process in the presence of oxygen gars. Consequently, a capacitor with an improved leakage current characteristic ...

An upper electrode layer is processed into plural electrode shapes with lithography and subsequent dry etching to pattern plural upper electrodes, followed by conducting an RTA treatment at a treatment temperature of a value in a range from 400° C. to 1000° C. and at an oxygen flow volume of a value in a range from 0.1 L/min to 100 L/min and, subsequently, by conducting an annealing treatment at a...

Openings are formed by lithography and subsequent dry etching at the portions of a first protective film which correspond to connecting holes of second plugs which will be described later, namely at the portions thereof which align with first plugs, wherein the openings have a diameter greater than that of connecting holes by about 0.4 mum.

The invention provides a method to prepare at least part of at least one surface of a substrate comprising; depositing on said surface at least one plasma monomer wherein during deposition of said monomer, means are provided which move the monomer source across a surface to be treated to manufacture a non-uniform plasma polymer surface.

Provided is a method and apparatus for processing an image, in which an image is removed from the entire photographed image and synthesized with another image using distance information to a photographed object regardless of colors or patterns of the image. The method includes the steps of photographing images using two cameras, extracting distance information to a photographed object using a disp...

An accelerator composition for accelerating setting and/or hardening of a material containing a cementitious composition comprising at least one alpha-amino acid. A method of applying a cementitious composition comprising such an accelerator composition and a resulting hardened cementitious layer are also provided.

A method for transmitting packetized multimedia content over a network is disclosed. The method comprises, receiving packetized multimedia content to be transmitted over the network; classifying respective frame of the packetized multimedia content according to an assigned priority by analyzing a frame header of each frame of the packet; separately storing the classified frames in accordance with ...

A clothing dryer including a first exhaust duct (45) mounted inside the clothing dryer and adapted to exhaust air from the clothing dryer and a second exhaust duct (55) to be inserted on the first exhaust duct. A pressing portion (60) is mounted on the first exhaust duct (45) to press both the first and second exhaust ducts, and a fixing portion (70) is affixed to a rear surface cover (15) of the ...

The present invention provides a DNA fragment allowing easy cloning of a desired gene and capable of further improving translation efficiency, a protein expression vector and a template DNA having the DNA fragment, a mRNA obtained from the template DNA, a reaction solution for cell-free protein synthesis system containing the template DNA or the mRNA, a method for cell-free protein synthesis syste...

Disclosed herein is a method and apparatus for stable supply of natural gas (312) to a gas demand side (350) in an LNG carrier. With the method, natural gas comprising natural boil-off gas (313) generated in a cargo tank (310) containing LNG and forced boil-off gas generated by vaporizing LNG pumped from the cargo tank (310) is supplied to the gas demand side. The forced boil-off gas or a mixed ga...

The present invention extends to using Simple Object Access Protocol ("SOAP") to exchange typed objects, such as, for example, parameters for invoking methods. A computer system accesses typed object parameters corresponding to a typed object. The typed object is annotated with one or one more message contract attributes of a message contract model defining a mapping between typed object parameter...