PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the complication of circuit in a reliable burst mode by connecting a switched mode power supply which has a control loop, normal mode and low power mode having burst mode to a microprocessor. SOLUTION: A switched mode power supply is provided with a transformer Tr, having a primary winding W1 connected in series with a voltage U1 and a switching transistor T1. A res...

The invention concerns a device for transforming at least a chemical structure in a fluid under pressure and at high temperature comprising a solvent and at least a salt, wherein said device comprises a vertical reactor (1), called "reservoir reactor" including a first lower zone (2) wherein the fluid is maintained in first temperature and pressure conditions ensuring high solubility of the salt(s...

The invention concerns a method for transforming chemical structures, that is a method for producing chemical reactions in a fluid under pressure and in high temperature in particular in a supercritical fluid, comprising a solvent and at least an electrolyte such as a salt, which consists in generating in situ by electrolysis reactive species. The invention is characterised in that the fluid flows...

Metallurgical vessel walls are lined with an acidic or basic phosphate-bonded composition mixed with water and a hydraulic setting material. A protective coating is deposited on metallurgical vessel walls, by (a) adding a predetermined quantity of water to a composition comprising inorganic particles and a phosphate binder of acidic or basic pH; (b) adding a predetermined quantity of a hydraulic ...

The treatment vessel is divided into two equal parts. Effluent for treatment is supplied to each vessel for periods of 24 hours, during which the vessel is aerated (29) from its base (3) with fine bubbles, and the effluent degraded by micro-organisms supported on vertical sheets (23) submerged in the liquid. During the next 24 hour period clarified effluent (40) and excess sludge are removed. The ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical transmission system with high immunity to a background light. SOLUTION: The optical link 10 has a transmitter 30 and a receiver 40. The transmitter 30 is provided with a circularly polarized light source with a prescribed wavelength, and modulates a signal from the circularly polarized light source with data and transmits the modulated data. The receiver...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize the authentication interchange function AIF that can authenticate a roaming user in the case that the user roams between networks using different authentication systems. SOLUTION: An AIF 314 converts authentication systems or each family (IS-41, GSM, PDC) of a communication network. The AIF 314 is allocated to a HLR(home location register) of a home network or a VL...

The invention concerns a method for treating timber pieces comprising one or several drying steps, characterised in that it consists in carrying out a starching step and a step of starch gelatinization.

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the efficiency of operation processing. SOLUTION: A first ROM 25 where branch instruction are stored and a second ROM 26 where operation instructions are stored are provided in parallel, and a branch instruction decoder 27 and an operation instruction decoder 28 are connected to ROMs 25 and 26 respectively. Operations of first and second memory control circuits 23 ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a test mode setting circuit of MCU, which does not separately have a test pin, in which a test mode is set through the use of only the reset pin or the clock pin of the basic constitution element of MCU to be applied to MCU with the small number of pins. SOLUTION: The test mode setting circuit of MCU has a clock pin 10-3 to which a clock signal is inputted, a reset...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To miniaturize jigs of an upper electrode forming mask, in an organic EL element of an X-Y matrix. SOLUTION: An X-Y matrix driving organic EL element wherein a first electrode, an organic layer and a second electrode are laminated on a substrate has a dummy electrode parallel to the second electrode. A mask 2 for deposition of the second electrode and the dummy electrode has ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the deterioration of reliability caused by the separation due to low adhesive strength with sealing resin, by having partial exposure of an inner lead part to the bottom face of an inner lead part, and also by the mechanical and thermal stresses generated, when connecting the inner lead part to a mounting substrate in the lead frame of a resin sealing type semicond...

A backlash sound reducing method utilizes backlash sounds in a planetary gear unit in a hybrid vehicle that occur within predetermined operation ranges when the vehicle is stopped or running. If the output energy of an engine is within a predetermined range, the engine is controlled so that the output energy therefrom becomes a predetermined value. In the aforementioned case, it is also possible t...

The prosthesis has a shank (110) for inserting into the medullary canal of the bone, and a thrust collar (115) which is applied to the bone metaphysis and has at least one aperture (120) for inserting a metaphysis reconstitution tool, such as a chisel, osteotome or drill. The aperture (120) is in the form of at least one elongated slot extending radially as far as one edge of the collar (115) or...

The invention concerns a method for making a carbon fibre preform which consists in using at least one yarn or cable formed of continuous fibres derived from carbon precursor fibres previously subjected to an intermediate carbonization such that the fibres have a carbon ratio between 70 % and 90 % and having a tensile failure resistance not less than 3000 MPa's after they have been entirely carbon...

The present invention relates to a process for the hydrogenation of aliphatic dinitriles at least partly into corresponding aminonitriles. More specifically, the invention consists of a continuous process for the hydrogenation of dinitrile, at least partly into corresponding aminonitrile, in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst which is not dissolved in the reaction medium, characterized in th...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor disk device that can be accessed normally by a host computer even if an error occurs in a header part. SOLUTION: The semiconductor disk device 100 is equipped with a host interface 510 which sends and receives data to and from a host computer 550, a buffer memory 530 which temporarily store data, a microcontroller 520, a nonvolatile storage medium 5...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a synchronous semiconductor memory device provided with a redundant circuit, in which an increase in a chip area can be suppressed and in which an increase in an operating speed can be suppressed. SOLUTION: A redundant memory cell array region SR0 and a redundant memory cell array region SR1 which are installed so as to correspond to a regular memory cell array reg...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an input protective circuit which performs a programming operation precisely by using a high voltage, to provide an antifuse address detection circuit and to provide a semiconductor integrated-circuit device. SOLUTION: An input protective circuit in a semiconductor integrated-circuit device has a bipolar transistor laid out with reference to a wiring layer M1a. An ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an embedding processing which has strong durability and does not deteriorate little by using a 2nd signal component that is different from a 1st signal component without using the 1st signal component included in plural kinds of signal components and controlling a method that embeds electronic watermark information into the 1st signal component. SOLUTION: Electroni...