A fabric structure used to make textured tissue or towel or nonwovens, the structure being permeable to air and water, comprising a sheet contact surface having a pattern including a series of raised land areas and corresponding depressions adapted to impart a texture to the tissue or towel or nonwoven, and a series of through voids adapted to allow passage of both water and/or air from the fabric...

Set forth herein is a preparation of ibuprofen (2-(4-isobutylphenyl) propionic acid) in the free acid form that is suitable for topical administration. The topical ibuprofen formulation is prepared by dissolving the free acid form of ibuprofen, or preparing a homogeneous suspension of the free acid form of ibuprofen, in the presence of a pharmaceutically acceptable solvent so as to produce a topic...

A floor construction apparatus according to the present invention comprises a guide unit which is placed on the surface of a construction site, and a leveling unit which is moved by the guide unit to level the surface. The present invention may reduce the time and cost for leveling the surface.

A method is provided for forming shallow and deep dopant implants adjacent source regions of a first conductivity type within an upper portion of an epitaxial layer in a trench MOSFET device. The method comprises: (a) forming a patterned implantation mask over the epitaxial layer, wherein the patterned implantation mask comprises a patterned insulating region and covers at least a portion of the s...

A system is provided for pushing content to a terminal located within a mobile network or a private network. The system includes a network node, such as a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) proxy, located across a public network from the network including the terminal. The network node is capable of subscribing to a push service on behalf of the terminal such that the network node is also capable o...

A television signal receiver receives and stores television signals encoded at a variable data rate. Time information is generated based on the time of receipt of the signals that defines the duration of the television signals when output in decompressed form at a substantially constant data rate. The received signals are then written to a file on a hard disk (13) in received order together with t...

The present invention relates to a method and a device for inputting Japanese characters and comprises a consonant section and a vowel section. The consonant section consisting of 12 syllable groups is configured by allocating representative consonants and voiced consonants to keys. The vowel section is configured with 8 syllables that are composed of both 5 vowels in the syllable group "a" and 3 ...

A print head mounting assembly and a method of mounting and positioning a print head on a print head carriage framework suitable for mounting in a printing system includes a print head positioning device for receiving a print head, and a print head mounting tile having a mounting surface for mounting the print head positioning device. The print head mounting tile is adjustably mounted on the print...

A set of power control step size increments are determined such that at least two step size increments differ from one another. The set is sent to a Mobile Station MS. A first power command to the MS informs of a first power for a uplink data transmission on a radio resource (E-DPDCH). To change power on the same radio resource, an offset is computed, the set of step size increments is accessed to...

When division X/Y of floating point numbers is performed, bit string data of a mantissa x including a fraction xf or a mantissa y including a fraction yf is shifted in accordance with magnitude relation between xf of X and yf of Y, and a fraction computation is performed. Thereby, a result of division of a fraction in which the position of the most significant bit is fixed to be in a prescribed di...

Disclosed is a high-performance sputtering target having a high relative density which enables to form a sputtered film having both low resistivity and high transmittance at a high film-forming rate while preventing abnormal discharge and generation of particles. Specifically disclosed is a sputtering target which is produced by a process comprising a step wherein an unsintered molded body, which ...

A photocatalyst according to the invention comprises a photocatalytic film of a compound of titanium and oxygen and is characterized in that the photocatalytic film is made porous and has 0.02 or higher value as a value calculated by dividing the arithmetical mean deviation of profile Ra with the film thickness. The photocatalytic film can also be specified by the intensity ratio between x-ray dif...

A light control film providing improved n front luminance and appropriate light diffusion, without problems of interference pattern, glare etc., has a rough surface constituted so that, for a curved surface portion of the rough surface, having an approximately square area of 1 mm2 or larger and defined at an arbitrary position on the rough surface by using data for heights of the rough surface mea...

To a machining shape database, machining shapes are registered. A machining shape recognition function makes a comparison between CAD data from a CAD and the registered machining shapes, and extracts a matching registered machining shape. A machining method database stores information required to identify the machining method of a machining shape corresponding to the registered machining shape. In...

An information recording medium is provided, which comprises a plurality of recording layers and a first disc information area for storing parameters relating to access to the plurality of recording layers and formats relating to the plurality of recording layer. The first disc information area is provided in a first recording layer which is one of the plurality of recording layers.

A coryneform bacterium that is modified by using a yggB gene so that L-glutamic acid-producing ability is enhanced as compared to a non-modified strains is cultured in a medium to cause accumulation of L-glutamic acid in the medium or bacterial cells, and L-glutamic acid is collected from the medium or cells.

The invention relates to a tower reactor and the use thereof for producing high-molecular weight polyesters, such as e.g. polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polybutylene terephthalate (PBT), polynaphthalene terephthalate (PEN), polytrimethylene terephthalate (PTT) and/or polyesters of other dicarboxylic acids and diols including copolymers thereof. It thereby concerns a single-stage tower reactor.

Device has a switch (6) selectively moved between a configuration, in which electric heating units (4) are powered and a configuration, in which electric power supplied to the units is cut off. A ring shape thermally-fusible part (7) partially fuses when an area (8) of the units exceeds a critical temperature threshold and moves the switch (6) from the power supply configuration to the power cut-o...

A method and system for implementing an inter-Access Network (AN) handoff in an active state in a High Rate Packet Data (HRPD) Network. The method mainly includes determining that an inter-AN handoff operation is necessary and initiating a handoff procedure to perform the inter-AN handoff, sending data to be transmitted to an access terminal to the destination AN in advance in the handoff procedur...

To realize a wireless communication system capable of keeping a beacon interval fixed, keeping transmission quality, and performing intermittence reception without fail. A wireless communication management device includes and transmits beacon time period information in a main beacon and a sub beacon. Then, a wireless terminal device divides transmission data based on the beacon time period inf...