A flexible EL lamp is made by depositing successive layers onto a release layer. The lamp is molded into a substantially stiffer article, leaving the lamp as a portion of a surface of the article. In one embodiment of the invention, the lamp emits light through the article. In another embodiment, the lamp emits light from the exposed portion of the surface. The EL lamp, as molded, can be substanti...

Household-type front loading and water-recirculating clothes washing machine adapted to automatically measure the weight of the dry clothes loaded in the machine for washing, also on the basis of the information on the type of clothes in said washload entered from the outside (user), in which the measurement of such weight of the washload is performed by measuring the amount of water that is absor...

Firstly, the stones are extensively dried by mechanical or thermal/mechanical means, usually using pressurized air. They are then crushed and finally graded. The stones are over 16 mm across, preferably over 32mm and have a moisture content of higher than 0.5% of their weight, preferably over 1% and after drying a residual moisture content of less than 0,5% of their weight. The drying process is a...

The present invention relates to an energy recovery circuit of a PDP and a drive method thereof in which the energy recovery circuit uses a booster drive circuit that is able to reduce a sustain voltage by half to thereby reduce the amount of energy consumed by a drive circuit of the PDP and reduce a rise time of a sustain pulse. According to the present invention, a plasma display panel includes...

Initiators for atom transfer radical polymerizations are described. The initiators have an azlactone or ring-opened azlactone moiety to provide telechelic (co)polymers.

Alternative methods for refurbishing a single-use ink delivery container (12) for printing system are described. The refurbishing methods include electrical and mechanical reconfiguration or replacement of original elements on the ink delivery container. Each method utilises an existing ink fluid outlet (30), electrical connector (54) and an information storage device in the ink delivery container...

A humidity responsive control device consists of a package having at least one face that is a permeable to liquid and gases and water vapor and is formed by mixing together a) 5 to 50% by weight of a hygroscopic polyacrylate and/or PVA polymer, b) 10 to 60% of porous silica minerals such as vermiculite and perlite, c) 5 to 50% of an absorbent such as zeolite or activated carbon for small molecules...

A vascular or endoluminal stent is adapted for deployment in a vessel or tract of a patient to maintain an open lumen therein. The stent includes a biocompatible metal hollow tube having a multiplicity of openings through an open-ended tubular wall thereof, the tube constituting a single member from which the entire stent is fabricated, and a thin, tightly adherent layer of gold overlying the enti...

The method of inscribing a data carrier (10) with pictorial information. involves obtaining characteristics relevant to recognition by means of a spatial analysis of the original picture, by using filters. A line drawing is obtained in vectorized f by the intermediate storage and or the inscribing of the picture on the data carrier. The line drawing is transformed or integra in a security backgrou...

Disclosed is a compound citicoline preparation, which comprises carnine and citicoline, and can be used for treating brain damage and nerve cell atrophia caused by genetic anatomy, brain trauma, cerebral embolism, cerebritis, cerebral hemorrhage, hypoxia, cerebral arteriosclerosis, carbon monoxide poisoning and alcoholic intoxication.

A liquid container that can present various information using illumination of a light-emitting unit includes an IC package having a storage element and the light-emitting unit. The storage element stores information used for controlling the amount of light emitted from an LED included in the light-emitting unit, so that variation in brightness of the light-emitting unit can be reduced and the info...

A process for the removal of organic sulfur compounds, primarily oxygenated organic compounds, such as sulfates and sulfonic esters from a hydrocarbon liquid is disclosed which comprises contacting the hydrocarbon liquid with a coalescer comprising a mesh material which has been wetted by sulfuric acid. The hydrocarbon liquid may be the product from a sulfuric acid catalyzed alkylation process and...

A circuitized substrate in which two conductive layers (e.g., electroplated copper foil) are bonded (e.g., laminated) to an interim dielectric layer. Each of the two foil surfaces which physically bond to the dielectric are smooth (e.g., preferably by chemical processing) and include a thin, organic layer thereon, while the outer surfaces of both foils are also smooth (e.g., preferably also using ...

An efficient lapped transform is realized using pre- and post-filters (or reversible overlap operators) that are structured of unit determinant component matrices. The pre-and post-filters are realized as a succession of planar rotational transforms and unit determinant planar scaling transforms. The planar scaling transforms can be implemented using planar shears or lifting steps. Further, the pl...

A wired circuit board that can produce excellent heat radiation characteristics even when the semiconductor device is mounted on the wired circuit board by the flip chip mounting method. The base opening portion 8 and the thin layer portion 9 to surround the base opening portion 8 are formed in a portion of the insulating base layer 3 corresponding to the mounting portion 7. Also, the inside termi...

An object of the invention is to provide a process of producing a compound for forming a slurry under pressure and/or heating, which is quite economical on an industrial scale such that a drying machine is not necessary and that it is possible to reduce energy to be used for drying. Specifically, the invention is concerned with a process of producing a compound, which includes (A) a reaction step ...

In an IC card, an IC module constructed by mounting an IC chip and an antenna circuit on a substrate is sandwiched between at least a pair of exterior films. The IC chip is sealed with resin on its outside and reinforced by a reinforcement material having a substantially circular shape with a diameter greater than a longest dimension value of the IC chip. The height variation amount of the shape o...

A recording apparatus having a reproduction means to play digital data from a recording medium recorded with that digital data and retrieval information, a recording means to write the digital data reproduced by the reproduction means and record the retrieval information on a control table, and a control circuit to search the control table by using the retrieval information when the digital data f...

The invention provides a plated metal layer structure of electric connector pad on semiconductor packaging basal plate and making method: provide a packaging basal plate, at least one surface of which has many electric connector pads and cover an electric conductive film on the surfaces of basal plate; form a light-blocking layer on the electric conductive film to make many holes in the light- blo...

An electronic device having a current switch type driver is provided. The current switch type driver includes a differential circuit that supplies a current to a transmission channel according to a signal. In the electronic device, a signal wire that transmits the signal to the differential circuit has a transmission channel structure.