A differential with a differential action limiting mechanism includes a differential mechanism D for distributing the drive force of an internal combustion engine inputted into a differential case 28 to a left-hand axle shaft 13 and a half shaft 11 which continuously connects to a right-hand axle shaft for output therefrom and friction clutches 44L, 44R for limiting differential rotations of the l...

A method for making a polymer layer with a selected index of refraction. The method includes flash evaporating a polymer precursor material capable of cross linking into a polymer with the selected index of refraction, forming an evaporate, passing the evaporate to a glow discharge electrode creating a glow discharge polymer precursor plasma from the evaporate, and cryocondensing the glow discharg...

A memory cell having capacitor with top and bottom electrodes with a dielectric layer between is described. The bottom electrode is coupled to a first diffusion region of a transistor by a bottom electrode plug. A dielectric layer covers the capacitor. Above the dielectric layer is a first barrier layer. A via is created in the dielectric layer in which a plug is formed to couple to the second dif...

Ferroelectric capacitors, etc. are disclosed that include a conductive plug that has a base portion of a first cross-sectional width and a protruding portion that protrudes from the base portion and has a second cross-sectional width that is less than the first cross-sectional width. A conductive layer of the ferroelectric capacitor is on the protruding portion opposite the base portion. Related m...

Capacitor devices are formed in an essentially vertically extending fashion in order to achieve an essentially three-dimensional configuration or a configuration extending into the third dimension. A contacting of plug regions is performed after producing the capacitor devices. Such capacitor devices provide an increased integration density in a semiconductor memory device.

The present invention relates to an electrically conductive film stack for semiconductors and methods and apparatus for providing same. A film stack comprising a first layer of a platinum-rhodium alloy deposited by metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) in the presence of a reducer, such as hydrogen (H2) gas, and a second layer of the platinum-rhodium alloy deposited in the presence of an...

An optical filter comprising a slanted Bragg grating inscribed in an optical fiber portion comprising a core having a refractive index n1 and a radius Rcore and a cladding having an average refractive index n2 lower than n1 and a radius Rcladding, the core and the cladding of the fiber being doped with a photosensitive dopant in the fiber portion comprising the Bragg grating, which filter is chara...

PURPOSE: A capacitor of a semiconductor device is provided to remarkably improve capacitance of a capacitor by avoiding an increase of a leakage current even if the dielectric layer of the capacitor has a small thickness of a nanometer level. CONSTITUTION: A lower electrode(40) is prepared. A dielectric layer(DL) having a plurality of band gaps is formed on the lower electrode. An upper electrode(...

High load screwing work, calking work, or press-fitting work ancillary to assembly work can be performed by a low rigidity robot such as a tabletop robot by, in the screwing work, returning the torque applied to one of the bolt and nut from a rotation drive unit such as a motor and reduction gear to the casing part of the rotation drive unit through a relative rotation inhibiting mechanism support...

A drive-by-wire control console for a vehicle has a transversely movable control module on a transversely movable, elongated beam which is supported on a longitudinally movable support column which supports the elongated beam. The control module includes steering devices and display screens for vital vehicle information.

A method of characterizing an adnexal mass is disclosed, the method is effected by (a) obtaining a cross-sectional or projectional image of an examined adnex including the adnexal mass; (b) extracting boundaries of the adnexal mass; and (c) using a first algorithm for quantifying at least one morphological feature of the adnexal mass, thereby providing quantification of the at least one morphologi...

The flexible pipe comprises a plastic sealing sheath and an inner plastic sheath which define an annular space in which structural elements are placed. The structural elements comprising at least one armor ply consisting of metal wires wound helically with a long pitch are in the space. An end fitting is fitted at each end of the flexible pipe. At least one external anode electronically connected ...

A method for sequentially performing a synthesis, separation and screening of chemical entities, especially a combinatorial library, is described. The method utilises a bulk of a stationary phase (e.g. silica gel, aluminium oxide, cellulose, etc. for example arranged on a backing) for the performance of the synthesis, separation and screening. The technique described enables a rapid route from syn...

Assembly kit for an apparatus and a method for simultaneously obtaining biological sample and measuring its electrical resistance at at least two different frequencies for diagnosis of sample condition. The apparatus includes a main case; an aspirating needle connected to main case for obtaining biological liquid sample; a liquid collector connected to aspirating needle for receiving biological li...

The method for evaluating a quality of an image on a display device displays a test pattern having different contrast intensities on a display screen of the display, then determines a contrast intensity at which the test pattern is visually discernible and uses the thus determined contrast intensity as a value for evaluation of granularity on the display device. The method is optimal for achieving...

A method and a system for dynamically thresholding an image signal. The system comprises a computing block. The computing block receives the image signal and a minimum and a maximum within each of a set of windows centered on the current pixel in the image signal, and computes, for each of the windows, based on the current pixel and the respective minimum and maximum, a respective indicator repres...

A method of inhibiting error propagation in a bidirectional digital compressed image data communication system is provided. A method of processing transmission data to inhibit error propagation in a digital image data communication system, includes (a) inputting an image frame from an external source, (b) checking for feedback error information including the location of an erroneous block on a com...

In a computer system, methods and computer-readable medium are disclosed for tracking motion of a subject in an activity captured by camera. The camera supplies pluralities of discrete images of the subject to a computing system environment. An event window, displayed on a monitor, has at least two cells for receiving a user input pertaining to an action of the subject in the activity. In a first ...

A method for segmenting video objects in a video sequence that is composed of frames including pixels first assigns a feature vector to each pixel of the video. Next, selected pixels are identified as marker pixels. Pixels adjacent to each marker pixel are assembled into a corresponding a volume of pixels if the distance between the feature vector of the marker pixel and the feature vector of the ...

The present invention discloses a color display system. The color display system includes a plurality of light emitting polymer (LEP) optical fibers each formed as plurality of light-emitting segments for emitting a specific color by using a special light emitting polymer. The light emitting segments are arranged as a two-dimensional array with each of the light emitting segments controlled to tur...