PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently carry out a power source excitation process in a nonvolatile memory.

SOLUTION: According to one aspect of this invention, a method using the memory system having a nonvolatile memory including at least one reserving memory area includes a process for feeding electric power to the memory system, a process for initializing the nonvolatile memory, and a pro...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an inspection repair system and an inspection repair method wherein an organic light-emitting device can be inspected and repaired efficiently.

SOLUTION: The inspection and repair system 1 comprises an optical microscope 11, an video image retrieval device 12, a photon detector 13, a data process controller 14, and a high energy beam generating device 15. Wh...

An illumination umbrella includes a raft, a cloth, fixtures, light tubes, and a power supply. The raft has a hook to hang the power supply thereon. Each fixture is secured on a skeleton of the raft to hold a respective light tube. The light tubes are made of acrylic material with air bubbles therein. The light in the light tubes will be reflected by the bubbles in the light tubes to shine the dire...

An item of furniture for sitting and lying upon comprises a carriage (4), which can be retracted from a frame and which has a seat frame (5) that supports a seat cushion (6). The item of furniture also comprises a cushion (9) for lying upon that, when the item of furniture (1) is in a position for sitting upon, is located under the seat frame (5) and when the item of furniture (1) is in a position...

An item of furniture (36) for sitting or lying upon comprises a cushion element (37),which forms the seat surface and which can be pulled out with regard to a frame. This item of furniture is characterized in that a pulling means Z' that can be grasped by hand whereby serving to pull out the cushion element (37) is connected to said cushion element (37) or to a cushion frame that supports the cush...

The present application provides a biaxially oriented polyester film having a linearly tearable property at least in a longitudinal direction, and excellent in the producability at mass production scale, which can be produced from the mixture of polybutylene terephthalate containing 5 to 20% by weight of a polytetramethylene glycol (PTMG) unit having a molecular weight of 600 to 4,000 (modified PB...

The heel safety fixing for a ski boot comprises a tubular body open at its ends. This body is rigidly fixed to a sole grip (1a) pivoted about a transverse cam forming part of a stirrup (3) pivoted on a pivoting plate (4) integral with the ski. The body contains a spring compressed between a piston supported on the cam and a stop integral with a adjusting screw. The adjusting screw is axially suppo...

An ablation catheter (10) is disclosed having proximal (14) and distal (16) ends and an outside surface (21), a lumen (18) contained within the catheter body (12), a plurality of openings (20) in the surface (21) of the catheter (10), wherein the openings (20) are in communication with the lumen (18), one or more electrodes (22) secured within the catheter (10) within the lumen (18) and a source f...

A pneumatic tire production system comprises production lines each including a green tire building station for assembling unvulcanized members of pneumatic tires into green tires. The green tires are vulcanized at a vulcanizing station which includes at least one vulcanizing unit equipped with a plurality of vulcanizing molds. The number of the vulcanizing mold is determined so as to satisfy the v...

The present invention improves the bowing phenomenon of a biaxially stretched polyester film which comprises stretching the longitudinally stretched cast film laterally at a temperature higher than the glass transition temperature of the polyester film from by 5 DEG C to by 50 DEG C, staying the laterally stretched film in an intermediate zone for a period from 3 to 30 seconds which has been cont...

A polyester film made from a polymer having ethylene glycol moieties, isosorbide moieties and terepthaloyl moieties, and the method of making the film is described. The polyester film is used to form articles such as films, lacquers, labels, capacitors, insulators, and the like, and has an inherent viscosity of at least 0.35 dL/g when measured as a 1% (weight/volume) solution of the polyester in o...

An engineered lighting system for high speed video inspection includes an array of light emitting diodes (10) including light emitting diodes for use in time delay integration (TDI) inspection of web materials (38). The light emitting diodes (10) of the array are selectively controllable to accomplish sequential illumination and carefully controllable imaging of a specified section (42) of a conti...

A thermal ablation probe (14) has a temperature sensor (28) on the end and metal electrodes (16) for high frequency power application with star shaped flexible arms (26) having a spiral, zigzag or meander central section (M) adjusted and retracted by a flexible adjuster (36) and protruding from an insulating sheath (18). Includes Independent claims for the manufacture of the prove using microslit...

The arrangement has a transmission unit (Tn) and a reception unit (Rm), each with a high frequency oscillator (HFO-Tn,HFO-Rm) and a pulse generator (PG-Tn,PG-Rm). The pulse generators are supplied with clock signals (TS,RS) from signal generators transmitted via a common data bus (B) to the transmission and reception units to produce a deterministic phase relationship between the signals from the ...

For the membrane electrophoresis of dissolved or dispersed substances, in a solution containing an electrolyte, at least one separation chamber (7) is used divided into four sections. The compartments are separated from each other by porous membranes (14,15) and especially membranes for micro filtration. For the membrane electrophoresis of dissolved or dispersed substances, in a solution contain...

The screen is provided by a foil (1) in the shape of a roof, having a central chamber (2) of a flexible gas-impervious material, filled with a non-combustible gas which is lighter than air, the side edges of the foil provided with tethering cords (4,5) secured to the ground by stakes (6,7). The central chamber of the foil can be enclosed by an annular region filled with air, in turn enclosed by a ...

A carrying device (10) has a first shoulder engagement portion (14) coupled to a second shoulder engagement portion (26) and a handle (74) for transitionin g the device from a single to dual shoulder carrying arrangement.

A powder composition for warm compaction comprising an iron-based powder and a lubricant powder consisting essentially of an amide described by the following formula D-Cm-B-A-B-Cm-D wherein D is -H, COR, CNHR, wherein R is a straight or branched aliphatic or aromatic group including 2-21 C atoms; C is the group -NH(CH)nCO-; B is amino or carbonyl; A is alkylene having 4-16 C atoms optionally inclu...

The invention concerns compositions and methods for the diagnosis and treatment of neoplastic cell growth and proliferation in mammals, including humans. The invention is based upon the identification of genes that are amplified in the genome of tumor cells. Such gene amplification is expected to be associated with the overexpression of the gene product as compared to normal cells of the same tiss...

An extended environment data structure which is part of a digital asset that is capable of being transmitted over one or more multi­tiered networks. The data structure has one or more common descriptors (210B) that provide a unique identification of the digital asset of the networks with one or more asset dependency descriptors (222B) that identify one or more associated digital assets, associated...