The present invention is a heat processing method comprising: a placement step in which an object to be processed is placed on a stage disposed in a processing vessel whose inside atmosphere is capable of being discharged; and a heat processing step that is performed after the placement step, in which a temperature of the object to be processed is elevated to a predetermined set temperature and is...

The invention relates to a method of creation of a new communication network by a wireless terminal. The wireless terminal is initially part of an existing centralized network that includes an access point able to control the association of wireless terminals to its network. In the event of disassociation of the terminal from the network, the method makes provision to initiate a procedure for crea...

The present invention is related to a method for routing data packets in a routing device connecting a first network and a second network, and to a corresponding routing device. The method comprises the steps of receiving a frame from a device connected to the first network; forwarding the frame to an internal bridge module of the device; checking whether the frame contains a multicast group manag...

A finger tester for testing non-componented printed circuit boards uses two or more test fingers, each having a test probe. A detection device is provided above each test probe for optical detection of the position above the circuit board of at least one contact tip of the test probe. The detection devices of the test fingers are each arranged in different vertically spaced planes, so that areas o...

Disclosed is a method, a computer program, a wireless communications device, a browser and an apparatus to display an object to a viewer, where the displayed object has an associated area. In response to the viewer selecting the displayed object, the method, computer program product, wireless communications device, browser and apparatus display the object partitioned into a plurality of sub-areas....

To classify both information created by an own device and recorded on a recording medium and information supplied externally and recorded on the recording medium according to creation date and time information without impairing advantages of the classification. Each image data file recorded on the recording medium has an original recorded file flag added thereto which flag indicates whether the i...

The surgical nail, here in the form of an intramedullary nail, has a central axis, a longitudinal borehole with a diameter D extending coaxially with the central axis, a casing with an inner surface and a transverse borehole, extending transversely to the central axis with the cross-sectional profile F and the borehole axis. A component, which narrows the cross-sectional profile F, is provided in ...

A method of forming a microphone, the method comprising: forming a backplate; forming a flexible diaphragm on at least a portion of the wet etch removable sacrificial layer; adding a wet etch resistant material, a portion of the wet etch resistant material being positioned between the diaphragm and the backplate to support he diaphragm; removing the sacrificial material before removing any of ...

Magnetic levitation methods and apparatus use arrays of vehicle magnets to provide three forces: suspension, guidance and propulsion. The magnets, which can be permanent magnets or superconducting magnets operating in the persistent current mode, have associated control coils that allow the magnets to provide a controllable attractive force to a laminated steel rail. The control coils adjust the g...

The present invention relates to a system and method for selecting advertisement for delivery over a network in response to requests received from remote computing devices. In one aspect, the present invention includes a method and system for automatically matching an advertisement with a media file, such as a podcast episode, when the media file has been requested by a consumer. Aspects of the pr...

An Interactive Graphics Decoder 13 decodes a graphics stream, and overlays a Page including a plurality of Buttons on a moving picture. The Interactive Graphics Decoder 13 then executes a command corresponding to one of the plurality of Buttons on the Page, to thereby perform (1) a control of switching the Page to another Page and (2) a control of specifying a Button to be set in a selected state ...

Microlens arrays are defined with microlens elements that differ from each other in accordance with a probability distribution for shaping an optical beam having a prescribed intensity profile within a desired far-field scatter pattern. The differences include random variations in a sag profile corresponding to a surface shape of the microlenses, a boundary profile corresponding to a boundary of t...

The invention is directed to a beam-shaping unit for generating a beam bundle which is focused in a punctiform manner, propagates in a ring shape, and has a radiationless central area, comprising a focusing lens, a first axicon and a second axicon, and to an arrangement with a beam-shaping unit of this kind for introducing radiation energy into a workpiece comprising weakly absorbent material whic...

[PROBLEMS] To make it possible for a viewer to quickly locate an aiming program with no need of reserving a program recording. [MEANS FOR SOLVING THE PROBLEMS] A digital recording and recording/reproducing device (10) converts an MPEG stream output from a plurality of tuners (12) that can receive a plurality of television signals in accordance with a proper bit rate, resolution, and a compressi...

A reactor including a high-temperature reaction unit which causes a reaction of a first reaction material to create a second reaction material and a product, and a low-temperature reaction unit which causes a reaction of the second reaction material at a temperature lower than in the high-temperature reaction unit. A coupling pipe is interposed between the high-temperature reaction unit and the lo...

The object of the present invention is to provide a garbage collection (GC) system that suppresses wasteful increase in CPU time required for GC, without stopping all AP threads for an excessively long amount of time. The garbage collection system frees memory areas corresponding to objects that are no longer required in an execution procedure of an object-oriented program composed of a plurality ...

A method for initial synchronization with TD-SCDMA system in the connection mode of GSM system, to resolve the problem of the downlink synchronization codes (DwPTS) may be undetectable or taking too much time to be detected when a TD-SCDMA/GSM dual-mode terminal is examining TD-SCDMA frames in GSM connection mode with prior art; in the connection mode of the GSM system, the method receives or tran...

A sidebar can be used to display images stored on a local computer and/or retrived from the Internet. In one embodiment, a slidesheet of a photo application module of a sidebar provides a sidebar user with a search field, so that the user can search an Internet photo sharing website for photos to display in their sidebar. If the user likes the results of the search, the user can select a subscript...

It is intended to provide a process for producing a fish paste product using cuttlefish, which has an elasticity comparable to fish paste products produced from fishes commonly employed in the art, starting with cuttlefish, for example, Todarodes pacificus steenstrup. A process for producing a fish paste product using cuttlefish characterized by comprising the mincing step of mincing cuttlefish me...