An interactive on line information exchange and/or trading network for a potentially unlimited number of remote participants in a predetermined field of activity, the network being arranged so as to allow the remote participants to communicate with one or more other remote participants in the same field of activity and wherein the other remote participants may be selected from one or more of stora...

The present invention teaches the use of an effervescent nozzle to deliver liquid catalyst to a gas phase polymerization system.

The adhesion between a galvanized surface and a polymeric material is improved by coating the galvanized surface with an adhesion promoter. The adhesion promoter is a compound which includes at least two trialkoxysilyl groups which are bridged together by a compound which includes at least one reactive nitrogen atom. In certain embodiments the galvanized surface is treated with an alkaline cleaner...

Es wird eine mikroelektronische Struktur vorgeschlagen, bei der sich zwischen einer siliziumhaltigen Schicht (8, 20) und einer Sauerstoffbarrierenschicht (30) eine sauerstoffhaltige Iridiumschicht (25) befindet. Diese lässt sich insbesondere durch einen Sputterprozess in sauerstoffhaltiger Atmosphäre mit geringem Sauerstoffanteil herstellen. Die sauerstoffhaltige Iridiumschicht (25) ist bis zu Tem...

A microelectronic structure, has a sputtered oxygen-containing iridium layer (25) between a silicon-containing layer (8, 20) and an oxygen barrier layer (30). A microelectronic structure has an oxygen-containing iridium layer (25) formed between a silicon-containing layer (8, 20) and an oxygen barrier layer (30) by sputter deposition in an atmosphere containing 2.5-15 vol.% oxygen. An Independent ...

A semiconductor device having a thin film resistor which comprises at least chromium, silicon and nitrogen, and formed on a substrate with having a special ratio of the chemical composition, the semiconductor device having a characteristic such that variations of the resistance value thereof due to temperature variations can be effectively suppressed.

In a picture data compressing device, picture data is divided by a blocking circuit (1) into plural blocks each consisting of a pre-set number of pixels and shuffled by a shuffling circuit (2). The blocked and shuffled data is transformed by a DCT circuit (3) into data in the frequency domain and re-quantized by a quantization circuit (4) for compressing the picture data. A red detector (6) decide...

Disclosed is a method of cleaning endoscopes (46) within a container (2), wherein fluid flows from inside the container through the endoscope channels, predominantly in one direction, from the smaller-caliber end of an endoscope channel, or lumen, to the larger-caliber end. This method prevents the lodgment of particulate matter and human tissue in the smaller-caliber end of endoscope channels, an...

A bell sound selecting method for a cellular phone using an audio response system is disclosed. In this method, a user can easily recognize his or her own bell sound which is different from other's, by receiving his or her own distinctive bell sound from the audio response system and outputting the received bell sound when a call is received into the cellular phone. Therefore, the user of the cell...

The disposable cutting head (1) is a four element clip together assembly with a base (2), lower (9) and upper (15) cutting blades, and a spring (23). The base (2) serves as the support for the entire assembly (1) and incorporates the attachment elements (7) for retention of the clipper. The spring (23) holds the elements together, forces the cutting blades (9, 15) together and includes the runner ...

The invention is directed towards an arrangement for the suspension of a wheel (1) of an automotive vehicle, said wheel (1) being connected to a propulsion device (9) for driving the vehicle and a braking device (21) for braking each individual wheel (1). The invention is characterised by comprising sensors (37, 38, 39) for detecting at least the angular steering displacement of the vehicle requir...

The invention is directed to a process for stereoselective chemical synthesis which comprises reacting a nucleophilic agent and a chiral quaternary azetidinum salt (QAS) substrate of formula (I), to produce a compound of formula (II).; Cette invention concerne un procédé de synthèse stéréosélective consistant à faire réagir un agent nucléophile et un substrat de sel d'azétidinium quaternaire chira...

The present invention is directed to novel methods for rapidly and unambiguously identifying small organic molecule ligands for binding to biological target molecules, wherein those methods take advantage of principles of binding avidity. Small organic molecule ligands identified according to the methods of the present invention may find use, for example, as novel therapeutic drug lead compounds, ...

Method and apparatus for processing a plurality of data channels, e.g., of a CDMA telecommunications system, using a pipeline structure. The invention allows to process channels in an interleaved fashion, where each of a plurality of pipeline stages may access channel specific data using channel addresses transmitted via addressing means. In order to synchronize the transmission of processing resu...

Um ein Warensicherungselement für akustomagnetische Sicherungssysteme, mit einer in einem Gehäuse angeordneten, wenigstens ein Magnetelement und ein Metallplättchen umfassenden Baugruppe ohne nennenswerte Vergrösserung der Bauform vor Manipulationen, insbesondere Deaktivierungen durch starke Magnetfelder weitestgehend zu schützen, wird mit der Erfindung vorgeschlagen, dass das magnetische Element ...

A mechanism for communicating messages, each including a command and a response, in a network having central processing complexes (CPCs) and one or more coupling facilities. Each coupling facility has a central processor for executing instructions and a main storage. Messages are sent from a message control block in the main storage of the CPC sending the message, and the response to the message i...

An apparatus for detecting motion of blocks by block matching of detecting a matching degree of corresponding positions between pictures. The device comprises integrators (12) each having a calculating unit (22) for calculating picture positions taking into account a motion vector and an angle of motion between blocks subjected to matching and an accumulator (28) for finding and accumulating absol...

Characteristics of a digital video signal are detected by first characteristics detection means, and characteristics of a digital audio signal are detected by second characteristics detection means. The outputs from the first and second characteristics detection means are combined by synthesizing means, and allocated data quantities for compression coding of the digital video signal and the digita...

For the very low bit rate video and associated audio coding, the audio bitstream spends about similar scale of bandwidth as the video bitstream. The conventional audio and video coding system is usually composed of a constant bit rate audio encoder and a constant bit rate video encoder. However, there are redundancies in the audio signal which can be detected to save the audio encoding bit rate in...

The tag deactivation system includes a transmitter (TX), receiver (RX') and deactivation coil. A controller (MP') establishes time periods for operation of these components and selectively varies the receiver's detection sensitivity. Operation time periods are set so that the transmitter operates for a period, followed by the receiver. If the receiver detects a tag, then the coil operates for a pe...