An apparatus and method for face-down connection of a die to a substrate with polymer electrodes, the method comprising forming a plurality of conductive polymer electrodes on a substrate assembly: and elevating the temperature of the die sufficiently to cause electrical and fixed connection of the die to the electrodes upon appropriate contact; and then bringing the die face and electrodes into a...

An on-board micro-electromechanical (MEMS) isolator is provided on board a power semiconductor device for measuring voltage, current, or both. In particular, the power semiconductor may comprise a plurality of transistors connected in parallel, such that a MEMS isolator connected in parallel with one of the transistors measures voltage across the semiconductor. A MEMS isolator may further be conne...

Employed is a structure for moving by a micro-actuator not a read/write element but an air-bearing surface pad. The air-bearing surface pad is arranged nearer to the leading end than the read/write element. This arrangement allows the read/write element portion to have a sufficient size, making it possible to mount the currently used read/write element and associated wiring structure. The individu...

A magnetic head slider including a plurality of rails adapted to face a magnetic disk. Each of the rails has a longitudinal extension direction substantially in a direction of rotation of the magnetic disk, and a protective film is provided on a floating surface of at least one of the rails. A thickness of the protective film at least in a direction transverse to the longitudinal extension directi...

An air bearing slider for use in a disk drive that includes a rotatable magnetic disk. The slider includes a leading side and a trailing side. The slider further includes a pressurized pad including a pressurized pad air bearing surface. The pressurized pad is disposed between the leading and trailing sides. The slider further includes a contact pad disposed adjacent the trailing side and includin...

A Java applet sandbox, provided by restrictions originally set by the manufacturer of a Java enabled Internet browser, may be securely extended by introducing the notion of public and private client storage. In addition to the sandbox, users are given means of declaring a portion of the user machine's disk space as Public. The public disk space is accessible to executing applets and is installed i...

A body ( 5 ) of set, initially pasty material, such as concrete, includes an electrically conducting path formed by a concentrated layer ( 6 ) of electrically conducting magnetizable elements, such as fibers (F) or granules (G), embedded in the initially pasty material and extending through at least a portion of the body ( 5 ). Electrically conducting terminal members ( 9 ) may be connected to the...

An anti-stress agent and functional food containing the anti-stress agent and having an anti-stress effect, which contain as an effective ingredient fermented sour milk prepared by, for example, fermenting animal milk starting material with lactic acid bacteria of the genus Lactobacillus, which can be taken repeatedly and daily without any problems with safety, and which can mitigate and prevent m...

"MECANISMO PARA O DESENVOLVIMENTO DE IMPLANTE ENDOVASCULARES". A invenção refere-se a um mecanismo para o desenvolvimento de um dispositivo endovascular filamentoso que inclui um tubo de desenvolvimento alongado, flexível, oco, tendo uma extremidade próxima aberta e um elemento de acoplamento preso à extremidade próxima do dispositivo endovascular. O tubo de desenvolvimento inclui uma seção distal...

"PROCESSO USANDO MODO DE CONDENSAçãO EM LEITOS FLUIDIZADOS, COM ENRIQUECIMENTO DE FASE LìQUIDA E INJEçãO DE LEITO". A corrente de reciclagem de fluido parcialmente condensado de um reator de poliolefina de leito fluidizado operando em modo condensado é separada em duas porções por um separador de corrente. Num modo preferido, a corrente menor do separador contém uma razão maior de líquido para gás...

The disclosure relates to a packaging container and a method of producing a packaging container for liquid contents. The packaging container has a casing produced from a web-shaped multilayer material and in the form of a sleeve, which, at one end, is connected to a bottom portion and at the other end is connected to a top portion produced from a blow molded thermoplastic material. The casing is f...

The powdery component of the implant material consists essentially of a mixture of hydroxyl apatite powder and calcium sulfate powder, wherein the hydroxyl apatite powder consists of synthetically prepared, precipitated crystalline nanoparticles of high purity, which have a crystal size of 10-20 nm width and 50-60 nm length.The specific absorbing BET surface area of the nanocrystals is preferably ...

The invention relates to a white, flame-resistant, UV-stable, thermoformable, oriented film made from a crystallizable thermoplastic, the thickness of which lies in the range of from 10 mum to 350 mum. Said film comprises at least one white pigment, a flame-proofing agent and a UV absorber and is characterized by good stretchability and thermoformability, by good optical and mechanical properties ...

Methods and apparatus are described to transmit and receive information encoded in multilevel optical signals that take on at least three intensity levels. Intensity levels of a transmitted multilevel optical signal are optimized to minimize a transmitted optical power required to achieve a specified decision error probability, taking account of an arbitrary admixture of impairments, including sig...

The invention is an MRI imaging system that seamlessly switches between a fast imaging fluoro-mode and a diagnostic imaging mode. The fluoro-mode is used to quickly obtain an image which provides confirmation that the selection of MR imaging parameters are proper and to provide an opportunity to adjust these selections. After the selections have been confirmed and adjusted, the system is switched ...

The present invention is directed to a system and method employing a dynamic logical identifier. In an aspect of the present invention, a method for accessing data utilizing an input/output interface may include providing an identifier for accessing a target device by a host and generating a logical identifier from the obtained identifier by the host. The logical identifier is transferred to an in...

A lookup table for provides a longest prefix match for a key provided in a search request. The search key is provided in a single search request issued to the lookup table. The lookup table performs a multi-level search for the result value based on successive portions of the key.

The invention concerns a pharmaceutical preparation for oral use containing as an active agent a pharmacologically ac- ceptable salt of dichloromethylene bisphosphonic acid. According to the invention the preparation is a drug delivery form which is enteric coated with a film which dissolves at a pH-value of from 5 to 7.2 . The invention also relates to a process of manufacture of the said prepara...

The invention relates to a novel and completely synthetic microcrystalline paraffin, said paraffin being obtained in a simple manner and with a high yield by the catalytic hydromerisation of paraffin FT comprising 20 to 105 carbon atoms. Said paraffins can be pasty to solid at room temperature and have a higher percentage of iso-paraffins than n-paraffins. Since they do not contain aromatic compou...

A bulk bag comprises eight substantially identical side wall portions and eight stiffening panels. A bottom wall is connected to the bottom edges of the side wall portions and may be provided with a discharge port. Alternatively, a discharge port may be provided in one of the side wall portions. The bulk bag may be provided with a top wall which may be either openable or secured in place. A pallet...