The present invention provides medical articles, such as wound dressings. In one embodiment, the medical article includes a backing, an absorbent foam, and a fibrous adhesive disposed betwe en the backing and the absorbent foam, wherein the backing includes a liquid-impervious, moisture-vapor permeable polymeric film. In another embodiment, the medical article includes a backing, an absorbent, sub...

A process for semiconductor device production by which the reliability of connection with bumps can be easily heightened with higher certainty. The process for producing a semiconductor device comprising a substrate having bumps formed thereon, comprises covering the bumps with an adhesive film which has a modulus of elasticity (-55° C.) of from 100 MPa to 5 GPa and has a thickness corresponding t...

To fill the ink cartridge with the ink, a first air introduction hole of a negative pressure generator chamber is sealed up, and a pressure pump is connected to a second air introduction hole of a storage chamber, to raise pressure inside the storage chamber so as to exhaust air out of an ink bag. While keeping the storage chamber under the high pressure, the second air introduction hole is sealed...

A vaso-occlusive implant has a primary helical-coil shape that defines a primary axis and a three-dimensional secondary shape. The secondary shape includes a substantially helical section and a second section having a plurality of non-overlapping loops or loop sections. Each loop defines a plane that is oriented at an angle from about 30-150 degrees relative to a plane defined by an immediately pr...

A prosthesis system including a ventilated shell, and a substantially compliant, ventilated spacer element that defines a first surface having a frictional feature. The spacer element is arranged to secure to an internal surface of the shell. The prosthesis system also includes a connector that is secured to a distal end of the shell, and a retainer supported by the connector so as to extend into ...

Techniques for electronic device fabrication are provided. In one aspect, an electronic device is provided. The electronic device comprises at least one interposer structure having one or more vias and a plurality of decoupling capacitors integrated therein, the at least one interposer structure being configured to allow for one or more of the plurality of decoupling capacitors to be selectively d...

A semiconductor package includes an SOI wafer having a first side including an integrated circuit system, and a second side, opposite the first side, forming at least one cavity. At least one chip or component is placed in the cavity. An optical through via is formed through a buried oxide which optically connects the chip(s) to the integrated circuit system.

A composite of two or more thermal interface materials ("TIMs") is placed between a die and a heat spreader to improve cooling of the die in an integrated circuit package. The two or more TIMs vary in heat-dissipation capability depending upon the locations of die hot spots. In an embodiment, a more thermally conductive material may be positioned over one or more die hot spots, and a less thermall...

An organic electroluminescence display device and a method for fabricating the same is described. The organic electroluminescence display device comprises pixels defined by a gate line and a data line perpendicular to the gate line, a switching device and a driving device formed in the unit pixel, a first power line, a transparent electrode layer and a conductive electrode layer for supplying a dr...

The present invention relates to a method for resetting a plasma display panel which can improve contrast by reducing unnecessary light in a set-up period, and apparatus thereof. The method for resetting the plasma display panel, includes the steps of: forming initial wall charges in the discharge cells by means of a reset discharge in a set-up period; and erasing unnecessary wall charges of the i...

One embodiment in accordance with the invention is a method that comprises determining if a slider of a data storage device is to perform a read or write operation with a disk of the data storage device. If the slider is to perform the read or write operation, the slider is set at a grazing contact with the disk for a predefined time frame to perform the read or write operation. The predefined tim...

A trace chip monitors a signal between a target logic chip having a data processing circuit mounted thereon and a memory chip having a memory storing data to be used by the target logic chip mounted therein, and traces an operation of the target logic chip. As the trace chip is implemented by a chip separate from the target logic chip and a memory chip, a debugging circuit need not be added to mas...

Catalytic cracking riser reactor extending between an inlet for hydrocarbonaceous feed and catalyst particles and an outlet for discharging cracked products and spent catalyst particles, which riser reactor has been provided with at least one contacting device, wherein the contacting device comprises a composite of refractory material and a metal structure, which metal structure is connected to th...

Expanded perlite products having controlled particle size distribution, methods of producing the expanded perlite products, and methods of use there of are provided. The expanded perlite product has, for example, a low ratio of standard deviation of particle size distribution to median particle size (fo r example, less than 0.63) and low median particle size (for example, less tha n 50 microns). T...

A method and system of completing calls to busy mobile subscribers in a radi o telecommunications network. The system includes a gateway mobile switching center (G-MSC) to provide switching functions to a mobile station (MS) in a home service area, a home location register (HLR) providing a location of the MS to the G-MSC, a visitor mobile switching center (V-MSC) to provide switching functions to...

MÉTODO PARA CONTROLE OPERACIONAL DE UMA MÁQUINA LAVADORA DE ROUPAS E MÁQUINA LAVADORA DE ROUPAS. O método da invenção compreende as etapas de: girar, em uma rotação de pesagem determinada por um microprocessador (30), um cesto (50) da máquina (10) de carregamento superior, já contendo uma carga de roupas a ser lavada; produzir, por um meio sensor de carga (80), montado em uma haste de suspensão (7...

A ceramic porous body is provided, including a plurality of pores formed in a ceramic substrate at a specified porosity. A pore part is discriminated from a non-pore part by binarizing a cross-sectional plane image of the substrate by image analysis. When a center line passing the central part of the pore part is drawn, the porosity (epsilon (%)), a mean width (DP (mum)) of the pore part represent...

A method is provided which uses an improved emulsion to imparting water-resistance to gypsum products. In one embodiment, gypsum products comprise calcium sulfate dihydrate and an emulsion which comprises a saponified wax, a nonsaponifiable wax, an alkyl phenol, a surfactant/dispersant salt of polynaphthalenesulfonic acid, and carboxymethylcellulose. Optionally, the emulsions may contain a preserv...

An air-permeable composite fabric is provided. The composite fabric has an inner fabric layer, an outer fabric layer, and an intermediate vapor barrier. The vapor barrier is selected from adhesive material and an adhesive/membrane combination designed so the composite fabric has a level of air permeability to allow air flow between the first fabric layer and the second fabric layer and a variable ...

Provided is an organic light emitting device comprising: a substrate; and a plurality of sub-pixels, each sub-pixel comprising a thin film transistor formed on the substrate; a planarization layer formed on the thin film transistor, and having a contact hole exposing a portion of a source electrode or a drain electrode of the thin film transistor; a contact electrode formed on the planarization la...