The present invention provides a semiconductor memory and a control method therefor, the semiconductor device including a first current-voltage conversion circuit (16) connected to a core cell (12) provided in a nonvolatile memory cell array (10), a second current-voltage conversion circuit (26) connected to a reference cell (22) through a reference cell data line (24), a sense amplifier (18) sens...

Flax mid linola oil seed protein isolates are provided. Such isolates are made by extracting flax and linola oil seed protein from the oil seed meal, concentrating the aqueous protein solution, diluting the concentrated protein solution to form protein micelles, collecting the protein micelles and drying the protein micellar mass. Further flax protein isolate may be recovered from the supernatant ...

The invention relates to a new process for the preparation of 3-[2-(3,4-dimethoxybenzoyl)-4,5- dimethoxyphenyl]-pentan-2-one of the formula (I), starting from a compound of the general formula (II) and subjecting the thus-obtained compound of the general formula (IV) to hydrolysis. The compound of the formula (I) is a pharmaceutical intermediate, which can be used for the preparation of an anxioly...

A flexible and relatively hardware efficient LDPC decoder is described. The decoder can be implemented with a level of parallelism which is less than the full parallelism of the code structure used to control the decoding process. Each command of a relatively simple control code used to describe the code structure can be stored and executed multiple times to complete the decoding of a codeword. Di...

An appropriate gap between a yoke plate and a print lever is to be continuously maintained. A gap spacer (24) is inserted between a yoke plate and a print lever (14a). The print lever (14a) abuts a print-lever abutting portion (24b) of the gap spacer (24) in performing printing on a print surface. The gap spacer (24) is provided with notches (24a), so that nine print-lever abutting portions (24b) ...

An upper cover (15) is provided with a step (15f) on the periphery of a supporting section (15d) which supports a rotating shaft (17), for placing a circuit board (16), and on an inner plane of the supporting section (15d), a recessed section wherein a part of a rotor (11) enters is formed. Furthermore, through holes (14a, 14b), which are relief holes wherein lower portions and upper portions of c...

A method for preparing a composition containing between 0.08 and 3.0% by weight of polymer or copolymer of a 3,4-dialkoxythiophene in which the two alkoxy groups may be the same or different or together represent an optionally substituted oxy-alkylene-oxy bridge, a polyanion and at least one non-aqueous solvent from a dispersion of the polymer or copolymer of (3,4-dialkoxythiophene) and the polyan...

There are provided: sets of pairs of main circuit switching elements (4u), (4x) that supply power to a load, connected in series with a DC power source; free-wheel diodes (5u), (5x) connected in anti-parallel with these main circuit switching elements; and a reverse voltage application circuit (8) that applies reverse voltage smaller than the DC voltage source to the free-wheel diodes when these f...

The present invention relates to a method of preparing a composition comprising mixing a silica sol having an S-value from about 5 to about 50% and a mineral acid. The invention also relates to a composition obtainable by the method and a composition comprising a network of silica particles and mineral acid, wherein the silica particles have a particle size of from about 2 to about 7 nm. The inven...

An optical element combination structure in which an optical fiber and an optical waveguide are combined with each other and which can reduce fluctuation of coupling loss due to a change in environmental temperature is provided. The present invention relates to an optical element combination structure in which an optical fiber and an optical waveguide are combined with each other. An optical eleme...

A light source device includes a discharge tube 24, a reflector 26 for reflecting a light radiated from the discharge tube, and support members 25 for supporting the discharge tube to the reflector. The support member 25 or the discharge tube 24 is formed of a heat insulating structure so as to prevent a temperature drop of a portion of the discharge tube 24 near electrodes thereof. By this arrang...

A screw-type vacuum pump ( 1 ) is tempered such that characteristics of the pump are not substantially altered when the pump is subjected to thermal stress. In order to achieve said aim, cooling is adjusted according to an operating state of the screw-type vacuum pump ( 1 ), preferably to maintain a substantially constant pump gap ( 4 ).

A container tent for shelter of personnel or storage of equipment, particularly in combat areas, comprises an upper and lower horizontal container element (1, 2) foldably arranged by means of a support structure in the form of profiles (3) situated near outer edges of the upper and lower container element (1, 2). The container tent is characterized in that a vertical side element (4) for coverin...

PURPOSE: A biodiesel catalyst and a manufacturing method of biodiesel are provided to offer the biodiesel of high quality, and to increase yield efficiently using canola oil, waste cooking oil palm oil, corn oil and sunflower oil etc. CONSTITUTION: A biodiesel catalyst is a Ti-M-N complex catalyst. The M is a platinum based metal and one or more among Pt, Pd, Ir, and Ru. The n is a 2 group metal, ...

A memory system includes a plurality of memories and a controller configured to control the memories and to access each of the memories using timing information respectively associated with each of the memories.

A top burner and a cooker having the top burner are provided. The top burner includes a first burner provided with a plurality of flame holes that form flame by combusting mixed gas and a second burner provided with a plurality of flame holes that form flame separated from the flame formed by the flame holes of the first burner by combusting the mixed gas. An arrangement of the flame holes of the ...

PURPOSE: A top burner is provided to prevent fire from mistake of a user and to restrict food from burning from overheat by automatically extinguishing the top burner after the predetermined time. CONSTITUTION: A top burner comprises a flame adjusting knob igniting and regulating the gas supply amount after ignition; a spark plug(51) interlocking with the flame adjusting knob and generating igniti...

A vent grille opening and closing apparatus and a microwave oven including the same are provided to prevent contaminant from flowing in the inside of the microwave oven because the vent cover shields the vent grill selectively. A vent grille opening and closing apparatus comprises a drive motor(600) which provides the driving force for rotation of a vent cover(300) opening and closing a vent grill...

A microwave oven is provided to cool electric parts and a convection motor by air flow generated by a fan assembly through a back plate formed with a suction hole. A microwave oven includes a cavity(100) formed with a cooling chamber, a fan assembly(300) mounted on a surface of the cavity for generating air flow, and a guide element such as a back plate(150) mounted at a side of the cavity and hav...

A microwave oven is provided to cool component parts effectively by air flow generated by a fan assembly and defined by a barrier element. A microwave oven includes a cavity(100) having a cooling chamber(101), first and second component parts(104) mounted to a surface of the cavity with a distance from each other, a fan assembly(300) mounted to the surface of the cavity where the first and second ...