A rail-car status-indicating assembly is provided for mounting to the axles of railcars. A solenoid and a magnet are part of the assembly installe d each to one of a non-rotating structure and a rotating structure which co- rotates with the axle so that each time the solenoid enters the magnets field a current is induced. Preferably, a housing forms the rotating structure for protecting t he induc...

A food product cartridge comprising a delivery and dosage member, said cartridge having a base part wherein an endless screw and a delivery opening are housed, characterized in that the endless screw is provided to operate a shutter for opening and closing the delivery opening.

The invention concerns a payment system for payment of goods and services by using a prepaid card. The card comprises a concealed code and an activation code, and the card must be activated before use on a point of sale for the card by reading the activation code in a card reader on the point of sale. The activation code is transmitted to an offeror of the prepaid card together with an ID for the ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a diffusion prevention layer material composed of Ta or Ta based alloy layer wherein rupture of the Ta or Ta based alloy layer which is the diffusion prevention layer or superconductive electric wire itself is enabled not to occur at the time of wire drawing in a manufacturing process of the superconductive electric wire. SOLUTION: The total sum value of impurities...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a glass channel plate for a flat screen display in which stray or leakage radiation effect can be lessened and improvement of images and a color contrast of received television images generated on the screen can be aimed at. SOLUTION: The channel plate made of glass for flat screen display has two or more parallel channels separated with webs, manufactured in fine ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor device having electronic components and bonding wires sealed with a gel wherein the strain or breaking of the bonding wires is suppressed. SOLUTION: Electronic components 9 are mounted on a ceramic board 3 and electrically connected to the board 3 with bonding wires 11. A silicone rubber-made enclosure 12 is provided for enclosing a layout area of t...

The device according to the invention for the tailstock end centering and clamping of a rotational workpiece with a circular-cylindrical end comprises a housing with a shank for accommodation in a tailstock barrel, and a chucking pot with a collet located in the housing for rotation about the axis of rotation of the workpiece. In accordance with the invention the collet is closable by way of the a...

A smoke evacuator for use in electrosurgical and laser surgical procedures in which a source of rapidly moving fluid under pressure is introduced to a surgical site to entrain smoke and other surgical debris generated during the procedure and a collection element operated under reduced pressure. The latter is positioned adjacent to the surgical site so that the moving fluid stream entrains all of ...

Bank transfer method uses a password to identify the initiator and to allow him to affect a remote bank transfer. The password is used exclusively for transfers to a sole recipient and cannot be used for transfers to any other account.;

La présente invention se rapporte à un procédé de virement bancaire prédéfini.Un mot de passe est affecté exclusivement pour des ordres de virement dont le béné...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a capacitor of a semiconductor element, having a TaON dielectric film capable of reducing a leakage current, while assuring high capacitance. SOLUTION: A method for manufacturing the capacitor of the semiconductor element comprises a step of vapor depositing a Ta metal film 28 on a semiconductor substrate 20, a step of crystallizing the Ta metal film 28, a step of ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To disclose a method for manufacturing a capacitor of semiconductor element, capable of preventing leakage current while increasing the charge storage capacity. SOLUTION: The method for manufacturing the capacitor of the semiconductor element comprises a step of vapor depositing a cap oxide film on an upper part of a semiconductor substrate; a step of patterning the cap oxide...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a manufacturing method of a semiconductor memory element wherein deterioration of characteristics of a ferroelectric capacitor which is to be caused by increase of electron density and ion density can be prevented in a process, in which an interlayer insulating film which covers an upper part of the ferroelectric capacitor is etched by using a plasma. SOLUTION: Thi...

L'invention concerne un procédé de formation d'un condensateur à armatures métalliques dans des niveaux de métallisation au-dessus d'un circuit intégré, comprenant les étapes suivantes :a) déposer sur la surface d'un circuit intégré (10) une couche isolante (11) d'une épaisseur comprise entre 0, 5 et 1, 5 m; b) creuser la couche isolante pour former des tranchées (12) dont au moins une partie e...

La réalisation du condensateur comprend :- la réalisation simultanée, dans au moins une partie d'une couche isolante inter-pistes 3 associée à un niveau de métallisation donné, d'une part des deux électrodes 50, 70 et de la couche diélectrique 60 du condensateur, et d'autre part d'une tranchée conductrice 41 prolongeant latéralement l'électrode inférieure du condensateur, électriquement isolée ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a telemeter for executing telemetry of a diagnostic message from a moving asset to a remote station. SOLUTION: The telemeter 100 is equipped with a processor 150 to which outputs of one or more state sensors 320 are given. The processor converts the output of the state sensor into the diagnostic message, and provides the output of the processor with the diagnostic ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor memory in which load by boosting can be reduced when word line drive voltage is supplied to a word line. SOLUTION: A decoding circuit 50 has pull-up and pull-down transistors M2, M3, M6, M8, M9 coupled to a global word line GWL coupled to word lines by the prescribed coupling means, turns on the pull-down transistors M3, M6, M9 before high voltage c...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve an ionization chamber to analyze certain kinds of compounds that can conventionally hardly be analyzed. SOLUTION: This improved ionization chamber for a mass spectrometer or the like has an inner face including an inorganic electroconductive nitride. The nitride can be titanium nitride or a mixed metal nitride such as aluminum titanium nitride or titanium carbonitr...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of manufacturing a semiconductor element with which sheet resistance characteristic and thermal stability of a metal silicide can be improved. SOLUTION: A first polysilicon layer 23 is formed on a gate insulating film 22 formed on a semiconductor substrate 21. A SiN layer 24 is formed on the first polysilicon layer 23 by implanting nitrogen. On the SiN lay...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent an effect from being exerted on a variation in etching forms in a dry etching process by such a way that a normal photolithography process which is conducted by utilizing a P-type diazonaphthoquinone(DNQ)- novolak resin photoresist is applied in the pattern formation process of a semiconductor device having a reverse stagger type TFT, but the problem of the depende...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce parasitic capacitance and to stabilize the high-speed operation of a circuit. SOLUTION: In a semiconductor device, wirings 1 and 2 connecting elements are installed on a silicon substrate, where the elements are arranged so that at least two and above layers are vertically disposed. Supporters 3 and 4, which are connected to the lower faces 3d of the upper layer wir...