A pneumatic tyre for a two-wheeled vehicle includes a carcass structure, belt structure, tread band, and pair of sidewalls. The carcass structure includes at least one first and second carcass ply. Each carcass ply includes cords disposed substantially parallel to each other. Ends of each carcass ply are engaged with respective circumferential annular reinforcing structures. Each carcass ply cord ...

An etching apparatus has a chamber enclosing a first electrode, a second electrode, confinement rings, a focus ring, and a shield. The first electrode is coupled to a source of a fixed potential. The second electrode is coupled to a dual frequency RF power source. The confinement rings are disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The chamber is formed of an electrically condu...

A local positioning system comprises a plurality of sensor elements that may communicate with mobile units in a wireless fashion. The responsiveness of the mobile units is measured by yes/no answers and a averaged so as to provide a measure of the distance of a mobile unit to a specified sensor element. Based on this measure and the known positions of the sensor element the position of the mobile ...

An apparatus for dispensing items from a pack of items wherein the pack of items has parameters associated therewith such as pack size, an item dimension and an item price. The apparatus includes an item dispenser, a cash acceptor, input and output devices, and a controller. The controller has an item load table for storing data corresponding to the parameters associated with the pack of items. Th...

A non-contact IC system 1 is mounted within the casing of a mobile telephone 100 and it includes: an antenna coil 11; an IC module 12 for receiving power and communication information via radio waves received by the antenna coil 11; a central arithmetic processing unit 13 for controlling the entire system and controlling drive power supply to the IC module 12; a regulator 14 for providing drive po...

A pressure sensor (30) for harsh environments such as vehicle tires, the sensor having a chamber (58) partially defined by a flexible membrane (50), the chamber (58) containing a fluid at a reference pressure. In use, the flexible membrane (50) deflects due to pressure differentials between the reference pressure and the fluid pressure, so that, associated circuitry (34) can convert the deflection...

The invention relates to an arrangement of optical elements in a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus, particularly in a projection objective of a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus. The arrangement comprises a rigid first optical element, a rigid second optical element with a first optical surface and a second optical surface on opposite sides and a first liquid. The first...

It is an object of the present invention to provide a method of fabricating a liquid crystal display by which a liquid crystal display capable of displaying a high quality display image with high resolution and preventing light leakage, light omission and the like due to spacers may be produced. The present invention relates to a method of fabricating a liquid crystal display, which has a step...

MIMO system supports multiple spatial multiplexing modes for improved performance and greater flexibility. These modes may include (1) a single-user steered mode that transmits multiple data streams on orthogonal spatial channels to a single receiver, (2) a single-user non-steered mode that transmits multiple data streams from multiple antennas to a single receiver without spatial processing at a ...

Methods for real time motion capture for control of a video game character is provided. In one embodiment, a method initiates with defining a model of a control object. Then, a location of a marker on the model is identified. Next, movement associated with the control object is captured. Then, the movement associated with the control object is interpreted to change a position of the model. Next, m...

An IGBT is disclosed which has a set of inside trenches (2a) and an outside trench (2b) formed in its semiconductor substrate (1). The substrate has emitter regions (3) adjacent the trenches (2a,2b), a p-type base region (4) adjacent the emitter regions (3) and trenches (2a,2b)" and an n-type base region comprising a first and a second subregion (31,32) contiguous to each other. The first subregio...

A method of operating an imager to have increased capacitance on a pixel output or column output line during most reset signal and pixel signal sampling operations from the line. The increased capacitance is achieved by switching in multiple sample and hold capacitors during the sampling operations.

An image sensor and a method of forming an image sensor. The image sensor includes an array of pixel cells at a surface of a substrate. Each pixel cell has a photo-conversion device. At least one a micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) element including a photonic crystal structure is provided over at least one of the pixel cells. The MEMS-based photonic crystal element is supported by a support ...