An information service method including the steps of reading out unique identification information written on a recording medium using a terminal equipment upon installation of the recording medium, transmitting the read-out unique identification information from the terminal equipment via a communication network, and registering the transmitted unique identification information using a server app...

The present invention concerns a polycyanurate foam comprising the structura l element A and either terminal amino groups and/or at least one of the following structural elements B, C, or D: (see formulas A, B, C or D) wherein the foam has closed pores that contain carbon dioxide. This foam can be produced in that a substance is worked into the starting material for the polycyanurate that releases...

A downhole drilling efficiency sensor (DES) apparatus for use with drilling operations in oil and gas exploration, that accurately measures important drilling parameters at or near the drill bit in order to increase the effectiveness and productivity of the drilling operation. The parameters measured include weight-on-bit (WOB), torque-on-bit (TOB), bending-on-bit (BOB), annulus pressure, internal...

This invention relates to a suspension of a water-soluble, nonionic cellulos e ether having a fairly low content of an electrolytic salt exhibiting a high stability and a low viscosity. The suspension having a pH-value of below 8.0 , contains 10-30 % by weight of a water-soluble, nonionic cellulose ether, and 10-22 % by weight of an electrolytic salt, wherein the electrolytic salt contains a) 10-9...

Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a capacitor in a semiconductor device. A method consistent with the present invention includes forming a lower electrode on a semiconductor substrate; forming a first interlevel dielectric layer on an entire surface of the semiconductor substrate, covering the lower electrode; selectively removing the first interlevel dielectric layer to form an opening expo...

Disclosed are a semiconductor device and a related method of manufacture. The semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor substrate, a conductive structure including contact regions and gate structures formed on the semiconductor substrate, a protection layer formed on the gate structures, an insulation layer formed on the protection layer, and a plurality of contacts directly contacting the co...

A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes forming a lower interconnection on a semiconductor substrate; forming a first interlayer insulation film in which the lower interconnection is buried; forming an MIM capacitive element on the first interlayer insulation film, the MIM capacitive element being formed by layering a lower electrode, a dielectric film, a...

High dielectric layers formed from layers of hafnium oxide, zirconium oxide, aluminum oxide, yttrium oxide, and/or other metal oxides and silicates disposed on silicon substrates or ozone oxide layers over silicon substrates may be nitrided and post thermally treated by oxidation, annealing, or a combination of oxidation and annealing to form high dielectric layers having superior mobility and int...

In a wound scanning apparatus and method, a beam or sheet of light is scanned on a wound and reflections of the scanned beam or sheet of light interacting with the wound at a plurality of points thereof is detected. The detected reflections are processed into data representative of the wound. The data or a representation thereof is reproduced in a human understandable form.

In one embodiment of the invention, an integrated circuit, such as an FPGA, has one or more programmable termination schemes, each having a plurality of resistive termination legs connected in parallel, and a calibration circuit designed to control each termination scheme for process, voltage, and temperature (PVT) variations. The sense element in the calibration circuit and each resistive leg in ...

A capacitor for use with RF signals of an operating frequency has a parallel plate configuration including a bottom electrode, a top electrode, and a dielectric layer disposed between the bottom and top electrodes, and an additional mass layer disposed on top of the top electrode. The parallel plate configuration is capable of receiving a DC voltage bias that affects the capacitance value of the p...

The present invention is directed to a powder paint composition that can for m a coating film having high corrosion resistance and excellent appearance even on a met al substrate surface containing non-flat portions and a process for forming multi-layer coats excellent both in corrosion resistance and top-coat adhesion using the powde r paint composition. The powder paint composition comprises a) ...

An electrical device with a retractable plug has a body and a plug-moving assembly. The body has a chamber, a partition and a plug. The partition is formed in the chamber, separates the chamber into a plug chamber and an electronics chamber. The plug chamber has a longitudinal sidewall, a slot and an opening. The longitudinal sidewall is disposed parallelly with the partition and has an inner surf...

A mechanical water still (10) includes an impervious dome-like upper surface (12) and a membrane base (14) that is coupled (26) to the impervious dome-like structure (12) to form, when inflated, a chamber (20). The membrane base (14) supports a water pervaporation process therethrough. A water collection well (16) has an opening into which water droplets condensed from the water pervaporation proc...

This invention relates to composite materials for restorative dentistry. More particularly, it relates to new components for dental composites, which impart an attractive combination of good mechanical properties and low shrinkage.

An antenna system comprises first, second, and third antennas that are arranged on a printed circuit board (PCB) and that include an inner ring and an outer ring that is concentric to said inner ring.

A digital receiver contains a local video clock that controls the video presentation speed and a local audio clock that controls the audio presentation speed separately and independently of the video presentation speed. To control the video presentation speed, a comparator compares a program clock reference in a video packet with a local time. A video clock controller then speeds up or slows down ...

When coordinate transformation such as viewpoint conversion is performed on source video images from cameras, the conversion table of each of the cameras is not stored in an image processing ECU. Instead, each of the cameras possesses the conversion table. Accordingly, it is not necessary to use an expensive nonvolatile memory of large capacity in the image processing ECU. Furthermore, addition or...

A method is for segmentation of section image data of an examination object, in which a target structure is determined in the section image data and an anatomical norm model is selected whose geometry can be varied on the basis of model parameters. The model parameters are organized hierarchically on the basis of their influence on the anatomical overall geometry of the model. The norm model is ma...

A method of enhancing a digital image comprising: providing a digital image; decomposing the provided digital image into a multi-frequency band representation including a low frequency band image and multiple different high frequency band images; multiplying each of the high-frequency band images with a gain factor; summing together the unmodified low frequency band image and the modified high-fre...