Disclosed is a vertical-type centrifugal separation apparatus which is provided with a mechanism for automatically discharging solid material produced during centrifugal separation, after said centrifugal separation has taken place. The vertical-type centrifugal separation apparatus comprises: a casing (4); a bowl (5) which is rotatably housed in the casing (4) and serves to separate a liquid unde...

There is provided a three-valued logic function circuit capable of remarkably reducing the kinds of basic circuits necessary for realizing all 3 3^2 =19683 kinds of two-variable three-valued logic function circuits, remarkably reducing asymmetry of the switching time, and improving an operation speed and symmetry of waveform of the logic function circuit. In a three-valued logic function circuit, ...

A data processing apparatus 2 is provided which is responsive to data access instructions to perform data access operations. These data access instructions have a first form utilizing a 12-bit offset field but with a fixed addressing mode and a second form utilizing a shorter 8-bit offset field but with an addressing mode specified within a manipulation mode control field of the data access instru...

The invention is a display device comprising a solid top transparent, charge conducting material, positioned below the transparent solid material is an active layer comprising an electrochromic material and an electrolyte, and positioned below the active layer is a working electrode and a counter-electrode arranged to be isolated from one another, wherein the distance between the working and the c...

Each side (11a) of a thin metal plate (11) is held with clamps (27). The thin metal plate (11) is pulled by the clamps (27), and tensile force by each clamp is adjusted to hold the thin metal plate (11) in a flat state without distortion and sagging. At the same time, a frame (13) is elastically deformed by pressing it, with a force having the same magnitude as the tensile force applied to the thi...

Ion injection is performed to a single crystal silicon wafer to form an ion injection layer, the ion injection surface of the single crystal silicon wafer and/or the surface of the transparent insulation substrate are/is processed using plasma and/or ozone, the ion injection surface of the single crystal silicon wafer and the surface of the transparent insulation substrate are bonded to each other...

A semiconductor crystal includes a recombination-inhibiting semiconductor layer (17) of a second conductive type that is disposed in the vicinity of the surface between a base contact region (16) and emitter regions (14) and that separates the semiconductor surface having a large number of surface states from the portion that primarily conducts the positive hole electric current and the electron c...

A method of advertising using a multiplayer game for a mobile device, comprising: transmitting/receiving data for executing the multiplayer game in the mobile device through a network channel; checking whether a user of the multiplayer game has paid to play the multiplayer game! and determining whether or not to display an advertisement on a screen of the mobile device for the multiplayer game bas...

An unused state detection circuit is disclosed that detects an unused state in a semiconductor circuit. A semiconductor circuit is "unused" when the unused state detection circuit has not been permanently cleared. When a semiconductor circuit is first powered up, the unused state detection circuit will detect that the semiconductor circuit has not previously been "used" and can automatically activ...

The present invention provides a treated pigment and a dispersion composition thereof having preferable dispersion stability and fluidity in a dispersion medium even the pigment has no functional group reactive with a carbodiimide group on the surface thereof, and further to provide a resist composition exerting very excellent developing characteristics when forming color filters, black matrices a...

To select a transmission mode to use for a data transmission via a MIMO channel from station A to station B, station A obtains channel information used for spatial processing and determines the age of this information. Station A selects one of multiple transmission modes based on the age of the channel information and possibly other information (e.g., the fading characteristic of the MIMO channel)...

A tire size reduction/wire separation system comprising a drive shaft; a plurality of rotors mounted on the drive shaft, each rotor having axial slots with a rotor mounted knife removably secured within each slot; and an independent housing supporting the drive shaft and rotors. The independent housing has a central region with stationary knives. The roots and crests of the stationary knives are m...

Provided is a copper foil for a printed circuit board comprising a heatproof treatment layer formed on an non-roughened surface of the copper foil to become a joining surface with resin, a chromate coated layer formed on the heatproof treatment layer, and a silane coupling agent layer formed on the chromate coated layer, wherein the Zn amount of the outermost copper foil surface after forming the ...

Disclosed is a nonaqueous electrolytic solution useful for producing a lithium secondary battery having excellent cycle characteristics. Specifically disclosed is a nonaqueous electrolytic solution for lithium secondary batteries obtained by dissolving an electrolyte salt in a nonaqueous solvent which is characterized by containing 0.1 to 10 wt. % of a tert-alkylbenzene compound and also containin...

[PROBLEMS] To provide a polyimidesiloxane solution composition that is excellent in defoaming ability and that can maintain the wettability of an outer lead bonded portion on a wiring board at a high level, even when it is applied on the surface of the wiring board and then cured, to form an insulating cured film. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] A polyimidesiloxane solution composition which comprise...

An air supply apparatus A includes an air pump 20 capable of supplying compressed air to an air chamber (a tire air chamber Ra of a wheel B) on the basis of rotation of the wheel B; a change valve 30 provided outside a pump chamber Ro of the air pump 20 and adapted to restrict the supply of compressed air from the pump chamber Ro to the air chamber when the pressure of compressed air supplied from...

A method and apparatus for calculating RQuickPage in a wireless communication system characterized in that , determining the value of the PreferredQuick-PageEnabled field and calculating RQuickPage wherein RQuickPage is used by the lower Medium Access Layer (MAC) Sublayer to determine if a quick page is received.

A method and apparatus for calculating RQuickPage in a wireless communication system characterized in that , determining the value of the PreferredQuick-PageEnabled field and calculating RQuickPage wherein RQuickPage is used by the lower Medium Access Layer (MAC) Sublayer to determine if a quick page is received.

A method and apparatus for calculating RQuickPage in a wireless communication system characterized in that , determining the value of the PreferredQuick-PageEnabled field and calculating RQuickPage wherein RQuickPage is used by the lower Medium Access Layer (MAC) Sublayer to determine if a quick page is received.

One feature provides a method for granting authenticated access to off-line, limited-resource mobile devices. A public-private key pair is generated by a service provider and the public key is used to digitally sign a username and (possibly) access privileges to obtain a password for technician. The public key is securely distributed to mobile devices. When off-line, a mobile device may authentica...