Transitory audio information that is subject to interruption is provided without loss of content. Transitory audio information received from an audio source is audibly provided until an interrupt signal is received. The transitory audio information is buffered while a message associated with the interrupt signal is audibly provided. Upon conclusion of the message, the buffered transitory audio inf...

An electric drive control apparatus which prevents the voltage from being saturated and does not cause the driver to feel uncomfortable during driving. The electric drive control apparatus includes an electrically operated machine, an instruction value calculation processing unit that calculates an instruction value based on a target electrically operated machine torque and on the rotational speed...

One embodiment of the present invention generates random samples for a Bernoulli distribution. A first covariance matrix is generated using a desired mean vector and a desired covariance matrix of the Bernoulli distribution. A normal vector is constructed using the desired mean vector and the first covariance matrix. A sampling vector is generated using the normal vector and a threshold vector. Th...

An assembly method that includes providing a first semiconductor device and positioning a second semiconductor device at least partially over the first semiconductor device is disclosed. Spacers space the active surface of the first semiconductor device substantially a predetermined distance apart from the back side of the second semiconductor device. Discrete conductive elements are extended betw...

An integrated circuit die is provided having a body portion having a singulation side and a pedestal portion extending from the body portion and having a singulation side coplanar with the singulation side of the body portion.

According to a resin encapsulation molding method for a semiconductor device, a resin-encapsulated substrate having a semiconductor device that is mounted on the substrate and that has a portion exposed is formed. With the method, a device-mounted substrate on which the semiconductor device is mounted is prepared and then the device-mounted substrate is set in one mold part. A release film is ther...

A pull-on disposable diaper 1 has, between a waist opening 5 and leg openings 6, a region 71 having a width of 15 to 35 mm in each of a front section A and a rear section B. The region 71, while worn by a wearer, applies a pressure of 1.1 to 2.5 kPa to the wearer's body. With the diaper 1 opened and stretched out, the distance from the longitudinal centerline of the diaper to the widthwise middle ...

Using sol-gel techniques, an optical gain medium has been fabricated comprising a glass ceramic host material that includes clusters of crystalline oxide material, especially tin oxide, and that is doped with active ions concentrated at the clusters. The active ions are preferentially located at the nanoclusters so that they experience the relatively low phonon energy of the oxide and are insensit...

A method, and apparatus for performing the method, are intended to prevent all of the ink discharged from a defective one of multiple nozzles in a continuous inkjet printhead from being used for printing on a print medium. This can be done by periodically heating the defective nozzle at a frequency that is greater than frequencies other nozzles which are not defective are periodically heated, to c...

VCSEL array configurations for use with parallel WDM transmitters are disclosed. Transmitters that use several wavelengths of VCSELs are built up out of multiple die to avoid the difficulty of manufacturing monolithic arrays of VCSELs with different optical wavelengths. VCSEL configurations are laid out to insure that VCSELs of different wavelengths that destined for the same waveguide are close t...

Devices, methods, and kits for amplifying the signal from hybridization reactions between nucleic acid probes and their cognate targets are presented. The devices provide partially-duplexed, immobilized probe complexes, spatially separate from and separately addressable from immobilized docking strands. Cognate target acts catalytically to transfer probe from the site of probe complex immobilizati...

A CVD Method of forming gate dielectric thin films on a substrate using metalloamide compounds of the formula M(NR¹R²)_x, wherein M is selected from the group consisting of: Zr, Hf, Y, La, Lanthanide series elements, Ta, Ti, Al; N is nitrogen; each of R 1 and R 2 is same or different and is independently selected from the group consisting of H, aryl, perfluoroaryl, ...

The present invention is directed to a polyester polycarbamate polymeric pigment dispersant to be used as a grind resin to incorporate pigment into pigment dispersions for coating compositions. The pigment dispersant is the reaction product of a first compound having a plurality of hydroxyl groups, a carboxylic acid anhydride, a second compound having at least one epoxy group, and a carbamate comp...

Disclosed is a method for increasing substrate resistance in a silicon controlled rectifier in order to decrease turn on time so that the silicon controlled rectifier may be used as an effective electrostatic discharge protection device to protect against HBM, MM and CDM discharge events. Additionally, disclosed is an improved SCR structure that is adapted for use as an electrostatic discharge dev...

A method and apparatus for producing a very high repetition rate gas discharge laser system in a MOPA configuration is disclosed which may comprise a master oscillator gas discharge layer system producing a beam of oscillator laser output light pulses at a very high pulse repetition rate; at least two power amplification gas discharge laser systems receiving laser output light pulses from the mast...

Two parallel sets of groups of beams from diode laser bars are spaced apart by a distance V. The two sets of beam groups are interleaved by a beam combiner to provide on set of beam groups spaced apart by a distance V/2. The beam combiner includes a plurality of reflective strips in a plane inclined to the direction of propagation of the beam groups. One set of beam groups is transmitted through t...

A method of enhancing wavelength tuning performance in an external cavity laser includes providing a diffractive focusing element, emitting light into the cavity of the laser at a range of angles relative to an optical axis of the cavity, and diffractively focusing the light back onto the optical axis at a wavelength-dependent focal distance using the diffractive focusing element. The method furth...

A CT Fluoro system which, in one embodiment, includes an integrated controller, image reconstruction algorithms for increasing the speed of image display, and an enhanced image display, is described. The integrated controller enables the radiologist to maintain control of the system throughout the fluoro scan. The image reconstruction algorithms are generally directed to increasing the image frame...

Certain embodiments relate to a method and apparatus for calibrating an imaging system having an array of detector elements arranged with respect to a reference position and having an energy source moving in a pattern to irradiate the array of detector elements. The method includes initiating estimated detector positions for the array of detector elements and an estimated motion pattern for the en...

A thermo-optic lens of the present invention includes a plurality of parallel heating elements having substantially constant center-to-center spacing and respective dimensions varying from the outermost heating elements to the innermost heating elements, and at least two conductive elements for providing a potential across the heating elements. The dimensions of the heating elements are varied suc...