The present invention provides a method for selectively transferring elements such as monocrystalline Si thin films or elements made of monocrystalline Si from a base substrate (100) onto an insulating substrate without the use of an intermediate substrate. The base substrate (first substrate) (100) in which the elements are formed is selectively irradiated with a laser having a multiphoton absorption wavelength. Thus, elements to be transferred out of the elements and corresponding thin films on the base substrate (100) are transferred onto a transfer destination substrate (second substrate) (200).

Currently, production of a super-high-performance low-cost display requires both of (i) TFT (Thin Film Transistor) performance equivalent to that attained with the use of monocrystalline silicon and (ii) a reduction in manufacturing cost. According to conventional TFT processes such as a process using amorphous silicon (hereinafter referred to as "a-Si") and a process using polycrystalline silicon (hereinafter referred to as "poly-Si"), a TFT having desired performance cannot be obtained. In addition, since such conventional TFT processes require huge devices such as a vacuum device, a laser crystallization device, and an exposure device, it is difficult to reduce a manufacturing cost.
For example, (a) of FIG. 13 illustrates a case where circuit elements such as pixels are formed on a large-area glass substrate by a conventional TFT process (an a-Si process or a poly-Si process) for a large-sized liquid crystal display device. This method necessitates forming an a-Si film or the like onto an entire surface of the glass substrate and crystallizing the entire surface of the substrate with the use of a laser. Accordingly, as the size of mother glass increases (size of tenth generation mother glass: 3.1 m×2.9 m), a huge device and enormous investment are required. It is therefore difficult to reduce a manufacturing cost. Moreover, according to this method, only TFTs which largely vary from each other in performance and which require a large amount of power can be obtained.
In view of this, methods were developed in which a super-high-performance low-cost display is produced by (i) forming elements on a small-area substrate and then (ii) causing the elements thus formed to be mounted on a large-area glass substrate so that the elements are distributed in an array. For example, (b) of FIG. 13 illustrates an example of a method in which (i) silicon devices or circuit elements are formed on a silicon substrate (hereinafter referred to as "Si substrate") by an existing IC (Integrated Circuit) process, (ii) the silicon substrate on which the silicon devices or the circuit elements are formed is divided into chips, and (iii) the chips are transferred (or bonded) onto a large-area glass substrate. The transfer may be performed by a Smart Cut process (hydrogen ion separation process) or may be performed by bonding using die bonding.
Transfer of elements using the Smart Cut process is disclosed, for example, in Patent Literatures 1 and 2 invented by the inventors of the present invention. This method is effective in a case where the substrate is divided into approximately tens to hundreds of chips (each having a size of several millimeters) as in a case of a driver of a panel. However, dividing the substrate into millions of elements (each having a size of tens of micrometers) and bonding the elements as in the case of pixel TFTs is impractical not only in terms of throughput but also in terms of handling.
(c) of FIG. 13 illustrates a case where a Si substrate or silicon devices (elements) that are formed on a Si substrate (Si wafer) by the Smart Cut process are bonded to a large-area glass substrate without dividing the Si substrate into chips. According to this method, it is unnecessary to divide the Si substrate into a plurality of chips unlike the case of (b) of FIG. 13. However, according to this method, the silicon devices are separated from the Si substrate by thermal treatment after the silicon devices are bonded to the glass substrate. Accordingly, all of the elements on the Si substrate are transferred onto the glass substrate. Consequently, the silicon devices cannot be transferred while securing a wide spacing, such as pixel pitch, between the silicon devices. In order to transfer elements while securing a wide spacing between the elements, it is necessary to form the elements on a silicon substrate so that the elements are disposed away from each other as illustrated in (d) of FIG. 13. However, this causes a large decline in use efficiency of the silicon substrate.
Further, according to conventional techniques, it is very difficult to transfer high-performance silicon devices or circuit elements formed on a silicon substrate by a single transfer process so that the silicon devices or the circuit elements are distributed. For example, according to the Smart Cut process, which can be used to transfer monocrystalline silicon devices, the whole substrate is heated. Accordingly, it is difficult to selectively transfer only desired monocrystalline silicon devices.
Meanwhile, as a method for selectively distributing elements in order to reduce a manufacturing cost, methods such as the methods disclosed in Patent Literatures 3 and 4 are known. According to the methods disclosed in Patent Literatures 3 and 4, minute elements formed on a small substrate are transferred onto a large-area substrate so that the elements are distributed on the large-area substrate. The following describes an example of how the elements are transferred with reference to FIG. 14.
First, a release layer 12 is formed on a first substrate (base substrate) 11, and a plurality of elements 13 are formed on the release layer 12 (see (a) of FIG. 14). Then, for example, after the elements 13 are bonded to an intermediate substrate 15 coated with a UV release adhesive 14, the first substrate 11 and the intermediate substrate 15 are detached from each other along the release layer so as to transfer all of the elements (first transfer process) (see (b) and (c) of FIG. 14). The detachment is carried out by a method such as a liftoff method using wet etching and an etch stopper layer or a laser abbration of irradiating the release layer with a laser from a rear surface of the first substrate 11. In the case of irradiating the release layer with a laser from the rear surface of the first substrate 11, the first substrate 11 need to be a transparent substrate. Next, the transparent intermediate substrate 15 on which the elements 13 are retained (see (c) of FIG. 14) is bonded to a final substrate (transfer destination substrate) 17 coated with an adhesive 16 (see (d) of FIG. 14). Then, the UV release adhesive 14 is selectively irradiated (irradiated at fixed spacing which corresponds to a pixel pitch) with UV light from a rear surface of the intermediate substrate 15 so as to weaken adhesion of the UV release adhesive 14 (see (e) of FIG. 14). Thereafter, the intermediate substrate 15 and the final substrate 17 are detached from each other, so as to transfer only desired elements 13 onto the final substrate 17 (second transfer process) (see (f) of FIG. 14). Also in a case where the UV release adhesive 14 is irradiated with UV light from the rear surface of the intermediate substrate 15 so as to perform the second transfer process, the intermediate substrate 15 need to be a transparent substrate.

Method for manufacturing semiconductor device, and semiconductor device


Methods, apparatus and computer program products for automatically identifying a calling party using voice recognition. Voice recognition is the computing task of identifying or validating a person's identity using characteristics of their voice. A first voice record is obtained from an identifiable party and associated with a voice identifier. When a second voice record is received from a calling party, the voice in the second voice record is compared to the voice in the first voice record to determine the identity of the calling party. If the there is a match between the voice in the second voice record and the voice in the previously obtained first voice record, then the called party is notified of the identity of the calling party. A voice identifier, when available, is preferably displayed to the called party on a screen instead of caller ID information.

1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to systems and methods for providing caller identification information to a called party.
2. Background of the Related Art
According to the online dictionary Wikipedia.com, caller ID (caller identification, CID, or more properly calling number identification) is a telephone service, available on plain old telephone service (POTS) lines, that transmits a caller's number to the called party's telephone equipment during the ringing signal, or when the call is being set up but before the call is answered. Where available, caller ID can also provide a name associated with the calling telephone number, for a higher fee. The information made available to the called party may be made visible on a telephone's own display or on a separate attached device.
Caller ID may be used to track down or limit the impact of prank calls, telemarketers, and other intrusions. However, it can also impede communication by enabling users to become evasive. The concept behind caller ID is the value of informed consent. However, caller ID may also raise issues about personal privacy or facilitate caller ID spoofing.
Caller ID is made up of two separate pieces of information: the calling number and the billing (or subscriber) name where available. When an originating phone switch sends out a phone number as caller ID, the telephone company receiving the call is responsible for looking up the name of the subscriber in a database. To look up the name associated with a phone number, the carrier in some instances has to access that information from a third party database and some database providers charge a small fee for each access to such databases. To avoid such charges, some carriers will report the name as unavailable, or will report the name as "(city), (state)" based on the phone number. For 800 numbers, they may report a string such as "TOLLFREE NUMBER" if the name is not available in a database.
What is displayed as caller ID also depends on the equipment originating the call. If the call originates on a POTS line (a standard loop start line), caller ID is provided by the service provider's local switch. Since the network does not connect the caller (i.e., the calling party) to the callee (i.e., the called party) until the phone is answered, generally the caller ID signal cannot be altered by the caller. Most service providers however, allow the caller to block caller ID presentation through the vertical service code *67. A call placed from behind a private branch exchange (PBX) has more options. In the typical telephony environment, a PBX connects to the local service provider through PRI trunks. Generally, although not absolutely, the service provider simply passes whatever calling line ID appears on those PRI access trunks transparently across the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). This opens up the opportunity for the PBX administrator to program whatever number they choose in their external phone number fields.
Still further, internet protocol (IP) phone services support PSTN gateway installations throughout the world. These gateways egress calls to the local calling area, thus avoiding long distance toll charges (a key feature of IP services). IP phone services also allow a local user to have a number located in a foreign exchange, such as a New York caller could have a Los Angeles telephone number. When that user places a call, the calling line ID would be that of a Los Angeles number although they are actually located in New York.
With cell phones, there are issues with passing calling line ID information through the network. Cell phone companies must support interconnecting trunks to a significant number of wireline and PSTN access carriers. In order to save money, cell phone carriers may not purchase the North American feature Group D or PRI trunks required to pass calling line ID information across the network.
In the United States, caller ID information is sent to the called party by the telephone switch as an analog data stream (similar to data passed between two modems), between the first and second rings, while the telephone unit is still on the hook. If the telephone call is answered before the second ring, caller ID information will not be transmitted to the recipient.

Caller identification using voice recognition

International Business Machines Corporation


An electronic device includes, a semiconductor layer, a source region and a drain region provided with the semiconductor layer to be interposed therebetween, a gate insulation film on the semiconductor layer between the source region and the drain region, and a gate of a graphene on the gate insulation film. The gate insulation film induces doping of charges in the graphene.

A technology is known that stacks a graphene with an organic molecular film and dopes the graphene with electrons or holes by the organic molecular film to reduce the sheet resistance of the graphene. In addition, a technology is known that uses a graphene in a transistor. For example, a gas sensor has been proposed which uses a graphene as a gate of a field effect transistor (FET) and detects a target gas based on a change in the drain current caused by a change in the threshold voltage due to a change in the work function when the target gas such as, for example, ammonia is adsorbed onto the graphene.
Related techniques are disclosed in, for example, International Publication Pamphlet Nos. WO 2014/030534 and WO 2017/002854.

Electronic device, manufacturing method for electronic device, and electronic apparatus


Atomic virtual document generation and tagging is described. A virtual article that is intelligible to a digital processing system is generated from a physical materiality. The physical materiality is marked with an identifier. The virtual article is tagged with a tag that corresponds to the identifier. The generating of the virtual article, the marking of the physical materiality, and the tagging of the virtual article occur at substantially the same time.

The field of the invention relates to virtual document generation in general and to tagging a virtual document in particular.
Currently, when a physical document interfaces with a computer environment, two types of actions may be performed. One operation is the xe2x80x9cscanningxe2x80x9d of the document into the computer. Scanning may involve either storing an image of the document or conversion of the physical document into computer text using optical character recognition (OCR), or both. Optical character recognition is the machine recognition of printed characters. OCR systems can recognize many different OCR fonts, as well as typewritten or computer-printed characters. Advanced OCR systems can recognize hand printing.
After a document is scanned/converted into a computer format (a xe2x80x9cvirtualxe2x80x9d document), a further step, known as xe2x80x9ctaggingxe2x80x9d, may take place. Tagging entails placing an identification on the document so that it can be referred to and accessed later. The tag may be placed on the physical and/or virtual document. This tagging step in some cases is omitted, making it more difficult to later recognize the document.
The two steps of scanning and tagging a document have, in prior art, been considered related but unconnected events, taking place at separate times and/or using separate instruments. To illustrate, in a hospital environment, patient records are kept in a variety of physical and virtual forms. These two formats need to be rationalized. Currently, the process of converting paper records into computer records is somewhat ad hoc, usually occurring either at the end of the day or at the end of care. Additionally, the conversion process typically takes place in an inconvenient location and the process may or may not involve tagging of the documents. If tagging is involved, it requires a separate device. The risk of error and omission of records is increased as a result of these factors. Many paper records will therefore not become available on-line and computer systems are kept from being fully utilized.


A propulsion system for a four-wheel-drive vehicle, including four independently powered, computer controlled wheel assemblies (24). A turbogenerator (10) for charging a storage battery (12). A power distribution unit with a central processing unit (18). A power-sensor harness (26). A separate air-conditioner (16) for providing cold, filtered, dehumidified-air for cooling the motor-generators (40). Floor mounted accelerator and brake pedals (82)(84) coupled with electronic means (86) for accelerating, decelerating and braking the vehicle. A fuel tank (20) for running the turbogenerator (10). A comprehensive, state of the art instrument panel with electronic and audio instrumentation covering every vital function of the propulsion system. The instrument panel is not illustrated.

Not applicable
This invention relates to electric vehicles
Over one hundred years ago, in a small town near Cologne, Germany, Dr. Nicholas Otto and Gottlieb Daimler built the first successful internal combustion engine. It had one cylinder, and was attached to a bicycle.
Thereafter, many inventors began experimenting with larger engines attached to horse buggies.
In the United States, Henry Ford, Alex Winton, Frank Duryea, Elwood Haynes and others got busy.
By 1910 more vehicles were powered with internal combustion engines than pulled with horses. Henry Ford had much to do with the development of the assembly-line system, that made it possible to produce and sell a motorcar within the means of most American families. Although one had to crank the engine to get it started.
By the early twenties ladies began driving cars. Producers of the more stylish and expensive cars added an electric starter.
Some engines were started with compound-motor-generators. The battery was automatically charged with the same unit.
The same era witnessed the tremendous expansion of the automobile industry. New engines were designed, built and tested. The first electric motorcars and trucks were made. A steam engine powered car was built and made a brief showing. The prime complaint was that it took too long to build-up a head of steam before it could be driven.
In the mid-fifties the Chrysler Corporation built a passenger car with a regenerative, free-turbine engine. This engine could run with a variety of fuels including gasoline, diesel fuel, alcohols, jet fuels and blends.
Regenerative type turbine engines, reduce fuel consumption, exhaust temperature, vibration, noise, toxic emissions and start easily.
However, turbines have one inherent drawback, they perform very efficiently at one rotation speed. At part load or idle condition, the efficiency drops off significantly, below that of internal-combustion engines with their Carnot cycle efficiency limit. About 35%. Acceleration from stop or slow speeds is poor.
The turbine-powered car could not compete with the passenger car built with an internal combustion engine.
Leading automobile companies continue to experiment and build larger versions of the automobile gas turbine for busses, trucks and other heavy duty ground applications in the range of 300 to 600 horsepower. A power transfer system similar to an automatic transmission without torque converter has been developed and used successfully.
In 1997 Toyota, in Japan, introduced a hybrid car powered with an electric motor, gasoline engine system. It operates as an electric car at slow speeds, when air pollution is at the maximum point for gasoline engines. The gasoline engine cuts in when the car accelerates and attains cruising speed. The batteries are recharged while the gasoline engine drives the car.
Chrysler, General Motors and Ford in the USA, Honda and Nissan Motor Co. in Japan and the Audi Division of Volkswagen are also working on hybrid cars. RandD projects planned to improve the internal-combustion-engine continue. It is time to replace the marvel that changed the world over one hundred years ago with a more efficient, non-polluting propulsion system.
Dr. Nicholas Otto and his friend, Gottlieb Daimler will not be forgotten.
The independently powered computer controlled vehicle wheels according to the invention include a turbogenerator, storage battery, a power distribution unit with CPU systems control unit, a power-sensor harness, a separate air conditioner for providing cold, filtered, dehumidified-air for cooling the motor-generators. Floor mounted accelerator and brake pedals and an optional comprehensive instrument panel.
Other features of the invention will become apparent as the description proceeds especially when viewed with the accompanying drawings illustrating the invention.

Independently powered computer controlled vehicle wheels


A malfunction determination method for a production machine including a motor as a driving source of a rotating mechanism acquires sensor data of a sensor for detecting a condition of the production machine, determines whether the production machine has an operation stop period during which the production machine has stopped its operation for a predetermined period of time or longer in accordance with an operation history of the production machine, sets a malfunction determination suspension period for suspending a malfunction determination of the production machine when determined to have the operation stop period, in accordance with a length of the operation stop period, and determines whether the production machine has a malfunction in a period other than the malfunction determination suspension period.

An abnormal load detection device is known that detects an abnormal load applied to a motor, as disclosed in Patent Document 1. The abnormal load detection device disclosed in Patent Document 1 determines that the current operation is in a normal state without detecting an abnormal load when a rotation speed of the motor falls below a reference speed, such as when the motor stops, starts rotating, or rotates at a low speed, since such a situation tends to lead to false detection of an abnormality.

Malfunction determination method and malfunction determination device


Method of use of peptides and their analogs in the treatment of acute pancreatitis are described. The disclosed peptides and analogs can significantly lower the elevated blood amylase and lipase levels caused by acute pancreatitis, reduce the degree of injury observed in pancreatic histopathology caused by pancreatitis, and significantly lower the mortality rate of acute pancreatitis.

Pancreatitis is generally considered as a disease of the pancreas caused by the digestion of trypsin itself. Based on the course of the disease, pancreatitis can be divided into acute pancreatitis (AP) and chronic pancreatitis (CP). The annual occurrence of pancreatitis is reported to be 13-45/100,000, and the occurrence of acute pancreatitis has been increasing over the past 30 years.
Acute pancreatitis is a disease of multiple organ dysfunction involving a variety of factors. Its typical symptoms include severe and persistent upper abdominal pain, which usually radiates to the back and ribs, and is often accompanied by vomiting, abdominal distention, fever, increased heart rate, increased white blood cell count, elevated blood or urinary amylase levels. Interstitial edema and fat necrosis to macroscopic pancreatic parenchyma or peripancreatic necrosis and hemorrhage can be seen from microscopic observation. The causes and pathogenesis of acute pancreatitis vary, and various etiologies and mechanisms may interact, leading to poor clinical prognosis.
At present, the existing treatment methods are limited to supportive and conservative treatments including pain relief, fluid replacement to maintain water and electrolyte balance, nutritional support, infection prevention and prevention of complications. There is no drug proven to have significant efficacy in curing acute pancreatitis.
Therefore, it is still necessary to develop new drugs and methods that can effectively treat acute pancreatitis.

Use of peptide compounds in treating acute pancreatitis

SHENZHEN HIGHTIDE BIOPHARMACEUTICAL, LTD.


This disclosure describes one or more implementations of a text sequence labeling system that accurately and efficiently utilize a joint-learning self-distillation approach to improve text sequence labeling machine-learning models. For example, in various implementations, the text sequence labeling system trains a text sequence labeling machine-learning teacher model to generate text sequence labels. The text sequence labeling system then creates and trains a text sequence labeling machine-learning student model utilizing the training and the output of the teacher model. Upon the student model achieving improved results over the teacher model, the text sequence labeling system re-initializes the teacher model with the learned model parameters of the student model and repeats the above joint-learning self-distillation framework. The text sequence labeling system then utilizes a trained text sequence labeling model to generate text sequence labels from input documents.

Recent years have seen significant improvements in hardware and software platforms for training and utilizing machine-learning models. For example, many deep-learning methods have achieved promising performance in a wide range of natural language processing tasks. For example, some conventional systems utilize supervised and/or unsupervised machine learning techniques to analyze a digital document and identify representative phrases that concisely describe the content of the digital document. Notwithstanding these improvements, conventional systems continue to suffer from a number of problems in the field of natural language processing, and in particular, with regard to efficiency, accuracy, and flexibility of computer-implemented keyphrase extraction.

Utilizing a joint-learning self-distillation framework for improving text sequential labeling machine-learning models


A method for evaluating a gastrointestinal tract may include characterizing one or more disease parameters using objective measures obtained from imaging data of a gastrointestinal tract. The one or more disease parameters reflect a measure of at least one of lesions, ulcers, bleeding, stenosis, and vasculature. The method may also include using the one or more characterized disease parameters to classify a disease state.

Inflammatory Bowel Disease ("IBD") is a chronic disorder characterized by chronic inflammation in the gastrointestinal ("GI") tract. The disease affects 5-6 million people worldwide, with approximately 1.6 million sufferers in the United States. Patients and health care providers may spend substantial amounts of money per year treating IBD, with annual direct costs estimated between $11-28 billion in the United States. Moreover, people with IBD may have longer and more expensive hospitalizations with higher readmission rates than people without IBD.
There are two main types of IBD: Ulcerative Colitis ("UC") and Crohn's Disease ("CD"). CD can affect any part of the digestive system and is characterized with transmural involvement. Symptoms of CD include abdominal pain, fever, cramping, rectal bleeding, and frequent diarrhea. The peak age for CD disease onset is between 15-35 years. UC affects the colon only, with mucosal involvement. UC carries mild to severe symptoms, which are similar to the symptoms of CD. With UC, complications may be less frequent than with CD. Colectomy may be used to treat UC. The peak age of disease onset for UC is between 15-30 and 50-70 years old. 55% of IBD patients have UC, and 45% of IBD patients have CD.
IBD is characterized by bouts of disease (also known as flare-ups). A correlation has been shown between inflammatory markers and gut motility disorders. For example, it has been reported that CD subjects have lower amplitudes for small bowel contractions with an increase of peristalsis frequency. Motor abnormalities have been shown to be more frequent in patients with active CD. Patients with inactive CD have also shown marked gastrointestinal motor disorders characterized by reduced incident of small bowel contractions and increased incidence of single or clustered propagated contractions. Periods of flare-ups may be interspersed with periods of remission.
Conventional treatments focus on addressing present symptoms. However, it may be more desirable to prevent disease progression in order to obtain deep remission. Despite studies to determine biomarkers of IBD, and despite discoveries regarding clinical variables, serological markers, fecal markers, and genetic tests, no single test is predictive, and no monitoring system exists. Conventional methods for diagnosing and monitoring IBD lack a robust ability to identify remission and disease states and to monitor progression of disease. For example, current indices for evaluating IBD may not be as objective as needed.

Systems and methods for diagnosing and/or monitoring disease


In a paper making machine a porous support belt travels together with the web over a drying cylinder and leaves the cylinder at a point of removal. A suction box provided in the region of the web removal has a suction zone which is defined by means of two yieldable sealing strips which extend transversely to the direction of travel of the web, and each is supported in a sealing strip holder. The distance between each sealing strip holder and the outer surface of the drying cylinder amounts to at least 30 mm, and each of the yieldable sealing strips has, in its normal condition of operation, such an inherent stiffness that the sealing strip remains substantially free of deformation in the event of a difference in pressure of 0.01 to 0.1 bar between the suction zone and its surroundings.

The present invention relates to a device for removing a web from a drying cylinder, preferably in a dry end of a machine for the manufacture or treatment of a web of paper, board or the like, and particularly to a device which applies suction for effecting removal of the web from the drying cylinder, and is designed to prevent damage in the event of a disturbance during the web travel, such as the presence of a wad.
The drying section of a paper making machine typically includes at least one and usually a plurality of drying cylinders arranged in sequence of the path of the web. Typically, there is a web support belt that passes the web around successive dryer cylinders. In some arrangements, there is a generally unheated support belt guiding, reversing roll disposed between neighboring drying cylinders in the path of the web through the drying section. The support belt partially wraps around each of the drying cylinders. The web is supported on the side of the support belt so that the web directly contacts the drying cylinders, while the web travels on the opposite outer side of the support belt around the reversing rolls. Typically, the reversing rolls are suction rolls.
The web should leave the drying cylinder with the support belt. As described below, appropriate suction means are provided for accomplishing that result.
The starting point for the invention is German DE-OS 39 10 600 which corresponds to International Application WO 90/12151. That reference mentions the problem that the paper web has a tendency to travel initially some distance further with the outer surface of a drying cylinder beyond the desired point of web removal from the drying cylinder and only thereafter does the web again come against the support belt. Such a course of movement of the web is undesirable, because it leads to unstable web behavior and/or because the web is stretched in the length direction at its point of removal from the drying cylinder. This accordingly causes the web to shrink in the transverse direction. In order to avoid these disadvantages, DE-OS 39 10 600 suggests producing a vacuum on the inner side of the support belt in the region where the support belt travels off the cylinder, at the suction box 20 with suction openings 26 and 26' in that reference. Furthermore, a sealing strip is provided which extends transversely over the inner side of the wire support belt shortly in front of the point of removal. This strip deflects the air boundary layer which arrives together with the support belt, since otherwise the vacuum could not be produced.
Another known device attempts to draw the web of paper against the support belt as close as possible to the point of removal of the support belt from the drying cylinder comprises a so-called web stabilizer. This is shown in Federal Republic of Germany Patent 37 06 452, which corresponds to U.S. Pat. No. 4,856,205.
In both of these known devices, the vacuum produced at the point where the support belt travels off the drying cylinder is not always sufficient to assure dependable guidance of the web of paper. Furthermore, in rare cases, a foreign body, for instance, a wad of fibers, is brought, together with the web of paper, between the drying cylinder and the support belt. It becomes jammed there at the strip. This presents a danger of the support belt being destroyed. A similar disturbance occurs if the drying cylinder becomes "wrapped-up" in the event of a tear in the web, i.e., if the web winds up in an undesired manner on the drying cylinder.
In order to avoid these dangers, which may result from the above noted disturbances, U.S. Pat. No. 4,359,828, FIGS. 4 to 6, proposes to make a sealing strip flexible so that it can move away from a wad which arrives together with the web. Furthermore, in that case, a part of the front wall of a suction box is mounted movably and is pressed against the support belt under the force of a spring. This enables this part of the wall to also move out from a foreign body. In FIG. 3 of U.S. Pat. No. 4,359,828, a suction zone for a relatively high vacuum is defined, near the place where the support belt runs off the cylinder, by two yieldable sealing strips which extend transversely to the direction of travel of the web. Each sealing strip is supported in a respective sealing strip holder.

Device for removing a web from a drying cylinder


Guide bearing stop for use in a template-guided system for routers, and more particularly to a device, system, and method, for facilitating efficient, easily repeatable, highly accurate router mortise cuts on workpieces using a pantograph-type router system. The guide bearing stop may be used with a readily adjustable template holder for holding a guide bearing stop to direct the mortise cut in a very exact manner, which is also readily adjustable and easily positioned and centered on the template holder. The guide bearing stop when used in conjunction with the router system allows for the rapid centering and rapid reproduction of varying sizes of exactly-sized and exactly-shaped mortise cuts across a variety of different workpieces.

In the art of woodworking, and especially in furniture production, it is necessary to make mortise and tenon cuts into wood to allow the various parts of an item of furniture to be fit together. A female cut, which is cut out of the base piece, is referred to as a mortise cut, and it serves as a receptacle for a corresponding tenon cut, which is a male cut that inserts into the female mortise cut, facilitating holding of the item of furniture together, often together with the use of wood glue. In order to produce a high-quality piece of furniture, it is necessary to produce very exact mortise and tenon cuts which closely correspond to each other in size and shape, to avoid unnecessary motion among the various pieces in the furniture, to give the final product a sturdy construction. Inexact cuts result in low-quality pieces of furniture which are wobbly and unmarketable.
Mortise cuts may be produced using a number of different tools such as drills, routers, mortisers, mortising attachments for drill presses, mortising chisels, etc., to bore out the cut. However, with some of these tools, and especially with any handheld tool, it has been exceedingly difficult to produce mortise cuts which are consistently the same size and shape. With other tools, such as a drill press with a mortising attachment, while it has been easier to produce mortise cuts of the same size and shape, changing the configuration of such a machine to produce such cuts across a variety of workpieces has involved a time-consuming process. Similarly, changing the configuration of such a machine to produce mortise cuts of a different size or shape, also has involved a time-consuming process which has required exact alignment of the workpiece, careful movement of the machine, and repeated time-consuming measurements to re-center the workpiece and cutting bit.
Thus, there has developed a need in the wood working industry for an improved tool which has allowed for the rapid production of highly exact mortise cuts across different items of furniture, as well as for the production of different shapes and size mortise cuts.
A PantoRouter™ shown in FIG. 1 (otherwise known as a pantograph, or pantograph-type router system), and other router systems, have used a router to make cuts in wood, plastic and soft metals. The cutting bit 52 for such a router typically spins at up to 24,000 RPM and has involved the use of conventional, manually operated, methods and commonly available jigs and templates. Pantograph-type router systems comprise a guide bearing that is adapted to follow along a template, and the position of such a guide bearing has also been adjustable to varying depths relative to a tapered template to affect the positioning of the guide bearing relative to the template used to create, for example mortise and tenon, joints for joining wood members together as described in pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 15/650,794 for Tapered Template Guided System for a Router, Ser. No. 16/729,299 for Template Guidance System for a Router, Ser. No. 16/729,300 for Template Guidance System for a Router, and Ser. No. 16/813,460 for Positioning and Centering Device, System, and Method for Use with a Template Guidance System for a Pantograph Router, each application by the Applicant, and each of which is incorporated by reference herein.
Despite the improvements represented by using tapered templates as otherwise described in these previous related applications, the centering of differently-sized templates on a template holder to enable cutting of varied sizes of mortises has still been somewhat time-consuming, and it has required a certain amount of trial and error, both to adjust the positioning of the guide bearing relative to the template, but also to position successive templates and center successive workpieces. The enhanced efficiency of centering of workpieces, and of centering router cutting bits relative to workpieces, was addressed specifically in pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 16/813,460 for Positioning and Centering Device, System, and Method for Use with a Template Guidance System for a Pantograph Router, by the Applicant and incorporated by reference herein, and while certain efficiency in creating differently-sized joinery cuts was discussed in that application, there has still been needed a more efficient device, system and method of cutting different-length mortises.
Thus, a common method of alignment of a workpiece on a mount or table has been to measure the thickness of the workpiece using a scale or caliper, after which the user, or operator, has moved the router or mount to center the desired joint or shape on the workpiece. A common method of fitting the joint has been to cut the mortise first then to have adjusted the size of the tenon for the proper fit. This common method has required trial and error to find the desired fit each time a similar joint has been cut.
Also, a prior method of aligning a template, or templates, so that they have been centered on a template holder, has involved a more time-consuming effort of attempting to center the template, or templates, on the template holder using a ruler and a straight-edge combined to assure that the template is located in the horizontal center of the template holder in order to facilitate greater uniformity of cuts and carves.
With these common methods, there have often been required more manual measuring, multiple test cuts, and fine-tuning before a cut has been accurately centered. Of course, a downside of such a system has been wasted material, more time-consuming measuring, uncertainty in the process of cutting, and this has also resulted in a final product that has frequently not been as precise as would otherwise have been desirable. This in turn has led to woodworking joints that have not been as durable and have not been as accurately-fitting as would otherwise have been desirable.
To attain the same level of precision quality joinery as the devices, systems, and methods of the present disclosure facilitating cutting of varied-size mortises would have taken longer for set-up and multiple test cuts per earlier methods for each new length of mortise, despite the significant advances taught in the aforementioned patent applications of the Applicant.
And this problem has been exacerbated, for example in the case of a production facility, where users have been required in the past to cut many mortise and tenon joints for many workpieces, even when using the same cutting bit to create varied-length mortises, again despite the teachings of the Applicant's aforementioned pending patent applications. This has been because, in the past, users have had to use more trial and error to re-position the cutting system relative to each new workpiece, or to make another same, or similar, cut on a newly positioned workpiece, regardless whether the same cutting bit has been used or not.
And though one such trial-and-error methods disclosed in prior co-pending patent applications of the Applicant involve the use of tapered templates, and even index marks on such tapered templates in order to know better where to locate the guide bearing on the template, these still have not provided the more efficient devices, systems, and methods of the present disclosure for creating different-length mortises.

Method and apparatus for preparing mortise cuts with a pantograph router


A lock-up clutch control device controls a lock-up clutch provided in a torque converter mounted between an engine and a transmission of a vehicle. The lock-up clutch control device switches between a converter state and a lock-up state by controlling a differential pressure supplied to the lock-up clutch. The lock-up clutch control device has a controller and a differential pressure generator for generating the differential pressure in response to a differential pressure command value. The controller calculates a first differential pressure command value which decreases at a predetermined rate, after the vehicle speed becomes a first predetermined speed; sets the differential pressure command value to a second differential pressure command value, before the vehicle speed becomes a second predetermined speed; and sets the differential pressure command value to a value at which the lock-up clutch is immediately released, when the vehicle speed becomes the second predetermined speed.

In a torque converter comprising a lock-up clutch, control of a differential pressure at the front and rear of the lock-up clutch (lock-up differential pressure) engages/disengages the lock-up clutch. The lock-up differential pressure is gradually raised from a predetermined initial differential pressure in order to shift the torque converter from a converter state to a lock-up state. The torque converter is shifted from the converter state to the lock-up state through a slip state. The lock-up clutch is released in the converter state, slips in the slip state, and is engaged in the lock-up state.
Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. H11-223263 published by the Japan Patent Office in 1999 discloses control of a lock-up clutch for preventing engine stalling, in which a lock-up clutch is gradually disengaged once the vehicle speed becomes a predetermined vehicle speed during deceleration.


A construction of a rear holder for a connector capable to be drawn out that comprises a connector housing, connector terminals and a rear holder accompanied with a means for pulling the rear holder out, the rear holder as a stopper for movement of the terminals being inserted into the housing from a opening behind and engaging with the housing by means of projections on the holder and holes in the upper wall of the housing, is characterised by a channel with a pit at the front bottom forming a supporter step for the means, which the means for pulling the rear holder out is easily inserted into.

1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a construction of a rear holder for a connector capable to be drawn out, which can be easily separated from a connector housing, while the holder being used in order to prevent connector terminals, which are disposed in the connector housing, to move behind.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Japanese Utility Model Laid-open No. 80773/88 discloses a construction of a rear holder for a connector, comprising of a connector housing of plastic, which accommodates connector terminals inside, and a rear holder of plastic plates which being inserted into the housing from a rear opening until to touch with rear ends of the connector terminals, and being engaged with the housing when touched with the terminals.
On the upper surface of the rear holder are arranged a pair of projections for engagements with the housing, and on the lower surface in the front part of the rear holder is formed a notched stage where the every rear part of the terminals can enter. In the upper wall in the area near the rear end of the connector housing are arranged a pair of holes for engaging with the pair of projections of the rear holder. The terminals are stopped to move behind by engagements with a flexible lance placed at the midway of the terminals in the container chamber for the terminals in the housing, and are also engaging with the rear holder to be stopped doubly.
By the construction of the prior art, a means for pulling the rear holder out, which has a shape of a bar with a tipped end, is inserted between the housing and the rear holder along the upper surface of the holder, and wrenches the upper wall of the housing in order to unfasten an engagement of one couple of the projections and the holes, when required to pull the holder out. But often fails the operation to pull the holder out because of slipping of the means or breakage in the housing by over-wrenching. Moreover often happens an unexpected failure that an engagement of one couple of the projections and the holes, which has once been unfastened, recovers to be engaged by the operation for unfastening the engagement of the another couple.

Construction of rear holder for connector capable to be drawn out


A turret type mooring for a seagoing vessel, such as an oil tanker, is disclosed. The mooring includes a fluid swivel joint which is formed in the bow of the vessel for loading and unloading oil or other fluid to or from the vessel. The mooring is disposed within a watertight compartment and can be accessed for repairs, maintenance and monitoring purposes from within the vessel so that external access beneath the waterline is not required and the mooring can be serviced without taking it or the vessel out of operation.

1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates in general to a turret type mooring system for a seagoing vessel, such as an oil tanker.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of a turret type mooring for mooring all types of vessels, especially oil tankers, is now becoming more widespread. These types of moorings are typically employed to allow oil to be pumped to and from an oil tanker off-shore, and include a fluid swivel joint which allows an oil pipe on the tanker to rotate relative to a supply or discharge pipe so that excess strain will not be imposed upon the joint by motion of the tanker relative to the mooring. In prior art moorings of this type, a turret support structure is attached externally to the bow of the vessel. As a result, all of the mechanisms of the turret mooring including the fluid swivel joints, flexible piping connections, bearings, etc. are external to the vessel and below the waterline thus making maintenance, repairs and monitoring of the turret mooring and associated equipment difficult or impossible while the mooring is in use.

Nortrans Shipping and Trading Far East PTE Ltd.


A metal racket frame includes an integrally formed hollow looped head portion with an inner peripheral wall and an outer peripheral wall that is thicker than the inner peripheral wall by about 0.1 mm to about 0.7 mm.

1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to a racket frame, more particularly to a metal racket frame which includes a hollow looped head portion with different outer and inner peripheral wall thicknesses.
2. Description of the Related Art
An ideal racket should be lightweight and is capable of providing a strong return force to a ball struck thereby. The outer appearance and the material of a metal racket frame are usually varied in order to meet these requirements.
FIG. 1 illustrates a conventional metal racket frame which includes a hollow looped head portion 1 that holds a string web 2. When a ball (not strikes the string web 2, the string web 2 applies an inward pulling force (F) on an outer peripheral wall of the head portion 1. The head portion 1 generates a counter force (E) to counteract the pulling force (F). In order to enable the head portion 1 to generate a stronger counter force (E) and further enable the racket to provide a strong return force to the ball which strikes the string web 2, the wall thickness of the head portion 1 is usually increased. An increase in the wall thickness of the head portion 1, however, results in a heavier racket. Such a racket cannot be used in international competitions because of existing weight restrictions for rackets. Furthermore, the use of heavy rackets can result in injuries to beginners.


A toy action figure includes a cape and a spring-loaded arm. The upper torso of the toy action figure includes two pivotally coupled arms. The first pivotally coupled arm is configured to retract the cape. An actuator button may be provided on the front of the torso to actuate the cape into an extended position with the assistance of a spring. The second pivotally coupled arm may include a spring-loaded arm to launch a projective therefrom.

Toy action figures have become an extremely popular and well known type of product in the toy arts. Toy action figures often resemble character-oriented heroes and villains. Common character themes for such action figures include warriors, soldiers and athletes, as well as science-fiction character themes, such as robots, cyborgs, androids and superheroes, and fantasy characters, such as wizards, gnomes and trolls. While the appearance and physical size of toy action figures may vary substantially, most toy action figures include a plastic body formed in a shape corresponding to the associated character theme. The plastic body of an action figure is often movable by joints. Many toy action figures provide additional movement features to further enhance the play value of the figure. Such movement features may include, for example, the ability to punch or kick. In many instances, accessories such shields and weapons are also provided for use in combination with toy action figures. Despite substantial success in the market place on the part of such action figures, there remains a continuing need in the art for more interesting and exciting toy action figures.


A soccer ball goal facilitates practice of kicking drills and play of a soccer ball game by a reduced number of players. The soccer ball goal comprises a hoop having a circular aperture large enough to admit passage of a soccer ball. A backboard has a front face which at least as large as the circular aperture of the hoop. A frame rigidly connects the hoop to the backboard. The frame is adapted to maintain the hoop in a position which is in front of the backboard front face, parallel to the backboard front face, and at predetermined distance from the backboard front face. A playing surface engaging means maintains the backboard substantially perpendicular to the playing surface. A ricochet board can be positioned to facilitate rebounded shots into the soccer ball goal. The ricochet board comprises a second backboard having a front face and second playing surface engaging means for maintaining said backboard substantially perpendicular to the playing surface and permitting the second backboard to be movably positioned relative to said soccer ball goal.

Soccer has long been one of the most popular sports in the world and especially in Europe and Central America. Recently, the sport has become more popular in the United States due to media coverage and children's soccer leagues which expose individuals to the sport at a young age. Regularly playing soccer is beneficial because it increases one's motor skills and provides an excellent cardiovascular workout. In addition, many individuals prefer soccer to other sports because it can be played competitively by individuals of various physical stature and presents less risk of physical injury than contact sports such as football.
The object of a soccer game is to score points by kicking a ball into an opponent's goal. Soccer goals generally comprise a framework made of two vertical uprights connected at their top by a horizontal member (called a cross bar) to define a rectangular goal opening whose longer sides are parallel to the playing surface. Scoring goals requires the ability to accurately and consistently kick the soccer ball into the soccer goal. One of the best ways to develop kicking skills is through the repetition of kicking drills.
Soccer players typically practice their kicking skills by kicking a ball into a standard soccer goal. However, the large size of a soccer goal limits number of locations where a goal can be used and makes it is difficult to transport the goal to remote locations. Practicing with a standard soccer goal is also undesirable because the goal does not provide a reduced-sized target for developing precise aiming skills.
Several devices have been developed to aid soccer players in developing their kicking skills. However, these devices typically resemble soccer goals or are used in connection with an actual soccer goal and, hence, suffer from the above-noted problems.
Another way to develop soccer skills is to play competitive soccer on a regular basis. Unfortunately, the large size of a soccer playing field makes it difficult for many individuals to regularly play soccer. In particular, the large size of a soccer field greatly limits the number of locations which can be utilized as a soccer field. As a result, many individuals do not have access to soccer facilities or they must travel a significant distance to such facilities.
The size of the soccer goal is also a factor which discourages many individuals from playing soccer on a regular basis. The goal's large size essentially makes it meaningless to play soccer unless a goalie stands guard a the goal and attempts to block shots from the opposing team. This is especially true if only two individuals want to play soccer. Even if several players are available, it still may be difficult to find someone who is willing to play goalie because the goalie is not involved in the "action" during much of the game.
The present invention is directed to overcoming one or more of the above-noted problems.
In particular, it is an object of the present invention is to provide a soccer ball goal that is portable and compact.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a soccer ball goal which is inexpensive to manufacture.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a soccer ball goal that provides a reduced target area for practicing kicking drills.
A further object of the present invention is to provide a soccer ball goal that makes practicing kicking drills more fun and more challenging.
Still a further object of the present invention is to provide a soccer ball goal that is height adjustable.
An additional object of the present invention is to provide a soccer style game that can be played with a reduced number of players.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a soccer style game that can be played by as few as two individuals.
Still another object of the present invention to provide a soccer style game that can be played without a goalie.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a soccer style game that can be played on a reduced playing field.


A media sheet tray includes a first media size sensor, a second media size sensor, a first circuit connected to the first media size sensor, a second circuit connected to the second media size sensor, and a switch within the second circuit. The switch can be in an open position disconnecting a continuity of the second circuit, or in a closed position maintaining the continuity of the second circuit. Media being within the media sheet tray closes the switch. Further, a combination of the first circuit connecting to the first media size sensor and the second circuit being discontinuous indicates that paper is absent from the media sheet tray.

Embodiments herein generally relate to printing devices and more particularly to sensing the presence of sheets of media in paper trays of printing devices.
In any media feeding system the media must be sensed as being in the tray before feeding can commence. Without a media present sensor, when the feed system tries to feed and is unable because of the lack of media, the next sensor upstream will trip and a paper jam fault will occur. This raises shut down and unscheduled maintenance request rates significantly and upsets customers, because this causes customers to look for paper jams that do not exist.
For systems that do include paper present sensors, these sensors and their dedicated wiring and circuitry add cost, and in a system where pricing is important, any cost reduction is critical. More specifically, conventional paper present sensors include a separate photo-reflective sensor, separate wiring connector, flag, and associated wiring harness and separate pins out that eventually connect to the motherboard of the processor, etc. Such additional components add cost, complexity, and material usage.

Paper present sensing for a paper tray through media size sensing board