A transfer control method of continuous paper includes controlling a transfer amount of the continuous paper based on a rotational amount detected by a roller feeding amount detecting unit which detects the rotational amount of a paper feed roller, when each page of the continuous paper is printed, and when the printing on each page is completed, performing a cueing process of transferring the continuous paper until a printing start position of a next page reaches the printing position. The cueing process includes transferring the continuous paper until the continuous paper reaches a reference transfer position based on the feeding amount of the tractor detected by a tractor feeding amount detecting unit for detecting a feeding amount of the tractor and after the continuous paper reaches the reference transfer position, setting the transfer amount of the continuous paper as a target feeding amount.

1. Technical Field
An aspect of the present disclosure relates to a printer employing a paper feed roller and a tractor as a transfer mechanism for transferring continuous paper, and more particularly, to a transfer control method of continuous paper and a printer which transfers the continuous paper with high precision.
2. Related Art
Heretofore, in printers capable of printing continuous paper with sprocket holes (engagement holes) formed on both ends thereof, a tractor and a paper feed roller are used as a transfer mechanism for transferring the continuous paper. The tractor includes tractor pins (engagement portions) which can be inserted into the sprocket holes formed along a longitudinal direction of the continuous paper, a tractor belt with the tractor pins formed on its outer circumference at certain intervals, and a drive sprocket and a driven sprocket with the tractor belt mounted therebetween. The paper feed roller is disposed between a printing position and the tractor.
A printer including a tractor and a paper feed roller is disclosed in JP-A-2011-168365. The printer disclosed in JP-A-2011-168365 transfers the continuous paper by use of the tractor as a main feed unit until a leading end of the continuous paper fed from the tractor side is delivered to the paper feed roller, and the paper feed roller as the main feed unit after the continuous paper is delivered to the paper feed roller. Using the paper feed roller as the main feed unit during printing is preferable to the high precise printing.
Further, the printer disclosed in JP-A-2011-168365 controls a transfer amount of the continuous paper by detecting a rotational amount of the paper feed roller when the paper feed roller is used as the main feed roller. If the continuous paper slips on the paper feed roller due to the increased transfer load of the continuous paper, the actual feeding amount is decreased relative to the actual feeding amount (set feeding amount) which can be calculated from the rotational amount of the paper feed roller, which creates a transfer error. Accordingly, in the printer disclosed in JP-A-2011-168365, the actual feeding amount of the continuous paper is calculated by detecting a driven amount of the tractor whenever the printing corresponding to one page is performed, and a difference between the calculated set feeding amount and the calculated actual feeding amount is calculated from the rotational amount of the paper feed roller. When the continuous paper is fed to a next page, the set feeding amount is compensated by the amount to eliminate the difference, and the rotational amount of the paper feed roller is controlled according to a compensation value.
As described in the printer disclosed in JPA-2011-168365, the transfer control method can realize the high precise printing, since the paper feed roller is used as the main feed roller during printing. Further, the transfer precision can be improved, since the feeding amount to feed the paper to the next page is compensated to eliminate the transfer error created during printing. However, the transfer control method does not consider the transfer error in a transfer section, but consider the transfer error during printing. For this reason, after the printing is completed, it is not possible to eliminate the transfer error which is created when the paper is fed to the next page. Further, since it is not possible to prevent accumulation in the transfer errors, a printing start position shift may be increased at a next page in a case where the transfer amount is high due to the many number of pages.

Transfer control method of continuous paper and printer


An infrared receiver system for a remote control ceiling fan including a connector disposed in a switch housing of a ceiling fan, an infrared detective sensor disposed in a casing which is connected to a plug by an extension cable. The plug is insertable into the connector of the switch housing for making an electrical connection between the plug and the connector. The detective sensor is located at a lower end of the casing such that the detective sensor is wide open for receiving signals in the undisturbed atmosphere below the ceiling fan.

Remove control ceiling fans have been developed in recent years. For example, as shown in FIG. 3, two or more infrared receivers B are provided in a switch housing A of a remote control ceiling fan. The receivers B are distributed on the peripheral surface of the switch housing A for improving the signal receiving ability of the ceiling fan because of the directivity of the media, such as infrared rays. But, when giving a signal directly from under the switch housing A, the receiving effectiveness is bad. However, if the infrared receiver is provided on the lower surface of the switch housing A, it could work properly of course. But, there'll be no place to hang gorgeous light kit D. In this type of remote control ceiling fan, the receiver B is one of the most expensive elements. The cost is high and the signal receiving ability is still not improved.
The present invention has arisen to mitigate and/or obviate the afore-described disadvantages of the conventional remote control ceiling fan.

Infrared receiver system for a remote control ceiling fan


A train control method and apparatus for controlling the movement of trains with high safety by detecting trains on sections of track by an electronic blocking system.

The present invention relates to a train control method and apparatus for controlling railway or monorail trains on a track by dividing the track into a plural of block sections.
In general, a railway or monorail track is divided into a plurality of block sections for control. In this case, it is necessary to detect whether or not a train is in a block section. This train detection is usually performed by a track circuit. The track circuit can detect trains in the whole track (all positions) but it is expensive.
Therefore, communication elements such as transponders are used instead of the track circuit in a slack single-track line. The transponders are placed on trains and on entrance and exit of each single-track section for communication between cab and wayside transponders. The wayside control device receives a train ID (train identifier) from the train by means of cab and wayside transponders, makes sure that the train is at the entrance of the section and the train reaches the exit, and thus identifies the single-track line that the train passed is clear.
This method of identifying that a track section is clear is called an electronic blocking system. Conventionally, the electronic blocking system has used a track circuit to detect a train in the station yard. There has been proposed a method that does not use any track circuit in the station yard, as disclosed in Japanese Application Patent Laid-Open Publication No. Hei 10-76951.
In a slack single-track line, a visual operation by the train driver is singly employed to immediately stop the train automatically for safety when the train goes through a stoplight (red light).
An inexpensive train controlling system without a track circuit can be expected by applying an electronic blocking system that detects trains on a predetermined track according to train IDs (vehicle IDs) that a wayside control device receives by means of communication elements such as transponders of a short communication range on both the track and the train to the whole comparatively densely-packed double-track line.
Specifically, this method divides railway track into a plural of block sections, places a wayside communication element in each block section, places a cab communication element on each train to communicate with said wayside communication element when said cab communication element enters a predetermined area of said wayside communication element, and controls the train by the communication of these communication elements.
However, the following problems arise in controlling trains by the communication of a wayside communication element which is placed in each block section and a cab communication element which can communicate with the wayside communication element when the cab communication element enters a predetermined range of the wayside communication element.
In a comparatively densely-packed double-track line unlike a slack track line, driver""s wrong operations such as over-speeding may increase as the operation frequency increases. Particularly in monorail ways having great track slopes and various track forms, the monorail operations are greatly dependent on drivers"" skills and to avoid wrong operations is strongly required.
There have been automatic train control (ATC) systems that automatically control the speeds of trains. The ATC continuously gives a speed limit to a train via a track circuit and automatically actuates the brake of the train for safety when the speed of the train exceeds the speed limit.
However, a train detecting system employing an electronic blocking system has no track circuit and cannot give a speed limit to the train continuously. In other words, this system can give information only at a limited point. As the speed limit changes according to track forms and the position of a preceding train, the ATC is not sufficient because the ATC gives only the fixed speed limit. This cannot assure the safe train operation.
The present invention has been made considering the above and an object of the present invention is to provide a method and apparatus of controlling trains on a track with high operation safety when detecting trains by an electronic blocking system.
The present invention is characterized by dividing the train track into a plural of block sections, placing a wayside communication element in each block section, placing a cab communication element on each train to communicate with said wayside communication element when said cab communication element enters a predetermined area of said wayside communication element, and letting a wayside control device communicate with an onboard control device through said wayside communication element and said cab communication element: wherein said wayside control device transmits the current position information and the stop position information to said onboard control device when receiving a train identifier (ID) from said onboard control device and wherein said onboard control device generates a protection speed pattern for an area between the current train position and the stop position from said current position information and said stop position information and limits the high-limit speed of said train by said protection speed pattern.
A preferred embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of storing a lot of predetermined protection speed patterns for a plurality of block sections in advance in a database constituting the onboard control device, loading a protection speed pattern for an area between the current train position and the stop position according to the current position information and the stop position information which the wayside control device transmits when the cab communication element enters a predetermined area of the wayside communication element, and limiting the limit speed of the train by the protection speed pattern.
In the present invention, the onboard control device generates a protection speed pattern for an area between the current train position and the stop position according to the current position information and the stop position information which the wayside control device transmits and limits the limit speed of the train by the protection speed pattern. This can assure highly safe operations also when detecting trains by the electronic blocking system.

Abstract: A wayside communication element (wayside transponder) 5 is placed in each block section on a track on which a train 1 runs. A cab communication element (cab transponder) 3 which can communicate with the wayside communication elements on the track is placed on the train 1. When receiving a train identifier (ID) from a train, a wayside control device transmits the current position information and the stop position information to the train. The cab communication element of the train 1 receives the current position information and the stop position information, creates a protection speed pattern between the current train position and the stop position from the received information, and limits the speed of the train 1 by the protection speed pattern.


A method for reducing noise on a power distribution network of a printed circuit board includes determining whether a given data signal may be a problematic data signal. The given data signal is issued onto a signal distribution network of the printed circuit board if the given data signal is determined to not be a problematic data signal. The given data signal is encoded into an encoded data signal if the given data signal is determined to be a problematic data signal, and the encoded data signal is issued onto the signal distribution network.

The objective of a printed circuit board (PCB) power delivery network (PDN) is to provide a stable supply voltage to the integrated circuits on the PCB. The objective of a PCB signal distribution network (SDN) or data bus is to distribute signals, which are often very high frequency switching signals, among and between the integrated circuits on the PCB. The high frequency switching signals and the current drawn by the switching devices producing those switching signals may induce noise onto the supply voltage carried by the PDN as well as devices on the PCB, such as, for example, sensors. The continuing trends of increasing IC clock and switching speeds induce higher levels of noise on the PDN, and the trend toward reduced IC supply and Input-Output (IO) voltages to increase battery life of mobile devices cause the level of noise that can be tolerated on the supply voltage to shrink. In other words, as supply voltages shrink and as clock/switching speeds increase, IC devices have reduced tolerance for noise on the supply voltage provided by the PDN.
Since the amount of noise that may be induced onto the PDN by the switching signals on the SDN is proportional to the impedance of the PDN, the worst case induced noise levels occur when the switching signals have considerable power content in a frequency that approximates the one or more resonant frequencies of the PDN, since impedance of the PDN peaks at those one or more resonant frequencies. PDN noise may also be problematic at other frequencies at which the PDN has relatively high impedance values. Decoupling capacitors may be added to reduce the degree of coupling between the PDN and the SDN over one or more target frequency bands, requiring the use of a range of values of decoupling capacitors, or the size of the power plane area may be increased, but these approaches undesirably increase the cost and form factor of the PCB.
The same numbers are used throughout the disclosure and the figures to reference like components and features. Numbers in the 100 series refer to features originally found in FIG. 1; numbers in the 200 series refer to features originally found in FIG. 2; and so on.

Method and apparatus for mitigating resonant effects within a power delivery network of a printed circuit board


A semiconductor light-emitting device includes a semiconductor stack including a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, and an active layer; a plurality of first trenches penetrating the second semiconductor layer and the active layer to expose the first semiconductor layer; a second trench penetrating the second semiconductor layer and the active layer to expose the first semiconductor layer, wherein the second trench is disposed near an outmost edge of the active layer, and surrounds the active layer and the plurality of first trenches; a patterned metal layer formed on the second semiconductor layer and formed in one of the plurality of first trenches or the second trench; and a first pad portion and a second pad portion both formed on the second semiconductor layer and electrically connecting the second semiconductor layer and the first semiconductor layer respectively.

Light-emitting diode (LED) is widely applied to optical display apparatus, traffic lights, data storage apparatus, communication apparatus, lighting apparatus, and medical equipment. As shown in FIG. 7, a conventional LED includes an n-type semiconductor layer 1104, an active layer 1106, and a p-type semiconductor layer 1108 sequentially formed on a substrate 1102. Portions of the p-type semiconductor layer 1108 and the active layer 1106 are removed to expose a portion of the n-type semiconductor layer 1104. A p-type electrode a1 and an n-type electrode a2 are formed on the p-type semiconductor layer 1108 and the n-type semiconductor layer 1104 respectively. Because the n-type electrode a2 requires a sufficient surface for following process such as wire bonding, a substantial portion of the active layer 1106 has to be removed and the light extraction efficiency is therefore lowered.
Furthermore, the LED described above can be connected with other devices to form a light-emitting apparatus. FIG. 6 illustrates a diagram of a conventional light-emitting apparatus. As shown in FIG. 6, a light-emitting apparatus 1200 includes a sub-mount 1202 having an electrical circuit 1204; a solder 1206 formed on the sub-mount 1202 to adhere the LED 1210 to the sub-mount 1202, and electrically connecting a substrate 1212 of the LED 1210 and the electrical circuit 1204 of the sub-mount 1202; and an electrical connecting structure 1208 electrical connecting an electrode 1214 of the LED 1210 and the electrical circuit 1204 of the sub-mount 1202, wherein the sub-mount 1202 can be a lead frame or a large scaled mounting substrate suitable for the design of the electrical circuit of the light-emitting apparatus and improving heat dissipation.

This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.


An apparatus for placing soil into cells has a table, biodegradable tape, a means to weave the tape forming cells, and a means to fill the cells. The weaving means has pins, boards, handles, a baseplate, a lever and a lock, a shaft and a means to mount the shaft, rollers, and clamps. The filling means has a filler, a pressure source, rails, an extruder, and a bin. In use, rolls of tape thread through a roller, pins and a clamp. Pulling the handles together forms the tape into cells to accept soil from the filling means.

1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an apparatus for placing soil into cells for use in connection with transplanting crops. The apparatus for placing soil into cells has particular utility in connection with weaving tape into a grid of cells.
2. Description of the Prior Art
An apparatus for placing soil into cells is desirable for agriculture, particularly in preparation for planting. Modern agriculture calls for the most crops per acre grown in the shortest time to maximize yields. Before reaching a kitchen, salads and vegetables start as seeds. Seeds in a field take time to germinate and sprout while exposed to insect and environmental risks. Saving time and reducing risk, modern agriculture starts vegetables in trays within a greenhouse. The vegetables occupy one-inch square cells up to two inches deep arrayed in trays. The vegetables grow in a greenhouse during the last stages of winter. Within a week of seeding, vegetables form roots strong enough for transplanting. Once the vegetables reach a vibrant seedling stage, a grower takes the seedlings from the greenhouse and transplants them into a field as soon as weather allows. Typically, the vegetables are transplanted from their cells and trays by manual or mechanized methods. The cells and trays remain behind as waste and cause additional expense in collecting them from the field.
The use of planting systems is known in the prior art. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 6,092,331 to Stoever discloses a planting container and method of making the container. However, the Stoever '331 patent does not weave tape into a grid of cells, and has further drawbacks of coiling for stability and reinforcement for durability.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,653,055 to Sunaga et al. discloses a continuously assembled set of pots for planting and transplanting seedlings. However, the Sunaga '055 patent does not form pots by weaving, and additionally does not avoid use of an adhesive.
Similarly, U.S. Pat. No. 5,573,558 to Huang discloses an automatic transplanting system that transfers seedlings from a tray to larger pots or a field. However, the Huang '558 patent does not fill cells by the tray with soil, and cannot weave tape into a grid.
Similarly, U.S. Pat. No. 4,422,990 to Armstrong et al. discloses a method and apparatus for making soil plugs. However, the Armstrong '990 patent does not form individual cells but rather whole trays, does not weave tape, and cannot mold soil without a binding resin.
Similarly, U.S. Pat. No. 4,777,763 to Shannon et al. discloses a plant growing medium made of scored fiberglass. However, the Shannon '763 patent does not use tape woven into cells, and cannot carry soil within the fibers.
While the above-described devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not describe an apparatus for placing soil into cells that allows weaving tape into a grid of cells. The Stoever '331 and Sunaga '055 patents make no provision for weaving tapes into cells. The Huang '558 patent does not fill individual cells with soil. The Armstrong '990 patent makes no provision for molding soil alone. The Shannon '763 patent makes no provision for using tape.
Therefore, a need exists for a new and improved apparatus for placing soil into cells that can be used for weaving tape into a grid of cells. In this regard, the present invention substantially fulfills this need. In this respect, the apparatus for placing soil into cells according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in doing so provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of weaving tape into a grid of cells.


Authenticated requests can be sent without requiring the requests to include or potentially expose secret information used for the authentication process. A client device use a security credential such as a key to sign a request to be sent to a recipient. When the request is received, the recipient determines whether the request was signed using the correct key for the sender. In some embodiments a client token is included with the request that statelessly encodes the key, enabling a recipient capable of decoding the client token to determine the key and compare that key to the signature of the request. The sender can store the secret information in a secure location, such as a browser security module, such that the secret information is not exposed to the browser or script executing on the client device.

Users are increasingly utilizing electronic devices and services to obtain various types of information and perform various actions. In many cases, a user will obtain security credentials that enable that user to communicate with another party over a network in a way that enables the recipient to authenticate an identity of the sender, and prevents unintended recipients from accessing information it the communications. Oftentimes, however, the security credentials are sent along with the communication. For example, a security approach using a cookie or session token typically requires that the cookie or token be sent with any request for a given session. Such an approach is not optimal in many situations, as the secure information is transmitted outside the protected environment of the user. Any party receiving the secure information, either by intercepting a communication or causing a recipient machine to forward or redirect a communication, for example, can potentially impersonate the user by including the secure information in a subsequent request.


An image processing apparatus including an acquisition unit, an extraction unit, a determination unit and an addition unit is provided. The acquisition unit acquires an image of one page from images of a plurality of pages included in one file. The extraction unit extracts color information, which is information about a color of the image of the one page acquired by the acquisition unit. The determination unit determines whether the color information extracted by the extraction unit satisfies a predetermined condition for specifying a page partition. The addition unit adds additional information, by which the page partition can be searched, to at least one of the images of the plurality of pages, when the determination unit determines that the color information satisfies the predetermined condition.

There are needs for classifying a plurality of pages included in an image file into predetermined groups (for example, titles) and thus easily searching the respective groups. Regarding this, an image processing apparatus has been suggested in which additional information is attached to a specific page of a plurality of pages included in an image file, and the specific page can be easily searched by searching the additional information. For example, according to an apparatus disclosed in related-art, a bookmark image is attached on an image of the specific page as the additional information. The apparatus searches the bookmark image to easily search the specific page. Also, according to the related-art apparatus, a user divides an original document into predetermined groups and attaches the bookmark image on each leading page. The apparatus reads each page having the bookmark image attached thereon together with the other pages, and thus, an image file including the page having the bookmark image attached thereon is generated.
When preparing the image file by using the above-described apparatus, it is necessary for the user to attach the bookmark image on the original document. Accordingly, when the number of pages on which the bookmark should be attached becomes large, a quantity of work for attaching the bookmark image also increases, an that it becomes inconvenient for the user.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method and recording medium for attaching additional information to images in an image file to faciltate searching the image file


A thermoplastic resin composition of the present invention is characterized by comprising: a thermoplastic resin containing a rubber-modified vinyl-based graft copolymer and an aromatic vinyl-based copolymer resin; zinc oxide; zinc phosphate; a surface-coated zinc oxide, of which a portion or the entirety of a surface is coated with zinc phosphate. The thermoplastic resin composition has excellent acid resistance and antibacterial properties.

Rubber-modified aromatic vinyl copolymer resins such as acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene copolymer resins (ABS resins) have good properties in terms of mechanical properties, processability, and appearance characteristics and thus are widely used as interior/exterior materials for electrical/electronic products, interior/exterior materials for automobiles, and exterior materials for construction.
In addition, a thermoplastic resin composition including such a rubber-modified aromatic vinyl copolymer resin and a molded product thereof need to have antibacterial properties when used in applications where direct or indirect physical contact occurs. In order to prepare such an antibacterial thermoplastic resin composition, it is necessary to add an antibacterial agent. As the antibacterial agent, zinc oxide is commonly used.
However, typical antibacterial agents such as zinc oxide have the disadvantage that they exhibit reduced antibacterial properties under acidic conditions and thus are useable only under limited conditions.
Therefore, there is a need for a thermoplastic resin composition having good properties in terms of both acid resistance and antibacterial properties.
The background technique of the present invention is disclosed in Korean Patent No. 10-1452020 and the like.

Thermoplastic resin composition and molded product manufactured therefrom


The invention relates to an elite event glufosinate tolerant rice plant transformed with a bar gene, such as a 35S-bar gene, where the gene is inserted into the location defined by SEQ ID [No] NO: 9 within the rice genome, and methods of making and using the glufosinate tolerant rice plant.

The phenotypic expression of a transgene in a plant is determined both by the structure of the gene itself and by its location in the plant genome. At the same time the presence of the transgene at different locations in the genome will influence the overall phenotype of the plant. The agronomically or industrially successful introduction of a commercially interesting trait in a plant by genetic manipulation can be a lengthy procedure dependent on different factors. The actual transformation and regeneration of genetically transformed plants are only the first in a series of selection steps which include extensive genetic characterization, breeding, and evaluation in field trials.
Rice production is commonly threatened by various weeds. Some of these can be highly competitive and in cases of severe infestation can result in yield loss of such magnitude that it makes the crop economically unattractive. For direct-seeded, mechanized rice cultivation typical of temperate production, both cultural practices (e.g. crop rotation, irrigation management) and herbicides are necessary to control weeds (Hill et al. 1994).
The bar gene (Thompson et al, 1987, EMBO J. 6:2519-2523; Deblock et al. 1987, EMBO J. 6:2513-2518) is a gene encoding the enzyme phosphinothricin acetyl transferase (PAT), which, when expresssed in a plant, confers resistance to the herbicidal compounds phosphinothricin (also called glufosinate) or bialaphos (see also for example U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,646,024 and 5,561,236) and salts and optical isomers thereof. Other genes encoding PAT have been described (see for example: Wohileben et al., 1988, Gene 70:25-37; EP 275,957; U.S. Pat. No. 5,276,268; U.S. Pat. No. 5,637,489; U.S. Pat. No. 5,273,894). The transformation of monocotyledonous plants by electroporation of intact tissue capable of forming compact embryogenic callus or compact embryogenic callus obtained from such tissue is described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,641,664. Herein, transformation of compact embryogenic callus of rice by electroporation of a bar gene and the regeneration of transgenic rice plants is disclosed.
Transgenic rice plants containing the gus gene with either the bar gene, or the hyg gene conferring resistance to hygromycin, obtained by the transformation of cells of immature rice embryos by bombardment with DNA-coated gold particles have been described (Christou et al, 1991: Biotechnology 9:957).
Transformation of rice with the bar gene by electroporation of aggregated suspension cells is described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,679,558.
However, the foregoing documents fail to teach or suggest the present invention.


An inverter power module: selectively applies power from a battery to a permanent magnet (PM) electric motor; and selectively provides power output by the PM electric motor for the battery. A switch, when open, prevents power flow the inverter power module from the battery, and, when closed, enables power flow between the inverter power module and the battery. An adjustment module determines an SOC adjustment based on at least one of a vehicle speed and a temperature of the battery. A maximum module receives a first maximum SOC of the battery and that determines a second maximum SOC of the battery based on the first maximum SOC and the SOC adjustment. A clutch control module disengages a clutch, decoupling the PM electric motor from a transmission, when the switch is stuck closed and an SOC of the battery is greater than the second maximum SOC.

The background description provided here is for the purpose of generally presenting the context of the disclosure. Work of the presently named inventors, to the extent it is described in this background section, as well as aspects of the description that may not otherwise qualify as prior art at the time of filing, are neither expressly nor impliedly admitted as prior art against the present disclosure.
Some types of vehicles include only an internal combustion engine that generates propulsion torque. Hybrid vehicles include both an electric motor and an internal combustion engine. Some types of hybrid vehicles utilize the electric motor and the internal combustion engine in an effort to achieve greater fuel efficiency than if only the internal combustion engine was used. Some types of hybrid vehicles utilize the electric motor and the internal combustion engine to achieve greater torque output than the internal combustion could achieve by itself.
Some example types of hybrid vehicles include parallel hybrid vehicles, series hybrid vehicles, and other types of hybrid vehicles. In a parallel hybrid vehicle, the electric motor works in parallel with the engine to combine power and range advantages of the engine with efficiency and regenerative braking advantages of electric motors. In a series hybrid vehicle, the engine drives a generator to produce electricity for the electric motor, which drives a transmission. This allows the electric motor to assume some of the power responsibilities of the engine, which may permit the use of a smaller and possibly more efficient engine.

Systems and methods for managing battery state of charge


A method includes receiving a plurality of requests from a user endpoint device associated with a first internet protocol address, where the user endpoint device is associated with a subscriber of the internet service provider network, and where each request of the plurality of requests comprises a request for a respective internet protocol address associated with a respective uniform resource locator of a respective internet content provider, extracting a pattern from the plurality of requests, using a machine learning technique, generating a network cookie that encodes the pattern, and delivering the network cookie to the user endpoint device for installation on the user endpoint device.

Many websites capture data from users who visit the websites. Typically, the websites may use algorithms and other mechanisms that estimate the user's intentions or preferences based on the user's search history, cookies, and/or user provided data. For instance, a search engine website may capture a search (e.g., a string of keywords) executed by a user and associate the search with the user's Internet Protocol (IP) address. Other websites may include embedded scripts that capture the user's data when the website is loaded on the user's user endpoint device. Still other websites may use cookies in order to remember stateful information and/or to record user browsing history.

Trusted system for providing customized content to internet service provider subscribers


High strength polyethylene yarns useful in ballistic-resistant, cut-resistant and other applications, fabrics produced from these yarns and the methods by which the yarns,and fabrics are made. An untwisted yarn of the invention comprises a plurality of filaments in essentially parallel array and from about 0.5 to 5 weight percent of a water-dispersible binder material covering less than half the surfaces of the filaments. The yarn has a tenacity greater than about 17 g/d, a tensile modulus greater than about 300 g/d, fewer than 20 entanglements/meter in a scoured state and a width less than given by the formula

1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to improved, high strength polyethylene yarns useful in ballistic-resistant, cut-resistant and other applications, fabrics produced from these yarns and the methods by which the yarns and fabrics are made.
2. Description of the Related Art
Among the requirements that protective clothing such as personal body armor, chain saw chaps, and others must meet, in addition to ballistic-resistance and/or cut resistance, are comfort and flexibility. Multiple layers of woven fabrics consisting of high strength and high modulus fibers are commonly used in such protective clothing.
The preparation of high strength, polyethylene filaments and/or multi-filament yarns has been described for example in U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,411,854, 4,413,110, 4,422,993, 4,430,383, 4,436,689, 4,455,273, 4,536,536, 4,545,950, 4,551,296, 4,584,347, 4,663,101, 5,248,471, 5,578,374, 5,736,244, 5,741,451, 5,972,498 and 6,448,359 B1. Ballistic-resistant articles prepared from such high strength polyethylene filaments have been described for example in U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,403,012, 4,457,985, 4,623,574, 4,650,710, 4,737,401, 4,737,402, 4,748,064, 4,883,700, 4,916,000, 5,061,545, 5,160,776, 5,167,876, 5,175,040, 5,187,023, 5,196,252, 5,343,796, 5,376,426, 5,440,965, 5,480,706, 5,677,029, 5,788,907, 5,804,015, 5,958,804, 6,003,424, and 6,276,254 B1.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,403,012 indicates that the fibers may be formed into a fabric by any of a variety of conventional techniques. U.S. Pat. No. 4,737,401 broadly indicates that plain woven, basket woven, satin and crow feet woven fabrics, etc., can be made from high strength polyethylene filaments. However, to efficiently use conventional weaving equipment, the yarns to be woven must have some minimum degree of yarn coherence to avoid snags and wild loops which effect fabric quality and may stop the loom. Weaving is also enhanced when the yarn to be woven is essentially round in cross-section and does not flatten when passing over guides. On the other hand, for maximum ballistic-effectiveness it is desirable that the yarns in woven fabrics are flat and are spread out into thin layers.
Methods to achieve yarn coherence have included twisting, jet entanglement, and application of sizing material. Twisting improves the roundness of yarn bundles but it is known that twisting reduces the ballistic effectiveness of fabrics produced from these yarns. This may be in part because twisting induces stress in the yarns and in part because twisting prevents the woven yarns from spreading into thin layers.
Air jet entanglement of yarn filaments as taught, for example, by U.S. Pat. No. 5,579,628, provides yarn coherence and improves ballistic-resistance as compared to twisted yarns. However, air jet entanglement may also damage the yarn and is an expensive process in both capital costs for air compressors and in operating costs for energy consumption.
Sizing of a plain weave fabric made from untwisted high strength polyethylene filaments with polyvinyl alcohol has previously been described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,737,401. A process that covered virtually all yarn surfaces of synthetic filament yarns with sizing has been described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,858,287.
Each of the methods and yarns cited above represented improvements in the state of their respective arts. Nevertheless, none described the specific constructions of the yarns and fabrics of this invention and the methods by which they are achieved.
The invention is an untwisted polyethylene yarn comprising: a plurality of filaments in essentially parallel array and from about 0.5 to 5 weight percent of a water-dispersible binder material covering less than half the surfaces of said filaments. The yarn has a tenacity greater than about 17 grams/denier (g/d) and a tensile modulus (modulus of elasticity) greater than about 300 g/d as measured by. ASTM D2256, fewer than 20 entanglements/meter in a scoured state and has a width satisfying the following formula
Wxe2x89xa60.055{square root over (d)}
where W is the yarn width in millimeters under a tensile load of 0.01 grams per denier measured on a flat surface, and d is the yarn denier. The requirement for the yarn width expressed by the above formula insures sufficient yarn roundness for good weaving capability.
The invention is also a protective fabric comprising in majority portion the yarn described above.
The invention is also an improvement to a process for the preparation of untwisted polyethylene yarns comprising a plurality of essentially parallel filaments, said yarns having a tenacity greater than about 17 g/d, a modulus greater than about 300 g/d, and fewer than 20 entanglements/meter. The improvement comprises applying about 0.5 to 5 wt. % of a water-dispersible binder material so as to cover less than half the surfaces of the filaments during a last drawing step under a tension greater than about 2 grams/denier (g/d).
The invention is also an improvement to a process for the preparation of a very low creep, ultra high modulus, low shrink, high tenacity polyethylene multiple filament yarn, comprising:
a) drawing a high molecular weight polyethylene yarn at a temperature within 10xc2x0 C. of its melting temperature to form a drawn, highly oriented polyethylene yarn;
b) then poststretching the yarn at a drawing rate of less than about 1 secondxe2x88x921 at a temperature within 10xc2x0 C. of its melting temperature, and cooling the yarn under tension sufficient to retain its highly oriented state.
The improvement comprises applying to the yarn about 0.5 to 5 wt. % of a water-dispersible binder material so as to cover less than half the surfaces of the filaments during one of drawing step a) or poststretching step b) under a tension greater than about 2 grams/denier.
The invention is also a process for the preparation of a protective fabric comprising the steps of: weaving a fabric comprising in majority portion the yarn described above; scouring the fabric to remove the water-dispersible binder material and flattening the yarn.

Abstract: Wxe2x89xa60.055{square root over (d)}

Abstract: where W is the yarn width in millimeters under a tensile load of 0.01 g/d measured on a flat surface and d is the yarn denier.


An output buffer of a source driver is disclosed. The output buffer includes a buffer input, a buffer output, a differential input stage, a bias current source, an output stage, a compensation capacitor, and a comparator. The output stage and the comparator are both operated between an analog supply voltage (AVDD) and a half analog supply voltage (HAVDD), or both operated between the half analog supply voltage (HAVDD) and a ground voltage. The comparator compares an input signal with an output signal and outputs a control signal to the bias current source according to the compared result.

1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to driving circuit; in particular, to an output buffer applied in a source driver of a liquid crystal display.
2. Description of the Prior Art
In recent years, with the continuous progress of display technology, various types of display apparatuses, such as a LCD display and a plasma display, are shown in the market. Because the volume of the LCD display is much smaller the conventional CRT display, the LCD display using smaller desk space is convenient for the people in modern life.
In general, the driving apparatus of the TFT-LCD display mainly includes a source driving circuit and a gate driving circuit. For the TFT-LCD display having high quality, high resolution, and low power consumption, the source driving circuit plays a very important role. Please refer to FIG. 1. FIG. 1 illustrates a schematic diagram of a circuit structure of a conventional source driver.
As shown in FIG. 1, the source driver 1 includes a receiver 10, a data register 12, a bi-directional shift register 14, a line latch 16, a level shifter 18, a digital-to-analog converter 20, and an output buffer 22. The main power domain of the source driver 1 includes digital power sources VDD, VSS and analog power sources AVDD, HAVDD, AGND. In general, a plurality of output channels Y1˜Yn of the source driver 1 can be divided into the even output channels and the odd output channels. If the output voltages of the even output channels are higher than HAVDD, the output voltages of the add output channels will be lower than HAVDD, and vice versa. This half analog power source structure of the TFT-LCD display can achieve the effect of saving system power consumption.
The output buffer 22 of the source driver 1 is usually realized by an operational amplifier (OPAMP). For the source driver 1 of the TFT-LCD display, its visual performance is determined by the operational amplifier, especially the slew rate which is important to the TFT-LCD display applied in the high frame rate application.
Please refer to FIG. 2. FIG. 2 illustrates a circuit diagram of a conventional operational amplifier POS with positive polarity operated under a half analog power source. As shown in FIG. 2, the circuit of the operational amplifier POS includes a differential input stage DIS, bias current sources IBSP and IBSN, an output stage OS, a compensation capacitor Cc, and a comparator CP. Because the operational amplifier POS with positive polarity is operated under the half analog power source, its input signal Vin—POS, output signal Vout—POS, and output stage OS have operation voltages between AVDD and HAVDD, and the comparator CP has an operation voltage between AVDD and AGND. And, the comparator CP can be realized by a cascading source follower, as shown in FIG. 3.
As shown in FIG. 3, because the swing level of the input signal and output signal, the NMOS transistor MN1 will suffer body effect more serious than the PMOS transistor MP1 and its threshold voltage will become larger. Therefore, the NMOS source follower will become less sensitive, and the response of the control signal Ctrl_P will be slower than the control signal Ctrl_N to cause the slew rate of output driving and sinking become unbalanced, and the visual performance of the TFT-LCD display will be seriously affected.
Therefore, the invention provides an output buffer applied in a source driver of a liquid crystal display to solve the above-mentioned problems occurred in the prior arts.


In an integrated management database system having a plurality of element databases holding the configuration information about an information system and an integrated database for integrally managing the element databases, an element database which cannot return a reply while maintaining a secure state in response to an update request is not informed of the update request in the first phase of a two-phase commit, thereby attaining synchronization when data is updated, and maintaining the consistency of the data in the system.

Generally, when data is updated in a distributed database, it is necessary to perform the synchronization between a master site database and a slave site database and maintain the consistency of data between the sites. In the distributed database, the synchronization in the data update is performed in a scheme called a two-phase commit.
In the two-phase commit, the commit control is performed separately in the first phase and the second phase.
In the first phase, the master site database transmits an update request to the slave site database. In the second phase, the master site database receives a response about the updatability from the slave site database, determines commit or abort based on the response, and notifies the slave site of the determination result. In the slave site, commit or rollback is executed based on the determination result received from the master site. In the two-phase commit, it is required that the slave site database maintains the "secure state" in which both commit and rollback can be performed while data can be updated from when an update request is received to when the determination result is reported.
FIG. 12 is a schematic diagram illustrating the method in a first phase of the two-phase commit in a general distributed database. In FIG. 12, the master site database is an integrated database 1001, and the slave site database is an element database 1002 (1002-1, 1002-2).
As illustrated in FIG. 12, in the first phase, the integrated database 1001 first notifies the element databases 1002-1 and 1002-2 of an update request, and inquires whether commit can be performed (FIG. 12(A)). The element database 1002-1 prepares for an update, and returns a response of "request for commit" to the integrated database 1001 while maintaining the secure state, if the update can be performed. The element database 1002-2 returns a response of "request for rollback" to the integrated database 1001 if the update cannot be performed.
In the second phase, the integrated database 1001 determines commit or rollback depending on the response from the element database 1002. In the determination, rollback is selected if there is any rollback response returned. The integrated database 1001 notifies the element database 1002 of the determination result. The element database performs commit or rollback process according to the notification from the integrated database 1001. In the case of the example in FIG. 12, the integrated database 1001 determines the rollback, and notifies the element databases 1002-1 and 1002-2 of the rollback. Upon receipt of the notification, the element databases 1002-1 and 1002-2 perform the rollback process.
Thus, in a general distributed database, the consistency of data held in each site is to be maintained by performing the synchronization between the master site database and the slave site database by the two-phase commit when data is updated.
However, in an FCMDB (Federated Configuration Management Database) system in which the configuration information about an IT system (information technology) is virtually and integrally managed, the two-phase commit cannot be applied.
The FCMDB system is described below. The FCMDB system is a database system in accordance with an ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library). FIG. 13 illustrates the entire configuration of the FCMDB system.
An FCMDB system 10 is a distributed database system having a plurality of MDRs (Management Data Repositories) 12 (MDR1, MDR2, . . . , and MDRn) and an FCMDB 11 which virtually integrates the MDRs 12. Each of the MDRs 12 is a CMDB (Configuration Management Database) which manages a large amount of CIs (Configuration Items) and associates the CIs with each other. The FCMDB 11 itself is also a CMDB. In the CMDB, the CI is implemented as the configuration information (attribute information) about the resource configuring the IT system. The CMDB manages the CIs as associated with each other, and the association is referred to as a relationship.
FIG. 14 is an example of the distribution of the configuration information about the same resources in the FCMDB system.
In the FCMDB system, the configuration information of the same resources may be doubly registered in a plurality of MDRs. In the FCMDB system 10 illustrated in FIG. 14, the configuration information about the server A is registered in an MDR 12-1 (MDR1) and an MDR 12-2 (MDR2). The MDR 12-1 manages the information about a CPU (central processing unit) 31, memory 32, and a power supply (@power) 33 as the configuration information about a server 30 (A). The MDR 12-2 manages the information about the CPU 31, an HDD (hard disk device) 34, and the power supply 33 as the configuration information about the server A. Therefore, in this example, the CPU 31 and the power supply 33 in the components of the server A are doubly registered in the MDRs 12-1 and 12-2. In this example, the server 30, the CPU 31, the memory 32, and the HDD 34 are respective CIs.
Upon receiving the information register request from the MDR 12, the FCMDB 11 manages the configuration information about the resources. The FCMDB 11 manages not only the contents (for example, "value") but may also manage only the position information (pointer). The FCMDB 11 (1) determines whether or not there is an item that is doubly managed, (2) determines whether or not the information managed by a specific MDR 12 is to be held as the "primary information" about the item if there is a doubly managed item, and (3) holds the meta-information about which MDR 12 is a primary MDR (that manages the primary information) and which MDR 12 is a secondary MDR (that manages the secondary information), for each item of the resources managed by the MDRs 12-1 and 12-2.
What reads the information from the FCMDB system 10 and uses the information is called a "client". There is a data provider behind the MDR 12 to input data to the MDR 12. It is a typical operation management middleware. Operation management middleware reads data managed on a report, and detects and monitors an actual management target machine over a network.
As illustrated in the schematic diagram in FIG. 14, there are a plurality of MDRs which hold the configuration information about the same resources in the FCMDB system. Therefore, when there is an update request from an MDR to an FCMDB for the configuration information about a resource, it is necessary to also update the configuration information in other MDR which holds the configuration information about the resource. When the update is synchronously performed, the two-phase commit cannot be used in the FCMDB system because not all MDRs consider the participation in the distributed database in the FCMDB system. Therefore, the following problems (1) and (2) occur.
(1) There is an MDR which cannot return a response to the update request from the FCMDB while maintaining the secure state. This problem is caused by the fact that the FCMDB system is not an organized environment such as a distributed database etc., but a group of existing data storage (which may not be databases). Therefore, in the FCMDB system, there is an MDR in the FCMDB system which cannot securely check the updatability (if a response is prioritized, data is updated in a state where rollback is disabled, and on the other hand, the data update process cannot be started and no response can be returned if the secure state is prioritized).
(2) At the update request from the FCMDB, a response of the MDR may be severely delayed. This problem is caused by the fact that there may be a determination of a human in the response of the MDR. In the case of the two-phase commit, a reply to an update request is awaited for a specified time or longer, and when the time passes, it is determined that the participant who has transmitted the update request is in an abnormal state. However, it is not preferable to wait for the reply as described above because it reduces the performance of the entire system.
FIG. 15 is a schematic diagram illustrating the factor of inapplicability of the two-phase commit to the information update (data update) of MDR in the FCMDB system.
In the first phase of the two-phase commit, the FCMDB 11 inquires of the MDRs 12-1 and 12-2 whether or not the update can be performed (FIG. 15(A)). In this example, as illustrated in FIG. 15(B), when the update request is received from the FCMDB 11, the MDR 12-1 is in an insecure state (corresponding to the reason (1) above). Therefore, the MDR 12-1 returns to the FCMDB 11 a response that represents "the update has been performed, and the information cannot be restored". The MDR 12-2 requires an operation of a user in updating information, and it takes a long time to return a response to the FCMDB 11 (corresponding to the reason (2) above).
As described above, the two-phase commit cannot be used in the synchronization of the data (information) update in the FCMDB system.
In the general distributed database, an invention of a method of shortening the processing time for data update by the two-phase commit is known (Patent Document 1). Patent Document 1: Japanese Laid-open Patent Publication No. 6-119227

Method and system for data update synchronization by two-phase commit


Methods and apparatus for providing an enhanced EPG or EPG banner are described. A method of displaying first and second audiovisual content, the first audiovisual content comprising a current program and the second audiovisual content comprising audiovisual content relating to a future program according to a program broadcast schedule, the method comprising receiving the first audiovisual content at a media playback device, receiving the second audiovisual content at the media playback device from a remote content system over a packet-based data network, in response to user input, outputting the first and second audiovisual content to an output device having a screen, and controlling the screen of the output device to display the first and second audiovisual content concurrently. A method of controlling a screen, the display being operable in different modes according to whether a PiP window is shown, and whether currently broadcast or future content is shown.

Modern broadcast media content such as TV programs that are broadcast over a satellite network is often provided with an EPG (Electronic Program Guide) so that users may browse content listings. The EPG or a reduced version of an EPG (such as a channel navigation or EPG banner) can be made available to view on a part of a screen while a first piece of media content such as a TV program continues to play on the rest of the screen. The EPG content may also be provided on a bespoke EPG content channel, separate to the channels used to broadcast program content.
An example of an EPG banner function is shown in FIG. 1. A screen or monitor 1 of an output device shows a current program 2, which has been received by a media playback device, such as a STB (set-top-box) from a satellite or cable network for example and relayed to the monitor 1. At the request of a user, operating an appropriate button on a remote control, an EPG banner 4 is additionally displayed on the screen while the current program 2 is still being shown. The EPG banner displays textual information about current and future programs. A user may, by using the remote control, navigate through the channels to determine what program content is currently being broadcast, as well as navigate through future time slots for program content scheduled for transmission. Using further buttons on the remote control, a current program may be selected for viewing, in which case the current program displayed on the monitor is updated, or a current or future program can be selected for recording.
However, the information provided to a user by an EPG banner in this way is very limited, and it may be difficult for users to appreciate the nature of the displayed programs simply by assimilating information provided in textual form. We have therefore appreciated that it would be advantageous to provide an enhanced EPG or EPG banner, facilitating clearer navigation of both currently broadcast programs and for future programs.


Provided is a display device in which a panel module can be fixed to a front cabinet without using screws, and when performing maintenance, the panel module can be easily removed from the front cabinet.

A display device such as a television receiver includes a panel module having a display surface displaying an image on a front side thereof, a front cabinet surrounding a peripheral edge part of the panel module, and a back cabinet covering a back side of the panel module. A conventional display device has a problem that the number of assembly work processes increases because the panel module and the front cabinet are fixed by using screws.
Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2009-42537 discloses a display device for solving the above-mentioned problem. The display device according to Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2009-42537 is provided with a plurality of flexible pawl hooks protruded backward from an outer peripheral part of the front cabinet and fixes the front cabinet to the panel module by the pawl hooks.

Abstract: The display device including a panel module having a display surface on the front side thereof, a front cabinet surrounding a peripheral edge part of the panel module, and a back cabinet covering a back side of the panel module includes a flexible hook part protruded toward the back cabinet from the inner surface of the front cabinet, and an L-shaped fixing member which has an L shape and includes a latch plate having a hole part in which the flexible hook part is latched and a contact plate which contacts with a back surface of the panel module so as to fix the front cabinet to the panel module.


Information technology infrastructure comprises a computing environment shared by multiple tenants of a service provider, and a secure assessment environment separate from the shared computing environment. An evidence collection module associated with the shared computing environment collects compliance evidence from the shared computing environment for storage in the secure assessment environment. A tenant assessment interface to the secure assessment environment is provided, through which the tenants can access the compliance evidence as stored in the secure assessment environment in a manner that does not undermine security of the shared computing environment. The compliance evidence may include, for example, information sufficient to allow a tenant to verify that the shared computing environment is configured in accordance with a specified security policy. In an illustrative embodiment, the information technology infrastructure comprises cloud infrastructure of a cloud service provider and the shared computing environment comprises a cloud computing environment.

An increasing number of companies and other enterprises are reducing their costs by migrating portions of their information technology infrastructure to cloud service providers. For example, virtual data centers and other types of systems comprising distributed virtual infrastructure are coming into widespread use. Commercially available virtualization software such as VMware® vSphere™ may be used by cloud service providers to build a variety of different types of virtual infrastructure, including private and public cloud computing and storage systems, which may be distributed across hundreds of interconnected computers, storage devices and other physical machines. Typical cloud service offerings include, for example, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).
In cloud-based information processing system arrangements of the type described above, enterprises in effect become tenants of the cloud service providers. However, by relinquishing control over their information technology resources, these cloud tenants expose themselves to additional potential security threats. As one illustration, a given tenant may be inadvertently sharing physical hardware resources of a cloud computing environment with other tenants that could be competitors or attackers. Similar issues arise in other types of information processing systems in which computing environments are shared by multiple tenants.
It is therefore important for the tenants to be able to verify that the service provider is complying with appropriate security policies. For example, the tenants would generally like to be able to verify that cloud infrastructure has been configured securely, i.e. that it has been appropriately "hardened" against intrusion or unauthorized usage. This may include verifying that desired or required technical security controls and specific system configuration settings are present and operating.
The typical conventional approach to performing security hardening assessments on information technology infrastructure requires that the relying party be provided with direct, privileged access to all of the relevant hardware and software resources. This presents a number of practical challenges that make it infeasible in a cloud computing environment, where any one tenant is usually utilizing a small, arbitrary subset of the complete computing resources that are operated by the service provider. For security reasons, it would be highly unlikely for a tenant to be given the required level of direct, privileged access needed to test or otherwise assess the entire cloud computing infrastructure. Granting this level of direct, privileged access to any one tenant would not only pose a security risk to the other tenants, it would also violate the security of the service provider.

Secure tenant assessment of information technology infrastructure


Provided is an active energy ray-curable inkjet ink comprising a pigment and polymerizable monomers that is superior in nozzle ejection stability, adhesiveness to recording medium and storage stability, wherein the polymerizable monomers comprise N-acryloyloxyethyl hexahydrophthalimide.

Conventionally, as favorable water-resistant inkjet inks, inkjet inks of an oil soluble dyestuff dispersed or dissolved in a high-boiling solvent and those of an oil soluble dyestuff dissolved in a volatile solvent have been known. However, dyes are inferior in stability such as light stability comparing to pigments. Therefore, there was a demand for an ink containing a pigment as the colorant. However, it was difficult to stably disperse a pigment in an organic solvent and to assure stable dispersion and ejection. On the other hand, it was difficult to dry inks containing a high-boiling solvent by vaporization because the solvent is less volatile, and thus, such an ink could not be printed on a non-absorptive substrate.
An ink containing a volatile organic solvent can be favorably printed on a non-absorptive substrate, depending on the adhesiveness of the resin and the volatility of the solvent. However, the head nozzle face was dried very quickly due to the vaporization of the solvent, which requires frequent maintenance. In addition, an ink should be re-dissolved in solvent, and thus, the solvent resistance of the printing was insufficient in some cases.
In order to satisfy the above properties, inks containing non-volatile monomers that prevent the head from drying and are cured by irradiation of an active-energy ray were also used. Such active energy ray-curable inkjet inks are disclosed in Patent Documents 1 to 7, but none of the inks were practical enough, from the points of substrate adhesiveness, pigment dispersion, ejection stability, and storage stability.    Patent Document 1: Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 5-214280    Patent Document 2: Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 9-183929    Patent Document 3: Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2002-167537    Patent Document 4: Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2004-518787    Patent Document 5: Japanese Patent No. 3619778    Patent Document 6: Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2004-175906    Patent Document 7: Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2004-182808

Active energy ray-curable inkjet ink composition


An elevator guide having a base attached to an elevator component, a guide riding along a portion of a rail and a spring biasing the guide in contact with the rail. The guide includes one or more of the following: (i) a guide support member operably associated with the guide for movably supporting the guide so that the guide can move toward and away from a corresponding surface of the rail member wherein the guide support member has a plurality of spring engagement sections configured to vary a system effective spring rate; (ii) a roller including a non-metallic rim molded about a bearing; (iii) two independently adjustable stops and, (iv) an opening adjustment member mounted about a notch in the base to vary the distance between the base and the rail. The opening adjustment member has a width and/or depth greater than a width and/or depth of the notch.

Elevator guides typically guide movement of a component (e.g., an elevator car or a counterweight) along a pair of opposing elevator guide rails located in a shaft or hoist way of a building structure. It is customary to employ a plurality of elevator guides to guide movement of the component along the elevator guide rails as the component moves in a shaft or hoist way of a building structure. Typically, two of the elevator guides are secured to the upper portion of the component in such a manner as to engage the corresponding elevator guide rails and two elevator guides are secured to the lower portion of the component to engage the corresponding guide rails. Typically, elevator guides have a plurality of rollers/wheels or other guide components that engage and travel along the corresponding elevator guide rail.
Springs are typically used to control movement of a roller or other guide member. Known systems/methods used to alter the spring rate of an elevator guide require replacement of the spring or require an additional component or components connected to the spring to vary the spring rate of the spring. This is undesirable as the spring must be changed or additional components are required.
Existing elevator guides having two stops that control movement of a roller or other guide away from an elevator guide rail are extremely limited as neither of the two stops can be independently adjustable. Rather, adjustment of one stop causes or results in adjustment of the other stop. This design is undesirable and unnecessarily limited.
Elevator guides having rollers/wheels typically include a roller/wheel having a metallic rim for receiving a tread of the roller/wheel. This design precludes the roller/wheel from being manufactured in a cost-effective manner. Further, this design complicates the manufacturing process considerably. Moreover, this design increases the weight of the elevator guide and can adversely impact ride quality.
Known elevator guides that include a member to vary the spacing between a notch or opening in the front face of the base of the elevator guide and a corresponding portion of an elevator guide rail require a member which is inserted into and covers the faces of the notch or opening in the front face of the base. These known designs are inferior as the connection to the base is inadequate/inferior. Further, as in the present invention, if alignment scores/notches/slots/recesses/indicia or other alignment members are provided or formed in one or more of the vertical faces of the notch or opening of the base to properly align the elevator guide to a corresponding elevator rail, the insert will obstruct the alignment members.
Typically, each elevator guide includes three or six rollers/wheels or other guide members. The present invention is not limited to elevator guides having a particular number of rollers/wheels or other guide members. Rather, the present invention can be used in elevator guides having differing numbers of rollers/wheels or other guide components.


Devices and methods are provided for using an identity-aware proxy to filter transmissions for virtual networks. The device may receive an encrypted application programming interface (API) call from a second device, wherein the encrypted API call is associated with a remote network resource, and wherein the device is included in a remote network which includes the remote network resource. The device may determine, based on the encrypted API call, an account associated with the remote network resource. The device may determine that the account is not authorized to access the remote network resource using the remote network. The device may send an error notification to the second device.

Devices may access services hosted by a remote network by using virtual networks dedicated to an account with the remote network. When devices use an account to call computer resources for the services on the remote network, the virtual network may not be able to determine whether the account is authorized to access the resources from the remote network using the virtual network. The virtual network may be limited to identifying that traffic associated with the call to the computer resources is destined somewhere within the remote network, and may require compromising encryption security to inspect whether the call to the computer resources was made by a user with an account authorized to operate using the virtual network.
Certain implementations will now be described more fully below with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which various implementations and/or aspects are shown. However, various aspects may be implemented in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the implementations set forth herein; rather, these implementations are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the disclosure to those skilled in the art. Like numbers in the figures refer to like elements throughout. Hence, if a feature is used across several drawings, the number used to identify the feature in the drawing where the feature first appeared will be used in later drawings.

Identity-aware filtering proxy for virtual networks


An LED display device includes a first scan switching element between a data line and a first node, a first voltage transfer switching element between a first drive voltage line and the first node, a first detection switching element between second and third nodes, a first driving switching element between the first drive voltage line and the third node, a first emission control switching element between the third node and a first LED, a second scan switching element between the data line and the second node, a second voltage transfer switching element between the first drive voltage line and the second node, a second detection switching element between the first node and a fourth node, a second driving switching element, a second emission control switching element between the fourth node and a second LED, and a common capacitor between the first node and the second node.

1. Field of the Disclosure
The present disclosure relates to a light emitting diode (LED) display device, and, more particularly, to an LED display device in which two pixels share one common capacitor, to reduce the area occupied by each pixel, thereby being capable of facilitating manufacture of a display panel having high resolution and high definition.
2. Discussion of the Related Art
Pixels of an LED display device each includes a driving switching element, which is a current regulating element. The current driving capability of such a driving switching element is greatly influenced by the threshold voltage of the driving switching element. For this reason, it is important to correct current driving capability deviation among driving switching elements of pixels, for an enhancement in picture quality of the display device. For such a function, a large number of switching elements and a large number of capacitors should be formed at each pixel. As a result, pixel size is inevitably increased. This causes many restrictions in manufacturing a panel having high resolution.


A beverage press is described which includes a pressure-activated valve in a pressurized brewing chamber. The pressure-activated valve opens when pressure within the chamber rises above a cracking pressure. A filter in the brewing chamber may filter out solids while passing liquids out of the pressure-activated valve. In some embodiments, a high-pressure beverage filter assembly is disclosed which is configured to mate to a beverage press. Also disclosed is an integrated beverage press incorporating a high-pressure beverage filter assembly and features of a beverage press in a single unit.

A coffee or tea filtering press includes a hollow cylinder having top and bottom openings, a perforated removable cap which encloses the bottom opening, a removable piston which is inserted into said top opening and pressed downward to force liquid in the cylinder through the perforated cap, and a support to hold the press above the mouth of an open vessel.

Beverage press and pressure-activated filter assembly


The invention provides an inexpensive synthesis process for preparation of diethynylbenzene monomers that are useful in the preparation of polyacetylenes. This process provides for the preparation of thermally sensitive monomers in a one-pot reaction using readily available materials at low temperatures in an environment capable of absorbing large amounts of energy. Divinylbenzene is first brominated and then dehydrobrominated with sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide preferably in the presence of a phase transfer agent followed by distillation to recover the diethylnylbenzene product.

It is known that ethynylbenzenes may be produced by means of a sequence of halogenation and dehydrohalogenation reactions. For example, phenylacetylene may be prepared by the addition of bromine to styrene to produce .alpha.,.beta.-dibromoethyl benzene followed by the removal of two molecules of hydrogen bromide from the dibromo compound by treatment with an alkali. A modification of this procedure involves the bromination of ethylbenzene. For example, the bromination of diethylbenzene followed by dehydrobromination with sodium hydroxide produced diethynylbenzene monomers. This process suffers from the disadvantage that more than twice as much bromine is required as in the present invention and half of that excess evolves as HBr that has to be recovered in addition to the bromide generated in the dehydrobromination step.
In U.S. Pat. No. 4,120,909 while ethynylbenzenes were prepared from methyl phenyl ketones, it was stated that a similar procedure could be used to prepare meta or para diethynylbenzene from the corresponding divinylbenzene or diethylbenzene as the starting material. However, these halogenation-dehydrohalogenation processes have been described as expensive, complicated and giving comparatively low yields of the desired products.
Some processes used chloroform as the solvent which, as a suspected carcinogen, is now all but banned from use in commercial processes. For example, A. S. Hay, in Volume 25 of the Journal of Organic Chemistry at page 637 (1960), disclosed a process for brominating commercial divinylbenzene in chloroform with the separation of its various components via molecular distillation. Molecular distillation is not a practical procedure for commercial applications and the use of chloroform presents environmental problems in the workplace.
N. N. Lebedev, et al. in 84 Chem. Abstracts 105109e (1976) discloses the use of "technical" divinylbenzene (52% of a mixture of meta and para divinylbenzene and 34% of a mixture of meta and para ethylstyrene) as a starting material. Chlorine in dimethyl formamide was used to halogenate the monomer, and potassium hydroxide in isopropanol was used to convert the chlorinated intermediate into diethynylbenzene, which was obtained in 45% yield. In the present invention, the use of a high purity grade of divinylbenzene (about 78% pure) is taught, with a much higher yield of diethynylbenzene.
More recently, Neenan et al. in Vol. 53, Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2489 (1988) discloses the reaction of 1,3-dibromobenzene with trimethylsilylacetylene (TMSA) using dichlorobis(benzonitrile)palladium, triphenylphosphine, and copper (I) iodide as catalyst. Their initial attempt to distill the diethynylbenzene by this method resulted in an exothermic reaction and an explosion. Therefore, it was stated that these compounds should be distilled at high vacuum and at temperatures of less than 60.degree. C. in well-shielded equipment. They note that the absence of an inexpensive route to produce the diethynylbenzene monomers has discouraged the full development of polyacetylenic aromatic compounds.
Polyarylacetylene resins have been the subject of extensive research leading to numerous patents because of their excellent properties. They are capable of being molded with little or no evolution of volatiles and can be cured simply by heating. They have good electrical properties and are stable to high temperatures. Furthermore, because of the high carbon yields produced upon their pyrolysis (85-90%) they are excellent precursors for carbon-carbon composites in ablative applications. For these reasons and others as well, resins of this type have been the object of investigation for many years. Attempts have been made to develop these resins as commercial materials, mainly by the General Electric Company and by Hercules Incorporated. However, their full commercial development has been discouraged by the absence of an inexpensive, safe route to the diethynylbenzene monomers as noted in the 1988 article by Neenan.
Now for the first time, an improved, inexpensive synthesis process for preparation of such diethynylbenzene monomers is provided. This process provides for the preparation of the thermally sensitive monomers in a one pot reaction using readily available materials at low temperatures in an environment capable of absorbing large amounts of energy. It further provides a process that produces a high yield of product with a significantly reduced requirement for bromine in the bromination phase of the process. In the present invention, divinylbenzene is first brominated and then dehydrobrominated, followed by distillation to recover the diethynylbenzene product. More specifically, a brominated divinylbenzene product is produced by continuously and simultaneously combining mixed isomers of divinylbenzene and bromine in a sulfolane solution wherein said divinylbenzene is present in a concentration not exceeding 5 percent by weight, wherein the temperature is between 0.degree.-50.degree. C., and wherein sufficient bromine is added to the reaction mixture to react with all olefinic unsaturation of the divinylbenzene. The quantity of bromine is not to be more than 10 percent more than an amount necessary to react with all of said olefinic unsaturations and the total amount of divinylbenzene added to the reaction mixture is between 20-50 percent by weight of the sulfolane solvent. The next step is to react the treated brominated divinylbenzene product with a dehydrobromination caustic agent such as sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide. An excess of the agent is added to total about 50-250 mole % more than the amount required to remove all organically bound bromine from the brominated divinylbenzene product as a corresponding halide salt. The caustic agent is added at a rate that maintains the temperature of the solution in the range of from about 20.degree.-50.degree. C. Addition of the caustic agent is continued until the excess of the agent is present and then the reaction with the caustic agent is completed by heating the dehydrobrominated product to a temperature between about 90.degree. to about 100.degree. C. for a period of about 1/2 to 4 hours. The excess dehydrobromination caustic agent and the halide salts are then removed and a layer is isolated comprising the sulfolane and diethynylbenzene. The final step in the process is to recover the diethynylbenzene from the isolated layer.
In an alternative procedure, all of the divinylbenzene is placed in the reaction vessel with the sulfolane solvent followed by gradual addition of bromine.


An inflatable foilboard or hydrofoil board comprises an inflatable board having a rigid platform on which a user stands. A mast extends from the platform through the board and into the water below. A hydrofoil is fixed to the base of the mast.

"Foilboards", also known as "hydrofoil boards", are water sports boards which have a "mast" or "strut" extending underneath, onto which a hydrofoil is attached. This arrangement provides lift to the board, such that above a certain speed the board will be raised above the water level. This in turn reduces drag on the board, and allows for greater speeds and manoeuvrability when compared with other water sports boards.
Such boards can be bulky. In order to create a board which can be more easily transported, and which provides better flotation at low speeds, a recent innovation is an inflatable foilboard. Inflatable foilboards include an inflatable body to which a top plate is fixed (on which a user can stand) and an under plate is fixed (from which the hydrofoil extends).
Inflatable boards are inherently less rigid than solid boards. As such, they must be pumped to high internal pressures in an attempt to provide rigidity. In the case of inflatable foilboards, this is particularly problematic because control of the hydrofoil is achieved through the user's feet. The (compressed) air gap between the top plate and the bottom plate acts to dissipate changes in weight transference, limiting the precision with which the hydrofoil can be controlled.
The present invention seeks to address this problem with inflatable foilboards.


A cushion includes a cushion core, adopting blasted sponge, and the cushion core comprising a main bearing area and an auxiliary bearing area; an outer cover layer, wrapping an outer layer of the cushion core, and the outer cover layer adopting a fiber material which is of a reticular structure; and a reinforcing skeleton comprising a plurality of bone bridges, and each bone bridge comprising an arch base and an arch bridge. For each bone bridge, the arch base is located at two side-by-side corners of one side of the cushion core, and is close to one side of the main bearing area; one end of the arch bridge is connected to the arch base, and the other end of the arch bridge extends to a diagonal opposite corner of the other side of the cushion core, and is close to one side of the auxiliary bearing area.

Cushions are comfortable to use, and have a decorative function, and shapes are mainly square, round and elliptic.
The material is selected from cotton cloth, flannelette, brocade or linen, and the most comfortable material is memory foam material.
At present, cushion cores used in cushions often adopt sponge. However, if the density of the adopted sponge is high, hardness will be increased inevitably, water permeability and air permeability will become poor, and elastic property will be poor. If the density of the adopted sponge is low, hardness will be decreased, air permeability will be improved, nevertheless, heavy weight cannot be borne, the sponge can be compacted easily, increasing the sponge density of the pressed area in another way, as a result, the local density of the sponge of the area in actual use is high, hardness is increased, water permeability and air permeability become poor, elastic property is poor, and the comfort of the sponge in use will be decreased as well.
Moreover, the sponge used by conventional cushions is poor in water permeability and air permeability, and cannot be washed directly with water as it can easily absorb water.