A sliding vehicle storage system is described for mounting on two opposing interior side walls of a vehicle. The storage system provides for a platform slidingly received in a vehicle which may be positioned at different heights in relation to the side walls of a vehicle to provide versatility in use. The storage system includes, in relation to each of two opposing interior side walls, mounting means attached to a support assembly. Each support assembly includes a mounting plate connected to an outer track assembly including a plurality of wheel bearings held operatively in place within the outer track assembly, and a locking plate. An inner track assembly slidingly mates with the outer track assembly. A cross member support is connected to the inner track assembly. Extending between the two inner track assemblies upon the two opposing vehicle side walls are at least two cross members supported by the cross member support of each opposing support assembly. A platform is supported by the at least two cross members. A locking assembly is present in relation to the sliding platform structure. The locking assembly operates in conjunction with the locking plate to selectively lock or unlock the platform in one or more predetermined positions. The sliding storage apparatus is readily installed within storage areas of various sizes and provides multiple accessible storage areas within a vehicle to accommodate storage of variously sized items.

Various storage systems for beds of pick-up trucks are known in the art. Such devices generally are attached to the floor of the truck bed or, if attached to a side wall of a truck bed include a depth to the floor to provide a storage box structure. Examples of storage devices known in the art are described briefly below.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,635,992 describes, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, a storage box slideably suspended on rails attached to the upper inside side walls of a truck bed.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,522,326 describes a tool box which rolls along rails attached to the upper inner side walls of a truck bed.
U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,037,153 and 5,121,959 each describe a storage box moveable along guide rails attached to the top of side walls of a truck bed. Each of the '153 and '959 patents describe particular structures for the mounting assembly which also allows for movement of the storage box.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,509,709 describes an attachment for a pick-up truck bed which includes a slideable platform attached to the floor of the truck bed, a stationary bed affixed to the top of the side walls of the truck bed, and racks which can be raised or lowered in use to allow for storage upon the bed.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,962,709 describes an auxiliary deck raised off the floor of a vehicle to provide for the transporting of articles or sleeping in the vehicle. The raised deck is supported by legs standing on the floor of the vehicle. Movement of the auxiliary deck is not described.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,064,335 describes a platform in a truck bed movable along guide rails situated with respect to the floor of the truck bed so that the platform moves as the bed floor.
U.S. Pat. No. 2,284,419 describes a storage drawer slideable along guide rails in a storage area of a vehicle. The guide rails and drawer are mounted in relation to the floor of the vehicle.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,454,684 describes a storage box capable of rolling movement within the bed of a utility vehicle through the use of channel guides attached to the floor bed of the vehicle.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,889,377 describes a storage system for a vehicle, such as a panel truck or van, which is suspended from a frame attached to one interior side wall of the vehicle. The frame includes at least two horizontal channels and a sliding carriage for slideably moving storage bins along the frame.
The following patents additionally describe platforms, boxes and the like moveably attached to the bed of a vehicle or serve as a floor of a vehicle:
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None of the prior art structures, however, provide for versatility in attachment or installation and thus the manner of use of the prior art storage systems is limited. For example, the slideable drawers attached to the floor of a vehicle provide for less storage space and do not allow for the use of the floor of the vehicle if the drawer is completely removed since the rails on which the drawer moves remain in place on a floor of the truck. Further, such only provides one storage area and, thus, a full utilization of space is not provided. Storage boxes held behind a truck cab do not provide for ready access or storage for large or odd shaped articles. The present invention is directed to providing a vehicle storage system which overcomes the limitations of the known storage devices.


Disclosed is a method for making a metal pattern with high conductivity comprising providing a patterned substrate comprising a patterned catalyst layer on a base substrate by a thermal imaging method followed by plating to provide the metal pattern. The metal patterns provided are suitable for electrical devices including electromagnetic interference shielding devices and touchpad sensors.

Electromagnetic interference shields and touch screens for light transmissive surfaces, such as displays, typically include a conducting metal mesh mounted on a substrate. The mesh allows a substantial portion of visible light to pass, while shielding other electromagnetic radiation. There are a variety of methods available to manufacture such metal mesh articles. For instance, U.S. Pat. No. 6,717,048 discloses an electromagnetic shielding plate having a glass substrate and a geometric pattern formed on the substrate in an off-set printing process.
New methods useful for providing conducting metal patterns are needed that allow high resolution and precise digital control of the pattern being formed; for instance with a capability to prepare mesh having fine lines, down to 10 micron line-width. In addition, it is desirable to minimize wet processing steps and the use of solvents, etchants, and masks, typically used in conventional photolithography methods. Eliminating wet processing steps and solvents would give an overall method that is significantly more environmental friendly than conventional methods used in making metal mesh.

Composition and method for providing a patterned metal layer having high conductivity


A semi-rigid flexible film pack for multi-packs, and method for manufacturing same, constructed from a gusseted bag. The invention provides for modifying a gusseted bag, heat sealing the gussets to their respective side walls, loading said gusseted bag with product, and then sealing the open end of the gusseted bag with a single sheet or web. The method of making this package is economical yet provides for a semi-rigid container ideal for use with single-serve pillow bags.

1. Technical Field
The present invention relates to a semi-rigid flexible film pack that can be used for containing multiple packages of a product and a method for making same. The invention uses standard flexible film pre-made gusseted bags as a starting material. In a preferred embodiment, the gussets on the gusseted bag are heat-sealed to the side walls, product (typically pillow bags containing a snack food) is placed within the gusseted bag, and the open end of the gusseted bag is sealed by application of a single sheet or web of film.
2. Description of Related Art
The snack food industry typically markets snack foods in flexible film packages referred to as pillow bags due to their shape that is similar to a pillow. These pillow bags are typically made on vertical form, fill, and seal packaging machines. The pillow bags come in a variety of shapes and sizes, anywhere from small single-serve bags of about 6 inches in height and 5 inches in width, to much larger packages in excess of 20 inches in height and 12 inches in width.
With the smaller single-serve type pillow bags, it is frequently preferable to market and sell several of these pillow bags as a combined unit. In the prior art, this has typically been accomplished by placing the pillow bags in a rectangular shaped cardboard container having an open top and then sealing the container with a flexible film that encloses the entire cardboard box, including its opening. The advantage of such cardboard box is that the cardboard provides a semi-rigid structure that is somewhat protective of the pillow bags. This prior art solution, however, has several drawbacks. For example, the use of the cardboard box adds to both the expense of producing the combined packaging and to the shipping weight of the combination. Further, several steps are involved in forming the box, filling the box, and enclosing the box with a flexible film. Also, the cardboard material used to construct the box is not transparent. Consequently, the consumer can only observe the contents of the box through the top or sealed end.
Another prior art solution is to fill a larger pillow bag with smaller pillow bags. A related solution is to have a flexible film sack that is filled with pillow bags and simply tied at the top. Both of these prior art solutions are less expensive and easier to manufacture than the cardboard box solution described above. However, they do not provide for structural integrity of the overall container, as is accomplished with the cardboard box arrangement. The shape of the stuffed large bag is also not conducive to stacking.
Consequently, a need exists for a semi-rigid container that is relatively simple and inexpensive to manufacture, yet also provides some structural rigidity to the overall package. Such container should ideally be roughly rectangular shaped to facilitate stacking and transparent absent graphics placed on the container.

Semi-rigid flexible film pack for multi-packs


A handpiece (20) for actuating a surgical cutting accessory (24). The handpiece has a housing (22) with a bore (46) through which a suction is drawn. A valve (50) regulates the suction flow. The valve (50), formed of metal, has an barrel (60), formed of rubber, that surrounds the rotating valve stem (56). The barrel defines a non-circular openings (96) through which there is suction flow. The openings are shaped to have small diameter sections (104) that initially come into registration with the suction bore when the stem is rotated to the open state. This ensures that, when the valve is open, there is only a relatively small surgeon-selected suction flow through the handpiece. The barrel is formed with ribs (94, 106) the serve as seals between the valve and the adjacent surface of the housing. A suction fitting (49) is rotatably fitted to the proximal end of the handpiece.

Endoscopic surgical procedures are routinely performed in order to accomplish various surgical tasks. In an endoscopic surgical procedure, small incisions, called portals, are made into the patient. An endoscope, which is a device that allows medical personnel to view the surgical site, is inserted in one of the portals. Surgical instruments used to perform a specific surgical task are inserted into other portals. The surgeon views the surgical site through the endoscope to determine how to manipulate the surgical instruments in order to accomplish the surgical procedure. An advantage of performing endoscopic surgery is that, since the portions of the body that are cut open are minimized, the portions of the body that need to heal after surgery are likewise reduced. Moreover, during an endoscopic surgical procedure, only relatively small portions of the patient's internal organs and tissue are exposed to the open environment. This minimal opening of the patient's body lessens the extent to which a patient's organs and tissue are open to infection.
The ability to perform endoscopic surgery has been enhanced by the development of powered surgical tools especially designed to perform endoscopic surgical procedures. One such tool, for example, is sold by the Applicant's Assignee under the trademark HUMMER TPS. This tool is in the form of a cylindrical handpiece designed to be held in the hand of the surgeon. Internal to the handpiece there is a motor. A front end of the handpiece is provided with a coupling assembly for releasably holding a cutting accessory. The types of cutting accessories that are attached to this handpiece include shavers, resectors, planers and burs. Integral with the motor and coupling assembly is a device for transmitting the rotary power developed by the motor to the cutting accessory.
The handpiece also has a suction conduit. This is because, in an endoscopic surgical procedure, irrigating fluid is introduced into the surgical site. This fluid serves as a transport media for removing debris from the surgical site. In order to remove the irrigating fluid, and the material in the fluid, a suction path is provided through the cutting accessory and the handpiece. A suction pump is connected to the handpiece and provides a suction force for drawing the fluid and material away from the surgical site. In order to control the suction flow through the cutting accessory and the handpiece, the handpiece is provided with a manually operated valve. Thus, with a single handpiece, a surgeon both manipulates the cutting accessory and controls the suction of material away from the surgical site.
For the above reasons, presently available handpieces have proven to be very useful tools for performing surgical procedures. Nevertheless, there is a limitation associated with the suction systems that are integral with these handpieces. Specifically it is very difficult for a surgeon to regulate the suction rate, the rate at which fluid and debris are drawn away from the surgical site through the handpiece. Presently available handpieces have valves that allow variable control of suction flow through the associated suction conduit.
The Applicant's U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/454,113, filed Dec. 3, 1999, entitled POWERED SURGICAL HANDPIECE WITH SUCTION CONDUIT INCLUDING A STEPPED VALVE TO REGULATE FLOW THROUGH THE SUCTION CONDUIT, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,436,067 and incorporated herein by reference, discloses one such powered surgical handpiece with a suction valve. The handpiece of this invention includes a valve with an indexing mechanism that provides tactile feedback when the valve is in an intermediate position between its fully open and fully closed states. This handpiece thus provides a surgeon with some ability to sense the position of the suction control valve when it is between its fully open and fully closed states.
Nevertheless, there are some limitations associated with the suction control offered by available handpieces. One limitation is associated with available handpieces is that it is often difficult to set the associated valve to a position in which the valve only allows a relatively small suction to be drawn at the surgical site.
Still another disadvantage of many handpieces is that even when their suction valves are in the fully closed states, there may be some leakage suction flow. Sometimes a surgeon finds the presence of this flow distracting.
Furthermore, handpieces are typically designed so that the suction flow out of the handpiece is through a tube that is attached to the proximal end, the rear end, of the handpiece. Sometimes, if a surgeon holds the handpiece in an unusual position, this tube may bend or fold over itself. If either of these two events occur, the tube may close and, in effect, stop further suction flow from the surgical site. If this flow is blocked, the surgeon must take the time to interrupt the procedure to remove the bend in the tube so as to allow suction flow to continue. Making the surgeon perform this task interrupts his/her concentration from the actual surgical procedure and lengthens the overall time it takes to perform the procedure. The lengthening the time it takes to perform a surgical procedure runs contrary to one of the goals of modern surgical practice which is to hold the time the patient is kept under anesthesia to as short as possible.
Also, even if the tube does not fold shut, if the handpiece to which it is attached is held in an unusual position, the tube may drag across the arms or other body parts of the surgeon. This contact with the tube may interfere with the surgeon's ability to perform the desired surgical procedure or simply distract the surgeon's attention.

Powered surgical handpiece with precision suction control


A radar based, fill-level sensor comprising at least one semiconductor element, including at least a semiconductor chip and a chip package, in which the at least one semiconductor chip is arranged, wherein the at least one semiconductor chip has at least one coupling element, which serves as a signal gate for electromagnetic waves, preferably in the millimeter wave region, characterized in that at least one first resonator structure is arranged on a surface portion of the chip package.

With millimeter waves, fill levels from a few cm up to about 500 m can be measured highly accurately. With the exploitation of ever higher frequency bands, high beam focusing with always smaller antenna dimensions can be implemented. Since, in the case of higher operating frequencies (79 Gz, 150 GHz . . . ), for technical and regulatory reasons, also greater absolute bandwidths are possible, fill-level resolution can additionally be significantly increased. As a result of both advantages, the reliability of radar based, fill-level sensors in containers containing complex internal paraphernalia can be significantly increased.
For implementing circuits at frequencies above 60 GHz, the building- and connecting technologies usual for electronics, especially SMD technology, are no longer usable. Since the dimensions of the connecting structures, such as bond wires or solder locations, lie in the order of magnitude of the wavelength of millimeter waves, they disturb as parasitic elements of the circuit. Moreover, many of the materials usual in electronics introduce losses rising with frequency, as a result of which millimeter wave signals are significantly attenuated after only short distances. The implementing of powerful and reliable millimeter wave circuits with standard technologies is, consequently, more difficult with increasing frequency and is eventually impossible. This affects the resolution and accuracy of fill level measurement significantly.


An integrated circuit memory device includes an array of memory cells having a selectable first or second data path width. The integrated circuit memory device also includes a circuit which permanently selects one of the first and second data path widths for permanent operation of the integrated circuit memory device, and which temporarily overrides the permanent selection, to thereby temporarily operate the integrated circuit memory device using the other data path width. Accordingly, for example, when the first path width is a 16 bit path width and the second path width is a 4 bit path width, the path width is permanently selected during manufacturing of the integrated circuit memory device, to thereby manufacture 16 bit path width or 4 bit path width devices. However, during testing, the 16 bit path width devices may be temporarily overridden and tested as 4 bit path width devices. The number of test pins which are required can therefore be reduced and testing efficiency can be improved.

Integrated circuit memory devices are widely used in consumer and commercial applications to store data. As is well known to those having skill in the art, integrated circuit memory devices generally include an array of memory cells. In order to increase manufacturing efficiencies, integrated circuit memory devices typically include an array of memory cells which has a selectable path width. As is well known to those having skill in the art, the path width, which reflects the number of data input/output channels, also referred to as "DQ" channels, can vary for a given size of memory. Thus, for example, a 16 megabit dynamic RAM (DRAM) array may be configured during manufacture to operate with a 4 bit data path width, so that a 4 megabit.times.4 DRAM is provided. Alternatively, the 16 megabit DRAM may be configured to operate as a 1 megabit.times.16 DRAM, so that a 16 bit wide data path is provided.
In one illustrative example, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the assignee of the present invention, markets a family of 16 megabit CMOS DRAMs, as 4 megabit.times.4 bit DRAMs and 1 megabit.times.16 bit DRAMs. In particular, Model Nos. KM44C4004A, KM44C04104A, KM44V004A and KM44V4104A are marketed as 4 megabit.times.4 bit DRAMs. See Samsung Electronics 1995 Databook, Pages 46-47. Models KM416C1004A, KM416C1204A, KM416V1004A and KM416V1204A are marketed as 1 megabit.times.16 bit CMOS DRAMs. See Pages 62-63 of the aforesaid 1995 Databook. An integrated circuit memory in which 16 bits of data is simultaneously read from and written to a memory device via 16 DQ channels is referred to as operating in "x16" mode. Similarly, an integrated circuit memory device in which 4 data bits are simultaneously read from and written to a memory device via 4 DQ channels is referred to as operating in "x4" mode.
Integrated circuit memory devices may be designed and manufactured to include both the x16 and the x4 mode in a single integrated circuit. During manufacturing, either x16 mode or x4 mode is selected to produce, for example, a 4 megabit by 4 bit DRAM or a 1 megabit.times.16 bit DRAM. Selection of the mode is generally performed by generating permanent selection signals during manufacturing. In particular, an x16 bonding pad and an x4 bonding pad are provided in the integrated circuit. One of the bonding pads is tied to ground or power supply voltage to permanently produce either an x16 or an x4 signal. FIGS. 1A and 1B are circuit diagrams of a conventional x16 mode selection signal generator and an x4 mode selection signal generator, respectively.
Referring now to FIG. 1A, the x16 mode selection signal generator includes an x16 bonding pad which receives a bonding signal, such as a permanently bonded power supply voltage, ground or other permanent signal. A transfer transistor MN1 transfers the bonding signal. Inverters I1, I2 and I3 serially invert the transferred bonding signal. A pull-up transistor MP1 is always turned on and is connected to the output terminal of the transfer transistor MN1.
Similarly, in FIG. 1B, the x4 mode selection signal generator includes an x4 bonding pad which receives a bonding signal and a transfer transistor MN2 which transfers the bonding signal. Inverters I4, I5 and I6 serially invert the transferred bonding signal, and a pull-up transistor MP2 is connected to the output terminal of the transfer transistor MN2.
Accordingly, if the x16 bonding pad of FIG. 1A is permanently connected to ground voltage VSS, the output signal x16 is always set to the power supply voltage VDD. The signal x16 is then applied to the array of memory cells so that the integrated circuit memory device always operates in x16 mode. Alternatively, if the x4 bonding pad of FIG. 1B is bonded to VSS, the output signal x4 of FIG. 1B is maintained at high level VDD and the integrated circuit memory device will operate in x4 mode.
As stated above, during manufacture, the integrated circuit memory device is set for either x16 mode or x4 mode and is identified, marketed and operated accordingly.

Integrated circuit memory devices and operating methods including temporary data path width override


An eyeglass system including primary glasses and detachably engageable auxiliary glasses. The auxiliary glasses include a first and second auxiliary lens connected together by a bridge. Each lens has an exterior surface, an interior surface, and a peripheral edge extending between the interior and exterior surfaces. An aperture is defined in each of the lenses and this aperture extends between the interior and exterior surfaces, and originates in the peripheral edge and extends for a distance into the lens. A connector is engaged in the aperture in each of the lenses and this connector detachably engages the primary glasses. Preferably, the aperture is keyhole-shaped and the connector includes a boss that is a complementary keyhole shape. The connector may be provided with a magnet that is attracted to a magnet embedded in a lens of the primary glasses.

1. Technical Field
This invention relates generally to eyeglasses. More particularly, this invention is directed to eyeglass systems that include clip-on type sunglasses. Specifically, this invention is directed to an eyeglass system where at least one keyhole-shaped aperture is defined in each lens of an auxiliary pair of sunglasses; and a connector with a complementary shaped boss is snap-fitted into the aperture; and the connector is then used to detachably engage the auxiliary glasses to a primary pair of prescription glasses.
2. Background Information
Removable auxiliary glasses for sun protection are a common substitute for prescription sunglasses as they allow users to wear their prescription glasses but offer a lower cost than would be the case if they purchased prescription sunglasses. The auxiliary glasses also enable users to own multiple pairs of sunglasses simply by replacing one clip-on set with another. Stock clip-on sunglasses are readily available but typically do not fit existing frames well. Furthermore, they tend to come in limited colors of lenses and chassis. Custom-made clip-on sunglasses are readily available at higher cost than stock clip-on sunglasses. These more expensive clip-ons are customized in a variety of ways and are attachable to existing prescription glasses in a variety of ways. Most of these attachment systems require special components to be made to order by the supplier. They tend to be difficult for an optician or optometrist to assemble and many are not durable. Some of the currently known attachment mechanisms include:    1) Magnets, such as is utilized in the auxiliary glasses sold by Eyenavision, Inc. at their website http://eyenavision.com/products/sunlenses;    2) Clips, such as the auxiliary glasses sold:            a) under the Hilco® name at http://www.hilco.com/optometry/catalog.aspx?CategoryID=70&ParentCategoryID=4&CategoryName=SunClips&ParentCatName=Sunwear;        b) by Kleargo Inc. at http://www.kleargo.com/products/category/clips_ons_amp_fit_overs;        c) by Sunclipies at https://sites.google.com/site/sunclipies/;        d) by Sunclip Express at http://www.sunclipexpress.ca/;        e) by Profilo at http://www.profiloclip-on.com/en/products.html;        f) by Audace Lunettes at http://www.audacelunettes.com/colorclip.aspx;            3) Pinch grips such as those sold by Eclips at the website: http://www.clipon.com/; and    4) Bridge clips such as those sold by Kleargo Inc. at http://www.kleargo.com/products/rimless_bridge_tailor_clip or by the Insight Group Inc. at http://www.cliponguys.com/clip-on-sunglasses-101.php.
There are also a number of patents that have been issues for different eyeglass systems which include a pair of primary glasses and a pair of auxiliary glasses. The primary glasses typically are prescription glasses and the auxiliary glasses are sunglasses. The auxiliary glasses are configured to be detachably engaged with the primary glasses. The primary glasses typically include a frame which has two regions for mounting of the lenses, a bridge which connects the two regions or the two lenses together (particularly in rimless glasses); and arms connected via elbows to the respective regions and used for seating the frame on the user's head.
The auxiliary glasses include two lenses connected by a bridge. Frequently, the auxiliary glasses are frame free but they may include a frame that has regions for mounting the lenses and a bridge connecting the regions. Usually, the auxiliary glasses are free of arms for seating the glasses on a user's head.
A number of prior art patents are referenced herein which disclose structures and methods of securing the primary and auxiliary glasses together. For ease of description all of the prescription glasses referred to in this specification will be identified by the term "primary glasses" and all of the detachable sunglasses will be identified by the term "auxiliary glasses".
U.S. Pat. No. 6,341,864 (Ng) discloses auxiliary glasses which include clips for securing them to primary glasses. Each clip includes a base with first and second arms extending outwardly therefrom. In a first embodiment, the first and second arms extend outwardly from the base in the same direction, are substantially parallel to each other, and are spaced a distance apart. An inner surface of the base is positioned adjacent an exterior surface of the auxiliary lens. The first arm extends outwardly from the inner surface and through a hole defined in the auxiliary lens. The first arm is disposed at right angles to the exterior surface of the lens. The hole is spaced a distance inwardly away from the peripheral edge of the auxiliary lens. The first arm is cylindrical in shape and includes a bulbous terminal end which prevents it from being withdrawn from the hole once pushed therethrough. The second arm is longer than the first and is substantially J-shaped with a straight first section thereof disposed generally at right angles to an exterior surface of the lens and parallel to the first arm. The second arm extends outwardly from the inner surface of the base and is disposed parallel to the peripheral edge of the lens. The second arm extends for a distance beyond the interior surface of the auxiliary lens and the curves back toward the same. A space is thus defined between a terminal end of the curved second section and the interior surface of the auxiliary lens. One of the lenses of the primary glasses is received in this space and the hooked terminal end of the clip keeps the glasses lens adjacent the auxiliary lens. In a second embodiment, the first and second arms extend outwardly from the base in opposite directions. An outer surface of the base is disposed adjacent the interior surface of the auxiliary lens and the cylindrical first arm extends forwardly through the hole in the auxiliary lens. The bulbous terminal end of the first arm is thus disposed adjacent the exterior surface of the auxiliary lens. The second arm curves rearwardly from the base and has a terminal end that is generally parallel to the inner surface of the base and is spaced a distance away therefrom. The lens from the primary glasses is captured in this space.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,478,420 (Xiang) discloses a set of auxiliary glasses which are releasably secured to primary glasses by magnets. The auxiliary glasses have apertures defined in them and a magnet is embedded in each aperture. The primary glasses include arms which are used to seat them on a user's head. Each arm is secured via an elbow to one of the lenses by way of a screw; and at least a head of this screw is made of a magnetic material. The apertures in the auxiliary glasses are positioned so as to align with the heads of these screws. Magnetic attraction between the embedded magnets and the magnetic screws keeps the auxiliary glasses engaged with the primary glasses. Instead of embedding the magnets in the auxiliary glasses, the patent also discloses that the magnets may be positioned within magnet holders prior to insertion of the same into the apertures. The holders are disclosed as being two separate nesting components that have opposing ledges which will be disposed adjacent opposite surfaces of the lenses. Multiple sets of magnets on the primary glasses and auxiliary glasses may be utilized and this may include magnets on the two bridges.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,464,352 (Xie) discloses a connector mechanism comprises two resilient fingers which extend inwardly from the bridge on the auxiliary glasses and hook over the bridge on the primary glasses. The resilient fingers are substantially J-shaped projections which include compression springs and form part of the actual bridge on the auxiliary glasses. A hole is defined in each auxiliary lens and a bolt extends through the hole and into a region of the bridge. The fingers extend over a top edge of the bridge on the primary glasses and they tend to pull the primary glasses toward the bridge on the auxiliary glasses.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,502,939 (Viganto) discloses a system in which the primary glasses are provided with threadably-engaged projections which extend outwardly from the exterior surface of each lens at either end of the bridge. The projections are complementary to recessed regions on the interior surfaces of the auxiliary lenses. When the auxiliary glasses are positioned proximate the primary glasses, the projections snap-fit into the recessed regions, thereby keeping the two pairs of glasses engaged with each other.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,533,411 (Chen et al) discloses a U-shaped coupling unit which is engaged with the auxiliary glasses by two mounting units. The coupling unit hooks onto the bridge of the primary glasses and keeps them engaged with the auxiliary glasses. Each mounting unit includes a base with a pair of spaced apart parallel arms that extend outwardly from the base in the same direction. The arms define a space between them and the peripheral edge of the auxiliary lens is received into this space. A bolt passes through a first aperture in one of the arms and then into a hole defined in the auxiliary lens to secure the mounting unit to the lens. A threaded shaft on the coupling unit passes through a second aperture in an extension of the other arm of the mounting unit to secure the coupling unit to the mounting unit.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,550,913 (Zelman) discloses auxiliary glasses which include extensions that are aligned with the arms of the primary glasses. Each of the extensions and the arms includes a magnet and the magnets are aligned with each other and attract each other when the auxiliary glasses are positioned in front of the primary glasses. In an alternative embodiment magnets are provided in each bridge and when the bridges are juxtaposed, the magnets attract each other and keep the primary and auxiliary glasses engaged. In this second embodiment, a simple L-shaped clip also extends from the top edge of the frame of the auxiliary glasses to hook over the top edge of the primary glasses' frame.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,655,799 (Chen) discloses providing holes in the auxiliary lenses which will align with holes in the primary lenses. A ferromagnetic stud extends through each hole and these studs attract each other when the lenses are brought into proximity with each other.
Strenk (U.S. Pat. No. 6,755,522) discloses providing an extension on the frame of the auxiliary glasses adjacent the outer side of each lens and a magnet in the extension. Magnets are also provided on the elbows of the frame of the primary glasses which connect the arms thereto. The magnets in the extensions and on the elbows are attracted to each other when the auxiliary glasses are brought into the proximity of the primary glasses. In a second embodiment magnets are received in mounting elements disposed in holes in the lenses of the primary glasses and these embedded magnets magnetically attract the magnets in the extensions on the auxiliary glasses.
Madison (U.S. Pat. No. 6,883,912) discloses providing magnets in various locations in extensions on the frames of the auxiliary and primary glasses. The magnets in the two pairs of glasses are positioned so as to align and thereby attract each other to retain the auxiliary glasses adjacent the primary glasses.
U.S. Pat. No. 7,011,402 (Shapiro) discloses using a fastener that includes at least one plastic prong to secure the auxiliary glasses and primary glasses together. The prong includes bushings which extend into openings defined by the inner lenses. The glasses also include end portions which are suitable for attaching an arm thereto. A magnet is provided in the end portions. A support arm connects the prong with the end portion.
U.S. D684,942 (Zelazowksi) discloses a magnet which is generally circular when viewed from either end and includes an annular groove which is disposed intermediate two annular ribs.
While all of the above connector mechanisms function for the purposes for which they were intended, there is still a need in the art for an improved way of detachably engaging a pair of auxiliary glasses to a pair of primary eyeglasses.

Eyeglass system and method of engagement


Fluid carrying apparatus having an outer helical tubular casing which, in use, holds fluid, and an inner helical tubular member within the outer helical tubular casing through which the fluid can be delivered from the outer helical tubular casing.

Many people who take part in physical activities such as, for example, running or cycling have a need to carry liquid on their person, usually held in a portable water bottle.
Carrying the water bottles, particularly whilst running, is a common problem. Holding the bottle or a handle of the bottle in a clenched hand is not preferable as this quickly becomes uncomfortable and can interrupt the running style and rhythm of the user.
Many runners carry a belt of some kind on which the water bottle can be clipped, or carry a backpack to hold the bottle. These methods too can become uncomfortable and disruptive, particularly when movement causes the bottle to repeatedly knock against side of the wearer.


A method for electroplating low-resistance metal wire for resolving the problem to fabricate the metal wire on large-area substrate through the technology of photolithographing and etching in the prior art. Then the invention improves the RC-delay characteristic of circuit on large-area substrate and reduces the number of masks for processing of a structure of gate overlap lightly-doped drain (source) (GOLDD).

1. Field of the Invention
The present invention generally relates to a method for electroplating metal wire, especially for electroplating low-resistance metal wire on large-area substrate and reducing the number of photolithography masks for processing thin-film transistors (TFTs) with a structure of gate overlap lightly-doped drain (source) (GOLDD).
2. Description of the Related Art
With the advance of processing technology, the large-area TFT (Thin Film Transistor) displays will be generalized. Then some problems are going to be revealed in producing, generally the wiring on substrate is getting complicate, then the RC-delay caused by the increasing wire resistance (R) and related capacitance (C) will impact the efficiency factors of device, like the cross talk and power consuming, especially the signal transmission speed. As the featuresize of semi-conducting technology becomes smaller, it is more difficult to prevent the RC-delay, which occurs as the width of wire and distance between wires are getting smaller, then there will increase the serial resistance and the capacitance among those connecting.
Copper (Cu) and silver (Ag) have the lowest resistance among metals, which provide the simplest and directly way to reduce the connecting resistance and capacitance, but they couldn't be fabricated on glass substrate through prior photolithographing and etching technology.
Further, for fabricating the copper wire on large-area substrate, the prior art method adopts a complicate and expensive chemical mechanical polishing/planarization (CMP) process, which is a planarization technology in semi-conducting processing. The planarization is used to planarize the roughness on doping layer of semiconductor device by the cooperation of chemical etching and mechanic polishing processes.
Therefore, there needs to provide a method for electroplating metal wire to improve the RC-delay characteristics among the wires on glass substrate and the method for electroplating low-resistance metal on it. The structure of gate overlap and lightly-doping drain (source) of present invention can reduce the number of processing masks.

Industrial Technology Research Institute


A spectacle frame is disclosed as including two frame members which are pivotally movable relative to each other, each frame member being capable of holding a piece of optical lens, each frame member having an outer side and an opposite inner side, and two nose pads each with a free major surface, in which each frame member includes an extension with a tunnel, and each nose pad is engaged with a pin and a stopper for simultaneous movement, and the pins are received within the tunnel of the respective frame member for relative rotational movement to thereby rotate each nose pad relative to the respective frame member, and each stopper is adapted, during rotational movement of the nose pad relative to the respective frame member, to abut the respective frame member to limit the extent of rotational movement of the nose pad relative to the respective frame member.

Spectacle frames of various constructions have been available to which lenses may be releasably held for forming pairs of eyeglasses for wearing. It is found that when a user wears a pair of eyeglasses by placing the pair eyeglasses onto his/her nose, it is usually necessary to adjust the position of the nose pads (and thus of the pair of eyeglasses) to achieve comfort in wearing. In most cases only very minor adjustments to the position of the nose pads need be made. In some cases, however, it may be necessary to forcibly bend the links joining the nose pads and the spectacle frame to suit individual needs. This may damage or even break the links and, thus, the spectacles.
In addition, with the advance of age, the lenses in the eyes of a person may become less elastic, resulting in presbyopia. While a normal lens of an eye will thicken for reading books or focusing on near objects, a person of middle age or above may have to wear a pair of eyeglasses with convex lenses or bifocals for this purpose. However, as such a pair of eyeglasses are usually only required when reading, and are often seen as a sign of old age, the wearer will usually carry them in handbags or the like, and put them on only when necessary. There therefore exists a requirement that such a pair of eyeglasses be foldable as compact as possible. However, existing spectacle frames are not of a structure which allows the spectacle frames to be folded compactly.
It is thus an object of the present invention to provide a spectacle frame and a pair of eyeglasses in which the aforesaid shortcomings are mitigated, or at least to provide a useful alternative to the trade and public.


In an optical connector for use in connecting an optical fiber, a housing defines an optical axis extending in a predetermined direction. For positioning the optical fiber along the optical axis, a ferrule is accommodated in the housing to be movable in the predetermined direction. The housing further accommodates a fixing member engaged with the housing in the predetermined direction. Between the ferrule and the fixing member, an elastic member is interposed to urge the ferrule towards one side in the predetermined direction. In addition, the housing has a guide groove extending in the predetermined direction. The fixing member has a guide portion protruding through the guide groove to the outside of the housing.

This invention relates to an optical connector for use in connecting an optical fiber.
In recent years, an optical connector is requested to be reduced in size, i.e., to be reduced in overall length. Furthermore, since an available work space for assembling the optical connector is limited in an axial direction of the optical connector, a simple assembling structure is requested.
As an existing optical connector, there is known a cylindrical optical connector comprising a plug and a receptacle. The plug comprises a ferrule for holding an optical fiber, an insulating front housing accommodating a ferrule, an insulating rear housing opposite to the front housing in an axial direction, a spring interposed between the rear housing and the ferrule, and an outer shell to be engaged with the receptacle (for example, see Japanese Patent (JP-B) No. 3062930).
In the above-mentioned optical connector, the spring must be accommodated in the front and the rear housings together with the ferrule. However, accommodation of the ferrule and the spring can not be completed only by the front and the rear housings and an assembling structure is inevitably complicated. Further, assembling of the optical connector requires complicated operations. Specifically, it is necessary to insert the front housing into the shell, to accommodate the ferrule in the front housing, and to fit a bottom plate to the shell while pushing the rear housing forward against a reaction force of the spring.
Another optical connector is disclosed in Japanese Patent (JP-B) No. 3483889 (WO95/035520). The optical connector comprises a ferrule, an attachment body for receiving the ferrule, a tubular crimp ring connected to an axial one end of the attachment body, a tubular cable boot fitted over the crimp ring, and a plug body fitted to an axial other end of the attachment body.
However, in each of the above-mentioned optical connectors, the number of components is large so that a dimensional error of an overall length of the optical connector is inevitably increased. This results in a disadvantage that the optical connector is not stable in performance.

Optical connector excellent in assemblability and dimensional accuracy

Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited


A system and method are described for automatically or manually adapting the user interface of a mobile electronic device (“MED”) for a desired persona of the system user. This will permit the system user to provide a desired personal image to the outside world. The ability of a system user to adapt the MED for a system user's persona will include the changing the user interface consistent with the persona the system user desires to represent internally and externally. This will also permit the system user to change the external connections of his/her MED consistent with that persona, which will remain the active persona until the system user decides to change the persona.

There is an increased number of individuals globally that use mobile electronic devices, such as smart phones, smart tablet devices, and the like (collectively, "MEDs"), for the communications with other individuals and for carrying out business transactions. Although, the current MED technology provides the ability to select and download various types of applications for use on a specific user MED, the basic user interface remains the same.
In view of many MED users operating in multiple system environments in every given day, for example, a single person in a social environment, a person in a work environment, a person as a shopper, a person as a parent, the MED is not adaptable to specifically provide an interface for the system user that would accommodate these different personas automatically or manually. That is, if each of the different environments in which a system user experiences in any given day are thought of as requiring a different avatar, the MED is not adapted to remain consistent with that avatar. The adapting of the user interface would include, but not be limited to, the contextual content of the interface and interface connections external to the MED.
It is highly desirable to be able to automatically or manually configure a MED interface and the MED to adapt to a desired system user persona consistent with the personal image that such system user desires at any given time.

System and method for adapting an electronic device for different desired persona


A nonvolatile memory device includes a semiconductor substrate, a device isolation film, a tunnel insulation film, a plurality of floating gates, an inter-gate dielectric film, and a control gate pattern. Trenches are formed in the substrate that define active regions therebetween. The device isolation film is in the trenches in the substrate. The tunnel insulation film is on the active regions of the substrate. The plurality of floating gates are each on the tunnel insulation film over the active regions of the substrate. The inter-gate dielectric film extends across the floating gates and the device isolation film. The control gate pattern is on the inter-gate dielectric film and extends across the floating gates. A central region of the device isolation film in the trenches has an upper major surface that is recessed below an upper major surface of a surrounding region of the device isolation film in the trenches. An edge of the recessed central region of the device isolation film is aligned with a sidewall of an adjacent one of the floating gates.

The integration density and storage capacity of nonvolatile memory devices have been increased by decreasing the size of active regions and isolation films within cell array regions of the devices. One approach for fabricating such devices uses a self-aligned polysilicon fabrication process. The circuit area of a memory device may be reduced using the self-aligned polysilicon fabrication process by forming a floating gate pattern on an area that is confined between adjacent device isolation films.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,656,793, entitled "Method of forming a self aligned floating gate in flash memory cell", discloses a process for enlarging a surface area of a floating gate pattern through a self-aligned polysilicon fabrication process. After forming the floating gate pattern on a region that is defined between adjacent device isolation film, the device isolation film is partially removed through an isotropic etching process to expose sidewalls of the floating gate pattern.
FIG. 1 is a cross sectional view of a conventional nonvolatile memory device. Referring to FIG. 1, a semiconductor substrate 50 is grooved to form trenches with active regions 59 therebetween, and a device isolation film 58 is formed in the trenches. A tunnel insulation film (60 in FIGS. 3 and 4) is formed on the active regions 59 of the substrate 50. Floating gates 62 are formed on the tunnel insulation film (60 in FIGS. 3 and 4) over the active regions 59 of the substrate 50.
An inter-gate dielectric film 64 is formed on the floating gates 62 and the device isolation film. A control gate pattern 66 is deposited on the inter-gate dielectric film 64 over the floating gates 62. An upper surface of the device isolation film 58 is lower than an upper surface of the floating gates 62, and the interlevel dielectric film 64 covers a portion of sidewalls of the floating gates 62. The floating gates 62 are wider than the substrate 50 between the trenches, so that they partially overlap the trenches. Forming the control gate pattern 66 on sidewalls of the floating gates 62 and overlapping the floating gates 62 with a portion of the trenches can increase the capacitive coupling between the control gate pattern 66 and the floating gates 62.
FIGS. 2, 3, and 4 are cross sectional views of conventional nonvolatile memory devices and illustrate methods of fabricating the same.
Referring to FIG. 2, the substrate 50 is etched to form the plurality of trenches. The device isolation film 58 is deposited to fill the trenches. After its deposition, the device isolation film 58 includes projections that extend away from the substrate 50.
Referring to FIG. 3, the device isolation film 58 is recessed by an isotropic etching process so that its upper surface is below an upper surface of the substrate 50, leaving the tunnel insulation film 60 between the floating gates 62 and the substrate 50. Each of the floating gates 62 is wider than the width of the active region 59 of the substrate 50 between the trenches. The isotropic etching of the device isolation films 58 at least partially exposes sidewalls of the floating gates 62.
When the sidewalls of the floating gates 62 are completely exposed by etching of the device isolation film 58, the tunnel insulation film 60 between the floating gates 62 and the substrate 50 may be partially removed. Such partial removal of the tunnel insulation film 60 may degrade the uniformity of the operational characteristics of a cell array in the memory device that includes such structures. Partial removal of the tunnel insulation film 60 may be avoided by only partially exposing the sidewalls of the floating gates 62 when etching the device isolation film 58. However, only partially exposing the sidewalls of the floating gates 62 may not provide an adequate capacitive coupling between the floating gates 62 and a subsequently formed control gate pattern 66.
Referring to FIG. 4, the inter-gate dielectric film 64 is conformably formed over the entire exposed upper surface of the structure of FIG. 3. The control gate film 66 is deposited on the inter-gate dielectric film 64. As shown in FIG. 4, opposite edge portions of a lower surface of the floating gates 62 are directly on the inter-gate dielectric film 64, and the control gate film 66 extends within an undercut region 70 below the opposite edge portions of the floating gates 62. The control gate film 66 within the undercut region 70 may form an undesirable conductive bridge between some of the floating gates 62.


A semiconductor device may include, but is not limited to: a wiring hoard; and first and second chips stacked over the wiring board. The wiring board includes a plurality of first data terminals and a plurality of second data terminals. One of the first and second chips is sandwiched between the wiring board and the other of the first and second chips. The first chip includes a plurality of first data pads. The second chip includes a plurality of second data pads and a plurality of third data pads. The first data terminals of the wiring board are electrically connected respectively to the first data pads of the first chip and further respectively to the second data pads of the second chip. The second data terminals are electrically connected respectively to the third data pads of the second chip and electrically disconnected from the first chip.

1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a semiconductor device.
Priority is claimed on Japanese Patent Application No. 2011-090200, filed Apr. 14, 2011, the content of which is incorporated herein by reference.
2. Description of the Related Art
In recent years, to achieve high speed, high density, and multiple functionality in semiconductor devices, research and development have been done in chip-on-chip (hereinafter, CoC) technology, by which a plurality of semiconductor chips are stack-mounted onto a wiring substrate. The CoC technology is also referred to as multichip packaging (hereinafter, MCP) technology.
A semiconductor device using the MCP technology (hereinafter, MCP semiconductor device) includes a wiring substrate and a plurality of semiconductor chips stack-mounted onto the wiring substrate. The plurality of semiconductor chips are connected by flip-chip connection or by wire bonding connection (see, for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 2010-45166).
In general, the wiring substrate used in an MCP semiconductor device includes: a main substrate; a first wiring pattern disposed on one surface of the main substrate and electrically connected to a semiconductor memory chip via bonding wires; a second wiring pattern (a pattern of wires, land portions, and the like) that is disposed on the other surface of the main substrate, and onto which external connection terminals (for example, solder balls) are disposed; and through electrodes which penetrating the main substrate and which are connected to the first and second wiring patterns.
In the case of stack-mounting a plurality of semiconductor memory chips onto a wiring substrate configured in this manner, it is necessary to branch the wires for signals such as I/O. For this reason, the influence of multiple reflections causes deterioration of quality of the waveforms of data signals.
In other words, in the above MCP semiconductor device, depending upon the sequence of stacking the semiconductor chips onto the wiring substrate and the wiring topology of the wiring substrate, there has been the problem of deterioration of the data signal quality.


The present invention relates to a method and a system for tuning a radio filter. The radio filter comprises at least one resonator module, each of said at least one resonator module having a tuning mechanism, a filter input connection, a filter output connection. High frequency broad band input and output signals of each of said at least one resonator module are sensed and processed to tune the radio filter. The processing of the sensed input and output signals includes processing in a low-frequency range.

The control system in present autotuned combiners works independently for each resonator module (channel), the phase is measured in each resonator module and the position of the tuning mechanism is adjusted accordingly. In U.S. Pat. No. 6,041,083, by Larsson et al., which is hereby incorporated by reference, the processing is done in one control unit, switching between channels, but the measured data and response is for one channel at a time, see FIG. 1.
The problem with the described control system is that it requires an input signal time slot, that is long enough to do the phase measurement in the resonators, since the same regulation circuitry are used to measure the phase of the reference signal and each resonator signal.

Method for tuning a radio filter and a system for tuning a radio filter


An organic light emitting diode display including a substrate, a scan line transferring a scan signal, a compensation control line transferring a compensation control signal, an operation control line applying an operation control signal, a data line and a driving voltage line transferring a data signal and a driving voltage, respectively, a switching thin film transistor (TFT) connected to the scan line and the data line, a compensation TFT and an initialization TFT connected to the compensation control line, an operation control TFT connected to the operation control line and the switching TFT, a driving TFT connected to the driving voltage line, an organic light emitting diode connected to a drain electrode of the driving TFT, and a hold capacitor connected between a source electrode of the operation control TFT and a gate electrode of the initialization TFT.

1. Field of the Invention
The described technology relates generally to an organic light emitting diode display.
2. Description of the Related Art
An organic light emitting diode display includes two electrodes and an organic emission layer interposed therebetween, electrons injected from one electrode and holes injected from the other electrode are bonded to each other in the organic emission layer to form an exciton, and light is emitted while the exciton discharges energy.
The organic light emitting diode display includes a plurality of pixels, each including an organic light emitting diode that is a self-light emitting element, and a plurality of thin film transistors and capacitors for driving the organic light emitting diodes are formed in each pixel.
One frame of the organic light emitting diode display includes a scanning period for programming data, and a light emitting period during which light is emitted according to the programmed data. However, as the organic light emitting diode display is enlarged and resolution is increased, a signal delay phenomenon of the organic light emitting diode display is increased. Accordingly, the scanning period and the light emitting period are not sufficiently ensured, thus, it is difficult to drive the organic light emitting diode display.
The above information disclosed in this Background section is only for enhancement of understanding of the background of the described technology and therefore it may contain information that does not form the prior art that is already known in this country to a person of ordinary skill in the art.

Organic light emitting diode display with vertical compensation control line formed in parallel with the data line

Samsung-ro, Giheung-Gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-Do


Disclosed is a method for the introduction of unidirectional deletions in a cloned DNA segment. More specifically, the method comprises providing a recombinant DNA construct comprising a DNA segment of interest inserted in a cloning vector, the cloning vector having an f1 endonuclease recognition sequence adjacent to the insertion site of the DNA segment of interest. The recombinant DNA construct is then contacted with the protein pII encoded by gene II of phage f1 thereby generating a single-stranded nick. The nicked DNA is then contacted with E. coli Exonuclease III thereby expanding the single-stranded nick into a single-stranded gap. The single-stranded gapped DNA is then contacted with a single-strand-specific endonuclease thereby producing a linearized DNA molecule containing a double-stranded deletion corresponding in size to the single-stranded gap. The DNA treated in this manner is then incubated with DNA ligase under conditions appropriate for ligation. Also disclosed is a method for producing single-stranded DNA probes. In this embodiment, single-stranded gapped DNA, produced as described above, is contacted with a DNA polymerase in the presence of labeled nucleotides to fill in the gap. This DNA is then linearized by digestion with a restriction enzyme which cuts outside the DNA segment of interest. The product of this digestion is then denatured to produce a labeled single-stranded nucleic acid probe.

DNA sequencing is a fundamental research tool with wide-ranging applications. A common approach to DNA sequencing involves the subcloning of a large DNA fragments as smaller, overlapping fragments, the sequences of which are subsequently determined using the dideoxynucleotide chain termination approach (Sanger and Coulson, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 74: 5463 (1977)).
Subcloning, and the restriction mapping required to efficiently subclone fragments, is a time consuming and labor intensive process. However, given the limitations associated with the amount of sequence which can be determined from a single extension reaction, it is necessary to initiate new sequencing reactions at a distance of about every 300-400 base pairs along a fragment, the sequence of which is to be determined.
One alternative to the subcloning approach is described by Henikoff et al. in U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,843,003 and 4,889,799. More specifically, Henikoff et al. describe a method in which a vector containing a DNA sequence of interest is linearized by digestion at two restriction endonuclease recognition sites, one generating a 5' overhang and the other a blunt end or 3' overhang. Timed digestion with E. coli Exo III from the 5' overhang, followed by treatment with a single-strand-specific nuclease generates a nested array of deletions. Unfortunately, this technique also is limited by the need for conveniently located restriction endonuclease recognition sequences.
An alternative to the approach described above was outlined by Chang et al. (Gene 127: 95 (1993)). Chang et al. describe a method in which a single-stranded nick is introduced at a position adjacent to the site at which a DNA fragment having a sequence which is to be determined is inserted in a cloning vector. The nick in the DNA is then extended under controlled digestion conditions to produce a single-stranded gap. The single-stranded gap is then treated with a nuclease which specifically digests single-stranded DNA, thereby producing a deletion within the DNA sequence of interest.
Chang et al. specifically report that the single-stranded nick in the DNA of interest cannot be expanded by treatment with E. coli Exo III. Given the fact that Exo III is a well-understood, relatively inexpensive enzyme, Chang et al. note that this is an unfortunate finding (page 96, column 2). The development of protocols which would enable the use of Exo III in such a DNA sequencing strategy would represent an important improvement in the art.

Method for producing labeled single-stranded nucleic acid probes


The invention relates to a method of establishing a call in a mobile communications system and to a mobile communication system comprising at least one base station, mobile stations communicating with the mobile communication system and marked at least with system addresses, mobile stations communicating on a direct mode channel and marked with direct mode addresses, and at least one repeater station which transmits traffic between said at least one base station and the mobile stations, communicating on the direct mode channel. To provide flexible call setup, the repeater station comprises a conversion table for converting between said system addresses of the mobile stations and said direct mode addresses.

The invention relates to mobile telephone systems. A subscriber of a mobile telephone system, i.e. a mobile station, such as a radio phone or some other means of communication, may be registered in a radio network or system through system or traffic channels maintained by the base stations of the radio network.
Apart from system channels of mobile telephone systems, direct mode channels can also be used, i.e. direct mode operation can be applied. Mobile stations using direct mode operation do not communicate directly with a radio network or its base stations. Direct mode channels are frequencies at which mobile phones or other means of communication are able to communicate directly with one another without the system.
Direct mode channels are typically used in cases where e.g. a plural number of hand-portable phones communicate with one another at such a distance from the base station that system channels cannot be used.
Direct mode channels are also useful in the addition of capacity when traffic increases rapidly in one part of the service area of the system, e.g. at one point of the radio network.
A direct mode channel is also called a direct or simplex channel, or a simplex connection. A direct mode channel is a channel that is typically not used by the system at all. It may be, for example, a channel with the same channel spacing as the channels of the system, e.g. 12.5 kHz or 25 kHz. Of the radio phones operating on the direct mode channel, the transmitting station has tuned its transmitter to the channel and transmits speech or data information. The other radio phones set to direct mode operation have tuned their receivers to the same channel, whereby they are able to receive the transmission directly.
On a direct mode channel, both analogue modulation and digital modulation can be used. A radio phone transmitting on the channel can also send signalling information, such as information about access rights and priorities or about a group operating on the channel. On a direct mode channel, messages can be encrypted, or speech can be transmitted in clear form.
Hand-portable phones used in mobile radio systems have lower transmission power than vehicle-mounted phones due to their having e.g. small power unit capacity and a weaker antenna. On account of this, hand-portable phones have a shorter coverage range than vehicle-mounted phones in mobile telephone systems. Since radio networks functioning as PMR networks used by authorities are usually dimensioned, at least in the countryside, in accordance with the coverage range of vehicle-mounted phones, hand-portable phones are not able to operate on the periphery of or outside the coverage areas of the base stations of a mobile communication system. If, however, hand-portable phones are also to be used on the periphery of the coverage area of base stations, a repeater station, i.e. a repeater radio, should be used for transmitting calls from a hand-portable phone to the mobile telephone system and vice versa.
A repeater station is a means where two radio units are connected to each other. A repeater station forwards the information messages transmitted on a direct mode channel to desired network elements, such as base stations of a radio network, which forward the messages to mobile exchanges of the radio network.
A repeater station on a direct mode channel may operate either in duplex, semi-duplex or one-frequency simplex mode.
FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating the operation of a repeater station communicating in duplex mode. The repeater station RS sends a transmission at frequency f1 to a base station BS, which sends its own transmission to the repeater station at frequency f2. The repeater station and base station then use trunking mode operation, i.e. TMO. On a direct mode channel, i.e. in direct mode operation DMO, the repeater station RS receives transmissions from mobile stations MS1 at frequency f3, and sends transmissions to mobile stations MS2 at frequency f4. In other words, when the repeater station operates on a direct mode channel in duplex mode, it receives a signal at one frequency f3 and repeats the received signal at another frequency f1. A mobile station MS3 of the mobile communication system is also connected to the base station BS over a radio path, the mobile station having its own system address, such as a telephone number. The mobile station may also have a group call address.
FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating the operation of a repeater station RS communicating in one-frequency simplex mode. The repeater station RS sends a transmission at frequency f1 to the base station BS, which sends its own transmission to the repeater station at frequency f2. The repeater station and the base station then use trunking mode operation, i.e. TMO. On a direct mode channel, i.e. in direct mode operation DMO, the repeater station RS receives transmissions from mobile stations MS1, MS2 at frequency f5, and sends transmissions to mobile stations MS1, MS2 at the same frequency f5. The mobile stations MS1, MS2 then also communicate with each other on the same direct mode channel f5. The word `frequency` is used herein either for a frequency or for a channel formed by a frequency and a time slot.
In prior art, a repeater station repeats the calls from the system to a direct mode channel at a predetermined, fixedly programmed direct mode frequency. Likewise, all transmissions from a direct mode channel are repeated to the system, from a predetermined direct mode channel onto a certain system channel. The problem with the repeater station of the prior art is that the repeater station does not make a distinction between different types of calls and between different users. Further, the repeater station of the prior art cannot change the channels and direct mode channels to which calls are transmitted. The problem with the repeater station of the prior art is that it can repeat only fixedly predetermined calls.

Establishment of a call in a mobile communication system


The invention relates to a photosensitive dispersion with adjustable viscosity for metal deposition on an insulating substrate, which combines the following: a pigment providing oxidation-reduction properties under light irradiation, a metallic salt, a complex-forming agent for the metallic salt, a liquid film-forming polymer formulation, a basic compound, an organic solvent and water. The invention also relates to the use of said dispersion.

1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a photosensitive dispersion with adjustable viscosity for depositing metal on an insulating substrate and use thereof.
2. The Prior Art
The patent EP 0 687 311 of the applicant concerns a polymeric resin with adjustable viscosity and pH for depositing catalytic palladium on a substrate, comprising, in combination, a palladium salt, a sequestering agent of the chloride or carboxylic acid type, a polymer containing hydroxyl and/or carboxyl groups soluble in water, a basic compound and a solvent chosen from amongst water, methanol and ethanol, the pH value being between 1 and 10, and to its applications for the deposition of catalytic palladium on the substrate surface and for the metallisation of these surfaces. Although this type of polymeric resin with palladium has proved advantageous in a large number of applications in the metallisation of polymeric substrates and the like, in particular because of its stability over time and the adjustability of its viscosity and pH, it does however have a certain number of drawbacks, including the obligatory use of palladium, which is a noble metal that is both expensive and whose price fluctuates greatly on the market, and the obligatory passage through an autocatalytic (electroless) bath for the metallisation of the non-conductive substrate and also because of the fact that the photosensitivity of the resin is reduced to a narrow range of wavelengths lying between 190 and 300 nm, thus greatly limiting the type of application that can be envisaged and the radiation source that can be used in this regard.
One of the essential aims of the present invention consequently consists of remedying the aforementioned drawbacks and presenting a photosensitive dispersion with adjustable viscosity that no longer necessarily requires the use of a noble metal such as palladium and also having recourse to other more common and less expensive metals and whose photosensitivity is broadened to a range of wavelengths between 190 and 450 nm requiring much lower irradiation energy than the polymer resins known up till now, below 100 mJ/cm2, and not requiring the obligatory passage through an autocatalytic bath for metallising the substrate, consequently allowing direct electrolytic metallisation.

Photosensitive dispersion with adjustable viscosity for the deposition of metal on an insulating substrate and use thereof


A method of preparing a starch adhesive ready for use in which a starch bearing compound is fed to a pressurized system in which the starch is heated, melted, cooled and removed from the pressurized system to comprise an adhesive ready for use. The invention is also directed to the products made by the method. The adhesive product is especially useful for use in manufacturing corrugated paperboard.

Starch is the commonly used adhesive for making corrugated paperboard. The common means of application of the starch adhesive is to apply the starch at about 28% solids with a glue roll, by rotating the roll in a pond of adhesive to convey the adhesive to the flute tips of the corrugating medium, to adhere the liner face sheet or sheets to the medium. A so called "carrier" portion of about 20% of the starch is gelatinized (cooked) to hold the raw starch in suspension for handling and application. An equivalent alternative approach is the "no carrier" method in which all the starch is partially gelatinized to accomplish essentially the same purposes as the carrier system.
In the parent application to the present one, U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/574,270, I describe an adhesive system for corrugated board involving providing an essentially ungelatinized starch suspension which is significantly gelatinized in the application device before application by extrusion onto the medium.


A trash liner in combination with a trash container, and a method of using them to dispose of waste material. The trash liner is a bag having an opening and a body without perforations, with the opening of the bag having an edge within which is a tubular channel, and a flexible tying member passing through the tubular channel. Opposite ends of the tying member extend from openings in the tubular channel. The trash liner may be fastened on a trash container by inserting the body of the bag into the trash container, placing the edge of the opening of the bag over the rim of the trash container, and tying the opposite ends of the tying member together. Trash placed within the trash container may be safely removed by untying the ends of the tying member, removing the edge of the opening of the bag from the rim of the trash container, closing the opening of the bag, and again tying the ends of the tying member to secure closure of the bag. In the preferred embodiment, there is a notch in the edge of the opening of the bag, between two openings of the tubular channel, whereby air may be vented when the bag is placed inside the trash container.

1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a trash liner which is used in a trash container, the trash liner having tie strips which are used both to secure the top of the liner to the top of the trash container, and to tightly close the liner when it is full and ready to be removed from the container.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Plastic bags have been used for decades to dispose of trash in a sanitary manner, and to prevent trash containers from becoming soiled and contaminated by trash. They are used in a variety of applications, and come in different sizes and colors. There are specialized bags for carrying, covering, and containing all sorts of waste. Some may be tightly closed, but few can be secured to containers without premature collapsing. The present invention is the combination of a trash container with a bag, preferably made of plastic, for lining the trash container, having a single tie strip, also preferably made of plastic, passing through a single tubular channel at the top of the bag. The tie strip is used both to secure the top of the bag to the top of a trash container, and to tightly close the bag when it is full and ready to be removed from the trash container.
U.S. Pat. No. 1,941,871, issued on Jan. 2, 1934, to Oscar I. Struve, discloses a liner for waste containers, having a plurality of flaps passing over the edge of the opening of a waste container, with rings at ends of the flaps, through which a drawstring is inserted. The flaps may be drawn together to close the liner by lifting the drawstring, when the liner is full and ready to be removed from the waste container. The liner of the instant invention is distinguishable, in that it can be retained on a waste container without the use of flaps, and its tie strip passes through a single tubular channel rather than through a plurality of rings.
U.S. Pat. No. 2,092,969, issued on Sep. 14, 1937, to Arthur Gustafson, Edward Johnson, and Thor Ahlin, discloses a garbage can liner, similar to a rectangular paper bag, having a plurality of apertures around its open end for venting air from the garbage can when the liner is inserted. The liner of the instant invention is distinguishable, in that it has a single tubular channel, rather than a plurality of apertures, and a tie strip passing through the channel.
U.S. Pat. No. 2,159,192, issued on May 23, 1939, to Ernest Russell Werdin, discloses a garbage can liner, with a neck band having longitudinal notches and holes through with a cord is threaded. The liner of the instant invention is distinguishable, in that it has a single tubular channel rather than a plurality of holes, and it does not require a neck band with a plurality of notches.
U.S. Pat. No. 3,135,458, issued on Jun. 2, 1964, to Herbert H. Steuart, discloses a waste collecting bag for plumbers, having an opening, with a seam on only one portion of the opening. A cord is inserted through the seam to tie the bag to a pipe, so that a clean-out rod can be inserted through the other portion of the bag's opening that remains open. The instant invention is distinguishable, in that in it the liner is used in combination with a trash container in which it is placed.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,509,570, issued on Apr. 9, 1985, to Jeffrey Eby and George Spector, discloses an elastic top trash bag, which a hem going all the way around its opening, and an elastic band inside the hem. The liner of the instant invention is distinguishable, in that its tubular channel has opposite openings, and its tie strip has opposite ends that may be tied together.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,786,189, issued on Nov. 22, 1988, to Kevin Broderick et al., discloses a draw tape bag, with two separate tubular channels around its opening, and two separate draw tapes, each of which goes all the way around the opening and passes through both channels. There are gaps between the channels on opposite sides of the bag, and in each gap one of the draw tapes has both of its opposite ends. The liner of the instant invention is distinguishable, in that it has only one tubular channel and only one tie strip. This simpler and more economical arrangement makes it easier to secure the trash liner around the rim of the trash container.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,938,607, issued on Jul. 3, 1990, to Patrick W. Kelley, discloses a sack-forming sheet, with a plurality of peripheral hems through which a draw tape passes. The draw tape is a continuous loop. The liner of the instant invention is distinguishable, in that it has only one tubular channel and it has a tie strip with opposite ends that can be tied together.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,989,994, issued on Feb. 5, 1991, to Edward S. Gelbard, discloses nested plastic bags, in which a drawstring may be threaded through a plurality of holes around the bags' openings to retain the bags on the rim of a trash container. The liner of the instant invention is distinguishable, in that it has a single tubular channel for its tie strip, rather than a plurality of holes.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,133,607, issued on Jul. 28, 1992, to Douglas D. Bonke, discloses a plastic liner bag with an elastic top tie strip, with two separate hems on opposite sides of the bag's opening. The elastic tie strip is a continuous loop. The liner of the instant invention is distinguishable, in that it has a single tubular channel, its tie strip has opposite ends that can be tied together, and its tie strip need not be elastic. The instant invention is also distinguishable, in that in it the rim of the trash container is not completely covered by the liner, because there is a notch in the edge of the liner, through which air can be vented.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,213,141, issued on May 25, 1993, to Ira S. Dorman, discloses a debris collection and disposal system, including a vented collapsible bag having a tie strip threaded through a sleeve around the bag's mouth. The bag is vented by an array of small holes that perforate its body. The liner of the instant invention is distinguishable, in that it is not perforated by an array of holes, and thus will be able to retain small particles and fluids. In the preferred embodiment of the instant invention, air is vented through an U-shaped opening, that is not disclosed in Dorman. Also, in the preferred embodiment, there are two openings in the tubular channel, but Dorman discloses only one opening in the sleeve.
None of the above inventions and patents, taken either singly or in combination, is seen to describe the instant invention as claimed.

Combination of loop-tie trash liner and trash container and method of use


A method of measuring the polarization mode dispersion (PMD) of an optical transmission path carrying clocked digital data traffic involves modulating the state of polarization (SOP) of the light launched into the transmission path, and detecting consequential frequency components in an electrical signal detected at the far end of the transmission path. The SOP modulation, when represented on a Poincarxc3xa9 sphere, has an oscillatory rotational component at a frequency f1 about a first axis of the sphere and an oscillatory rotational component at a frequency f2 about a second axis of the sphere that is orthogonal to said first axis, and where f1xe2x89xa0f2, f1xe2x89xa02f2, and f2xe2x89xa02f1.

When nominally circularly symmetric optical fibre is employed as a long distance transmission path from an optical transmitter to an optical receiver, the departures from perfect circular symmetry of that fibre can be of a sufficient magnitude for the fibre to function as a concatenation of birefringent elements of random relative orientation. Moreover that orientation is liable to change with time.
When polarised light of any particular wavelength is transmitted through a single element exhibiting uniform birefringence, that light is, in general, resolved into two components (modes) propagating with two specific different velocities, and so possessing different transit times of propagation through that element. For each of two particular orthogonal states of polarisation (SOPs), known as the principal SOPs, the light is not resolved into different components, but propagates at a single velocity with a single transit time, i.e. propagates as a single (polarisation) mode. These principal SOPs are aligned with the principal axes of birefringence of the element. For light launched into the element with either one of these two principal SOPs, the SOP of the light remains unchanged in its passage through the element. For light launched into the element with any other SOP, that light is resolved in its passage through the element into two orthogonal components aligned with the principal axes of the element and propagating with different velocities. As the result in the velocity difference, the relative phase of the two components at the far end of the element is generally not the same as that at the launch (input) end, and so the light emerging at the far end generally emerges with an SOP that is different from that with which it entered the element. This characteristic can be conceptualised as the SOP of the light evolving in a cyclic manner in its passage through the element.
When polarised light is transmitted through a concatenation of elements, each exhibiting uniform birefringence, but whose principal axes are not all co-aligned, then, even if that light is not resolved into two components by the first element of the concatenation, it will be so resolved by a later element. Then each of those two elements will itself be resolved into two further components by an element further along the concatenation, and so on. It can be demonstrated that for any such concatenation there exists a specific pair of orthogonal SOPs having the property that light launched with either SOP into the concatenation propagates through it with a single transit time. The transit is faster for one of the SOPs than for the other, and the differencing transit time, the differential group delay (DGD), is a measure of the first order polarisation mode dispersion (PMD) of the concatenation. (the term first order PMD is employed in this specification to denote the DGD in respect of a particular wavelength, thereby excluding from its ambit consideration of second order PMD effects which describe the wavelength dependence of that DGD.) For neither one of this specific pair of orthogonal SOPs is the launch SOP maintained in the pas sage of the light through the concatenation, and the light emerges at the far end with an SOP that is in general different from that with which it was launched. The emergent SOP for one of the single transit time launch SOPs is orthogonal to the emergent SOP for the other single transit time launch SOP. For any launch SOP that is not one of the single transit time launch SOPs, the emergent light is composed of two components (polarisation modes), generally of unequal amplitude, which have propagated through the concatenation with different transit times, respectively the previously mentioned fast and slow single transit times of the concatenation.
By analogy with the single uniform birefringence element situation, the two single transit time launch SOPs for the concatenation are often referred to as the principal SOPs of the concatenation. Having regard to the fact that for such a concatenation the single transit time input (launch) SOPs are, in general, different from t he corresponding output (emergence) SOPs, reference in this specification will be made to input principal SOPs (IPSPS) and to output principal SOPs (OPSPs). From consideration of principles of reciprocity, it will be evident that the IPSPs for one direction of propagation through the concatenation are the OPSPs for the other, and vice versa.
The presence of first order polarisation mode dispersion (PMD) in a transmission pathxe2x80x94the difference between the fast and slow single transit times (DGD)xe2x80x94is liable to be a problem when its magnitude becomes significant compared With the bit period of traffic propagating in the transmission path. Under these circumstances there will be significant pulse broadening at the receiver when bits are launched into the transmission path with an SOP that the transmission path divides into fast and slow single transit time components (modes) of equal power. In principle, this pulse broadening effect could be avoided by taking steps to ensure that the bits are always launched into the transmission path with SOPs matched with one of the IPSPs of the transmission path so that they always propagate, either exclusively with the fast transit time, or exclusively with the slow one, i.e. so that they always propagate in a single mode. However there are difficulties with achieving this in practice. The primary reason for this is that the IPSPs vary with time, and so an active SOP alignment system would be required. Additionally, identification of the IPSPs typically requires access to both ends of the transmission path, and so the active SOP alignment system situated at the transmitter end of the transmission path would require a feedback control signal from the receiver end of that transmission path.
An alternative approach to the avoidance of the problems presented by first order PMD is a compensation approach that involves allowing the bits to be launched into the transmission path with an SOP that the transmission path divides into two components (modes) propagating with different (fast and slow) transit times, and providing an active system at the receiver end which separates the two components, subjects the separated components to controlled variable differential delay to restore synchronisation of the components, and then recombines them.
An example of the PMD compensation approach is described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,659,412. At the receiver, the signal received from the transmitter via the transmission path is fed to a polarisation beam splitter via a polarisation state controller. The outputs of the polarisation beam splitter are fed to separate detectors provided with associated clock extraction circuits, and the phase relationship between the two extracted clock signals is determined. The resulting phase difference signal is used to control the polarisation state controller in such a way as to maximise the phase difference. This phase difference is at a maximum when the polarisation state controller is operative to map the OPSPs of the transmission path on to the principal polarisation states of the polarisation beam splitter, and under these conditions the polarisation beam splitter is operative to separate the component of the signal launched into the transmission path that propagates through it with the xe2x80x98fastxe2x80x99 transit time from the component that propagates through it with the xe2x80x98slowxe2x80x99 transit time. In one of the embodiments specifically described, the electrical output of the detector providing the phase-leading clock signal is delayed by the amount corresponding to the measured phase difference between the two extracted clock signals, the DGD, and then the two electrical signals are combined. In the other embodiment specifically described, the two detectors receive only a tapped fraction of the total optical power outputs from the polarisation beam splitter, while the remainder of that power, after the imposition of an optical delay upon the leading component, is optically combined and detected using a third detector. Thus it is seen that the approach of U.S. Pat. No. 5,659,412 necessarily requires the use of at least two detectors capable of operating at the bit rate, some embodiments requiring three such detectors. Moreover operation of the device is complicated by the need to allow for the occurrence of occasions in which either one of the IPSPs of transmission path approaches land passes through coincidence with the SOP of the signal being launched into that transmission path. Under these conditions there is a large disparity in power level between the two outputs of the polarisation beam splitter.
An alternative approach, the approach with which the present invention is concerned, is to forgo compensation for the effects of PMD, but instead to rely upon on-line measurement of the magnitude of the PMD to provide an output that can be employed to determine the maximum safe bit rate that can be handled by the transmission path at that time.
There is a variety of situations in which measurement of PMD is useful on its own, without having recourse to any attempt to provide compensation for that PMD. For instance, measurement of PMD without compensation can be useful in the monitoring of a transmission path carrying traffic at one bit rate for assessment of its suitability for carrying traffic at a higher rate (e.g. suitability for uprating from 2.4 Gbit/s to 10 Gbit/s. In networks in which most of the regenerated spans exhibit relatively low PMD, but in which a few may exhibit marginally acceptable PMD, it may be important to identify those spans likely to be the cause of errors. A PMD monitor enables PMD related faults to be identified. A monitoring of changes in level of PMD can be used to control a protection switch operated to reroute traffic whenever the PMD of a link temporarily exceeds its mean value by an amount large enough to make any further increase likely to produce PMD-induced outage.
An object of the invention is to provide a method of measuring first order PMD of a transmission path while it is being used for the transmission of data. This objective is accomplished by arranging to modulate (dither) the polarisation state of light launched into the transmission path. This modulation is of a form that, when represented on a Poincarxc3xa9 sphere, has an oscillatory rotational component at a frequency f1 about a first axis of the sphere, and an oscillatory rotational component at a frequency f2 about a second axis of the sphere that is orthogonal to the first axis, and where f1xe2x89xa0f2, f1xe2x89xa02f2, and f2xe2x89xa02f1. Given knowledge of the initial amplitudes of the f1 and f2 modulations, a measure of the PMD of the transmission path is ascertainable from a measure of the amplitudes of the components of the received clock at the receiver at frequencies f1, f2, 2f1 and 2f2.
Other features and advantages of the invention will be readily apparent from the following description of preferred embodiments of the invention from the drawings and from the claims.

Polarization mode dispersion measurement


The invention is directed to a movable backrest of an adjustable chair, which can include: a backrest assembly, a first backrest support, a first backrest connector, a second backrest support, a second backrest connector, and a backrest guiding apparatus; the backrest assembly is connected to the first backrest support through a first shaft, the backrest assembly is connected to the guiding apparatus through a seventh shaft, the first backrest support is connected to the first backrest connector through a second shaft, the backrest guiding apparatus is connected to the first backrest connector through a sixth shaft. The invention is simple, durable, and easy to operate, can help eliminate a gap between the backrest and the sitting pad when the adjustable chair is at different positions, reduce the friction feeling of a person's back and prevent the backrest from touching the well when the adjustable chair is at different positions.

Referring to FIG. 5, presently a conventional adjustable sofa chair may not be able to adjust to different positions when the sofa chair is positioned against a wall. That is, when a footrest extends forwardly while a backrest of the adjustable sofa chair is positioned against a wall, the backrest of the adjustable sofa chair may only move forwardly limitedly. And then when the backrest moves downwardly, the backrest moves downwardly and backwardly at the same time, which can cause the backrest to touch the wall before the backrest reaches its final position. Therefore, the adjustable sofa chair cannot be positioned against the wall completely, reducing space usage efficiency. The backrest of a conventional adjustable sofa chair may also not be able to move along with a person's back. When a person is in a sitting position, the person's back is at a sitting back position K, the person's head is at a sitting head position L. When the person is in a lying position, because the position of the chair does not change, the person's back is at a lying back position K′ and the person's head is at a lying heat position L′. There is a position shift U, which may cause discomfort.

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An image processing device, includes: an output unit that outputs a reference signal for every page break when a continuous recording medium is conveyed; and a control unit that controls an image forming unit which forms an image on the recording medium with a resolution which is different from a resolution in conveyance of the recording medium so as to adjust an image forming position onto the recording medium for every page based on the reference signal.

1. Technical Field
The present invention relates to an image processing device, an image forming device, and a non-transitory computer readable medium.
2. Related Art
In an image forming device which forms an image on a continuous recording medium, a deviation may occur due to a conveyance error of the recording medium so that a technology for performing various corrections has been suggested.

Image processing device for a continuous recording medium, image forming device and non-transitory computer readable medium for the same