A third party website provides a search interface to a general search engine. A site profile of the third party website describes various topics, keywords, or domains that are potentially relevant or of interest to users who access the third party website. The topics are associated with a topical directory, with domains associated with each topic; the domains in a given topic are given various weightings. When a search is submitted to the general search engine from the third party website via the search interface, the general search engine uses the site profile to customize the search results. The search results are customized by weighting the ranking of documents from websites associated with the topics in the site profile. The site profile can be manually or automatically constructed.

The current state of the art in online search engines is highly advanced in its ability to retrieve documents (e.g., web pages or portions thereof, images, audio files, video, multimedia, etc.) that are responsive to the terms of a query. Search engines today can quickly retrieve specific documents that match the terms of the query.
Web site operators often contract with a search engine provider to obtain an interface to the search engine on the operator's website. This allows users who are on the operator's website to perform a search of the entire internet from a search box on website. Conventionally, these searches will return the same results as if they were done directly from the web site of the search engine provider, in that they do not reflect any influence on the results in view of the contents or theme of the website, or the interests of the website operator.
For example, on a website that focuses on providing information about major league baseball, a general search on "giants" will typically return search results oriented to giants. However, the site operator would prefer to customize the search results to reflect the interests of users of the site, who presumably are interested in baseball. Thus, it would be preferable to the site operator if the generalized search instead returned results oriented towards the San Francisco Giants baseball team.
Similarly, using current search approaches, site operators of two different website, one of which is oriented towards sports, and another of which is oriented towards politics, will provides users of their respective sites exactly the same results a given query to a general search engine, for example, the query o the "drug testing in baseball." However, the first site operator would prefer that users obtain results about baseballs teams have implemented drug testing, while the latter site operator would prefer that users obtain results about legislation related to drug testing in sports. Thus, there is a need for providing a mechanism and methodology for customizing search results provided by a search engine in accordance with the interests of the site operators.

Customization of search results for search queries received from third party sites


The present invention provides a system for allotting soup and ingredients, by which it is possible to allot soup for customers without the possibility of scorching, to provide soup immediately for the customers through simple procedure, and to evenly distribute ingredients and to avoid collapse of initial shape of the ingredients. In the system for allotting soup mixed with approximately constant quantity of ingredients, said system comprises a container for accommodating the soup mixed with ingredients, a device provided in said container and for separating the soup from ingredients, ingredient accommodating device provided at the lower end of said container and for accommodating a predetermined quantity of ingredients, and an accommodating chamber provided on said accommodating device and used for accommodating a predetermined quantity of ingredients, whereby said predetermined quantity of ingredients is dropped through an opening formed on the lower end of said chamber for accommodating the predetermined quantity of ingredients into a space with a predetermined volume provided thereunder, said opening being opened or closed freely.

The present invention relates to a system for allotting approximately constant quantity of ingredients to soup such as miso soup, curried soup, and other soup and for distributing a predetermined quantity of the soup with ingredients for customers.
In restaurants, dining halls, or factory mess halls, it has been customary that canned food materials such as miso soup, curried soup, corn soup, corn chowder, etc. (10 to 20 liters in volume) as cooked in other places in advance are placed into a big pot and these are kept always in warm condition by heating up constantly and are visually allotted and distributed each in predetermined quantity into containers for customers while stirring up with large spoon or ladle.
As described above, the soup should be always heated up, and it is necessary to stir it up almost constantly in order to prevent scorching. Special staffs must be assigned for this purpose, and this leads to cost increase for the soups due to the increase of personnel expenditure. Moreover, the quantity of ingredients to be mixed in the soup may not be maintained at constant level, and initial shape of the ingredients is often lost due to frequent stirring.
In some cases, the soup is not heated up at all times, but it is heated up each time before it is served to the customers. In this case, a certain time is required before the soup is fully heated up, and this causes inconveniences for the customers.

System for allotting soup with ingredients

Green Corp 301, 3-2 Hosiguchi, Kanagawa-Ku


A fast lock circuit for phase lock loop comprising a frequency detector, a phase frequency detector, a logic unit and a corresponding charge pump for the frequency and the phase frequency detectors. Embodiments of the present invention use the logic unit to relay signals from the phase frequency detector circuit to the charge pump when the PLL is in lock. The logic circuit relay signals from the frequency detector circuit before the PLL is in lock. As a result, a constant current is supplied to a large loop filter capacitor before lock. In one embodiment, additional logic circuit may be used to maximize the output current. Therefore, using the logic circuit to supply constant current charges the large loop filter capacitor continuously and avoids a slow down in charging the large loop filter. Accordingly, current is no longer wasted and the lock time is improved.

A phase-locked loop (PLL) is a closed-loop feedback control system that maintains a generated signal in a fixed phase relationship to a reference signal. More importantly, the PLL is used widely in radio, telecommunications, computers and other electronic applications where it is desired to stabilize a generated signal or to detect signals in the presence of noise. For example, the PLL is widely used for synchronization purposes, in communication for coherent carrier tracking, bit synchronization and symbol synchronization for instance.
FIG. 1 shows a fast lock circuit 100 for a PLL circuit. The fast lock circuit 100 uses the normal PLL phase frequency detector 110 and normal PLL charge pump 130 combination in the primary loop. Before the PLL circuit has achieved lock, a separate frequency detector 120 and a secondary charge pump 140 quickly charge or discharge the large loop filter capacitor 150.
Moreover, when the PLL approaches lock, a deliberate dead zone built into the frequency detector 120 disables the secondary circuit. As a result, the phase frequency detector 110 and the charge pump 130 bring the PLL to lock. However, as the PLL approaches lock, the phase frequency detector produces a pump down signal on every period of the reference clock. The pump down signal resets the pump up signal from the phase frequency detector which slows down the net charging of the loop filter as shown in FIG. 2. As a result, the lock time increases as shown by the discontinuity of the filter charging curve of FIG. 2.
An H-bridge circuit is commonly used in charge pumps in order to maintain a constant voltage across both the current source and the current sink in the charge pump of a PLL. However, when an H-bridge is used and both phase frequency detector pulses have the same value, the current is shunted to ground. As a result, during the time that the current is not steered onto the loop filter, the current is shunted to ground and wasted because it is no longer used to charge the loop filter. As a result, the lock time increases.


A clamping device has a hexagon receptacle for receiving hexagon bits inserted in an axial direction of the hexagon receptacle. A radially movable locking element is provided for engaging a locking recess of an inserted hexagon bit. The locking element has a rest position and projects in the rest position radially inwardly into the hexagon receptacle. A locking sleeve surrounds the hexagon receptacle in an initial position and has a cylindrical securing wall. The securing wall radially secures the locking element in the rest position. The locking element is axially moveable within the hexagon receptacle into a receiving position in which radial deflection of the locking element is enabled.

1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to a clamping device having a hexagon receptacle for hexagon bits. The clamping device comprises a radially movable locking element for engagement of a locking recess of the hexagon bit, wherein the locking element projects in a rest position radially inwardly into the hexagon receptacle.
2. Description of the Related Art
Many screw connections are carried out with mechanical or electro-mechanical assist devices, wherein mains-operated or battery pack-operated reversible drills, mechanical ratchet devices or the like are used. As a universally suitable tool, so-called hexagon bits have found great acceptance. These hexagon bits have a substantially hexagonal cross-section and are secured in matching hexagon receptacles, wherein the torque transmission from the hexagon receptacle onto the hexagon bit is realized by surface pressure acting on the lateral surfaces of the hexagon bit. For adaptation to different screwing tasks, an easy exchangeability of the hexagon bits is desirable. Corresponding snap-on connections enable, as needed, the use of bits for screws with slotted head or Philips head, socket bits or other hexagon bits that are adapted to the respective work situation. Hexagon bits having a quarter inch size are a widely accepted international standard.
In operation, securing of the bits in the axial direction was found to be a problem. Hexagon receptacles with integrated magnets are known wherein the magnet is designed to prevent, on the one hand, the inserted bit from accidentally falling out of the receptacle. On the other hand, the bit is to be magnetized in order to ensure adhesion of the screw on the bit. The holding force of the magnet however may not surpass a certain magnitude so that the inserted hexagon bit can be exchanged by hand without tools, for example, when it surpasses a wear limit. In particular, when having carried out a screwing action by applying high torque, it can occur that a hexagon bit remains stuck on the screw head and slips out of the hexagon receptacle when removing the screwing tool. Long bits or specialty bits have a higher weight, and the magnetic holding force can be too small for such bits.
Clamping with a hexagon receptacle are known in which the clamped hexagon bit is secured in the axial direction by means of appropriate locking elements by positive engagement. For this purpose, the hexagon bit has locking recesses, for example, in the form of a circumferential annular groove that is engaged by the locking element. For insertion and removal of such bits, a cumbersome release action is required.


A crane arm dolly for supporting a crane arm carrying a camera includes a post pivotally supported on a dolly chassis. Adjustable post support rods support the post. The support rods can be lengthened or shortened to maintain the post in a vertical position when the crane arm dolly is used on an inclined surface.

The field of the present invention is camera cranes and dollies.
Various camera cranes and dollies have been known and used in the art. The camera crane or dolly is used to provide a stable mobile platform for a motion picture, television or video camera. Camera cranes and dollies may have a column or arm for raising and lowering the camera. For additional vertical or horizontal camera displacement, a crane arm can be used with a camera dolly or crane. However, crane arms require counterbalancing weights which increase the load which must be carried by the camera dolly or crane supporting the crane arm. This increased load can require a larger, heavier dolly or crane resulting in decreased transportability and maneuverability.


Data of a global file system spread over multiple local NAS systems may be consolidated as a copy into a single remote NAS system. When remote copy is set up, the local NAS systems replace referrals within the global file system with directories and send these in place of the referrals to the remote NAS system. Then, other local NAS systems referred to by the referrals send files and directories under the directories replacing the referrals on the remote NAS system. Alternatively, to split copy data of a locally-stored global file system amongst multiple remote NAS systems, the local NAS system replaces specified directories with referrals, and sends the referrals with the data to one of the remote NAS systems. Then, the local NAS system sends files and directories under the directories replaced with referrals to one or more other remote NAS systems as referred to by the referrals.

1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to computer storage systems, and, more particularly, to file servers or Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems having NFS version 4 functionality.
2. Description of the Related Art
Historically, to share files with multiple hosts, protocols such as NFS (Network File System) protocol version 2 or 3 have been used. NFS is a distributed file system and associated network protocol originally developed by Sun Microsystem Computer Corporation, although the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) is now responsible for the NFS standard.
In previous and current NFS versions 2 and 3, a name space (or directory tree) of a file system is constructed within each server. Therefore, when a file system on a first server is migrated to a new server, clients themselves must change their target to send requests to the new server to access the migrated file system on the new server.
Recently, NFS version 4 has been proposed, and is being developed and implemented on several platforms. In NFS version 4, the name space of a file system can be constructed over multiple servers utilizing referrals. Referrals are the attributes that inform clients of a new location of a file system. When a file system on an old server is migrated to a new server, and when a client attempts to access the file system on the old server, the client is notified of the new location of the file system by a referral so that the client can redirect the access request to the new server. Therefore, clients can access the file system transparently (without being concerned about the new location of the file system) even after the file system is migrated to another server. This feature is called "Global Name Space", and the file system having this feature is called a "Global File System".
Additionally, data replication techniques such as remote copy are often used in storage systems in preparation for situations where the original data is lost or corrupted. Remote copy is a technique to keep a synchronized or asynchronous copy of a file system in a remotely-deployed file server or NAS (Network Attached Storage) system. Conventionally, the remote copy technique is used to copy a file system on a single file server to a single remote file server because each file system can be constructed only within each server.

This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.

Method of mirroring data between clustered NAS systems


A flaw detecting apparatus and a method for a plane mirror based on line scanning and ring band stitching are provided. The flaw detecting apparatus comprises: a line scanning detector, an annular illumination source, a rotary table rotatable about a Z axis, a translation table translatable along an X axis and a processor. By translating and rotating the plane mirror to be detected, an entire surface of the plane mirror to be detected can be detected by the line scanning detector, and the flaw of the entire plane mirror to be detected is obtained by a ring band stitching method. The method of line scanning and ring band stitching reduces the imaging distortion, the intermediate data amount, the difficulty in the distortion correction and difficulty in stitching, and improves the detection speed and the detection quality.

A lithography lens is a complex optical system which consists of dozens of lenses. Some of plane mirrors have large diameter, and thus it is difficult to develop corresponding standard lenses. A stitching measurement is performed by planning and dividing a mirror into a plurality of small sub-apertures and measuring them one by one, and then combining the sub-aperture surface shapes into a whole mirror surface shape by an algorithm. At the beginning of the 21st century, QED Company of the United States produced a SSI automatic stitching interferometer to implement an automatic stitching measurement to optical components, but the detection accuracy is relatively poor, such that it may only be used as a middle-process detection instrument in a high-precision lens processing. A most important reason for its poor precision is that, during the process of stitching measurement, an outer ring region of a piece to be detected needs to be tilted by a certain angle to match the state of a standard mirror, while such a tilt causes the piece to be detected to be subjected to a deformation, and the amount of deformation will be directly introduced into the detection result, which cannot achieve a high detection precision.
Surface flaws of an optical component refer to processing defects such as pitting, scratches, open air bubbles, broken points and broken edges in the surface(s) of the optical component after being processed by a polishing. The flaws in the surface(s) of the optical component cause a diffusing of a light beam when it passes through a flaw region having above flaws, and deviates from a preset direction, thus seriously affecting an optical performance of an optical system, which should be effectively controlled during processing.
A description and measurement of the surface flaws of traditional optical components are mainly performed by means of visually observing the image(s) of flaw image. The result thereof is greatly influenced by subjective will of the observer. At present, a current surface flaw detecting apparatus operates mainly based on a scanning by an area camera, which has disadvantages of a large amount of sub-apertures, a long detection time, a large amount of intermediate data, a substantial distortion of imaging of these sub-aperture data, and difficulty in distortion correction and position correction during stitching.

Flaw detecting apparatus, method for detecting flaw of plane mirror based on line scanning and ring band stitching

The Institute of Optics and Electronics, The Chinese Academy of Sciences


A TMR sensor that includes a free layer having at least one B-containing (BC) layer made of CoFeB, CoFeBM, CoB, CoBM, or CoBLM, and a plurality of non-B containing (NBC) layers made of CoFe, CoFeM, or CoFeLM is disclosed where L and M are one of Ni, Ta, Ti, W, Zr, Hf, Tb, or Nb. One embodiment is represented by (NBC/BC)n where n≧2. A second embodiment is represented by (NBC/BC)n/NBC where n≧1. In every embodiment, a NBC layer contacts the tunnel barrier and NBC layers each with a thickness from 2 to 8 Angstroms are formed in alternating fashion with one or more BC layers each 10 to 80 Angstroms thick. Total free layer thickness is <100 Angstroms. The free layer configuration described herein enables a significant noise reduction (SNR enhancement) while realizing a high TMR ratio, low magnetostriction, low RA, and low Hc values.

A TMR sensor otherwise known as a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) is a key component (memory element) in magnetic devices such as Magnetic Random Access Memory (MRAM) and a magnetic read head. A TMR sensor typically has a stack of layers with a configuration in which two ferromagnetic layers are separated by a thin non-magnetic insulator layer. The sensor stack in a so-called bottom spin valve configuration is generally comprised of a seed (buffer) layer, anti-ferromagnetic (AFM) layer, pinned layer, tunnel barrier layer, free layer, and capping layer that are sequentially formed on a substrate. The free layer serves as a sensing layer that responds to external fields (media field) while the pinned layer is relatively fixed and functions as a reference layer. The electrical resistance through the tunnel barrier layer (insulator layer) varies with the relative orientation of the free layer moment compared with the reference layer moment and thereby converts magnetic signals into electrical signals. In a magnetic read head, the TMR sensor is formed between a bottom shield and a top shield. When a sense current is passed from the top shield to the bottom shield (or top conductor to bottom conductor in a MRAM device) in a direction perpendicular to the planes of the TMR layers (CPP designation), a lower resistance is detected when the magnetization directions of the free and reference layers are in a parallel state ("1" memory state) and a higher resistance is noted when they are in an anti-parallel state or "0" memory state. Alternatively, a TMR sensor may be configured as a current in plane (CIP) structure that indicates the direction of the sense current.
A giant magnetoresistive (GMR) head is another type of memory device. In this design, the insulator layer between the pinned layer and free layer in the TMR stack is replaced by a non-magnetic conductive layer such as copper.
In the TMR stack, the pinned layer may have a synthetic anti-ferromagnetic (SyAF) configuration in which an outer pinned layer is magnetically coupled through a coupling layer to an inner pinned layer that contacts the tunnel barrier. The outer pinned layer has a magnetic moment that is fixed in a certain direction by exchange coupling with the adjacent AFM layer which is magnetized in the same direction. The tunnel barrier layer is so thin that a current through it can be established by quantum mechanical tunneling of conduction electrons.
A TMR sensor is currently the most promising candidate for replacing a GMR sensor in upcoming generations of magnetic recording heads. An advanced TMR sensor may have a cross-sectional area of about 0.1 micron×0.1 micron at the air bearing surface (ABS) plane of the read head. The advantage of a TMR sensor is that a substantially higher MR ratio can be realized than for a GMR sensor. In addition to a high MR ratio, a high performance TMR sensor requires a low areal resistance RA (area×resistance) value, a free layer with low magnetostriction (λ) and low coercivity (Hc), a strong pinned layer, and low interlayer coupling (Hin) through the barrier layer. The MR ratio (also referred to as TMR ratio) is dR/R where R is the minimum resistance of the TMR sensor and dR is the change in resistance observed by changing the magnetic state of the free layer. A higher dR/R improves the readout speed. For high recording density or high frequency applications, RA must be reduced to about 1 to 3 ohm-um2.
A MgO based MTJ is a very promising candidate for high frequency recording applications because its tunneling magnetoresistive (TMR) ratio is significantly higher than for AlOx or TiOx based MTJs. S. Yuasa et al. in "Giant room-temperature magnetoresistance in single crystal Fe/MgO/Fe magnetic tunnel junctions", Nature Materials 3, 868-871 (2004) and S. Parkin et al. in "Giant tunneling magnetoresistance at room temperature with MgO (100) tunnel barriers", Nature Materials 3, 862-867 (2004) demonstrated that a MR ratio of ˜200% can be achieved at room temperature in epitaxial Fe(001)/MgO(001)/Fe(001) and in polycrystalline FeCo(001)/MgO(001)/(Fe70Co30)80B20 MTJs. Yuasa et al. reported an MR ratio as high as 410% at RT in "Giant tunneling magnetoresistance up to 410% at room temperature in fully epitaxial Co/MgO/Co magnetic tunnel junctions with bcc Co(001) electrodes", Applied Physics Letters, 89, 042505 (2006). Meanwhile, D. Djayaprawira et. al showed that MTJs of CoFeB/MgO(001)/CoFeB structure made by conventional sputtering can also have a very high MR ratio of 230% with advantages of better flexibility and uniformity in "230% room temperature magnetoresistance in CoFeB/MgO/CoFeB magnetic tunnel junctions", Physics Letters 86, 092502 (2005).
For a low RA application, the MR ratio of CoFeB/Mg/MgO/CoFeB MTJs can reach 138% at RA=2.4 ohm/μm2 according to K. Tsunekawa et al. in "Giant tunneling magnetoresistance effect in low resistance CoFeB/MgO(001)/CoFeB magnetic tunnel junctions for read head applications", Applied Physics Letters 87, 072503 (2005). In this case, a DC-sputtered Mg layer was inserted between the CoFeB pinned layer and an RF-sputtered MgO layer, an idea initially proposed by T. Linn et al. in U.S. Pat. No. 6,841,395 to prevent oxidation of the bottom electrode (CoFe) in a CoFe/MgO(reactive sputtering)/NiFe structure. Also, a Ta getter presputtering prior to RF sputtering a MgO layer can achieve 55% TMR with 0.4 ohm/μm2 as reported by Y. Nagamine et al. in "Ultralow resistance-area product of 0.4 ohm/μm2 and high magnetoresistance above 50% in CoFeB/MgO/CoFeB magnetic junctions", Applied Physics Letters, 89, 162507 (2006).
An alternative method of forming low RA in a MTJ with a MgO tunnel barrier is to DC sputter deposit a first Mg layer, perform a natural oxidation (NOX) process, and then DC sputter deposit a second Mg layer on the resulting MgO layer as disclosed in related U.S. Pat. No. 7,780,820. Benefits include better process control and improved MRR (read) uniformity.
In order to achieve a smaller Hc but still maintain a high TMR ratio, the industry tends to use CoFeB as the free layer in a TMR sensor based on a MgO tunnel barrier. Insertion of a thin CoFe layer between a MgO barrier and CoFeB free layer may be used for realizing a high MR ratio at a low annealing temperature below 300° C. However, there are two major concerns associated with a CoFeB free layer. One is a high positive magnetostriction (λ) and a second issue is a CoFeB free layer tends to cause excessive noise and lower the signal to noise ratio (SNR) which is undesirable. Thus, an improved free layer in a TMR sensor is needed that reduces noise and magnetostriction while providing a high TMR ratio, low RA value, and low coercivity.
U.S. Pat. No. 7,310,210 mentions a CoFeB/Cu/CoFeB free layer where the larger spin polarization on the boundaries between the CoFeB layers and Cu layer promote spin dependent scattering and enhance the magnetoresistive effect.
In U.S. Pat. No. 6,982,932, a free layer is disclosed which is a laminate of CoFeB and CoNbZr. The laminate may be formed on a CoFe layer to provide an interface between the free layer and an isolating layer.
U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2007/0253116 describes a magnetic layer that contains CoFe, CoFeB, a CoFe alloy, or a combination of these films.
U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2005/0052793 teaches a free layer with a trilayer configuration wherein each of the first, second, and third layers is selected from a group including Ni, Co, Fe, B, CoFe, CoFeB, NiFe, and alloys thereof.
U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2003/0123198 discloses a free layer made of a CoFe film, NiFe film, or a CoFeB film or a lamination layer film of these films to realize a larger MR ratio and a soft magnetic characteristic.

TMR device with novel free layer structure


A wireless data transmission apparatus is disclosed, comprising one or more antennas for transmitting data as polarised electromagnetic radiation, and polarisation control means for controlling an axial ratio and a tilt angle of the polarised electromagnetic radiation such that the axial ratio and tilt angle conveys information about the data being transmitted. A corresponding wireless data receiving apparatus is also disclosed. In some embodiments, the one or more antennas comprises a patch antenna, and the polarisation means may comprise a mechanism for varying an electrical length of the angled slot. By utilising the tilt angle and axial ratio of polarised electromagnetic radiation to convey information to the receiver, the spectral efficiency of the system can be increased. A further increase in spectral efficiency may be obtained by using the polarisation control means to modulate first and second carrier waves, and transmitting different data on the first and second carrier waves.

Wireless data transmission systems are coming under increasing pressure due to the ever-growing numbers of mobile users and the amount of mobile traffic, both of which are increasing at a staggering rate. The volume of global mobile data traffic is predicted to increase by a factor of 103 over the next decade. In the microwave frequency bands in particular, which are used for mobile wireless communication services, spectrum scarcity is a major concern for the deployment of new wireless networks. There is therefore a need for the next generation of wireless data transmission systems to offer higher spectrum efficiencies than existing systems, to support the ever-increasing demand for capacity.
The invention is made in this context.

Wireless data transmission using polarised electromagnetic radiation


A method for positioning a robot at start-up includes: when the robot is started up, controlling the robot to rotate in a preset rotation direction in a start-up positioning region; determining position information about a rotation path of the positioning transmitting unit according to the preset rotation direction and a set of at least three different position distances, where the at least three different position distances are between the positioning transmitting unit and the two positioning receiving units disposed at the different fixed positions and are determined during a rotation process; using a direction extending from the center position of the rotation path to a position of the positioning transmitting unit when the robot stops rotation as orientation information of the robot; and using the center position of the rotation path and the orientation information of the robot as start-up positioning information of the robot.

With the development of positioning technologies, current robots can achieve autonomous positioning and navigation based on their own positioning systems. When a robot is turned on and started up, the robot will lose its own positioning information and thus lose the ability of autonomous navigation.
In the related art, a robot usually acquires position information of the robot again by constructing a map through visual information. In such method, a start-up reposition database of the robot needs to be constructed based on acquired pose data and image data, a start-up image when the robot is at a start-up position needs to be acquired, a plurality of similar images matching the start-up image are obtained from the start-up reposition database, and the start-up pose of the robot at the start-up position is determined based on the similar images.
However, the preceding method is greatly affected by the environment. Thus, the positioning accuracy of the robot at start-up will be greatly affected after certain changes occur in the surrounding environment of the robot.

Method and apparatus for positioning a robot at start-up, electronic device and storage medium


Artificial intelligence (AI)-based process identification, extraction, and automation for robotic process automation (RPA) is disclosed. Listeners may be deployed to user computing systems to collect data pertaining to user actions. The data collected by the listeners may then be sent to one or more servers and be stored in a database. This data may be analyzed by AI layers to recognize patterns of user behavioral processes therein. These recognized processes may then be distilled into respective RPA workflows and deployed to automate the processes.

Businesses may or may not be aware of processes that could benefit from RPA. Employees perform various tasks that are likely not directly known by the employer, and these tasks may be repetitive or otherwise candidates for being automated. Furthermore, businesses may have an idea of what they would like to automate, but not know the best workflow(s) to achieve that automation. While a log of user actions could be generated by a human reviewing a video recording, for example, this does not effectively capture precisely what a user is doing and is too expensive and time consuming to be practical and effective. Furthermore, the reviewer's account of what is occurring may not be accurate (e.g., the reviewer may misidentify the application that a user is using at a given time). Accordingly, an improved mechanism for identifying beneficial automations, improving planned or existing automations, or both, may be beneficial.

Artificial intelligence-based process identification, extraction, and automation for robotic process automation


Buffering circuitry (10) uses pull-up slew rate control circuitry (12) and pull-down slew rate control circuitry (14) to control the rising and falling slew rates of an output signal (50) provided by buffering circuitry (10). Pull-up slew rate control circuitry (12) and pull-down slew rate control circuitry (14) may be used in an embodiment of buffering circuitry (10) which provides a higher output voltage VHIGH than the standard power voltage VPOWER which is used to power most of the circuitry. Buffering circuitry (10) utilizes distributed resistive elements (89-91) to provide improved electrostatic discharge protection. Buffering circuitry (10) utilizes a low power level shifter (16). Voltage reference generation circuitry (18) may be used to provide a stable low power reference voltage VREF (42).

The present invention relates in general to integrated circuits, and more particularly to buffering circuitry with slew rate control for use in integrated circuits.
Buffer circuits are very common circuits used throughout integrated circuit design. Specific elements required by a buffer circuit may vary depending upon the constraints with which the buffer circuit must function. Although buffer circuits can be used throughout an integrated circuit, one common place where they are normally used is as an input/output buffer at the integrated circuit pads which are used to couple the integrated circuit to the external world.
One set of constraints for an input/output buffer is provided by the IEEE 1284 standard, which is used for driving a 62 ohm transmission line from the integrated circuit. The 1284 IEEE standard requires a precise slew rate, a precise output impedance, as well as input hysteresis. In addition to the constraints required by the 1284 IEEE standard, it is also often a requirement that an integrated circuit use as little power as possible. In addition, it is also desirable for most integrated circuits to have electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection. As yet another constraint, the internal circuitry within an integrated circuit may be designed using a process that requires a lower power voltage than the voltage required by the IEEE 1284 standard which requires 5 volts.
Although a buffer may be designed to meet a variety of design constraints, particular portions of the buffer design may be applicable to a wide variety of usages, some of which are outside of particular sets of constraints. For example, particular portions of a buffer design that improve ESD protection may be applicable to a wide variety of buffer circuits that do not have similar constraints. In addition, a buffer circuit that is designed to meet the IEEE 1284 standard for slew rate may be applicable to buffers that are used in other applications not requiring that standard. In addition, there may be particular value to subsets of the constraints listed above. For example, it may be particularly useful to have a buffer circuit that is both low power and meets the IEEE 1284 standard.

Integrated circuit having buffering circuitry with slew rate control


Current seat construction typically includes a mechanism by which the back portion of the seat may be adjustably reclined. These mechanisms have been known to have unacceptable relative movement between the seat components which has been the source of operator discomfort. The present invention comprehends a reclining mechanism that includes a gear connection between a pair of spaced extensions defined by a back portion of a seat assembly. The extensions engage a pair of stub shafts, each of which defines a gear assembly thereon. The stub shafts each define a hex-shaped socket and are interconnected by a shaft member. The shaft member defines a spherical hex head portion that engages the respective sockets and accommodates a preselected amount of lateral misalignment between the sides of the seat assembly and the respective stub shafts.

It is well known in the operation of construction machines that the nature of the terrain in which they operate does not lend itself to providing a comfortable ride for the operator of the machine. This is especially true with the large machines that place the operator quite some distance off the ground wherein the rough conditions of the ground are amplified by the distance between the ground and the operator. This not only causes the operator some discomfort, it also is very fatiguing.
In order to counteract this situation, there have been many improvements made to the operator station or cabs of these machines. One area of improvement has been the seat assembly. Many seat assemblies have been provided with various adjustments to accommodate the varying sizes of operators. One of these adjustments resides in the tilting of the back portion of the seat with respect to the base to give the operator better support, and therefore greater comfort, in the area of his back. There have been several types of reclining mechanism that have been known to work quite well in providing an acceptable range of adjustment, however many of these mechanisms inherently have a significant amount of relative movement or "play" in the mounting structure. This relative movement is also amplified by the traverse of the machine over rough terrain and has been known to be a source of discomfort.
A typical reclining mechanism uses a plurality of gears that mesh with a portion of the seat back to permit relative rotation between the seat back and the seat base. A locking pawl engages one of the gears and prevents rotation of the gears thereby fixing the location of the back portion. While this works well to lock one side of the back portion it becomes a problem to lock both sides with a single locking mechanism and yet provide a mechanical stop for both sides of the seat back. In order to do this, extraordinary locating measures must be taken in the manufacturing and the assembly of the seat to insure that the meshing between the gears of the reclining mechanism and the seat back occur without binding. These manufacturing and assembly measures are not only costly and drive up the cost of the seat, but they also require an inordinate amount of time to properly locate and adjust the position of the various components during the assembly process to insure proper operation.
The present invention is directed to overcoming one or more of the problems set forth above.


A hand-guidable electric machine tool has a casing having an air guide duct, a tool part, a motor for driving the tool part, and a radial blower for cooling the motor, the radial blower having a fan wheel for forming a static pressure differential. The air guide duct has an inlet opening and an outlet opening and continuously widening in cross-section in a direction of the outlet opening. The cross-section measured in radial direction of the inlet opening of the air guide duct is smaller than the cross-section of the outlet opening.

The present invention relates to a hand-guided electric machine tool with a radial blower.
More particularly, it relates to such a tool which has a motor for driving a tool, and a radial blower with a fan wheel forming a static pressure differential and having an air guide inside the casing.
Hand machine tools, such as drills, angle grinders or hand circular saws comprising radial blowers for cooling the motor, are already known. The air guide ducts in such machines, as for example in the percussion drill according to DE-OS 35 03 172, are disposed more or less in a circular ring around the fan wheel and serve solely to collect the air and discharge it in concentrated form. The air then passes out through cooling air slots provided in the casing. Not least because of the restricted space in hand machine tools, the ducts are not shaped to promote flow, and in particular, depending on the type of fan used, the sometimes very high dynamic pressure fraction is not exploited. In addition, because of the high speed of the outgoing air, this often becomes a nuisance to the operator.

Hand-guided machine tool comprising a radial blower


The present invention is directed to systems and methods for remotely booting a server computer system. A boot request is received from the server computer. An access request is transmitted to a boot management system via a secondary communication channel in response to the received boot request. An access response is received from the boot management system. The access response includes boot data from a boot image accessible via the boot management system and compatible with the server computer. In response to the received access response, the boot data is extracted from the access response and forwarded to the server computer for processing and booting. Multiple responses may be required in certain instances to accumulate the entirety of the boot image.

The present invention is directed to systems and methods for out-of-band booting of a computer. More specifically, without limitation, the present invention relates to computer-based remote boot systems and methods for booting a server computer having a hot swap interface and a primary communication channel used to provide access to client computers, without requiring shutdown of the server computer or communication with the server computer via the primary communication channel, using a secondary communication channel connected to a boot management system.
A server normally boots from its usual source, which can be a local disk or boot device (for example, flash ROM etc.) attached to it or from a remote boot device through a primary communication channel such as the 'usual' network (LAN) connection. Failure of a server can cause problems ranging from minor inconvenience to catastrophic losses of time and money.
Theoretically, it would be desirable if a server did not fail at anytime. However, in a practical sense, server failures do occur. High availability sometimes is referred to by the time the server provides the service to its clients and measured by the number of nines ('9'). This number is a measurement of the approximation of the percentages of the amount of time the server provides the service per year. Following is the industry wide report about the 'nine factors' (see, e.g., "Providing Open Architecture High Availability Solutions," February, 2001, p. 13, http://www.haforum.org).
Number of '9'sDowntime per yearTypical application3 nines (99.9%)~9hoursDesktops4 nines (99.99%)~2hourEnterprise server5 nines (99.999%)~5minutesCarrier class server6 nines (99.9999%)~31secondsCarrier switch equipments
The main purpose of alternate boot strategy technology is to increase the availability and serviceability of a server. The fault management of the server may consist of the followings components:                1. Detection—the fault is detected properly        2. Diagnosis—detect the root cause of the fault        3. Isolation—so the rest of the system is not affected from the fault        4. Recovery—system is restarted for further operation        5. Repair—the faulty component is removed
Among the above mentioned components detection, diagnosis and isolation can be better performed through a remote boot from an OS of choice and with proper diagnostic capability. This is due to the fact that the server may be experiencing a fatal problem, which can only be detected by an offline diagnostics. An offline diagnostic is a mechanism when the system is not operating normally. As the normal operation is suspended, the usual boot process is not possible and an out-of-band or virtual boot mechanism according to the present invention is more appropriate and advantageous.
Sometimes recovery and repair of the faulty components involve a graceful shutdown of the resident OS and replacement of one or more OS components. In such cases, the OS may not be functional to upgrade itself from a remote location. A virtual boot or out-of-band boot protocol provides a solution to this situation that is not possible with prior art approaches.
If the server faces the problems due to faulty behavior of the usual boot process defined, then the alternate boot path is mandatory to achieve the desired number of nines and to reduce the downtime.
To prevent the common failure of the server, a backup policy for the boot procedure is used. Two common techniques with respect to the former include providing an alternative local boot path or a remote boot using a server's primary communication channel with its clients.
As depicted in FIG. 1, a typical server computer 100 uses a local hard drive 120 as the source for the boot image used to boot the server; a typical alternative boot path could include use of a locally connected drive 130 loaded with a removable media such as a magnetic or optical disk containing a boot image or use of a second hard (fixed magnetic media) drive or optical fixed media drive. The requirement that an administrator must physically be present at the server to load and/or change the removable media limits the usability of this approach. The use of a local fixed drive requires a local copy of the boot image and may require local supervision by an administrator via input devices such as keyboard 140 and mouse 150 and output devices such as monitor 160.
Another alternative approach to booting a server 100, as depicted in FIG. 2, involves use of a boot image stored on a remote data storage 210 connected to the server's primary communication channel (e.g., Ethernet 230) with its clients 220, or to a secondary communication channel (e.g., secondary network 240). However, this mechanism fails to allow upgrade of any faulty component from multiple mass-storage images. For example, to rectify some problems, the OS must be upgraded, and this requires a series of images stored in multiple removable magnetic and/or optical disks, as the boot image is a static image and server cannot refer to other images. Also in some cases, to diagnose a typical problem, a series of tests may be executed from different mass-storage devices. A standard protocol to boot from a remote image does not allow this to occur.
In this method, a boot image is prepared and made accessible to the server 100 (through either in-band 230 or out-of-band 240) at anytime from a centralized location 210. Several prior art protocols already support this such as PXE (Preboot Execution Environment). However, this mechanism fails to upgrade any faulty component from multiple mass-storage images. For example, to rectify some problems, OS must be upgraded and this requires a series of images stored in multiple CDROM or floppies. As the boot image is a static image and server cannot refer to other images because the standard prior art protocols do not define this. Also in some cases, to diagnose a typical problem, a series of tests may be executed from different mass-storage devices. A protocol to boot from a remote image does not allow this to occur.
The out-of-band systems and methods according to the present invention avoid these limitations. A boot device is implemented at the server side. This device is presented as a ghost device or a virtual device to the server and the software components (such as BIOS and OS). Such devices will be presented as early in the power on process of the server. Hence the server can find this as a potential mass-storage device to boot from. The main advantage of such mechanism is once the boot process starts, it can follow with unlimited references of other mass-storage devices and images. As a result, the server can be repaired (or upgraded) easily.

Systems and methods for out-of-band booting of a computer


A portable apparatus has a push button mounted on a casing for operating a contact inside the casing. The push button is axially slidable in a pipe fixed in a through-hole extending through the casing. A coil spring encircles the pipe and is interposed between a flange of the pipe and a head of the push button to urge the push button outwardly. A packing ring for sealing the space between the pipe and push button is attached to either the pipe or the push button in the region where the coil spring encircles the pipe. Since the coil spring overlaps the packing ring, the axial length of the pipe and push button can be shortened to reduce the size of the casing.

1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a portable apparatus and a portable timepiece having a push button.
2. Related Art
There is known a portable timepiece such as a wristwatch, a pocket watch or the like, a stopwatch, or a portable apparatus of a portable telephone, a portable type information terminal or the like, which has a push button for operating, for example, a contact or the like inside of an apparatus case. By pushing the push button by a predetermined stroke, for example, in a portable timepiece, a time display is switched from an analog display to a digital display or conversely thereto, or date or day of week displayed in digital form is corrected.
A portable apparatus of this kind includes a coil spring for urging the push button in a direction of pushing back the push button. Along therewith, a portable apparatus includes a ring-like packing for achieving waterproof at a portion at which the push button is installed by inserting the apparatus case.
Specifically, a pipe is inserted and attached in a through hole provided at a bottom wall of a recess portion of a surface of the apparatus case. A shaft portion of the push button is inserted to the pipe, and an outer periphery of the shaft portion is mounted with a packing for waterproof. The coil spring is interposed by a back face of an operating portion of the push button and the bottom wall of the recess portion, opposed thereto, and the shaft portion of the push button is passed to an inner portion of the spring. Therefore, the coil spring and the packing are provided to be aligned along an axial direction of the shaft portion of the push button (refer to, for example, Patent Reference 1).
[Patent Reference 1] JP-A-2000-230989 (paragraphs 0002-0006, paragraphs 0025-0038, FIG. 1-FIG. 3)
According to an arrangement of aligning the coil spring and the packing along the axial direction of the shaft portion of the push button as in the technology of Patent Reference 1, the shaft portion of the push button is provided with a shaft portion region for attaching the packing at a position which is shifted in the axial direction relative to a shaft portion region in correspondence with a height of the coil spring, and therefore, a total length of the push button is long.
Therefore, for example, when the push button is to be projected from an outer side face of a case body of the portable timepiece, the projected width is prolonged. In order to restrict the projected width of the push button to a predetermined length, the case body needs to be enlarged. However, thereby, the portable timepiece becomes large and heavy, and there is provided a design in which a thickness of a front face of the case body is large in the region around a cover glass for seeing therethrough a time display portion, which is not preferable.
It is an object of the invention to provide a portable apparatus and a portable timepiece capable of shortening a length in an axial direction of a push button.

Portable apparatus and portable timepiece having a push button


In one embodiment, a brightness enhancement film comprises: a diffusing film comprising a front surface and a back surface, a coating on the front surface, and light redirecting structures disposed in the coating. The brightness enhancement film is capable of collimating light, and wherein, without the coating, the diffusing film would be capable of spread light passing through the back surface. In another embodiment, the brightness enhancement film comprises: a diffusing film comprising a front surface and a back surface, a coating on the front surface, and light redirecting structures disposed in the coating. The diffusing film has a stress retardation gradient of less than or equal to 50 nm/in, wherein an interval for calculation of the stress retardation gradient is less than 1 inch. The brightness enhancement film is capable of collimating light.

In flat panel displays (e.g., backlight computer displays), optical film (which can also be referred to as a sheet, layer, foil, and the like) materials are commonly used, for example, to direct, diffuse, or polarize light. For example, in backlight displays, brightness enhancement films collimate light using prismatic structures on the surfaces thereof to direct the light along a viewing axis (i.e., an axis normal (perpendicular) to the display). This enhances the brightness of the light viewed by the user of the display and allows the system to consume less power in creating a desired level of on-axis illumination. Such films can also be used in a wide range of other optical designs, such as in projection displays, traffic signals, and illuminated signs.
Brightness enhancing display films generally termed "prism sheets" comprises a series of prisms disposed upon a film. FIG. 1 is an exemplary depiction of the series of prisms disposed upon a film. Each brightness enhancing display film comprises a prism surface and a back surface. The prism surface of the brightness enhancing display film is the surface that comprises the upper surfaces (the air contacting surfaces) of the prisms. The back surface of the brightness enhancing display film is the surface opposed to the prism surface. The back surface is generally flat and is parallel to the base of the prisms that are disposed upon the film substrate as shown in the FIG. 1. It is desirable for the brightness enhancing display film to collimate most of the light incident upon the back surface of the film substrate in the on-axis direction. As can be seen in the FIG. 1, the on-axis brightness is the brightness measured in a direction perpendicular to the back surface of the brightness enhancing display film.
Currently, backlight displays, for example, employ a plurality of films arranged in a manner to obtain the desired brightness and diffusion of the light directed to the viewer. It is noted that as the number of films employed increases, the overall thickness of the backlight display increases. It is noted, however, that consumers are increasingly demanding thinner backlight display devices. Moreover, it is also desirable to eliminate color bands that may be observable in the back light display device to further meet consumer demands. If the film changes the polarization state of the light differently point-to-point, then that light passes through the polarizing films differently point-to-point such that the viewer sees color-bands or stripes of different color (e.g., shades of grey).
Since a demand exists for increasingly thinner backlight display devices, what is needed in the art is a multifunctional brightness enhancement film with no visible color bands. Color bands manifest as patterned variations in brightness or color of the final display and are often seen best when the display is viewed at a glancing angle. These color effects are often the results of stresses in the films that make up the display. When there are stresses in a plastic film, the plastic molecules tend to orient. The most common way of quantifying these types of stresses utilizes the fact that light polarized in the direction of molecular orientation travels through the plastic at a slightly different speed then light that is polarized perpendicular to the molecular orientation. The retardation of the slower light orientation relative to the faster light orientation can be quantified as the distance by which the wave phase has shifted. We refer to this measurement as the stress retardation.

Brightness enhancement film, and methods of making and using the same


In an outboard motor having a fuel-injected two-cycle engine, engine speed, throttle setting, engine temperature and/or other variables are detected and a basic fuel injection volume determined. Fuel is supplied to each of the engine's cylinders according to the detected values. When the engine is operating at a high speed, trim angle and vessel speed are detected. The trim angle and vessel speed are used to correct the basic fuel injection volume determined before high speed operation of the engine is detected.

The present invention relates to a fuel-injection control device for outboard motors. More particularly, the invention relates to performance of such fuel-injection control devices during high-speed operation of a controlled engine.
Engines can use a carburetor as a means for supplying a fuel-and-air mixture to the cylinder of the engine. A carburetor positioned in the suction flow path of an engine takes advantage of the vacuum created when air is sucked in by the engine. The vacuum forces fuel to be drawn from a chamber through a jet to form a mist which mixes with air being drawn into the engine.
To compensate for the specific characteristics of the engine and the load (e.g., automobile) it drives, various different jet types can be used to provide an optimal setting. Previously, it has been impossible to have the carburetor adapt continuously to changes in driving conditions, surrounding environments, and the like. Particularly, the problem of achieving a proper setting for the air-to-fuel ratio when the engine is started is subtle and problematic.
Lately, engines employing fuel-injection have been widely used as an alternative to carburetors. A fuel-injection device can be controlled according to parameters such as the engine rotation speed, the throttle setting, the temperatures of the engine and the water used to cool the engine, and the air suction temperature. This data is processed by a computer to determine a correction value. The amount of fuel, injected directly into the suction path of the engine, can be made appropriate for the particular set of circumstances existing at any particular moment. Thus, combustion efficiency can be optimized continuously, maximizing engine output. Also, since only a minimum required quantity of fuel is injected, fuel consumption is minimized.
Referring to FIGS. 8(a) and 8(b), a conventional outboard motor M is mounted via an attachment bracket B on a vessel V. Outboard motor M pivots on the attachment bracket B permitting a trim angle .theta. to vary. The trim angle .theta. can be made appropriate for the speed of vessel V and the positioning of vessel V on the surface of water W. More particularly, trim angle .theta. can be increased when vessel speed is high and decreased when vessel speed is low. Thus, engine output can be maximized by adjusting the trim angle .theta. to maintain the propeller of outboard motor M in proper orientation with the surface of water W.
Generally, air sucked into an engine is expelled from the engine through an exhaust exit which permits the air to disperse into the surrounding atmosphere. As a result, the intake volume of air sucked into the engine can be calculated based on the throttle setting and the engine rotation speed. However, in outboard engines, the exhaust opening of the engine is underwater causing a back flow pressure of air to develop in the exhaust path. The back flow pressure in the exhaust path varies depending on the vessel speed and the trim angle. In a two-cycle outboard engine, changes in back flow pressure causes the intake volume to vary. As a result, the intake volume of air sucked into the engine cannot be accurately calculated based on the throttle setting and the engine rotation speed. When fuel injection is determined based on inaccurate calculations of intake volume the fuel consumption increases, the engine output decreases, and the exhaust gasses deteriorate.
In an attempt to reduce inaccurate calculations of intake volume, Japanese laid-open publication number 5-18287 discloses a method for detecting an exhaust pressure at an engine's exhaust port and calculating a correction value used to adjust the amount of fuel injected into the suction path of the engine. However, the high temperatures and pressures encountered at the exhaust port causes water and salt to adhere to the area surrounding the exhaust port. As a result, the exhaust pressure detecting means used in this method needs to be pressure-resistant, heat-resistant, water-resistant and salt-resistant. This increases production costs and decreases the reliability of the exhaust pressure detecting means.

Fuel-injection control device for outboard motors


Selected compounds are effective for treatment of diseases, such as cell proliferation or apoptosis mediated diseases. The invention encompasses novel compounds, analogs, prodrugs and pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives thereof, pharmaceutical compositions and methods for prophylaxis and treatment of diseases and other maladies or conditions involving stroke, cancer and the like. The subject invention also relates to processes for making such compounds as well as to intermediates useful in such processes.

Identification of therapeutic agents effective in the treatment of neoplastic diseases or for the treatment of neurological disorders is the subject of significant research efforts.
Protein kinases represent a large family of proteins which play a central role in the regulation of a wide variety of cellular processes and maintaining control over cellular function. A partial list of such kinases includes ab1, Akt, bcr-ab1, Blk, Brk, Btk, c-kit, c-met, c-src, CDK1, CDK2, CDK3, CDK4, CDK5, CDK6, CDK7, CDK8, CDK9, CDK10, cRaf1, CSF1R, CSK, EGFR, ErbB2, ErbB3, ErbB4, Erk, Fak, fes, FGFR1, FGFR2, FGFR3, FGFR4, FGFR5, Fgr, FLK-4, flt-1, Fps, Frk, Fyn, GSK, Hck, IGF-1R, INS-R, Jak, KDR, Lck, Lyn, MEK, p38, PDGFR, PIK, PKC, PYK2, ros, tie, tie2, TRK, Yes, and Zap70. As such, inhibition of kinases has become an important therapeutic target.
Cell proliferation is the rapid reproduction of cells, such as by cell division. The cell cycle, which controls cell proliferation, is itself controlled by a family of serine-threonine kinases called cyclin dependent kinases (CDKs). The regulation of CDK activation is complex, and requires the association of the CDK with a member of the cyclin family of regulatory subunits. A further level of regulation occurs through both activating and inactivating phosphorylations of the CDK subunit. The coordinate activation and inactivation of different cyclin/CDK complexes is necessary for normal progression through the cell cycle. Both the critical G1-S and G2-M transitions are controlled by the activation of different cyclin/CDK activities. Loss of control of CDK regulation is a frequent event in hyperproliferative diseases and cancer. (T. Noguchi et al., Am. J. Pathol., 156, 2135–47 (2000)) As such, inhibition of CDKs have become an important target in the study of chemotherapeutics (A. Senderowicz and E. Sausville, J. Nat. Canc. Instit., 92, 376–87 (2000)).
Kinases have also been implicated in diseases and disorders of the central nervous system. For example, patients suffering from stroke, Alzheimer's disease or Parkinson's disease would benefit from the inhibition of kinases. Cdk5 has been shown to be involved in Alzheimer's pathology (R. Maccioni, et al., Eur. J. Biochem., 268, 1518–27 (2001)) and with neuronal development (G. Paglini and A. Caceres, Eur. J. Biochem., 268, 1528–33 (2001)).
Protein kinases also control programmed cell death, also known as apoptosis. Apoptosis is a ubiquitous physiological process used to eliminate damaged or unwanted cells in multicellular organisms. Disregulation of apoptosis is believed to be involved in the pathogenesis of many human diseases. The failure of apoptotic cell death has been implicated in various cancers, as well as autoimmune disorders. Conversely, increased apoptosis is associated with a variety of diseases involving cell loss such as neurodegenerative disorders and AIDS. As such, inhibition of apoptosis has become an important therapeutic target. Cdk5 has been shown to be involved in apoptosis pathology (A. Catania et al., Neuro-Oncology, 89–98 (April 2001)).
Cyclic ureas are known in the art. 4,4′-Diphenyl-3,4-dihydro-quinazolinone is described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,695,633, issued Sep. 22, 1987. 2-(1,2,3,4-Tetrahydroquinolinyl)-3,4-dihydro-quinazolinones are described by Leeson et al. as NMDA antagonists (J. Med. Chem., 35, 1954–68 (1992).
However, compounds of the current invention have not been described as inhibitors of cell proliferation or apoptosis such as for the treatment of cancer or stroke.

2-oxo-1,3,4-trihydroquinazolinyl derivatives and methods of use


The present invention generally relates to automatically deployed and retracted car cover systems. Specifically an interconnected framework of arms and springs has a retraction wire wrapped around a spool with a motor attached. When the motor releases the retraction wire in a controlled manner, the springs cause the interconnected framework to extend over the top of a vehicle. A flexible shell is attached to the framework and covers the vehicle as the interconnected framework is extended. The cover is retracted by the motor winding the retraction wire back onto the spool pulling the interconnected framework back to a housing dock.

Vehicle covers are commonly used to protect vehicles from the elements when they are parked outdoors for extended periods of time. These covers are typically used to protect vehicles during long-term storage. However, with regard to damage to the vehicle's finish, there is very little difference between driving a vehicle daily in harsh conditions and not driving a vehicle in harsh conditions. In either case, the vehicle tends to spend a majority of its time parked and exposed to the elements. Although using a vehicle cover to protect a vehicle for long-term storage is only a minor inconvenience, installing and removing a vehicle cover on a daily basis, can become a significant nuisance. This is at least one reason why people who drive and park their vehicle outdoors on a daily basis do not use a vehicle cover. Even fairly sophisticated vehicle covers that roll up into the trunk rely on manual deployment and storage, which is still inconvenient enough to deter daily use. Furthermore, currently available vehicle covers must be dragged along the painted surfaces of the vehicle when being put in place. The creates an issue, as any dust or debris that is on the painted surface of the vehicle can cause scratches to the paint as the cover is pulled over the painted surface.
Therefore there is a need in the art for a system and method to automatically install and remove a vehicle cover. A vehicle cover that is convenient to use on a daily basis enables vehicles to be protected from the elements even when a vehicle is not in long-term storage. Additionally, a vehicle cover that is held above the surface of a vehicle will help reduce the occurrence of scratches that are caused by dust that is on the painted surface of the vehicle. These and other features and advantages of the present invention will be explained and will become obvious to one skilled in the art through the summary of the invention that follows.


A storage station, a process for storing, and a bottle tray (5) configured for receiving a bottle layer (7) are provided. The bottle tray has an upright side wall (12), with an upper tray opening (13) and a tray bottom (15) connected to the side wall (12). The bottle tray (5) has a movable lifting bottom (18) that lies in the loaded state (5) on the tray bottom (15) and which has a plurality of passage openings (16) for a lifting device (34) for a relative lift between the side wall (12) and the lifting bottom (18). The tray bottom (15) has a perforated plate or a plurality of struts (17) located spaced apart and enclosing the passage openings (16). The struts are fastened to the side wall (12). The bottle tray (5) has a bottom centering (19) acting between the tray bottom (15) and the lifting bottom (18).

A bottle tray and a storage station along with a process are known from EP 1 204 578 B1. The bottles fed from a feed station are grasped row by row and are loaded into a bottle tray, and a bottle layer is formed in the bottle tray. The bottle tray and the bottle layer are stored together intermediately in a buffer storage unit for further treatment, especially for filling empty bottles. The bottles are removed when needed, and the bottles are unloaded from the bottle layer row by row and are fed to a treatment station, e.g., a filling station. The loading and unloading of the bottle tray is carried out by means of grasping devices, which grasp the bottles at the neck and transfer them with a lifting-over operation. The bottle trays have an upright side wall extending circumferentially rectangularly with an upper tray opening and with a tray bottom connected rigidly to the side wall.


A vehicle exterior environment recognition apparatus includes radar, a locus calculator, a lane shape recognizer, a rate-of-coincidence calculator, and a three-dimensional object reality determiner. The radar makes distance measurement of a three-dimensional object outside an own vehicle, and outputs a representative point that indicates a relative position of the three-dimensional object to the own vehicle. The locus calculator calculates a locus of the representative point within a set range. The lane shape recognizer recognizes a lane shape of a lane corresponding to the representative point. The rate-of-coincidence calculator calculates a rate of coincidence of a shape of the locus of the representative point with the lane shape. The three-dimensional object reality determiner determines, on the basis of the rate of coincidence, whether or not the three-dimensional object corresponding to the representative point is real.

The technology relates to a vehicle exterior environment recognition apparatus that recognizes objects such as vehicles around an own vehicle with the use of radar.
Recently, various techniques have been proposed and put into practical use regarding travel control apparatuses for vehicles. The travel control apparatuses recognize travel environment, and detect information regarding how an own vehicle travels, to execute a steering control and an acceleration-deceleration control in cooperation, allowing for automated driving.
Various proposals have been also made for vehicle exterior environment recognition apparatuses used in, for example, such travel control apparatuses. For example, Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication (JP-A) No. 2017-117345 describes a technique involving a radar set and an image-capturing unit. The radar set is fitted at a front end of an own vehicle, and sends out a radio-frequency signal of a millimeter-wave band as a transmission wave. The image-capturing unit is attached to a vehicle-widthwise midpoint of the vehicle at a predetermined height. The image-capturing unit may include, for example, a CCD (charge coupled device) camera that captures an image of a range of a predetermined angle frontward of the vehicle. The technique includes performing fusion of a radar object, i.e., an object sensed by the radar set, with an object sensed by the image-capturing unit, to generate a fusion object.

Vehicle exterior environment recognition apparatus


A directory services system includes resource objects, such as an application object for accessing a resource associated with the resource object. Foldering attributes may be provided or added to an existing or new, specialized resource object. Foldering attributes reflect correspondence of the actual resources to an organizational scheme. The foldering attributes may include not only linking and backlink information, but management data for multiple levels of linking and organization, all stored in a Network Directory Services resource object. A resource, via its resource object in the directory services database, may be easily assigned to an organizational position for an individual user, a group, container, or the like. A snap-in module may be created, having executables as one or more Application Programming Interfaces (API's) in a Dynamic Link Library (DLL) for consuming (using) the foldering attributes. A utility may be provided in the Directory Services Systems' Administration module, or as on of such modules, to create and manage the foldering attributes. In certain embodiments attributes may be in objects requiring no methods embedded therein. In other embodiments methods in resource objects may contain additional executables or even obviate API's in the DLL.

1. The Field of the Invention
This invention relates to networked computer systems and, more particularly, to novel systems and methods for providing file management, using directory services systems, as well as true subfoldering with minimum effort.
2. The Background Art
The present invention relies on, and improves upon, the management of application programs in a computer network by an application launcher or network application launcher programmed for managing applications in a multi-server network through the use of application objects in a directory services database. This technology is described in U.S. patent application, Ser. No. 08/940,789, incorporated herein by reference.
Modern computer networks may contain several servers and numerous clients hosting software administered by a "network administrator". A wide variety of application programs such as word processors, spreadsheets, database managers, program development tools, and the like (collectively, "applications") are typically found on one or more servers in the network. Necessary file access rights and execution environments must be provided by the administrator, and users need notification. Sometimes executable codes and other resources are scattered, and may be replicated, making administration difficult.
A network application launcher (e.g. Novell's NAL) provides computer-implemented methods and apparatus for consistently determining the nature and location of application program executable codes in a network, using directory services objects.
When users work at a workstation, or need to access the same data, files, and environment with which they are familiar, users typically travel from one work site to another, they often prefer to maintain the performance and familiarity of the organization and file systems on a network they ordinarily use. Users who must work with the same information daily wish to see it the same way. Moreover, away from the normal place of business certain software applications and other resources need to be seen in the format on which a user depends. The organization of resources needs to be stable. An application is typically launched from a server where a user has established rights. Likewise, organization into folders, and subfolders linked as desired is needed.
Upon traveling to a remote location, a user may rely on directory services to provide links to resources. Distributed systems that rely on or provide directory services have not been
What is needed is a convenience for users and administrators for providing quickly, simply, reliably, and easily the desired foldering and subfoldering organization and retrieval services and maintenance abilities on remote servers, and other nodes, that are enjoyed on local area networks and individual workstations.

Sub-foldering system in a directory-service-based launcher


An optical component is fixed precisely on a sensor chip. After a sensor chip including a front surface having a sensor plane with a plurality of light receiving elements is mounted face-up over a wiring substrate, an adhesive is disposed on the front surface of the sensor chip at a plurality of positions, and a plurality of spacers having adherence is formed by curing this adhesive. Then, an adhesive paste is disposed on the front surface of the sensor chip. Then, an optical component held by a bonding tool is disposed on the front surface via the spacer and the adhesive. After that, the bonding tool is separated from the optical component and the optical component is fixed by curing the adhesive in a state in which a load is not applied to the optical component.

The present invention relates to a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device, and specifically relates to a technique which is effectively applied to a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device as a sensor module.
The sensor module includes one using a photoelectric conversion device which converts an optical signal into an electrical signal. This sensor module is used for various kinds of application, such as a vein authentication sensor which reads a vein pattern.
Japanese patent Laid-Open No. 2007-117397 (Patent document 1) discloses a technique regarding an optical biological sensor which can read a finger print or a vein pattern.

Manufacturing method of semiconductor device


A data transfer switch has a casing and a linking unit which is rotatably provided inside the casing and which includes a plurality of interconnected linking pieces. Each of the linking pieces is a relatively thin cylindrical insulator and has one side which is provided with an axial tubular projection that extends toward an adjacent one of the linking pieces so as to form an annular groove between each of the linking pieces and the adjacent one of the linking pieces. A plurality of connector pin sets are mounted on a side wall of the casing. Each of the connector pin sets has a plurality of connector pins which respectively extend into a corresponding annular groove of the linking unit. A conductive pattern is provided on each of the linking pieces at each annular groove. Rotation of the linking unit from a first angular position to a second angular position causes the conductive pattern to break electrical connection between a first one of the connector pins sets and a second one of the connector pin sets and make electrical connection between the first one of the connector pin sets and a third one of the connector pin sets.

1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to a data transfer switch, more particularly to a data transfer switch which is relatively simple in construction, which is relatively small and which can be used to connect selectively a plurality of computer peripheral equipments to a computer system.
2. Description of the Related Art
Data transfer switches are used to connect a plurality of computer peripheral equipments to a single computer system.
Referring to FIG. 1, a first example of a conventional data transfer switch (1) is shown to comprise a printed circuit board (11), three connectors (12, 13, 14) which are mounted on the printed circuit board (11) and two sets of key-operated switches (15, 16). Each of the key-operated switch sets (15, 16) includes three switch units [(151-153), (161-163)] and a key body (154, 164). A spring assembly [(155-157), (165-167)] is provided between the key body (154, 164) and each of the switch units [(151-153), (161-163)]. The spring assemblies [(155-157), (165-167)] permit a previously pressed one of the key bodies (154, 164) to revert to an unpressed state when the other one of the key bodies (154, 164) is pressed.
When the key body (154) is pressed, the switch units (151-153) are activated so as to connect electrically the connectors (12, 13). Accordingly, when the key body (164) is pressed, the switch units (161-163) are activated so as to connect electrically the connectors (13, 14). The connector (13) therefore serves as a common connector. The key bodies (154, 164) are operated so as to transfer data from a selected one of the connectors (12, 14) to the common connector (13) or so as to transfer data from the common connector (13) to a selected one of the connectors (12, 14).
The main drawbacks of the conventional data transfer switch (1) are as follows:
1. The size of the data transfer switch (1) is relatively large.
2. The circuitry of the data transfer switch (1) is relatively complicated.
3. The data transfer switch (1) can be used to connect selectively only two connectors (12, 14) to a common connector (13).
Referring to FIG. 2, a second example of a conventional data transfer switch (2) is shown to be substantially similar in construction to the data transfer switch (1). The main difference between the two examples is that the data transfer switch (2) incorporates a two-position select switch (21). The key body (211) of the select switch (21) is operated once in order to connect electrically the connectors (22, 23) and is operated for a second time in order to connect electrically the connectors (23, 24). Note that the size of the data transfer switch (2) is smaller than that of the data transfer switch (1) because a different switching arrangement is employed. However, the circuitry of the data transfer switch (2) is still relatively complicated. Furthermore, the data transfer switch (2) can be used to connect selectively only two connectors (22, 24) to the common connector (23).
A more complicated circuitry and switch arrangement is usually required in order to enable a data transfer switch to connect selectively more than two connectors to a common connector. Referring to FIG. 3, a third example of a conventional data transfer switch (3) includes a four-position switch set (31), five connectors (32-36) and five ribbon cables (321-326) respectively connected to the connectors (32-36). The switch set (31) is mounted on a printed circuit board (311) and includes five switch units (312-316). Each of the switch units (312-316) has a control lever which extends through a respective one of five openings (3121-3161) that are formed in a switch actuator (317). The switch actuator (317) has a central portion that is provided with a rack (37). A rotary knob (39) has an axle (391) which is provided with a pinion (38) that engages the rack (37).
Rotation of the rotary knob (39) can cause corresponding rotation of the pinion (38), thereby moving the rack (37) so as to result in left or right movement of the switch actuator (317). Movement of the switch actuator (317) causes corresponding movement of the control levers of the switch units (312-316). Simultaneous operation of the switch units (312-316) causes the connection of a selected one of the connectors (32, 33, 35, 36) with the common connector (34) via the ribbon cables (321-361), thereby permitting the transfer of data from the selected one of the connectors (32, 33, 35, 36) to the common connector (34) or the transfer of data from the common connector (34) to the selected one of the connectors (32, 33, 35, 36).
Note that although the data transfer switch (3) permits the selective connection of four connectors (32, 33, 35, 36) to the common connector (34), the data transfer switch (3) has a more complicated circuitry and has a relatively large size.
Another example of a conventional data transfer switch which permits the selective connection of four connectors to a common connector is shown in FIG. 4. The data transfer switch (4) includes a plurality of linking assemblies (40) which serve as the main portion of the data transfer switch (4). Each of the linking assemblies (40) includes a pair of annular linking pieces (41, 42) and a rotary piece (43) provided between the linking pieces (41, 42). The linking piece (41) has three angularly spaced contact terminals provided on the outer periphery thereof and connected to the common connector (not shown). The linking piece (41) further has three inwardly projecting sectoral electrical contacts (411) which are connected electrically to a respective one of the contact terminals of the linking piece (41). The linking piece (42) has twelve angularly spaced contact terminals provided on the outer periphery thereof and alternately connected to four connectors (not shown). The linking piece (42) further has twelve inwardly projecting sectoral electrical contacts (421) which are connected electrically to a respective one of the contact terminals of the linking piece (42). The rotary piece (43) is formed with twelve radially extending slits (44). Three conductive spring pieces (45) are respectively provided in three of the slits (44) such that the spring pieces (45) are angularly and equally spaced on the rotary piece (43). A rotary knob (46) is operated so as to rotate the rotary piece (43), thereby causing the spring pieces (45) to connect the three electrical contacts (411) with a selected three of the electrical contacts (421).
Cables are soldered onto the contact terminals of the linking pieces (41, 42) and are used to connect the latter to the corresponding connectors. If 25-pin connectors are in use, nine linking assemblies (40) must be provided in order to permit the selective connection of four connectors to a common connector.
The data transfer switch (4) has several drawbacks. Note that the construction of the data transfer switch (4) is relatively complicated because of the large number of cables which is required. The data transfer switch (4) is difficult to assemble because each of the cables has to be connected to one of the contact terminals of the linking pieces (41, 42) and to one of the connectors. Improper connection of the cables can result in data loss. Furthermore, the cables can introduce a relatively large impedance into the system and can cause the generation of heat when the data transfer switch (4) is in use, thereby increasing the possibility of data loss.
Still another example of a conventional data transfer switch is shown in FIG. 5. The data transfer switch (5) is substantially similar to the data transfer switch (4), except that the cables of the latter are replaced by a printed circuit board. Although the data transfer switches (4, 5) permit the selective connection of more than two connectors to a common connector, the data transfer switches (4, 5) are relatively complicated in construction because of the large number of electrical contacts which is required (typically a multiple of the number of connectors that are available). The data transfer switches (4, 5) are thus difficult to manufacture. Furthermore, because of the complexity of the data transfer switches (4, 5), it would be difficult to troubleshoot the same in order to find the cause of a malfunction.


The present invention concerns an active-matrix addressed TFT substrate using a thin film transistor, a manufacturing method and an anodic oxidation method thereof, a liquid crystal display panel using the TFT substrate and a liquid crystal display equipment using the liquid crystal display panel and, more in particular, it relates to a structure and a manufacturing method which enables to improve the characteristics thereof.. In the present invention, Cr or Ta is used for gate terminals, aluminum or a metal mainly composed of aluminum is used for gate bus-lines extended therefrom, gate electrodes and thin film capacitances (additional capacitance, storage capacitance) and an anodic oxidized film composed of the metal and free from defect is used for at least one of gate insulators, dielectric films of the thin film capacitances and interlayer insulation films for the intersections between the bus-lines. In a more preferred structure, the anodic oxidized film is used for all of the gate insulators, the dielectric films for the thin film capacitances and the interlayer insulation films for the intersections between the bus-lines.. The present invention also relates to a method of selectively forming an anodic oxidized film on an aluminum pattern. That is, in a case of forming a selective oxidation mask to a desired region on the aluminum pattern with a positive type photoresist, in the present invention, an angle (.theta.) formed between the selective oxidation mask and the aluminum pattern is made as: .theta..gtoreq.110-20T (T: film thickness of the positive type photoresist).

FIG. 2 shows an example of a TFT substrate for a liquid crystal display panel, using an amorphous silicon (hereinafter simply referred to as a-Si) TFT, using Al as a gate electrode and constituting a portion of a gate insulation film with Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 obtained by anodic oxidation thereof. FIGS. 2(a), (b) and (c) show, respectively, an equivalent circuit diagram, a plan view and a cross sectional view of the TFT substrate. There are depicted for gate terminals by G.sub.1, G.sub.2, gate bus-lines by G.sub.1 ', G.sub.2 ', drain terminals by D.sub.1, D.sub.2, TFT by T.sub.11, T.sub.12, T.sub.21, T.sub.22, liquid crystal by LC, common terminal disposed on the side of the color filter substrate by V.sub.com. Further, there are also depicted substrate 10, Al 12', Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 13, SiN 14, transparent electrode (pixel electrode) 17, non-doped a-Si(i) 15, phosphorus-doped hydrogenated amorphous silicon (hereinafter simply referred to as a-Si(n+)) 16, signal bus-line 18, source electrode 18' connecting the a-Si(n+) TFT and the pixel electrode. In FIG. 2, boundary line l.sub.1 indicates the boundary between the regions undergoing and not undergoing the anodic oxidation. With reference to the boundary line l.sub.1, the right area is a region undergoing anodic oxidation, while the left area is a region not undergoing the same.
Further, a structure as shown in FIGS. 32(a), (b) has been used near the gate electrode of a conventional TFT substrate. FIG. 32(a) is a plan view near the gate electrode and FIG. 32(b) is a cross sectional view taken along line AA' thereof. In the figure, are shown substrate 10, Cr 11, Al 12', SiN 15, a-Si 15', source electrode 55, signal bus-line also serving as the drain electrode 18 and transparent electrode 17 as a pixel electrode.
As shown in the figure, Cr has been used for the gate electrode and SiN has been used for the gate insulator film. On the other hand, two layers of metals of Cr and Al are used for the gate bus-line. The reason why the gate electrode and the gate bus-line are constituted with different materials will now be described below.
At first, the conditions for the metal of the gate electrode are that it has good adhesion with the substrate, has no unevenness at the surface and does not suffer from deterioration in the course of forming SiN as the gate insulation film. Cr is suitable for the conditions. On the other hand, it is demanded for the gate bus-line that the resistance is low. Since Cr has a intrinsic resistivity higher by one or more of orders as compared with Al, it is not suitable to the gate bus-line. On the other hand, A is liable to cause hillocks, tending to cause acicularly protruded defects at the surface. Further, since there is a problem that the hillocks generate in the step of forming SiN as the gate insulation film (usually deposited by means of a plasma CVD method at a substrate temperature of 200.degree. to 350.degree. C.), it can not be used for the gate electrode. Accordingly, Cr have been used for the gate electrode and metals of two layer structure comprising Cr and Al have been used for the gate bus-line.
On the other hand, there is Ta or Al anodic oxidation technology in the prior art (refer, for example, to Manual of Electrochemistry (Maruzen), p 874-892, published December, 1964). This is a technic of electrochemically oxidizing the surface of metal which has been used for the capacitor or surface coating.
The merit of the oxide film (insulator film) formed by this technic is that it less causes defects due to foreign particles. Accordingly, there has been a prior art of utilizing the above-mentioned technology to TFT (Japanese Patent Laid-Open Sho 58-147069 and 61-133662).
As the prior art relevant to the present invention, there can be mentioned Japanese Patent Laid-Open Sho 63-164 regarding anodic oxidation and Japanese Patent Laid-Open Sho 58-90770 and 58-93092 regarding a storage capacitance.
However, since Al is used for the gate terminal or the gate electrode and only the portion thereof is used by anodic oxidation in the prior art, there are the following problems.
(1) Al is used also to the gate electrode in the conventional TFT substrate as shown in FIG. 2. Usually, the gate terminal of the TFT substrate is used in a state being exposed to atmospheric air. Al is liable to be denatured such by electric-erosion and the use of Al for the gate terminal deteriorates the reliability of the TFT panel.
(2) Since Al results in rod-like crystals referred to as whiskers and hillocks due to thermal stresses and thus brings about surface unevenness, it is not desirable. In particular, whiskers are whisker-like defects each of several tens of micronmeter, which cause, for example, shorts between electrodes.
In this way, the gate terminal in the prior art described above involves a problems in view of the reliability of the gate terminal or the yield upon manufacture due to the occurrence of defects or the like.
Further, (3) the gate bus-line has to be electrically connected with an external circuit at the end thereof. Accordingly, it is necessary for such a device as not anodically oxidizing the portion. It may be considered to cover the portion with a resist so that it may be kept from direct contact with an anodic oxidation solution. However, there is a problem that Al is disconnected along the end of the resist due to the phenomenon attributable to electrostatic breakdown of the resist.
(4) In a case of using a positive type photoresist as a mask for anodic oxidation, there has been a problem that defects such as dissolving of Al are caused at the intersection between the Al pattern and the mask pattern for anodic oxidation.
(5) It is desirable that the film thickness of Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 is as thin as possible in view of the mutual conductance gm of TFT. On the other hand, an increased thickness is desired in view of the breakdown voltage. There has been a problem that the film thickness is not optimized.

Thin film transistor substrate, manufacturing method thereof, liquid crystal display panel and liquid crystal display equipment