Abstract: An aircraft comprising a fuselage, a sail wing appended to the fuselage, the sail wing having a sail wing root chord length, and wherein the sail wing includes a sail wing leading edge spar, a sail wing membrane attached to the sail wing leading edge spar, and a sail wing trailing edge wire located at a trailing edge of the sail wing membrane, the aircraft further comprising a wing surface extension, located aft and at an inboard area of the sail wing trailing edge wire, the wing surface extension having a wing surface extension root chord length, and wherein the wing surface extension includes a wing surface extension membrane attached to the sail wing trailing edge wire, and a wing surface extension trailing edge, and wherein the wing surface extension trailing edge is reflexed such that the wing surface extension trailing edge is positioned upwards at a first angle with respect to a plane formed along a centerline of the aircraft and along the lower surfaces of the sail wing.

Abstract: A coding method and apparatus for linking electrical appliances for control and status reporting by arbitrarily appending the appliances remote control protocol with the premise's room/zone code for identifying the appliance location and ID-code to operate on the basis of the appliance type and function, sub header code define the command nature, a blank header identifies the signal and a checksum trailer ends the five byte command for operating a range of appliances, lights and LED illuminators, locally and in the different rooms, bathrooms, kitchen and laundry including provision for extending the commands when needed. Current sensors for power outlets and power cables linked via lightguides or fiber optic use same codes for reporting statuses of and current consumption by the appliances and lights to the video interphone or the shopping terminal. LED bulbs are coded through an optical transceiver accessed through the rear of the bulb socket.

Abstract: An ion source is disclosed incorporating various aspects of the invention including i) a vaporizer, ii) a vaporizer valve, iii) a gas feed, iv) an ionization chamber, v) an electron gun, vi) a cooled mounting frame, and vii) an ion exit aperture. The ion source includes means for introducing gaseous feed material into the ionization chamber, means for vaporizing solid feed materials and introducing their vapors into the ionization chamber, means for ionizing the introduced gaseous feed materials within the ionization chamber, and means for extracting the ions thus produced from an ion exit aperture adjacent to the ionization region. In addition, means for accelerating and focusing the exiting ions are provided. The vaporizer, vaporizer valve, gas feed, ionization chamber, electron gun, cooled mounting frame, and ion exit aperture are all integrated into a single assembly in preferred embodiments of the novel ion source.

Abstract: The present invention provides a microchip for performing electrophoresis with pulsed amperometric detection (PAD) for the separation and detection of underivatized carbohydrates, amino acids, sulfur-containing antibiotics, etc. PAD allows for the direct detection of amines, thiols, alcohols and carbohydrates and therefore is a useful technique for the development of electrochemical detection for microchip electrophoresis.

Abstract: A portable telephone set includes a case having first and second sides opposite to each other, a group of keys is located on the first side of the case, and a card loading mechanism. The case includes first and second portions located on the second side. The first portion can accommodate a battery pack, and the second portion is next to the first portion and accommodates the card loading mechanism. A card in which information is stored can be loaded to the card loading mechanism.

Abstract: A transmitting apparatus includes a network interface for connecting between networks; an information embedding unit that embeds, in a frame output from the network interface, first port information for identifying a first port through which the frame is received; and a path deciding unit that decides, when second port information for designating a second port that is an output destination of the frame is embedded in the frame received through the network interface, to output the frame to the second port.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus capable of efficient rendering is provided. In an image processing apparatus which renders, in a screen coordinate system, unit figures each constituting the surface of a three-dimensional object to be rendered, a rasterizing unit divides a rendering area corresponding to a screen into multiple unit areas, while a first unit figure is projected onto a screen coordinate system, and outputs the unit areas. A similar process is applied to second and subsequent unit figures so that the multiple unit areas constituting each unit figure are sequentially output. An area divider divides each of the unit areas sequentially output from the rasterizing unit into multiple subareas. An area discarder discards as necessary a subarea obtained by the division by the area divider according to a predetermined rule. An area writer re-merges subareas that survived the discarding process by the area discarder and writes merged areas obtained by re-merge in the memory.

Abstract: A die pickup apparatus facilitates picking up a semiconductor die in a manner such that, in a state in which a semiconductor die to be picked up is suctioned by a collet, a frontal end of a cover plate is caused to extend from a contact surface, and the cover plate is caused to slide while pushing up a dicing sheet and the semiconductor die, and subsequently a rear end of the cover plate is caused to extend from the contact surface such that an upper surface of the cover plate is substantially in parallel with the contact surface, the cover plate is caused to slide while pushing the dicing sheet and the semiconductor die with the upper surface of the cover plate such that the suction opening is opened, and the dicing sheet is suctioned into the opened suction opening, thereby separating the dicing sheet.

Abstract: In order to record a program provided by a program broadcasting device, a recorder (5) that receives program identifying information provided by a program information providing device to record the program includes: a program identifying information detector (10) for detecting the program identifying information at least at one timing of start, duration, and end of the broadcasted program; and a recording operation controller (20) for controlling recording operation based on a detection result of the program identifying information detector (10). The recording operation controller (20) includes: a recording start/end determining section (21) for staring and/or ending the recording operation based on the detected program identifying information; and a recorded program determining section (22) for determining the program being recorded based on the program identifying information detected while the program is recorded.

Abstract: A packet processing device that achieves stable operation by alleviating the workload of packet processing. A packet buffer checks a packet length flag and a processing time flag to observe the device's operating condition for a first connection. When neither of the two flags are on, the packet buffer keeps buffering first packets on the first connection. When either or both flags are on, the packet buffer changes focus to a second connection and begins buffering second packets on the second connection. A packet length monitor turns on the packet length flag if a new cumulative packet length is greater than a packet length threshold. A processing time monitor turns on the processing time flag if a new cumulative processing time estimate is greater than a predetermined processing time threshold.

Abstract: A relay agent device disposed in one of a plurality of networks each accommodating a terminal and an address leasing device performing an address lease service for the terminal, has a notifying unit notifying a proxy address leasing device, employed in common between the plurality of networks, of an address lease state of the address leasing device with respect to the terminal, a detecting unit detecting a fault in the address leasing device, and a transfer unit transferring a message related to the address lease, which is sent from the terminal, to the proxy address leasing device in order for the proxy address leasing device to take over an IP address lease service provided by the address leasing device when the fault is detected, and transferring a message related to the address lease, which is addressed to the terminal from the proxy address leasing device, to the terminal.

Abstract: A learning-target packet to be used for a path learning is selected from among a plurality of packets queued by a relay apparatus. A relationship between a transmission-source address and a first-arrival port for the selected learning-target packet is registered as learning information. A packet corresponding to the registered learning information is transferred to the first-arrival port pertaining to the learning information, and a packet that does not correspond to the learning information is transferred to all ports to which the packet is to be transferred.

Abstract: It is an object to increase a processing-enabled user count and traffic size by avoiding frames from being discarded without any increase in buffer size within a bandwidth control device. A bandwidth control device includes a response measuring module measuring a size of a response frame and calculating, based on the measured size, a predictive traffic size as a size of the traffic of the response frame predicted to be received as a response to a request frame, and a bandwidth control module controlling a traffic rate of the response frame corresponding to the request frame by controlling a traffic rate of the request frame on the basis of the calculated predictive traffic size.