Abstract: A lens for a light emitting diode is formed with a material having a refractive index of n, and the lens includes a base, a first curved circumferential surface extending from the base, a curved center-edge surface extending from the first curved circumferential surface, and a curved centermost surface extending from the curved center-edge surface. The base includes a groove for receiving a light emitting chip therein. In the lens, a distance from a center of the base to a point of the curved center-edge surface is always shorter than the radius of curvature for the point of the curved center-edge surface. The curved centermost surface has a concave shape with respect to the base.

Abstract: A gaming device is disclosed that includes a housing and a display device associated with the housing. The display device displays several indicia. A positioning mechanism is configured to move the display device. Several indicators are associated with the display device. A controller is in communication with the positioning mechanism and the indicators. The controller determines a game outcome and directs movement of the display device. The controller can illuminate at least one of the indicators in order to display the game outcome.

Abstract: An electronic circuit includes a transmission circuit transmitting an input signal of a first node as an output signal of a second node in response to a control signal and a discharge circuit selectively discharging the input signal of the first node in response to the control signal.

Abstract: This disclosure provides compounds having drug and bio-affecting properties, their pharmaceutical compositions and method of use. In particular, the disclosure is concerned with alkene piperidine derivatives that possess unique antiviral activity. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to compounds useful for the treatment of HIV and AIDS.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process aid for use in rigid thermoplastic compositions, and especially in rigid polyvinylchloride (PVC) compositions. The process aid is an acrylic terpolymer of methylmethacrylate, butyl acrylate and styrene at an optimal ratio to produce a significant reduction in melt process viscosity. The resulting reduction in extrusion melt torques enables manufacturers of rigid PVC products to have higher throughput production rates.

Abstract: Improved methods for manufacturing electrode active tapes, including blanks/plates with essential homogeneity for consistently more reliable performing electrodes for electrochemical cells, and with lower rates of off-specification material, by forming an electrode active mixture; adjusting the solids content to form a filter cake mix; crumbling the filter cake into particles and performing at least one calendering step at a calendering station having a nip zone while applying a force to the particles axially with the direction of movement of the particles to compact the particles in the nip zone for more even presentation during calendering.

Abstract: The present invention provides semiconductor devices capable of being tested using one test pin and using an input/output pin without any test pins, and methods of testing the same. One semiconductor device comprises a test pin for inputting/outputting test data, an operation mode controller for activating an enable signal in response to an external reset signal and a clock signal, an operation mode storage for receiving serial data synchronized with the clock signal through the test pin in response to the enable signal, and an operation mode decoder for generating operation mode selection signals in response to the serial data stored in the operation mode storage.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device and a self-refresh method in which the semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of input/output ports having respective independent operation, a period of self-refresh through one of the plurality of input/output ports being subordinate to a kind of operation through another input/output port. Whereby, a refresh characteristic in a multi-port semiconductor memory device including a dual-port semiconductor memory device may be improved.

Abstract: First data to be sent by a first party to a second party is encrypted using an encryption key string formed using at least a hash value generated using second data and a secret, shared with a trusted party, that serves as identification of the first party. The second data comprises, for example, one or more conditions that serve as identifiers of the second party, and a hash-value element generated by hashing the first data. The encrypted first data and the encryption key string is made available to the second party which forwards the encryption key string to the trusted party with a request for the corresponding decryption key. The trusted party carries out at least one check on the basis of data contained in the encryption key string and, if this at least one check is satisfactory, provides a decryption key to the second party.

Abstract: A transflective liquid crystal display device has improved light efficiency. A method of fabricating a transflective liquid crystal display device including a thin film transistor substrate having a transmissive region and a reflective region, includes forming a retardation layer on a lower surface of the thin film transistor substrate, aligning a mask having a reflective region pattern on the lower surface of the thin film transistor substrate, and forming a light efficiency enhancer by selectively removing the retardation layer by irradiating a laser onto the lower surface of the thin film transistor substrate through the mask.

Abstract: A color filter substrate is provided. The color filter substrate includes a base substrate, a first color filter and a second color filter. The base substrate includes a first pixel region and a second pixel region that has a first sub-region and a second sub-region. The first color filter is formed in a first pixel region and a first sub-region of the second pixel region. The second color filter is formed in a second sub-region of the second pixel region.

Abstract: An alignment key structure in a semiconductor device is provided. The alignment key structure includes an insulation layer formed on a substrate, and a passivation layer pattern formed on the insulation layer. The insulation layer includes a plurality of metal wirings. The passivation layer pattern includes a first opening that exposes at least one of the metal wirings. Moreover, the first opening has a width which is narrower than a width of the exposed metal wiring.

Abstract: Method and system for generating electromyographic or sub-audible signals (“SAWPs”) and for transmitting and recognizing the SAWPs that represent the original words and/or phrases. The SAWPs may be generated in an environment that interferes excessively with normal speech or that requires stealth communications, and may be transmitted using encoded, enciphered or otherwise transformed signals that are less subject to signal distortion or degradation in the ambient environment.

Abstract: Modeling and simulation of free and forced structural vibrations is essential to an overall structural health monitoring capability. In the various embodiments, a first principles finite-difference approach is adopted in modeling a structural subsystem such as a mechanical gear by solving elastodynamic equations in generalized curvilinear coordinates. Such a capability to generate a dynamic structural response is widely applicable in a variety of structural health monitoring systems. This capability (1) will lead to an understanding of the dynamic behavior of a structural system and hence its improved design, (2) will generate a sufficiently large space of normal and damage solutions that can be used by machine learning algorithms to detect anomalous system behavior and achieve a system design optimization and (3) will lead to an optimal sensor placement strategy, based on the identification of local stress maxima all over the domain.

Abstract: An apparatus for monitoring a photolithography process includes a measurer and a data processor. The measurer measures an optical characteristic of a substrate. The data processor determines defectiveness of the substrate based on the optical the measurer.

Abstract: A system, method and product of dry-etching a semiconductor device are disclosed, the system having a material supply for forming a material layer on the semiconductor substrate, a pattern for disposing at least one photoresist pattern on the material layer, a dry-etching chamber for housing a dry-etching process of the material layer, a chiller for adjusting the temperature of the chamber, the semiconductor substrate, the material layer and/or the photoresist for the dry-etching process, a stage for loading the semiconductor substrate in the dry-etching chamber, and a dry-etchant supply for dry-etching the material layer while the integrity of the photoresist pattern is enhanced by the adjusted temperature.

Abstract: Using resonant interactions to directly and tomographically image neural activity in the human brain using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques at ultra-low field (ULF), the present inventors have established an approach that is sensitive to magnetic field distributions local to the spin population in cortex at the Larmor frequency of the measurement field. Because the Larmor frequency can be readily manipulated (through varying Bm), one can also envision using ULF-DNI to image the frequency distribution of the local fields in cortex. Such information, taken together with simultaneous acquisition of MEG and ULF-NMR signals, enables non-invasive exploration of the correlation between local fields induced by neural activity in cortex and more ‘distant’ measures of brain activity such as MEG and EEG.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing a robust crack-absorbing integrated circuit chip comprising a crack trapping structure containing two metal plates and a via-bar structure sandwiched between said plates.

Abstract: An aircraft vehicular assembly is provided that includes a nonelastomeric outer tubular member having an inner axial center bore with a tubular cylindrical frictional interface contiguous smooth inner surface segment, and a nonelastomeric inner member having an outer bonding surface segment. The nonelastomeric inner member is rotationally received in the outer member inner axial center bore with the nonelastomeric inner strut member rotatable within said outer member. The assembly includes an elastomer encompassing the nonelastomeric inner strut member outer bonding surface segment. The elastomer has an inner bonding surface segment and an outer grooved elastomer surface, the inner bonding surface segment is bonded to the nonelastomeric inner member outer bonding surface segment.