Abstract: An ultrasonic real-time inspection method which is user-friendly in an interactive environment to provide ease of operation, as well as a combination of consistency, thoroughness, and speed of operation in flaw detection not achievable by other methods. The method offers significantly increased pattern recognition capability, which provides greater automation potential and reduced missed detection and false alarm rates.

Abstract: A series power switch bridge having the ability of automatic voltage-sharing, which belongs to the field of electric controlling equipments. It consists of a power switch bridge and a dynamic-static voltage-sharing absorption circuit (DRwC) bridge. The very power switch bridge is constituted of several power switches in series. The number of DRwC circuits in the dynamic-static voltage-sharing absorption circuit bridge is correspondence with the number of power switches. The positive terminal and the negative terminal of every DRwC circuit and the corresponding power switch are connected respectively. The very DRwC circuit consists of a diode (D), a capacitance (C) and a voltage regulator (Rw), and the diode (D) is connected in series with the circuit of the voltage regulator (Rw) and the capacitance (C) which are in parallel. The serial DRwC circuit can deal the serial power switch with static voltage-sharing, dynamic voltage-sharing and absorption of the bounce voltage.

Abstract: A radiological imaging apparatus of the present invention includes an X-ray source for emitting an X-ray, a ?-ray detecting section for outputting a detection signal of a ?-ray, and an X-ray detecting section for outputting a detecting signal of an X-ray. The X-ray source moves around a bed for placing an examinee. The ?-ray detecting section has a plurality of radiation detectors aligned in the longitudinal direction of the bed and placed around the bed. The X-ray detecting section is positioned in a region formed between one end and the other end of the ?-ray detecting section in the longitudinal direction of the bed. The X-ray source is also positioned in the region. Since the X-ray detecting section is placed in the region, it is possible to accurately combine a PET image and an X-ray computed tomographic image.

Abstract: A process for continuous production of ammonium thiosulphate, (NH4)2S2O3 (ATS) from NH3, H2S and SO2 is disclosed. A first feed stream comprising H2O, H2S and NH3 with a molar H2S:NH3 ratio <0.4 is partially condensed to form a condensate. The condensate is contacted with a third feed gas comprising H2S and the gas stream comprising NH3 and H2S is passed to a mixing device where the gas stream is dissolved in water drained off from an aerosol filter. A second feed gas stream comprising approximately ? mole SO2 per mole of NH3 contained in the first feed stream is passed to a SO2 absorber. The aqueous solution produced in mixing device is contacted with the SO2 absorber.

Abstract: A portable communication terminal apparatus including a function provided for the portable communication terminal apparatus is registered in association with a predetermined word (keyword). When the registered keyword is extracted from character data displayed on the display screen of the portable communication terminal apparatus, the function registered in the portable communication terminal apparatus in association with the extracted keyword is called and executed.

Abstract: In a spread spectrum communication using a long spreading code, a spread spectrum signal processing apparatus is provided, which is suitable for performing communication by using a correlator having a size mountable on a portable equipment. The spread spectrum signal processing apparatus has a correlator for correlating between a spread spectrum signal and a given reference signal, an A/D converter for converting a correlation signal into a digital signal, a memory for storing the digital signal from the AD converter as digital data, a signal processor for summing digital data corresponding to each of divided codes C1–C16 and for outputting a result of summation, and a control unit for controlling to apply each of the divided codes C1–C16 in this order repeatedly as a reference signal to the correlator. The signal processor begins a summing process by making reference to a timing signal from the control unit.

Abstract: A magnetic sensor 10 includes GMR elements 11–18, and heating coils 21–24 serving as heat generating elements. The elements 11–14 and 15–18 are bridge-interconnected to constitute X-axis and Y-axis sensors, respectively. The heating coils 21, 22, 23, and 24 are disposed adjacent to the elements 11 and 12, the elements 13 and 14, the elements 15 and 16, and the elements 17 and 18, respectively. The heating coils 21–24, when electrically energized, heat mainly the adjacent elements. Therefore, the elements can be heated and cooled in a short period of time in which constant geomagnetism can be ensured. Data for compensation of temperature-dependent characteristic (ratio of change in sensor output value to variation in element temperature) is obtained on the basis of the temperatures of the elements before and after the heating, and the magnetic sensor outputs before and after the heating. Subsequently, the temperature characteristics of the elements are compensated on the basis of the data.

Abstract: A process for the conversion of linear and/or branched paraffin hydrocarbons based on the use of an ionic liquid catalyst in combination with a metal salt additive, which provides a catalytic composition with an increased activity, compared with said ionic liquid. Under suitable reaction conditions this conversion is leading to paraffin hydrocarbon fraction with higher octane number.

Abstract: The invention provides a charged particle therapy system capable of increasing the number of patients treated. An irradiation filed forming apparatus for irradiating a charged particle beam extracted from a charged particle beam generator to an irradiation target includes an RMW device. The RMW device comprises a housing and an RMW disposed within the housing. A rotary shaft of the RMW is rotatably mounted to the housing. The RMW device is detachably installed in an RMW holding member provided in a casing of the irradiation filed forming apparatus. The housing can be placed in contact with the RMW holding member, and hence positioning of the rotary shaft of the RMW to a predetermined position can be performed in a short time. This contributes to cutting a time required for treatment per patient and increasing the number of patients treated.

Abstract: Integrated circuits having multi-level wiring layouts designed to inhibit the capacitive-resistance effect, and a method for fabricating such integrated circuits, is described. The integrated circuits have at least two planes of wiring adjacent to each other and extending in the same direction. One embodiment may further include a larger than normal insulator material between planes of wiring extending in one direction and at least one plane of wiring extending in a second direction transverse to the first direction. Each of the wiring channels in a wiring plane may be offset relative to a respective wiring channel in the next adjacent wiring plane which extends in the same direction.

Abstract: A data transfer system allowing high-quality transfer of streaming data through a network having a relatively large delay variation in data delivery is disclosed. When transferring streaming data in packets from a server computer to a client computer through a repeater provided in the network, the repeater buffers a streaming packet for a set time period before forwarding it to the client computer. The set time period is determined so that a receiving time interval of packets at the client computer is substantially equal to a sending time interval of packets at the server computer.

Abstract: Light source devices for photography using LED elements as a light source known in the prior art provide insufficient quantity of light, and the inability to avoid size increases in order to generate a sufficient quantity of light has been problematic. A photography light source device 1 according to the present invention has a light source comprising a plurality of LED elements 2 generating white light or light of the three primaries and arranged in one or more rows parallel with the direction of the longer side of the photograph, a case 3 having a lens on which linear fresnel cuts 3a have been applied in a linear direction parallel to the arrangement direction is mounted on the LED element 2, and upon lighting of the LED element 2, drive is performed with a current of between 3 and 50 times the magnitude of the rated current thereof and a lighting duration of between 10 and 600 msec.

Abstract: A power supply reset boosting element which boosts a level of the reset voltage to a level higher than the level of the power supply. The boosted voltage is isolated from both the power supply and from undesired switching by special transistors which can withstand the voltage power supply level.

Abstract: A resistance hybrid is disclosed including m+1 unit resistors connected in series, to further be connected in series between two resistance elements, one Rbottom and the other Rtop. Each unit resistor SBn includes an error correction resistance element R1dn and a set resistance element RTn connected in series, and further connected in parallel to a fuse RLn. In addition, the error correction resistance element R1dn is formed such that the combined resistance of the fuse RLn, set resistance element RTn, and error correction resistance element R1dn, is equal to the resistance value of the error correction resistance element R1dn. The value of resistance of the unit resistor SBn after the disconnection increases by the resistance value of set resistance element RTn, to thereby obviating the error possibly caused by the disconnection, which is originated from the resistance value of the fuse RLn.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for plating facilitates the plating of a small contact feature of a wafer die while providing a relatively stable plating bath. The method utilizes a supplemental plating structure that is larger than a die contact that is to be plated. The supplemental plating structure may be located on the wafer, and is conductively connected to the die contact. Conductive connection between the die contact and the supplemental plating structure facilitates the plating of the die contact. The supplemental plating structure also can be used to probe test the die prior to singulation.

Abstract: Wide dynamic range operation is used to write a signal in a freeze-frame pixel into the memory twice, first after short integration and then after long integration. The wide dynamic range operation allows the intra-scene dynamic range of images to be extended by combining the image taken with a short exposure time with the image taken with a long exposure time. A freeze-frame pixel is based on voltage sharing between the photodetector PD and the analog memory. Thus, with wide dynamic range operation, the resulting voltage in the memory may be a linear superposition of the two signals representing a bright and a dark image after two operations of sampling.

Abstract: A database search system that retrieves multimedia information in a flexible, user friendly system. The search system uses a multimedia database consisting of text, picture, audio and animated data. That database is searched through multiple graphical and textual entry paths. Those entry paths include an idea search, a title finder search, a topic tree search, a picture explorer search, a history timeline search, a world atlas search, a researcher's assistant search, and a feature articles search.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor thin film is provided which can form its crystal grains having a uniform direction of crystal growth and being large in size and a manufacturing equipment using the above method, and a method for manufacturing a thin film transistor. In the above method, by applying an energy beam partially intercepted by a light-shielding element, melt and re-crystallization occur with a light-shielded region as a starting point. The irradiation of the beam gives energy to the light-shielded region of the silicon thin film so that melt and re-crystallization occur with the light-shielded region as the starting point and so that a local temperature gradient in the light-shielded region is made to be 1200° C./?m or more. In the manufacturing method, a resolution of an optical system used to apply the energy beam is preferably 4 ?m or less.

Abstract: To change a value of a DSP parameter in a DSP setting screen, a user selects from parameter operators a parameter value to be changed. In an image picture displayed on the DSP setting screen, a size, a color, and the like corresponding to substance of the pertinent parameter are changed according to the value of the parameter. The user can visually perceive effect of the value of each DSP parameter on an acoustic effect and can easily change the value of each DSP parameter.

Abstract: The invention relates to a DNR (differential negative resistance) exhibiting device that can be programmed to store information as readable current amplitudes and to methods of making such a device. The stored data is semi-volatile. Generally, information written to a device in accordance with the invention can maintain its memory for a matter of minutes, hours, or days before a refresh is necessary. The power requirements of the device are far reduced compared to DRAM. The memory function of the device is highly stable, repeatable, and predictable. The device can be produced in a variety of ways.