Abstract: An apparatus for storing and isolating components that are accommodated as bulk material has a supply reservoir for receiving the bulk material. An orientation canal is connected to the supply reservoir through which the parts are transported succesively and in a proper orientation. A reliable and non-damaging isolation of the parts is achieved by an exit region of the supply reservoir. The exit region includes an inlet funnel for the orientation canal. The inlet funnel has two funnel walls that are oriented parallel to one another and that lie in one plane with bordering walls of the orientation canal. The apparatus of the invention is particularly suited for the isolation and provision of electronic components.

Abstract: A distinction is made between unicast frames and multicast/broadcast frames for the transmission of information packets between a source LEC of a first ELAN and a destination LEC of a second ELAN. After initiation of a connection setup, unicast information packets are transmitted between source LEC and destination LEC via a wide-area ATM network upon employment of the destination ATM address. Multicast/broadcast information packets are transmitted from the source LEC to the destination LECs via a CLS wide-area network offering a connectionless service. For the transmission of the multicast/broadcast information packets, a specific LEC in every ELAN of an exemplary embodiment is coupled to the CLS network via a bridge or a router. In one exemplary embodiment, the CLS network is employed for determining a destination ATM address of a destination LEC for the unicast transmission.

Abstract: In a method for manufacturing a detector system composed of a number of detector elements respectively disposed at installation positions in a computed tomography (CT) apparatus, the detector elements are allocated to respective installation positions on the basis of a table that, for at least one image-relevant physical property, contains at least the allowable upper limit value or the allowable lower limit value for the individual installation positions for the deviation of the property with respect to a detector element occupying a neighboring installation position.

Abstract: To provide a lead frame for semiconductor devices which is structured so as to prevent extension of separation caused on the interface between a semiconductor element and a semiconductor element die pad or the interface between the semiconductor element die pad and sealing resin into the sealing resin while slits function as anchor, a lead frame comprises a planer semiconductor element die pad for supporting a semiconductor element and has slits extending through the semiconductor element die pad from the semiconductor element supporting side to the back side. The slit is formed so that the side wall surfaces are inclined gradually to the inside or outside increasingly from the semiconductor element supporting side to the back side on the central areas, and is formed so that the respective side wall surfaces are inclined gradually in the inverse relation to the side wall surface of the central areas from the semiconductor element supporting side to the back side on the areas of both ends.

Abstract: A high-resistance polycrystalline Si resistor having a stable resistance value even when micro-sized and a low-resistance polycrystalline Si resistor having a sufficiently low desired resistance value wherein a polycrystalline Si film is formed on an insulation film located on a Si substrate, high-resistance-making ion implantation is applied to the entire surface and medium-resistance-making ion implantation is selectively applied to a medium-resistance-making region of the polycrystalline Si film. Low-resistance-making ion implantation is selectively applied to a low-resistance-making region of the polycrystalline Si film. The product is annealed to grow the polycrystalline Si film by solid-phase growth, the film is patterned to form a high-resistance polycrystalline Si resistor, medium-resistance polycrystalline Si resistor, and low-resistance polycrystalline Si resistor.

Abstract: In a multifunctional printing method and printing system, printed material is checked, verified and tracked. For that purpose different test equipments are located in-line with a printing line. Magnetic information being printed by a printing station onto the recording carrier using magnetic ink character readable toner may be in-line tested by a magnetic test equipment, which reads information from the magnetic recording zone on the carrier. Optical information may be tested by an in-line mounted optical test equipment, respectively. Further in-line test equipment is proposed such as a laser bar code scanner and an address reader. The printing line may comprise additional devices such as print preprocessing unwinders or print postprocessing stackers, folders or cutters.

Abstract: A method of forming an interlayer film on a substrate with a plurality of patterns formed thereon wherein the interlayer film is deposited on the substrate by a process comprising a plurality of steps in each of which a portion of the film is deposited so as to have different fluidity with the same source material.In the first aspect of the method, a portion of the interlayer film is at first deposited so as to have relatively reduced fluidity, so that the film is formed with an almost uniform thickness regardless of any pattern width on the substrate. After this, the rest portion of the film is deposited so that it has relatively increased fluidity so as to fill up the trough between the patterns.In the second aspect of the method, an undercoating film is formed in advance which is then treated to be hydrophobic so that a portion of the interlayer film deposited thereon reduces its fluidity, by which the portion is uniformly deposited regardless of any pattern width.

Abstract: In a circuit and method for triggering an over-voltage protection unit, a trigger voltage for an over-voltage protection unit is achieved either by a disconnection voltage of a coil or by a charge process of a capacitor. For feeding these reactances, a signal generator is used.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a housing part with shielding for a radio device having shell-shaped housing parts is provided. The housing parts have open sides facing toward one another for accommodating the working equipment of the radio device. A wire weave is fitted to the inside contour of the housing part and the wire weave and housing part are introduced into an injection mold. Portions of the wire weave corresponding to all contact surfaces are covered with a foil corresponding to the dimensions of the desired contact surfaces. The foils are removed after the injection molding process.

Abstract: A digital memory matrix having memory cells in rows and columns, addressing of the memory cells is accomplished by control devices which perform arbitrary jumps of address, thereby avoiding addressing on adjacent lines. The jump increment is selectable. The control devices are control chains, two of which are provided, and the outputs of the control chains are connected to linking elements that in turn are connected to the memory lines. The linking elements are provided in groups.

Abstract: Method and radio station for transmitting information via a GSM mobile radio network. When information, in particular packetized data, is being transmitted via a GSM mobile radio network, the context definition for the radio interface between the mobile station and the base station takes place at a different time from the setting up of the physical traffic relationships, and thus uses the radio resources for this physical traffic relationship more efficiently.

Abstract: A marker for employment in a magnetic merchandise monitoring system is composed of one or more oblong, ductile, magnetostrictive strips composed of amorphous ferromagnetic material. These strips experience a change in resonant frequency due to a change of a pre-magnetization field and are excited to longitudinal, mechanical resonant oscillation at the resonant frequency f.sub.r due to an alternating magnetic field, whereby the mechanical stresses resulting from the resonant oscillations cause a change in magnetization of the strips and, thus, a detectable change of the alternating magnetic field. The material of which the strips are composed exhibits a flat B-H loop that proceeds optimally linearly into the range of saturation; further, the strips exhibit a magnetic anisotropy transverse to the longitudinal strip direction, whereby the anisotropy field strength is greater than the pre-magnetization field strength.

Abstract: A relay has a leaf spring that is secured to a planar seating section of a yoke leg and/or to the planar seating section of the armature and has an unsecured spring section extending beyond the free end of the yoke leg or, respectively, the armature. In order to avoid a plastic deformation of the leaf spring given impacts, the planar seating section respectively merges into a convexly curved roll-off section of which the leaf spring rolls off given a blow without being bent permanently. The end of the roll-off motion is expediently limited by a detent and, in this way, it is assured that the relay does not suffer any permanent modifications of its characteristics, even given heavy blows.

Abstract: There is disclosed an amorphous soft magnetic material represented by a composition formula:Co.sub.x Zr.sub.y Pd.sub.z M.sub.a wherein M denotes at least one element selected from a group consisting of niobium, chromium, vanadium, tantalum, tungsten, molybdenum; and0.82.ltoreq.x.ltoreq.0.940.04.ltoreq.y.ltoreq.0.100.01.ltoreq.z.ltoreq.0.080.01.ltoreq.a.ltoreq.0.10.The amorphous soft magnetic material, which has a high saturated magnetic flux density, a low coercive force, a high magnetic permeability and excellent wear and corrosion resistances, can be obtained by adding at least one or more of the elements of the Va and VIa groups to a Co--Zr--Pd amorphous soft magnetic material.

Abstract: In the determination of an optimal rate for the delivery of stimulation pulses to a heart, the stroke volume (SV) of a heart ventricle is measured as a function of heart rate (HR), e.g. by determination of impedance in individual heart cycles whose duration is varied from the duration corresponding to the prevailing rate or the basic rate regarded as optimal for stimulation. The optimal rate should lie at the knee of this function. A corresponding knee is also found in the curve for cardiac output (CO). This rate is determined by calculation of an auxiliary function, e.g. HF=HR.times.CO, which displays a peak at the heart rate at which the knee is located, and the heart rate is determined which yields this maximum. The heart rate determined in this manner is subsequently employed as a basic rate.

Abstract: Document-printing arrangement (8) having a cutting arrangement (16) and a document collection station (22), which is designed as a drum (40) equipped with clamping elements (44). Starting from a rest position (-x.degree.), the drum (40) is accelerated in such a way that when the leading edge of a document arrives underneath the clamping elements (44), said drum has a circumferential speed which corresponds to the transport speed of a paper transport arrangement (12).

Abstract: An optical pickup device with the capability to read data from and write data to different kinds of optical discs in different formats and a composite optical device used in the optical pickup device. An optical pickup device is made by combining two laser couplers LC1 and LC2 that are designed for optimum read/write specifications for optical discs which are different in format from each other. In one embodiment, two laser couplers LC1 and LC2 are incorporated on a common photodiode IC to form a single laser coupler, and the laser coupler is used in an optical pickup device.

Abstract: In an echo suppressor and a method for the operation thereof in a speech input system, particularly suited for use in speech input systems having extremely long echo paths (approximately 50 ms), an input request of the speech recognition system as well as the incoming speech signal (which has been corrupted by the input request) are fast-Fourier transformed, and the transformed signals are divided into a number of sub-bands in order to estimate corresponding sub-band echo signals. This occurs with individual adaptive filter stages that utilize the NLMS algorithm. Due to the division into sub-bands and a reduction of the number of these sub-bands, the calculating outlay is minimized and the sampling rate can be reduced. The calculating procedure in the estimating of the echo signal part is thus reduced.

Abstract: In a telecommunication network of ATM exchanges (V1, Vn) via which information transmitted in the STM mode can also be switched, error-detecting code words (EDCE) are respectively derived at an exchange input (EVi) from the content of information parts (PL) of a defined plurality of ATM cells in order to monitor the through-connections through an exchange. These error-detecting code words (EDCE) are transmitted to an exchange output in transition monitoring cells (DUZ) together with the plurality of information parts (PL) and are compared thereat to a newly formed error-detecting code word.