Abstract: An inner actuator for automobile doors includes a lever-like handle adapted to be pivoted about an axis within a housing which is attached to the door, a linkage or an actuating cable which is led to a door lock and engages the handle, a spring which biases the handle into a rest position, a damper which is connected to a portion of the handle such that the movement of the handle into the rest position is damped, whereby a linear damper is provided which is linked to the door with one end and to a portion of the handle with the other end.

Abstract: The rotation-retarding device includes a first element and a second element having a rotary motion to be retarded relative to each other. The first element includes a block of flexible material (106), the second element (107) is able to locally deform the block of flexible material (106) throughout the rotary motion in order to retard this motion, and anti-adherence means are provided at the interface of the two elements. The block of flexible material (106) may also have a dimensional variation able to permit progressive retarding of the rotary motion.

Abstract: A light module with LED light source for LCD panel. Light-receiving surfaces of LGP (light guide plate), light-receiving surfaces of LGS (light guide stick) or light-emitting surfaces of LGS are coated with the mixed fluorescent powder and the white light with triple wavelength is made by the light rays emitted from UV LED to excite the mixed fluorescent powders. It could replace the white light LED with double wavelength of Nichia to reduce the production cost and increase the color performance of LCD.

Abstract: A navigation system that includes a graphic user interface displaying a plurality of icons. An icon selectively activated by a user input device is enlarged, animated, and includes a text flag indicating what the icon represents. Some of the icons are associated with a plurality of potential destinations for the navigation system. The icons are animated by displaying a plurality of frames sequentially. The first frame is a base frame full bit map which includes information for displaying all of the pixels of the icon. The second frame is displayed by changing only the pixels which are different between the first frame and the second frame based upon a transition file which only includes information for the pixels to be changed. A second transition file indicates the pixels to be changed between the second frame and the third frame, and so on. For icons with many potential frames, more than one base frame may be provided, so that any state can be reached more quickly.

Abstract: A light module is disclosed with an LED light for a LCD panel. LGP or LGS have mixed with well-mixed fluorescent powders therein and the white light with triple wavelength is made by the light rays emitted from UV LED to excite the well-mixed fluorescent powders. The present invention reduces the production cost and increases the color performance of the LCD.

Abstract: A disposable diaper includes a basic absorbent batt structure and a supplementary absorbent batt structure placed on the basic absorbent batt structure. The diaper is formed with a feces receiving space surrounded by the supplementary absorbent batt structure and bottom and side surfaces of a cavity and extending from a crotch region toward a front waist region so that an upper opening of the cavity is partially uncovered in the crotch region 31 and thereby forms a feces inlet leading to the space.

Abstract: Security seals (1) are used to indicate that a closed container has remained closed throughout a journey or during transport to show that its contents have not been tampered with. Once fixed such seals can only be removed by destroying them. A padlock-type security seal (1) includes a recess (10) in its body (2) accessible from the front face which houses a locking collet (11). The collet (11), in use, locks the leading end (4) of the hasp (3) of the seal (1) into the body (2). A cap (12) is welded onto the body (2) to close the recess (10) and seal the collet (11) into the body (2). Preferably, the body (2) of the padlock-type seal is chosen to be a color which will give a good contrast with a barcode (14) applied to it. The color of the cap (12) can vary from that of the body (2) to enable an audit trail of the seals (1).

Abstract: A process of lapping a wafer includes the steps of relieving adhesive stress of an ultraviolet tap attached to a first side of the wafer by irradiation of ultraviolet light, maintaining a lapping jig at a usable temperature of the ultraviolet tape to cause a binder applied to the lapping jig to be melted, bonding the first side of the wafer to the lapping jig, and lapping the wafer.

Abstract: An apparatus including a variable wavelength light source for generating a variable wavelength light, a first light modulator for inputting into a first optical fiber transmission line a first incident light obtained by modulating the variable wavelength light by a frequency of an electrical signal inputted, a first converter for converting the first incident light, a fixed wavelength light source for generating a fixed wavelength light, a signal source for generating a reference electrical signal, a second light modulator for inputting in a second optical fiber transmission line a second incident light obtained by modulating the fixed wavelength light by a frequency of the reference electrical signal and a second converter for converting the second incident light and for outputting the electrical signal into the first light modulator.

Abstract: Disclosed is a differential capacitive type MEMS sensor apparatus provided with a MEMS structure including a differential capacitive type MEMS sensor and a capacitance compensator having a MEMS structure. The differential capacitive type MEMS sensor apparatus includes a fixed frame unit including first and second fixed frames prepared in pairs, partially fixed to the MEMS base; a movable frame unit movably connected to the MEMS base substrate so that first capacitance is generated between the movable frame unit and the first fixed frame and second capacitance is generated between the movable frame unit and the second fixed frame; first capacitance compensating frame units serving to compensate for the first capacitance using capacitances generated between the movable frames and the movable electrodes; and second capacitance compensating frame units serving to compensate for the second capacitance using capacitances generated between the movable frames and the movable electrodes.

Abstract: An improved aircraft includes a thrust source, a wing, and a boom functioning as a “free lever” and having a distal end upon which the thrust is acting and a proximal end about which the boom is freely rotatable to balance forces acting on the proximal and distal ends of the boom. The proximal end is pivotably mounted at or below the center of lift of the wing and above the center of mass of the aircraft. The distal end is located above the center of mass of the aircraft, when the lever is in the vertical position to establish a gravity pendulum, and forward of the center of drag of the aircraft, when the lever is in the horizontal position, to establish a drag pendulum. All transition flight is a resolution of the force vectors of the two pendulums. A director adjusts the vertical and horizontal thrust components of the propulsion system.

Abstract: An insulative body for producing two kinds of terminal modules is disclosed. The insulative body is moldable over two kinds of terminals sets, and has one end face formed with spaced apart parallel ribs confining grooves therebetween. Each terminals set includes two rows of terminals having retention sections surrounded by the insulative body, and tail sections extending out of the end face of the body such that the ribs and grooves extend between two rows of the tail sections. In one kind of the terminals sets, two rows of the tail sections include bent sections spaced from each other by the ribs and converging toward a plane, and soldering sections coplanar in the plane. In another terminals set, the tail sections are bent at right angle and are received in the respective grooves to be soldered to respective wires.

Abstract: A recording deice includes a cylinder (1) of heat-sensitive ink ribbon (2), a rewinding cylinder (5), and a marking header (19). The device prevents unused segments of ribbon being left between markings. The device has a moving support (6) guiding the ribbon (2) along an additional path (16), a braking mechanism (10, 11, 12, 14) for the cylinder (1). When the ribbon (2)is tractioned and the cylinder is braked, the support (6) is forced to move against the action of an elastic element (13), reducing the additional path (16). Thus, after a marking (a-b) the ribbon and the support (6) move back to (c) so that the next marking (b-d) is made immediately after the first marking (a-b). The braking mechanism, after one or more markings, are released, unrolling a length of ribbon (2) from the cylinder, then braking again, with the process repeated.

Abstract: Provided is an ultra-precision feeding apparatus. The feeding apparatus comprises an actuator horizontally positioned between a base and a motion stage movably provided to the top of the base, first hinge member which is fixed to the base and one end of the actuator, second hinge member which is fixed to the other end of the actuator, third hinge member with two hinges which is fixed to the motion stage, and a lever member with a notch hinge which is fixed to the base and cooperates with the second hinge member and the third hinge member.

Abstract: The customer segmentation software according to the present invention automatically finds or creates profiles of prototypical customers in a large e-commerce database. The software matches all existing customer data in the database to one or more of the prototypical customers. The resulting customer segmentation is an effective summarization of the database and is useful for a range of business applications. Applications of the customer segmentation system include the development of customized web sites, the creation of targeted promotional offers and the prediction of consumer behavior.

Abstract: This invention relates to radar signal processing. In particular, this invention concerns signal processing of agile Pulse Repetition Time (PRT) sampled signal transmitted using spread spectrum technique. This invention solves, in particular, the incompatibility between Doppler processing and spread spectrum such providing an improved anti-jamming technique without narrowing the Doppler range. The method for deconvolution comprises combining the pulses with the same carrier in a burst, transforming the obtained signals from time to frequency domain, and deconvolving the obtained spectra. In a first embodiment of this invention, such a deconvolution method is adapted to irregular PRT sampled signal comprises an irregular samples to regular zero-padded samples conversion step between the combination and the transformation steps.

Abstract: The invention concerns the electronic amplifier tubes operating at radio-frequency. The electronic tube includes a long tubular sleeve containing an electron beam, a housing supporting the sleeve mechanically, and means to provide heat transfer from the sleeve to the housing to cool the sleeve. The means to provide the heat transfer include a resin filling a free volume located between the sleeve and the housing.

Abstract: A method used to increase the ambiguity distance of FSK radars implements a waveform made up of patterns consisting of frequency plateaux whose frequencies are alternately shifted by plus or minus a value ?f?. With this waveform, the method associates processing operations to eliminate ambiguous echoes and image signals. This method has the advantage of not modifying the repetition period of the radar to which it is applied. The method according to the invention can be applied especially to radars in automobiles and especially to anti-collision radars.