Abstract: An adjustable tooling pin for a bed-of-nails test fixture used for testing circuit boards (cards) is provided which allows the tooling pin, and thus the card, to be precisely realigned while the card is still mounted in the test fixture. The adjustable tooling pin mechanism comprises a pivot bushing having a channel running from end-to-end into which a slide bar fits. The tooling pin projects from the end of the sliding bar in the z-direction such that a card may be located over the tooling pin. A locking screw fits through an aperture in the sliding bar and the pivot bushing and is threadably engaged into a threaded insert in the test fixture top plate. Hence, the tooling pin, and thus the card, are radially adjustable in the x-y plane by turning the pivot bushing and by sliding the sliding bar along the pivot bushing channel.

Abstract: A signal light including a housing is recessed into a traffic surface and projects minimally upwardly from the surface and wherein a light processing assembly is provided to receive light from a light source, intensify the light and direct the light toward a light outlet in a generally linear manner, the arrangement for processing light being mounted to the housing. For this purpose, the light source is designed in such a way that it sends an essentially linearly directed light beam onto the light processing assembly. The light is collected in the light processing assembly in such a way that, when it exits, it is still linearly extending in at least one direction but it has a higher intensity. For this purpose, the light processing assembly includes a cylindrical-convex lens entry surface and a cylindrical concave mirror surface for receiving and directing light.

Abstract: Disclosed is a selective cell discard system in an ATM switch to transfer exchanging a cell input from a plurality of input ports to a plurality of output ports, for controlling the selective cell discard to guarantee QOS (quality of service) by controlling the order of cell discard or the read-out order of cells accumulated in cell buffer when a plenty of cells exceeding the exchange capability of the switch is input, the system having: a selective cell discard controller connected to each of the plurality of input ports; a first-stage switch unit comprising all of cell buffers for output port group provided corresponding to output port groups into which the plurality of output ports are divided, and a cell multiplexer which inputs exchanging all of cells to be input from the plurality of input ports through the selective cell discard controller according to routing information of concerned cells; a groups of second-stage switch units which are provided corresponding to each of the cell buffers for output po

Abstract: When receiving voice mail data from a server 11, a terminal 13 or 14 stores the voice mail data in a memory. Subsequently, the data is read, converted to a voice and outputted. Furthermore, when inputting a voice mail during the output of the voice, the terminal 13 or 14 generates a signal including a voice mail data reading position of the memory at the time of input, data of the inputted voice mail and a self terminal identification number as a mail editing signal to transmit the signal to the server 11. When receiving the mail editing signal, the server 11 inserts or attaches and re-accumulates the voice mail data in the mail editing signal to a position indicated by the mail editing signal of a memory region of a memory 15 allocated to a transmitting-end terminal.

Abstract: A data-reproducing device includes: a subtraction absolute value circuit for calculating a substraction absolute value from pre-equalized reproduce data and estimate data output from RAM, outputting the subtraction absolute value as branchmetrics; a comparison and selection circuit for comparing addition values of the branchmetrics and previously calculated pathmetrics are added, selecting a smaller one of the values as the result of comparison, outputting the smaller one of the values as new pathmetric as well as a selection signal as to which of the values is selected; a path memory circuit for storing the selection signal, obtaining the most probable path by unifying paths, outputting the most probable data according to the most probable path; a RAM circuit for outputting estimate data judged to be closest to the pre-equalized reproduce data by using a present output of the path memory circuit as an address; and a data correction circuit for renewing an internal data of the RAM circuit based upon a data ob

Abstract: A communication charge management system includes one or more master telephone sets serving as managing telephone sets, one or more slave telephone sets serving as telephone sets managed by the master telephone sets, and a charge informing unit. The charge informing unit informs the master telephone set of the communication charge in communication of the slave telephone set.

Abstract: Mammaliam cancer cells are effectively killed when treated with a lethal agent (e.g. radiation or chemotherapeutic agents) in combination with an inhibitor specific for the p42/44 MAP kinase cascade "proper".

Abstract: PLL (Phase Locked Loop) circuits have difficulty achieving both short pull-in time and stable hold-over time simultaneously. The PLL circuit of the present invention includes a first integrator and a second integrator. To reduce a pull-in time, feedback loop including the first integrator is provided with a sufficiently great loop gain. For stable holdover, a feedback loop including the second integrator is provided with a loop gain small enough to obviate the influence of the momentary variation of an input signal frequency.

Abstract: In the production of a fluorescent material, firstly a particle growth retardant is mixed with a fluorescent raw material and then the mixture is baked, whereupon the baked mixture is washed and dried as an intermediate fluorescent material. Then, the particle growth retardant is removed from the surface of the intermediate fluorescent material and crystal defects are formed in the particle-growth-retardant-free intermediate fluorescent material using a ball mill or an ultrasonic vibrator, etc. Finally, the resulting intermediate fluorescent material is baked again and is then washed and dried as a final fluorescent material. This fluorescent material is particularly useful when used in a scatter electroluminescent panel serving as a back light of a liquid crystal display, which must be very small in thickness and light in weight.

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device has a high-speed bus driver and a bus receiver both connected to a bus line, and the high-speed bus driver enters an active mode powered from a positive power voltage line and a virtual ground line and a sleep mode isolating the virtual ground line from a ground line for reducing power consumption, wherein a switching circuit is connected between the high-speed bus driver and the bus line so as to isolate the bus line from the high-speed bus driver in transition periods and the sleep mode, thereby cutting a conductive path for through-current due to leakage current inherent in the high-speed component field effect transistors of the bus driver.

Abstract: Complex declarative programming capabilities are provided through an underlying procedural programming code by functionally providing the selection algorithm of known declarative processing arrangements in explicit conditional constructs in procedural language embodying a rule or rule function statement. This approach simultaneously provides declarative processes easily and simply in a relatively few lines of procedural code while isolating the processing to the rules and objects, themselves, thereby providing reduction in hardware overhead requirements and performance enhancements which will be more fully discussed below. Further, by providing for updating of attributes and relationships of objects together with time tags associated with the update and removal of objects from list for evaluation, imprecise evaluation and heuristic reasoning may be readily developed while providing further performance enhancements to known Lazy Evaluation procedures.

Abstract: A power assisted liposuction/lipoinjection handpiece includes a handle (12) which provides power to reciprocate a cannula (10) back and forth during surgery The cannula (10) can be connected to the handle (12) by a connector (24) that is affixed to, integrally formed with, or selectively joinable to a reciprocating member (14). Benefits in sterilization, distribution and surgical use can be realized when the cannula (10) and connector (24) are joined together, such that the surgeon merely needs to remove the cannula (10) from the package and connect it to a reciprocating member of a powered handle (12). The handle (12) may be configured such that the reciprocating member (14) is selectively detachable; thereby, allowing the handle (12) to be used for additional surgical procedures such as sawing or drilling. A vacuum hose (26) is connected to the cannula (10) such that vacuum pressure can be exerted through the cannula (10) for aspirating severed fat tissue.

Abstract: The invention provides a method for improving network routing calculations for routing data packets or connections between two points in a network through many incompatible sub-networks. Each node in the network comprises a plurality of agents, written in migrating executable code, which represent each sub-network or domain in the overall network. Hence, an originating node wishing to send data over the network need not concern itself with the topology of the links or communicate directly with other sub-networks. Instead, the originating node can calculate a path through the network locally, simply by querying its agents. Hence, this paradigm is based on an object-oriented design, in which the network controller (NC) at one node does not attempt to interpret topological data of a different node or sub-network. Instead, a network controller at the originating node activates the agents which represent the other sub-networks, and queries the agents (a black-box approach).

Abstract: Formation of a contact probe having a pattern of dendritic textured contacts complementary to that of a contact pad array on a bare chip allows formation of simultaneous temporary connections to all contact pads of the bare chip at a much reduced compressional force across the chip. The reliability of such connections at such a reduced force allows screening, burn-in and full functional testing of the bare chip at a high throughput by an automated apparatus to exploit potential economies of "known good die" (KGD) processing for limiting or avoiding repair, rework and further processing of less than fully functional chips for complex electronic packages. The compressional force is sensed by a pressure sensor, the output of which controls the advancement of the bare chip toward the contact probe such that the dendritic textured contacts of the contact probe penetrate the contact pads of the bare chip.

Abstract: Nanoparticles of silicon oxide alloys (i.e., oxides of SiMo, SiPt, and SiAl) are produced by laser vaporization of a silicon target and a target of a metal (i.e., Mo, Pt, or Al), in an oxygen containing atmosphere in a diffusion cloud chamber, where the target metal vapors aggregate into novel three-dimensional porous web structures. The structures have a homogeneous composition with a uniform ratio of silicon to the metal.

Abstract: The present invention provides a percutaneous absorption preparation which hardly causes the coloration phenomenon and is excellent in the stability of the drug content. The percutaneous absorption preparation comprises a support and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer formed on at least one side of the support, wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer contains a percutaneous absorptive drug and at least one of 2-mercaptobenzimidazole and propyl gallate, with the proviso that the percutaneous absorptive drug is not 6-amino-5-chloro-1-isopropyl-2-(4-methyl-1-piperazinyl)benzimidazole and pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof.

Abstract: A radio communication device 7 existing in a function control area 3 receives both a call signal 4 from a base station and a function control signal 5 transmitted from a function control signal transmitting device 2. The call signal 4 and the function control signal 5 have the same frequency. The call signal 4 received is converted into a predetermined block format and constitutes predetermined frames during which data errors occurred in the predetermined block is counted. After the counting, the number of data errors occurred in the predetermined block is compared with a predetermined value. On the basis of the result of comparison, it is determined whether or not the radio communication device 7 exists in a function control area 3. When it is determined that the radio communication device 7 exists in the function control area 3, the function of the radio communication device 7 is controlled and restricted.

Abstract: An associative storage type cache memory is disclosed, which comprises a decoder for decoding an entry address designated by a data processing unit, a first tag memory for storing higher-order bits of an address tag, the first tag memory being common to multiple ways, second tag memories for storing lower-order bits of the address tag, the second tag memories corresponding to the individual ways, data memories for storing data designated by an address consisting of the contents of the first and second tag memories, a first comparator for comparing higher-order bits of a tag address with the contents of the first tag memory, second comparators for comparing lower-order bits of the tag address with the contents of the second tag memories, respectively, and a way selector for selecting data from the data memories corresponding to hit signals received from the first and second comparators and outputting the selected data.

Abstract: An optical switch device includes an integrated space switch section and a wavelength switch section which reduces, a packaging volume and cost. The optical switch device includes a plurality of multi-functional wavelength converters. One of these converters includes a wavelength converter 121, in which an input terminal and an output terminal are connected to optical divider 131 and opticalcoupler 141, respectively, is operated as the wavelength converter only when a current flows through a semiconductor optical amplifier in the wavelength converter. When the current does not flow through the amplifier, the light is not outputted. By turning on/off the current flowing through the semiconductor optical amplifier in the wavelength converter, wavelength converter 121 can functions as a gate switch. The switch device has both of a wavelength conversion function and a space switch function.

Abstract: A flexible manhole liner bag soaked with a curable liquid resin is inserted into a manhole; this liner bag is equipped with step connectors having female screws, which are disposed to penetrate and be supported by a fabric layer of the liner bag; the open ends of the female screws are substantially flush with the inner face of the fabric layer, and male screws are screwed into these female screws and a sealing material is applied between the internal thread of the female screws and the external thread of the male screws.