Abstract: A clip for a sash molding comprises an elongated end cap adapted to be inserted into an end portion of the sash molding, a fastener adapted to be fixed to a door pillar, and a lip for filling a gap between the sash molding and the door pillar. The fastener and the end cap are made of hard plastic material, and are integrally molded to one another. The lip is made of soft plastic material, and is integrally connected to the end cap in a predetermined configuration, by pouring the soft plastic material in its molten state onto a predetermined region of the end cap and solidifying the soft plastic material thereon. The clip may also include a cover portion, made of a soft plastic material, that continuously extends from the lip and is integrally connected to an end of the end cap.

Abstract: An IC card has a card substrate having semiconductor integrated circuit chips mounted thereon and a plurality of connector terminals formed thereon. The connector terminals are exposed from a casing. The connector terminals are laid out in plural sequences in staggered form between sequences adjacent to one another forward and backward as viewed in an IC card inserting direction. Owing to the adoption of the staggered layout, a structure or configuration wherein the amounts of protrusions of socket terminals of a card socket are changed and the socket terminals are laid out in tandem, can be adopted with relative ease. If a connector terminal arrangement of a downward or low-order IC card is adopted as a specific connector terminal sequence as it is, whereas a function dedicated for an upward or high-order IC card is assigned to another staggered connector terminal arrangement, then backward compatibility can also be implemented with ease.

Abstract: In an exposure apparatus and method, an object is exposed through a projection optical system with an exposure beam irradiated on a mask. An illumination system illuminates a mark on the object and a detecting system detects the illuminated mark. Various illumination and exposure wavelengths are used. The mark is moved relative to illumination beams to enable determining positional information of the mark.

Abstract: A steering column assembly for a vehicle includes upper and lower column assemblies and a central collapsible steering column drive shaft mounted in upper and lower bearings and a central bearing comprising a cylindrical plastics tube that surrounds the central steering column drive shaft and is slidably mounted in the upper column assembly and rotatably supports the central collapsible steering column drive shaft at its lower end.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and device for the scalable monitoring of a computer system comprising a plurality of computer units constituting hardware resources to be monitored forming a monitored domain, the method being implemented by means of a central computer system called a manager connected to a communication network that allows the transfer of information between at least one resource and the manager. The method comprises a step for organizing the monitored domain into monitored subdomains comprising a predetermined maximum number of resources, and a step for automatically creating and configuring, for each subdomain, an information synthesis node comprising at least one synthesis agent stored in the storage means of a resource. Each synthesis agent is designed to synthesize indicator values calculated and stored in the storage means of at least one resource.

Abstract: A device for use with a refrigeration case (104) having a defrost cycle comprising at least one intake (154, 156, 158) for receiving a cleaning agent (155), a rising agent, and a sanitizing agent (159), at least one fluid outlet (140) disposable in the refrigeration case and being in fluid communication with the at least one intake, and wherein transfer of the agents from the at least one intake to the at least one fluid outlet is dependent on the defrost cycle of the refrigeration case and the order of the release of the agents is the cleaning agent, the rinsing agent, and the sanitizing agent.

Abstract: A structure and process for packaging RF MEMS and other devices employs a substrate of silicon, for example, and a cap of glass, for example, having cavities to receive the devices. MEMS or other devices are supported on an upper surface of the substrate, into which metal-filled blind vias are formed. The cap is attached to the substrate, so as to enclose designated MEMS or other devices in the cavities. The substrate is then thinned so as to expose the metal of the vias at a lower surface of the substrate. Electrical connecting elements such as solder balls are then applied to the metal of the vias. The resultant composite substrate is then divided to provide individual packaged devices.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for protecting one or more computer systems using the same secret key (Ks) cryptographic algorithm, characterized in that the way in which said calculation is performed depends, for each computer system and for each secret key, on secret data (Ds) stored in a secret area of the computer system or systems.

Abstract: When an oxidation treatment for regenerating a gate insulating film 6 is performed after forming gate electrodes 7A of a polymetal structure in which a WNx film and a W film are stacked on a polysilicon film, a wafer 1 is heated and cooled under conditions for reducing a W oxide 27 on the sidewall of each gate electrode 7A. As a result, the amount of the W oxide 27 to be deposited on the surface of the wafer 1 is reduced.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for counting thin products (1) that can be stacked side-by-side in a tray (2), characterized in that it comprises at least one counting station comprised of at least one CIS module (31, 32, 33), whose overall length is at least equal to the length of the tray (2) and means for performing multiple scans in a direction transverse to the tray (2), each CIS module (31, 32, 33) comprising at least means for longitudinally illuminating the products (1) and at least one CIS circuit comprised of a plurality of photosensitive elements connected to at least one printed circuit, the counting device also comprises means for detecting the positioning of the tray (2), means for moving the tray in a direction perpendicular to the light beam, means for storing the signals representative of the data of the light beam reflected by the products (1), and means for processing said data for determining the number of products.

Abstract: A hand-held power performs three operations, selectively. A first operation corrects the setting of an improperly set self-piercing rivet. A second operation removes a self-piercing rivet from workpieces. A third operation sets a solid rivet, which may replace a removed self-piercing rivet. For performing these operations, three interchangeable sets of components are provided.

Abstract: The invention concerns an architecture of a terminal (5) allowing communications between a smart card (8) and a web server (4), via an internet network (RI). The terminal (5) is equipped with a secure enclosure (6) comprising a smart card reader (8), a keyboard (62), and optionally, other computing resources (63). The non-secure part of the terminal (5) comprises a web browser (51) and a first communication node (50) that routes the requests received to the browser (51) or to the secure enclosure (6). The secure enclosure (6) comprises a second communication node (60) and an HTTP server (61). The smart card (8) comprises a third communication node (80) and an HTTP server (81). The web server (4) comprises a merchant application (41) that can be placed in communication with the smart card (8) and activate software applications (A1–An) of the latter.

Abstract: To provide an immersion microscope objective lens capable of making a numerical aperture NA larger than 1.45 even if an ordinary oil is used, the objective lens includes, in order from an object, a first lens group, a second lens group, and a third lens group. The first lens group includes a first cemented lens constructed by a plano-convex lens having a plane surface facing to the object cemented with a meniscus lens having a convex surface facing to an image, and two or more cemented positive lenses disposed to the image side of the first cemented lens. The second lens group includes one or more cemented lens. The third lens group includes, in order from the object, a cemented meniscus lens having a strong concave surface facing to the image, and a cemented meniscus lens having a strong concave surface facing to the object. Given conditional expressions are satisfied.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor memory device suitable for larger-capacity storage because of its ability to store 3 or more bits in one element and capable of a high-speed and high-efficiency write operation due to a reduced leakage current during the write operation and provide a fabrication method therefor. According to the present invention, each of elements has a source region, a drain region, a control gate, two charge storage regions, and one or more assist gates. During a write operation, source side injection writing is performed with respect to a write target element by using the assist gates, while adjacent elements are isolated by field isolation using the assist gates.

Abstract: The invention relates to a broadcast apparatus of the type used in association with a material transporter and includes two components in the form of a chassis section which carries spinner units and a hopper section for directing material received from the transporter into the spinner units. The two components are constructed for easy attachment to permit ready separation and re-connection whereby hopper sections which direct the material differently into the spinner units can be quickly substituted and further the attachments parts of the two components permit positioning of the components in different relationships. The spinner units have material engaging blades, the positioning of which on the spinner discs can be varied to affect the engagement of the blades with the material. The ability to accomplish a variety of operating parameters enables the broadcast apparatus to evenly distribute on the ground surface materials of a significantly different characteristics.

Abstract: There is provided semiconductor memory capable of reconfiguring an area to be given an authentication key and access limitation, and there is implemented an information distribution system having an advanced security function using the semiconductor memory. Part of a storage area in the semiconductor memory stores information about the area to be given the authentication key and the access limitation. Alternatively, the authentication key is stored in units of data to be authenticated for limiting an access to stored information. Information is protected doubly by storing encrypted information in the area provided with the access limitation according to the above-mentioned method.

Abstract: A wiring substrate is manufactured in short TAT. Wirings of the wiring substrate are formed by an exposure treatment using a photomask which has shade patterns each containing at least nano particles and a binder.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and device for model resolution and its use for detecting attacks against computer systems. The device comprises adapter software for translating the information from the log file, formulated in the specific language of the machine, into a language understandable by the interpreter, an interpreter receiving the information from the adapter and receiving the formulation of the specification in the temporal logic in a specification formula in order to expand this formula and fill in the table and the stack of worked subformulas described above resulting from the scanning of the machine's log file, and a clause processing algorithm for resolving the Horn clauses using the information from the table and the stack of worked subformulas, this clause processing algorithm generating an output file or generating an action.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for attaching an undercover to the underside of a car body floor panel having a plurality of studs, comprises tubular fasteners that are inserted into respective mounting holes of the undercover with diametral clearance and that are engaged with the studs. Each fastener comprises clips coupled to one another and having flanges that exert a predetermined clamping force on the undercover while permitting displacement of the undercover along the floor panel due to thermal deformation.