Abstract: A surgical robotic system includes a robotic arm, an end effector movably connected thereto and provided with a movable end effector element driven by an actuator, and a force sensor arranged between the robotic arm and the end effector. The actuator is formed by a hydraulic cylinder. The robotic arm is provided with a hydraulic line connected to said hydraulic cylinder of the end effector.

Abstract: Disclosed is a dust collecting apparatus is provided that includes a dust canister body, a part of which becomes an exposed side exposed outside a cleaner body. The cleaner body has a first dust separating chamber for separating large-sized dirt and second dust separating chamber for collecting fine dust; a cyclone body having a cyclone chamber which separates the fine dust from the air passing through the first dust separating chamber; and an outlet pipe protruding from lower surfaces of the first and second cyclone bodies to upper sides of the first and second cyclone chambers, wherein at least a part of the exposed side of the dust canister body is made of a transparent material so as to simultaneously see through the first and second dust separating chambers, and at least a part of the cyclone body is made of the transparent material to see through the cyclone body.

Abstract: Closing module for an optical arrangement, in particular for an objective for microlithography, comprising an optically active closing element (3) having a first axis (3.1) and a holding device (2) that fixes the closing element (3) at least in the direction of the first axis (3.1), the holding device (2) being configured for radial clamping of the closing element (3).

Abstract: The assembly of devices for production of green tyres, consisting of a belt building drum, tread building drum, band drum for preparing a carcass and a forming drum and further includes devices for transferring particular components or assemblies of the components from one device to another, an apparatus for placing and holding a bead and the carcass assembly, stiching unit, and particular servisers for supplying materials to particular devices. The assembly of devices is arranged into two parallel transfer tracks 20 and 50 and includes the band drum 30 for preparing carcass assembly, the tyre building drum 130, the apparatus 150 for placing and holding the head and the carcass assembly on the first transfer track 20, the apparatus 150 is disposed between the said band drum 30 for preparing the carcass assembly, and the tyre-building drum 130.

Abstract: There is provided an illumination system for EUV-wavelengths. The illumination system includes a plurality of EUV-light sources and an optical unit combining the plurality of EUV-light sources.

Abstract: A wide area communication network includes at least two hub sites which are interconnected by a communication backbone Each hub site provides wireless coverage in at least one sector. At least two remote sites reside in each sectors and are coupled to a corresponding hub site via a point to multi point broadband wireless system. The network preferably includes at least one service node which is accessible to the remote sites via the hub sites and backbone.

Abstract: A method to achieve a very low effective dielectric constant in high performance back end of the line chip interconnect wiring and the resulting multilayer structure are disclosed. The process involves fabricating the multilayer interconnect wiring structure by methods and materials currently known in the state of the art of semiconductor processing; removing the intralevel dielectric between the adjacent metal features by a suitable etching process; applying a thin passivation coating over the exposed etched structure; annealing the etched structure to remove plasma damage; laminating an insulating cover layer to the top surface of the passivated metal features; optionally depositing an insulating environmental barrier layer on top of the cover layer; etching vias in the environmental barrier layer, cover layer and the thin passivation layer for terminal pad contacts; and completing the device by fabricating terminal input/output pads.

Abstract: There is provided a system for dispensing a plurality of nurser liners one at a time. The system includes a dispenser having a bottom wall with an edge that defines a flap, and a plurality of nurser liners stacked in a nesting arrangement. The flap is adapted to move from a first position to a second position in which the flap exposes an aperture in the bottom wall. Each one of the plurality of nurser liners has a single open end, and the open end has a flexible rim with a diameter greater than that of the aperture. The plurality of nurser liners are positioned so that the rims are adjacent the aperture with a lowermost one of the plurality of nurser liners abutting the edge. Accordingly, the edge acts as a dual-sided guide for deflecting the rim inward of the lowermost nurser liner as the rim passes through the aperture, and restricts the remainder of the plurality of nurser liners from moving with the lowermost nurser liner out of the dispenser to overcome friction forces caused by the nesting arrangement.

Abstract: A non-corrosive cleaning composition for removing plasma etching residues comprising water, at least one quaternary ammonium hydroxide, and at least one corrosion inhibitor selected from (i) quaternary ammonium silicates and (ii) catechol nucleus-containing oligomers having a molecular weight in the range of about 220 to about 5,000.

Abstract: A software-controlled data processing system employs control blocks, each control block including a data structure that defines at least one control parameter for a data processing action. Plural control blocks are assigned to the data processing action to enable its performance, and each of the plural control blocks has a tag value which, for any set of chained control blocks assigned to the data processing action, exhibit an identical value. The data processing method comprises the steps of: executing the data processing action by accessing each of the plural assigned control blocks in a sequence; comparing tag values contained in sequentially accessed control blocks to determine if the tag values are identical and, if yes, continuing execution of the data processing action and, if no, reporting an anomaly. Such a procedure enables the data processing system to assure that the received, chained control blocks are all assigned to a common data processing action.