Abstract: An electronic key system for an entry object such as a vehicle is comprised of a portable device and an in-object device. The portable device has a device body and an emergency key detachably accommodated in the device body. The emergency key has a transponder, which is separate from a transponder provided in the device body. The transponder is for verifying the authority of registration of an additional portable device, while the transponder is for verifying the authority of vehicle control. The device body is also capable of detachably accommodating an emergency key which has no transponder.

Abstract: A traffic channel transmission device for a CDMA communication system using a plurality of coding rates and orthogonal codes, determines a present channel condition and adaptively selects a coding rate and an orthogonal code according to the determination. In the device, a channel receiver receives a channel signal and a controller analyzes the received signal to decide an environment of a channel in service and generates a coding rate select signal and orthogonal code information according to the decision result. A channel transmitter includes a channel encoder for encoding transmission data at a coding rate selected according to the coding rate select signal and an orthogonal modulator for generating an orthogonal code according to the orthogonal code information to spread the encoded data with the generated orthogonal code, whereby the channel transmitter adaptively encodes and spreads the transmission data according to the channel environment.

Abstract: An LED light pipe structure includes a light pipe, a light refraction plate, and a light emitting diode which are integrally formed into one body, so as to enable the light emitting diode inside the light pipe to generate a visible light for illumination, through a voltage of direct-current power source provided by a lamp holder. The visible light for illumination generated by the light emitting diode can be refracted and transmitted in an effective range by the light refraction plate, such that the light pipe can generate an illumination of good brightness and quality. In addition, when the light pipe is emplaced in environment of different illumination, the light emitting diode can be replaced with a light emitter of different light source, through that the light pipe can be fixed separately, such that the light pipe can be provided with functions of illuminating and identifying colors.

Abstract: A computer. When an instruction calling for an architecturally-visible side-effect in an architecturally-visible storage location is recognized, a value is stored representative of an architecturally-visible representation of the side-effect, a format of the representative value being different than an architecturally-visible representation of the side-effect. Execution is resumed without generating the architecturally-visible side-effect. Later, the architecturally-visible representation corresponding to the representative value is written into the architecturally-visible storage location. On a context switch, a context of a first process is written and a context of a second process is loaded to place the second process into execution. At least some instructions maintain results in storage resources outside the context resource set, and instructions are marked to indicate whether or not a context switch may be performed at a boundary of the marked instruction.

Abstract: A method and system to manage the operation of multiple item promotions which provide a benefit to a customer who purchases a specified combination of items. The present invention monitors purchases in conjunction with Point Of Sale (POS) processing in a retail store and determines when purchase combination promotions are satisfied by a customer's purchase selections. The present invention stores a description of the items purchased in conjunction with the promotion, stores the cost of the promotion to be charged to each sponsor for each benefit or discount provided, and tracks future redemption of coupons or paperless equivalents that were issued in conjunction with a purchase combination promotion.

Abstract: A method of expanding a diameter of a tube includes the steps of positioning the tube with one end abutting a stop member, extending a mandrel through an interior passageway of the tube, and expanding a diameter of an expandable head connected to the mandrel as the mandrel is moved in a direction toward the stop member. The diameter of the tube expands in correspondence with the expansion of the diameter of the mandrel. A longitudinal axial force is applied to the tube in a direction toward the stop member as the expandable head expands the diameter of the tube.

Abstract: A contact structure, including a first conducting region having a first thin portion with a first sublithographic dimension in a first direction; a second conducting region having a second thin portion with a second sublithographic dimension in a second direction transverse to said first direction; the first and second thin portions being in direct electrical contact and defining a contact area having a sublithographic extension. The thin portions are obtained using deposition instead of lithography: the first thin portion is deposed on a wall of an opening in a first dielectric layer; the second thin portion is obtained by deposing a sacrificial region on vertical wall of a first delimitation layer, deposing a second delimitation layer on the free side of the sacrificial region, removing the sacrificial region to form a sublithographic opening that is used to etch a mold opening in a mold layer and filling the mold opening.

Abstract: The present invention provides a card adapter structure including an upper cover, a lower cover, a set of converter terminals and a set of positioning flexible strips. The upper cover designed to conform to short memory card (MS) specifications, has an insertion slot defined at a rear end to fit the shape of a memory stick micro card (M2). Fixing portions are located on two sides of the insertion slot; moreover, a positioning structure is located on a bottom surface of the upper cover. The converter terminals are configured and covered fixedly with an injection molded fixed seating. The set of positioning flexible strips are correspondingly disposed between the fixing portions of both covers. Such a structural configuration enables converting a memory stick micro card into a short memory card to facilitate inserting into a digital product provided with a short memory card circuit port for use thereof.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a display device for working vehicle, which is adapted so that additional information can be displayed. In the invention, display indication marks of the two types can be interchangeably displayed on a common display screen of a limited area without reducing the sizes of the individual marks, so that neither a larger size of a display device nor a drop in the visibility of the indication marks is necessary. This enables the driver to control a working machine such as a construction machine and have additional information about the construction machine without any trouble in the driving.

Abstract: An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device for a pushbutton module. A printed circuit board (PCB), a keypad unit, and a keypad marking board as well as an insulating sleeve and an electrical conductivity board isolate and discharge generated static electricity.

Abstract: Flexible, liquid fillable bottles of polyester resin are provided which have a capacity in liters relative to the weight thereof in grams excluding the neck of from 0.15 to 0.5 and from 0.2 to 1.5 for larger capacities. The bottles are obtained by blowing parisons freely or in a rigid container, the shape of which the bottles assume, said parisons being of polyester resin with suitable rheological properties.

Abstract: The present invention describes a light emitting diode illumination apparatus made of a light bulb base, a heat dissipating device, a plastic lid, a drive substrate, a metal substrate, a circular insulated base and a casing, and the heat dissipating device is in contact with the metal substrate in normal conditions, such that the heat source produced by each light emitting diode is conducted to the heat dissipating device through the metal substrate and then conducted from the heat dissipating device to the light bulb base for effectively dispersing the heat source and maintaining the light emitting efficiency of each light emitting diode.

Abstract: Two sides of a single metal plate are bent to form the structure of a spring terminal having two spring portions. In the spring terminal having such a structure, the two spring portions are different from each other in a natural frequency. For this reason, when external vibrations are applied to a pressure sensor, even if one of the two spring portions of the spring terminal resonates with the external vibrations, the other spring portion can keep the electric connection between a circuit in a substrate and a terminal.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods and pharmaceutical compositions for inhibiting expressions of HIF and HIF regulated genes, inhibiting angiogenesis, inducing cell cycle arrest in tumor cells, and treating cell proliferating diseases or conditions.

Abstract: In accordance with the invention, there is an electrophotographic charging device comprising a first electrode, a second electrode adjacent the first electrode, a plurality of nanotubes adhering to at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode, and a voltage supply electrically connected to the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the first electrode and the second electrode impart charge to a portion of a gaseous material that is deposited on a receptor.

Abstract: A display window of a mobile phone, which prevents a deposited layer from being exposed and being oxidized/corroded, thereby improving not only the quality of the display window but also the reliability on the mobile phone provided with the display window. The display window has a deposited layer and a printed layer, which are formed in sequence on a transparent sheet, and a protective layer coated on outer edges of the deposited layer and printed layers, thereby preventing the deposited layer from being exposed.

Abstract: The absolute value of the threshold voltage of a P-channel TFT is reduced by making its channel length shorter than that of an N-channel TFT by at least 20%, to thereby approximately equalize the threshold voltage absolute values of those TFTs.