Abstract: The invention involves a card, including a card body including at least three laminated plastic layers directly superimposed on each other, a second layer being a layer in polyethylene terephthalate glycol placed between a first layer and a third layer, the first layer and third layer being of a chemical nature different from that of said second layer, and an electronic module being incorporated in a cavity of the card body, the module including an integrated circuit, where the thickness of the second layer is of the same order of magnitude as that of the first and third layers, and wherein the cavity extends into the second layer from the first layer.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a roller cone drill for drilling earth formations and a method of using the same. The drill bit includes a bit body and a plurality of roller cones attached to the bit body and able to rotate with respect to the bit body. The drill bit further includes a plurality of cutting elements disposed on each of the roller cones, an offset of at least about 0.375 inches; and a journal angle less than about thirty degrees. In one embodiment, the drill bit includes three roller cones. In another embodiment, the cutting elements of the bit are arranged on each cone so that cutting elements on adjacent cones intermesh between the cones.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for storing electronic devices. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a base member attachable to an enclosure and a carrier rotatably coupled to the base member. The base member includes a pivotal member. The carrier includes a mounting mechanism coupled to the pivotal member to facilitate the rotational movement of the carrier with respect to the base member. The carrier is also adapted to attach to at least one peripheral device.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a lens arrangement for the particle-optical imaging of an object to be imaged and positionable in an object plane into an image area. In one embodiment, the lens arrangement includes a first focusing lens device for providing a field having a focusing effect on the imaging particles for imaging the object from the object area into an intermediate image area, a second focusing lens device for providing a further field having a focusing effect on the imaging particles for imaging the object, which has been imaged into the intermediate image area, into the image area, and a deflection lens device for providing a field having a deflecting effect on the imaging particles in a region of the intermediate image area. The deflection lens device is disposed in the intermediate image area primarily to compensate for aberrations, such as image field curvature.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an adhesive with which voids are less likely to occur and adherends are not curved. Adhesives of the present invention have excellent dispensability from nozzles of dispensers because the overall specific gravity of the adhesives is adjusted to 1.4 or more and 4.0 or less by adding a filler having a specific gravity of 3.0 or more and 9.0 or less. A highly reliable electric device 1 can be obtained because no voids are generated in an adhesive 12 or an adherend or a flexible wiring board 5 is not curved when the flexible wiring board and a semiconductor chip 11 are connected.

Abstract: A constant voltage source includes a constant voltage supplying circuit including an operational amplifier for supplying an output voltage to a load and a feedback circuit for feeding back the output voltage to the operational amplifier; a first inductance unit disposed between the constant voltage supplying circuit and the load; and a first bypass capacitor of which one terminal is coupled between the first inductance unit and the load and the other terminal is coupled to a constant voltage unit.

Abstract: An adjustment and calibration system for post-fabrication treatment of an on-chip temperature sensor is provided. As explained in detail below, the adjustment and calibration system includes at least one adjustment circuit, to which the on-chip temperature sensor is responsive, and a storage device that selectively stores control information (1) associated with a state of the adjustment circuit and/or (2) from a tester that writes such control information to the storage device, where the control information stored in the storage device is subsequently selectively read out in order to adjust the adjustment circuit to a state corresponding to the control information.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method for producing a portable object having a card format and comprising:—an object body including a plastic support sheet (12), a plastic incorporation sheet (18), and a first (19) and second (20) external covering sheet; an antenna (11) provided with two antenna terminals (13); and an integrated circuit chip (14) incorporated in an incorporation sheet (18) and electrically connected to the antenna. The method of the invention is characterised in that it comprises stages according to which: the support sheet (12) on which the chip (14) has been mounted with the incorporation sheet (18) so as to obtain a first rolled unit; and in a subsequent stage the first rolled unit is covered with the first (19) and second (20) external covering sheets. The invention can be applied in particular to the production of contactless cards by means of hot rolling.

Abstract: A coaxial connector contact has a bonding portion to which the exposed portion of a center conductor of a coaxial cable is to be bonded with solder while being in contact with the bonding portion at a prescribed position, a first positioning portion that is provided at a position to be located on the front side of the exposed portion of the center conductor and is formed so as to be able to support the side faces of the exposed portion of the center conductor from both sides, and a second positioning portion that is provided at a position to be located on the rear side of the exposed portion of the center conductor and is formed so as to be able to support the side faces of the exposed portion of the center conductor from both sides and to be in contact with the end face of an insulator that covers the center conductor.

Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided that simplifies wiring pattern and is capable of being etched through an etching hole as a concavity is produced over a short time period. A dielectric film 12 is formed so as to shield the concavity formed upon the upper surface of a silicon substrate 10. A circuit pattern that has a thermoelectric conversion element 18 is formed upon the dielectric film. The upper surface of the silicon wafer becomes a (100) surface, and a first etching hole 16 extending in the <110> direction of the silicon substrate and a second etching hole 17 extending in the <−110> direction are formed. These holes intersect in a cross shape. Shapes of the first and second etching holes become parallelograms which have oblique sides tilted with respect to <110> and <−110>. Imaginary rectangles passing though the vertices of the first and second etching holes are continuous.

Abstract: A clock skew measuring apparatus for measuring a clock skew between a plurality of clock signals to be measured in a device under test, includes: a clock signal selecting element for receiving clock signals and outputting them by selecting one of the clock signals one by one; and a clock skew estimator for receiving a reference signal input to the device under test and the clock signals to be measured selected by the clock signal selecting element one by one and for obtaining the clock skew between the clock signals to be measured.

Abstract: A modulation circuit arranged to modulate a first voltage from a first power supply grid to produce a desired second voltage not greater than the first voltage on a second power supply grid is provided. A digital register is operatively connected to the modulation circuit to determine the desired second voltage on the second power supply grid. Furthermore, the digital register maintains a value representative of an activity level or an anticipated activity level of a circuit connected to the second power supply grid. The modulation circuit maintains the desired second voltage for the circuit connected to the second power supply grid by transferring charge between capacitances.

Abstract: A method for improving prediction of an outcome for a branch instruction in a set of instructions includes storing local branch history data for the branch instruction, using the local branch history data to predict the outcome of the branch instruction, and speculatively updating the local branch history data with the predicted outcome of the branch instruction. An apparatus for improving prediction of an outcome for a branch instruction in a set of instructions includes a memory for storing local branch history data for the branch instruction and a processor for using the local branch history data to predict the outcome of the branch instruction and speculatively updating the local branch history data with the predicted outcome of the branch instruction.

Abstract: A SSTL memory interface pre-driver stage that uses a voltage regulator to generate a ‘virtual’ supply is provided. The ‘virtual’ supply, being lower than a power supply voltage of the pre-driver stage, allows low voltage transistors to be used, thereby improving interface performance and decreasing system power consumption. The pre-driver stage uses a biasing circuit to bias the voltage regulator, formed by a transistor arranged in a source follower configuration, to generate the ‘virtual’ supply off which a voltage translator stage of the pre-driver stage operates to generate an output of the pre-driver stage.

Abstract: A system for implementing a power management system in a computer system using a constant time reference to support an operating system. The system uses a PCI clock signal and a CPU clock signal to generate the constant time reference such that the operating system uses the constant time reference when the power management system causes the computer system's CPU frequency to change or when the CPU frequency has changed. The power management system comprises of circuitry to interface between normal power management system operations with that of the operations used to support the operating system.