Abstract: A vertical conduction MOSFET having a reduced on resistance RDSON as well as reduced threshold voltage Vth, and an improved resistance to punchthrough and walkout has an extremely shallow source diffusion, of less than 0.3 microns in depth and an extremely shallow channel diffusion, of less than about 3 microns in depth. In a P channel version, phosphorus is implanted into the bottom of a contact trench and into the channel region with an implant energy of 400 keV for a singly charged phosphorus ion or 200 keV for a doubly charged ion, thereby to prevent walkout of the threshold voltage.

Abstract: An adaptive predictive expert control system for controlling single-input single-output, or multi-variable time-variant processes with known or unknown parameters and with or without time delay, is disclosed. The adaptive predictive expert control system of the present invention adds an expert block into the operation of previously known adaptive predictive control systems. This expert block based on rules and in the evolution of the process variables, determines and/or modifies the operation of the driver block, control block and adaptive feedback mechanism of the previous art, in order to improve the performance, robustness and stability of the overall control system.

Abstract: A method for the metered discharge of a string of a viscous medium, in particular of an abrasive medium containing solid particles, via a nozzle, in which the quantity of the medium is discharged as a function of the speed of the nozzle and is increased or reduced as a function of the acceleration or deceleration of the nozzle.

Abstract: A circuit for suppressing false operation of a level shift circuit due to a noise transient, the circuit comprising a first transistor coupled to a voltage source of the level shift circuit and being coupled to pass a current when a noise transient is present on the voltage source an output terminal coupled to the first transistor providing as an injected signal a current proportional to the current in the first transistor to at least one level shift transistor of the level shift circuit to prevent false triggering of the level shift circuit due to the noise transient.

Abstract: A power module has a printed circuit control component board disposed atop an IMS with an opening in the printed circuit board exposing the top surface of the IMS and power semiconductor die mounted thereon. The top surface of the IMS is closely spaced to the top surface of the printed circuit board so that wire bonds have a reduced drop from the printed circuit board to the IMS. The IMS may be cemented to the periphery of the opening in the printed circuit board, or may be located toward the top of an opening in an insulation support shell which receives a mesa from a support heat sink, which permits the close spacing of printed circuit board and IMS.

Abstract: A portable computer system is provided, which makes it possible to increase the area for an auxiliary device such as a visual indicator and a speaker and to adjust the location and attitude of the auxiliary device with respect to a computer body. This computer system is comprised of a computer body having a first pivot axis, and a display subsystem pivotable connected to the body around the first pivot axis. The display subsystem includes first and second units, one of which is provided with an auxiliary device and the other of which is provided with a display device. The second unit is pivotably connected to the body around the first pivot axis and capable of being held at a desired first pivot angle with respect to the body. The first unit is pivotably connected to the second unit around a second pivot axis and capable of being held at a desired second pivot angle with respect to the second unit.

Abstract: Disclosed is a multipoint television conference system, comprising terminals, and a multipoint control unit for controlling the terminals. Each of the terminals is provided for each attendee to the multipoint television conference. The multipoint control unit comprises plural detection means. Each of the plural detection means detects whether or not each attendee is speaking on the basis of an audio signal and video signal from each of the terminals in order to output a speaker detection signal representing a result of the detection. A determination means determines who are main speakers among the attendees on the basis of the speaker detection signals in order to generate a determination signal representing the main speaker. A combining means combines the video signals on the basis of the speaker determination signal in order to output the combined video signal to the terminals.

Abstract: A multilayered ceramic substrate which includes at least two types of ceramic layers respectively containing different ceramic materials, and which can be produced by simultaneous firing without causing layer peeling is described. A green composite laminated product is prepared in a state in which two substrate green sheets respectively contain different types of low-temperature sintered ceramic materials, and a shrinkage inhibiting green sheet containing an inorganic material which is not sintered at the sintering temperature of each of the low-temperature sintered ceramic material is arranged between the two substrate green sheets, followed by firing.

Abstract: This retractable central conveyor (1) being used in a folder-gluer converting plate-like workpieces such as paper or cardboard for producing packagings. Such a folder-gluer comprises two frames between which are arranged two lateral conveyors (100, 110), the conveying means of which being belts (101, 111). The conveyor of the present invention comprises a structure consisting of four associated components (4, 5, 8, 11) which are transversely movable between the frames of the folder-gluer with respect to the travelling direction of said plate-like workpieces. Among these components of this structure, an upper longitudinal bar (4) can easily be manually lowered, in a vertical slanted movement, from a working position to a retracted position, and inversely raised by independent damping means (15).

Abstract: An electronic module is provided using one or more field effect transistors (FETs) arranged on a conductive plate such that the module is capable of switching very high currents while remaining compact and still providing excellent thermal management properties. A plurality of conductive plates are bonded with an insulating material, the insulating material also forms a housing. One or more FETs are arranged inside the housing on one of the plates such that an electrical connection is made between a first region of the FET and the plate. A second FET region is electrically connected to another conductive plate. A circuit board is contained within the housing in which an electrical connection is made between the second region and the circuit board, and between a third FET region and the circuit board.

Abstract: A logic circuit performs a predetermined logic operation by supplying charge to an external load or pulling out charge therefrom according to a combination of the states of a plurality of externally inputted binary signals. The logic circuit includes a first transistor for supplying charge through an output terminal to the external load and a second transistor for pulling out the charge from the load through the output terminal. One of the first and second transistors is constituted by a MOS field-effect transistor having a drain connected to the output terminal. The MOS field-effect transistor has a source receiving an inverse signal inverse to a signal combined for logic operation with an input signal inputted to a gate of the MOS field-effect transistor. The number of the series transistors is reduced, resulting in an increase of the current capacity and in a reduction of the layout area.

Abstract: A suction noise muffler for a hermetic compressor which is capable of enabling a smooth flow of a refrigerant gas and reducing a suction noise by forming a predetermined shaped refrigerant gas flow guide path and a plurality of noise reducing sections, which includes an upper casing having a rectangular outer wall and a plurality of inner walls arranged within the outer wall, and a lower casing whereby the upper casing is inserted into the lower casing, for thus forming a refrigerant gas flowing path and a plurality of noise reducing sections thereby when assembling the upper casing and lower casing.

Abstract: A process for treating so-called wet refuse of urban origin, especially food waste from canteens, communities and other similar catering establishments, and originating from the food industry and the agrifoods industry, including the phases of subjecting a continuous stream of said wet refuse, previously ground, to heating to a pasteurization/sterilization temperature for the time needed for complete cooking, to give a continuous pasty and wet stream of cooked and sanitized refuse and subjecting the said continuous stream to drying, to give a product having a moisture content of not more than 15%.

Abstract: Alpha-amidating enzyme is produced by recombinant DNA techniques recoverable in high yields and at high purity. Both eukaryotic and prokaryotic expression vectors are provided having a transcriptional promoter followed downstream by a DNA sequence which encodes amidating enzyme. The vector selected is one capable of directing the expression of polypeptides in the host selected, and preferred hosts are transected with the described vectors.