Abstract: A cooking device comprises a cooking surface and a wall structure that extends away with respect to the cooking surface. Examples of the cooking device include a closure configured to be moved with respect to the wall structure from a first position to a second position. Access to the cooking surface is provided when the closure is oriented in the first position and the closure is configured to cooperate with the wall structure to define a cooking chamber when the closure is oriented in the second position. A handle can be attached to the closure, wherein the closure is configured to move from the second position to the first position by moving the handle away with respect to the wall structure. In addition or alternatively, the cooking device may include a rotisserie device with an arm configured to move from a retracted position to an extended position with respect to the wall structure.

Abstract: An electronic component mounting method for mounting a electronic component on a board, in which an Au bump provided at an electronic component is joined to a joining terminal formed on a board by using solder made of Sn or solder containing Sn and the electronic component is adhered to the board by means of thermosetting resin thereby to mount the electronic component on the board. The applied thermosetting resin is flown toward the outside by the lower surface of the electronic component, then a part of the solder particles contained within the thermosetting resin are made in contact with the side surfaces of the Au bumps which are heated to the temperature higher than the melting point of the solder and also another part of the solder particles are molten in a state of being sandwiched between the Au bumps and the electrodes. Thus, the diffusion of Sn into the Au bumps from the outside is promoted and so the density of Sn within the Au bumps can be increased.

Abstract: This invention relates to an improved amorphous zirconium hydroxide and a method for its production. The hydroxide has a surface area of at least 300 m2/g, a total pore volume of at least 0.70 cm3/g and an average pore size of between 5 nm and 15 nm, and is prepared by a process which comprises the steps of: a) preparing an aqueous solution comprising sulphate anions and a zirconium salt such that the ZrO2:SO3 ratio is 1:0.40 to 1:0.52, (b) chilling the solution to below 25° C., (c) adding an alkali in order to precipitate the amorphous zirconium hydroxide, (d) filtering and washing the precipitated zirconium hydroxide with water or an alkali to remove residual sulphate and chloride, (e) hydrothermally treating the zirconium hydroxide at a pressure of less than 3 barg, and (f) drying the zirconium hydroxide. The zirconium hydroxide of the present invention, which can be doped, is particularly useful in catalytic applications.

Abstract: The present invention aims at permitting users of the equipments to exchange mutually their own wills easily in a PoC service not to take a floor. In a PoC service that attains a half duplex talk session using a packet communication between the plurality of equipments via a PoC server, a PoC server 20 for controlling a communication relay among a plurality of equipments includes a managing unit 20a for managing the user equipments connected to the PoC server 20, an acquiring unit 20b for acquiring a key operation of each equipment as operation information, and a transmitting unit 20c for transmitting the acquired operation information to the equipments that the managing unit 20a manages.

Abstract: To provide an electronic component placing apparatus and an electronic component mounting method that can prevent a cold joint from occurring when an electronic component likely to cause warp deformation is mounted by means of soldering. In the electronic component placing apparatus for placing the electronic component 16 with a plurality of solder bumps 16a formed on a lower surface on a board, a film 7a having a film thickness distribution for transferring a desired transfer amount of solder paste according to a state of warp deformation to each of the plurality of solder bumps is formed in a paste transfer unit 24, based on the component warp information indicating the state of warp deformation in a reflow process of the electronic component. Thereby, it is possible to prevent a cold joint from occurring when the electronic component likely to cause warp deformation is mounted by means of soldering by additionally supplying a just enough amount of solder to each solder bump 16a.

Abstract: A zoom lens system is provided that includes a compactly constructed focusing lens unit and that has a suppressed change in the image magnification at the time of movement of a focusing lens unit. The zoom lens system according to the present invention, in order from an object side to an image side, comprises: a first lens unit having positive optical power; a second lens unit having negative optical power; and at least two subsequent lens units, wherein the at least two subsequent lens units include a lens unit A and a lens unit B arranged on the image side relative to the lens unit A, at the time of zooming, all lens units move in a direction along the optical axis so that intervals between the lens units vary, at the time of focusing, the lens unit A moves in a direction along the optical axis, and the following condition is satisfied. 0.10<|fBAK/fF|/(fT/fW)<15.

Abstract: A method, system and digital modulator for modulation are provided The modulator includes a dividing mechanism for dividing a reference clock by a divide value to produce a modulated signal associated with at least one input data, and a control unit for providing at least one divide sequence to the dividing mechanism. The at least one divide sequence includes a sequence of one or more divide values. The divide value of the divide sequence is configurable and selectively provided to the dividing mechanism based on the at least one input data. The method includes configuring at least one divide sequence including a sequence of one or more divide values, and selecting a divide value from the at least one divide sequence based on at least one input data. The method includes dividing a reference clock by the selected divide value and generating a modulated signal based on the divide operation.

Abstract: The apparatus for blood flow control in an extracorporeal circuit comprises: a user interface for setting a desired blood flow value (qbREAL) and a datum relating to the vascular access, a memory for recording a plurality of mathematical relations having mathematical expressions relating to the vascular access organ to be used, and a control unit. The control unit identifies the vascular access, selects, from among the plurality of mathematical relations present in the memory, a relation which corresponds to the vascular access identified, and calculates, as a mathematical function of the set value for the desired flow (qbREAL), a value at which to set the angular velocity of the pump associated to the extracorporeal circuit and/or a theoretical value of the arterial pressure upstream of the pump.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a display film that may be transferred by lamination or otherwise onto a substrate. The display film is formed of a stack of layers that can include different types, arrangements, and functionality within the stack depending upon factors including the characteristics of the substrate (e.g., upper or lower, transparent or opaque, substrates) and addressing of the display (e.g., active or passive matrix, electrical or optical addressing). The layers of the stacked display film include one or more electrode layers and one or more liquid crystal layers and, in addition, may include various combinations of an adhesive layer, preparation layer, casting layer, light absorbing layer, insulation layers, and protective layers. The liquid crystal layer can include cholesteric or other liquid crystal material. The liquid crystal layer can be a dispersion of liquid crystal in a polymer matrix formed by a variety of techniques.

Abstract: The present invention provides a memory device that can safely hold much data necessary for using an Application (AP) therein. In the present invention, a memory device includes a first tamper resistant memory 41 that cannot be accessed directly by an electronic device and a second non-tamper resistant memory that cannot be directly accessed by the electronic device. The second memory is used to save data stored in the first memory 41 to. In this memory device, since data necessary for using many APs can be safely held in the device, any terminal device satisfying authorizing conditions can use the data held therein.

Abstract: When processing is started, first, ROI (region of interest) is determined by user's specification. A small calculation amount image is generated in response to pointing device operation of the user, and the generated small calculation amount image is displayed. Next, a large calculation amount image in the ROI is generated, and the generated large calculation amount image in the ROI is displayed. Next, large calculation amount image in regions other than the ROI is generated, and the generated large calculation amount image in regions other than the ROI is displayed, and then the processing is terminated. At the above steps, if an image change request is made, calculation is performed again each time.

Abstract: A device as hearing aid to be worn in the ear or in or at the auditory canal comprises at least a sound or acoustic exit opening with a protection element (10) to prevent the contamination of the device. The protection element (10) comprises a thin, at least almost flexible or elastic membrane (15) made out of a thermoplastic polymer.

Abstract: A filter device having filter means, in particular hollow fiber membranes, arranged in more than one filtration compartment within a filter housing. The filter device thereby allows more than one filtration process to be carried out serially and/or simultaneously within a single housing. For example a dialysis type filtration process such as hemofiltration or hemodiafiltration or hemodialysis may be carried out at the same time as an ultrafiltration process or as another hemofiltration, hemodiafiltration or hemodialysis process. The device may have a split shell construction bonded or welded together along longitudinal seams. Internal separating walls within the housing are formed integrally with the shell portions of the housing to form adjacent filtration compartments when the housing portions are joined together.

Abstract: An ignition switch and steering lock device for motor vehicles, comprising: a main body; an electronic control circuit provided with input/output interfaces; a locking mechanism; a mechanical actuator, for moving the locking mechanism. The locking mechanism is mobile between a locked position in which its action blocks the vehicle steering in a fixed orientation relative to the frame, and an unlocked position in which the elements do not block the rotation of the steering relative to the frame. The locking mechanism can be moved into the locked position only at a minimum steering lock orientation. The device further comprises at least one unlocked position sensor to determine the position of the locking mechanism and at least one steering orientation sensor to determine the orientation of the steering.

Abstract: An automatic focus camera Unit 10, comprises; a piezoelectric element 13a; a driving shaft 13b to be driven by the piezoelectric element 13a; a moving unit 13c to be moved with respect to the driving shaft 13b by a friction force caused by the driving shaft 13b; a microcomputer unit 24 for controlling power supply to the piezoelectric element 13a, and in which the microcomputer unit 24 assumes a preprocessing mode of calculating an amount of adjustment for a power supply time in accordance with a moving direction of the moving unit 13c, and a movement controlling mode of adjusting the supply time and controlling power supply based on the moving direction and the amount of adjustment.

Abstract: The invention concerns an electric converter for fuel cell (P) comprising current inverter means (2), the electric converter comprising a voltage step-down chopper (1) mounted between the fuel cell (P) and the current inverter means (2), wherein, under the action of a command signal applied to the voltage step-down chopper (1): the value of the mean voltage at the input of the current inverter means is lowered to a threshold value (Vs) in the cell electrode activation zone, the value of the mean voltage at the input of the current inverter means (2) is maintained at the voltage value at the cell terminals (Vp) in the cell resistance zone, and the output current of the converter is limited when the output current from the current inverter means (2) reaches a maximum set value (Imax).

Abstract: A method provides defining a profile associated with an image representing a real toy or product, said profile including at least one variable parameter therein, which variable parameter effects the way the image is displayed on the website, based on said interacting, changing a part of the profile that includes at least one parameter related to at least one of health, happiness and/or hunger, based on a registration code associated with the real product or toy, defining a temperament profile that defines how the image will react to interactions with another aspect of the method or a system or a user, and based on the temperament profile and the interactions and the profile, causing the image to react to one or more of the interactions.

Abstract: A content-addressable random access memory having magnetic tunnel junction-based memory cells and methods for making and using same. The magnetic tunnel junction has first and second magnetic layers and can act as a data store and a data sense. Within each cell, registered data is written by setting a magnetic orientation of the first magnetic layer in the magnetic tunnel junction via current pulses in one or more current lines. Input data for comparison with the registered data can be similarly set through the magnetic orientation of the second magnetic layer via the current lines. The data sense is performed by measuring cell resistance, which depends upon the relative magnetic orientation of the magnetic layers. Since data storage, data input, and data sense are integrated into one cell, the memory combines higher densities with non-volatility. The memory can support high speed, reduced power consumption, and data masking.

Abstract: The present invention features a liquid crystal display device including a printed circuit board, PCB, substrate composed of non-conductive material and having a front surface and having an opposing back surface that contains electrical circuitry and is located near the back of the display device. A liquid crystal display is disposed on the front PCB substrate surface and includes first and second electrode layers and a dispersion layer disposed between the first and second electrode layers. The dispersion layer includes liquid crystal (e.g., cholesteric liquid crystal) dispersed in a polymer matrix. Electrical through-conductors extend between the front substrate surface and the back substrate surface. The through-conductors are in electrical contact with the first and second electrode layers. Drive electronics are disposed on the PCB substrate and are adapted to apply voltage pulses to the first and second electrodes effective to form images on the liquid crystal display.