Abstract: A processor particularly useful in multimedia applications such as image processing is based on a stream programming model and has a tiered storage architecture to minimize global bandwidth requirements. The processor has a stream register file through which the processor's functional units transfer streams to execute processor operations. Load and store instructions transfer streams between the stream register file and a stream memory; send and receive instructions transfer streams between stream register files of different processors; and operate instructions pass streams between the stream register file and computational kernels. Each of the computational kernels is capable of performing compound vector operations. A compound vector operation performs a sequence of arithmetic operations on data read from the stream register file, i.e., a global storage resource, and generates a result that is written back to the stream register file.

Abstract: Detachable attachment base for a BGA (Ball Grid Array), CGA (Column Grid Array), LGA (Land Grid Array), or flip-chip type integrated circuit and comprising a support (7) traversed by openings (13). A metal pin (3) is inserted in each of the openings (13). One end of each pin is intended to be placed in electrical contact with at least one path (8) of the printed circuit, while the other end is intended to be placed in electrical contact with a connection finger (6) of the electric component mounted (1) or of the other printed circuit. The pins are held longitudinally only loosely within the openings (13), between two springs (4 and 40) permitting the pins to move slightly. The pins may be composed of a rod (3) or of a spring (3′). The springs (4 and 40) may be replaced by a rubber mat containing parallel electric wires. A radiator (35) holds the integrated circuit on the base.

Abstract: Process for debittering olive oil comprising the exposure of olive oil which contains bitter polyphenols for at least 30 seconds to a finely dispersed aqueous phase, preferably consisting of hard drinking water, of which the pH is at least 5.5.

Abstract: An analytical test device useful for example in pregnancy testing, comprises a hollow casing (500) constructed of moisture-impervious solid material, such as plastics materials, containing a dry porous carrier (510) which communicates indirectly with the exterior of the casing via a bibulous sample receiving member (506) which protrudes from the casing such that a liquid test sample can be applied to the receiving member and permeate therefrom to the porous carrier, the carrier containing in a first zone a labelled specific binding reagent is freely mobile within the porous carrier when in the moist state, and in a second zone spatially distinct from the first zone unlabelled specific binding reagent for the same analyte which unlabelled reagent is permanently immobilised on the carrier material and is therefore not mobile in the moist state, the two zones being arranged such that liquid sample applied to the porous carrier can permeate via the first zone into the second zone, and the device incorporating mea

Abstract: The sealant composition disclosed herein is favorable for sealing car parts. The sealant composition is charged inside the trim of a weather strip of a car so as to seal the gap between the trim and the plate flange as inserted inside the trim. The sealant composition comprises a liquid rubber as the base component, a tackifier and a thixotropy promoter as secondary components, and a nonvolatile plasticizer and/or a process oil as the dispersion medium.

Abstract: A shadow mask opposing a phosphor screen includes a substantially rectangular mask body having a number of electron beam passage apertures, and a substantially rectangular mask frame having four side walls supporting a periphery of the mask body. Among the side walls, a pair of long side walls each has a central connecting portion which is located at a central portion thereof in lengthwise direction and fixed to the mask body, and a pair of protruding portions which are provided on both sides of the central connecting portion in the lengthwise direction and protrude in a direction apart from the mask body. Each protruding portion defines a gap between the side wall and the mask body, and a width of the gap gradually increases as it goes far from the central connecting portion.

Abstract: The present invention is a screwdriving device configured to be used with a rotary power source and a screw collation supply. A feeding assembly defines a drive track and a rotatable screw engaging bit member is operatively connected with a rotary power source. The bit member is engageable with the lead screw and movable relative to the drive track to drive the lead screw into the workpiece. The feeding assembly is constructed and arranged to move a subsequent lead screw from the screw collation supply into the drive track. The feeding assembly includes a screw feeding structure movable between (1) a lead screw engaged position and (2) a subsequent lead screw engaging position. The feeding assembly includes a biasing element engaged with the screw feeding structure.

Abstract: A thrust bearing mechanism receives thrust force which is an element force of a compression counter-force acting on a movable scroll member, and which is perpendicular to the orbital direction of the movable scroll member. The thrust bearing mechanism includes plural substantially cylindrically-shaped first and second rollers. The first roller rotates in one direction, and the second roller rotates perpendicularly to the first roller. Thus, the contact surface area of the rollers is larger than that in which spherical rollers receive the thrust force, thereby suppressing the compressor from being enlarged to accommodate increased thrust forces, and improving the reliability and durability of the compressor.

Abstract: Waste (such as domestic garbage, industrial waste, and bulky refuse) or sewage sludge is pretreated by pyrolysis under an oxygen-poor atmosphere to provide solid pyrolysis residues and a pyrolysis gas. The solid pyrolysis residues are mechanically treated to provide a coarse fraction and a fine fraction. The coarse fraction is mechanically separated and fed to a metal bath reactor containing a metal bath and a liquid slag floating on the metal bath. The fine fraction entrained in a carrier gas is fed via a nozzle in order to carburize the metal bath. The carburized metal bath functions to reduce metal oxides from the liquid slag floated thereon, thereby purifying the liquid slag. At least a portion of the pyrolysis gas is used to smelt and heat the liquid slag.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of oxazaphosphorine-2-amines of the formula (I) described by the reaction scheme in which R1 is H, 2-bromoethyl, 2-chloroethyl, 2-hydroxyethyl, 2-mesyloxyethyl or 1-phenylethyl; R2 is H or 2-chloroethyl; R3 is H, 2-bromoethyl, 2-chloroethyl or 1-phenylethyl; and R4 is H; or R1 and R2, and also R3 and R4, together with the linked N atom, form an aziridide ring, where R1, R2 and R3 are not simultaneously H, and R1 and R3 are not simultaneously 1-phenylethyl; and Y, which is optionally present, is hydrogen chloride or hydrogen bromide. The reaction is carried out in a single vessel with phosphoryl chloride and an auxiliary base as an acid-binding agent with minimization of the effect of water and without isolation of an intermediate compound.

Abstract: A collapsible hunting-stand and game-carrier assembly comprising a seat structure; at least three legs associated with the seat structure, where the legs are comprised of respective upper and corresponding lower sections movable relative to each other between (a) a deployed position, in which the upper sections are substantially aligned with and supported by the corresponding lower sections to extend the legs away from the seat structure and provide part of a free-standing multi-pod base from which the seat structure is elevated above the ground, and (b) a collapsed position, in which the lower sections are folded back towards the upper leg sections so that the assembly is transportable; and a plurality of climbing aids connected to at least one leg, the climbing aids being relatively spaced (a) to provide the user with access to the seat structure when the legs are in the deployed position and (b) to provide a carrier base for holding game when the legs are in the collapsed position.

Abstract: A refrigerator-freezer includes a first evaporator cooling an atmosphere in a refrigerating compartment, a second evaporator cooling an atmosphere in a freezing compartment and a controller controlling a switching valve in a refrigerating cycle so that a cooling operation is switched between a first operation mode in which refrigerant compressed by a compressor is supplied at least to the first evaporator and a second operation mode in which the refrigerant compressed by the compressor is supplied at least to the second evaporator. The controller stops the compressor when a temperature in either one of the refrigerating and freezing compartments for which the cooling operation is unexecuted is below a predetermined upper limit temperature in a case where a temperature in the other compartment for which the cooling operation is in progress drops to a predetermined lower limit temperature.

Abstract: An optical disk comprising a recording layer and a super-resolution film disposed on the reproduction-beam incident side of the recording layer, wherein the super-resolution film is formed of a fine particle-dispersed film comprising a matrix and semiconductor fine particles dispersed in the matrix or formed of a semiconductor continuous film, and wherein content of a matrix material or a contamination mixed in the semiconductor fine particles or the semiconductor continuous film is not more than 20 at %.

Abstract: The invention relates to a confocal microscope which has high resolving power and a great focal depth and is capable of observing a sample in real time, so that a fine stereoscopic structure of a highly integrated IC or the like can be inspected, and provides a confocal microscope in which a pinhole substrate 2 having a plurality of pinholes, located at a position of an image formed by an objective 4, is illuminated by light coming from a light source 1 to focus light passing through pinhole substrate 2 onto a sample 6 by objective 4 so that an image is formed thereon, light reflected at sample 6 is again focused onto pinhole substrate 2 through objective 4 to form an image thereon, light passing through pinhole substrate 2 is focused by a relay lens 7 or the like to re-form an image in the form of a sample image, and sample 6 is scanned with light by high-speed rotation of pinhole substrate 2 to obtain a reconstructed image of sample 6, wherein a longitudinal chromatic aberration-producing optical element 5

Abstract: The present invention measures traffic congestion by utilizing a video camera to capture images of vehicles travelling on a road and analyzing sample points that are assigned to different aspects of the images. For example, presence and movement sample points correspond to the expected location and motion of the vehicles respectively. The sample points adjacent to one another from either movement or congestion blocks. The blocks that have a ratio of movement sample points to all other sample points within the block greater than a predetermined level are moveable blocks. The remaining presence sample points in the image signify congestion sample points and form congestion blocks. Congestion blocks have a ratio of congestion sample points to all other sample points within the block greater than a predetermined level. Therefore, the state of traffic congestion is measured based upon the resultant movement and congestion blocks.

Abstract: An electronic appliance equipped with an infra-red or ultrasonic remote control device in which the device is controlled from a great distance by receiving control signals transmitted from a remote station (6), reformatting the control signals (3) in the device to controm with the protocol required by the appliance to be controlled, and transmitting the infra-red (5) or ultrasonic signal to the appliance.

Abstract: The present invention relates to carbapenems and provides a compound of the formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or in vivo hydrolysable ester thereof wherein: R1 is 1-hydroxyethyl, 1-fluoroethyl or hydroxymethyl; R2 is hydrogen or C1-4alkyl; R3 is hydrogen or C1-4alkyl; R4 and R5 are the same or different and are selected from hydrogen, halo, cyano, C1-4alkyl, nitro, hydroxy, carboxy, C1-4alkoxy, C1-4alkoxycarbonyl, aminosulphonyl, C1-4alkylaminosulphonyl, di-C1-4-alkylaminosulphonyl, carbamoyl, C1-4alkylcarbamoyl, di-C1-4 alkylcarbamoyl, trifluoromethyl, sulphonic acid, amino, C1-4alkylamino, di-C 14alkylamino, C1-4alkanoylamino, C1-4alkanoyl(H-C1-4alkyl)amino, C1-4alkanesulphonamido and C1-4alkylS(O)n— wherein n is zero, one or two: with the proviso that there is no hydroxy or carboxy substituent in a position ortho to the link to —NR3—.

Abstract: A method for zero setting of a measuring device in which particles to be measured are subjected to tangential acceleration in a whirling impeller and torque exerted on the vanes of the impeller in reaction to the Coriolis force of acceleration of the particles is being measured as an indication of mass flow rate. The flow of material is fed to a central part of the impeller and by centrifugal force is thrown outwardly of the impeller. The flow is measured by an electronic device including a microcomputer. When the flow is absent, such condition being continually sensed for, the mean value of the torque during a chosen time or a number of revolutions of the impeller is automatically determined and memorized. This memorized torque value is used as a tare value until a next time a new tare value can be memorized.

Abstract: A display panel for a portable computer includes an LCD device, a cover and a frame joined together to receive the LCD device, a plurality of first screws fastening together the cover and the frame, and a plurality of second screws fastening the LCD device to the cover. The cover has a plurality of first screw holes disposed adjacent to a first rear end wall to receive the first screws. Each of opposite first side end walls has a recessed outer face formed with a plurality of second screw holes for receiving the second screws. The second screw holes open at and extend inwardly from the recessed outer face. The frame has a plurality of third screw holes disposed adjacent to a second rear end wall and aligned with the first screw holes to receive the first screws. Each of opposite second side end walls has a flap member projecting into the recessed outer face of a corresponding one of the first side end walls to cover the second screws.