Abstract: A portable soft sided insulated container has an impermeable liner that provides a liquid holding barrier. The liner is folded from a single monolithic plastic sheet to reduce or eliminate the need for heat welded seams. The liner seats within the container and has a releasable attachment around its lip for mating with the rim of the container. The container has an insulated lid so that the entire assembly may be closed. The liner can be removed for cleaning, or replacement if punctured. When not in use the entire assembly can be folded into a collapsed position for storage. The container has two storage chambers that share a common insulated dividing wall.

Abstract: A hysteresis circuit has a comparator which compares a threshold voltage and an input voltage. The threshold voltage is supplied from a voltage dividing circuit having resistors. A constant current circuit is connected to a voltage divided point of the voltage dividing circuit through a switch. The ON and OFF of the switch is controlled by an output of the comparator. When the switch is turned ON, a constant current flows to the voltage divided point, so that the value of the threshold voltage supplied from the voltage dividing circuit to the comparator is changed.

Abstract: In a method for manufacturing semiconductor light emitting device, when a gallium nitride based compound semiconductor layers which include at least an n-type layer and p-type layer and which form a light emitting layer, are laminated on a substrate and heat treatment is performed for activation of the p-type layer of the laminated semiconductor layers, the heat treatment is performed under an atmosphere including oxygen. With this arrangement, the heat treatment for activating the p-type layer of the laminated semiconductor layers comprising gallium nitride based compound semiconductor can be performed in a short time and moreover to reliably perform activation.

Abstract: The invention relates to a drug for treating or preventing intrahepatic cholestasis, which is characterized by containing as active agent at least one compound with the general formula I, where R, R1 and R2 are independent of each other and can each ═H, C1-2-alkyl or C1-3-acyl, R3═H or OR4 and R4═H, C1-2-alkyl or C1-4-acyl, and there is a single or double bond between positions 2 and 3, or a physiologically acceptable salt thereof.

Abstract: Provided are a phase comparator (BBD) 10 for generating a pulse of a signal UP0 or DOWN0 depending on lead or lag of the falling edge of a clock recovered from DATA, relative to the edge of DATA, an overrun detector circuit 20 activating an overrun signal OVR while the circuit 20 detects that lead or lag of the falling edge of the clock exceeds &pgr;/2, a state latch circuit 30 latching a state of either a signal UP0 or DOWN0 being active before the signal OVR transits active, and a selection circuit 40 outputting the signals UP0 and DOWN0 as signals UP and DOWN while the signal OVR is inactive, and outputting the signals UP0 and DOWN0 as the signals DOWN and UP while the signal OVR is active.

Abstract: In a light-emitting diode array panel in which an array of light-emitting diode pellets having a light-emitting region are arranged substantially in a straight line on a long and narrow substrate made of resin along the length thereof and on one side of the width center thereof, the substrate is kept warped when the light-emitting diode pellets are arranged on the substrate. Alternatively, the light-emitting diode pellets are arranged in a curved line. This ensures that the array of light-emitting diode pellets forms a straight line after a heat-hardening process.

Abstract: A packet switching fabric includes a data ring, a control ring, a plurality of network links each coupled to at least one network node, and a plurality of switching devices coupled together by the data ring and the control ring so that the network links can be selectively communicatively coupled.

Abstract: The present invention is aimed at providing a semiconductor memory device which performs a row-address pipe-line operation in accessing different row addresses so as to achieve high-speed access. The semiconductor memory device according to the present invention includes a plurality of sense-amplifiers which store data when the data is received via bit lines from memory cells corresponding to a selected word line, a column decoder which reads parallel data of a plurality of bits from selected sense amplifiers by simultaneously selecting a plurality of column gates in response to a column address, a data-conversion unit which converts the parallel data into serial data, and a precharge-signal-generation unit which generates an internal precharge signal a first delay-time period after generation of a row-access signal for selecting the selected word line so as to reset the bit lines and said plurality of sense-amplifiers.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a memory device, such as a FeRAM, of which redundancy structure is simplified. In the present invention, a redundancy file memory for recording a replacing information indicating the defective cell to be replaced into a redundancy cell is formed by a memory cell having the same structure as a normal memory cell, so that it is capable to access to a redundancy file memory at the same time when accessing to a normal memory cell. Then, the replacing information recorded in the redundancy file memory is concurrently read out when accessing to the normal memory cell, and the defective cell is replaced into a redundancy cell according to the replacing information.

Abstract: A machine for machining slots within a bore of a sleeve includes a work holding device, and at least one cutting tool mounted on a cutting spindle. An axis of the cutting spindle is offset from and at substantially right angles to the axis of the sleeve. A device supports the cutting spindle for angular reciprocation to effect cutting strokes of the cutting tool relative to the surface of the bore.

Abstract: A queue length arbiter system provides for selecting from a plurality of N queues requiring access to a resource. The system includes: an arbitration circuit; and a plurality of weight circuits each being associated with a corresponding one of the queues, and being operative to store a corresponding weight count value, and also being operative to initialize the corresponding weight count value to a corresponding initial weight value determined based on a length value indicative of a number of data portions enqueued at the corresponding queue at an initial time, and being further operative to decrease the corresponding weight count value in response to a corresponding one of a plurality of grant signals, and also being operative to generate a corresponding one of a plurality of weight count signals, the corresponding weight count signal carrying the corresponding weight count value.

Abstract: A lubrication pressure controller comprises a lubrication pressure regulating valve 41, which is provided in a lubrication oil passage 36 directing hydraulic oil to lubricated parts, and a cooler pressure regulating valve 42, which is provided in a discharge oil passage 51b of the lubrication pressure regulating valve 41. The lubrication pressure regulating valve 41 adjusts the pressure in the lubrication oil passage 36, and the cooler pressure regulating valve 42 adjusts the pressure supplied to an oil cooler 55. The hydraulic oil discharged from the cooler pressure regulating valve 42 is returned through a recirculation line 52 to a suction oil passage 31 of a pump. In this construction, an adequate supply of lubrication oil is maintained even if one of the valves experiences locking of a valve spool on an open side.

Abstract: A motor-driven injection molding machine includes an injection device driven by a servo motor, and a load cell for detecting a pressure of a molten resin stored in front of a screw. A position detector detects a position of a screw, and a controller controls the servo motor in accordance with detected values obtained by the load cell and the position detector. The controller controls, in response to a command to adjust a zero point for the load cell, the servo motor to advance and retract the screw in an advancing movement and a retracting movement a plurality of times in a back and forth movement, and calculates an average value of a corresponding plurality of detected values obtained by the load cell during the back and forth movement of the screw to adjust the zero point for the load cell.

Abstract: A subsidiary tank 89 provided on a side wall of an engine block on an outboard engine system temporarily stores a fuel supplied from a fuel tank not shown and provided on a hull, and pressurizes the fuel to a high pressure to deliver it to a fuel injection valve 94. An upper space in the subsidiary tank 89 is connected to an inner space of an intake silencer 76 through two air vent pipes L7, L8. Even when a fuel vapor liquefies in the intake silencer 76 at the time of engine suspension, the liquefied fuel is caught at a bottom of the intake silencer 76 having a large volume with no possibility of flowing out.

Abstract: A roll mill comprising a retaining stand with two distant stanchions (1, 1b), at least two working rolls (2, 2′) each rotating respectively in two chocks, and means for applying bending loads to each end of both working rolls, said means comprising, for both chocks (4, 4′), two sets of, respectively, positive and negative bending jacks.

Abstract: A ferroelectric material having a basic structure of ReMnO3, said ferroelectric material comprises Re and Mn one of which is contained in excess of the other to a limit of 20 at. % or the ferroelectric material is further added with a 4-valence element. Also, a method of forming a ferroelectric material, comprises decreasing an oxygen partial pressure within a growth reactor such as a vacuum deposition reactor, and forming a film on a film-forming surface of a substrate (4) while blowing an oxidizing source thereto. This structure provides a ferroelectric material low in leak current and improved in ferroelectric characteristics. Where using the material for a semiconductor memory device, its characteristics can be improved.

Abstract: A towed aircraft for use in an airborne electromagnetic geophysical prospecting system which includes a transmitting antenna and power generating means for powering the antenna. A bird to which is mounted a receiving antenna may be towed by the towed aircraft.

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device has a command decoder for issuing a control command in accordance with a supplied control signal, a DRAM core, and a timing adjusting circuit for supplying the control command, set active for a predetermined period, as a DRAM control signal to the DRAM core. The timing adjusting circuit generates n different clocks that are respectively shifted in phase with respect to a supplied reference clock, and generates the DRAM control signal by setting the control command active in a prescribed operation cycle for only a period starting at a first predetermined clock pulse of a first clock of the n clocks and ending at a second predetermined clock pulse of a second clock of the n clocks. In this way, timing design with relatively high accuracy of adjustment can be done in a short period.