Abstract: Semiconductor devices such as thin-film transistors formed by annealing a substantially amorphous silicon film at a temperature either lower than normal crystallization temperature of amorphous silicon or lower than the glass transition point of the substrate so as to crystallize the silicon film. Islands, stripes, lines, or dots of nickel, iron, cobalt, or platinum, silicide, acetate, or nitrate of nickel, iron, cobalt, or platinum, film containing various salts, particles, or clusters containing at least one of nickel, iron, cobalt, and platinum are used as starting materials for crystallization. These materials are formed on or under the amorphous silicon film.

Abstract: An electronically controlled lube oil and fuel blending system is provided which controls the amount of lube oil delivered from an engine lube oil supply system to an engine fuel supply system based on the amount of fuel added to the fuel supply system thereby maintaining a constant lube oil/fuel ratio or lube oil concentration in the fuel supply system 16 regardless of variations in engine operation thereby minimizing emissions, such as particulate matter. The system includes a lube oil injection circuit connecting the engine lube oil supply system to the fuel supply system and an emission compliance lube oil concentration control system for controlling a lube oil concentration in the fuel supply system to maintain compliant engine emissions during engine operation.

Abstract: A device for removing individual fiber tufts from a plurality of fiber bins of a brush making machine comprises a tuft remover, a counterpart matching the tuft remover and a movable slide arranged between the counterpart and the fiber bins. The slide has a plurality of through-passages each of which is associated with one of the fiber bins. The outer passages of the slide are inclined at an angle to the central passage. Between the central fiber bin and each of the outer fiber bins an associated ram is arranged. Each ram has an end face which faces the slide and either bears on one side surface area of the slide or applies pressure to the opposite end of one of the outer through-passages, depending on the respective position of the slide. The device allows the tuft remover to selectively pick up tufts of three different types of fiber.

Abstract: An air intake control system for an engine equipped with an exhaust gas recirculation feature controls an exhaust gas recirculation valve according to an amount of air charge dictated by an amount of intake air detected by an air flow sensor to deliver a target amount of air charge and control an amount of air charge meeting an estimated amount of air charge estimated under the condition that the control of exhaust gas recirculation valve according to an amount of air charge is interrupted.

Abstract: The present invention relates to tooling for the fabrication of composite materials, particularly layered composite materials. The tooling apparatus encapsulates the composite material and uses an applied pressure, either atmospheric, induced gaseous or mechanical, to the material to retain it in place during off-gassing and/or consolidation.

Abstract: A creping doctor blade and method of forming such blade including a thin flexible generally planar creping member having an elongated flexible, substantially prismatic body having a relieved substantially planar engagement surface adapted to bear against the drying cylinder. A rake face of the creping doctor blade extends generally outwardly relative to a surface of the rotatable drying cylinder when the creping blade engages the cylinder and the length of the substantially planar engagement surface is generally equivalent to the width of the drying cylinder with the width of the substantially planar engagement surface being selected so as to correspond to the wear pad dimension of a conventional blade used in the same processes and is generally in a range from about 0.005 inches to about 0.020 inches with the relief face of the blade adjacent to the rotatable drying cylinder having an elongated depression having a depth of at least about 0.

Abstract: After a pattern is transferred on silicon film crystallized by annealing, the silicon film is annealed by radiation of intense rays for a short time. Especially, in the crystallizing process by annealing, an element which promotes crystallization such as nickel is doped therein. The area not crystallized by annealing is also crystallized by radiation of intense rays and a condensed silicon film is formed.After a metal element which promotes crystallization is doped, annealing by light for a short time is performed by radiating intense rays onto the silicon film crystallized by annealing in an atmosphere containing halide. After the surface of the silicon film is oxidized by heating or by radiating intense rays in a halogenated atmosphere and an oxide film is formed on the silicon film, the oxide film is then etched. As a result, nickel in the silicon film is removed.

Abstract: A process for pattern searching in which position coordinates of patterns on a workpiece with a rough surface can be determined automatically and with high precision, and a device for executing the process are achieved by CCD cameras and the like picking up patterns which are located on a workpiece with a rough surface, and which are formed only by intersecting lines, and by a storage means storing light-dark signals. Furthermore, according to the invention, the image signals are integrated in directions which are each parallel to the lines of the patterns, by which integral signals .SIGMA.Xn, .SIGMA.Yn are determined. By integrating the image signals, the images which are formed as a result of surface roughness are averaged. The integration signals clearly yield boundary positions of the patterns, and by differentiating these integral signals, the pattern positions are determined based on their peak positions.

Abstract: A gear type manual transmission equipped with one or more synchronizing mechanisms employing generally U-shaped reverse shift forks consisting of two arms, each of which is pivotally supported at one arm by a first support secured to one of transmission shafts which extends in parallel with one another and is stationary relative to the transmission case and pivotally supported at the other arm by a second support aligned with the first support and secured to the transmission case.

Abstract: A plurality of glass fiber strands are parallel-arranged and primary-twisted into a primary twist yarn. A plurality of the primary twist yarns are parallel-arranged, are dipped in an adhesion treatment liquid containing as a main ingredient a mixture of a precondensate of resorcine formaldehyde and latex, are returned from the liquid and are then subjected to heat treatment. Thereafter, the plurality of primary twist yarns are final-twisted thereby forming a tension member for belt having a large adhesive property between the adjacent primary twist yarns.

Abstract: An autoradiographic process for obtaining locational information on two or more radioactively labeled substances which have different energy or half-life and are contained in a sample such as tissue of an organism. Specifically, the process includes the steps of placing the sample on a stimulable phosphor sheet having a plastic cover layer to cause the stimulable phosphor to absorb radiation energy of the labeled substances and reading the absorbed radiation energy out of the phosphor to obtain an image signal corresponding to one radioactively labeled substance and placing the sample on a stimulable phosphor sheet having a thinner plastic cover layer or no cover film to cause the stimulable phosphor to absorb radiation energy of the labeled substances and reading the absorbed radiation energy out of the phosphor to obtain image signals corresponding to plural radioactively labeled substances.

Abstract: A wafer to be chamfered is supported in such a manner as to rotate and to move in the X-axis direction and the Y-axis direction which are perpendicular to one another, and a periphery grinding wheel is rotatably placed on the Y-axis. To chamfer a circular part of the wafer, the circular part of the wafer is pressed against the rotating periphery grinding wheel, and then, the wafer is rotated. To chamfer an orientation flat of the wafer, the orientation flat of the wafer is pressed against the rotating periphery grinding wheel, and then, the wafer is fed in the X-axis direction.

Abstract: A flow control valve having a controllable flow area which varies with the valve displacement. The flow control valve includes a poppet-type valve element mounted to reciprocate between a closed and open position in a valve cavity formed in a valve housing. The valve housing has an inlet and outlet passage to allow fluid to flow therethrough. A removable insert having a flow passage is positioned in the valve cavity adjacent the poppet-valve for controlling the flow rate of gaseous fluid from the inlet passage to the outlet passage while the poppet valve is in an open position. Movement of the poppet valve from a closed to an open position varies the effective cross-sectional flow area of the flow passage.

Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, there is provided an improved adjustable and vertically lockable decking system for use in supporting freight in a cargo vessel wherein the vessel has opposing side walls. The system includes at least one pair of elongated strips, each of the pair adapted to be mounted vertically on each of the opposing walls. Each of the strips comprises a plurality of vertically spaced apertures. There is also provided a horizontally oriented support assembly being horizontally adjustable in length so as to span a width of the vessel between the opposing side walls. The assembly is pivotally connected at opposing ends thereof to a latching assembly.

Abstract: A thin film transistor including a semiconductor film including silicon formed on an insulating surface; a channel region formed within the semiconductor film; and source and drain regions formed within the semiconductor film with the channel region interposed between the source and drain regions, each of the source and drain regions having one conductivity type, wherein the source and drain regions contain a catalyst element for promoting a crystallization of silicon at a concentration not higher that 1.times.10.sup.20 atoms/cm.sup.3, and wherein a concentration of the catalyst element in the channel region is lower than 1.times.10.sup.17 atoms/cm.sup.3 and the concentration in the channel region is lower than that in the source and drain regions.

Abstract: A recorded medium reproducing apparatus accommodates a plurality of recorded media and can exchange a recorded medium even during the reproduction of another recorded medium. A recorded medium stocker accommodates a plurality of recorded media. A first transport unit transports a recorded medium between the inside of the stocker and the outside of an apparatus housing. A second transport unit transports a recorded medium between the inside of the stocker and a reproduction unit. The first and second transport units are disposed at different height positions. The stocker is so arranged that the stocker can move up and down by a stroke of stages larger than the number of stages of the stocker in which recorded media are accommodated, in order to align the position of the recorded medium with the first or second transport unit.

Abstract: In producing a semiconductor device by annealing with laser light irradiation, while a linear laser light is scanned in a direction perpendicular to a line, the annealing is performed for a semiconductor material. In this state, since an anneal effect in a beam lateral direction corresponding to a line direction is 2 times or more different than that in the scanning direction, a plurality of semiconductor elements are formed along a line direction in which the linear laser light is irradiated. Also, a line direction connecting the source and drain region of a thin film transistor is aligned to the line direction of the linear laser light.