Abstract: Novel fluorinated cyclic carbonate compounds are described. These compounds may be useful as non-aqueous electrolyte solvents, specialty solvents, and starting materials and intermediates for synthesis of dyes, agricultural chemicals, and pharmaceuticals.

Abstract: A magnetron includes an anode with an anode casing at least partly surrounding the anode. A pair of permanent magnets on each side of the anode define an interaction region and create a magnetic circuit defining a magnetic field through the interaction region. A mass of magnetically permeable material is positioned in a vicinity of the magnetic circuit. The mass is arranged to be slidable over the anode casing. A locking device secures the position of the mass to set the strength of the magnetic field through the interaction region.

Abstract: A magnetron includes a cathode and a vacuum envelope in which the cathode extends. The vacuum envelope includes a portion extending radially relative to the axis of the cathode. A pair of electrically conducting support arms for supporting the cathode are in electrical connection with cathode supply terminals. The support arms have free ends connected to the cathode by leads. A wall extends across an area of the radially-extending portion. The wall is positioned along the radially-extending portion nearer to an end of the radially-extending portion that is adjacent to the cathode than to an end that is remote from the cathode and the support arms are mounted in the wall.

Abstract: Highly fluorinated ion-exchange polymers achieve dissolution in aqueous tetrahydrofuran at lower pressures and temperatures than in other solvents, with few or no side products being formed.

Abstract: A leaky-wave antenna includes a sheet arrangement having first, second and third metalized sheets that are arranged on top of and in parallel with one another and are separated by two di-electric layers, the first metalized sheet having a first two-dimensionally periodic metalization structure, the second metalized sheet having a second two-dimensionally periodic metalization structure, and the third metalized sheet having a continuous metalization area, and an excitation structure above the first metalized sheet for exciting a leaky-wave mode in the sheet arrangement at a working frequency f0 of the leaky-wave antenna, wherein the sheet arrangement exhibits a shape of a regular n-gon with N?8 (N ? Z) or a circular shape as the edge boundary.

Abstract: A display panel is provided. The display panel comprises a first substrate, a second substrate, a display control circuit and a force sensing circuit. The display control circuit is disposed on the first substrate between the first substrate and the second substrate for controlling the display panel to display an image through the second substrate. The force sensing circuit is disposed side by side with the display control circuit on the first substrate between the first substrate and second substrate, wherein the force sensing circuit comprises a plurality of force sensing elements for sensing at least one external force and correspondingly generate a plurality of force signals respectively to transform at least one touch signal corresponding to the at least one external force.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a ink-jet ink, having a pH greater than 7, comprising a first aqueous vehicle, a colorant, more typically a carbon black pigment, and an amphoteric polymeric dispersant, wherein the amphoteric polymeric dispersant is a block copolymer comprising an A block and a B block, wherein the A block is a segment consisting essentially of an amine monomer; and the B block is a segment comprising an acidic monomer and at least one hydrophobic monomer; wherein the dispersant is neutralized, and the B block is free of an amine monomer. The disclosure further pertains to an ink set comprising this ink jet ink and at least a second ink which contains a reactive species with appropriate cationic agent, salt, or pH modifying agent capable of destabilizing the colorant containing dispersion of the first ink.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for making electrostatic charge dissipative material comprising the following steps: (a) optionally pretreating a substrate in a plasma field; (b) flash evaporating at least one monomer and at least one hygroscopic additive into a vacuum chamber to produce a vapor; (c) condensing the vapor on the substrate to produce a film of the monomer and the hygroscopic additive coating on the substrate; and (d) curing the monomer of the film to produce a polymeric layer containing hygroscopic additive on the substrate; wherein the condensing step is carried out under vapor-density and residence-time conditions that limit the polymeric layer to a maximum thickness of about 3.0 ?m. The electrostatic charge dissipative material can be used to protect electrostatic sensitive electronic components.

Abstract: Metal pastes comprising (a) at least one electrically conductive metal powder selected from the group consisting of silver, copper and nickel, (b) at least one lead-containing glass frit with a softening point temperature in the range of 571 to 636° C. and containing 53 to 57 wt.-% of PbO, 25 to 29 wt.-% of SiO2, 2 to 6 wt.-% of Al2O3 and 6 to 9 wt.-% of B2O3 and (c) an organic vehicle.

Abstract: A rain sensor mounted on a windshield of a vehicle comprises: a housing having an opening, at least an emitter disposed in the housing and used for emitting light beams, a coupler, and an optical detector. The coupler connecting and covering the opening of the housing, comprises: at least a collimator receiving and collimating the light beams into collimated light beams; and at least a groove having a deflection surface to reflect the collimated light beams that passes through the collimator and is incident to the deflection surface at an incident angle ? to the windshield. The optical detector disposed in the housing is used for receiving the collimated light beams reflected by the windshield and generating electrical signals. The present invention characterized in that the incident angle ? satisfies the following condition: 1.27<n*sin ?<1.52, wherein n is refractive index of the coupler.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device (1, 11) for amplifying light pulses (2, 12), the device comprised of a stretcher (4, 14) which temporally stretches the light pulses (2, 12), and comprised of at least one amplifier (5, 15) which amplifies the stretched light pulses (2, 12), and comprised of a compressor (6, 16) which recompresses the stretched and amplified light pulses (2, 12), the stretcher (4, 14) and the compressor (6, 16) being dispersive elements with essentially oppositely identical dispersion. To provide a device (1, 11) for amplifying light pulses (2, 12) which is of a compact setup and which can be flexibly applied, the present invention proposes that the dispersion of the amplifier (5, 15), the dispersion of further optical elements of the device (1) and/or a mismatch of dispersion of the stretcher (4, 14) and compressor (6, 16) are at least partly compensated by self-phase modulation of the light pulses (2, 12) and/or by at least one additional element (17) of variable dispersion.

Abstract: A machine for labeling by means of labels printed on a ribbon comprising a rotating carousel for supporting containers to be labeled, a device for tensioning, a feeder, a drum for cutting and a drum for pasting with a corresponding roller for spreading adhesive, all being mounted on a movable slider between a first position and a second position, the slider being provided with elements for movement along a guide whose direction is tangent to the carousel between the first and second positions.

Abstract: A process is disclosed for making CF3CF?CH2 or mixtures thereof with CHF?CFCHF2. The process involves contacting CCl3CF2CF3 and optionally CCl2FCF2CClF2 with H2 in the presence of a catalyst including a catalytically effective amount of palladium supported on a support of alumina, fluorided alumina and/or aluminum fluoride, to produce a product mixture including CH2?CFCF3 (and when CCl2FCF2CClF2 is present, CHF?CFCHF2); recovering CH2?CFCF3 or a mixture thereof with CHF?CFCHF2 from the product mixture; and optionally, separating at least a portion of any CHF?CFCHF2 in the product mixture from the CH2?CFCF3 in the product mixture. The mole ratio of H2 to the total of CCl3CF2CF3 and CCl2FCF2CClF2 fed to the reaction zone is between about 1:1 and about 5:1.

Abstract: Coordinately regulated over-expression of the genes encoding glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase [“G6PDH”] and 6-phospho-gluconolactonase [“6PGL”] in transgenic strains of the oleaginous yeast, Yarrowia lipolytica, comprising a functional polyunsaturated fatty acid [“PUFA”] biosynthetic pathway, resulted in increased production of PUFAs and increased total lipid content in the Yarrowia cells. This is achieved by increased cellular availability of the reduced form of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate [“NADPH”], an important reducing equivalent for reductive biosynthetic reactions, within the transgenic microorganism.

Abstract: The invention relates to the field of chemistry and relates to radically coupled PTFE polymer powders that can be used, for example, as tribomaterials, and a method for the production thereof. There is disclosed radically coupled PTFE polymer powders which, when incorporated into a matrix as PTFE polymer compound, exhibit improved wear resistance, and furthermore a simple and efficient method for the production thereof. There is provided radically coupled PTFE polymer powders comprising radiation-chemically and/or plasma-chemically modified PTFE powders, onto the particle surface of which homopolymers, copolymers or terpolymers are radically coupled via a reaction in dispersion or in solid.

Abstract: A cover unit for a USB flash disk, wherein a seat hole is provided at the middle position of a seat, an engaging structure with an elastic element is pivotally provided in the cover unit to provide restoring force, an engaging plate of the engaging structure can be extended into the opening of the USB connector, and by using protruding blocks provided on the engaging plate in matching with directional holes on the USB connector, the holes are covered by the blocks to seal the USB connector; meantime when a stopping plate on the engaging plate is pressed, engaging of the protruding blocks with the directional holes can be relieved, thereby the whole cover unit can be removed.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for stabilization of the perhydrolase activity of the CE-7 esterase in a formulation with a carboxylic acid ester that employs the addition of a buffering agent, substantially undissolved, to the mixture of the CE-7 esterase and the carboxylic acid ester. Further, disinfectant and laundry care formulations comprising the peracids produced by the processes described herein are provided.

Abstract: Provided are compositions comprising infrared absorptive inorganic nanoparticles and a matrix material and methods to produce the compositions. The infrared absorptive inorganic nanoparticles preferably include antimony tin oxide (ATO), indium tin oxide (ITO), or mixtures thereof. Also provided are polymer blends, polymeric films and sheets, solar control laminates, and processes to produce the polymer blends, polymeric films and sheets and solar control laminates.

Abstract: A two-element f-? lens used for a micro-electro mechanical system (MEMS) laser scanning unit includes a first lens and a second lens, the first lens is a positive refraction meniscus lens of which the convex surface is disposed on a side of a MEMS mirror, the second lens is a positive refraction meniscus lens of which the concave surface is disposed on the side of the MEMS mirror, at least one optical surface is an Aspherical surface in both main scanning direction and sub scanning direction, and satisfies special optical conditions. The two-element f-? lens corrects the nonlinear relationship between scanned angle and time into the linear relationship between image spot distances and time. The two-element f-? lens focuses the scan light to the target in the main scanning and sun scanning directions, such that the purpose of the scanning linearity effect and the high resolution scanning can be achieved.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic circuit making it possible to extract a clock signal from an incident binary data sequence arriving at a constant rate. The electronic circuit comprises an oscillator (VCO) with voltage-controlled frequency providing a sinusoidal signal, a circuit (R, Cp, RD, I1, I2) for extracting the transition edges of the binary sequence producing a brief pulse at each transition, a sampler (MLT) for tapping off the level of the sinusoidal voltage at the instant of the brief pulse, and an integrator (AOP, R1, C1) for integrating this level in tandem with the successive pulses, the output of the integrator being applied as control voltage to the oscillator with controlled frequency, the output of the oscillator being the desired clock frequency with a slaved phase passing through zero substantially in the middle of the interval between two binary data transitions.