Abstract: Provided is a transient voltage suppression device including a power supply terminal, a ground terminal, a Zener diode, a diode string, and an isolation device. The Zener diode is coupled between the power supply terminal and the ground terminal, and a node is between the Zener diode and the power supply terminal. The diode string has a first terminal, a second terminal, and an input/output (I/O) terminal. The second terminal is coupled to the ground terminal. The isolation device is coupled between the node and the first terminal. When an abnormal current flows through the isolation device and an energy of the abnormal current per unit time exceeds a preset value of the isolation device, the isolation device blocks a path of the abnormal current.

Abstract: A transient voltage suppression device including a substrate of a first conductivity type, a first well of a second conductivity type, a first anode, a first cathode, and a first trigger node is provided. The first well is disposed in the substrate. The first anode is disposed in the substrate outside the first well and includes a second doped region of the second conductivity type and a third doped region of the first conductivity type disposed between the second doped region and the first doped region. The first trigger node is disposed between the first anode and the first cathode, and includes a fourth region of the first conductivity type disposed in the substrate and a fifth doped region of the second conductivity type at least partially disposed in the first well and disposed between the fourth doped region and the third doped region.

Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device with a diode and a silicon controlled rectifier (SCR) including a substrate having a first conductivity type, a well region having a second conductivity type, a first doped region having the first conductivity type, and a second doped region having the second conductivity type. The well region is disposed in the substrate. The first doped region is disposed in the substrate. The second doped region is disposed in the substrate. The well region and the first doped region form a first PN junction, the well region and the substrate form a second PN junction, and the substrate and the second doped region form a third junction. The first, second, and third PN junctions form the SCR, and the first doped region and the third PN junction form the diode.

Abstract: The present invention relates to valves and/or fluid pumps and in particular to such valves and/or fluid pumps controlled with gating and/or control module comprising a piezoelectric linear actuator to provide gating of the valve and/or pump system.

Abstract: The present invention relates to valves and/or fluid pumps and in particular to such valves and/or fluid pumps controlled with gating and/or control module comprising a piezoelectric linear actuator to provide gating of the valve and/or pump system.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a gun-sight system and a method for using the gun-sight and in particular, to such a gun-sight which is calibrated without maneuvering a mechanical bore-sight mechanism.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of selective metallization, and in particular to preparing a polymer article for selective metallization by submerging the article in a first liquid, and while submerged irradiate the article by a laser beam the area of the article on which the metal is to be deposited. An activation step, prior to the selective metallization, comprises submerging the article in an activation liquid for depositing seed particles in the selected area. The irradiation of the selected area is proportionate so as to cause a temporary melting of the polymer in the surface of the selected area of the polymer article. The invention is advantageous in that the preparation may be performed with a relatively high scan rate across the polymer article, and in that a quite limited use of toxic chemicals.

Abstract: An article to be inserted in a human or animal body cavity, use of the article and preparation thereof. The article has a biologically inhibiting arrangement of electrically connected electrode materials in direct contact with each other on one or more surfaces of the article The arrangement includes as electrode materials a metallic anode material and a cathode material, where the potential of the cathode material is higher than the potential of the anode material, The cathode material is an electrically conductive material selected among certain non-metallic materials. The arrangement provided on the article releases biological inhibiting ions of the metallic anode material or complexes of such ions when the biologically inhibiting arrangement is contacted with a body fluid.

Abstract: A buried grid solar cell is manufactured by a process for metallising one or more metal contacts of a buried grid solar cell having a body of doped semiconductor material, wherein the electrical contact(s) is/are provided by conducting material being arranged in a pattern of one or more grooves into the semiconductor material by an electrolytic metal deposition process comprising a conventional electrolytic bath containing a special combination of per se known additives.

Abstract: A method and a treatment solution for posttreatment of an article with a metallic surface, where the metallic surface is made of one or more metals of a standard oxidation potential within the range -2.5 to +0.5 V. A thin coating is formed on the metallic surface by a treatment with an aqueous solution containing a molybdenum compound selected among molybdic acid and salts thereof in a concentration of 2.9 to 9.8 g/l calculated as molybdenum, as well as a compound capable of forming a heteropolymolydate, such as phosphoric acid, together with a molybdate. The treatment is performed under conditions where the metal surface is maintained at a potential within the range of -600 and -1800 mV/nhe. A corrosion-protecting and/or decorative effect is obtained which can be compared with the effect obtained by conventional chromate treatment, and which avoids the environmental and toxicologic drawbacks associated with the chromate treatment.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of accurately joining together two sheet sections along edges of the sheets having complementary shapes, and wherein the edge of at least one sheet section is formed by means of a numerically controlled machine with the sheet section fixed in a fixture by moving a cutting member relative to the sheet section according to a predetermined path, whereafter complementary edges of the two sheet sections are made to abut each other and the two sheet sections are welded together in a numerically controlled machine, one sheet section being fixedly retained in said fixture and the knowlegde of the path used during cutting is used to determine the path of the welding means at the welding of the sheet sections.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device with a signal receiving unit for locating golf balls. Each golf ball is associated with a transmitting unit and the signals emitted by each transmitting unit are detected by the signal receiving unit. The transmitting unit is associated with an energy store as an operating voltage source. The device includes a charging circuit with an energy transmitter for wireless transmission of the electrical energy to an energy receiver connected in front of the energy store. Immediately after the charging phase of the energy store, the transmitting unit starts sending transmission signals and in so doing discharges the energy store. The transmitted signals received by the signal receiving unit are fed to an evaluation circuit which produces an output signal for locating the golf ball. This output signal is then fed to a display unit. After a certain discharge time, the transmitting unit stops transmitting the transmission signals.