Abstract: An impact absorbing member 10 able to secure absorption energy while lightening weight by absorbing the impact load applied in the axial direction by periodic buckling, wherein the impact absorbing member 10 is provided with a main body 20 comprised of metal sheet and having a polygonal shape in cross-section vertical to an axial direction and a center sheet 30 comprised of metal sheet and provided at a hollow part in the main body along the axial direction, the polygonal shape of the main body 20 includes a pair of long side (20a, 20b) facing each other, the center sheet 30 is joined to each of the long sides (20a, 20b) of the polygonal shape of the main body 20, and the sheet thickness t1 (mm) of the main body 20 and the sheet thickness t2 (mm) of the center sheet 30 satisfy 1.3×t1?t2.

Abstract: An active clearance control system of a gas turbine engine includes a multiple of blade outer air seal assemblies and a sync ring with a multiple of graduation sets. Each of the graduation sets is associated with one of the multiple of blade outer air seal assemblies. An active clearance control system of a gas turbine engine includes a sync ring with a multiple of graduation sets. Each of the graduation sets includes a multiple of graduations to define an associated radial position for each of a respective multiple of blade outer air seal assemblies.

Abstract: A method comprises the steps of modifying an existing engine which includes a high pressure compressor driven by a high pressure turbine and a low pressure turbine to drive a low pressure compressor. The modifying step includes utilizing the high pressure compressor as a low pressure compressor in a modified gas turbine engine, and designing and incorporating a new high pressure compressor downstream of the low pressure compressor section in the modified engine, such that a portion of the design of the existing engine is utilized in the modified engine. A gas turbine engine is also disclosed.

Abstract: Disclosed is a non-volatile memory (NVM) device including an array of NVM cells segmented into at least a first sector and a second sector and at least one sensing circuit to sense a state of a target NVM cell in the first sector using a reference current of the second sector received from at least a dynamic reference cell.

Abstract: An EFEM includes a wafer transportation part having a wafer transportation room passed by a wafer transported to a processing room and a load port part airtightly connecting a main opening formed on a container housing the wafer to the room. The transportation part includes a downward current forming device for forming a downward current in the room and a current plate arranged in the room and partly introducing the current into the container connected to the room via the opening. The load port part includes an installation stand for installing the container, a bottom nozzle for communicating with a bottom hole formed at a position distant from the opening more than a bottom surface middle on a bottom surface of the container, and a gas discharge passage for discharging a gas in the container to an outside thereof via the nozzle.

Abstract: A circuit device includes: a time-to-digital conversion circuit to which a first clock signal with a first clock frequency and a second clock signal with a second clock frequency different from the first clock frequency are input and that converts a time difference in transition timings of first and second signals into a digital value; and a synchronization circuit that synchronizes phases of the first and second clock signals. The time-to-digital conversion circuit calculates the digital value corresponding to the time difference by transitioning a signal level of the first signal based on the first clock signal after a phase synchronization timing of the first and second clock signals and compares the phase of the second clock signal to a phase of the second signal having a signal level is transitioned to correspond to the first signal.

Abstract: A minimum value (MV) is computed for start timestamps that each correspond to an uncommitted transaction. In an embodiment, the MV is computed for a pluggable database that is open on at least first and second instances of a database. The MV is computed for the first instance as of a first current timestamp (CT). The MV and the first CT are communicated to a second instance that has a second CT. If the first and second CTs are equal, the second instance store the MV. If the first CT is bigger, the second CT also becomes equal to the first CT. If the first CT is smaller, the MV is discarded, and the first CT becomes equal to the second CT. In an embodiment, if the MV remains unchanged for a predetermined time period, a start timestamp corresponding to the MV is advanced to a current or future timestamp.

Abstract: An apparatus comprising a first power combiner/divider network and a second power combiner/divider network. The first power combiner/divider network splits a first electromagnetic signal into split signals that are connectable to signal processor(s). The second power combiner/divider network combines processed signals into a second electromagnetic signal. The apparatus includes a three-dimensional coaxial microstructure.

Abstract: The invention provides a method of producing a protein multimer-nucleic acid complex comprising a protein multimer and any one target component of the protein multimer. A nucleic acid encoding the target component is subjected to in vitro translation to provide a translation product containing a target component-nucleic acid complex of the target component and the nucleic acid encoding the target component. A nucleic acid encoding a non-target component constituting the protein multimer together with the target component is translated into the non-target component by adding the nucleic acid encoding the non-target component to the previously provided translation product to provide the non-target component. The non-target component then is associated with the target component contained in the target component-nucleic acid complex to form a protein multimer, thus affording the protein multimer-nucleic acid complex of the protein multimer and the nucleic acid encoding the target component.

Abstract: A system and method for producing high resolution diffusion information and imaging from a subject. In some aspects, the method includes receiving a plurality of low resolution diffusion images, each acquired with a different set of gradient directions and shifted in a slice direction, and generating a model correlating diffusion signals associated with the plurality of low resolution diffusion images and a high resolution diffusion image. The method also includes reconstructing the high resolution diffusion image by minimizing a cost function determined using the model. In some applications, the method further includes processing the high resolution diffusion image to generate a report providing diffusion information associated with the subject.

Abstract: A heat dissipation structure of a semiconductor device is provided, the semiconductor device including: an electrical bonding surface electrically connected to a substrate; and a heat dissipation surface as an opposite side of the electrical bonding surface. The heat dissipation surface makes contact with a heat spreader via a conductive TIM while the heat spreader makes contact with a heat sink via an insulating TIM. A surface of the heat spreader facing the semiconductor device includes a recess part formed in at least one part in a vicinity of an outer periphery of the semiconductor device.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for manufacturing a nitrogen-doped CZTSSe layer for a solar cell is disclosed. A substrate is mounted in a vacuum chamber. A plurality of effusion cells are placed within the vacuum chamber in order to evaporate copper, zinc, tin, sulfur, and/or selenium to form elemental vapors in a region proximate the substrate. An RF-based nitrogen source delivers a nitrogen plasma in the region proximal to the substrate. The elemental vapors and the nitrogen plasma form a gas mixture in the region near the substrate, which then react at the substrate to form a CZTSSe absorber layer for a solar cell.

Abstract: A phase-locked loop according to the present disclosure includes a reference-phase generation circuit that sequentially generates a reference phase value, and an oscillating circuit that generates a first clock on a basis of a difference between the reference phase value and a feedback phase value. The phase-locked loop further includes a signal generation circuit that generates, on a basis of the first clock, a plurality of second clocks varying in phase, and generates a third clock by switching the plurality of second clocks a plurality of times in each of cycle periods each corresponding to one cycle of the reference clock. The phase-locked loop further includes a phase detection circuit that determines a phase value of the third clock and outputs the determined phase value as the feedback phase value.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a communication system, a base station, a host node, and a communication method in order to address one or more of the above-described problems. A communication system according to the present invention is a communication system including: a base station (10) and a host node (40) that communicates with the base station (10). The base station (10) included in the communication system transmits to the host node (40) setting information indicating whether or not a paging message transmitted from the host node (40) can be transmitted to other base stations, and the host node (40) receives the setting information from the base station (10).

Abstract: To downsize a power smoothing capacitor substrate unit for opening/closing modules configured to convert a low-voltage DC power to AC power to drive a three-phase AC motor. A plurality of unit capacitors (101) being a conductive polymer aluminum electrolytic capacitor are connected between a positive-side first conductive plate (10P0) connected to a positive-side power supply terminal (125P) and a negative-side second conductive plate (10N) connected to a negative-side power supply terminal (124N), and three or more capacitor rows are arranged for each of three pairs of divided power supply terminal blocks (130B) connected to the opening/closing modules (90B) and one or more capacitor rows are arranged between the terminal blocks. Accordingly, ripple currents in a large number of capacitors connected in parallel to each other are equalized to prevent a temperature increase in each capacitor.

Abstract: Provided are a positioning method, device, positioning center, terminal and computer storage medium.

Abstract: A location of a target associated with a first system is determined at the first system at a first time. A signal is constructed at the first system where the data of the signal includes an identifier indicative of a collision avoidance nature of the signal. The signal is broadcast from the first system. the broadcasting causes a second system to receive the signal; compute a likelihood of a collision between the first system and the second system using the location from the signal, a velocity of the first system, a location of the second system at the first time, and a velocity of the second system at the first time; and send a notification from the second system about the likelihood of collision when the likelihood of collision exceeding a threshold likelihood.