Abstract: A series of content information; menu information, which is to be displayed with the content information during reproduction of the content information; and play list information for defining reproduction sequence of the content information by a unit of item, which constitutes the content information and which is accessible upon reproducing, are recorded on the information record medium. The play list information includes: item information for specifying each item which constitutes the content information; and slave item information for specifying the menu information corresponding to the each item as a slave item.

Abstract: Solid latex powders are employed as additives to control gas migration during the cementation of subterranean wells. Preferably, the latex additives are based on vinyl-acetate or styrene-butadiene based polymers. The additives are particularly useful in low-temperature applications. Methods to prepare cement slurries comprising the latex additives, and methods pertaining to the cementation of subterranean wells are also presented.

Abstract: The invention relates to fluid sampling in a test that is used to determine physical and chemical characteristics of the fluids in a subterranean reservoir. The method reconstructs the entire pressure history of the fluid parcel that is captured in the fluid samplers during a test. Using this reconstructed pressure history of the samples, the quality of the samples, particularly, whether there is a phase change in the samples during the test, can be accurately quantified.

Abstract: Methods and systems for determining the quality of a substrate are disclosed. One or more substrates may be examined to determine whether bending is present at the edge of a substrate. The substrate may be accepted if it is determined that bending is not present at the edge of the substrate. The substrate may be rejected if it is determined that bending is present at the edge of the substrate.

Abstract: To provide a phosphor having nearly spherical shapes, the phosphor has an elemental ratio represented by the formula below, and contains at least two kinds of Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, P, Cl, F, Br, I, Zn, Ga, Ge, In, Sn, Ag, Au, Pb, Cd, Bi and Ti. M1aM2bM3cOd (M1 represents Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm or Yb, M2 mainly represents a bivalent metal element, M3 mainly represents a trivalent metal element, and a, b, c and d are 0.0001?a?0.2, 0.8?b?1.2, 1.6?c?2.4 and 3.2?d?4.8, respectively.

Abstract: A semiconductor module structure and a method of forming the semiconductor module structure are disclosed. The structure incorporates a die mounted on a substrate and covered by a lid. A thermal compound is disposed within a thermal gap between the die and the lid. A barrier around the periphery of the die extends between the lid and the substrate, contains the thermal compound, and flexes in response to expansion and contraction of both the substrate and the lid during cycling of the semiconductor module. More particularly, either the barrier is formed of a flexible material or has a flexible connection to the substrate and/or to the lid. The barrier effectively contains the thermal compound between the die and the lid and, thereby, provides acceptable and controlled coverage of the thermal compound over the die for heat removal.

Abstract: A method of forming one or more capacitors on or in a substrate and a capacitor structure resulting therefrom is disclosed. The method includes forming a trench in the substrate, lining the trench with a first copper-barrier layer, and substantially filling the trench with a first copper layer. The first copper layer is substantially chemically isolated from the substrate by the first copper-barrier layer. A second copper-barrier layer is formed over the first copper layer and a first dielectric layer is formed over the second copper-barrier layer. The dielectric layer is substantially chemically isolated from the first copper layer by the second copper-barrier layer. A third copper-barrier layer is formed over the dielectric layer and a second copper layer is formed over the third copper-barrier layer. The second copper layer is formed in a non-damascene process.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus, including: an image carrier for carrying an image; a transfer roller including a holder member that holds a transfer material, a groove portion in which the holder member is disposed, and an elastic member disposed over the transfer roller except a portion where the groove portion is disposed, the elastic member of the transfer roller is pressed onto the image carrier to transfer an image from the image carrier onto the transfer material; and a gate roller for transporting the transfer material to the holder member, wherein a circumferential velocity v1 (mm/sec) of the elastic member of the transfer roller is lower than a moving speed v2 (mm/sec) of the transfer material transported by the gate roller.

Abstract: A method of forming a ball grid array (BGA) package is provided. The method includes coupling an integrated circuit (IC) die to a heat spreader in an opening of a substrate, the opening of the substrate extending through the substrate, such that a portion of the heat spreader is accessible through the opening and coupling a first surface of a second substrate to the IC die via a bump interconnect. The second surface of the second substrate has an array of contact pads capable of coupling to a board.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of reducing the wear of a tip of a probe when the tip is in contact with a surface of a substrate and when the probe is mounted on a support structure. A method is provided where a load force is applied to the probe, thereby causing the tip to be maintained substantially in contact with the substrate surface and a modulation step where the e magnitude of the load force is modulated at a modulation frequency. The modulation frequency is selected to be greater than a fundamental vibration frequency of the support structure on which the probe is mounted.

Abstract: A photovoltaic device utilizing a gain means and an amplification means to intake and convert incident light/photons to greater intensities of highly coherent and monochromatic photons whereby said photons are passed to a resonating means and absorption means, allowing for said photons to be absorbed with increased conversion efficiency.

Abstract: An information recording medium of the optical information reproduction device of the present invention includes a recording unit capable of recording information three-dimensionally and provided with a track, and information is recorded by forming a plurality of recording marks along the track of the recording unit by a mark length recording method. When the track direction of the recording marks is assumed to be their longitudinal direction and the direction perpendicular to the track direction is assumed to be their lateral direction, with the present invention, for recording marks located substantially in the same plane, the total area of elongated recording marks, whose longitudinal length is greater than their lateral length, is greater than the total area of recording marks having other than elongated shapes.

Abstract: A method for requesting and reporting channel quality information (CQI) in a wireless portable Internet system is disclosed. Timing of a channel quality information request by a base station is determined, existence of an automatic repeat request acknowledgment (ARQ_ACK) message of downlink data is determined on requesting the channel quality information from the subscriber station, the automatic repeat request acknowledgment message and the radio resource for the channel quality report to the subscriber station is allocated, the automatic repeat request acknowledgment message and the channel quality report information is received, and a modulating and coding level of downlink data is determined by extracting the channel quality report information from the automatic repeat request acknowledgment message.

Abstract: A test apparatus provided in common for a plurality of memories under test, comprising an address generating section that sequentially generates addresses to be tested in the memories under test and a plurality of buffer memories that are provided to correspond respectively to the memories under test and that each store addresses to be independently supplied to the corresponding memory under test. The test apparatus (i) compares block data output by a memory under test in response to a read command to an expected value of this block data, for each generated address, (ii) sequentially stores, in the corresponding buffer memory and in response to detection of a discrepancy in the comparison, the address generated for reading the block data, and (iii) writes, in parallel to the plurality of memories under test, disable data that includes, as individual addresses, the addresses stored in the buffer memory.

Abstract: The invention provides a chemical-mechanical polishing composition comprising wet-process silica, a stabilizer compound, a potassium salt, a secondary amine compound, and water. The invention further provides a method of polishing a substrate with the polishing composition.

Abstract: An electronic component includes first and second resonators provided within a layered substrate including stacked dielectric layers. The first resonator includes resonator-forming conductor layers of a first type and a second type. The resonator-forming conductor layers of the first type and the second type are reversed in relative positions of the short-circuited end and the open-circuited end, and are alternately arranged in the stacking direction of the dielectric layers. An input terminal is connected to all of the resonator-forming conductor layers of the first type. The second resonator includes resonator-forming conductor layers of a third type and a fourth type. The resonator-forming conductor layers of the third type and the fourth type are reversed in relative positions of the short-circuited end and the open-circuited end, and are alternately arranged in the stacking direction of the dielectric layers.

Abstract: Trapping set decoding for transmission frames is disclosed. In one aspect, a trapping set decoder includes a decoder that performs decoding operations on an encoded codeword in received data, and a detector coupled to the decoder for detecting the presence of any one of a group of possible trapping sets in the decoding operations on the encoded codeword. A selection processor is also included, coupled to the decoder, for providing a decoded codeword by selecting one trapping set of the group of possible trapping sets, the selected trapping set being present in the decoding operations of the codeword, and by using the selected trapping set to produce the decoded codeword.

Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method for managing load and store operations necessary for reading from and writing to memory or I/O in a superscalar RISC architecture environment. To perform this task, a load store unit is provided whose main purpose is to make load requests out of order whenever possible to get the load data back for use by an instruction execution unit as quickly as possible. A load operation can only be performed out of order if there are no address collisions and no write pendings. An address collision occurs when a read is requested at a memory location where an older instruction will be writing. Write pending refers to the case where an older instruction requests a store operation, but the store address has not yet been calculated. The data cache unit returns 8 bytes of unaligned data. The load/store unit aligns this data properly before it is returned to the instruction execution unit.

Abstract: A rotor core has permanent magnets. Magnetic flux of the permanent magnet of an even-numbered rotor magnetic pole part is guided in an axial direction by an axial magnetic path member. Magnetic flux of the permanent magnet of an odd-numbered rotor magnetic pole part is guided into a soft magnetic inner cylindrical part. The axial end faces of the inner cylindrical part and the axial magnetic path member protrude from the rotor core in the axial direction and face a stationary magnetic path member with a small gap therebetween. The amount of magnetic flux of the magnet, which the permanent magnet applies to a stator core is adjusted by an excitation current of an excitation coil wound on the stationary magnetic path member.

Abstract: An information recording device, which includes a nonvolatile memory whose areas are managed using an FAT file system and enhances the reliability of directory entries using a cyclic shift checksum, recalculates the cyclic shift checksum efficiently and performs seeking at a higher speed. A nonvolatile memory (25) of an information recording device 2 is managed using an FAT file system. In the memory, a plurality of directory entries are allocated to a single file. The device enhances the reliability of the directory entries using a cyclic shift checksum, and manages information indicating the position and the size of a storage area of file data using an extent information entry (203). The device further uses an update information entry (204) and a dummy entry (205).