Abstract: A medium wattage (>175 W to 400 W) metal halide electric lamp is provided having a strapless mount structure for the light source capsule while reliably passing standard drop tests. The strapless mount structure includes a support clip attached at one end to the lower end of the arc tube press and at a second end to the stem wire or to a frame portion connected to the stem wire or to a portion of the main frame.

Abstract: A portable data storage device (1) comprising means (2, 4) for searching for data stored on an other device that match with a user set profile (3) of the data storage device (1) and means (5) for storing data matching with said profile (3) in the data storage device (1). Also a technical realization on the level of self organizing content entities is provided.

Abstract: A patient monitoring/defibrillation instrument displays patient vital signs in numeric form or as graphical waveform traces. Under normal room lighting conditions the numeric and waveform information is displayed in color against a black or gray background. When the patient monitor is operated outside or in bright light, the user has the option to select a color map for display of the patient vital signs information in a highly contrasting manner such as black numeric or waveform information against a bright background such as yellow. The high contrast display, while being objectionable in most indoor settings, has been found to comfortably and effectively display the monitored information in sunlight without the need to increase power to the display.

Abstract: A method and system for generating a personalized summary of content for a user is provided that include determining personality attributes of the user; extracting features of the content; and generating the personalized summary based on a map of the features to the personality attributes. The features may be ranked based on the map and the personality attributes, where the personalized summary includes portions of the content having the features which are ranked higher than other features. The personality attributes may be determined using Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test, Merrill Reid test and/or brain use test, for example.

Abstract: A device for recording and/or reading a record carrier has an optical head with a laser for generating a beam via a scanning spot on a track of the carrier. A detector detects a read signal and a sensor detects a sense signal from the beam. A control unit controls the laser power to a desired value. A correction unit generates a correction signal that depends on local optical properties of the record carrier derived from the sense signal measured on at least one part of the track near the scanning spot. The device corrects the power control using the correction signal. Furthermore, the record carrier can have prerecorded control parameters for setting the correction unit.

Abstract: The present invention provides a self-storing medical electrode (10) that does not require packaging, enclosures, or other means to house and to protect various electrode components. According to one aspect, the invention provides an electrode comprising an electrode body having first and second sides, wherein the first side comprises a barrier layer (15) comprising a heat-sealable material and the second side comprises a conductive layer (16). The electrode further comprises an electrically conductive gel layer (18) disposed on the electrode body and which is further in electrical communication with the conductive layer (16).

Abstract: In a genetic optimization method, the genes of a chromosome population are computationally genetically evolved. The evolving includes evolving a number of expressed genes in each chromosome and employing a fitness criterion evaluated without reference to unexpressed genes of each chromosome. An optimized chromosome produced by the genetic evolving is selected.

Abstract: A starter housing (1) for a gas discharge lamp (3) is described. The starter housing (1) comprises an outer (5) and an inner housing (10) which are arranged one inside the other in an assembled state of the starter housing (1), of which the outer housing (5) has a metal layer for electromagnetic screening. The starter housing (1) in addition comprises an inner housing tube (11) at its inner housing (10), which is surrounded in the assembled state by an outer housing tube (8) arranged at the outer housing (5), such that the inner housing tube (11) and the outer housing tube (8) together form a socket (4). Reference elements (13; 14) are provided at the tubes (8; 11) of the two housings (5; 10) such that they co-operate in the assembled state for defining the positions of the two tubes (8; 11) with respect to one another. Furthermore, a method of mounting such a starter housing (1) is disclosed.

Abstract: This invention provides an improved method for storing/replaying a specific program from a MPEG-2 multiple program transport stream. When storing, the method discards a related transport packet of the non-user-selected program and inserts a null packet at the corresponding discarding position, and the effective load of this null packet contains a number which indicates the number of continuously discarded packets at this position; when replaying, if the effective load of a null packet contains a specific numerical value, the method adds some null packets beside this null packet, the number of the added null packets being equal to that the specific numerical value minus one.

Abstract: A cooling system (12) for an x-ray tube assembly (10) includes a heat exchanger (14, 16) which receives cooling fluid from a housing (40) of the x-ray tube assembly and transfers the heat to a flow of air. A fan (90), such as an axial fan, directs the flow of air through the heat exchanger. The fan is positioned within a duct (78). A contoured air flux director (110) is positioned to intercept the flow of air from the duct and to redirect the flow of air in a direction which is generally perpendicular to an axis of rotation of the fan.

Abstract: The invention relates to a parallel magnetic resonance imaging method, in which core magnetization is excited in the examination volume of an MR device by generating at least one HF pulse. Two or more MR signals are then recorded in parallel from the examination volume via two or more receiving channels (R, S) of the MR device using an HF coil arrangement (9), which comprises a number of coil elements (15, 16) which is greater than the number of receiving channels (R, S), wherein the respective MR signal on each receiving channel (R, S) is formed by weighted superimposition of coil signals (A, B, C, D, E) of the individual coil elements (15, 16). Finally, according to the invention, an MR image is reconstructed from the recorded MR signals, the MR signals being combined with one another taking into account effective spatial sensitivity profiles associated with the individual receiving channels (R, S).

Abstract: A pellicle membrane (1) is connected to a frame (3), substantially parallel to a reticle base plate (5), so as to define an enclosure with a space (9) between the reticle carried on the base plate (5) and the pellicle membrane (1). A mask (6) is provided on the reticle within the enclosure. A bore hole (11) is provided in a side wall of the frame (3) into the enclosure. A mechanism (13) for adjusting the air pressure in the space (9) to compensate for the effect of gravity on the pellicle membrane (11), comprises a piston member (15) within a housing (17) which is closed at one end, so that a chamber (19) is defined at the closed end of the housing (17). A bore hole (21) is provided in a wall of the housing (17) into the chamber (19) and a tube or pipe (23) between the bore hole (11) and the bore hole (21) defines a gas path between the space (9) and the chamber (19).

Abstract: A method for manufacturing CMOS devices with fully silicided (FUSI) gates is described. A metallic gate electrode of an NMOS transistor and a metallic gate electrode of a pMOS transistor have a different work function. The work function of each transistor type is determined by selecting a thickness of a corresponding semiconductor gate electrode and a thermal budget of a first thermal step such that, during silicidation, different silicide phases are obtained on the nMOS and the pMOS transistors. The work function of each type of transistor can be adjusted by selectively doping the semiconductor material prior to the formation of the silicide.

Abstract: In a method for testing a testable electronic device having a first and a second plurality of test a arrangements a first shift register (110) is used in parallel with a second shift register (130) to time-multiplex a first test vector (102) and a second test vector (104) into a number of smaller test vectors (102a–c; 104a–c) for provision to the first and second plurality of test arrangements. By varying the size of the first shift register (110) and the second shift register (130) a trade-off between the number of pins of the electronic device to be contacted and the required test time can be made. The first shift register (110) may be coupled to a first buffer register (120) and second shift register (130) may be coupled to a second buffer register (140) for enhanced test data stability. First shift register (110) and second shift register (130) can be partitions of a larger shift register.

Abstract: The electric device (100) has a body (102) having a resistor (107) comprising a phase change material being changeable between a first phase and a second phase. The resistor (107) has a first electrical resistance when the phase change material is in the first phase, and a second electrical resistance, different from the first electrical resistance, when the phase change material is in the second phase. The phase change material constitutes a conductive path between a first contact area and a second contact area. A cross-section of the conductive path is smaller than the first contact area and the second contact area. The body (102) may further have a heating element 106 being able to conduct a current for enabling a transition from the first phase to the second phase. The heating element (106) is preferably arranged in parallel with the resistor (107).

Abstract: Communication devices, communication systems, a Bluetooth communication protocol communication device, and communication methods are provided. According to a first aspect, a communication device includes a single buffer configured to store communication data; control circuitry coupled with the buffer and configured to generate a plurality of packets including different amounts of communication data from the buffer; and communication circuitry coupled with the control circuitry and configured to communicate the packets.

Abstract: A mobile apparatus is provided for exchanging data objects over several network. The mobile apparatus exchanges data objects of a first data format over a first network and exchanges data of a second data format over a second network. The mobile apparatus comprises configurable processing means. When configured, processing means converts data of the first format received from the first network to data of the second format. Processing means then forwards converted data to the second network.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of determining write parameters for recording information on an optical record carrier, said information being in the form of a channel data stream to be recorded as a channel band of at least one symbol row one dimensionally evolving along a first direction, wherein the write parameters are determined by an iterative procedure.

Abstract: A method of determining the position of a mobile unit (MS1) having a GPS receiver (24) is disclosed. The method comprising the steps of measuring mobile unit pseudoranges at the mobile unit (MS1) using the GPS receiver (24); providing reference pseudoranges corresponding to a reference location situated remote from the mobile unit (BS1); and determining the position of the mobile unit (MS1) relative to the reference location (BS1) as a function of both the reference pseudoranges and the mobile unit pseudoranges.

Abstract: A drive circuit for a bi-stable display comprises: a driver (101, 102) which supplies drive waveforms (DWk) to the pixels (Pij) of the display during an image update period (IUk) wherein the image presented by the pixels (Pij) is updated. A controller (103) controls the driver (101, 102) to supply, during the image update period (IUk) wherein a particular optical transition of a particular one of the pixels (Pij) is required, an associated one of the drive waveforms (DWk) to the particular one of the pixels (Pij). The associated one of the drive waveforms (DWk) comprises a sequence of a particular number of pulse, (SPk), wherein consecutive ones of the pulses (SPk) of the sequence are separated by a separation period of time (SPT).