Abstract: A first fixture holds a plurality of circuit components backside up in a substantially coplanar relationship. An adhesive applying device, such as screen printer, applies adhesive to the backside of each circuit component. A second fixture is aligned with and placed on the first fixture. The fixtures are then flipped so that the circuit components are supported in a right side up position by the second fixture. A device such as a pick and place machine, may then be used to transfer the circuit components from the second fixture to a substrate.

Abstract: A silicon oxide film has a ratio of A1 to A2 which is not higher than 0.21, where A1 is a first peak integrated intensity of a first peak belonging to Si—OH and appearing in the vicinity of a wave-number of 970 cm−1, and A2 is a second peak integrated intensity of a second peak belonging to O—Si—O and appearing in the vicinity of a wave-number 820 cm−1, and each of the first and second peak integrated intensities is defined as a product of peal width at half height and a peak height of a Raman spectrum obtained by a Raman scattering spectroscopic analysis of the silicon oxide film. The silicon oxide film is deposited under a condition that a ratio of a first flow rate Fo of oxygen gas to a second flow rate Fsi of a silicon source gas is not lower than 20.

Abstract: A method of forming a laminated glass substrate structure suitable for use in a display device or the like, includes the steps of: a) preparing a first glass substrate having first and second main faces; b) preparing a second glass substrate having third and fourth main faces; c) after the steps a) and b), adhering the first and second glass substrates with a space formed therebetween and with the third main face facing to the second main face; and d) after the step c), performing a smoothing process relative to all edges excepting one edge among edges defining the first main face. The laminated glass substrate structure provides an improved load resistance.

Abstract: An assembly having a system for preventing mechanical vibration includes a honeycomb body disposed in the interior of a tubular casing for permitting a fluid flow therethrough. The tubular casing has at least one reinforcing structure which locally increases vibration resistance and is connected to the honeycomb body only in at least one partial region of its inner surface at least in a surrounding region of the reinforcing structure only over a part of the inner periphery. The reinforcing structure projects from the outer surface of the tubular casing by more than the thickness of the tubular casing. The system according to the invention enhances both the durability of a honeycomb body as well as its connection to a tubular casing.

Abstract: A method of assembling a liquid crystal display device including a pair of substrates combined together with a sealing member and a liquid crystal interposed between the substrates, includes the steps of disposing a plurality of spacers in the area of the sealing member between the substrates, positioning a frame on an outside surface of each substrate, the frame being aligned with the sealing member, and applying pressure to each frame so that a region corresponding to a display area is substantially pressure-free and a uniform cell gap is obtained.

Abstract: A technique for forming a film of material (12) from a donor substrate (10). The technique has a step of introducing energetic particles (22) in a selected manner through a surface of a donor substrate (10) to form a pattern at a selected depth (20) underneath the surface. The particles have a concentration sufficiently high to define a donor substrate material (12) above the selected depth. An energy source is directed to a selected region of the donor substrate to initiate a controlled cleaving action of the substrate (10) at the selected depth (20), whereupon the cleaving action provides an expanding cleave front to free the donor material from a remaining portion of the donor substrate.

Abstract: A p-type zinc oxide film and a process for preparing the film is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, the p-type zinc oxide film contains arsenic and is grown on a gallium arsenide substrate. The p-type zinc oxide film has a net acceptor concentration of at least about 1015 acceptors/cm3, a resistivity of no greater than about 1 ohm-cm, and a Hall mobility of between about 0.1 and about 50 cm2/Vs.

Abstract: A conventional honeycomb structure is strengthened by intermediate membranes (13), which compartmentalize the cells (5) in the height-wise direction. Such a structure more particularly has an increased mechanical strength and high damping properties for Helmholtz resonators intended to trap sound waves arriving on the structure by a perforated face (1).

Abstract: A method of forming electrically insulated magnet wire and a coil formed therefrom. The method involves feeding a flexible electrical insulation tape along a path which converges with a path along which the wire to be wrapped is conveyed. Along the tape travel path at a location upstream of the point where the tape and wire converge, a quantity of heat activated adhesive that has been heated to a sticky state is applied to the passing tape. Then, before the adhesive coating sets, the adhesive coated tape reaches the point of convergence with the wire and is adhered to the wire to provide an electrical insulating wire wrap. The method of the invention provides for a longitudinal, partial wrapping of a conductor wire that furnishes suitable turn-to-turn insulation in coils formed with the wrapped wire.

Abstract: A method in which a separate preformed optical material is suitably sized for easy handling, manipulation, and fabrication into a waveguide having a core (formed from the optical material) having transverse cross-sectional dimensions on the order of only tens of microns. The method may include a plurality of mechanical steps, e.g., lapping, polishing, and/or dicing, and bonding steps, e.g., attaching with adhesives. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of providing an optical material, thinning and polishing the optical material to form a core comprising a plurality of longitudinally extending surfaces, providing a plurality of support substrates, and attaching the plurality of support substrates to the longitudinally extending surfaces of the core. The plurality of support substrates may be attached to the plurality of longitudinally extending surfaces of the optical material with an adhesive.

Abstract: An acoustically resistive layer comprises at least one layer (12) of acoustic damping cloth and a reinforcing material comprising a sheet (14, 114, 214, 314) of filaments (16) secured to the acoustically damping cloth. The filaments (16) are disposed unidirectionally, bidirectionally or multidirectionally. A process for producing such an acoustically resistive layer, comprises positioning an acoustically damping cloth (12) on a mold (18) having the shape of the layer to be obtained, and disposing on this acoustically damping cloth filaments (16) impregnated with a binder by filamentary winding, and then withdrawing the layer thus obtained from the mold, or by laying with application of pressure, and withdrawing the layer thus obtained from the mold.

Abstract: Fluid-forming compositions in a container attached to enclosed adjacent sheets are heated to relatively high temperatures to generate fluids (gases) that effect inflation of the sheets. Fluid rates to the enclosed space between the sheets can be regulated by the canal from the container. Inflated articles can be produced by a continuous, rather than batch-type, process.

Abstract: A method for selective electroless metal deposition on a substrate. The method comprises applying a patterned coating comprising a silyl hydride functional resin onto a substrate. An electroless plating solution comprising a metal ion is then applied onto the silyl hydride functional resin coating to deposit a patterned metal film on the substrate. The process of the invention is especially useful in the electronics industry.

Abstract: A power-saving, highly-reversible optical device is provided. The transmittance through the device is well controlled within a visible ray range. The device has good spectral characteristics while shielded from light, and the electrodes in the device are prevented from being in overpotential condition. The device has a long life, and is protected from being discolored and deteriorated in cycle use. Also, an electrolytic solution to be used in the device is provided. The optical device comprises a solution as so put between working electrodes and a counter electrode that driving control of these electrodes brings about deposition or dissolution of silver. In this, the solution is prepared by dissolving a silver salt in a solvent, to which are added a supporting salt of an alkali metal halide such as LiBr or the like, and an alkanolamine, and optionally coumarin and a mercaptoalkylimidazole.

Abstract: The invention relates to a product having a substrate of a partially stabilized zirconium oxide and a buffer layer of a fully stabilized zirconium oxide. In this case, the substrate is untextured and the buffer layer is biaxially textured and joined to the substrate via an interlayer which consists is made of a material that is different than zirconium oxide but is compatible with the latter. This product is in particular produced with ion beam-assisted deposition of the buffer layer. It is suitable in particular as a support for a functional layer of a ceramic superconductor, e.g. for use as a superconducting current limiter.

Abstract: A provision of a magnetic disk substrate using, as a plated substrate, glass with high hardness in place of aluminum. The magnetic disk substrate is small-sized, can stand against an impact when it is carried, and avoids leaving struck damages (head snap) even if it is used for recent note- or mobile-type computers having a head which is located as closely as possible to the substrate. The magnetic disk substrate comprises forming a nickel/phosphorus coating with a film thickness of 8 &mgr;m-20 &mgr;m or less on crystallized glass with a roughness Ra of 0.05 to 0.5 &mgr;m, the roughness being measured by a tracer and contact type roughness meter after the glass is ground (lapped) and polishing the nickel/phosphorus coating to a depth of 3 &mgr;m or more in a polishing process with the thickness of the plating film left unremoved being 5 &mgr;m or more.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire having a transponder therein comprises a pair of sidewall portions and a crown portion toroidally arranged between a pair of bead cores, and a method of reading and writing of the transponder buried in the tire, wherein the transponder is buried in a projected portion at the inner surface of a bead portion of the tire, and the axial direction of the transponder is along the circumferential direction of the tire, and a rod antenna used for receiving and transmission for the transponder is moved as an axial line of the rod antenna along the circumferential direction of the tire when the reading and writing is done from outside of the tire.

Abstract: A magnetic read element for use in magnetic data retrieval includes a NiFeCr seed layer and an electrically insulating spacer layer between an MR stripe and a soft adjacent layer formed of, for example, NiFeRh. The magnetic read element includes a magnetoresistive stripe and a seed layer formed of NiFeCr that is interfacially adjacent the magnetoresistive stripe. The read element also includes a spacer layer adjacent the seed layer, with the seed layer being disposed between the magnetoresistive stripe and the spacer layer. The spacer layer is formed of an electrically insulating material. In addition, a soft adjacent layer is included in the read element, adjacent the seed layer and formed of a low-coercivity, high-permeability magnetic material. The spacer layer can be formed of Ta, while the soft adjacent layer can be formed of NiFeRh. The magnetic read element can be incorporated in a read/write head, and further incorporated in a read/write system for data retrieval.

Abstract: The present invention provides a honeycomb structure that is able to suppress separation of a loaded catalyst layer much better than the prior art, and its production process. This honeycomb structure is made in the form of honeycombs partitions having for their main component cordierite having a chemical composition of 45-55 wt % SiO2, 33-42 wt % Al2O3 and 12-18 wt % MgO, and fifty or more pores (number/1.65 mm2) having a mean diameter of 1-20 &mgr;m are provided in the surfaces of the partitions.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an ozone adsorbent which has high ozone-adsorbing power even in a moisture-containing system and exhibits a high degree of ozone retention (and a low degree of ozone decomposition), as well as a molded product made by molding this ozone adsorbent into a form adapted to practical use, and a method of making the same. The present invention provides an ozone adsorbent comprising one or more members selected from the group consisting of high-silica pentasilzeolite having a SiO2/Al2O3 ratio of not less than 70, dealuminized faujasite having a SiO2/Al2O3 ratio of not less than 20, and mesoporous silicate having a SiO2/Al2O3 ratio of not less than 20, as well as an ozone-adsorbing molded product and a method of making the same.