Abstract: An apparatus for interfacing communication and computing devices to a vehicle's entertainment system, data system, and/or vehicle's diagnostics system to minimize driver distraction and to integrate the latest computing technologies for entertainment, information, and applications to the vehicle. Such an interface may be provided by hardware, firmware or software provided in the vehicle, computing and communication devices or both. The interface not only provides a link but also translates the data, commands and responses of one to data, commands and responses understandable by the other.

Abstract: A single-and-continual shot changeover device for a nailing gun includes a trigger shaft positioned in an interior of a trigger body, a trigger inner member pivotally connected with an intermediate fitting stage of the trigger shaft, which also has two slide shaft stages at two sides of the fitting stage for two springs and two press buttons to fitting around respectively. The two press buttons are elastically pushed to shift outward to engage one of two—an upper and a lower—grooves of the two sidewalls of the trigger body. When the two press buttons are pressed inward, the trigger inner member can be shifted up and down to let the press buttons secured at either of the two limit grooves by means of the trigger shaft. Then the trigger inner member is controlled to separate or not from the safety connect rod for changing firing a single shot or continual shot.

Abstract: An accurate method for inversely verifying a therapeutic radiation dose delivered to a patient via an x-ray delivery system without involving any computational iteration was developed. The usage of it includes detecting the transmitted radiation dose image after passage through the patient, imaging the patient during treatment to anatomically record information of the patient, followed by inversely verifying through use of both the detected radiation image and the imaging data, the actual radiation dose delivered to the patient, and comparing the level of the dose delivered to a previously planned dose to determine whether the planned dose was delivered, or whether an overdose or underdose occurred.

Abstract: A single-and-continual shot changeover device for a nailing gun includes a trigger shaft positioned in an interior of a trigger body, a trigger inner member pivotally connected with an intermediate fitting stage of the trigger shaft, which also has two slide shaft stages at two sides of the fitting stage for two springs and two press buttons to fitting around respectively. The two press buttons are elastically pushed to shift outward to engage one of two—an upper and a lower—grooves of the two sidewalls of the trigger body. When the two press buttons are pressed inward, the trigger inner member can be shifted up and down to let the press buttons secured at either of the two limit grooves by means of the trigger shaft. Then the trigger inner member is controlled to separate or not from the safety connect rod for changing firing a single shot or continual shot.

Abstract: A nailing gun applicable to oblique rowed nails of different specifications includes a nail box having its upper rear side pivotally combined with the head end of a muzzle to form a pivot and its intermediate portion combined with the arc-shaped guiding slot of the combining member of a handle. Thus, the nail box can be adjusted and positioned at a proper angle for loading oblique rowed nails of different specifications. The nail box has a U-shaped nail-guiding plate fitted in a nail head groove and having its upper end formed with an extending section extending upward and reaching the rear end wall of the muzzle. The extending section of the nail-guiding plate is able to guide oblique rowed nails to smoothly move in the interior of the muzzle whenever the nail box is adjusted at a slant angle for loading oblique rowed nails of different specifications.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for producing memory modules having a plurality of branches connected to a memory bus, each branch containing at least one dynamic random access memory (DRAM) device or SDRAM device connected to the memory bus via at least one transmission signal (TS) line and/or at least one sub-transmission signal (STS) line. The memory modules include at least one branch containing a capacitor connected in parallel to the TS line or STS line and the DRAM device or SDRAM device. A computing system implementing the memory modules is also discussed.

Abstract: An orderly single striking device for a nail gun includes a press plate provided with a projection to contact and push always a valve switch to let pressure air to continue flowing into a cylinder of the nail gun so as to move forward the piston with a striking needle to the front position to complete nail striking action, even if the piston should stop at a middle way of its stroke due to some cause and block wind holes in an annular wall of the cylinder after the trigger is pulled for striking a nail. So the device can prevent a nail from being stricken in vain or intermittently, smoothing striking action and upgrading work efficiency of the nail gun.

Abstract: A device for preventing short nails of a nailing gun from being deadlocked includes a slot-sealing member provided under the gunpoint of a nailing gun. The slot sealing member has its topside formed with an elongate slot sealing portion for sealing up the front slot of the nail row inlet of the gunpoint when the slot sealing member is pushed inward, preventing a short nail from being deadlocked when it is struck in a work. When the slot sealing member is pushed outward, its sealing portion will be moved away from the front slot of the nail inlet to completely open the nail row inlet for facilitating loading a long nail formed in a row in the gunpoint, unnecessary to disassemble the slot sealing member from the gunpoint when a row of long nails and short nails are loaded alternately, and easy and quick in operating.

Abstract: A method of forming a self-aligned silicide layer. A refractory metal layer is formed over a substrate having a metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistor thereon. A self-aligned silicide reaction is conducted to form a self-aligned silicide layer over the gate electrode and source/drain terminal of the transistor. Finally, the unreacted refractory metal layer and the protective layer are removed. The method also includes the formation of an additional protective layer between the refractory metal layer and the original protective layer by physical vapor deposition before conducting the self-aligned silicide reaction.

Abstract: A method of planarizing a dielectric layer comprising the steps of providing a substrate having structures already formed thereon, and then forming a borophosphosilicate glass layer over the substrate. Next, a rapid thermal process is applied heating the borophosphosilicate layer to cause a thermal flow, and then the borophosphosilicate layer is etched back so that a planar surface is obtained. Finally, a passivation layer is formed over the borophosphosilicate glass layer to prevent the formation of pits in subsequent pre-metal wet etching operations.

Abstract: A method for improving the stability of an anti-reflection coating layer is provided. The anti-reflection coating layer covered by a SiOxNy layer is provided. A surface treatment step is performed with an oxidizer-based plasma on the SiOxNy layer to form an oxide layer. The oxidizer-based plasma comprises O2, and N2O.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an even dielectric layer. A substrate having a patterned conductive layer formed thereon is provided. A first dielectric layer with a relatively high dopant dosage is formed on the substrate and the patterned conductive layer. A second dielectric layer with a relatively low dopant dosage is formed on the first dielectric layer. A chemical-mechanical polishing process is formed.