Abstract: The present invention is to provide a film-sealing device comprising a main base, two side bases mounted oppositely on the main base with at least one of which being able to move on the main base, two bearing bases and two press bases respectively mounted on the two side bases and being able to adjust their positions on the side bases. Each the side base has a concavity indented from the top surface thereof. One of the side bases has a shoulder located at the inner top edge thereof. Each bearing base is provided at the inner side thereof with a bolster corresponding in location to the concavity of said side base substantially. The top surface of one of the bolsters is substantially flush with the shoulder of said side base. Each press base is provided at the inner side thereof with a heating element which is provided at the bottom thereof with a flange corresponding in location above the bolster. The two press bases are able to move up and down on the side bases.

Abstract: An IC package feeder is constructed to include a platform, a vibrator controlled to oscillate the platform, a material delivery tube path unit formed of fixed rails and movable rails respectively mounted on the platform at the top near a rear side and defining a plurality of pitch-adjustable parallel material delivery tube passages, an IC package path unit formed of fixed rod members and movable rod members respectively mounted on the platform at a top near a front side and defining a plurality of pitch-adjustable IC package passages respectively aligned in line with the material delivery tube passages, the IC package passages each having a tapered rear side expanding backwards, and a cover vertically adjustably mounted on the platform and covering over the rod members of the IC package path unit, the cover having sloping guide means disposed corresponding to the tapered rear sides of the IC package passages and adapted to guide IC packages from the material delivery tube path unit to the IC package passages.

Abstract: An IC package discharge apparatus is constructed to include a machine base, the machine base having pitch-adjustable IC package carrier tube passages arrange din parallel for receiving IC package carrier tubes, a vibrator controlled to oscillate the machine base, a set of contact switches respectively installed in the IC package carrier tube passages and adapted to shut down the vibrator after removal of IC package carrier tubes from the IC package carrier tube passages, and a set of sensors respectively installed in the IC package carrier tube passages and adapted to count the number of IC packages passed into the IC package carrier tubes in the IC package carrier tube passages and to shut down the vibrator when every sensor counted up to a predetermined number.

Abstract: Methods and associated structures for rapidly processing messages in a distributed computing application. Rules are stored in structures defined by the present invention and methods associated therewith rapidly process the boolean predicates of the rules to determine what actions need be taken in the distributed computing environment in response to receipt of a message published by a publishing application in the distributed computing environment. Rules argument tables store rule argument entries which each represent a single boolean predicate test clause which compare a column (field) of a published message with either a fixed value or with another column of a published message. All rule argument predicate clauses which are AND'ed to form a rule are related in the rules argument tables by a common rule.sub.-- id column value. An operations table stores entries each of which describes groups of attributes of rules stored in the rules argument tables.