Abstract: A magnetic recording medium, and methods of making and reading the same, including on at least a portion of a substrate an irreversible recording layer which contains an irreversible recording material undergoing an irreversible change of saturation magnetization upon heating. The invention involves the steps of previously heating the irreversible recording layer to form an initial heated region in which a plurality of heated bars whose saturation magnetization has been irreversibly changed are arrayed in a bar code pattern, and converting unheated bars disposed between the heated bars into a heated state for changing the array pattern of heated bars, thereby recording the information.

Abstract: An office chair armrest device includes two armrests and two L-shaped armrest supporters. Each armrest has a second connect member with a lateral pivot hole formed in a rear end, and each armrest supporter has a first connect member with a lateral pivot hole formed in an upper end of a vertical portion. A pivot extends in the lateral pivot holes of both the first and the second connect members to pivotally connect the armrest with the armrest supporter fixed with a side of a seat and a vertical side of a backrest. The armrest can be easily swung to a horizontal condition for the arm of a user to rest thereon or to a vertical condition if the armrest is not used.

Abstract: The present invention provides convergent processes for preparing epothilone A and B, desoxyepothilones A and B, and analogues thereof, useful in the treatment of cancer and cancer which has developed a multidrug-resistant phenotype. Also provided are intermediates useful for preparing said epothilones.

Abstract: A method for preventing boron segregation and out diffusion to form PMOS devices is disclosed. The method includes a semiconductor substrate which is provided and forms a gate oxide layer as well as a gate layer on top of the semiconductor substrate. Next, a photoresist layer is formed on a top surface of the gate layer, moreover, pattern transfers onto the photoresist layer after going through an exposure and a development. Furthermore, the gate layer and the gate oxide layer are then etched by using the photoresist layer as a mask, and the photoresist layer is removed afterward. In succession, a thin nitride oxide (NO, N2O) layer is grown by utilizing rapid thermal oxidation (RTO) and rapid thermal nitridation (RTN). Hereafter, high doped drain regions of boron ion shallow junctions are formed by carrying out ion implantation. A TEOS layer and a silicon nitride layer are deposited by using LPCVD, and forming spacers by etching the silicon nitride layer and the TEOS layer.

Abstract: A method for forming a gate that improves the quality of the gate includes sequentially forming a gate oxide layer, a polysilicon layer, a conductive layer and a masking layer on a substrate. Thereafter, the masking layer, the conductive layer, the polysilicon layer and the gate oxide layer are patterned to form the gate. Then, a passivation layer, for increasing the thermal stability and the chemical stability of the gate, is formed on the sidewall of the conductive layer by ion implantation with nitrogen cations. The nitrogen cations are doped into the substrate, under the gate oxide layer, by ion implantation, which can improve the penetration of the phosphorus ions.

Abstract: The present invention provides an active pixel sensor read-out channel that includes an active pixel. The active pixel drives an active pixel output to a signal voltage having an amplitude proportional to an intensity of light received by the active pixel. The active pixel drives the active pixel output to a reference voltage when the active pixel is not exposed to light. The active pixel output is connected to a sample and hold circuit. The sample and hold circuit samples and stores the signal voltage and samples and stores the reference voltage. A buffer amplifier generates a difference voltage between the sampled and stored signal voltage and the sampled and stored reference voltage.

Abstract: The invention provides a mechanism and process for changing a color of an image. In this process, a source frame that includes the image is received. An alpha matte that covers an object in the source frame is created. An original color of a pixel in the source frame is changed when the pixel is covered by the alpha matte, and when a color distance between the original color of the pixel and a target color is below a predetermined threshold.

Abstract: A multi-deck electric outlet assembly, which includes a base, a body mounted on the base, the body having a series of steps raised one above another at one side, and a landing at the topside thereof, the steps each having a sloping riser, multiple electric socket units respectively installed in the landing and the risers of the steps and respectively connected to a circuit board at the base, and a power cable inserted through a wire hole on the base and connected to the circuit board.

Abstract: An air compressor includes a housing having a tube extended from the top and having a passage communicating the housing with the tube and having a tapered surface. A piston is slidably received in the chamber of the housing and is forced to move along the housing in a reciprocating action and to force the air out through the tube via the passage. The provision of the tapered surface allows the piston to smoothly move in the housing. A stop is adjustably spring-biased to block the passage. The piston has a spring blade to block an aperture to control the air into the housing.

Abstract: A reference voltage generation circuit has a start-up circuit that will force the reference voltage generation circuit to assume a normal operation mode producing the desired reference voltage level and will reduce noise coupled from a power supply voltage source. The start-up circuit for reference voltage generation circuit will be disabled when a sensing circuit has determined that the reference voltage generation circuit has attained the desired reference voltage level.

Abstract: A motion toy includes a toy body having an upper part and a lower part pivotally connected together, and a power drive coupled between the upper part and the lower part of the toy body. The power drive is controlled to tilt the upper part and the lower part of the toy body alternatively inward and outward in reversed directions.

Abstract: A method for plating conductive material in through apertures and blind apertures of a substrate which has a conductive material on its upper and lower surfaces. In a typical configuration for plating a via, there is a first region of conductive material adjacent to, but outside of, the aperture which forms the via and a second region of conductive material inside of the aperture. The second conductive region is selected to be the cathode of the plating process. The structure is placed in a plating bath, a first potential is applied to the first region of conductive material, and a second potential is applied to the second region of conductive material, with the second potential being different from the first potential. Under these conditions, material will plate onto the second region of conductive material to fill the aperture.

Abstract: A lens combination is provided for a pair of swimming/diving goggles having a goggle frame. The lens combination includes a planar lens mounted to the goggle frame and a curved lens mounted in front of the planar lens, thereby defining a space between the planar lens and the curved lens for receiving water. The curved lens includes an outer surface and an inner surface. The planar lens includes an outer surface and an inner surface. The space is filled with water. When the lens combination is used in water such that the outer surface of the curved lens, the inner surface of the curved lens, and the outer surface of the planar lens contact with water, thereby allowing formation of clear image when viewing an object in water.

Abstract: An improved foldable pushbutton-input device conformable to human body mechanism, wherein a plurality of assembly-jointing sections is defined by a plurality of properly spaced predetermined cutting lines on a baseboard; a circuit board made of a flexible material having a plurality of pushbutton-input circuit sections in positions corresponding with the assembly-jointing sections and also defined by the same cutting lines is attached on the baseboard; a signal-output circuit section is formed by extending the lateral edges of the pushbutton-input circuit sections and connected therewith; and a plurality of amount predetermined key sets is disposed on the circuit board or on the baseboard in virtue of the division cutting lines to thereby construct the foldable pushbutton-input device with a considerably reduced volume.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing formed with at least one row of terminal-receiving cavities and a plurality of terminals. Each of the terminals has a horizontal terminal part which is received in a corresponding one of the cavities and a vertical terminal part which is perpendicular to the horizontal terminal part. The housing has a rear wall which is formed with a horizontally extending supporting rib that is located below the cavities and that has a free end. The vertical terminal parts of the terminals abut against the free end of the supporting ribs so as to ensure the vertical terminal parts of the terminals to be coplanar. The ribs include outer slot portions that receive vertical terminal parts and inner slot portions that receive contact protrusions.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for stretching an optical pulse and shaping its spectrum. The method includes the step of: providing a an optical fiber element having a first long length fiber Bragg grating having a refractive index perturbation of varying periodicity. The optical pulse is launched into the fiber Bragg grating, wherein the Bragg grating reflects the pulse in a chromatically dispersed output. The reflected output is coupled with an optical modulator programmed to temporally modify the amplitude of the chromatically dispersed output to attenuate selected optical frequencies in a desired pattern. The apparatus for stretching and arbitrarily shaping the spectrum of an optical pulse with a desired wavelength resolution &Dgr;&lgr;res includes a routing optical device and an optical fiber element having a Bragg grating. The routing optical device routs energy between different waveguides, and has an input port to receive the optical pulse.

Abstract: A method of for fabrication a metal oxide semiconductor transistor is described. A substrate with an isolation structure thereon is provided. A gate oxide layer is formed on the substrate. A polysilicon layer is formed on the gate oxide layer. The polysilicon layer is patterned to form a gate on the gate oxide layer. An offset spacer is formed on the sidewall of the gate. A source/drain extension is formed in the substrate on two sides of the gate by ion implantation. An insulating spacer is formed on the sidewall of the offset spacer. A source/drain region is formed in the substrate by ion implantation using the gate, the offset spacer and the insulating spacer as a mask. Salicide is formed on the gate and on the surface of the source/drain region. After forming the salicide, the offset spacer is removed. After removing the offset spacer, a halo doped region is formed in the substrate below the source/drain extension by ion implantation.