Abstract: A hair cleaning device is generally to maintain a barber shop's place by vacuum clean the cut hair. The device will suck all cut hair into a bag through either a vent attached on the trimmer or a bib sleeved onto a person's neck.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for monitoring the quality of a laser process such as a welding process comprises monitoring the light emitted from the weld plasma above the surface of the workpiece being irradiated by the laser beam. The size of the plasma is determined from the light emission and compared to a predetermined value of the size as determined under process and workpiece conditions that produce welds of acceptable quality. Variations of the monitored plasma size greater than a preselected value can represent unacceptable welds. Such variations can be caused by changes in the laser beam power, the workpiece speed, laser focusing problems, insufficient shield gas flow, workpiece deformation and weld contamination. The process monitors the light emission from a selected range of wavelengths that correspond to the major emission peaks of the light spectrum. The process enables in-process control.

Abstract: A read-only memory (ROM) device of the type including an array of diode-based memory cells for permanent storage of binary-coded data. The ROM device is partitioned into a memory division and an output division. The memory cells are formed over an insulating layer in the memory division. The insulating layer separates the memory cells from the underlying substrate such that the leakage current that can otherwise occur therebetween can be prevented. Moreover, the coding process is performing by forming contact windows at selected locations rather than by performing ion-implantation as in conventional methods. The fabrication process is thus easy to perform. Since the memory cells are diode-based rather than MOSFET-based, the punch-through effect that usually occurs in MOSFET-based memory cells can be prevented. The diode-based structure also allows the packing density of the memory cells on the ROM device to be dependent on the line width of the polysilicon layers in the ROM device.

Abstract: An electric outlet including a casing having a bottom shell and a cover shell covered on the bottom shell, a plurality of socket units mounted in the casing and respectively connected to a power circuit and adapted for providing electricity to electric plugs connected thereto, a press switch having a press lever forced by spring means to cut off the power circuit, a slide fastened to the press lever and having a bevel face, a press button sliding vertically on a trace device and having a beveled downward rod disposed in contact with the bevel face of the slide and a button head extending out of the casing for operation by foot to switch on the switch.

Abstract: A screwdriver has a handle provided with a spring-biased press block secured within a recess of the handle for movement towards and away from a bottom of the recess. The press block and bottom of the recess are each provided with cooperating wire clamping and terminal clamping bodies for respectively stripping insulation from the wire and securing a terminal to a stripped end of the wire.

Abstract: A water drainable threshold construction includes a first extrusion which has a longitudinal outside portion adapted to be placed outwardly of a bottom edge of a door, and a longitudinal inside portion lower than the outside portion. The inside portion has a space adapted for receiving water that flows from the outside portion. A tube extends from the inside portion to an outside portion for draining water from the space to the outside of the outside portion. A second extrusion is longitudinally mounted on the inside portion to cover the space, and has holes for passage of water into the space.

Abstract: A fluorescent ionophoric compound is disclosed that includes a complexing moiety, such as a cryptand or crown-ether portion, and a fluorescing moiety such as a coumarin portion. The coumarin portion may be substituted at the 3-position with an electron withdrawing or polarizable group such as a substituted aromatic group or a substituted heterocyclic group having a heteroatom in at least one of its alpha positions. The compound, which exhibits good photostability, can be incorporated into cation-sensing composite structures by means of convenient points of covalent attachment.

Abstract: A pair of swimming goggles includes two lenses, two pads, a bridge, and a strap. The lenses are made of transparent material and each includes a recessed section for receiving an eye portion of a user. Each lens further includes an inner end, a streamlined outer end, and a flange formed on an inner side thereof. The bridge interconnects the inner ends of the lenses. The pads are substantially ring-like and made of plastic material. Each pad includes a receiving section for receiving an associated flange and a contact section for providing a close, comfortable contact with the user's eye socket. Each pad further includes an outer end with an opening through which one of the ends of the strap is wound. The strap connection is thus improved to provide a larger visual angle, increase safety, and provide a comfortable and reliable contact with the user's head.

Abstract: A magnetic storage includes a non-magnetic substrate. A plurality of discrete single magnetic domain elements formed of a magnetic material separated by nonmagnetic materials are carried on the non-magnetic substrate. Each single magnetic domain element has the same size, shape and has, without an external magnetic field, two quantized magnetization values. The two magnetization values are of substantially equal magnitude but of differing vector directions. The plurality of single domain elements are adapted for magnetic storage of information based upon direction of the magnetization vector. Each single magnetic domain element is used to store a bit of binary information. Writing each bit becomes to flip the quantified magnetic moment directions. Each bit can be tracked individually. The switching field of each bit can be controlled by controlling the size and shape anisotropy of each bit.

Abstract: A method for operating a machine to perform unsupervised training of a set of character templates uses as the source of training samples an image source of character images, called glyphs, that need not be manually or automatically segmented or isolated prior to training. A recognition operation performed on the image source of character images produces a labeled glyph position data structure that includes, for each glyph in the image source, a glyph image position in the image source associating an estimated image location of the glyph in the image source with a character label paired with the glyph image position that indicates the character in the character set being trained. The labeled glyph position data and the image source are then used to determine sample image regions in the image source; each sample image region is large enough to contain at least a single glyph but need not be restricted in size to only contain a single glyph.

Abstract: A method is described for improving the step coverage of tungsten interconnects and plugs when deposited at low temperatures into contact/via openings having high aspect ratios. The depositions are made at pressures between 4.5 and 100 Torr in a CVD tool. The method includes a first nucleation step, and a second step for filling the contact/via openings wherein deposition conditions favor good step coverage. For forming an interconnect and a third deposition step, providing moderate step coverage and low stress, is used to build up the interconnect. The high pressures permit deposition at practical rates at low temperatures. In addition the high pressures also permit application of backside gas pressure to the wafer during deposition, thereby improving the thermal contact between the wafer and the heated substrate holder. This contributes significantly to stress reduction and improved step coverage.

Abstract: The fan housing of an axial fan having a flow resistance such as a coil or grille in a closely spaced relationship is provided on its discharge side with a plurality of circumferentially spaced, radially extending vanes. The vanes act as a radial diffuser in coacting with the rotational/irregular flow in the fan orifice to radially direct the flow and distribute it over the face of the flow resistance.

Abstract: A centralizing device is provided for a riser of an offshore well platform having a frame that defines an opening through which the riser passes from the platform to a subsea wellhead. The centralizing device has a centralizing ring with an inner diameter greater than the outer diameter of the riser so that the riser can be passed longitudinally therethrough. The centralizing ring is positioned within the opening of the frame. Adjustable mounting means are used for mounting the centralizing ring to the frame at different positions within the opening. A roller assembly of the centralizing device is carried upon the riser as the riser is lowered through the centralizing ring. The roller assembly is configured to engage the centralizing ring as the riser is lowered through the centralizing ring so that the centralizing ring stops further carriage of the roller assembly by the riser.

Abstract: A salient integration mode active pixel sensor. The active pixel sensor includes an amplify/compare transistor which has a threshold voltage. The amplify/compare transistor couples an input of the amplify/compare transistor to an output of the amplify/compare transistor when the input of the amplify/compare transistor exceeds the threshold voltage. A photo-diode generates a signal voltage which has a voltage level dependent upon the intensity of light received by the photo-diode. The signal voltage is coupled to the input of the amplify/compare transistor. A reset element couples a reset line to the photo-diode and discharges the photo-diode when the reset line is active. A coupling capacitor for couples a select line to the input of the amplify/compare transistor. The select line causes the input to the amplify/compare transistor to exceed the threshold voltage and thereby couple the signal voltage to the output of the amplify/compare transistor.

Abstract: A polymer composite comprises a polymer matrix having, dispersed therein, layers of an inorganic material derived from a multilayered inorganic material such as clay intercalated with an inorganic intercalant. The multilayered inorganic material may also be intercalated with an organic material.

Abstract: A method for fabricating a MOS transistor device is provided. The method contains sequentially forming an oxide layer, a polysilicon layer, and a cap layer over a semiconductor substrate. Patterning the oxide layer, the polysilicon layer, the cap layer, and the substrate forms a trench opening in the substrate. A shallow trench isolation (STI) structure is formed by filling the opening with insulating material. A first-stage gate structure is formed on the substrate by patterning the oxide layer, the polysilicon layer, and the cap layer. A top portion of the STI structure above the substrate surface is exposed. A light ion implantation is performed to form a lightly doped region. Several spacers are respectively formed on each sidewall of the first-stage gate structure and each exposed sidewall of the STI structure. A heavy ion implantation process is performed to form interchangeable source/drain regions at each side of the first-stage gate structure. The cap layer is removed to leave an opening.

Abstract: A protruding embroidery process which is specially adapted for mass production includes the following steps. Lay and affix a filler on an embroidering background element, in which the filler is made of a kind of material that shrinks under a predetermined temperature higher than the room temperature. The filler has an even thickness of not more than 4.5 mm and a size larger than a contour size of a desired embroidering figure for covering a figure portion on the embroidering background element where the desired embroidering figure is required to embroider thereon. Entirely wrap up an embroidering portion of the filler and the embroidering background element with a plurality of sewing threads until the whole embroidering portion, including a predetermined number of side edges thereof, is entirely covered and wrapped up by the sewing threads. Fully cut off and remove a leftover portion, which is an outer portion of the filler surrounding the embroidering portion, from the embroidering portion.

Abstract: A method to erase data from a flash EEPROM cell while electrical charges trapped in the tunnel oxide of a flash EEPROM cell are eliminated to maintain proper separation of the programmed threshold voltage and the erased threshold voltage after extended programming and erasing cycles. The method to erase a flash EEPROM cell begins by first applying a first relatively high positive voltage pulse to the source of the flash EEPROM cell. Simultaneously a ground reference voltage is applied to the control gate and to the semiconductor substrate. At this same time the drain is floating. The flash EEPROM cell is then detrapped by floating the source and drain and applying a second relatively high positive voltage pulse to the semiconductor substrate. At the same time a relatively large negative voltage pulse is applied to the control gate.

Abstract: A two-wire display lighting control structure mainly including a main driver outputting pilot control signals and a plurality of sub-drivers each containing a signal discriminator and a load making circuit and each having a flood light or a light string serially connected thereto. A two-wire conductor is sufficient for use between the main driver and the sub-drivers to serially connect them. The pilot control signals output by the main driver replace first half-cycles of sine waves of an alternating current for supplying power needed by the sub-drivers and individually controlling series-parallel connected flood lights or light strings, so that the flood light or light string connected to a selected sub-driver lightens when it is supplied with power from another half-cycles of the sine waves of the alternating current.