Abstract: A system and method for participating in a multi-USV performance in three-dimensional space. The USV can include: a location identification system operable to provide location coordinates, a guidance system operable to guide the USV toward target waypoints, a propulsion system operable to propel the USV, a power supply operable to provide power to components of the USV, and an exoskeleton surrounding the location identification system, the guidance system, the propulsion system, and the power supply, the exoskeleton including a set of sensory devices, and at least one latching mechanism operable to facilitate a docking operation with a proximate USV.

Abstract: A method and system for managing process jobs in a semiconductor fabrication facility is described. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a plurality of process jobs associated with one or more priorities. The method further includes executing the plurality of process jobs in an order reflecting the priorities. The order is modifiable in real time upon receiving a new process job with a priority higher than the priorities of the plurality of process jobs.

Abstract: A board game and method of playing a game for two to four players by introducing a new playing surface which consisting two-hundred and twenty-five squares, an base zones in various shapes, a target zone in various shapes, and playing sets with nine playing pieces numbered from one to nine, Players start the game by define base and target zone, the players start to assign their game piece in their base zone to setup the game, the players take turns, moving one of their playing pieces each turn with the objective of moving all their playing pieces to the target zone, the game ends when the first player moves all his playing pieces into the target zone.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for processing substrates using a multi-chamber processing system (e.g., a cluster tool) that has an increased system throughput and repeatable wafer processing history are provided. In one embodiment a first substrate is transferred from a first position to a second position and then the first substrate is transferred from the second position to a third position using a first robot. A second substrate is transferred from a first position to a second position and then the second substrate is transferred from the second position to a third position using a second robot. The movement of the first and second robots is synchronized so that the movement from the first position to the second position by the first and second robot is performed within a first time interval.

Abstract: A method and system for managing process jobs in a semiconductor fabrication facility is described. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a plurality of process jobs associated with one or more priorities. The method further includes executing the plurality of process jobs in an order reflecting the priorities. The order is modifiable in real time upon receiving a new process job with a priority higher than the priorities of the plurality of process jobs.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for increasing the processing throughput of multiple lots of semiconductor wafers through a cluster tool while maintaining a constant wafer history for each lot are provided. A first lot of wafers containing one through n-th wafers is introduced into a cluster tool containing one or more processing chambers. The first lot of wafers is processed for a first time period. A second lot of wafers containing one through n-th wafers is introduced into the cluster tool prior to completion of the first time period, wherein the second lot is introduced so as to minimize a time gap between the n-th wafer of the first lot of wafers and the first wafer of the second lot of wafers while maintaining a first constant wafer history for each wafer within the first lot and maintaining a second constant wafer history for each wafer in the second lot.

Abstract: A phantom and film cassette therefor, a composition of high atomic number elements and tissue-equivalent material for a phantom, and an adjustable holder for a phantom. The film cassette comprises sections of tissue-equivalent material, wherein the sections retain a sheet of film when closed together and the phantom composition comprises tissue-equivalent material and high atomic number elements. In operation, dose distributions are determined via computation at various depths within a simulated water-equivalent phantom. After calculating dose distributions, an actual beam is delivered to a phantom containing the cassette, or utilizing a phantom containing high atomic number elements, wherein the phantom mimics human tissue, wherein the phantom houses radiographic film. Images are then generated on the film, the images are converted into an actual dose distribution, and the actual dose distribution is compared with the calculated dose distributions.

Abstract: A USB-based wireless transmitting/receiving system includes a transmitting portion connected to at least one USB-based peripheral device for receiving a signal from the peripheral device and a receiving portion connected to a computer host and coupled to the transmitting portion in a wireless fashion for receiving and applying the signal from the transmitting portion to the computer host whereby a wireless communication is established between the computer host and the USB-based peripheral device. Both the transmitting portion and the receiving portion include a central processing unit for processing signals received, a receiving unit for receiving signals, a transmitting unit for transmitting signals and a power supply system for powering the transmitting portion or the receiving portion. The power supply system includes a regulation circuit adapted to connect to an electric main.

Abstract: A charging system is incorporated in a computer communicable through a predetermined communication channel with a wireless peripheral device having a predetermined identification code. The charging system includes a charging device mounted to and in electrical connection with the computer. The charging device has a positive terminal, a negative terminal and a reset terminal. A rechargeable device is mounted in the wireless peripheral device. The rechargeable device includes a positive terminal, a negative terminal and a reset terminal corresponding to and engageable with the terminals of the charging device. The wireless peripheral device is selectively attached to the computer with the terminals engage each other to conduct an electrical current from the computer to the rechargeable device of the peripheral device and to reset/identify the communication channel and the identification code.

Abstract: This invention is a wireless USB keyboard which comprises a signal encoding device between the keyboard switch key assembly and an emitter RF module. Pressing a keyboard matrix data switch encodes the data as data code for transmission. The emitter RF module transmits the signal to the receiver end, and it is transmitted to a computer via a USB port after decoding. The wireless USB keyboard, which transmits signals to the receiver end after encoding, can effectively transmit key matrix data, which prevents the keyboard signal from interfering with other wireless peripheral devices.

Abstract: A digital rotary switch signal reading circuit is adapted to read volume control signal from a volume control knob mounted on a multi-medium keyboard. The rotary switch has two signal terminals and one common terminal. The signal terminals are connected to two of input pins of a microprocessor of the keyboard and the common terminal is connected to one of the output pins of the microprocessor, the input pins and the output pins being interconnected with each other to form a key array. Thus, the signal from the rotary switch may be read by the computer in the same way as key actuation signal from the key array.

Abstract: A digital rotary switch signal reading circuit is adapted to read volume control signal from a volume control knob mounted on a multi-medium keyboard. The rotary switch has two signal terminals and one common terminal. The signal terminals are connected to two of input pins of a microprocessor of the keyboard and the common terminal is connected to one of the output pins of the microprocessor, the input pins and the output pins being interconnected with each other to form a key array. Thus, the signal from the rotary switch may be read by the computer in the same way as key actuation signal from the key array.

Abstract: A vibrator connector adapted to connect a vibrator to a circuit board, including an electrically insulative shell mounted on the circuit board, the shell having two parallel terminal slots extended in reversed directions and a top stop wall spaced above the terminal slots, and two terminals mounted in the terminal slots inside the shell, the terminals each having a connecting plate soldered to the circuit board, a curved springy extension arm stopped below the top stop wall of the shell and terminating in a contact portion suspending above the top stop wall of the shell and disposed in contact with a respective contact of the vibrator.

Abstract: A vibrator connector adapted to connect a vibrator to a circuit board, including an electrically insulative shell mounted on the circuit board, the shell having two parallel terminal slots extended in reversed directions and a top stop wall spaced above the terminal slots, and two terminals mounted in the terminal slots inside the shell, the terminals each having a connecting plate soldered to the circuit board, a curved springy extension arm stopped below the top stop wall of the shell and terminating in a contact portion suspending above the top stop wall of the shell and disposed in contact with a respective contact of the vibrator.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus and process for the vaporization of liquid precursors and deposition of a film on a suitable substrate. Particularly contemplated is an apparatus and process for the deposition of a metal-oxide film, such as a barium, strontium, titanium oxide (BST) film, on a silicon wafer to make integrated circuit capacitors useful in high capacity dynamic memory modules.