Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a drift region of a first doping type, a junction between the drift region and a device region, a compensation region of a second doping type, and at least one field electrode structure arranged between the drift region and the compensation region. The at least one field electrode includes a field electrode and a field electrode dielectric adjoining the field electrode. The field electrode dielectric is arranged between the field electrode and the drift region and between the field electrode and the compensation. The field electrode dielectric includes a first opening through which the field electrode is coupled to drift region and a second opening through which the field electrode is coupled to the compensation region.

Abstract: The configurations of sense amplifier and methods thereof are provided. The proposed sense amplifier includes a switch circuit having a main control switch, a sensing switch and a holding switch, wherein the three switches have a first bias, a second bias and a third bias respectively, and an auxiliary control switch electrically connected to the holding switch to control an operation of the holding switch.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention includes a transceiver for wireless communication. The transceiver includes an antenna, a transmitter, which comprises a tunable matching network and a modulator, and a receiver, which comprises a programmable band-pass filter (BPF) and a demodulator.

Abstract: The invention relates to an assembly made of a compensating tank and a master cylinder for a hydraulic motor vehicle brake system, wherein the compensating tank has two fastening attachments, each with an opening, wherein openings align with an opening in the master cylinder, and the compensating tank is fastened by a detachable connection by a fastening pin that extends through the aligned openings. In order to improve the installation and possible dismantling of the fastening pin, and at the same time to maintain an optimized assembly weight, the invention proposes that the fastening pin be made of plastic and interact in a positive- or force-locking manner with at least one of the openings of the fastening attachments.

Abstract: A chassis structure for a motor vehicle includes a forged base body of light metal and a reinforcement body made of fiber material. The base body and the reinforcement body are bought into forced engagement by an adhesive layer, wherein the base body has at least one first region which is plastically deformed and partially encompasses the reinforcement body by a form fit.

Abstract: An expansion apparatus suitable for an electronic apparatus is provided. The expansion apparatus includes a base, a supporter and an airflow guiding structure. The base has a first fan disposed therein. The supporter is pivoted to the base along a rotating axis and has a cooling channel. The cooling channel has a first port and a second port opposite to the first port. When the electronic apparatus is assembled to the supporter, the second port of the cooling channel faces to the electronic apparatus. The airflow guiding structure is disposed between the supporter and the base movably. When the supporter is pivoted relative to the base to an expanded state, an active airflow generated by the first fan is guided by the airflow guiding structure to pass through the base and the electronic apparatus. An electronic equipment including the expansion apparatus is also provided.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a battery pack including (a) a battery cell array comprising two or more battery cells, each of which has an electrode assembly of a cathode/separator/anode structure disposed in a battery case together with an electrolyte in a sealed state, arranged in the lateral direction, (b) a protection circuit module (PCM) including connection terminals connected to electrode terminals of the battery cells by resistance welding, metal plates to electrically connect the battery cells to each other, and a protection circuit to control an operation of the battery pack, the PCM being connected to the upper end of the battery cell array, and (c) a pack case in which the battery cell array and the protection circuit module are disposed, wherein electrical connection regions between cathode terminals of the battery cells and the protection circuit module are configured to have a structure in which conductive plates attached to the tops of the respective connection terminals of the protection circuit module

Abstract: The present invention describes a method of improving the mashing process in the production of clarified juice from a plant material comprising: providing a plant material; crushing and/or chopping and/or slicing the plant material into smaller pieces; contacting the smaller pieces with a pectinase activity and a rhamnogalacturonan acetyl esterase (RGAE) activity and clarifying the juice. Further contacting the said plant material with arabinanase activity is provided. In another aspect, use of combination of pectinase activity, RGAE activity and arabinanase activity in the production of juice from a plant material is described.

Abstract: A radio frequency identification (RFID) smart shelf system manages a product through communication with an RFID tag that is attached to the product on a shelf, and includes an RFID reader, a plurality of reader antennas, and an RF switch that is connected between the RFID reader and the plurality of reader antennas. The RF switch periodically varies a phase difference between RF signals of a portion of a plurality of output connection ports that set a connection to each of the plurality of reader antennas.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides fully integrated microfluidic systems to perform nucleic acid analysis. These processes include sample collection, nucleic acid extraction and purification, amplification, sequencing, and separation and detection. The present disclosure also provides optical detection systems and methods for separation and detection of biological molecules. In particular, the various aspects of the invention enable the simultaneous separation and detection of a plurality of biological molecules, typically fluorescent dye-labeled nucleic acids, within one or a plurality of microfluidic chambers or channels. The nucleic acids can be labeled with at least 6 dyes, each having a unique peak emission wavelength. The present systems and methods are particularly useful for DNA fragment sizing applications such as human identification by genetic fingerprinting and DNA sequencing applications such as clinical diagnostics.

Abstract: A machine tool including a tool spindle, to which a tool can be detachably fixed and by means of which the tool can be rotated, and a workpiece support is provided, the tool spindle and the workpiece support being displaceable relative to one another, characterized in that the tool spindle includes a loading device, which acts on a linearly movable rod of a tool fixed to the tool spindle. The tool spindle includes a motor device coupled to the loading device, which drives linear displacement of the rod. The machine tool includes a set of tools by means of which different machining operations can be conducted on a workpiece, wherein the tools can each be fixed to the tool spindle and the tools each have a rod on which the loading device of the tool spindle acts when a tool is fixed to the tool spindle.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the newly identified timerization initiating and stagger determining capacity of the NC2 domain of collagen IX. The invention further relates to a hexavalent molecular building block wherein the linkage of additional moieties to the amino and carboxyl terminals of monomers comprising the NC2 domain of collagen IX promotes the directed association of those moieties via the trimerization initiating and stagger determining capacity of the NC2 domain of collagen IX.

Abstract: The invention relates to a tool with a housing (3) and a handle (2), a working part (5) which is connected to the housing (3) and serves for opening or closing a screw connection and a coupling which has an adjustment (12) and uncouples the working part (5) from the housing (3) when a working value that can be set by way of the adjustment (12) is reached and/or signals the reaching of the working value that can be set by way of the adjustment. Such a tool in which a correct adjustment of the torque value or tightening torque is retained with a high degree of certainty over a relatively long period of time is created by the adjustment having an adjusting screw with a tensioning system.

Abstract: The present invention relates to microcapsule dispersions comprising microcapsules comprising a hydrophilic capsule core and a capsule wall polymer which is obtainable by polymerization of a monomer composition comprising 25 to 95% by weight of one or more C1-C24-alkyl and/or glycidyl esters of acrylic acid and/or methacrylic acid 5 to 75% by weight of one or more hydrophilic monomers selected from acrylic acid esters and/or methacrylic acid esters which carry hydroxy and/or carboxy groups, and allylgluconamide 0 to 40% by weight of one or more compounds having two or more ethylenically unsaturated radicals, where the microcapsules are dispersed in a hydrophobic diluents, to the microcapsules, and to a method for producing them and to their use for the delayed release of active ingredients for construction, cosmetics or crop protection applications.

Abstract: A cross-coupled bandpass filter includes first, second, third and fourth resonators such that magnetic couplings are generated between the first and second resonators, between the third and fourth resonators and between the first and fourth resonators, a capacitive coupling is generated between the second and third resonators, and the magnetic coupling between the first and fourth resonators has a polarity opposite to that of the capacitive coupling between the second and third resonators, thereby generating two transmission zeros in a transmission rejection band.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an additive and a method for terminating polymerization and/or reducing viscosity of polymer solution. The additive comprises a carboxylic acid, an alcohol, a salt chosen from alkali metal salts, alkaline earth metal salts, ammonium salts, and any combination thereof, and optionally, water. The method of the present disclosure comprises adding the additive according to present disclosure into a polymer solution and mixing the resulting mixture. The additive of the present disclosure can terminate living polymer chain ends efficiently and can destroy catalytic active centers and can substantially reduce the viscosity of a polymer solution.

Abstract: A digital RF receiver does not use a separate receiver according to a mode and a band for multi-mode reception, MIMO reception, and bandwidth extension reception, and changes only setting variables in a single receiver structure so as to implement multi-mode reception, MIMO reception, bandwidth extension reception, and/or simultaneous multi-mode operation, such that complexity of the receiver, development cost, and power consumption can be reduced.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a transceiver for a wireless mobile device. The transceiver includes a transmitter, a receiver, and a bandwidth-determination mechanism configured to determine a transmission bandwidth for the transmitter and a receiving bandwidth for the receiver.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an inertial sensor. The inertial sensor includes a sensing unit and a driving-mass-position initialization module. The sensing unit includes a driving mass, a flexible board unit which displaceably supports the driving mass, and a support which supports the flexible board unit to allow the driving mass to move in a suspended state. The flexible board unit has driving electrodes which move the driving mass, and sensing electrodes which sense the movement of the driving mass. The driving-mass-position initialization module includes a position initialization member which reciprocates to initialize the position of the driving mass, and a coil unit which surrounds the position initialization member. An initialization-member-receiving depression is formed in the driving mass. The shape of the initialization-member-receiving depression corresponds to that of the position initialization member.

Abstract: Provided is a communication method of a terminal in a multi-carrier system using a plurality of component carriers. The method includes: receiving a reconfiguration message indicating whether downlink control information (DCI) includes a carrier indication field (CIF); receiving a plurality of DCIs indicating a resource used to transmit a reconfiguration complete message in response to the reconfiguration message; and transmitting the reconfiguration complete message on the basis of resource allocation information included in DCI which is successfully decoded among the plurality of DCIs, wherein the plurality of DCIs include first DCI used before the CIF of the DCI is reconfigured by the reconfiguration message and second DCI used after the CIF of the DCI is reconfigured by the reconfiguration message.