Abstract: A protection structure includes a substrate, a signal wire pattern, a protective ring and micro-blocks. The substrate has a touch sensing pattern including sensing strings. The signal wire pattern has conductive wires. Each conductive wire electrically connects one of the sensing strings to a signal processor. The protective ring is formed at a peripheral zone of the substrate and around the touch sensing pattern. The micro-blocks are disposed in the protective ring and have electric conductivity. A gap is disposed between every adjacent two of the micro-blocks for insulation.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a touch sensor includes the steps of: a) forming both a first touch conductive trail pattern (TCTP) and a first auxiliary conductive trail pattern (ACTP) on a first side of a dielectric substrate; and b) forming both a second TCTP and the second ACTP on a second side of the dielectric substrate, wherein each of the first and second ACTPs has micro auxiliary conductive units electrically disposed in an area range of the first and second TOTPs, and a shading rate of the micro auxiliary conductive units is below 1%. The first and second TCTPs and the first and second ACTPs jointly constitute a touch sensor. A sheet resistance of each of the first and second TCTPs is between 80 and 150 ohm/sq, and a sheet resistance of each of the first and second ACTPs is between 0.05 and 0.2 ohm/sq.

Abstract: A liquid cooling head includes a chassis, an inlet channel, a thermally-conducting structure, a liquid gathering structure, a drain channel and a pump set. The chassis includes a lower chamber and an upper chamber communicated with the lower chamber through a connection opening. The inlet channel is disposed on one side of the chassis, and communicated with the upper chamber for radiating the heat of the working fluid away. The thermally-conducting structure is disposed in the lower chamber for gathering the working fluid passed through the thermally-conducting structure. The drain channel is disposed on one side of the chassis to be communicated with the lower chamber. The pump set for pushing the working fluid in the lower chamber to discharge the working fluid outwards from the drain channel.

Abstract: A touch glass board includes a glass substrate. Conductive bars, which are arranged along a direction and have the same widths, are disposed on each of two opposite sides of the glass substrate. Every adjacent two of the conductive bars are separated by an insulation gap. The conductive bars on a side of the glass substrate are orthogonal to those on the other side. The conductive bars are divided into multiple electrode groups. Each electrode group includes two or more of the conductive bars. Selective more than two of the conductive bars are connected to form an active electrode unit. Pluralities of the active electrode units are electrically connected to a signal wire to form a touch sensing layer. The two touch sensing layers on two sides of the glass substrate jointly form a capacitive touch sensor.

Abstract: Photonic devices and methods of manufacture are provided. In embodiments a fill material and/or a secondary waveguide are utilized in order to protect other internal structures such as grating couplers from the rigors of subsequent processing steps. Through the use of these structures at the appropriate times during the manufacturing process, damage and debris that would otherwise interfere with the manufacturing process of the device or operation of the device can be avoided.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a touch sensor includes the steps of: a) forming both a first touch conductive trail pattern (TCTP) and a first auxiliary conductive trail pattern (ACTP) on a first side of a dielectric substrate; and b) forming both a second TCTP and the second ACTP on a second side of the dielectric substrate, wherein each of the first and second ACTPs has micro auxiliary conductive units electrically disposed in an area range of the first and second TOTPs, and a shading rate of the micro auxiliary conductive units is below 1%. The first and second TCTPs and the first and second ACTPs jointly constitute a touch sensor. A sheet resistance of each of the first and second TCTPs is between 80 and 150 ohm/sq, and a sheet resistance of each of the first and second ACTPs is between 0.05 and 0.2 ohm/sq.

Abstract: A touch sensor includes a first sensing layer, a second sensing layer and an insulative layer therebetween. Each of the first sensing layer and the second sensing layer has capacitive sensing strings and electromagnetic antenna strings. Each capacitive sensing string is composed of capacitive sensing units. The electromagnetic antenna strings are arranged. Each of the capacitive sensing strings and the electromagnetic antenna strings is connected with a tiny wire. The capacitive sensing strings on the first sensing layer are crossed with the second capacitive sensing strings on the second sensing layer to form complementary patterns. The capacitive sensing units on the first sensing layer and the second capacitive sensing units on the second sensing layer form a grid-shaped capacitive sensing unit matrix. The electromagnetic antenna strings on the first sensing layer are crossed with the electromagnetic antenna strings on the second sensing layer to form a grid-shaped electromagnetic antenna matrix.

Abstract: A detector circuit incudes a calculator circuit and a comparator circuit. The calculator circuit is configured to generate a plurality of first calculation values according to a plurality of first calculation symbols of a Pseudo-Noise Sequence and a plurality of second calculation symbols of a received signal, and generate a second calculation value according to the first calculation values. If a sign of a symbol of the Pseudo-Noise Sequence is the same to a sign of an adjacent symbol, the symbol is one of the first calculation symbols, and the second calculation symbols are corresponding to the first calculation symbols respectively. The comparator circuit is configured to generate a comparison result according to the second calculation value and a threshold value. The comparison result is configured for determining whether the detector circuit correctly receives the Pseudo-Noise Sequence.

Abstract: A detector circuit includes a calculator circuit and a comparator circuit. The calculator circuit is configured to generate a plurality of first calculation values according to a plurality of first calculation symbols of a Pseudo-Noise Sequence and a plurality of second calculation symbols of a received signal, and generate a second calculation value according to the first calculation values. If a sign of a symbol of the Pseudo-Noise Sequence is the same to a sign of an adjacent symbol, the symbol is one of the first calculation symbols, and the second calculation symbols are corresponding to the first calculation symbols respectively. The comparator circuit is configured to generate a comparison result according to the second calculation value and a threshold value. The comparison result is configured for determining whether the detector circuit correctly receives the Pseudo-Noise Sequence.

Abstract: Innovations in range asymmetric number system (“RANS”) coding and decoding are described herein. Some of the innovations relate to hardware implementations of RANS decoding that organize operations in two phases, which can improve the computational efficiency of RANS decoding. Other innovations relate to adapting RANS encoding/decoding for different distributions or patterns of values for symbols. For example, RANS encoding/decoding can adapt by switching a default symbol width (the number of bits per symbol), adjusting symbol width on a fragment-by-fragment basis for different fragments of symbols, switching between different static probability models on a fragment-by-fragment basis for different fragments of symbols, and/or selectively flushing (or retaining) the state of a RANS decoder on a fragment-by-fragment basis for different fragments of symbols. In many cases, such innovations can improve compression efficiency while also providing computationally efficient performance.

Abstract: A capacitive touch sensor includes sensing columns. Each sensing column has a common sensing electrode and driving electrodes. The driving electrodes are divided into two groups, which are connected to contacts in two bridging areas through electrode wires. Each bridging area is covered by an insulation film with through holes corresponding to the contacts. Signal wires of the driving electrodes pass through the through holes to connect the contacts of the driving electrodes of the sensing columns, which are located in a line, to form a signal channel. The signal wires connecting the common sensing electrodes pass through one of the two bridging areas and insulatively intersect the signal wires of the driving electrodes of the signal channel. Electrode extending portions of the common sensing electrodes are extended to the other bridging area to insulatively intersect signal wires of the driving electrodes of the signal channel.

Abstract: A touch knob includes a knob shell having a three-dimensional contour with a curved joint surface; an ITO touch sensor disposed on the knob shell; an auxiliary conductive unit with extensibility, connected on the touch sensor to form an overlapping area covering the joint surface, and the auxiliary conductive unit in the overlapping area having a conductive pattern corresponding to the touch sensor; and a surface coating layer having a three-dimensional contour corresponding to the knob shell and attached on both the touch sensor and the auxiliary conductive unit. An opaque mask surface is provided on an inner side of the surface coating layer. The mask surface cloaks the overlapping area.

Abstract: A touch panel includes a substrate, a touch sensor, a bezel layer, a signal wire layer and a protective layer, which are superposed in order. The touch sensor has sensing traces and a dummy pattern. A trace contact at an end of each sensing trace is located at a margin of the substrate. The bezel layer is provided with through holes corresponding to the trace contacts. The signal wire layer includes signal wires arranged in a range of the bezel layer. A signal contact at an end of each signal wire is located correspondingly to one of the through holes. The through holes are filled with conductive glue to electrically connect the signal contacts and the trace contacts. The conductive glue is made of opaque conductive material with a color which is substantially identical to the bezel layer.

Abstract: A glass structure includes a glass substrate, a first sensing layer, a second sensing layer, a signal wire layer and an insulative layer. Each of the two sensing layers is formed by a metal oxide conductive film electrically connected onto a metal mesh and has sensing columns and isolation columns which insulatively separate the sensing columns. An end of each of the sensing columns is provided with a contact connected to the signal wire layer. Conductive material of each isolation column is divided into disconnected insulative areas. The insulative layer is adhesively disposed between the first and second sensing layers. The sensing columns of the first sensing layers are orthogonal to the second sensing columns on the second sensing layer to constitute a capacitive sensing unit array.

Abstract: A touch panel includes a base layer having a shaded area and a visible area; a first sensing layer having first capacitive sensing columns (FCSCs) and first electromagnetic antenna columns (FEACs), which are insulated; a first auxiliary conductive layer having a circuit pattern substantially identical to the first sensing layer, and the circuit pattern correspondingly electrically connecting to the first sensing layer; a second sensing layer having second capacitive sensing columns (SCSCs) and second electromagnetic antenna columns (SEACs), which are insulated; a second auxiliary conductive layer having a circuit pattern substantially identical to the second sensing layer, and the circuit pattern correspondingly connect to the second sensing layer; and an insulative layer between the first and second sensing layer.

Abstract: A touch sensor includes a first sensing layer, a second sensing layer and an insulative layer therebetween. Each of the first sensing layer and the second sensing layer has capacitive sensing strings and electromagnetic antenna strings. Each capacitive sensing string is composed of capacitive sensing units. The electromagnetic antenna strings are arranged. Each of the capacitive sensing strings and the electromagnetic antenna strings is connected with a tiny wire. The capacitive sensing strings on the first sensing layer are crossed with the second capacitive sensing strings on the second sensing layer to form complementary patterns. The capacitive sensing units on the first sensing layer and the second capacitive sensing units on the second sensing layer form a grid-shaped capacitive sensing unit matrix. The electromagnetic antenna strings on the first sensing layer are crossed with the electromagnetic antenna strings on the second sensing layer to form a grid-shaped electromagnetic antenna matrix.

Abstract: The present invention provides a sample extraction device, comprising an extraction table and an operating and moving module. The operating and moving module comprises a first horizontal movement module, a first vertical movement module, and a suction module. The suction module is provided on a supporting frame of the first horizontal movement module, and comprises a second vertical movement module and an injector, the second vertical movement module is configured to move vertically with respect to the extraction table, the injector has an airtight cylinder and a piston rod, and the airtight cylinder is connected to the gas delivery tube; wherein the second vertical movement module moves vertically to push or pull the airtight cylinder or the piston rod, in order for the injector to generate positive or negative pressure. The sample extraction device of the present invention can reduce the space required for operation substantially.

Abstract: A touch sensor includes an insulative substrate; a first sensing layer, having first sensing strings arranged along a first axis, and a first interval being disposed between every two adjacent first sensing strings; and a second sensing layer, having line paths arranged along a second axis, and a second interval being disposed between every two adjacent line paths. A plurality of the line paths composes a second sensing string. Each second sensing string has an active unit and an inactive unit. The active unit is formed by one or more line paths connected by a crossing line. The line paths of the inactive units are connected to a ground line. The first sensing strings and the second sensing strings are separately orthogonally arranged on two opposite sides of the substrate. The second interval is less than the first interval in width.

Abstract: Processing methods may be performed to form an airgap spacer on a semiconductor substrate. The methods may include forming a spacer structure including a first material and a second material different from the first material. The methods may include forming a source/drain structure. The source/drain structure may be offset from the second material of the spacer structure by at least one other material. The methods may also include etching the second material from the spacer structure to form the airgap. The source/drain structure may be unexposed to etchant materials during the etching.

Abstract: Mixed magnetic powders for making a magnetic core or body is disclosed, wherein the mixed magnetic powders comprises a first magnetic powder and a second magnetic powder, each of the first magnetic powder and the second magnetic powder being made of a soft magnetic material, wherein the average particle diameter of the first magnetic powder is greater than that of the second magnetic powder, and each of the first magnetic powder and the second magnetic powder has a pre-configured particle size distribution for increasing the density of the magnetic body.