Abstract: A method and apparatus for current measurement using Hall sensors without iron cores, used to estimate a flowing current in an electric conducting cable are provided by the exemplary examples of the present invention. The method for current measurement using Hall sensors without iron cores includes the following step: (a) providing Hall sensors to be attached to or located near the electric conducting cable; (b) using each of the Hall sensors to measure the flux density of the magnetic field generated by the flowing current, so as to generate an output voltage according to the flux density of the magnetic field; (c) performing a statistical operation on the output voltages of the Hall sensors, so as to generate a statistical voltage; (d) estimating the flowing current in the electric conducting cable according to the statistical voltage.

Abstract: A WiFi system with high-speed mobile voice and video data communication includes a plurality of mobile devices and a WiFi base station connected to a WiFi network. The WiFi base station transmits and receives packets to/from a mobile device within a time frame. The time frame is repeated at a predetermined period of time and divided into a plurality of variable-size time slots, each slot being assigned to a mobile device. The WiFi base station is based on an IEEE 802.11 standard to transmit/receive the packets respectively. Accordingly, all the WiFi base stations can use a single channel such that the handover between the WiFi base stations can be performed at high speed.

Abstract: An electrical fuse and a process of programming the same are presented. An electrical fuse comprises a lower level silicide layer on a non-doped or lightly-doped polysilicon layer, an upper level conductive layer, and a tungsten contact coupled between the lower level silicide layer and the upper level conductive layer. The tungsten contact and a neck portion of the silicide layer are the programmable portion of the electrical fuse. High post-programming resistance is achieved by a first programming phase that depletes silicide in the silicide layer, followed by a second programming phase that depletes tungsten in the tungsten contact.

Abstract: A de-ringing device and a method thereof are provided. The de-ringing device, operative with a lookup table for storing a plurality of intensity coefficients, comprises a buffer and a de-ringing intensity determining unit. The buffer stores an input pixel sequence. The lookup table stores a plurality of intensity coefficients. The de-ringing intensity determining unit, coupled to the buffer and the lookup table, detects a plurality of pixel complexity of a first pixel group and a second pixel group associated with a target pixel in the pixel sequence, and looks up the lookup table according to the pixel complexities of the first pixel group and the second pixel group to output a de-ring intensity coefficient for the target pixel.

Abstract: The invention discloses a TFT-LCD and its driving method, TFT-LCD comprises an array substrate and a color filter substrate, a common electrode on said color filter substrate being divided into multiple columns, each of which corresponding to one column of pixels; on color filter substrate, odd number columns are first common electrodes, even number columns are second common electrodes; difference between voltages input to said first common electrodes and said second common electrodes is larger than zero and less than dynamic range of driving voltage of liquid crystal driving voltage-transmittance curve. By setting two common electrode voltages, TFT-LCD and its driving method provided by the invention can make dynamic range of input voltage required for driving liquid crystal display device be smaller than dynamic range of driving voltage of liquid crystal driving voltage-transmittance curve, thus reducing power consumption during driving the liquid crystal.

Abstract: An apparatus comprises a sensor, a power supply and a measurer. The sensor is placed over the electronic component. The power supply can supply electric power to the printed circuit; thereby the printed circuit is powered on. The measurer can measure a sensing signal through the sensor when the printed circuit is powered on.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a vertical light-emitting diode is described. In the method for manufacturing the vertical light-emitting diode, a sapphire substrate is provided. An illuminant epitaxial structure is formed on the sapphire substrate. Next, a first conductivity type electrode is formed on a surface of the illuminant epitaxial structure. Then, a local removal step is performed to remove a portion of the sapphire substrate from another surface of the illuminant epitaxial structure and to expose a portion of the other surface of the illuminant epitaxial structure, wherein the other surface is opposite to the surface of the illuminant epitaxial structure. Subsequently, a second conductivity type electrode is formed on the exposed portion of the other surface of the illuminant epitaxial structure, wherein the first conductivity type electrode and the second conductivity type electrode are opposite conductivity types.

Abstract: The present invention provides a gas filling apparatus and gas filling port thereof. The gas filling apparatus is connected with the air feed apparatus which is introduced the gas into the first inlet port of the semiconductor device or reticle storage apparatus. The gas filling apparatus includes a supporting base which is provided to hold the storage apparatus thereon, and at least one second inlet port which is disposed on the first inlet port of the storage apparatus so as to the gas is flowed into the storage apparatus through the second inlet port. The second inlet port includes a first base, a second base, a first elastic element, a fixing element, and a switch device. Both of the first base and second base have through holes, and opposite to each other. The first elastic element is used to maintain the airtight and is disposed on the second base and opposite to the first inlet port of the storage apparatus used to maintain the airtight.

Abstract: A hybrid yarn filament and sleeve constructed therefrom for protecting elongate members against at least one of EMI, RFI or ESD is provided, along with methods of constructing the hybrid yarn filament and sleeves. The hybrid yarn filament has a nonconductive filament and at least one conductive wire filament overlying an outer surface of the nonconductive filament. The hybrid yarn filament is arranged in electrical communication with itself or other hybrid yarn filaments during construction of the sleeve to provide uniform shielding against EMI, RFI, and and/or ESD.

Abstract: A WiFi network system for performing a high-speed handover of voice and multimedia data includes a wireless station (STA), a network router for connecting to the Internet; first and second smart base stations respectively connected with the Internet through the network router, wherein the second smart base station is adjacent to the first smart base station. Each of the smart base stations covers an area in order to register the STA located in the area and connect the STA with the Internet through the first or a second smart base station and the network router.

Abstract: An improved structure of a heat sink is disclosed. The heat sink is composed of a ring body, fins and a bottom plate. The fins are radially arranged on the ring body. The bottom plate is fixed in the ring body for being placed a heat source. The heat sink can effectively dissipate the heat from the heat source.

Abstract: A textile gasket and method of construction thereof for establishing a seal between mating members in a high temperature application is provided. The gasket has a knit, tubular body constructed at least in part of non-metallic, heat-resistant yarns. The body extends between opposite ends with at least one of the ends being rolled toward the other end to form a circumferentially extending rolled portion of a predetermined diameter for receipt between the mating members.

Abstract: A rod radiation source and its calibration phantom structure mainly have an anti-leak filter layer on one side of a lower lamination layer, and have the anti-leak filter layer evenly deposited with plural drops of liquid radiation sources with each drop of radiation source neighboring but not overlapping, and use an upper lamination layer to cover the anti-leak filter layer to protect each radiation source, and have the above assembly rolled into a rod as a rod radiation source. In another cylindrical container that has a stack of plural sheets, the rod radiation sources get evenly distributed along the axle center and pass each sheet to form a calibration phantom structure for a rod radiation source.

Abstract: A package substrate of the present invention at least comprises a metal substrate and a plurality of light emitting dies. The metal substrate is provided thereon with at least one trench. The trench is recessed into the surface of the metal substrate through an insulating layer. The light emitting dies are secured in the trench and electrically connected to a predetermined wiring layer on the metal substrate by metal wires, thereby obtaining a light emitting die package substrate with good thermal conductivity, high heat dissipation, separate electrical and thermal paths and a simple and firm structure.

Abstract: A unified logging service is provided which may be employed across a variety of applications, allowing collected information to be stored, aggregated, and accumulated; presenting a more complete view, than previously available, related to those applications. The unified logging service provides a generalized centralized web services based service with the capability of accepting and collecting a variety of log formats containing a variety of logged events. These events may originate from clients using differing log formats or types in a heterogeneous distributed computing environment. Acknowledgement of receipt of log files may be provided to the originating clients. A log routing capability is also provided as well as a central repository for storing and forwarding log messages flowing throughout the system. These services may be accessed locally or remotely via published web services interfaces.

Abstract: A non-volatile memory including a substrate, a first doped region, a second doped region, a third doped region, a first gate structure, and a second gate structure is disclosed. The doped regions are disposed in the substrate and the second doped region is disposed between the first doped region and the third doped region. The first gate structure is disposed on the substrate between the first doped region and the second doped region. The second gate structure is disposed on the substrate between the second doped region and the third doped region, and comprises a tunneling dielectric layer, a charge trapping structure and a gate from the bottom up.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display panel is provided. A photo-alignment layer is formed on a first substrate. Patterned pixel electrodes including intersected electrodes and stripe electrodes are formed on a second substrate. A liquid crystal layer is formed between the photo-alignment layer and the patterned pixel electrodes. Each intersected electrode has a first directional portion and a second directional portion interlacing thereto. The stripe electrodes with silts connect the first and/or the second directional portions. When an electric field between the first and the second substrates is substantially zero, liquid crystal molecules near the photo-alignment layer are arranged at a pre-tilt angle, while those disposed at another side near the second substrate are substantially perpendicular to the second substrate. As the liquid crystal layer is driven, the liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer are substantially arranged along an extending direction of the slits.

Abstract: A flow board suited for fuel cell applications. The flow board includes a body substrate formed by injection molding methods, which is resistive to methanol or chemical corrosion and has superior mechanical properties. The flow board further includes a wave-shaped reaction zone having thereon a plurality of independent fuel channels. The body substrate and the wave-shaped reaction zone may be monolithic. Alternatively, a punched electrode plate affixed on the reaction zone may define the plurality of independent fuel channels.

Abstract: A shift register comprises a plurality of stages, {Sj}, j=1, 2, . . . , N, N being a positive integer.

Abstract: An apparatus and computer instructions are provided for expressing high availability (H/A) cluster demand based on probability of breach. When a failover occurs in the H/A cluster, event messages are sent to a provisioning manager server. The mechanism of embodiments of the present invention filters the event messages and translates the events into probability of breach data. The mechanism then updates the data model of the provision manager server and makes a recommendation to the provisioning manager server as to whether reprovisioning of new node should be performed. The provisioning manager server makes the decision and either reprovisions new nodes to the H/A cluster or notifies the administrator of detected poisoning problem.