Abstract: The present invention relates to a mandarin phonetic inputting apparatus by using sixteen keys. It achieves the purpose of conveniently operating for those people are not skilled in typewriting, and provides a capability of detecting ambiguous tones in mandarin language for degrading reentering caused by misunderstanding the ambiguous tones, and furthermore, to serve as a user input interface in a handhold calculator with more economical efficiency.

Abstract: In a ball grid array (BGA) station (50) having a robotic arm (60) with a vacuum head (70) containing a predetermined quantity of vacuum apertures (90), a method and apparatus of loading an array of solder balls (14) for solder bumping a carrier (20). Solder balls (14) are supplied into a tub (500) having a head opening (510) for accommodating a vacuum head (70). After the vacuum head (70) is positioned by the robotic arm (60) towards the head opening (510) of the tub (500), suitable fluid pressure (570) is applied to the solder balls (14) within the tub (500) to force the solder balls (14) to float on the gas pressure towards the vacuum apertures (90). The vacuum apertures (90), which are appropriately sized and annularly shaped has at least a partial vacuum (34) applied through the apertures (90) to suck-up a desired quantity of solder balls for eventual placement on the BGA carrier (20).

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for recording user behavior information when an inputting scheme of any kind of language is applied. To extract the user behavior information in the future for achieving the purpose of degrading disadvantage of reentering that caused by misunderstanding or inputting errors. The present invention structurally includes an inputting unit, a word and phrase database unit, a user behavior database unit, a word and phrase generating unit, and a word and phrase outputting unit. After inputting words and phrases information from the inputting unit, the word and phrase generating unit generates meaningful words or phrases by using the words and phrases information, and in accordance with the information of word and phrase database unit, and information from the user behavior database unit. Finally, the word and phrase outputting unit outputs the meaningful words or phrases to the user.