Abstract: An audio data editing method, recording medium employing the same, and a digital audio player. The digital audio player extracts an audio data, which is received through a key input portion having an editing key for adjusting an extraction data rate and also through an input portion, according to the extraction data rate selected through the key input portion. The digital audio player includes a controller for storing the extracted audio data in a memory portion. According to the audio data editing method, recording medium, and digital audio player, the audio data file can be edited at any scale, and accordingly, the memory capacity of portable digital audio device can be utilized more efficiently.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for fixing the spine, and particularly to a spine fixing apparatus for fixing an unstable spine, caused by a fracture or a disease, to be properly collaborated together such that the spine can recover its stable state.

Abstract: An apparatus for fixing the spine, and particularly to a spine fixing apparatus for fixing an unstable spine, caused by a fracture or a disease, to be properly collaborated together such that the spine can recover its stable state. The spine fixing apparatus comprising a plurality of spine screw members combined to the spine with a certain distance; a pair of rods detachably combined to the spine screw members, the rods connecting and supporting the spine screw members; pressing members detachably combined to the spine screw members, the pressing member pressing the rod toward the spine screw member; and a connecting device integrally combined to the pressing member, the connecting device flexibly connecting the spine screw members.

Abstract: A stent for expanding a lumen of a body having a structural stability along the length of the stent, as well as a good expandable force. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the stent is made of a single length of a filament and includes zigzag sections, in which the filament is wound in a zigzag manner, disposed on both end portions of the stent; and a spiral section, in which the filament is wound in a spiral manner, disposed between the zigzag sections. The zigzag section includes a plurality of bands. Each of the bands includes a series of straight portions, peak portions, and valley portions, the peak and valley portions being integrally engaged with the straight portions, and each of the bands is disposed along a circumferential direction of the stent on a plane substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal axis thereof; and each valley portion of the bands is twisted with a peak portion of an adjacent band.

Abstract: A washing robot system for works adapted to perform a washing operation with a minimum number of washing guns regardless of the number of areas to be washed formed at the work to speedily cope with change of types of the works, the system comprising: a washing room for preventing the washing solution from being spread while a works is washed and for restricting a worker from approaching thereto; an industrial robot for washing a predetermined area formed at the work in the washing room; a supply mechanism for supplying the washing solution and air to the robot gun mounted on the industrial robot; a conveying system for conveying the work into the washing room; and a control mechanism for controlling the industrial robot for washing the work.

Abstract: Impurity distributions in microelectronic structures formed from an aluminum-containing material are determined. A passivation layer, e.g., a titanium/titanium nitride layer or a borphosphosilicate glass (BPSG) layer, is formed on a substrate. A layer of the aluminum-containing material is formed on the passivation layer. The layer of the aluminum-containing material is then exposed to a phosphoric acid solution to remove aluminum from the layer of the aluminum-containing material and leave a precipitate on the passivation layer. The precipitate is then analyzed using scanning electron microscope (SEM) photomicrograms and/or Auger analysis to determine a distribution of impurities in the layer of the aluminum-containing material.