Abstract: A flashing dart has a hollow barrel, a point assembly, a transparent shaft, a circuit board, a battery and a resilient element. The barrel has a front end and a rear end and is made of conductive material. The point assembly is attached to the front end of the barrel. The transparent flight shaft is attached to the rear end of the barrel. The circuit board has an integrated circuit controller and is firmly mounted inside the barrel. The battery has two electrodes connected respectively to the barrel and the circuit board. The resilient element abuts the battery and allows the battery to be temporarily disconnected from the circuit board when the flashing dart strikes a dartboard or is thrown thereby activating the integrated circuit controller that causes the lighting element to emit light for a preset period of time.

Abstract: A book resource recycling system for providing a channel for people to buy or sell the secondhand books comprises: a book resource recycling server, store terminals and a member terminal. The book resource recycling server has a book resource recycling center for obtaining a commerce record from the store terminals via the network. The store terminals and member terminal also can obtain book inquiry data from the book resource recycling server via the network. Therefore, the system can provide the channel for people to buy/sell the secondhand books so as to reduce the waste of the book resource.

Abstract: A present invention provides a PDA with built-in voltage protection, comprising a main device, a socket, and a voltage protection module. The main device performs necessary data processing. The socket connects to an adapter. The voltage protection module is coupled between the main device and the socket, wherein the voltage protection module receives an input voltage from the adapter and allowing the input voltage to be applied to the main device when the input voltage is between a preset maximum voltage and a preset minimum voltage.

Abstract: A keyboard having a plurality of alphabetical keys and number keys is proposed. The alphabetical keys are divided into a first key combination and a second key combination, and the number keys are located between the first and second key combinations. The number keys are adjacent to a plurality of cursor shifting keys. The number keys are arranged in columns, and the cursor shifting keys are arranged in rows below the number keys. The cursor shifting keys are positioned at a lower elevation than the number keys so as to avoid hitting the wrong keys by mistake during user's key-in operation. The number keys further include an Enter key, while a Backspace key and a Tab key are adjacent to the number keys to reduce hand-moving range for the user, so as improve key-in speed and satisfy ergonomic criteria.

Abstract: A system-in-a-package device installs a second surface of an integrated passive devices (IPD) substrate onto a bearing substrate to achieve electric connection. At least an active device is then installed on a first surface of the IPD substrate by means of flip chip or wire bonding to achieve electric connection. Next, an encapsulant is formed to at least cover the active device or its contacts with the IPD substrate for protection. The system-in-a-package device uses conducting holes of the bearing substrate as contacts with the exterior. Thereby, more functions can be directly integrated into the same package to have the advantages of small package size, increased efficiency, and fast fabrication speed.

Abstract: A multi-domain vertical alignment (MVA) liquid crystal display (LCD), including a first substrate and a second substrate, a common electrode, a number of pixel electrodes, a number of first switches and second switches, and liquid crystals (LCs). The common electrode is formed on one surface of the first substrate. The pixel electrodes are formed on a surface of the second substrate and are opposite to the common electrode. Each of the pixel electrodes includes a slit and a first sub-pixel electrode and a second sub-pixel electrode which are electrically isolated to each other by the slit. Each of the first switches is used for controlling corresponding first sub-pixel electrode, and each of the second switches is used for controlling corresponding second sub-pixel electrode. The liquid crystals (LCs) are sealed between the first substrate and the second substrate.

Abstract: To control a switch device using a mobile terminal, the owner of the mobile terminal stores caller identification data that includes call numbers associated with an authorized caller group, and switching control identification data associated with predetermined ring tone parameters. During activation of the mobile terminal, the mobile terminal establishes a communications link with a communications network. When caller data associated with an incoming call received by the mobile terminal matches the pre-stored caller identification data while, upon termination of the incoming call, the characteristics of ring tones generated by the incoming call match one of the predetermined ring tone parameters, the switch device is switched to a desired mode in response to a control signal outputted by the mobile terminal and associated with the switching control identification data that corresponds to the matching predetermined ring tone parameter.

Abstract: The coin ejection unit comprises a case, a motor set, a plurality of ejecting plates, and coin storage canister. The case comprises a base, bottom cover and a rear plate, and a base portion comprising a plurality of coin hoppers. A motor set is attached on a side of the base portion. The motor rotates a dispensing axel, the biasing rollers presses against the corresponding buckling plates of the pulling plates to press the buckling plates inside the corresponding indented grooves of the sliding element, meanwhile the biasing roller of the motor case will make the connecting bar to move backward and forward pulling the sliding element and the pulling plate outwardly, as a result the blocking portion of the pulling plate will pull out a lower most coin stored in the coin magazines.

Abstract: The coin differentiating unit comprises a case, a detecting device, a first motor set, a second motor set and a dispensing plate. The case comprises a coin differentiation area and a coin collection area. The coin collection area comprises a groove. The groove comprises a coin identifying plate and a coin over-load dispensing plate pivotally mounted there within. And the coin collection area comprises a plurality of coin channels comprising a partition plate in between two adjacent coin channels. A circuit board and the detecting device are positioned inside the differentiation area of the case. A plurality of detecting elements is positioned over the circuit board. The first and second motor sets are used to control the coin identifying plate and the coin-overload dispensing plate for differentiating the real coins from phony coins and for closing the coin collection case when the coin collection case is over-loaded with the coins.

Abstract: Quenching a work piece made of a titanium alloy having a temperature higher than 800° C. to a temperature lower than 500° C. at a cooling rate greater than 10° C./second between 800° C. and 500° C. is used to render the cooled work piece containing &agr;″ phase as a major phase. The work piece is preferably a medical implant.

Abstract: The present invention provides a cascaded network power control system comprising at least a controlled power site and a control center. The controlled power site has a front end processor (FEP). The FEP at least has two network ports (an uplink network port and a downlink network port). The control center uses an optical fiber to connect the network ports of the FEP, and uses the network ports of the FEP to establish contact with another controlled power site. The network ports are connected with network ports of a preceding controlled power site and the next controlled power site for transmission of a normal/abnormal signal of an intelligent electricity device (IED) of the preceding controlled power site. The normal/abnormal signal is transmitted to the IED of the local controlled power site via an RS232 or RS485 port.

Abstract: A non-blinking direct current fluorescent lamp circuit includes a switch, a bridge rectifier, a voltage regulation circuit, a filter capacitor, an ignition circuit, a contact points converter, a ballasting circuit, and a pole exchange circuit. The switch is a common switch or a contact switch circuit. Thus, the non-blinking direct current fluorescent lamp circuit does not produce electromagnetic radiation, has a steady illuminance, can be started at one time, has a higher working efficiency, can save the energy, can be worked safely, has a higher reliability, and has a longer lifetime.

Abstract: A ticket vending machine includes a face panel defining a ticket passageway and a ticket outlet at one end of the ticket passageway, a side plate mounted with an axle for holding a ticket roll, a sheet-transfer cylinder assembly controlled to transfer the continuous ticket sheet of the ticket roll to the ticket outlet, a cutting unit disposed between the sheet-transfer cylinder assembly and the ticket passageway and controlled to reciprocate a cutting plate and to cut off the continuous ticket sheet.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a cartilage implant including embedding and growing chondrocytes or mesenchymal stem cells in a three-dimensional substrate. The substrate contains randomly rewound &agr;-helical monomers of type I collagen.

Abstract: A ticket vending machine includes a face panel defining a ticket passageway and a ticket outlet at one end of the ticket passageway, a side plate mounted with an axle for holding a ticket roll, a sheet-transfer cylinder assembly controlled to transfer the continuous ticket sheet of the ticket roll to the ticket outlet, a cutting unit disposed between the sheet-transfer cylinder assembly and the ticket passageway and controlled to reciprocate a cutting plate and to cut off the continuous ticket sheet.

Abstract: Repeat sequences are the most abundant in the extragenic region of genomes, while a large number of regulatory elements are found in this region. The invention attempts to mine rules on how combinations of individual binding sites are distributed in repeat sequences. These mined association rules would facilitate identifying gene classes regulated by similar mechanisms and accurately predicting regulatory elements. Herein, the combinations of transcription factor binding sites in the repeat sequences are obtained, and data mining techniques are applied to mine the association rules from the combinations of binding sites. In addition, the associations are further pruned to remove insignificant associations and obtain a set of discovered associations. The discovered association rules are used to partially classify the repeat sequences in the repeat sequence database.

Abstract: The present invention features a regenerative bone implant. The implant includes a biocompatible and biodegradable matrix having pores, and a biocompatible and biodegradable biopolymer disposed in the pores and covalently bonded to the matrix. Optionally, the implant can further include a bone formation promoter that is also disposed in the pores and can be covalently bonded to the matrix.