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Title: Wideband Digital Spectrometer

Technical Field and Background:
One of the major difficulties in reception of small signals is the presence of a large unwanted signal in the same frequency band. Typical spectrometers sweep a narrowband window across the band of interest, thereby converting the wideband into a series of narrow bands. Within each narrowband window, the signal is characterized, and when the sweep is complete, the signal is logically reconstructed. By analyzing a narrowband component, the signal can be frequency translated or downconverted to a nominal one, permitting a static detector to be used. Frequency translation typically requires the mixing of the signal with a tuning frequency in an analog non-linear element, such as a semiconductor. The nonlinear mixer generates sum and difference frequencies, one of which (typically the difference) is selected for analysis. All nonlinear components in the analog signal processing chain will generate spurious components, including intermodulation (sum and difference components of the existing signals) as well as harmonics. In a high quality spectrometer, this spectral pollution is undesirable, especially where there are many possible signal interactions, or where the signal source to be characterized may itself produce harmonics and other components to be characterized. Even in a narrowband spectral analyzer, nonlinear distortion may be a problem, since out of narrowband components may be translated into the band of interest. Another issue for swept narrowband spectrometers is that they cannot analyze a spectrum in realtime or near realtime, since there is a limited speed of sweep. Another paradigm for constructing a wideband spectrometer is to translate the entire band of interest to baseband (i.e., a band from f 1 to f 2 is frequency translated to a band from 0 to (f 2 −f 1 ) using a nonlinear mixer with a frequency f 1 ) and digitized above the Nyquist rate (2 times the highest frequency component, i.e., 2(f 2 −f 1 )). The digitized signal is then processed using a digital signal processor, for example using a fast Fourier transform, to reveal the spectral energy. This approach has a number of limitations. As in the narrowband approach, a nonlinear analog mixer is employed, and thus spectral pollution occurs. One known system, Pinckley, U.S. Pat. No. 5,519,890, expressly incorporated herein by reference, downconverts a cellular band signal, and then employs a tunable filter bank to remove carriers having interfering signals before digitizing the band, which is then digitally demodulated by a bank of digital signal processors. The third possibility, directly digitizing the signal of interest, without frequency translation, has been infeasible at high frequencies, e.g., above 500 MHz, or at high dynamic range-frequency products, at least because of digitizer limitations. One particular limitation, discussed above, is the large amplitude interferer problem. Since the digitizer operates across the entire spectrum, it can be saturated or dominated by a single signal, thus masking other components. As the bandwidth to be analyzed (or dynamic range-frequency product) is increased, the likelihood of the presence of interferers increases. One approach to solving this problem is to increase the dynamic range of the digitizer to an extent necessary to handle both the interferor and the signal of interest. However, this may be difficult, and the problem grows exponentially with each added bit of dynamic range required. In military communications, the large signal interferor problem may occur due to transmitters co-located on the reception platform and is often referred to as the co-site interference problem. One method of dealing with this problem is to have a large dynamic range receiver, capable of simultaneously receiving the large interferor and the small signal of interest (SOI). In fact, it is not the dynamic range, but the instantaneous spur-free dynamic range of the receiver that needs to be large, often imposing a linearity-requirement that is impossible to meet, even with ultra-linear superconductor front-ends. This requirement could be relaxed substantially if one or more of these interferors could be excised from the incoming waveform through sharp notch filters. However, these interferors often shift in frequency, especially in the case of narrow-band high-power jammers. Therefore, a tunable notch filter would be needed, along with appropriate logic and control for tuning it.

Invention Disclosure:
A processor, comprising a first data input configured to receive a stream of samples of a first signal having a spectral space, the stream having a data rate of at least 4 GHz; a second data input configured to receive a stream of samples of a second signal; a multitap correlator, configured to receive the first stream of samples and the second stream of samples, and producing at least one correlation output for each respective sequential sample of the first signal received; and a programmable control configured to alter a relationship of the stream of samples of the first signal and the stream of samples of the second signal, to thereby select, under program control, an alterable correlation output.

[Assistant]
1. A radio transceiver system for receiving communications in a band concurrently with transmissions from a transmitter transmitting in the band, comprising:
(a) an input port, configured to receive a first signal comprising the communications in the band and the transmission in the band from the transmitter;
(b) a receiver, having a dynamic range sufficient to concurrently represent the communications in the band and the transmissions as a first analog signal;
(c) a plurality of analog time delay elements, each being configured to receive, selectively weight and combine an analog representation of the received first analog signal, to produce a second analog signal;
(d) a digitizer configured to produce a digitized signal from the second analog signal; and
(e) a processing subsystem, comprising at least one of a digital correlator and a Fourier transform processor, configured to:
control a respective weight of respective ones of the plurality of analog time delay elements in dependence on the digitized signal, to produce the second analog signal representing at least partial cancellation of the transmission in the band while preserving the communications in the band; and
digitally cancel at least a portion of a residual transmission in the band in dependence on at least digitized signal; and
(f) an output port configured to communicate the received communications.

2. The radio transceiver according to claim 1, wherein the transmitter is co-located with the receiver.

3. The radio transceiver according to claim 1, wherein the digitizer has a dynamic range insufficient to fully represent information in the received communications in the first analog signal.

4. The radio transceiver according to claim 3, wherein the digitizer has a sufficient dynamic range to fully represent information in the received communications present in the second analog signal the at least partial cancelled transmission in the band.

5. The radio transceiver according to claim 1, wherein the processing system comprises at least one digital correlator.

6. The radio transceiver according to claim 5, wherein the at least one digital correlator comprises an autocorrelator.

7. The radio transceiver according to claim 5, wherein the at least one digital correlator comprises a cross correlator.

8. The radio transceiver according to claim 1, wherein the input port comprises a plurality of input ports, each receiving a respective signal from an antenna element of an antenna array, the plurality of analog time delay elements being arranged into a plurality of sections, each respective section receiving an analog representation of a respective received first signal from a respective antenna element.

9. The radio transceiver according to claim 1, wherein the transmissions in the band comprise intermodulation distortion components in the band.

10. A method of receiving communications in a band concurrently with emission of transmissions in the same band, comprising:
(a) receiving a first signal through an input port, comprising the communications in the band and the transmission in the band;
(b) providing a plurality of analog time delay elements, each receiving an analog representation of the received first signal, the plurality of analog time delay elements being selectively weighted and combined to produce a processed analog signal;
(e) controlling the weighting of the plurality of analog time delay elements, to produce the processed analog signal representing at least partial cancellation of the transmission in the band while preserving information of the communications in the band;
(f) digitizing the processed analog signal with a digitizer to produce a digitized signal;
(g) at least one of digitally correlating and digitally Fourier transforming at least a portion of the digitized signal;
(h) generating a digital cancellation signal in dependence on at least the digitized signal; and
(i) further cancelling the transmission in the band from the digitized signal, while preserving the information of the communications in the band.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the transmissions in the same band are emitted by a transmitter co-located with the input port.

12. The method according to claim 10, wherein the digitizer has a dynamic range insufficient to fully represent information of the received communications in the band and the transmission in the same band.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the digitizer has a sufficient dynamic range to represent the information of the communications in the band and the at least partially cancelled transmission in the band.

14. The method according to claim 10, wherein said at least one of digitally correlating and digitally Fourier transforming at least a portion of the digitized signal comprises digitally correlating at least a portion of the processed analog signal.

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein the digitally correlating is performed with at least one autocorrelator.

16. The method according to claim 14, wherein the digitally correlating is performed with at least one cross correlator.

17. The method according to claim 10, wherein the communications in the band are received through an antenna array, the input port comprises a plurality of input ports, each receiving a respective signal from an antenna element of the antenna array, and the plurality of analog time delay elements are arranged into a plurality of sections, each respective section receiving an analog representation of a respective received first signal from a respective antenna element, and producing a respective processed analog signal.

18. A radio receiver for receiving information from radio frequency communications in a same band as a concurrently operating transmitter is transmitting interfering signals in, comprising:
(a) an input port, configured to receive a first signal comprising the communications in the band received through an antenna and the transmissions in the band from the transmitter;
(b) a plurality of analog time delay elements, each respective analog time delay element receiving an analog representation of the received first signal and applying a delay and a selectively controlled weighting, and together producing a combined analog signal;
(c) a digitizer producing a digitized signal based on the combined analog signal; and
(e) a processing subsystem, comprising at least one of a digital correlator and a processor configured to digitally compute a Fourier transform, configured to:
selectively control a weighting of a combined output of the plurality of analog time delay elements, to achieve a second signal representing at least a partial cancellation of the interfering signals, while preserving the information; and
digitally cancel residual components of the interfering signals in the digitized signal; and
an output port configured to communicate an output signal comprising the information.

19. The radio receiver according to claim 18, wherein the transmitter is co-located with the receiver.

20. The radio receiver according to claim 18, wherein the digitizer has a dynamic range insufficient to fully represent the information in the first signal, and has a dynamic range sufficient to represent the information in the combined analog signal.


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Title: Manufacturing Method Of Back Illumination Cmos Image Sensor Device Using Wafer Bonding

Technical Field and Background:
The present invention relates to a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device, and in particular, to a technique effective when applied to a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device including the step of attaching semiconductor wafers together. In the step of forming a backside illumination CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) image sensor that is one type of image pickup devices to be used in digital still cameras, etc., it is known that, as a method of making up for the strength of a semiconductor wafer (semiconductor substrate) over which a device (semiconductor element) is formed, another semiconductor wafer is attached to the semiconductor wafer. Patent Document 1 (Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2011-243959) describes that: before substrates are attached together, the surfaces of the substrates are cleaned by a wet treatment; and after a plasma treatment is performed on the surfaces thereof, a heat treatment is performed on the substrates. Patent Document 1 also describes that the substrates are attached together in a treatment chamber having a reduced pressure. However, it does not describe that the substrates are attached together in a state where the temperatures of the substrates are made to be room temperature (normal temperature). Patent Document 2 (Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2009-4741) describes that: before and when substrates are bonded together, the substrates are placed in vacuum; and the organic components in the adhesive layer between the substrates are removed by heating the substrates in vacuum when the substrates are bonded together. However, it does not describe that the substrates are attached together in a state where the temperatures of the substrates are made to be room temperature (normal temperature).

Invention Disclosure:
Disclosed is a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device including a step of attaching semiconductor wafers together, in which it is prevented that the bonding strength between the attached semiconductor wafers may be decreased due to a void caused between the two semiconductor wafers. Moisture, etc., adsorbed to the surfaces of the semiconductor wafers is desorbed by performing a heat treatment on the semiconductor wafers after cleaning the surfaces thereof with pure water. Subsequently, after a plasma treatment is performed on the semiconductor wafers, the two semiconductor wafers are attached together. The wafers are firmly bonded together by subjecting to a high-temperature heat treatment.

[Assistant]
1. A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device comprising the steps of:
(a1) providing a first semiconductor substrate and a second semiconductor substrate;
(b1) cleaning a first surface on a main surface side of the first semiconductor substrate and a second surface on a main surface side of the second semiconductor substrate, wherein the cleaning comprises ultrasonic cleaning or cleaning with pure water;
(c1) after the step (b1), desorbing adsorbed substances over the first surface of the first semiconductor substrate and over the second surface of the second semiconductor substrate;
(d1) activating the first surface of the first semiconductor substrate and the second surface of the second semiconductor substrate;
(e1) after the steps (c1) and (d1), attaching and temporarily bonding together the first surface of the first semiconductor substrate and the second surface of the second semiconductor substrate at a temperature of approximately 25° C.; and
(f1) after the step (e1), enhancing a bonding strength between the first semiconductor substrate and the second semiconductor substrate by subjecting both the semiconductor substrates to a heat treatment in a temperature range of 200 to 300° C.; and
(g1) after the step (f1), making a thickness of the first semiconductor substrate to be small by polishing a back surface of the first semiconductor substrate,
wherein, in the step (c1), moisture is removed from the first surface of the first semiconductor substrate and the second surface of the second semiconductor substrate by performing a heat treatment at a temperature of 100° C. or higher,
wherein, in the step (d1), the first surface of the first semiconductor substrate and the second surface of the second semiconductor substrate are activated by performing a plasma treatment, and
wherein the semiconductor device is an image sensor.

2. The manufacturing method of a semiconductor device according to claim 1 further comprising the step of:
(a2) after the step (a1) and before the steps (b1) and (d1), forming a semiconductor element over the main surface of the first semiconductor substrate.

3. The manufacturing method of a semiconductor device according to claim 1,
wherein the steps (c1) and (d1) are performed under a reduced-pressure atmosphere.


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Title: Seat Apparatus

Technical Field and Background:
Conventionally, among seat apparatuses to be mounted on vehicles such as automobiles, there is known a seat apparatus which reduces the load a driver feels by moving the side support frames provided with the seat apparatus according to the cornering and holding the driver to the seat apparatus in order to ensure safety in controlling when the vehicle performs cornering (for example, see patent document 1).

Invention Disclosure:
In order to improve steering operation operability during cornering while maintaining a driver holding property, a seat apparatus is provided with: a seat back frame; a cornering sensor for detecting a cornering direction of a vehicle; and a control unit that controls the seat back frame on the basis of the result of detection by the cornering sensor. The seat back frame is provided with: left and right side frames disposed on both sides of the seat back frame; a back plate disposed between the left and right side frames; and a swinging mechanism for swinging the back plate with respect to the direction of movement of the vehicle. The control unit controls the swinging mechanism such that, upon detection of a cornering direction of the vehicle by the cornering sensor, the inner one of the sides of the back plate with respect to the cornering direction is positioned rearward of the outer one of the sides with respect to the cornering direction.

[Assistant]
1. A seat apparatus to be mounted on a vehicle, comprising;
a seat cushion frame;
a seat back frame which is arranged so as to stand from a back end part of the seat cushion frame;
a cornering sensor which detects a cornering direction of the vehicle; and
a control unit which controls the seat back frame on a basis of a detection result obtained by the cornering sensor,
wherein the seat back frame includes:
left and right side frames which are respectively arranged at two side parts of the seat back frame so as to extend in a vertical direction and which are connected to the seat cushion frame;
an adjustment member which is arranged between the left and right side frames, the adjustment member including first and second side parts each extending in a width direction of the seat apparatus; and
a swing mechanism which swings the adjustment member inside the left and right side frames with respect to a traveling direction of the vehicle, and
wherein the control unit controls the swing mechanism so that, of the first and second side parts of the adjustment member, an inner side part which is inside with respect to the cornering direction is located backward comparing to an outer side part which is outside with respect to the cornering direction when the cornering direction of the vehicle is detected by the cornering sensor.

2. The seat apparatus according to claim 1, wherein
the control unit controls the swing mechanism to move both (i) the first side part of the adjustment member and (ii) the second side part of the adjustment member, in mutually opposite directions based on the detection result obtained by the cornering sensor, such that the inner side part is moved to a position backward of a reference position while the outer side part is moved to a position forward of the reference position.

3. The seat apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the swing mechanism includes:
a first connection unit which connects one of the left and right side frames and one side part of the adjustment member;
a first drive source which swings the one side part of the adjustment member in the front-back direction by moving the first connection unit;
a second connection unit which connects the other of the left and right side frames and the other side part of the adjustment member; and
a second drive source which swings the other side part of the adjustment member in the front-back direction by moving the second connection unit, and
wherein the control unit controls the swing mechanism by controlling at least one of the first drive source and the second drive source.

4. The seat apparatus according to claim 3, wherein
the first connection unit is provided with a link unit which swings one side part of the adjustment member by being rotated by the first drive source, and
the second connection unit is provided with a link unit which swings the other side part of the adjustment member by being rotated by the second drive source.

5. The seat apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the cornering sensor is a steering angle sensor which detects a steering angle of a steering of the vehicle.

6. The seat apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the cornering sensor is a navigation system installed in the vehicle.

7. The seat apparatus according to claim 3, wherein a drive shaft of the first drive source and a drive shaft of the second drive source are located inside the left and right side frames.

8. The seat apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the first connection unit is connected with the adjustment member outside of an outer circumference of the first drive source when seen from above, and the second connection unit is connected with the adjustment member outside of an outer circumference of the second drive source when seen from above.

9. A seat apparatus to be mounted on a vehicle, comprising:
a seat frame;
a vehicle speed sensor which detects a speed of the vehicle;
a cornering sensor which detects a cornering direction of the vehicle; and
a control unit which controls the seat frame on a basis of a detection result obtained by the cornering sensor,
wherein the seat frame includes:
left and right side frames;
an adjustment member which is arranged between the left and right side frames, the adjustment member including first and second side parts each extending in a width direction of the seat apparatus; and
a swing mechanism which swings the adjustment member with respect to a traveling direction of the vehicle, and
wherein the control unit adjusts a posture of an occupant by controlling the swing mechanism so that, of the first and second side parts of the adjustment member, an outer side part which is outside with respect to the cornering direction receives a larger load from an occupant comparing to an inner side part which is inside with respect to the cornering direction when a calculated lateral acceleration is a predetermined value or greater, the calculated lateral acceleration being calculated from a detection result obtained by the cornering sensor and a detection result obtained by the vehicle speed sensor.

10. A seat apparatus to be mounted on a vehicle, comprising:
a seat frame;
a cornering sensor which detects a cornering direction of the vehicle; and
a control unit which controls the seat frame on a basis of a detection result obtained by the cornering sensor,
wherein the seat frame includes:
left and right side frames;
an adjustment member which is arranged between the left and right side frames, the adjustment member including first and second side parts each extending in a width direction of the seat apparatus; and
a swing mechanism which swings the adjustment member with respect to a traveling direction of the vehicle, and
wherein the control unit controls the swing mechanism so that, of the first and second side parts of the adjustment member, an outer side part which is outside with respect to the cornering direction receives a larger load from an occupant comparing to an inner side part which is inside with respect to the cornering direction when the cornering direction of the vehicle is detected by the cornering sensor.

11. The seat apparatus according to claim 10, wherein
the control unit controls the swing mechanism to move both (i) the first side part of the adjustment member and (ii) the second side part of the adjustment member, in mutually opposite directions based on the detection result obtained by the cornering sensor, such that the inner side part is moved to a position relative to a reference position so as to depart from an occupant while the outer side part is moved to a position relative to the reference position so as to approach to the occupant.

12. The seat apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the swing mechanism includes:
a first connection unit which connects one of the left and right side frames and one side part of the adjustment member;
a first drive source which swings the one side part of the adjustment member by moving the first connection unit;
a second connection unit which connects the other of the left and right side frames and the other side part of the adjustment member; and
a second drive source which swings the other side part of the adjustment member by moving the second connection unit, and
wherein the control unit controls the swing mechanism by controlling at least one of the first drive source and the second drive source.

13. The seat apparatus according to claim 12, wherein
the first connection unit is provided with a link unit which swings one side part of the adjustment member by being rotated by the first drive source, and
the second connection unit is provided with a link unit which swings the other side part of the adjustment member by being rotated by the second drive source.

14. The seat apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the cornering sensor is a steering angle sensor which detects a steering angle of a steering of the vehicle.

15. The seat apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the cornering sensor is a navigation system installed in the vehicle.

16. The seat apparatus according to claim 12, wherein a drive shaft of the first drive source and a drive shaft of the second drive source are located inside the left and right side frames.

17. The seat apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the first connection unit is connected with the adjustment member outside of an outer circumference of the first drive source when seen from above, and the second connection unit is connected with the adjustment member outside of an outer circumference of the second drive source when seen from above.

18. The seat apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the seat frame is a seat back frame, and the seat back frame includes the adjustment member.


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Title: Display Panel And Manufacturing Method Thereof, Display Device

Technical Field and Background:
A liquid crystal display device includes an array substrate and a counter substrate (e.g., a color filter substrate) disposed opposite to each other, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the array substrate and the counter substrate. In the liquid crystal display device, orientation of liquid crystal molecules is controlled by applying of voltages to a common electrode and a pixel electrode, and in turn, light rays are controlled. Generally, in the process of manufacture, production, assembly, testing, storage or transportation of a liquid crystal display device, it is easy to generate static electricity on the liquid crystal display device because of friction, or due to the electrical connection, static electricity in air, human body or other charged object, static electricity will be transferred to the liquid crystal display device. A substrate (e.g., a counter substrate or an array substrate) of the liquid crystal display device is made of an insulating material such as glass or the like, and the eliminating rate of static electricity is very slow. Thus, when accumulation of static electricity on a surface of the substrate occurs, the static electricity will not be accumulated on the surface of the substrate for a long time only if there is a proper releasing route. When electrostatic discharge takes place because of great accumulative static electricity, a display module, a driver and so on of the liquid crystal display device will be damaged by static electricity due to undue electric stress. For example, the following cases may happen: screen defects are produced, metal circuitry is molten or evaporated, resistance value of elements is changed, an oxide layer is damaged or broken down, and so on. In order to lead out the static electricity on a substrate surface of the liquid crystal display device in time, so as to avoid the occurrence of such a case that static electricity builds up in the substrate surface of the liquid crystal display device and electrostatic damage results, the static electricity may be conducted out to a metal frame of the liquid crystal display device in the way of attaching an electrically conductive adhesive tape to the peripheries of the liquid crystal display device.

Invention Disclosure:
A display panel and manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are disclosed. The display panel includes an array substrate and a counter substrate. The array substrate includes a main region and a peripheral region, the main region coincides with an orthographical projection of the counter substrate on the array substrate, and at least one glue dispensing zone is arranged in the peripheral region or the main region. Conductive adhesive is provided in the glue dispensing zone, and is electrically connected to a grounded unit; an electrostatic conducting structure is provided on the counter substrate, and the conductive adhesive is electrically connected to the electrostatic conducting structure.

[Assistant]
1. A display panel, comprising an array substrate and a counter substrate disposed oppositely, wherein,
the array substrate includes a main region and a peripheral region, the main region coincides with an orthographical projection of the counter substrate on the array substrate, at least one glue dispensing zone is arranged in the peripheral region or the main region, and conductive adhesive is provided in the glue dispensing zone and is electrically connected to a grounded unit;
an electrostatic conducting structure is provided on the counter substrate, wherein the electrostatic conducting structure is a first wiring only disposed on a periphery of the counter substrate, and the first wiring is located on a side of the counter substrate facing the array substrate and is in a shape of a line, and the conductive adhesive is electrically connected to the electrostatic conducting structure.

2. The display panel claimed as claim 1, wherein the first wiring and an electrode on the counter substrate are disposed in a same layer and are separated from each other.

3. The display panel claimed as claim 1, further comprising a metal frame, wherein the grounded unit is the metal frame, and the conductive adhesive contacts a surface of the metal frame.

4. The display panel claimed as claim 1, wherein the conductive adhesive is electrically connected to the grounded unit through an electrostatic lead-out line, and the electrostatic lead-out line includes a portion situated in the glue dispensing zone and electrically connected to the conductive adhesive, and includes a portion situated outside the glue dispensing zone and electrically connected to the grounded unit.

5. The display panel claimed as claim 4, wherein the array substrate includes a printed circuit board, and the grounded unit is the printed circuit board.

6. The display panel claimed as claim 5, wherein the glue dispensing zone is arranged on a side of the array substrate with the printed circuit board provided thereon along the direction of the plane on which it is located.

7. The display panel claimed as claim 4, wherein the electrostatic lead-out line includes a first conductive part along the direction perpendicular to the plane on which the array substrate is located, a thin film transistor is provided in the main region of the array substrate and includes a gate electrode and source/drain electrodes, and the first conductive part and the gate electrode or the source/drain electrodes are disposed in a same layer.

8. The display panel claimed as claim 7, wherein the electrostatic lead-out line further includes an insulating layer, and the first conductive part is covered by the insulating layer.

9. The display panel claimed as claim 8, wherein the electrostatic lead-out line further includes a second conductive part, and the second conductive part is electrically connected to the first conductive part through via holes in the insulating layer.

10. The display panel claimed as claim 9, wherein the array substrate further includes a pixel electrode, and the second conductive part and the pixel electrode are disposed in a same layer; or
the array substrate further includes a pixel electrode and a common electrode, and the second conductive part is disposed in a same layer as the pixel electrode or the common electrode.

11. The display panel claimed as claim 7, wherein an alignment mark is provided in the glue dispensing zone.

12. The display panel claimed as claim 11, wherein the alignment mark is formed by the first conductive part.

13. The display panel claimed as any one of claim 11, wherein a pattern of the alignment mark includes at least one of a “ ” shape, a “ ” shape, a “ ” shape, and a “ ” shape as well as a “♦” and a “●” or a combination thereof.

14. The display panel claimed as claim 1, wherein the array substrate includes a printed circuit board, and the glue dispensing zone is arranged on a side of the array substrate with the printed circuit board provided thereon along the direction of the plane on which it is located.

15. The display panel claimed as claim 1, wherein the glue dispensing zone is located at a vertex angle of the array substrate.

16. The display panel claimed as claim 1, wherein an alignment mark is provided in the glue dispensing zone.

17. The display panel claimed as claim 1, further comprising a sealant located between the counter substrate and the array substrate, wherein,
the glue dispensing zone is disposed on an outer side of the sealant; and
the counter substrate includes a black matrix located on an inner side of the sealant, and an end of the black matrix is situated in the sealant or situated on an inner side of the sealant; and/or
the array substrate further includes a signal line, and an end of the signal line is situated in the sealant or situated in an inner side of the sealant.

18. The display panel claimed as claim 1, wherein the array substrate further includes a second wiring disposed on a periphery of the array substrate, and the second wiring is electrically connected to the conductive adhesive or the grounded unit.

19. A display device, comprising the display panel claimed as claim 1.

20. A display panel, comprising an array substrate and a counter substrate disposed oppositely, wherein,
the array substrate includes a main region and a peripheral region, the main region coincides with an orthographical projection of the counter substrate on the array substrate, at least one glue dispensing zone is arranged in the peripheral region or the main region, and conductive adhesive is provided in the glue dispensing zone and is electrically connected to a grounded unit;
an electrostatic conducting structure is provided on the counter substrate, the electrostatic conducting structure is a first wiring disposed on a periphery of the counter substrate, the first wiring is located on a side of the counter substrate far away from the array substrate, the first wiring surrounds the periphery of the counter substrate, and the conductive adhesive covers at least part of the first wiring so as to electrically connect to the electrostatic conducting structure.

21. A display panel, comprising an array substrate and a counter substrate disposed oppositely, wherein,
the array substrate includes a main region and a peripheral region, the main region coincides with an orthographical projection of the counter substrate on the array substrate, at least one glue dispensing zone is arranged in the peripheral region or the main region, an alignment mark is provided in the glue dispensing zone and configured to realize alignment through visible light reflected by itself, conductive adhesive is provided in the glue dispensing zone, is partially overlapped with the alignment mark and is electrically connected to a grounded unit;
an electrostatic conducting structure is provided on the counter substrate, the electrostatic conducting structure is made of metal and the conductive adhesive is electrically connected to the electrostatic conducting structure.


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Title: Switching Apparatus And Method For Varying An Impedance Of A Phase Line Of A Segment Of An Electrical Power Line

Technical Field and Background:
Known in the art is U.S. Pat. No. 7,639,460 B2. This document describes a switching apparatus and a method for varying the impedance of a phase line of a segment of an electrical power line. The phase line includes n conductors electrically insulated from each other and short-circuited together at two ends of the segment. More particularly, the apparatus includes at least one first vacuum interrupter connected in series with at least one of the conductors, at least one first controllable motor for selectively opening and closing the at least one first vacuum interrupter, and a controller for controlling the at least one first controllable motor according to a parameter representative of the current operating conditions of the phase line. U.S. Pat. No. 7,639,460 B2 is herein incorporated by reference. Also known is a paper by the inventor published in the January 2011 edition of the journal “Cold Regions Science and Technology” (volume 65, issue 1) entitled “Smart Power Line and photonic de-icer concepts for transmission-line capacity and reliability improvement”. The paper relates to a Smart Power Line concept, and its implementation on new or existing transmission lines. The Smart Power Line addresses three needs: line de-icing, line impedance modulation, and line monitoring. Also known in the art is the U.S. Pat. No. 6,396,172 and the PCT application published under the international publication no. WO 02/41459. In these documents, there is described a switching apparatus also intended to be used with a segment of an electrical power line having several phase lines. Also known in the art is U.S. Pat. No. 2,797,344. This patent describes an apparatus for deicing electric cables. This patent proposes that, in a power transmission line, a cable having a pair of conductors insulated from each other is provided. An electrical bridge is connected in series with one of the conductors. A means is provided for opening the electrical bridge, and another means is provided for operating the electrical bridge in response to ice accumulation on the cable. The electric bridge comprises a normally closed switch which is open by the means that responds to an ice accumulation on the cable. Also known in the art is U.S. Pat. No. 4,082,962. This patent describes a device for melting the ice by direct current through conductors of an overhead power transmission line. This patent proposes the use of a rectifier that is temporarily connected to the end of one of the conductors of the line. The apparatus also comprises a grounding circuit as well as a circuit filter connected parallel to the rectifier. The circuit proposed in this patent uses a rectified current for deicing the line. For each section of the line, a rectifier, a grounding circuit and a circuit filter are used. Also known in the art is U.S. Pat. No. 4,126,792. This patent proposes a high-voltage network for areas of increased intensity of icing. This patent proposes the use of a rectifier and a switching circuit for connecting at least one conductor of the line to the rectifier so as to melt the ice by a rectified current. One of the drawbacks which can be found in at least some of the above-mentioned switching apparatuses and methods is that some of these apparatuses and methods may not allow for an efficient and safe switching of the conductors of a segment of an electric power line. One of the objects of the present invention is to propose a switching apparatus and method for a segment of an electric power line which enables the interrupters of the conductors of a segment of the line to be switched between a closed and an open position, in an efficient, safe, and economical manner. The objects, advantages and other features of the present invention will be more apparent upon the reading of the following non restrictive description of different optional embodiments given as examples only in reference with the attached drawings.

Invention Disclosure:
The switching apparatus and the method are for varying the impedance of a phase line of a segment of an electrical power line. The phase line includes n conductors electrically insulated from each other and short-circuited together at two ends of the segment. The apparatus comprises a controllable interrupter connected in series for each conductor; a parameter detector; a first controller for controlling the interrupters; and a disabling unit for disabling the interrupters. The disabling unit comprises n controllable switches associated with the interrupters, position detectors for detecting which of the interrupters is closed, and a second controller having a command output to command the controllable switches and ensure that, at all operating times, at least one of the interrupters is closed and disabled.

[Assistant]
1. A switching apparatus for varying an impedance of a phase line of a segment of an electrical power line, the phase line including n conductors electrically insulated from each other, n being equal to or greater than 2, the n conductors being short-circuited together at two ends of the segment; the apparatus comprising:
for each conductor, a controllable interrupter connected in series, said interrupter having command terminals for receiving first command signals for selectively switching said interrupter into a closed or an opened position;
a parameter detector for detecting a parameter representative of an actual operating condition of the phase line;
a first controller for controlling the interrupters via their command terminals, according to the parameter detected by the detector; and
a disabling unit for disabling the interrupters, said disabling unit comprising:
n controllable switches associated respectively to the n controllable interrupters for respectively disabling the n controllable interrupters;
position detectors for detecting which of the n interrupters is closed; and
a second controller having first inputs for receiving position signals from the position detectors, a second input for receiving second command signals for commanding the disabling unit, and command outputs to command the n controllable switches in view of said second command signals and said position signals so that, at all operating times, at least one of the n interrupters is closed and disabled.

2. The switching apparatus according to claim 1, wherein each of the n interrupters is made of at least one vacuum interrupter, each of the vacuum interrupters having a motor for selectively opening and closing the corresponding vacuum interrupter in response to said command signals, each motor having supply terminals.

3. The switching apparatus according to claim 2, wherein:
each of said at least one vacuum interrupter is made of a pair of vacuum interrupters connected in parallel, and
the n controllable switches are respectively made of n pairs of controllable switches for disabling the n pairs of vacuum interrupters.

4. The switching apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the second controller comprises:
a rotatable cam unit providing the command outputs to command the n pairs of controllable switches depending on their operating position, the rotatable cam unit having a rotatable cam capable of rotating in n predetermined positions according to a predetermined sequence, each of said n predetermined positions corresponding to a position where one of the n pairs of vacuum interrupters is disabled by cutting off supply signals to the corresponding pair of motors via the corresponding pairs of controllable switches;
a cam motor for rotating the rotatable cam, having supply terminals; and
a cam controller for rotating the rotatable cam through the n predetermined positions according to the predetermined sequence by commanding the cam motor.

5. The switching apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the position detectors comprise detector switches having inputs respectively connected to the n pairs of vacuum interrupters for detecting which of the n pair of vacuum interrupters is closed, and outputs for providing the supply signals to the supply terminals of the cam motor only when the pairs of vacuum interrupters corresponding to at least actual and next positions of the rotatable cam, are closed.

6. The switching apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the n predetermined positions are four predetermined positions, each predetermined position being separated by an angular interval of 90°.

7. The switching apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the cam controller comprises a position encoder to detect the position of the rotatable cam, and generate a cam position signal.

8. The switching apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the cam controller comprises a position cam rigidly connected with the rotatable cam, and cam position switches having inputs connected to the position cam, and output to generate a cam position signal.

9. The switching apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the cam controller comprises:
a position encoder to detect the position of the rotatable cam, and generate a first cam position signal:
a position cam rigidly connected with the rotatable cam; and
cam position switches having inputs connected to the position cam, and output to generate a second cam position signal, so that the position of the rotatable cam is confirmable by means of either the first or second cam position signals.

10. The switching apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the cam controller has an input for receiving either the first or the second cam position signals, to control rotation of the rotatable cam by means of one of said first and second cam position signals.

11. The switching apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the outputs of the position detectors are for providing the supply signals to the supply terminals of the cam motor only when the pairs of vacuum interrupters corresponding to all of the positions of the rotatable cam, are closed.

12. The switching apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second input of the second controller are for receiving said command signals from the first controller.

13. A method for varying an impedance of a phase line of a segment of an electrical power line, the phase line including n conductors electrically insulated from each other, n being equal to or greater than 2, the n conductors being short-circuited together at two ends of the segment, each conductor having a controllable interrupter being connected in series, said controllable interrupter having command terminals for receiving command signals for selectively switching said interrupter into a closed or an opened position, the method comprising steps of:
a) detecting a parameter representative of an actual operating condition of the phase line;
b) controlling the interrupters via their command terminals, according to the parameter detected in step a); and
c) disabling the interrupters by means of n controllable switches associated respectively to the n controllable interrupters, said step c) comprising steps of:
i) detecting which of the n interrupters is closed; and
ii) commanding the n controllable switches so that, at all operating times, at least one of the n interrupters is closed and disabled.

14. The method according to claim 13, where each of the n interrupters is made of a pair of vacuum interrupters connected in parallel, each of the vacuum interrupters having a motor for selectively opening and closing the corresponding vacuum interrupter in response to said command signals, each motor having supply terminals:
in step c), the n controllable switches are respectively made of n pairs of controllable switches for disabling the n pairs of vacuum interrupters, the step c) further comprises steps of:
commanding the n pairs of controllable switches by means of a rotatable cam depending on its operating position, the rotatable cam being capable of rotating in n predetermined positions according to a predetermined sequence, each of said n predetermined positions corresponding to a position where one of the n pairs of vacuum interrupters is disabled by cutting off supply signals to the corresponding pair of motors via the corresponding pair of controllable switches; and
rotating the cam by means of a cam motor having supply terminals, into a next of the n predetermined positions by supplying supply signals to supply terminals of a cam motor by means of a controllable switch to enable said cam motor, only when the following condition is met: the pairs of vacuum interrupters corresponding to actual and next positions of the cam, are closed.

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein the condition also requires that the pairs of vacuum interrupters corresponding to all of the positions of the cam are closed.


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[User]
Title: Mobile Terminal

Technical Field and Background:
Terminals may be generally classified as mobile/portable terminals or stationary terminals according to their mobility. Mobile terminals may also be classified as handheld terminals or vehicle mounted terminals according to whether or not a user can directly carry the terminal. As functions of the terminal become more diversified, the terminal can support more complicated functions such as capturing images or video, reproducing music or video files, playing games, receiving broadcast signals, and the like. By comprehensively and collectively implementing such functions, the mobile terminal may be embodied in the form of a multimedia player. Various attempts have been made to implement complicated functions in such a multimedia device by means of hardware or software. For example, a user interface environment allowing users to easily and conveniently search for and select functions is provided. Also, as mobile terminals are considered as personal belongings for expressing users' personality, various design forms are requested. The design forms include structural alteration and improvement allowing user to more conveniently use a mobile terminal. As one of structural alterations and improvements, a manipulation unit may be considered. However, a manipulation unit provided separately from a touch screen hampers slim terminals and a simple design. Also, a problem in which a display area is reduced due to the presence of the manipulation unit on a side surface of a terminal arises. Thus, as a solution, an input method based on a new scheme may be taken into consideration. Also, as mobile terminals are considered as personal belongings for expressing users' personality, various designs are requested, and recently, designs tend to be simplified by minimizing protrusions on surfaces of mobile terminals. Thus, touch screens are increasingly applied to mobile terminals, as input units for inputting information to mobile terminals. As mobile terminals are increased in size, the number of touch window channels is also increased, and thus, as a width of a touch pattern is increased, a width of a bezel is also increased.

Invention Disclosure:
The present invention provides a mobile terminal comprising: a terminal body having a display part on the front side thereof; and a back input part exposed to the back side of the body and having a first button part for receiving a push input of a first function, wherein the first button part comprises: an exposed part having a colored layer and exposed to the outside; a knob part formed on the back side thereof so as to fix the exposed part; and a body part covering the knob part and formed to be integrated with the exposed part.

[Assistant]
1. A mobile terminal comprising:
a terminal body in which a display part is formed on a front side thereof;
a back input part including a first button part exposed to a back side of the terminal body to receive a push input of a first function and a second button part disposed to be adjacent to the first button part and exposed to the back side of the terminal body to receive a push input of a second function,
wherein the first button part includes:
an exposed portion having a colored layer formed thereon and exposed to the outside;
a knob portion formed on a back side of the first button part to fix the exposed portion; and
a body portion covering the knob portion and integrally formed with the exposed portion, and
the second button part has a through hole accommodating the first button part,
wherein the back input part includes:
a support member disposed on back sides of the first and second button parts, and having protrusions formed on a back side thereof to correspond to the first and second button parts;
a plate disposed below the support member, having switches formed in a row and operated upon being pressed by the protrusions, and formed on the second PCB;
a light source disposed on one side of the switches or on both sides of the switches;
a light guide formed to cover at least a portion of the switches and connected to the light source to emit light from the light source; and
a light blocking member disposed no both ends of an upper surface of the light guide and causing light to be introduced only to the light guide.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, further comprising:
a first printed circuit board (PCB) disposed within the terminal body and allowing various electronic components to be mounted thereon;
a shield can covering the first PCB to shield the electronic components; and
a second PCB electrically connected to the first PCB and configured to have the back input part.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the exposed portion is formed of stainless steel, and the body unit is formed of a light-transmissive material.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the light guide has a through hole formed in a portion corresponding to the protrusion, is disposed in a direction intersecting with the row, and covers a portion or the entirety of the switches.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the switches are connected by an air path.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the support member includes a demarcating portion configured to demarcate a region corresponding to the first button part and a region corresponding to the second button part, is formed of rubber, and is coupled to the first and second button part by a hook formed at an edge thereof or is coupled to the first and second button parts by bonding.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 6, wherein the plate, the light source, the light guide, the light blocking member, and the second PCB are integrally formed by the hook of the support member.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 7, wherein a wing is formed on an edge of the second button part so as to be caught by a back side of the terminal body.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the first PCB and the second PCB are connected by a connector.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein a key plate assisting rigidity of the shield can is disposed between the shield can and the second PCB.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the second button part includes a planar portion parallel to the back side of the terminal body and a sloped portion sloped downwardly toward the through hole from the planar portion, and the first button part is formed to be inwardly recessed, compared with the back side of the terminal body.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the first function is a function related to ON/OFF of power or activation of the display part, and the second function is a function related to scroll with respect to output information of the display part or a function related to adjustment of a volume of a sound output from the terminal body.

13. A mobile terminal comprising:
a terminal body in which a display part is formed on a front side thereof; and
a back input part including a first button part exposed to a back side of the terminal body to receive a push input of a first function,
wherein the back input part includes:
a support member allowing the first and second button parts to penetrate through an interior thereof so as to be exposed to the outside;
a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) attached to a back side of the support member;
a light source installed in a region corresponding to the first and second button parts on the FPCB; and
a switch pressed when the first and second button parts are pressed, and disposed below the FPCB,
wherein the support member, the FPCB, the light source, and the switch are integrally formed.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 13, further comprising:
a support member positioned below the switch and supporting the switch when the switch is pressed.

15. The mobile terminal of claim 14, wherein the first button part has an exposed portion formed on an upper surface thereof and exposed to the outside, protruding along an outer edge thereof so as to be exposed, and limited in movement to the outside by the second button part.


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Title: System And Method For Providing Active Rf Shielding

Technical Field and Background:
This disclosure relates generally to methods and systems for radio frequency (“RF”) shielding of electronic devices. Electronic devices are considered ubiquitous in today's society. Electronic devices are found everywhere and are used by everyone. Many electronic devices emit RF and many times can receive unintentionally spurious RF transmissions. For example, a common experience is the interference created when using a microwave and a cordless phone at the same time. The RF emissions from the microwave may interfere with the operation of the cordless phone and render the cordless phone inoperable until the microwave is turned off. Another common experience is the interference created when using a microwave and a WiFi router at the same time. In this example, the RF emissions from the microwave may interfere with the operation of the WiFi router and render the WiFi inoperable until the microwave is turned off or the WiFi router is switched to a different frequency. These are common examples that demonstrate that microwave ovens have RF emissions that may interfere with other devices that rely on RF for communications. More information about RF emissions from various electronic devices can be found in, “Study of RF Emissions of Various Electronic Devices Used by the Public” by Letertre et al., which is hereby incorporated by reference. When referring to RF emissions that interfere with other electronic devices, sometimes it is referred to as radio frequency interference (“RFI”) or electromagnetic interference (“EMI”). Some may describe the emission of RF from an electronic device such as a microwave as RF leakage. However, in the present invention, the reference to radio frequency (“RF”) will refer to any of RF, RFI, RF leakage, EMI, RF energy, RF emissions, RF signals and spurious RF transmissions. Hackers and/or enemies-of-the-state (“Hackers”) can utilize RF emissions to hack into systems, attack systems, spy/monitor on systems, or disrupt systems. Hackers may target electronic devices such as computers, routers, appliances, mobile phones, cordless phones, switches, computer monitors, game consoles, DVD players, control electronics and other electronic devices that are likely to emit RF signals that could be detected by sensors located onboard an enemy platform including but not limited to ground-based, airborne and/or space-borne platforms. The RF emissions from such devices may comprise keyboard strokes, computer monitor images, drawings, private data, business data, financial data, political data, defense data, internet URLs, URL history, IP addresses, cookies, real time data, stored data, meta data, device usage data, electronic records, electronic files, video, audio, control signals, or any type of data, information or signal that an electronic device may contain or emit. A sophisticated enemy may use a sensor to detect RF emissions to insert an external RF hacking signal that may be comprised of one or more of viruses, noise, or other enemy directed RF signals. In other situations a sophisticated enemy may use the detected RF emission locations to direct a high energy laser (“HEL”) or an IREB (Intense Relativistic Electron Beam) system at those locations to physically destroy the electronic device. In other situations a sophisticated enemy may use a sensor to detect and monitor the RF emissions from certain electronic devices for intelligence purposes. Examples of where an enemy or hacker may be interested in RF emissions might be at a utility plant (i.e. electric, gas, water, solar, oil etc . . . ) or at a corporate competitor. Hackers may detect RF emissions and use techniques mentioned above to disrupt or destroy elements of the utility plant. In order to control RF/EMI, an industry has developed around shielding materials. Shields are measured by its “shielding effectiveness” (SE). An electro-magnetic (EM) shield is essentially any barrier placed between an EM emitter and areceptor, and it is designed to reduce the field strength of the emitter. The losses in EM emitter field strength are a function of the barrier's electrical and physical characteristics, such as its permeability, conductivity, and thickness; the frequency of the EMI; and the distance from the EMI source to the barrier/shield. The total SE of the shield is the sum of the reflection, absorption, and re-reflection losses.

Invention Disclosure:
A system and method for removing radio frequency emissions from an electronic device. The system comprises collectors for collection of the radio frequency signals, combiners for combining the signals to produce a combined signal, fiber optic transmitter for up-converting the combined radio frequency signals to an optical wave length signal, optical fiber for directing the optical signal, and a termination device for terminating the optical signal.

[Assistant]
1. A system for removing at least some radio frequency interference emissions, the system comprising:
one or more collectors, each of the one or more collectors tuned to one or more bandwidths of the at least some radio frequency interference emissions, at least some of the one or more collectors adapted to collect one or more signals;
one or more combiners adapted to combine the one or more signals to produce a combined signal;
a fiber optic transmitter adapted to up-convert the combined signal into an optical signal;
a fiber optic cable adapted to carry the optical signal;
a photodiode adapted to convert the optical signal into a current; and
one or more first resistors adapted to reduce the current.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising one or more fans.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising one or more heat sinks.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the fiber optic cable comprises one or more patches.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the fiber optic cable comprises one or more openings.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the signals comprise one or more of:
one or more analog signals; and
one or more digital signals,
the system further comprising:
one or more analog-to digital converters for converting each of the one or more analog signals to more or more converted digital signals;
one or more digital processors for summing the one or more converted digital signals and the digital signals to form a summed digital signal; and
one or more digital to analog converters for converting the summed digital signal to produce the combined signal.

7. A system for removing at least some radio frequency interference emissions, the system comprising:
one or more collectors, each of the one or more collectors tuned to one or more bandwidths of the at least some radio frequency interference emissions, at least some of the one or more collectors adapted to collect one or more signals;
one or more combiners adapted to combine the one or more signals to produce a combined signal;
a fiber optic transmitter adapted to up-convert the combined signal into an optical signal;
one or more fiber optic cables adapted to carry the optical signal;
one or more photodiodes adapted to convert the optical signal into one or more currents; and
one or more resistors adapted to reduce the one or more currents.

8. The system of claim 7, further comprising:
a splitter for splitting the optical signal into two or more partial optical signals, the two or more optical signal, the two or more partial optical signals comprising the first partial optical signal and a second partial optical signal, the one or more fiber optic cables comprising a first fiber optic cable and a second fiber optic cable, the first split fiber optic cable adapted to carry the first partial optical signal, the second fiber optic cable adapted to carry the second partial optical signal, the one or more photodiodes comprising a first photodiode and a second photodiode, the first photodiode adapted to convert the first partial optical signal into a first current, the second photodiode adapted to convert the second partial signal into a second current, the one or more resistors comprising a first resistance network and a second resistance network, the first resistance network adapted to reduce the first current, the second resistance network adapted to reduce the second current.

9. The system of claim 8 wherein the splitter is a planar lightwave circuit.

10. The system of claim 7, further comprising one or more fans.

11. The system of claim 7, further comprising one or more heat sinks.

12. The system of claim 7, wherein at least one of the one or more fiber optic cables comprises one or more patches.

13. The system of claim 7, wherein at least one of the one or more fiber optic cables comprise one or more openings.

14. The system of claim 7, wherein the signals comprise one or more of:
one or more analog signals; and
one or more digital signals,
the system further comprising:
one or more analog-to digital converters for converting each of the one or more analog signals to more or more converted digital signals;
one or more digital processors for summing the one or more converted digital signals and the digital signals to form a summed digital signal; and
one or more digital to analog converters for converting the summed digital signal to produce the combined signal.

15. A system for removing at least some radio frequency interference emissions, the system comprising:
one or more collectors, each of the one or more collectors tuned to one or more bandwidths of the at least some radio frequency interference emissions, at least some of the one or more collectors adapted to collect one or more signals;
one or more combiners adapted to combine the one or more signals to produce a combined signal;
a fiber optic transmitter adapted to up-convert the combined signal into an optical signal;
a wide-diameter fiber optic cable adapted to carry the optical signal, the wide diameter fiber optic cable comprising at least two thin fiber optic cables, the at least two thin fiber optic cables comprising a first thin fiber optic cable and a second thin fiber optic cable, the first thin fiber optic cable comprising a first photodiode and a first resistor, the second fiber optic cable comprising a second photodiode and a second resistor, the first fiber optic cable adapted to carry a first part of the optical signal, the second fiber optic cable adapted to carry a second part of the optical signal, the first photodiode adapted to convert the first part of the optical signal into a first current, the second photodiode adapted to convert the second part of the optical signal into a second current, the first resistor adapted to reduce the first current, the second resistor adapted to reduce the second current.

16. The system of claim 15, further comprising a splitter for splitting the optical signal into at least the first part of the optical signal and the second part of the optical signal.

17. The system of claim 16 wherein the splitter is a planar lightwave circuit.

18. The system of claim 15, further comprising one or more fans.

19. The system of claim 15, further comprising one or more heat sinks.

20. The system of claim 15, wherein one or more of:
the wide-diameter fiber optic cable;
the first thin fiber optic cable; and
the second thin fiber optic cable comprises one or more patches.

21. The system of claim 15, wherein one or more of:
the wide-diameter fiber optic cable;
the first thin fiber optic cable; and
the second thin fiber optic cable comprises one or more openings.

22. The system of claim 15, wherein the signals comprise one or more of:
one or more analog signals; and
one or more digital signals,
the system further comprising:
one or more analog-to digital converters for converting each of the one or more analog signals to more or more converted digital signals;
one or more digital processors for summing the one or more converted digital signals and the digital signals to form a summed digital signal; and
one or more digital to analog converters for converting the summed digital signal to produce the combined signal.


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Title: Electronic Component

Technical Field and Background:
Known electronic components include, a multilayer capacitor and an interposer on which the multilayer capacitor is mounted (e.g., cf. Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. H07-111380). When a voltage is applied to the multilayer capacitor, an element body thereof is subject to mechanical strain in the magnimde in accordance with the applied voltage due to the electrostrictive effect. This mechanical strain induces vibration in the multilayer capacitor (which will be referred to hereinafter as ‘electrostrictive vibration’). When the voltage is applied to the multilayer capacitor mounted on an electronic device (e.g., a circuit board or another electronic component), the electrostrictive vibration propagates to the electronic device. The propagation of the electrostrictive vibration to the electronic device may lead to vibration of, the electronic device, so as to cause acoustic noise. In the aforementioned electronic component, the multilayer capacitor is mounted on the interposer. When the electronic component is mounted on the electronic device, the multilayer capacitor is connected via the interposer to the electronic device. For this reason, the electrostrictive vibration is less likely to propagate to the electronic device, and thus occurrence of the acoustic noise is suppressed.

Invention Disclosure:
An electronic component includes a multilayer capacitor and an interposer The multilayer capacitor includes an element body and a pair of external electrodes. The interposer includes a substrate, a pair of first electrodes, and is pair of second electrodes. The substrate includes first and second principal faces. The pair of first electrodes are disposed on the first principal face. The pair of second electrodes are disposed on the second principal thee. The element body includes a first portion and a pair of second portions. The first portion is covered by the external electrodes. The pair of second portions are located on both sides or the first portion and separated from the interposer. A width in a second direction of the pair of external electrodes is smaller than a width in the second direction of the element body and larger than a width in the second direction of the second portion.

[Assistant]
1. An electronic component comprising: a multilayer capacitor; and an interposer on which the multilayer capacitor is mounted,
wherein the multilayer capacitor comprises:
a multilayer body of a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape in which a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of internal electrodes are stacked; and
a pair of external electrodes disposed on ends in a first direction in the multilayer body and each connected to a corresponding internal electrode of the plurality of internal electrodes,
wherein the interposer comprises:
a substrate including a first principal face of a planar shape opposed to the multilayer capacitor, a second principal face of a planar shape opposed to the first principal face, first and second side faces of a planar shape opposed to each other in the first direction, and third and fourth side faces of a planar shape opposed to each other in a second direction perpendicular to both the first direction and a direction in which the first and second principal faces are opposed;
a pair of first electrodes disposed on the first and second side face sides of the first principal face and each connected to a corresponding external electrode of the pair of external electrodes;
a pair of second electrodes disposed on the third and fourth side face sides of the second principal face; and
a pair of connection electrodes disposed on the first principal face and each electrically connected to the first electrode and the second electrode,
wherein the multilayer body, when viewed from the first direction, includes a first portion covered by the external electrode, and a pair of second portions located on both sides of the first portion and exposed from the external electrode,
wherein, the pair of second portions of the multilayer body are separated from the interposer, and
wherein a width in the second direction of the pair of external electrodes is smaller than a width in the second direction of the multilayer body and larger than a width in the second direction of the second portion.

2. The electronic component according to claim 1,
wherein the pair of connection electrodes include a pair of first electrode portions disposed on the third and fourth side face sides of the first principal face and extending in the first direction, and
wherein a width in the first direction of each of the first electrodes is smaller than a width in the first direction of each of the first electrode portions and larger than a width in the second direction of each of the first electrode portions.

3. The electronic component according to claim 1,
wherein each of the pair of first electrodes includes two electrode portions separated from each other in the second direction.

4. The electronic component according to claim 1,
wherein each of the connection electrodes is coupled to the first electrode, and
wherein a solder resist is provided on each of the connection electrodes and in the vicinity of the first electrode.

5. The electronic component according to claim 1,
wherein the pair of first electrodes overlap each other when viewed from the first direction, and
wherein a distance in the second direction between an end of the first electrode, disposed on the first side face side, on the third, side face side and an end of the first electrode, disposed on the second side face side, on the fourth site face side is equivalent to the width in the second direction of the pair of external electrodes.

6. The electronic component according to claim 1,
wherein, the pair of external electrodes include a pair of electrode portions disposed on a face opposed to the first principal thee in the multilayer body, and
wherein a width in the first direction of the first electrode is larger than a width in the first direction of the pair of electrode portions disposed on the face opposed to the first principal face in the multilayer body.

7. The electronic component according to claim 1,
wherein the pair of external electrodes include a pair of electrode portions disposed on a pair of faces opposed in the first direction in the multilayer body, and
wherein the electrode portion disposed on each of the faces opposed in the first direction in the multilayer body is connected to the first electrode with solder.

8. The electronic component according to claim 1,
wherein each of the third and fourth side faces is provided with a groove continuous from the first principal face to the second principal face in a center in the first direction.

9. The electronic component according to claim 1,
wherein each of the pair of second electrodes includes two electrode portions separated from each other in the first direction.


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[User]
Title: Imaging Optical System, Camera Apparatus And Stereo Camera Apparatus

Technical Field and Background:
1. Technical Field The present invention relates to an imaging optical system, a camera apparatus, and a stereo camera apparatus. 2. Description of Related Art As camera apparatuses including imaging optical systems and area sensors, monitoring cameras, vehicle-mounted cameras, and the like are practically being used. These cameras are used for sensing purpose, i.e., to identify an object. For instance a vehicle-mounted camera is used to identify a position of the traveling vehicle, a road condition, and the like. Here, the imaging optical systems for sensing purpose must have a high resolution so as to identify relatively a small object or to monitor a condition of an object from a relatively long distance. As imaging optical systems provided to camera apparatuses for sensing purpose, retrofocus-type imaging optical systems are taught by PTL1 (JP2006-309076A), PTL2 (JP2004-341376A), and PTL3 (JP2012-220741A). The image optical systems of the PTLs 1 to 3 have a front lens group with a negative power on the object side and a rear lens group with a positive power on the image side (i.e., the front lens group and the rear lens group are aligned in an asymmetrical manner). As a result, the camera secures an enough space to dispose filters such as an optical low pass filter and an infrared cut filter between the optical system and the image sensors, thereby achieving an appropriate optical performance for sensing. Further, the optical systems for sensing purpose are required to accurately identify the sizes, shapes, and the like of the objects. Hence, the distortion aberrations must appropriately be corrected even for wide angle cameras. Therefore, it is desirable to develop an imaging optical system that can reduce distortions, thereby achieving low distortion.

Invention Disclosure:
A single focal imaging optical system includes, in order from an object side, a first lens group with a positive power, an aperture stop, and a second lens group with a positive power. The first lens group includes a first front lens group and a first rear lens group. The first front lens group includes a negative lens having a concave surface on an image side and a positive meniscus lens having a concave surface on the object side. The first rear lens group includes a biconvex lens. The second lens group includes a second front lens group with a negative power and a second rear lens group with a positive power. The system satisfies a following condition: 3.2<f2/F1<9.0, where f1 represents a composite focal length of the first lens group and f2 represents a composite focal length of the second lens group.

[Assistant]
1. A single focal imaging optical system, comprising, in order from an object side:
a first lens group with a positive refractive power;
an aperture stop; and
a second lens group with a positive refractive power; wherein
the first lens group includes, in order form the object side:
a first front lens group with a negative refractive power, the first front lens group including one negative lens and one positive lens, and
a first rear lens group with a positive refractive power, the first rear lens group being a single lens,
the first front lens group includes, in order from the object side, a negative meniscus lens having a concave surface on an image side and a convex surface on the object side, and a positive meniscus lens having a concave surface on the object side,
the first rear lens group includes a biconvex lens,
the second lens group includes, in order from the object side, a second front lens group with a negative refractive power and a second rear lens group with a positive refractive power, and
the imaging optical system satisfies a following condition (1):
3.2< f 2/ f 1<9.0 (1)
where f 1 represents a composite focal length of the first lens group and f 2 represents a composite focal length of the second lens group.

2. The imaging optical system according to claim 1, wherein all lenses are glass spherical lenses.

3. The imaging optical system according to claim 1, wherein the imaging optical system satisfies following conditions (2) and (3):
−5.7< f 1 F/f<− 2.8 (2)
0.7< f 1 R/f< 1.4 (3)
where f represents a focal length for a d-line of the imaging optical system, f 1 F represents a focal length of the first front lens group, and f 1 R represents a focal length of the first rear lens group.

4. The imaging optical system according to claim 1, wherein the second lens group includes, in order from the object side:
the second front lens group including a biconcave lens, and
the second rear lens group including a positive lens having a convex surface on the image side and a positive lens having a convex surface on the object side.

5. The imaging optical system according to claim 1, wherein an air interval between the first front lens group and the first rear lens group is greater than any other air intervals in the first tens group.

6. The imaging optical system according to claim 1, wherein the imaging optical system satisfies a following condition (4):
3.0< L/f< 5.9 (4)
where f represents a focal length for a d-line of the imaging optical system and L represents a distance from a lens end on the object side of the first lens group to an image plane.

7. A camera apparatus comprising the imaging optical system according to claim 1.

8. The camera apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the camera apparatus has a function to convert an imaging image into digital image information.

9. A stereo camera apparatus comprising:
two of the imaging optical systems according to claim 1.

10. The stereo camera apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the stereo camera apparatus has a function to convert an imaging image into digital image information.


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[User]
Title: Caller Id Surfing

Technical Field and Background:
Most of the work people do in developed economies these days pertain to using a computer and talking on the phone. Millions of people do it all the time at their office, and mobile phones have many functionalities associated with personal computers, such as color displays and text editors. When people call each other, the caller can choose to send, and the recipient can choose to receive and display, a Caller ID. This caller ID is typically the phone number of the originating telephone subscription, but clever mobile phones also convert the Caller ID into a name, if the call originating number is found in the address book of the mobile phone under a certain name. Furthermore, there are some directory enquiries companies that show the caller based on a lookup from a directory, and charge the consumer for these lookups. In addition to this EP 1 587 291 B1 discusses a method where the Caller ID can be enhanced by pushing more exotic multimedia data to the recipient of the call. US 2005/0069095 A1 on the other hand discusses finding the caller ID of the sender of a voicemail, by different methods of searching voicemails in order to discover the Caller ID. These documents are cited as references in this application. These aforementioned methods have several disadvantages. The directory enquiry companies perform the lookup from a proprietary database and/or table, and deliver very limited, expensive information, typically limited to only the name registered to the telephone number in an SMS message for a fee of tens of cents per message. Adding more exotic broadband data to the Caller ID and pushing it to the recipients makes no sense, if there is no relevant data to push into terminals. Very few terminals are also compatible with broadband Caller ID, which would require standardization among mobile phone manufacturers that is difficult to achieve. Discovering the caller ID from a voicemail afterwards would not have helped during the missed call, quite obviously. A plain call log as in the prior art does not prepare the user to the eventual conversation in more detail either. Furthermore, the conventional phone book applications in subscriber terminals do not provide any useful recent background information for a call either, they only manage the contact information.

Invention Disclosure:
A method and system for displaying and producing computer based documents seamlessly to users that relate to their telephone calls is provided. The invention is able to be used with social media, where the mobile station searches for the social media page of the caller based on the Caller ID and displays it to the recipient of the call on the mobile station screen, possibly with other Internet search results. The method and system allow the user to obtain the newest public information about the person who calls him or he decides to call, or any documents that might be intermittent between the people. The system adds “bandwidth”, i.e. speed, efficiency and more dimensions to personal communication, as the users of the inventive system can also visually see by documentation what is going on in the relationship between two or more people.

[Assistant]
1. A method for a communication system containing at least a mobile terminal, comprising:
determining at least one ID information item based on a communication session of the mobile terminal between a user of the mobile terminal and a party associated with the ID information item, different from the user of the mobile terminal;
automatically retrieving to the mobile terminal data derived from a social network account of the party associated with the ID information item;
displaying at least some of the data derived from the social network account of the party associated with the ID information item; and
during the communication session, uploading, by the mobile terminal, media data including voice, image or video to the social network to a communication space between the user of the mobile terminal and the party associated with the ID information item on the social network,
wherein the media data contain information exchanged in the communication session between the user of the mobile terminal and the party associated with the ID information item.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising
collecting data to be associated with the ID information item from at least two social networks, and
displaying the combined data with the contacts directory entry.

3. The method according to claim 2, further comprising:
automatically logging into one of the at least two social network for the user of the mobile terminal.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising
updating a social network page of the party associated with the ID information item with the retrieved data.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising
updating a social network page of the party associated with the ID information item with the media data.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the retrieving further includes:
determining the social network account associated with the ID information item based on searching results from a search engine based on the ID information item.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the ID information item is one or more of the name, the telephone number, and the email address.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the determining at least one ID information item further includes:
reading a contacts directory entry of a contacts directory based on the communication session of the mobile terminal; and
displaying that at least one ID information item associated with the contacts directory entry on a screen of the mobile terminal.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein reading the contacts directory entry of the contacts directory based on the communication session of the mobile terminal further includes:
obtaining a caller ID from the communication session of the mobile terminal; and
reading the contacts directory entry of the contacts directory using the caller ID.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable medium containing computer program for, when being executed by a computer, performing a method for a communication system containing at least a mobile terminal, the method comprising:
determining at least one ID information item based on a communication session of the mobile terminal between a user of the mobile terminal and a party associated with the ID information item, different from the user of the mobile terminal;
automatically retrieving to the mobile terminal data derived from a social network account of the party associated with the ID information item;
displaying at least some of the data derived from the social network account of the party associated with the ID information item; and
during the communication session, uploading, by the mobile terminal, media data including voice, image or video to the social network to a communication space between the user of the mobile terminal and the party associated with the ID information item on the social network,
wherein the media data contain information exchanged in the communication session between the user of the mobile terminal and the party associated with the ID information item.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 10, the method further comprising
collecting data to be associated with the ID information item from at least two social networks, and
displaying the combined data with the contacts directory entry.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 11, the method further comprising:
automatically logging into one of the at least two social network for the user of the mobile terminal.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 10, the method further comprising
updating a social network page of the party associated with the ID information item with the retrieved data.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 10, the method further comprising
updating a social network page of the party associated with the ID information item with the media data.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 10, wherein the retrieving further includes:
determining the social network account associated with the ID information item based on searching results from a search engine based on the ID information item.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 10, wherein the ID information item is one or more of the name, the telephone number, and the email address.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 10, wherein the determining at least one ID information item further includes:
reading a contacts directory entry of a contacts directory based on the communication session of the mobile terminal; and
displaying that at least one ID information item associated with the contacts directory entry on a screen of the mobile terminal.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 10, wherein reading the contacts directory entry of the contacts directory based on the communication session of the mobile terminal further includes:
obtaining a caller ID from the communication session of the mobile terminal; and
reading the contacts directory entry of the contacts directory using the caller ID.