A sample semiconductor device which is processed and/or observed with the focused liquid metal ion beam can be returned again to the manufacturing process in this invention. The metal ions used in this apparatus are generally Ga ions. Ga ions contaminate a semiconductor device and a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus by auto-doping. An area which is irradiated with a focused liquid metal ion is doped by the metal ions which are subsequently removed by irradiation with a gas ion beam or covere...

An automatic performance apparatus able to freely specify any two points A and B during the ALL repeat automatic performance. When the specified point A is closer to the start of the tune sequence being repeated than the point B, the apparatus repeats the performance between the two points A and B. When point B is closer to the start of the tune sequence, the performance skips from point B to point A.

An isolated polypeptide (JNK) characterized by having a molecular weight of 46kD as determined by reducing SDS-PAGE, having serine and threonine kinase activity, phosphorylating the c-Jun N-terminal activation domain and polynucleotide sequences and method of detection of JNK are provided herein. JNK phosphorylates c-Jun N-terminal activation domain which affects gene expression from AP-1 sites.

A position reading apparatus and keyboard apparatus using a feedback loop for inputting positional information into an external device. A pointer having a resonant circuit is used to establish a feedback loop having as part of the feedback loop a first coupling device a second coupling device, an amplifier and the resonant circuit. When the resonant circuit approaches the first and second coupling devices electromagnetic coupling is established between the position pointer and the first and seco...

A smoke alarm having a smoke chamber with at least two inlet ports together with an array of louvered apertures and flue means to provide free access to the smoke chamber for smoke flowing in any direction within a hemispherical zone. A circuit employing photocells to measure smoke obscuration and reflection by means of an improved wheatstone bridge to sound a loud audible alarm. A relaxation oscillator coupled to a light source which is used for the optical portion of the smoke alarm. The oscil...

The present invention is a liquid crystal display which has liquid crystal disposed between a pair of substrates. A first substrate has a transparent electrical conductive coated surface, including a plurality of indicia members which enable indicia to be formed by the display. A second substrate has one surface with a reflective coating thereon that covers a substantial portion of the surface of said substrate which forms the observed part of the display. In one form of the invention the reflec...

A propagation line adder may be fabricated by replicating a unit circuit along a sense and reference propagation path. Each unit circuit corresponds to bits of the same order of magnitude of the binary addends. Selected segments of the sense propagation path are set a specified logical potential value and are coupled according to control signals generated within the unit circuit in response to the addend bits. The reference propagation path is then discharged and a sense amplifier, coupled to ea...

A boat hull cleaning apparatus having a plurality of uniquely designed brushing units is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a plurality of brushing devices each device being disposed in an associated housing. The brushing device comprises a rotatable base member having an axis of rotation, and a plurality of cleaning bristles extending outwardly from the base member. The bristles are disposed on the base member so as to be substantially parallel to the axis of rotation. A motor is disposed in th...

This drilling device includes a hydraulic motor, coaxially surrounding the drill rod, for rotating the drill. The rotor of the motor directly rotates the drill, without the use of gears. Advantageously, the rotor includes a replaceable adapter sleeve that has a shape conforming to the peripheral shape of the drill. By replacing the sleeve, drill rods of different shape or size can be accommodated. The rotor may be of the wing cell type, wherein a plurality of radially moveable vanes or wings pro...

In a telephone answering device, a bistable circuit employing a single operational amplifier is used for mode switching. The bistable circuit uses feedback resistors from the operational amplifier output to respective inverting and non-inverting amplifier inputs. A capacitor is connected from a voltage terminal to one or the other input so as to force the amplifier output to an initial respectively high or low output state. If high, this state is maintained by selecting the feedback resistors to...