Author: claimsbot

1. A hydraulic service module in a hydraulic regenerative drive system of a motor vehicle; said hydraulic regenerative drive system having a fluid reservoir for storing an appropriate amount of a hydraulic fluid, said hydraulic service module comprising:
an outer casing defining an enclosure;
an air chamber formed in said enclosure, said air chamber being in fluid communication with an ambient air;
at least one fluid pressure accumulator disposed in said enclosure; and
a heat exchanger provided for cooling said hydraulic fluid;
said hydraulic service module being disposed in a space defined between a cargo box and a cabin of said motor vehicle.
2. The hydraulic service module as defined in claim 1, wherein said heat exchanger is disposed in said air chamber.
3. The hydraulic service module as defined in claim 2, wherein said casing has an air inlet port providing access for air entering said air chamber.
4. The hydraulic service module as defined in claim 3, further including an air filter element mounted adjacent to said inlet port for removing airborne contaminants from air entering said air chamber.
5. The hydraulic service module as defined in claim 3, wherein casing has an air exhaust port providing access for air exiting said air chamber.
6. The hydraulic service module as defined in claim 5, wherein said heat exchanger is mounted adjacent to said exhaust port.
7. The hydraulic service module as defined in claim 5, further including a plurality of selectively adjustable louvers mounted adjacent to said air exhaust port of said casing.
8. The hydraulic service module as defined in claim 7, further including a louver actuator for automatically adjusting angular position of said louvers.
9. The hydraulic service module as defined in claim 8, further including at least one sensor monitoring at least one operating parameter of the hydraulic regenerative drive system and an electronic control unit provided for selectively controlling said louver actuator based on a signal from said at least one sensor.
10. The hydraulic service module as defined in claim 1, further including a particulate fluid filter disposed in said air chamber for filtering said hydraulic fluid.
11. The hydraulic service module as defined in claim 1, further including at least one cooling fan providing a forced air flow through said heat exchanger.
12. The hydraulic service module as defined in claim 11, wherein said at least one cooling fan is selectively driven by an associated electric motor.
13. The hydraulic service module as defined in claim 12, further including at least one sensor monitoring at least one operating parameter of the hydraulic regenerative drive system and an electronic control unit provided for selectively controlling said electric motor based on a signal from said at least one sensor.
14. The hydraulic service module as defined in claim 13, wherein said at least one sensor is a reservoir fluid temperature sensor monitoring a hydraulic fluid temperature within said fluid reservoir.
15. The hydraulic service module as defined in claim 13, wherein said at least one sensor is a reservoir fluid level sensor monitoring a hydraulic fluid level within said fluid reservoir.
16. The hydraulic service module as defined in claim 1, wherein said enclosure is divided into said fluid reservoir and said air chamber both formed in said enclosure.
17. The hydraulic service module as defined in claim 16, further including a particulate fluid filter disposed in said fluid reservoir for filtering said hydraulic fluid.
18. The hydraulic service module as defined in claim 1, wherein said at least one fluid pressure accumulator is mounted in an enclosed accumulator storage compartment formed in said enclosure.
19. The hydraulic service module as defined in claim 1, further including a valve manifold for operatively fluidly interconnecting said at least one hydraulic accumulator and said fluid reservoir.
20. The hydraulic service module as defined in claim 19, wherein said valve manifold includes at least one hydraulic control valve selectively operated by an electromagnetic solenoid.
21. The hydraulic service module as defined in claim 20, further including at least one accumulator pressure sensor monitoring a hydraulic fluid pressure in said at least one hydraulic fluid pressure accumulator and an electronic control unit provided for selectively controlling said electromagnetic solenoid of said at least one hydraulic control valve based on a signal from said at least one accumulator pressure sensor.
22. The hydraulic service module as defined in claim 19, wherein said valve manifold is mounted to said casing of said hydraulic service module.
23. The hydraulic service module as defined in claim 1, wherein said hydraulic service module is mounted to a frame member of said motor vehicle.
24. The hydraulic service module as defined in claim 1, further including an engine air cleaner element that prevents air-born particle in the air from entering a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine of said motor vehicle.
25. The hydraulic service module as defined in claim 24, wherein said air cleaner element is disposed in an air cleaner housing formed in said casing.
26. A hydraulic service module in a hydraulic fluid system having a fluid reservoir for storing an appropriate amount of a hydraulic fluid, said hydraulic service module comprising:
an outer casing defining an enclosure;
an air chamber formed in said enclosure, said air chamber being in fluid communication with an ambient air;
at least one fluid pressure accumulator disposed in said enclosure; and
a heat exchanger provided for cooling said hydraulic fluid;
said at least one fluid pressure accumulator being mounted in an enclosed accumulator storage compartment formed in said enclosure.
27. A hydraulic service module in a hydraulic regenerative drive system of a motor vehicle; said hydraulic regenerative drive system having a fluid reservoir for storing an appropriate amount of a hydraulic fluid, said hydraulic service module comprising:
an outer casing defining an enclosure;
an air chamber formed in said enclosure, said air chamber being in fluid communication with an ambient air;
at least one fluid pressure accumulator disposed in said enclosure;
a heat exchanger provided for cooling said hydraulic fluid; and
an engine air cleaner element that prevents air-born particle in the air from entering a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine of said motor vehicle;
said air cleaner element being disposed in an air cleaner housing formed in said casing.
28. A hydraulic service module in a hydraulic fluid system having a fluid reservoir for storing an appropriate amount of a hydraulic fluid, said hydraulic service module comprising:
an outer casing defining an enclosure;
an air chamber formed in said enclosure, said air chamber being in fluid communication with an ambient air;
at least one fluid pressure accumulator disposed in said enclosure;
a heat exchanger provided for cooling said hydraulic fluid;
a valve manifold for operatively fluidly interconnecting said at least one hydraulic accumulator and said fluid reservoir, said valve manifold includes at least one hydraulic control valve selectively operated by an electromagnetic solenoid; and
at least one accumulator pressure sensor monitoring a hydraulic fluid pressure in said at least one hydraulic fluid pressure accumulator and an electronic control unit provided for selectively controlling said electromagnetic solenoid of said at least one hydraulic control valve based on a signal from said at least one accumulator pressure sensor.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. An elevation-adjustable support structure comprising:
a connecting member, said connecting member having a bottom end and a top end;
a bottom hinge structure, said bottom hinge structure comprising two bottom brackets, and at least one shaft fastened to said bottom brackets and pivoted to the bottom end of said connecting member for allowing said connecting member to be turned about the at least one shaft of said bottom hinge structure between said two bottom brackets;
a top hinge structure, said top hinge structure comprising two top brackets, and at least one shaft fastened to said top brackets and pivoted to the top end of said connecting member for allowing said connecting member to be turned about the at least one shaft of said top hinge structure between said two top brackets; and
at least one linking mechanism, said at least one linking mechanism each comprising a top wheel respectively coupled between the top end of said connecting member and the top brackets of said top hinge structure, a bottom wheel respectively coupled between the bottom end of said connecting member and the bottom brackets of said bottom hinge structure, and a flexible belt member coupled between said top wheel and said bottom wheel for maintaining the angle of inclination of said top brackets upon a rotary motion of said connecting member relative to said top hinge structure and said bottom hinge structure.
2. The elevation-adjustable support structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein said connecting member comprises two top lugs and two bottom lugs respectively extended from said top end and said bottom end, said top lugs and said bottom lugs each having a pivot hole for receiving the at least one shaft of top hinge structure and the at least one shaft of said bottom hinge structure respectively.
3. The elevation-adjustable support structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein said bottom brackets are fastened to a base member; said top brackets are fastened to a top mount to support a supported member.
4. The elevation-adjustable support structure as claimed in claim 2, wherein said bottom hinge structure is comprised of two hinges, the two hinges of said bottom hinge structure each comprising one shaft of the at least one shaft of said bottom hinge structure, a first gasket, a second gasket, a ring lug at one of said bottom brackets, at least one spring washer, and an end piece member, the shaft of each hinge of said bottom hinge structure being inserted in an order through the pivot hole of one bottom lug of said connecting member, an associating first gasket, an associating second gasket, the ring lug of an associating bottom bracket, and an associating at least one spring washer, and then fastened up with an associating end piece member.
5. The elevation-adjustable support structure as claimed in claim 4, wherein each hinge of said bottom hinge structure further comprises a friction member mounted on the associating shaft between the associating bottom lug and the associating first gasket, said friction member having a pin inserted into a retaining hole in the associating bottom lug.
6. The elevation-adjustable support structure as claimed in claim 4, wherein the shaft of a first hinge of the two hinges of said bottom hinge structure is axially formed integral with the shaft of a second hinge structure of the two hinges; said bottom hinge structure further comprises a torsional spring sleeved onto the integrated shafts of the hinges of said bottom hinge structure, said torsional spring having two opposite ends respectively stopped at a groove at the bottom end of said connecting member and the surface of said base member that is fastened to said bottom brackets.
7. The elevation-adjustable support structure as claimed in claim 4, wherein the first gasket of each hinge of said bottom hinge structure has a protruding portion engaged in an arched notch at the associating bottom lug of said connecting member.
8. The elevation-adjustable support structure as claimed in claim 4, wherein the second gasket of each hinge of said bottom hinge structure is fixedly mounted in the ring lug of the associating bottom bracket, having at least one pin respectively inserted into a respective hole on the ring lug of the associating bottom bracket.
9. The elevation-adjustable support structure as claimed in claim 2, wherein said top hinge structure is comprised of two hinges, the two hinges of said top hinge structure each comprising one shaft of the at least one shaft of said top hinge structure, a first gasket, a second gasket, a ring lug at one of said top brackets, at least one spring washer, and an end piece member, the shaft of each hinge of said top hinge structure being inserted in an order through the pivot hole of one of said top lug of said connecting member, an associating first gasket, an associating second gasket, the ring lug of an associating top bracket, and an associating at least one spring washer, and then fastened up with an associating end piece member.
10. The elevation-adjustable support structure as claimed in claim 9, wherein each hinge of said top hinge structure further comprises a friction plate mounted on the associating shaft between the associating ring lug and the associating first gasket, the friction plate of each hinge of said top hinge structure having a pin inserted into a retaining groove in the associating ring lug.
11. The elevation-adjustable support structure as claimed in claim 9, wherein the first gasket of each hinge of said top hinge structure has a protruding portion engaged in an arched notch of the associating top bracket.
12. The elevation-adjustable support structure as claimed in claim 9, wherein each hinge of said top hinge structure further comprises a retaining ring and a locating ring connected between the shaft and top bracket of the respective hinge, said locating ring being fastened to the ring lug of the associating top hinge structure, said retaining ring having two protruding portions, said locating ring having two arched retaining grooves symmetrically disposed at two opposite sides; when said top brackets are turned with said top mount, each protruding portion of said retaining ring is moved over one retaining groove of said locating ring into the other retaining groove of said locating ring to hold said top mount in parallel to said base member.
13. The elevation-adjustable support structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein said top wheel and said bottom wheel each have a belt groove extending around the periphery thereof, and said belt member is an endless belt coupled to the belt groove of said top wheel and the belt groove of said bottom wheel.
14. The elevation-adjustable support structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein said top wheel and said bottom wheel are chain wheels; said belt member is a chain meshed with said chain wheels.
15. The elevation-adjustable support structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein said top wheel and said bottom wheel are gear wheels; said belt member is a toothed belt meshed with said gear wheels.

1. A method of forming a field effect transistor (FET), comprising:
forming a channel layer with a semiconductor substrate;
forming a gate oxide layer on the channel layer;
forming a gate electrode material on the gate oxide layer;
forming a mask layer on the gate electrode material;
patterning the gate electrode material using the mask layer to form a gate electrode;
forming spacers;
etching the channel layer using the spacers as a mask for defining regions reserved for a source region and a drain region; and
forming an impurity-containing epitaxial layer in the defined regions to form the source and drain regions.
2. The method of claim 2, wherein the FET is a FinFET and the step of forming a channel layer comprises forming a protruded channel layer.
3. A method of forming a FinFET comprising:
providing a semiconductor substrate with a protrusion, the protrusion having a top surface and opposite side surfaces;
forming a layer on the protrusion;
patterning the layer to form a line pattern from the layer, the line pattern extending across the top surface of the protrusion;
removing a first portion of the protrusion on a first side of the line pattern at a first location;
removing a second portion of the protrusion on a second side of the line pattern at a second location, a remaining portion of the protrusion under the line pattern and defined by the removal of the first and second portions of the protrusion comprising a channel region of the FinFET;
eptitaxially growing a source region of the FinFET at the first location of the semiconductor substrate and a drain region of the FinFET at the second location of the semiconductor substrate, the channel region being interposed between the source region and the drain region.
4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:
implanting impurities into a first portion of the semiconductor substrate; and
forming the protrusion from the first portion.
5. The method of claim 3, wherein the first line pattern comprises a hard mask comprising an insulating material.
6. The method of claim 5, further comprising forming gate sidewall spacers.
7. The method of claim 6, wherein a junction of the source region and the channel region aligns with a first gate sidewall spacer and a junction of the drain region and the channel region aligns with a second gate sidewall spacer.
8. The method of claim 3, wherein the line pattern comprises a gate structure.
9. The method of claim 8, wherein the gate structure comprises a floating gate.
10. The method of claim 9, wherein the gate structure comprises a gate electrode.
11. The method of claim 3, wherein the line pattern is formed to extend from one of the opposite side surfaces of the protrusion to the other of the opposite side surfaces of the protrusion and across the top surface of the protrusion.
12. The method of claim 11, wherein the first line pattern comprises polysilicon.
13. The method of claim 3, further comprising:
etching a trench in the semiconductor substrate;
forming an insulating material in the trench; and
etching a top surface of the insulating material in the trench to expose the opposite side surfaces of the protrusion.
13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:
implanting impurities of the protrusion into the semiconductor substrate prior to etching the trench in the semiconductor substrate.
14. The method of claim 3, further comprising:
epitaxially growing the protrusion on the semiconductor substrate.
15. A method of forming a FinFET comprising:
forming a fin extending from a semiconductor substrate, the fin comprising a crystalline semiconductor material;
forming a gate structure including sidewall spacers;
removing first and second portions of the fin to respective first and second locations;
epitaxially growing a drain region of the FinFET at the first location of the semiconductor substrate and epitaxially growing a source region of the FinFET at the second location of the semiconductor substrate,
wherein a channel region of the FinFET is formed from the fin at a location under the gate structure and between the drain region and the source region.
16. The method of claim 15, wherein a junction of the source region and the channel region aligns with a first sidewall spacer of the gate structure and a junction of the drain region and the channel region aligns with a second sidewall spacer of the gate structure.
17. The method of claim 15, wherein the gate structure is formed before removing first and second portions of the fin.
18. The method of claim 15, wherein the gate structure comprises a gate electrode extending along side surfaces and a top surface of the channel region formed from the fin.
19. The method of claim 15, wherein the step of removing first and second portions of the fin comprises anisotropic etching.
20. The method of claim 15, wherein the drain region and source region are grown with impurities.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A radio access network apparatus, comprising:
a first storage area and a second storage area different from the first storage area;
a receiver that receives, from a mobile station, a request signal comprising context information used to communicate with the mobile station and subsequently receives, from the mobile station, a completion signal that indicates that a connection with the mobile station is established;
a controller that controls storage of the context information in the first storage area in response to receiving the request signal and that controls storage of the context information in the second storage area in response to receiving the completion signal.
2. The radio access network apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:
a transmitter that transmits, to the mobile station, a setup signal used to setup a connection with the mobile station, in response to receiving the request signal,
wherein the completion signal is transmitted by the mobile station in response to the setup signal.
3. The radio access network apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first storage area is a temporary storage area.
4. The radio access network apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:
a memory that comprises the first storage area and the second storage area.
5. The radio access network apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:
a first memory that comprises the first storage area; and
a second memory that comprises the second storage area,
wherein the first memory is physically different from the second memory.
6. The radio access network apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a capacity of the first storage area is less than a capacity of the second storage area.
7. The radio access network apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first storage area comprises a plurality of first sub-sections and the second storage area comprises a plurality of second sub-sections, and a number of the second sub-sections in the second storage area is larger than a number of the first sub-sections in first storage area.
8. The radio access network apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller controls the first storage area such that new information stored in the first storage area overwrites the oldest information previously stored in the first storage area.
9. A radio access network apparatus comprising:
a first storage are and a second storage area different from the first storage area;
a receiver that receives, from at least one mobile station, a plurality of request signals, each comprising context information used to communicate with a mobile station;
a detector that detects a number of the plurality request signals received by the receiver; and
a controller
wherein, when a number of the plurality of request signals received by the receiver exceeds a predetermined number, the controller controls storage of the context information in the first storage area, in response to receiving the request signal, and
wherein, when a number of the plurality of request signals received by the receiver does not exceed the predetermined number, the controller controls storage of the context information in the second storage area, in response to receiving the request signal.
10. A control method for a radio access network apparatus, the method comprising:
receiving, from a mobile station, a request signal comprising context information used to communicate with the mobile station;
in response to receiving the request signal, allocating a sub-section of a first storage area for storing the context information;
receiving, from the mobile station, a completion signal that indicates that a connection with the mobile station is established, and
in response to receive the completion signal, allocating a sub-section of a second storage area, different from the first storage area, for storing the context information previously allocated to the sub-section of the first storage area.
11. The control method according to claim 10, further comprising:
subsequent to allocating the sub-section of the first storage area, transmitting, to the mobile station, a setup signal.
12. The control method according to claim 10, wherein the first storage area is a temporary storage area.
13. The control method according to claim 10, further comprising:
in response to allocating the sub-section of the first storage area, storing the context information in the allocated sub-section of the first storage area, and
in response to allocating the sub-section of the second storage area, storing the context information in the allocated sub-section of the second storage area.
14. The control method according to claim 13, wherein the storing the context information in the allocated sub-section of the first storage area comprises overwriting the oldest information previously stored in the first storage area.
15. A mobile communication system comprising:
a mobile station; and
a radio access network apparatus,
wherein the radio access network apparatus comprises:
a first storage area and a second storage area different from the first storage area;
a receiver that receives, from the mobile station, a request signal comprising context information used to communicate with the mobile station and subsequently receives, from the mobile station, a completion signal that indicates that a connection with the mobile station is established;
a controller that controls storage of the context information in the first storage area in response to receiving the request signal and that controls storage of the context information in the second storage area in response to receiving the completion signal; and

wherein the mobile station comprises:
a transmitter that transmits, to the radio access network apparatus, the request signal and the completion signal.
16. A non-transitory computer readable medium embodying instructions for controlling a device to implement a control method for radio access network apparatus, the control method comprising:
receiving, from a mobile station, a request signal comprising context information used to communicate with the mobile station;
in response to receiving the request signal, allocating a sub-section of a first storage area for storing the context information;
receiving, from the mobile station, a completion signal that indicates that the connection with the mobile station is established, and
in response to receive the completion signal, allocating a sub-section of a second storage area, different from the first storage area, for storing the context information previously allocated to the sub-section of the first storage area.