Author: claimsbot

1. A semiconductor substrate jig used for arranging a film on one surface of a semiconductor substrate, wherein said semiconductor substrate jig comprises: a frame; and an expandable member arranged within said frame, and increasing or decreasing volume while deforming a shape of said expandable member by being supplied with fluid therein; wherein said shape is deformed so that said film arranged between said semiconductor substrate and said expandable member is pressed against said semiconductor substrate as contacting portion of the expandable member to the film is enlarged outwardly from the center of said film as said volume increases.
2. A semiconductor substrate jig as claimed in claim 1, wherein a movable plate is provided inside said expandable member, and is movable to a position contacting said expandable member when said expandable member presses substantially an entire surface of said film against said semiconductor substrate, wherein a state in which said expandable member presses said substantially entire surface of said film to said semiconductor substrate is maintained by said movable plate.
3. A semiconductor substrate jig claimed in claim 2, wherein a suction mechanism for suctioning said expandable member is provided in said movable plate.

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 power module adapted to be connected to a voltage source and to supply power to a load, the power module comprising:
a power transistor; and
a gate controller for driving the power transistor;
wherein the gate controller comprises:
a gate transformer, and
an impulse generator that extends a negative drive phase of a gate voltage to the power transistor relative to a positive drive phase of the gate voltage to the power transistor.
2. The power module of claim 1, wherein the impulse generator comprises:
a capacitor in parallel with an input capacitance of the power transistor, and a switching element.
3. The power module of claim 1, wherein the gate transformer includes a low frequency ferrite.
4. A method of driving a power module, the method comprising:
connecting the power module to a voltage source;
supplying power from the power module to a load;
controlling a gate of at least one power transistor of the power module with a gate controller that includes a gate transformer and an impulse generator; and
creating pulses with the impulse generator to drive the gate of the at least one power transistor with a reduced duty cycle.
5. The method of claim 4, further comprising generating a symmetrical square-wave voltage that is applied to the gate transformer.
6. The method of claim 4, wherein creating the pulses includes using a switching element and a capacitor.
7. A method of driving a power module, the method comprising:
connecting the power module to a voltage source;
supplying power from the power module to a load;
controlling a gate of at least one power transistor of the power module with a gate controller that includes a gate transformer and an impulse generator;
creating pulses with the impulse generator to drive the gate of the at least one power transistor with a gate voltage; and
extending a negative drive phase of the gate voltage relative to a positive drive phase.
8. The method of claim 7, further comprising reducing the amplitude of the negative drive voltage.
9. The method of claim 7, further comprising generating a symmetrical square-wave voltage that is applied to the gate transformer.
10. The method of claim 9, further comprising generating the symmetrical square-wave voltage with a frequency that is close to a self resonance of a resonant circuit formed by an input capacitance of the at least one power transistor and a leakage inductance of the gate transformer.
11. The method of claim 7, wherein creating the pulses includes using a switching element and a capacitor.
12. The method of claim 11, wherein creating the pulses includes using a body diode of the switching element.

1. A system for protecting sensitive data comprising:
one or more clients, each client having a respective processor and a respective data storage device communicably coupled to its respective processor; and
a server communicably coupled to the one or more clients;
wherein a first one of the clients and the server protect sensitive data items stored by the first one of the clients in a respective first data storage device by restricting subsequent access to and use of the sensitive data items by:
the first one of the clients replacing the sensitive data items with one or more pointers received from the server, the one or more pointers comprising non-sensitive data of a same data type as the sensitive data and indicating one or more locations where the sensitive data items have been stored in a secure storage by the server,
a respective first processor of the first one of the clients receiving a first request for data,
the first processor determining whether the first request requires one or more items of sensitive data,
the first processor providing the requested data from a respective first storage device of the first one of the clients when the first request does not require sensitive data, otherwise
performing the following steps when the first request requires the one or more sensitive data items:
the first one of the clients sending a second request containing one or more pointers to the server, the server authenticating the second request,
the server denying the second request when the authentication fails, and
the server providing the one or more sensitive data items corresponding to the one or more pointers included in the second request when the authentication succeeds.
2. The system of claim 1, wherein the sensitive data items comprise at least one of: personal data, financial data, corporate data, legal data, government data, police data, immigration data, military data, intelligence data, security data, surveillance data, technical data, copyrighted content or a combination thereof.
3. The system of claim 1, wherein: each client comprises a respective one of: a computer, a laptop computer, a handheld computer, a desktop computer, a workstation, a data terminal, a phone, a mobile phone, a personal data assistant, a media player, a gaming console, a security device, a surveillance device or a combination thereof; and the server is communicably coupled to each respective one of the one or more clients via a respective computer network, a telecommunications network, a wireless communications link, a physical connection, a landline, a satellite communications link, an optical communications link, a cellular network or a combination thereof.
4. The system of claim 1, wherein communications between the server and one or more of the one or more clients are encrypted.
5. A method for protecting sensitive data comprising:
receiving, at a server communicably coupled to one or more clients, first extracted data from a first one of the clients, storing the first extracted data at locations in a secure storage indicated by pointers, and sending to the first one of the clients the pointers,
at the first one of the clients, replacing the extracted data with the pointers, wherein the extracted data comprises one or more items of sensitive data and the pointers comprise non-sensitive data of a same data type as the sensitive data;
receiving, at the server, a first request for data,
determining, by the server, whether the first request requires the one or more items of sensitive data, and
if the first request does not require the one or more items of sensitive data, providing the requested data, and otherwise,
if the first request does require the one or more items of sensitive data, receiving a second request containing one or more of the pointers, authenticating the second request, denying the second request when the authentication fails, and otherwise providing the one or more sensitive data items corresponding to the one or more pointers included in the second request when the authentication succeeds.
6. The system of claim 5, wherein the sensitive data items comprise at least one of: personal data, financial data, corporate data, legal data, government data, police data, immigration data, military data, intelligence data, security data, surveillance data, technical data, copyrighted content or a combination thereof.
7. The system of claim 5, wherein: each client comprises a respective one of: a computer, a laptop computer, a handheld computer, a desktop computer, a workstation, a data terminal, a phone, a mobile phone, a personal data assistant, a media player, a gaming console, a security device, a surveillance device or a combination thereof; and the server is communicably coupled to each respective one of the one or more clients via a respective computer network, a telecommunications network, a wireless communications link, a physical connection, a landline, a satellite communications link, an optical communications link, a cellular network or a combination thereof.
8. File system of claim 5, wherein communications between the server and one or more of the one or more clients are encrypted.

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. Process for the production of a sidewall-segment of a container with a shaping, wherein the shaping is inserted prior to forming the sidewall-segment into a sidewall of a container and extends around the entire circumference of the container.
2. Process preferably according to claim 1, wherein the sidewall-segment is transported, preferably rotated along a horizontal plane while the shaping is inserted.
3. Process preferably according to claim 1, wherein the shaping is pressed into the sidewall-segment by means of a die.
4. Process according to claim 1, wherein the shaping is made by plastic deformation.
5. Process according to claim 1, wherein the shaping is made by material removal.
6. Process according to claim 1, wherein a compression-improvement-means is provided to improve the compression of the shaping.
7. Process according to one of the preceding claims, claim 1, wherein the shaping is provided with at least one, preferably two, knurls, more preferably one on each side of the sidewall-segment.
8. Process according to claim 6, wherein the compression-improvement-means comprises an indentation formed at a rim of the shaping and extending parallel to the shaping.
9. Process according to claim 6, wherein the compression-improvement-means is an embossment plastically formed or cut into the sidewall-segment.
10. Process for the production of a sidewall-segment of a container with a shaping, wherein the shaping is formed prior to forming the sidewall-segment into a sidewall of a container and extends around the entire circumference of the container, wherein the shaping is compressed after the shaping has been formed.