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1. A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet comprising a film on an outermost surface of a steel sheet, wherein the film comprises a phosphate, a silica, a manganese compound, and a potassium compound, wherein the phosphate includes one or more metals selected from the group consisting of Al, Mg, Ni, Mn, Co, Mo, Zr, Sr, and Ca, wherein relative amounts of the phosphate, the silica, and the manganese compound in the film are 100 parts by mass of the phosphate expressed as a solid material, 20 to 80 parts by mass of the silica expressed as a solid material, and 0.5 to 15 parts by mass of the manganese compound other than the phosphate expressed as a manganese dioxide, and wherein a mole ratio KMn of potassium to manganese is 0.02 to 2.0.
2. A method of producing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet, the method comprising:
applying a solution on a surface of a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet after final annealing is completed,
drying the solution, and
baking the steel sheet at a temperature range equal to or more than 800\xb0 C. and equal to or less than 1000\xb0 C., thereby forming an oxide film,
wherein the solution comprises a phosphate, a silica, a manganese compound, and a potassium compound, wherein the phosphate comprises one or more metal selected from the group consisting of Al, Mg, Ni, Mn, Co, Mo, Zr, Sr, and Ca, wherein relative amounts of the phosphate, the silica, and the manganese compound in the solution are 100 parts by mass of the phosphate expressed as a solid material, 20 to 80 parts by mass of the silica expressed as a solid material, and 0.5 to 15 parts by mass of the manganese compound other than the phosphate expressed as a manganese dioxide, wherein a mole ratio KMn of potassium to manganese is 0.02 to 2.0, and wherein the solution has a solid material in the range of 5 mass % or more and 50 mass % or less.
3. The method of producing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to claim 2, wherein the manganese compound is a potassium permanganate.
4. A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet comprising a film on an outermost surface of a steel sheet, wherein the film comprises a phosphate, a silica, a manganese compound, and a potassium compound, wherein the phosphate includes one or more metals selected from the group consisting of Al, Mg, Ni, Mn, Co, Mo, Zr, Sr, and Ca, wherein relative amounts of the phosphate, the silica, and the manganese compound in the film are 100 parts by mass of the phosphate expressed as a solid material, 20 to 80 parts by mass of the silica expressed as a solid material, and 0.5 to 15 parts by mass of the manganese compound other than the phosphate expressed as a manganese dioxide, wherein a mole ratio KMn of potassium to manganese is 0.02 to 2.0, and wherein the film is formed by drying a solution having a solid material in the range of 5 mass % or more and 50 mass % or less.
5. A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet produced by the method of claim 2.
6. The method of producing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to claim 2, wherein the manganese compound is a permanganate salt of a metal selected from the group consisting of an alkali metal, an alkali earth metal, and Zn.
7. The method of producing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to claim 6, wherein the manganese compound is sodium permanganate, magnesium permanganate, or potassium permanganate.
8. The method of producing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to claim 6, wherein the manganese compound is potassium permanganate.
9. The method of producing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to claim 2, wherein the potassium compound is an organic acid salt of potassium or an inorganic acid salt of potassium.
10. The method of producing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to claim 9, wherein the potassium compound is potassium acetate or potassium oxalate.
11. The method of producing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to claim 9, wherein the potassium compound is potassium chloride or potassium nitrate.
12. The method of producing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to claim 2, wherein the manganese compound and the potassium compound are both potassium permanganate.
13. The grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to claim 1, wherein the manganese compound includes manganese phosphate and manganese oxide.

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 computer-implemented method of performing email communication search to create and save a search result context, comprising:
accessing email communication and related data from a first data repository, wherein related data comprises people, groups, domains of email addresses and attachment of the email communications;
generating and storing, in a second data repository, an index from the email communication and related data based on relationships entailed in the email communications, wherein the index is used for searching and creating contextual relationship; and
retrieving desired email communications and related data, in response to a request based on at least one input from a user, the input comprising the user choosing at least one filter;
generating a contextual relationship from the index of the retrieved email communications, wherein the contextual relationship comprising a social network that represents a network of groups of people, groups of domains, and connection types; and
generating a search result context based on the retrieved contextual relationship, email communications and related data, wherein the search result context can be displayed in people based view, domain based view, email based view or attachment based view;
processing the search result context by:
retrieving specific groups of people, groups of domains, or connection types relating to the search result context; and
graphically representing the retrieved network of groups of people, groups of domains, or connection types to the user, the graphical representing including displaying icons that visually provide a conceptual map of the user of how each of the groups of people and groups of domains for which at least another user belonging thereto has communicated emails tofrom the user are connected to the user;
displaying a people view textual list of persons who have communicated emails with the user, and displaying a numerical number of emails exchanged in current search result context between the user and each person listed in the people view textual list;
displaying a view of all the people related to the search result context and type of connection shared with the displayed people, where the type of connections displayed include a direct connection, a one-way connection, and an indirection connection, the one- way connection comprising the user either receiving or sending an e-mail communication, and indirect connection comprising hidden relationship without the user directly receiving or sending e-mail communication; and
saving the search result context and automatically classifying new emails into the search result context based on matching contextual relationship.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the email communication and related data is accessed from a corporate messaging server, or web based email server.
3. The method of claim 2 wherein multiple corporate messaging servers or web based email servers are searched when accessing the email communication and related data from the first data repository.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein email communication and related data accessed from a messaging server is updated at realtime.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein the relationships include email communication addresses or name of the person, related people, email communication, filters, number of persons involved in a conversation, attachments, from, to, cc, bcc, date, time, subject, headers, keywords in the communication, folders, conversation thread, and enhanced search including one or more of boolean search, fuzzy search, phrase search or wild card search.
6. The method of claim 5 wherein the relationships include filters, people view, domain based, mail based, and context based view.
7. The method of claim 5 farther comprising creating and saving relationships for future use.
8. The method of claim 7 wherein email communications and related data are automatically classified into matching contexts based on relationships created and saved for future use by the user.
9. The method of claim 1 wherein input of the user includes search in Boolean search, fuzzy search, phrase search and wild card search.
10. The method of claim 1 wherein the at least one filter includes email communication addresses or domain addresses or name of the person, related people, number of persons involved in a conversation, attachments, from, to, cc, bcc, date, time, subject, headers, keywords in the communication, folders, conversation thread, enhanced search such as boolean search, fuzzy search, or phrase search or wild card search.
11. The method of claim 10 where the at least one filter includes keyword search, from, to, cc, bcc, date, time, subject, headers, attachments, number of person involved in a conversation, email communication addresses or domain addresses or name of the person, or folders.
12. The method of claim 1 wherein retrieval of the desired communication comprises applying the at least one filter, simultaneously or at various levels, on the email communications to get search results.
13. The method of claim 12 wherein further search is performed on the search results comprising:
taking search results as input for a further search. including adding a person to context from a people view and adding a domain from a domain view; and
choosing an email communication or attachment to get a thread related to that email communication or attachment which lists all the email communications in the thread along with a people group and attachment list exchanged in the thread in different views.
14. The method of claim 1 wherein retrieval of the desired email communication, person, or group is effected based on various inputs, the various inputs comprising person or domain search results from a person or domain based view, switching between different filters and relationships to get corresponding results.
15. The method of claim 1 wherein retrieval of the desired communication is effected by an individual as a part of a group.
16. The method of claim 1 wherein only a portion of the second data repository is used and wherein filters are applied only at runtime on the index stored in the second data repository when the user makes a request.
17. A computer-implemented system for performing email communication search to create and save a search result context, the system comprising:
one or more non-transitory computer storage medium stored thereon:
a first data memory that stores email communications and related data, wherein related data comprises people, groups, domains of email addresses and attachment of the email communications;
an index generator that generates an index from an email communication and related data based on relationships entailed in the email communications, wherein the index is used for searching and creating contextual relationship;
a second data memory that stores the index from the email communication and related data;
one or more processors connected with the one or more non-transitory computer storage medium to implement one or more modules that, in response to a request based on at least one input from a user, the input comprising the user choosing at least one filter, perform the functions of:
retrieving desired email communications and related data;
generating a contextual relationship from the index of the retrieved email communications, wherein the contextual relationship comprising a social network that represents a network of groups of people, groups of domains, and connection types;
generating a search result context based on the retrieved contextual relationship, email communications and related data, wherein the search result context can be displayed in people based view, domain based view, email based view or attachment based view;
processing the search result context by:
retrieving specific groups of people, groups of domains, or connection types relating to the search result context; and
graphically representing the retrieved network of groups of people, groups of domains, or connection types to the user, the graphical representing including displaying icons that visually provide a conceptual map of the user of how each of the groups of people and groups of domains for which at least another user belonging thereto has communicated emails tofrom the user are connected to the user;
causing a display to display a people view textual list of persons who have communicated emails with the user, and displaying a numerical number of emails exchanged in current search result context between the user and each person listed in the people view textual list;
causing the display to display a view of all the people related to the search result context and type of connection shared with the displayed people, where the type of connections displayed include a direct connection, a one-way connection, and an indirection connection, the one-way connection comprising the user either receiving or sending an e-mail communication, and indirect connection comprising hidden relationship without the user directly receiving or sending e-mail communication; and
saving the search result context and automatically classifying new emails into the search result context based on matching contextual relationship.
18. The system of claim 17 further comprising
a second module that synchronizes new email communications and related data up-to-date in the second data memory.
19. The system of claim 17 further comprising
a plug-in module that invokes appropriate plug-ins based on a requirement of the user, wherein the plug-ins may be added at a runtime which may index emails to display results in different views.
20. The method of claim I wherein the retrieving is performed based only on filtering the stored index of the email communication and not based on emails themselves.
21. The system of claim 17, wherein at least one module responds to the request of the user by analyzing only the stored index and not analyzing emails themselves.
22. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying the search result context in any one of a people based view, domain based view, email based view, or attachment based view.
23. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
prompting a user to save the specific group retrieved based on the search result context.
24. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
displaying all emails and attachments related to the specific group retrieved.
25. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
prompting a user to save the search result context; and
updating the list of emails from persons who have communicated emails based on the saved search result context.
26. The method of claim 1, wherein further search is performed using the search result context as an input for a next level search.
27. The method of claim 26, wherein the further search includes at least one of people, domains, attachment names, or emails.
28. The system of claim 17, wherein the display further displays the search result context in any one of a people based view, domain based view, email based view, or attachment based view.
29. The system of claim 17, wherein at least one module prompts a user to save the specific group retrieved based on the search result context.
30. The system of claim 17, wherein the display further displays all emails and attachments related to the specific group retrieved.
31. The system of claim 30, wherein the module applies different filters and search options on the displayed emails.
32. The system of claim 17, wherein at least one module prompts a user to save the search result context; and
the index generator updates the list of emails from persons who have communicated emails based on the saved search result context.
33. The system of claim 17, wherein at least one module performs a further search using the search result context as an input for a next level search.
34. The system of claim 33, wherein the further search includes at least one of people, domains, attachment names, or emails.
35. The system of claim 17, wherein at least one module performs a search to identify people and groups of people includes people and groups in a contact list of the user, and people and groups with which the user has exchanged email.
36. The system of claim 17, wherein the second data memory stores the contexts and filters, and the system further comprises a second module that synchronizes new email communications and related data up-to-date in the second data memory based on the stored contexts and filters.

1. A solar generator panel comprising an array (100) of strings (4; 1a-8a; 1b-8b) of photovoltaic cells (1) disposed side by side and substantially forming a grid on a \u201cfront\u201d, first face of the panel, said cells being electrically interconnected to form a plurality of independent strings (4), each string being made up of cells connected in series in pairs forming rows (70) of mutually parallel cells, two successive rows in a string being electrically interconnected at their ends via connection means (51) that, from a connection to one of said two successive rows passes through the panel via a first opening (61) and that are laid on a rear face of said panel and that subsequently pass back through the panel via another first opening to connect to a second of said two rows, each string comprising positive terminals (+) and negative terminals (-), said positive and negative terminals being distributed along each string and over the structure of the panel so that the positive terminals are remote from the negative terminals so as to reduce the risk of an electric arc appearing between two terminals, each end cell (1a, 8a, 1b, 8b) of a string being connected to at least one electrical energy collector cable (52) passing via at least one respective opening for bringing together collector cables and referred to as a \u201csecond\u201d opening (62), the panel being characterized in that the cells are square or rectangular in area and are cropped at their four corners (30), the arrangement of the cells having cropped corners in the form of a grid causing small free spaces (7\u2032) to appear in the interstices between the cropped corners of adjacent cells, in which spaces there are created the first openings and the second openings for bringing together the collector cables, which cables are directed thereto.
2. A panel according to claim 1, characterized in that at least one inter-panel damping block is disposed in at least one of said free spaces in the interstices between the cropped corners of adjacent cells.
3. A panel according to claim 1, in which the cells are fabricated using a method of cutting a Ge wafer.
4. A panel according to claim 1, in which the electrical connections between two successive adjacent cells in any one string are made at the rear face of one of the cells close to at least one of its cropped corners.
5. A satellite including a solar generator panel according to claim 1.

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

What is claimed is:

1. Means for externally connecting battery pack to portable computer, said portable computer including a main body for positioning on a flat surface for use, comprising:
at least an elongate receiving recess being provided at a predetermined position near at least one lateral side of a bottom surface of said main body of said portable computer; and
at least one battery pack being removably fitted in said at least one receiving recess; each said battery pack including a lower case, an upper case, and at least one battery received between said lower and said upper cases; said lower case having a bottom configuration that creates a height difference between said lower case and said bottom surface of said main body, so that said battery pack downward projects from said bottom surface of said main body by a fixed distance defined by said height difference after said battery pack is fitted in said receiving recess; and said fixed distance enabling a heat dissipation space to exist between said bottom surface of said main body of said portable computer and said flat surface on which said portable computer is supported.
2. Means for externally connecting battery pack to portable computer, said portable computer including a main body for positioning on a flat surface for use, comprising:
two elongate receiving recesses being separately provided at a predetermined position near each lateral side of a bottom surface of said main body of said portable computer; and
two battery packs being separately removably fitted in said elongate receiving recesses; each said battery pack including a housing and at least one battery enclosed in said housing;
whereby said portable computer with two said battery packs externally connected to said main body has doubled power capacity for use over an extended time period.
3. The means for externally connecting battery pack to portable computer as claimed in claim 1, wherein said at least one receiving recess extends in parallel with said lateral side of said main body.
4. The means for externally connecting battery pack to portable computer as claimed in claim 1, wherein each said receiving recess is provided at two lateral ends thereof with two rails that project into each said receiving recess for slidably guiding said battery pack into each said receiving recess.
5. The means for externally connecting battery pack to portable computer as claimed in claim 3, wherein each said receiving recess is provided at two lateral ends thereof with two rails that project into each said receiving recess for slidably guiding said battery pack into each said receiving recess.
6. The means for externally connecting battery pack to portable computer as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a holding device provided on said main body near an inner edge of said at least one receiving recess, and said holding device including a transverse bar provided with a push key for moving said holding device laterally and a predetermined number of catches for engaging with said at least one battery pack.
7. The means for externally connecting battery pack to portable computer as claimed in claim 6, wherein said lower case is provided at two lateral ends with two channels corresponding to and engaging with said two rails projected into said receiving recess, so that said lower case is slidable on said rails relative to said main body; and an end of each said channel facing toward said main body defining an opening via which an outer end of each said rail is easily guided into said channel; and wherein said lower case is provided on an inner edge at predetermined positions with slots separately corresponding to said catches of said holding device on said main body, and each of said slots being provided at a predetermined position with a retaining means for holding said catch of said holding device thereto.