Author: claimsbot

What is claimed is:

1. A valve drive unit for driving a valve having a valve body comprising:
an input shaft;
an external gear eccentrically and wobbly rotatable around the input shaft;
an internal gear engaged with the external gear; and
a carrier being able to absorb a wobbling ingredient of the external gear, wherein one of the internal gear and the carrier is able to fixed and the other is able to coupled to the valve body, as to eccentric wobbling rotational resistance of the external gear, two types of the valve drive units are prepared, one type of which has a first resistance against reverse torque from the valve body to the external gear, and the other type of which has a second resistance being smaller than the first resistance, and one type of the valve drive units is selected.
2. The valve drive unit according to claim 1, wherein
the valve drive unit has a sliding section between the external gear and another component, the type which has the first resistance has no sliding acceleration member, and the type which has the second resistance has a sliding acceleration member.
3. The valve drive unit according to claim 1, wherein
the valve drive unit has a sliding section between the external gear and another component, a sliding acceleration member is disposed in the sliding section, and a sliding resistance of the sliding acceleration member of the type which has the first resistance is bigger than that of the sliding acceleration member of the type which has the second resistance.
4. The valve drive unit according to claim 1, wherein
the valve drive unit has a sliding section between the external gear and another component, a sliding acceleration member is disposed in the sliding section, and a coefficient of friction of the sliding acceleration member of the type which has the first resistance is bigger than that of the sliding acceleration member of the type which has the second resistance.
5. The valve drive units according to claim 2, wherein the valve drive unit has an eccentric element to wobbly rotate the external gear, and the sliding section between the external gear and another component is the sliding section between the external gear and the eccentric element.
6. The valve drive units according to claim 2, wherein the carrier includes an inner pin fitted into an inner pinhole formed in the external gear with play for the sake of absorbing the wobbling ingredient of the external gear, and the sliding section between the external gear and another component is the sliding section between the inner pinhole formed in the external gear and the inner pin.
7. The valve drive units according to claim 2, wherein the valve drive unit has an eccentric element to wobbly rotate the external gear, the carrier includes an inner pin fitted into an inner pinhole formed in the external gear with play for the sake of absorbing the wobbling ingredient of the external gear, and the sliding section between the external gear and another component is the sliding section between the external gear and the eccentric element and is also the sliding section between the inner pinhole formed in the external gear and the inner pin.
8. A series of valve drive units for driving a valve body via reduction gears,
each reduction gear comprising an eccentric wobbling inscribed gear type of planetary gear mechanism, as at least one of reduction mechanisms of the reduction gear, having an input shaft, an external gear eccentrically and wobbly rotatable around the input shaft, an internal gear engaged with the external gear, and a carrier being able to absorb a wobbling ingredient of the external gear, one of the internal gear and the carrier being able to fixed and the other being able to coupled to the valve body, wherein
at least two types of the valve drive units are provided, one type of which places prime importance on function of preventing reverse rotation, and the other of which places prime importance on efficiency of rotation, by means of making difference in eccentric wobbling rotational resistance of the external gear.
9. The series of valve drive units according to claim 2, wherein components except for a component to make the difference in the eccentric wobbling rotational resistance of the external gear, are shared among the series of electric valve drive units.
10. A method for manufacturing a valve drive unit for driving a valve having a valve body comprising the steps of:
preparing a reduction mechanism having an input shaft, an external gear eccentrically and wobbly rotatable around the input shaft, an internal gear engaged with the external gear, a carrier being able to absorb a wobbling ingredient of the external gear;
enabling one of the internal gear and the carrier to be fixed and enabling the other one to be coupled to the valve body;
preparing two types of resistances as to eccentric wobbling rotational resistance of the external gear, one type of which has a first resistance against reverse torque from the valve body to the external gear, and the other type of which has a second resistance being smaller than the first resistance; and
selecting and adopting one type of the resistances.

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 integrated circuit structure, comprising:
a substrate;
a high-k gate dielectric over the substrate;
a sacrificial carbon gate over the dielectric;
an etch barrier over the sacrificial carbon gate; and
carbon sidewall spacers over the etch barrier adjacent the sacrificial carbon gate.
2. The structure of claim 1, further comprising:
source and drain regions within the substrate formed using the carbon sidewall spacers to define the regions.
3. The structure of claim 1, wherein the etch barrier includes silicon nitride.
4. The structure of claim 1, wherein the high-k gate dielectric includes a dielectric formed using an atomic layer deposition process.
5. The structure of claim 1, wherein the high-k gate dielectric includes a dielectric formed using an evaporated deposition process.
6. The structure of claim 1, wherein the high-k gate dielectric includes a dielectric formed using a metal oxidizing process.
7. The structure of claim 1, wherein the high-k gate dielectric includes a nanolaminate.
8. An integrated circuit structure, comprising:
a substrate;
a gate dielectric over the substrate;
a sacrificial carbon gate over the dielectric; and
carbon sidewall spacers adjacent the sacrificial carbon gate.
9. The structure of claim 8, wherein the gate dielectric includes a high-k dielectric.
10. The structure of claim 8, wherein the carbon sidewall spacers include amorphous carbon.
11. The structure of claim 8, further comprising source and drain regions within the substrate, wherein the source and drain regions are formed using the sidewall spacers to define the regions.
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14. An integrated circuit structure, comprising:
a substrate;
a high-k gate dielectric over the substrate, the high-k gate dielectric having a dielectric constant above the dielectric constant of silicon dioxide;
a sacrificial carbon gate over the dielectric;
an etch barrier over the sacrificial carbon;
carbon sidewall spacers over the etch barrier adjacent the sacrificial carbon gate; and
source and drain regions within the substrate, wherein the source and drain regions are formed using the carbon sidewall spacers to define the regions.
15. The structure of claim 14, wherein the high-k gate dielectric includes aluminum oxide.
16. The structure of claim 14, wherein the high-k gate dielectric includes titanium oxide.
17. The structure of claim 14, wherein the high-k gate dielectric includes yttrium oxide.
18. The structure of claim 14, wherein the high-k gate dielectric includes zirconium oxide.
19. The structure of claim 14, wherein the high-k gate dielectric includes hafnium oxide.
20. The structure of claim 14, wherein the high-k gate dielectric includes zirconium silicon oxide.
21. The structure of claim 14, wherein the high-k gate dielectric includes lanthanide aluminum oxide.
22. The structure of claim 14, wherein the high-k gate dielectric includes magnesium aluminum oxide.
23. The structure of claim 14, wherein the high-k gate dielectric includes hafnium aluminum oxide.
24. The structure of claim 14, wherein the high-k gate dielectric includes zirconium aluminum oxide.
25. The structure of claim 14, wherein the high-k gate dielectric includes chromium titanium oxide.
26. The structure of claim 14, wherein the high-k gate dielectric includes gadolinium oxide.
27. The structure of claim 14, wherein the high-k gate dielectric includes zirconium oxynitride.
28. The structure of claim 14, wherein the high-k gate dielectric includes Y\u2014Si\u2014O.
29. The structure of claim 14, wherein the high-k gate dielectric includes praseodymium based lanthanum oxide.
30. The structure of claim 14, wherein the high-k gate dielectric includes lanthanide-doped titanium oxide.
31. The structure of claim 14, wherein the high-k gate dielectric includes hafnium silicon oxynitride.
32. The structure of claim 14, wherein the high-k gate dielectric includes Zr\u2014Sn\u2014Ti\u2014O.
33. The structure of claim 14, wherein the high-k gate dielectric includes metal oxynitride.
34. The structure of claim 14, wherein the high-k gate dielectric includes an oxide including zirconium and titanium.
35. The structure of claim 14, wherein the high-k gate dielectric includes zirconium-doped tantalum oxide.
36. The structure of claim 14, wherein the high-k gate dielectric includes hafnium oxide\u2014silicon nitride.
37. The structure of claim 14, wherein the high-k gate dielectric includes lanthanide oxide.
38. The structure of claim 14, wherein the high-k gate dielectric includes titanium aluminum oxide.
39. The structure of claim 14, wherein the high-k gate dielectric includes lanthanide hafnium oxide.
40. The structure of claim 14, wherein the high-k gate dielectric includes hafnium tantalum oxide.

1. A method for processing location related information for use in facilitating movement of a patient in a healthcare enterprise, comprising the steps of:
establishing a profile comprising information enabling a search to identify a plurality of locations available for use by a patient for different purposes and including rooms supporting patient treatment and patient stay, said profile identifies a hierarchical organization of locations within a healthcare enterprise for at least one of (a) hosting a patient encounter with a healthcare enterprise involving patient and healthcare enterprise interaction, and (b) accommodating a patient for a variable duration;
storing said profile and an associated date of validity of said profile;
incorporating in said profile attributes including,
a location type identifier, and
a location characteristic of clinical significance influencing availability of a particular location to a patient having a particular medical condition and identifying a level of care indicative of frequency of clinician intervention in patient care supported by a location including rooms supporting patient treatment and patient stay suitable for a patient having said particular medical condition; and

employing said profile in providing a user with an indication of location availability in response to user command.
2. A method according to claim 1, wherein said level of care is indicative of urgency of clinician intervention in patient care supported by a location, and including the step of
filtering search results identifying candidate locations in response to a business process type associated with the search and wherein
said profile comprises information identifying a plurality of patient locations available to accommodate a patient for different purposes.
3. A method according to claim 1, wherein
said profile supports tracking movement of a patient throughout a healthcare enterprise and
said location type identifier includes information identifying (a) location characteristics and (b) location facilities.
4. A method according to claim 3, wherein
said location characteristics information comprises information identifying at least one of, (a) furnishing items in a location and (b) function associated with a location.
5. A method according to claim 3, wherein
said location facilities information comprises information identifying at least one of, (a) medical equipment available at a location, (b) a gender restriction of a location, (c) a cleaning indicator identifying a location is to be cleaned upon occurrence of a condition, (d) an age range restriction of a location and (e) a billing code identifying a billing category of a location.
6. A method according to claim 1, wherein
said location type identifier identifies a location within said plurality of locations and said plurality of locations include at least two of, (a) a patient room, (b) a hospital waiting room, (c) a hospital department room, (d) a surgery related room, (e) a location within an identified room, (f) an identified room in an identified building inside said enterprise and (g) a location outside said enterprise.
7. A method according to claim 6, wherein
said hospital department room comprises one of (i) a radiology room, (ii) a laboratory room, (iii) a pharmacy room, (iv) a room designated for performing a clinical test of a patient, (v) a room designated for performing patient examination (vi) a room designated for performing an administrative function, (vii) an inpatient room (viii) an outpatient room and (ix) an emergency room.
8. A method according to claim 1, wherein
said location characteristic of clinical significance includes information identifying a level of care category associated with a location, said level of care is indicative of urgency of clinician intervention in patient care supported by a location.
9. A method according to claim 1, wherein
said location characteristic of clinical significance identifies at least one of (a) whether a location is sterile, and (b) medical facilities available at a location.
10. A method according to claim 1, including the step of
incorporating an attribute in said profile for identifying a maximum capacity of person occupancy of a location.
11. A method according to claim 1, including the steps of
selecting a treatment location different to a patient bed location for occupancy by a particular patient via a displayed user interface image in response to user command.
12. A method according to claim 11, including the steps of
selecting a location for occupancy by a particular patient via a displayed user interface image in response to user command, and
receiving an indication a patient has occupied said selected location.
13. A method according to claim 1, including the step of
incorporating an attribute in said profile for identifying billing information of a particular location including identifying at least one of (a) whether occupancy in said particular location is to be billed for, (b) how occupancy in said particular location is to be billed for, and (c) how billing for individual occupants of a multiple occupancy location is to be performed.
14. A method according to claim 1, including the step of
incorporating an attribute in said profile for identifying occupancy nature of a particular location including identifying at least one of (a) whether a location is designated for a transient patient stay, (b) a length of anticipated patient stay and (c) whether a location is designated for a multi-day patient stay.
15. A method according to claim 1, wherein
in said step of establishing a profile comprising information identifying a plurality of locations available to accommodate a patient for different purposes,
said different purposes include at least two of (a) patient healthcare administration, (b) patient clinical evaluation and (c) patient treatment.
16. A method for managing location related information for use in facilitating movement of a patient in a healthcare enterprise, comprising the steps of:
establishing a first profile comprising information identifying a plurality of locations within a first physical structure, said plurality of locations being available to accommodate a patient for different purposes, said first profile identifies a hierarchical organization of locations within a healthcare enterprise for at least one of (a) hosting a patient encounter with a healthcare enter rise involving patient and healthcare enterprise interaction, and (b) accommodating a patient for a variable duration;
storing said first profile and an associated date of validity of said first profile;
incorporating in said first profile attributes including,
a location type identifier, and
a location characteristic of clinical significance influencing availability of a particular location to a patient having a particular medical condition and identifying a level of care indicative of frequency and urgency of clinician intervention in patient care supported by a location including rooms supporting patient treatment and patient stay suitable for a patient having said particular medical condition; and

establishing a second profile incorporating information from said first profile, said second profile comprising information identifying a plurality of locations within a second physical structure derived by modifying said first physical structure.
17. A method according to claim 16, including the steps of
storing said first profile and
associating location information common to said first and second profiles using at least one of, (a) common location identifiers and (b) a map linking location identifiers of said first profile to location identifiers of said second profile.
18. A method according to claim 16, including the steps of
date stamping said first profile to indicate at least one of, (a) a last date and (b) a first date, said first profile was valid, and
storing said date stamped first profile.
19. A method for processing location related information for use in facilitating movement of a patient in a healthcare enterprise, comprising the steps of:
establishing a profile comprising information identifying a hierarchical organization of locations enabling a search to identify locations available for use by a patient for different purposes within a healthcare enterprise and including rooms for, (a) hosting a patient encounter with a healthcare enterprise involving patient and healthcare enterprise interaction supporting patient treatment, and (b) accommodating a patient during an inpatient stay;
storing said profile and an associated date of validity of said profile;
incorporating in said profile attributes including,
a location type identifier, and
a location characteristic of clinical significance influencing availability of a particular location to a patient having a particular medical condition and identifying a level of care indicative of the urgency of clinician intervention in patient care supported by a location including rooms supporting patient treatment and patient stay suitable for a patient having said particular medical condition;

filtering search results identifying candidate locations in response to a business process type associated with the search; and
employing said profile in providing a user with an indication of location availability in response to user command.
20. A method according to claim 19, including the step of
employing said profile in finding information concerning a particular location in response to user entered search criteria.
21. A method according to claim 19, including the step of
initiating generation of a message for triggering a location maintenance function in response to information identifying a change in said profile comprising at least one of, (a) a change in location availability, (b) a change in location occupancy and (c) a change in location condition.
22. A method according to claim 19, including the step of
employing said profile in generating billing information.
23. A method according to claim 19, including the step of
employing said profile in generating a report identifying location usage information.
24. A method according to claim 19, including the step of
incorporating in said profile information associating a location with services provided at said location.
25. A method according to claim 19, wherein said level of care is indicative of the frequency of clinician intervention in patient care supported by a location.

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. We claim a multi function Owner Aware Object that mimics the awareness of the presence or absence of its rightful owner and that provides a Safe and Intrusion free three dimensional space for its Owner and his possessions and it is comprised of:
a frequency agile radio transceiver and its antenna that facilitates the creation of an Owner Aware Object Private Three Dimensional Space and the usage of encrypted communications among Owner Aware Objects as every said Owner Aware Object is assigned a private and dynamic range of operating frequencies;
and a Radio Transceiver control circuitry implemented by a highly integrated Microcontroller that is executing a programmed code from its internal Code Space and that provides said Owner Aware Object intelligence and encrypting facilities for said communication messages and also provides a Time Divisions Multiplex and Frequency Division Multiplex control protocol necessary to avoid collisions and jamming, said protocol having;
means of creating a Three Dimensional Owner Aware Object Private Space;
means to operate a modified token ring network protocol in a network in the radiofrequency spectrum;
means of ciphered communication with other Owner Aware Objects by a proprietary network process for the purpose of determining their presence or absence within a three dimensional space volume;
means of self configuring at least one of in pairs or within a Network;
means of automatic self determination of an Identification Code;
means of dropping a disappeared Owner Aware Object Identification Code from the network by automatically reconfiguring the network;
means of sounding dynamically programmed, vocal, visual, tone, tactile and olfactory alarm in any combination when necessary;
means to locally store digital compressed multi lingual voice messages that can be used for alarm purposes or sent through the network to one or multiple remote Owner Aware Objects;
means of at least one of receiving or transmitting and conveying acoustically multi lingual voice messages, paging messages and Morse code messages;
means to be integrated with or made part of a keyless entry system;
means to be integrated with or made part of a RFID system; and
means to store critical personal and health data that can be interrogated remotely and wirelessly by at least one of Health Care or Emergency Medical System workers;
means to connect to a computer for the purpose of retrieving event logs, transmitting voice or Morse messages and paging;
means to recharge batteries by a photovoltaic cell array or by a contact-less charger;
means to enhance an acoustical transducer wave output by using a special mounting position and incorporating it into a specially designed acoustical chamber and its critical physical positioning on the edge of the Owner Aware Object.
2. I claim an Owner Aware Object according to claim 1 that fulfills both tasks, this of a monitor and that of a tag in a single physical enclosure that contains hardware circuits and firmware and power sources needed for its operation.
3. I claim an Owner Aware Object according to claim 1 that said programmed code has means to operate a modified token ring network protocol in the radio frequency spectrum.
4. I claim an Owner Aware Object according to claim 3 that will activate a multiple alarm subsystem when its modified token ring network operations are interrupted or otherwise disturbed by fading, jamming, collisions, node disappearance from the network or electronic active eavesdropping.
5. I claim an Owner Aware Object according to claim 1 that is part of a private radio frequency spectrum network that can accommodate a very large number of Owner Aware Objects and in which any Owner Aware Object can relay messages to any other Owner Aware Object.
6. I claim an Owner Aware Object according to claim 1 that increases the operating range of an Owner Aware Object without increasing the radio frequency output power of a transmitter portion nor by increasing a receiver portion sensitivity but by using a mixed Mode of operations which allow owner Aware Objects to relay network messages beyond the physical range of an owner Aware Private Space Generator.
7. I claim an Owner Aware Object according to claim 1 that can be connected to a Computer SystemNetwork and thus facilitating Owner Aware Objects Voice Messaging and Tone and or Voice Paging and Morse Code Text transmission.
8. I claim an Owner Aware Object according to claim 1 that is capable of sounding and transmit through an network canned Voice and Morse messages.
9. I claim an Owner Aware Object according to claim 1 with special Dynamically Programmable Alarm Subsystems comprised of:
A) an Acoustical TransducerSpeaker with a physical mounting that is critical to the performance of Owner Aware Objects and produces a variety of acoustical signals;
where an Acoustical Transducer is mounted within a specially designed Acoustical Chamber that enhances and amplifies the audio wave of said Acoustical Transducer, whereas the Acoustical Transducer and its Acoustical Chamber is mounted on the side and laterally to an enclosure such that it will protrude outside and laterally of an enclosure volume, this protrusion creating a cylindrical chamber that terminates in a slightly conical focusing and perforated dome, whereas behind the cylindrical chamber is an elongated conical section that is tuned to a specific mechanical resonance of a certain acoustical frequency range and the position of the protrusion allows Acoustical Ports of said Acoustical Transducer to remain unobstructed even if the Owner Aware Object is compressed in a small wallet;
and B) a Dynamically Programmable Olfactive type Alarm that contains:
a) a high pressure gas container filled with a highly smelling and volatile gas,
b) an electromagnetic valve the can be open or closed under the microcontroller control thus releasing a specific amount of gas in a surrounding environment,
c) a flexible ejecting tube that directs the gas outside of the Owner Aware Object enclosure through an opening in the wall of said enclosure,
d) a high pressure container that can hold high pressure gas mixed with an identifiable and permanent ink that when it is released will smearmark permanently objects on which is falling;

and C) a Dynamically Programmable Visual type alarm that will produce a variety of luminescent indication of the state of the alarm;
and D) a Dynamically Programmable tactile type alarm that will produce a variety of vibration sensation to a user.
10. I claim an Owner Aware Object according to claim 3 that reserves a clear communication channel for at least one of configuration or high priority messaging.
11. I claim an Owner Aware Object according to claim 3 that uses a random number generated by the radio transceiver to compute an Identification Code.