All The Claims

1. A computer implemented process for identifying idioms in a text document, the computer implemented process comprising:
opening an electronic plain language text file containing a plurality of idioms;
converting the plain language text file to a neutral text file;
searching for each of a plurality of idioms in the neutral text file using a library of idioms, wherein the library of idioms contains the plurality of idioms, a plurality of common variations of the plurality of idioms and a search criteria for each of the plurality of idioms, and wherein the search criteria includes searching for a pair of adjacent words in an idiom; and
marking each of a plurality of found idioms visually in an electronic display and in a marked-up text file;
wherein the term idiom includes metaphors, clich\xe9s, slang, colloquialisms, proverbs and sayings.
2. The computer implemented process of claim 1 further comprising adding definitions of the marked idioms as hidden information to the marked-up text file.
3. The computer implemented process of claim 2 further comprising displaying the definition for a marked idiom whenever a user reading the marked-up text file selects the marked idiom.
4. The computer implemented process of claim 1 wherein the library of idioms contains common variations of each idiom and the search terms correspond with all common variations of each idiom.
5. The computer implemented process of claim 1 wherein the search terms for an idiom must be found within a specified range of words.
6. The computer implemented process of claim 1 wherein the search is conducted using a subset of the library of idioms and corresponding search terms.
7. The computer implemented process of claim 1 wherein the neutral text file contains no punctuation, capital letters, contractions, possessives or formatting breaks, and all words are separated by a single space; and
wherein the neutral text file is created by accessing a contraction library, scanning the electronic plain language text file, and responsive to detecting each of a plurality of contractions matching a contraction in the contraction library, converting each of the plurality of contractions to a corresponding word pair, and by removing all punctuation marks in the electronic plain language text file, by converting all capital letters in the electronic plain language text file to lower case, and by replacing all multiple spaces, carriage returns and line, paragraph or page breaks in the electronic plain language text file with single spaces, and by removing any formatting or visual mark-ups in the electronic plain language text file.
8. An apparatus for identifying idioms in a text document, the apparatus comprising:
a processor;
a memory connected to the processor;
an electronic plain language original text file in the computer memory, wherein the text file contains a plurality of idioms;
an idiom identifier program in the memory operable to open the plain language text file, convert the plain language text file to a neutral text file, search for each of a plurality of idioms in the neutral text file using a library of idioms, wherein the library of idioms contains the plurality of idioms, a plurality of common variations of the plurality of idioms and a search criteria for each of the plurality of idioms, and wherein the search criteria includes searching for a first word and a second word in the idiom where the first word and the second word are adjacent, and mark each of a plurality of found idioms visually in an electronic display and in a marked-up text file;
wherein the term idiom includes metaphors, clich\xe9s, slang, colloquialisms, proverbs and sayings.
9. The apparatus of claim 8 wherein the idiom finder program is further operable to add definitions of the marked idioms as hidden information to the marked-up text file.
10. The apparatus of claim 9 wherein the idiom finder program is further operable to display the definition for a marked idiom whenever a user reading the marked-up text file selects the marked idiom.
11. The apparatus of claim 8 wherein the library of idioms contains common variations of each idiom and search terms correspond with all common variations of each idiom.
12. The apparatus of claim 8 wherein an idiom must be found within a specified range of words.
13. The apparatus of claim 8 wherein the search is conducted using a subset of the library of idioms and corresponding search terms.
14. The apparatus of claim 8 wherein the neutral text file contains no punctuation, capital letters, contractions, possessives or formatting breaks, and all words are separated by a single space, wherein the neutral text file is created by accessing a contraction library, scanning the electronic plain language text file, and responsive to detecting each of a plurality of contractions matching a contraction in the contraction library, converting each of the plurality of contractions to a corresponding word pair, and by removing all punctuation marks in the electronic plain language text file, by converting all capital letters in the electronic plain language text file to lower case, and by replacing all multiple spaces, carriage returns and line, paragraph or page breaks in the electronic plain language text file with single spaces, and by removing any formatting or visual mark-ups in the electronic plain language text file.
15. A computer readable memory containing a plurality of instructions to cause a computer to identify a plurality of idioms in a text document, the plurality of instructions comprising:
a first instruction to open the plain language text file;
a second instruction to convert the plain language text file to a neutral text file;
a third instruction to search for the plurality of idioms in the neutral text file using a library of idioms wherein the library of idioms contains the plurality of idioms, a plurality of common variations of the plurality of idioms and a search criteria for each of the plurality of idioms, and wherein the search criteria includes searching for a first word and a second word in the idiom where the first word and the second word are adjacent; and
a fourth instruction to mark each of a plurality of found idioms visually in an electronic display and in a marked-up text file;
wherein the term idiom includes metaphors, clich\xe9s, slang, colloquialisms, proverbs and sayings.
16. The computer readable memory of claim 15 further comprising a fifth instruction to add definitions of the marked idioms as hidden information to the marked-up text file.
17. The computer readable memory of claim 16 further comprising a fifth instruction to display the definition for a marked idiom whenever a user reading the marked-up text file selects the marked idiom.
18. The computer readable memory of claim 15 wherein the library of idioms contains common variations of each idiom and the search terms correspond with all common variations of each idiom.
19. The computer readable memory of claim 15 wherein the search is conducted using a subset of the library of idioms and corresponding search terms.
20. The computer readable memory of claim 15 wherein the neutral text file contains no punctuation, capital letters, contractions, possessives or formatting breaks, and all words are separated by a single space, wherein the neutral text file is created by accessing a contraction library, scanning the electronic plain language text file, and responsive to detecting each of a plurality of contractions matching a contraction in the contraction library, converting each of the plurality of contractions to a corresponding word pair, and by removing all punctuation marks in the electronic plain language text file, by converting all capital letters in the electronic plain language text file to lower case, and by replacing all multiple spaces, carriage returns and line, paragraph or page breaks in the electronic plain language text file with single spaces, and by removing any formatting or visual mark-ups in the electronic plain language text file.

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 fuel feed device of a gas engine which is a non-supercharged type engine and feeds air and a fuel to an intake port without mixing with a mixer:
wherein the fuel gas is fed into the intake port by using negative pressure generated in the intake port during an intake stroke.
2. A fuel feed device of a gas engine according to claim 1 including:
a detection means for detecting engine rotational frequency,
a judgment means for judging whether the engine rotational frequency detected by said detection means is maintained within a fixed range which is predetermined,
an adjustment means for adjusting a feed period of said fuel gas per 1 cycle so that the engine rotational frequency converges within the fixed range.
3. A fuel feed device of a gas engine according to claim 1 or 2 including:
a regulator and a valve which are prepared in a fuel gas feed passage sequentially from the upstream,
a switching means for making a pressure balance line of said regulator selectively communicate with an inside of the intake port or atmospheric air,
said pressure balance line at the time of starting communicates with the inside of the intake port by said switching means.

1. A thin diamond film bonded to a diamond substrate made by the process of:
heating a diamond substrate inside a vacuum chamber to about 500\xb0 C.;
cooling the diamond substrate to a temperature of about 200\xb0 C.;
coating a first surface of the diamond substrate with an adhesion layer of chromium;
depositing an initial layer of palladium on the adhesion layer of chromium;
heating the diamond substrate to a temperature of about 600\xb0 C.;
allowing the chromium and the diamond substrate to form a chemical bond;
inter-diffusing the adhesion layer of chromium and the initial layer of palladium;
cooling the diamond substrate to about 200\xb0 C.;
depositing a second layer of palladium;
placing a shadow mask on a thin diamond film;
degassing the vacuum at about 200\xb0 C. and minimizing sublimation of the deposited chromium;
depositing a tin layer onto the thin diamond film;
assembling the tin layer on the thin diamond film with the second palladium layer;
heating the tin layer on the thin diamond film and the second palladium layer;
melting the tin layer; and
bonding the thin diamond film to the diamond substrate.
2. The thin diamond film bonded to a diamond substrate as in claim 1 wherein the step of coating a first surface of the diamond substrate with an adhesion layer of chromium results in an adhesion layer of chromium that has a thickness of about 20 nm and wherein the tin layer deposited has a thickness of about 500 nm.
3. The thin diamond film bonded to a diamond substrate as in claim 1 wherein the step of depositing an initial layer of palladium further includes the step of depositing an initial layer of about 300 nm of palladium on the adhesion layer of chromium and wherein the step of depositing a second layer of palladium further includes the step of depositing about 2200 nm of palladium and thereby resulting in a total palladium thickness of about 2500 nm.
4. The thin diamond film bonded to a diamond substrate as in claim 3 further including the step of forming an electric contact between the chromium layer and the thin diamond film.
5. A thin diamond film bonded to a diamond substrate comprising:
a thin diamond film;
a layer of chromium;
a layer of palladium;
a layer of tin; and
a diamond substrate.
6. The thin diamond film bonded to a diamond substrate of claim 5 further including a layer of gold on the layer of tin.
7. The thin diamond film bonded to a diamond substrate of claim 5 wherein the layer of chromium forms an electric contact to the thin diamond film and removes charge generated by a primary electron beam.
8. The thin diamond film bonded to a diamond substrate of claim 5 wherein the layer of tin is soluble in the layer of palladium to about 18 wt % and wherein thin diamond film and the diamond substrate are bonded physically, electrically, and thermally without contamination.
9. The thin diamond film bonded to a diamond substrate of claim 5 further comprising a layer of Al or other metal and wherein the thin diamond film is a x-ray anode and a x-ray window.
10. The thin diamond film bonded to a diamond substrate of claim 7 wherein the layer of chromium has a thickness of about 20 nm.
11. The thin diamond film bonded to a diamond substrate of claim 7 wherein the layer of palladium has a thickness of between about 300 nm and about 2500 nm on the layer of chromium.
12. The thin diamond film bonded to a diamond substrate of claim 11 wherein the tin layer has a thickness of about 500 nm.

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 service providing method for providing information regarding a service to a user in response to a user request, comprising:
a first step of receiving said user request from an information acquiring computer of said user;
a second step of determining, in accordance with said received user request, respective ones of a plurality of information providing computers which are available to provide respective ones of a plurality of information items regarding the service to the user;
a third step of requesting said determined respective ones of said plurality of information providing computers to provide the respective ones of said plurality of information items to the user;
a fourth step of receiving the respective ones of said plurality of information items from the determined respective ones of said plurality of information providing computers;
a fifth step of integrating the received respective ones of said plurality of information items; and
a sixth step of transmitting to said information acquiring computer the integrated information integrated by the fifth step as information regarding said service,
wherein said second step determines the respective ones of said plurality of information providing computers, based on information of a history of services utilized by the user including service historical information which has at least statistical information related to utilization frequencies of each element of the service.
2. A service providing method according to claim 1, wherein an application program is started using the service historical information for each element of the service.
3. A service providing method according to claim 2, wherein said second step uses a system utilization history table including said service historical information.
4. A service providing method according to claim 1, wherein said second step determines the respective ones of said plurality of information items to be provided to the user based on at least a quality of the user request which includes an attribute of service requested by the user, a condition at the user request regarding respective loads of said plurality of information providing computers, and user discriminating information which includes an attribute of said user.