All The Claims

1. A method of using a tie, the tie having a strip, which includes a tip, a connecting end opposite the tip and a plurality of teeth arranged on the strip between the tip and the connecting end, and a plurality of locking members, which are connected to the connecting end of the strip, each of the locking members including an opening for passage of the strip therethrough and a locking tab for engaging at least one of the teeth so as to allow the strip to move through the opening of a corresponding one of the locking members only in one direction, said method comprising the steps of:
placing the tie around at least one object;
passing the strip through the opening of a first one of the locking members in the one direction such that the tie wraps around the at least one object; and
disconnecting the first one of the locking members from the connecting end of the strip while leaving at least another one of the locking members connected to the connecting end of the strip such that the tie can be reused for tying another object, the first one of the locking members being connected indirectly to the connecting end of the strip via the at least another one of the locking members prior to the performance of said disconnecting step.
2. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of moving the first one of the locking members along the strip toward the connecting end of the strip for subsequent use of the tie.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein the locking members are formed as a single locking head connected to the connecting end of the strip, the at least another one of the locking members includes a second one of the locking members, the first one of the locking members being positioned remotely from the connecting end of the strip, the second one of the locking members being positioned adjacent the connecting end of the strip, the locking head including at least one connector connecting each of the locking members to an adjacent one of the locking members.
4. The method of claim 3, wherein the at least another one of the locking members includes a third one of the locking members, the second one of the locking members being connected directly to the connecting end of the strip, the third one of the locking members being positioned between the first one and second one of the locking members.
5. The method of claim 4, wherein the at least another one of the locking members includes a fourth one of the locking members, the fourth one of the locking members being positioned between the first one and third one of the locking members.
6. The method of claim 3, wherein the tie has an end opposite the tip of the strip, the first one of the locking members being located at the end of the tie.
7. The method of claim 3, wherein said disconnecting step includes the step of separating at or cutting the connector connecting the first one of the locking members to an adjacent one of the locking members, thereby disconnecting the first one of the locking members from the locking head.
8. The method of claim 2, wherein the first one of the locking members is engaged with the strip throughout the performance of said moving step; and wherein said moving step includes the step of positioning the first one of the locking members at the connecting end of the strip.
9. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of placing the tie around at least one other object; and passing the strip through the opening of the at least another one of the locking members in the one direction such that the tie wraps around the at least one other object.
10. The method of claim 1, wherein said passing step includes the steps of inserting the tip of the strip through the opening of the first one of the locking members and tightening the tie around the at least one object.
11. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one object includes a plurality of cables.
12. The method of claim 1, wherein the first one of the locking members is connected to the at least another one of the locking members prior to the performance of said disconnecting step.
13. The method of claim 12, wherein the at least another one of the locking members includes at least two of the locking members.
14. A method of using a tie, the tie having a strip, which includes a tip, a connecting end opposite the tip and a plurality of teeth arranged on the strip between the tip and the connecting end, and a plurality of locking members, which are connected to the connecting end of the strip, each of the locking members including an opening for passage of the strip therethrough and a locking tab for engaging at least one of the teeth so as to allow the strip to move through the opening of a corresponding one of the locking members only in one direction, said method comprising the steps of:
placing the tie around at least one object;
passing the strip through the opening of a first one of the locking members in the one direction such that the tie wraps around the at least one object;
disconnecting the first one of the locking members from the connecting end of the strip while leaving at least another one of the locking members connected to the connecting end of the strip such that the tie can be reused for tying another object; and
moving the first one of the locking members along the strip toward the connecting end of the strip for subsequent use of the tie,
wherein the locking members are formed as a single locking head connected to the connecting end of the strip, the at least another one of the locking members includes a second one of the locking members, the first one of the locking members being positioned remotely from the connecting end of the strip, the second one of the locking members being positioned adjacent the connecting end of the strip, the locking head including at least one connector connecting each of the locking members to an adjacent one of the locking members,
wherein the at least another one of the locking members includes a third one of the locking members, the second one of the locking members being connected directly to the connecting end of the strip, the third one of the locking members being positioned between the first one and second one of the locking members.
15. The method of claim 14, wherein the at least another one of the locking members includes a fourth one of the locking members, the fourth one of the locking members being positioned between the first one and third one of the locking members.
16. The method of claim 14, wherein the tie has an end opposite the tip of the strip, the first one of the locking members being located at the end of the tie.
17. The method of claim 14, wherein said disconnecting step includes the step of separating at or cutting the connector connecting the first one of the locking members to an adjacent one of the locking members, thereby disconnecting the first one of the locking members from the locking head.
18. The method of claim 14, wherein the first one of the locking members is engaged with the strip throughout the performance of said moving step; and wherein said moving step includes the step of positioning the first one of the locking members at the connecting end of the strip.
19. The method of claim 14, further comprising the steps of placing the tie around at least one other object; and passing the strip through the opening of the at least another one of the locking members in the one direction such that the tie wraps around the at least one other object.
20. The method of claim 14, wherein said passing step includes the steps of inserting the tip of the strip through the opening of the first one of the locking members and tightening the tie around the at least one object.

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 protective cover for a bicyclist cleated shoe, comprising:
a thin flexible body member having a hollow interior; and
an engagement area disposed at the interior of the body member configured to receive and retain a cleat extending from the bicyclist shoe such that the cleat is covered by one or more of the engagement area and the body member,
wherein the body member is configured to be disposed on the shoe in a position of engagement in which the cleat is received and retained at the engagement area and a position of disengagement where the body member remains secured to the shoe while the cleat is free from contact with the engagement area and is exposed for attachment to a pedal of the bicycle, and wherein the engagement area is fixedly disposed in an opening of the body member so as to extend from the interior to an exterior of the body member.
2. The protective cover of claim 1, further comprising a constrictive ridge disposed on at least one of a forward edge and rearward edge of the body member, where the constrictive ridge is configured to be positioned adjacent to the cleat when the body member is in the position of engagement to secure the body member on the shoe.
3. The protective cover of claim 1, wherein the body member includes an under foot portion and an over foot portion, the engagement area is disposed on the under foot portion, and the over foot portion is selectively attachable to the under foot portion.
4. The protective cover of claim 3, wherein the over foot portion extends from a first side of the under foot portion and includes a free end which is selectively attachable to a second side of the under foot portion.
5. The protective cover of claim 4, wherein the second side of the under foot portion includes a ring and the free end of the over foot portion comprises a hook and loop attachment arrangement, the free end being configured to be threaded through the ring and folded upon itself to engage the hook and loop arrangement to selectively attach the over foot and under foot portions.
6. The protective cover of claim 1, wherein the engagement area comprises a plurality of ribs at the interior configured to engage the cleat of the bicyclist shoe and traction elements at the exterior configured to provide traction to the cyclist while walking.
7. The protective cover of claim 6, wherein the traction elements comprise at least one of recesses formed into the engagement area and protrusions extending from the engagement area.
8. The protective cover of claim 1, wherein the engagement area comprises a plurality of individual engagement surfaces, each being fixedly disposed in an opening formed through the body member, wherein each individual engagement surface includes rib elements at the interior configured to engage the cleat and traction elements at the exterior configured to provide traction to the cyclist while walking.
9. The protective cover of claim 8, wherein the engagement area comprises three of said individual engagement surfaces arranged generally in a triangular orientation on the body member.

1. A speed hump device, comprising:
a housing device with a housing room therein having a first opening;
a hump device with a hump member and an arc-shaped member pivoted on said housing device by a first pivot, wherein said hump member can be rotated in and out said housing room from said first opening about said first pivot, and the arc of said arc-shaped member is concentric with said first pivot, and said arc-shaped member has a first gear-teeth portion thereon;
a gear set mounted in said housing device at least comprising a first gear and a second gear, wherein said first gear is engaged with said first gear-teeth portion, and when said hump device is rotated about said pivot, said first gear can be driven to rotate by said arc-shaped member to drive said second gear to rotate;
a first sliding shaft having a second gear-teeth portion thereon and a first magnet mounted on one terminal of said first sliding shaft, wherein said second gear-teeth portion is engaged with said second gear;
a second sliding shaft having a third gear-teeth portion thereon and a second magnet mounted on one terminal of said second sliding shaft, wherein said second magnet faces to and can attract said first magnet;
an abutment member having a fourth gear-teeth portion pivoted in said housing device by a second pivot, wherein said fourth gear-teeth portion is engaged with said third gear-teeth portion, and when said second sliding shaft moves, it will drive said abutment member to rotate about said second pivot, wherein said abutment member is used to prevent said hump member from completely been depressing in said housing room when said first magnet is separated form said second magnet; and
a rebound device mounted in said housing device used to push said hump device to let said hump member be out said housing room and to push said abutment member to be in the position to prevent said hump member from moving into said housing room, when no force from the outside of said housing room presses on said hump member.
2. The speed hump device according to claim 1, wherein said first sliding shaft and said second sliding shaft are respectively racks.
3. The speed hump device according to claim 1, wherein said hump member is substantially a wedge-shaped rigid body.
4. The speed hump device according to claim 1, further comprises a support member mounted in said housing device used to stop the continuous moving of said abutment member when said abutment rotates to a certain degree.
5. The speed hump device according to claim 1, further comprises a lump member mounted in said housing device used to let said hump member lay thereon when said hump member are completely in said housing room.
6. The speed hump device according to claim 1, wherein said housing device has a second opening used to clean up said housing room.
7. The speed hump device according to claim 1, wherein said housing device has a plurality of bolt sets mounted on said housing device used to combine other said speed hump device.
8. The speed hump device according to claim 1, wherein said hump member has at least two insert holes respectively located at a pair of two opposite side faces of said hump member used to combine said hump member with the hump member of other said speed hump device via a link shaft through said insert holes to let no relative motion between said two hump members.
9. The speed hump device according to claim 1, further comprises a waterproof cover mounted in said housing device used to protect the devices or members in said housing device from being fouled or damaged by external things coming from the outside of said housing room and let said external things slide into said housing room smoothly.
10. The speed hump device according to claim 1, wherein said housing device has at least a second opening located at said housing device used to drain the fluid in said housing room out.
11. A speed hump member device, comprise:
a housing device whose figure is foursquare box with a housing room therein having, a first opening and a slot on its top face, a first and second crevices respectively on a pair of two opposite side faces of said housing device, wherein each of said first and second crevices has a bevel edge;
a hump member having a extended portion with a first cylinder surface, wherein said extended portion has a first penetrating cylinder hole concentric with said first cylinder surface and a plurality of penetrating slots penetrate and communicate said first penetrating cylinder hole, and said extended portion is placed on said slot;
a first shaft interposed said first penetrating cylinder hole, wherein said first shaft is fixed on said slot via a plurality of screws through said slot and said plurality of penetrating slots;
an arc-shaped member with a first gear-teeth portion thereon mounted on said hump member, wherein the arc of said arc-shaped member and the arrangement of said first gear-teeth portion are concentric with said first shaft;
a lump member mounted on said bevel edges of said two crevices used to let said hump member lay thereon when said hump member is rotated about said first shaft to be in said housing room;
a gear set mounted in said housing device at least comprising a first gear and a second gear, wherein said first gear is engaged with said first gear-teeth portion;
a first sliding shaft having a second gear-teeth portion thereon and a first magnet mounted on one terminal of said first sliding shaft, wherein said first gear-teeth portion is engaged with said second gear and said first magnet is located in a sliding track mounted in said housing device;
a second sliding shaft having a third gear-teeth portion thereon and a second magnet mounted on one terminal of said second sliding shaft, wherein said second magnet faces to and can attract said first magnet, and said second magnet is located in said sliding track;
a hold pedestal member with a concave-cylinder surface mounted in said housing device;
an abutment member placed on said concave-cylinder surface having a second cylinder surface and a second penetrating cylinder hole concentric with said second cylinder surface;
a second shaft with a fourth gear-teeth portion interposed in and fixed with said second penetrating cylinder hole, wherein said fourth gear-teeth portion is engaged with said third gear-teeth portion;
a support member mounted in said housing device used to stop a continuous moving of said abutment member when said abutment member be rotated to a certain degree; and
a rebound device mounted in said housing device, wherein said rebound device has a rebound effect to push said hump device to let said hump member be out said housing room and to push said abutment member to be in the position to prevent said hump member from moving into said housing room, when no force from the outside of said housing room presses on said hump member.
12. The speed hump device according to claim 11, wherein said hump member is substantially a wedge-shaped rigid body with a steep side to make a motor vehicle with a going direction against the traffic flow direction get a impedimental effect.
13. The speed hump device according to claim 11, further comprises a plurality of support plates mounted in said housing device to strengthen the supporting force of the top face of said housing device.
14. The speed hump device according to claim 11, wherein said rebound device comprises
a screw shaft whose one terminal is mounted in said housing device;
a screw nut assembled into and placed on said screw shaft;
a first spring slipped on said screw shaft, wherein one terminal of said first spring is fixed on said screw nut;
a sliding pivot pivoted through a sliding slot of a steel plate mounted in said housing device, wherein one terminal of said sliding pivot is fixed on the another terminal of said first spring and the another terminal of said sliding pivot is pivoted with a first lever;
a second spring and a sliding sleeve slipped on said first lever, wherein one terminal of said second spring is fixed on said first lever and the another terminal of said second spring is fixed on one terminal of said sliding sleeve, and the another terminal of said sliding sleeve is pivoted with one terminal of a second lever, and the another terminal of said second lever is pivoted in said housing device, wherein said second lever always keeps contacting with said arc-shaped member, and said screw shaft could be used to cannel, increase or decrease said rebound effect by moving said screw nut down or up.
15. The speed hump device according to claim 11, wherein said hump member has at least two insert holes respectively located at a pair of two opposite side faces of said hump member used to combine said hump member with the hump member of other said speed hump device via a link shaft through said insert holes to let no relative motion between said two hump members.
16. The speed hump device according to claim 11, wherein said second shaft has a projection portion at one terminal of said second shaft and a concave portion at the another terminal, and said projection portion can be used to combine with the concave portion of other said speed hump device to let no relative motion between said two second shafts.
17. A method for discourage a motor vehicle from exceeding a demand threshold speed, comprising:
providing a housing device with a housing room therein and a opening thereon, wherein said housing device is mounted in a recess of a road;
mounting a hump device with a hump member on said housing device, wherein said hump device is pivoted on said housing device by a first pivot and said hump member can be rotated in and out said hosing room from said first opening about said fist pivot;
mounting a transmission device in said housing device, said transmission device comprises a first transmission portion with a first magnet, a second transmission portion with a second magnet and a abutment member, wherein said first magnet faces to and can attract said second magnet, and said first transmission is engaged with said hump device, and said second transmission portion is engaged with said abutment member;
mounting a rebound device in said housing device, wherein said rebound device has a rebound effect to push said hump device to let said hump member be out said housing room and to push said abutment member to be in the position to prevent said hump member from moving into said housing room, when no force form the outside of said housing room presses on said hump member.
making said hump member be out said housing room and said motor vehicle get a impact effect, when the speed of said motor vehicle passing through said speed hump is above said demanded threshold speed pre-set via said transmission device; and
making said hump member be in said housing room and alignment with said road surface, when the speed of said motor vehicle passing through said speed hump is below said demanded threshold speed.
18. The method according to claim 17, wherein said making said hump member be out said housing room is accomplished through separating said first magnet from said second magnet by the wheels of said motor vehicle depressing on said hump member and let said abutment member be in said position; and said making said hump member be in said housing room is accomplished through keeping said first magnet attracting said second magnet to pull down said abutment member to let said hump member into said housing room by the wheels of said motor vehicle.
19. The method according to claim 17, further comprises increasing the attracting force between said first magnet and said second magnet, if want to make the value of said demanded threshold speed become higher; and decreasing said attracting force, if want to make the value of said demanded threshold speed become lower.
20. The method according to claim 17, further comprises adjusting some of the inner members or devices of said rebound device, if want to cancel said rebound effect to make said impact effect vanish forever; and adjusting some of the inner members or devices of said rebound device, if want to increase or decrease said rebound effect.

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 complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) circuit comprising:
of fabricating an N channel metal oxide semiconductor (NMOS) device and a P channel metal oxide semiconductor (PMOS) device, on the same semiconductor substrate, featuring channel regions comprised with biaxial strained layers, comprising the steps of:
a silicon on insulator (SOI) substrate wherein a first silicon layer resides on a silicon oxide layer with a freely accommodating interface;
a silicon-germanium (SiGe) layer on said first silicon layer;
a second silicon layer on said SiGe layer, the second silicon layer having a first relatively thin portion in a first region and a second relatively thick portion in a second region;
a P channel metal oxide semiconductor (PMOS) device formed in the first region; and
an N channel metal oxide semiconductor (NMOS) device formed in the second region.
2. The circuit of claim 1, wherein said first silicon layer is between about 20 to 800 Angstroms in thickness.
3. The circuit of claim 1, wherein said freely accommodating interface between said first silicon layer and said silicon oxide layer is formed via an implantation procedure.
4. The circuit of claim 3, wherein said ion implantation procedure is performed using ions selected from a group containing Si, Ge, Ar, Kr, Xe, and N ions, at an energy between about 0 to 200 KeV, at a dose above 1E5 atomscm2.
5. The circuit of claim 1, wherein said SiGe layer is obtained via epitaxial grown at a temperature between about 500 to 800\xb0 C., using silane or disilane, and germane as reactants.
6. The circuit of claim 1, wherein the thickness of said SiGe layer is between about 20 to 800 Angstroms.
7. The circuit of claim 1, wherein a mole fraction of germanium in said SiGe layer is between about 0.05 to 0.8.
8. The circuit of claim 1, wherein the first portion of the second silicon layer is obtained, at least in part, via epitaxial growth at a temperature between about 500 to 800\xb0 C., using silane or disilane as a source.
9. The circuit of claim 1, wherein the first portion of the second silicon layer has a thickness between about 20 to 400 Angstroms.
10. The circuit of claim 1, wherein the first portion of the second silicon layer covers both regions and the second portion is selectively formed on said first portion in the second region via an epitaxially growth procedure performed at a temperature between about 500 to 800\xb0 C., using silane or disilane as a source.
11. The circuit of claim 1, wherein the SiGe layer and the second silicon layer in the first region is under biaxial tensile stress, and the SiGe layer and second silicon layer in the second region is under biaxial compressive stress.
12. The circuit of claim 1, wherein said gate insulator layer is a silicon dioxide layer, obtained at a thickness between about 5 to 100 Angstroms.
13. The circuit of claim 12, wherein said silicon dioxide layer is obtained via a thermal oxidation procedure performed at a temperature between about 600 to 1000\xb0 C., in an oxygen-stream ambient.
14. A complimentary metal oxide semiconductor device comprising:
a semiconductor on insulator (SOI) substrate comprised of a first SiGe layer overlying a silicon oxide layer;
an N channel metal oxide semiconductor (NMOS) device featuring a silicon channel region under biaxial tensile strain, the NMOS device formed by selectively growing an optional second silicon layer on a second portion of said first silicon layer, in a region of said semiconductor substrate to be used for said NMOS device, resulting in a third silicon layer comprised of said second silicon layer on said first silicon layer; and
a P channel metal oxide semiconductor (PMOS) device featuring a silicon-germanium (SiGe) channel region under biaxial compressive strain.
15. The device of claim 14, wherein said first SiGe layer, of said SOI substrate, is comprised with a thickness (t1), between about 20 to 800 Angstroms.
16. The device of claim 14, wherein the germanium content (x1), in said first SiGe layer is between about 0.05 to 0.2 mole fraction.
17. The device of claim 14, wherein said second SiGe layer is obtained via epitaxial growth at a temperature between about 500 to 800\xb0 C., using silane or disilane, and germane as reactants.
18. The device of claim 14, wherein said second SiGe layer is grown to a thickness (t2), between about 20 to 800 Angstroms.
19. The device of claim 14, wherein the germanium content (x2), in said second SiGe layer is between about 0.1 to 0.8 mole fraction, wherein x2 is greater than x1, the Ge content in said first SiGe layer.