All The Claims

1. A decorative cushion, comprising;
a longitudinal cushion portion comprising a stuffed toy portion that is securable to a chair arm with straps attached to the side of the longitudinal cushion portion, and a toy head portion unsecured to the chair arm; and a storage accessory attachable to the longitudinal cushion portion by a fastener secured to the storage accessory and that is selected from the group consisting of hook and loop, buttons, or snaps, the storage accessory having at least one pocket.
2. The decorative cushion in claim 1 wherein,
the toy head portion comprises a mechanically maneuverable stuffed toy portion.
3. The decorative cushion in claim 1 wherein,
the stuffed toy portion consists of at least one toy portion selected from the group consisting of leg portions and torso portions.
4. The decorative cushion in claim 2 wherein,
the mechanically maneuverable portion is maneuvered by a controller within the decorative cushion.
5. The decorative cushion in claim 4 wherein,
the controller comprises a battery powered motor.
6. The decorative cushion in claim 1 wherein,
the longitudinal cushion portion further comprises an audible generator.
7. The decorative cushion in claim 6 wherein,
the toy head portion comprises a mechanically maneuverable stuffed toy portion.
8. A child care device comprising:
a longitudinal toy torso that is securable to a chair arm along its longitudinal dimension with at least one fastener attached to the longitudinal toy torso, and a mechanically maneuverable toy portion that is unsecured to the chair arm and selected from the group consisting of a toy head, a toy leg, and a toy tail; and a storage accessory having a pocket, said storage accessory attached to the longitudinal toy torso with a fastener attached to the longitudinal dimension of the storage accessory and the storage accessory is securable perpendicularly to the longitudinal toy torso.
9. A method of comforting a child using a decorative cushion as in claim 1, comprising:
securing the stuffed toy portion of the decorative cushion to a chair while leaving a toy head portion of the decorative cushion unsecured to the chair; and
positioning an arm that is holding the child against the stuffed toy portion of the decorative cushion.
10. The method of claim 9 further comprising,
causing the toy head portion of the decorative cushion to be maneuvered.
11. The method of claim 9 further comprising,
causing music to be played.
12. The method of claim 9 wherein,
securing the stuffed toy first toy portion to the chair comprises strapping the longitudinal cushion portion to the chair arm.
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 non-contact system for composing microarrays comprising:
a first arm assembly for manipulating a liquid source plate, said liquid source plate having a plurality of source wells each adapted to hold a material for forming said microarrays;
a liquid transfer plate having a fill side and a dispense side and a plurality of channels extending therethrough;
a second arm assembly for manipulating the liquid transfer plate, said second arm assembly configured to align a first channel of said plurality of channels with a first source well of said plurality of source wells such that when a first material contained in said first source well is ejected from said first source well said first material enters said first channel;
a non-contact liquid dispensing device for ejecting said first material from said first source well into said first channel; and
a pressure source fluidly connectable with said fill side of said liquid transfer plate wherein said pressure source is configured to controllably increase pressure to one or more of said channels thereby ejecting at least a portion of said materials from said liquid transfer plate onto a target substrate.
2. The system of claim 1 further comprising a dispense nest configured to receive said liquid transfer plate from said second arm assembly and hold said liquid transfer plate when said liquid transfer plate dispenses said materials onto said target plate.
3. The system of claim 2 wherein said nest is controllably movable in the XYZ directions with a third arm assembly.
4. The system of claim 1 further comprising a fourth arm assembly for carrying and positioning said target substrate relative to said liquid transfer plate.
5. The system of claim 4 wherein said fourth arm assembly is controllably movable in the XYZ directions.
6. The system of claim 5 wherein said second arm assembly is configured to position said target substrate over said liquid transfer plate.
7. The system of claim 1 wherein said second arm assembly can rotate angularly such that said liquid transfer plate may be rotated upside down.
8. The system of claim 1 wherein said channels have a varying diameter from the fill side to the dispense side.
9. The system of claim 8 wherein said channels have a decreasing diameter from the fill side to the dispense side.
10. The system of claim 1 further comprising a multiwell plate stacker for holding a plurality of source well plates.
11. The system of claim 1 further comprising a liquid transfer plate stacker for holding a plurality of liquid transfer plates.
12. The system of claim 1 wherein the non-contact liquid dispensing device is an acoustic emitter positioned underneath the source well plate.
13. The system of claim 4 wherein said fourth arm assembly further comprises a target tray for holding at least one target substrate.
14. The system of claim 13 further comprising a tray stacker for holding a plurality of trays.
15. The system of claim 1 further comprising a camera for viewing dispensing.
16. The system of claim 1 further comprising a computer and said computer controls movement of said first and second arm assemblies.
17. The system of claim 16 wherein said computer further determines a number of target substrates to be printed such that a difference in time between loading the liquid transfer plate with materials to be dispensed and ejecting materials from said liquid transfer plate onto each of said target substrates is less than 10 seconds.
18. The system of claim 1 wherein said target substrate is a multiwell plate.
19. The system of claims 1 wherein said target substrate is a flat slide.
20. A liquid transfer plate for transferring biological and chemical materials onto a target substrate comprising a thin planar body having a fill side, a dispense side and a plurality of channels extending from said fill side to said dispense side.
21. The liquid transfer plate of claim 20 wherein said liquid transfer plate is rigid and formed from a substance selected from the group consisting of glass, ceramic, silicon wafer, plastic, stainless steel, tungsten, beryllium, and molybdenum.
22. The liquid transfer plate of claim 20 wherein said channels have a varying diameter.
23. The liquid transfer plate of claim 22 wherein said diameter decreases from said fill side to said dispense side.
24. The liquid transfer plate of claim 20 wherein said body has a thickness in a range of 4 mm to 0.1 mm.
25. The liquid transfer plate of claim 20 wherein said channels have a circular cross section and have a diameter in a range from 2 mm to 0.1 mm.
26. The liquid transfer plate of claim 25 wherein said diameter is in a range from 1 mm to 0.1 mm.
27. The liquid transfer plate of claim 20 wherein said body has a constant cross section from the fill side to the dispense side.
28. The liquid transfer plate of claim 20 wherein said channels form a rectangular array.
29. The liquid transfer plate of claim 20 wherein said channels form a non-rectangular array.
30. The liquid transfer plate of claim 20 wherein said body has a shape selected from the group of square and rectangular.
31. The liquid transfer plate of claim 20 wherein said body has a shape selected from the group of circular and oval.
32. A non-contact method for composing a microarray onto at least one target substrate comprising:
loading a first liquid transfer plate with primary materials to be printed; and
dispensing at least a portion of said primary materials onto said at least one target substrate.
33. The method of claim 32 wherein said loading comprises transferring a first liquid from a first source well of a multiwell plate to a first channel of a plurality of channels extending through said first liquid transfer plate.
34. The method of claim 33 wherein said loading further comprises transferring a second liquid from a second source well of said multiwell plate to a second channel of said first liquid transfer plate.
35. The method of claim 32 further comprising moving at least one of said first liquid transfer plate and said at least one target substrate into a dispense position such that when said primary materials are ejected from said liquid transfer plate said primary materials contact said at least one target plate.
36. The method of claim 34 wherein said dispensing includes dispensing a portion of said first and second liquids from said first and second channels respectively onto each target substrate of a first set of target substrates.
37. The method of claim 36 wherein said first and second liquids are dispensed onto 10 to 50 target substrates.
38. The method of claim 32 further comprising loading a second liquid transfer plate with ancillary materials.
39. The method of claim 38 wherein said loading the second liquid transfer plate is performed while said dispensing the primary materials is performed.
40. The method of claim 39 further comprising dispensing said ancillary materials onto a second set of target substrates.
41. The method of claim 38 wherein said second liquid is different than said first liquid.
42. A method for composing a microarray onto a plurality of target chips comprising:
selecting a number of spots to be printed onto a target chip;
determining a channel configuration for a liquid transfer plate used to dispense materials onto said plurality of target chips;
determining a number of liquid transfer plates necessary to complete printing said number of spots from said selecting step; and
determining a number of target chips such that the difference between the time to load materials into each and every channel of a liquid transfer plate and the time to print materials from a liquid transfer plate onto each and every target chip of said number of target chips (dT) is minimized.
43. The method of claim 35 wherein said dT is less than 100 seconds.
44. The method of claim 36 wherein said dT is less than 10 seconds.
45. The method of claim 37 wherein said dT is less than 1 second.

1. A method of manufacturing a solar cell device, comprising:
providing a substrate having a first dielectric layer disposed on a first side of the substrate and a second dielectric layer disposed on a second side of the substrate;
selectively disposing a first metal paste in a first pattern on at least a portion of the first dielectric layer;
selectively disposing a second metal paste in a second pattern on a surface of the second dielectric layer, wherein the second dielectric layer is disposed between the portions of the second metal paste and the second side of the substrate; and
simultaneously heating the first and the second metal pastes disposed on the first and the second dielectric layers to form a first group of contacts in the first dielectric layer and a second group of contacts in the second dielectric layer, wherein at least a portion of the second metal paste forms a plurality of contact regions that each extend through the second dielectric layer from the surface of the second dielectric layer to the second side of the substrate.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the second metal paste comprises aluminum, and the second dielectric layer comprises aluminum oxide.
3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
coupling a conductive layer to the contact regions formed in the second dielectric layer.
4. The method of claim 3, wherein the conductive layer comprises an aluminum, copper or tin foil.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first metal paste comprises silver.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the second metal paste comprises aluminum.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein the first dielectric layer is a dielectric layer selected from a group consisting of silicon oxide layer, silicon nitride layer, silicon oxynitride layer or combinations thereof.
8. The method of claim 1, wherein the second dielectric layer comprises an aluminum oxide layer.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein the second dielectric layer comprises an aluminum oxide layer and a silicon nitride layer, wherein the silicon nitride layer is disposed on the aluminum oxide layer.
10. The method of claim 1, wherein selectively disposing the first metal paste on the first dielectric layer further comprises forming a metal bus line layer on the first group of contact metal paste.
11. The method of claim 8, wherein the metal bus line layer is a aluminum layer.
12. A method of manufacturing a solar cell device, comprising:
providing a substrate having a first dielectric layer disposed on a first side of the substrate and a second dielectric layer disposed on a second side of the substrate, wherein the second dielectric layer comprises a first layer disposed on a second layer that is disposed on the second side of the substrate;
selectively disposing a first metal paste in a first pattern on at least a portion of the first dielectric layer;
performing a laser removal process to remove a portion of the first layer from the second side of the substrate to form openings in the first layer;
selectively disposing a second metal paste in a second pattern on a first layer of the second dielectric layer, and a portion of the second metal paste filling at least a portion of the openings formed in the first layer;
simultaneously heating the first and the second metal pastes disposed on the first and the second dielectric layers to form a first group of contacts in the first dielectric layer and a second group of contacts in the second dielectric layer, wherein at least a portion of the second metal paste forms a plurality of contact regions that each extend through the second dielectric layer from a surface of the first layer to the second side of the substrate.
13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:
coupling a conductive layer to the contact regions formed in the second dielectric layer.
14. The method of claim 13, wherein the conductive layer comprises an aluminum, copper or tin foil.
15. The method of claim 12, wherein the first layer of the second dielectric layer is a silicon nitride layer and the second layer of the second dielectric layer is a aluminum oxide layer.
16. The method of claim 12, wherein selectively disposing the first metal paste on the first dielectric layer further comprises forming a metal bus line layer on the first group of contact metal paste.
17. The method of claim 16, wherein the metal bus line layer is a aluminum layer.
18. The method of claim 12, wherein the first metal paste comprises silver and the second metal paste comprises aluminum.

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 system for optimizing the operation of solar plants, comprising:
a server responsible for collecting general prediction data of a data satellite service;
an electric grid server collecting data referring to electric energy market prices,
a control unit comprising:
a plurality of expert modules, including:
a meteorological module in communication with the server receiving the prediction data from the latter;
a plant module including a dynamic model of the plant which reproduces the physical and dynamic characteristics of the solar plant;
an electric market module for collecting the data coming from the electric grid server; and
an optimization module, from which the parameters relating to the operation of the solar plant are specified and optimized by reiterated simulations, in which the values and states of the plant are modified;

a database storing the prediction data obtained by the meteorological module and the data referring to the electric energy market prices coming from the electric market module;
a user interface allowing a user to access the information stored in the database, manipulate said information and work with each expert module to define the conditions suitable for operating and optimizing activities of the solar plant;

wherein the optimization module is configured to obtain the data referring to the electric energy market prices from the database and to send simulation conditions to the plant module according to the conditions configured by the user through the user interface;
and wherein the plant module is configured to obtain the prediction data from the database and update the dynamic model of the plant, and to send the results of the simulation obtained according to the simulation conditions established by the optimization module.
2. The system for optimizing the operation of solar plants according to claim 1, wherein the optimization module containing sub-modules which contain the data and generate the graphic representation of the meteorological parameters, the graphic representation of the market prices indicating the real and estimated values.
3. The system for optimizing the operation of solar plants according to claim 1, wherein the real operation of the plant being consulted by the plant module.
4. The system for optimizing the operation of solar plants according to claim 1, wherein the plant module allowing combining various element, design and configuration options of the facility together with the parameters provided by the remaining modules to provide an energy output to be produced.
5. The system for optimizing the operation of solar plants according to claim 1, wherein the plant module reproduces the control and the physical and dynamic characteristics of the plant, in combination with the appropriate prognosis of the electric demand and the solar resources.
6. The system for optimizing the operation of solar plants according to claim 1, the optimization module comprising a solar resource sub-module by which the estimated and real data of the meteorological variables are consulted, said data, which is read directly from the database, being collected by the meteorological module.
7. The system for optimizing the operation of solar plants according to claim 1, the prediction data comprising meteorological and radiation variables.
8. The system for optimizing the operation of solar plants according to claim 1, wherein the electric market module generates predictions of the prices of each kilowatt-hour and supplies them the predictions to the database such that the predictions are stored, organized and can be supplied to the plant module.