All The Claims

1. A process for increasing the proportion of at least one light paraffin in a mixture comprising carbon dioxide and said at least one light paraffin, wherein said process comprises passing said mixture over an adsorbent, wherein said adsorbent comprises an as-prepared andor modified ETS-10 zeolite, said adsorbent selectively adsorbs carbon dioxide from said mixture, and said at least one paraffin comprises methane, ethane or a mixture thereof.
2. The process of claim 1, wherein said at least one light paraffin comprises more than 50 weight percent of ethane.
3. The process of claim 1, wherein said at least one light paraffin comprises more than 50 weight percent of methane.
4. The process of claim 1, 2, or 3, wherein said modified ETS-10 zeolite comprises an as-prepared Na-ETS-10 zeolite which has been modified by cation exchange with one or more than one mono-, di- or tri-valent metal cation, a proton or mixtures thereof.
5. The process according to claim 4 wherein said process is a pressure swing adsorption process.
6. The process according to claim 1, 2, or 3, wherein said process is a pressure swing adsorption process.
7. A pressure swing adsorption process for increasing the proportion of at least one light paraffin in a gaseous mixture comprising carbon dioxide and said at least one light paraffin, wherein said process comprises:
i) passing said mixture through at least one adsorption bed containing an adsorbent comprising an as-prepared andor modified ETS-10 zeolite, at a pressure at which said adsorbent selectively adsorbs carbon dioxide from said gaseous mixture to provide a stream enriched in said at least one light paraffin;
ii) reducing the pressure in said at least one adsorption bed to a pressure at which said adsorbent releases adsorbed carbon dioxide to provide a stream enriched in carbon dioxide; and

wherein said at least one light paraffin comprises methane, ethane or a mixture thereof.
8. A process comprising:
i) passing a mixture comprising carbon dioxide and ethane through at least one adsorbent bed containing an adsorbent comprising an as-prepared andor modified ETS-10 zeolite, wherein said as-prepared andor modified ETS-10 zeolite selectively adsorbs carbon dioxide from said mixture to provide a product stream enriched in said ethane; and
ii) cracking said ethane in said product stream in a hydrocarbons cracking unit.
9. A process for increasing the proportion of at least one light paraffin in a mixture comprising carbon dioxide and said at least one light paraffin, wherein said process comprises:
i) passing said mixture over an adsorbent, wherein said adsorbent comprises an as-prepared andor modified ETS-10 zeolite, and wherein said adsorbent selectively adsorbs carbon dioxide from said mixture; and
ii) passing said mixture through an amine based liquid extraction unit, wherein said extraction unit selectively extracts carbon dioxide from said mixture;

and provided that said at least one light paraffin comprises more than 50 weight percent of ethane.

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 additive for an electrolyte solution comprising a lithium salt having an oxalato complex as an anion and a compound represented by following Chemical Formula 1,
wherein, a represents C or Si, b represents H or F, and n represents an integer of 1 to 5.
2. The additive for an electrolyte solution of claim 1, wherein the lithium salt is at least one selected from the group consisting of lithium difluoro(oxalato)borate (LiODFB), lithium tetrafluoro(oxalato) phosphate (LiTFOP) and lithium bis(oxalato)borate (LiBOB).
3. The additive for an electrolyte solution of claim 1, wherein the lithium salt is included in an amount of 0.2 to 2% by weight based on a total amount of the electrolyte solution.
4. The additive for an electrolyte solution of claim 1, wherein the compound represented by Chemical Formula 1 is at least one selected from the group consisting of tris(trimethylsilyl)phosphate (TMSP) and tris(2,2,2-trifluoroethyl)phosphate (TFEP).
5. The additive for an electrolyte solution of claim 1, wherein the compound represented by Chemical Formula 1 is included in an amount of 0.01 to 2% by weight based on a total amount of the electrolyte solution.
6. The additive for an electrolyte solution of claim 1, wherein the compound represented by Chemical Formula 1 is included in an amount of 0.01 to 1% by weight based on a total amount of the electrolyte solution.
7. A non-aqueous electrolyte solution comprising:
an additive including a lithium salt having an oxalato complex as an anion and a compound represented by following Chemical Formula 1,
wherein, a represents C or Si, b represents H or F, and n represents an integer of 1 to 5;
a non-aqueous organic solvent; and
a lithium salt.
8. The non-aqueous electrolyte solution of claim 7, wherein the lithium salt is at least one selected from the group consisting of LiPF6, LiBF4, LiSbF6, LiAsF6, LiClO4, LiN(C2F5SO2)2. LiN(CF3SO2)2, CF3SO3Li, LiC(CF3SO2)3 and LiC4BO8.
9. The non-aqueous electrolyte solution of claim 7, further comprising at least one additive selected from the group consisting of vinylene carbonate, vinylene ethylene carbonate, ethylene sulfate and 1,3-propane sultone.
10. A lithium secondary battery comprising:
a cathode including a cathode active material;
an anode including an anode active material;
a separator interposed between the cathode and the anode; and
a non-aqueous electrolyte solution of claim 7,
the cathode active material being a manganese spinel active material, a lithium metal oxide or a mixture thereof.
11. The lithium secondary battery of claim 10, wherein the lithium metal oxide is at least one selected from the group consisting of a lithium-manganese oxide, a lithium-nickel-manganese oxide, a lithium-manganese-cobalt oxide and a lithium-nickel-manganese-cobalt oxide.

What is claimed is:

1. A method for a base site to facilitate mobile-initiated, CDMA-dispatch soft handoff comprising the steps of:
establishing a first outbound link for a dispatch call;
transmitting the dispatch call via the first outbound link;
establishing an inbound link with a mobile station (MS) for the dispatch call;
receiving, from the MS via the inbound link, a request to begin a soft handoff with an adjacent base site;
notifying the adjacent base site of the soft handoff request of the MS;
receiving an indication of a second outbound link at the adjacent site enabling the soft handoff; and
indicating to the ms the identity of the second outbound link.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the inbound link comprises a low-rate inbound link used to communicate at least one of forward power control information and reverse power information.
3. The method of claim 1 wherein the first outbound link and the second outbound link each comprises a full-rate CDMA outbound traffic channel.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of indicating comprises the step of signaling in-band on the first outbound link the identity of the second outbound link.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of indicating comprises the step of signaling via a paging channel the identity of the second outbound link.
6. The method of claim 5 wherein the step of signaling via a paging channel comprises the step of transmitting a broadcast page to convey the identity of the second outbound link.
7. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of indicating the identity of the first MS with the identity of the second outbound link.
8. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of indicating the identity of the adjacent base site with the identity of the second outbound link.
9. The method of claim 8 wherein the step of indicating the identity of the adjacent base site with the identity of the second outbound link comprises transmitting to the MS a pseudorandom noise scrambling code offset of the adjacent base site.
10. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of indicating to the MS the identity of the second outbound link comprises transmitting to the MS a CDMA code used for the second outbound link.
11. A method for a mobile station (MS) to initiate a CDMA-dispatch soft handoff comprising the steps of:
receiving a dispatch call via a first outbound link with a base site;
establishing an inbound link with the base site for the dispatch call;
transmitting via the inbound link a request to begin a soft handoff with an adjacent base site; and
receiving an indication of a second outbound link at the adjacent site with which to begin the soft handoff.
12. The method of claim 11 further comprising the step of beginning the soft handoff by simultaneously receiving the dispatch call via the first outbound link and the second outbound link.
13. The method of claim 12 further comprising the step of transmitting a request to establish an inbound link with the adjacent base site for the dispatch call.
14. The method of claim 11 wherein the step of receiving the indication comprises the step of receiving in-band signaling on the first outbound link that conveys the identity of the second outbound link.
15. The method of claim 11 wherein the step of receiving the indication comprises the step of receiving a broadcast page that conveys the identity of the second outbound link.
16. The method of claim 11 wherein the request comprises a signal strength report.
17. A base site comprising:
a transmitter;
a receiver; and
a controller, coupled to the transmitter and the receiver, adapted to establish a first outbound link for a dispatch call, adapted to instruct the transmitter to transmit the dispatch call via the first outbound link, adapted to establish an inbound link with a mobile station (MS) for the dispatch call, adapted to receive using the receiver a request to begin a soft handoff with an adjacent base site from the MS via the inbound link, adapted to notify the adjacent base site of the soft handoff request of the MS, adapted to receive an indication of a second outbound link at the adjacent site enabling the soft handoff, and adapted to instruct the transmitter to transmit to the MS an indication of the identity of the second outbound link.
18. The base site of claim 17 wherein the inbound link comprises a low-rate inbound link used to communicate at least one of forward power control information and reverse power information.
19. The base site of claim 17 wherein the first outbound link and the second outbound link each comprises a full-rate CDMA outbound traffic channel.
20. The base site of claim 17 wherein the controller instructs the transmitter to transmit signaling in-band on the first outbound link to convey the identity of the second outbound link.
21. The base site of claim 17 wherein the controller instructs the transmitter to transmit a broadcast page via the paging channel to convey the identity of the second outbound link.
22. A mobile station (MS) comprising:
a transmitter;
a receiver; and
a processor, coupled to the transmitter and the receiver, adapted to instruct the receiver to receive a dispatch call via a first outbound link with a base site, adapted to establish an inbound link with the base site for the dispatch call, adapted to instruct the transmitter to transmit via the inbound link a request to begin a soft handoff with an adjacent base site, and adapted to receive using the receiver an indication of a second outbound link at the adjacent site with which to begin the soft handoff.
23. The MS of claim 22 wherein the processor is further adapted to instruct the receiver to begin the soft handoff by simultaneously receiving the dispatch call via the first outbound link and the second outbound link.
24. The MS of claim 22 wherein the processor is further adapted to instruct the transmitter to transmit a request to establish an inbound link with the adjacent base site for the dispatch call.

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 cantilever-based force measurement instrument, comprising:
a cantilever probe;
a device providing feedback to an operator of the instrument as to the relative position of the cantilever probe, the device comprising:
a rotatable knob;
means by which an operator-induced change in the position of the knob varies a performance parameter of the instrument; and
means by which a torque is applied to the knob that is a function of another performance parameter of the instrument.
2. The cantilever-based force measurement instrument of claim 1, wherein the instrument is an atomic force microscope.
3. The cantilever-based force measurement instrument of claim 1, wherein the instrument measures a force between the cantilever probe and a single molecule of a sample.
4. The cantilever-based force measurement instrument of claim 1, wherein the means by which torque is applied to the knob includes a motor coupled to the knob, and instrument includes a controller coupled to the motor to control the torque applied to the knob by the motor.
5. The cantilever-based force measurement instrument of claim 1, wherein the performance parameter of the instrument that is varied by the operator-induced change in the position of the knob is a separation of the sample and cantilever probe in a predefined z direction.
6. The cantilever-based force measurement instrument of claim 1, wherein the other performance parameter of the instrument is deflection of the cantilever probe.
7. A cantilever-based force measurement instrument, comprising:
a cantilever probe;
a device providing feedback to the instrument operator as to the force between the cantilever probe and a sample, the device comprising:
a rotatable knob;
means by which an operator-induced change in the position of the knob varies a performance parameter of the instrument; and
means by which a torque is applied to the knob that is a function of another performance parameter of the instrument.
8. The cantilever-based force measurement instrument of claim 7, wherein the instrument is an atomic force microscope.
9. The cantilever-based force measurement instrument of claim 7, wherein the instrument measures a force between the cantilever probe and a single molecule of a sample.
10. The cantilever-based force measurement instrument of claim 7, wherein the means by which torque is applied to the knob includes a motor coupled to the knob, and instrument includes a controller coupled to the motor to control the torque applied to the knob by the motor.
11. The cantilever-based force measurement instrument of claim 7, wherein the performance parameter of the instrument that is varied by the operator-induced change in the position of the knob is a separation of the sample and cantilever probe in a predefined z direction.
12. The cantilever-based force measurement instrument of claim 7, wherein the other performance parameter of the instrument is deflection of the cantilever probe.