All The Claims

1. A tool for adjusting at least one of loft angle or lie angle of a golf club, comprising:
a body having a first clamping portion and a second clamping portion, the first and second clamping portions defining a clamp opening having a substantially rectangular cross section and a longitudinal axis;
a first lever having first and second ends, the first end slidingly engaging the body and attaching to the second clamping portion, the first lever having a longitudinal axis lying in a plane containing the longitudinal axis of the clamp opening; and
a second lever removably mounted to the body of the tool, the second lever having a longitudinal axis lying in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the first lever when the second lever is mounted to the body of the tool; further including a release mechanism connected to the body, the release mechanism having an opening and a threaded portion, the threaded portion moveable from an engaged position in which the threaded portion engages a corresponding threaded portion formed on the first lever to a released position in which the threaded portion disengages from the corresponding threaded portion of the first lever to permit the first lever to slide through the opening in the release mechanism.
2. The tool of claim 1, wherein the first lever comprises a shaft having a threaded portion between a first unthreaded portion and a second unthreaded portion.
3. The tool of claim 1, wherein the second clamping portion comprises a T-shaped block removably mounted to the first end of the first lever, the T-shaped block having a crossbar portion and a base portion, the crossbar portion substantially perpendicular to the base portion.
4. The tool of claim 3, wherein the crossbar portion has a first surface and a second surface, wherein a hole extends from the first surface into the crossbar portion.
5. The tool of claim 4, wherein the first end of the first lever extends into the hole extending from the first surface into the crossbar portion.
6. The tool of claim 5, further including a set screw extending into the crossbar portion for securing the crossbar portion to the first lever.
7. The tool of claim 3, wherein the base portion of the T-shaped block extends from a second surface of the crossbar portion and has a beveled surface inclined at an angle relative to a plane normal to the longitudinal axis of the first lever, and wherein the first clamping portion comprises a U-shaped block having a beveled wall having a surface substantially parallel to the beveled surface of the T-shaped block.
8. The tool of claim 3, wherein the crossbar portion and the base portion are a unitary structure.
9. A golf club adjustment tool, comprising:
an attachment structure having an adjustable receiving area and a surface, an opening extending from the surface to the adjustable receiving area;
a quick release mechanism attached to the attachment structure, the quick release mechanism having an opening aligned with the opening in the attachment structure;
a first lever having a first end and a second end and a longitudinal axis, the first lever extending through the openings in the attachment structure and the quick release mechanism, wherein the first end of the lever is in the adjustable receiving area;
a second lever removably attached to the attachment structure, the second lever having a longitudinal axis substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the first lever when the second lever is attached to the attachment structure;
a first clamping element attached to the attachment structure within the adjustable receiving area, the first clamping element having a clamping portion including a wall having a surface inclined at an angle relative to a plane normal to the longitudinal axis of the first lever; and
a second clamping element attached to the first end of the first lever, the second clamping element moveable toward and away from the first clamping element, the second clamping element having a clamping surface opposite and substantially parallel to the inclined wall of the first clamping element to form an elongated opening having a longitudinal axis intersecting the longitudinal axis of the first lever.
10. The golf club adjustment tool of claim 9, wherein the first lever has a threaded region that cooperates with the quick release mechanism for releasing the first lever.
11. The golf club adjustment tool of claim 9, wherein the inclined surface of the first clamping element is bordered by two opposed walls forming a notch and the clamping surface of the second clamping element is formed at the end of a flange, the flange being capable of mating with the notch.
12. The golf club adjustment tool of claim 11, further including a mating barrel attached to the attachment structure, wherein the second lever is removably attached to the attachment structure by inserting the second lever into the mating barrel.
13. The golf club adjustment tool of claim 9 wherein the second clamping element is removably attached to the first lever.

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 substrate processing apparatus comprising:
a reaction tube having in an interior thereof a processing chamber in which a plurality of substrates disposed in a direction perpendicular to a substrate processing surface can be processed; and
a heating device provided to surround an outer circumference of the reaction tube,
a gas inlet tube being provided on a side face of said reaction tube in a region for processing a substrate inside said reaction tube, so as to reach at least an outside of said heating device, and
a gas spouting port being disposed in the gas inlet tube in a slit form so as to straddle at least a plurality of the substrates in a direction perpendicular to said substrate processing surface, for spouting gas from said gas inlet tube into said processing chamber.
2. The substrate processing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein
said gas inlet tube comprises a plurality of gas introduction partition portions partitioned in a direction perpendicular to a processing surface of said substrates, and
said gas spouting port is formed in each of said gas introduction partition portions.
3. The substrate processing apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein said gas spouting port is formed one for each of said gas introduction partition portions.
4. The substrate processing apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein an opening area of said gas spouting port is identical to a cross-sectional area of said gas introduction partition portion in a direction perpendicular to said substrate processing surface.
5. The substrate processing device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said gas inlet tube is formed so that a distance from at least said gas spouting port to an upstream tip-end portion of the gas inlet tube is greater than a distance between two ends of said gas spouting port in a circumferential direction of the substrates.
6. The substrate processing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said gas inlet tube is formed along an entire side along said substrate processing region.
7. The substrate processing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:
a gas exhaust tube being provided on a side face of said reaction tube in a region for processing a substrate inside said reaction tube so as to reach at least an outside of said heating device; and
a gas exhaust port being disposed in the gas exhaust tube in a slit form so as to straddle at least a plurality of the substrates in a direction perpendicular to said substrate processing surface, for exhausting gas into said gas exhaust tube from said processing chamber.
8. The substrate processing apparatus as claimed in claim 7, wherein
said gas exhaust tube comprises a plurality of gas exhaust partition portions partitioned in a direction perpendicular to a processing surface of said substrates, and
said gas exhaust port is formed in each of said gas exhaust partition portions.
9. The substrate processing apparatus as claimed in claim 2,
wherein a process gas supply portion and a first inert gas supply portion are connected to an upstream side of said gas introduction partition portions,
the substrate processing apparatus further comprising a gas supply control portion for, when processing the substrates in said reaction tube, supplying a process gas from the process gas supply portion when the substrates are disposed in positions opposing the gas introduction partition portions, and supplying an inert gas from the inert gas supply portion when no substrate is disposed in positions opposing the gas introduction partition portions.
10. The substrate processing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a plasma generating device constituted from electrodes disposed outside the processing chamber, with said gas inlet tube placed between these electrodes, for creating plasma of a gas in said gas inlet tube.
11. The substrate processing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a second inert gas supply portion for supplying an inert gas from above said reaction tube into the reaction tube.
12. The substrate processing apparatus as claimed in claim 11, further comprising a third inert gas supply portion for supplying an inert gas from below said reaction tube into the reaction tube.
13. The substrate processing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a gas interrupting portion above said reaction tube.
14. The substrate processing apparatus as claimed in claim 13, wherein said gas interrupting portion is provided in an inner wall of said reaction tube.
15. The substrate processing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, comprising protruding portions provided to protrude inward from an inner wall surface of said reaction tube at, at least, an upper and a lower end of said gas inlet tube and said gas exhaust tube.
16. The substrate processing apparatus as claimed in claim 15, comprising notched portions provided in the same positions as in said protruding portions in a circumferential direction with respect to a processing surface of said substrates.
17. The substrate processing apparatus as claimed in claim 16, wherein a temperature detector for detecting a temperature within a processing chamber is housed in said notched portions of said protruding portions.
18. The substrate processing apparatus as claimed in claim 1,
wherein a width of said spouting port in a direction horizontal to said substrate surface is \xbd or less of a diameter of said substrates.
19. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device for processing in use of the substrate processing apparatus as claimed in claim 1,
the method comprising the steps of:
conveying substrates into said reaction tube;
processing the substrates by introducing a gas from said gas spouting port across the substrates within said reaction tube while maintaining a gas flow velocity in said gas inlet tube, and heating said reaction tube by means of said heating device; and
conveying the substrates out of said reaction tube.
20. A reaction vessel in a cylindrical shape having in an interior thereof a processing chamber in which a plurality of substrates disposed in a direction perpendicular to a substrate processing surface can be processed, comprising:
a gas inlet tube and a gas exhaust tube being provided on a side face of said reaction tube in a region for processing a substrate inside said reaction tube, said gas inlet tube and said gas exhaust tube extending in a direction perpendicular to said side face of said reaction tube, and
a gas spouting port being disposed in at least said gas inlet tube in a form so as to straddle at least a plurality of the substrates in a direction perpendicular to said substrate processing surface, for spouting gas from said gas inlet tube into said processing chamber.

1. A method for managing and controlling UPnP devices in a home network over an external Internet network using a UPnP proxy system which has a client connected to the external Internet network, wherein the client includes a stub for providing the same application program interface (API) as a UPnP API to a user, and a UPnP proxy server for controlling and managing the UPnP devices in the home network, said method comprising the steps of:
a) allowing said UPnP proxy server to discover said UPnP devices in said home network, acquire information of said UPnP devices, create a device list on the basis of the acquired information and create a Web page of the created device list, by allowing said proxy server to receive advertisement messages from said UPnP devices, manage said device list on the basis of the received advertisement messages, receive a device description from a new UPnP device and store the received device description in a structural manner; and allowing said proxy server to convert said device list into a Web page interpretable by said client in response to a change in its connection with said specific UPnP device,
b) allowing said client to select a specific one of said UPnP devices, to be controlled by a user, from said Web page and acquire information of the selected specific UPnP device;
c) allowing said proxy server to register an event with respect to said specific UPnP device and control said specific device in response to a device control command from said client;
d) allowing said proxy server to receive an event message from said specific UPnP device in response to a change in state of said specific device and send the received event message to said client; and
e) ending the control for said specific UPnP device and releasing the event registration.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein said allowing said client to select a specific one of said UPnP devices includes the step of:
1) allowing said client to request and store a device description and service description of said specific UPnP device from said proxy server.
3. The method according to claim 2, wherein said allowing said client to select a specific one of said UPnP devices further includes the step of:
1) allowing said proxy server to request and receive said service description from said specific UPnP device.
4. The method according to claim 1, wherein said allowing said proxy server to register an event includes the steps of:
1) allowing said client to send a device control command message to said proxy server;
2) allowing said proxy server to search for said information of said specific UPnP device and send said device control command message to said specific UPnP device in said home network through a UPnP application program interface (API); and
3) allowing said proxy server to, if the control for said specific UPnP device is completed, receive a control result message from said specific device and send it to said client.
5. The method according to claim 1, wherein said allowing said proxy server to register an event includes the steps of:
1) allowing said proxy server to store event registration information with respect to said specific UPnP device in response to an event registration message from said client;
2) allowing said proxy server to send said event registration message to said specific UPnP device in said home network; and
3) allowing said proxy server to send an event registration confirm message to said client if the event registration of said specific UPnP device is completed.
6. The method according to claim 1, wherein said allowing said proxy server to register an event includes the steps of:
1) allowing said proxy server to receive an event registration request message from said client;
2) allowing said proxy server to request and receive a wireless presentation page and wireless service description from said specific UPnP device; and
3) allowing said proxy server to register said event with respect to said specific UPnP device and send an event registration result to said client.
7. The method according to claim 1, wherein said allowing said proxy server to receive includes the step of:
1) allowing said proxy server to, if said event message from said specific UPnP device is an event message of a previously registered device, convert it into a message interpretable by said client and send the converted message to said client.
8. The method according to claim 7, wherein said allowing said proxy server to receive further includes the steps of:
2) allowing said client to request and receive a presentation page from said UPnP proxy server upon receiving the converted event message from said proxy server.
9. The method according to claim 1, wherein said client is adapted to receive said device control command from said user through the same API as a UPnP API and send a result of execution of said control command to said user through the same API.

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 wireless communications apparatus that enables adaptively selecting a subset of resource sets to utilize in a wireless communication environment, comprising:
means for identifying an optimal reuse factor for a base station as a function of a metric based upon a level of service associated with at least one neighboring base station;
means for selecting a fraction of available resource sets that are commonly defined across a network to form a base station specific collection, the fraction being based upon the optimal reuse factor; and
means for allocating resources included in the resource sets from the base station specific collection to served access terminals.
2. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 1, further comprising means for determining the optimal reuse factor based upon obtained forward link resource specific CQI reports.
3. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 1, wherein the metric used for determining the optimal reuse factor is CI distribution seen at access terminals served by the at least one neighboring base station.
4. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 1, wherein the metric used for determining the optimal reuse factor is based upon a criterion that considers a data rate served.
5. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 1, further comprising means for adjusting the optimal reuse factor.
6. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 1, further comprising means for employing frequency hopping in connection with the allocated resources constrained within a resource set.
7. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 1, further comprising means for selecting the fraction of available resource sets based upon received resource specific CQI reports from one or more access terminals.
8. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 1, further comprising means for selecting the fraction of available resource sets by using a criterion that maximizes harmonic mean CI values.
9. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 1, further comprising means for selecting the fraction of available resource sets based upon ChanDiff information and information related to Forward Link Other Sector Interference Channel (F-OSICH) activity.
10. A computer program product, comprising:
a computer-readable medium, comprising:
code for determining an optimal reuse factor corresponding to a base station based upon a first metric that considers level of service associated with at least one disparate base station; and
code for selecting a fraction of available resource sets that are commonly defined across a network to each map to certain sets of physical resources, the fraction being selected to generate a base station specific collection, the fraction being a function of the optimal reuse factor.
11. The computer program product of claim 10, the computer-readable medium further comprising code for determining the optimal reuse factor based upon obtained forward link resource specific CQI reports.
12. The computer program product of claim 10, the computer-readable medium further comprising code for determining the optimal reuse factor based upon a CI distribution seen at access terminals served by the at least one disparate base station.
13. The computer program product of claim 10, the computer-readable medium further comprising code for determining the optimal reuse factor based upon a criterion that considers a data rate served.
14. The computer program product of claim 10, the computer-readable medium further comprising code for adjusting the optimal reuse factor as a function of time.
15. The computer program product of claim 10, the computer-readable medium further comprising code for selecting the fraction of available resource sets based upon resource specific CQI reports obtained from one or more access terminals.
16. The computer program product of claim 10, the computer-readable medium further comprising code for selecting the fraction of available resource sets by using a criterion that maximizes harmonic mean CI values.
17. The computer program product of claim 10, the computer-readable medium further comprising code for selecting the fraction of available resource sets based upon ChanDiff information that is at least one of received or generated and information related to F-OSICH activity received via at least one of a reverse link or a backhaul.
18. In a wireless communications system, an apparatus comprising:
a processor configured to:
determine an optimal reuse factor corresponding to a base station based upon a metric that considers level of service associated with at least one neighboring base station;
select a fraction of available resource sets that are commonly defined across a network to form a base station specific collection, the fraction being based upon the optimal reuse factor;
assign resources included in resource sets from the base station specific collection to served access terminals for scheduled transmission; and
vary the resources assigned within at least one of the resource sets from the collection over time using a base station specific frequency hopping pattern for at least one of the scheduled transmission.