All The Claims

1. A method for producing at least two sections of high density carbon foam within a single container, the method comprising the steps of:
dividing a coal bed into at least two coal bed sections in a container, wherein the coal bed comprises comminuted agglomerating bituminous coal;
simultaneously heating the at least two coal bed sections to a first elevated temperature, wherein the first elevated temperature is sufficient to convert said at least two coal bed sections into at least two substantially homogeneous, non-sintered, open cell carbon materials; and
continued heating of the at least two substantially homogeneous, non-sintered, open cell carbon materials at an elevated temperature for a time sufficient to essentially eliminate the plastic properties of the at least two substantially homogeneous, non-sintered, open cell carbon materials to provide at least two sections of high density carbon foam.
2. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of heating said high density carbon foam to a second elevated temperature greater than about 700\xb0 C.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein said second elevated temperature is greater than about 950\xb0 C.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein said heating is conducted under an essentially inert, non-oxidizing atmosphere.
5. The method of claim 2, wherein said heating is conducted under an essentially inert, non-oxidizing atmosphere.
6. The method of claim 3, wherein said heating is conducted under an essentially inert, non-oxidizing atmosphere.
7. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of cooling said high density carbon foam to essentially ambient temperature under an essentially inert, non-oxidizing atmosphere.
8. The method of claim 2, further comprising the step of cooling said high density carbon foam to essentially ambient temperature under an essentially inert, non-oxidizing atmosphere.
9. The method of claim 3, further comprising the step of cooling said high density carbon foam from said to essentially ambient temperature under an essentially inert, non-oxidizing atmosphere.
10. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of compacting at least one coal bed section.
11. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of covering the container with a lid prior to heating said at least two coal bed sections.
12. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of placing a bottom surface covering in said container prior to introduction of said comminuted agglomerating bituminous coal.
13. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of covering a least a portion of one coal bed top surface with a coal bed covering.
14. The method of claim 13, further comprising the step of covering a least a portion of a coal bed covering with a rigid sheet material.
15. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of covering a least a portion of at least one of a coal bed top surface with a rigid sheet material.
16. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of compacting at least a portion of at least one coal bed section, wherein said compacting of at least a portion of at least one coal bed section is performed prior to introduction of the coal into the container.
17. The method of claim 1, wherein said atmosphere has a pressure between about 0 psig and 500 psig.
18. The method of claim 7, further comprising the step of heating said high density carbon foam to a second elevated temperature greater than about 700\xb0 C. after said cooling.
19. The method of claim 18, wherein said second elevated temperature is greater than about 950\xb0 C.
20. The method of claim 18, wherein said heating is conducted under an essentially inert, non-oxidizing atmosphere.
21. The method of claim 19, wherein said heating is conducted under an essentially inert, non-oxidizing atmosphere.

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 process for forming a film nonwoven laminate having cushioning cells comprising:
extruding a thermoplastic film-forming polymer composition; blowing the extruded thermoplastic polymer composition to form a blown film bubble; directing the bubble to a nip formed between a first roller and a second roller, wherein the first roller has an outer surface comprising a continuous pattern of land areas defining a plurality of discrete openings, apertures or holes, and wherein the first and second rollers partially collapse the bubble into a nascent film sheet comprising a first film layer, a second film layer, and a plurality of cushioning cells defined between the first film layer and the second film layer; providing a fibrous nonwoven web; and directing the fibrous nonwoven web between the second roller and the nascent film to form a laminate comprising the nascent film and the fibrous nonwoven web.
2. The process of claim 1 wherein the second roller comprises a smooth outer surface.
3. The process of claim 1 further comprising the step of applying a vacuum to the plurality of discrete openings, apertures or holes.
4. The process of claim 1 wherein gas is blown into the blown film bubble to support the bubble.
5. The process of claim 4 further comprising the step of entraining the gas into the cushioning cells.
6. The process of claim 4 further comprising the step of applying a vacuum to the plurality of discrete openings, apertures or holes.
7. The process of claim 6 wherein the plurality of discrete opening, apertures or holes are in fluid communication with a manifold from which the vacuum is drawn.
8. The process of claim 6 wherein the air in the film bubble has an absolute pressure greater than an absolute pressure in the plurality of discrete openings, apertures or holes.
9. The process of claim 8 wherein the absolute pressure in the film bubble is greater than the absolute pressure in the plurality of discrete openings, apertures or holes by between about 0.1 and about 5 psi.
10. The process of claim 1 wherein the cushioning cells are discrete cushioning cells having an internal gas volume of about 0.0001 to 1.0 cubic centimeters.
11. The process of claim 1 wherein the cushioning cells are discrete cushioning cells having an internal gas volume of about 0.001 to about 0.1 cubic centimeters.
12. The process of claim 1 wherein the first and second film layers are elastic.
13. The process of claim 1 further comprising the step of applying an adhesive to the fibrous nonwoven web prior to directing the fibrous nonwoven web between the second roller and the nascent film.
14. The process of claim 1 wherein the fibrous nonwoven web is provided in a necked condition.
15. The process of claim 1 wherein the nip is a heated nip.
16. A film nonwoven laminate having cushioning cells formed from the process of claim 1.
17. A cross machine direction elastic film nonwoven laminate having cushioning cells formed from the process of claim 1.
18. A personal care product comprising the laminate of claim 16.
19. A film nonwoven laminate comprising a first blown film layer, a second blown film layer, and a fibrous nonwoven web, wherein the first and second blown film layers define a plurality of cushioning cells therebetween.
20. A personal care product comprising the laminate of claim 19.
21. A process for forming a film having cushioning cells comprising:
extruding a thermoplastic film-forming polymer composition; blowing the extruded thermoplastic polymer composition to form a blown film bubble; directing the bubble to a nip formed between a first roller and a second roller, wherein the first roller has an outer surface comprising a continuous pattern of land areas defining a plurality of discrete openings, apertures or holes, and wherein the first and second rollers partially collapse the bubble into a nascent film sheet comprising a first film layer, a second film layer, and a plurality of cushioning cells defined between the first film layer and the second film layer.
22. A film having cushioning cells comprising a first nascent blown film layer, a second nascent blown film layer, and a plurality of cushioning cells defined between the first film layer and the second film layer.
23. A film nonwoven laminate having cushioning cells comprising a nascent film sheet comprising a first film layer, a second film layer, and a plurality of cushioning cells defined between the first film layer and the second film layer; and a fibrous nonwoven web bonded to the nascent film sheet.

1. An anti-interference touch sensing structure, comprising:
a first substrate;
a plurality of touch sensing units coplanarly disposed on the first substrate, wherein a first interval region is formed between the adjacent touch sensing units; and
at least a first anti-interference spot disposed within the first interval region.
2. The anti-interference touch sensing structure as recited in claim 1, wherein the first anti-interference spot is electrically floating.
3. The anti-interference touch sensing structure as recited in claim 1, wherein the first anti-interference spot covers at least a part of the touch sensing units and is filled into the first interval region.
4. The anti-interference touch sensing structure as recited in claim 1, wherein the touch sensing units include a plurality of first touch sensing elements electrically connected with each other along a first direction and a plurality of second touch sensing elements electrically connected with each other along a second direction.
5. The anti-interference touch sensing structure as recited in claim 1, wherein the width of the first anti-interference spot is between 50 \u03bcm and 70 \u03bcm, and a distance exists between the first anti-interference spot and the adjacent touch sensing unit.
6. The anti-interference touch sensing structure as recited in claim 1, wherein the width of the first interval region is between 70 \u03bcm and 130 \u03bcm.
7. The anti-interference touch sensing structure as recited in claim 1, further comprising:
a grounding unit disposed coplanarly with the touch sensing units, wherein the grounding unit and the adjacent touch sensing unit have a second interval region therebetween; and
at least a second anti-interference spot disposed within the second interval region.
8. The anti-interference touch sensing structure as recited in claim 1, wherein by the first anti-interference spot disposed within the first interval region formed by the adjacent touch sensing units, the interval between the adjacent touch sensing units is increased, the short circuit is prevented even if the particle pollution is caused during a subsequent process, so as to provide the electrical anti-interference effect.
9. The anti-interference touch sensing structure as recited in claim 8, wherein the subsequent process at least includes a mechanical thinning process, a chemical thinning process, a chemical-mechanical thinning process, a photolithography process, a thin film deposition process andor a thin film etching process.
10. The anti-interference touch sensing structure as recited in claim 1, wherein the first anti-interference spot is a massive spot or includes at least a bent spot.
11. The anti-interference touch sensing structure as recited in claim 1, wherein the first substrate is a cover glass.
12. The anti-interference touch sensing structure as recited in claim 1, wherein the adjacent touch sensing units are electrically insulated from each other.
13. The anti-interference touch sensing structure as recited in claim 1, wherein the first anti-interference spot and the touch sensing units have the same material.
14. The anti-interference touch sensing structure as recited in claim 1, wherein the material of the first anti-interference spot includes metal oxide.
15. The anti-interference touch sensing structure as recited in claim 7, wherein the width of the second anti-interference spot is between 50 \u03bcm and 70 \u03bcm.
16. The anti-interference touch sensing structure as recited in claim 7, wherein the width of the second interval region is between 70 \u03bcm and 130 \u03bcm.
17. The anti-interference touch sensing structure as recited in claim 7, wherein the shape of each of the touch sensing unit, the first anti-interference spot, the grounding unit and the second anti-interference spot is a curved shape, a triangle, a quadrangle, a polygon or their any combination.
18. The anti-interference touch sensing structure as recited in claim 7, wherein the width of the two adjacent second anti-interference spots 17a can be between 100 \u03bcm and 140 \u03bcm, and the width of the second interval region 16 can be between 120 \u03bcm and 200 \u03bcm.
19. The anti-interference touch sensing structure as recited in claim 1, wherein the first anti-interference spot exhibits a zigzag pattern.
20. The anti-interference touch sensing structure as recited in claim 1, wherein the anti-interference touch sensing structure is applied to a metal mesh, an out-cell touch display panel, an organic electro-luminescence (OEL) touch display device or a liquid crystal touch display device.

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 communication terminal, comprising:
a radio frequency (RF) transceiver; and
a baseband processing circuit, which is arranged to detect an indication of a rate of movement of the terminal, and is coupled to cause the RF transceiver to scan periodically for access points that are available to communicate with the wireless communication terminal at a variable scan rate that is selected from among a plurality of different scan rates responsively to the indication, and upon detecting an available access point, to establish a wireless connection between the terminal and the available access point,
wherein the baseband processing circuit is arranged to scan for the access points at a first scan rate when the terminal is moving at a pedestrian speed, and to scan at a second scan rate, lower than the first scan rate, when the terminal is stationary.
2. The terminal according to claim 1, wherein the indication comprises a change in a geographical position of the mobile terminal.
3. The terminal according to claim 1, wherein the baseband processing circuit is arranged to cause the RF transceiver to exchange data over the air with a base station over a long-range wireless network while scanning periodically for the access points.
4. The terminal according to claim 3, wherein the baseband processing circuit is arranged to assess the rate of movement responsively to a change in signals received by the terminal from the base station over the long-range wireless network.
5. The terminal according to claim 3, wherein the long-range wireless network comprises a WiMAX network, and wherein the wireless connection with the available access point is established over a wireless local area network (WLAN).
6. A wireless communication terminal, comprising:
a radio frequency (RF) transceiver; and
a baseband processing circuit, which is arranged to detect an indication of a rate of movement of the terminal, and is coupled to cause the RF transceiver to scan periodically for access points that are available to communicate with the wireless communication terminal at a variable scan rate that is selected from among a plurality of different scan rates responsively to the indication, and upon detecting an available access point, to establish a wireless connection between the terminal and the available access point,
wherein the baseband processing circuit is arranged to stop the scanning when the rate of movement is indicated to be above a predetermined maximum.
7. The terminal according to claim 6, wherein the indication comprises a change in a geographical position of the mobile terminal.
8. The terminal according to claim 6, wherein the baseband processing circuit is arranged to cause the RF transceiver to exchange data over the air with a base station over a long-range wireless network while scanning periodically for the access points.
9. The terminal according to claim 8, wherein the baseband processing circuit is arranged to assess the rate of movement responsively to a change in signals received by the terminal from the base station over the long-range wireless network.
10. The terminal according to claim 8, wherein the long-range wireless network comprises a WiMAX network, and wherein the wireless connection with the available access point is established over a wireless local area network (WLAN).
11. A method for communication, comprising:
detecting an indication of a rate of movement of a mobile terminal;
scanning periodically for access points that are available to communicate with the mobile terminal, at a variable scan rate that is selected from among a plurality of different scan rates responsively to the indication,
wherein scanning periodically comprises scanning at a first scan rate when the mobile terminal is moving at a pedestrian speed, and scanning at a second scan rate, lower than the first scan rate, when the mobile terminal is stationary; and
upon detecting an available access point, establishing a wireless connection between the mobile terminal and the available access point.
12. The method according to claim 11, wherein detecting the indication comprises detecting a change in a geographical position of the mobile terminal.
13. The method according to claim 11, and comprising exchanging data over the air between the mobile terminal and a base station over a long-range wireless network while scanning periodically for the access points.
14. The method according to claim 13, wherein exchanging the data comprises receiving at the mobile terminal signals transmitted by the base station, and wherein detecting the indication comprises assessing the rate of movement responsively to a change in the signals.
15. The method according to claim 13, wherein the long-range wireless network comprises a WiMAX network, and wherein establishing the wireless connection comprises connecting the mobile terminal with the available access point over a wireless local area network (WLAN).
16. A method for communication, comprising:
detecting an indication of a rate of movement of a mobile terminal;
scanning periodically for access points that are available to communicate with the mobile terminal, at a variable scan rate that is selected from among a plurality of different scan rates responsively to the indication; and
upon detecting an available access point, establishing a wireless connection between the mobile terminal and the available access point,
wherein scanning periodically comprises stopping the scanning when the rate of movement is indicated to be above a predetermined maximum.
17. The method according to claim 16, wherein detecting the indication comprises detecting a change in a geographical position of the mobile terminal.
18. The method according to claim 16, and comprising exchanging data over the air between the mobile terminal and a base station over a long-range wireless network while scanning periodically for the access points.
19. The method according to claim 18, wherein exchanging the data comprises receiving at the mobile terminal signals transmitted by the base station, and wherein detecting the indication comprises assessing the rate of movement responsively to a change in the signals.
20. The method according to claim 18, wherein the long-range wireless network comprises a WiMAX network, and wherein establishing the wireless connection comprises connecting the mobile terminal with the available access point over a wireless local area network (WLAN).