All The Claims

1. A method using a production line for assembling a window sash having an integrated insulating glass pane, said insulating glass pane having a frame formed from plastic hollow profiles, said frame having lower edges an upper horizontal leg, an inner face, an outer face facing away from the inner face, and two flanks connecting the inner face and the outer face to each other, wherein the frame has two parallel webs on said inner face and each web having an outer face and vertical edges as well as horizontal edges, the webs having a space therebetween, which flanks and faces constitute an all-around delimitation of a window opening of the window sash and are adhesively secured to two glass plates, said two glass plates being held spaced apart by the two webs, said method comprising the steps of:
setting up the frame and the glass plates in a vertical position or in a position which is inclined by a few degrees against the vertical by setting up the glass plates and the frame on a horizontal conveyor and securing the glass plates from falling over, wherein the glass plates comprise vertical edges, lower edges, horizontal edges and sides;
injecting by a first machine of the production line a paste-like adhesive compound, wherein a moisture-binding material is embedded in said paste-like adhesive compound, into the space between the two webs;
applying by a second machine of the production line a continuous line of a sealing compound onto the respective outer faces of the webs, which face away from each other;
orienting and holding by a third machine of the production line the two glass plates and the frame such that the two glass plates are located opposite each other to be congruent or almost congruent and so that the frame stands between the two glass plates and is oriented such that the glass plates and the edges of the two webs are centered towards each other; and
pressing in the third machine of the production line the two glass plates against the webs facing them;
wherein the step of orienting and holding comprises the steps of:
bringing the glass plates and the frame by horizontal conveying, into a position wherein the glass plates and the frame are located next to each other and the vertical edges of the glass plates and of the two webs of the frame are centered to each other in a conveying direction, while the lower edges of the glass plates and of the frame are still located in a common plane,
lifting the glass plates relative to the frame or lowering the frame relative to the glass plates, until the horizontal edges of the glass plates and of the two webs of the frame are centered relative to each other with respect to a height position of the two webs,
centering the horizontal edges of the glass plates and of the webs of the frame relative to each other by holding the glass plates with suction devices, said suction devices acting on the sides of the glass plates facing away from each other and lowering the horizontal conveyor with the frame standing on the horizontal conveyor, and
during the lifting or lowering step, catching the upper horizontal leg of the frame by an adjusting device for adjusting a position of the upper horizontal leg of the frame prior to pressing the glass plates against the webs of the frame facing the webs.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the horizontal conveyor in the production line comprises a first horizontal conveyor for both conveying the glass plates and for connecting a washing machine for the glass plates to a turnout.
3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the horizontal conveyor in the production line comprises a second conveyor, and said method further comprising the steps of assigning a first station and a second station downstream from said first station to the second horizontal conveyor, injecting in said first station the paste-like adhesive compound, in which the moisture-binding material is embedded, by a first nozzle into the space between the two webs of the frame and applying by at least one second nozzle in said second station the continuous line of the sealing compound onto the two outer faces of the webs which face away from each other.
4. The method according to claim 3, comprising the step of simultaneously applying the sealing compound to both of the webs.
5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of bending one of the two glass plates away from the frame prior to pressing against the webs of the frame wherein, between the bent glass plate and the web located opposite to the bent glass plate, at least one access to the space between the two glass plates remains open after the glass plates have been pressed against the webs, and filling, through said at least one access, a heavy gas into the space between the glass plates before reversing the bending of the bent glass plate for tightly closing the space between the two glass plates.
6. The method according to claim 5, comprising the step of bending the one glass plate away from the frame at two corners which are located diagonally opposite each other.
7. The method according to claim 5, comprising the step of bending the one glass plate away with suction devices disposed on an outer face of the one glass plate.
8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the step of pressing the glass plates against the webs of the frame comprises moving two frameworks, at which the suction devices are attached, closer together.
9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the step of pressing the glass plates is cushioned by acting upon thrust plates with compressed air cylinders and simultaneously acting by the thrust plates on both glass plates in an area of the vertical edges, lower edges and horizontal edges of the glass plates.
10. The method according to claim 9, comprising the step of providing a preselected pressure for acting on the compressed air cylinders of the thrust plates for attaining an even pressing.
11. The method according to claim 1,
wherein the setup of the frame and of the glass plates in the vertical position or in the position which is inclined by a few degrees against the vertical is production line machine-based.
12. A method for assembling a window sash having an integrated insulating glass pane using a production line having a first horizontal conveyor and a second horizontal conveyor, both being operatively connected to an inlet of a turnout, and a preparation station connected to an outlet of the turnout, wherein the turnout comprises a conveyor track, the window sash having an integrated insulating glass pane, said insulating glass pane having a frame formed from plastic hollow profiles, said frame having an inner face, an outer face facing away from the inner face, and two flanks which connect the inner face and the outer face to each other, wherein the frame has two parallel webs on said inner face and each web having an outer face and edges, the webs having a space therebetween, which flanks and faces constitute an all-around delimitation of a window opening of the window sash and are adhesively secured to two glass plates, said two glass plates being held spaced apart by the two webs, said method comprising the steps of:
setting up the glass plates in a vertical position or in a position which is inclined by a few degrees against the vertical by setting up the glass plates on the first horizontal conveyor and securing the glass plates from falling over, wherein the glass plates comprise vertical edges, lower edges, horizontal edges and sides;
conveying the glass plates from the first horizontal conveyor via the turnout into the preparation station, said preparation station having three tracks of the first horizontal conveyor located parallel next to each other, wherein said tracks of the first horizontal conveyor together are transversely displaceable, and wherein two outer tracks of the first conveyor are for the two glass plates and a middle conveyor track is for the frame of the window sash;
consecutively bringing the two outer conveyor tracks in the preparation station into alignment with the conveyor track of the turnout and conveying the two glass plates from the conveyor track of the turnout onto the two outer conveyor tracks of the first conveyor in the preparation station;
setting up the frame on said second horizontal conveyor, which is arranged next to the first horizontal conveyor, in the vertical position or in the position which is inclined by a few degrees against the vertical position;
injecting by a first machine of the production line a paste-like adhesive compound, wherein a moisture-binding material is embedded in said paste-like adhesive compound, into the space between the two webs while the frame is on the second horizontal conveyor;
applying by a second machine of the production line a continuous line of a sealing compound onto the respective outer faces of the webs, which face away from each other while the frame is on the second horizontal conveyor;
orienting and holding by a third machine of the production line the two glass plates and the frame such that the two glass plates are located opposite each other to be congruent or almost congruent and so that the frame stands between the two glass plates and is oriented such that the glass plates and the edges of the two webs are centered towards each other;
conveying the frame of the window sash from the second horizontal conveyor via the turnout onto the middle conveyor track of the preparation station;
pivoting the turnout back into alignment with the first horizontal conveyor; and
simultaneously conveying the two glass plates and the frame located therebetween into an assembly station following the preparation station, wherein in said assembly station said glass plates and frame are centered to each other and the glass plates are pressed against the webs of the frame by said third machine.
13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the first horizontal conveyor connects a washing machine for the glass plates to the turnout.
14. The method according to claim 12, further comprising the steps of assigning a first station and a second station downstream from said first station to the second horizontal conveyor, injecting in said first station the paste-like adhesive compound, in which the moisture-binding material is embedded, by a first nozzle into the space between the two webs of the frame and applying by at least one second nozzle in said second station the continuous line of the sealing compound onto the two outer faces of the webs which face away from each other.
15. The method according to claim 14, comprising the step of simultaneously applying the sealing compound to both of the webs.
16. The method according to claim 12, further comprising the step of bending one of the two glass plates away from the frame prior to pressing against the webs of the frame so that, between the bent glass plate and the web located opposite to the bent glass plate, at least one access to the space between the two glass plates remains open after the glass plates have been pressed against the webs, and filling, through said at least one access, a heavy gas into the space between the glass plates before reversing the bending of the bent glass plate, for tightly closing the space between the two glass plates.
17. The method according to claim 16, comprising the step of bending the one glass plate away from the frame at two corners which are located diagonally opposite each other.
18. The method according to claim 16, comprising the step of bending the one glass plate away with suction devices disposed on an outer face of the one glass plate.
19. The method according to claim 18, wherein the step of pressing the glass plates against the webs of the frame comprises moving two frameworks, at which the suction devices are attached, closer together.
20. The method according to claim 19, wherein the step of pressing the glass plates is cushioned by acting upon thrust plates with compressed air cylinders and simultaneously acting by the thrust plates on both glass plates in an area of the vertical edges, lower edges and horizontal edges of the glass plates.
21. The method according to claim 20, comprising the step of providing a preselected pressure for acting on the compressed air cylinders of the thrust plates for attaining an even pressing.
22. The method according to claim 12, wherein the setup of the frame and of the glass plates in the vertical position or in the position which is inclined by a few degrees against the vertical is machine-based.

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 semiconductor device, comprising a semiconductor body and at least two device cells integrated in the semiconductor body, each device cell comprising:
a drift region, a source region, and a body region arranged between the source region and the drift region;
a diode region, and a pn junction between the diode region and the drift region;
a trench with a first sidewall, a second sidewall opposite to the first sidewall, and a bottom, wherein the body region adjoins the first sidewall, the diode region adjoins the second sidewall, and the pn junction adjoins the bottom of the trench;
a gate electrode arranged in the trench and dielectrically insulated from the body region, the diode region and the drift region by a gate dielectric; and
a source electrode electrically connected to the source region and the diode region of each device cell;
wherein the diode regions of the at least two device cells are distant in a lateral direction of the semiconductor body, and
wherein the diode region includes a first region and a second region, wherein the second region connects the first region to the source electrode, wherein the first region has a lower doping concentration than the second region, wherein the second region vertically extends from the source electrode to a lower side of the second region that is beneath the bottom of the trench, and wherein the first region is interposed between the lower side of the second region and the drift region along an entire span of the lower side of the second region so as to completely separate the lower side of the second region from the drift region.
2. The semiconductor device of claim 1, wherein the second region adjoins the second sidewall of the trench.
3. The semiconductor device of claim 1, wherein the at least two device cells share the drift region.
4. The semiconductor device of claim 1, wherein each device cell further comprises a drain region adjacent to the drift region and distant from the diode region in a vertical direction of the semiconductor body.
5. The semiconductor device of claim 4, wherein the at least two device cells share the drain region.
6. The semiconductor device of claim 1,
wherein the at least two device cells are adjacent, and
wherein the diode region of one device cell adjoins the body region of the other device cell.
7. The semiconductor device of claim 1,
wherein the semiconductor body comprises an SiC crystal, and
wherein the first sidewall of the trench is aligned with a c-axis of the SiC crystal.
8. The semiconductor device of claim 7, wherein the trench extends away from a first surface of the semiconductor body, and wherein an angle between the first surface of the semiconductor body and the first sidewall is between 80\xb0 and 89\xb0.
9. The semiconductor device of claim 1, wherein the first diode region is wider than the second diode region, and wherein the second diode region extends into the first diode region such that the first diode region surrounds outer lateral sides of the second diode region.
10. A semiconductor device, comprising a semiconductor body and at least two device cells integrated in the semiconductor body, each device cell comprising:
a drift region, a source region, and a body region arranged between the source region and the drift region;
a diode region, and a pn junction between the diode region and the drift region;
a trench with a first sidewall, a second sidewall opposite to the first sidewall, and a bottom, wherein the body region adjoins the first sidewall, the diode region adjoins the second sidewall, and the pn junction adjoins the bottom of the trench;
a gate electrode arranged in the trench and dielectrically insulated from the body region, the diode region and the drift region by a gate dielectric;
a drain region adjacent to the drift region and distant from the diode region in a vertical direction of the semiconductor body; and
a source electrode electrically connected to the source region and the diode region of each device cell;
wherein the diode regions of the at least two device cells are distant in a lateral direction of the semiconductor body,
wherein the diode region includes a first region and a second region, wherein the second region connects the first region to the source electrode, wherein the first region has a lower doping concentration than the second region, and
wherein the device has a voltage blocking capability, the semiconductor body comprises SiC and a distance between the drain region and the first region is between 0.8 and 1.0 micrometers per 100V voltage blocking capability;
wherein the second region vertically extends from the source electrode to a lower side of the second region that is beneath the bottom of the trench, and wherein the first region is interposed between the lower side of the region and the drift region along an entire span of the lower side of the second region so as to completely separate the lower side of the second region from the drift region.

1. A method for accessing a target fluid in a formation of an oilfield having at least one wellbore, the method comprising:
acquiring physicochemical property information of a portion of the formation, wherein the physicochemical property information comprises a chemical potential of a pore fluid in the formation;
determining a type and a concentration of a chemical agent based on the physicochemical property information of the portion of the formation, wherein the type of the chemical agent comprises a chemical potential that is a lower chemical potential than a chemical potential of the pore fluid;
applying the chemical agent at the portion of the formation to provide a chemical action, wherein the chemical action comprises osmotic action, wherein the osmotic action extracts the pore fluid from the portion of the formation, wherein a pore pressure in the portion of the formation is reduced based on extracting the pore fluid to form a reduced pore pressure; and
applying a hydraulic pressure exceeding a threshold to form a fracture in the portion of formation, wherein the threshold is reduced based on the reduced pore pressure, wherein the fracture releases the target fluid at the portion of the formation, and wherein the target fluid is released at the portion of the formation responding to the chemical action.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the formation comprises at least one selected from a group consisting of shale and clayey sandstone.
3. (canceled)
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the chemical agent is selected from at least one of a group consisting of super electrolyte saturated solution and formate.
5. The method of claim 4, wherein the formate is selected from at least one of a group consisting of cesium formate and sodium formate.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the chemical agent is a Newtonian fluid.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein the physicochemical property information further comprises in situ stress and temperature.
8. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining step further comprises:
determining a temperature, a pressure, and a volume of the chemical agent.
9. (canceled)
10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
applying a hydraulic pressure to form a fracture in the portion of the formation,
wherein the formation is hardened adjacent to the fracture to form a hardened formation based on extracting the pore fluid, and
wherein the hardened formation allows the fracture to stay open and release the target fluid at the portion of the formation.
11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:
applying a proppant into the fracture, wherein the proppant supports the fracture and prevents the fracture from closing.
12. The method of claim 10, wherein the chemical agent comprises time released capsules comprising at least one selected from a group consisting of ionic compound and formate.
13. The method of claim 1, wherein applying the chemical agent comprises injecting the chemical agent through a portion of the wellbore.
14-20. (canceled)
21. A system for accessing a target fluid in a formation of an oilfield having a wellbore intersecting a portion of the formation, comprising:
a chemical agent for providing a chemical action at the portion of the formation, wherein the chemical agent comprises time released capsules comprising at least one selected from a group consisting of ionic compound and formate;
equipment for acquiring physicochemical property information of the portion of the formation;
means for determining a type and concentration of the chemical agent based on the physicochemical property; and
means for applying the chemical agent at the portion of the formation to release the target fluid in the portion of the formation responding to the chemical action,
means for applying a hydraulic pressure to form a fracture in the portion of the formation,
wherein the formation is hardened adjacent to the fracture to form a hardened formation based on the chemical action, and
wherein the hardened formation allows the fracture to stay open and release the target fluid at the portion of the formation.
22. The system of claim 21, wherein the formation comprises at least one selected from a group consisting of shale and clayey sandstone.
23. The system of claim 21,
wherein the physicochemical property information comprises a chemical potential of a pore fluid in the formation,
wherein the type of the chemical agent comprises a chemical potential that is a lower chemical potential than a chemical potential of the pore fluid,
wherein the chemical action comprises osmotic action, and
wherein the osmotic action extracts the pore fluid from the portion of the formation.
24. The system of claim 21, wherein the chemical agent is selected from at least one of a group consisting of super electrolyte saturated solution and formate.
25. The system of claim 24, wherein the formate is selected from at least one of a group consisting of cesium formate and sodium formate.
26. The system of claim 21, wherein the chemical agent is a Newtonian fluid.
27. The system of claim 21, wherein the physicochemical property information further comprises in situ stress and temperature.
28. The system of claim 21, further comprising:
means for determining a temperature, a pressure, and a volume of the chemical agent.
29. The system of claim 21, further comprising:
means for applying a hydraulic pressure exceeding a threshold to form a fracture in the portion of the formation, wherein the threshold is reduced responding to the chemical action; and
means for obtaining the target fluid from the fracture.
30. (canceled)
31. The system of claim 21, further comprising:
means for applying a proppant into the fracture, wherein the proppant supports the fracture and prevents the fracture from closing.
32. (canceled)

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 electronic device comprising:
a circuit board unit having a conductive rotation member on at least one surface of the circuit board unit, the conductive rotation member being rotatably supported by a roller axis; and
a rack for accommodating the circuit board unit, the rack having an opening that is covered by a flexible conductive member and is fit by the conductive rotation member.
2. The electronic device according to claim 1, further comprising a pushing member to push the conductive rotation member, wherein the pushing member pushes the conductive rotation member against the flexible conductive member in a state that the circuit board unit is accommodated in the rack.
3. The electronic device according to claim 1, comprising a canceling member that cancels the engagement of the conductive rotation member.
4. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the conductive rotation member is arranged on the upper surface of the circuit board unit.
5. The electronic device according to claim 4, wherein the conductive rotation member is further arranged on the lower surface of the circuit board unit.
6. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the conductive rotation member has a cylindrical shape.
7. An electronic device comprising:
a first enclosure having a conductive rotation member on at least one surface of the first enclosure, the conductive rotation member being rotatably supported by a roller axis; and
a second enclosure for accommodating the first enclosure, the second enclosure having a flexible conductive member at a position where the conductive rotation member is brought into contact with the flexible conductive member in a state that the first enclosure is accommodated in the second enclosure.
8. An electronic device comprising a circuit board unit having a conductive rotation member, rotatably supported by a roller axis, provided at one or more surfaces of the circuit board unit to electrically contact a rack that receives the circuit board unit.
9. An electronic device comprising:
a circuit board unit having a conductive rotation member on at least one surface of the circuit board unit, the conductive rotation member having a cylindrical shape and being rotatably supported by a roller axis extending along the central axis of the conductive rotation member; and
a rack for accommodating the circuit board unit, the rack having an opening that is covered by a flexible conductive member and is fit by the conductive rotation member.
10. The electronic device according to claim 9, further comprising a pushing member to push the conductive rotation member, wherein the pushing member pushes the conductive rotation member against the flexible conductive member in a state that the circuit board unit is accommodated in the rack.
11. The electronic device according to claim 9, comprising a canceling member that cancels the engagement of the conductive rotation member.
12. The electronic device according to claim 10, wherein the pushing member provides to the roller axis a biasing force along the vertical direction so as to move the conductive rotation member outside of the circuit board unit.
13. The electronic device according to claim 10, wherein the pushing member is placed between the conductive rotation member and a plate for supporting the pushing member.
14. The electronic device according to claim 11, wherein an intermediate part of the canceling member is connected to a supporting axis fixed to the circuit board unit, and an end of the canceling member is connected to the roller axis and rotated around the supporting axis.
15. The electronic device according to claim 9, wherein the opening is larger than the outer shape of the conductive rotation member.
16. The electronic device according to claim 11, wherein, when the canceling member cancels the engagement of the conductive rotation member, the conductive rotation member is stored in the circuit board unit.