A cargo securing apparatus for holding cargo to the bed of a vehicle such as a pickup truck includes a one-piece body and straps. The device may also include several downstream data handlers, each coupled to a respective one of the downstream ports, and an upstream data handler coupled to the upstream port. Thereafter, atoms, Ge+ here, having properties just enough to amorphize single crystal Si are ion implanted from oblique directions to the Si surface of the substrate with the gate electrode as a mask to melt and re-crystallize the single crystal Si so as to form amorphous regions which seep into the substrate under the gate electrode. A Seebeck transducer operating as a thermal difference sensor has a first temperature sensing junction thermally coupled to the first temperature generating junction and a second temperature sensing junction thermally coupled to the second temperature generating junction. Red, green and blue image data for such pixels is corrected by means of interpolation or the like.