Did You Know...
...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120007655 | INPUT/OUTPUT CIRCUIT In some embodiments, an input/output (I/O) circuit sends and receives a high-level signal and a low-level signal via a coupling capacitance provided on a communication line. The I/O circuit includes a receiving portion including a first detection circuit arranged to det... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110241025 | LIGHTING DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME A lighting device including a metal substrate to prevent temperature rise of LED chip is offered. The lighting device includes the metal substrate, an anode or cathode electrode of the LED chip disposed on the metal substrate, brazing materials connecting the LED chip a... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110188316 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE This invention offers a semiconductor memory device, with which a resolution to read-out data is not reduced even at the time of verify and a stable read-out operation is possible even when a power supply voltage is reduced. A read-out circuit is provided with a current... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110187935 | Video Information Processing Apparatus and Recording Medium Having Program Recorded Therein A video-information-processing apparatus comprising: a smoothing unit to smooth input video information of a plurality of pixels and generate smoothed video information; a subtraction unit to calculate a gradation difference between the input and smoothed video informat... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110181214 | MOTOR DRIVE CIRCUIT A motor drive circuit is configured to drive a motor based on first and second position detection signals opposite in phase to each other, the signals having a frequency corresponding to a rotational speed of the motor and indicating a rotational position of the motor. ... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110159651 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE The invention provides a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device at low cost in which the gate insulation film having a trench structure is not damaged by arsenic ions when the emitter layer or the like is formed and the insulation breakdown voltage is enhanced. ... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110156124 | NONVOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME The invention enhances program performance by increasing a coupling ratio between an N+ type source layer and a floating gate and reduces a memory cell area. Trenches are formed on the both sides of an N+ type source layer. The sidewalls of the trench includes first and... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110150243 | CHARGING CIRCUIT AND AMPLIFIER A charging circuit comprising:
| 06/23/2011 |
| 20110150239 | SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUIT A signal processing circuit includes: an AD converter configured to quantize an input signal, whose amplitude changes in accordance with temperature, within a set voltage range and convert the quantized input signal into a digital signal; and a setting circuit configure... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110150238 | RECEIVING APPARATUS A receiving apparatus includes: a local oscillator to output first- and second-local-oscillator signals whose phases are orthogonal to each other; a mixer to output first- and second-intermediate-frequency signals; a first filter to allow a component from a desired sign... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110148439 | CAPACITANCE DISCRIMINATION CIRCUIT AND TOUCH SWITCH EQUIPPED WITH THE SAME In some embodiments, a capacitance discrimination circuit includes first and second capacitors, a comparator configured to compare a first voltage of the first capacitor and a second voltage of the second capacitor, a counter circuit configured to perform a count operat... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110138159 | MEMORY CONTROL APPARATUS A memory control apparatus includes: a plurality of setting output units each configured to output setting information for setting operation of each of a plurality of memory cells; and a plurality of selection units each configured to select operation or stop of the ope... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110128657 | SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS A semiconductor apparatus includes: first and second power-supply terminals; an internal circuit connected between the first and second power-supply terminals; and a protection circuit connected in parallel with the internal circuit between the first and second power-su... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110127974 | SWITCHING CONTROL CIRCUIT AND POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS A switching control circuit includes: a drive circuit configured to turn on/off a transistor according to a duty ratio of a drive signal so as to generate an output voltage of a target level from an input voltage, the transistor configured to be applied with the input v... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110097860 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE The invention provides a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device having a MOS transistor, a resistor element, etc on one semiconductor substrate, in which the number of masks and the number of manufacturing steps are decreased. In an NMOS formation region, a chan... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110080210 | MICROCOMPUTER A power consumption of a light-receiving device is reduced while a power consumption of a microcomputer that controls the light-receiving device is reduced as well. The microcomputer is structured to include a drive circuit, a sampling/detection circuit, a timer, a syst... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110079880 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE A serially-connected diode pair made of diodes having a high withstand voltage and a low on-resistance is formed based on a high withstand voltage vertical PNP bipolar transistor process technology. Two of the diode pairs are connected in parallel to form a bridge so th... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110074490 | INPUT/OUTPUT CIRCUIT In some embodiments, an input/output (I/O) circuit sends and receives a high-level signal and a low-level signal via a coupling capacitance provided on a communication line. The I/O circuit includes a receiving portion including a first detection circuit arranged to det... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110062890 | DRIVE CIRCUIT The invention is directed to testing breakdown voltage characteristics of a plurality of output transistors in a batch in a drive circuit instead of measurement using probe needles. A drive circuit includes output transistors made of high breakdown voltage P-channel typ... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110033194 | REMOTE CONTROL SIGNAL RECEIVING CIRCUIT The invention is directed to decreasing the power consumption of a remote control signal receiving circuit. A receiving circuit includes a timing signal generation circuit generating a timing signal, a power supply circuit intermittently operating a light receiving elem... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110025251 | MOTOR DRIVING DEVICE A motor-driving device comprising: a switching element to control a current passed through a first coil of a stepping motor including the first and a second coils electromagnetically coupled; a rectifier element to be energized in a ground-side-to-second-coil direction;... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110025225 | Light-Emitting Diode Driver Circuit and Lighting Apparatus A light-emitting diode driver circuit includes: a first-rectifier circuit to output a first-rectified voltage; a transformer including primary and secondary coils and an auxiliary coil inductively coupled to the primary or secondary coils, the primary coil being applied... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110018452 | LIGHT-EMITTING-ELEMENT DRIVING CIRCUIT There is provided a light-emitting-element driving circuit which comprises a light-emitting circuit unit in which a plurality of current paths in each of which a light-emitting element and a first switching element are connected in series are placed in parallel with eac... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110006834 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MONITORING BLOWING OF FUSE IN SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE In some embodiments, a semiconductor device includes a fuse having a conductive portion configured to be blown when a current exceeding a rated value flows through the conductive portion, a first monitor wiring configured to monitor blowing of the conductive portion of ... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100320592 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME A semiconductor device in which overall thickness is reduced by suppressing the rising of a metal thin line and connection reliability is enhanced at the joint of metal thin line and other member during resin sealing. A method for manufacturing such semiconductor device... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100320557 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE Provided is a semiconductor device having an anode of a Si-FRD and a cathode of a Si-SBD which are serially connected. The Si-SBD has a junction capacitance whose amount of accumulable charge is equal to or more than an amount of charge occurring at the time of reverse ... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100315363 | SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUIT FOR ELECTROSTATIC CAPACITY TYPE TOUCH SENSOR There is offered a signal processing circuit for an electrostatic capacity type touch sensor which can improve the noise tolerance and adjust an offset in the output voltage. The signal processing circuit for the touch sensor is structured to include an alternating curr... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100307840 | SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUIT FOR ELECTROSTATIC CAPACITOR TYPE TOUCH SENSOR The invention realizes certainly detecting two or more positions on a touch panel that are touched at the same time. A drive circuit selects one from X lines, and supplies an alternating drive voltage to the selected line. A multiplexer selects a first sense line and a ... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100305731 | DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS A digital-data-processing apparatus comprising: an encoding unit to encode inputted digital data to generate encoded data with a predetermined bit rate including frames of first and second data sizes, and allow the encoded data to be sequentially stored in a memory; a f... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100302698 | OVERCURRENT PROTECTION CIRCUIT AND METHOD OF PROTECTING POWER SUPPLY CIRCUIT In some embodiments, an overcurrent protection circuit is configured to operate in accordance with operation modes including a first operation mode in which when the power supply circuit is activated, the capacitor is charged until the terminal voltage reaches a first v... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100289540 | DELAY CIRCUIT In a delay circuit for inputting square waves, fluctuations in the amount of delay brought about by noise pulses present in input signals are reduced. A switch (SW3) is controlled by an output signal (Vdo) from a Schmitt comparator, and selects either an electric... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100289464 | POWER SUPPLY CIRCUIT A power supply circuit comprises a power transistor, differential amplifier, an I/V converter circuit, and an inverting amplifier, wherein the differential amplifier comprises a first current path in which a first resistor element, a first current mirror transistor, and... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100285768 | RECEIVING APPARATUS A receiving apparatus comprising: a frequency-fluctuation-detection unit to detect a frequency difference between a received and desired signals; a first-undesired-level-detection unit to output as a first-undesired level an amplitude-level-difference between the signal... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100284541 | RECEIVING APPARATUS A receiving apparatus comprising: a frequency conversion unit configured to convert a received radio frequency signal to an intermediate frequency signal; an automatic gain control unit configured to control an amplitude level of at least either one of the radio frequen... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100284223 | NONVOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY The invention decreases the number of writing processes of EEPROM. When a mode change signal is L level, a EEPROM is set to a bank mode. In this case, first and second memory banks are independently accessed by a control signal of a first port and a control signal of a ... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100284159 | CIRCUIT DEVICE Provided is a circuit device capable of increasing the packaging density and preventing the thermal interference between circuit elements to be incorporated. In a hybrid integrated circuit device, a first circuit board and a second circuit board are fitted into a case m... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100274954 | PROGRAM UPDATE SYSTEM AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH PROGRAM UPDATE FUNCTION A manufacturing cost of an integrated circuit chip used in a program update system or in an electronic device with program update function is reduced. A first integrated circuit chip has a USB interface circuit, a compression decoder, a CPU and a mask ROM. The first int... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100255777 | DATA COMMUNICATION DEVICE The IC card is mounted on the read and write device and the first electrostatic induction electrode and second electrostatic induction electrode are formed facing each other. The data signal is outputted from the first transmission and reception circuit to the first ele... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100254549 | AMPLIFIER CIRCUIT OF CAPACITOR MICROPHONE In an amplifier circuit of a capacitor microphone, when a too high input signal from the capacitor microphone is inputted, the levels of output signals of the amplifier circuit are limited. A first feedback capacitor of an operational amplifier is formed using a changea... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100253388 | INTERFACE CIRCUIT An interface circuit comprising: a first output circuit configured to allow an access signal to be input thereto and output the access signal to a storage circuit, the access signal capable of being changed to one logic level or the other logic level for accessing the s... | 10/07/2010 |
