Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8168549 | Method of manufacturing semiconductor device and substrate processing apparatus There are provided a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device and a substrate processing apparatus by which the quality of a silicon nitride film can be improved. The method comprises: (a) supplying a silicon-containing gas into a process chamber accommodating... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8112183 | Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing method A substrate processing apparatus detects malfunction of mechanisms in MFC. An inert gas supply line, a first shut-off valve shutting off the inert gas supply, a process gas supply line, and a second shut-off valve shutting off the process gas supply are installed up... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8094642 | Polling method and vehicle search method in digital radio communication system The present invention provides a polling method in a radio digital communication system making it possible to shorten time required for polling without causing increase in an error rate and to efficiently manage and administrate communications. In a digital radio co... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8093159 | Manufacturing method of semiconductor device, and semiconductor device Provided is a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device, which is capable of realizing fine-pitch patterns and thus improving stabilization of patterning precision. The manufacturing method of the semiconductor device comprises forming a first photoresist patte... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8093158 | Semiconductor device manufacturing method and substrate processing apparatus Provided are a semiconductor device manufacturing method and a substrate processing apparatus. The method comprise: a first process of forming a film containing a predetermined element on a substrate by supplying a source gas containing the predetermined element to ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8084369 | Producing method of semiconductor device and substrate processing apparatus Disclosed is a producing method of a semiconductor device produced by transferring a plurality of substrates into a processing chamber, supplying oxygen-containing gas and hydrogen-containing gas into the processing chamber to process the plurality of substrates by ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8076615 | Substrate processing apparatus and method of manufacturing semiconductor device A substrate processing apparatus comprises: an outer tube; a manifold connected to the outer tube and made of a non-metal material; an inner tube disposed in the manifold at a more inner side than the outer tube and configured to process a substrate therein; a heati... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8076251 | Method of manufacturing semiconductor device, method of processing substrate and substrate processing apparatus Provided is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. The method includes: loading a substrate into a process vessel; performing a process to form an oxide, nitride, or oxynitride film on the substrate by alternately repeating: (a) forming a layer containing... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8070880 | Substrate processing apparatus Provided is a substrate processing apparatus. The substrate processing apparatus includes a reaction tube, a substrate holder, a gas nozzle, a heating unit, a temperature detector, and an exhaust unit. The reaction tube accommodates and processes substrates. The sub... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8030599 | Substrate processing apparatus, heating device, and semiconductor device manufacturing method Provided are a substrate processing apparatus, a heating device, and a semiconductor device manufacturing method. The substrate processing apparatus comprises a process chamber configured to process a substrate. A heating element is installed at a peripheral side of... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8025739 | Method of manufacturing semiconductor device In a dry cleaning process, breakage of a gas supply pipe can be prevented, and maintenance efficiency can be increased. There is provided a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, comprising: (a) loading a substrate into a process chamber; (b) forming a sili... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8012259 | Substrate processing apparatus A substrate processing apparatus having a support for holding a wafer, a processing chamber for accommodating the wafer, a gas supply hole for supplying desired processing gas in a parallel direction to the surface to be processed of the wafer to be accommodated in ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8003547 | Method of manufacturing semiconductor device A substrate processing apparatus, a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, and a method of confirming an operation of a liquid flowrate control device are provided. The substrate processing apparatus comprises: a process chamber accommodating a substrate; a... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8002947 | Plasma treatment system and cleaning method of the same A plasma treatment apparatus has a reaction vessel (11) provided with a top electrode (13) and a bottom electrode (14), and the first electrode is supplied with a VHF band high frequency power from a VHF band high frequency power source (32 | 08/23/2011 |
| 7999640 | RF module In a radio-frequency wave module including a transmission path based on a distributed parameter element, the transmission path being part of an input/output terminal, a plurality of cavity-structured concave portions for containing semiconductor-including mounted co... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7983326 | Digital transmission system and its transmission status recognition method A digital transmission system of a type in which a digitally-modulated transmission signal is mapped to two-dimensional data and transmitted from at least one relay point, and at a reception side, the two-dimensional data is identified and reproduced into the transm... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7974581 | Transmitter A transmitter suppresses a peak level of a multi-carrier signal produced by synthesizing a plurality of carrier signals. Specifically, a peak level suppression signal for a multi-carrier signal is generated. The generated peak level suppression signal is adjusted in... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7972979 | Substrate processing method and substrate processing apparatus Provided is a substrate processing method comprising: loading a substrate, on which polysilazane is applied, into a substrate process chamber; maintaining an inside of the substrate process chamber, into which the substrate is loaded, in water vapor atmosphere and d... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7970055 | Method and apparatus for compressing image data There is provided an image data compression apparatus capable of effectively suppressing an image data volume after compression processing. A bit rate value is detected according to the image data volume after the compression processing. According to the bit rate si... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7891975 | Heat treatment apparatus and method of manufacturing substrate Heat treatment apparatus and a method of manufacturing a substrate are provided, in which drop of particles produced by a rubbing action between a support strip and a support member can be prevented. Heat treatment apparatus 10 has a reactor 40 for tre... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7884034 | Method of manufacturing semiconductor device and substrate processing apparatus A silicon nitride film including stoichiometrically excessive silicon with respect to nitrogen is formed. The silicon nitride film may be formed by supplying dichlorosilane to a substrate under a condition where CVD (chemical vapor deposition) reaction is caused to ... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7883581 | Substrate processing apparatus and method of manufacturing semiconductor device Provided are a substrate processing apparatus and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. The substrate processing apparatus includes a reaction vessel configured to process a substrate, a heater configured to heat an inside of the reaction vessel, a gas s... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7848405 | Communication system Forward and backward equalization processes are effectively used in a communication system for equalizing a received signal of a frame including a known symbol part. The known symbol part is provided in a position other than both ends of the frame. An equalization f... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7865166 | Software radio transceiver Security performance is improved by a software radio transceiver which can exchange software which is used for demodulation. A radio communication unit receives a radio signal. A conversion unit converts the radio signal received by the radio communication unit into... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7851379 | Substrate processing method and substrate processing apparatus There are provided a substrate processing method and apparatus adapted to prevent deterioration of film thickness uniformity while maintaining the film forming rate. The substrate processing method comprises: (a) accommodating a plurality of substrates in a process ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7831130 | Circulating recording apparatus, recording method and recording medium storing program of the recording method A recording apparatus employs a circulating recording scheme for overwriting the oldest recorded data in a recording area having a limited storage capacity with the latest recorded data. The recording apparatus includes a memory device and a data recovery unit. The ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7808396 | Substrate processing apparatus It is intended to provide a substrate processing apparatus capable of reliably informing a running state of the apparatus. The substrate processing apparatus 100 having a signal indicator for indicating the running state, including a signal indicator 306 | 10/05/2010 |
| 7795157 | Substrate treatment device and manufacturing method of semiconductor device An object of the invention is to provide a substrate treatment device that can lengthen the maintenance cycle, and prevent any by-product from falling on substrates even if it is accumulated, and a manufacturing method of such a substrate treatment device, and an em... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7755687 | Imaging device and method of compensating sensitivity of the imaging device In an image pickup device and its sensitivity compensation method, the image pickup device includes an electron multiplying image pickup device for converting an image into an electrical signal, a temperature detection unit for detecting temperature of the electron ... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7751693 | Method and apparatus for recording/reproducing image information on/from removable medium In an image recording/reproduction method for recording image information on a recording medium by using a computer, a verify mode is set into the OFF state when recording image information on said recording medium. In addition, use as a write or read region a speci... | 07/06/2010 |
| D618638 | Reaction tube | 06/29/2010 |
| 7724695 | Radio communication system A radio communication system includes a line controller, a plurality of base stations connected to the line controller and a plurality of mobile stations connected to each of the plurality of base stations by radio communication line having control channel and commu... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7715468 | QoS control method for transmission data for radio transmitter and radio receiver using the method A radio transmitter/receiver having a QoS control unit for outputting the transmission data in order taking the quality of service (QoS) into consideration. In the case where the information transmission rate for a radio section is not lower than a threshold value, ... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7697816 | Circulating memory apparatus and image storage distribution system A circulating memory apparatus and a data storage and distribution system using a circulating recording area effectively and having an improved access efficiency to the circulating recording area are disclosed. A memory area secured in a disk unit is used in circula... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7696761 | Spectrum analyzing method, distortion detector and distortion compensation amplifying device The invention provides a spectrum analyzing method, a distortion detector and a distortion compensation amplifying device for performing time/frequency conversion processing at high speed, and reducing a convergent time of a compensation coefficient. The distortion ... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7668314 | System and method for communicating encrypted data An encrypted data communication system for communicating an encrypted stream as an encrypted data stream from a device at transmitting end to a device at receiving end to suppress the effect of an erroneous detection of a dummy code is disclosed. A device at transmi... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7667748 | Method and apparatus of defective pixel correction for a solid-state imaging device A defective pixel correction method and a defective pixel correction apparatus usable with an imaging device of the one-chip type including one color CCD. A video signal level of a pixel under consideration of a solid-state imaging device in which pixels respectivel... | 02/23/2010 |
| D610559 | Reaction tube | 02/23/2010 |
| 7636439 | Encryption method, encryption apparatus, data storage distribution apparatus and data delivery system Data to be encrypted is effectively encrypted by a data delivery system for encrypting the data to be encrypted with a transmitting apparatus and decrypting a cipher thereof with a receiving apparatus. In a configuration for encrypting and decrypting the data to be ... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7626455 | Distortion compensation apparatus A distortion compensation apparatus includes distortion generating means for generating distortions to compensate for a distortion generated in an amplifier 2. The distortion generating means includes a nonlinear circuit 13 having an input/output expan... | 12/01/2009 |
