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...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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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7432215 | Semiconductor device manufacturing method and semiconductor manufacturing apparatus A semiconductor device manufacturing method comprises a first step of forming, by a thermal chemical vapor deposition method, a silicon nitride film on an object disposed in a reaction container, with bis tertiary butyl amino silane and NH3 flowing into t... | 10/07/2008 |
| 6943089 | Semiconductor device manufacturing method and semiconductor manufacturing apparatus A hemispherical grain (HSG) formation process for enlarging the surface area of a capacitor electrode, wherein stable, defect-free HSG, having outstanding selectivity, is formed. An amorphous silicon layer, which constitutes a capacitor electrode, is formed on an Si... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6882801 | Wavelength division multiplex optical star coupler, communication station, and optical transmission system A wavelength division multiplex optical star coupler comprises an input port which inputs a first optical signal, a first optical coupler which divides the first optical signal input from the input port into a plurality of first optical signals, a plurality of input... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6807374 | Mobile communication system An optical transmission system for mobile communication compensates for disadvantages of the star type and the multicipital type systems. In the system, a radio modem for per forming modulation/demodulation between a circuit frequency electrical signal and a radio f... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6804217 | CDMA mobile station apparatus A CDMA mobile station apparatus receives a spread control signal including a non-orthogonal spread signal generated using a non-orthogonal spreading code which is non-orthogonal with a data signal spreading code and a spread data signal produced by spreading a data ... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6785257 | Base station A base station for a mobile telephone system adopting a code division multiple access method comprising: a first delay profile measuring unit for receiving a random access channel signal, which is input to the base station for setting up a call, detecting at least o... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6778785 | Photoelectric conversion method, light receiving circuit, and optical communication system There is disclosed a photoelectric conversion method, a light receiving circuit, and an optical communication system, in which even if an average received light level varies, a constant output level of demodulated signal can always be obtained. In the photoelectric ... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6771954 | Remotely controlling operation mode of portable wireless communication terminals Portable wireless communication terminals such as cellular phones are equipped with features that are useful in controlling an operational mode in response to termination attempts according to a predetermined set of rules. When the rules are satisfied, the mode swit... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6768725 | Receiver, intermittent frame synchronizing method, and portable remote terminal The present invention includes a receiver, an intermittent frame synchronizing method and a portable remote terminal which can reduce power consumption and cost, while the accuracy of generation of intermittent reception timings is maintained. For example, in the re... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6760360 | Device and method for filtering received signals for mobile telephone system A received signal averaging apparatus which includes an average operating section which averages input signals and outputs a filtered data, a data encoding section which encodes data lower than a threshold level and generates an encoded data, and an encoded data sto... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6742977 | Substrate processing device, substrate conveying device, and substrate processing method An unprocessed substrate is conveyed to a film-processing chamber at the same time a processed substrate is conveyed to a substrate preparation chamber, reducing the substrate processing cycle, thereby increasing the yield per unit time. The substrate preparation ch... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6716772 | Semiconductor device manufacturing method and semiconductor manufacturing apparatus A semiconductor device manufacturing apparatus which forms silicon nitride films on a plurality of substrates by thermal chemical vapor deposition. The semiconductor device manufacturing apparatus includes a vertical reaction tube, a substrate holder, and gas suppli... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6711531 | Temperature control simulation method and apparatus A temperature control simulation method and apparatus for forming a temperature system simulation model on a computer, provide substantially the same response or simulation characteristics as a temperature change in an actual furnace, whereby a temperature control a... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6707844 | Synchronous circuit and receiver There is disclosed a synchronous circuit and a receiver in which a long code for use in communication can be determined in a short time, and circuit scale can be reduced. Upon receiving input of a data stop signal from a control unit, a matched filter continues to h... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6704298 | Repeater amplifier apparatus A repeater amplifier apparatus is provided in which an operator is able to change an operation program of a slave station device without actually visiting to an installation site of the slave station device, thus enabling the operation program to be chang... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6678309 | CDMA base station system A reference signal detecting device detects, as a reference signal, a signal received from a transmission partner corresponding to a transmission power equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold value, and a compensation-free signal detecting devic... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6678313 | Correlation circuit for spread spectrum communication There is disclosed a correlation circuit for spread spectrum communication which reduces the number of constituting elements to attain low power consumption and which can obtain correlation in a short time, to solve a problem that a conventional sliding c... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6671509 | Mobile communication unit and mobile communication system A mobile station (mobile communication unit) receives system software from a base station via an antenna and a transmitter/receiver, and stores the received system software in a memory. A digital signal processor in the mobile station then performs commun... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6647056 | Correlation circuit for spread spectrum communication, demodulation circuit and reception apparatus In a conventional correlation circuit for spread spectrum communication, when a sliding correlator is used, much time is required. When a matched filter is used, a problem is that a circuit scale and power consumption are increased. In the present inventi... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6636557 | Despreading circuit A despreading circuit which can reduce a circuit scale and power consumption is described. The circuit includes an A/D converter which converts a CDMA modulated analog signal to a digital signal of N bits, and a searcher which defects a synchronization ph... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6608550 | Reader and/or writer apparatus, power feeding system, and communication system A reader and/or writer apparatus having an antenna lying substantially in a plane for generating an electromagnetic field to supply power to an IC card and a conductor member to be disposed in a plane substantially parallel to the plane of the antenna, wh... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6594324 | Correlation operation method and matched filter There is disclosed a correlating operation method and a matched filter in which sensitivities in received code sequence selection and path detection are held to some degrees while circuit scale can be reduced. In the correlating operation method and the m... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6582174 | Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing method A substrate processing apparatus includes a rotation accommodating shelf and a transfer machine. The rotation accommodating shelf is capable of accommodating a plurality of accommodating containers in which substrates are to be loaded. The transfer machin... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6573178 | Manufacturing method for semiconductor device and semiconductor manufacturing apparatus A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, includes forming a film on a substrate to be processed in a reaction furnace at a first temperature, unloading the substrate from the reaction furnace, and lowering a temperature in the reaction furnace t... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6553083 | Frequency control and orthogonal detection circuit and FSK receiver The present invention is a frequency control and orthogonal detection circuit and a FSK receiver capable of reducing a circuit size and control of VCO appropriately. The orthogonal detection circuit and the FSK receiver of the present invention include a ... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6539959 | Cleaning apparatus for plate-like part and method thereof At a time of cleaning a plate-like part such as a wafer or the like while rotating, for the purpose of reducing a contamination, a damage and an unevenness of process of the plate-like part which are caused by an amount of charged electricity of the plate... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6538608 | Polarization diversity antenna system for cellular telephone Radio communication systems, e.g. cellular telephones, have employed a space diversity antenna system which includes a plurality of antennas. In the space diversity antenna system for use in the cellular telephone, since two antennas are positioned adjoin... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6524650 | Substrate processing apparatus and method Substrate processing apparatus and method, by which an outside air and a gas-phase backward flow are restrained from entering the inside of a reaction chamber during the inside of a reaction chamber is opened to the outside through a substrate carrying-in... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6496749 | Semiconductor producing apparatus and temperature control method therefor A semiconductor producing apparatus is capable of quickly and accurately changing a controlled variable to a target value to thereby make the controlled variable quickly follow the target value. Moreover, the controlled variable and target value can be ad... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6490063 | Analog optical transmission system To make it possible to detect faults of optical fibers only by allowing the Master unit side to monitor those fibers in an optical transmission system for bilateral communication of analog optical signals by use of two-route optical fibers between the Mas... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6485604 | Substrate processing apparatus A substrate processing apparatus that includes an outer tank, an inner tank, and opposed electrodes. The inner tank is provided in the outer tank and the opposed electrodes are provided in the inner tank. A distance between the opposed electrodes can be c... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6486083 | Semiconductor device manufacturing method and semiconductor manufacturing apparatus A semiconductor device manufacturing method including a step of forming, by thermal chemical vapor deposition, silicon nitride films on a plurality of substrates vertically stacked in a vertical reaction tube having an inner wall. Bis tertiary butyl amino... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6472639 | Heat treatment method and heat treatment apparatus Uniformity of temperature is established within a wafer, and a higher throughput is achieved while the wafer heating time is dramatically reduced by combining lamp heating with hot-wall heating. Lamps 10 are provided outside the furnace body 3 of a hot-wa... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6466553 | Receiver, intermittent frame synchronizing method and portable remote terminal The present invention includes a receiver, an intermittent frame synchronizing method and a portable remote terminal which can reduce power consumption and cost, while the accuracy of generation of intermittent reception timings is maintained. For example... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6431190 | Fluid processing apparatus To carry out very clean and low-cost fluid processing on both the front and rear surfaces of an object to be processed without generating rubbing particles and without leakage of fluid. A retention member for the object to be processed 18 that retains the... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6414280 | Heat treatment method and heat treatment apparatus Uniformity of temperature is established within a wafer, and a higher throughput is achieved while the wafer heating time is dramatically reduced by combining lamp heating with hot-wall heating. Lamps 10 are provided outside the furnace body 3 of a hot-wa... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6368049 | Semiconductor manufacturing method and semiconductor manufacturing apparatus Particles are prevented from clinging to the back of a water in the notch alignment of the wafer, and the problems encountered when a plurality of wafers were aligned all at once are solved. Three support poles 105 are erected on a turntable 103. The subs... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6359714 | Relay system The present invention is to provide a relay system capable of covering a wide silent zone, repeating various kinds of signals with a simple configuration, and facilitating the system management. In such a relay system, a fixed central station converts int... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6359715 | Photoelectric conversion, method light receiving circuit, and optical communication system There is disclosed a photoelectric conversion method, a light receiving circuit, and an optical communication system, in which even if an average received light level varies, a constant output level of demodulated signal can always be obtained. In the pho... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6345137 | Wavelength division multiplex optical star coupler, communication station, and optical transmission system A wavelength division multiplex optical star coupler comprises an input port which inputs a first optical signal, a first optical coupler which divides the first optical signal input from the input port into a plurality of first optical signals, a plurali... | 02/05/2002 |
