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...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8446927 | Semiconductor laser device and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor laser device includes a p-type clad layer and an n-type clad layer, a p-side guide layer and an n-side guide layer interposed between the p-type clad layer and the n-type clad layer, and an active layer interposed between the p-side guide layer and t... | 05/21/2013 |
| 8446442 | Thermal print head and method of manufacturing the same A thermal print head includes a substrate, a glaze layer formed on the substrate and provided with a heating resistor support portion extending in a primary scanning direction and having an arc-like cross-sectional shape when seen in a direction perpendicular to the... | 05/21/2013 |
| 8446008 | Semiconductor device bonding with stress relief connection pads An inventive semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor chip; an internal pad provided on a surface of the semiconductor chip for electrical connection; a surface protective film covering the surface of the semiconductor chip and having a pad opening from which ... | 05/21/2013 |
| 8444918 | Water purifier The disclosed water purifier comprises an outer wall, a RAW water inflow section that allows inflow of RAW water from outside said outer wall, a purifying section, an ultraviolet ray sterilizing section that has an ultraviolet ray source, a purified water outflow se... | 05/21/2013 |
| 8441054 | Driver for driving a load using a charge pump circuit A charge pump circuit includes MOSFETs and MOS capacitors formed on the same substrate. Each of the MOS capacitors has a multiplicity of first electrodes formed in one region of the substrate, insulating layers formed on/above respective substrate regions between ne... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8441017 | Schottky barrier diode and method for making the same A schottky diode includes a SiC substrate which has a first surface and a second surface facing away from the first surface, a semiconductor layer which is formed on the first surface of the SiC substrate, a schottky electrode which is in contact with the semiconduc... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8436948 | Remote control system, television set and remote controller using manipulation signals A remote control system of the present invention is provided with a TV apparatus and a remote controller, and performs two-way communication. The remote controller is provided with a microphone and a speaker, and generates and outputs sound source data. Furthermore,... | 05/07/2013 |
| 8436467 | Semiconductor device Disclosed is a semiconductor device suppressed in decrease of reliability. The semiconductor device comprises an electrode pad portion formed on the upper surface of a semiconductor substrate, a passivation layer so formed on the upper surface of the semiconductor s... | 05/07/2013 |
| 8433290 | Mobile communication device capable of functioning in transmitter disabling state A mobile communication device, such as a cellular phone, for example, is capable of functioning in a transmitter disabling mode and is set to the transmitter disabling mode in automatic response to a power-on operation and then automatically changed to a transmitter... | 04/30/2013 |
| 8432946 | Nitride semiconductor laser diode A nitride semiconductor laser diode has a quantum well layer consisting of a mixed crystal of Alx1Iny1Ga1-x1-y1N (x1≧0.5, y1≧0 and 1−x1−y1≦0.5) in a group III nitride semiconductor multilayer structure having a major growth... | 04/30/2013 |
| 8432421 | Thermal print head, thermal printer and printer system A thermal print head includes a heating resistor for forming images on a print target by generating heat, and a driver for controlling power supply to the heating resistor. The thermal print head also includes a storage unit and a controller. The storage unit stores... | 04/30/2013 |
| 8432046 | Semiconductor device There is provided a semiconductor device with which stress can be prevented from locally concentrating on an external connecting terminal on a post and thus damages of the external connecting terminal can be prevented. The semiconductor device includes a semiconduct... | 04/30/2013 |
| 8431949 | Semiconductor light emitting device and method for manufacturing the same A light emitting device includes a semiconductor light emitting element, a first lead including an element mount portion on which the semiconductor light emitting element is mounted, and a second lead electrically connected to the semiconductor light emitting elemen... | 04/30/2013 |
| 8426912 | Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing semiconductor device A semiconductor device according to the present invention includes: a semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type; a body region of a second conductivity type formed in a surface layer portion of the semiconductor layer; a trench dug from the surface of the sem... | 04/23/2013 |
| 8425081 | LED lamp An LED lamp A1 includes a plurality of LED modules 30 and a hollow diffusion pipe 20 accommodating the LED modules 30. Each LED module 30 includes an LED 31, and a resin package 32 covering the LED 31. The resi... | 04/23/2013 |
| 8421748 | Information exchange device An information exchange device includes a human body communication unit which applies information flowing via a human body to a human body and detects information flowing via the human body, an information transmission unit which transmits information via the human ... | 04/16/2013 |
| 8421517 | Semiconductor device including power conversion and a drive recorder A semiconductor device of the present invention is provided with a terminal for connecting a plurality of buses to the outside of the semiconductor device, a bus interface circuit for treating the plurality of buses as the same bus within the semiconductor device an... | 04/16/2013 |
| 8421340 | Organic light emitting device Provided is an organic light emitting device having a simple structure and enabling cost reduction. An organic light emitting device 30 of the present invention includes: an organic light emitting element 20; an electrode substrate (11, 12) incl... | 04/16/2013 |
| 8421209 | Semiconductor device with lead terminals having portions thereof extending obliquely A semiconductor device in which a semiconductor chip, a lead frame and metal wires for electrically connecting the lead frame are sealed with sealing resin. The lead frame has a plurality of lead terminal portions, a supporting portion for supporting the semiconduct... | 04/16/2013 |
| 8421093 | LED module and LED dot matrix display An LED module A1 includes LED chips 3R, 3G, 3B, and a module substrate 1 on which the LED chips 3R, 3G, 3B are mounted. A wire 4R is connected to the LED chip 3R, and the LED chips 3G and | 04/16/2013 |
| 8416207 | Input device An input device includes a plurality of detectors for respectively detecting a close approach of an approaching object, and a controller including a plurality of input channels. The plurality of detectors is aligned in a direction. Each of the detectors belongs to o... | 04/09/2013 |
| 8411718 | Semiconductor light-emitting device The present invention provides a nitride semiconductor light-emitting device capable of preventing shortening of the device lifetime due to increase in the driving voltage of the device and internal heat generation, and also providing uniform laser characteristics, ... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8410827 | Transmitter, interface device, and car mounted communication system A transmitter includes a capacitor from one end of which a charge voltage is derived; a first constant current source to generate a charge current for the capacitor; a second constant current source to generate a discharge current for the capacitor; a charge/dischar... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8405321 | Drive unit, smoothing circuit, DC/DC converter A drive unit has a load driving portion driving a load by a PWM drive method; a soft-start function portion for achieving a soft-start function; and a soft-start disabling portion counting a time elapsed after a PWM signal is turned on at start-up of the unit, and d... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8405227 | Semiconductor device with a semiconductor chip connected in a flip chip manner A semiconductor device (1,21) includes a solid state device (2,22), a semiconductor chip (3) that has a functional surface (3a) on which a functional element (4) is formed and that is bonded on a surface of the solid state d... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8405112 | Thin-light emitting diode lamp, and method of manufacturing the same A thin-type light emitting diode lamp includes a blue light emitting diode chip (6) disposed at a substantial center of an inner bottom surface of a groove-shaped recess (3) formed at an end surface and having a thin elongated rectangular opening, a re... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8405064 | Nitride semiconductor device An inventive nitride semiconductor device includes: a substrate; a first buffer layer provided on the substrate, and having a superlattice structure which includes two types of Group III nitride semiconductor sublayers having different compositions and alternately s... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8404586 | Manufacturing method for semiconductor device A manufacturing method for a semiconductor device includes: the step of preparing a semiconductor chip which is provided with a functional element formed on a front surface side of a semiconductor substrate, a feedthrough electrode which is placed within a through h... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8404559 | Semiconductor device production method and semiconductor device A semiconductor device production method according to the present invention includes the steps of: forming a LOCOS oxide film in a surface of a silicon layer by a LOCOS method; forming an impurity region in the silicon layer by introducing an impurity into the silic... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8400062 | Light source turn-on/off controller A light source turn-on/off controller includes an input section of a turn-on/off timing signal, a PWM signal generating section for generating a pulse signal responding to a rise or a fall of the timing signal, a duty cycle of the pulse signal changing so as to simu... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8399915 | Semiconductor device Provided is a semiconductor device which can reduce on-resistance by improving hole mobility of a channel region. A trench gate type MOSFET (semiconductor device) is provided with a p+-type silicon substrate whose crystal plane of a main surface is a (110... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8399895 | Semiconductor light emitting device Provided is a semiconductor light emitting device which includes a number of hexagon-shaped semiconductor light emitting elements formed two-dimensionally, and in which the positive electrodes and the negative electrodes are formed on its light outputting surface si... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8395236 | MIM capacitor structure having penetrating vias The semiconductor device according to the present invention includes a plurality of capacitance elements. Each capacitance element has a structure obtained by holding a capacitance film made of an insulating material between first and second electrodes made of a met... | 03/12/2013 |
| 8395162 | Semiconductor device with multi-layer gate electrode The semiconductor device of the present invention includes a semiconductor region made of a material to which conductive impurities are added, an insulating film formed on a surface of the semiconductor region, and an electroconductive gate electrode formed on the i... | 03/12/2013 |
| 8394695 | Semiconductor device production method This semiconductor device includes a first device and a second device provided on a semiconductor substrate and having different breakdown voltages. More specifically, the semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a first region defined on the semicon... | 03/12/2013 |
| 8394676 | Marking method for semiconductor device and semiconductor device provided with markings A marking method is provided for putting markings on the surface of a packaged semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip and a resin package for covering the semiconductor chip. The method includes the steps of forming a groove in ... | 03/12/2013 |
| 8390084 | MEMS sensor The MEMS sensor according to the present invention includes a diaphragm. In the diaphragm, an angle formed by two straight lines connecting supporting portions and the center of a main portion with one another respectively is set to satisfy the relation of the follo... | 03/05/2013 |
| 8390041 | High efficiency module A module (1) includes a first functional device (2) and a second functional device (3). The first functional device (2) includes a base electrode, an emitter electrode and a collector electrode. The second functional device (3) inc... | 03/05/2013 |
| 8387459 | MEMS sensor The MEMS sensor according to the present invention includes: a substrate; a supporting portion provided on one surface of the substrate; a beam, supported by the supporting portion, having a movable portion opposed to the surface of the substrate through a space; a ... | 03/05/2013 |
| 8384152 | Semiconductor device having trench gate VDMOSFET and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device includes a first conductivity type layer of a first conductivity type, a body layer of a second conductivity type formed on the first conductivity type layer, a gate trench passing through the body layer so that the deepest portion thereof rea... | 02/26/2013 |
