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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6753253 | Method of making wiring and logic corrections on a semiconductor device by use of focused ion beams Herein disclosed are a variety of techniques relating to the wiring and logic corrections on a chip by making use of the focused ion beam (which is shortly referred to as “FIB”) or the laser selection metal CVD. The time periods for the wiring corrections and fo... | 06/22/2004 |
| 5568617 | Processor element having a plurality of processors which communicate with each other and selectively use a common bus A processor for constructing a single processor system or multiprocessor system comprises, within a base processor element constituting the processor, two CPU with associated local memories, a dual-port RAM accessible from said CPUs, and a common bus swit... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5539257 | Resin molded type semiconductor device having a conductor film A resin molded type semiconductor device has a metallic guard ring that is formed to cover the peripheral edge of the surface of a tetragonal semiconductor substrate. In order to prevent a passivation film on the guard ring from being cracked by stresses ... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5539250 | Plastic-molded-type semiconductor device A plastic-molded-type semiconductor device is provided wherein two semiconductor chips, having main surfaces on which electrodes and circuits are formed, are arranged to face each other. A lead frame is placed between these two semiconductor chips and ele... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5511201 | Data processing apparatus, power supply controller and display unit A data processing apparatus which includes a display unit and a power supply controller for supplying power to the display unit. The display unit has a display screen and a back light controller. The power supply controller comprises a switch, at least on... | 04/23/1996 |
| 5457602 | Desk-top information processing apparatus having a height greater than its front surface width, a first leg with a cut-out for cooling air, and a second leg with non-aligned ends A data processing apparatus comprising a disk unit, a power supply unit, at least one printed circuit board, a heat-exhaust fan, and a box accommodating the disk unit, the power supply unit, the printed circuit board, the heat-exhaust fan. Both the depth ... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5449534 | Method for forming an anti-reflection film of a cathode-ray tube, an apparatus used for carrying out the method and a cathode-ray tube having the anti-reflection film An anti-reflection film is produced on the panel surface of a cathode-ray tube by: (A) preparing a solution for forming an anti-reflection film, which contains water and a metal alkoxide having the formula, M(OR)n wherein M is a metal selected from ... | 09/12/1995 |
| 5418917 | Method and apparatus for controlling conditional branch instructions for a pipeline type data processing apparatus A method and apparatus for controlling a conditional branch instruction in a pipeline type data processing apparatus which are adapted to judge whether or not a conditional branch instruction is valid, judge whether or not a condition code necessary for a... | 05/23/1995 |
| 5412633 | Optical disk apparatus with galvanomirror having movable reflecting surfaces cooperating with fixed reflecting surfaces An optical disk unit has an optical system which is separated into a movable head assembly and a fixed optical system so that the movable head is made light weight. The movable head has an objective lens, an objective lens driving unit for focusing the ob... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5394558 | Data processor having an execution unit controlled by an instruction decoder and a microprogram ROM A data processor in which, when two primitive instructions are decoded by instruction decoders, a microprogram ROM is not used under the control of a selector, and the two primitive instructions are executed in parallel by instruction execution units in a... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5375448 | Non-interference control method and device A non-interference control method and device in which an object to be controlled, which is controlled by a plurality of operation quantities and at least one control quantity, is divided into a plurality of partial control systems so that each of the part... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5369493 | Component transporting apparatus and method An apparatus for transporting an electronic component includes a head for holding the component when the component is picked up from a suitable storage device. The head is movable relative to a base with an imaging apparatus being fixed to the head and al... | 11/29/1994 |
| 5349951 | Optical CT imaging device A device for measuring the inside information of a light-scattering specimen using a Line Spread Function (LSF) function of a light-scattering specimen and the intensity distribution of light which is transmitted through the light scattering specimen in r... | 09/27/1994 |
| 5351278 | X-ray tomography method and apparatus thereof This invention relates to an X-ray tomography apparatus and a method therefor. The apparatus comprises an X-ray source for irradiating X rays to an inspection object; inspection object an rotating arrangement for rotating the inspection object about a fir... | 09/27/1994 |
| 5346834 | Method for manufacturing a semiconductor device and a semiconductor memory device An improved method for manufacturing an insulated gate field effect transistor is provided. As a first step, a silicon oxide film is grown on a silicon substrate, and a first silicon nitride film is deposited thereon. The first silicon nitrite film, the s... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5317606 | Automation system for nuclear power plants This invention relates to an automation system for nuclear power plants. This system comprises operation plan making means, supervisory control means, and control means for controlling controlled objects. The operation plan making means makes a new operat... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5315394 | Auto-iris method and apparatus for imaging device An auto-iris method for an imaging device includes the steps of obtaining a first signal indicating brightness of an object from a signal output from an imaging element; comparing a level of the first signal with a level of a reference signal; and enhanci... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5314509 | Vacuum processing apparatus and operating method therefor This invention relates to a vacuum processing apparatus having vacuum processing chambers the insides of which must be dry cleaned, and to a method of operating such an apparatus. When the vacuum processing chambers are dry-cleaned, dummy substrates are t... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5311693 | Rifle and pistol rest A firearm and optical instrument support includes a cylinder member which provides support without hindering the range of fire of a rifle or a pistol. The cylinder member is disposed on telescopic elongated elements which are frictionally clamped by a cla... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5307208 | Optical system for imaging the light from light sources An optical system for imaging the light from light sources having varying astigmatic differences of focus in different planes, having an optical element with an astigmatic effect and having an imaging lens system, the optical element having an astigmatic ... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5298802 | Semiconductor integrated circuit device with a plurality of logic circuits having active pull-down functions In accordance with one aspect of the invention, a semiconductor integrated circuit is provided wherein an input circuit is formed by a phase split circuit having a bipolar transistor which outputs an inverted output from the collector and a non-inverted o... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5299217 | Semiconductor light-emitting device with cadmium zinc selenide layer A semiconductor light-emitting device containing as first and second semiconductor layers a semiconductor of Cdx Zn1-x Sy Se1-y (0 | 03/29/1994 |
| 5293558 | Multiplication, division and square root extraction apparatus A multiplication, division and square root extraction apparatus which calculates the solutions to addition, division and square root extraction functions by approximation using iteration has a multiplier, an adder-subtracter and a shifter of prescribed bi... | 03/08/1994 |
| 5293594 | Data processing system having a plurality of register groups and a logical or circuit for addressing one register of one of the register groups In order to divide a memory addressed unidimensionally into a plurality of memory areas and to manage efficiently these memory areas, the address to be accessed inside the memory is determined on a software basis by a computer instruction by use of the va... | 03/08/1994 |
| 5290993 | Microwave plasma processing device A microwave plasma processing device is composed of a vacuum chamber which is evacuated to a predetermined pressure and into which processing gas is introduced; a sample table disposed in the vacuum chamber to which an AC voltage is applied; a microwave g... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5291097 | Cathode-ray tube A cathode-ray tube having a layer provided on a face plate outer surface, with the layer comprising at least one colored transparent electroconductive domain consisting of at least one organic dye, at least one electroconductive metal oxide and silica mai... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5288347 | Method of manufacturing high strength and high toughness stainless steel A high strength, high toughness stainless steel consisting, by weight, of C more than 0.16% but less than 0.25%, Si not more than 2.0%, Mn not more than 1.0%, Ni not more than 2.0%, Cr from 11 to 15%, Mo not less than 0.5% but less than 3.0%, Co from 12 t... | 02/22/1994 |
| 5289428 | Semiconductor memory device A multiport memory is provided which permits both random access and serial access. In order to reduce parasitic capacitance and improve operating speed, the serial input/output lines are each divided into two parts at their middle points. Sense amplifiers... | 02/22/1994 |
| 5286956 | Printer having page-turning apparatus for passbooks and with page-turning capability even after initial deformation of sheets to be turned In a printer for passbooks or the like, a passbook or the like, which is brought in on a transfer path, is stopped at the position of a page-turning roller, where a sheet is turned over by the operation of the page-turning roller. When a sheet is turned o... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5287284 | Product specification complex analysis system A product specification complex analysis system is provided which inputs product specifications of an external form and materials, design parameters determined by analysis and evaluation in the specifications, the range of the change of the parameters and... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5285075 | Electron beam lithography method A sample stage is moved so that an alignment mark on a wafer successively move on positions symmetric to the positional origin of the electron beam, and waveformes of signals obtained by scanning the alignment mark at the symmetric positions with electron... | 02/08/1994 |
| 5285365 | Power conversion system, method for controlling the same, and uninterruptible power supply using the same A three-phase a.c. uninterruptible power supply includes a transformer providing isolation between an input and an output, a single-phase inverter, and a cycloconverter. The uninterruptible power supply operates to convert a d.c. voltage into a high-frequ... | 02/08/1994 |
| 5282949 | Glass pH electrodes A glass pH electrode which comprises a silver-silver bromide inner electrode and an electrode solution for the inner electrode which is a zwitterionic buffer solution.... | 02/01/1994 |
| 5282004 | Electrophotograhic apparatus and method for preventing attraction of copy sheet to photoreceptor The present invention provides an electrophotographic copying apparatus in which a copy sheet is attracted to and delivered by a transfer belt to perform a transfer operation, wherein a sag of the leading end of the copy sheet is removed to prevent the co... | 01/25/1994 |
| 5280246 | Nuclear magnetic resonance apparatus A nuclear magnetic resonance apparatus receives nuclear magnetic resonance signals from an object under test with an RF probe which is an array of coils, implements down-frequency conversion with frequency converters for the received signals in multiple c... | 01/18/1994 |
| 5280475 | Traffic shaping method and circuit A traffic shaping method and circuit of a packet switching system in which input packets having a fixed length and multiplexed on a plurality of inputs are multiplexed to be delivered on any output of a plurality of outputs, connects the input packet to a... | 01/18/1994 |
| 5274866 | Process for laboratory dyeing of sample pieces Laboratory-scale dyeing of samples of lengths of material must correspond to the continuous process conditions as executed in practice in order to obtain comparable dyeing results. For this purpose, the provision is made of joining the sample piece into a... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5276289 | Electronic circuit device and method of producing the same The present invention provides a multistep electronic circuit device comprising a plurality of parts and elements mechanically or electrically bonded in sequence to each other and to a substrate with a plurality of solders, which comprises as the parts an... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5276386 | Microwave plasma generating method and apparatus In a microwave plasma generating method and apparatus according to the present invention, a slow wave structure is disposed in the propagation region of microwaves, and the microwaves are introduced at a delayed phase velocity into a discharge chamber so ... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5276328 | Radiation detector having reflective isolation plates A multi-elements radiation detector provides isolation plates each having a uniform light reflectance on the surface, excellent reproducibility and uniform performance for enhancing an X-ray spatial efficiency and a light transmission efficiency and is in... | 01/04/1994 |
