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| 6912100 | Device and signal processing circuit for magnetic recording, magnetic recording apparatus A magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus includes a partial-response equalization circuit having frequency characteristic of cutting off low-frequency signal components inclusive of DC components; and a maximum-likelihood decoder, in which a reproduced signal outp... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6911101 | ACF tape feeder machine, and method for feeding ACF tape From a supply reel which is set in position at an ACF (Anisotropic Concuctive Film) feeding station, an ACF tape having an ACF laminated on one side of a liner tape is drawn out by an ACF bonding means. At least two reel mount members are provided on a reel stand at... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6908529 | Plasma processing apparatus and method A plasma processing system for processing a workpiece by using plasma generated in a chamber, includes a light transmissive member disposed in the chamber, the workpiece being disposed inside the light transmissive member; and a light receiving unit mounted on the c... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6908586 | Free radical polymerization method having reduced premature termination, apparatus for performing the method and product formed thereby A method of polymerizing by a free radical polymerization mechanism, product formed thereby, and apparatus for performing this method, are disclosed. The composition to be polymerized by the free radical polymerization mechanism is irradiated by a substantially cons... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6908596 | Exhaust gas processing system Without of affect of sulfur in fuel, NOx in exhaust gas is decomposed completely using discharge and low temperature of 300 C. degree, to establish technique for generating NO2 for necessary to oxidize a particle substance in a real time. The generated NO... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6908837 | Method of manufacturing a semiconductor integrated circuit device including a gate electrode having a salicide layer thereon A method of manufacturing a semiconductor integrated circuit device includes the steps of depositing a first insulating film over a first conductive layer, patterning the first insulating film by using a resist film as a mask to form a cap film, and removing the res... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6908847 | Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device having an interconnect embedded in an insulating film A semiconductor device has first interlayer insulating film having a wiring trench; a wiring portion having a first barrier metal layer formed over side walls and bottom surface of the wiring trench, a first conductor layer formed over the first barrier metal layer ... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6908860 | Method for manufacturing semiconductor device and apparatus for manufacturing thereof The object of the invention is to provide a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device and a processing apparatus for planarization wherein to form copper wiring in multiple layers. The removal of a residue of polishing by local electro polishing, the enhancemen... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6909133 | Method for manufacturing semiconductor integrated circuit device In a process of forming MISFETs that have gate insulating films that are mutually different in thickness on the same substrate, the formation of an undesirable natural oxide film at the interface between the semiconductor substrate and the gate insulating film is su... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6909155 | Semiconductor on insulator device An N-channel MOS field-effect transistor on an SOI substrate including a source electrode, drain and gate electrodes both disposed via a field oxide film, a gate oxide film, a high concentration P-type layer, a high concentration N-type layer contacting the source e... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6909179 | Lead frame and semiconductor device using the lead frame and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a semiconductor chip mounted on one surface of the substrate, wherein the semiconductor chip has an integrated circuit and bonding pads formed on a main surface thereof. The main surface of the semiconductor chip has a qu... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6909185 | Composite material including copper and cuprous oxide and application thereof A composite material is provided, which has a low thermal expansivity, a high thermal conductivity, and a good plastic workability, which composite material may be applied to semiconductor devices and many other uses. The composite material is composed of metal and ... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6907786 | Device for injecting ultrasonic waves into a medium The invention is a device for coupling ultrasonic waves into a medium via a boundary surface, including at least one ultrasonic-wave transducer unit, which couples ultrasonic waves into the medium via a coupling medium provided between the ultrasonic-wave-generating... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6909232 | Organic light emitting element and method of producing the same An organic light emitting element comprising a substrate and a translucent reflection film, a transparent electrode, a hole transport layer, a light emitting layer and a metal electrode layered on the substrate in that order. At least the hole transport layer, the l... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6909312 | Synchronization circuit and synchronization method Phase synchronization is achieved by forming a first pulse to be synchronized with a reference pulse, a second pulse leading in phase for a certain period relative to said first pulse and a third pulse delayed in phase for a certain period from said first pulse; com... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6909434 | Display frame buffer update method and device A method for updating an integrated display frame buffer of a display module in a mobile electronic device, comprising a local frame buffer and a processor, comprising the steps of transferring display information to said local frame buffer, updating said display fr... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6909442 | Display device for decompressing compressed image data received A display device including a plurality of blocks of pixels each of which includes a red subpixel, a green subpixel, and a blue subpixel, each of the blocks including pixels in a form of a matrix having N rows and M columns includes a first active element shared amon... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6909646 | Semiconductor memory device having improved arrangement for replacing failed bit lines In a bit-line direction, a plurality of memory mats are arranged including a plurality of memory cells respectively coupled to bit lines and word lines, and a sense amplifier array is arranged including a plurality of latch circuits having input/output nodes connect... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6909647 | Semiconductor device having redundancy circuit A semiconductor memory is provided with a defect recovery scheme featuring a redundancy circuit. The memory array in the memory has a plurality of word lines, a plurality of bit lines, a spare bit line, and a plurality of memory cells. The redundancy circuit include... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6909768 | CT apparatus, CT imaging method and method of providing service using the same A CT imaging method determines geometric features (information representing geometries) of contact surfaces between markers and an object from tomographic images obtained by imaging the object attached with the markers on its reference surfaces using a CT apparatus,... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6909809 | Decoding method using plus and/or minus rounding of images An image decoding method is utilized to obtain high quality images without error accumulation. Such an image decoding method comprises receiving an encoded bitstream including information of P and B frames, and executing motion compensation by synthesizing a predict... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6909930 | Method and system for monitoring a semiconductor device manufacturing process To realize a method for detecting variations in conditions (drift of the exposure and drift of the focus) in exposure equipment at a product wafer level in lithography process, the process is specified in such a way that calculation results of feature quantities suc... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6910101 | Storage subsystem with management site changing function A storage subsystem which includes a plurality of disk controllers, a plurality of disk drives connected via a network to the plurality of disk controllers, and a path controller connected to the plurality of disk controllers. The path controller changes a managemen... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6910191 | Program guide data selection device A digital interactive television set device for selecting program guide data corresponding to available programming content. A processor filters the programming guide data according to different filter categories and also individual filter ranges associated with res... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6909682 | Information recording method, information recording medium, and information recording apparatus An information recording method using a recording medium having a first state by a first power level of an energy beam and a second state by a second power level of the energy beam higher than the first power level. When a period of a recording time generating clock... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6908241 | Card processing system with combined magnetic encoder and card flipper A system for processing cards including a magnetic medium extending along one side of the cards and printing on both sides of the cards is disclosed. The system is a plurality of card processing stations (14, 30, 24) spaced along a card transport (18â€... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6907577 | System and method for accessing screen fields, functions and programs using a simple single key stroke A system, method and computer program in which a user by selecting a single keystroke may automatically place the cursor in a desired field on an active screen or execute another function or screen. This system, method and computer program utilizes a keystroke datab... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6904947 | Apparatus for wrapping articles, particularly groups of cigarettes In a wrapping apparatus, particularly for enclosing articles consisting of or containing groups of cigarettes in wrapper material, the articles are received in a pocketed drum in which at least one overlapped region of the wrapper material is heat scaled. Preferably... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6905318 | Compressor including tapered discharged valve and valve seat A compressor includes a compression chamber for compressing working fluid within an inside thereof, a discharge port, through which the working fluid flows out from the compression chamber, and a discharge valve for opening or closing the discharge port. The dischar... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6906365 | Ferroelectric memory device including an upper protection electrode A long life ferroelectric memory device using a thin ferroelectric film capacitor as a memory capacitor is obtained by disposing a plurality of degradation preventive layers on an upper protection electrode and an upper electrode 8 and a degradation preventiv... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6906368 | Magnetic recording medium and magnetic memory apparatus Disclosed is a magnetic memory apparatus which comprises a patterned magnetic recording medium in which multilayered films each having a first magnetic layer, a nonmagnetic metal layer or a nonmagnetic insulating layer and a second magnetic layer deposited discretel... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6906551 | Semiconductor integrated circuit device A semiconductor integrated circuit device comprising a logical circuit including a MIS transistor formed on a semiconductor substrate, a control circuit for controlling a threshold voltage of the MIS transistor forming the logical circuit, an oscillation circuit inc... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6907262 | Radiotelephone handset A radiotelephone handset, including a display; a keypad; a cover moveable between a closed position and an open position in which the keypad is accessible to the user; and means for lighting the display and keypad to an extent limited by the position of the cover. W... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6906572 | Semiconductor integrated circuit device In integrated circuit (IC) devices, skew concerns between the clock pulses supplied to different latches hinder high speed operation. An IC device therefor includes a first clock processor means to generate a third clock pulse in response to first and second clock p... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6906952 | Nonvolatile semiconductor memory device and data writing method therefor In a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device wherein a plurality of threshold voltages are set so as to store multivalued information in one memory cell, data is first written into the memory cell whose threshold voltage is the lowest as a written state from the era... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6907198 | Wavelength division multiplexed optical interconnection device A high-speed and small-sized optical interconnection device uses wavelength-multiplexed light suitable therefor in order to make compatible between an increase in high-speed communication capacity of the optical interconnection device and an increase in high-speed c... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6906971 | Semiconductor integrated circuit device A semiconductor IC device includes, in a substrate, a P-type well region having a dynamic memory array section and applied with a reduced back bias voltage suitable for refreshing. Also included is a P-well region where N-channel MOSFETs of a peripheral circuit are ... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6906575 | Semiconductor integrated circuit device A semiconductor integrated circuit device having an internal voltage generating circuit which generates a voltage two or more times higher than an operating voltage while at the same time reducing the voltage applied to a device, thereby ensuring the device reliabil... | 06/14/2005 |
| D506113 | Saw blade | 06/14/2005 |
| 6907392 | Method of generating a hybrid grid allowing modelling of a heterogeneous formation crossed by one or more wells A method of generating a hybrid grid allowing modelling of a heterogeneous formation crossed by one or more pipes such as, for example, an underground formation where one or more wells have been drilled, in order to form a representative model, for example of fluid ... | 06/14/2005 |
