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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6335103 | Magnetic recording media for longitudinal recording A magnetic recording medium including a substrate and a magnetic layer on the substrate which is a Co-based alloy including Pt and/or Ir, including at least one of Ti, Zr, Hr, V, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo, W, Ge, and Si, and including oxygen. A magnetic memory appar... | 01/01/2002 |
| 6205535 | Branch instruction having different field lengths for unconditional and conditional displacements A branch instruction format has different respective field lengths for conditional branch instructions and unconditional branch instructions. A conditional branch instruction has a first bit length and a first area for a displacement designating an addres... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6190424 | Process for fabricating two different types of wafers in a semiconductor wafer production line A semiconductor integrated circuit device fabrication method has a main processing line and a sub-processing line. The main processing line includes a plurality of main batch processing sections, each of which processes a plurality of main objects at a ti... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6180020 | Polishing method and apparatus The present invention relates to a polishing method using a grindstone comprising abrasive grains and a bonding resin for bonding the abrasive grains, as well as to a polishing apparatus to be used for the polishing method. By using a resin for bonding ab... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6172363 | Method and apparatus for inspecting integrated circuit pattern A circuit pattern inspection method and an apparatus therefor, in which the whole of a portion to be inspected of a sample to be inspected is made to be in a predetermined charged state, the portion to be inspected is irradiated with an image-forming high... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6169948 | Front control system, area setting method and control panel for construction machine A setting device for a front control system for a construction machine includes a direct setting switch for instructing a direct teaching setting, a numeral input key consisting of up- and down-keys for instructing a numeral input setting, a setting chang... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6163186 | System including phase lock loop circuit A PLL circuit includes a phase comparator which makes a comparison between an internal clock signal and a clock signal supplied from an external terminal, a charge pump circuit which produces a charging-up or discharging current in accordance with the out... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6157203 | Input circuit with improved operating margin using a single input differential circuit A semiconductor integrated circuit including an input circuit constituted as a single-input differential circuit which has a first MOSFET to whose gate a reception signal with a small amplitude with respect to a power supply voltage is supplied and a seco... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6153357 | Process for fabricating semiconductor integrated circuit device, and exposing system and mask inspecting method to be used in the process Herein disclosed is an exposure technology for a semiconductor integrated circuit device which has a pattern as fine as that of an exposure wavelength. The technology contemplates to improve the resolution characteristics of the pattern by making use of t... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6147001 | Method of manufacturing semiconductor integrated circuit device A method of manufacturing a semiconductor integrated circuit wherein a patterned wafer polishing machine for uniformly polishing a surface by chemical mechanical polishing is utilized which is provided with a head for holding a wafer and rubbing it on an ... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6144956 | Methods for retrieving text information in a database through image information and a program stored on a computer-readable storage medium for performing such a method In a DB retrieval method, a two-step retrieval including quantitative and qualitative retrievals is interactively performed so that, through the operation of image information (e.g. map information) having a correspondence to a DB having text information ... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6144005 | Vacuum switch and a vacuum switchgear using the same A vacuum insulation switch provided with a movable electrode, a stationary electrode and an earthing electrode, which are insulated from each other, in a vacuum container made of a conductive material which is earthed, and a switchgear using the same.... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6141016 | Method for inputting and acquiring requirement On a computer, components forming a development subject are arranged on a scenario editor by using basic component parts, and the component data are set. And a procedure call sequence is defined by specifying procedures of defined components in order of c... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6137185 | Electrode structure of a wiring substrate of semiconductor device having expanded pitch An electrode structure as well as the fabrication method thereof is disclosed which may enable successful pad layout conversion of interconnection electrode pads on the periphery of an associated IC chip to a grid array of rows and columns of terminal sol... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6137786 | CDMA communication system and method In CDMA communications, a base station detects a difference between a reference phase of a spreading code and a phase of a received signal of each terminal station, and feeds a phase jump signal PJ-i representative of the phase difference back to each ter... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6134203 | Optical disk signal processing apparatus An optical disk signal processing apparatus retains compatibility with the conventional continuous servo recording technique, and reduces the amount of noise included in a signal played back from the optical disk without the need to decrease the size of t... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6133135 | Process for manufacturing electronic circuits The process for manufacturing an electronic circuit includes disposing an electronic device on a circuit substrate and hot melting a solder formed on the electronic device or the circuit substrate to bond the electronic device and the circuit substrate. T... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6131177 | System including a ferroelectric memory A system with a ferroelectric memory has a low probability of soft error thereby decreasing the possibility of serious damage to the system that might result from soft errors. The ferroelectric memory is provided with an overwrite-inhibited memory block 1... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6130577 | Digital demodulators for phase modulated and amplitude-phase modulated signals In a digital demodulator for phase modulated signals, logical values of a waveform-shaped phase-modulated signal are sampled based on a clock signal having a period that stands in integer ratio relationship to a carrier period of the modulated signal and ... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6131142 | Disk system and power-on sequence for the same With respect to the disk drives provided power from a single power source in a disk drive system, start up power is first supplied to a first start-up group of the disks, preferably comprising all of the master disks, with the size of the group being sele... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6128688 | Bus control system In a data processing system, a plurality of modules connected to a system bus thereof are assigned with identifiers. When a source module initiates a split read access to another module, the source module sends an address of the access destination module ... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6128600 | Electronic shopping system and method of defining electronic catalogue data therefor Product data information to be stored in a product database is defined by setting essential items necessary to define products with respect to their essential parts, and setting optional items necessary to define optional products deriving from standards ... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6122724 | Central processing unit having instruction queue of 32-bit length fetching two instructions of 16-bit fixed length in one instruction fetch operation A microcomputer MCU adopting the general purpose register method is enabled to have a small program capacity or a high program memory using efficiency and a low system cost, while enjoying the advantage of simplification of the instruction decoding as in ... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6121947 | Liquid crystal display Control device A liquid crystal display control device can display pictures in a magnification mode by using only a memory having low-speed access and a low storage capacity. When a video signal has intermediate resolution or less, the enlargement processing is performe... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6117184 | Program generation method A program is generated by combining program modules by displaying programs for guiding the combination of program modules and selecting one of the programs. Program modules stored in a memory are displayed on a display device by a command inputted from th... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6117392 | Automatic analyzing apparatus A sample of a sample rack is sampled at analyzing units in the middle of a transfer line. A standby unit and a rack collecting unit are arranged near an exit of the transfer line. After sampling, sample racks are sorted out to the standby unit or the rack... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6114905 | Signal amplifier apparatus and magnetic disk storage apparatus using the same A very-small-signal amplifier is capable of amplifying very small signals with high sensitivity up to high frequencies while simplifying the circuit, and a magnetic disk storage apparatus realizes a reading operation over a wide band up to high frequencie... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6114695 | Scanning electron microscope and method for dimension measuring by using the same An electron beam which can transmit through part of a specimen and can reach a portion not exposing to the electron beam is irradiated and a scanning image is obtained on the basis of a signal secondarily generated from a portion irradiated with the elect... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6114647 | Bellows and vacuum switch using the bellows A bellows, of which one end portion is fixed to a movable lever passing through a vessel wall and the other end portion of which is fixed to the vessel wall, has a spring constant at a central portion in an expansion direction which is smaller than that a... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6114192 | Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device having a ball grid array package structure using a supporting frame A semiconductor plastic package, more particularly a preferred package structure and method for making a BGA package. A resin sealed BGA package where a supporting frame which fixedly supports semiconductor parts; i.e., an IC chip, a circuit board, or a c... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6111998 | Semiconductor optical device, fiber optical amplifier and optical transmission system A semiconductor optical device, a fiber optical amplifier and an optical transmission system are disclosed. The semiconductor optical device is excellent in the stability of the coupling efficiency and the splitting ratio of a Y-branch. Both the fiber opt... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6112248 | Method and system for dynamically balancing network traffic using address resolution protocol This invention provides dynamic balance of the traffic among data processing devices interconnecting networks and thereby improve the networking performance. For network traffic flowing between a first network and a second network, the traffic is distribu... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6108716 | Data processing unit A keyboard-detachable data processing unit which keeps a display unit stable under any condition. A link mechanism linking a system unit and a display unit comprises a guide which runs from front to back, a slider which swivels along the guide, and a swin... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6107592 | Vacuum switching apparatus A vacuum switching apparatus for automatically performing a series of breaking and disconnecting operations includes a fixed electrode and a movable electrode mounted in a vacuum vessel. The movable electrode is sequentially movable between a closing posi... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6108262 | Static memory cell having independent data holding voltage A static memory cell, composed of cross-coupled MOS transistors having a relatively high threshold voltage, is equipped with MOS transistors for controlling the power supply line voltage of the memory cell. To permit the voltage difference between two dat... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6105138 | Method and apparatus for controlling electric source in information processing system A technique allowing a terminal device located in a remote place to protect data existing on an information processing system and then control an electric source of the information processing system is provided. An information processing system according ... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6104025 | Ion implanting apparatus capable of preventing discharge flaw production on reverse side surface of wafer An ion implanting apparatus is capable of preventing occurrence of discharge flaws on a reverse side surface of a silicon wafer when the silicon wafer is ion-implanted at a temperature exceeding 300° C. The ion implanting apparatus has an ion current of ... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6103053 | Method for making a slip-resistant cover system A method for manufacturing a decorative slip-resistant cover system includes the step of impacting a softened polymer film with a plurality of beads such that a section of each bead protrudes from the softened polymer film. The softened polymer film is ha... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6105022 | Structured-text cataloging method, structured-text searching method, and portable medium used in the methods A text cataloging method includes a step of cataloging already-analyzed-text data obtained from an analysis of a logical structure of a text to be cataloged in a text database, a step of creating a structure index by sequentially superposing logical struc... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6101506 | Method and system for managing files by version and programs therefor A rack 110 is displayed on a display unit 100. A plurality of file cases 112A to 112D are disposed within the rack 110 in an array. A series of files which have a common file name and different versions are all accommodated in one of the file cases 112A t... | 08/08/2000 |
