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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5774745 | Method and apparatus for writing and reading entries in an event status queue of a host memory A computer system that has a bus is provided with a host memory coupled to the bus, this host memory having an event status queue in which events are stored. A peripheral controller is coupled to the bus and writes a termination marker in a first block in... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5407639 | Method of manufacturing a corona discharge device A method of manufacturing a corona discharge device suitable for use as an ozonizer capable of producing a controlled small amount of ozone throughout a prolonged service life. A foreproduct of corona discharge device (50) is first prepared which is provi... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5398709 | Sunshade A sunshade includes an upright post with a runner sleeved slidably thereon so as to be movable to a stretching position for operating a rib assembly in order to stretch collapsibly a top cloth above the upright post. The upright post has a spring-loaded s... | 03/21/1995 |
| 5333511 | Portable controlled air sampler A portable analyzer for obtaining samples from a monitored environment during different time intervals includes a pump energized by a rechargeable battery pack for drawing gas from the environment selectively into plural sample holding bags and an impact ... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5328225 | System mountable to a tailgate of a pick-up truck to improve the utility thereof A light-weight set of four substantially flat rectangular plates sequentially connected to each other by hinges is pivotably mounted to a pick-up truck tailgate. Flat bar stock braces with orthogonal end tabs fit to tab-receiving elements attached to sele... | 07/12/1994 |
| 5299817 | Adjustable mobile base An adjustable mobile base includes a closed loop frame which has a plurality of angled members and a plurality of tubular connectors interconnecting the angled members. Each of the angled members is formed with a corner and has two tube sections. Each of ... | 04/05/1994 |
| 5246432 | Disposable absorbent articles A disposable absorbent article having a topsheet, a backsheet, an absorbent core, first flaps and second flaps. Each of second flaps is connected to the first flap and has a section branching upward and a section extending outward. The branching section i... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5174645 | Electric candle with sound producing means An electric candle comprised of an electric lamp supported on a cylindrical casing above a base, said cylindrical casing having conductive strips connected to a power supply in said base and controlled by a switch means consisted of a spring coil around a... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5132928 | Divided word line type non-volatile semiconductor memory device An electrically programmable non-volatile semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of internal data transmission lines. Data communication between memory cells and the internal data transmission lines is performed for a byte of data having a plura... | 07/21/1992 |
| 5125972 | Method for the formulation and preparation of heterochromatic paints and related products A method for the formulation and preparation of a heterochromatic paint comprises reacting one or more base mediums containing an anionic cellulose thickener in emulsion with an inorganic salt of a heavy or trivalent metal contained in a reactive medium e... | 06/30/1992 |
| 5113293 | Magnetic recorder/reproducer A magnetic recorder/reproducer converts two-channel analog signals into digital signals by a sample-and-hold/A-D converter circuit (3) and controls addresses in a memory circuit (4) by a memory address control circuit (5), to distribute the digital signal... | 05/12/1992 |
| 5112771 | Method of fibricating a semiconductor device having a trench A semiconductor device having a trench (30) comprises a semiconductor substrate (11), a plurality of elements (13) provided on the semiconductor substrate, a trench (30) provided between the elements and an insulating material (12) embedded in the trench ... | 05/12/1992 |
| 5113264 | Method of and apparatus for forming halftone dots Halftone dots are formed on the basis of three sets of screen pattern data assigned to the to a same combined area, in which a plurality of halftone dots are to be formed. The three sets of screen pattern data have different threshold values assigned to r... | 05/12/1992 |
| 5109186 | PWM step-down MOSFET regulator A regulated step-down switching circuit for a DC-to-DC converter of a power supply includes a pulse width modulation IC, a MOS-FET, a zener diode, a plurality of diodes, capacitors, resistors, and an inductor. The drain of the MOS-FET is connected to a po... | 04/28/1992 |
| 5107313 | Floating gate type semiconductor memory device An EPROM as a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes a semiconductor substrate 1, a gate oxide layer 3 formed on the surface of the semiconductor substrate 1, a plurality of floating gates 4a and 4b formed on the gate oxide layer 3 so as to over... | 04/21/1992 |
| 5097364 | Magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus and method of recording and reproducing A magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus records audio signals digitized by rotary heads (9, 10) on a magnetic tape (12), and reproduces the recorded audio signals. Clock signals and time code data are extracted from externally inputted time code si... | 03/17/1992 |
| 5092177 | Device for measuring the deformations of a diaphragm A device for measuring the deformations of a flexible diaphragm (1) sealed by its periphery to a support (2) and wherein are formed four sensors constituted by a thick layer of piezo-resistive material and connected as a Wheatstone bridge. The sensors are... | 03/03/1992 |
| 5089865 | MIS semiconductor device In an MIS transistor of a type having LDD and salicide structures, the location of the boundary between the high and low impurity density source/drain regions and the positions of the salicide layers on the source/drain regions are independently controlle... | 02/18/1992 |
| 5089863 | Field effect transistor with T-shaped gate electrode A field effect transistor comprises n type impurity regions formed spaced apart on a P type semiconductor substrate to be the source.multidot.drain regions and a T-shaped gate electrode formed on the region sandwiched by the n type impurity regions with a... | 02/18/1992 |
| 5087588 | Method of making a side wall contact with reactive ion etching A semiconductor device comprises a P-type semiconductor substrate having a major surface, an insulating film formed on the major surface of the semiconductor substrate, a first polycrystalline silicon layer formed on the insulating film, an n+ ... | 02/11/1992 |
| 5087823 | Device for determining the characteristics of particles in suspension in a liquid A device for determining the characteristics of particles in suspension in a liquid, comprising a sampling device (2) for injecting samples of particles; a fractionator (3) for sorting those particles as a function of their length; an optical measurement ... | 02/11/1992 |
| 5083578 | Apparatus for removing toxic materials contained in tobacco and methods therefor An apparatus and method for removing toxic materials from tobacco which comprises a filter element which includes a seaweed. In use, the apparatus removes toxic materials from tobacco vapors which pass through the filter element.... | 01/28/1992 |
| 5083291 | Transceiving process for a digital telephone line A process for converting a first flow of data words supplied at the rate of a first clock into a second flow of data words comprising, inside the successive frames, a sequence of n data words of the first flow and accompanying data, the duration of each f... | 01/21/1992 |
| 5077238 | Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device with a planar interlayer insulating film A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device in which an element is flattened by improving a technique of forming an interlayer insulating film. A thick insulating film having a film thickness necessary for a convexo-concave pattern to be flattened is... | 12/31/1991 |
| 5075841 | Printer control with automatic intialization of stored control data A printer controlled by a CPU in which a ROM having stored therein a control program executed by the CPU in replaceable. The ROM has stored therein identifying codes for identifying the control program stored in the ROM, and initializing data. A nonvolati... | 12/24/1991 |
| 5075240 | Semiconductor device manufactured by using conductive ion implantation mask A conductive resist film is used as a mask in ion implantation. A portion of the conductive resist film is electrically connected to a semiconductor substrate. The charge of ions which enter the conductive resist film in ion implantation flows into the se... | 12/24/1991 |
| 5075251 | Tungsten silicide self-aligned formation process A process for forming tungsten or molybdenum silicide on silicon apparent regions (6) of a silicon wafer surface (1) also comprising oxidized regions (2) includes the steps consisting in uniformly coating the wafer with a tungsten or molybdenum layer (10)... | 12/24/1991 |
| 5072285 | Semiconductor integrated circuit having region for forming complementary field effect transistors and region for forming bipolar transistors A Bi-CMOS gate array comprises basic cells combining CMOS transistors and bipolar transistors. The basic cell is formed of a region for forming p-MOS transistors, a region for forming n-MOS transistors and a region for forming bipolar transistors. The reg... | 12/10/1991 |
| 5071083 | Touch roller for plastic polymer film manufacturing apparatus A metallic touch roller for use in an apparatus for manufacturing film rolls. The outer surface of the touch roller has a matte-finish with a plurality of symmetrically formed spiral grooves extending over the length of the roller. A mean surface roughnes... | 12/10/1991 |
| 5070276 | Lamp supply circuit A supply circuit is proposed for high-frequency operation of one low-pressure discharge lamp or several low-pressure discharge lamps connected in parallel. The switching unit includes--a power rectifier followed by an active harmonic oscillation filter an... | 12/03/1991 |
| 5068818 | Hardware implemented moving average processor A device for finding a moving average of a signal applied from a signal source includes a first delay circuit for delaying input data sampled in a predetermined sampling period by a time period corresponding to N sampling periods where N is an integer, an... | 11/26/1991 |
| 5067000 | Semiconductor device having field shield isolation A first conductor for a field shield and a first insulating film are sequentially formed in a predetermined shape on a major surface of a P-type semiconductor substrate through an insulating film. A third insulating film is formed over the semiconductor s... | 11/19/1991 |
| 5066503 | Method of pasteurizing or sterilizing foodstuffs utilizing microwaves Foodstuff packaged in a material transparent to microwaves is conveyed continuously through an environment pressurized to 2.5 bar max so as to prevent the containers or wrappers bursting or being forced out of shape; in four steps, the temperature is rais... | 11/19/1991 |
| 5065218 | Locos type field isolating film and semiconductor memory device formed therewith A LOCOS isolation film is formed on a major surface of a semiconductor substrate. Thereafter, a new surface of the semiconductor substrate is exposed by wet etching. A resist pattern is formed on the exposed new surface. A part of the LOCOS isolation film... | 11/12/1991 |
| 5065091 | Semiconductor integrated circuit device testing A substrate voltage generating circuit is provided on a semiconductor substrate, and the substrate voltage generating circuit generates a voltage to be applied to the semiconductor substrate. A value of the voltage generated by the substrate voltage gener... | 11/12/1991 |
| 5065349 | Method for and apparatus of monitoring how an operator operates a machine Performance of a helicopter is evaluated with an apparatus including a recorder section and a reader section interconnected during a start-up period while the pilot is initially operating the helicopter. The recorder includes two analog to digital convert... | 11/12/1991 |
| 5063777 | Method and device for determining the speed of a helicopter with respect to the air A method and device are disclosed for determining the airspeed of a helicoper, in which, for a plurality of flight configurations of a calibration flight, magnitudes for estimating the airspeed and the collective PO and cyclic pitches PX | 11/12/1991 |
| 5065445 | Apparatus for expanding and formatting runlength data for multiple exposure beams An image data processing apparatus for generating a dot data, which is converted from a runlength data, to control multi-channel exposure beams which record image patterns through scanning, having a converter for generating a dot signal which corresponds ... | 11/12/1991 |
| 5063575 | Apparatus and method for proper byte alignment in an encoder/decoder A system is disclosed that provides for the proper decoding of data information in an Encoder-Decoder ENDEC receiver in a Fiber Distributed Data Interface FDDI network. The system decouples the receiver from the data information when idle signals are prov... | 11/05/1991 |
| 5063313 | Delay circuit employing different threshold FET's A delay circuit having a complementary insulated gate device comprises an inverter (10) having a series connection of a p type field effect transistor Q3 and an n type field effect transistor Q4 and a transmission gate (20) having a parallel connection of... | 11/05/1991 |
