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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7482861 | Semiconductor integrated circuit device, and method of manufacturing the same A power MOSFET Qp and a protection circuit 3 are formed over a semiconductor substrate to constitute a construction in which the power MOSFET Qp and the protection circuit 3 are electrically separated from each other. Then, a screening voltage is appli... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7043924 | Turbine power plant, installation process and removal process of the turbine power plant A turbine power plant includes power generation apparatuses divided into a plurality of modules, a common base mounting thereon the power generation apparatuses and a supporting apparatus for supporting the common base. The common base is constructed so as to be com... | 05/16/2006 |
| 6985485 | Communicating method between IPv4 terminal and IPv6 terminal and IPv4-IPv6 converting apparatus In an apparatus, there are provided an IP transmitting and receiving unit for transmitting and receiving an IPv4 packet and an IPv6 packet; an IP header converting unit for performing a mutual conversion of the IPv4 packet and the IPv6 packet by an IP header convers... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6972526 | Organic EL display device and driving circuits A drive current of every terminal pin is regulated according to data stored in a rewritable non-volatile memory by ON/OFF switching the data by a switch circuit. By writing data necessary for luminance regulation for correcting luminance variation or luminance uneve... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6962836 | Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device having leads stabilized during die mounting A semiconductor device comprises a plurality of inner leads extending around a semiconductor chip, a tape substrate supporting the semiconductor chip and joined to respective end portions of the inner leads, wires connecting the inner leads and pads formed on a main... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6946801 | Organic EL element drive circuit and organic EL display device A current mirror circuit of a current output circuit for current-driving an organic EL display panel is constructed with a plurality (n) of unit circuits each including a first MOS transistor of a certain channel type and a second MOS transistor of the same channel ... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6941278 | Freight information management method and freight management system using electronic tags A collection request inputted at a consignor destination system is recorded on an electronic tag attached to freight and sent to a collection management system so as to be received. During collection of freight, information concerning collection is recorded on the e... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6933881 | Automotive radar An automotive radar having a high level of azimuth accuracy and a broad detectable range by virtue of preventing leaks of unnecessary waves to receiving antennas is to be provided. A transmitting array antenna 1 and receiving array antennas 2a | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931379 | IC card system and IC card An IC card that allows a service provider doing a business of loading an application into the IC card to dynamically load the application into the IC card safely after the issuance of the IC card without making a contract directly with a card issuer issuing the IC c... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6927002 | Photomask, the manufacturing method, a patterning method, and a semiconductor device manufacturing method To develop a small quantity of various kinds of semiconductor devices in a short time and to realize a photomask suitable to be manufactured at a low cost. A shade pattern of a photomask is constituted by containing nanoparticles such as carbon in an organic film su... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6925284 | Method and apparatus for efficient transmitting and receiving of information via information updating Information transmitted through wireless communications formed by information transmission lines from artificial satellites and radio towers or through wired communications established by cables is categorized into four categories. The individual information is tran... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6921515 | Apparatus for chemical decontamination In a chemical decontamination apparatus, a catalyst decomposition column in an upstream side of an ion exchange resin column and a hydrogen peroxide injection apparatus in a further upstream side, reduce the amount of waste products caused by a chemical decontaminat... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6920759 | Cold heat reused air liquefaction/vaporization and storage gas turbine electric power system An energy storage gas-turbine electric power generating system includes a liquid air storage tank for storing liquid air, a vaporizing facility for vaporizing the liquid air stored in the liquid air storage tank, a combustor for generating a combusted gas by combust... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6909348 | Low-leakage magnetic-field magnet and shield coil assembly A magnet device provided with a shield current carrying means in which two sets of magneto-static field generating sources for generating magnetic fields directed towards a first direction are disposed facing each other across a finite region and at least one set of... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6903351 | Charged particle beam irradiation equipment having scanning electromagnet power supplies A power supply for applying a voltage to a scanning electromagnet for deflecting a charged particle beam has a first power supply unit having no filter and a second power supply unit having a filter. When an irradiation position of the charged particle beam in an ir... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6900074 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING PLURAL SEMICONDUCTOR CHIPS, WHEREIN ELECTRODES OF THE SEMICONDUCTOR CHIPS ARE ELECTRICALLY CONNECTED TOGETHER VIA WIRING SUBSTRATES OF THE SEMICONDUCTOR CHIPS Described herein is a stacked package according to the present invention, wherein a plurality of tape carriers which seal semiconductor chips, are multilayered in upward and downward directions. In the stacked package, one ends of leads formed over the whole surface... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6900646 | Probing device and manufacturing method thereof, as well as testing apparatus and manufacturing method of semiconductor with use thereof A probing device for electrically contacting with a plurality of electrodes 3, 6 aligned on an object 1 to be tested so as to transfer electrical signal therewith, comprising: a wiring sheet being formed by aligning a plurality of contact electrodes | 05/31/2005 |
| 6897735 | Oscillator, transmitter/receiver module and radar system The oscillator includes an active device, a substrate, a microstrip line formed on the substrate, and a dielectric block. The resonator is made up with the microstrip line and the dielectric block that is disposed so as to couple with the microstrip line. The active... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6896978 | Joint construction of cobalt-based alloy In the joint construction of cobalt-based alloy, a cobalt-based alloy layer 1, in which granular or massive eutectic carbide 2 disperses, is joined to a metal of a base metal 37 via an insert metal layer 36. For the joint construction of ... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6894874 | Disk drive having magnetic head conduction paths with arrangements to control impedance Magnetic disk apparatus includes an electric wiring capable of satisfying an electric condition under which high frequency recording higher than or equal to 200 MHz, a magnetic head having at least a recording device to a magnetic recording medium, and also the elec... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6893823 | Polynucleotide separation method and apparatus therefor Different probes each having a specific base sequence are immobilized to each of independent areas formed on the surface of a substrate, complementary polynucleotides in a sample solution are hybridized to the probes, and each of the independent areas on the substra... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6893695 | Waterproof/breathable moisture transfer composite and liner for snowboard boots, alpine boots, hiking boots and the like The waterproof/breathable moisture transfer liner for a snowboard boot includes an inner liner selected from technically advanced fabrics which are carefully selected. A series of layers are provided outside the inner liner including foam material layers, breathable... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6891182 | Apparatus for automatically detecting size to be detected and automatic analyzer using the same In the automatic analyzer, the height of the test tubes is measured using the function of the optical information reader installed for discrimination of a sample. Various sensors installed so as to measure the height of the test tubes of the automatic analyzer can b... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6890761 | Automatic analyzer In order to reduce carry-over of sample liquids in an automatic analyzer by a pipeting probe and resulting contamination of sample liquids by immersing the pipeting probe into sample liquids as shallow as possible, said pipeting probe is moving down to a position wh... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6889240 | Data processing device having a central processing unit and digital signal processing unit In microcomputers and digital signal processors in which a central processing unit for controlling the entire system and a digital signal processing unit having a product sum function required to process digital signals efficiently are mounted on one and the same ch... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6888162 | Electronic apparatus having polycrystalline semiconductor thin film structure An electronic apparatus employs a polycrystalline semiconductor thin film structure formed of an insulating substrate and a plurality of polycrystalline layers laminated on the insulating substrate. A plurality of transistors are formed at the surface of the polycry... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6885722 | Fuel assembly A fuel assembly attains high burnup and increases reactor shut-down margin when loaded into a reactor core wherein a water gap width on a control rod side and a water gap width on a side opposite to the control rod side are almost equal to each other. The fuel assem... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6883064 | Disk array controller comprising a plurality of disk array controlling units “Disk array system is presented wherein the plurality of disk array controlling units operate as the sole disk array controller so as to restrain the performance of the cache memory sections of the respective disk array controlling units from deteriorating owing t... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6879575 | Code division multiple access mobile communication system In a mobile communication system using a code division multiple access (CDMA) method, spreading code detection and frame/slot timing synchronization (cell search) is conducted by using a long code masked symbol. The spreading factor of the long code masked symbol is... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6878586 | Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device having STC cells wherein the major portions of active regions consisting of channel-forming portions are inclined at an angle of 45 degrees with respect to word lines and bit lines that meet at right angles with each other, thereby enab... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6879571 | Code division multiple access mobile communication system In a mobile communication system using a code division multiple access (CDMA) method, spreading code detection and frame/slot timing synchronization (cell search) is conducted by using a long code masked symbol. The spreading factor of the long code masked symbol is... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6876023 | Gain cell type non-volatile memory having charge accumulating region charged or discharged by channel current from a thin film channel path A semiconductor memory element subject to a threshold voltage controlling method other than those based on low leak currents or on the implantation of impurities. Such semiconductor elements are used to form semiconductor memory elements that are employed in scaled-... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6874101 | Storage unit subsystem When receiving a write request from a processor, a control unit checks the condition of existence (or the presence/absence) in a cache for information necessary for generation of an updated value of a parity record, receives write data and reports the completion of ... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6870854 | Packet switching device and cell transfer method Cells are discarded in conformity with the order of priority when congestion occurs by discarding cells of a traffic class without any special contract for a transfer rate at the time of setting up a connection. A node stores priority information concerning cell dis... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6870704 | Magnetic disc apparatus and its fabricating method A low cost and highly reliable lubricating technique is realized by using a lubricant having an average molecular weight in the range of 900 to 2500. The lubricant is efficiently supplied to inner portions of a magnetic disk apparatus utilizing heat generated during... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6868415 | Information linking method, information viewer, information register, and information search equipment On an information registering equipment, content of interest rendered by media, such as a video image of interest distributed by TV broadcasting is captured and displayed. Position/area on the image are defined with a mouse or the like to obtain the target position/... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6867502 | Semiconductor device A flip-chip BGA is disclosed which exhibits an excellent high-speed electric transmission characteristic while minimizing the formation of voids in sealing resin filled between a semiconductor chip and a wiring substrate. A silicon chip is flip-chip-mounted on a pac... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6867090 | Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing thereof By using a solid solution of tantalum pentoxide and niobium pentoxide as a dielectric film installed between upper electrode and lower electrode in a capacitor which is used in a semiconductor device, the capacitor structure can be simplified to improve reliability ... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6867446 | Semiconductor memory device In a semiconductor memory device having a capacitor layer comprising a dielectric film or a ferroelectric film, as an interlayer insulation film formed between the capacitor and a wiring layer formed at the upper part thereof or an insulation film which covers the w... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6864134 | Manufacturing method of thin film transistor substrate This invention provides a manufacturing method for fabricating on the same substrate both high voltage thin film transistors suitable for driving liquid crystal and low voltage drive high performance thin film transistors. In addition, this invention provides a thin... | 03/08/2005 |
