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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6798990 | Laser safety method for DC coupled parallel optical link A method and apparatus are provided to ensure that laser optical power does not exceed a “safe” level in a DC coupled open loop parallel optical link in the event that a fiber optic ribbon cable is broken or otherwise severed. A duplex parallel optical link incl... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6283134 | Apparatus for removing photo-resist An apparatus for removing photo-resist. The apparatus comprises carriers for carrying a wafer, hot plates to remove residue solvent on the wafer, a cooling plate to decrease the wafer temperature, an reverse unit to turn over the wafer, a development unit... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6283367 | IC card reader with synthesized voice output An IC card reader that can output data in an audio form. The IC card reader includes a small portable case in which an IC card can be inserted. A microcontroller powered by a battery within the case reads the stored data from the IC card and encodes the r... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6250418 | Power steering apparatus A power steering apparatus is provided, which is adapted to generate a steering assist force by a hydraulic pressure of a pump driven by an electric motor. The apparatus includes: a pulse width modulation control circuit for controlling the electric motor... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6247205 | Apparatus to enable hands-free use of a long-distance magnifying device An apparatus for enabling hands-free use of a device for magnifying a long-distance event, such as binoculars, includes a base member, a first attachment member, and a second attachment member. The first attachment member is connected to the base member a... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6233910 | Binding machine with tape After a tape is caused to travel in a direction parallel to a front surface of a machine frame to expand a loop, the loop is tightened, to bind a material to be bound. A door which is opened or closed by rotating around an axis of rotation is provided on ... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6234505 | Front fork A front fork for a motorcycle in which an outer tube (1), an inner tube (2) which is inserted to slide freely in said outer tube (1), a damper cylinder (3) disposed on the bottom of said inner tube (2), a piston (4) accommodated in said damper cylinder (3... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6232215 | Method for forming increased density for interconnection metallization A layer of metal is deposited on the surface of a layer of dielectric material and layer of protective material such as a thin layer of silicon oxide is provided on the layer of metal. An etch mask, which might be photoresist, is provided on the layer of ... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6228709 | Method of fabricating hemispherical grain electrode A method of fabricating an HSG electrode. An electrode is defined before the formation of an HSG layer. The HSG layer is then formed on the top surface and the side wall of the electrode. The HSG layer is thermal oxidized in a furnace by rapid thermal pro... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6227328 | Power steering apparatus A power steering apparatus is provided which is adapted to generate a steering assist force by a hydraulic pressure generated by a pump driven by an electric motor. The apparatus includes: a steering angle detection section (11, S1, S4) for detecting an a... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6226027 | Electrophotography apparatus and exposing unit therefor An electrophotography apparatus has a charging unit, and an exposing unit, and a developing unit. The charging unit charges the surface of a rotating image bearing body having an axis of rotation. The exposing unit emits light to illuminate the surface of... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6219872 | Brush scrubbing apparatus A brush scrubbing apparatus is made up of a wafer holder which retains a wafer, a brush which removes a particle on the wafer, a driver which rotates at least one of the wafer holder and the wafer, an alignment mechanism which defines a relative position ... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6216958 | Railway track and sleeper and gap-covering element therefor On a railway track comprising a ballast bed (10), sleepers (12) provided on the ballast bed and tracks (14) mounted on the sleepers, the sleepers are disposed closely adjoining one another but out of mutual contact, leaving a gap, the sleepers defining dr... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6216814 | Power steering apparatus A power steering apparatus which generates a steering assist force by a hydraulic pressure of a pump driven by an electric motor. The apparatus includes: an electric current sensor for sensing an electric current flowing through the electric motor; and a ... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6217221 | Rolling bearing and rolling bearing device A rolling bearing comprises an inner ring, an outer ring and a plurality of rolling elements therebetween, and is used, for example, in a spindle motor for driving a hard disk. The inner ring is made of, for example, high-carbon chromium steel, the outer ... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6217017 | Paper-feeding apparatus and method of feeding paper A paper-feeding apparatus is used for feeding print medium from a paper cassette. The paper cassette holds a stack of print paper therein. The feeding roller is disposed close to a forward end of the paper cassette. The feeding roller engages a top page o... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6206360 | Printer having a plurality of paper cassettes and method of selecting a paper cassette from the paper cassettes A printer includes a plurality of cassettes and a cassette is selected from the cassettes. The printer comprises a print information memory, paper information memory, cassette information memory, cassette selector, and data editor. The print information m... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6189157 | Fabric, especially pierce-proof fabric A fabric, which can be used more especially as a pierce-proof fabric but also as a decorative fabric, includes a plurality of interconnected scales, which have bores to connect them to one another, and into which connecting members extend. The connecting ... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6177725 | Semiconductor device having an improved structure for preventing cracks, improved small-sized semiconductor and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element having a plurality of electrodes on an upper surface thereof. A first substrate has a plurality of conductors on an upper surface thereof. The first substrate is mounted on the upper surface of the s... | 01/23/2001 |
| 6169564 | Optical printhead A circuit board holds a line of light emitting elements mounted thereon. The light emitting elements are at a predetermined height from the surface of the circuit board. A rod lens array longitudinally extends and forms images of the light emitting elemen... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6166588 | Power supply circuit A power supply circuit comprising a reference voltage generating circuit and an internal voltage generating circuit, whereby a stable internal voltage can be supplied. The reference voltage generating circuit comprises a resistor, of which one end is coup... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6159226 | Tongue cleaning device A tongue cleaning device has not been available which ensures easy and satisfactory tongue cleaning for prevention of halitosis. To solve the problem, a tongue cleaning device is provided which is adapted to suck a tongue surface through a cylindrical mem... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6159788 | Method to increase DRAM cell capacitance An electrode for a DRAM charge storage capacitor is provided with a textured surface using a wet etching process that has far greater process latitude and a lower cost than conventional processes for forming hemispherical grained silicon. A base capacitor... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6156460 | Photo-mask and method of fabricating the same A photo-mask and a method of fabricating the same. A photo-mask comprises a quartz glass substrate, on which a clear area, a grey area, and a dark area formed over the quartz glass substrate. Incident light penetrates through the clear area completely, bu... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6153466 | Method for increasing capacitance The capacitor of a DRAM cell is formed by depositing a layer of doped polysilicon, patterning the layer of doped polysilicon to define the extent of the capacitor's lower electrode and then depositing a first layer of hemispherical-grained silicon (HSG-Si... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6152558 | Ink jet printer A carriage accommodates a plurality of ink tanks including a first ink tank and second ink tanks, all being detachably attached in the carriage. Each ink tank holds ink of a color different from others. The carriage further includes a plurality of ink ent... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6153877 | Projection exposure apparatus An object of a inventions of the present application is raising the pattern position precision by stabilizing the temperature of a reticle or a reduction lens in a projection aligner. The projection aligner comprises a reticle stage with a reticle, a ligh... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6151220 | Mounting structure for electronic part Leads 106 provided at an electronic part connectors 110 of an electronic part 100, which are electrically connected to a surface of a substrate 120 are structured in such a manner that they are directly connected to a substrate connector formed at the sur... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6147797 | Image processing system for use with a microscope employing a digital camera An image processing system is provided with a frame on which the digital camera is seated, a fixing device for connecting the frame to a connector of the microscope, a magnifying lens arranged within the fixing device for magnifying an image enlarged by o... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6146964 | Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device having a fin type capacitor electrode The method according to this invention, of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a polysilicon layer on a silicon substrate, forming a first resist pattern on the polysilicon layer, introducing impurity ions into the polysilicon layer with... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6146937 | Method of forming a DRAM device utilizing a sacrificial doped oxide layer A DRAM cell includes a transfer FET on a substrate and includes a charge storage capacitor formed using a process that avoids high temperature processing steps and which emphasizes low cost processes. The transfer FET is covered with a conformal sacrifici... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6144909 | Power steering system with hydraulic pump motor speed control A motor is stopped (S14), if a steering angular speed Vθ which is the time-related change rate of a steering angle is not greater than a stop threshold value Vb (YES in S10) and a motor electric current value Im is kept within a motor stop range ƊI pred... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6119865 | Accommodation container and accommodating method An accommodation container comprises an accommodation container body, a plurality of frames accommodated in the accommodation container body, wherein each frame is composed of a frame body and an adhesive sheet fixed to and disposed inside the frame body,... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6121145 | Method of fabricating via and interconnection A method of fabricating a via and an interconnection. On a substrate comprising a semiconductor device and a first metal layer, a first inter-metal dielectric layer is formed on the first metal layer. A photo-resist layer is formed on the first inter-meta... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6118970 | Cleaning roller A cleaning roller is used for electrostatically attracting residual toner left on a photoconductive drum. The cleaning roller includes a shaft and a member formed on the shaft to cover the shaft. The member has contact portions that lie in a cylindrical p... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6117345 | High density plasma chemical vapor deposition process A method for depositing dielectric material into gaps between wiring lines in the formation of a semiconductor device includes the formation of a cap layer and the formation of gaps into which high density plasma chemical vapor deposition (HDPCVD) dielect... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6114200 | Method of fabricating a dynamic random access memory device A method of fabricating a DRAM device to reduce the stress and enhance the adhesion between the top electrode and the interlevel dielectric layer, includes forming a titanium layer between the top electrode and the interlevel dielectric layer. A titanium ... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6111915 | Picture decoder A picture decoder decodes P frames without having to wait for a next I frame even if a data loss occurs, and ensures quick recovery from degraded picture quality. The picture decoder sends decoding status information on received coded data to a coder. Thi... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6112037 | Color image forming apparatus having a controller for setting printing speeds in dependence on a detected number of colors in an image signal A color image forming apparatus includes a carrier belt which runs along a transport path of a recording medium to transport the recording medium. A number of image-forming sections are aligned in the transport path. Each of the plurality of image-forming... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6107666 | High density ROM and a method of making the same The method includes forming a first insulating layer over a substrate. A first metal layer is formed over the first insulating layer. The first metal layer is patterned to form a plurality of parallel bit lines. A second insulating layer is formed over th... | 08/22/2000 |
