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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6801049 | Method and apparatus for defect analysis of semiconductor integrated circuit A fault analysis method and apparatus which is able to improve the reliability of fault analysis of semiconductor integrated circuit. In case of supplying a test pattern sequence having a plurality of test patterns to the semiconductor IC, an analysis point whose el... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6791389 | Variable delay circuit and a testing apparatus for a semiconductor circuit According to the present invention, a variable delay circuit includes a delay circuit unit group, a control unit and an offset delay amount memory group. The delay circuit unit group includes a plurality of delay circuit units, and the plurality of delay circuit uni... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6778027 | Phase locked loop input receiver design with delay matching feature A phase locked loop that includes a receiver circuit for matching delays of a system clock and a feedback clock at an input of the phase locked loop is provided. The receiver circuit employs system clock path circuitry to input the system clock and feedback clock pa... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6779131 | Reconfigurable multi-chip modules The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for a reconfigurable multi-chip module. The reconfigurable multi-chip module includes a processor; a memory module connected to the processor; and a memory control component for controlling whether the processo... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6769083 | Test pattern generator, a testing device, and a method of generating a plurality of test patterns A test pattern generator for generating a test pattern for testing electrical characteristics of an electrical device. The test pattern generator comprises a pattern memory (32), a pattern cache memory (54, 180 and 182), a vector memory (12 | 07/27/2004 |
| 6762504 | Release films and adhesive films using the release films The present invention provides an adhesive film for producing an electric device having high reliability. Release agent layer of release film of the present invention is based on a fluorine compound with no silicone oil so that the adhesive force between substrate a... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6756599 | Particle-optical apparatus, illumination apparatus and projection system as well as a method employing the same A particle-optical apparatus for changing trajectories of charged particles of a divergent particle beam oriented along a longitudinal axis is proposed, comprising: an inner electrode arrangement which is at least partially transparent for the particles, enga... | 06/29/2004 |
| D492254 | Wire duct plug | 06/29/2004 |
| 6753740 | Method and apparatus for calibration of a post-fabrication bias voltage tuning feature for self biasing phase locked loop A calibration and adjustment system for post-fabrication control of a phase locked loop bias-generator is provided. The calibration and adjustment system includes an adjustment circuit operatively connected to the bias-generator, where the adjustment circuit is cont... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6747485 | Sense amplifier type input receiver with improved clk to Q A sense amplifier type input receiver includes a differential receiver circuit operatively coupled to an output stage. The output stage includes a pass gate enabled latch. The differential receiver circuit may output a first differential output and a second differen... | 06/08/2004 |
| D490392 | Cell phone | 05/25/2004 |
| 6738047 | Home page display and data transmitter To save trouble in replacing cards and to facilitate the operation of a key on a home page, a home page display system according to the invention includes terminal equipment connected to the Internet, a remote control that transmits data to the terminal equipment, a... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6733320 | Contact for PGA and PGA socket A contact 4 for a PGA socket 1 is formed with a plate-like base portion 41, a pair of projecting portions 42a, 42b provided continuously at one end of the base portion 41 to extend in a direction substantially ... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6734513 | Semiconductor device and microrelay In one embodiment, a semiconductor device having single or multi-layer intermediate layers that easily adhere to a glass frit and lead lines of respective interconnections is disclosed. In general, the single or multi-layer intermediate layers are formed on at least... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6729418 | Back reaming tool A back reaming tool is disclosed which includes a tool body adapted to be coupled to a drill string, and at least one roller cone rotatably mounted to a leg and having cutting elements disposed thereon. The leg is removably coupled to the tool body. The at least one... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6727737 | Delay locked loop design with diode for loop filter capacitance leakage current control A delay locked loop design uses a diode operatively connected to a loop filter capacitor to control a leakage current of the loop filter capacitor. By positioning a diode in series with the loop filter capacitor, a voltage potential across the loop filter capacitor ... | 04/27/2004 |
| D489059 | Network concentrator | 04/27/2004 |
| 6728903 | Electric part test system A memory test system of the present invention comprises a plurality of memory test units 90A, 90B, . . . , which test memory devices 52 to 56, a host computer (EWS) 10 which evaluates test results of the memory devices 52 to... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6725347 | Spin-wheel SDRAM access scheduler for high performance microprocessors A memory control unit has been developed. The control unit includes a command “spin wheel” which schedules the order of read and write commands to the memory. It also includes a read “spin wheel” which ensures proper timing of the read commands and a write ... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6725338 | Method and apparatus for preventing cache pollution in microprocessors with speculative address loads A method of optimizing speculative address load processing by a microprocessor includes identifying a speculative load, marking the speculative load, determining whether a miss occurs for the speculative load, and preventing use of the marked speculative load by the... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6723422 | Composite reverse osmosis membrane and process for preparing the same A composite reverse osmosis membrane is described, which includes a polyamide skin layer on a porous support, with a contact angle between the polyamide skin layer surface and water of 45° or less. The composite reverse osmosis membrane has a high salt rejection an... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6722571 | Divisible module card which is resistant to bending stresses This invention concerns a card with a plastic card body (2) and a snap-off module (3) held to the said card body (2), by three ties (12, 13, 14), this snap-off module (3) including, firstly, a substantially rectangular thin plastic... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6724164 | Opening-and-closing member control device A power-window control device is provided which is capable of inexpensively avoiding the occurrence of a failure, not to overlook in safety, due to a short-circuit (including current leak) at between adjacent ones of switch terminals. The switch terminals are arrang... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6719073 | Single-cone rock bit having cutting structure adapted to improve hole cleaning, and to reduce tracking and bit balling A roller cone drill bit is disclosed which includes a bit body adapted to be coupled to a drill string, a bearing journal depending from the bit body and a single roller cone rotatably attached to the journal. The roller cone has a plurality of inserts disposed ther... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6721936 | Shield assignment using preferential shields A method for preferentially shielding a signal to increase implicit decoupling capacitance is provided. The signal is preferentially shielded by using a probability of the signal being at a specific value to assign a shield potential. Further, an integrated circuit ... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6720813 | Dual edge-triggered flip-flop design with asynchronous programmable reset A dual edge-triggered flip-flop that may be programmably reset independent of a clock signal is provided. Using an externally generated reset value, the dual edge-triggered flip-flop may be asynchronously programmed to reset to either a logical high or a logical low... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6720331 | 1-substituted 1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-β-carboline and 3,4-dihydro-β-carboline and analogs as antitumor agents A composition includes a substituted dihydro- or tetrahydro-β-carboline of formula (II) or (III), wherein the aromatic ring of the carboline may include one or more substituents selected from the group consisting of hydroxy, C1-6 alkoxy, benzyloxy, C | 04/13/2004 |
| 6719435 | Dc-Dc converter with reduced input current ripples An improved DC-DC converter with reduced input current ripples. The converter includes a transformer, a switch, and a capacitor. The switch turns on and off alternately to store the energy in the transformer. The capacitor is connected in series with a rectifier and... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6718387 | Reallocating address spaces of a plurality of servers using a load balancing policy and a multicast channel A method for load balancing including creating a network, having a plurality of servers, to service a single multicast address using a source specific join, where the source specific join allows each of the plurality of servers to specify a source internet protocol ... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6715678 | Portable reader for reading modules of the mini-card format connection to a personal computer The invention relates to a portable reader (1). The reader is characterized in that it comprises a part (2) for electric connection to the port of a computer, whereby said part (2) exhibits four conduction lines (8, 9, 10, 11) in addition... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6718325 | Approximate string matcher for delimited strings A method for comparing two delimited strings, each of which has a plurality of substrings, includes pairing each substring in one of the delimited string with a corresponding substring in the other one of the delimited strings. The method further includes computing ... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6717800 | Shield plate mounting apparatus A shield plate mounting apparatus is disclosed which mounts a shield plate 4 on a casing 3 of a recording/reproducing apparatus 2 formed to be integral with a television receiver. In this shield plate mounting apparatus, a plurality of projectio... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6717767 | Magnetic tape device A cassette table which is moved in a cassette traveling path has a support plate which is configured by a metal plate having elasticity, side walls, and cassette pressers. A magnetic tape device has swing levers which press down projections disposed on the side wall... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6717479 | Delay circuit and ring oscillator A variable delay circuit of this invention includes delay paths, connection paths, and a NAND circuit 146 which takes output of the delay paths and performs logical NAND operation. The delay paths are connected in parallel to an input terminal. The connection... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6717140 | Selective ion source for high intensity focused and collimated ion beams—coupling with high resolution cycloidal path sector A mass spectrometer is described in which the ions are submitted to the action of a uniform adjustable electrical field {right arrow over (E)}1, within a set of plane parallel electrodes a1, . . . , ai, . . . an fitted wit... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6714650 | Recording of scrambled digital data A system for transmitting and recording digital data is included. Further, a system for transmitting transmit scrambled audio data that is to be recorded on a mini disc reader is included. A system for transmission and recording of digital data includes transmission... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6709296 | Modular connector assembly The module-type connector according to the present invention defines the connectable connectors with a rigid supporting plate which extends along the connecting direction in order to make it easy to properly fit a male connector to a female connector. In the module-... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6711646 | Dual mode (registered/unbuffered) memory interface A dual mode memory interface includes a bus switch and a register/buffer operatively coupled to the bus switch. The dual mode memory interface may include, operatively coupled to the bus switch and the register/buffer, enable/disable pins configured so that only one... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6708786 | Mounting attachment and bearing system for an industrial earth-boring cutter A rotary cutter mount for an earth-boring cutter includes a bearing journal adapted to be coupled to a cutter body. A first mounting end of the bearing journal is shaped to enable rotationally fixed positioning in a corresponding yoke. The yoke is operatively couple... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6711419 | Integrated information appliance An integrated information appliance includes a central processing unit for executing an action in response to a user request, a storage for storing information for use by the central processing unit in responding to the user request, and a cradle which includes a sc... | 03/23/2004 |