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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7122651 | Nucleic acid molecules encoding opioid growth factor receptors This invention relates to novel nucleic acid molecules coding for opioid growth factor receptors. In particular, the present invention provides isolated nucleic acid molecules coding for human and rat OGF receptors. Antisense molecules, expression vectors and host c... | 10/17/2006 |
| 6844070 | Low-temperature plasma deposited hydrogenated amorphous germanium carbon abrasion-resistant coatings A method of forming a hydrogenated amorphous germanium carbon (a-GeCx:H) film on a surface of an infrared (IR) transmissive material such as a chalcogenide is provided. The method includes positioning an IR transmissive material in a reactor chamber of a ... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6833332 | Method for fabrication of relaxed SiGe buffer layers on silicon-on-insulators and structures containing the same A method of fabricating relaxed SiGe buffer layers with low threading dislocation densities on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrates is provided. The relaxed SiGe buffer layers are fabricated by the epitaxial deposition of a defect-free Stranski-Krastanov Ge or SiGe... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6825102 | Method of improving the quality of defective semiconductor material A method in which a defective semiconductor crystal material is subjected to an amorphization step followed by a thermal treatment step is provided. The amorphization step amorphizes, partially or completely, a region, including the surface region, of a defective se... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6818952 | Damascene gate multi-mesa MOSFET A multi-mesa FET structure with doped sidewalls for source/drain regions and methods for forming the same are disclosed. The exposure of the source and drain sidewalls during the manufacture enables uniform doping of the entire sidewalls especially when geometry-ind... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6818528 | Method for multi-depth trench isolation A method for forming multi-depth apertures in a substrate is provided. The method includes first providing a pad stack atop a surface of a substrate having regions for forming apertures therein, the pad stack includes at least a top patterned masking layer. Next, at... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6818285 | Composition and method to achieve reduced thermal expansion in polyarylene networks A crosslinked polyarylene material with a reduced coefficient of thermal expansion at high temperatures compared with conventional crosslinked polyarylene materials is provided. In addition, an integrated circuit article containing a crosslinked polyarylene polymer ... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6815343 | Gas treatment of thin film structures with catalytic action A method of substantially reducing and/or eliminating the amount of defects and/or impurities that amass at interfacial surfaces that are present in a multilayer structure is provided. Specifically, the method improves the efficiency of a forming gas anneal by provi... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6815270 | Thin film transistor formed by an etching process with high anisotropy The present invention discloses a thin film transistor and a process for forming thereof by a high anisotropy etching process. A thin film transistor according to the present invention comprises a transistor element including a gate electrode, a gate insulating laye... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6812527 | Method to control device threshold of SOI MOSFET's A method of forming a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) device is provided in which an implanted back-gate is formed into a Si-containing layer of an SOI wafer. The implanted back-gate thus formed is capable of con... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6700456 | High-frequency module A high-frequency module of the present invention includes a laminate ceramic layer including a first layer smaller in area than the other layers. Parts constituting high-frequency circuitry are mounted on the laminate ceramic layer. A single interface sub... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6559688 | Voltage comparing circuit A voltage comparing circuit of the invention includes a first and a second capacitor terminals on one side of which are respectively connected to a positive side voltage of an analog input signal and a negative side voltage of a reference voltage via a fi... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6320248 | Lead frame and method of fabricating semiconductor device including the lead frame There is provided a lead frame including first and second rows of inner leads each of which is electrically connected to an associated electrode of a semiconductor chip and which are situated at opposite sides about the semiconductor chip, first and secon... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6251710 | Method of making a dual damascene anti-fuse with via before wire An interconnect structure in which a patterned anti-fuse material is formed therein comprising: a substrate having a first level of electrically conductive features; a patterned anti-fuse material formed on said substrate, wherein said patterned anti-fuse... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6097709 | TDMA cellular communication system using a receiver station for detecting a timing difference between adjacent base stations In a time-division multiple access cellular mobile communication system, first and second base stations respectively provide coverages over adjacent cells. A receiver station is located in a region where the coverages of the base stations partially overla... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6055082 | Optical transmission system In an optical transmission system in which an optical main signal and a monitoring control optical signal are wavelength-multiplexed and transmitted from a transmitter and the optical signal is directly amplified by a repeater and transmitted, low frequen... | 04/25/2000 |
| 6042276 | Light receiving module A light receiving module of the present invention includes a semiconductor substrate formed with a guide groove and a mount groove for receiving an optical fiber and a light receiving device, respectively. The mount groove includes a mount surface to whic... | 03/28/2000 |
| 6020719 | Secondary battery unit using electric double layer condenser A secondary battery unit which can supply constant power for a longer time with a lower input voltage and which is small, light, and suitable for portable use is provided. The secondary battery unit comprises plural inductors having different inductances,... | 02/01/2000 |
| 6015661 | Methods for the detection of non-pathogenic HIV-1 strains containing deletions in the Nef coding region and U3 region of the LTR The present invention is directed toward immunologic- and nucleic acid-based methodologies for the detection of non-pathogenic human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) strains in the body fluids of HIV-infected individuals. A blood donor infected with ... | 01/18/2000 |
| 5994973 | PWM driver Disclosed is a PWM driver in which, when no signal is input, a PWM pulse wave is not output so as to thereby reduce a power to be consumed and a high output level can be obtained even by the use of a single-polarity power source. Also, provided is a PWM d... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5986785 | Electronic apparatus with optical communication capability An electronic apparatus having an optical communication capability of the present invention has a casing 10 and optical filters 12 and 13 for screening an infrared beam emitting/receiving device 25. The optical filters 12 and 13 each has a particular scre... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5974212 | Optical line monitor and optical amplification apparatus using same A line monitor comprising: an optical signal input section for permitting an optical signal to be input; optical signal output means for outputting an optical signal; a fiber grating including a section with a periodically varied refractive index, the opt... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5956623 | Radio selective calling receiver A radio selective calling receiver which has at least a switch operated by a user to perform operations including resetting of sound generation, ON/OFF of display, time correction, and read access to a stored message and whose switch interrupt processing ... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5933392 | Electronic watch An electronic watch 400 which comprises a power supply 401 and a watch circuit 402. The watch circuit 402 comprises an oscillator circuit 403, a frequency divider circuit 404, a drive pulse generation means 405, a drive motor 406 which, in response to a d... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5929775 | Radio paging receiver with display A radio paging receiver capable of giving an intense impact to a user so as to stimulate the user to exchange a cell and to prevent a negligence of the cell exchange and preventing an inoperative receiving due to a source voltage drop and a cleared state ... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5900958 | Infrared ray communication apparatus A communication apparatus using infrared rays (IR) and capable of receiving an IR signal without regard to its orientation is disclosed. An IR signal incident to the apparatus is transmitted through an IR signal inlet implemented by a one-way mirror. Subs... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5889446 | Surface acoustic wave device with a resistor thin film to remove pyroelectric effect charges A surface acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate, an interdigital electrode pattern, and a resistor thin film. The piezoelectric substrate has a piezoelectric effect. The interdigital electrode pattern is made of a conductive thin film an... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5889604 | Method of and apparatus for data communications between portable information terminals Data communications are carried out between portable information terminals through infrared radiation with an energy source which may be either a battery in each of the portable information terminals or an external power supply therefor, at a data transmi... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5889736 | Electronic watch In an electronic watch having an electrical generation means, an electrical power storage means which stores electrical energy generated by the electrical generation means, an oscillator circuit, a control section which operates in response to a clock of ... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5883533 | Clock signal generating device having a redundant configuration A clock signal generating device of the present invention has an active and a spare clock selecting circuit. The two clock selecting circuits each includes a selector for selecting one of a plurality of outside timing signals and outputting it as an insid... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5880693 | Method and apparatus for the wireless exchange of information between stations For power-optimised radio relay communication between in particular a station (11) which is operating at low level and navigating at high speed and which is fixed to a missile and a remote ground station (12) the apparatus and time expenditure for antenna... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5872994 | Flash memory incorporating microcomputer having on-board writing function In a microcomputer comprising internal buses, a serial communication interface, a flash memory, a RAM, a ROM for storing a writing program, an input/output port, a CPU, and a mode control unit for setting various operation modes and test modes in the micr... | 02/16/1999 |
| 5873024 | Radio selective calling receiver A radio selective calling receiver outputs a received message by speech through a loudspeaker upon reception of a radio selective call signal addressed to the receiver. The receiver includes a message length detection section, and a vibrator. When the rad... | 02/16/1999 |
| 5867062 | DC-offset canceler circuit and differential amplifier circuit equipped therewith A dc-offset canceler circuit is provided, which cancels a dc offset more effectively. This circuit includes a first differential pair of emitter-coupled first and second bipolar transistors driven by a first constant current source/sink, and a second diff... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5864859 | System and method of compression and decompression using store addressing Variable-length data, comprising compressed pages, is stored in a memory so that access to any sub-page or line within a page can be started given a single address corresponding to the location of a fixed-length block within the memory.... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5861818 | Radio paging selective receiver with display for notifying presence of unread message based on time of receipt A radio paging selective receiver determines that a received message is unread based on the time difference between the message reception time and the current time being larger that some predetermined value of time, and the paging selective receiver provi... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5856988 | Method and apparatus for data transmission A transmitter selectively encodes or does not encode a data frame to be transmitted with an error correcting code depending on the congestion and occurrence of bit errors of a transmission path, and transmits the data frame with decision information indic... | 01/05/1999 |
| 5843236 | Plasma processing apparatus for radiating microwave from rectangular waveguide through long slot to plasma chamber In a plasma processing apparatus including a plasma chamber having a narrow window, and a rectangular waveguide for coupling with the plasma chamber, the rectangular waveguide has a long slot disposed in an E-plane thereof so as to oppose the narrow windo... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5838488 | Optical amplifier gain control circuitry using a variable reference corresponding to the number of multiplexed wavelengths In an optical line repeater, a gain-controlled optical amplifier provides amplification of a wavelength division multiplex (WDM) signal from an incoming optical transmission link to compensate for signal attenuation. The amplified WDM signal is split into... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5831837 | Switch mode power supply A switch mode power supply comprises: a transformer (T1). A switch (Q4) alternately opens and closes a current path through a primary winding (L1) of the transformer in response to a pulse switching signal. An oscillator (110) generates the switching sign... | 11/03/1998 |
