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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4771195 | Integrated circuit to reduce switching noise A transistor (14) having a plurality of sub-transistors (29a-f) includes a voltage controlling device (45). The voltage controlling device induces a current through an elongated gate (24) producing a voltage drop across the elongated gate (24) by providin... | 09/13/1988 |
| 4771013 | Process of making a double heterojunction 3-D I2 L bipolar transistor with a Si/Ge superlattice A three dimensional, bipolar wafer process for integrating high voltage, high power, analog, and digital circuitry, and structure formed thereby includes a wafer of non-compensated epitaxial strata on a heavily donor doped monocrystalline silicon substrat... | 09/13/1988 |
| 4770739 | Bilayer photoresist process The present invention relates to a bilayer photoresist process, wherein a first planarizing resist layer is applied to a base and a second or top photoresist layer is applied over the first. The top layer resist is sensitive to deep UV light, while the pl... | 09/13/1988 |
| 4769688 | Power bipolar transistor A bipolar power transistor having a plurality of elongated emitter parts connected to a common emitter metallization is provided with a shaped resistive region between the emitter parts and the emitter metallization, in order to compensate for differences... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4769644 | Cellular automata devices Noise and fault tolerant devices made of cellular automata are disclosed. Preferred embodiments include cellular automata with updating rules that set a cell to a first state if more than a threshold number of adjacent cells are in the first state and wit... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4768284 | A method for making low profile microswitches, particularly useful for keyboards A keyboard unit is shown having a substrate in which portions of the substrate are physically displaced to provide a cavity, an embossment and a plurality of protuberances for each switching station. The embossment, in registry with a button contact area,... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4769779 | Systolic complex multiplier A complex multiplier includes a carry-sum systolic array (26) of multiplier cells for processing a multiplicand therethrough in accordance with a modified Booths algorithm. The multiplier performs two multiplications and two addition/substraction operatio... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4768157 | Video image processing system The point processor includes a network of memory cells (33) addressable into rows and columns (direction X and Y). A control unit (42) effects reading and writing into the network according to parameters established in advance. This processor is integrate... | 08/30/1988 |
| 4767960 | Cylinder pressure transmitter for an internal combustion engine A cylinder pressure transmitter has piezoelectric means to provide an electrical signal corresponding to pressure in a cylinder of an automotive internal combustion engine during engine operation and has electronic means to amplify the signal for transmis... | 08/30/1988 |
| 4767471 | Delayed reflow alloy mix solder paste A solder paste mixture for soldering surface mount devices to a circuit board using a reflow soldering process which utilizes a vapor phase furnace. The solder paste mixture has a metallic content which is 63% tin and 37% lead. The metallic content of the... | 08/30/1988 |
| 4767947 | Constant pulse width generator Constant pulse width generator having applicability to a static random access memory (SRAM) where a constant width output pulse is desired, regardless of the address line activity, until reset, for powering up peripheral circuits of the static random acce... | 08/30/1988 |
| 4766576 | Seismic source vibrator having improved sweep generator A sweep generator for a seismic source vibrator provides for any one of a variety of sweep signals governed by input parameters. Selected analytic functions may be entered which are solved to provide a plurality of sweep parameters. The sweep parameters m... | 08/23/1988 |
| 4763086 | Automatic gain control for tank type voltage controlled oscillator A voltage controlled oscillator circuit of a type having a tank circuit for generating oscillations which includes a means for establishing a fixed bias voltage with respect to ground at a bias end of said tank circuit, means for drawing current from an a... | 08/09/1988 |
| 4763084 | Push-push dielectric resonator oscillator A push-push broadband dielectric resonator oscillator circuit that operates in the K and Ka band frequency range has two oscillator circuits that oscillate at the same fundamental frequency. An antiphaseal relationship is maintained between the two oscill... | 08/09/1988 |
| 4763278 | Speaker-independent word recognizer Speaker-independent word recognition is performed, based on a small acoustically distinct vocabulary, with minimal hardware requirements. After a simple preconditioning filter, the zero crossing intervals of the input speech are measured and sorted by dur... | 08/09/1988 |
| 4763177 | Read only memory with improved channel length isolation and method of forming A non-volatile memory wherein the channel of the floating gate memory devices is recessed.... | 08/09/1988 |
| 4761681 | Method for fabricating a semiconductor contact and interconnect structure using orientation dependent etching and thermomigration A method for fabricating a semiconductor device and the semiconductor device so fabricated, wherein the method includes the steps of forming a mesa upon one side of a semiconductor surface and then forming a conduction path from the mesa extending through... | 08/02/1988 |
| 4760369 | Thin film resistor and method Thin film resistors formed from a metal silicon nitride film are provided in which tungsten, titanium, tantalum, and other group IV A, V A, and VII A metals are included. The silicon to metal ratio varying between about 0.1 and 10.0 and the nitrogen to me... | 07/26/1988 |
| 4760283 | Dynamic input latch An output circuit (10) prevents the propagation of false signals caused by inductive voltages present at the power supply (Vcc) and ground (46) nodes by latching the input signal until the inductive voltages have dissipated. Inverting stages (28, 30 and 3... | 07/26/1988 |
| 4758739 | Read back latch A read-back latch circuit which includes a latch circuit having an input and an output and an enable input and operative to transmit an input data signal to the output in response to a preselected enable signal and to block the transmission of the input d... | 07/19/1988 |
| 4758876 | Thermal protective device with bimetal for semiconductor devices and the like A thermal protective device for semiconductor devices and the like comprises a housing of electrically insulative plastic material made in cup form having at the open end a seat for lodging a bimetallic disc and means for applying the cup to the semicondu... | 07/19/1988 |
| 4758944 | Method for managing virtual memory to separate active and stable memory blocks A pointer, N, indicates an address in a virtual memory space of a demand paged memory including a plurality of virtual address pages and a fixed number of physical memory pages into which blocks of information can be written. A back-up memory store is pro... | 07/19/1988 |
| 4758994 | On chip voltage regulator for common collector matrix programmable memory array A programmable memory includes a voltage regulator (32) which is disposed between the supply voltage and the matrix supply line (10) for programmable memory cells. Each of the memory cells is comprised of a transistor (12) and a series fusible link (16). ... | 07/19/1988 |
| 4758695 | Automotive transmission control system and improved longevity therefor An automotive transmission control is shown having pressure switches to sense the state of actuation of solenoid valves to provide logic signals to a microprocessor type of transmission control. The pressure switches, which sense the pressure of hydraulic... | 07/19/1988 |
| 4757165 | Dual condition responsive electrical switch A dual condition responsive switch is shown including first and second discs each having convex-concave surface configurations on opposite sides thereof adapted to invert its configuration upon being subjected to selected conditions. A motion transfer mem... | 07/12/1988 |
| 4757438 | Computer system enabling automatic memory management operations A computer system is provided which enables automatic memory operations independently of a CPU. The computer system includes a virtual machine and a logical memory system which is accessed by the virtual machine through a binding register unit, enabling t... | 07/12/1988 |
| 4755484 | Method of making a semimetal semiconductor contact A semiconductor contact system controls the boundary recombination velocity and optimizes the semiconductor transport phenomena and includes a microcrystalline layer of doped semiconductor microcrystals surrounded by a semiconductor oxide. The microcrysta... | 07/05/1988 |
| 4755050 | Standard for monitoring the calibration of an optical line width measuring machine According to the invention there is provided a standard for monitoring the calibration of optical line width measuring machines which includes an opaque sheet having two spaced apart slots. Preferably, the sheet material is a metal such as chromium deposi... | 07/05/1988 |
| 4753896 | Sidewall channel stop process A new way of making sidewall channel stops for silicon on insulator devices (including silicon on oxide, silicon on nitride, and silicon on sapphire devices). While the moat regions 11, 13 (where the active devices will be formed) are covered by thick mas... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4753866 | Method for processing an interlevel dielectric suitable for VLSI metallization schemes A method of processing an interlevel dielectric layer in a VLSI device having a plurality of leads which includes depositing a layer of photoresist over the dielectric layer. The photoresist is then patterned to open areas where interlevel contacts are to... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4754402 | Mobile vehicle controller utilization of delayed absolute position data for guidance and navigation A mobile vehicle controller for controlling a mobile apparatus that travels along a commanded path. The mobile vehicle controller has a dead reckoning navigation procedure for navigating the controllable mobile apparatus along the commanded path in respon... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4753709 | Method for etching contact vias in a semiconductor device A method for forming contact vias in order to make electrical connection between conductive interconnection layers is disclosed. The semiconductor slice is processed so as to form the diffusions and underlying interconnection layers using well known techn... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4753380 | Overdriven tractor-friction paper drive A paper web-moving system includes a friction-type drive roll mechanism cooperatively operating with a detachable tractor drive mechanism. In one embodiment, the paper first passes over and engages a pair of driven tractors at an angle with respect to the... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4754253 | Adjustable temperature thermostat A thermostatic switch is shown having a body supporting a temperature sensing probe formed of a rod of one thermal coefficient of expansion connected to a channel of a different thermal coefficient of expansion. The difference in expansion between the rod... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4754421 | Multiple precision multiplication device A multiple precision multiplication device includes accumulators coupled to the output of an array multiplier. The accumulators store partial products which are then added back into partial products generating during succeeding multiplication steps. The f... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4754244 | Distributed balance frequency multiplier A distributed balance frequency multiplier has a transmission line that is configured using lumped elements having connection points for inputting signals. Connected to each connection point is the output from a non-inverting amplifier which does not inve... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4754314 | Split-level CMOS A CMOS device wherein the NMOS devices are bulk devices and the PMOS devices are SOI devices. The PMOS devices are formed with their channel regions in a silicon-on-insulator layer, preferably a laterally recrystallized annealed-polysilicon layer over a s... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4754158 | Dual threshold sensitive transistor turn-off circuit A DC coupled transistor turn-off circuit (12) responsive to a first DC voltage level for reverse driving the base of an output transistor (Q4), and responsive to a second DC voltage level for removing the reverse base drive. A turn-off transistor (Q5) is ... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4754316 | Solid state interconnection system for three dimensional integrated circuit structures A semiconductor circuit apparatus including several semiconductor substrates interconnected by having elevated portions of one substrate contacting the surface of the second substrate where both substrates include at least one electrical circuit. Also inc... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4754172 | STL low impedance buffer/driver The disclosure relates to an STL bipolar buffer/driver circuit having a low output impedance for driving capacitive leads and the like wherein the output resistor of the prior art circuits is replaced by an NPN bipolar transistor and a further circuit inc... | 06/28/1988 |
