Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device and a method capable of detecting temperature precisely. SOLUTION: An illustrative embodiment of this invention has a first oscillator circuit which generates a first signal having a frequency depending on a temperature detected. A differential circuit determines the difference in frequencies between the first signal and a second signal having a frequency which is substantially independent of the temperature, and generates a differential signal having a pulse number based on the difference. A counter circuit, in response to this differential circuit, offsets a predetermined temperature level based on the pulse appeared on the differential signal in order to gain an output signal representing a temperature detected. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique for forming a contact opening which is hardly corroded when an interconnecting layer is formed. SOLUTION: A contact opening is formed penetrating through an insulating layer 34 so that it has a straight sidewall part 42 and a bowl-shaped sidewall part 40. The bowl-shaped sidewall part 40 is located close to the top part of the insulating layer 34 to make the top part of the contact opening wider in diameter than its base. A conductive material 46 is formed inside the contact opening, electrically coming into contact with a lower conductive layer 32. The conductive material 46 forms a plug 47 having an enlarged head 52. The enlarged head 52 protects a barrier layer 45 located inside the contact opening against anisotropic etching which is carried out later. Therefore, when an electric interconnecting layer 48 of aluminum or the like is formed over the contact plug 47, the contact plug serves as an etching stopper to protect the barrier layer inside the contact opening against etching. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide technologies for reducing an error rate of data to be transferred or stored in a communication and a storage system. SOLUTION: A feedback equalizer circuit provides a feedback equalizer signal for canceling undesired distortion in an input signal. A summing circuit is responsive to the input signal and the feedback equalizer signal to provide a corrected sample signal to a symbol detector circuit. A feedback modification circuit is responsive to the corrected sample being within one of a plurality of valid symbol windows to feed back the detected symbol to the feedback equalizer and is responsive to the corrected sample being within one of a plurality of marginal threshold windows to feed back a corresponding intermediate value to the feedback equalizer. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel cell device capable of being structured as a cylindrical cell such as a conventional battery. SOLUTION: The fuel cell device includes a housing including a fuel processor 40 generating fuel gas and a fuel cell 42 equipped with an electrode forming an anode 44 and a cathode 46, and an ion exchange electrolyte placed between the electrodes. The housing is formed as an exterior shell section with first and second cylindrical figures 32, 34 forming a battery cell structured same as a marketed cell. The electrode has a shape of forcing heat generated between the electrodes toward an end part of lower temperature of the electrode and putting back water for generation of hydrogen gas to the fuel processor by a pump action in a capillary action. The electrode is formed on a silicon substrate including a flow divider equipped with at least one fuel gas input channel capable of controlling with an MEMS valve. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an improved magnetic random access memory array. SOLUTION: The random access memory array includes random access memory elements arranged in a rows and columns. Each row is divided into a plurality of row groups of elements and each column is divided into a plurality of column groups of elements. The elements in each row group share a common local write digit line and the elements in each column group share a common local write bit line. The array further includes at least one global write digit line coupled to the common local write digit lines of a plurality of row groups, and at least one global write bit line coupled to the common local write bit lines of a plurality of column groups. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a magnetic random access memory element which has higher speed and is more efficient. SOLUTION: The magnetic random access memory element is constituted of a first magnetic tunnel junction and a second magnetic tunnel junction. A latching circuit includes a false node that is connected to the first magnetic tunnel junction and a true node that is connected to the second magnetic tunnel junction. A pair of complementary bit lines are provided in association with the element. A first access transistor interconnects a false one of the bit lines to the false node of the latching circuit, while a second access transistor interconnects a true one of the bit lines to the true node of the latching circuit. The memory element accordingly has a SRAM 4 transistor (4T) 2 load (2R) architecture wherein the resistance associated with two magnetic tunnel junctions provides the two load resistances. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system and method for increasing the strength of a bond formed with small-diameter wire, in ball bonding. SOLUTION: An entity that receives a ball bond has a wire bondpad that covers and charges substrate substance equipped with part forming a substrate cavity and the substrate cavity. The wire bond pad is equipped with part of a wire bond cavity that receives the ball bond. The ball is wire-bonded on the side section and bottom of the wire bond cavity. The side section of the wire bond cavity provides additional strength to the bond, in order to counter a shear force and a tensile force that act on the wire. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an emulator for a smart card which is provided with an interface between functional blocks (virtual components) operating at different clock rates. SOLUTION: The emulator for a smart card and a method relating to the same are provided with at least two virtual components as a functional block for a smart card device which are operable with different clock domains. A functional buffering block can be operated so as to communicate with the functional blocks, and execute buffering between the functional blocks, and make an emulation possible. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an improved optical image sensor and its manufacturing method. SOLUTION: A micro lens having a relatively high refractive index and consisting of an inorganic substance is formed as it has a convex-shaped lower side surface, and is focused on a lower side photo diode by refracting a light passing from an upper side spacer layer to a lower side spacer layer. The micro lens and the photo diode are repeatedly formed together with a color filter and a CMOS circuit element on a semiconductor chip as an array form constituted of such elements, and provides the image sensor. The spacer layer has a relatively low refractive index, images the convex-shaped surface by treating a selective and isotropic etching through an opening in an etch mask, and forms an interface together with the convex-shaped lower side surface of the micro lens after the micro lens substance is adhesively formed conformably. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI