Method for detecting missing components at electrical board test using optoelectronic fixture-mounted sensors
The present invention provides a solution to the above problems and offers the ability to detect missing components (including bypass capacitors) at the in-circuit test stage of the manufacturing proc... Read More
Inventors: McAuliffe, Robert E.;, Assignee: Agilent Technologies, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) |
Circuit board formed with spark gap
What is claimed is: 1. A circuit board formed with a spark gap comprising: a substrate made of an electrical insulator; a first electrode disposed on said insulator substrate and having a tip portion;... Read More
Inventors: Ueta, Yasuomi; Toyama, Tatsuro;, Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) |
Input circuit for protecting against damage caused by electrostatic discharge
Referring to FIGS. 2 and 5, a circuit 100 constructed in accordance with the present invention protects the gate insulation (typically silicon dioxide) of an MOS transistor Q1 in an integrated circui... Read More
Inventors: Krieger, Gadi; Eitan, Boaz;, Assignee: WaferScale Integration, Inc. (Fremont, CA) |
Current summing arrangement for ground fault detection
The present invention provides an arrangement for producing a signal representative of the sum of signals representative of electrical currents in an electrical power system of the type including at l... Read More
Inventors: May, William E.;, Assignee: Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc. (Alpharetta, GA) |
Circuit and method for an open bit line memory cell with a vertical transistor and trench plate trench capacitor
The above mentioned problems with memory cells and other problems are addressed by the present invention and which will be understood by reading and studying the following specification. A memory cell... Read More
Inventors: Forbes, Leonard; Noble, Wendell P.;, Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID) |
***WITHDRAWN PATENT AS PER THE LATEST USPTO WITHDRAWN LIST*** *** NO IMAGES AVAILABLE*** Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof
OF THE INVENTION Explained first will be a problem of a conventional method shown in FIGS. 6A to 6D which has been found by the present inventors. According to studies by the present inventors, it ha... Read More
Inventors: Sato, Tsutomu; Mizushima, Ichiro; Tsunashima, Yoshitaka;, Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Kawasaki, JP) |
Photodetector array interface circuit
OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT FIG. 1 of the drawing shows a stationary faceplate panel 10 which is oriented with its seal end 11 up and has a striped matrix 12 that extends into and out of the plane of... Read More
Inventors: Krufka, Frank S.;, Assignee: RCA Corporation (Princeton, NJ) |
Optical disk and recording/reproducing method thereof
OF THE INVENTION FIG. 1 shows an example of the structure of an optical disk according to the present invention. On the optical disk 1, a super-resolution film for reproduction 2, a first interferenc... Read More
Inventors: Ichihara, Katsutaro; Nagase, Toshihiko;, Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Kawasaki, JP) |
Method of making radiation emitter devices
Accordingly, it is an aspect of the present invention to provide a radiation emitter device that overcomes the above-noted problems and that provides improved performance and less vulnerability to fat... Read More
Inventors: Roberts, John K.; Reese, Spencer D.;, Assignee: Gentex Corporation (Zeeland, MI) |
Method of forming a perovskite structure semiconductor capacitor
We claim: 1. A method of making a capacitor comprising the steps of: forming on a substrate an insulation film having a first contact hole therein so that a surface of said substrate is exposed theret... Read More
Inventors: Seon, Jeong-Min; Kim, Hwan-Myeong;, Assignee: LG Semicon Co., Ltd. (Cheongju, KR) |
Nonwoven fabric and method of production thereof
That which is claimed is: 1. A method of producing a nonwoven fabric comprising the steps of: forming a batt comprising acrylic fibers and additional fibers selected from the group consisting of polye... Read More
Inventors: Wishman, Marvin;, Assignee: Phillips Petroleum Company (Bartlesville, OK) |
Method of making a back contacted solar cell
A very efficient and readily manufacturable solar cell with a front carrier-collection junction can be produced with both negative and positive current-collection grids located on the back side of the... Read More
Inventors: Gee, James M.;, Assignee: Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, NM) |
Organic sidewall spacers used with resist
The present invention relates to integrated circuit structures and fabrication methods. BACKGROUND: SCALING A continuing trend in integrated circuit device technology, for a great many years, has been... Read More
Inventors: Joyner, Keith A.;, Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX) |
Method and apparatus for a semiconductor package for vertical surface mounting
The present invention includes a method for packaging a semiconductor device comprising connecting a plurality of wire leads to a corresponding plurality of electrical connection pads on the semicondu... Read More
Inventors: Farnworth, Warren; Kinsman, Larry; Moden, Walter;, Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID) |
Method for producing a voltage dependent resistor and a voltage dependent resistor obtained therewith
What is claimed is: 1. In a method for producing a voltage dependent resistor consisting mainly of a sintered body of zinc oxide and about 0.1-10% by weight of bismuth oxide in which, there is optiona... Read More
Inventors: Eijnthoven, Ronald Karel; VAN Kemenade, Johannes Trudo Cornelis;, Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation (New York, NY) |
Pattern layout of power source lines in semiconductor memory device
Accordingly, an object of this invention is to provide a semiconductor memory device having an improved chip layout. Another object of this invention is to provide a semiconductor memory device having... Read More
Inventors: Shimizu, Mitsuru;, Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tobshiba (Kawasaki, JP) |
Optical and electrical switching devices and a polymer composition containing pendant organic charge transfer salt moieties useful in switching devices
OF THE INVENTION The polymer composition of the present invention is characterized by stability against diffusion or migration of the charge transfer groups out of the polymer during switching of the... Read More
Inventors: Day, Roger W.; Morgan, Michael J.;, Assignee: Olin Corporation (Cheshire, CT) |
Semiconductive and sensitized photoconductive compositions
What we claim is: 1. An article comprising semiconductive composition comprising a polymeric binder which is not an organic, photoconductive, polymer binder and a dye comprising at least two quinoid b... Read More
Inventors: Huffman, William A.; Birkeland, Stephen P.; O'Leary, Kevin P.;, Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company (St. Paul, MN) |
Electrophotographic photosensitive member having no fatigue effect
Accordingly it is the primary object of the present invention to provide a photosensitive member which does not show such a fatigue effect even after it has been repeatedly used many times at a high c... Read More
Inventors: Fukuda, Tadaji; Kajita, Isamu; Misumi, Teruo; Kondo, Hideyo; Kitajima, Nobuo;, Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo, JP) |
Amorphous photoreceptor with high sensitivity to long wavelengths
The present invention is a photoconductive member which includes a layer of material capable of carrying charge, adjacent to a multilayered amorphous semiconductor material. The multilayered material ... Read More
Inventors: Wronski, Christopher R.;, Assignee: Exxon Research and Engineering Company (Florham Park, NJ) |
Low noise multistage avalanche photodetector
An avalanche photodetector constructed according to the present invention comprises a sequence of at least four contiguous layers of semiconductor material of alternating opposed types of conductivit... Read More
Inventors: Gordon, James P.; Nahory, Robert E.; Pollack, Martin A.; Worlock, John M.;, Assignee: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated (Murray Hill, NJ) |
Optimized doped and band gap adjusted photoresponsive amorphous alloys and devices
The non-optimum spectral response of prior art amorphous silicon photoresponsive devices is overcome in accordance with the present invention by inserting one or more band gap adjusting and/or dopants... Read More
Inventors: Ovshinsky, Stanford R.; Izu, Masatsugu;, Assignee: Sovonics Solar Systems (Solon, OH) |
Dummy patterning for semiconductor manufacturing processes
The invention claimed is: 1. An integrated circuit comprising: a semiconductor substrate; a semiconductor device disposed on said semiconductor substrate; a device dielectric layer disposed on said se... Read More
Inventors: You, Lu; Chan, Simon S.; Yang, Kai;, Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA) |
Light emitting layer and forming method of the same
According to the above description of the background of the invention, it is one objective of the present invention to provide a forming method and a structure of a light emitting layer that is formed... Read More
Inventors: Chang, Ting-Chang; Liu, Po-Tsun;, Assignee: United Microelectronics Corp. (TW) |
Multi-resistive state element with reactive metal
The present invention generally provides a multi-resistive state element that is created by treating a conductive element. One embodiment is a memory array that includes a plurality of two-terminal me... Read More
Inventors: Rinerson, Darrell; Kinney, Wayne; Ward, Edmond; Hsia, Steve Kuo-Ren; Longcor, Steven W.; Chevallier, Christophe; Sanchez, Jr., John E.; Swab, Philip;, Assignee: Unity Semiconductor Corporation ( |
Non-volatile memory with phase-change recording layer
1. A non-volatile memory comprising: an insulating substrate having a first electrode extending through the substrate from the front surface to the rear surface thereof; a second electrode formed on o... Read More
Inventors: Tanaka, Hideyuki; Morimoto, Kiyoshi;, Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Osaka, JP) |
Magnetic storage apparatus and manufacturing method thereof
The present invention relates to a magnetic storage device and a method of fabricating the same conceived to solve the aforementioned subject. The magnetic storage device of the present invention is s... Read More
Inventors: Yoshihara, Ikuo; Motoyoshi, Makoto;, Assignee: Sony Corporation (Tokyo, JP) |
Ion implanted CMOS devices
The invention will be described with reference to the series of steps illustrated in FIGS. 1-10 and the impurity profiles of FIGS. 11, 12 and 13. It will be appreciated that the figures show fabricat... Read More
Inventors: Payne, Richard S.;, Assignee: American Telephone and Telegraph Company, AT&T Bell Laboratories (Murray Hill, NJ) |
Gadolinium doped germanium
OF THE INVENTION The present invention is based on the discovery that gadolinium affects the formation of recombination centers in germanium. It has also been discovered that when gadolinium is emplo... Read More
Inventors: Lanigan, Daniel J.; Cohen, Marvin M.;, Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, DC) |
Optical components with a graded-index structure, and method of manufacturing such components
What is claimed is: 1. An optical component having a gradient structure in which the gradient structure is a concentration gradient of nanoscale particles embedded in a solid polymeric matrix. 2. A pr... Read More
Inventors: Schmidt, Helmut; Krug, Herbert; Oliveira, Peter W.; Sepeur, Stefan;, Assignee: Institut fur Neue Materialien gemeinnutzige GmbH (Saarbrucken, DE) |
Active Solid-state 
