Abstract: A sorting member with an optimized surface shape is adopted to pressurize a mixture heated on the sorting member to allow a melted resin mixed in the mixture to adhere to the sorting member to sort the resin from an unmelted resin. Thus, resin materials are sorted and recovered from unwanted home electric appliances and the like at a high purity.

Abstract: The loop filter in the PLL includes: a filter circuit (first partial circuit) including a capacitive element, one end of the first partial circuit being connected to an output terminal of a charge pump circuit, a voltage for controlling a voltage-controlled oscillator being output from the other end of the first partial circuit; a voltage buffer circuit to which a voltage at a predetermined node in the filter circuit is input; and a filter circuit (second partial circuit), one end of the second partial circuit being connected to the output terminal of the charge pump circuit, the other end being connected to an output terminal of the voltage buffer circuit.

Abstract: In order to overcome the problem that conditionally executed instructions are executed as no-operation instructions if their condition is not fulfilled, leading to poor utilization efficiency of the hardware and lowering the effective performance, the processor decodes a number of instructions that is greater than the number of provided computing units and judges their execution conditions with an instruction issue control portion before the execution stage, Instructions for which the condition is false are invalidated, and subsequent valid instructions are assigned so that the computing units (hardware) is used efficiently. A compiler performs scheduling such that the number of instructions whose execution condition is true does not exceed the upper limit of the degree of parallelism of the hardware. The number of instructions arranged in parallel at each cycle may exceed the degree of parallelism of the hardware.

Abstract: The first data transmitting/receiving device according to the present invention includes: a serial-parallel conversion circuit for converting received first serial data to first parallel data; a data selection circuit for selecting any one of the first parallel data and externally-supplied second parallel data and outputting the selected data; and a parallel-serial conversion circuit for converting the first or second parallel data output from the data selection circuit to second serial data which is to be transmitted.

Abstract: An LED lamp includes a substrate, an LED chip, and a resin portion. The LED chip is flip-chip bonded to the substrate. The resin portion covers the LED chip and includes at least one type of phosphor that transforms the emission of the LED chip into light having a longer wavelength than the emission. In this LED lamp, the resin portion has at least one side surface. The side surface is separated from another surface that can reflect the outgoing light of the resin portion, surrounds the side surfaces of the LED chip and is curved at least partially.

Abstract: A rear-projection screen 3, including at least a lenticular lens sheet 32 and a Fresnel lens sheet 31, is configured so that the lenticular lens sheet 32 contains, in a base material thereof made of a resin, light diffusing microparticles made of a resin having a refractive index different from a refractive index of the base material, and the light diffusing microparticles satisfy 0.5 &mgr;m≦&Dgr;N1×d1≦0.9 &mgr;m, where &Dgr;N1 represents a difference between a refractive index of the light diffusing microparticles and a refractive index of the base material of the lenticular lens sheet, and d1 represents an average particle diameter of the light diffusing microparticles. With this, a rear-projection screen with small wavelength dependency of diffusion characteristics can be provided utilizing only resins with general properties.

Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a line filter having an outstanding attenuation characteristic over a wide frequency band from low frequency band to high frequency band, with an improved elimination characteristic for common mode noises. To achieve this object, the invention incorporates a structure wherein a first coil unit (14) for second band and a second coil unit (16) for second band are disposed vertically to a closed-loop magnetic core (11).

Abstract: A value of a current flowing through a plating solution to a first working electrode whose base is exposed in a first opening is measured, and a value of a current flowing through the plating solution to a second working electrode whose base is exposed in a second opening having an opening area larger than that of the first opening is measured.

Abstract: A decoder decodes encoded binary image data on each block in order to recover a target block of the binary image. The image decoder includes motion compensated blocking which obtains a reference block from a reference binary image by applying motion compensation using motion information. A selector selects a statistical model from among a plurality of statistical models, based on states of pixels surrounding a reference pixel in the reference block, in which the reference pixel also corresponds to a target pixel in the target block. An arithmetic decoder recovers the target block by decoding the encoded data using the selected statistical model. In one embodiment, the pixels surrounding the reference pixel in the reference block are pixels positioned within one pixel distance from the reference pixel.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip, an insulating layer formed on a region excluding the plurality of electrode pads on the principal surface of the semiconductor chip, a plurality of contact pads arranged on the insulating layer, a wiring layer electrically connected to at least one of the plurality of electrode pads and electrically connected to at least one of the plurality of contact pads, thereby establishing rewiring connection, an insulative resin layer formed on a region excluding the plurality of contact pads on the principal surface of the semiconductor chip, a protruded electrode provided on each of the plurality of contact pads, and an underfill material layer provided on the insulative resin layer in such a manner that the top of the protruded electrode is exposed.

Abstract: A deflection yoke arranged on an outer part of a funnel of a cathode ray tube includes a holder for housing a ferrite member as a magnetic field correction part for varying a main magnetic field, and the ferrite member is fixed and held by inner walls as resilient members in a housing portion of the holder, thereby holding the ferrite member at the desired position with a simple construction and realizing a cathode ray tube apparatus with reduction of cost and secure convergence correction.

Abstract: In the CDMA Radio Multiplex Tansmission, transfer function of line is inferred by using common pilot signal and sychronous detection is performed accordingly. The transmitting end transmits by periodically inserting pilot symbols into one channel only of multiplexed channels. The receiving end infers line condition (transfer function) from the received pilot symbols and, on the basis of the information thus obtained, performs synchronous detection of each channel multiplexed.

Abstract: A multiplex frame is of a fixed length and includes a header and a fixed-length field. The fixed-length field is divided into variable-length slots 1 and 2. The length of the variable-length slot 1 is a predetermined fixed length when data to be stored exists and is zero with no data to be stored. The length of the variable-length slot 2 is increased/decreased depending on the length of the variable-length slot 1. Fixed-length data not employing retransmission (e.g., an audio frame) is transmitted in the first variable-length slot and one complete variable-length data employing retransmission (e.g., a data link frame of video) is transmitted in the second variable-length slot.

Abstract: There are disclosed a surface treatment apparatus and a wire bonding apparatus which are compact in size, have a high processing ability, are simple in construction, and achieve a low cost The surface treatment apparatus includes a base having a transfer path for transferring an object, a lid provided above the base for movement into and out of contact with an upper surface of the base, the lid contacting the base to form a sealed space on the upper surface of the base, an engagement and disengagement mechanism for moving the lid into and out of contact with the base, a transfer mechanism for feeding the object, disposed on the transfer path, into and out of a position beneath the lid when the lid is out of contact with the base, and a treatment portion for surface treating electrodes of the object disposed in the sealed space A wire bonding mechanism is provided at a downstream portion of the transfer path.

Abstract: The present invention provides a measuring apparatus for biological information which permits accurate determination for biological information without causing the subject much discomfort. The measuring apparatus for biological information of the present invention uses an ear receiver-shaped sensor element which is placed and held on the perimeter of the subject's external auditory meatus opening with the light emitter and the light receiver brought into contact with the subject. The light receiver detects the light projected to and passed through the subject. The apparatus is also provided with a signal processor which performs calculation for biological information of the subject on the basis of the intensity of light detected by the light receiver.

Abstract: A consumable electrode type pulsed arc welder and a controlling method for the same, wherein at least one of a welding current and a welding voltage is output to a wire in accordance with a duty time of a pulse waveform group comprising a first pulse period to form a droplet having a predetermined amount at an end of the wire, a base period to shorten an arc length between the droplet and a base metal, and a second pulse period to detach the droplet.

Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes a vacuum vessel, a substrate electrode, a discharge coil which is partially or wholly made to have a multiple spiral or helical configuration, a high frequency power source, and a matching circuit that is connected to the discharge coil by way of a conductor wire and connected to the high frequency power source via a connection cable. Plasma is generated inside the vacuum vessel upon application of a high frequency voltage to the discharge coil so as to process a substrate disposed on the substrate electrode.

Abstract: A sync pattern detecting circuit detects a sync pattern from the input data to output a sync pattern detecting signal. A frame counter counts clock signals for the bit number of one frame to output a frame count signal. A sync manage circuit sets a window time area therein, and outputs a sync signal when the sync pattern detecting signal is input in the window time area. The width of the window time area is variable. The width of the window time area is controlled at timings at which the sync pattern detecting signal and the frame count signal are input.

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium comprising a non-magnetic substrate, a ferromagnetic thin film on the non-magnetic substrate, a hard carbon film on the ferromagnetic thin film, a modified layer of which atomic ratio of nitrogen/carbon is 0.8% or more, and of which thickness is less than 3 nm on the hard carbon film, and a lubricant layer on the modified layer, has excellent electromagnetic conversion characteristic, running stability, durability, and weatherability.