Abstract: A pointer indication type timepiece, wherein three projecting portions (11) projecting from a shaft part (112) to an outer peripheral side and formed in such a shape that a cylinder is split into two parts along a central axis direction are disposed at a root portion (113) of the shaft part (112) of an hour wheel (110) at equal intervals in the circumferential direction of the shaft part (112). The projecting portions (11) engage with a circular hole (123) in a dial washer (120).

Abstract: A microcomputer is provided having a memory card interface capable of correctly latching data even when a card such as an MMC card is connected thereto. In the microcomputer having an interface with an external device such as a memory card, the interface unit is provided with an output driver connected to an external terminal for outputting a clock signal to output the clock signal and with an equivalent load circuit capable of imparting, to the clock signal extracted from an arbitrary position in a stage previous to the output driver in a clock signal path, delay equivalent to delay resulting from an external load connected to the external terminal in order to generate a clock signal for latching data inputted from the memory card.

Abstract: The present invention has for its purpose to provide a technique capable of reducing planar dimension of the semiconductor device. An input/output circuit is formed over the semiconductor substrate, a grounding wiring and a power supply wiring pass over the input/output circuit, and a conductive layer for a bonding pad is formed thereover. The input/output circuit is formed of MISFET elements in the nMISFET forming region and the pMISFET forming region, resistance elements in the resistance element forming regions and diode elements in the diode element forming regions functioning as protective elements. A wiring connected to the protective elements and positioned under the grounding wiring and the power supply wiring is pulled out in a pulling-out region between the nMISFET forming region and the pMISFET forming region and between the grounding wiring and the power supply wiring to be connected to the conductive layer.

Abstract: A microcomputer is provided having a memory card interface capable of correctly latching data even when a card such as an MMC card is connected thereto. In the microcomputer having an interface with an external device such as a memory card, the interface unit is provided with an output driver connected to an external terminal for outputting a clock signal to output the clock signal and with an equivalent load circuit capable of imparting, to the clock signal extracted from an arbitrary position in a stage previous to the output driver in a clock signal path, delay equivalent to delay resulting from an external load connected to the external terminal in order to generate a clock signal for latching data inputted from the memory card.

Abstract: A substrate treatment apparatus of the present invention includes: a holding means for rotatably holding a substrate to be treated; a coating solution supply nozzle for supplying a coating solution onto the front surface of the substrate to be treated held on the holding means; a treatment container with an upper surface open for housing them; an exhaust means for exhausting an atmosphere in the treatment container from the bottom; a multiblade centrifugal fan provided on the inner periphery of the treatment container for flowing airflow on a front surface side of the substrate to the exhaust means; and a controller for controlling the number of rotations of the multiblade centrifugal fan corresponding to the number of rotations of the substrate, wherein the number of rotations of the multiblade centrifugal fan is controlled so that turbulent airflow flowing in a circumferential direction on the front surface of the substrate generated due to the rotation of the substrate is corrected to laminar airflow flowi

Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus of the present invention includes a holding means for rotatably holding a substrate; a coating solution supply nozzle for supplying a coating solution onto a front surface of the substrate to be processed held by the holding means; a treatment chamber housing the holding means and the coating solution supply nozzle; a cooling means for cooling the substrate before the coating solution is supplied to the substrate, to a predetermined temperature; a heating means for heating the substrate coated with the coating solution to a predetermined temperature; and a transfer means for transferring the substrate between the treatment chamber, the cooling means and the heating means, wherein the treatment chamber, the cooling means and the heating means are partitioned from an ambient air, and wherein at least the treatment chamber is connected to a gas supply mechanism having a supply source of a gas having a kinematic viscosity coefficient higher than that of air and kept at a predeterm

Abstract: While steam is supplied to flow channels to heat inner cavity surfaces to a temperature equal to or higher than the heat distortion temperature of a molding resin, the resin mixed with a supercritical fluid is injected from an injection molding machine into a mold cavity. When the injection of a predetermined quantity of the resin is completed, the supply of the steam to the flow channels is stopped, and cooling water starts to be supplied to the flow channels. The inner cavity surfaces are thus quickly switched from a heated state to a cooled state, cooling and solidifying the resin into a molded product of good appearance which is free of broken cell marks on its surface.

Abstract: The present invention has for its purpose to provide a technique capable of reducing planar dimension of the semiconductor device. An input/output circuit is formed over the semiconductor substrate, a grounding wiring and a power supply wiring pass over the input/output circuit, and a conductive layer for a bonding pad is formed thereover. The input/output circuit is formed of MISFET elements in the nMISFET forming region and the pMISFET forming region, resistance elements in the resistance element forming regions and diode elements in the diode element forming regions functioning as protective elements. A wiring connected to the protective elements and positioned under the grounding wiring and the power supply wiring is pulled out in a pulling-out region between the nMISFET forming region and the pMISFET forming region and between the grounding wiring and the power supply wiring to be connected to the conductive layer.

Abstract: A novel output buffer circuit including an input circuit, a voltage generating circuit, and an output circuit forms a three-state buffer circuit. The output circuit includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, and a fourth transistor. With such a configuration, a simple circuit using no high voltage insulated transistors and level shift circuits can be made, and the simple circuit can output either a low voltage signal or a high voltage signal responsive to a low voltage input signal, reduce the manufacturing cost and the delay of the risetime of the output signal, which are associated with a high voltage insulated transistor. Furthermore, cost can be reduced by miniaturization of the circuit size.

Abstract: A novel output buffer circuit including an input circuit, a voltage generating circuit, and an output circuit forms a three-state buffer circuit. The output circuit includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, and a fourth transistor. With such a configuration, a simple circuit using no high voltage insulated transistors and level shift circuits can be made, and the simple circuit can output either a low voltage signal or a high voltage signal responsive to a low voltage input signal, reduce the manufacturing cost and the delay of the risetime of the output signal, which are associated with a high voltage insulated transistor. Furthermore, cost can be reduced by miniaturization of the circuit size.

Abstract: A time keeping device of an electric timepiece comprising one motor that can rotate in the forward direction and the reverse direction, a branch mechanism, and a plurality of wheel trains that are branched by the branch mechanism, wherein the motor is rotated in the forward direction to drive one wheel train thereby to carry out a mechanical display, and is rotated in the reverse direction to drive the other wheel train thereby to carry out another mechanical display. The time keeping device further comprises a merge mechanism in addition to the branch mechanism, and a plurality of wheel trains that are branched by the branch mechanism and are merged by the merge mechanism. The motor is rotated in the forward direction to drive one wheel train thereby to carry out a mechanical display, and is rotated in the reverse direction to drive the other wheel train thereby to carry out another mechanical display.

Abstract: A novel output buffer circuit including an input circuit, a voltage generating circuit, and an output circuit forms a three-state buffer circuit. The output circuit includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, and a fourth transistor. With such a configuration, a simple circuit using no high voltage insulated transistors and level shift circuits can be made, and the simple circuit can output either a low voltage signal or a high voltage signal responsive to a low voltage input signal, reduce the manufacturing cost and the delay of the risetime of the output signal, which are associated with a high voltage insulated transistor. Furthermore, cost can be reduced by miniaturization of the circuit size.

Abstract: While steam is supplied to flow channels to heat inner cavity surfaces to a temperature equal to or higher than the heat distortion temperature of a molding resin, the resin mixed with a supercritical fluid is injected from an injection molding machine into a mold cavity. When the injection of a predetermined quantity of the resin is completed, the supply of the steam to the flow channels is stopped, and cooling water starts to be supplied to the flow channels. The inner cavity surfaces are thus quickly switched from a heated state to a cooled state, cooling and solidifying the resin into a molded product of good appearance which is free of broken cell marks on its surface.

Abstract: A microcomputer is provided having a memory card interface capable of correctly latching data even when a card such as an MMC card is connected thereto. In the microcomputer having an interface with an external device such as a memory card, the interface unit is provided with an output driver connected to an external terminal for outputting a clock signal to output the clock signal and with an equivalent load circuit capable of imparting, to the clock signal extracted from an arbitrary position in a stage previous to the output driver in a clock signal path, delay equivalent to delay resulting from an external load connected to the external terminal in order to generate a clock signal for latching data inputted from the memory card.

Abstract: A manufacturing method for a shaped light metal article includes the steps of forming a plastic worked article by plastic working an article for plastic working made of light metal material, and subjecting the plastic worked article to a post-plastic working heat treatment for between 20 minutes and 10 hours at a temperature in a range of 250 to 400° C. As a result, a shaped light metal article is produced with sufficient ductility.

Abstract: A lens having a lens face including a convex area that exhibits the lens function thereof, and a bonding part formed for bonding an additional optical device to the lens face in another part thereof that is not to be the optical path of the lens, in which the bonding part protrudes outside in the direction of the optical axis at least height not lower than the vertex of the convex face. An additional optical device such as an optical filter is bonded to the bonding part of the lens with an adhesive. The lens may be integrated with any other optical device to fabricate small-sized appliances, for example, and suffers little optical loss that may be caused by adhesive having penetrated into the bonded area of the lens and the additional optical device.

Abstract: A time keeping device of an electric timepiece comprising one motor that can rotate in the forward direction and the reverse direction, a branch mechanism, and a plurality of wheel trains that are branched by the branch mechanism, wherein the motor is rotated in the forward direction to drive one wheel train thereby to carry out a mechanical display, and is rotated in the reverse direction to drive the other wheel train thereby to carry out another mechanical display. The time keeping device further comprises a merge mechanism in addition to the branch mechanism, and a plurality of wheel trains that are branched by the branch mechanism and are merged by the merge mechanism. The motor is rotated in the forward direction to drive one wheel train thereby to carry out a mechanical display, and is rotated in the reverse direction to drive the other wheel train thereby to carry out another mechanical display.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of supplying a developing solution to a surface of a substrate to perform developing treatment for the substrate, comprising a first step of supplying the developing solution to the surface of the substrate while a developing solution supply nozzle is moving relative to the substrate and a second step of developing the substrate for a first predetermined period of time, and the second step has the step of stirring the developing solution on the surface of the substrate after a second predetermined period of time from the completion of the first step. Because of stirring, the concentration of the developing solution on the substrate is made uniform, resulting in a rise in the uniformity of developing treatment.

Abstract: In an apparatus for determining the exposure conditions, a developed pattern is converted into an optical information formed by exposing a plurality of different positions of a substrate at different exposure amounts and focus values to light at a predetermined pattern and developing the pattern thereby to determine the combination of the optimum exposure amount and the optimum focus value from the optical information.

Abstract: In a semi-molten metal injection molding method of producing a thin molded product by injecting a semi-molten metal M of a magnesium alloy, in a semi-melting state, into a cavity of a mold through a product gate, characterized in that it is made possible to obtain a high-quality thin molded product by maintaining satisfactory fluidity of the semi-molten metal M. A grain size of the solid fraction in the melt M is set to not more than 0.13 times the average thickness of the product portion of the thin molded product and a molten metal velocity at the product gate is set to not less than 30 m/s and, moreover, a solid fraction Fs (%) of the semi-molten metal M and a grain size D (&mgr;m) of the solid phase of the semi-molten metal M are set so as to define the relationship Fs×D≦1500.