Abstract: A cold cathode field emission device comprising a cathode electrode formed on a support member, and a conical electron emitting portion made of carbon and formed on the cathode electrode.

Abstract: A cold cathode field emission device comprising (a) a cathode electrode formed on a supporting substrate, and (b) a gate electrode which is formed above the cathode electrode and has an opening portion, and further comprising (c) an electron emitting portion composed of a carbon film formed on a surface of a portion of the cathode electrode which portion is positioned in a bottom portion of the opening portion.

Abstract: To manufacture a field-emitting type cathode of a planar display device at a high accuracy, the following steps are included: the step of forming a first electrode (11) on a substrate (1) and a an electron emitting portion (9) on the electrode (11), forming an insulating layer (7) on an area including the first electrode (11) and electron emitting portion (9), and forming an electrode layer (121) serving as a second electrode on the insulating layer (7); the step of forming a negative type photoresist layer (30) on the entire surface including the electrode layer (121), exposing the photoresist layer (30) by using the electron emitting portion (9) as a mask and thereby applying ultraviolet radiation (31) from the back of the substrate (1), and selectively removing a photoresist layer (301) at a portion corresponding to the electron emitting portion (9) by developing the layer (30); and the step of forming an opening from which the electron emitting portion (9) is exposed by using the remaining photoresist lay

Abstract: When starting a power, the precharge potential is supplied to all the bit lines and virtual GND lines by VREF potential supply circuits. In a read operation, after the end of a period during which the bit lines of the selected memory block are sensed by memory cells, the precharge potential is immediately supplied to the bit lines and the virtual GND lines, which have been selected, by the VREF potential supply circuits. By this operation, the precharge potential of all the bit lines and the virtual GND lines is maintained prior to the read operation. With this arrangement, a semiconductor storage device capable of increasing the access time speed without bit line division is provided.

Abstract: The present invention is intended to efficiently concentrate an electric field and to improve electron emission efficiency in a field emission cathode constituting a flat display device. A field emission cathode constituting a flat display device is constituted to have an electron emission section arranged to face an electron applied surface. At least the electron emission section is formed out of conductive, thin plate-like fine particles. A substance having a work function of 2 to 3 [eV] is bonded on the surfaces of the thin plate-like fine particles.

Abstract: In a synchronous semiconductor storage device, upon latching potentials of a bit line by a sense amplifier in a read operation, a bit line disconnecting circuit disconnects the bit line and an associated reference line from the sense amplifier until a next read operation. At the same time, a virtual GND line disconnecting circuit disconnects a corresponding virtual GND line from the ground potential until the next read operation. After the disconnection of the bit line, the reference line, and the virtual line, the precharge operation of the bit line and virtual line by the VREF level supply circuits is performed in parallel with the amplifying operation by the sense amplifier. This allows an access with a CAS latency of 3.

Abstract: A flame-retardant thermosetting resin composition comprising a thermosetting resin and from 4 to 50% by weight, based on the composition, of (1) melamine-coated ammonium polyphosphate particles and/or (2) water-insoluble ammonium polyphosphate particles obtained by crosslinking the surface of melamine-coated ammonium polyphosphate particles with a compound having a functional group capable of reacting with an active hydrogen atom belonging to an amino group of a melamine molecule in the melamine coating is disclosed. Also disclosed is a process for producing water-insoluble ammonium polyphosphate particles comprising adhering or impregnating a crosslinking agent having a functional group capable of reacting with an active hydrogen atom belonging to an amino group of a melamine molecule to or into the surface of melamine-coated ammonium polyphosphate particles and allowing a melamine in the melamine coat and the crosslinking agent to react.

Abstract: A flame-retardant thermoplastic polymer composition which inhibits the bleeding of ammonium polyphosphate onto the surface of a molded article include components (A), (B), (C), and (D), wherein includes an oxygen-containing solid compound containing an element of Group II, Group III or Group IV of the periodic table, (B) includes a triazine ring-containing organic compound, (C) includes an ammonium polyphosphate powder, a melamine-coated ammonium polyphosphate powder and a powder of a water-insolubilized, melamine-coated ammonium polyphosphate powder, and (D) includes a thermoplastic polymer.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array for storing data. The memory cell array includes a plurality of columns of memory cells and a plurality of bit lines connected to the memory cell array for reading out the data. The semiconductor memory device further includes a first precharge operation control circuit for performing a precharge operation with respect to all of the plurality of bit lines immediately after power is turned on.

Abstract: A semiconductor read-only memory includes a plurality of memory cell groups each having a plurality of memory cells, a first selector for selecting an arbitrary memory cell group from the plurality of memory cell groups, and a second selector for selecting an arbitrary memory cell from the selected memory cell group. The semiconductor read-only memory further includes: an address storage circuit for storing address information of a predetermined memory cell portion in a memory cell group; a data storage circuit for storing memory cell information of the predetermined memory cell portion; and a switching circuit for switching between information stored in the memory cell selected from the memory cell group and the memory cell information stored in the data storage circuit, based on the address information, and outputting either the information stored in the memory cell selected from the memory cell group or the memory cell information stored in the data storage circuit.

Abstract: Water-insoluble ammonium polyphosphate particles are provided which include melamine-coated ammonium polyphosphate particles with the surface thereof being crosslinked by a reaction between the melamine of the melamine-coated ammonium polyphosphate particles and a crosslinking agent having a functional group capable of reacting with the active hydrogen atoms belonging to the amino group in the melamine molecule.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of memory cells arranged in a matrix, each of which has a gate electrode, a first electrode and a second electrode. The semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of word lines, at least one of which is connected to the gate electrode of one of the plurality of memory cells; a plurality of bit lines, at least one of which is connected to the first electrode of one of the plurality of memory cells and a plurality of virtual ground lines, at least one of which is connected to the second electrode of one of the plurality of memory cells.

Abstract: A melamine-coated ammonium polyphosphate exhibiting properties of having no hygroscopicity, being difficultly soluble in water and difficultly susceptive of hydrolysis is provided and further a process for producing a melamine-coated ammonium polyphosphate having the above properties and also being powdery even when it is not ground is provided, the above powdery, melamine-coated ammonium polyphosphate being characterized in that melamine is added and/or adhered onto the particle surface of a powdery, ammonium polyphosphate expressed by the formula ##STR1## wherein n represents an integer of 20 or more, and a process for producing a powdery, melamine-coated ammonium polyphosphate being characterized in that melamine is sublimated and added and/or adhered onto the particle surface of a powdery ammonium polyphosphate.

Abstract: A process for producing a powdery ammonium polyphosphate which is uniformly coated with melamine is provided wherein melamine is sublimated and added and/or adhered onto the particle surface of a powdery ammonium polyphosphate.

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium comprising a non-magnetic support, a magnetic layer on one surface of said non-magnetic support, a back coating layer on the other surface of said non-magnetic support and a primer layer containing acicular hexagonal ferrite magnetic powder between said non-magnetic support and at least one of said magnetic layer and said back coating layer, which is used with a video recorder fitted for high density recording and in particular, which copes with prolongation of a recording time.

Abstract: A flame-retardant thermoplastic resin composition comprising,(A) 10 to 40% by weight of a melamine-coated ammonium polyphosphate having melamine added and/or adhered onto the particle surfaces of a powdery ammonium polyphosphate expressed by the following formula (I): ##STR1## wherein n is an integer of 2 or more, (B) 1 to 20% by weight of a triazine-containing polymer, and(C) 89 to 40% by weight of a thermoplastic resin, the total amount of these components being 100% by weight.

Abstract: A reasoning method capable of easily describing a model of diagnosis, a diagnosis method based on the reasoning method and a fault diagnosis system for performing efficiently faulty component diagnosis. Basic knowledge of a domain for which a knowledge base is used, expert's heuristic knowledge and meta-level knowledge for determining a scheme of use of the basic knowledge and the heuristic knowledge are provided. Fault diagnosis is performed for an objective of interest by executing a combination of reasoning based on the basic knowledge and reasoning based on the heuristic knowledge, in accordance with the meta-level knowledge.

Abstract: A flame-retardant consisting of two specified components and a flame-retardant resin composition having the flame-retardant blended with a thermoplastic resin are provided,which flame-retardant is composed of (A) a reaction product of cyanuric chloride with a diamine and (B) ammonium polyphosphate or polyphosphoric acid amide, the ratio of (A) to (B) being 0.1 to 10, and which flame-retardant resin composition has the flame-retardant blended with a thermoplastic resin in a quantity of 1 to 50% by weight based upon the weight of the composition.

Abstract: A field memory self-refreshing device self-refreshes a field memory with a refresh clock signal derived from a reference clock and a self-refresh clock signal not derived from the reference clock. The field memory self-refreshing device has a reference clock stop determination circuit, a self-refresh clock generator and a refresh clock switching circuit. The reference clock stop determination circuit detects that input from the reference clock has stopped and outputs a reference clock stop signal when input from the reference clock stops. The self-refresh clock generator generates the basis for the self-refresh clock signal used for self-refreshing of the field memory when the reference clock stops. When the refresh clock switching circuit receives the reference clock stop signal from the reference clock stop determination circuit, the refresh clock switching circuit switches from a selection of the refresh clock signal based on the reference clock to a selection of the self-refresh clock signal.

Abstract: A charged particle accelerator capable of accelerating arbitrarily charged particles to an arbitrary energy level and resonating at a low frequency suitable for accelerating heavy ions, including quadruple electrodes which are supplied with high frequency power and disposed in the direction of the center axis of a cylinder-shaped container and a resonant circuit having a capacitor and an inductor for supplying a voltage to the quadruple electrodes. The capacitor is composed of a plurality of metallic plates provided along the center axis at specified intervals in the vicinity of the quadruple electrodes, and a plurality of conductive supports supporting the metallic plates which are directly connected to the container together with the supports and the container form the inductor.