Abstract: A planar antenna device comprises a ground plane, a planar antenna element having a principal plane mounted above the ground plane, and a cavity, having an opening partially exposing the antenna element, placed on the ground plane in order to cover the entire antenna element contactlessly.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a film-forming method, a film-forming system, etc. capable of achieving adequate thickness repeatability and uniformity and sufficiently large film-forming rates in film formation of a thin film on a substrate to be treated and also capable of simplifying a system configuration. A thermal treatment system 1 according to the present invention is a system for forming a thin film of SiO2 on an Si wafer W and is provided with a reactant gas exhaust system 15 for reducing the pressure around the Si wafer W, a reactant gas supply system 14 for supplying hydrogen gas Gh and oxygen gas Go so as to mix them, onto the Si wafer W, and a chamber 2 having a lamp group 9G for heating the Si wafer W, and a wafer support member 3.

Abstract: A planar antenna device comprises a ground plane, a planar antenna element having a principal plane mounted above the ground plane, and a cavity, having an opening partially exposing the antenna element, placed on the ground plane in order to cover the entire antenna element contactlessly.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a film-forming method, a film-forming system, etc. capable of achieving adequate thickness repeatability and uniformity and sufficiently large film-forming rates in film formation of a thin film on a substrate to be treated and also capable of simplifying a system configuration. A thermal treatment system 1 according to the present invention is a system for forming a thin film of SiO2 on an Si wafer W and is provided with a reactant gas exhaust system 15 for reducing the pressure around the Si wafer W, a reactant gas supply system 14 for supplying hydrogen gas Gh and oxygen gas Go so as to mix them, onto the Si wafer W, and a chamber 2 having a lamp group 9G for heating the Si wafer W, and a wafer support member 3.

Abstract: An on-vehicle distribution box for distributing an electrical power supplied from a power source to a first voltage load operated on a first voltage and to a second voltage load operated on a second voltage differed from the first voltage. The distribution box includes a primary circuit of which an upstream point is connected to the power source and of which a downstream point is connected to the first load. The primary circuit has also a first fuse means. The distribution box also includes a branch circuit branched at an upstream point of the fuse means from the primary circuit and connected to the second load at a downstream side of the branch circuit. A DC/DC converter is provided in the branch circuit for converting the first voltage to the second voltage, and a second fuse means is provided in the branch circuit downstream from the DC/DC converter. The first voltage is higher than the second voltage.

Abstract: A fixing member is inserted under pressure into a central hole of an ultrasonic vibrator, a case and a center axle are fixed by a screw, a bearing is fixed on an end portion of the center axle, a rotor is mounted to rotate by the bearing, a connection member is fixed to the rotor, projections are formed on the edge of a disk of the connection member, spaces are formed between the projections respectively, a contact member is composed by inserting ends of divided parts into spaces of the connection member, and a ring-like elastic member is mounted on the contact member which is pressed on the ultrasonic vibrator.

Abstract: The present invention provides a switching system capable of providing an ACD service while educating operator. The control part in the switching system, when being requested to establish an ACD call, selects a responsible main-operator terminal among plural responsible main-operator terminals and controls the switching part and the MXT in a manner that the selected main-operator terminal receives the ACD call, and selects a responsible sub-operator terminal among plural responsible sub-operator terminals and controls the switching part and the MXT in a manner that information transmitted with the established call can be listened by using the selected sub-operator terminal.

Abstract: A signal identifying device which can identify an input signal easily includes a pitch extracting (4Y) for extracting a pitch component of the input signal (S1), and energy calculating unit (4X) for calculating an energy component of the input signal, and identifying unit (4Z) for executing a predetermined operation to the pitch component and the energy component and for identifying whether the input signal is a voice signal or music signal. The voice signal generally has the characteristics evident in energy, and has strong periodicity (i.e., pitch component) comparing compared to the music signal.

Abstract: A multiple step chemical vapor deposition process for depositing a tungsten layer on a substrate. A first step of the deposition process includes a nucleation step in which WF.sub.6 and SiH.sub.4 are introduced into a deposition chamber. Next, the flow of WF.sub.6 and SiH.sub.4 are stopped and diborane is introduced into the chamber for between 5-25 seconds. Finally, during a bulk deposition step, the WF.sub.6 is reintroduced into the chamber along with H.sub.2 and B.sub.2 H.sub.6 flows to deposit a tungsten layer on the substrate. In a preferred embodiment, the bulk deposition step also introduces nitrogen into the process gas.

Abstract: A second post filter having characteristics similar to those of a first post filter used in the signal path is prepared and a gain of the first post filter is preliminarily presumed from an input and an output of the second post filter. An optimum scaling value when performing a filtering operation in the first post filter is set by using the gain obtained from the input and output of the second post filter, so that an optimum gain when controlling a gain fluctuation caused by the first post filter is set.

Abstract: A communication-line-quality measuring system includes transmission and terminal equipment. Transmission equipment has a first frame assembling part transmitting a down-link multiplexed frame signal to a down-link line having a first frequency, and a first frame disassembling part disassembling an up-link multiplexed frame signal transmitted through an up-link line having a second frequency. Terminal equipment has a second frame disassembling part disassembling the down-link multiplexed frame signal, and a second frame assembling part transmitting the up-link multiplexed frame signal obtained by frame-multiplexing an output signal of the subscriber unit with a control signal, to the up-link line. A pattern generation part in the first frame assembling part provides a test signal to an available channel of signal frames in the down-link multiplexed frame signal.

Abstract: In encoding in which an adaptive codebook such as PSI-CELP or a fixed codebook is used on switching selection, waveform distortion caused by selection of the fixed codebook in case input speech frequency components are changed significantly is diminished. An output of an adaptive codebook 21 or an output of a fixed codebook 22 is selected by a changeover selection switch 26 and summed to an output of noise codebooks 23, 24 so as to be sent to a linear prediction synthesis filter 16. A switching control circuit 19 for controlling the switching of a changeover control switch 26 operates in response to a prediction gain which is a ratio of the linear prediction residual energy to the initial signal energy from a linear prediction analysis circuit 14 so that, if the prediction gain is smaller than a pre-set threshold value, the switching control circuit 19 judges the input signal to be voiced and controls the changeover control switch 26 for compulsorily selecting the output of the adaptive codebook 21.

Abstract: A method of an automatic adjustment of a carrier level is used for a system having a center device, a communication line extending from the center device, and at least one communication-terminal device connected to the communication line. The system conducts two-way communication of data signals on the communication line based on a predetermined multiplexing scheme.

Abstract: Provided herein is a CVD method and apparatus for the deposition of tungsten in which formation of a film of tungsten material is suppressed at the peripheral edge of the semiconductor substrate. In accordance with the invention, a halogenide purge gas is supplied to the peripheral edge of the processing face of a semiconductor wafer during the chemical vapor deposition of tungsten. The halogenide purge gases interact with the processing gases and form a passivation film at the peripheral edge of the semiconductor wafer which suppresses or prevents the formation of a film of tungsten material on the edge surface. Consequently, CMP can be applied to the tungsten semiconductor wafer, and particles of the tungsten material, etc., are not generated from the intense polishing of the peripheral edge of the wafer. Therefore, an uncontaminated tungsten-coated semiconductor wafer with a precise multilayer electrode wiring structure can be manufactured in large volume and favorable yields.

Abstract: A dynamic vibration absorber comprises a movable portion including a movable weight portion, a movable portion magnet assembly provided with a movable inside magnet and a movable outside magnet which are mounted to the movable weight portion through a yoke so as to alternately provide different magnetic poles, a fixed portion fixed to an object to be damped, a fixed portion magnet assembly provided with a fixed portion inside magnet and a fixed portion outside magnet mounted to the fixed portion through a yoke so that the fixed portion magnet assembly has magnetic poles different from those of the movable portion magnet in opposed positions, respectively, and a conductor plate disposed in a gap defined between the fixed portion magnet assembly and the movable portion magnet assembly.

Abstract: An input speech signal is compressed and encoded by a speech encoding unit 3 and sent to an RF transmission processing unit 4 where it is channel-encoded, modulated and transmission-processed so as to be transmitted over an antenna 11. A signal received over the antenna 11 is reception-processed, demodulated and channel-decoded so as to be expanded and decoded a speech decoding unit 6. A recording/playback control unit 8 controls writing of a signal from the speech encoding unit 3 to a semiconductor memory 7 or readout of a signal from the semiconductor memory 7 to the speech encoding unit 3. This enables the semiconductor memory 7 to be efficiently utilized in single/dual communication without increasing the circuit construction.

Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide a charging generator 1 which can avoid occurrence of overvoltage due to failure of equipment, which comprises: an a.c. generator 10 having armature windings 10a, 10b, 10c and a field winding 10d for generating an a.c.; a rectifier 11 having a plurality of power zener diodes 11a-11f having an intrinsic breakdown voltage Vz for converting the a.c. output from the armature windings to a d.c.; a current inhibit means which receives the d.c. output from the rectifier via field winding 10d and inhibits a field current which flows through the field winding; a voltage detection means for detecting a voltage of the d.c. output from the rectifier; and a voltage regulator 13, which includes a protection control means for controlling the current inhibit means in accordance with a result of judgment which is larger between a detected value of the d.c. voltage and a predetermined protection cut-off voltage VB, for regulating the d.c.

Abstract: An adaptive signal processing device employed in a hand-portable telephone configured to adaptively estimate signal transfer characteristics in a transmission system and process signals based upon such estimation includes a power calculating unit, a filter coefficient updating unit, an arithmetic-logical unit and an echo removing unit. The power calculating unit calculates the power of a first input signal x(n) entering the device via a transmission system. The filter coefficient updating unit calculates a filter coefficient h(n+1)(i) updated at time n+1 based upon the first input signal x(n), a signal e(n) corresponding to a second input signal d(n) to be transmitted over the transmission system less a pseudo-echo component, a signal 2.sup.Pe outputted by the power calculating unit, a control constant a and a filter coefficient h(n)(i) at time n, in accordance with an equationh.sub.(n+1) (i)=h.sub.(n) (i)+.alpha.(e(n).times.(n-i))2.sup.

Abstract: A state of a plurality of switches for performing application and cutoff of a plurality of electrical loads is stored in a memory circuit. A pattern of supply power after application of the load for each of the plurality of electrical loads and a load response priority order assigned previously to each of the electrical loads are stored in a memory table. A control circuit identifies a newly applied load on the basis of the turned-on state of the plurality of switches stored in the memory circuit and instructs an electric power supply circuit to supply electric power in accordance with the supply power pattern corresponding to the identified load, while the control circuit prohibits application of the newly applied electrical load when an electrical load having the load response priority order higher than that of the newly applied electrical load has been already applied. The memory table may store consumption power and an application priority order assigned previously to each of the electrical loads.

Abstract: A device for guiding a wire harness connected to a steering column, includes a protector for accomodating a slacken part of the wire harness therein and two half cylindrical ribs elastically formed in the protector. In operation, when the slacken part is expanded, the ribs serve to urge the slacken part to recover the original configuration before being expanded.