Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for determining an appropriate write current for a magnetic recording medium and to write magnetic information on the magnetic recording medium at the appropriate write current thus determined. When a current value suited to writing on a magnetic recording medium is to be found, a coercive force of the magnetic recording medium is found from a voltage at which magnetic information written on the magnetic recording medium is read, and a traveling quantity of the magnetic recording medium, and a current value corresponding to the coercive force, are found.

Abstract: A method for operating a content addressable memory that includes receiving a first data value for evaluation at a first memory block during a first time interval, receiving a second data value for evaluation at a second memory block during a second time interval and evaluating said both the first and second data values during a third time interval. According to one embodiment of the invention the first and second time intervals are separate so that the first and second data blocks receive unique data out of phase with one another from a single address bus. Evaluation of both data values takes place substantially simultaneously in the respective memory blocks. Also included is a device architecture and a device adapted to control data transfer to two CAM memory blocks in response to alternate phase transitions of a control signal.

Abstract: A barrier implanted region of a first conductivity type located below an isolation region of a pixel sensor cell and spaced from a doped region of a second conductivity type of a photodiode of the pixel sensor cell is disclosed. The barrier implanted region is formed by conducting a plurality of deep implants at different energies and doping levels below the isolation region. The deep implants reduce surface leakage and dark current and increase the capacitance of the photodiode by acting as a reflective barrier to electrons generated by light in the doped region of the second conductivity type of the photodiode.

Abstract: Embodiments provide structures and methods for binning pixel signals of a pixel array. Pixel signals for pixels in an element of the array are binned simultaneously. Pixels in an element are located in a plurality of rows and columns. In exemplary embodiments, pixel voltage signals or pixel current signals are binned.

Abstract: A reactor system for oxidative conversion of hydrocarbons comprising at least one reactor tube being provided with a plurality of perforations along a wall of the tube and a reaction zone with an active catalyst arranged on tube side and/or shell side of the reactor tube; and a bed of particulates material surrounding the at least one reactor tube, the bed of particulate material being adapted to be fluidised by an oxygen containing atmosphere and to transport heat from the reactor tube.

Abstract: A polarizing beam splitter for separating an upstream beam from a downstream beam according to the polarization of an incident beam is provided between first and second light sources emitting laser beams at respective wavelength and an objective lens. A phase plate for providing a phase difference to a beam incident on the polarizing beam splitter is provided between the polarizing beam splitter and the light sources. A portion of the laser beam incident on the polarizing beam splitter is reflected by the polarizing beam splitter and caused to be incident on a photo-detecting unit, so as to prevent an unnecessary portion of the laser beam is incident on the photo-detecting unit. According to the invention, the laser beam is used efficiently and the cost of fabricating an optical disk apparatus is reduced by eliminating a need for a gain controlling circuit in the photo-detecting unit.

Abstract: A lens antenna including a lens body and/or a matching layer. In the lens antenna, lens body may be formed by a material containing thermoplastic elastomers. When a matching layer is formed on the surface of the lens body, at least one of the lens body and the matching layer is formed by a material containing thermoplastic elastomers. The use of thermoplastic elastomers in the lens body and/or the matching layer assist in reducing the formation of cracks therein.

Abstract: A core includes a tubular body that supports a wound sheet roll. The tubular body having open ends includes an annular outer surface receiving the sheet roll, and an annular inner surface defining a bore that receives a spindle. A plurality of ribs project inwardly from the body inner surface and extend axially between the open ends for nesting in corresponding slots in the spindle. Each of the ribs includes a bevel at one end for frictionally engaging a corresponding spindle slots to retain the core axially. Another set of frictional retention ribs projects inwardly from the body inner surface and extends radially between the axial ribs.

Abstract: Integrated circuit arrangement, in which bearing areas of mutually opposing sides of a carrier and of a substrate layer, which carries circuit structures, are bonded by means of an adhesive layer. The adhesive bond is produced from adhesives forming at least two adhesive tracks. The first adhesive track is formed in a region of an externally accessible seam between the substrate layer and the carrier, and the second adhesive track is formed parallel to the first adhesive track in an inner region of the bearing areas that face one another.

Abstract: A storage element pending command queue prioritization system using multiple pending queues each assigned to a particular RAID command type. Pending commands from each of the queues are organized in such a way that lower priority commands are guaranteed a fixed amount of storage element bandwidth. Storage element throughput is optimized by limiting higher priority commands to a maximum service level and processing lower priority requests with the added storage element bandwidth, allowing lower priority requests to exceed their minimum service levels.

Abstract: The invention is related to methods and apparatus for providing a resistance variable memory element with improved data retention and switching characteristics. According to one embodiment of the invention, a resistance variable memory element is provided having at least one silver-selenide layer in between two glass layers, wherein at least one of the glass layers is a chalcogenide glass, preferably having a GexSe100?x composition. According to another embodiment of the invention, a resistance variable memory element is provided having at least one silver-selenide layer in between chalcogenide glass layers and further having a silver layer above at least one of said chalcogenide glass layers and a conductive adhesion layer above said silver layer.

Abstract: A photoreactive resin composition contains (a) a powdered base metal, (b) an organic binder, (c) a photosensitive organic component, and (d) a polycarboxylic acid-based dispersing agent with a molecular weight of about 1,500 or less. Also disclosed is a method for making a circuit substrate or a ceramic multilayer substrate including the step of forming a conductive pattern using the photoreactive resin composition.

Abstract: An object is to narrow the width a frame part provided to a display device. The display device of the present invention comprises: a main substrate having display pixels being arranged in matrix, a scanning line electrode array, a signal line electrode array, and a frame part formed in an edge of the substrate along the scanning line electrode array and the signal line electrode array; a scanning line driving element mounted to the frame part along the scanning line electrode array; a signal line driving element mounted to the frame part along the signal line electrode array; and a flexible flat cable for supplying a signal and a power to the driving circuits of the scanning line driving element and the signal line driving element.

Abstract: A CAM device combines a folded bit line architecture with a standard six transistor DRAM based CAM cell and includes a sensing scheme where the active and reference bit lines being sensed are each from the same memory array of the CAM device. Noise present in one array therefore appears as common mode noise in both the active and reference bit lines, thereby permitting the sensing operation to be performed accurately even in the presence of increased noise.

Abstract: An apparatus such as an imager includes groups of sensors each of which includes subgroups of sensors. Subgroup select circuits are coupled to outputs from respective subgroups of sensors, and group select circuits are coupled to outputs from subgroup select circuits associated with respective ones of the groups. A bus is coupled to receive outputs from the group select circuits. A controller can provide control signals to the subgroup select circuits and the group select circuits to selectively enable the respective subgroup select circuits and group select circuits to pass signals from the sensors to the bus one sensor at a time.

Abstract: A deep implanted region of a first conductivity type located below a transistor array of a pixel sensor cell and adjacent a doped region of a second conductivity type of a photodiode of the pixel sensor cell is disclosed. The deep implanted region reduces surface leakage and dark current and increases the capacitance of the photodiode by acting as a reflective barrier to photo-generated charge in the doped region of the second conductivity type of the photodiode. The deep implanted region also provides improved charge transfer from the charge collection region of the photodiode to a floating diffusion region adjacent the gate of the transfer transistor.

Abstract: The present invention has the object of providing a charged particle beam irradiation method ideal for reducing the focus offset, magnification fluctuation and measurement length error in charged particle beam devices. To achieve these objects, a method is disclosed in the invention for measuring the electrical potential distribution on the sample with a static electrometer while loaded by a loader mechanism. Another method is disclosed for measuring the local electrical charge at specified points on the sample, and isolating and measuring the wide area electrostatic charge quantity from those local electrostatic charges.

Abstract: A content addressable memory (CAM) device includes a plurality of entries each having an associated counter. When a CAM entry matches a search word stored in the comparand register of the CAM device, the matching entry's counter may be incremented. Alternatively, if there are multiple matching entries, in some instances only one matching entry has its counter incremented. The counter value can be written or read as part of either the least significant or most significant bits of the CAM entry.

Abstract: A sacrificial layer is formed in a recess of a substrate, and leads extending from the substrate into an area of the sacrificial layer are formed. A cut is formed from the bottom surface of the substrate, the cut extending from the bottom surface to the area of the sacrificial layer via the substrate, then the sacrificial layer is removed. A probe unit can be obtained having the leads whose front portions extend beyond the edge of the substrate. A through conductor may be formed in a through hole formed in a substrate. Leads may be formed on a photosensitive etching glass substrate to thereafter selectively etch the chemically cutting type glass.