Patents Represented by Attorney Mark J. Murphy
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Patent number: 5817747Abstract: Cooling process for polyester and/or polyamide resins downstream of solid-state polycondensation plants in which the cooling is carried out by passing the solid material through two types of equipment in series, of which one is a fluid-bed, the other is a solid/wall cooling equipment. The fluid bed equipment is fed with a stream of inert-gas coming from the solid-state polycondensation reactor, previously subjected to by-products purification, drying and cooling.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 1997Date of Patent: October 6, 1998Assignee: Sinco Engineering S.p.A.Inventors: Dario Giordano, Giuseppina Boveri
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Patent number: 5786012Abstract: A vitamin concentrate delivery system including a positive displacement pump having a pump drive and a pump controller, and a flow measurement or detection unit having a magnetic flow tube, a transmitter and a recording device to regulate the flow of liquid vitamin concentrates into food products. A method of adding the vitamin concentrates to the dairy products is also described.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 1996Date of Patent: July 28, 1998Assignee: Vitamins, Inc.Inventor: Erik G. Peterson
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Patent number: 5776994Abstract: Concentrates of dianhydrides of tetracarboxylic acids in polycarbonate resins containing up to about 50% by weight of dianhydride. The concentrates can be added to aromatic polyester resins in the melt in quantities equivalent to contents of dianhydride from 0.05 to 2% by weight of the resin.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 1997Date of Patent: July 7, 1998Assignee: Sinco Engineering S.p.A.Inventors: Hussain Al Ghatta, Sandro Cobror
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Patent number: 5777599Abstract: This invention relates to an improved image processing device which more rapidly provides an image that appears to have a greater resolution by using dithering to an output device having a lower resolution. An interpolator register cooperates with an input register. Dither values are loaded into the interpolator register and added to input data that has been loaded into the input register. The natural carry function of the adder performs any necessary incrementing, and an output register receives the sum, after truncation of as many bits as required to fit the dithered sum into the space available or usable by the display device.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 1992Date of Patent: July 7, 1998Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: John W. Poduska, Jr.
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Patent number: 5766727Abstract: According to the present invention, a magnetic recording medium comprises a glass substrate, a first under layer, a second under layer, a magnetic layer, a protective layer and a lubricant layer in the named order. The first under layer is formed on a glass plate, a surface of which is highly polished. The second under layer is formed, on the first under layer, of a material differing from a material of the first under layer, and has a thickness greater than a thickness of the first under layer. The magnetic layer is formed on the second under layer. The protective layer is formed on the magnetic layer, on whose surface a texture due to dispersed hard minute particles appears. The lubricant layer is formed on the protective layer.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 1996Date of Patent: June 16, 1998Assignee: Hoya CorporationInventors: Keiji Moroishi, Kivoshi Sato, Isao Kawasumi, Hisao Kawai
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Patent number: 5763899Abstract: In an active matrix display device, a circuit including at least five thin film transistors (TFTs) which are provided with an approximately M-shaped semiconductor region for a single pixel electrode and a gate line and a capacitances line which cross the M-shaped semiconductor region, is used as a switching element. Then, by supplying a selection signal to the gate line, the TFTs are operated, thereby writing data to the pixel, while if a suitable voltage is supplied to the capacitance line, a channel is formed thereunder and it becomes a capacitor. Thus the amount of discharge from the pixel electrode is reduced by this capacitor.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 1996Date of Patent: June 9, 1998Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co.Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Jun Koyama, Yasuhiko Takemura
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Patent number: 5763298Abstract: An integrated circuit having a first and second bond pads, a latch circuit, and a voltage lead. Different configurations of the internal circuitry of the integrated circuit are selected by applying the voltage lead either to the first or second bond pads. This result is achieved because the latch circuit, coupled between the first and second bond pads, is capable of inverting the voltage response seen at the first bond pad.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 1997Date of Patent: June 9, 1998Assignees: United Memories, Inc., Nippon Steel Semiconductor CorporationInventors: Michael Parris, Michael V. Cordoba
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Patent number: 5754814Abstract: A accordance determining circuit (113) that determines whether or not a cache address CA required in updating a cache data memory (111) and a cache tag memory (112) accords with the address of data read from an external memory (130) is provided. When the accordance determining circuit (150) has determined an accordance state, a register (115) is enabled so that cache data read from the external memory (130) is stored in a register (115) and supplied to a cache requester (101). Alternatively, a means for generating an address corresponding to the next data of data to be updated in updating the cache data memory (111) and (112) is provided so as to determine the cache status of an address being generated. Thus, if the determined result represents that the cache data has not been stored, a plurality of data are updated at a time. Consequently, the mis-hit penalty time can be reduced and the hit ratio can be improved.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 1994Date of Patent: May 19, 1998Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kazuhiko Maki
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Patent number: 5747427Abstract: Disclosed is a method of forming a thin junction film including a first thin oxide flilm presenting a superconductivity and second thin oxide film presenting an insulator properties or possibly semiconductive properties with an improved production efficiency as well as improved film quality and characteristics. Employed are first and second targets each having substantially the same chemical composition excepting oxygen content. The first target is sputtered at a target cathode voltage of minus 100 V by the use of voltage derived from an external D.C. voltage source, thereby forming a first thin oxide film. Subsequently, the target is changed over to the second target while changing the target cathode voltage into self-bias voltage of minus 50 V without any change of the other film formation conditions.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 1996Date of Patent: May 5, 1998Assignees: Hokkaido Electric Power Co., Inc., International Superconductivity Technology CenterInventors: Norio Homma, Tadataka Morishita
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Patent number: 5739269Abstract: Process for the production of aromatic polyester resins by polycondensation in the solid state of resins with intrinsic viscosity comprised between 0.1 and 0.45 dl/g, in which the ratio by weight between the hourly flow speed of the inert gas fed to the reactor and the hourly flow speed of the fed polymer is comprised between 0.1 and 0.6.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 1997Date of Patent: April 14, 1998Assignee: Sinco Engineering, S.p.A.Inventors: Hussain Al Ghatta, Dario Giordano
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Patent number: 5728259Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process for fabricating a thin-film semiconductor device which includes (1) a step of etching a silicon film by wet etching or gas etching, the former employing a liquid containing hydrazine or ethylene diamine, the latter employing chlorine fluoride, thereby forming an island-like silicon semiconductor region having inclined edges, and (2) a step of forming thereon a gate insulating film by plasma-free process such as heated CVD. The process yields the island-like silicon region and gate insulating film completely free from plasma-induced damage. This reduces the leakage current between the source and drain (which is due to plasma-induced damage) and prevents the degradation of characteristic properties.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 1995Date of Patent: March 17, 1998Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory, Ltd.Inventors: Hideomi Suzawa, Shunpei Yamazaki, Toshiji Hamatani, Yasuhiko Takemura
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Patent number: 5725625Abstract: A glass substrate manufacturing method advantageously applicable to magnetic recording disk glass substrates, LCD glass substrates, photomask glass substrates, or optical memory glass substrates. The glass substrate is formed by chemically strengthening a glass substrate by immersing the glass substrate in a chemical reinforcement solution heated and then ion exchanging ions on the surface layer of the glass substrate with ions in the chemical reinforcement solution; removing the substrate from the chemical reinforcement solution and then annealing it to a temperature higher than the crystallization temperature of a molten salt; rapidly cooling the glass substrate at a rate at which the crystallization of the molten salt deposited on the surface of the glass substrate is prevented; and then cleaning the surface of the glass substrate.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 1996Date of Patent: March 10, 1998Assignee: Hoya CorporationInventors: Teruki Kitayama, Kazuhiko Sekiguchi, Teruhisa Fujita, Yoshio Murano, Sakuji Yoshihara, Takeshi Kojima
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Patent number: 5714571Abstract: Aromatic polyester resins are continuously crystallized in a fluid bed crystallizer, where the fluidizing gas (nitrogen) enters at a temperature not lower than 195.degree. C. and the average residence time is higher than 5 minutes.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 1995Date of Patent: February 3, 1998Assignee: Sinco Engineering S.p.A.Inventors: Hussain Ali Kashif Al Ghatta, Dario Giordano
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Patent number: 5708124Abstract: Process for the solid state polycondensation of polyester resins, where an inert gas is circulating in a moving bed of polymer at a temperature between 180.degree. and 230.degree. C., characterized by the fact that the ratio by weight between the gas rate of flow per hour and that one of the discharged polymer is lower than 0.6.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 1995Date of Patent: January 13, 1998Assignee: Sinco Engineering S.p.A.Inventors: Hussain Ali Kashif Al Ghatta, Dario Giordano
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Patent number: 5701413Abstract: A multi-processor system in wherein a plurality of processors have access to a plurality of shared memory modules, comprising a memory control unit, interconnection logic circuits, a system bus for the multipoint connection of the processors to the memory control unit and for the transfer of memory addresses and commands for ordered and successive read/write operations via the system bus and the memory control unit, whilst the transfer of data to and from the memory modules takes place through data channels which connect the various processors on a point-to-point basis to the interconnection logic circuits and via these to a memory data transfer channel.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 1994Date of Patent: December 23, 1997Assignee: Bull HN Information Systems Italia S.p.A.Inventors: Ferruccio Zulian, Angelo Ramolini, Carlo Bagnoli, Angelo Lazzari
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Patent number: 5698903Abstract: An integrated circuit having a first and second bond pads, a latch circuit, and a voltage lead. Different configurations of the internal circuitry of the integrated circuit are selected by applying the voltage lead either to the first or second bond pads. This result is achieved because the latch circuit, coupled between the first and second bond pads, is capable of inverting the voltage response seen at the first bond pad.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 1995Date of Patent: December 16, 1997Assignees: United Memories, Inc., Nippon Steel Semiconductor Corp.Inventors: Michael Parris, Michael V. Cordoba
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Patent number: 5696208Abstract: Polyamide resins characterized in melt state by high sensitivity to shear forces and high visco-elasticity, obtained by polycondensation/polyaddition in the solid state in presence of polyfunctional compounds capable of reacting with resin terminal groups and/or in presence of polyester resins employed in quantity up to about 40% by weight of the resin mixtures.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 1995Date of Patent: December 9, 1997Assignee: Sinco Engineering S.p.A.Inventors: Hussain Ali Kashif Al Ghatta, Sandro Cobror
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Patent number: 5681655Abstract: Filaments from a polyester resin having an elastic modulus higher than 30 GPa and stress at break greater than 300 MPa. The filaments are obtained by upgrading under stretch filaments prepared from polyester resin mixed in the melt with a polyfunctional compound able to increase the polymer intrinsic viscosity by addition reaction in the solid state with the terminal groups of the resin.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 1996Date of Patent: October 28, 1997Assignee: Sinco Engineering S.p.A.Inventors: Hussain Ali Kashif Al Ghatta, Tonino Severini, Sandro Cobror
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Patent number: 5681609Abstract: A method for manufacturing a magnetic recording disk including the steps of forming a film of solution on at least a principal surface of a sheet glass; the solution contains a water soluble inorganic material and a surface active agent; sandwiching both sides of a single sheet glass on which the film is formed or on a laminated structure of plural sheet glasses with a densified sheet with a high flatness to pressure the single glass or laminated structure; and heating and annealing the single sheet glass or laminated structure to flatten it. The end side of the flattened glass substrate is treated with a treating solution containing hydrofluosilicic acid.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 1996Date of Patent: October 28, 1997Assignee: Hoya CorporationInventors: Teruki Kitayama, Kazuhiko Sekiguchi, Teruhisa Fujita, Yoshio Murano, Sakuji Yoshihara, Takeshi Kojima
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Patent number: 5673194Abstract: A data-collection and monitoring system for a production line ensures the traceability, that is, the detailed reconstruction, of the entire production process for each finished product output by the line, by the separate filing of data relating to the manufacturing steps and to the products, with the use of time as the unifying factor. The system advantageously provides for the two sets of data to be correlated only when necessary, permitting considerably savings in both hardware and software requirements.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 1994Date of Patent: September 30, 1997Assignee: Marelli Autronica S.p.A.Inventors: Marco Cipelletti, Orlando Pasti