Abstract: A method of producing a semiconductor device includes a device body producing step, electrically coupling leads and a semiconductor chip, and producing a device body by encapsulating the semiconductor chip by a resin package so that portions of the leads are exposed from the resin package, a honing step, carrying out a honing process using a polishing solution at least with respect to a resin flash adhered on the portions of the leads exposed from the resin package, an etching step, removing an unwanted stacked layer structure formed on the leads by carrying out an etching process after the honing step, and a plating step, carrying out a plating process with respect to the leads after the etching step to form a plated layer made of a soft bonding material. The honing step removes a portion of the unwanted stacked layer structure in addition to the resin flash.

Abstract: An optical modulator for modulating light emitted from a signal light source has a substrate having electrooptic effect, an optical waveguide of a Mach-Zehnder type formed on the substrate, an electrode formed on the substrate to control light propagated in the optical waveguide, an interference light generating means for making radiation light radiated from the optical waveguide and signal light leaking from the optical waveguide interfere with each other to generate interference light, and emitting the interference light from an end surface of the substrate, a photo-detector for monitoring the interference light of the radiation light and the signal light, and a signal controlling circuit for controlling an operating point of the optical modulator according to a change of the interference light monitored by the photo-detector It is thereby possible to prevent degradation of a distinction ratio due to a shift of the operating point of the optical modulator so as to allow stable optical modulation, while faci

Abstract: A communication control apparatus controls the transmission of data between client and server applications in a client/server system. The alteration to the system of a server machine does not affect the client application by temporarily storing the data in an internal database.The communication control apparatus contains a queue-structure entry table or response table as the database storing data notified of by the client application or the response data by the server application. It also stores the table defining information which defines the format of each table. The data transmitted between the client application and the server application is queued and retrieved on each of the tables.

Abstract: A cooling device for a mounting module in which heat generated from a predetermined number of circuit elements mounted on the mounting module is dissipated by a cooling arrangement. The cooling device is comprised of at least one conduction element which thermally connects the circuit element with the cooling arrangement, the conduction element includes a predetermined number of first conductive members which is placed in a respective hole formed in the conduction arrangement and is movably supported by a first conductive material filled between the side surface of the first conductive member and the surface of the conduction element so as to complete a thermal flow from the circuit element to the cooling arrangement.

Abstract: A portable telephone having a cover (14) rotatably mounted to a cover body (2). When the cover (14) is in a closed condition, it covers and protects a switch section of the body (2), while when the cover (14) is in an open condition, it is held in a stable position at a predetermined inclined angle with respect to the body (2) by a cover holding mechanism. When the cover (14) is in the open condition, it also functions as a voice reflecting and collecting board for a microphone provided in the body (2).

Abstract: A function processing system processes functions to make a three-dimensional display on a screen of a display means by connecting a plurality of lattice points of a space coordinate in a three-dimensional space region. The function processing system includes a computing system for computing a function value at each of the lattice points by a multivariable function having the space coordinate as an independent variable, where the computing system replaces the multivariable function by a product of a predetermined number of single variable functions and computing each of the single variable functions in advance so that the multivariable function is computed based on function values of each of the single variable functions, and a storage unit for storing the function values of the single variable functions which are computed in advance by the computing system. The computing system reads the stored function values of the single variable functions from the storage unit when computing the multivariable function.

Abstract: A gear noise evaluation system having a neuro-computer which is provided with sound pressure values from an FFT analyzer. At this time, an evaluator simultaneously presets an absolutely sensual evaluating value as a teacher signal from a control bench. The neuro-computer repeatedly performs a learning so that the pressure values may become the absolutely sensual evaluating value until the difference between the sound pressure value and the sensual evaluating value lies in a permissive error range thereby determining a function value.

Abstract: A crystal of a compound semiconductor is deposited on a substrate using a metal organic vapor phase epitaxy within a reaction enclosure having a vertical flow of deposition gas supplied through a gas injector within the deposition enclosure. The deposition gas is supplied in a plurality of divided flow paths in which the flow rates are individually controlled. The injector comprises a plurality of gas jet ports which receive respective, plural flow paths and which are disposed in a two-dimensional array having dimensions corresponding to the two-dimensional main surface dimensions of the substrate thereby to supply a uniform flow of deposition gas over the entire two-dimensional main surface of the substrate. The method and apparatus have special application in the deposition of quaternary III--V compound semiconductor.

Abstract: A scalar data processing method and apparatus for compressing scalar data defined on a two-dimensional surface and for reconstructing the two-dimensional scalar data based on the compressed data. Edge lines of the scalar data are detected, a domain is obtained on a horizontal line intersecting with the edge lines and between the edge lines, and a function is determined as an approximation of a Laplacian of the two-dimensional scalar data at each point in the cut domain. The two-dimensional scalar data is compressed by replacing the two-dimensional scalar data at every point with scalar data at the edge lines, scalar data for providing gradients of the two-dimensional scalar data on the edge lines, and the function determined above. The two-dimensional scalar data by interpolating the two-dimensional scalar data based on the scalar data is reconstructed at the edge lines, scalar data for providing gradients of the two-dimensional scalar data on the edge lines, and the above function.

Abstract: A lookahead (guessahead) prefetching technique is used to reduce the average access time, for accessing memory modules when program addresses are modified into effective addresses for addressing the modules. A first memory address register stores the column address and module designation portions of the current effective address, a second memory address register stores the row address portion of the current effective address, and a third memory address register stores the module designation portion of the prior effective address. Since the same module is frequently accessed many times in succession, the average access time is reduced by starting an access based upon the contents of the second and third memory address registers without waiting until the column address and module designation portions of the current effective address are available for storage in the first memory address register.

Abstract: An output voltage-drop detecting apparatus added to a stabilized DC power source device which includes a power control circuit for controlling a DC input voltage to produce a DC output voltage of a specified value, a reference voltage source whose voltage is capable of being varied, and an error amplifier, with the DC output voltage and the reference voltage being compared by the error amplifier and the power control circuit being controlled by the output of the error amplifier to stabilize the output voltage.

Abstract: A method for drying coal in a coal mill and pneumatically conveying it to a kiln for burning, with a portion of the coal-dust-laden air generated thereby being diverted to a clinker cooler adjacent the kiln in order to ignite the suspended particles and supply hot air for burning the coal. The diverted air is later recirculated back to the coal mill to help dry the coal.

Abstract: In a data processing system having a plurality of virtual address spaces, a virtual address is translated into a real address for accessing a main memory and the translation result is stored in a translation lookaside buffer, as in a processing system having a single virtual address space. Thereafter, in the case of the same virtual address as the above, the translation lookaside buffer is retrieved to translate the virtual address into a real address. Generally, even in the case of the same virtual addresses, if their virtual address spaces are different, the virtual addresses are translated into different real addresses. However, a control program, a control table or a common subroutine is provided in a common area in which the coordination of virtual and real addresses is always constant even in the case of different virtual address spaces.