Abstract: A tapered hollow shaft made of a fiber reinforced composite material, which comprises: (a) at least one angle layer consisting essentially of polyacrylonitrile-based carbon fibers having a tensile modulus ranging from 200 to 500 GPa and a tensile strength ranging from 4000 to 5600 MPa; (b) at least one straight layer consisting essentially of polyacrylonitrile-based carbon fibers having a tensile modulus ranging from 200 to 460 GPa and a tensile strength ranging from 3500 to 5600 MPa; (c) at least one reinforcing layer consisting essentially of pitch-based carbon fibers or polyacrylonitrile-based carbon fibers each having a compressive breaking strain of 1.7 to 5.0%, a tensile modulus ranging from 5 to 160 GPa, a tensile strength ranging from 500 to 3000 MPa and a density ranging from 1.5 to 1.

Abstract: A sense amplifier for a very high density integrated circuit memory using CMOS technology is described. Each sense amplifier includes first and second local sense amplifier drive transistors, one connecting the P channel transistors to VCC; the other connecting the N channel transistors to VSS. A read amplifier circuit is provided within each sense amplifier and is operated by read control signals. Internal nodes of the latch of the sense amplifier are coupled by pass transistors that are responsive to column write control signals. Local data write driver transistors are also provided to selectively couple the pass transistors to VCC-Vt or VSS in response to further data write control signals. A relatively wider power line is coupled to the drive transistors to provide VCC thereto, and a narrower line is used to control those first sense amplifier drive transistors.

Abstract: A semiconductor device of this invention has an LOC (Lead On Chip) structure, and a protective film consisting of a thermoplastic (thermosetting) resin material such as a thermoplastic (thermosetting) polyimide resin or a thermoplastic (thermosetting) polyamide resin is formed on the surface of a semiconductor chip having a DRAM. The lower surface of a lead frame is positioned to the upper surface of the semiconductor chip, on which the protective film is formed, and the upper surface of the semiconductor chip is bonded and fixed to the lower surface of the distal end portion of an inner lead with only the protective film interposed therebetween such that bonding pads appear between opposing bus bars. According to this invention, the protective film serves not only as an &agr;-ray protective film but also as an insulating material and an adhesive material.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a tandem cold rolling method conducted by a tandem cold rolling mill, the number of rolling stands of which is not less than 4, wherein a rolling tension, the intensity of which is not lower than 30%, preferably not lower than 40% of the deformation resistance of material to be rolled, is given at least by the final rolling stand. The present invention is also to provide a tandem cold rolling mill satisfying the inequality of JC≧(0.375{overscore (h)}+0.275)JM, wherein the average thickness of a product sheet on the delivery side of the final rolling mill is {overscore (h)}, and an output of one coiler arranged on the delivery side of the tandem cold rolling mill, or a sum of an output of one coiler on the delivery side and an output of the bridle roller on the delivery side is JC, and an output of the main motor of the final rolling stand of the tandem cold rolling mill is JM.

Abstract: An ultra-high strength steel having excellent ultra-low temperature toughness, a tensile strength of at least about 930 MPa (135 ksi), and a microstructure comprising predominantly fine-grained lower bainite, fine-grained lath martensite, or mixtures thereof, transformed from substantially unrecrystallized austenite grains and comprising iron and specified weight percentages of the additives: carbon, silicon, manganese, copper, nickel, niobium, vanadium, molybdenum, chromium, titanium, aluminum, calcium, Rare Earth Metals, and magnesium, is prepared by heating a steel slab to a suitable temperature; reducing the slab to form plate in one or more hot rolling passes in a first temperature range in which austenite recrystallizes; further reducing said plate in one or more hot rolling passes in a second temperature range below said first temperature range and above the temperature at which austenite begins to transform to ferrite during cooling; quenching said plate to a suitable Quench Stop Temperature; and stop

Abstract: In an high-frequency LSI chip, a clock signal generating circuit establishes accurate synchronization between an input clock signal and an internal clock signal to prevent an input circuit from causing a synchronization shift. The clock signal generating circuit includes an input circuit for amplifying an input signal and outputting an amplified signal as a first internal signal; a variable delay circuit, on the basis of a control signal, for delaying the first internal signal and outputting a delayed signal as a second internal signal; a phase comparator for finding a phase difference between the input signal and second internal signal and outputting a phase difference signal indicative of the phase difference; and a control circuit for generating the control signal on the basis of the phase difference signal. Thus, the influences of a delay caused by the input circuit, which would not be avoided in the prior art, can be avoided and the accurate internal clock signal can be generated.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a method of remodeling an existing clean room building into a clean room which satisfies a new required specification. A working room (11) is expanded by removing a wall (29) between the working room (11) and a general passage (30). If a portion of the floor of the working room (11) is not the grated panel structure, such floor portion is formed as the grated panel structure by remodeling and the floor is formed as a perforated free access floor. The whole of the ceiling of the working room (11) is formed as a system ceiling of a frame structure from which a dust-collecting filter whose unit size is 600×1200 mm can be made freely detachable if necessary, and a ULPA filter is disposed on a portion which is requested to have a high cleanliness. An air-insulating panel of the same size may be attached to a portion which does not require the dust-collecting filter. An existing air conditioner that has been in use before remodeling is used as the air conditioner as it is.

Abstract: A motion vector detecting apparatus generates motion vectors in units of subblocks (submacroblocks) and motion vectors in units of macroblocks on the basis of absolute difference of the individual pixels calculated by absolute difference calculating circuits. A switching arrangement switches the absolute difference calculating circuits to generate one of these two kinds of vectors. For generation of the motion vectors in units of subblocks, a motion vector search range can be shifted by adding an offset in accordance with, e.g., the motion of an image.

Abstract: A cold forging steel excellent in grain coarsening prevention and delayed fracture resistance and method of producing the same are provided that enable omission of a step of annealing or spheroidization annealing before cold forging and improvement of delayed fracture resistance of a high-strength component used with a heat-treated surface. The cold forging steel is a steel of a specified composition having dispersed in the matrix thereof particles of not greater than 0.2 &mgr;m diameter of one or more of TiC, Ti(CN), NbC, Nb(CN) and (Nb, Ti)(CN) in a total number of not less than 20/100 &mgr;m2. The method of producing a cold forging steel includes the steps of heating this steel to not lower than 1050° C., hot-rolling the steel into steel wire or steel bar, and slowly cooling the steel at a cooling rate of not greater than 2 C./s during cooling to a temperature not higher than 600° C. to obtain a steel having dispersed in the matrix thereof particles of not greater than 0.

Abstract: A structural steel excellent in wear resistance and fatigue resistance property, for use as a structural member of a bridge, pylon or the like erected in a shore region where there is concern about steel corrosion and fatigue at weld joint owing to scattering of sea salt particles or in a region where snow-melting salt is used, is provided at low cost and by a simple production method. The hot rolled structural steel contains, in percentage by weight, C: 0.02-0.20%, and further added with small amounts of Ni, Cu and Mo as essential elements, that is a rolled steel excellent in wear resistance and fatigue resistance property having a Ni/Cu concentration ratio of not less than 0.8, a steel surface internal oxide layer of not greater than 2 &mgr;m, and a Ni, Cu and Mo concentrated layer of a thickness of not less than 2 &mgr;m on the internal oxide layer.

Abstract: A semiconductor device is provide with a logic-rewritable logic integrated circuit having a field programmable gate array storing logic data which is rewritable in response to an external command signal. Compared with each other are first data which is included in at least a reference signal and is related to the logic data of the logic integrated circuit and second data included in a command signal. Rewriting of the logic data is controlled according to a result of the comparison. Rewriting of the logic data may be prohibited when the first and second data are not identical to each other. It may be judged that the logic data has been rewritten when the first and second data are not identical to each other. The command signal may be compared with a plurality of reference signals, such as known viruses. Rewriting of the logic data is prohibited when the command signal and any one of the plurality of reference signals is identical to each other.

Abstract: A method for depositing a metal having a high corrosion resistance and a low contact resistance against carbon to a separator for a fuel cell enabling provision of an inexpensive separator for a fuel cell by depositing a metal having a high corrosion resistance and a low contact resistance against carbon to the surface of a metal conveniently by simple equipment while using as a preform a metal such as stainless steel or aluminum as a material having a high productivity and low price and in addition capable of reducing the weight by making the sheet thickness thin, comprising projecting to a separator of a unit cell for forming the fuel cell a solid plating material comprised of core particles having a higher hardness than the separator and coated with a metal having a high corrosion resistance and a low contact resistance against carbon so as to compulsorily deposit the metal coated on this solid plating material to the separator.

Abstract: A metal plate having a rust preventive organic layer, said rust-preventive organic layer being a colloid or micelle of a slightly water soluble organic corrosion inhibitor as an organic layer mixed with and dispersed in a matrix resin, its production process and a treatment liquid in which it is processed.

Abstract: In a semiconductor storage device, an access transistor, which has a gate electrode and a pair of impurity diffusion layers, is formed at a device activation region defined by a device isolation structure of a semiconductor substrate. A first insulating film, which has a first contact hole for exposing a portion of the surface of one of the pair of impurity diffusion layers, is formed over the access transistor. A protective film, which has a second contact hole formed on the first contact hole, is formed on the first insulating film. A second insulating film is formed on the side wall faces of the first and second contact holes. A memory capacitor has a lower electrode and an upper part electrode which are opposed each other and are capacitive-coupled through a dielectric film.

Abstract: An oxide superconducting material includes a REBa2Cu3O7−x phase (RE designating one or a combination of two or more rare earth elements including Y), particles composed of Ce, Ba, Cu and O dispersed therein, and RE2BaCuO5 or RE4Ba2Cu2O10 dispersed therein. A method is provided for producing the superconducting material from a mixed powder obtained by adding a Ce—Ba—Cu—O system additive to a starting material powder containing RE, Ba, Cu and O.

Abstract: High-strength bainitic steel rails have improved resistances to surface fatigue failures and wear required of the head of rails for heavy-load service railroads. The high-strength bainitic steels rails having excellent resistances to surface fatigue failures and wear contain constituents of specific ranges and consisting of bainitic structures at least in part are characterized in that the total area occupied by carbides whose longer axes are 100 to 1000 nm in a given cross section of said bainitic structures accounts for 10 to 50 percent thereof.

Abstract: This invention relates to an aromatic ester (meth)acrylate dendrimer composed of the core formed by an aromatic polycarboxylic acid and the branches formed by an aromatic compound containing one hydroxyl group and two carboxyl groups and represented by the following general formula (1) and also to a curable resin composition which contains the dendrimer and a polymerization initiator as essential components, is low in viscosity and highly curable, and forms a coating film with excellent heat and moisture resistance.

Abstract: A vacuum/reduced pressure refining vessel (1) is connected, by an upstream duct (5) to a dry dust collector (3) that uses a filter (2). The dry dust collector (3) is connected to a reduced pressure evacuating apparatus (4) by a downstream duct (6), and a block valve (7) is provided in the upstream duct (5). At the start of a vacuum/reduced pressure refining treatment, a non-oxidizing gas is injected into the upstream duct at a position that is upstream of the block valve (7) to substantially replace the oxygen in the upstream duct and to hermetically close the upstream duct. After the hermetically closed state has been established in the upstream duct, the block valve (7) is opened and operation of the dry dust collector (3) is started.

Abstract: A method is provided for producing an ultra-high strength steel having a tensile strength of at least about 900 MPa (130 ksi), a toughness as measured by Charpy V-notch impact test at −40° C. (−40° F.) of at least about 120 joules (90 ft-lbs), and a microstructure comprising predominantly fine-grained lower bainite, fine-grained lath martensite, or mixtures thereof, transformed from substantially unrecrystallized austenite grains and comprising iron and specified weight percentages of the additives: carbon, silicon, manganese, copper, nickel, niobium, vanadium, molybdenum, chromium, titanium, aluminum, calcium, Rare Earth Metals, and magnesium.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a corrosion resistant steel excellent in strength and low temperature toughness as well as resistance to corrosion by carbon dioxide and seawater, and most suitable for oil well steel pipes and line pipes for production and transportation of gas, petroleum, etc. used in the field of energy, or a steel for plants, and corrosion resistant oil well steel pipes. The corrosion resistant steel and the corrosion resistant oil well steel pipes comprise, based on weight, up to 0.30% of C, up to 1.0% of Si, 0.2 to 2.0% of Mn, 2.1 to less than 5.0% of Cr, up to 0.03% of P, up to 0.02% of S, up to 0.10% of Al, up to 0.015% of N, optionally containing Cu, Ni, Mo, Ti, Nb and B, and the balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, and have a martensitic structure as their metallic structure.