Abstract: In order to prevent any surface swelling, resulting from bleeding of a low molecular weight compounding agent contained in rubber, a cushioning pad for hot pressing has a rubber sheet 1, and a surface layer material 2 made of a porous heat-resistant resin film laminated on at least one face of rubber sheet 1. The porous film has an average pore diameter of 10 ?m or less and the porous film has gas permeability of 0.1 cm3/cm2·sec or more.

Abstract: A differential amplifier includes a first diode having a first terminal and a second terminal wherein the first terminal is coupled to a voltage node and the second terminal is coupled to a first node, a second diode having a first terminal and a second terminal wherein the first terminal of the second diode is coupled to the voltage node and the second terminal of the second diode is coupled to a second node, a first transistor coupled to the first node in series with the first diode and having a control terminal coupled to a first input terminal, a second transistor coupled to the second node in series with the second diode and having a control terminal coupled to a second input terminal, and a bias current supply coupled to the first and second nodes to bias the first and second diodes.

Abstract: A filter circuit having an input resistance portion including a first transconductor having a positive input port impressed with a first voltage, a negative input port impressed with a second voltage, a positive output port and a negative output port; a second transconductor having a positive input port impressed with the second voltage, a negative input port impressed with a third voltage, a positive output port and a negative output port; and a third transconductor having a positive input port coupled to the positive output ports of the first and second transconductors and the negative output port of the third transconductor, a negative input port coupled to the negative output ports of the first and second transconductors and the positive output port of the third transconductor, a positive output port and a negative output port.

Abstract: A filter circuit has an input terminal which is input with a first current, and which is coupled with a first node, capacitor, of which one terminal is coupled with the first node, of which the other terminal is coupled with a second node, and which integrates the first current and outputs voltages a transconductance means, of which one terminal is coupled with the first node, of which another terminal is coupled with the second node, of which the other terminal is coupled with a third node, and which outputs a second current being proportional to the voltage to the third node and an output terminal which is coupled with the first node, and which outputs the voltage.

Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises a first Si1−&agr;Ge&agr; film, a first cap film, a second Si1−&bgr;Ge&bgr; film (&bgr;<&agr;≦1) and a second cap film formed in this order on a substrate whose surface is formed of silicon, wherein the first Si1−&agr;Ge&agr; film is relaxed to have substantially the same lattice constant as that of the second Si1−&bgr;Ge&bgr; film in a horizontal plane.

Abstract: The present invention provides an electrophotographic photosensitive member capable of maintaining high transfer efficiency without causing large transfer current for a long-term use, obtaining an excellent image, and achieving those effects especially when being applied to a color electrophotographic apparatus. The invention also provides a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus each having such a photosensitive member. The present invention includes an electrophotographic photosensitive member having a photosensitive layer on a support, a surface layer containing diorganopolysiloxane having specific repeating structure units &agr; and &bgr;, and having a weight-average molecular weight of 1,000 to 1,000,000; in which a content of the diorganopolysiloxane in the surface layer is 0.01 to 20% by weight based on the entire weight of the surface layer (except in the case where the surface layer contains fluorine atom-containing resin particles).

Abstract: A logic simulation apparatus is provided with a circuit dividing unit (6) that selects and defines logic cones each of which carries out a logic operation in synchronization with one clock domain as target portions to be speeded up from logic cones extracted by a logic cone extracting unit (5), and that defines logic cons each of which carries out a logic operation based on a plurality of clock domains as nontarget portions not to be speeded up, and a logic compressing unit (7) that compresses the logic of each of the target portions, and performs a logic simulation on each of the target portions whose logic is compressed and also on performs a logic simulation on each of the nontarget portions.

Abstract: A method for improving a semiconductor substrate having a SiGe film on a Si or SOI substrate by using a hydrogen ion implantation and an annealing, wherein the hydrogen ion implantation comprises the steps of:

Abstract: A bit position synchronizer including a sampling circuit which samples an input signal based on a plurality of phases of clock signals to obtain a plurality of sampled signals, a selector which selects one of the plurality of sampled signals, each of which is delayed for a short period, based on a selection signal and which outputs an output signal, a detection circuit which detects a first changing point and a second changing point of the sampled signals, a first register which stores a first value for the first changing point, a second register which stores a second value for the second changing point and a third register which stores an intermediate value between the first and second values and which outputs the selection signal.

Abstract: In an electrophotographic photosensitive member having a support, and provided thereon a photosensitive layer, a surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member contains an electrically insulating binder resin and a random-copolymer type high-molecular-weight charge-transporting material having two kinds of specific repeating structural units. Also disclosed are a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus which have such an electrophotographic photosensitive member.

Abstract: The present invention provides a simple smaller-sized elastic integrated circuit having a lower power, to which data synchronized with a first clock is input and which outputs data synchronized with a second clock. The elastic integrated circuit includes a read address counter which operates with an internal clock to output a read address count value; a delay circuit to which the read address count value is input and which delays and outputs the read address count value by a predetermined time period; a write address counter which operates using the read address count value output from the delay circuit with a clock externally input so as to output a write address count value; and a memory circuit which writes data input thereto by the write address count value and reads data written therein by the read address count value.

Abstract: A process for producing spherical composite cured melamine resin particles excellent in water resistance, in which colloidal silica is localized near the surface thereof, comprising (a) a step of reacting a melamine compound with an aldehyde compound in an aqueous medium under a basic condition in the presence of a suspension of colloidal silica having an average particle size of 5 to 70 nm to produce an aqueous solution of a precondensate of water-soluble melamine resin; and (b) a step of adding an acid catalyst to the aqueous solution produced in the step (a) to separate out spherical composite cured melamine resin particles.

Abstract: Provided are proliferation inhibitors for cells whose proliferation is stimulated by PTHrP (34-53), comprising a substance inhibiting the binding of PTHrP (1-34) to its receptor.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrophotographic photosensitive member having a support and provided thereon a photosensitive layer. The photosensitive layer contains a high-molecular weight charge-transporting material having a specific repeating structural unit. The high-molecular weight charge-transporting material has a weight-average molecular weight Mw of 1,500 or more and an energy level of highest occupied molecular orbital, EHOMO, of from −8.3 eV or more to −8.0 eV or less as found by semiempirical molecular-orbital calculation. The present invention also relates to a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus which have such an electrophotographic photosensitive member.

Abstract: A filter circuit has an input terminal which is input with a first current, and which is coupled with a first node, capacitor, of which one terminal is coupled with the first node, of which the other terminal is coupled with a second node, and which integrates the first current and outputs voltages a transconductance means, of which one terminal is coupled with the first node, of which another terminal is coupled with the second node, of which the other terminal is coupled with a third node, and which outputs a second current being proportional to the voltage to the third node and an output terminal which is coupled with the first node, and which outputs the voltage.

Abstract: A differential amplifier includes a first diode which has a first terminal and a second terminal wherein the first terminal of the first diode is coupled to a voltage node and wherein the second terminal of the first diode is coupled to a first node, a second diode which has a first terminal and a second terminal wherein the first terminal of the second diode is coupled to the voltage node and wherein the second terminal of the second diode is coupled to a second node, a first transistor which is coupled to the first node in series with the first diode and which has a control terminal coupled to a first input terminal, a second transistor which is coupled to the second node in series with the second diode and which has a control terminal coupled to a second input terminal, and a bias current supply which is coupled to the first and second nodes to bias the first and second diodes.

Abstract: A filter circuit of an input resistance portion, wherein said input resistance portion includes a first transconductance means having a positive input port, a negative input port, a positive output port and a negative output port, wherein the positive input port is impressed with a first voltage, and wherein the negative input port is impressed with a second voltage; a second transconductance means having a positive input port, a negative input port, a positive output port and a negative output port, wherein the positive input port is impressed with the second voltage, and wherein the negative input port is impressed with a third voltage; and a third transconductance means having a positive input port, a negative input port, a positive output port and a negative output port, wherein the positive input port is coupled to the positive output ports of the first and second transconductance means and the negative output port of the third transconductance means, and wherein the negative input port is coupled to the

Abstract: A signal waveform detection circuit includes an amplifier circuit and a comparing circuit. The amplifier circuit has differential amplifiers connected in series. Each of the differential amplifiers has a common connection point. The comparing circuit is connected to the common connection points of the amplifier circuit. The comparing circuit includes comparing units connected to one of the differential amplifiers. Each of the comparing units has a threshold voltage generating circuit for generating signals. Each signal has a threshold voltage that is set between a maximum threshold voltage of a signal output from the corresponding differential amplifier during a muximum amplitude output and a minimum threshold voltage of a signal output from the corresponding differential amplifier during a minimum amplitude output. The comparing unit further has a comparator comparing a voltage at the common connection point with the threshold voltage.

Abstract: A clustering disk subsystem comprising a switch holding a table which can modify a destination of a request from a host computer, wherein the switch transfers an access request to another channel according to a destination channel status such as heavy load or fault, and the channel which received the request processes the request by proxy for load balancing between internal disk controllers in a clustering disk subsystem. The subsystem has an effect in which load balancing or fail-over between channels or disk controllers can be performed without any special hardware or software in the host. As a result, good performance can be obtained even when access requests from the host computer are concentrated in a specific channel or disk controller.

Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises a first Si1−&agr;Ge&agr; film, a first cap film, a second Si1−&agr;Ge&agr; film (&bgr;<&agr;≦1) and a second cap film formed in this order on a substrate whose surface is formed of silicon, wherein the first Si1−&agr;Ge&agr; film is relaxed to have substantially the same lattice constant as that of the second Si1−&bgr;Ge&bgr; film in a horizontal plane.