Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises a memory storage component and a transistor in operable communication with the memory storage element. The transistor comprises a source region, a drain region, a gate electrode between the source region and the drain region, a charge trapping material surrounding at least an upper portion of the gate electrode, and an oxide material on sides of the charge trapping material. Related systems and methods are also disclosed.

Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises a memory storage component and a transistor in operable communication with the memory storage element. The transistor comprises a source region, a drain region, a gate electrode between the source region and the drain region, a charge trapping material surrounding at least an upper portion of the gate electrode, and an oxide material on sides of the charge trapping material. Related systems and methods are also disclosed.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a bit line; a data bus line corresponding to the bit line; a selection transistor that controls electrical connection between the bit line and the data bus line; a write amplifier that writes data to the bit line through the data bus; and a test circuit. The test circuit sets the bit line to a first potential during a test period regardless of an operation of the write amplifier, sets the data bus line to a second potential and then sets the data bus line in a floating state to detect transition of the data bus line from the second potential to the first potential, with the selection transistor being activated to electrically connect the bit line and the data bus line.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a bit line; a data bus line corresponding to the bit line; a selection transistor that controls electrical connection between the bit line and the data bus line; a write amplifier that writes data to the bit line through the data bus; and a test circuit. The test circuit sets the bit line to a first potential during a test period regardless of an operation of the write amplifier, sets the data bus line to a second potential and then sets the data bus line in a floating state to detect transition of the data bus line from the second potential to the first potential, with the selection transistor being activated to electrically connect the bit line and the data bus line.

Abstract: In order to successively perform refresh operations, a semiconductor device has a plurality of regions performing a repair independently from each other, even when the repair is carried out in the region by a replacement with a repair memory block included in a plate included in each region. Specifically, the successive refresh operations are performed by alternately activating word lines in the respective regions so as to ensure a sufficiently long precharge period.

Abstract: Disclosed is waveform width adjusting circuit that comprises: a delay circuit having a prescribed delay time is provided in a signal propagation path and a delay adjusting circuit which applies an adjustment in such a manner that when a waveform width extending from either a positive-going transition or a negative-going transition of the signal waveform at an input terminal to the next negative-going transition or positive-going transition is greater than the delay time of the delay circuit, a signal having a reduced waveform width is output, and such that when the waveform width of the signal at the input terminal is less than or equal to the delay time, the waveform width is not reduced and the signal that is output has the waveform width of the original signal. Thus, the waveform width of a signal for which the waveform width is less than a limit is not reduced.

Abstract: In order to successively perform refresh operations, a semiconductor device has a plurality of regions performing a repair independently from each other, even when the repair is carried out in the region by a replacement with a repair memory block included in a plate included in each region. Specifically, the successive refresh operations are performed by alternately activating word lines in the respective regions so as to ensure a sufficiently long precharge period.

Abstract: Disclosed is waveform width adjusting circuit that comprises: a delay circuit having a prescribed delay time is provided in a signal propagation path and a delay adjusting circuit which applies an adjustment in such a manner that when a waveform width extending from either a positive-going transition or a negative-going transition of the signal waveform at an input terminal to the next negative-going transition or positive-going transition is greater than the delay time of the delay circuit, a signal having a reduced waveform width is output, and such that when the waveform width of the signal at the input terminal is less than or equal to the delay time, the waveform width is not reduced and the signal that is output has the waveform width of the original signal. Thus, the waveform width of a signal for which the waveform width is less than a limit is not reduced.

Abstract: Disclosed is a semiconductor integrated circuit that comprises first and second transmission systems, each comprising a plurality of transistors; and an output select unit. Transistors constituting said first transmission system comprise transistors having relatively high threshold values and being turned off and transistors having relatively low threshold values and being turned on, when the input signal supplied to said first transmission system takes a first value; and transistors constituting said second transmission system, comprise transistors having relatively high threshold values and being turned off and transistors have relatively low threshold values and being turned on, when an input signal supplied to said second transmission system assumes a second value.

Abstract: Disclosed is a semiconductor integrated circuit that comprises first and second transmission systems receiving in common an input signal supplied to a signal input terminal and having substantially identical logic configuration to each other, each comprising a plurality of transistors; and an output select unit. Transistors constituting said first transmission system comprise transistors having relatively high threshold values and being turned off and transistors having relatively low threshold values and being turned on, when the input signal supplied to said first transmission system takes a first value; and transistors constituting said second transmission system, comprise transistors having relatively high threshold values and being turned off and transistors have relatively low threshold values and being turned on, when an input signal supplied to said second transmission system assumes a second value.

Abstract: A sputtering apparatus is provided with a wafer holder disposed in a chamber. A wafer is placed on the wafer holder. A target is disposed in the chamber such as to be opposed to the wafer on the wafer holder. The target is divided into a plurality of pieces. In the sputtering apparatus, there are provided a gas controlling device which exhausts air from the chamber and introduces sputtering gas into the chamber, and a power source device which applies voltage to the target. The power source device individually controls the voltage to be applied to each of the divided targets. A shield member is provided in the chamber. The shield member partitions the chamber in correspondence to the divided targets.

Abstract: A label peeler for peeling off a label attached to a side of a container such as a bottle includes a holder for holding the container, label scraping means for scraping the label off the container by effecting sliding movement in intimate contact with the side of the container, and driving means for varying the relative position of the container and the lavel scraping means to remove the label from the side of the container. With the container being held by the holder, the holder or the label scraping means or both are moved to vary the relative position of the container and the label scraping means while keeping the label scraping means in close contact with the side of the container, for thereby mechanically peeling the label off the container.

Abstract: The lower edge of the peripheral wall of a can cap and the upper edge of a can barrel are spaced from each other by a gap therebetween. Streams of an inert gas from different groups of injector nozzles are injected, from outside of the gap, through the gap into the can cap and the can barrel, respectively, to replace air in the can cap and the can barrel with the injected gas. Then, the can barrel is fitted in to the can cap, and welded thereto to entrap the injected gas in the can barrel and the can cap.

Abstract: A container supply system supplies a plurality of containers such bottles encased in a box to a container processing machine such as a bottle washing machine. The container supply system includes a box reverser for reversing the box with the bottles encased therein, a container holder disposed for holding the bottles discharged from the reversed box and thereafter releasing the bottles, a container receiver having a plurality of container receiver members for receiving the bottles, respectively, and a container ejector having a plurality of container ejector members for pushing the bottles from the container receiver to the container processing machine. In one embodiment, the container receiver is positioned below the box reverser. In another embodiment, the box reverser and the container receiver are spaced from each other, and a delivery carriage is provided for receiving the containers from the box reverser and delivering the received containers to the container receiver.

Abstract: Apparatus for coating with a desired substance a succession of beverage bottles traveling along an arcuate guideway. A star wheel assembly, rotatable about an axis at which the arcuate guideway is centered, feeds the successive bottles along the guideway, further coacting with the opposed guideway-defining surface to cause rotation of each bottle about its own axis. Coaxially mounted on the star wheel assembly, either for simultaneous rotation therewith or for independent rotation, one or more annular rows of discrete coating bodies or one or more coating rolls apply the coating substance to the successive bottles, creating one or more band-shaped coatings around each bottle. In one embodiment the star wheel assembly is replaced by a feed roll assembly comprising a pair of annular rows of independently rotatable feed rolls.

Abstract: In a system for conveying bottles or like articles, bottles being conveyed in single file along two or more separate paths are caused to merge and travel in single file along a single path by a device comprising arcuate guide passages and star wheels rotatably supported in concentric relation thereto, each star wheel having a plurality of teeth with respective outer tips lying in a rotational path extending partly into the guide passage, each tooth having a special profile shape defined by leading and trailing edges, the leading edge having a concave arcuate shape of a radius of curvature which substantially corresponds to the radius of said circular cross section and extending from the tip inward to smoothly join the inner end of the trailing edge of the forwardly adjacent tooth, said trailing edge having a convex curved shape and extending outward to the tip of said adjacent tooth, said leading and trailing edges thereby forming a fair S-shaped curve.