Abstract: A resistance heater is shown and described. The resistance heater may include a body. The body may include at least one heating surface, the heating surface being generally smooth and generally flat and a recess formed in the body, at least a portion of the body having a cross-sectional shape selected from the group consisting of: generally U shape, generally I-shape, and generally H-shape, and where the cross-sectional shape extends along at least a portion of the body.

Abstract: When data is an HDTV signal, a buffer memory is used as two banks and pipeline processing is performed. When data is an SDTV signal, on the other hand, the buffer memory is used as a bankless buffer memory, and the pipeline processing is not performed.

Abstract: A resistance heater is shown and described. The resistance heater may include a body. The body may include at least one heating surface, the heating surface being generally smooth and generally flat and a recess formed in the body, at least a portion of the body having a cross-sectional shape selected from the group consisting of: generally U shape, generally I-shape, and generally H-shape, and where the cross-sectional shape extends along at least a portion of the body.

Abstract: A heater has a smooth heating surface and a recess formed on a second surface opposite to the heating surface. The recess is formed between opposite side walls in a lengthwise direction of the heater. Formation of the recess improves the electrical resistance of the heater and the opposite side walls reinforce the heater and prevent deformation of the heater when it is subjected to high temperatures in a semiconductor wafer processing device. The heater has substantially the same width along its lengthwise direction. This improves the control of heat pattern design, because the terminal end portions do not have an expanded shape.

Abstract: The current invention relates to a semiconductor wafer heater assembly having a frosted clear quartz material for the wafer susceptor (6) that is placed between the heater (8) and the wafer (7) such that at certain wavelengths of the emitted radiant energy from the heater (8), the frosted clear quartz material is ‘thermally transmissive’ to the thermal radiation from the infrared region. The heater assembly is characterized in that the top quartz plate or susceptor (6) on which the wafer (7) is supported is made of a material that is not “optically transmissive” but is more than 90% “thermally transmissive” to infrared emission that is shorter than 3.5 micrometer wavelength and having higher tolerance and mechanical strength than conventional clear quartz material.

Abstract: A signal processing circuit includes a signal processing section which generates first address data and second address data in accordance with data processing, reads data stored in an external memory based on the first address data and the second address data for performing a predetermined processing, and outputs processed data along with the first address data and the second address data, an address conversion section which, receiving the first address data and the second address data input thereto, holds at least 1 bit of the first address and outputs third address data, and also adds the at least 1 bit of the held first address data to the second address and outputs fourth address data, and a data interface which performs a writing operation or a reading operation of the data processed by the signal processing section with respect to the external memory on the basis of a time when the address conversion section outputs the third address data and the forth address data.

Abstract: There is disclosed a clock regeneration circuit having a PCR buffer including a register which buffers a PCR extracted from a transmission signal, a counter which counts a reception side reference clock CKr, an STC buffer including a register which buffers a counted value of the counter, and a CPU which generates a signal indicating a difference between a transmission side reference clock and the reception side reference clock CKr based on values held in the PCR buffer and the STC buffer. If, at this point, a new PCR is input before the values held in the PCR buffer and the STC buffer are read by the CPU, the PCR buffer and the STC buffer are not updated.

Abstract: A heater has a smooth heating surface and a recess formed on a second surface opposite to the heating surface. The recess is formed between opposite side walls in a lengthwise direction of the heater. Formation of the recess improves the electrical resistance of the heater and the opposite side walls reinforce the heater and prevent deformation of the heater when it is subjected to high temperatures in a semiconductor wafer processing device. The heater has substantially the same width along its lengthwise direction. This improves the control of heat pattern design, because the terminal end portions do not have an expanded shape.

Abstract: A signal processing circuit includes a signal processing section which generates first address data and second address data in accordance with data processing, reads data stored in an external memory based on the first address data and the second address data for performing a predetermined processing, and outputs processed data along with the first address data and the second address data, an address conversion section which, receiving the first address data and the second address data input thereto, holds at least 1 bit of the first address and outputs third address data, and also adds the at least 1 bit of the held first address data to the second address and outputs fourth address data, and a data interface which performs a writing operation or a reading operation of the data processed by the signal processing section with respect to the external memory on the basis of a time when the address conversion section outputs the third address data and the forth address data.

Abstract: When data is an HDTV signal, a buffer memory is used as two banks and pipeline processing is performed. When data is an SDTV signal, on the other hand, the buffer memory is used as a bankless buffer memory, and the pipeline processing is not performed.

Abstract: There is disclosed a clock regeneration circuit having a PCR buffer including a register which buffers a PCR extracted from a transmission signal, a counter which counts a reception side reference clock CKr, an STC buffer including a register which buffers a counted value of the counter, and a CPU which generates a signal indicating a difference between a transmission side reference clock and the reception side reference clock CKr based on values held in the PCR buffer and the STC buffer. If, at this point, a new PCR is input before the values held in the PCR buffer and the STC buffer are read by the CPU, the PCR buffer and the STC buffer are not updated.

Abstract: An assembly is provided for regulating the temperature of and supporting a heating target such as semiconductor substrate or a metal/ceramic mold or other industrial processes that require temperature regulations such as degassing or annealing. In one embodiment, the assembly comprises a heating target support for supporting the heating target ; a ceramic heating element for heating the heating target to a temperature of at least 300° C.; a first thermally conductive layer disposed between the substrate support and the ceramic heating layer; a second layer disposed below the ceramic heating layer. Both the first layer and the second layer in the heater assembly have an elastic modulus of less than 5 GPa, for biasing the ceramic heating layer without causing damage to the ceramic layer while still providing uniform and excellent heating to the substrate.

Abstract: A vacuum heater assembly for heating fluids flowing within; the assembly comprises an inner member having a heating surface with an average cross-sectional area with an aspect ratio of at least 2. The inner member is disposed within an outer member and with a vacuum drawn in the space between the inner member and the outer member, the heat transfers toward the center of the inner member, heating the fluids flowing within.

Abstract: A vacuum heater assembly for heating fluids flowing within; the assembly comprises an inner member having a heating surface with an average cross-sectional area with an aspect ratio of at least 2. The inner member is disposed within an outer member and with a vacuum drawn in the space between the inner member and the outer member, the heat transfers toward the center of the inner member, heating the fluids flowing within.

Abstract: A plate width adjusting apparatus 1 for adjusting a strip 53 for a predetermined plate width, which is installed on a production line for the strip 53, is provided with bridle rolls 2 and 3. The bridle rolls 2 and 3 give tension in the transfer direction to the strip 53 being transferred on the production line to elongate the strip 53 in the transfer direction, by which the plate width of the strip 53 is adjusted.

Abstract: A plate width adjusting apparatus 1 for adjusting a strip 53 for a predetermined plate width, which is installed on a production line for the strip 53, is provided with bridle rolls 2 and 3. The bridle rolls 2 and 3 give tension in the transfer direction to the strip 53 being transferred on the production line to elongate the strip 53 in the transfer direction, by which the plate width of the strip 53 is adjusted.

Abstract: A hollow, rotating drum is horizontally supported in a vessel or crystallizer containing a brine such as sea water and has a plurality of nozzles projecting radially outwardly therefrom and having orifices having a smaller diameter than the nozzles. A liquified refrigerant is introduced through a conduit and a hollow shaft into the drum and is discharged as droplets into the brine while the drum is being rotated at high speeds in the brine. Upon getting into the brine, the refrigerant is vaporized and takes away heat of the brine, which is then refrigerated to form small crystals of ice.

Abstract: A hollow, rotating drum is horizontally supported in a vessel or crystallizer containing a brine such as sea water and has a plurality of nozzles projecting radially outwardly therefrom and having orifices having a smaller diameter than the nozzles. A liquified refrigerant is introduced through a conduit and a hollow shaft into the drum and is discharged as droplets into the brine while the drum is being rotated at high speeds in the brine. Upon getting into the brine, the refrigerant is vaporized and takes away heat of the brine, which is then refrigerated to form small crystals of ice.