Abstract: To realize a mixer with a charge subsampling circuit with which a base band signal can be readily obtained without being affected by noise from wide bandwidth signals or undesired signals. A current generating circuit 8 outputs a current in proportion to the input signal voltage. In response to a control signal from the timing generating block 6, a charge subsampling circuit 7 samples the current at the same sampling frequency as the carrier frequency. In a charge-integrating process accompanying the sampling, weighting is carried out on terms in the transfer function of the FIR filter using a set of selected weights.

Abstract: A frequency converter that performs dual frequency conversion is provided. The frequency converter restricts noise occurrence and enables signal transfer with good linearity. The frequency converter performs dual conversion of a first signal (RF(+) and RF(?)) by using two signals including a second signal (LO1 (+) and LO1 (?)) and a third signal (LO2 (+) and LO2 (?)). Using a balun and an amplifying circuit that performs input/output operations in a single-ended manner, the frequency converter restricts NF degradation. By feeding optimum values of current into the first and second switching circuits and into the amplifying circuit, NF and linearity are optimized. The balun, the amplifying circuit, and the first and second switching circuits are formed on the same semiconductor substrate.

Abstract: To realize a mixer with a charge subsampling circuit with which a base band signal can be readily obtained without being affected by noise from wide bandwidth signals or undesired signals. A current generating circuit 8 outputs a current in proportion to the input signal voltage. In response to a control signal from the timing generating block 6, a charge subsampling circuit 7 samples the current at the same sampling frequency as the carrier frequency. In a charge-integrating process accompanying the sampling, weighting is carried out on terms in the transfer function of the FIR filter using a set of selected weights.

Abstract: A variable gain amplifier includes a current path control circuit which controls a path of a current flow through an amplifying transistor section, so as to control the actual size of transistors which make up the amplifying transistor section, and thereby control the gain and IIP3 (third-order Input Intercept Point). When the size W/L of the transistors is decreased or increased under constant current level maintained in a current path control circuit in the circuit, the transconductance (gain) is decreased or increased and the IIP3 is increased or decreased. According to this principle, there is provided a variable gain amplifier with a small mount area, capable of compensating for a decrease of the gain by an increase of the IIP3.

Abstract: An electronic part transport device includes a transport medium having a plurality of lines of cavities. The lines are concentric with respect to the rotation axis. A driving device rotationally drives the transport medium. A supply device separately supplies a plurality of randomly introduced electronic parts one by one. A delivery device feeds the electronic parts separately supplied by the supply device into the cavities of the transport medium. A removal device takes the electronic parts out of the cavities of the transport medium.

Abstract: A frequency converter that performs dual frequency conversion is provided. The frequency converter restricts noise occurrence and enables signal transfer with good linearity. The frequency converter performs dual conversion of a first signal (RF(+) and RF(?)) by using two signals including a second signal (LO1(+) and LO1(?)) and a third signal (LO2(+) and LO2(?)). Using a balun and an amplifying circuit that performs input/output operations in a single-ended manner, the frequency converter restricts NF degradation. By feeding optimum values of current into the first and second switching circuits and into the amplifying circuit, NF and linearity are optimized. The balun, the amplifying circuit, and the first and second switching circuits are formed on the same semiconductor substrate.

Abstract: An electronic part transport device includes a transport medium having a plurality of lines of cavities. The lines are concentric with respect to the rotation axis. A driving device rotationally drives the transport medium. A supply device separately supplies a plurality of randomly introduced electronic parts one by one. A delivery device feeds the electronic parts separately supplied by the supply device into the cavities of the transport medium. A removal device takes the electronic parts out of the cavities of the transport medium.

Abstract: A sheath-core composite conductive fiber having a sheath component made of a fiber-forming polymer containing conductive carbon black, is characterized in that, with respect to an inscribed circle of a core component and an inscribed circle of a sheath component in a cross section of the fiber, a radius (R) of the inscribed circle of the sheath component and a distance (r) between the centers of two inscribed circles satisfy a specific relationship, and a sheath-core composite conductive fiber having: a core component made of a polyester containing ethylene terephthalate as a main component, and a sheath component made of a mixture of a copolyester wherein ethylene terephthalate accounts for 10 to 90 mol % of constituent units thereof and carbon black. The conductive fiber can be used alone or in combination with other fibers in various applications, e.g., special working clothes such as dust-free clothes and interiors such as carpets.

Abstract: An electronic chip attitude changing device includes a rotor having, on the outer periphery, cavities that are formed at equal pitch to respectively contain and hold electronic chips with a part thereof projecting out; an air suction path for drawing and holding the electronic chips in the cavities of the rotor; a driving device for rotationally driving the rotor in a predetermined direction; and a chip guide placed at a fixed position close to the outer periphery of the rotor and having a guide face for making sliding contact with the projecting portions of the electronic chips held in the cavities so as to turn the attitudes of the electronic chips by 90°.

Abstract: A variable gain amplifier includes a current path control circuit which controls a path of a current flow through an amplifying transistor section, so as to control the actual size of transistors which make up the amplifying transistor section, and thereby control the gain and IIP3 (third-order Input Intercept Point). When the size W/L of the transistors is decreased or increased under constant current level maintained in a current path control circuit in the circuit, the transconductance (gain) is decreased or increased and the IIP3 is increased or decreased. According to this principle, there is provided a variable gain amplifier with a small mount area, capable of compensating for a decrease of the gain by an increase of the IIP3.

Abstract: An electronic part transport device includes a transport medium having a plurality of lines of cavities. The lines are concentric with respect to the rotation axis. A driving device rotationally drives the transport medium. A supply device separately supplies a plurality of randomly introduced electronic parts one by one. A delivery device feeds the electronic parts separately supplied by the supply device into the cavities of the transport medium. A removal device takes the electronic parts out of the cavities of the transport medium.

Abstract: A relatively simple and small-sized drive mechanism for high-speed transfer of chip components. A transfer disc is disposed so that it may be inclined to a horizontal surface, and the disc has a transfer groove on the upper surface thereof, and has a cavity at the peripheral edge part of the transfer groove. A chip component is made to fall into the transfer groove in connection with the rotation of the transfer disc. The chip components are aligned in a predetermined direction, and one chip component is maintained in a cavity by effect of gravity. A conveying disc has cavities for receiving chip components from the transfer disc. Those cavities are provided at an equal pitch interval in the outer peripheral portions of the disc. When a chip-component is transferred from the transfer disc to a cavity, an adsorption hold is performed by an air suction hole provided in the cavity.

Abstract: A chip component feeder which has high feeding efficiency feeds chip components individually in stable orientations. The separating feeder of the present invention includes a scattering disk disposed so that the top surface thereof is inclined with respect to a horizontal plane, a transferring groove formed on the scattering disk and a cavity formed at an outer peripheral end portion of the scattering disk. When the scattering disk is rotated, chip components are dropped into the transferring groove and are aligned in a predetermined direction. After the chip components are accommodated in the cavity by gravitational force (i.e., by upward rotation of the transferring groove), separation of the chip component in the cavity from the chip components in the transferring groove can be achieved.

Abstract: For protecting a sensitive electric device, a motor vehicle is constructed to have an electric device protecting structure near a dash panel to which a cowl box is connected. A watertight case installs therein the sensitive electric device and is installed in the cowl box. A passage structure is provided to establish an air flow communication between an interior of the watertight case and an interior of a passenger room.

Abstract: A control apparatus for an in-cylinder injection type internal combustion engine includes an electronic control unit and an induction control system for changing the flow of air in the induction system of the engine. The electronic control unit selects one of fuel injection modes including a compression-stroke injection mode and an intake-stroke injection mode in accordance with the engine operating state. When the engine is operated in the compression-stroke injection mode, the electronic control unit controls the induction control system so as to enhance a stratified degree of an intake air flow generated in the combustion chamber of the engine, to thereby stabilize a combustion, especially, in the compression-stroke injection mode, whereby the fuel efficiency and the engine output are improved.

Abstract: An encoding apparatus uses a vector quantization encoding method for encoding indexes of codewords, which supply a scalar quantized code of a maximum scalar product value of each code word in a code book, and its maximum scalar product value to a vector component of an input image inputted from an image sensor, so as to output the encoded indexes. A scalar product value calculating circuit in the encoding apparatus has scalar product value calculating sections, which are composed of an analog circuit having a code component capacitor corresponding to each code component, a differential amplifier and a feedback capacitor, corresponding to each codeword, and the scalar product values of the input vectors are calculated in parallel by the scalar product value calculating sections. In such a manner, when the analog calculation is made, the scale of the circuit can be decreased and the power consumption can be lowered.

Abstract: An image compressing apparatus employs a mean-separated normalized vector quantization method according to which, with respect to vector components corresponding to input images inputted from image sensors via a plurality of lines, encodes and outputs a scalar-quantized code of a mean value, a scalar-quantized code of a maximum scalar product value with each code word in a code book, and an index of one of the code words which yields a maximum scalar product value. In this image compressing apparatus, when the maximum scalar product value is less than a predetermined threshold value, in accordance with judgement by a comparator circuit, an output selecting circuit stops outputting the codes of the maximum scalar product value and of the index, and outputs only the code of the mean value. Therefore, when the image is uniform with pixels varying little in their luminance levels in compression processing unit blocks, code data to be outputted are restricted so that only data of the mean value are outputted.

Abstract: A control apparatus for an in-cylinder injection type internal combustion engine includes an electronic control unit and an induction control system for changing the effective length of an intake passage of an induction system of the engine. The electronic control unit selects one of fuel injection modes including a compression-stroke injection mode and an intake-stroke injection mode in accordance with the engine operating state. When the engine is operated in a low engine-speed zone of a compression-stroke injection region, the electronic control unit controls the induction control system so as to make the effective length of the intake passage shorter than that for other engine operating region, to thereby attain a stable combustion, improved fuel efficiency and improved engine output in any fuel injection mode.

Abstract: In respective comparators, a plurality of input voltages are compared with a comparison voltage that has been swept, and only the binary output of a D flipflop corresponding to the comparator that has exceeded the comparison voltage earliest is allowed to have "1", while the outputs corresponding to the rest of the comparators have "0". Therefore, it is possible to detect a maximum output by using the comparators of a normal CMOS construction and a binary-change detection means circuit constituted by logical circuits. Compared with the application of floating-gate MOS, this arrangement makes it possible to reduce costs, and also to easily carry out offset-voltage compensation for each comparator by using switched capacitors. As a result, in a maximum input detector which detects a maximum input from analog inputs through multiple channels by carrying out analog operations, it is possible to reduce costs, and also to improve detection precision.

Abstract: An inner product calculation device for calculating an inner product of a coefficient vector including at least one first element with a positive sign and at least one second element with a negative sign and an input vector including elements corresponding to a plurality of input voltages.