Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip attached to a lead frame with recesses on the rear surface of the semiconductor chip opposite the lead frame. These recesses increase the heat radiation area of the semiconductor chip. In a method of producing a semiconductor device, the height of a cavity between upper and lower dies is smaller than the height of the semiconductor chip including bump electrodes. During a molding process, the bump electrodes contact the upper die or a dam surrounding the bump electrodes so that no thin burrs are produced on the surfaces of the bump electrodes in the molding process.

Abstract: A resin sealed semiconductor device includes a lead frame having a die pad; a semiconductor element mounted on the die pad; a resin sealing the lead frame and the semiconductor element, the die pad including a plurality of through holes where the semiconductor element is mounted; and a resin film bonding the semiconductor element to the die pad.

Abstract: Disclosed is an infusion preparation for nutrient supply use. It comprises a sugar, amino acids, electrolytes and a fat emulsion. It has an excellent shelf life without causing precipitation, denaturation and the like in spite of the simultaneous presence of these components. Also disclosed is a container filled with infusion liquids comprising a first and a second compartments separated from each other by a separation means, wherein an infusion liquid containing a fat emulsion and a sugar is included in the first compartment and another infusion liquid containing amino acids and electrolytes is included in the second compartment. Further disclosed are an infusion preparation comprising a fat emulsion and a sugar, and an infusion preparation comprising amino acids and electrolytes.

Abstract: A solder material comprises a first solder plate and a second solder plate having a thickness equal to or larger than 1 micron provided at the both surfaces of the first solder plate comprising material-having a lower melting point than the first solder or material which reacts with the first solder to produce an alloy having a lower melting point than the first solder.A junctioning method comprise putting the above-described solder material inserted between two objects to be junctioned to each other; heating the solder material to a temperature higher than the melting point of the second solder or the alloy and lower than the melting point of said first solder thereby to melt the second solder or the alloy; and thereafter cooling or keeping the solder material at a temperature in the vicinity of the melting point thereby to junction the objects to be junctioned to each other.

Abstract: A semiconductor device including a lead on chip structure employs two frames. One of the frames includes a die pad and an outer frame portion and the other frame includes a plurality of leads and an outer lead portion. After a semiconductor chip is die bonded to the die pad, the two frames are connected to each other with the leads extending across the semiconductor chip. Slits within the second frame provide access to parts of the outer frame of the first frame and the first frame is severed at those slits. The severed portions of the first frame are removed after which the leads of the second frame are connected by wire bonding to the semiconductor chip. Finally, the semiconductor chip, the remaining part of the first frame, and the second frame are encapsulated in a resin with leads extending from the resin. The remaining parts of the outer frame of the second frame are removed by cutting and the exposed leads outside the resin are formed into a desired shape.

Abstract: An image reading and recording apparatus includes a reader for reading an image of a document and by scanning a document; a recorder for effecting recording of the image read by the reader on a recording medium by scanning one side of the recording medium. A driving and controlling device drives and controls the reader and the recorder in such a manner that the image recorded on one side of the recording medium by means of the recorder will be inverted with respect to the image of the document.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus receives compressed color image data and/or non-compressed color image data for each pixel and discriminates whether the received color image data is compressed or non-compressed color image data. The received color image data is processed and outputted. The color image data may be processed so that compressed image color data is expanded when the received color image data is discriminated as compressed color image data and is half-tone processed when the received color image data is discriminated as non-compressed color image data. The received color image data may be stored in a common memory represented by the same kind of plural color components and the frame data format of the compressed image data may be converted.

Abstract: A resin-packaged semiconductor device having a semiconductor element mounted on a first surface of a mounting pad. The mounting pad has an edge molded in a frame-shaped portion of a molding material. A second surface of the mounting pad has a central portion that is not included in the edge of the mounting pad and that is not covered with the molding material, the central portion of the second surface being exposed at the outside of the device. The thickness of the molding material in the frame-shaped portion and on the second surface of the mounting pad can be readily reduced to reduce the thickness of the device. Since the molding material does not cover the entire second surface, molding characteristics as well as heat radiation characteristics are improved.

Abstract: A solder material comprises a first solder plate and a second solder plate having a thickness equal to or larger than 1 micron provided at the both surfaces of the first solder plate comprising material having a lower melting point than the first solder or material which reacts with the first solder to produce an alloy having a lower melting point than the first solder.A junctioning method comprises putting the above-described solder material inserted between two objects to be junctioned to each other; heating the solder material to a temperature higher than the melting point of the second solder or the alloy and lower than the melting point of said first solder thereby to melt the second solder or the alloy; and thereafter cooling or keeping the solder material at a temperature in the vicinity of the melting point thereby to junction the objects to be junctioned to each other.

Abstract: An image forming system includes a generator for generating a pattern signal with a plurality of tonality levels. An image forming apparatus is movable in relation to an image forming medium, and includes a plurality of image forming stations sequentially arranged, for each of a plurality of color components, in a relative movement direction of the image forming medium. Each of the image forming stations form an image for each color component the basis of the pattern signal. A circuit is provided for discriminating a reproduction condition of tonality in accordance with the formed color image. A color balance of the color image formed by the image forming apparatus is controlled, in accordance with the result of discrimination by the discriminating circuit. A plurality of memories store a pattern signal for each color component and a plurality of image forming stations form an image for each color component on the basis of the pattern signal read out from the plurality of memories, respectively.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element attached to a support member by a junction material that includes a parent phase of a low-melting-point junction material and fine particles of a high-melting-point junction material which are uniformly dispersed in the low-melting-point material. By heating the junction material to a temperature higher than the melting point of the low-melting-point junction material and lower than the melting point of the high-melting-point junction material, the low-melting-point junction material is brought to a molten state, making the entire junction material fluid. Thus, the size of the junction material need not be adjusted to that of the semiconductor element. Further, with this semiconductor device, the contact area between the low-melting-point junction material and the high-melting-point junction material is extremely large so that the requisite time for making the composition of the junction material uniform is shortened.

Abstract: A color image processing apparatus comprises: a device to supply color image data obtained by photoelectrically converting an object image; a changing circuit which has a density conversion table and changes the density of the color image data supplied by the supplying device into a plurality of densities on the basis of the table; and a reproducing device such as a bubble jet printer for reproducing the image data whose density was changed by the changing circuit as a plurality of visible images which can be simultaneously seen. With the apparatus, an image of a desired color or density can be preferably reproduced.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided with a signal generator for generating a pattern signal with plurality of tonality levels. An image forming apparatus is moveable in relation to an image forming medium and includes plural image forming stations sequentially arranged, for each of a plurality of color components, in relation movement direction of the image forming medium. Each of the image forming stations form an image for each color component on the basis of the pattern signal. A circuit is provided for discriminating a reproduction condition of tonality in accordance with the formed color image. A control controls a color balance of the form color image in accordance with the discrimination result by the discriminating circuit.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus suitable for use in a copying machine or a facsimile apparatus includes an input circuit for inputting an image signal, an image discrimination circuit for discriminating a characteristic of the input image signal and providing a discrimination signal representing that characteristic, and a memory for storing the discrimination signal. A processing circuit then processes a reentered image signal input by the input circuit in accordance with the discrimination signal stored in the memory to reproduce an image.

Abstract: A color image reading apparatus having a color sensor with plural sensor groups, the color sensor for separating an objective image into plural color components and for converting the plural color components into plural color component signals, and a shading corrector for performing shading correction for the plural color component signals. The shading corrector causes the plural sensor groups to substantially simultaneously read a reference plate and automatically corrects a shading correction state for each of the plural color component signals in accordance with data obtained from the plural sensor groups.

Abstract: An image reading and recording apparatus comprises a reader for reading an image of a document by scanning a document and a recorder for effecting recording of the image read by the reader on a recording medium by scanning one side of the recording medium. A driving and controlling device drives and controls the reader and the recorder in such a manner that the image recorded on one side of the recording medium by means of the recorder will be inverted with respect to the image of the document.

Abstract: A halftone image recording apparatus includes means for recording an image on a recording medium, inputting an image signal representative of an image which includes a plurality of density levels, generating a plurality of pulsed periodic signals having different widths of one period of the image signal, selecting at least one periodic signal with a preselected pulse width among a plurality of the periodic signals, combining the selected periodic signal with the image signal, and applying the combined signal to the recording means.

Abstract: An original reading apparatus which prevents lamp blackening includes a lamp for illuminating the original, and reading circuitry for reading an image formed on the illuminated original. Control circuitry is provided to apply to the lamp a first predetermined voltage after reading the image formed on the original has been completed, if a voltage applied to the lamp at the time of original image reading is lower than a second predetermined voltage. The first predetermined voltage is higher than the voltage applied to the lamp at the time of the original image reading.

Abstract: An image processing system includes a first input device for inputting an image signal that may include a plurality of color components, half-tone portions, and line image portions, and a second input device for inputting a character signal. A processor processes the image signal input by the first input device to reproduce a color image from the color components and includes a half-tone processing section for half-tone processing of the image signal. A discriminator discriminates the presence of a specific color component, half-tone portions, and line image portions in the image signal in accordance with the result of discrimination of the specific color component. A selector selects a predetermined sequence for processing by the processor of the image signal having the specific color component to reproduce a color image with the specific color component in accordance with the result of discrimination by said discrimination means.

Abstract: An image forming system includes a color test chart that has a pattern with three tonality levels for each color component. A reading device can read the test chart as well as an original image and generates image signals representing the one of the test chart and original image thus read. A .gamma.-correcting circuit corrects the image signals in accordance with a .gamma.-correction characteristic and an image forming apparatus forms an image on the basis of the image signal that has been .gamma.-corrected by the .gamma.-correcting circuit. A discriminator discriminates a reproduction condition of tonality, including half tones, on the basis of the image of the test chart when formed by the image forming apparatus and thus produces a discrimination signal representing the discrimination. The .gamma.-correction characteristic used by the .gamma.