Abstract: An information processing apparatus with a hierarchized bus structure having a system bus connected to central processing units and cache memories and an I/O bus connected to I/O devices. In response to a DMA request from the I/O device, a memory controller connected to both buses and to a main memory compares previous snoop addresses stored in a buffer memory of the memory controller with a current address contained in the DMA request to check whether the current DMA request is coincident with the past snoop process. If the comparison indicates a coincident snoop process, a snoop access process request is inhibited to be output to the system bus and cache memory. With this operation, the number of snoop accesses for DMAs to the same block of the cache memory can be reduced and a time during which the system bus is occupied can be shortened, to thereby improve the system performance.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device is made to show an improved carrier transporting ability and an improved carrier injecting property by doping a liquid crystal compound having a high degree of carrier mobility without generating any ionic current. The organic electroluminescence device comprises a carrier transport layer formed by doping a smectic liquid crystal compound having a hexagonal order structure with a Lewis acid compound, a light-emitting layer and a protection layer arranged between the carrier transport layer and the light-emitting layer and composed of an organic compound having a carrier transporting property of the same type as that of carrier transport layer and a carrier conducting property of the type different from that of the carrier transport layer.

Abstract: A metal coordination compound suitable as an organic material for a luminescent device is represented by the following formula (1): wherein M denotes Ir, Pt, Rh or Pd; n is 2 or 3; Y denotes an alkylene group having 2-6 carbon atoms capable of including one or at least two non-neighboring methylene groups which can be replaced with —O—, —S—, —C(O)—, —C(O)—O— or —O—C(O)— and capable of including a hydrogen atom which can be replaced with a linear or branched alkyl group which has 1-10 carbon atoms and is capable of including a hydrogen atom which can be replaced with fluorine atom; and CyN denotes a cyclic group containing a nitrogen atom connected to M and capable of having a substituent selected from the group consisting of a halogen atom; a nitro group; a phenyl group; a trialkylsilyl group having 1-8 carbon atoms; and a linear or branched alkyl group having 1-20 carbon atoms capable of including one or at least two no

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for reducing a service charge of a portable terminal in which the portable telephone user can set the extraction condition of the advertising information and the feedback information from the portable telephone can be returned.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device is constituted by a pair of substrates each provided with an electrode, and an organic luminescence layer of an organic luminescence material and a liquid crystal layer of a liquid crystal material, respectively disposed between the substrates. The liquid crystal material has an isotropic phase transition temperature lower than a glass transition temperature of the organic luminescence material. The liquid crystal layer has been formed by disposing the liquid crystal material on the organic luminescence layer in an isotropic phase state at a temperature lower than the glass transition temperature of the organic luminescence material and cooling the liquid crystal material to a temperature lower than the isotropic phase transition temperature.

Abstract: A luminescent device having a high luminescence efficiency and a high luminance is provided by using a rhenium coordination compounds the luminescent device comprising a Re complex compound provided between a pair of electrodes on a substrate, wherein the Re complex compound is expressed by the following general formula:

Abstract: A metal coordination compound having a basic structure represented by formula: MLmL′n (1), wherein M is a metal atom of Ir, Pt, Rh or Pd; L and L′ are mutually different bidentate ligands; m is 1, 2 or 3; wherein at least one bidentate ligand has a partial structure formed by condensation via an alkylene group having 2-10 carbon atoms, is provided. In an electroluminescence device composed of one or a plurality of organic films disposed between a cathode and an anode, at least one layer is a luminescence layer which is formed by incorporating luminescence molecules constituting the metal coordination compound having a structure of the formula (1) described above as a guest material in a host material thereby to provide an electroluminescence device producing luminescence at high efficiency and stably keeping a high luminance for a long period.

Abstract: A lubricant tank for a lubrication system of a snowmobile engine includes an upper portion and a lower portion. The upper portion is enlarged relative to the lower portion. A recess is defined on an engine side of the lubricant tank by a lower surface of the upper portion and a lateral surface of the lower portion. The recess accommodates a protruding portion or component of the engine. The tank also comprises a sloping surface that extends between the upper portion and the lower portion inside the tank. Lubricant is returned in the upper portion and transferred to the lower portion through a zigzag flow path.

Abstract: A liquid crystal device, suitably included in e.g., an organic EL device, is formed of a pair of electrodes and a plurality of layers disposed between the electrodes and including at least one liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal layer comprises a liquid crystal composition having an electronic carrier-transporting function and comprising at least two compounds including at least one electron-donating compound or electron-accepting compound having a &pgr;-electron conjugated structure. As a result of doping the liquid crystal layer with the electron-donating or electron-accepting compound, the current conduction performance of the liquid crystal layer is improved presumably due to the generation of free carriers therein, whereby a functional device including the liquid crystal device can be improved as a whole.

Abstract: An organic light emitting device having a high light emitting efficiency and a long light emission lifetime is provided that comprises a pair of electrodes provided on a substrate, and a light emitting layer comprising at least one layer of an organic substance provided between the electrodes, wherein the light emitting layer comprises a first organic substance and a second organic substance mainly concerning a light emission wavelength of the light emitting layer, and wherein the first organic substance comprises a fluorine-containing organic compound.

Abstract: A signal transmission system includes a first circuit block having a first output circuit for producing a first signal, a plurality of second circuit blocks each including a first receiving circuit for receiving the first signal, and transmission lines connected between the first circuit block and the second circuit blocks, wherein the first circuit block further includes a second output circuit for producing a second signal, and wherein each of the second circuit blocks further includes a second receiving circuit for receiving the second signal, the first receiving circuit latching the first signal in synchronism with the second signal, removing the unsuccessfulness in the signal transmission and reception due to the propagation delay of signals between circuits.

Abstract: An electroconductive device functioning as, e.g., an organic EL device, is formed of a pair of oppositely disposed electrodes and organic compound layers disposed between the electrodes so as to be supplied with a voltage applied between the electrodes. The organic compound layers include at least one layer of a liquid crystalline organic compound in a supercooled liquid crystal phase As a result, the electroconductive device can exhibit an improved performance over a broad temperature range due to the presence of the organic compound layer in a liquid crystal phase.

Abstract: A metal coordination compound having a binuclear molecular structure represented by the following formula (1): 1

Abstract: In order to improve the light emission efficiency and the light emission life time of an organic electroluminescent device, the invention provides a method for improving the dispersibility of a light emitting material in the light emitting layer. The light emitting device comprises electrodes consisting of an anode and a cathode provided on a substrate, and an organic light emitting layer between the electrodes, wherein the organic light emitting layer includes a light emitting material and a dopant for improving the dispersibility thereof. As the dopant, there are employed a light emitting compound and a non-light emitting compound or a current enhancing material. In case of employing the light emitting compound, the composition corresponds to a case of utilizing plural light emitting materials, and, in such case, the light emission wavelengths are preferably mutually closer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a means for preventing execution of a transaction such as main storage access from obstruction by bus competition with low-speed IO access and improving the bus occupation efficiency. Apparatus for preventing execution of a transaction such as storage access from obstruction by bus competition with low-speed IO access. The invention includes a first bus, a second bus, a plurality of modules connected to both buses, a bus conversion unit for performing protocol conversion of information between both buses, a bus arbiter for arbitrating a bus occupation right request of a bus master, and a storage for storing access data up to a predetermined amount when the access destination is a predetermined module.

Abstract: A signal transmission system includes a first circuit block having a first output circuit for producing a first signal, a plurality of second circuit blocks each including a first receiving circuit for receiving the first signal, and transmission lines connected between the first circuit block and the second circuit blocks, wherein the first circuit block further includes a second output circuit for producing a second signal, and wherein each of the second circuit blocks further includes a second receiving circuit for receiving the second signal, the first receiving circuit latching the first signal in synchronism with the second signal, removing the unsuccessfulness in the signal transmission and reception due to the propagation delay of signals between circuits.

Abstract: A display apparatus is constituted by a display device including a plurality of pixels and control means for effecting a plurality of displaying operations at each pixel. Each of the displaying operation includes at least a first operation for displaying a first image at a first luminance and a second operation for displaying a second image substantially identical to the first image at a second luminance, said first and second luminances being non-zero and different from each other. One of the first and second luminances may preferably be smaller than ⅕ of the other luminance.

Abstract: An electroluminescence device having a layer containing a specific metal coordination compound is provided.

Abstract: An electroluminescence device having a layer containing a specific metal coordination compound is provided.

Abstract: An electroluminescence device having a layer containing a specific metal coordination compound is provided.