Abstract: An optical transmission line is formed and thereafter solidified using an optical transmission line forming material in the fluid condition. The optical transmission line formed between optical transmission terminals assures higher reliability and never generates disconnection or internal stress therein.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a silver halide photographic material having improved antiblocking property without deterioration of film brittleness and image quality due to addition of a polymer latex.A silver halide photographic material having at least one silver halide emulsion layer and at least one nonsensitive protective layer on a support, in which the nonsensitive protective layer contains polymer grains represented by the following General Formula (1) in a proportion by weight of 5 to 300% to a hydrophilic colloid as a binder, and the polymer grains have a mean grain diameter of at most 0.1 .mu.m,--(A).sub.x --(B).sub.y --(C).sub.

Abstract: A signal transmission bus comprising a plurality of optical transmission layers and optical isolation layers stacked alternately. Each of the optical transmission layers has signal light input thereinto and propagating the input signal light diffusedly. Each of the optical isolation layers prevents the mixing of the signal light between any two adjacent optical transmission layers. At least one of the optical isolation layers comprises electrical wiring for transmitting electrical signals.

Abstract: An optical bus production method for producing an optical bus having an improved transmission efficiency while preventing a data transmission failure. More specifically, the optical bus is produced by preparing first sheets that serve as a light transmission layer, a clad layer is formed on both front and rear sides of each of the first sheets and a second sheet is inserted, is prepared separately from the first sheet and serves as a clearance layer between the first sheets having the clad layer. The resulting optical bus includes a plurality of light transmission paths, each consisting of a light transmission layer and clad layers sandwiching the light transmission layer, and clearance layers for specifying the interval between the light transmission paths, each clearance layer being interposed between adjacent light transmission paths.

Abstract: An optical transmission line is formed and thereafter solidified using an optical transmission line forming material in the fluid condition. The optical transmission line formed between optical transmission terminals assures higher reliability and never generates disconnection or internal stress therein.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device has a memory cell array having a plurality of memory cells connected to multiple word lines and between multiple pairs of bit lines. A main sense amplifier reads cell information onto a pair of bit lines from one memory cell selected via a word line and outputs the read cell information after amplification. A pre-sense amplifier, connected to each pair of bit lines, amplifies a potential difference between the pair of bit lines based on the cell information and outputs the amplified potential difference to the main sense amplifier prior to outputting of the read data.

Abstract: To improve resistance to environmental changes and enhance system extensibility, the present invention provides an optical bus for transmitting an optical signal, which has diffusers distributed in a optical transmission layer to diffuse an input signal beam and propagate the diffused signal beam, and a signal processor for carrying out signal processing including transmission and reception of a signal beam using the optical bus.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first substrate carrying semiconductor chips on both upper and lower major surfaces thereof, a second substrate carrying the first substrate, and a resin package body having a first part for embedding the semiconductor chips on the upper major surface of the first substrate and a second part for embedding the semiconductor chips on the lower major surface of the first substrate, wherein the second substrate carries on a lower major surface thereof solder bumps forming a BGA structure.

Abstract: A multi-chip module includes a substrate, an interconnection pattern provided on the substrate, a plurality of semiconductor chips provided commonly upon the substrate in electrical connection with the interconnection pattern, a plurality of thermally conductive blocks each provided on corresponding one of the plurality of semiconductor chips in an intimate contact therewith, a resin package body that encapsulates the plurality of semiconductor chips and the plurality of thermally conductive blocks together with the substrate, such that the resin package body has an upper major surface substantially flush with the upper major surfaces of the plurality of thermally conductive blocks, and a heat sink mounted upon the upper major surface of the resin package body such that the heat sink establishes an intimate contact with respective upper major surfaces of the thermally conducting blocks.

Abstract: A multi-chip module includes a substrate, an interconnection pattern provided on the substrate, a plurality of semiconductor chips provided commonly upon the substrate in electrical connection with the interconnection pattern, a plurality of thermally conductive blocks each provided on corresponding one of the plurality of semiconductor chips in an intimate contact therewith, a resin package body that encapsulates the plurality of semiconductor chips and the plurality of thermally conductive blocks together with the substrate, such that the resin package body has an upper major surface substantially flush with the upper major surfaces of the plurality of thermally conductive blocks, and a heat sink mounted upon the upper major surface of the resin package body such that the heat sink establishes an intimate contact with respective upper major surfaces of the thermally conducting blocks.

Abstract: In an image reading method, an image of an original document is read at a plurality of positions within one period in a manner that the focal position spaced a specific distance apart from the surface of the original document is periodically varied while being moved in the slow scan direction. The plurality of read positions during one period are synchronized every period. In-focus image data is detected from the image data read out during each period. Other image data than the detected in-focus image data during one period is replaced with the in-focus image data. Alternatively, blur of other image data than the detected in-focus image data during one period is corrected on the basis of the in-focus image data. An image reader based on the image reading method is also disclosed.

Abstract: An electroluminescence device which has a short light emission decay time and high light emission efficiency and an electronic printing apparatus which can print at a high speed using the electroluminescence device. The electroluminescence device comprises an electroluminescence element for emitting light when an AC voltage is applied thereacross, heating means for heating the electroluminescence element, and controlling means for controlling the heating means so as to start operation of the heating means after completion of application of the AC voltage across the electroluminescence element. The electronic printing apparatus comprises such an electroluminescence device, a photosensitive member, and optical means for focusing light from the electroluminescence element upon the photosensitive member.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprises a support, a blue sensitive layer, a green sensitive layer and a red sensitive layer. The total silver content of the photographic material is not more than 1.0 g/m.sup.2. The photographic material further contains a compound represented by the formula (1a) or (1b): ##STR1## in which R.sup.12 is an aliphatic group, an aromatic group or a heterocyclic group; M is --CO--, --SO.sub.2 --, --N(R.sup.15)CO--, --OCO-- or --N(R.sup.15)SO.sub.2 --; each of R.sup.14, R.sup.15 and R.sup.24 independently is hydrogen, an alkyl group or an aryl group; L is a divalent linking group necessary for forming a 5, 6 or 7-membered ring; each of R.sup.11, R.sup.13 and R.sup.21 independently is hydrogen or a substituent group of the hydroquinone nucleus; Time is a group which is released from the oxidation product of the hydroquinone nucleus to further release X; X is a development inhibitor; and t is 0 or 1. M preferably is --SO.sub.2 --, --N(R.sup.15)CO--, --OCO-- or --N(R.sup.

Abstract: An image reader including: a scanning mechanism section for holding an imaging optical unit and a solid-state image pick-up device, and for rotating the imaging optical unit and the solid-state image pick-up device in an arbitrary direction and another direction orthogonal to that arbitrary direction respectively, so that an original image can be picked up with an arbitrary resolution while being segmented into a plurality of pieces; and a control section for driving the scanning mechanism section in accordance with the original image and for synthesizing the segmented image to produce original image data. As a result of this construction, the image reader is down-sized and does not require that the original be placed on the platen glass facedown and at a predetermined position, to dispense with the conventionally required complicated operation.

Abstract: A multi-port semiconductor memory includes a memory cell array having a plurality of memory cells (10), a plurality of columns and rows, a write/read system, and at least one read system having sense amplifiers, each of the columns having a pair of data lines. Each of the sense amplifiers has first and second terminals connected to the pair of data lines and senses a voltage difference between the first and second terminals. The multi-port semiconductor memory also includes an address coincidence detection circuit which generates a control signal when a first address provided for writing write data into the memory cell array by the write/read system coincides with a second address provided for reading the write data by the read system.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an image forming apparatus comprising image forming means for forming an image on a sheet, sheet stacking means for successively stacking sheets on which the image is formed by the image forming means, with shifting by a predetermined amount in a sheet feeding direction one from the other, feeding means for feeding the sheet one by one from a sheet stack obtained by stacking the sheets with shifting by the predetermined amount one from the other, conveying means for conveying the sheet stack formed by the sheet stacking means in normal and reverse directions between the sheet stacking means and the feeding means, and control means for controlling the conveying means in such a manner that the conveying means returns said sheet stack from the feeding means to the sheet stacking means to stack the sheets on which the image is formed by the image forming means after they have been fed by the feeding means, for obtaining a new sheet stack.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material is provided that contains at least one pyrazoloazole type coupler represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein Za and Zb each represents ##STR2## or .tbd.N--, R.sub.1 and R.sub.

Abstract: This specification discloses a sheet conveying apparatus having piling means for piling sheets with a predetermined amount of deviation in the direction of conveyance provided therebetween, first conveying means for imparting a conveying force to only that surface of the lead-off one of the sheets piled with the predetermined amount of deviation provided therebetween which is not in contact with the other sheets, and movement restricting means disposed upstream of the first conveying means by a distance shorter than the predetermined length of the conveyed predetermined sheet minus the predetermined amount of deviation for restricting the movement of the other sheets than the lead-off sheet.

Abstract: A flip-flop includes two gates each having a CMOS circuit and a bipolar circuit. One bipolar circuit related to one of the gates includes first and second bipolar transistors, and the other bipolar circuit includes third and fourth bipolar transistors. A discharge circuit discharges the base of the first bipolar transistor in response to a change in a second input and discharges the base of the third bipolar transistor in response to a first input. The first and second inputs are complementary inputs. A charge cirucit charges the base of the second bipolar transistor in response to the second input and charges the base of the fourth bipolar transistor in response to the first input.

Abstract: A siliver halide color photographic material, comprising at least one of magenta couplers having the following general formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; X represents a hydrogen atom or a group that can be cleaved by the coupling reaction with the oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent; Za, Zb and Zc each represents a methine group, a substituted methine, .dbd.N--or --NH--; one of the Za--Zb bond and the Zb--Zc bond is a double bond and the other is a single bond; and Zb-Zc may be fused to an aromatic ring, the coupler may form a dimer or higher polymer via R.sup.1 or X, and when Za, Zb or Zc is a substituted methine, the coupler may form a dimer or higher polymer through the substituted methine, and at least one of compounds having the following general formula (II): ##STR2## wherein M represents a hydrogen atom, an alkali metal atom, a quaternary ammonium group or a group that can be cleaved under an alkaline condition; and R.sub.