Abstract: A balanced type filter includes at least one balanced type terminal. At least one predetermined reactance element is connected between the balanced type terminal and another terminal. A parallel resonance circuit is formed by parasitic components existing between the balanced type terminal and the other terminal, and the reactance element. The other terminal is of balanced type or unbalanced type.

Abstract: A picture convert apparatus of the present invention includes a first element which inputs a first picture data and produces a second picture data consisting of a first black area, a second black area and an area consisting of the reduced number of lines of the first picture; a second element which enlarges the second picture; and a third element which display the enlarged picture. A method of the present invention for converting a first picture data to a second picture data, includes: producing a first black area; reducing the line number of the first picture data to a predetermined line number; producing a second black area; forming the first black area, the reduced numbers of lines and the second black area to a frame; enlarging the frame; and displaying the enlarged frame on a display.

Abstract: A small in-band-flat-group-delay type dielectric filter having low-loss characteristics with a small amplitude deviation and uniform-group-delay frequency characteristics is obtained, which enables broad-band characteristics to be obtained easily. The in-band-flat-group-delay type dielectric filter includes a plurality of dielectric coaxial resonators, a coupling circuit comprising a combination of reactive elements, with which the dielectric coaxial resonators are coupled to one another, and input/output terminals connected to ends of the coupling circuit. The dielectric coaxial resonators coupled to the input/output terminals are allowed to have a different characteristic impedance from that of the inter-stage dielectric coaxial resonators.

Abstract: The present invention provides a common marmoset-derived hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase gene and use thereof.

Abstract: An RF device includes a first substrate having a lower relative dielectric constant, a first RF circuit for a lower frequency band provided in the first substrate, a second substrate having a higher relative dielectric constant larger than the lower relative dielectric constant, and a second RF circuit for a higher frequency band having a part of the second RF circuit sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first RF circuit and the second RF circuit are connected to each other and the second substrate is partially overlaid on the first substrate. A semiconductor device or passive device is provided on a region in the surface of the first substrate on which the second substrate is not overlaid, and a multilayered wiring pattern made of copper or silver is formed in the first substrate to form the first RF circuit.

Abstract: A diplexer capable of passing signals of a high frequency band without being attenuated over a wide frequency band, and a high-frequency switch using the diplexer are provided. The diplexer includes a low-pass filter 82 having a parallel resonant circuit formed by a first capacitor C1 and a first inductor L1 and a serial resonant circuit formed by a second capacitor C2 and a second inductor L2. With this structure, two attenuation poles are provided in the low-pass filter 82. Thus, a passband of a high-pass filter 83 can be widened.

Abstract: A longitudinally coupled surface acoustic wave filter includes a first, second and third IDT electrodes and a first and second reflector electrodes on a piezoelectric substrate. The IDT electrodes each include a primary excitation region having ?/2 electrode finger pitches, where ? is the wavelength of a surface acoustic wave. The primary excitation region is phase-shifted by a certain amount in accordance with a desired passband frequency response. The IDT electrodes further include a plurality of secondary excitation regions each having electrode finger pitches different from the ?/2 pitches. All of the electrode finger pitches of the surface acoustic wave filter thus range from 0.8?/2 to 1.2?/2, so that a loss increase caused by discontinuity between the IDT electrodes is prevented.

Abstract: The present invention provides a common marmoset-derived glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase gene and use thereof.

Abstract: The present invention provides a common marmoset-derived beta-actin gene and use thereof.

Abstract: A semiconductor device mounting structure is provided that includes an electrically insulating layer including a plurality of layers of electrically insulating substrates, a first semiconductor device, a second semiconductor device, a heat dispersion portion provided at a main surface of the electrically insulating layer, a first heat-conducting path connecting the heat dispersion portion and the first semiconductor device, and a second heat-conducting path connecting the heat dispersion portion and the second semiconductor device, wherein the first semiconductor device is arranged between at least a portion of the heat dispersion portion and the second semiconductor device. This provides a semiconductor device mounting structure that, in addition to being capable of high-density mounting of a plurality of semiconductor devices, is capable of dispersing with good efficiency heat generated by the plurality of semiconductor devices.

Abstract: A dielectric filter includes resonator electrodes, an inter-stage coupling capacitor electrode, and an input/output coupling capacitor electrode on dielectric substrates, respectively. The resonator electrodes are electro-magnetically coupled to each other to form a tri-plate structure, are made of a metallic foil embedded in a resonator dielectric substrate. Another dielectric filter includes an upper shield electrode dielectric substrate, an inter-stage coupling capacitor dielectric substrate, a resonator dielectric substrate, and an input/output coupling capacitor dielectric substrate which are made of a composite dielectric material including a high-dielectric-constant material and a low-dielectric-constant material. The above described arrangement provides the dielectric filter with an improved Q factor of a resonator, a low loss, and a high attenuation.

Abstract: A dielectric resonator includes a pair of dielectric substrates opposed to each other and resonator electrodes disposed between the pair of dielectric substrates. The resonator electrodes are disposed so as to be brought into contact with major surfaces of the pair of dielectric substrates, and a bonding layer is disposed around the resonator electrodes so as to bond the pair of dielectric substrates. The pair of dielectric substrates have been sintered in advance at sufficiently high temperature which is a dielectric having an fQ value at 1 GHz in the range of 3×103 to 1×105, and then achieve a high Q value as a filter. The pair of the substrates are provided with a surface roughness of a range of 0.1 to 2.0 ?m, and flatness of 10 ?m or less between both ends thereof to bring the resonant electrodes in close contact with the surfaces of the substrate.

Abstract: There are provided a negative dye-containing curable composition comprising an alkali-soluble binder, an organic solvent-soluble dye, a photopolymerizable compound, a photopolymerization initiator, an organic solvent and at least one of higher fatty acids and derivatives thereof, a color filter produced by using the negative dye-containing curable composition and a method of producing the color filter.

Abstract: There is provided a negative dye-containing curable composition, comprising an alkali-soluble binder, an organic solvent-soluble dye, a photopolymerizable compound, a photopolymerization initiator and an organic solvent, wherein: the mass of the organic solvent-soluble dye is greater than the mass of the alkali-soluble binder; the mass of the organic solvent-soluble dye is greater than the mass of the photopolymerizable compound; the mass of the organic solvent-soluble dye is greater than the mass of the photopolymerization initiator; and the ratio of the mass of the photopolymerization initiator to the mass of the photopolymerizable compound is greater than or equal to 0.1 and less than or equal to 7. Also provided are a color filter produced by using the negative dye-containing curable composition and a method of producing the color filter.

Abstract: By using a method for manufacturing a dielectric laminated device, an opening is formed on a first dielectric sheet, a strip line and an input and output line including an input and output electrode are formed by burying electrode materials in said opening, the first dielectric sheet is laminated with the second and third dielectric sheets disposed above and below respectively to form a laminate, a first and second shield electrodes and a ground electrode are formed, an end of the strip line is connected to the ground electrode, the first shield electrode and the second shield electrode are mutually connected through the ground electrode, and the input and output electrode is exposed along the line direction of the strip line. By this constitution of the above dielectric laminated device, the mounting reliability of the dielectric laminated device can be further increased.

Abstract: A high-frequency switch has a first transmission-reception switching circuit for selectively switching between the signal transfer between an antenna terminal and a first transmitting-circuit terminal and the signal transfer between the antenna terminal and a first receiving-circuit terminal; a second transmission-reception switching circuit for selectively switching between the signal transfer between the antenna terminal and a second transmitting-circuit terminal and the signal transfer between the antenna terminal and a second receiving-circuit terminal; a first diplexer disposed between the antenna terminal and the first transmission-reception switching circuit and between the antenna terminal and the second transmission-reception switching circuit; and a second diplexer connected to the second receiving-circuit terminal to selectively switch the signal transfer between the second receiving-circuit terminal and a third receiving-circuit terminal and the signal transfer between the second receiving-circuit

Abstract: A variable resolution decoder of the present invention decodes image data compressed with a compression method such as MPEG-2 supporting interlaced scanning. The decoder performs variable decoding and inverse quantization on the compressed image data and then checks a DCT mode of a frame, performs inverse discrete cosine transform in 4 by 8 pixels when the mode is a DCT mode, acquires image data of full resolution for interlaced scanning in a vertical direction, and thins the image data, thereby performing image reduction of the image data during decoding with field information maintained. The decoder comprises means for performing reduction in a DCT area for resolution of image data in a horizontal direction and means for performing reduction in a pixel area for resolution of image data in a vertical direction.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for growing a single crystal by the Czochralski method, wherein a single crystal is grown with forced cooling of neighborhood of a crystal growth interface by disposing a cooling cylinder formed of copper or a metal having a heat conductivity larger than that of copper at least in the vicinity of the crystal growth interface so as to surround the single crystal under pulling and circulating a cooling medium in the cooling cylinder. Thus, there are provided a method and apparatus for growing a single crystal, which can exert cooling effect on a growing single crystal to the maximum extent so as to realize higher crystal growth rate, even when a silicon single crystal having a diameter of 300 mm or more is grown.

Abstract: A longitudinal mode type surface acoustic wave filter comprising a first IDT electrode, second and third IDT electrodes, and first and second reflector electrodes are formed on a piezoelectric substrate. The upper electrode of the first IDT electrode is connected to one of balanced type terminals, and the lower electrode of the first IDT electrode is connected to the other balanced type terminal. Also, the lower electrode of the second IDT electrode is connected to an unbalanced type terminal, and the lower electrode is grounded. The lower electrode of the third IDT electrode is connected to the unbalanced type terminal, and the upper electrode is grounded.

Abstract: A high frequency switch, has a transmitting terminal, a receiving terminal, an antenna terminal, a first diode having an anode electrically connected to the transmitting terminal and a cathode electrically connected to the antenna terminal, a second diode having an anode connected through a transmission line of ¼ wavelength to the antenna terminal which is electrically connected to the receiving terminal, and having the side of a cathode grounded, and a control terminal provided to a node between the transmitting terminal and the first anode. The first and second diodes have a tradeoff relationship between ON resistance thereof and capacitance between the anode and the cathode, and the ON resistance of the first diode is lower than the ON resistance of the second diode, and the capacitance of the second diode in the OFF state is smaller than the capacitance of the first diode in the OFF state.