Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a plurality of transistors. The transistors are coupled through serial coupling. The transistors include a first transistor and a second transistor. The semiconductor device further includes a third transistor and a first diode. The second transistor includes a first sub-transistor and a second sub-transistor that are coupled in parallel with each other. The first transistor, the first sub-transistor, the second sub-transistor, the third transistor, and the first diode are arranged on a substrate, with the third transistor interposed between the first sub-transistor and the second sub-transistor in a first direction.

Abstract: An electronic device including a first microcomputer, a second microcomputer, and communication part configured to communicate with an external device is provided. The first microcomputer has a first storage configured to store a first program, and a first controller configured to execute a first process by using the first program stored in the first storage. The second microcomputer has a second storage configured to store a second program, and a second controller configured to execute a second process by using the second program stored in the second storage. The second controller of the second microcomputer acquires, from the external device, difference data for updating the first program stored in the first storage of the first microcomputer by using the communication part, and updates the first program stored in the first storage of the first microcomputer by using the acquired difference data and the second program stored in the second storage.

Abstract: An electronic device including a first microcomputer, a second microcomputer, and communication part configured to communicate with an external device is provided. The first microcomputer has a first storage configured to store a first program, and a first controller configured to execute a first process by using the first program stored in the first storage. The second microcomputer has a second storage configured to store a second program, and a second controller configured to execute a second process by using the second program stored in the second storage. The second controller of the second microcomputer acquires, from the external device, difference data for updating the first program stored in the first storage of the first microcomputer by using the communication part, and updates the first program stored in the first storage of the first microcomputer by using the acquired difference data and the second program stored in the second storage.

Abstract: Provided is a transparent conductive film having multilayer structure, and inconspicuous pattern shape and good visibility. The film includes: transparent base 11 formed of film-like polymer resin; first hard coat layer 12 laminated on the base 11; first transparent dielectric layer 13 laminated as required on the layer 12; and first transparent conductive layer 14 laminated on the layer 13. The base 11 has a film thickness of 2 to 250 micrometers. The layer 12 is formed of hardening resin containing inorganic oxide, with refractive index: 1.40 to 1.90 and film thickness: 0.5 to 6 micrometers. The layer 13 is formed of inorganic substance, with refractive index: 1.30 to 1.50 and film thickness: 10 to 50 nanometers. The layer 14 is formed of at least one kind of inorganic oxide, metal and carbon, and patterned, and has a film thickness of 10 nanometers to 2 micrometers.

Abstract: Provided is a transparent conductive film having multilayer structure, and inconspicuous pattern shape and good visibility. The film includes: transparent base 11 formed of film-like polymer resin; first hard coat layer 12 laminated on the base 11; first transparent dielectric layer 13 laminated as required on the layer 12; and first transparent conductive layer 14 laminated on the layer 13. The base 11 has a film thickness of 2 to 250 micrometers. The layer 12 is formed of hardening resin containing inorganic oxide, with refractive index: 1.40 to 1.90 and film thickness: 0.5 to 6 micrometers. The layer 13 is formed of inorganic substance, with refractive index: 1.30 to 1.50 and film thickness: 10 to 50 nanometers. The layer 14 is formed of at least one kind of inorganic oxide, metal and carbon, and patterned, and has a film thickness of 10 nanometers to 2 micrometers.

Abstract: Provided is a device of a high-frequency resonator using Lamb wave type elastic wave having excellent frequency temperature characteristics, the device having a significantly small frequency change, and including an interdigital transducer for generating at least one Lamb wave type elastic wave, or the interdigital transducer and a reflector, arranged on a quartz substrate. The cut angle of the quartz substrate and a propagation direction of the Lamb wave type elastic wave expressed in Euler angles (?, ?, ?) satisfy any one of following expressions (Expressions 1 to 3): ?=90°, ?=17° to 21° or ?=159° to 163°, ?=0° to 10°??(Expression 1) ?=210°, ?=17° to 21° or ?=159° to 163°, ?=0° to 10°??(Expression 2) ?=330°, ?=17° to 21° or ?=159° to 163°, ?=0° to 10°.

Abstract: Provided is a device of a high-frequency resonator using Lamb wave type elastic wave having excellent frequency temperature characteristics, the device having a significantly small frequency change. The Lamb wave type elastic wave device has an interdigital transducer for generating at least one Lamb wave type elastic wave, or the interdigital transducer and a reflector, arranged on a quartz substrate. The cut angle of the quartz substrate and a propagation direction of the Lamb wave type elastic wave expressed in Euler angles (?, ?, ?) satisfy any one of following expressions (Expressions 1 to 3).

Abstract: A plastic molded product of olefin (co)polymer composition comprises 0.01-5.0 weight parts high molecular weight polyethylene with an intrinsic viscosity &eegr;E in the range of 15-100 dl/g measured in 135° C. tetralin and preferably 100 weight parts polypropylene. The high molecular weight polyethylene has an average particle size in the range of 1-5000 nm and is finely dispersed as fine granules in the polypropylene, so that high melt strength and high crystallization temperature are attained, enabling various molding methods to be performed with high speed productivity. Using the polymer composition, plastics such as a resin foam, a film, a sheet, a layered plastic article with a coated substrate surface, a hollow plastic article, an injection molded plastic article, a fiber, a nonwoven web or a continuous tube-shaped plastic are provided. The olefin (co)polymer composition is obtained by preparing high molecular weight polyethylene granules using e.g.

Abstract: A polypropylene composition for the production of various molded articles which are excellent in moldability, mold shrinkage factor on molding, rigidity, flexibility, impact resistance, in particular low-temperature impact resistance, transparency, gloss, stress-whitening resistance, and the balance thereof; various molded articles having the above properties; a propylene composition which is suitable for a base resin for the polypropylene composition; and a process for the production thereof. The propylene composition comprises a propylene homopolymer and a propylene-ethylene copolymer, the intrinsic viscosity of the copolymer ([&eegr;]RC) is in the range of 1.7 to 2.8 dl/g, the intrinsic viscosity ratio of the homopolymer to the copolymer ([&eegr;]RC/[&eegr;]pp) is in the range of 0.7 to 1.

Abstract: A ladder type piezoelectric filter of the present invention is made usable in high frequency ranges by employing a piezoelectric resonator having the second harmonic wave mode SM. A series resonator and a parallel resonator of the ladder type piezoelectric filter of the present invention are so arranged that center electrode regions and outer electrode regions are mutually polarized along opposite directions, and the center electrode regions are connected to the outer electrode regions, respectively.

Abstract: There is provided a ladder type electric filter having a pair of vertically arranged parallel resonators and a pair of series resonators arranged side by side above the parallel resonators and, at the same time, held free from degradation in the performance of the filter, wherein the abutting surfaces of the raised connecting sections of a connecting terminal member that are held in close contact with the respective lower surface-electrodes of the series resonators partly overlap with the abutting surface of the raised connecting section of an output terminal member that is held in close contact with the upper surface-electrode of the upper parallel resonator if viewed from above.

Abstract: A piezoelectric filter device having one or more pairs of piezoelectric resonators for forming a ladder-type filter circuit, a plurality of terminal plates including an input and output terminal plates for electro-mechanically holding respective resonators at oscillation nodes, and a casing for containing the piezoelectric resonators and the terminal plates and having an opening which is closed by an insulating filler, in which the opening has an inner peripheral rough surface with which the insulating filler is securly bonded. The casing has a connecting extention extending from the bottom wall thereof which is longer than cranked or bent connecting legs of the input and output terminal plates. Alternatively, each cranked or bent connecting leg has a width larger than that of its tip portion to be connected to a printed-circuit board.

Abstract: In radio communication equipment, a ladder-type piezo-electric filter is provided which operates in a high-frequency region of approximately 1.7 MHz-2 MHz. The filter is smaller than conventional ladder-type electric filters, less costly, and more easily handled and produced. In accordance with the present invention, rectangular piezo-resonators that longitudinally generate harmonic oscillation are used in the series and parallel branches of a ladder-type circuit. In each resonator, piezo-electric regions are formed by dividing surface electrodes with isolating slits. The slits are formed at the positions corresponding to the node points of the harmonic oscillation waveforms. For the piezo-resonators placed in the series branches of the ladder-type circuit, the piezo-electric regions are polarized in the same transverse direction. In each piezo-resonator used in a parallel branch, the piezo-electric regions are polarized in alternately opposite transverse directions.

Abstract: A ladder type piezo-electric filter comprising series piezo-electric resonators and parallel piezo-electric resonators having improved second harmonic mode, high resonance response and anti-resonance impedance near 1-7 MHz, for use in communication applications requiring filter shaving resonator dimensions less than 5 mm and operating frequencies in excess of 455 kHz.

Abstract: A polyester resin film laminated steel sheet for a drawn and ironed can which comprises laminating a copolyester resin film prepared by processing according to a known method on the one side of a steel sheet covered with at least hydrated chromium oxide to be employed for the inside of the drawn and ironed can and plating tin on the other side of the steel sheet to be employed for the outside of the drawn and ironed can.By using this polyester resin film laminated steel sheet, a drawn and ironed can having an excellent corrosion resistance with respect to the packed contents such as carbonated beverages and fruit juices is easily produced. Furthermore, this drawn and ironed can can be used without an inner lacquer coating after forming.

Abstract: The first of a pair scissor like rocker arms is pivotally mounted at one end either by way of an adjust screw or a hydraulic lash adjuster and arangement to engage the top of a valve stem at the other. A cam follower which is located between the first and second ends engages a lift cam. The second of the rocker arms is pivotally mounted on the first one and has a closure cam follower at one end and engages the lower face of a retainer which secured to the top of the valve stem by way of a ring type collet. The shaft on which the second rocker arm is pivotally mounted can be provided with eccentric portions which enable the second rocker arm valve clearances to be adjusted separately from the adjustment of the first rocker arm clearance. The arrangement can be adapted to lift and close two valves.

Abstract: A ladder-type electric filter circuit apparatus having a plurality of thinner electric filter units wherein each electric filter unit includes a casing of metal into which piezoelectric resonator elements and terminal plates are inserted, and the metal casing is securely mounted on a printed circuit board by soldering. The piezoelectric resonator elements and terminal plates are insulated from the metal casing by an insulating plate and an elastic insulatiang plate which is also served as a vibration or shock absorber for protecting the contained filter from any external vibration or shock propagated through the printed circuit board.

Abstract: A piezoelectric scanning device comprises X-direction and Y-direction piezoelectric drive sections coupled to mutually perpendicular Z-direction piezoelectric clamping members. The selective application of voltages to the piezoelectric elements included in the X-direction and Y-direction drive sections and the Z-direction clamping members enables movement of the scanning device in two directions.

Abstract: A method for producing a thin tin and nickel plated steel sheet having a surface structure in which the distribution of numerous nodules of metallic tin are observed by using an electron microscope on an iron-tin-nickel alloy layer formed on a steel sheet which comprises electroplating nickel on the steel sheet which is anodically treated in an alkaline electrolyte with a pH of above 10 followed by electrotinplating the nickel plated steel sheet, reflowing, quenching, and then chromate treating the tin and nickel plated steel sheet.This tin and nickel plated steel sheet is suitable for welded can materials since it is excellent in corrosion resistance after lacquering and weldability.

Abstract: An ignition system for a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine eliminates high-voltage cables and a mechanical distributor in order to reduce electrical power losses due to joule effect caused mainly by the high voltage circuit, comprises a plurality of ignition coils and plugs, one provided for each cylinder, a distribution unit for distributing advance-angle control signals into the respective cylinders, and a booster for boosting the supply voltage in order to reduce the size of the ignition coil, in addition to the conventional ignition system. Furthermore, the ignition coil can be built integrally with the ignition plug for eliminating high-voltage cables connected between coil and plug.