Patents Issued in July 19, 2001
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Publication number: 20010008477Abstract: A semiconductor apparatus such as a power MOSFET, an IGBT, or the like is provided having therein a control circuit such as an over-heating protection circuit and an over-current protection circuit, which realizes both of high-speed operation and prevention of erroneous operation caused by a parasitic device. To prevent erroneous operation, the control circuit controls so that when the voltage of a gate terminal is positive relative to that of a source terminal, a first switch circuit is turned on, when the voltage of the gate terminal is negative relative to that of the source terminal, a second switch circuit is turned on, and when the gate terminal and the source terminal have an almost same potential and a drain terminal has a high potential, the second switch circuit is turned on, thereby reducing leakage current from the drain terminal to the gate terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Inventors: Kozo Sakamoto, Isao Yoshida
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Publication number: 20010008478Abstract: A capacitive measurement circuit detects a change in capacitance between a variable capacitor and a fixed reference capacitor in a bridge network and provides feedback current to null-balance the bridge. Voltage that controls the feedback current is substantially linearly proportional to changes in capacitance over a wide range.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Inventors: Robert B. McIntosh, Winfield Hill
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Publication number: 20010008479Abstract: An apparatus and method for creating multi-layer embedded ceramic capacitors in low-temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) substrates. In order to create multiple layers of electrodes, the individual electrode layers must be connected electrically. According to the present invention, a multi-layer capacitor is formed on a first ceramic tape layer. A second tape layer having an opening is placed on top of the first layer. The opening in the second layer is formed such that exposed vias are present on at least two sides of the opening to electrically connect to the electrodes. When the tape layers are pressed and fired, the exposed vias and electrodes form common electrical connections. A third layer having a terminal via may be placed on top of the second layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Applicant: National Semiconductor, Inc.Inventor: Shaul Branchevsky
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Publication number: 20010008480Abstract: A hard diskdrive mobile rack includes a rack adapted to hold a hard diskdrive, the rack having a plurality of air vents through a bottom panel thereof and a plurality of hook holes symmetrically provided at two sides of each air vent, and a plurality of induced-draft fans respectively installed in the air vents.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Inventor: Cheng Yu Huang
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Publication number: 20010008481Abstract: The invention relates to the provision of a cooling effect on components (6) of electrical apparatus which are mounted on an upper surface (8) of a printed circuit board (4) within a housing (2). The invention provides for the mounting of a material layer (12) which can absorb or otherwise dissipate heat and the invention allows the mounting of the said material (12) beneath the printed circuit board (4) within the housing (2) in position to provide improved cooling effect without contacting the components (6) themselves.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2000Publication date: July 19, 2001Applicant: Pace Micro Technology P1cInventors: Colin Fuller, Anthony Bristow, Stephen Cross, David Woodhouse, David Sturge
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Publication number: 20010008482Abstract: An integrated device includes a package having first and second sides, a first package terminal disposed on the first side of the package, and a second package terminal disposed on the second side of the package in alignment with the first package terminal. An integrated circuit is mounted to the package and has an input terminal coupled to the first package terminal and an output terminal coupled to the second package terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 1998Publication date: July 19, 2001Inventors: DAVID J. CORISIS, FONDA R. VICTORY
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Publication number: 20010008483Abstract: Disclosed is a single module system for an electric/electronic appliance. The single module system comprises a first module section having a first PCB which is made of a ceramic or metal-based material and exothermic devices which are located on the first PCB; and a second module section having a second PCB which is made of an epoxy or phenol-based material and non-exothermic devices which are located on the second PCB.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2000Publication date: July 19, 2001Inventors: Sang-Kyun Lee, Jae-Chun Lee, Min-Kyu Hwang
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Publication number: 20010008484Abstract: An alicyclic epoxy resin is used as a material for forming a member for sealing a Group III nitride compound semiconductor light-emitting device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Inventors: Hisaki Kato, Akira Mabuchi, Naoki Yoshimura, Kazuhiro Sakai
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Publication number: 20010008485Abstract: To provide a spot light-source device whose discharge envelope has high pressure resistance and that emits high brightness as a spot light source, a spot light-source device excited by electromagnetic energy has a lamp that with a discharge envelope made of translucent non-conducting material, an expansion part forming a discharge space, and a tube connected thereto, and a discharge concentrator having a front tip part which is supported by the tube without protruding from the discharge envelope and faces the interior of the discharge space of the expansion part, that intensifies concentration of the electric field in the discharge space and that concentrates discharge, an electromagnetic energy provision source that excites discharge in the discharge concentrator from outside of the lamp, a concave reflection mirror that reflects light from the lamp, and a container with a resonance window that creates electromagnetic energy resonance.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Inventors: Hiroyuki Fuji, Mitsuru Ikeuchi
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Publication number: 20010008486Abstract: A multi-ocular light composed by using a multi-ocular lens integrating a plurality of lenses and comprising one illumination light source for said multi-ocular lens, and a reflector mirror for distributing light from this single illumination light source to said respective lenses, wherein a signal light source is provided at the back of said multi-ocular lens to correspond to at least one lens of this multi-ocular lens, in order to assure the illumination function when said illumination light source is turned on, and the signal function when said signal light source is turned on.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Applicant: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takashi Futami
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Publication number: 20010008487Abstract: The number of cycles R of a fundamental frequency <SET>F (Hz) for a set value Tw (ms) of a set weld time [WELD] is first found as a real number. The number of cycles R conforms to the number of times (real number) of repetition of the fundamental frequency <SET>F cycle in the interval of the set weld time Tw and is given as Tw×<SET>F (step B1). An AC waveform cycle set value Ns (integer) for the set weld time Tw is then determined as an integer Min [N] that is equal to the number of cycles R or to the least one (i.e., the integer closest to R) of larger integers (N) than R (step B2). An AC waveform cycle set frequency Fs (Hz) and a period Ts (ms) for the set weld time Tw is then found from the set number of cycles Ns. The set frequency Fs and the period Ts are given as Fs=1/Ts and Ts=Tw/Ns, respectively (step B3).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Inventors: Takashi Jochi, Kyoji Moro
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Publication number: 20010008488Abstract: The semiconductor integrated circuit comprises a memory cell, a sense amplifier, input/output controlling circuit, a switch circuit which connects the sense amplifier and the input/output circuit, a reference timing signal generator, a timing controlling circuit having a delay element, and a switch controlling circuit which controls the switch circuit. The reference timing signal generator generates a reference timing signal necessary for read/write operations. The timing controlling circuit receives the reference timing signal and generates, by using the delay element thereof, at least one of either a read controlling signal or a write controlling signal whose timing shifts from the timing of the switch controlling signal by a predetermined amount of time. Therefore, the deviation between the timings of the switch controlling signal and the read controlling signal or the write controlling signal can easily be set to a predetermined value.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Applicant: Fujitsu LimitedInventor: Naoharu Shinozaki
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Publication number: 20010008489Abstract: A multi-bit memory device with a memory cell means for storing input information for an indefinite period of time. The multi-bit memory means stores information in up to Kn memory states (Kn>1). A memory cell programming means and comparator means is also included. The present multi-bit memory device also includes a voltage divider arrangement with pull-up devices in a memory array to provide stable and accurate reference voltages over process, temperature, and voltage variations.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Inventor: Gerald J. Banks
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Publication number: 20010008490Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit having a non-volatile memory has a data fetch control portion for generating a one-shot pulse having a protrusive pulse shaped waveform for fetching write data PD separately into each latch of upper order side and each latch of lower order side, based on a logical value of the least significant address of a write address PA at one write cycle of a write command in a write mode, “×8 mode”. When a write command is input to a command system circuit, a write data fetch command is repeated twice, and write data PD is fetched for each 8 bits to a data latch portion and the data latch portion writes the input write data PD of 16 bits to the non-volatile memory in batch.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Applicant: NEC CORPInventor: Takashi Kawano
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Publication number: 20010008491Abstract: An LSI on which a DRAM is mounted together with a logic part, which does not require the level shifter control signal so as to simplify the circuit configuration and reduces power consumption. This LSI includes a level shifter 3 and an interface circuit 5. The level shifter 3 converts the operation voltage level of the DRAM control signal and input data output from the logic part 2 operating with a low voltage power supply, and outputs the DRAM control signal to a DRAM 6. The interface circuit 5 controls the input data output from the level shifter 3 and the output data output from the DRAM 6 by an interface control signal supplied from the DRAM 6, outputs the input data into the DRAM 6 and outputs the output data to the external data output terminal and the logic part.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2000Publication date: July 19, 2001Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.,Inventor: Yoshihiko Sumimoto
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Publication number: 20010008492Abstract: A semiconductor memory operates in a write mode and a read mode. The memory includes memory cells, pairs of bit lines connected to the memory cells, sense amplifiers having first and second I/O terminals connected to the bit lines, column selection gates connected to the associated sense amplifiers, and a control circuit. The control circuit controls the sense amplifiers and the column selection gate, so that selected column selection gate turns on before the sense amplifiers are activated during the write mode. The write data is applied to the first I/O terminals of the sense amplifiers. The semiconductor memory thus produced according to the present invention has a reduced circuit size.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventor: Mitsuhiro Higashiho
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Publication number: 20010008493Abstract: An associative memory includes an array of CAM cells each having a transistor indicating a result from comparing a stored bit with a reference bit. The transistors are connected in serial in each row of the array to form a NAND circuit producing a signal representing that the bits stored in all the cells in the row are consistent with the reference bits or otherwise that the cell at the LSB of the row stores a bit consistent with a reference bit. Each column of the array includes a logic circuit for masking the bits except those continuous from the MSB toward the LSB which correspond to the bits of a word having the most bits continuous from the MSB toward the LSB and consistent with the bits of the reference word among the stored words. The NAND circuit in a row of the cells storing a word having the most bits continuous from the MSB toward the LSB and consistent with the corresponding bits of a reference word develops a signal representing the longest coincidence data detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Inventors: Noriaki Takahashi, Hideaki Odagiri
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Publication number: 20010008494Abstract: A semiconductor memory includes a plurality of memory cell arrays each composed of a plurality of memory cells, each of the memory cell arrays including a plurality of main word lines, each of which is composed of a pair of sub-word lines each connected to a plurality of memory cells, means for driving the main word lines, power supply voltage supply line driving means connected to the sub-line lines. When a redundant word line used in place of a specific sub-word line including a defective sense amplifier is activated, the number of the sub-word lines activated when a data input/output is conducted is different from the number of sub-word lines activated in a refreshing operation. When the data input/output is conducted, a replacement of a sub-word line is executed on the basis of the result of a comparison between an externally supplied row address and an internally stored row address.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Inventor: Mamoru Fujita
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Publication number: 20010008495Abstract: The synchronous semiconductor memory device related to the present invention is a synchronous semiconductor memory device in which for one data read signal, the respective data corresponding to a plurality of addresses are sequentially read out from a memory cell in synchronism with an external clock signal, and which comprises a control circuit which executes control according to an externally inputted control signal so as to output only the data corresponding to one address from the memory cell for one data read signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Applicant: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Nobuhiro Tsuda
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Publication number: 20010008496Abstract: A method is provided for operating a memory system having a plurality of memory blocks. The method includes (1) periodically asserting a timing signal; (2) asserting a refresh pending signal in each of the memory blocks when the asserted timing signal is received; (3) within each of the memory blocks, performing a refresh operation if the refresh pending signal in the memory block is asserted and an idle cycle exists in the memory block; (4) within each of the memory blocks, asserting a refresh acknowledge signal if a refresh operation is performed in the memory block; (5) within each of the memory blocks, de-asserting the refresh pending signal in the memory block if the refresh acknowledge signal is asserted in the memory block; (6) asserting a refresh forcing signal if the refresh pending signal in any of the memory blocks is asserted when the timing signal is asserted; and (7) forcing an idle cycle in all of the memory blocks if the refresh forcing signal is asserted.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Inventor: Wingyu Leung
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Publication number: 20010008497Abstract: A semiconductor device comprising a plurality of memory banks and a plurality of power supply circuits corresponding to the memory banks. Each of the memory banks is independently activated by an activating command. Given an externally supplied voltage, each of the power supply circuits outputs a predetermined internal supply voltage. Each power supply circuit has its output connected to the corresponding memory bank. In response to a command for activating one of the memory banks, the corresponding power supply circuit is activated while the remaining power supply circuits is deactivated.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Inventors: Masashi Horiguchi, Masayuki Nakamura, Sadayuki Ohkuma, Kazuhiko Kajigaya, Yoshinobu Nakagome
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Publication number: 20010008498Abstract: Respective ones of a plurality of memory array blocks are rendered drivable independently of each other under control of an array activation control circuit. When data is read from one array block under control of the array activation control circuit, the data can be transferred to another array block by selecting and coupling a column in the other array block to a global I/O bus.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Applicant: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tsukasa Ooishi
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Publication number: 20010008499Abstract: Ultrasonic transmitting and receiving apparatus comprises a transmitter operable in response to a program to emit an ultrasonic signal and a receiver preprogrammed with a plurality of functions actuable in response to a said ultrasonic signal from the transmitter. The transmitter may comprise a PC 10 with a loudspeaker 18 and the receiver may comprise a stuffed toy 12 housing a microphone 14 and a microprocessor decoder and controller 16. Decoded signals may actuable motion, visual and audio functions of the toy.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2000Publication date: July 19, 2001Inventor: Siu Ling Ko
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Publication number: 20010008500Abstract: A method is disclosed for applying at the location of a studio reproducible data, for example sound data, on a data carrier, wherein at least a part of the data is produced by an interpreter, for example a vocalist, at the interpreter's location and transmitted to the studio. Different interpretations can be synchronized and evaluated by the interpreter before being applied to the data carrier. Printed information can also be transmitted from the interpreter's location or another location to the studio in conjunction with the transmission of sound data.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Inventor: Regina Schulte Am Hulse
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Publication number: 20010008501Abstract: In a magnetic field generator provided with a magnet to apply a magnetic field onto a magneto-optics recording medium; and a driver for moving said magnet from a first position where said magnet applies a magnetic field in a direction substantially perpendicular to the surface of said magneto-optics recording medium, to a second position where the direction of the magnetic field is opposite to that of the first position; there is further provided a conductive member located near the pole of said magnet parking at the first or the second position.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 1998Publication date: July 19, 2001Inventor: TAKEHIKO SEKINE
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Publication number: 20010008502Abstract: An optical recording/reproducing apparatus accessing a recording layer of an optical rotating recording medium using an accessing means positioned a predetermined gap away from a surface of said optical rotating recording medium and mounted with an object lens, wherein a thickness of a protective transparent layer of said optical rotating recording medium, a ratio of a defect area with respect to a beam spot area, and the above predetermined gap are values determined by the conditions defined in the following inequalities: 1 G 1 ≤ t · k ⁢ ⁢ π × tan ⁢ ⁢ { sin - 1 ⁡ ( NA n ) } or t ≥ G k ⁢ ⁢ π · tan ⁢ ⁢ { sin - 1 ⁡ ( NA n ) )Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2000Publication date: July 19, 2001Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Tetsu Watanabe
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Publication number: 20010008503Abstract: An optical storage device adapted so that a cartridge accommodating an optical storage medium is inserted/ejected with respect to the device. The device includes a drive base, a cartridge holder mounted on the drive base for receiving the cartridge, a first carriage mounted on the drive base so as to be movable in a first direction, a first drive mechanism for moving the first carriage, and an optical head mounted on the first carriage. The device further includes a second carriage mounted on the cartridge holder so as to be movable in the first direction, a second drive mechanism for moving the second carriage, a magnetic head assembly mounted on the second carriage and having a magnetic head, and a holding mechanism for selectively holding the magnetic head in its lifted condition above the optical storage medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventor: Hideki Nishimoto
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Publication number: 20010008504Abstract: Disclosed are a recording medium playback method and apparatus for a recording medium playback system in which recording media of different properties, such as a first recording medium having reproduction information recorded thereon and a second recording medium on which reproduction information and playback control information for controlling a playback order of that reproduction information are recorded, are installed and which plays back the first and second recording media. The recording medium playback method comprises the steps of generating a custom file having at least the first recording medium alone registered therein; and playing back the first and second recording media installed in the recording medium playback system in accordance with registered contents of the custom file.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Akio Tanabe, Naoto Arifuku
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Publication number: 20010008505Abstract: In an optical pickup device, wires 16A through 16D resiliently support a lens holder 12 in a cantilever fashion. Of the wires, wires 16A and 16C arranged so as to overlap when viewed in a tracking direction are fixed together by heat sealing. The wires 16B and 16D are arranged independently of each other. In each of the wires 16A through 16D, a portion 166 close to the base end of the wire is squeezed from a focusing direction, and a portion 167 close to the tip end of the wires is squeezed from the tracking direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Inventors: Tatsuki Wade, Hiroshi Sugihara
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Publication number: 20010008506Abstract: An apparatus for reproducing a multiple layer disk, which comprising a plurality of layers each having an information record surface on which record information is recorded, is provided with: a read device for reading the record information from each of the layers; a reproduction process device for applying a predetermined reproduction process to the record information read by the read device in accordance with a reproduction process parameter, which is set therein and which comprises at least one of a gain value and an equalizer value, to thereby output a reproduction information signal; a drive device for driving the read device to jump from one reading state for reading one of the layers to another reading state for reading another of the layers; a memory for storing a plurality of reproduction process parameters corresponding to the layers in advance of reproduction; and a set device for reading out one of the stored reproduction process parameters, corresponding to another of the layers as a destinationType: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Inventors: Noriyoshi Takeya, Hideki Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20010008507Abstract: A method of processing data of a defect sector in a DVD-RAM (Digital Video Disk-Random Access Memory) system and the DVD-RAM system. In the method, a defect list is read from a lead-in area of a DVD-RAM disk during playback of the disk and stored in a predetermined area of a memory of a signal processing portion in the system. A sector having the title of a user-input file is searched, a physical sector address for the searched sector is designated, the defect list is read, and it is determined whether the physical sector address is in the defect list. Then, sector data corresponding to the physical sector address is stored in the memory of the signal processing portion if the physical sector address is not in the defect list, and otherwise, no sector data corresponding to the physical sector address is stored in the memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Inventor: Jong-Sik Jeong
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Publication number: 20010008508Abstract: The present invention provides an exposure apparatus of an optical disc master plate for exposing a photoresist master plate and writing-in a DVD-R format, and a method of exposing an optical disc master plate. The exposure apparatus of the optical disc master plate can cause both the wobble signal and the land pre-pit signal to precisely synchronize with each other and to output the synchronized signals by use of a formatter. The formatter can facilitate the design of a separation element for electrically separating an analog circuit and a digital circuit from each other and a circumferential circuit thereof. The formatter of the optical disc exposing apparatus operates on the basis of the predetermined basic clock signal Fclk. The formatter is provided with a wobble signal generating circuit which generates a wobble signal and a land pre-pit signal generating circuit which operates on the basis of the same basic clock signal Fclk and generates a land pre-pit signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventor: Hisao Watanabe
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Publication number: 20010008509Abstract: The optical disk apparatus is provided with a radiation shielding potion 3 including a horizontal section 31 in parallel to a bottom plate 73, and vertical sections 35, 35 which extend downwardly from both ends of the horizontal section, and provided in the vicinity of a front panel 4 to cross over a disk read section 2 equipped with a pickup 11. Further, each of the horizontal section 31 and the vertical sections 35, 35 is first shielding planes 33, 33, 37-37 in parallel to the front panel 4 and second shielding planes 32, 36, 36 perpendicular to the front panel. The vertical sections 35, 35 are secured to the bottom plate 73 at their lower ends.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2000Publication date: July 19, 2001Applicant: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventor: Kenichi Watanabe
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Publication number: 20010008510Abstract: A disk drive including a turntable for holding and rotating a disk, a pickup for reading information carried by a signal and/or recording information carried by a signal to the disk by moving the pickup in a radial direction of the disk that is held and rotated by the turntable, and a feed motor for moving the pickup. A drive gear section, which engages a rack of the pickup, is integrally formed with a rotor of a sled motor. An axis of rotation of the sled motor is disposed parallel to an axis of rotation of the turntable. The disk drive makes it possible to perform seeking operations at a high speed, to reduce errors in movement of the pickup, and to achieve size reduction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Tatsuyuki Nakayama, Sunao Aoki
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Publication number: 20010008511Abstract: A manufacturing method for a stamper for an information recording medium includes driving an original disk, irradiating a beam for exposure on the original disk, performing exposure to light in a shape of a track by scanning the beam in a radial direction of the original disk, controlling a width of the scanning so that borders on both sides of the track are shifted in phase from each other with a phase difference. The original disk is developed to form the track, and a shape of a surface of the original disk is transferred to a stamper.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Inventors: Takeshi Maeda, Harukazu Miyamoto
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Publication number: 20010008512Abstract: Disclosed is an objective lens of an optical pick-up that includes a refractive lens and a diffractive lens structure that is formed as a large number of concentric ring areas having minute steps in an optical axis direction at the boundaries therebetween. The lens surface of the objective lens is divided into a high NA exclusive area for a DVD only, and a common area that is surrouned by the high NA exclusive area. The diffractive lens structure in the common area changes the spherical aberration in the undercorrected direction as the wavelength of the incident laser beam increases. The diffractive lens structure formed in the high NA exclusive area has a smaller wavelength dependence of a spherical aberration than that formed in the common area, and is designed such that a spherical aberration at the short wavelength is adequately corrected for the thin cover type optical disc.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2000Publication date: July 19, 2001Applicant: ASAHI KOGAKU KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Koichi Maruyama
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Publication number: 20010008513Abstract: An optical pickup apparatus for reproducing information from an optical information recording medium or for recording information onto an optical information recording medium, is provided with a first light source for emitting first light flux having a first wavelength; a second light source for emitting second light flux having a second wavelength, the first wavelength being different from the second wavelength; a converging optical system having an optical axis and a diffractive portion, and a photo detector; wherein in case that the first light flux passes through the diffractive portion to generate at least one diffracted ray, an amount of n-th ordered diffracted ray of the first light flux is greater than that of any other ordered diffracted ray of the first light flux, and in case that the second light flux passes through the diffractive portion to generate at least one diffracted ray, an amount of n-th ordered diffracted ray of the second light flux is greater than that of any other ordered diffractedType: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Applicant: KONICA CORPORATIONInventors: Norikazu Arai, Toshiyuki Kojima, Toshihiko Kiriki, Kohei Ota, Shinichiro Saito
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Publication number: 20010008514Abstract: A conventional disc changer uses separate elevating cams, separate connection mechanisms, and separate locking mechanisms to effect driving of the elevation and lowering of spindles constituting a disc holding means and of a disc clamp means at a recording/playing position. Thus, the apparatus is complicated and large, and loads on the elevating cams significantly vary when the drivings of the elevating and lowering of the spindles constituting the disc holding means and the disc clamp means are simultaneously carried out. Consequently, during the elevating driving, the driving force may become insufficient to cause unstable operations, while during the lowering driving, high operating noise may occur. According to the present invention, an elevating means for elevating and lowering the spindles constituting the disc holding means and a disc playing means is configured so that a single part simultaneously performs these operations.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Masahiko Nakamura, Seizo Miyoshi, Yukio Morioka, Takeshi Ota
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Publication number: 20010008515Abstract: A weight member is attaclhed to a rotor so as to forcibly offset a center of gravity of a rotor from a rotating axis, centrifugal force moves two movable weight members to appropriate positions for canceling the unbalance due to the center of gravity offset from the rotating axis, and stoppers restrict the movement of the two movable weight members in a sectoral area opposite to the center of gravity so that the rotor is free from vibrations due to the characteristic angular velocity.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Inventors: Makoto Takeuchi, Kazuhiko Kitamura
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Publication number: 20010008516Abstract: A recordable optical disc (100) is provided with: a disc substrate (110); a record track (102) formed on the disc substrate spirally or coaxially around a center of the disc substrate; and an emboss pit formed in a predetermined zone on the disc substrate in correlation with predetermined data, which is recorded on the record track in the predetermined zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Inventor: Kazuo Kuroda
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Publication number: 20010008517Abstract: An information recording medium having spiral or concentric-shaped groove structure along a track formed on a disk-like substrate. The medium has the groove structure wobbled in a radius direction of the medium and the track is divided into a plurality of recording units in the track direction by at least one radial boundary. At least two adjacent recording units in the track direction of the medium comprise one zone and the medium includes a plurality of the zones. The groove structure included in the adjacent recording units within any zone has substantially the same number of wobbling.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Inventors: Harukazu Miyamoto, Yoshio Suzuki, Motoyuki Suzuki, Hisataka Sugiyama, Hiroyuki Minemura, Tetsuya Fushimi, Nobuhiro Tokushuku
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Publication number: 20010008518Abstract: A CDMA communication apparatus includes a system of dual transmission spread processing circuits wherein switching control of one of the transmission spread processing circuits from an operating system to a standby system is performed momentarily by software while miniaturization and reduction in cost of the apparatus are assured. A spread processing circuit of each of dual transmission spread processing circuits is divided into two sections of an operating system spread processing section and a standby system spread processing section. Spread signals processed by the operating system spread processing section and the standby system spread processing section are addition synthesized by a first addition synthesis section and a second addition synthesis section separately from each other. An addition selection section for selecting whether or not operating system spread signals and standby system spread signals should be addition synthesized is provided in each of the transmission spread processing circuits.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Applicant: NEC CorporationInventor: Hirosada Atsuta
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Publication number: 20010008519Abstract: A wireless digital telephone system containing at least one emulated base station plus one or more subscriber stations, the emulated base station comprising a station similar to the subscriber station but having the capability of initiating a synchronization process whereby it is enabled to assign time slots to the subscriber station within the frame pattern of an amplitude signal by means of monitoring for positive edges in the signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Inventors: John David Kaewell, Scott David Kurtz
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Publication number: 20010008520Abstract: A method and apparatus for maximizing the use of available capacity in a communication system having a base station and a plurality of mobile stations. The forward link includes a plurality of traffic streams sent on at least one channel from the base station to the mobile stations. The forward link is subject to a maximum power ceiling. A first output power level associated with simultaneously transmitting a first set of one or more traffic streams on the forward link is initially determined. Next, the first output power level is compared to the maximum power ceiling; and at least one time frame in the forward link having available capacity for transmitting a portion of at least one further traffic stream is identified. The first set of traffic streams and the portion of the at least one further traffic stream are then transmitted simultaneously during the at least one frame on the forward link.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Inventors: Edward G. Tiedemann, Stein A. Lundby
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Publication number: 20010008521Abstract: A method (600) for preparing an interfrequency handover of a certain communication connection from a first frequency to a second frequency, comprises the following steps of: periodically intermitting (603) the transmission/receipt of data on the first frequency for certain transmission gaps, where the number of transmission gaps is at least one during each transmission period and a certain sequence of transmission periods (420, 520) is used, and performing (607) measurements on the second frequency during the transmission gaps on the first frequency. In the step of intermitting the transmission/receipt of data the transmission/receipt of data is intermitted within at least one transmission period for a certain transmission gap (311, 411) having a first duration and for a certain second transmission gap (312, 412) having a second duration, which second duration is different from the first duration. A mobile station (700), a network element (710) and a network control element (720) are also presented.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Applicant: Nokia Mobile Phones Ltd.Inventor: Anu Virtanen
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Publication number: 20010008522Abstract: A system and method for assembling a single data stream from multiple instances of that data stream is described. Data transmitted from a cellular telephone subscriber unit is received by a set of base transceiver stations. Each base transceiver station performs various error detection procedures on segments of the data referred to as frames. These error detection procedures may include CRC check sum verification, Yamamoto metric calculation, re-encoded signal error rate calculation, or a combination thereof. The results of these error detection procedures are placed into a frame quality metric. The frame, frame quality metric, a time stamp and an address are placed into a packet that is transmitted from each base transceiver station to a base station controller which matches packets attempting to transmit the same information using the time stamp and selects one frame from the packets for further processing based on the associated frame quality metric.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Inventors: Roberto Padovani, Bruce R. Meagher, Noam A. Ziv
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Publication number: 20010008523Abstract: A method for generating and transmitting optimal cell (base station) identification codes in a W-CDMA mobile communication system is disclosed. In the present invention, the cell identification codes are generated using Hadamard code and bi-orthogonal code. To optimize performance in a soft handover mode, cell identification codes are generated based on at least one of Hadamard codes and bi-orthogonal codes and then effectively transmitted through an uplink channel. Also, considering dynamic allocation depending on the size of an active set, optimal SSDT cell identifier codes having a maximized minimum Hamming distance are generated and then effectively transmitted through the uplink channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2000Publication date: July 19, 2001Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Young Joon Song
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Publication number: 20010008524Abstract: A CDMA mobile communications system and its random access control method and base station are provided that can reduce the probability of failing to detect the preamble. A preamble detector measures the signal-to-interference power ratio of a received preamble after RAKE combining, and makes a decision on whether to authorize a mobile station to transmit a message or not by comparing the detection result with the threshold value. Receiving from the preamble detector the decision result indicating that the measurement value is equal to or greater than the threshold value, a CPU causes a transmitter to transmit a transmission control signal authorizing a mobile station sending the preamble to transmit the message. In contrast, when the decision result indicates that the measurement value is less than the threshold value, the CPU does not authorize the mobile station to transmit the message.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Inventors: Minami Ishii, Takehiro Nakamura
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Publication number: 20010008525Abstract: The invention relates to a process for transmitting telecommunications service data between an exchange (SW1) and a service computer (GPTM), and furthermore an exchange (SW1), a service computer (GPTM), a program module and an interface device (LPTM) for this purpose. A subscriber (SUBA) with a terminal (TERA) can access a user interface (IGP) of the service computer (GPTM) via the Internet and can manipulate his telecommunications service data via the user interface (IGP). With the aid of telecommunications service data, the exchange (SW1) can provide telecommunications services. For this purpose it is proposed that a connection (VGP) is established between the exchange (SW1) and the service computer (GPTM) on which data for the provision of telecommunications services for the subscriber (SUBA) is transmitted in the form of objects, in particular in the form of CORBA objects or DCOM objects.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Inventors: Peter Piepkorn, Heinrich Hopfmuller, Ingrid Glasner-Schapeler, Thomas Milbredt
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Publication number: 20010008526Abstract: A SDH test apparatus substitutes a part of payload of received SDH data with a desired data and transmits. A FIFO memory is installed between the Rx AU processor and the Tx AU processor, stores sequentially AU data extracted by the Rx AU processor and outputs to the Tx AU processor in the order of memorization. An AU pointer processor outputs an AU pointer adjusting the number of data in the FIFO memory, allowing the Tx AU processor to read in payload of AU data, after a time lag (&Dgr;T2+&Dgr;T4) of information leading head position of payload generated by the processing of AU data by the Rx AU processor and the Tx AU processor, by extracting the number of data in the FIFO memory. The Tx AU processor is composed to read out the payload of AU data from the FIFO memory, generate AU data and output to the Tx SOH processor so that the information leading position is at the position designated by the AU pointer value output from the AU pointer processor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Inventor: Hisashi Matsumoto