Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Kao Corporation

Ryoden Semiconductor System Engineering Corporation

Matushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Shikoku Instrumentation Co., Ltd.

Hiroshi Ohnishi

Toshiyuki Yoshimizu

Kenichi Takahashi

Yuuri Yamamoto

Yoshinori Kunieda

Kouei Misaizu

Keiko Kishimoto

Yumi Yoshimura

Akihiko Matsuoka

Naoki Matsubara

Sadahiko Yamashita

Takeshi Iwamoto

Shigeo Sasaki

Yoshihiko Kusakabe

Kouichirou Tsutahara

Kazuo Yoshida

Nobuyuki Kosaka

Yoshimi Kinoshita

Minako Takeishi

Toshihiko Noguchi

Kenichiro Yamanishi

Taizo Eshima

Tomoyuki Kanda

Hideki Komori

Katsuhisa Kitano

Toru Takahama

Masayuki Orihashi

Hiroshi Tanaka

Makoto Hasegawa

Kazuo Kobayashi

Shuichi Kozaki

Fumitoshi Yamashita

Shigeki Nakajima

Akihiko Watanabe

Yoshikazu Yamagata

Junichi Tsuchimoto

Takahiko Terada

Susumu Hoshinouchi

Hiroshi Kuwagaki

Noriyuki Yamaguchi

Masaharu Yao

Hiroshi Danjo

Seiichi Mimura

Kyouhei Isohata

Atsushi Tsuchida

Atsuhiro Fujii

Mitsuru Ishizuka

Masakazu Wada

Seiji Kurozumi

Toshio Komemura

Tamio Matsumura

Yasuaki Namura

Hiroshi Fukutani

Hitoshi Hasegawa

Kiyoshi Maeda

Yasuhiko Horie

Shoichiro Honda

Junichi Takada

Yoshihiko Okamoto

Tadashi Yoshida

Kenichi Hanaoka

Toshimichi Katsube

Masato Toyota

Masayuki Kobayashi

Akihiro Horita

Shuichi Uebe

Junko Kaneko

Masayuki Tuzi

Yuuzi Yamamoto

Hiroko Nakanishi

Yumi Baba

A foam discharge container is a foam discharge container for discharging foam in response to a pushing operation, and includes a discharge port which is opened in a direction opposite to a pushing direction of the pushing operation and discharges foam, and a pushing portion that keeps the distance between a discharge target body receiving foam and the discharge port constant.

Foam discharge container

The present invention provides a method for producing glycerol, including transesterifying an oil-and-fat with an alcohol in the presence of a solid catalyst to obtain a glycerol product liquid and subjecting the glycerol product liquid to adsorption treatment with an ion-exchange resin.

Method for producing glycerol

A portable radio device including a frequency synthesizer,for producing a local signal for radio section, a digital control circuit,for digitally controlling a portion of or the entirety of the radio device, and a reference signal generator,which operates the frequency synthesizer and the digital control circuit, wherein a buffer amplifier,is provided between the reference signal generator and the digital control circuit, and switching means,is provided in parallel with the buffer amplifier between the reference signal generator and the digital control circuit. When the frequency synthesizer is inactive, the switching means is activated, and a power supply,of the buffer amplifier is deactivated. As a result, the power dissipated by the buffer amplifier can be reduced without deteriorating the characteristics of the frequency synthesizer.

Portable radio device

It is an object of the present invention to obtain a vacuum chucking which can vacuum suck a wafer even if dusts attach thereon. The main body of vacuum chuck (101) has a plurality of block grooves (125) on the surface on which the wafer (1) is sucked and fixed, in which vacuum evacuation paths (105) each for vacuum evacuating each block groove (125) are provided for each block groove (125). When the wafer (1) is sucked and fixed under low pressure, even if the degree of vacuum in one of the block grooves (125) decreases due to attachment of dusts on part of the suction surface, or the like, the wafer (1) can surely be sucked and held.

Semiconductor producing apparatus, and wafer vacuum chucking device, gas

An amorphous silicon conductive film on a semiconductor wafer is treated with hydrofluoric acid to remove a natural oxide film therefrom, and then a very thin oxide film is formed on the semiconductor wafer. Thereafter, a silane gas is used to form a nucleating film, followed by annealing to cause the surface of the conductive film be roughened. The very thin oxide film is formed in a thickness of 0.5 angstroms to 20 angstroms. The very thin oxide film is alternatively formed either by treatment with an aqueous hydrofluoric acid solution or by flushing treatment. Thus, a roughened surface having a satisfactory roughness is uniformly formed on the surface of a conductive film on a semiconductor wafer.

Method for forming a surface-roughened conductive film on a

It is an object to improve the corrosion resistance of a CVD jig made of quartz to prevent exfoliation of a film attached on the surface to prevent dust. The surface of a quartz CVD jig is burned with an arc plasma torch 14 so that the OH concentration in the quartz surface remains under 30 ppm.

Jig for use in CVD and method of manufacturing jig for use in CVD

A method of recovering resources in a resin-molded electrical rotating device (1,2) in which electromagnetic members (1a,1b,2a) are molded with resin molding (1c,2c) with fine voids so as to be integrally made into a solid body, and a resin for molding of the rotating device (1,2). The method has the steps of disintegrating the resin molding (1c,2c) by chemically decomposing and/or eluting so as to remove the resin molding (1c,2c) from the electromagnetic members (1a,1b,2a) and separating and recovering at least metal components in the electromagnetic members (1a,1b,2a) as the resources.

Method of recovering resources in resin-molded electrical rotating device

A timing signal generator includes a demodulator for an input modulated signal to provide first and second baseband signals having a quadrature relation relative to each other. A converter is used to convert the first and second baseband signals into angle data representing a phase, and a calculator is used to calculate a difference between the phase represented by current angle data and the phase represented by previous angle data, preceding the current angle data by a 1-symbol interval. The calculator outputs data representative of the calculated phase difference. A further converter converts the calculator output data into a binary reference signal responsive to which of predetermined divided regions contains a point corresponding to the calculated difference data. Also included is a generator for generating a symbol timing signal in synchronism with the binary reference signal.

Timing signal generator

Components such as an earth plate, a gas introduction ring, and the like placed in a reaction chamber in a plasma apparatus are made of aluminum containing magnesium in a concentration of 2.2 to 2.8% by weight and are not coated with alumite. In addition, a heater incorporated in a section of the reaction chamber heats the section during a plasma cleaning process. Further, an electrical discharge chamber is also incorporated in the plasma apparatus for providing a plasma to the reaction chamber for efficient plasma cleaning of the apparatus.

Plasma apparatus

A liquid crystal display element including at least two kinds of spherical particles as a gap holding material in which each hardness is different in liquid crystal injected into a gap between a pair of substrates. Particle diameter accuracy of each particle is not more than 4%, a particle diameter of the particle with high hardness is not more than a particle diameter of the particle with low hardness, a number of the particle with high hardness to the particle with low hardness is 1 to 4, an average particle diameter of the particle with low hardness to the particle with high hardness is 1 to 1.05 and compression modulus of the particle with high hardness to the particle with low hardness is 1.14 to 14.3. As a result, gap uniformity can be improved. Moreover, occurrence of gap irregularity at the time of low temperature and of impact can be prevented.

Liquid crystal display element with gap uniformity

It is an object of the invention to improve the viewing angle properties of a liquid crystal display device by controlling the state of orientation of liquid crystal molecules. The liquid crystal display device is constructed with an liquid crystal display element disposed between a pair of polarizing plates, and with phase difference plates disposed between each polarizing plate and the liquid crystal display element. The phase difference plates are selected so that nx.gtoreq.nz&gt;ny is satisfied and the Nz value is in the range of 0.ltoreq.Nz.ltoreq.0.5. The liquid crystal display element is constructed by placing a liquid crystal layer between substrate members prepared by forming transparent electrodes and orientation films in the pair of light transmitting plates, and the liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the transparent electrodes is used as picture elements. One picture element contains mixed liquid crystal molecules with different pretilt angles controlled by a light irradiation step after application and baking of the film material for the orientation films As a result, it is possible to obtain excellent display quality in both of the opposing viewing angle directions.

Liquid crystal display device having a particular compensator

An automatic frequency compensation apparatus comprises: a frequency offset prediction portion for predicting a frequency offset of an oscillation signal used for receiving a TDM digital modulation signal from the center frequency of the TDM digital modulation signal using a quadrature baseband signal derived from the TDM digital modulation signal, a vector correlation portion detecting a correlation between the quadrature baseband signal and a predetermined signal, the frequency offset prediction portion predicting when the correlation exceeds a reference value, and a frequency offset compensation portion effects a frequency offset compensation to the quadrature baseband. A convergent coefficient may be decreased with the number of events that the correlation exceeds the reference value. An equalizer may be further provided after the frequency offset compensation portion and the prediction is made using the output of the equalizer. The prediction is effected during the training period or during the training period when the correlation exceeds the reference value. The correlation may be detected using the output of the equalizer and a signal obtained by Judging or digitizing the output of the equalizer.

Automatic frequency offset compensation apparatus

In a frame synchronizing apparatus for a receiver apparatus of a digital data radio communications system in which data are transmitted in frame periods with a fixed data sequence contained each frame, a data correlation circuit obtains successive sequences of values of vector difference between vector values constituting a demodulated digital baseband signal, and successively compares these sequences with a fixed vector difference sequence corresponding to the fixed data sequence, to derive a correlation signal substantially unaffected by any phase rotation in the baseband signal. A frame synchronizing circuit formed as a PLL for generating a frame synchronizing signal, includes a phase comparator which periodically indicates whether a detected phase difference between the correlation signal and frame synchronizing signal is effectively zero, positive or negative, and a counter holding a count value indicating a cumulative phase error between these signals. So long as the detected phase differences are successively effectively zero and the cumulative phase error is sufficiently small, the phase of the frame synchronizing signal is held unchanged, thereby achieving a high degree of phase stability.

Frame synchronizing apparatus for quadrature modulation data

A complex angle converter includes a comparing device. The comparing device operates to derive first difference data representing a difference between predetermined reference data and data represented by a first baseband signal. The comparing device further operates to derive second difference data representing a difference between the predetermined reference data and data represented by a second baseband signal having a quadrature relation with the first baseband signal. The comparing device further operates for comparing absolute values of the first difference data and the second difference data, and for outputting a signal representative of a result of the comparing. The complex angle converter also includes a device serving to group an inversion of a highest bit of the first baseband signal and second highest and lower bits of the second baseband signal into a first set. An additional device serves to group a highest bit of the second baseband signal and second highest and lower bits of the first baseband signal into a second set. A selector operates to select one of the first set and the second set in response to the output signal of the comparing device. A decoder is included for decoding the highest bit of the first baseband signal, the highest bit of the second baseband signal, and the selected one of the first set and the second set into data representing a complex angle.

Complex angle converter

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Hiroshi Ohnishi