Hitachi, Ltd.

Nippon Hoso' Kyokai

Renesas Technology Corp.

Hitachi Metals, Ltd.

Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation

Kyocera Corporation

Bridgestone Corporation

Nippon Steel Corporation

Kddi Corporation

Research Development Corporation of Japan

Takeshi Kimura

Kozo Mochiji

Yasunari Soda

Noriyuki Kumasaka

Hideo Fujiwara

Shinji Kuniyoshi

Mitsuhiro Kudo

Yoshihiro Shiroishi

Noriyuki Sakuma

Yoshio Homma

Seiichi Kondo

Hiroaki Oizumi

Hiroki Nezu

Hideo Miura

Hiroyuki Ohta

Takuya Sato

Kazushige Sato

Youhei Yamada

Hidehito Obayashi

Seiji Sugiyama

Taro Ogawa

Teizo Tamura

Kiminari Shinagawa

Nobuyuki Sugishita

Toshiyuki Takegahara

Hideki Suganami

Yoshiharu Hoshino

Satoru Koizumi

Mitsugu Kajiwara

Kozo Kameda

Yoshimichi Otsuka

Tatsuya Yamanokuchi

Kazuhisa Fujiwara

Hiroshi Yamaguchi

Shoji Tanaka

Yoshiyuki Ushigami

Hiroyuki Kojima

Hiroshi Okamoto

Yoshinori Nakayama

Tatsuo Shibata

Shuichi Nakamura

Akira Shimase

Kazuo Shiiki

Shigekazu Otomo

Koji Yamasaki

Shinichiro Mitani

Hiroo Masuda

Nobuyuki Akiyama

Takeo Yamashita

Susumu Aiuchi

Tetsuichi Kudo

Satoshi Haraichi

Masaru Fukushima

Sukeyoshi Tsunekawa

Takashi Soga

Keiya Saito

Akinori Hashimoto

Norikazu Fujii

Keisuke Funatsu

Youichi Suzuki

Takao Iwayanagi

Hideo Zama

Tsutomu Iimura

Maremizu Ishibashi

Shojiro Asai

Shinsaku Kiyomoto

Kenichi Tsuchida

Nobuhiro Konishi

Kenichi Kawasumi

Nobuo Kobayashi

Keigo Majima

Hidefumi Ito

Go Ohtake

Teizou Tamura

Akihiko Kishimoto

Shuichi Sugie

Kootaroo Koizumi

Hidehito Obayashyi

Hiyoo Masuda

Yuuichirou Taguma

Yoshifumi Matsusaki

Hideki Kokubun

A transmission device and reception device for digital data that have excellent resistance to noise are provided. An encoder (-) of this disclosure, included in a transmission device () of this disclosure, applies LDPC encoding to digital data using a unique check matrix for each code rate by using a check matrix in which, taking a check matrix initial value table established in advance for each code rate at a code length of 44880 bits as initial values, 1 entries of a partial matrix corresponding to an information length appropriate for a code rate of 93/120 are allocated in the column direction over a cycle of 374 columns. A demodulator () of this disclosure, included in a reception device () of this disclosure, decodes digital data encoded by the encoder (-).

Encoder, decoder, transmission device, and reception device

A cooling system that cools hot rolled long steel bar, provided with a plurality of chambers that are arranged along the longitudinal direction of the rolled steel bar. Each of the plurality of chambers is provided with a blow outlet that, facing from the chamber to the rolled steel bar, blows out compressed air for cooling that is introduced to the chamber from a gas inlet that is connected to the chamber; a nozzle plate having a plurality of nozzle holes that is provided at this blow outlet so as to face the rolled steel bar; a cooling water supply nozzle that supplies cooling water into the chamber; and a rectifying plate that is provided between the gas inlet and the cooling water supply nozzle, and that prevents the compressed gas for cooling that is introduced from the gas inlet from directly striking the nozzle plate. The cooling system of the present invention sprays a cooling medium that is produced by mixing the cooling water that is supplied from the cooling water supply nozzle and the compressed gas for cooling that is introduced from the gas inlet and rectified by the rectifying plate toward the rolled steel bar through the nozzle holes of the nozzle plate, and performs uniform cooling of the surfaces of the rolled steel bar.

Cooling system and cooling method of rolling steel

Provided is a system far receiving a initialization packet containing an initial vector for initializing stream encryption algorithm and an identifier of a key for decrypting an encrypted stream, initializing a decryption module, and decrypting the encrypted stream, wherein the system stores an identifier of a key which is needed to decrypt a next program in a initialization packet of a current program and informs a user of whether a desired key has been acquired or not at timing close to start time of the next program.

Stream generation method, broadcast receiving apparatus, and display method

The present invention provides a method of production of grain-oriented electrical steel sheet comprising making a slab heating temperature 1280&#xb0; C. or less, annealing hot rolled sheet by (a) a process of heating it to a predetermined temperature of 1000 to 1150&#xb0; C. to cause recrystallization, then annealing by a temperature lower than that of 850 to 1100&#xb0; C. or by (b) decarburizing in annealing the hot rolled sheet so that a difference in amounts of carbon of the steel sheet before and after annealing the hot rolled sheet becomes 0.002 to 0.02 mass % and performing the heating in the temperature elevation process of the decarburization annealing under conditions of a heating rate of 40&#xb0; C. or more, preferably 75 to 125&#xb0; C./s while the temperature of the steel sheet is in a range from 550&#xb0; C. to 720&#xb0; C. and utilizing induction heating for rapid heating in the temperature elevation process of decarburization annealing.

Method of production of grain-oriented electrical steel sheet with high magnetic flux density

In a polishing apparatus having a cover body with fluid pressing mechanism, during polishing, vibration and migration of sticking portion between a retainer and a membrane generated in downstream of rotation of a polishing platen is prevented by reducing sticking force between the retainer and the membrane to less than force needed to wafer polishing with rotation of the cover body.

Polishing apparatus

In order to resolve problems of an increase in cost of transportation and vessels for polishing solutions to polish metal films, and of aging change of the polishing solutions, apparatus for preparing and mixing solutions of polishing materials without including abrasive are installed at a site the same as a site of polishing apparatus, an abrasive free slurry is supplied to the polishing apparatus and a metal film on a wiring substrate is polished to thereby form embedded metal wirings by which the cost of polishing metal can significantly be reduced and stability of the polishing solution is promoted.

Polishing apparatus using substantially abrasive-free liquid with mixture unit near polishing unit, and plant using the polishing apparatus

A semiconductor device capable of operating at a high speed or of having many functions. In this device, delamination of buried electrodes is prevented and thus high reliability is offered. The depth A of contact holes, the minimum linewidth R of a lower metallization layer, and the thickness B of the lower metallization layer satisfy relations given by (0.605/R) <A<2.78&minus;1.02B&plus;0.172B .

Semiconductor device and method of fabricating same

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor integrated circuit wherein a patterned wafer polishing machine for uniformly polishing a surface by chemical mechanical polishing is utilized which is provided with a head for holding a wafer and rubbing it on an abrasive surface. A pressure plate provided with vents is held by the head body which is provided with a gas inlet and an elastic film for sealing vents is provided on the end face on the side reverse to the gas inlet side of the pressure plate. A patterned wafer is held by the head as the wafer, pressed by action of the pressure of air from the gas inlet via the elastic film is pressed mechanically by the pressure plate. The polishing surface which is a principal plane on the patterned side of the wafer is mechanochemically polished by the abrasive surface.

Method of manufacturing semiconductor integrated circuit device

An electro-rheological (ER) fluid damper control system employs fuzzy logic to attain real time control in a highly responsive manner. The ER fluid damper is interposed in a vehicle between its sprung mass (vehicle body) and unsprung mass (suspension). Signals corresponding to the velocity of the sprung mass and the relative velocity between the sprung and unsprung masses are generated by pairs of accelerometers and electronic integrators. A fuzzy rule, taking into account weighted values of these input signals, is applied to the signals to determine an output value which, in turn, establishes a control signal for application to the electrodes of the ER fluid damper. As the velocity signals change, the voltage applied to the electrodes also changes, thus adjusting the fluid viscosity and mechanical responsiveness of the ER fluid damper.

Electro-rheological fluid damper control system

An organic film removing method uses an organic film removing apparatus comprising a processing vessel defining a processing chamber, a wafer support for supporting a semiconductor wafer within the processing chamber, and a mixed gas supplier for supplying a mixed gas consisting of an alcohol or alcohols, and ozone gas or an ozone-containing gas into the processing chamber so that the mixed gas acts on an organic film pattern on the surface of the supported semiconductor wafer. The apparatus continuously supplies the mixed gas into the processing chamber at least in a period between a time immediately before mounting the semiconductor wafer on the wafer support and a time when the organic film is removed completely; conveys the semiconductor wafer into the processing chamber; supports the semiconductor wafer within the processing chamber; and heats the patterned organic film on the surface of the supported semiconductor wafer at a temperature in a range below a temperature at which substantial defects will be formed in the elements of a semiconductor device to be formed on the semiconductor wafer. This method is capable of ashing the organic film at an ashing rate equal to or higher than an ashing rate at which a known organic film removing method employing a steam-containing ozone gas ashes the organic film, and of reducing water marks as compared with the known method employing the steam-containing ozone gas.

Method of and apparatus for removing an organic film

As to a differential code (DPCM) transmission system for an input signal as such as an audio signal, in case higher frequency components thereof are dominant, every another samples of the input signal are alternately into two groups, in each of which differential coding effected, so as to maintain a dynamic range in higher frequency range; in case no frequency components exceeding one fourth of the sampling frequency are contained in the input signal, successive 3 MSB's having a pattern '1, 0, 1' or '0, 1, 0' are corrected into '1, 1, 1' or '0, 0, 0' respectively; and in case 2 symbols of a tertiary code converted from 3 bits of a binary code are transmitted and restored, peripheral bit arrangement of a matrix having rows consisting of the first symbols of the converted tertiary codes and columns consisting of the second symbols thereof are allotted such as Gray codes are obtained, while an inner 2.times.2 matrix of a 4.times.4 matrix formed by inserting a new threshold level between two threshold levels provided for detecting the tertiary code is allotted with bits relating to bits arranged at adjacent positions, so as to reduce the bit error rate of the restored binary code.

Differential code transmission system

A differential code (DPCM) transmission system for an audio signal, in case higher frequency components thereof are dominant, every another samples of the input signal are alternately into two groups, in each of which differential coding effected, so as to maintain a dynamic range in higher frequency range; when a near instantaneously compressed DPCM signal is transmitted, coding errors caused by the compression are corrected by varying the difference between samples in response to the comparison between a locally decoded signal and the original signal; when the frequency components exceeding one fourth of the sampling frequency are contained in the input signal, successive 3 MSB's having a pattern '1, 0, 1' or '0, 1, 0' are corrected into '1, 1, 1' or '0, 0, 0' respectively; and in case 2 symbols of a tertiary code converted from 3 bits of a binary code are transmitted and restored, peripheral bit arrangement of a matrix having rows consisting of the first symbols of the converted tertiary codes and columns consisting of the second symbols thereof are allotted such as Gray codes are obtained, while an inner 2.times.2 matrix of a 4.times. 4 matrix formed by inserting a new threshold level between two threshold levels provided for detecting the tertiary code is allocated with bits relating to bits arranged at adjacent positions, so as to reduce the bit error rate of the restored binary code.

Differential coding system

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Higashimurayama, Japan

Takeshi Kimura