Sony Corporation

Samsung Aerospace Industries, Ltd.

Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.

Yoshihiro Yamamoto

Hiromi Kawakami

Nobuo Yamazaki

Masayuki Hongu

Tsutomu Kume

Koichi Ohya

Masahiko Kuwayama

Fumiharu Hashimoto

Masaharu Tokuhara

Masaaki Itoh

Koutarou Tanaka

Seiji Kai

Junya Saito

Masakazu Suzuki

Shigeru Ohmuro

A power FET for which it is difficult to generate oscillations dependent on the interval between adjacent pads. The power FET has a plurality of pads for first terminals, which are disposed on one side of a chip at unequal intervals, and a plurality of pads for second terminals, which are placed on the other side of the chip. Alternatively, or in addition, the plurality of pads for the second terminals may also be disposed at unequal intervals.

FET input/output pad layout

It is an object of the present invention to provide a semiconductor device that is able to have the same Vp in all FETs formed on one chip. A semiconductor device of the present invention comprises a semiconductor substrate having a first region and a second region on a main surface; a first field effect transistor formed on the first region of the main surface, the first field effect transistor having first gates arranged in a plurality of rows and having a first total gate width, the first gates respectively establishing a first gate length and a first gate width; and a second field effect transistor formed on the second region of the main surface, the second field effect transistor having second gates arranged a plurality of rows and having a second total gate width smaller than the first total gate width, the second gates respectively establishing a second gate length substantially the same as the first gate length and a second gate width substantially the same as the first gate width.

Semiconductor device having two composite field effect transistors

A printer film carrier turning apparatus for obtaining a photograph by irradiating light onto a film comprises a film carrier for supporting the film, a carrier supporting table for supporting the film carrier parallel with the film to make the film carrier turn through a 90.degree. range, and a light diffusion box for diffusing illuminance light to uniformly illuminate a film range which is to be printed. The film turning apparatus is constructed such that the film carrier turns in unison with the light diffusion box. Therefore, transferring rollers of the film carrier cannot interfere with the light diffusion box, which allows the light diffusion box to be placed very close to the film carrier and thereby increases the efficiency of the light source. Also, the film carrier can be turned in unison with the light diffusion box, thereby improving the operating mechanism.

Apparatus for turning a negative film carrier

A negative film carrier which restricts the lateral movement of negative film along a film path and determines the locations of sensors for detecting a DX code in order to prevent the poor detection (crosstalk) of a sensor, includes a restriction member for restricting the lateral movement of the negative film which is installed in a film path and DX code sensors, for detecting the DX code of the negative film, which are disposed within the restriction member.

DX code sensing negative film carrier

A printer for printing a photograph which includes an exposing portion, a processing portion, a collecting portion, and an optical system is provided. The optical system includes a light source, color filters for color-correcting light from the light source in a light passing area, and a light diffusion box for diffusing the light transmitted from the color filters. The color filters in the optical system each include a pair of opposing filter members for interposing the light passing area. The pair of filter members are installed so as to be movable toward/away from each other and to thereby be superposed/detached. Moreover, the central portion of the opposing front ends of the pair of filter members are convex in the direction of superposition.

Color printer for printing photographs

An automatic level adjusting system for a television receiver which is suitable as its automatic white balance adjusting circuit. In the manufacturing-process of the television receiver, desired data is selected from a positional data group of black or white reference pulse signal to be inserted into a video signal and is stored in a non-volatile memory, whereby when an image is reproduced, black or white level of the video signal is adjusted automatically on the basis of the data stored in the non-volatile memory. Thus, the insertion position of black or white reference pulse signal can be changed without modifying the hardware of the television receiver so that the automatic level adjusting system can be applied commonly to different types of television receivers.

Automatic level adjusting system for a television receiver

A double integration type filter circuit, consisting of a pair of integrators connected in series with each other, has a changeover switch for commutating the filter characteristics to a filter configuration which emphasizes portions proper to the characteristics of the filter circuit to facilitate filter adjustment to reduce filter adjustment time and to realize improved accuracy while providing for automatic adjustment of the filter characteristics.

Filter circuit

A filter adjustment apparatus adjusts the properties of a filter by changing, for example, the circuit constants of a filter connected in series with a signal processing circuit to correspond with desired optimum properties of the filter. The state of the signal processing circuit is changed to a state not affecting the filter adjustment, to thereby eliminate the influence of the signal processing circuit on the filter characteristics, to facilitate and increase precision of the filter adjustment.

Filter adjustment apparatus and method

Filter adjustment apparatus for adjusting cut-off frequencies or dip frequencies, for example, may be adjusted to desired optimum properties, during application of an input signal of a constant frequency. The optimum filter adjustment data are found, based on data manifested when the level detected output of the filter output crosses a prescribed reference level whereby the filter adjustment operation is simplified and accuracy is improved with a simplified structure, and it is possible to achieve automatic adjustment of the filter characteristics.

A television sound receiver includes an input terminal for selectively receiving a television sound signal from one or more broadcasting stations and a home television apparatus, a tuner, having a local oscillator, connected to the input terminal, an intercarrier sound demodulating circuit connected to the tuner, a split-carrier sound demodulating circuit, including a limiter amplifier, connected to the tuner, a sound signal output terminal, and switching circuitry for selectively and operatively connecting the intercarrier or split-carrier sound demodulating circuit between the tuner and sound signal output terminal. Additionally the receiver includes an error detector connected to the split-carrier sound demodulating circuit for detecting the frequency error of the tuner local oscillator and a first operational circuit responsive to the output signal from the error detector which produces a first operational output signal whereby the output signal therefrom activates the switching circuitry such that the split-carrier sound demodulating circuit is operatively connected between the tuner and the sound signal output terminal when the output signal from the error detector is less than a predetermined level. Control circuitry is provided which supplies a signal to activate the switching circuitry such that the intercarrier sound demodulating circuit is operatively connected between the tuner and sound signal output terminal whenever the home television apparatus is operatively connected to the input terminal. A second operational circuit is also provided which is responsive to output signals from a pair of level detectors which are connected to the limiter amplifier. An output signal supplied from the second operational circuit activates the switching circuitry such that the intercarrier sound demodulating circuit is operatively connected between the tuner and the sound signal output terminal when the output signals from the level detectors are below a predetermined value.

Television sound receiver

A television sound receiver having an input terminal for receiving a television sound signal, a tuner including a local oscillator connected to the input terminal, an intercarrier sound demodulating circuit connected to the tuner, a split-carrier sound demodulating circuit, including a limiter amplifier connected to the tuner, a sound signal output terminal, and a switching device for selectively and operatively connecting either the intercarrier or split-carrier sound demodulating circuits between the tuner and the sound signal output terminal. Additionally, the receiver includes an error detecting device connected to the split-carrier sound demodulating circuit for detecting the frequency error of the local oscillator and a first operational device which is responsive to an output signal from the error detecting device and which produces a first operational device output signal which activates the switching device such that the split-carrier sound demodulating circuit is operatively connected between the tuner and the sound output terminal when the output signal from the error detecting device is less than a predetermined level. Level detectors are connected to the limiter amplifier and detect a level of the split-carrier sound signal. A second operational device, which is responsive to the output signal from the level detectors, produces an output signal which activates the switching device such that the intercarrier sound demodulating circuit is operatively connected between the tuner and the sound output terminal when the output signals from the level detectors are less than a predetermined value.

An oscillating circuit provides first and second reference signals having a phase difference of 90.degree. with respect to each other. The oscillating circuit includes an oscillator providing the first reference signal at an output thereof, a voltage-to-current converting circuit, which may incorporate a common-base transistor, and a capacitor connected between the output of the oscillator and an input of the converting circuit. The output of the converting circuit then provides the second reference signal which differs in phase by 90.degree. from the first reference signal. The oscillator may include differentially connected transistors and an LC resonant circuit.

Oscillating circuit

Demodulating apparatus for a modulated signal comprised of a carrier deriving circuit which is supplied with the modulated signal and which derives an unmodulated carrier therefrom, the carrier deriving circuit including a tuned circuit having a center frequency substantially coincident with the carrier frequency of the modulated signal and a limiter circuit in which the limiter circuit imparts a phase shift to the signal supplied thereto in connection with its elimination of the amplitude fluctuations in the signal produced by the tuned circuit. A synchronous detector receives the modulated signal and the derived carrier so as to detect the modulated signal with the derived carrier. A phase shift circuit supplies the synchronous detector with a phase shifted modulated signal, the phase shift substantially compensating for the phase shift imparted by the limited circuit in the carrier deriving circuit, whereby the modulated signal and the carrier which are applied to the synchronous detector are substantially in phase with each other.

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Yoshihiro Yamamoto