The purpose of this invention is to provide a weld structure for preventing the discharge of weld burr generated at the time of welding to the inside and outside of a case body, not exerting adverse effects on the rotary operation of an impeller and the appearance of the case body and generating no deviation even in dimensional accuracy, and a pump device. In the weld structure for integrating a p...

The present invention relates to a method for preventing any data damage caused by floppy diskette controller. Before all the byte data are written into or read from a floppy disk in direct memory access (DMA) mode, whether the maximum time interval between sending and removing the DMA request signal (DREQ) is greater than a specific time can be used to determine the possibility of any data loss/d...

An image defect detection apparatus comprises a means to prepare two replicates of inspection image from a single inspection image, the first image processing means to process an image applying the expansion filter and the contraction filter in such order for the one of replicated inspection images, the second processing means to process an image using the contraction filter and the expansion filt...

A method and system for solving constrained optimization problems. An initial abstract solution represents a prioritized set of decisions. The abstract solution is used as the basis for building a concrete solution. The concrete solution is analyzed to determine one or more local moves that represent a re-prioritization of the abstract solution. After a local moves is made, the process begins agai...

The present invention provides a graphical user interface for providing gaming and prize awarding and redeeming capabilities to a computer network system in a manner that lets a provider of the network system present and display information to a user of the network system. The graphical user interface allows for the showing of a frame, or screen/display, to the user while also allowing a game to b...

This invention aims to provide a production method of an electron releasing membrane whose second electron releasing performance is superior to conventional methods. For this purpose, a protective layer composed of an MgO membrane is formed on a dielectric layer formed on a front glass substrate, using a vacuum vapor deposition apparatus. This deposition should be performed so that a straight line...

Disclosed is an AC plasma display device for preventing an error discharge, improving a luminous intensity, and applicable to high definition display. The device includes a front substrate, which has display electrodes in parallel to each other and a non-display line. The line and the display electrode are arranged alternately each other on the front substrate. Further, the device comprises a rear...

The gas discharge panel manufacturing method of the present invention, can dramatically reduce moisture and gas molecules that adhere to first and second substrates, by maintaining the substrates in a decompressed atmosphere, and prevent deterioration of the gas panel after completion. As a result, a rise in a discharge starting voltage can be prevented and reduction of abnormal light emissions is...

This invention relates to a method, with which the noble-metal electrodes can be structurized by means of traditional CMP-steps, especially by traditional slurries, as if they are used for the structurization of base-metals. Through the formation of the alloy, the chemical active components of the slurries are in the state to attack the additives to the noble metal in the alloy, thus the surface o...

A semiconductor device for use in a memory cell including an active matrix provided with a transistor and a first insulating layer formed around the transistor; a capacitor structure, formed on top of the first insulating layer and composed of a bottom electrode, a capacitor thin film placed on top of the bottom electrode and a top electrode formed on top of the capacitor thin film; a second insul...

An innovative rule based method and system for creating test cases for the Year 2000 compliance testing of software systems is described. Using the method and system of the present invention, the user will first input information as rules relating to the business logic of the system. After obtaining the business logic, the system will transform input test cases into output test cases for the Year ...

The purpose of the present invention is to realize a flip-chip connected semiconductor device without the need of underfill. The invented semiconductor apparatus is provided with a semiconductor device, the insulation layer formed on the semiconductor device, and the external connection terminal, which is formed on the insulation layer and is electrically connected with the electrode of the semico...

A packaged integrated circuit (10, 10a) which includes a multiple-layer interconnect (16, 16a) including a dielectric layer (32, 32a) disposed between a base layer (34, 34a) and a conductive transmission layer (36, 36a). The conductive layer (36, 36a) is electrically connectable to a substrate (11) and is electrically connected to an integrated circuit (18, 18a). The packaged integrated circuit (1...

A composite material comprising silica cenospheres and a resin, whereby the resin is adapted to bind the cenospheres into a solid mass and retain them in a desired shape into which the composite material is to be formed. The resin is a polymeric compound, formed in situ around the cenospheres. The composite material can be used to form constructional elements used in modular buildings. The constru...

A non-uniform memory access (NUMA) computer system includes a node interconnect and a plurality of processing nodes that each contain at least one processor, a local interconnect, a local system memory, and a node controller coupled to both a respective local interconnect and the node interconnect. According to the method of the present invention, a communication transaction is transmitted on the ...

A network browser with diagnostic abilities stored in a persistent memory, wherein the persistent memory is not a hard disk, is provided. The network browser is used to repair failures of peripheral devices in a networked computer, such as a hard drive, so as to avoid forcing a user to manually diagnose or solve the failure. Moreover, the network browser removes strict dependence on a traditional ...

An apparatus is disclosed for remotely monitoring and developing steps in a semiconductor manufacturing process that includes, at least one remote workstation connected via a remote access link to a local workstation, and a test system connected via a link to the local workstation. A method is also disclosed that includes running a semiconductor test system remotely, monitoring the semiconductor t...

An emulator software in a semiconductor test system for emulating hardware in the semiconductor test system as well as a semiconductor device to be tested without need to use an actual test system hardware. The emulator software includes an emulator unit which emulates a function of each hardware unit of the test system, a device emulator which emulates a function of a semiconductor device to be t...

The present invention provides a semiconductor package and method of fabricating the same, which is light, thin, small and reliable. It comprises: a semiconductor chip (30) near the periphery of its top and having a row of bonding pads (30a) respectively; gold bump (41) formed on the bonding pads (30a); the internal pattern (31) connected to the bonding pads (30a) of the semiconductor chip (30) th...

A method of utilizing DRAM which may contain defective memory locations. The invention describes a method and two algorithms. In a data processing system a processor will make requests to a memory using logical addresses. A translator is used to determine what physical address in the memory device corresponds to a logical address. In the general methodology, a set of logical addresses is assigned ...