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20100237492 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DESIGNING THE SAME - The semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor chip and a printed wiring board having a recess in which the semiconductor chip is housed face-down, wherein the printed wiring board comprises multiple wiring layers below a circuit surface of the semiconductor chip on which connection terminals are formed, and the multiple wiring layers include a first wiring layer for forming signal wires, a second wiring layer for forming a ground plane, and a third wiring layer for forming power wires and power BGA and ground BGA pads in sequence from the circuit surface. | 09-23-2010 |
20110155433 | WIRING BOARD CAPABLE OF CONTAINING FUNCTIONAL ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - A wiring board is configured by stacking one or more conductor wiring layers and one or more insulating resin layers and comprising one or more metal vias configured to penetrate the insulating resin layer, wherein the boundary surface between the metal via and the insulating resin layer has a concavo-convex boundary cross-section structure in which the metal via and the insulating resin layer are engaged with each other. | 06-30-2011 |
20110175213 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A semiconductor device includes: at least one semiconductor element having electrode terminals; a metal plate supporting the semiconductor element; and a wiring board covering the semiconductor element and including a plurality of insulating layers and wiring layers alternately stacked and external connection terminals on a surface, the wiring layers being electrically connected to each other by vias. The electrode terminals and the external connection terminals are electrically connected via at least one of the wiring layers and the vias. At least one of the electrode terminals, the is wiring layers, and the vias is electrically connected to the metal plate. | 07-21-2011 |
20120068359 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device comprises: a core substrate; at least one insulating layer and at least one wiring layer which are disposed on each of a first surface of the core substrate and a second surface opposite to the first surface; a via(s) which is disposed in each of the insulating layer and the core substrate, and connects the wiring layers to each other; a semiconductor element, mounted on the first surface of the core substrate, with a surface for forming an electrode terminal(s) facing up; and a connecting portion(s) which penetrates the insulating layer disposed on the first surface and directly connects the electrode terminal of the semiconductor element and the wiring layer disposed on the first surface. A minimum wiring pitch of the wiring layer directly connected to the connecting portion is smaller than that of any of the wiring layer(s) disposed on the second surface. | 03-22-2012 |
20120319254 | WIRING BOARD WITH BUILT-IN SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT - A wiring board including a built-in semiconductor element includes the semiconductor element, a peripheral insulating layer covering an outer peripheral side surface of the semiconductor element, an upper surface-side wiring provided on an upper surface side of the wiring board, and a lower surface-side wiring provided on a lower surface side of the wiring board. The semiconductor element includes a first wiring structure layer including a first wiring and a first insulating layer alternately provided on a semiconductor substrate, and a second wiring structure layer including a second wiring and a second insulating layer alternately provided on the first wiring structure layer. The upper surface-side wiring includes a wiring electrically connected to the first wiring via the second wiring. The second wiring is thicker than the first wiring and thinner than the upper surface-side wiring. The second insulating layer is formed of a resin material and is thicker than the first insulating layer. | 12-20-2012 |
20130050967 | FUNCTIONAL DEVICE-EMBEDDED SUBSTRATE - An object of the present invention is to provide a functional device-embedded substrate that can be thinned and suppress occurrence of warpage. The present invention provides a functional device-embedded substrate including at least a functional device including an electrode terminal, and a covering insulating layer covering at least an electrode terminal surface and a side surface of the functional device, the functional device-embedded substrate including a first pillar structure around the functional device inside the covering insulating layer, the first pillar structure including a material having a thermal expansion coefficient between thermal expansion coefficients of the functional device and the covering insulating layer, wherein the first pillar structure is arranged at a position where a shortest distance from a side surface of the functional device to a side surface of the first pillar structure is smaller than a thickness of the functional device. | 02-28-2013 |
20130088841 | SUBSTRATE WITH BUILT-IN FUNCTIONAL ELEMENT - The present invention has an object to provide a substrate with a built-in functional element, including the functional element above a metal plate, in which crosstalk noise between signal wirings can be reduced and higher characteristic impedance matching can be achieved. An aspect of the present invention provides a substrate with a built-in functional element, including: a metal plate that includes a concave portion and serves as a ground; the functional element that is placed in the concave portion and includes an electrode terminal; a first insulating layer that covers the functional element and is placed in contact with the metal plate; a first wiring layer including first signal wiring that is opposite the metal plate with the first insulating layer being interposed therebetween; a second insulating layer that covers the first wiring layer; and a ground layer formed of a ground plane that is opposite the first wiring layer with the second insulating layer being interposed therebetween. | 04-11-2013 |
20130127037 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE BUILT-IN SUBSTRATE - An object of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor device built-in substrate, which can be made thin and can suppress occurrence of warpage. The present invention provides a semiconductor substrate which is featured by including a first semiconductor device serving as a substrate, a second semiconductor device placed on the circuit surface side of the first semiconductor device in the state where the circuit surfaces of the first and second semiconductor devices are placed to face in the same direction, and an insulating layer incorporating therein the second semiconductor device, and which is featured in that a heat dissipation layer is formed at least between the first semiconductor device and the second semiconductor device, and in that the heat dissipation layer is formed on the first semiconductor device so as to extend up to the outside of the second semiconductor device. | 05-23-2013 |
20140024177 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A semiconductor device includes: at least one semiconductor element having electrode terminals; a metal plate supporting the semiconductor element; and a wiring board covering the semiconductor element and including a plurality of insulating layers and wiring layers alternately stacked and external connection terminals on a surface, the wiring layers being electrically connected to each other by vias. The electrode terminals and the external connection terminals are electrically connected via at least one of the wiring layers and the vias. At least one of the electrode terminals, the wiring layers, and the vias is electrically connected to the metal plate. | 01-23-2014 |
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20120311236 | MEMORY SYSTEM, DATA CONTROL METHOD, AND DATA CONTROLLER - According to one embodiment, a memory system includes: a non-volatile memory; a storage configured to store therein data temporarily; a notifying module configured to notify a host of data transfer permission with a specified amount of data to be written in the storage; a transfer module configured to transfer data transferred from the host according to the data transfer permission to the storage, and to transfer the data stored in the storage to be written to the non-volatile memory; and a controller configured to inhibit notification of the data transfer permission by the notifying module until transfer of the data to the non-volatile memory by the transfer module is completed after an amount of data necessary to be written in the non-volatile memory is stored in the storage. | 12-06-2012 |
20140013031 | DATA STORAGE APPARATUS, MEMORY CONTROL METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS HAVING A DATA STORAGE APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a data storage apparatus comprises a first controller, a second controller, a third controller, and a fourth controller. The first controller controls a flash memory, writing and reading data, in units of blocks, to and from the flash memory. The second controller detects any a write-interrupted block is interrupted by the first controller. The third controller sets the write-interrupted block detected by the second controller, as a block to be refreshed in another block. The fourth controller performs the process of refreshing. | 01-09-2014 |
20140016412 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY APPARATUS, DATA TRANSMISSION DEVICE, AND RECORDING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory apparatus includes a memory and a speed control unit. The speed control unit calculates a time-varying behavior of a permissible value of an accumulated amount of data written in the non-volatile semiconductor memory, where, after a start of a guaranteed period, data is written in the memory at a constant write speed so that the permissible value at an end time of the guaranteed period is equal to a sum of a first capacity and a second capacity. The first capacity is an accumulated amount of data written in the memory. The second capacity is an accumulated amount of data which is writable in the memory in a remaining time of the guaranteed period based on remaining rewritable times of existing blocks. The speed control unit controls a transmission speed of data from a host based on the permissible value. | 01-16-2014 |
20140059396 | MEMORY SYSTEM HAVING NAND-TYPE FLASH MEMORY AND MEMORY CONTROLLER USED IN THE SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a NAND-type flash memory and a memory controller. A comparison module of the memory controller compares a first threshold voltage distribution of a first memory area with a second threshold voltage distribution of the first memory area acquired earlier than the first threshold voltage distribution, if an error is detected in data read from the first memory area. An error factor determination module of the memory controller determines a cause of the error based on the comparison result, and inhibits a data move operation of moving data of the first memory area to the second memory area based on the determination result. | 02-27-2014 |
20140281769 | MEMORY SYSTEM AND MEMORY CONTROLLER - According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a non-volatile memory and a memory controller that controls the non-volatile memory. The non-volatile memory includes a memory cell array and an access control unit. The access control unit performs a program operation for changing threshold voltages of memory cells and a read operation for reading data from the memory cells. The memory controller includes a read/write control unit having a first program parameter set and a second program parameter set. The read/write control unit causes the access control unit to perform a program operation based on the first program parameter set, and when a predetermined condition is satisfied, performs switching from the first program parameter set to the second program parameter set and causes the access control unit to perform a program operation based on the second program parameter set. | 09-18-2014 |
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20090310390 | ELECTRICAL POWER SOURCE, OPERATIONAL METHOD OF THE SAME, INVERTER AND OPERATIONAL METHOD OF THE SAME - The present invention is an electric power source in which a plurality of inverters operate on the same frequency and the plurality of inverters are connected in parallel so that a resistance value expressed by (1−β·G)/(α·G) where α is the output voltage feedback gain, β is the output current feed forward gain, and G is the inverter current gain, is made to be the equivalent output impedance; and is an electrical power source in which the cross-current between the inverters are made to be an acceptable value or below by adjusting the output of each of the inverters by controlling the equivalent output impedance by modifying both or either one of the output voltage feedback gain α or the output current feed forward gain α. | 12-17-2009 |
20100302825 | SINGLE-PHASE VOLTAGE SOURCE AC-DC POWER CONVERTER AND THREE-PHASE VOLTAGE SOURCE AC-DC POWER CONVERTER - The present invention is a single-phase voltage source AC-DC power converter and a three-phase voltage source AC-DC power converter. Each of the single-phase voltage source AC-DC power converter and the three-phase voltage source AC-DC power converter includes a voltage source AC-DC power converting circuit that converts power from a DC voltage source into AC power to output the AC power from an AC terminal; and target current producing means that includes a filter voltage command device and a voltage controller, the filter voltage command device generating a filter voltage command value that becomes a reference of the AC power output from the AC terminal, the AC output voltage at the AC terminal being input as an input signal to the voltage controller, the voltage controller integrating a difference between the filter voltage command value from the filter voltage command device and the AC output voltage at the AC terminal, the target current producing means outputting a PWM command such that the integration value of the difference between the filter voltage command value from the filter voltage command device and the AC output voltage at the AC terminal becomes zero. | 12-02-2010 |
20110182091 | SYNCHRONIZATION DETECTING CIRCUIT AND AUTOMATIC SYNCHRONOUS PARALLELIZATION APPARATUS - An automatic synchronous parallelization apparatus capable of suppressing an inrush current by automatically adjusting the magnitude, the frequency, and the phase of the voltage when a single-phase voltage-type DC-to-AC converting device performing an autonomous parallel operation is connected in parallel with an external single-phase AC voltage source. The automatic synchronous parallelization apparatus includes a synchronization detecting circuit, a voltage amplitude command value generating circuit, and a frequency command value generating circuit. The voltage amplitude command value generating circuit generates the 1st-axis voltage command value, and the frequency command value generating circuit generates the 2nd-axis voltage command value, based on a value relating to a frequency difference between an external single-phase AC voltage source and a single-phase voltage-type DC-to-AC converting device and an effective value of a voltage of the external single-phase AC voltage source that are detected by synchronization detecting circuit. By using such command values, an output of the single-phase voltage-type DC-to-AC converting device can be adjusted to as to coincide with a voltage waveform of the external single-phase AC voltage source. | 07-28-2011 |
20120161513 | SINGLE-PHASE VOLTAGE SOURCE AC/DC CONVERTER AND INTERCONNECTION SYSTEM - A single-phase voltage source AC/DC converter according to the present invention generates a second axis voltage command from difference between a DC voltage detection value at a DC terminal and a DC voltage command value and controls a DC voltage by increasing and decreasing active power with the second axis voltage command. For example, the voltage at the DC terminal is increased by decreasing active power when the DC voltage detection value at the DC terminal is lower than the DC voltage command, while the DC voltage detection value at the DC terminal is decreased by increasing the active power when the DC voltage detection value at the DC terminal is higher than the DC voltage command. | 06-28-2012 |
20130294127 | SINGLE-PHASE VOLTAGE SOURCE DC-AC POWER CONVERTER AND THREE-PHASE VOLTAGE SOURCE DC-AC POWER CONVERTER - A single-phase voltage source DC-AC power converter includes (a) a single-phase voltage source DC-AC power converting circuit having a gate signal generator that detects a single-phase AC output current at an AC terminal and that generates gate signals for making values of a PWM command and the single-phase AC output current identical, and (b) target current producing means that produces the PWM command such that a DC component included in the single-phase AC output voltage at the AC terminal becomes zero. | 11-07-2013 |
20130336032 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING SINGLE-PHASE VOLTAGE SOURCE AC/DC CONVERTER AND INTERCONNECTION SYSTEM - A method of controlling a single-phase voltage source AC/DC converting circuit has internal equivalent impedance as seen from an AC terminal, for converting power from a DC voltage source connected to a DC terminal to single-phase AC power or for converting single-phase AC power from a single-phase AC source connected to the AC terminal to DC power in accordance with a pulse width of a gate signal generated based on a PWM command. | 12-19-2013 |
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20090023991 | BIOLOGICAL OBSERVATION APPARATUS - A biological observation apparatus comprises a color image signal creating section that performs signal processing on either a first image pickup signal for which a subject to be examined illuminated by white illumination light is picked up by a color filter having a transmitting characteristic of a plurality of broadband wavelengths or a second image pickup signal for which a subject to be examined is picked up under illumination of frame sequential illumination lights which cover a visible range, and creates a color image signal. The biological observation apparatus comprises a spectral image signal creating section that creates a spectral image signal corresponding to a narrowband image signal through signal processing on a color image signal based on the first or second image pickup signal. The biological observation apparatus comprises one of a characteristic changing/setting section for a display color converting section that performs conversion of display colors when causing the spectral image signal to be displayed or the like, an interface section for performing an instruction operation for switching and/or confirming information including an image to be displayed, or the like. | 01-22-2009 |
20090058999 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE FOR BIOLOGICAL OBSERVATION APPARATUS - Tissue information of a desired deep portion of a biological tissue based on a spectral image obtained from signal processing is adjusted to image information in a color tone suitable for observation. Outputs of a matrix computing section | 03-05-2009 |
20090091614 | BIOLOGICAL OBSERVATION APPARATUS - A biological observation apparatus comprising: an illuminating section that irradiates light to a living body that is a subject to be examined; an image pickup section that photoelectrically converts light reflected from the living body based on the irradiating light and creates an image pickup signal; and a signal processing control section that controls operations of the illuminating section and/or the image pickup section and outputs the image pickup signal to a display device, wherein the signal processing control section includes: a spectral signal creating section that creates a spectral signal corresponding to an optical wavelength narrowband image from the image pickup signal through signal processing; and a color adjusting section that, when outputting the spectral signal to the display device, allocates a different color tone for each of a plurality of bands forming the spectral signal, further wherein the biological observation apparatus further comprises an image quality adjusting section that adjusts an image quality of a signal to be outputted to the display device, or, with the exception of at least the spectral signal creating section and the color adjusting section, the other signal processing sections are shared for respective signal processing on the image pickup signal and on the spectral signal. | 04-09-2009 |
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20090169183 | DATA RECORDING DEVICE, DATA RECORDING METHOD, DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM, DATA RECORDING MEDIUM, AND DATA STRUCTURE - To effectively reproduce video depending on the performance of a reproducing apparatus. A controller | 07-02-2009 |
20100002146 | VIDEO DISPLAY SYSTEM, VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE, ITS CONTROL METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - To provide a video display system for allowing a user to look at and listen to video and sound on various means. A video display system has a video display device and a portable video display device, connected to each other for communication. The video display device produces own device video data and own device sound data to be displayed and reproduced, respectively, on the video display device; displays the own device video data and reproduces the own device sound data; encodes these data into a data format which the portable video display device is able to handle, to thereby produce other device video data and other device sound data; and sends to the portable video display device. The portable video display device receives these data, and decodes and displays the other device video data, and decodes and reproduces the other device sound data. | 01-07-2010 |
20140232941 | VIDEO DISPLAY SYSTEM, VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE, ITS CONTROL METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - To provide a video display system for allowing a user to look at and listen to video and sound on various means. A video display system has a video display device and a portable video display device, connected to each other for communication. The video display device produces own device video data and own device sound data to be displayed and reproduced, respectively, on the video display device; displays the own device video data and reproduces the own device sound data; encodes these data into a data format which the portable video display device is able to handle, to thereby produce other device video data and other device sound data; and sends to the portable video display device. The portable video display device receives these data, and decodes and displays the other device video data, and decodes and reproduces the other device sound data. | 08-21-2014 |
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20100207054 | ALUMINA FIBER AGGREGATE, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND USE THEREOF - An object of the invention is to provide an alumina fiber aggregate which, when used as a filler in various materials such as, e.g., resins, coating materials, metals, and ceramics, enables the mixtures to have reduced viscosity and thereby heightens the productivity of products containing alumina fibers, and which enables cured thermosetting resins to have a sufficiently heightened thermal conductivity. | 08-19-2010 |
20120318897 | ALUMINA FIBER AGGREGATE, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND USE THEREOF - A process for producing the alumina fiber aggregate which, when examined by the electron microscope method, gives a frequency distribution regarding number of fibers, wherein the number of fibers having a fiber length of 50-200 μm is 70% or more (including 100%), the number of fibers having a fiber length smaller than 50 μm is 30% or less (including 0), the number of fibers of 50-100 μm is 30-50%, the number of fibers longer than 100 μm but not longer than 200 μm is 30-50%, and the number of fibers longer than 200 μm is 20% or less (including 0). The process including the steps of grinding cottony alumina-based fibers comprising 70-100% by mass of Al | 12-20-2012 |