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20090021999 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - Disclosed is a semiconductor storage device in which a cell array including a plurality of cells in need of refresh for data retention includes the redundancy area, which has a plurality of redundant cells for replacing faulty cells of a normal area within the cell array. When the redundancy area is tested, a refresh counter circuit for generating and outputting refresh addresses rearranges the address in such a manner that a row address of the redundancy area is substantially reduced and placed on a lower-order bit side inclusive of the LSB of the counter. | 01-22-2009 |
20110069573 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes a plurality of bank sets and an address controller. Each bank set includes a plurality of banks Each bank includes a plurality of memory mats and sense amplifier arrays corresponding to row addresses. The plurality of bank sets is arranged in both sides of arrays of power electrode pads to be used for operations of the sense amplifier arrays. The plurality of bank sets commonly shears the arrays of power electrode pads. The address controller generates different row addresses that are supplied to different ones of the plurality of bank sets. The different row addresses designate different memory mats in the different ones of the plurality of bank sets, so as to designate different arrays of the power electrode pads for the different ones of the plurality of bank sets for refresh operation in accordance with an external refresh command. | 03-24-2011 |
20120307573 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes first and second bit lines, and a transistor coupled between the first and second bit lines. The semiconductor device further includes a substrate bias control circuit that supplies one of a first substrate bias voltage and a second substrate bias voltage to the transistor. By controlling the substrate bias voltage of the transistor, high-speed equalization is performed, and an increase in leak current at times of standby and activation is prevented. | 12-06-2012 |
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20100271359 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND METHOD OF DRIVING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device including: a pixel array including a plurality of scanning lines arranged in rows, a plurality of signal lines arranged in columns, a plurality of liquid crystal elements arranged in a matrix corresponding to an intersection of each scanning line and each signal line, and a plurality of common connection lines arranged one by one corresponding to the liquid crystal elements of each line; a scanning line drive circuit; a signal line drive circuit; and a common connection line drive circuit electrically separating, from each other, one or a plurality of common connection lines (first common connection lines), and a plurality of common connection lines (second common connection lines), and electrically connecting the plurality of second common connection lines to each other to independently drive the first common connection line and the second connection lines from each other. | 10-28-2010 |
20100328285 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DRIVING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a pixel array section having a plurality of scanning lines disposed in rows, a plurality of signal lines disposed in columns, a plurality of pixel circuits, a plurality of liquid crystal elements, and a plurality of common connection lines, and a drive circuit section having a scanning line drive circuit, a signal line drive circuit, and a common connection line drive circuit. The drive circuit section drives each of the pixel circuits so that a holding period in each frame period has a period during which a voltage of one liquid crystal element falls and a period during which the voltage rises. | 12-30-2010 |
20110007060 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device is provided, which may reduce flicker in all display gray levels. The liquid crystal display device includes a scan line drive circuit, a signal line drive circuit and a common connection line drive circuit. The common connection line drive circuit applies a voltage, the voltage having polarity opposite to polarity of the signal line, to a common connection line corresponding to a liquid crystal element as a selection object in a write period for writing into the liquid crystal element as a selection object, and applies one or multiple voltages, each voltage having a value different from a center value between an upper limit value and a lower limit value of voltages applied to the common connection lines in the write period, to the common connection lines in a holding period after writing into the liquid crystal element as a selection object is performed. | 01-13-2011 |
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20090137325 | CONSTANT VELOCITY UNIVERSAL JOINT - A constant velocity universal joint is provided, having a hollow outer joint member, an inner joint member, an outer roller including a cylindrical surface, an inner roller including a concave sphere, and plural leg shafts each including a convex sphere formed in a tip portion and engaging with the concave sphere, where the cylindrical surface of the outer roller satisfies the following: | 05-28-2009 |
20090197687 | CONSTANT VELOCITY UNIVERSAL JOINT - A constant velocity universal joint is provided, having a hollow outer joint member, an inner joint member, an outer roller including a cylindrical surface, an inner roller including a concave sphere, and plural leg shafts each including a convex sphere formed in a tip portion and engaging with the concave sphere, where the cylindrical surface of the outer roller satisfies the following: | 08-06-2009 |
20110298048 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - The present teaching provides a semiconductor device capable of relaxing stress transferred to a contact region during wire bonding and improving reliability of wire bonding. A semiconductor device comprises contact regions, an interlayer insulating film, an emitter electrode, and a stress relaxation portion. The contact regions are provided at a certain interval in areas exposing at a surface of a semiconductor substrate. The interlayer insulating film is provided on the surface of the semiconductor substrate between adjacent contact regions. The emitter electrode is provided on an upper side of the semiconductor substrate and electrically connected to each of the contact regions. The stress relaxation portion is provided on an upper surface of the emitter electrode in an area only above the contact regions. The stress relaxation portion is formed of a conductive material. A Young's modulus of the material of the stress relaxation portion is lower than a Young's modulus of the material of the emitter electrode. | 12-08-2011 |
20140138738 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes: a channel region, having: a first trench gate, in which a bottom end in a depth direction protrudes into a first drift region, and a non-channel region, having: a second trench gate, in which a bottom end in the depth direction protrudes into a second drift region, that is adjacent to the first trench gate, and protruding length of the second trench gate is shorter than the protruding length of the first trench gate that protrudes into the first drift region. | 05-22-2014 |