Abstract:
A memory device is composed of a memory array including floating gate memory cells; a sense amplifier designed to identify data stored in the memory array; and a reference current setting unit responsive to a trimming code for providing a reference current for the sense amplifier. The trimming code is defined as being all-0 for a reference current level most likely to identify data stored in the memory array as logic “1”, and is defined as being all-1 for a reference current level most likely to identify data stored in the memory array as logic “0”.
Abstract:
An information signal recording medium reproducing apparatus comprises an equalizer supplied with a frequency modulated composite video signal picked up from an information signal recording medium, a frequency demodulator for frequency-demodulating an output signal of the equalizer into a composite video signal, a synchronizing signal separating circuit for separating a horizontal synchronizing signal from the composite video signal, and a switching signal generating circuit for forming a switching signal from the horizontal synchronizing signal. The equalizer is supplied with the switching signal and has such a circuit construction that a frequency at which an output level versus frequency characteristic of the equalizer has a peak is reduced responsive to the switching signal during a predetermined time period in a vicinity of the front edge of the horizontal synchronizing signal to correct a distorted waveform of the frequency modulated composite signal caused by defects in the information signal recording medium.
Abstract:
An intermodulation distortion reducing circuit for a frequency-modulated signal comprises a sinusoidal wave shaping circuit supplied with an input frequency-modulated signal including an intermodulation distortion component, for shaping the waveform of the input frequency-modulated signal into a waveform closely approximating a sinusoidal wave, and a mean DC level detecting circuit supplied with an output signal of the sinusoidal wave shaping circuit, for detecting a mean DC level of the output signal of the sinusoidal wave shaping circuit and producing a detection output. The sinusoidal wave shaping circuit is supplied with the detection output of the mean DC level detecting circuit and a waveform shaping quantity thereof is varied to obtain the waveform closely approximating the sinusoidal waveform. The sinusoidal wave shaping circuit produces a frequency-modulated signal having a waveform closely approximating a sinusoidal waveform, with its intermodulation distortion component reduced.
Abstract:
A rotary recording medium reproducing apparatus reproduces a recorded signal from a rotary recording medium by use of a reproducing element. The rotary recording medium is recorded with at least a first carrier signal which is modulated by an information signal having a synchronizing signal of a predetermined frequency. The reproducing apparatus comprises a motor for rotating the rotary recording medium, a reference signal generating circuit for generating a reference signal having a frequency equal to a horizontal scanning frequency of a video signal of a standard television system which is characteristic of the reproducing apparatus and should originally be reproduced, or equal to 1/M (M is an integer) times the above horizontal scanning frequency, a detecting circuit for detecting a signal respective of the rotational speed of the rotary recording medium, and a comparator for comparing the reference signal and the signal respective of the rotational speed of the rotary recording medium, to control the rotational speed of the rotary recording medium by a compared output signal thus obtained, so that the synchronizing signal within the reproduced signal is reproduced at a frequency equal to the horizontal scanning frequency of the above standard television system with which the reproduction should originally be performed.
Abstract:
A rotation stopping apparatus for a motor comprises a frequency signal generating circuit for generating a signal having a frequency according to a rotational speed of a motor, a voltage forming circuit for forming a voltage according to the frequency of the frequency signal from the frequency signal generating circuit, a motor driving circuit for supplying a forward direction current to the motor upon rotation of the motor and supplying a reverse direction current to the motor when the rotation of the motor is stopped to perform a damping operation with respect to the rotation of the motor, a detecting circuit for detecting that a voltage from the voltage forming circuit has become below a predetermined threshold voltage, and an interrupting circuit for interrupting the supply of the reverse direction current to the motor by the motor driving circuit according to the detected result obtained from the detecting circuit.
Abstract:
A television signal discrimination system is used in a television receiver provided with an electronic tuner for producing as output an intermediate-frequency signal whose synchronizing frequency is varied in response to an applied voltage and with a circuit for detecting the output signal of the electronic tuner. This system comprises a first synchronizing signal separation circuit supplied with the output of the detection circuit and separating a vertical synchronizing signal, a first integration circuit connected to the output side of the first synchronizing signal separation circuit, a circuit supplied with an output voltage of the first integration circuit and a reference voltage and operating to compare the magnitudes thereof, a second synchronizing signal separation circuit supplied with the output of the detection circuit and separating a vertical synchronizing signal, a second integration circuit connected to the output side of the second synchronizing signal separation circuit, a circuit for discriminating the frequency of the output of the electronic tuner, and a circuit for discriminating a normal television signal on the basis of the output of the voltage comparing circuit, the output of the second integration circuit, and the output of the frequency discriminating circuit. The first synchronizing signal separation circuit and the first integration circuit producing, as output, different voltages, with the reference voltage as a borderline, depending on and distinguishing between the case where the output signal of the detection circuit is a normal television signal and the case where the output signal is a different spurious television signal.
Abstract:
Two terminals of a variable resistor are respectively connected via resistors to bases of two transistors which constitute an input stage of a differential amplifier while the movable contact of the variable resistor is fed with a predetermined voltage. Either the resistance of the variable resistor with respect to the resistances of fixed resistors connected to the bases or the ratio between the fixed resistors is so selected that the variation of the maximum resistance of the variable resistor does not influence the relationship between the position of the movable contact and the gain of the differential amplifier.
Abstract:
A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes: a sense amplifier; bit lines coupled to the sense amplifier; memory cell transistors and dummy cell transistors coupled in parallel with the bit lines; and a current generating circuit that supplies a test current to current nodes. Either of the source and the drain of each of the dummy cell transistors is coupled to a bit line and the other is coupled to a current node. In a read operation test, the current generating circuit is activated and then the dummy cell transistors are turned on. The sense amplifier compares the test current passed through a bit line with a reference current and outputs output data corresponding to the result of the comparison.
Abstract:
A developing device includes first and second developer carriers facing each other in a facing region, a regulating member that regulates a layer thickness of developer, and a separation member. The first and second developer carriers respectively include first and second magnetic members that are respectively magnetized with first and second facing magnetic poles having opposite polarities. The separation member separates the developer so that the developer is supplied toward the first and second developer carriers. The separation member is disposed such that distances between the separation member and the first and second developer carriers are the smallest in a region in which a magnitude of a combined magnetic field of the first and second magnetic poles locally decreases as compared with a case where at least one of the first and second developer carriers is independently disposed due to interaction between the first and second facing magnetic poles.
Abstract:
A developer supply device, includes: a developer holder; and a developer reservoir which is disposed inside of the developer holder, holds a liquid developer, and has at least one supply section that supplies the liquid developer from the developer reservoir to the developer holder, the liquid developer including a toner and an aqueous medium, and the developer supply device supplying the liquid developer that has been supplied to the developer holder to a medium which is a supply target for the liquid developer.