Abstract:
An installation structure releases a brake pedal in a vehicle collision. A pedal arm has a groove coupled with a pipe. A front portion of the groove has a smaller width than the pipe. Alternatively, a pedal arm is hingedly mounted on a support member. A connector secures the pedal arm to the support member for normal operation, and permits separation of the pedal arm from the support member in response to a reward force resulting from a collision impact. The support member has a cylindrical member, and the pedal arm defines a forward facing opening, force-fit onto the cylindrical member. The opening has a width smaller than the cylindrical member. Alternatively, the connector has two support plates on a pipe of the cylindrical member, at both sides of the pedal arm. The plates have rear-facing grooves, and coupling members protruding from the pedal arm are received in the grooves.
Abstract:
Non-volatile memory devices and methods of operating the same are disclosed. A non-volatile memory device includes a semiconductor substrate. A tunnel insulating layer and a gate electrode are on the semiconductor substrate. A multiple tunnel insulation layer with a plurality of layers, a charge storage insulation layer, and a multiple blocking insulation layer with a plurality of layers are sequentially stacked between the gate electrode and the tunnel insulating layer. A first diffusion region and a second diffusion region in the semiconductor substrate are adjacent to opposite respective sides of the gate electrode. When a voltage is applied to the gate electrode and the semiconductor substrate to form a voltage level difference therebetween, a minimum field in the tunnel insulation layer is stronger than a minimum field in the blocking insulation layer. A minimum field established at a blocking insulation layer can be stronger than a minimum field established at a tunnel insulation layer, and the migration probability of charges through the tunnel insulation layer can be higher than that of charges through the blocking insulation layer. Therefore, it may be possible to use lower operation voltages, obtain higher program and erase speeds, and/or obtain a greater difference between threshold values of a program threshold voltage and an erase threshold voltage. As a result, a multi-valued non-volatile memory device may be formed therefrom.
Abstract:
A non-volatile memory device includes a tunnel oxide layer, a charge storage layer, a blocking insulating layer, and a gate electrode that are sequentially stacked, as well as an impurity diffusion layer in an active region at both sides of the gate electrode. The gate electrode crosses active regions between device isolation layers formed in a predetermined area of a semiconductor substrate, and an edge of the charge storage layer is extended to have a protruding part that protrudes from the gate electrode. In order to form a charge storage layer having a protruding part, a stack insulating layer including first to third insulating layers is formed in an active region between the device isolation layers formed in the substrate. A plurality of gate electrodes crossing the active region are formed on the stack insulating layer, and a sidewall spacer is formed on both sidewalls of the gate electrode. Using the sidewall spacer and the gate electrode, the stack insulating layer is etched to form a charge storage layer that protrudes from the sidewall of the gate electrode.
Abstract:
An electrically erasable charge trap nonvolatile memory cell has an initial threshold voltage, a program voltage that is higher than the initial threshold voltage, and an erase threshold voltage that is lower than the program threshold voltage but is higher than the initial threshold voltage. The programmed electrically erasable charge trap nonvolatile memory cells may be erased by applying an erase voltage for a time interval that is sufficient to lower the threshold voltage the transistor from a program threshold voltage to an erase threshold voltage that is lower than the program threshold voltage, but is higher than the initial threshold voltage. The time interval may be determined by repeatedly performing an endurance test using a time interval that is increased or decreased from an initial time interval, to obtain the time interval that meets an endurance specification, or allows a read to be performed successfully.
Abstract:
This disclosure provides cells of nonvolatile memory devices with floating gates and methods for fabricating the same. The cell of the nonvolatile memory device includes device isolation layers in parallel with each other on a predetermined region of a semiconductor substrate that define a plurality of active regions. Each device isolation layer has sidewalls that project over the semiconductor substrate. A plurality of word lines crosses over the device isolation layers. A tunnel oxide layer, a floating gate, a gate interlayer dielectric layer, and a control gate electrode are sequentially stacked between each active region and each word line. The floating gate and the control gate electrode have sidewalls that are self-aligned to the adjacent device isolation layers. The method for forming the self-aligned floating gate and the control gate electrode includes forming trenches in a semiconductor substrate to define a plurality of active regions and concurrently forming an oxide layer pattern, a floating gate pattern, a dielectric layer pattern and a control gate pattern that are sequentially stacked. A conductive layer is then formed on the device isolation layers and the control gate pattern. Thereafter, the conductive layer, the control gate pattern, the dielectric layer pattern, the floating gate pattern, and the oxide layer pattern are successively patterned.
Abstract:
An operation method of programming, erasing, and reading a silicon-oxide-nitride-oxide-silicon (SONOS) non-volatile memory device having a tunnel oxide layer thicker than 20 Å is provided. A program operation of the method is accomplished by applying a program voltage higher than 0 volts and a ground voltage to a gate electrode and a channel region of a selected SONOS cell transistor, respectively. Also, an erasing operation is accomplished by applying a ground voltage and a first erase voltage lower than 0 volts to a bulk region and a gate electrode of a selected SONOS cell transistor, respectively, and by applying a second erasure voltage to either a drain region or a source region of the selected SONOS cell transistor. The second erase voltage is a ground voltage or a positive voltage. In addition, a read operation is accomplished using either a backward read mode or a forward read mode. Thus, it is possible to remarkably improve a bake retention characteristic, which is sensitive to a thickness of the tunnel oxide layer.
Abstract:
A brake pedal supporting structure designed for a brake pedal of a car having a pedal arm coupled with a mounting bracket attached to a dash panel and a cowl panel to rotate via an actuating rod and a hinge point of a brake booster, wherein pedal arm pushing preventing means is fixed at the rear portion of the pedal arm to face a predetermined interval of the total length of the pedal arm including the hinge point to prevent the pedal arm from being pushed to the rear by the brake booster which will be pushed toward the inside of the car room at the time of a head-on colliding car crash, thereby keeping the pedal arm from being pushed toward the rear of the chassis or enabling the lower portion of the pedal arm to rotate to the front of the chassis to rule out an impact given by the pedal arm onto the driver's lower body and reduce the possibility of the injury at the time of the head-on colliding car crash.
Abstract:
A grinding wheel having dust discharge-impelling blades which are able to impel to discharge the dust produced during the grinding operation to a dust collection machine to decrease dispersing dust in the air, and increase the cooling efficiency of the grinding wheel to enhance the grinding ability and the life of the grinding wheel. The grinding wheel of the present invention comprises a shank for connecting with a shaft of electric motor, having a plurality of dust discharging holes disposed at given intervals in the shank and a plurality of dust discharge-impelling blades disposed between the dust discharging holes for impelling to discharge dust produced during the grinding operation through and in cooperation with dust discharging holes, and a plurality of grinding tips disposed fixedly at predetermined intervals on the lower surface of the circumferential portion of the shank by means of welding or joining.
Abstract:
A photo-chemical vapor deposition ("photo-CVD") apparatus has exchange apparatus of optical window and method of exchanging optical window therewith. There photo-CVD apparatus has exchange apparatus of optical window which can replace an optical window blurred by attachment of materials produced by dissociation of reaction gas or materials used for disposition in a reaction chamber of a photo-CVD apparatus during photo-CVD reaction with a clean optical window without exposing the inside of the reaction chamber to the air and to the method of exchanging optical window of the photo-CVD apparatus using the exchange apparatus of optical window.