A semiconductor device testing device for testing a semiconductor device having input/output terminals includes a dynamic load circuit provided for each of the input/output terminals of the semiconductor device and a comparator provided for each of the input/output terminals of the semiconductor device which compares the voltage value obtained at the input/output terminal with a predetermined value to detect whether the internal state of the semiconductor device is a high impedance state or not....

A therapeutic device used to relieve and prevent heel cord contractures, including a foot-supporting plate member pivotally mounted about a laterally extending axis located substantially beneath the ankle joint of the supported foot, and including a reciprocating hydraulic motor connected to the plate member to cause oscillation thereof. They hydraulic circuit for operating the motor includes a shiftable reversing valve that is selectively operable to control the angular extent of the plate memb...

Diodes are used for memorizing an identification number. A microcomputer judges a combination of diodes and decides an identification number corresponding to that combination. The microcomputer is connected directly to a battery. Whether the audio device provided with an antitheft device according to this invention is stolen or not is judged, depending on whether it is connected without interruption to the battery or not. It is judged that the device is stolen, only when the battery has been onc...

Device for a filter device, having a circular adapter, having at least one connector extending downwards out of the adapter, to which connector a filter cartridge is attachable, having a feed hole in the adapter, having an outflow volume above the adapter and communicating with the connector, having a circular head above the adapter, having a feed connector which extends upwards out of the head and communicates with the feed hole, and having an outflow connector which extends upwards out from th...

A semiconductor device, device metallization, and method are described. The device metallization, which is especially designed for submicron contact openings, includes titanium silicide to provide a low resistance contact to a device region, titanium nitride and sputtered tungsten to provide a diffusion barrier, etched back chemical vapor deposited tungsten for planarization, and aluminum or an aluminum alloy for interconnection.

A driving device for an auxiliary device of an engine, comprises a carrier to be rotated by a crankshaft of the engine, a plurality of planet gears supported by shafts formed on the carrier, an internal gear meshed with the planet gears and supported rotatably, a clutch member for engaging the internal gear with and disengaging it from a stationary portion of the device, an engaging member for engaging the carrier with the internal gear when a rotation speed of the carrier reaches a value not le...

A coding device comprises a coding circuit in which a range of values, which local decoded values are permitted to have is made narrower than a range of values, which input sample values are permitted to have when coding a differential value between an input sample value and its predictive value. A decoding device substitutes a decoded value to be subsequently decoded for a decoded value in which a gradient overload is produced when decoding a code provided by coding a differential value between...

A device comprising semiconductor elements and conductor tracks of an oxidic superconductive material, electrically conductive connections being established between the semiconductor elements and the conductor tracks, is provided with an electrically conductive antidiffusion layer between the semiconductor elements and the conductor tracks. The antidiffusion layer consists of an amorphous alloy of two transition metals, which alloy has a crystallization temperature of at least 900 K. The amorpho...

A device comprising semiconductor elements and conductor tracks of an oxidic superconducting material, electrically conductive connections being formed between semiconductor elements and conductor tracks, is provided with an electrically conductive antidiffusion layer between the semiconductor elements and the conductor tracks. The antidiffusion layer is composed of an amorphous alloy having the composition A.sub.x E.sub.1-x, wherein A is selected from one or more of the elements Zr, Nb, Mo, Ru,...

A testing device comprises a plurality of pin test portions, each of which is separately provided with a pin pattern controller for controlling the readout of pattern and timing data from pattern and timing memories and a pin instruction memory for storing programs defining the operation procedure of the pin pattern controller. Therefore, the data to be stored in the pattern and timing memories in each of the pin test portions can be in a compressed form, independently of the data to be stored i...