Appeal No. 1998-3135 Page 8
Application No. 08/789,519
output voltage amplitude VA, as shown in Figure 2. The
purpose of the invention,
according to Kadota, (translation, page 5) is to provide an
electric charge transferring element which provides a
sufficient output voltage even when the power source voltage
is low. Figure 3 of Kadota shows a working example of the
invention, in which a second diffusion layer 12, a second
precharge gate electrode (gate) 13 with accompanying terminal
14, and a terminal 15, are provided. Kadota discloses (id.)
that “[t]he floating capacities of the high electric
conductivity impurity diffusion layers (2, 12) are described
as ‘C ’ and ‘C ’, respectively.” Kadota additionallyf1 f2
discloses (translation, page 6) that the first precharge gate
(reset gate) 5 turns on before the next signal electric charge
is transferred, connecting the diffusion layers 2 and 12.
Figures 4 (D) and (E) (translation, page 6) show the changes
in the diffusion layers 2 and 12 “when the pulse voltages
shown in Figs. 4 (A), (B) and (C) are impressed on the
terminals (9, 15, 14).” As a result of these pulse voltages
(translation, page 7) “the signal electric charge stored in
the . . . diffusion layer (2) is equivalently reset with a
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