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20090314411 | ELECTROMAGNETIC NOISE SUPPRESSOR, ARTICLE WITH ELECTROMAGNETIC NOISE SUPPRESSING FUNCTION AND THEIR MANUFACTURING METHODS - An electromagnetic noise suppressor of the present invention includes a base material containing a binding agent and a composite layer formed by integrating the binding agent that is a part of the base material and the magnetic material. This electromagnetic noise suppressor has high electromagnetic noise suppressing effect in the sub-microwave band, and enables it to reduce the space requirement and weight. The electromagnetic noise suppressor can be manufactured by forming the composite layer on the surface of the base material by physical vapor deposition of the magnetic material onto the surface of the base material. The article with an electromagnetic noise suppressing function of the present invention is an electronic component, a printed wiring board, a semiconductor integrated circuit or other article of which at least a part of the surface is covered by the electromagnetic noise suppressor of the present invention. | 12-24-2009 |
20090314539 | ELECTROMAGNETIC NOISE SUPPRESSOR, ARTICLE WITH ELECTROMAGNETIC NOISE SUPPRESSING FUNCTION AND THEIR MANUFACTURING METHODS - An electromagnetic noise suppressor of the present invention includes a base material containing a binding agent and a composite layer formed by integrating the binding agent that is a part of the base material and the magnetic material. This electromagnetic noise suppressor has high electromagnetic noise suppressing effect in the sub-microwave band, and enables it to reduce the space requirement and weight. The electromagnetic noise suppressor can be manufactured by forming the composite layer on the surface of the base material by physical vapor deposition of the magnetic material onto the surface of the base material. The article with an electromagnetic noise suppressing function of the present invention is an electronic component, a printed wiring board, a semiconductor integrated circuit or other article of which at least a part of the surface is covered by the electromagnetic noise suppressor of the present invention. | 12-24-2009 |
20090314634 | ELECTROMAGNETIC NOISE SUPPRESSOR, STRUCTURE WITH ELECTROMAGNETIC NOISE SUPPRESSING FUNCTION AND THEIR MANUFACTURING METHODS - An electromagnetic noise suppressor of the present invention has magnetic resonance frequency of 8 GHz or higher, and the imaginary part of complex magnetic permeability at 8 GHz is higher than the imaginary part of complex magnetic permeability at 5 GHz. Such an electromagnetic noise suppressor is capable of achieving sufficient electromagnetic noise suppressing effect over the entire sub-microwave band. The electromagnetic noise suppressor can be manufactured by forming a composite layer on the surface of a binding agent through physical deposition of a magnetic material on the binding agent. The structure with an electromagnetic noise suppressing function of the present invention is a printed wiring board, a semiconductor integrated circuit or the like that is covered with the electromagnetic noise suppressor on at least a part of the surface of the structure. | 12-24-2009 |
20090316370 | ELECTROMAGNETIC NOISE SUPPRESSOR, STRUCTURE WITH ELECTROMAGNETIC NOISE SUPPRESSING FUNCTION AND THEIR MANUFACTURING METHODS - An electromagnetic noise suppressor of the present invention has magnetic resonance frequency of 8 GHz or higher, and the imaginary part of complex magnetic permeability at 8 GHz is higher than the imaginary part of complex magnetic permeability at 5 GHz. Such an electromagnetic noise suppressor is capable of achieving sufficient electromagnetic noise suppressing effect over the entire sub-microwave band. The electromagnetic noise suppressor can be manufactured by forming a composite layer on the surface of a binding agent through physical deposition of a magnetic material on the binding agent. The structure with an electromagnetic noise suppressing function of the present invention is a printed wiring board, a semiconductor integrated circuit or the like that is covered with the electromagnetic noise suppressor on at least a part of the surface of the structure. | 12-24-2009 |
20140160471 | Optical Filtering Device, Defect Inspection Method and Apparatus Therefor - An optical filtering device and an optical inspection apparatus for detecting a defect in a high sensitivity using an optical filtering device which includes a shutter array formed in a two-dimensionally on an optically opaque thin film produced on a SOI wafer and the SOI wafer is removed at portions thereof on the lower side of the shutter patterns to form perforation portions while working electrodes are formed at the remaining portion of the SOI wafer, a glass substrate having electrode patterns formed on the surface thereof and having the shutter array mounted thereon, and a power supply section for supplying electric power to the electrode patterns formed on the glass substrate and the working electrodes of the SOI wafer. And the working electrodes is controlled to cause the shutter patterns to carry out opening and closing movements with respect to the perforation portions to carry out optical filtering. | 06-12-2014 |
20140233024 | Defect Inspecting Apparatus and Defect Inspecting Method - An invention being applied is a defect detecting apparatus that has: an illuminating optical system with a laser light source for irradiating a sample on whose surface a pattern is formed with light; a detecting optical system with a sensor for detecting light generated from the sample illuminated by the illuminating optical system; and a signal processing unit that extracts a defect from an image based on the light detected by the detecting optical system, in which an amplification rate of the sensor is dynamically changed during a time when the light is detected by the detecting optical system. | 08-21-2014 |
20140268122 | DEFECT INSPECTION METHOD AND DEFECT INSPECTION DEVICE - A defect inspection method and device for irradiating a linear region on a surface-patterned sample mounted on a planarly movable table, with illumination light from an inclined direction relative to a direction of a line normal to the sample, next detecting in each of a plurality of directions an image of the light scattered from the sample irradiated with the illumination light, then processing signals obtained by the detection of the images of the scattered light, and thereby detecting a defect present on the sample; wherein the step of detecting the scattered light image in the plural directions is performed through elliptical lenses in which elevation angles of the optical axes thereof are different from each other, within one plane perpendicular to a plane formed by the normal to the surface of the table on which to mount the sample and the longitudinal direction of the linear region irradiated with the irradiation light, the elliptical lenses being formed of circular lenses having left and right portions thereof cut. | 09-18-2014 |
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20100195685 | SEMICONDUCTOR LASER ELEMENT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR LASER ELEMENT - A semiconductor laser element includes: a window region including a disordered portion formed by diffusion of a group-III vacancy, the diffusion promoted by providing on the window region a promoting film that absorbs a predetermined atom; a non-window region including an active layer of a quantum well structure; and a difference equal to or larger than 50 meV between an energy band gap in the window region and an energy band gap in the non-window region. | 08-05-2010 |
20100232464 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND SEMICONDUCTOR LASER - A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device including a semiconductor layer and a dielectric layer deposited on the semiconductor layer, including: forming the semiconductor layer; performing a surface treatment for removing a residual carbon compound, on a surface of the semiconductor layer formed; forming a dielectric film under a depositing condition corresponding to a surface state after the surface treatment, on at least a part of the surface of the semiconductor layer on which the surface treatment has been performed; and changing a crystalline state of at least a partial region of the semiconductor layer by performing a heat treatment on the semiconductor layer on which the dielectric film has been formed. | 09-16-2010 |
20110164641 | OPTICAL SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND PUMPING LIGHT SOURCE FOR OPTICAL FIBER AMPLIFIER - A semiconductor device of the invention is formed so that n-type InP current blocking layers enter the inside of p-type InP cladding layers, i.e., the n-type current blocking layers ride over the upper part of the p-type InP cladding layers, so that a distance between the n-type InP current block layers composing a current blocking region is narrower than a width of the p-type cladding layers contacting with the n-type InP current blocking layers. Thereby, the semiconductor device whose leak current in the current blocking region may be reduced which permits high-output and high-temperature operations may be readily fabricated. | 07-07-2011 |
20120027352 | SEMICONDUCTOR LASER MODULE AND OPTICAL MODULE - The present invention provides a semiconductor laser module in which a coupling efficiency does not easily vary even though a displacement amount varies by the effect of welding. The semiconductor laser module comprises: a semiconductor laser element | 02-02-2012 |
20120114000 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL LASER ELEMENT, AND SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL DEVICE - A method of manufacturing a semiconductor optical device including a semiconductor layer includes: forming a semiconductor layer; forming a first dielectric film on a first region of a surface of the semiconductor layer; forming a second dielectric film on a second region of the surface of the semiconductor layer, the second dielectric film having a density higher than that of the first dielectric film; and performing a thermal treatment in a predetermined temperature range after the second dielectric film forming, wherein within the temperature range, as the temperature is lowered, a difference increases between a bandgap in the semiconductor layer below the second dielectric film and a bandgap in the semiconductor layer below the first dielectric film due to the thermal treatment. | 05-10-2012 |
20130044781 | SEMICONDUCTOR LASER ELEMENT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A semiconductor laser element includes a substrate of a first conduction type and a layered semiconductor structure formed on the substrate. The layered semiconductor structure includes a first semiconductor layer of the first conduction type formed on the substrate, an active layer formed on the first semiconductor layer, and a second semiconductor layer of a second conduction type formed on the active layer, the second conduction type being opposite to the first conduction type. The first semiconductor layer, the active layer, and the second semiconductor layer include a non-window region through which a light emitted from the active layer passes and a window region surrounding the non-window region. Band gap energy of the active layer is larger in the window region than in the non-window region. The second semiconductor layer includes a current confinement layer. | 02-21-2013 |
20130149804 | OPTICAL SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND PUMPING LIGHT SOURCE FOR OPTICAL FIBER AMPLIFIER - A semiconductor device of the invention is formed so that n-type InP current blocking layers enter the inside of p-type InP cladding layers, i.e., the n-type current blocking layers ride over the upper part of the p-type InP cladding layers, so that a distance between the n-type InP current block layers composing a current blocking region is narrower than a width of the p-type cladding layers contacting with the n-type InP current blocking layers. Thereby, the semiconductor device whose leak current in the current blocking region may be reduced which permits high-output and high-temperature operations may be readily fabricated. | 06-13-2013 |
20130322477 | OPTICAL DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND LASER MODULE - An optical device includes a ridge semiconductor laser element formed on a substrate, a first insulating film coating a lateral wall portion of a ridge structure of the ridge semiconductor laser element, and a second insulating film coating the ridge structure from above the first insulating film in an end portion region of the ridge structure. The second insulating film has a density lower than a density of the first insulating film. | 12-05-2013 |
20140027809 | SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR THE SAME - Provided is a semiconductor light device comprising a semiconductor substrate having a first conduction type; a first cladding layer having the first conduction type deposited above the semiconductor substrate; an active layer; a second cladding layer having a second conduction type; and a contact layer. The active layer includes a window portion that is disordered via diffusion of vacancies and a non-window portion having less disordering than the window portion, and the contact layer includes a first region and a second region that is below the first region and has greater affinity for hydrogen than the first region. | 01-30-2014 |
20140072007 | LASER APPARATUS - To achieve stable multimode output even when driven by a drive current near a threshold value, provided is a laser apparatus comprising a semiconductor laser element; a wavelength selecting element that performs laser oscillation by forming a resonator between itself and a reflective surface of the semiconductor laser element to output oscillated laser light; and an optical system that is optically coupled to an emission surface of the semiconductor laser element with a coupling efficiency η and inputs to the wavelength selecting element light output from the emission surface. The optical system causes a value that is correlated with a minimum light output within a linear light output region in which light output is linear with respect to an injection current injected to the semiconductor laser element to be less than this value occurring when the coupling efficiency η is at a maximum. | 03-13-2014 |
20140314113 | SEMICONDUCTOR LASER WITH VARIED-WIDTH WAVEGUIDE AND SEMICONDUCTOR LASER MODULE INCLUDING THE SAME - A semiconductor laser outputs a laser light from an output facet of a waveguide having an index waveguide structure, via a lens system. The waveguide includes, in order from a rear facet opposite to the output facet, a first narrow portion, a wide portion that is wider than the first narrow portion, a second narrow portion narrower than the wide portion, a first tapered portion formed between the first narrow portion and the wide portion, which expands toward the wide portion, and a second tapered portion formed between the wide portion and the second narrow portion, which narrows toward the second narrow portion. Each of the first narrow portion, the wide portion, and the second narrow portion has a uniform width. | 10-23-2014 |
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20100010306 | SYSTEM FOR GUIDING CAPSULE MEDICAL DEVICE - A system for guiding capsule medical device includes a capsule medical device that includes a capsule casing including an imaging unit and a permanent magnet magnetized in a direction relatively fixed with respect to an upward and downward direction of an imaging surface of the imaging unit. The capsule medical device has a center of gravity deviated from a geometric center of the casing toward a direction different from a magnetization direction of the permanent magnetic. In the capsule medical device, a plane parallel to the imaging surface and a plane parallel to the magnetization direction and a deviation direction of the center of gravity with respect to the geometric center form an intersection line. The system further includes a magnetic guidance device; and an image display device displaying an in-vivo image such that a direction of the intersection line conforms to an upward and downward direction of a screen. | 01-14-2010 |
20100083178 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An image display apparatus includes a reader/writer that obtains a series of images captured in time series, an extraction-condition setting unit that sets an image-extraction condition that can be hierarchically changed, an image extracting unit that extracts images from the series of images according to the image-extraction condition, a display unit that displays a list of images, and a display controller that controls the display unit. | 04-01-2010 |
20100182412 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF OPERATING IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND MEDIUM STORING ITS PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus according to the present invention includes: an obtainment unit for obtaining time-series image data, which is image data captured in time series by a capsule endoscope; an image detection unit for detecting prescribed image data from the obtained time-series image data; a display control unit for displaying a list of the prescribed detection image data among the detected image data; and a display instruction input unit to which an instruction to the display control unit is input, wherein the display instruction input unit comprising a detection method selection unit for selecting a detection method used when detection is performed on the basis of the image detection unit; and a list display selection unit for displaying a list of the image data by using the display control unit. | 07-22-2010 |
20110196201 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, EXTERNAL DEVICE, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing system includes an external device including an orientation specifying unit that specifies orientation of the body-insertable apparatus at the time of capturing the image data with respect to a reference direction, a rotation correcting unit that performs rotation correction on image data received by the input unit based on the orientation specified by the first orientation specifying unit, thereby aligning orientations of a plurality of pieces of image data, a screen generating unit that generates a screen displaying the image data subjected to the rotation correction, an average color bar generating unit that calculates an average color of the image data subjected to the rotation correction, generates an image of the calculated average color, and generates an average color bar in which images of the generated average colors are connected in accordance with order of the image data, and an organ image generating unit that generates an organ image, as an image of an organ in the subject, obtained by superimposing the images of the average colors generated by the average color bar generating unit. The screen generating unit generates the screen in which the average color bar generated by the average color bar generating unit is incorporated, and incorporates the organ image into the screen. | 08-11-2011 |
20110218397 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, EXTERNAL DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing method includes the steps of: receiving image data from a body-insertable apparatus having a plurality of imaging units that captures an image of inside of a subject and generates image data and an identification information adding unit that adds identification information for identifying an imaging unit that generates the image data to the image data; displaying a list of the selected image data by the identification information; and switching image data to be displayed in the list displaying step from image data of the one identification information being displayed to image data of the other identification information. | 09-08-2011 |
20110249952 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE INTERPRETATION SUPPORT SYSTEM AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image display apparatus includes an image playback unit that plays a group of a series of images in chronological order; an operating unit that is used to input an operation when an image that is being played in the image playback unit is subjected to image interpretation; an image interpretation operation recording unit that records an operation content which is input from the operating unit in an order with respect to the image that is being played in the image playback unit; an image interpretation operation image creating unit that creates, using the operation content recorded in the image interpretation operation recording unit, a series of images according to the order; and an image interpretation operation image display unit that displays the image created by the image interpretation operation image creating unit. | 10-13-2011 |
20120238809 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, EXTERNAL DEVICE, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing system includes an external device including an orientation specifying unit that specifies orientation of the body-insertable apparatus, a rotation correcting unit that aligns orientations of a plurality of pieces of image data, a screen generating unit that generates a screen displaying the image data, an average color bar generating unit that calculates an average color of the image data, generates an image of the calculated average color, and generates an average color bar in which images of the generated average colors are connected, and an organ image generating unit that generates an organ image, obtained by superimposing the images of the average colors generated by the average color bar generating unit. The screen generating unit generates the screen in which the average color bar generated by the average color bar generating unit is incorporated, and incorporates the organ image into the screen. | 09-20-2012 |
20130158344 | RECEIVING APPARATUS AND CAPSULE ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM - A receiving apparatus includes an operation input unit, a display unit, a memory, and a control unit, and the control unit has an examination flow management unit that controls a flow of a series of processes in the examination based on examination flow information recorded in the memory, and an operation mode setting unit that extracts from the examination flow information an operation mode associated with a process in a current examination flow controlled by the examination flow management unit and switches the operation mode of the receiving apparatus between a first operation mode and a second operation mode being different from the first operation mode in accordance with the extracted operation mode, and controls the operations of the receiving apparatus in accordance with the progress of the examination flow for each operation mode set by the operation mode setting unit. | 06-20-2013 |
20130217962 | CAPSULE ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM, OPERATING METHOD OF IMAGE DISPLAY, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A capsule endoscope system includes: a capsule endoscope including a first and a second imaging units; an image display that displays images captured by the first and second imaging units; a control unit that determines a moving direction of the capsule endoscope during imaging, specifies one of the imaging units which faces the moving direction of the capsule endoscope during imaging, and determines the posture of the capsule endoscope; and a display control unit that generates a display screen, arranges the image captured by the imaging unit facing the moving direction in a first display region in the display screen, arranges the image captured by the other imaging unit in a second display region in the display screen, and changes the positions of the first and second display regions according to the determination result of the position of the capsule endoscope. | 08-22-2013 |
20130229503 | IMAGE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, IMAGE MANAGEMENT METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An apparatus includes: a storage that stores operation information including information on an operation on a display screen of a medical image and reference feature data that are feature data of the medical image subjected to the operation; an acquiring unit that acquires image data corresponding to a series of medical images; a processor that calculates feature data of each medical image; a setter that compares the feature data calculated by the image processor with the stored reference feature data, and, when reference feature data having a correspondence to the feature data exist, sets, as information related to a display operation executed when the series of medical images are displayed on a screen, the information related to the operation associated with the reference feature data having the correspondence; and a controller that executes the set display operation when image data included in the series of medical images are played back. | 09-05-2013 |
20140303435 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A image processing apparatus includes an image extraction unit that extracts first and second feature images representing first and second feature, respectively from a first image group acquired by sequentially capturing images of inside of a subject, and that further extracts third and fourth feature images representing first and second feature, respectively from a second image group acquired before the first image group, a feature data acquiring unit that acquires first and second feature data characterizing a movement of the capsule endoscope between the first and second feature images and between the third and the fourth feature images, respectively, a comparing unit that compares the first feature data with the second feature data, and a display control unit that performs, with respect to the first image group, display control based on a result of the comparison by the comparing unit. | 10-09-2014 |
20140316193 | INFORMATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND CAPSULE ENDOSCOPE INSPECTION SYSTEM - An information management apparatus that is used in a capsule endoscope inspection system including a receiving device operated by a built-in rechargeable battery and that is capable of communicating with the receiving device. The information management apparatus includes: a remaining battery capacity acquisition unit that acquires a current remaining capacity which is a remaining capacity of the battery; a storage unit that stores, for each examination item, a necessary remaining capacity which is a remaining capacity that the battery needs to complete an examination; a determination unit that compares the necessary remaining capacity corresponding to an examination item of a selected examination with the current remaining capacity; a calculation unit that, when the current remaining capacity is smaller than the necessary remaining capacity, calculates a charging time needed to increase the remaining capacity of the battery from the current remaining capacity to the necessary remaining capacity; and a control unit that, when the current remaining capacity is smaller than the necessary remaining capacity, causes a display device to display information on the charging time calculated by the calculation unit. | 10-23-2014 |
20140321724 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus processes image data acquired from a receiving device that receives and accumulates a series of image data wirelessly transmitted from a capsule endoscope, and includes an image data acquisition unit that sequentially acquires the image data from the receiving device in order from a latest imaging time, an image processing unit that performs predetermined image processing on the image data acquired by the image data acquisition unit, in order in which the image data are acquired, and a display controller that displays a screen containing a result obtained through the predetermined image processing. | 10-30-2014 |
20140336454 | APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGEMENT OF INSPECTION INFORMATION - An examination information management apparatus includes: a data transmitting and receiving unit that transmits and receives data to and from a receiving device for receiving image data captured by a capsule endoscope; a storage unit that stores examination information and the image data acquired in an examination; an ID maintaining unit that maintains an identification ID for identifying the storage unit; a determination unit that determines, when the identification ID is received from the receiving device via the data transmitting and receiving unit, whether or not the identification ID registered with the receiving device matches the identification ID maintained by the ID maintaining unit; and an examination information generating unit that newly generates examination information and causes the storage unit to store the image data received from the receiving device in association with the newly generated examination information, if the identification IDs are not determined by the determination unit to match each other. | 11-13-2014 |
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20090306300 | Cell Made of Polymers for Spectra Measurement and Method for Producing the Same - This invention provides a cell made of polymers for spectra measurement while inhibiting a decrease in a molecular weight of resin caused by discharge treatment and having a stable hydrophilic modified surface. The hydrophilic resin cell is prepared by providing a polymeric resin cell between the two opposing electrodes, applying an electric field to a region between the above opposing electrodes under a nitrogen atmosphere with a pressure close to the atmospheric pressure to generate an electric discharge, and exposing the cell subjected to discharge treatment with a gas including oxygen. | 12-10-2009 |
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20120251393 | DISPENSING NOZZLE FOR AUTOMATIC ANALYZER, AND AUTOMATIC ANALYZER INCLUDING SAME - An automatic analyzer for analyzing samples, such as urine and blood, is adapted so that analysis measured values are not affected by carry over by a repeatedly used dispensing nozzle. Coating the surface of the dispensing nozzle with a chemisorbed polyethylene glycol derivative forms a molecular layer that inhibits the adsorption of biopolymers, to reduce carry over by the dispensing nozzle. | 10-04-2012 |
20130171025 | Dispensing Nozzle for Autoanalyzer, Autoanalyzer Equipped with the Nozzle, and Method for Producing Dispensing Nozzle for Autoanalyzer - In an autoanalyzer for analyzing a specimen such as urine and blood, protecting a measurement value of analysis from influence of a dispensing nozzle repeatedly used. For this purpose, a phosphonic acid derivative or a phosphoric acid derivative is chemically adsorbed on the surface of the dispensing nozzle. In this manner, a molecular layer for suppressing adsorption of biopolymers or adhesion of a specimen per se is formed on the nozzle surface to prevent accuracy of analysis from being influenced. | 07-04-2013 |
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20110006860 | FILM BULK ACOUSTIC RESONATOR, FILTER, COMMUNICATION MODULE AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A piezoelectric thin film resonator of the present has a substrate | 01-13-2011 |
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20110267155 | FILTER ELEMENT, DUPLEXER AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A filter element includes a plurality of multilayer filters that are connected in cascade, each of the plurality of multilayer filters including a plurality of piezoelectric thin-film resonators stacked vertically, each of the piezoelectric thin-film resonators including a piezoelectric film and a pair of first electrodes between which the piezoelectric film is interposed, and a capacitor connected between an input terminal of one of the plurality of multilayer filters of a preceding stage and an input terminal of another one of the plurality of multilayer filters of a following stage, exciting directions of piezoelectric thin-film resonators to which the input terminals of the multilayer filters of the preceding and following stages are connected being opposite to each other. | 11-03-2011 |
20120104900 | ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICE - An acoustic wave device includes: a first piezoelectric thin film resonator including a first lower electrode, a first upper electrode and a first piezoelectric film sandwiched between the first lower and upper electrodes; a decoupler film provided on the first upper electrode; and a second piezoelectric thin film resonator provided on the decoupler film and including a second lower electrode, a second upper electrode and a second piezoelectric film sandwiched between the second lower and upper electrodes, wherein the first piezoelectric film and the second piezoelectric film comprise aluminum nitride and include an element increasing a piezoelectric constant of the aluminum nitride. | 05-03-2012 |
20120146744 | ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An acoustic wave device includes piezoelectric thin-film resonators, each of which includes: a substrate; a piezoelectric thin-film on the substrate; an lower electrode provided on a first surface of the piezoelectric film; an upper electrode provided on a second surface of the piezoelectric film opposite to the first surface; and a first addition film that is provided in a resonance portion in which the lower electrode and the upper electrode face each other through the piezoelectric film and is located between the piezoelectric thin-film and the upper electrode, the first addition film having a shape different from that of the resonance portion. | 06-14-2012 |
20120182092 | ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICE - An acoustic wave device includes a main resonator and a sub resonator each having a substrate, a lower electrode provided on the substrate, a piezoelectric film provided on the lower electrode, and an upper electrode provided on an upper side of the piezoelectric film. A frequency control film is provided on an upper side of a resonance area in which the upper electrode and the lower electrode face each other in at least one of the main resonator and the sub resonator. The frequency control film has multiple convex patterns, and the convex patterns are arranged with a common pitch for spurious adjustment and with different areas in the main resonator and the sub resonator. | 07-19-2012 |
20120200195 | ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICE - An acoustic wave device includes a main resonator and a sub resonator each having a substrate, a lower electrode provided on the substrate, a piezoelectric film provided on the lower electrode, and an upper electrode provided on an upper side of the piezoelectric film. The sub resonator has a mass addition film on the upper electrode in a resonance area in which the upper electrode and the lower electrode face each other. At least one of the main resonator and the sub resonator is provided with a frequency control film on an upper side of the resonance area, and the frequency control film has a weight per unit area smaller than a weight of the mass addition film per unit area. | 08-09-2012 |
20120200199 | PIEZOELECTRIC THIN-FILM RESONATOR - A piezoelectric thin-film resonator includes a substrate, a lower electrode provided on the substrate, a piezoelectric film provided on the substrate and the lower electrode, an upper electrode provided on the piezoelectric film, and an additional pattern, a cavity being formed between the lower electrode and the substrate in a resonance portion in which the lower electrode and the upper electrode face each other through the piezoelectric film, the additional pattern being provided in a position that is on the lower electrode and includes an interface between the resonance portion and a non-resonance portion. | 08-09-2012 |
20120200373 | ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICE AND FILTER - An acoustic wave device including: a substrate; a piezoelectric film formed on the substrate; an lower electrode provided on a first surface of the piezoelectric film; an upper electrode provided on a second surface of the piezoelectric film opposite to the first surface; and a mass loading film having a first pattern and a second pattern in a resonance portion in which the lower electrode and the upper electrode face each other through the piezoelectric film, the first pattern having portions and the second pattern having portions interlinking the portions of the first pattern. | 08-09-2012 |
20120256706 | PIEZOELECTRIC THIN FILM RESONATOR, FILTER, COMMUNICATION MODULE AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A piezoelectric thin film resonator includes a substrate, a lower electrode provided on the substrate, a piezoelectric film provided on the lower electrode, and an upper electrode provided on the piezoelectric film. At least a portion of the upper electrode and that of the lower electrode oppose each other through the piezoelectric film, and at least a portion of the periphery of the upper electrode is reversely tapered. | 10-11-2012 |
20120299444 | PIEZOELECTRIC THIN-FILM RESONATOR, COMMUNICATION MODULE AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A piezoelectric thin-film resonator includes a substrate, a lower electrode provided on the substrate, a piezoelectric film provided on the lower electrode and an upper electrode that is located opposite the lower electrode across at least a part of the piezoelectric film. A mass load film is provided on the upper electrode. The mass load film includes a plurality of concave or convex patterns in at least a region that faces the lower electrode. The plurality of concave or convex patterns are densely arranged in a central portion of the region and are sparsely arranged in a peripheral portion of the region. | 11-29-2012 |
20120306591 | ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT AND ELECTRONIC MODULE - An electronic circuit includes a plurality of duplexers that are coupled to an antenna terminal and have a pass band different from each other and a plurality of acoustic wave filters that are respectively coupled between the antenna terminal and the plurality of the duplexers, wherein filter characteristics of a first acoustic wave filter of the plurality of the acoustic wave filters are set so as to allow passage of a signal in both a pass band for transmitting and a pass band for receiving of a first duplexer of the plurality of the duplexers that is coupled to the first acoustic wave filter and suppress passage of a signal in both a pass band for transmitting and a pass band for receiving of a second duplexer of the plurality of the duplexers that is different from the first duplexer. | 12-06-2012 |
20130033151 | PIEZOELECTRIC THIN-FILM RESONATOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A piezoelectric thin-film resonator includes: a lower electrode provided on a substrate; a piezoelectric film that is provided on the lower electrode and includes at least two layers; an upper electrode that is provided on the piezoelectric film and has a region sandwiching the piezoelectric film with the lower electrode and facing the lower electrode; and an insulating film that is provided in a region in which the lower electrode and the upper electrode face each other and between each of the at least two layers, wherein an upper face of the insulating film is flatter than a lower face of the insulating film. | 02-07-2013 |
20130033337 | ACOUSTIC WAVE FILTER - An acoustic wave filter including piezoelectric thin film resonators, in which at least two of the piezoelectric thin film resonators including: a substrate; a piezoelectric film located on the substrate; a lower electrode and an upper electrode located across at least a part of the piezoelectric film; a mass load film for a frequency control located in a resonance region where the lower electrode and the upper electrode face each other, and having a shape different from that of the resonance region; and a temperature compensation film having a temperature coefficient of an elastic constant opposite in sign to that of the piezoelectric film, at least a part of the temperature compensation film being located between the lower electrode and the upper electrode in the resonance region, and areas of mass load films of said at least two of the piezoelectric thin film resonators are different from each other. | 02-07-2013 |
20130038405 | ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICE - An acoustic wave device includes: a substrate; a lower electrode formed on the substrate; at least two piezoelectric films formed on the lower electrode; an insulating film located between the at least two piezoelectric films; and an upper electrode formed on the at least two piezoelectric films, wherein an outer periphery of an uppermost piezoelectric film out of the at least two piezoelectric films in a region in which the lower electrode and the upper electrode face each other is positioned further in than an outer periphery of the upper electrode. | 02-14-2013 |
20130127565 | DUPLEXER - A duplexer includes a transmission filter and a reception filter having different passbands, wherein: first resonators that are series resonators or parallel resonators included in the transmission and reception filters so as to form a skirt characteristic at a guard band side are a temperature compensated type piezoelectric thin film resonator or a surface acoustic wave resonator using Love waves, and second resonators that form a skirt characteristic at an opposite side to the guard band are one of a temperature non-compensated type piezoelectric thin film resonator, a surface acoustic wave resonator using a lithium tantalate substrate or a substrate made by bonding a lithium tantalate substrate on a sapphire substrate, and a surface acoustic wave resonator using Love waves. | 05-23-2013 |
20130147577 | FILTER AND DUPLEXER - A filter includes: a plurality of piezoelectric thin film resonators, each having a multilayered film including a lower electrode located on a substrate, a piezoelectric film located on the lower electrode, and an upper electrode located on the piezoelectric film so as to face the lower electrode, wherein at least two piezoelectric thin film resonators have thick film portions, in each of which the multilayered film is thicker in at least a part of an outer peripheral portion than in an inner portion of a resonance region in which the lower electrode and the upper electrode face each other across the piezoelectric film, and lengths of the thick film portions from edges of the resonance regions are different from each other in the at least two piezoelectric thin film resonators. | 06-13-2013 |
20130207515 | ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICE - An acoustic wave device includes: a piezoelectric thin film resonator including: a substrate; a lower electrode formed on the substrate; at least two piezoelectric films formed on the lower electrode; an insulating film sandwiched by the at least two piezoelectric films; and an upper electrode formed on the at least two piezoelectric films, wherein an area of the insulating film within a resonance region, in which the lower electrode and the upper electrode face each other across the at least two piezoelectric films, is different from an area of the resonance region. | 08-15-2013 |
20140132116 | ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME - An acoustic wave device includes: a substrate; a piezoelectric film located on the substrate; a lower electrode and an upper electrode facing each other across the piezoelectric film, at least one of the lower electrode and the upper electrode including a first conductive film and a second conductive film formed on the first conductive film; an insulating film sandwiched between the first conductive film and the second conductive film and having a temperature coefficient of an elastic constant opposite in sign to a temperature coefficient of an elastic constant of the piezoelectric film; and a third conductive film formed on edge surfaces of the insulating film and the second conductive film and causing electrical short circuits between the first conductive film and the second conductive film. | 05-15-2014 |
20140191826 | PIEZOELECTRIC THIN FILM RESONATOR AND FILTER - A piezoelectric thin film resonator includes: a substrate; a piezoelectric film located on the substrate; a lower electrode and an upper electrode located to sandwich the piezoelectric film; a load film formed from patterns in a resonance region in which the lower electrode and the upper electrode face each other across the piezoelectric film, wherein the patterns are formed so as to surround a center of the resonance region and intersect with a pathway extending from the center to an outer periphery of the resonance region. | 07-10-2014 |
20140361664 | ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICE - An acoustic wave device includes: a piezoelectric film located on a substrate; a lower electrode and an upper electrode facing each other across the piezoelectric film; a temperature compensation film located on a surface, which is opposite to the piezoelectric film, of at least one of the lower electrode and the upper electrode and having a temperature coefficient of elastic constant opposite in sign to a temperature coefficient of elastic constant of the piezoelectric film; and an additional film located on a surface of the temperature compensation film opposite to the piezoelectric film and having an acoustic impedance greater than an acoustic impedance of the temperature compensation film. | 12-11-2014 |
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20100009605 | Method of manufacturing semiconductor wafer - A method of manufacturing a semiconductor wafer, including a step of differentiating the glossiness of a front surface from that of a rear surface of the wafer by holding the semiconductor wafer in a wafer holding hole formed in a carrier plate, and simultaneously polishing a front and back surface of said semiconductor wafer by driving said carrier plate to make a circular motion associated with no rotation on its own axis within a plane parallel with a surface of said carrier plate between a pair of polishing members disposed to face to each other, by using an abrasive body with a semiconductor wafer sink rate different in polishing from that of an abrasive body for one of a polishing member on an upper surface plate and a polishing member on a lower surface plate so as to simultaneously polish both the front and rear surfaces of the semiconductor wafer, or differentiating by differentiating the rotating speed of the upper surface plate from that of the lower surface plate. | 01-14-2010 |
20120264738 | DISPIROPYRROLIDINE DERIVATIVES - A compound that inhibits interaction between murine double minute 2 (Mdm2) protein and p53 protein and exhibits anti-tumor activity is provided. The present invention provides a dispiropyrrolidine derivative represented by the following formula (1), which has various substituents, inhibits interaction between Mdm2 protein and p53 protein and exhibits anti-tumor activity, wherein R | 10-18-2012 |
20130165424 | DISPIROPYRROLIDINE DERIVATIVES - A compound that inhibits interaction between murine double minute 2 (Mdm2) protein and p53 protein and exhibits anti-tumor activity is provided. The present invention provides a dispiropyrrolidine derivative represented by the following formula (1), which has various substituents, inhibits interaction between Mdm2 protein and p53 protein and exhibits anti-tumor activity, wherein R | 06-27-2013 |
20140121196 | DISPIROPYRROLIDINE DERIVATIVES - A compound that inhibits interaction between, murine double minute 2 (Mdm2) protein and p53 protein and exhibits anti-tumor activity is provided. The present invention provides a dispiropyrrolidine derivative represented by the following formula (1), which has various substituents, inhibits interaction between Mdm2 protein and p53 protein and exhibits anti-tumor activity, wherein R | 05-01-2014 |
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20100009529 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - Provided is a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device, which comprises forming a film stack of a gate insulating film, a charge storage film, insulating film, polysilicon film, silicon oxide film, silicon nitride film and cap insulating film over a semiconductor substrate; removing the film stack by photolithography and etching from a low breakdown voltage MISFET formation region and a high breakdown voltage MISFET formation region; forming gate insulating films, polysilicon film and cap insulating film over the semiconductor substrate, forming a gate electrode in the low breakdown voltage MISFET formation region and high breakdown voltage MISFET formation region, and then forming a gate electrode in a memory cell formation region. By the manufacturing technology of a semiconductor device for forming the gate electrodes of a first MISFET and a second MISFET in different steps, the present invention makes it possible to provide the first MISFET and the second MISFET each having improved reliability. | 01-14-2010 |
20100188891 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - The semiconductor device has: a first magnetoresistance element; a second magnetoresistance element. The first and second magnetoresistance elements each includes a free layer which can be changed in spin orientation therein and a pinned layer which is fixed in spin orientation therein. The first magnetoresistance element is coupled to a first transistor at the free layer, and to a first power-source terminal at the pinned layer. The second magnetoresistance element is coupled to a second transistor at the free layer, and to the first power-source terminal at the pinned layer. In this device, the reliability of stored data is increased by preventing an undesired resistance condition's change in a magnetoresistance memory cell. | 07-29-2010 |
20120061745 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - There is provided a technology capable of improving the processing precision of memory cells forming a nonvolatile memory in a semiconductor device including the nonvolatile memory. A second polysilicon film is formed in such a manner as to cover a first polysilicon film and a dummy gate electrode. Thus, the second polysilicon film is formed reflecting the shapes of a step difference portion and a gap groove. Particularly, in the second polysilicon film covering the gap groove, a concave part is formed. Subsequently, over the second polysilicon film, an antireflection film is formed. Thus, the antireflection film having high flowability flows from the higher region to the lower region of the step difference portion, but is stored in a sufficient amount in the concave part. Accordingly, the antireflection film is supplied from the concave part so as to compensate for the amount of the antireflection film to flow out therefrom. | 03-15-2012 |
20140203345 | NON-VOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - A non-volatile semiconductor memory device is proposed whereby voltage can be more flexibly set in accumulating electric charges into a selected memory cell transistor in comparison with a conventional device. In a non-volatile semiconductor memory device ( | 07-24-2014 |
20140284677 | NON-VOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - In a non-volatile semiconductor memory device, it is only necessary that, at the time of data writing, a voltage drop is caused in a high resistance region. Therefore, the value of voltage applied to a gate electrode can be reduced as compared with a conventional device. In correspondence with the reduction in the value of applied voltage, it is possible to reduce the film thickness of a gate insulating film of memory transistors, and further the film thickness of the gate insulating film of a peripheral transistor for controlling the memory transistors. As a result, the circuit configuration of the non-volatile semiconductor memory device can be reduced in size as compared with the conventional device. | 09-25-2014 |
20140291746 | NON-VOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - A non-volatile semiconductor memory device is proposed that has an unprecedented novel structure in which carriers can be injected into a floating gate by applying various voltages of the same polarity. According to the non-volatile semiconductor memory device of the present invention, in a memory transistor, a PN junction is formed at the boundary between a channel region and an opposite polarity type impurity diffusion layer, to allow a floating gate to be charged to have the same polarity as the polarity of the channel region, whereby a part of electrons accelerated in a depletion layer between the channel region and an opposite polarity type extension region, and secondary electrons generated by the accelerated electrons can be injected into the floating gate by being attracted to a gate electrode, as a result of which electrons can be injected into the floating gate even when, without simultaneously applying positive and negative voltages as in the conventional case, various voltages of the same polarity are applied to the floating gate, an impurity diffusion layer, and the opposite polarity type impurity diffusion layer. | 10-02-2014 |