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20100177192 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEASURING DEVICE - A three-dimensional measuring device has an irradiation device that irradiates a light pattern having a striped light intensity distribution on a measurement object, an imaging device that images reflected light from the measurement object irradiated by the light pattern to obtain image data, an image processing device that performs measurement of height at various coordinate positions on the measurement object based on the image data imaged by the imaging device, and a correction calculation device that corrects of a distortion that occurs due to a field angle of a lens of the imaging device relative to height data and coordinate data of an measurement object point on the measurement object measured by the image processing device, by correction based on at least a height data of the imaging device and an irradiation angle data of the pattern light irradiated on the measurement object. | 07-15-2010 |
20100183194 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEASURING DEVICE - A three-dimensional measuring device includes an irradiation device configured to irradiate and switch among a multiplicity of light patterns having different periods and having a striped light intensity distribution on at least a measurement object, a camera having an imaging element capable of imaging reflected light from the measurement object irradiated by the light pattern, a rack configured to cause relative change in positional relationship between the imaging element and the measurement object, and a control device configured to perform three-dimensional measurements based on image data imaged by the camera. The control device performs the three-dimensional measurements by performing a phase shift method calculation of height data as a first height data for each pixel unit of image data based on a multiply phase-shifted image data obtained by irradiating on a first position a multiply phase-shifted first light pattern having a first period. | 07-22-2010 |
20130044204 | BOARD INSPECTION APPARATUS - A board inspection apparatus includes an irradiation unit, an imaging unit, and an image processing unit. The image processing unit includes a three-dimensional measurement unit configured to perform three-dimensional measurement of the surfaces of the solder and the resist film by a certain three-dimensional measurement method based on the image data, a virtual standard surface setting unit configured to set a virtual standard surface corresponding to a contacting surface of a certain component mounted in a certain area of the printed board, a protrusion amount calculation unit configured to calculate a protrusion amount from the virtual standard surface for each solder printed and formed in the certain area, and a determination unit configured to determine whether the printed state of the solder passes or fails based on each of the protrusion amounts of the solder. | 02-21-2013 |
20130128282 | DEVICE FOR MEASURING THREE DIMENSIONAL SHAPE - A device for measuring three dimensional shape includes a first height data acquisition unit for acquiring a height data specified from measurement values according to a multiplicity of light patterns related to an entirely irradiated region irradiated by all of the multiplicity of light patterns, and for using an acquired specified height data as a height data for the entirely irradiated region; a supplemental data acquisition unit for acquiring, based on the height data for the entirely irradiated region, a supplemental data relating to a partially irradiated region that is irradiated by only part of the multiplicity of light patterns; and a second height acquisition unit for specifying a fringe order of the measurement values for the partially irradiated region based on the supplemental data, and for acquiring as height data for the partially irradiated region a height data corresponding to the measurement values of the specified fringe order. | 05-23-2013 |
20130155191 | DEVICE FOR MEASURING THREE DIMENSIONAL SHAPE - A device for measuring three dimensional shape includes a first irradiation unit, a first grating control unit, a second irradiation unit, a second grating control unit, an imaging unit, and an image processing unit. After performance of a first imaging operation as imaging processing of a single operation among a multiplicity of imaging operations performed by irradiation of said first light pattern of multiply varied phases, a second imaging operation is performed as imaging processing of a single operation among a multiplicity of imaging operations performed by irradiation of said second light pattern of multiply varied phases. After completion of the first imaging operation and the second imaging operation, shifting or switching operation of the first grating and the second grating is performed simultaneously. | 06-20-2013 |
20130155416 | DEVICE FOR MEASURING THREE DIMENSIONAL SHAPE - A device for measuring three dimensional shape is configured to perform one of a first imaging operation as imaging processing of a single operation among a multiplicity of imaging operations performed by irradiation of a first light pattern of multiply varied phases, and a second imaging operation as imaging processing of a single operation among a multiplicity of imaging operations performed by irradiation of a second light pattern of multiply varied phases. The device is configured to, simultaneous with completion of the first or second imaging operation, start shifting or switching operation of said first grating or a second grating relating to said first imaging operation. The device is configured to, without waiting for completion of the shifting or switching operation, perform the other imaging operation from among the first and second imaging operations. | 06-20-2013 |
20140333727 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEASURING DEVICE - A three-dimensional measuring device includes an extraction unit that extracts an image data set with a brightness value of each of pixels in image data within an effective range from among a plurality of image data sets at each of coordinate positions of an object to be measured, and a three-dimensional measurement unit that performs three-dimensional measurement relating to each of the coordinate positions of the object to be measured based on the extracted image data set. The extraction unit extracts the image data set imaged under a pattern light with the highest irradiation brightness among a plurality of types of pattern lights when there is a plurality of sets of the image data sets with the brightness value of each of the pixels in the image data within the effective range from among the plurality of the image data sets. | 11-13-2014 |
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20100015484 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM - A fuel cell system comprises a fuel cell, a supply flow passage for flowing a fuel gas supplied from a fuel supply source to the fuel cell, a variable gas supply device for regulating the state of the gas on the upstream side of the supply flow passage to supply the gas to the downstream side, a discharge flow passage for flowing a fuel off gas discharged from the fuel cell, a discharge valve for discharging the gas from the discharge flow passage to the exterior, and a control part for closing the discharge valve when the discharge amount of the gas calculated while the discharge valve is opened exceeds a predetermined target discharge amount. The control part stops the gas supply from the variable gas supply device and simultaneously closes the discharge valve, when the discharge amount of the gas calculated while the discharge valve is opened exceeds the target discharge amount. | 01-21-2010 |
20100104909 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM - A fuel cell system has shutoff valves installed between an air flow channel in a fuel cell and the atmosphere. The shutoff valves have valve seats and also have valve discs for sealing in air by coming into contact with the valve seats. The valve discs are adapted to be sucked toward the valve seats by negative pressure in the air flow channel in the fuel cell. The fuel cell system further has an atmosphere release valve installed between the air flow channel in the fuel cell and the shutoff valve and releasing negative pressure in the air flow channel in the fuel cell to the atmosphere. When the fuel cell is started, the shutoff valves are opened after the negative pressure in the air flow channel of the fuel cell is released. Consequently, sealing ability of the shutoff valves when the fuel cell is stopped is improved, and easiness of opening of the shutoff valves when the fuel cell is started is also improved. | 04-29-2010 |
20100209787 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM - A gas detection system is configured to detect a preset gas in a predetermined space. The gas detection system includes a gas concentration detector constructed to detect a gas concentration of the preset gas, a recording assembly, a notification module, and a decision module. When the gas concentration detected by the gas concentration detector is higher than a preset first reference value, the decision module controls the notification module to give notice. When the detected gas concentration is higher than a preset second reference value but is lower than the preset first reference value, on the other hand, the decision module controls the notification module to give no notice but record a specific piece of information into the recording assembly. This arrangement of the gas detection system enables the user to readily detect deterioration of a device utilizing a fuel, for example, fuel cells. | 08-19-2010 |
20100209794 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM - A fuel cell system includes a power supply controller. In response to input of a first command prior to a start of fuel cells in a state of power supply from a power source to fuel cell-related auxiliary machinery, the power supply controller reduces an amount of electric power supplied to the fuel cell-related auxiliary machinery until input of a start instruction to start the fuel cells. In response to input of a second command, the power supply controller instructs to continue the power supply from the power source to the fuel cell-related auxiliary machinery without reducing the electric power level of the power supply, irrespective of the input or non-input of the first command. The fuel cell system of this arrangement effectively reduces the amount of electric power consumed by an electricity storage device before a start of the fuel cells. | 08-19-2010 |
20100233562 | GAS DETECTION SYSTEM, VEHICLE, AND CHECKUP METHOD FOR GAS DETECTION SYSTEM - A gas detection system functions to detect a specific gas present in a certain space. The gas detection system includes a gas concentration detector arranged to detect concentration of the specific gas as a gas concentration. The gas detection system also has a determination module configured to determine whether the gas concentration detected by the gas concentration detector exceeds a set threshold value. In response to input of a checking instruction for checking up the gas concentration detector into the determination module, the determination module uses a threshold value for checkup purpose, in place of the set threshold value. This arrangement effectively enhances the convenience in the process of checking up the gas concentration detector. | 09-16-2010 |
20100310953 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM AND FUEL CELL SYSTEM START METHOD - A fuel cell system includes an IG switch disposed between a 14V battery and a controller. The fuel cell system also includes a start switch disposed independently of the IG switch. Upon detection of the ON state of the start switch, the controller outputs an FC start instruction to an FC auxiliary device. Moreover, an FC inverter switch is disposed between the 14V battery and the FC auxiliary device. Through the function of the controller, power supply from the 14V battery to the FC auxiliary device is suspended for a period from when a wait time, which is predeterminedly set from the moment when the IG switch is turned ON, has elapsed to the moment when the start switch is turned ON, during a wait period between the moment when the IG switch is turned ON and the moment when the start switch is turned ON. | 12-09-2010 |
20100316926 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM - A fuel cell system performs feedback control with respect to a reactive gas supplying apparatus based on a proportional obtained by multiplying a deviation of an actual flow quantity from a target value of a reactive gas supplied to the fuel cell from the reactive gas supplying apparatus by a proportional gain and an integral term obtained by multiplying the deviation by an integration gain to perform time integration in such a manner that the actual flow quantity coincides with the target value, and changes an update arithmetic operation of the integral term in accordance with a value of the deviation. | 12-16-2010 |
20110195328 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM - A fuel cell system capable of restraining temperature change in a fuel cell caused by a refrigerant. The fuel cell system has a refrigerant circulating system for circulating the refrigerant. The refrigerant circulating system has flow control means for restraining the inflow of the refrigerant, which has a predetermined difference in temperature from that of the fuel cell, into the fuel cell. | 08-11-2011 |
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20110187183 | POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE - A controller causes a first power converter and a second power converter to cooperate, and achieve bidirectional transmission of electric power between a first power storage device and an electric load, bidirectional transmission of electric power between a second power storage device and the electric load, and bidirectional transmission of electric power between the first power storage device and the second power storage device. This can provide a vehicle power supply apparatus which is equipped with the power storage devices having different characteristics and offers improved performance. | 08-04-2011 |
20110198933 | POWER CONVERSION CIRCUIT AND POWER CONVERSION CIRCUIT SYSTEM - A power conversion circuit system comprises a primary conversion circuit, a secondary conversion circuit, and a control circuit for controlling the primary and secondary conversion circuits. The primary conversion circuit comprises a primary full bridge circuit, which includes a bridge section composed of both a primary coil in a transformer and a primary magnetic coupling reactor in which two reactors are magnetically coupled, a first input/output port disposed between a positive bus bar and a negative bus bar of the primary full bridge circuit, and a second input/output port disposed between the negative bus bar of the primary full bridge circuit and a center tap of the primary coil in the transformer. The secondary conversion circuit has a configuration similar to that of the primary conversion circuit. | 08-18-2011 |
20130134786 | DC-DC CONVERTER COMPRISING DC POWER SOURCES TO BE CONNECTED IN PARALLEL OR IN SERIES - The power supply system includes a first DC power source, a second DC power source, and a power converter having a plurality of switching elements and reactors. The power converter is configured to be switchable, by the control of the plurality of switching elements, between a parallel connection mode in which DC voltage conversion is executed with the DC power sources connected in parallel with a power line and a series connection mode in which DC voltage conversion is executed with the DC power sources connected in series with the power line. Each of the switching elements is arranged to be included both in a power conversion path between the first DC power source and the power line PL and a power conversion path between the second DC power source and the power line. | 05-30-2013 |
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20140265605 | CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR POWER CONVERTER - The power converter includes a first operation mode in which each of switching elements is controlled on or off independently so as to perform a power conversion between a load and both a first DC power source and a second DC power source and a second operation mode in which every two of the switching elements are controlled on or off concurrently so as to perform the power conversion between the load and the first DC power source or the second DC power source. A switching speed at which when each of the switching elements is turned on or turned off is controlled in accordance with the operation mode. Specifically, the switching speed in the second operation mode is higher than the switching speed in the first operation mode. | 09-18-2014 |
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20080316392 | Liquid Crystal Display, Optical Sheet Manufacturing Method, and Optical Sheet - A liquid crystal display, optical sheet manufacturing method, and an optical sheet are provided. The occurrence of moiré is prevented while suppressing a reduction in front luminance. The liquid crystal display includes: a liquid crystal display panel; a light source arranged on a back surface side of the liquid crystal display panel; an optical sheet with a light-condensing property arranged between the liquid crystal display panel and the light source, the optical sheet having a number of irregularities arranged continuously on a principal surface of the optical sheet; and a diffuser sheet arranged between the liquid crystal display panel and the optical sheet. The liquid crystal display is constructed so that when an arrangement pitch of the irregularities of the optical sheet is P [μm], a haze value of the diffuser sheet is H [%], a total light transmittance of the diffuser sheet is Tt [%], and a pixel pitch of the liquid crystal display panel is Pp [μm], the following relationship is satisfied: (H/Tt)·(Pp/P)≧1.6. | 12-25-2008 |
20110157087 | SENSOR APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A sensor apparatus and an information processing apparatus having excellent operability are provided. A sensor apparatus includes a touch panel, a casing, and a pressure-sensitive sensor. The touch panel includes an input operation surface and detects a position at which an operator comes into contact with the input operation surface directly or indirectly. The casing accommodates the touch panel. The pressure-sensitive sensor includes a first electrode fixed to the touch panel, a second electrode fixed to the casing, and an elastic body arranged between the touch panel and the casing and elastically supporting the touch panel with respect to the casing. The pressure-sensitive sensor detects a pressing force input to the input operation surface, as a change of a capacitance between the first and second electrodes. | 06-30-2011 |
20110175845 | SENSOR APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A sensor apparatus includes: a display cover including an operation area that is pressed by an operator and a circumferential area located on the circumference of the operation area; a frame including an opening covered by the operation area and a fixing portion that fixes the circumferential area; a touch panel that is supported by the display cover to be positioned at the opening and detects a position at which the operator comes into contact with the operation area; and a pressure-sensitive sensor that is provided between the display cover and the frame, includes a first electrode and a second electrode opposed to the first electrode, and detects a pressing force with respect to the operation area based on a change of a capacitance between the first electrode and the second electrode that corresponds to a deflection amount of the display cover. | 07-21-2011 |
20110181545 | SENSOR ELEMENT AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - A sensor element is provided that includes a flexible transparent base material, a first conductive pattern, and a second conductive pattern. The flexible transparent base material has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The first conductive pattern is configured to electrostatically detect an operation position of an input operator in a first direction, the first conductive pattern being formed on the first surface. The second conductive pattern is configured to electrostatically detect an operation position of the input operator in a second direction different from the first direction, the second conductive pattern being formed on the second surface. | 07-28-2011 |
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20100175913 | Wired circuit board assembly sheet - A wired-circuit-board assembly sheet includes a plurality of wired circuit boards and a supporting sheet for supporting the wired circuit boards in an aligned state. Each of the wired circuit boards includes a distinguishing mark forming portion to be formed with a distinguishing mark for distinguishing between defectiveness and non-defectiveness of the wired circuit board. The distinguishing mark forming portion is divided by a weir portion for preventing the distinguishing mark from flowing out from the distinguishing mark forming portion. | 07-15-2010 |
20100331730 | CIRCUIT BOARD FOR BODY FLUID COLLECTION, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, METHOD FOR USING THE SAME, AND BIOSENSOR - A circuit board for body fluid collection includes a plurality of measurement units including a puncture needle and an electrode for making contact with a body fluid collected by puncturing with the puncture needle, the plurality of measurement units being arranged in parallel in a predetermined direction, and a support portion extending along the parallel arrangement direction and supporting the plurality of measurement units, wherein the support portion is rolled so that the plurality of measurement units can be disposed radially. | 12-30-2010 |
20110071377 | CIRCUIT BOARD FOR BODY FLUID COLLECTION, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, METHOD FOR USING THE SAME, AND BIOSENSOR INCLUDING THE CIRCUIT BOARD FOR BODY FLUID COLLECTION - A circuit board for body fluid collection includes a belt-like supporting substrate, and a plurality of measurement units defined in the supporting substrate along the longitudinal direction of the supporting substrate. The measurement units each include a puncture needle formed from the supporting substrate along the longitudinal direction of the supporting substrate by forming an opening in the supporting substrate, an insulating base layer formed on the supporting substrate, and a conductive layer formed on the insulating base layer and including an electrode for making contact with a body fluid collected by puncturing with the puncture needle. | 03-24-2011 |
20120193127 | SUSPENSION BOARD WITH CIRCUIT - A suspension board with circuit includes an insulating base layer and a conductive pattern that is laminated on a top surface of the insulating base layer. The conductive pattern includes a wire and a terminal portion that is connected to the wire for being joined by a melted metal. The insulating base layer, in a projected surface when projected in a laminating direction, includes an adjacent region that is adjacent to the terminal portion and a separated region that is separated from the terminal portion so as to sandwich the adjacent region with the terminal portion. The adjacent region is formed to be thinner than the separated region. | 08-02-2012 |
20130014976 | WIRED CIRCUIT BOARD AND PRODUCING METHOD THEREOF - [Purpose] To provide a wired circuit board in which it is possible to inhibit a conductive adhesive from leaking to the outside, while inhibiting terminals from being increased in size, and also improve connection reliability. | 01-17-2013 |
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20090058800 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND METHOD - According to one embodiment, an information processing device includes a position detecting section configured to detect a position of a hand from an input image of the hand, a memory section configured to store data of the position of the hand detected by the position detecting section, a rotation judging section configured to judge, assuming that records of the data of the position of the hand stored in the memory section show a rotary movement, that a latest position of the hand falls in an angle range predicted for the rotary movement, and an executing section configured to, when the rotation judging section judges that the latest position of the hand falls in the angle range, obtain a rotational angle at the latest position of the hand and also execute a process that corresponds to a predetermined rotary movement of the hand. | 03-05-2009 |
20090064054 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus is provided with a display section, and can be instructed to be operated by a pointer displayed on the display section, and includes a detection section for detecting, from an input image of a hand, a position of the hand in the image, an operation section for obtaining a probability that the hand exists in the image by using the latest detection result detected by the detection section, and a value of a probability distribution function having a peak at a position which has been evaluated last time as a position at which a probability that the hand exists is high, and a pointer display section for moving the pointer, on the basis of an evaluation value obtained from the probability, to a position at which the probability that the hand exists is the highest and displaying the pointer at the position. | 03-05-2009 |
20110242026 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND SEARCH CONTROL METHOD - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes an acquisition module, an output module, an input module, and a search result display. The acquisition module is configured to acquire information indicative of an object designated on a first screen displayed by a program. The output module is configured to output to a search process module a search request relating to the information. The input module is configured to input a search result by the search process module in connection with the search request. The search result display is configured to display the search result on a second screen. | 10-06-2011 |
20130073638 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION - According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus receives, from a site on Internet, first messages related to a first broadcast station and posted on the site. The apparatus scores each of the received first messages based on a number of characters in each of the received first messages so as to give a higher score to first messages each with a smaller number of characters, and calculates a first evaluation value for content data being broadcast by the first broadcast station based on the scores for the received first messages. The apparatus transmits the calculated first evaluation value to a user terminal. | 03-21-2013 |
20130332961 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a display control module, a Y-direction control module, and an X-direction control module. The Y-direction control module moves a focus to a button corresponding to at least an adjacent cell in the same column according to a manipulation that moves a focus in the Y direction. The X-direction control module moves a focus to a button corresponding to at least an adjacent cell in the same row or from a button corresponding to at least a cell at one end of a first row to a button corresponding to at least a cell at the other end of a second row adjacent to the first row according to a manipulation that moves a focus in the X direction. | 12-12-2013 |
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20080197004 | Control switch apparatus - A control switch is equipped with a detent mechanism that generates a click feeling in a dial knob as a result of a detent piece of a plunger member gets over detent crests of a detent crest member. A stopper is provided in the plunger member, and the position of vertical motion of the stopper is switched by means of a rectilinear actuator, thereby switching rotational operation of the dial knob between an enabled state and a disabled state. | 08-21-2008 |
20100024148 | WIPER CONTROLLER - A vehicle wiper controller includes a wiper drive circuit which drives a wiper. An operation switch is manipulated in a plurality of manipulation directions or to a plurality of operation mode positions when a manipulation force is applied thereto. A wiper operation control unit electronically controls the operation of the wiper and sets the wiper to an operation mode corresponding to the manipulation of the operation switch. A control signal hold circuit, discrete from the wiper operation control unit, transmits a control signal to the wiper drive circuit when the operation switch is manipulated in a predetermined first manipulation direction or when the operation switch is manipulated to a predetermined first operation mode position. The control signal hold circuit sets a hold state for holding the transmission state of the control signal. | 02-04-2010 |
20140244041 | OPERATING DEVICE - An operating device includes a push operation mechanism that allows a push operation of an operation unit, a tactile feeling presenting unit including a drive transmission mechanism for presenting an operational feeling by driving the operation unit via the push operation mechanism, a detection unit that detects a motion of the operation unit, and a drive control unit that intermittently drives the operation unit by a drive control signal that is generated based on an activation pulse signal and an advance vibration pulse signal that includes a prescribed number of pulses and a voltage smaller than that of the activation pulse signal. | 08-28-2014 |
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20080197218 | Dispersing or milling apparatus, and dispersing or milling method using same - A material to be treated containing solid particles in a liquid is stirred together with milling media, and irradiated with ultrasonic waves during stirring to finely mill the solid particles to nanometer size and disperse the solid particles in the liquid. The ultrasonic waves create cavitation in the liquid and upon decay of the cavitation, shock waves are produced that cause the solid particles to vigorously collide with one another and with the milling media and these collisions, together with the shearing forces created by collision of the milling media, can produce on a commercial scale nano particles having an average particle size of at most 100 nm. | 08-21-2008 |
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20130186744 | METHOD OF SWITCHING MAGNETIC FLUX DISTRIBUTION - In a method of switching magnet flux distribution, a magnet is arranged on a rear side of a backing plate with respect to a target holding side thereof in a magnetron sputtering cathode, and placing an article that exhibits ferromagnetism at room temperature on the target holding side of the backing plate or removing the article therefrom so that the magnet flux distribution is switched between a balanced distribution of the magnetic flux and unbalanced distribution of the magnetic flux. | 07-25-2013 |
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20090096036 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - There is provided an SOI-MISFET including: an SOI layer; a gate electrode provided on the SOI layer interposing a gate insulator; and a first elevated layer provided higher in height from the SOI layer than the gate electrode at both sidewall sides of the gate electrode on the SOI layer so as to constitute a source and drain. Further, there is also provided a bulk-MISFET including: a gate electrode provided on a silicon substrate interposing a gate insulator thicker than the gate insulator of the SOI MISFET; and a second elevated layer configuring a source and drain provided on a semiconductor substrate at both sidewalls of the gate electrode. A the first elevated layer is thicker than the elevated layer, and the whole of the gate electrodes, part of the source and drain of the SOI-MISFET, and part of the source and drain of the bulk-MISFET are silicided. | 04-16-2009 |
20090309159 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME - Performance of a semiconductor device having a MIS transistor is improved. A semiconductor device includes: a pair of source/drain regions each formed by stacking a semiconductor layer on a main surface of a silicon substrate; a sidewall insulating film covering each sidewall of the source/drain regions; a gate electrode arranged so as to interpose a gate insulating film on the main surface of the silicon substrate at a position sandwiched by the sidewall insulating films in a plane; and extension regions formed to extend from a portion below and lateral to the gate electrode to a portion below and lateral to each of the source/drain regions, wherein a sidewall of the sidewall insulating film being adjacent to the gate insulating film and the gate electrode has an inclination of a forward tapered shape. | 12-17-2009 |
20100258869 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - An n well and a p well disposed at a predetermined interval on a main surface of a SOI substrate with a thin BOX layer are formed, and an nMIS formed on the p well has a pair of n-type source/drain regions formed on semiconductor layers stacked on a main surface of the SOI layer at a predetermined distance, a gate insulating film, a gate electrode and sidewalls sandwiched between the pair of n-type source/drain regions. A device isolation is formed between the n well and the p well, and a side edge portion of the device isolation extends toward a gate electrode side more than a side edge portion of the n-type source/drain region (sidewall of the BOX layer). | 10-14-2010 |
20100258871 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Characteristics of a semiconductor device having a FINFET are improved. The FINFET has: a channel layer arranged in an arch shape on a semiconductor substrate and formed of monocrystalline silicon; a front gate electrode formed on a part of an outside of the channel layer through a front gate insulating film; and a back gate electrode formed so as to be buried inside the channel layer through a back gate insulating film. The back gate electrode arranged inside the arch shape is arranged so as to pass through the front gate electrode. | 10-14-2010 |
20100258872 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A technique to be applied to a semiconductor device for achieving low power consumption by improving a shape at a boundary portion of a shallow trench and an SOI layer of an SOI substrate. A position (SOI edge) at which a main surface of a silicon substrate and a line extended along a side surface of an SOI layer are crossed is recessed away from a shallow-trench isolation more than a position (STI edge) at which a line extended along a sidewall of a shallow trench and a line extended along the main surface of the silicon substrate are crossed, and a corner of the silicon substrate at the STI edge has a curved surface. | 10-14-2010 |
20110195566 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - There is provided an SOI-MISFET including: an SOI layer; a gate electrode provided on the SOI layer interposing a gate insulator; and a first elevated layer provided higher in height from the SOI layer than the gate electrode at both sidewall sides of the gate electrode on the SOI layer so as to constitute a source and drain. Further, there is also provided a bulk-MISFET including: a gate electrode provided on a silicon substrate interposing a gate insulator thicker than the gate insulator of the SOI MISFET; and a second elevated layer configuring a source and drain provided on a semiconductor substrate at both sidewalls of the gate electrode. A the first elevated layer is thicker than the elevated layer, and the whole of the gate electrodes, part of the source and drain of the SOI-MISFET, and part of the source and drain of the bulk-MISFET are silicided. | 08-11-2011 |
20120018807 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME, AND SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE - In an SOI-MISFET that operates with low power consumption at a high speed, an element area is reduced. While a diffusion layer region of an N-conductivity type MISFET region of the SOI type MISFET and a diffusion layer region of a P-conductivity type MISFET region of the SOI type MISFET are formed as a common region, well diffusion layers that apply substrate potentials to the N-conductivity type MISFET region and the P-conductivity type MISFET region are separated from each other by an STI layer. The diffusion layer regions that are located in the N- and P-conductivity type MISFET regions) and serve as an output portion of a CMISFET are formed as a common region and directly connected by silicified metal so that the element area is reduced. | 01-26-2012 |
20120061774 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME - Performance of a semiconductor device having a MIS transistor is improved. A semiconductor device includes: a pair of source/drain regions each formed by stacking a semiconductor layer on a main surface of a silicon substrate; a sidewall insulating film covering each sidewall of the source/drain regions; a gate electrode arranged so as to interpose a gate insulating film on the main surface of the silicon substrate at a position sandwiched by the sidewall insulating films in a plane; and extension regions formed to extend from a portion below and lateral to the gate electrode to a portion below and lateral to each of the source/drain regions, wherein a sidewall of the sidewall insulating film being adjacent to the gate insulating film and the gate electrode has an inclination of a forward tapered shape. | 03-15-2012 |
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20120228626 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND ITS FABRICATION METHOD - In a semiconductor device including a stack structure having heterojunction units formed by alternately stacking GaN (gallium nitride) films and barrier films which are different in forbidden band width, a first electrode formed in a Schottky barrier contact with one sidewall of the stack structure, and a second electrode formed in contact with the other sidewall, an oxide film is interposed between the first electrode and the barrier films. Therefore, the reverse leakage current is prevented from flowing through defects remaining in the barrier films due to processing of the barrier films, so that a reverse leakage current of a Schottky barrier diode is reduced. | 09-13-2012 |
20130044537 | MAGNETIC MEMORY, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - There is provided a magnetic memory with using a magnetoresistive effect element of a spin-injection magnetization reversal type, in which a multi-value operation is possible and whose manufacturing and operation are simple. A preferred aim of this is solved by providing two or more magnetoresistive effect elements which are electrically connected in series to each other and by selecting one of the series-connected elements depending on a direction of a current carried in the series-connected elements, a magnitude thereof, and an order of the current thereof for performing the writing operation. For example, it is solved by differentiating plane area sizes of the respective magnetoresistive effect elements which have the same film structure from each other so as to differentiate resistance change amounts caused by respective magnetization reversal and threshold current values required for respective magnetization reversal from each other. | 02-21-2013 |
20130051134 | SEMICONDUCTOR RECORDING DEVICE - The disclosed semiconductor recording device achieves multi-valued reading and writing using a spin-injection magnetization-reversal tunneling magnetoresistive element (TMR element). A first current that has at least the same value as that of the element requiring the highest current to reverse the magnetization thereof among a plurality of TMR elements is, in the direction that causes reversal to either a parallel state or an anti-parallel state, applied to a memory cell having the plurality of TMR elements, and then a second current which is in the reverse direction from the first current and of which only the value needed to reverse the magnetoresistance state of at least one TMR element excluding the element requiring the maximum current among the plurality of TMR elements is applied to each, and multi-valued writing is performed. | 02-28-2013 |
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20110128408 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus, including an optical system forming an image of an optical image of an object; an imaging element imaging the optical image and producing image data at a frame frequency Ffs out of a frame frequency Ffr of NTSC system; a frame memory storing the image data; and a controller progressively writing the image data in the frame memory and interlacedly reading out the image data from the frame memory at the frame frequency Ffr of NTSC system. The frame memory is divided into at least three areas comprising a writing-in area and a read-out area, wherein the controller sequentially switches the areas of the frame memory and progressively writes one frame of image data in each area and interlacedly reads out one frame of image data from each area in sequence. | 06-02-2011 |
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20080209549 | COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, DOCUMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS, DOCUMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM, DOCUMENT PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER DATA SIGNAL - A computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for document processing, the process includes: receiving image data obtained by, with an image reading apparatus, reading a document of a predetermined format in which contents of an electronic document stored in a storage portion while being associated with identification information, the identification information, and an entry for additional information are arranged; extracting entered additional information from the entry area of the received image data; and correlating the extracted additional information with an electronic document associated with the identification information. | 08-28-2008 |
20090237708 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS, DOCUMENT PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A document processing apparatus includes: a storage that stores a manner of a document on which a document processing is performed in a series of tasks; a creating unit that creates an instructing image including an image of information identifying the document, an image of the manner, and an image of a first entry column on which an information indicating that a manner of an actual document is different from the stored manner is entered; an output unit that outputs the instructing image; a receiving unit that receives a read-instructing image corresponding to the instructing image, the read-instructing image being read by an image reading device; an extracting unit that extracts first information entered on a second entry column provided in the read-instructing image and second information identifying the document; and a storage that correlates the first information and the second information, and that stores the correlated information. | 09-24-2009 |
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20090262319 | MASKLESS EXPOSURE METHOD - A maskless exposure method of drawing a circuit pattern includes: moving a substrate with respect to a projection optical system; scanning, by the projection optical system, the substrate in a first direction; shifting a scanning region in a second direction; scanning the substrate in the first direction so that an overlapping part is formed. A plurality of marks different from the circuit pattern are exposed in a vicinity of the overlapping part. The plurality of marks are a set of marks at least including two marks disposed on one side of the overlapping part and two marks disposed on another side of the overlapping part. Deviations between the pair of the scanning regions, an inclination of exposing light, and a yawing angle of a stage are analyzed by measuring deviations of distances among the plurality of marks. Calibration data are obtained from a result of the analyzing. | 10-22-2009 |
20100259709 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR SAME - The present invention provides a manufacturing method for a liquid crystal display device, wherein the liquid crystal display device comprises first and second color filters provided on the liquid crystal side of one of a pair of substrates which are positioned so as to face each other and sandwich liquid crystal in between so as to be adjacent to each other, and a first side portion of the first color filter on the second color filter side overlaps with a second side portion of the second color filter on the first color filter side, characterized in that the border between the light blocking region and the non-light blocking region in a photomask for forming the first color filter, which corresponds to the first side portion, has a zigzag pattern with repeating mountains and valleys along this border, and the border between the light blocking region and the non-light blocking region in a photomask for forming the second color filter, which corresponds to the second side portion, has a zigzag pattern with repeating mountains and valleys along this border. | 10-14-2010 |
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20120082941 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF DISPLAY DEVICE - An organic passivation film having a high transmittance and capable of setting a taper angle of a through hole within a predetermined range in a liquid crystal display device. A pixel electrode and a source electrode of a TFT are connected by way of a through hole formed in an organic passivation film. The organic passivation film having high productivity, high transmittance, and a predetermined taper angle θ of a through hole can be formed by using a chemical amplification photosensitive resin composition comprising, as a base material, an acrylic resin having a molecular weight of 4,000 to 20,000 and containing 1 to 6 wt % of a photoacid generator as the material for the organic passivation film, performing exposure and development for forming a through hole, and then performing post exposure, prebaking, and baking under appropriate conditions. | 04-05-2012 |
20140036209 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - In a liquid crystal display device having wall structures, the generation of low-temperature shock bubbles is suppressed. Also, electrodes and the like within substrates are prevented from being damaged during manufacturing. The liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate that is disposed to face the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer that is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, wall structures that are formed on the first substrate, pixel electrodes that are disposed on at least side wall of the wall structures, a common electrode that is formed on the first substrate, and a plurality of pixels including the pixel electrodes and the common electrode, in which higher portions are partially disposed on a surface of the second substrate, and the higher portions come into contact with the wall structures to bring the first substrate into contact with the second substrate. | 02-06-2014 |
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20100190472 | PHONE NUMBER ENCAPSULATION USING TOKEN BASED FRAMEWORK - Embodiments of the invention related to a method for encapsulating phone numbers preferably using a token based framework and routing calls between users using such a token based framework, where the method comprises generating a set of tokens by a service provider for a phone number provided by the service provider, wherein the set of tokens comprise a generic token and a privacy token, the generic token maintained by the service provider and the privacy token distributed to a first user. Other embodiments are also disclosed. | 07-29-2010 |
20120117657 | ATTRIBUTE INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM - A system which implements a method for providing attribute data. A request is received from a user device via a network for a virtual ID token relating to attribute information pertaining to a subscriber associated with the user device. A data record including L attributes of the subscriber is read from a database, L being at least 2. The data record is provided to the user device via the network. A selection of M attributes of the L attributes is received from the user device via the network, M being less than L. A virtual record including the M attributes selected from the data record is generated, the virtual record including a virtual ID (VID) for identifying the virtual record. The generated virtual record is stored in the database. The virtual ID token is provided to the user device via the network, wherein the virtual ID token includes the VID. | 05-10-2012 |
20130260716 | Phone Number Encapsulation Using Token Based Framework - Embodiments of the invention related to a method for encapsulating phone numbers preferably using a token based framework and routing calls between users using such a token based framework, where the method comprises generating a set of tokens by a service provider for a phone number provided by the service provider, wherein the set of tokens comprise a generic token and a privacy token, the generic token maintained by the service provider and the privacy token distributed to a first user. Other embodiments are also disclosed. | 10-03-2013 |