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20110003460 | METHOD FOR TREATING SURFACE OF SOI SUBSTRATE - A method for minimizing thickness variation of a substrate in an anneal step and achieving the smoothing of the surface of the substrate. Specifically provided is a method for treating the surface of a SOI substrate, including the steps of treating the surface of the SOI substrate by the PACE method using a plasma or the GCIB method using a gas cluster ion beam and subjecting the treated substrate to a heat treatment in argon atmosphere or an inert gas atmosphere containing 4 vol % or less of hydrogen so that the treated SOI substrate can be annealed. | 01-06-2011 |
20110003462 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SOI WAFER - Provided is a method for manufacturing an SOI wafer, which is capable of: efficiently removing an ion-implanted defect layer existing in an ion implanted layer in the vicinity of a peeled surface peeled by an ion implantation peeling method; ensuring the in-plane uniformity of a substrate; and also achieving cost reduction and higher throughput. The method for manufacturing an SOI wafer includes at least the steps of: bonding a silicon wafer with or without an oxide film onto a handle wafer to prepare a bonded substrate, wherein the silicon wafer has an ion implanted layer formed by implanting hydrogen ions and/or rare gas ions into the silicon wafer; peeling the silicon wafer along the ion implanted layer, thereby transferring the silicon wafer onto the handle wafer to produce a post-peeling SOI wafer; immersing the post-peeling SOI wafer in an aqueous ammonia-hydrogen peroxide solution; and performing a heat treatment at a temperature of 900° C. or higher on the immersed post-peeling SOI wafer, and/or polishing a silicon film layer of the immersed post-peeling SOI wafer, through CMP polishing by 10 to 50 nm. | 01-06-2011 |
20110104871 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING BONDED SUBSTRATE - Provided is a method for manufacturing a bonded wafer with a good thin film over the entire substrate surface, especially in the vicinity of the lamination terminal point. The method for manufacturing a bonded wafer comprises at least the following steps of: forming an ion-implanted region by implanting a hydrogen ion or a rare gas ion, or the both types of ions from a surface of a first substrate which is a semiconductor substrate; subjecting at least one of an ion-implanted surface of the first substrate and a surface of a second substrate to be attached to a surface activation treatment; laminating the ion-implanted surface of the first substrate and the surface of the second substrate in an atmosphere with a humidity of 30% or less and/or a moisture content of 6 g/m | 05-05-2011 |
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20080215199 | VEHICLE-USE DUAL VOLTAGE TYPE POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS - The vehicle-use dual voltage type power supply apparatus including a high voltage power supply system and a low voltage power supply system has a configuration that the target power generation cost is calculated individually for each of the two power supply systems in accordance with SOC as a variable of its own battery, so that the electricity cost reduction type power generation control can be performed individually for each of the two power supply systems. | 09-04-2008 |
20090078400 | TEMPERATURE CONTROL DEVICE FOR ON-BOARD BATTERY PACK - A temperature control device has a heat exchanger recovering heat from exhaust gas of an engine, a water circulating passage in which a cooling water is circulated while receiving the recovered heat, an air conditioning unit heating air with the hot cooling water of the passage to produce a temperature controlled air, an air duct, a water heater attached to the bottom surface of a battery pack, and an electric heater attached side surfaces of the pack. The conditioning unit blows the controlled air against the battery pack through the duct. The water heater receives the hot cooling water of the passage and raises the temperature of the battery pack. The electric heater subsidiarily warms the battery pack with heat generated from electric power of the pack. | 03-26-2009 |
20090195430 | ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTING APPARATUS WITH LOWER TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE - In an A/D converting apparatus, a converting unit has an input terminal and an input-output characteristic. The input-output characteristic has temperature dependence, and the converting unit carries out a process of converting an input voltage signal to digital data. A temperature determining unit has information representing a relationship between a variable of an output of the converting unit and a variable of a temperature around the converting unit according to the temperature dependence of the input-output characteristic of the converting unit. When the specified voltage is applied to the input terminal of the converting unit, the temperature determining unit determines a value of the temperature around the converting unit based on the information and the specified voltage. A reducing unit reduces temperature dependence of the process of converting an input voltage signal to digital data based on the determined value of the temperature around the converting unit. | 08-06-2009 |
20090251103 | VOLTAGE DETECTING APPARATUS WITH VOLTAGE CONTROLLED OSCILLATOR AND BATTERY STATE CONTROL SYSTEM - In a voltage detecting apparatus, a voltage controlled oscillator, when an input voltage is applied thereto, outputs a signal with a logical value that is periodically inverted. A detector counts a number of logical inversion of the output signal from the voltage controlled oscillator over an interval between edges of pulses of a pulse signal to thereby generate, based on the counted number of logical inversion, digital data as a detected result of the input voltage. A determiner determines whether a reduction of a time required to detect the input voltage is higher in priority than an increase of a resolution of detection of the input voltage. A variably setting unit variably sets a frequency of the pulse signal based on a result of the determination of whether the reduction of the time required to detect the input voltage is higher in priority than the increase of the resolution of detection of the input voltage. | 10-08-2009 |
20110001352 | POWER SOURCE APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE - A power source apparatus mounted to a vehicle is equipped with a lead-acid battery and a lithium battery. An open circuit voltage and an internal resistance of each of the batteries are determined to satisfy the following conditions (a1), (a2), and (a3): (a1) In the use range of SOC of the lead-acid battery and the use range of SOC of the lithium battery, there is an equal voltage point Vds at which the open circuit voltage V | 01-06-2011 |
20110025271 | STATE MONITORING APPARATUS FOR ASSEMBLED BATTERY - The state monitoring apparatus includes a high-voltage side monitoring section having monitoring units assigned to respective unit batteries and a low-voltage side monitoring section having a control device. The monitoring units measures the voltages of the unit batteries upon reception of a voltage measurement command transmitted from the control device, and determines whether or not the measured voltages are within a predetermined range. This determination is transmitted to the control device. If this determination is negative, the control device limits a charge/discharge current of the assembled battery, and then causes the monitoring units to transmit the measured voltages. | 02-03-2011 |
20110043393 | DEVICE FOR CONVERTING ANALOG SIGNAL INTO DIGITAL VALUES AND CORRECTING THE VALUES - An analog to digital converting device has a first converter nonlinearly converting an analog level into a first digital value every first sampling period, shorter than a second sampling period, with low precision, a second converter linearly converting the analog level into a second digital value every second sampling period with high precision, and a controller determining a correction equation by using the second digital value having a high precision in each second sampling period so as to renew the equation every second sampling period, and correcting the first digital values, obtained in each second sampling period, to corrected digital values according to the corresponding correction equation to output the corrected digital value as a digital value, obtained by substantially linearly converting the analog level, every first sampling period. | 02-24-2011 |
20110260544 | POWER SUPPLY UNIT HAVING PLURALITY OF SECONDARY BATTERIES - The power supply unit includes a lead secondary battery (first battery) that is capable of being charged with power generated by an alternator (power generator); a lithium secondary battery (second battery) that is electrically connected in parallel to the lead secondary battery, capable of being charged with power generated by the alternator (power generator), and has higher output density or higher energy density than the lead secondary battery; and a switching means that is electrically connected between the alternator and the lead secondary battery, and the lithium secondary battery, and switches between conduction and blocking. The switching means is configured by a plurality of MOS-FETs (semiconductor switches) being connected in series such that respective parasitic diodes present in the semiconductor switches face opposite directions. | 10-27-2011 |
20140091767 | POWER SOURCE APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE - A power source apparatus mounted to a vehicle is equipped with a lead-acid battery and a lithium battery. An open circuit voltage and an internal resistance of each of the batteries are determined to satisfy the following conditions (a1), (a2), and (a3): (a1) In the use range of SOC of the lead-acid battery and the use range of SOC of the lithium battery, there is an equal voltage point Vds at which the open circuit voltage V0 (Pb) of the lead-acid battery becomes equal to the open circuit voltage V0 (Li) of the lithium battery; (a2) The relationship of V0 (Li)>V0 (Pb) is satisfied in the upper limit side of the use range of SOC of the battery; and (a3) A terminal voltage Vc (Li) of the lithium battery is not more than a set voltage Vreg of a regulator when a maximum current flows in the lithium battery. | 04-03-2014 |
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20090032451 | AERATION-LESS WATER TREATMENT APPARATUS - An aeration-less water treatment apparatus including an anaerobic reactor which receives sewage to cause the sewage to flow as an upward stream, and an aerobic reactor which receives treated water from the anaerobic reactor to cause the water to flow as a downward stream so that the water contacts aerobic microorganisms and air to aerobically treat the polluted matter in the water, the apparatus further including a suspended sludge section located in a lower part of the anaerobic reactor and in which the anaerobic microorganisms are suspended in the sewage, and a carrier section located in an upper part of the anaerobic reactor and having carriers to which the anaerobic microorganisms are attached, the anaerobic microorganisms having flowed from the suspended sludge section being further attached to the carriers. | 02-05-2009 |
20090149632 | Antibacterial peptide - The present invention provides a novel peptide based on CAP11 as well as provides an antibacterial agent, an LPS-cell-binding inhibitor, and a drug such as a bacterial-infection-treating agent or an endotoxin-shock suppressant, each containing the peptide as an active ingredient. The peptide has the following amino acid sequence (SEQ ID NO: 1): X01 X02 X03 X03 X04 X02 X03 X03 X05 X04 X03 X04 X02 X01 X03 X02 X05 X03 (wherein X01 represents a cationic amino acid residue or a polar uncharged amino acid residue, X02 represents a non-polar amino acid residue, X03 represents a cationic amino acid residue, X04 represents a non-polar amino acid residue or a cationic amino acid residue, and X05 represents a non-polar amino acid residue or a polar uncharged amino acid residue). Each of the antibacterial agent, lipopolysaccharide-cell-binding inhibitor, and drug (e.g., bacterial-infection-treating agent or endotoxin-shock suppressant) contains the peptide as an active ingredient. The present invention also provides for a peptide comprised of a sequence of cationic and non-polar or polar uncharged amino acids forming an α-helix wherein the amino acids are arranged along the α-helix such that when represented as a helical wheel, there is a substantial bi-lateral symmetry between cationic versus non-polar or polar uncharged amino acids. | 06-11-2009 |
20090208995 | PRO-CLOTTING ENZYME, AND METHOD FOR DETECTION OF ENDOTOXIN OR (1-3)-BETA-D-GLUCAN USING THE SAME - Objects of the present invention are to provide a DNA fragment encoding a | 08-20-2009 |
20100112668 | Method For Producing Factor G Derived From HorseShoe Crab - The invention provides a virus harboring a DNA encoding a subunit of | 05-06-2010 |
20100261266 | BIOLOGICAL DESULFURIZATION APPARATUS - Disclosed is a biological desulfurization apparatus including a reaction tower | 10-14-2010 |
20100273242 | BIOLOGICAL DESULFURIZATION APPARATUS - Disclosed is a desulfurization apparatus including a biological reaction tank | 10-28-2010 |
20130309701 | NUCLEIC ACID FRAGMENT ENCODING A HORSESHOE CRAB-DERIVED PRO-CLOTTING ENZYME - Objects of the present invention are to provide a DNA fragment encoding a | 11-21-2013 |
20140167662 | Inverter Device - An inverter device that controls a motor using a signal from a position sensor for detecting a rotor rotational position of the motor includes an initial adjustment unit that outputs a phase of current for designating a motor rotational position by rotating the motor in a clockwise direction of the motor and a phase of current for designating the motor rotational position by rotating the motor in a counter-clockwise direction of the motor. | 06-19-2014 |
20150372606 | Control Device of DC-DC Converter - An object is to suppress deterioration of a high-voltage side battery regardless of the magnitude of a load current. Provided is a control device of a DC-DC converter that is constituted by a primary side circuit that is electrically connected between an input side and a transformer, and a secondary side circuit that is electrically connected between an output side and the transformer. The control device includes a command generating unit | 12-24-2015 |
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20080199217 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTOCONDUCTOR, ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESS CARTRIDGE INCORPORATING THE SAME, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING THE SAME - An object is to provide an electrophotographic photoconductor which prevents an increase in the friction coefficient of the photoconductor surface caused when printing takes place for a long period of time or in large amounts, which has sustainability of the low photoconductor surface friction coefficient, low wear properties and high durability, and which is particularly superior in polymerized toner (or spherical toner) cleaning capability; a process cartridge incorporating the electrophotographic photoconductor; and an image forming apparatus incorporating the electrophotographic photoconductor. There is an electrophotographic photoconductor including: a photoconductor substrate, a photosensitive layer over the photoconductor substrate, and a protective layer over the photoconductor substrate, wherein the protective layer is formed by curing together at least a trifunctional or more radical polymerizable monomer having no charge transporting structure, a fluorine-based UV-curable hard coat agent and a monofunctional radical polymerizable compound having a charge transporting structure, and contains lubricant fine particles. | 08-21-2008 |
20080227008 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTOCONDUCTOR, ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESS CARTRIDGE CONTAINING THE SAME AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS CONTAINING THE SAME - An object of the present invention is to provide an electrophotographic photoconductor having an extremely low increase in friction coefficient and wear, while also having superior cleanability even after long-term or large-volume printing, and to provide an electrophotographic apparatus for forming an image using a polymerization toner without providing a unit for externally supplying a lubricant to a photoconductor. Namely, the present invention provides an electrophotographic photoconductor having a photosensitive layer and a crosslinked resin surface layer over a conductive substrate, wherein the crosslinked resin surface layer at least contains trimethylolpropane triacrylate, a dimethylpolysiloxane having a radically polymerizable functional group, and lubricating fine particles. | 09-18-2008 |
20080311499 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTORECEPTOR, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE PHOTORECEPTOR - An electrophotographic photoreceptor, including an electroconductive substrate; a photosensitive layer, located overlying the electroconductive substrate; and a crosslinked resin surface layer, located overlying the photo sensitive layer, wherein the crosslinked resin surface layer includes a crosslinked body of trimethylolpropanetriacrylate, isocyanate including a radical polymerizable functional group and a heat or a light-curable charge transport material. | 12-18-2008 |
20090067891 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTOCONDUCTOR, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The present invention provides an electrophotographic photoconductor including, an uppermost crosslinked surface layer including a cured product of a crosslinked surface layer composition containing a tri- or more functional radical-polymerizable monomer having no charge transportable structure, organosilica sol, an isocyanate group-containing radical-polymerizable monomer, and a curable charge transport material. | 03-12-2009 |
20090148180 | IMAGE BEARING MEMBER, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF FORMING IMAGE BEARING MEMBER - An image bearing member including an electroconductive substrate, a charge generating layer located overlying the electroconductive substrate, a charge transport layer located overlying the charge generating layer, the charge transport layer comprising a charge transport material and a protective layer having a thickness of from 3 to 15 μm located overlying the charge transport layer, wherein the density of the charge transport material in the protective layer at depth of 2 μm from the surface of the charge transport layer satisfies the following relationship: | 06-11-2009 |
20110287353 | ACRYLIC ESTER COMPOUND AND MANUFACTURING INTERMEDIATE THEREOF, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ACRYLIC ESTER COMPOUND, AND LATENT ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE BEARING MEMBER, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - To provide: a latent electrostatic image bearing member including one of a cured material obtained through radical polymerization of a radically polymerizable compound of component (A1), and a cured material obtained through radical polymerization of a radically polymerizable compound of component (A2) in the outermost layer, wherein the component (A1) includes two radically polymerizable groups and a substituted amino group which does not include a radically polymerizable group in a molecule, and the radically polymerizable group and the nearest substituted amino group which does not include an unsaturated bond in between are connected with two or more aromatic hydrocarbon compounds, and, the radically polymerizable compound of component (A2) includes a condensed polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon formed by bonding a radically polymerizable group and a non-radically polymerizable substituted amine group through a condensed polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon group; and an image forming apparatus, image forming method and process cartridge which uses thereof. | 11-24-2011 |