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20090072399 | SEMICONDUCTOR MOUNTING BONDING WIRE - There is provided a bonding wire which does not cause a leaning failure or the like. A semiconductor mounting bonding wire has a breaking elongation of 7 to 20%, and stress at 1% elongation is greater than or equal to 90% of a tensile strength and is less than or equal to 100% thereof. | 03-19-2009 |
20100282495 | BONDING WIRE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - An object of the present invention is to provide a high-performance bonding wire that is suitable for semiconductor mounting technology, such as stacked chip bonding, thinning, and fine pitch mounting, where wire lean (leaning) at an upright position of a ball and spring failure can be suppressed and loop linearity and loop height stability are excellent. This bonding wire for a semiconductor device includes a core material made of a conductive metal, and a skin layer formed on the core material and containing a metal different from the core material as a main component; wherein a relationship between an average size (a) of crystal grains in the skin layer on a wire surface along a wire circumferential direction and an average size (b) of crystal grains in the core material on a normal cross section, the normal cross section being a cross section normal to a wire axis, satisfies an inequality of a/b≦0.7. | 11-11-2010 |
20110011618 | COPPER ALLOY BONDING WIRE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - The present invention provides a semiconductor-device copper-alloy bonding wire which has an inexpensive material cost, ensures a superior ball joining shape, wire joining characteristic, and the like, and a good loop formation characteristic, and a superior mass productivity. The semiconductor-device copper-alloy bonding wire contains at least one of Mg and P in total of 10 to 700 mass ppm, and oxygen within a range from 6 to 30 mass ppm. | 01-20-2011 |
20110104510 | BONDING STRUCTURE OF BONDING WIRE - The invention is aimed at providing a bonding structure of a copper-based bonding wire, realizing low material cost, high productivity in a continuous bonding in reverse bonding for wedge bonding on bumps, as well as excellent reliability in high-temperature heating, thermal cycle test, reflow test, HAST test or the like. The bonding structure is for connecting the bonding wire onto a ball bump formed on an electrode of a semiconductor device, the bonding wire and the ball bump respectively containing copper as a major component thereof. The bonding structure comprises a concentrated layer A provided at an interface of a bonding part of the ball bump and the bonding wire, wherein the concentration of a metal R other than copper in the concentrated layer A is not less than ten times the average concentration of the metal R in the ball bump; and a concentrated layer B provided at an interface of a bonding part of the ball bump and the electrode, wherein the concentration of the metal R in the concentrated layer B is not less than ten times the average concentration of the metal R in the ball bump. | 05-05-2011 |
20110120594 | BONDING WIRE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR - It is an object of the present invention to provide a multilayer wire which can accomplish both ball bonding property and wire workability simultaneously, and which enhances a loop stability, a pull strength, and a wedge bonding property. A semiconductor bonding wire comprises a core member mainly composed of equal to or greater than one kind of following elements: Cu, Au, and Ag, and an outer layer formed on the core member and mainly composed of Pd. A total hydrogen concentration contained in a whole wire is within a range from 0.0001 to 0.008 mass %. | 05-26-2011 |
20120094121 | COPPER ALLOY BONDING WIRE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR - The present invention is a copper-based bonding wire for use in a semiconductor element. The bonding wire of the present invention can be manufactured with an inexpensive material cost, and has a superior PCT reliability in a high-humidity/temperature environment. Further, the bonding wire of the present invention exhibits: a favorable TCT reliability through a thermal cycle test; a favorable press-bonded ball shape; a favorable wedge bondability; a favorable loop formability, and so on. Specifically, the bonding wire of the present invention is a copper alloy bonding wire for semiconductor manufactured by drawing a copper alloy containing 0.13 to 1.15% by mass of Pd and a remainder comprised of copper and unavoidable impurities. | 04-19-2012 |
20120104613 | BONDING WIRE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - It is an object of the present invention to provide a copper-based bonding wire whose material cost is low, having excellent ball bondability, reliability in a heat cycle test or reflow test, and storage life, enabling an application to thinning of a wire used for fine pitch connection. The bonding wire includes a core material having copper as a main component and an outer layer which is provided on the core material and contains a metal M and copper, in which the metal M differs from the core material in one or both of components and composition. The outer layer is 0.021 to 0.12 μm in thickness. | 05-03-2012 |
20120118610 | BONDING WIRE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR - There is provided a bonding wire for semiconductor, capable of ensuring a favorable wedge bondability even when bonded to a palladium-plated lead frame, superior in oxidation resistivity and having a core wire of copper or a copper alloy. This bonding wire comprises: a core wire of copper or a copper alloy; a coating layer containing palladium and having a thickness of 10 to 200 nm; and an alloy layer formed on a surface of the coating layer, such alloy layer containing a noble metal and palladium and having a thickness of 1 to 80 nm. The aforementioned noble metal is either silver or metal, and a concentration of such noble metal in the alloy layer is not less than 10% and not more than 75% by volume. | 05-17-2012 |
20130306352 | BONDING WIRE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR - There is provided a bonding wire for semiconductor, capable of ensuring a favorable wedge bondability even when bonded to a palladium-plated lead frame, superior in oxidation resistivity and having a core wire of copper or a copper alloy. This bonding wire comprises: a core wire of copper or a copper alloy; a coating layer containing palladium and having a thickness of 10 to 200 nm; and an alloy layer formed on a surface of the coating layer, such alloy layer containing a noble metal and palladium and having a thickness of 1 to 80 nm. The aforementioned noble metal is either silver or metal, and a concentration of such noble metal in the alloy layer is not less than 10% and not more than 75% by volume. | 11-21-2013 |
20160104687 | BONDING WIRE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE USE AND METHOD OF PRODUCTION OF SAME - Bonding wire for semiconductor device use where both leaning failures and spring failures are suppressed by (1) in a cross-section containing the wire center and parallel to the wire longitudinal direction (wire center cross-section), there are no crystal grains with a ratio a/b of a long axis “a” and a short axis “b” of 10 or more and with an area of 15 μm | 04-14-2016 |
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20080215230 | ENGINE ROTATION CONTROL DEVICE AND BOAT - In an engine rotation control device, a remote control operation device is provided with a remote control side ECU and an engine side ECU so that an outboard motor can be remotely controlled. The remote control side ECU and the engine side ECU periodically communicate a control signal. A gauge includes a slow-speed operation section that changes the engine rotational speed during slow-speed cruising. The slow-speed operation section outputs a change command signal to change the engine rotational speed, and a rotational speed change signal generated by a signal output section based on the change command signal is transmitted to the engine side ECU as a periodic control signal. A reset section of the remote control side ECU resets the rotational speed change signal to an initial state in response to a request from a reset request section. | 09-04-2008 |
20080268727 | BOAT - An engine ECU provided in a boat propulsion system is connected to a remote control ECU provided in a remote control device, the remote control ECU is connected to a gauge ECU provided in an information display device, and control is performed so as to start communication between the remote control ECU and the gauge ECU after a power supply is turned on and after authentication of the engine ECU and the remote control ECU is completed. Accurate information on the boat propulsion system can be transmitted in response to a request from the information display device at a time of initialization at a system start. | 10-30-2008 |
20080269970 | BOAT CONTROL SYSTEM AND BOAT - A boat control system detects a wire break status in a duplicated communication system. A hull of a boat is provided with a main remote control side ECU and a subremote control side ECU, and the subremote control side ECU communicates with an engine side ECU via the main remote control side ECU. Both of the remote control side ECUs are provided with storage buffers in which communication status confirmation data transmitted between nodes is stored. A broken wire detection section of the engine side ECU starts a determination when a system is started, and broken wire detection sections of both of the remote control side ECUs start a determination when communication status confirmation data is received from another node. Data indicating that communication is in an abnormal status is stored as an initial value in a main remote control data storage buffer. | 10-30-2008 |
20110041486 | APPARATUS OF CATALYST FOR PURIFYING EXHAUST GAS AND METHOD FOR PURIFYING EXHAUST GAS - An apparatus of a catalyst for purifying exhaust gas suitable as a three-way catalyst (TWC) apparatus to be used for purifying carbon monoxide (CO), a hydrocarbon (HC) and a nitrogen oxide (NO | 02-24-2011 |
20110113754 | EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION CATALYST, EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION APPARATUS USING THE SAME AND EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION METHOD - An exhaust gas purification catalyst, which is suitable as a Three way catalyst for efficiently purifying carbon monoxide (CO), hydrocarbons (HC), and nitrogen oxides (NO | 05-19-2011 |
20110274603 | EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION CATALYST, EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION APPARATUS USING THE SAME AND EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION METHOD - An exhaust gas purification catalyst, which is suitable as a Three Way Catalyst for efficiently purifying carbon monoxide (CO), hydrocarbons (HC), and nitrogen oxides (NO | 11-10-2011 |
20150038325 | CATALYST COMPOSITION FOR EXHAUST GAS CLEANING AND CATALYST FOR AUTOMOBILE EXHAUST GAS CLEANING - The present invention is to provide an exhaust gas purification catalyst composition and a catalyst for exhaust gas purification for automobile, superior in purification performance of a carbon monoxide (CO), a hydrocarbon (HC) and nitrogen oxides (NO | 02-05-2015 |
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20080215782 | Administration Device For Warranting Local Concentrated Access in Low-Band Width, Administration Method, and Animation Processing Apparatus Including the Administration Device - An arbitration device arbitrates among master devices such that each master device is allowed to access a shared memory at a predetermined bandwidth, and the arbitration device permits an access request in a first period that a designer has set as desired if the access request has been made by a specific master device beyond a bandwidth that has been allocated in advance. The arbitration device masks an access request from the specific master device in a second period that follows the first period. | 09-04-2008 |
20100005209 | ARBITRATION DEVICE FOR ARBITRATING AMONG A PLURALITY OF MASTER DEVICES, ARBITRATION METHOD, AND VIDEO PROCESSING DEVICE INCLUDING THE ARBITRATION DEVICE - An arbitration device arbitrates among master devices such that each master device is allowed to access a shared memory at a predetermined bandwidth, and the arbitration device permits an access request in a first period that a designer has set as desired if the access request has been made by a specific master device beyond a bandwidth that has been allocated in advance. The arbitration device masks an access request from the specific master device in a second period that follows the first period. | 01-07-2010 |
20110035559 | MEMORY CONTROLLER, MEMORY SYSTEM, SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND MEMORY CONTROL METHOD - A memory controller ( | 02-10-2011 |
20110138092 | ARBITRATION DEVICE, ARBITRATION SYSTEM, ARBITRATION METHOD, SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - Provided is a hierarchical arbitration device wherein an arbitration device at each level of the hierarchy selects a resource use request having the highest priority and a resource use request having the second highest priority, outputting these two resource use requests to the arbitration device that is one level higher. After outputting the memory use request having the highest priority to a resource control unit as the top priority resource use request, when the arbitration device at the highest level of the hierarchy receives a signal from the memory control unit indicating receipt of the resource use request, the arbitration device then selects the resource use request having the second highest priority and outputs this resource request as the next top priority resource use request. | 06-09-2011 |
20110167228 | MEMORY DEVICE AND MEMORY DEVICE CONTROL METHOD - A memory device ( | 07-07-2011 |
20130277862 | INTERMEDIATE FOR ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MOUNTING STRUCTURE, ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MOUNTING STRUCTURE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MOUNTING STRUCTURE - An implementing structure intermediate body including: a first chip having a first connection terminal; a second chip having a second connection terminal in a face that faces the first chip; and a film wiring substrate having a third connection terminal in one face, which is arranged between the first chip and the second chip, is loaded on a chip loading substrate having a fifth connection terminal so that another one face of the first chip is confronted thereby. In the film wiring substrate, there is a portion that is located outside any of the first chip and the second chip, at the tip part, is provided a fourth connection terminal connected to the third connection terminal by wiring, one part of the first connection terminal is connected with the second connection terminal, the third connection terminal is connected with another one part of the first connection terminal, and the fifth connection terminal is connected to the fourth connection terminal. | 10-24-2013 |
20140204740 | BUS SYSTEM AND ROUTER - In an NoC bus system, data is transmitted between first and second nodes through a router. The data includes performance-ensuring data which guarantees throughput and/or a permitted time delay. The first node generates packets, each including the data to be transmitted and classification information that indicates the class of that data to be determined according to its required performance, and controls transmission of the packets. The router includes a buffer section configured to store the received packets separately after having classified the packets according to their required performance by reference to the classification information, and a relay controller configured to control transmission of the packets stored in the buffer section at a transmission rate which is equal to or higher than the sum of transmission rates to be guaranteed for every first node associated with the classification information by reference to each piece of the classification information. | 07-24-2014 |
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20090115059 | GOLD WIRE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT CONNECTION - A gold wire for semiconductor element connection having high strength and bondability. The connection has a limited amount of at least one element selected from calcium and rare earth elements, and a limited amount of at least one element selected from a group consisting of titanium, vanadium, chromium, hafnium, niobium, tungsten, and zirconium. The incorporation of a suitable amount of palladium or beryllium is preferred. The incorporation of calcium and rare earth element can improve the strength and young's modulus of a gold wire, and the incorporation of titanium and the like can reduce a deterioration in the roundness of press-bonded shape of press-bonded balls in the first bonding caused by the incorporation of calcium and rare earth elements. The bonding wire can simultaneously realize mechanical properties and bondability capable of meeting a demand for a size reduction in semiconductor and a reduction in electrode pad pitch. | 05-07-2009 |
20100213619 | BONDING STRUCTURE OF BONDING WIRE AND METHOD FOR FORMING SAME - Provided is a bonding structure of a bonding wire and a method for forming the same which can solve problems of conventional technologies in practical application of a multilayer copper wire, improve the formability and bonding characteristic of a ball portion, improve the bonding strength of wedge connection, and have a superior industrial productivity. A bonding wire mainly composed of copper, and a concentrated layer where the concentration of a conductive metal other than copper is high is formed at a ball bonded portion. The concentrated layer is formed in the vicinity of the ball bonded portion or at the interface thereof. An area where the concentration of the conductive metal is 0.05 to 20 mol % has a thickness greater than or equal to 0.1 μm, and it is preferable that the concentration of the conductive metal in the concentrated layer should be five times as much as the average concentration of the conductive metal at the ball bonded portion other than the concentrated layer. | 08-26-2010 |
20100294532 | BONDING WIRE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES - It is an object of the present invention to provide a highly-functional bonding wire which has good wire-surface nature, loop linearity, stability of loop heights, and stability of a wire bonding shape, and which can cope with semiconductor packaging technologies, such as thinning, achievement of a fine pitch, achievement of a long span, and three-dimensional packaging. A semiconductor-device bonding wire comprises a core member formed of an electrically-conductive metal, and a skin layer mainly composed of a face-centered cubic metal different from the core member and formed thereon. The percentage of <100> orientations in crystalline orientations in the lengthwise direction in the surface of the skin layer is greater than or equal to 50%. | 11-25-2010 |
20100327450 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE BONDING WIRE AND WIRE BONDING METHOD - It is an object of the present invention to provide a copper-based bonding wire whose material cost is low, having excellent ball bondability, reliability in a heat cycle test or reflow test, and storage life, enabling an application to thinning of a wire used for fine pitch connection. The bonding wire includes a core material having copper as a main component and an outer layer which is provided on the core material and contains a metal M and copper, in which the metal M differs from the core material in one or both of components and composition. The outer layer is 0.021 to 0.12 μm in thickness. | 12-30-2010 |
20110011619 | BONDING WIRE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES - It is an object of the present invention to provide a highly-functional bonding wire which can reduce damages at a neck part, has good linearity of loops, stability of loop heights, and stability of bonded shape of a bonding wire, and can cope with semiconductor packaging techniques, such as low looping, thinning, achievement of a fine pitch, and three-dimensional packaging. A semiconductor-device bonding wire comprises a core member formed of an electrically-conductive metal, and a skin layer mainly composed of a face-centered cubic metal different from the core member and formed thereon. The percentage of <100> orientations in crystalline orientations in the lengthwise direction in the surface of the skin layer is greater than or equal to 50%. | 01-20-2011 |
20120299182 | COPPER BONDING WIRE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR AND BONDING STRUCTURE THEREOF - It is an object of the present invention to provide a bonding structure and a copper bonding wire for semiconductor that are realizable at an inexpensive material cost, superior in a long-term reliability of a bonded portion bonded to an Al electrode, and suitable for use in a vehicle-mounted LSI. A ball-bonded portion is formed by bonding to the aluminum electrode a ball formed on a front end of the copper bonding wire. After being heated at any temperature between 130° C. and 200° C., the aforementioned ball-bonded portion exhibits a relative compound ratio R1 of 40-100%, the relative compound ratio R1 being a ratio of a thickness of a Cu—Al intermetallic compound to thicknesses of intermetallic compounds that are composed of Cu and Al and formed on a cross-sectional surface of the ball-bonded portion. | 11-29-2012 |
20130180757 | BONDING STRUCTURE OF MULTILAYER COPPER BONDING WIRE - A bonding structure of a ball-bonded portion is obtained by bonding a ball portion formed on a front end of a multilayer copper bonding wire. The multilayer copper bonding wire includes a core member that is mainly composed of copper, and an outer layer that is formed on the core member and is mainly composed of at least one noble metal selected from a group of Pd, Au, Ag and Pt. Further, a first concentrated portion of such noble metal(s) is formed in a ball-root region located at a boundary with the copper bonding wire in a surface region of the ball-bonded portion. | 07-18-2013 |
20140327018 | POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE DEVICE AND BONDING WIRE - It is an object of the present invention to provide a power semiconductor device, which is capable of being operable regardless of thermal stress generation, reducing a heat generation from wire, securing the reliability of bonding portion when the device is used for dealing with a large amount current and/or under a high temperature atmosphere, a method of manufacturing the device and a bonding wire. In a power semiconductor device in which a metal electrode (die electrode | 11-06-2014 |
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20090117438 | POLYMER ELECTROLYTE, AND POLYMER ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE, MEMBRANE-ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY AND FUEL CELL THAT ARE USING THE POLYMER ELECTROLYTE - The present invention provides polymer electrolyte that has the ion-exchange capacity of 1.7 meq/g or more and has the reduced viscosity of 160 mL/g or more at 40° C. when being made to be 1% by weight solution with at least one kind of solvent selected from the group consisting of N,N-dimethylformamide, N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone, dimethyl sulfoxide, N,N-dimethylacetamide, sulfolane, and γ-butyrolactone, and polymer electrolyte that has the ion-exchange capacity of 1.7 meq/g or more and the reduced viscosity of 160 mL/g or more at 40° C. when being made to be 1% by weight solution with at least one kind of solvent selected from the group consisting of N,N-dimethylformamide, N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone, and dimethyl sulfoxide. | 05-07-2009 |
20090253015 | POLYARYLENE BLOCK COPOLYMER AND USE THEREOF - Provided is a block copolymer comprising one or more segments having an acid group and one or more segments having substantially no acid group, wherein the segment having an acid group is represented by the following formula (1): | 10-08-2009 |
20090274944 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING POLYMER ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE, POLYMER ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE AND DIRECT METHANOL FUEL CELL - A method for producing a polymer electrolyte membrane of the present invention include the step of modifying a polymer electrolyte membrane which is salt-substituted with a polyvalent cation, by a modification treatment selected from a heat treatment, an active energy ray irradiation treatment and a discharge treatment, and preferably include the step of treating the modified polymer electrolyte with acid. This method allows a polymer electrolyte membrane capable of achieving methanol barrier properties and the proton conductivity at a high level. | 11-05-2009 |
20100227245 | SOLID ELECTROLYTE FUEL CELL AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - A solid electrolyte fuel cell having a long service life, comprising a power generating cell ( | 09-09-2010 |
20100304265 | SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELL - A solid oxide fuel cell of long lifetime in which good electric conductivity can be maintained between power generation cells even after long time use. A protective plate ( | 12-02-2010 |
20110111323 | ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL AND A METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - An electrolyte membrane for electrochemical cells, that has oxide ion permeability properties, and methods for producing the same, is made of an oxide ion conductor having a component composition expressed by a general formula: La | 05-12-2011 |
20110311899 | POLYMER, POLYARYLENE BLOCK COPOLYMER, POLYELECTROLYTE, POLYELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE, AND FUEL CELL - The polymer electrolyte membrane according to the present invention comprises a polymer electrolyte having ion-exchange groups, wherein Sp and Snp satisfy a relationship expressed by the following expression (I): | 12-22-2011 |
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20090277684 | MOUNTING STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR MOUNTING ELECTRONIC COMPONENT ONTO CIRCUIT BOARD - An electronic component mounting structure includes a flexible circuit board having terminal connection patterns formed thereon and a light-emitting component provided with electrodes. The light-emitting component is placed on the flexible circuit board, and a synthetic resin casing is injection-molded to cover the light-emitting component and a portion of the flexible circuit board surrounding the light-emitting component placed thereon, whereby the electrodes of the light-emitting component and the terminal connection patterns of the flexible circuit board are connected in abutting contact with each other. | 11-12-2009 |
20100117611 | Regulator circuit having N-type MOS transistor controlled by error amplifier - A regulator circuit includes a direct-current voltage conversion circuit which receives a first power supply voltage, and generates a second power supply voltage by stepping down a first power supply voltage, and an error amplifier that operates based on the first power supply voltage, and outputs an output control signal by comparing a feedback voltage that varies depending on an output voltage outputted from an output terminal and a reference voltage. The regulator circuit includes an N-type MOS transistor including a drain supplied with the second power supply voltage, a source connected to the output terminal, and a gate receiving the output control signal. | 05-13-2010 |
20110171639 | POLYMER FOR DETECTION OF TARGET SUBSTANCE, AND METHOD FOR DETECTION OF TARGET SUBSTANCE - Provided is a method of detecting a target substance by which the target substance can be detected with efficiency and a high sensitivity, and in a simple manner, a target substance detection polymer used in the method, and a method of forming the polymer. The method of detecting a target substance includes the steps of: (A) forming a target substance detection polymer by causing multiple kinds of nucleic acid probes for forming a polymer to react with a binding probe having a region capable of binding to the target substance and a region capable of binding to at least one of the nucleic acid probes in a solution; (B) binding the target substance detection polymer and the target substance; and (C) detecting the target substance detection polymer to which the target substance is bound. | 07-14-2011 |
20110310058 | OBJECT DISPLAY DEVICE - An object display device is disclosed. An object display device includes a display unit, a detection unit and a control unit. The display unit is configured to display an object. The detection unit is configured to detect a location and a load of a pressing to the display unit. The control unit can control a movement of the object based on conditions of first and second pressings. | 12-22-2011 |
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20080263574 | Information processing device and disk drive device - An information processing device is provided. The device includes an upper enclosure; a lower enclosure which supports the upper enclosure with a varied attitude and on which the upper enclosure may be superposed; a disk drive device stored in the upper or lower enclosure and having a disk mounting part on which a disk-shaped recording medium is detachably mounted; and an enclosure moving mechanism setting a disk storage region to have a first thickness with the upper enclosure allowed to have a distance from the lower enclosure when the disk drive device is used and setting the disk storage region to have a second thickness smaller than the first thickness with the upper enclosure allowed to come close to the lower enclosure to reduce the disk storage region when the disk drive device is not used. | 10-23-2008 |
20100001953 | INPUT APPARATUS, CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND HANDHELD APPARATUS - To provide an input apparatus, a control apparatus, a control system, and a control method that are capable of improving an operational feeling when a user uses the input apparatus to input an operation signal via an operation section. An MPU ( | 01-07-2010 |
20100039382 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INPUT APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus, an input apparatus, an information processing system, an information processing method, and a program that are capable of improving operability when a target object is selected on a screen are provided. A control apparatus is provided to which, when a button is pressed in a state where a pointer is indicating an area around an icon on a screen, a signal indicating that the button has been pressed and a signal of positional information of the pointer at that time are input, and the control apparatus performs movement control such that the pointer indicates the icon based on those signals. Therefore, even when the pointer is not directly indicating the icon, the icon can be indicated by indicating the area around the icon, thus improving operability in selecting the icon on the screen by the pointer. | 02-18-2010 |
20100057571 | Information processing system, portable information terminal and its control method, information providing device and its control method, and program - A portable information terminal includes: a position detecting section that detects a position of the portable information terminal; a selecting section that selects a guidance target object for which voice guidance is to be provided, and detects a guidance target direction that is a direction in which the guidance target object exists with respect to a reference direction, on the basis of a direction in which the guidance target object exists with respect to the position of the portable information terminal; a voice synthesis section that generates a synthetic voice so that a guidance voice for the guidance target object selected by the selecting section is heard from the guidance target direction; and a voice output section that outputs the synthetic voice generated by the voice synthesis section. | 03-04-2010 |
20100103096 | INPUT APPARATUS, CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, AND HANDHELD APPARATUS - An input apparatus, a control apparatus, a control system, and a control method therefor, that are capable of solving a problem on gravity that affects an acceleration sensor of an input apparatus when tilted from its original position, and reducing a calculation amount are provided. An MPU of an input apparatus corrects angular velocity values by rotational coordinate conversion corresponding to a calculated roll angle to obtain correction angular velocity values (second and first correction angular velocity values) as correction values. Accordingly, even when a user moves the input apparatus in a state where the input apparatus is tilted with respect to an axis in a gravity direction (vertical axis) about a Z axis, effects of gravity acceleration components in X′- and Y′-axis directions that are generated by the tilt can be removed. | 04-29-2010 |
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20120211369 | COPPER ELECTROPLATING METHOD - A copper electroplating method including dipping a substrate in a copper electroplating solution, the substrate including a seed layer; and forming a copper electroplating layer on the seed layer, wherein the copper electroplating solution includes water, a copper supply source, an electrolytic material, and a first additive, the first additive includes a compound represented by Formula 1, below: | 08-23-2012 |
20130211804 | SIMULATION APPARATUS, SIMULATION METHOD AND A NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A simulation apparatus is provided with means for obtaining shape data expressing a simulation object, means for storing a constraint condition for a simulation in association with each type of object, means for storing, for each of one or more evaluation items for evaluating an object having an arbitrary shape satisfying the constraint condition, a procedure of a coupled analysis using one or more simulation means related to the evaluation item, means for accepting a type and an evaluation item for an object, means for reading out a procedure of a coupled analysis corresponding to the evaluation item based on the accepted evaluation item for the object, and means for reading out a constraint condition for an object corresponding to the accepted type and giving the constraint condition to the shape data to execute the coupled analysis in accordance with the procedure of the coupled analysis. | 08-15-2013 |
20130272736 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image forming apparatus is provided that includes: a heating member that heats a recording sheet; a pressure member that presses the recording sheet between the heating member and the pressure member; an adjustment mechanism that causes the heating member and the pressure member to contact or to separate; and a control section that, at a time of a warm-up operation or an idling operation, based on a predetermined condition, controls the adjustment mechanism so as to cause the heating member and the pressure member to contact at a contact pressure that is lower than a contact pressure between the heating member and the pressure member at a time of image formation or is approximately identical to the contact pressure at a time of image formation. | 10-17-2013 |
20140086608 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Disclosed herein are a fixing device and an image forming apparatus including: a rotatable fixing side member; a rear side member that rotates in pressure contact with an outer peripheral surface of the fixing side member, the rear side member forming a fixing nip portion for conveying a sheet on which a toner image is formed in a sandwiching manner in conjunction with the fixing side member; and velocity difference setting means for setting a velocity difference between a surface velocity of the rear side member and a surface velocity of the fixing side member, wherein the rear side member and the fixing side member rotate with a velocity difference set by the velocity difference setting means. | 03-27-2014 |
20150331499 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INPUT APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus, an input apparatus, an information processing system, an information processing method, and a program that are capable of improving operability when a target object is selected on a screen are provided. A control apparatus is provided to which, when a button is pressed in a state where a pointer is indicating an area around an icon on a screen, a signal indicating that the button has been pressed and a signal of positional information of the pointer at that time are input, and the control apparatus performs movement control such that the pointer indicates the icon based on those signals. Therefore, even when the pointer is not directly indicating the icon, the icon can be indicated by indicating the area around the icon, thus improving operability in selecting the icon on the screen by the pointer. | 11-19-2015 |
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20090274941 | Power Generation Cell for Solid Electrolyte Fuel Cell and Structure of Fuel Electrode Thereof - The present invention provides a power generation cell for a solid electrolyte fuel cell using a lanthanum gallate solid electrolyte as a solid electrolyte, particularly a structure of a fuel electrode of the power generation cell for the solid electrolyte fuel cell. The fuel electrode according to the first aspect of the present invention is a fuel electrode of a power generation cell for a solid electrolyte fuel cell in which particles (2) of a B-doped ceria (herein, B represents one or two or more of Sm, La, Gd, Y and Ca) are attached to the surface of the framework of porous nickel having a framework structure in which a network is formed by mutual sintering of nickel particles (1). The ceria particles (2) are distributed with the highest density and attached around the framework structure portions (3) the sectional areas of which are made small by the mutual sintering of the nickel particles (1) to be bonded to each other. | 11-05-2009 |
20100104916 | Separator for fuel cell, method for producing separator, and solid oxide fuel cell - Gas discharge ports are provided in almost the entire area of a layer surface of a separator, and a gas for reaction is discharged like a shower from the separator toward a power generation cell. The separator is constructed by layering plate-shaped members containing iron-base alloy, nickel-base alloy, or chrome-base alloy as the base material. Silver, silver alloy, copper, or copper alloy is plated on both sides or one side of the base material of the plate-shaped member. The construction above can increase durability of a separator and enables the separator and a solid oxide fuel cell to be stably used for a long period. | 04-29-2010 |
20120171595 | POWER GENERATION CELL FOR SOLID ELECTROLYTE FUEL CELL AND STRUCTURE OF FUEL ELECTRODE THEREOF - Provided is a power generation cell for a solid electrolyte fuel cell using a lanthanum gallate solid electrolyte as a solid electrolyte, particularly a structure of a fuel electrode of the power generation cell for the solid electrolyte fuel cell. The fuel electrode is of a power generation cell for a solid electrolyte fuel cell in which particles ( | 07-05-2012 |
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20100030980 | MEMORY CONTROL DEVICE, MEMORY DEVICE, AND MEMORY CONTROL METHOD - The memory control device according to the present invention includes a command generating unit which divides the memory access request issued by the master into access commands each of which is for one of the memory devices, a command issuing units which issue each of the access commands to the memory devices, a data control unit which switches data between a master and memories, and the command generating unit switch between control for outputting an identical physical address to the memory units and control for outputting different physical addresses to the memory devices, depending on when the physical addresses of the memory devices are identical and when the physical addresses of the memory devices are different, each of the memory devices corresponds to one of the divided access commands. | 02-04-2010 |
20130013879 | MEMORY CONTROL DEVICE, MEMORY DEVICE, AND MEMORY CONTROL METHOD - The memory control device according to the present invention includes a command generating unit which divides the memory access request issued by the master into access commands each of which is for one of the memory devices, a command issuing units which issue each of the access commands to the memory devices, a data control unit which switches data between a master and memories, and the command generating unit switch between control for outputting an identical physical address to the memory units and control for outputting different physical addresses to the memory devices, depending on when the physical addresses of the memory devices are identical and when the physical addresses of the memory devices are different, each of the memory devices corresponds to one of the divided access commands. | 01-10-2013 |
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20090316364 | HIGH FREQUENCY DEVICE - A high frequency device includes an antenna connector adapted to be connected with an antenna, a board, a conductor layer provided on an upper surface of the board, a filter mounted on the upper surface of the board and connected with the antenna connector, and a high frequency circuit mounted on a lower surface of the board and connected with the filter. The filter includes a case having a hollow shape having an opening which opens downward, and a resonator accommodated in the case. The case has a lower end around the opening. The lower end of the case is joined to the conductor layer. The high frequency device has a small size. | 12-24-2009 |
20130334879 | VEHICLE POWER-SUPPLY CONTROL DEVICE - A vehicle power-supply control device has a battery charger that converts an externally-supplied AC voltage into a DC voltage used to charge a vehicle high-voltage battery, a low-voltage power generator that converts the DC voltage output from the battery charger into a DC voltage used to drive a vehicle auxiliary machine, and a controller that controls the battery charger and the low-voltage power generator. The battery charger includes a power factor correction circuit that corrects a power factor of the AC voltage and a first DC/DC converter that generates a predetermined DC voltage based on an output of the power factor correction circuit. The low-voltage power generator includes a second DC/DC converter that steps down the DC voltage output from the battery charger and a synchronous rectifier that rectifies an output of the second DC/DC converter in synchronization with a switching operation of the second DC/DC converter. | 12-19-2013 |
20140015496 | CHARGING DEVICE - A charging device has an AC power supply input part that rectifies an AC voltage, a power factor correction part that converts a rectified voltage outputted from the AC power supply input part into a DC intermediate voltage, a power conversion part that converts the intermediate voltage outputted from the power factor correction part into a charge voltage, and supplies the charge voltage to a secondary battery, an input voltage acquisition unit that acquires the rectified voltage outputted from the AC power supply input part, an output voltage acquisition unit that acquires the charge voltage outputted from the power conversion part, and a storage part in which the rectified voltage, the charge voltage, and a target intermediate voltage correlated with the rectified voltage and charge voltage are stored. | 01-16-2014 |
20140176049 | CHARGING DEVICE - A charging device has a rectifier circuit that rectifies an AC voltage supplied from an AC power supply, a power factor correction circuit that is connected to an output terminal of the rectifier circuit, a capacitor that is connected to a pair of output lines of the power factor correction circuit, a DC-DC converter that boosts or steps down an output voltage at the power factor correction circuit to output the output voltage to a battery, a voltage detection circuit that is provided between the power factor correction circuit and the DC-DC converter, and a controller that controls the power factor correction circuit based on a voltage detected by the voltage detection circuit. The voltage detection circuit includes an isolation transformer, a switching element, and a voltage detector. | 06-26-2014 |
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20130235195 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing device has an image input part to which a frame image of an imaging area taken with an infrared camera is input, a background model storage part in which a background model is stored with respect to each pixel of the frame image input to the image input part, a frequency of a pixel value of the pixel being modeled in the background model, a background difference image generator that determines whether each pixel of the frame image input to the image input part is a foreground pixel or a background pixel using the background model of the pixel, which is stored in the background model storage part, and generates a background difference image, and an object detector that sets a foreground region and detects an imaged object based on the foreground pixel in the background difference image generated by the background difference image generator. | 09-12-2013 |
20130236098 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing device has an image input part to which a frame image of an imaging area taken with an infrared camera is input, a background model storage part in which a background model is stored with respect to each pixel of the frame image input to the image input part, a frequency of a pixel value of the pixel being modeled in the background model, a background difference image generator that determines whether each pixel of the frame image input to the image input part is a foreground pixel or a background pixel using the background model of the pixel, which is stored in the background model storage part, and generates a background difference image, and a threshold setting part. | 09-12-2013 |
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20140295302 | FUEL CELL MONITORING DEVICE - In a fuel cell monitoring device, a gas-diffusion resistance calculation section calculates a gas-diffusion resistance R | 10-02-2014 |
20160129807 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING FUEL CELL VEHICLES AND FUEL CELL VEHICLES - Provided is a method for controlling a fuel cell vehicle capable of informing a user outside of the vehicle of the possibility that the fuel cell stops power generation and external power-feeding stops, whereby problems due to unexpected stopping of power feeding can be avoided. In a method for controlling a fuel cell vehicle | 05-12-2016 |
20160129808 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM - A flow control valve | 05-12-2016 |
20160133956 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM - A fuel cell system includes: a fuel cell; a coolant circulation passage; a radiator; a water pump; a flow dividing valve; a fan; and a controller that, when a first prescribed period elapses in a state where a temperature of a coolant is equal to or more than a first prescribed temperature and an opening degree of the flow dividing valve makes the flow rate of the coolant flowing into the radiator equal to or more than a prescribed flow rate, gives a priority to the rise in a driving voltage of the fan over the increase in a flow rate by the water pump, and when a second prescribed period elapses in a state where the temperature of the coolant is equal to or more than a second prescribed temperature after the driving voltage of the fan is raised, increases the flow rate by the water pump. | 05-12-2016 |
20160141645 | Fuel Cell System, Fuel Cell Vehicle and Control Method of Fuel Cell System - A fuel cell system comprises: a fuel cell; a cooling system circuit including a cooling liquid supply path configured to supply a cooling liquid to the fuel cell, a radiator configured to cool down the cooling liquid, a radiator fan, and a cooling liquid pump provided in the cooling liquid supply path to feed the cooling liquid to the fuel cell; a controller; and a speedometer configured to obtain a speed of the fuel cell vehicle, wherein the controller is capable of performing a first cooling control that sets an upper limit value of driving amount of the radiator fan according to the speed of the fuel cell vehicle and regulates a flow rate of the cooling liquid pump or the driving amount of the radiator fan under the upper limit value of the driving amount of the radiator, so as to cool down the fuel cell. | 05-19-2016 |
20160141647 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD FOR FUEL CELL SYSTEM - The present invention is to prevent the temperature of an electric heater from being higher than or equal to a temperature at which control to reduce power consumption is started to prevent an abrupt decrease in the power consumption of the electric heater in order to secure a power consuming destination of a fuel cell. A fuel cell system | 05-19-2016 |
20160141679 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM, FUEL CELL MOUNTABLE VEHICLE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING FUEL CELL SYSTEM - A fuel cell system comprises: a fuel cell; a cooling liquid supply flow path for supplying cooling liquid to the fuel cell; a radiator for cooling the cooling liquid; a first temperature sensor, provided at an outlet of the radiator, for measuring a temperature of the cooling liquid; an ambient temperature sensor; and a controller. The controller executes: estimating a temperature of the cooling liquid inside the cooling liquid supply flow path based on an ambient temperature measured by the ambient temperature sensor; acquiring a temperature of the cooling liquid inside the cooling liquid supply flow path based on the temperature measured by the first temperature sensor after it is determined that the cooling liquid within the radiator has reached the first temperature sensor; and adjusting a flow rate of the cooling liquid based on the estimated temperature or the acquired temperature of the cooling liquid. | 05-19-2016 |
20160141680 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM - A fuel cell system includes a control unit configured to perform air-conditioning-system preparation control, wherein, under the air-conditioning-system preparation control, when an air conditioning system is not requested to heat air, it is determined whether or not a coolant within a coolant circulation passage is capable of being supplied to an air conditioning circuit, when the coolant within the coolant circulation passage is not capable of being supplied to the air conditioning circuit, the heater is operated to maintain a first predetermined temperature or higher of the coolant within the air conditioning circuit, and When the coolant within the coolant circulation passage is capable of being supplied to the air conditioning circuit, the air-conditioning water pump is operated to draw the coolant from the coolant circulation passage into the air conditioning circuit and to maintain the first predetermined temperature or higher of the coolant within the air conditioning circuit. | 05-19-2016 |
20160141690 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An object is to suppress drying of a fuel cell during continuous operation with high load. There is provided a fuel cell system including a fuel cell. The fuel cell system comprises an impedance detector that is configured to detect an impedance of the fuel cell; and a current limiter that is configured to limit an output current of the fuel cell with a limiting rate. The current limiter changes the limiting rate, based on the detected. impedance. | 05-19-2016 |