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20100308795 | SENSOR APPARATUS - The present invention relates to a sensor apparatus having a structure capable of obtaining digital values of signal components with a high accuracy using an A/D conversing circuit with the outputted digital value thereof having a small number of expressive bits. In the sensor apparatus, a voltage value corresponding to the amount of incident light to a photodiode is held by a holding circuit through an integrating circuit and a CDS circuit. Meanwhile, a voltage value corresponding to the amount of incident light to an adjacent photodiode is held by another holding circuit through an integrating circuit and a CDS circuit. The voltage values held by the respective different holding circuits are inputted to a subtracting circuit through different paths. The subtracting circuit outputs a voltage value corresponding to the difference between the two inputted voltage values. In an A/D converting section, the difference voltage outputted from the subtracting circuit is converted into a digital value. | 12-09-2010 |
20110149134 | SENSOR APPARATUS - The present invention relates to a sensor apparatus having a structure capable of obtaining digital values of signal components with a high accuracy using an A/D conversing circuit with the outputted digital value thereof having a small number of expressive bits. In the sensor apparatus, a voltage value corresponding to the amount of incident light to a photodiode is held by a holding circuit through an integrating circuit and a CDS circuit. Meanwhile, a voltage value corresponding to the amount of incident light to an adjacent photodiode is held by another holding circuit through an integrating circuit and a CDS circuit. The voltage values held by the respective different holding circuits are inputted to a subtracting circuit through different paths. The subtracting circuit outputs a voltage value corresponding to the difference between the two inputted voltage values. In an A/D converting section, the difference voltage outputted from the subtracting circuit is converted into a digital value. | 06-23-2011 |
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20080210187 | ENGINE START CONTROLLER - An engine start controller having a starter motor that is driven by battery to start engine, an activation switch that sends to the starter motor a START command for starting the engine, an activation circuit that connects the starter motor to the battery to supply a drive current, and an engine start control unit that issues an OPERATE command for operating the activation circuit when receiving the START command from the activation switch, and supplies the drive current to the starter motor. The controller is provided with a bypass circuit that directly sends to the activation circuit the START command that has been sent from the activation switch. | 09-04-2008 |
20090241652 | ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION CONTROL DEVICE FOR MOTOR VEHICLE - The control device, which is driven by an engine mounted on the vehicle, generates electric power and determines a power generation voltage for supplying the electric power to an electrical load and the electricity storage means, comprising electricity storage amount detection means for detecting an amount of electricity stored in the electricity storage means, by integrating an input/output current to/from the electricity storage means, voltage lowering means for lowering the power generation voltage when a predetermined electricity storage amount is detected by the electricity storage amount detection means, time measuring means for measuring time elapsed after termination of charging/discharging of the electricity storage means, and lowering prohibition means for prohibiting the power generation voltage from being lowered by the voltage lowering means if the time elapsed after termination of the charging/discharging is longer than or equal to a predetermined time. | 10-01-2009 |
20090243489 | ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION CONTROL DEVICE FOR MOTOR VEHICLE - An electric power generation control device for a motor vehicle is provided which ensures a satisfactory regenerative effect without entailing flickering of or reduction in life of headlights even if the headlights are turned on at all times. The electric power generation control device lowers the power generation voltage of an alternator when the electricity storage amount of a battery is at or above a predetermined level. While lighting of a headlight bulb is detected, lowering of the power generation voltage is restrained if the state of sunlight is equivalent to nighttime, and the power generation voltage is allowed to be lowered if the sunlight state is equivalent to daytime. | 10-01-2009 |
20120316740 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR MOTOR VEHICLE - A motor vehicle to which a control device is applied includes an idling stop control section for stopping operation of an engine when a predetermined stopping condition is fulfilled while the engine is idling, and a neutral-at-idle control section for shifting a transmission of the vehicle into neutral when a predetermined shift-into-neutral condition is fulfilled. While a post-stoppage elapsed time measured by a timer is shorter than or equal to a predetermined time after the vehicle stops moving, operation of the engine is stopped by the idling stop control section if the predetermined stopping condition is fulfilled but shifting of the transmission into neutral by the neutral-at-idle control section is prohibited even if the shift-into-neutral condition is fulfilled. | 12-13-2012 |
20150240728 | OUTPUT CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - An output control device configured to control the output of a running drive source mounted on a vehicle includes an anomaly discriminator which judges that the output control device is anomalous, if excess acceleration G (output difference index) of the vehicle remains greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold value G1, . . . , G7 for a predetermined time t | 08-27-2015 |
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20120288703 | SEA-ISLAND COMPOSITE FIBER, ULTRAFINE FIBER, AND COMPOSITE SPINNERET - A sea-island composite fiber has an island component which is ultrafine fibers having a noncircular cross-section, the ultrafine fibers being uniform in the degree of non-circularity and in the diameter of the circumscribed circle. The sea-island composite fiber includes an easily soluble polymer as the sea component and a sparingly soluble polymer as the island component, and the island component has a circumscribed-circle diameter of 10-1,000 nm, a dispersion in circumscribed-circle diameter of 1-20%, a degree of non-circularity of 1.2-5.0, and a dispersion in the degree of non-circularity of 1-10%. | 11-15-2012 |
20150132428 | COMPOSITE SPINNERET - A composite spinneret for discharging a composite polymer stream consisting of at least two or more component polymers, which includes a metering plate having multiple metering holes for metering respective component polymers, a distribution plate with multiple distribution holes formed in the distribution grooves for joining the polymer streams discharged from the metering holes, and a discharge plate. | 05-14-2015 |
20150184315 | SEA-ISLAND COMPOSITE FIBER - A sea-island composite fiber includes island component fibers having a circumscribed circle diameter of 10 to 1000 nm, a circumscribed circle diameter variation of 1 to 20%, a non-circularity of 1.2 to 5.0, and a non-circularity variation of 1 to 10%. | 07-02-2015 |
20150299906 | SEA-ISLAND COMPOSITE FIBER, MIXED YARN AND FIBER PRODUCT - A sea-island composite fiber includes two or more kinds of island components having different cross section shapes of which an irregularity difference is 0.2 or more in a same fiber cross section, wherein at least one kind of island component has an irregularity of 1.2 to 5.0 and an irregularity coefficient of variation of 1.0 to 10.0%. | 10-22-2015 |
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20140120336 | COMPOSITE FIBER - The fiber cross-section of an island-in-a-sea composite fiber perpendicular to the fiber axis, the island component and sea component are arranged such that the sea component surrounds the island components. The composite cross-section is very consistent, and the fiber has excellent post-processibility. The island-in-a-sea composite fiber wherein diameter of the island component is 10 to 1000 nm, variation of the island component diameter is 1.0 to 20.0%, modification ratio is 1.00 to 1.10, and variation of the modification ratio is 1.0 to 10.0%. | 05-01-2014 |
20140193640 | ISLANDS-IN-SEA FIBER - An islands-in-sea fiber includes island components and a sea component arranged to surround the island components, wherein the island components and the sea component are composed of at least two polymers and are provided on a fiber cross-section in a direction perpendicular to the fiber axis. The islands-in-sea fiber is a raw yarn for a combined filament yarn, which can be used to produce a cloth having good tension and drape and an excellent color-developing property. An islands-in-sea fiber in which at least two types of island components having different diameters are arranged on the same fiber cross section, the islands-in-sea fiber characterized in that at least one type of the island components have diameters of 10-1000 nm and have fluctuations in diameters of 1.0-20.0%. | 07-10-2014 |
20150329991 | COMPOSITE SPINNERET, MULTICOMPONENT FIBER, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING MULTICOMPONENT FIBER - A multicomponent fiber includes a sea component and an island component, wherein in cross-section observation of the multicomponent fiber, the multicomponent fiber includes a sea-island region with the plurality of island components arranged in the sea component; and one or more sea component regions formed only of the sea component between the sea-island region, and a width (H) of the sea component region is larger than a maximum value of a distance (W) between island components existing in the sea-island region and neighboring each other. | 11-19-2015 |
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20080297630 | IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGING METHOD - According to an aspect of an embodiment, an imaging device has a black level reference generator for generating a reference value of a black level by calculating an average value of the accumulated pixel values for which the maximum values and/or minimum values has been replaced by the compensational pixel values, and an output compensator for compensating an output from the light sensitive pixels with the reference value of the black level. | 12-04-2008 |
20090009822 | Solid-State Image Pickup Device and Image Pickup Method - A solid-state image pickup device and image pickup method eliminate a dark-current component by adjusting the black level appropriately even if the dark-current component varies among horizontal lines. A pixel array includes light-receiving pixel elements and light-blocking pixel elements disposed such that horizontal lines include the light-blocking pixel elements individually. A readout circuit block reads pixel signals of each of the horizontal lines from the pixel array, inputs the pixel signals to ADC circuits (column ADC circuit block), and outputs the pixel signals of the light-blocking pixel elements. A ramp signal generation circuit obtains the pixel signals of the light-blocking pixel elements output from the readout circuit block, generates a ramp signal by using a reference level of AD conversion adjusted for each of the horizontal lines in accordance with the obtained pixel signals of the light-blocking pixel elements, and inputs the ramp signal to the ADC circuits. | 01-08-2009 |
20090243697 | LEVEL SHIFT CIRCUIT, METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME, AND SEMICONDUCTOR CIRCUIT DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - A level shift circuit includes a level shift section for receiving a low potential signal oscillating between a high potential and a ground potential and converting it into a high potential signal oscillating between the high potential and the ground potential, the level shift section being connected to at least a high potential power supply for generating the high potential, a low potential power supply for generating the low potential, and a ground power supply for generating the ground potential, an inverter section for inverting-amplifying the high potential signal from the level shift section, and an N-type MOS transistor for supplying the ground potential to the inverter section, the N-type MOS transistor being connected in series to the inverter section between the high potential power supply and the ground power supply and having its gate electrode connected to the low potential power supply. | 10-01-2009 |
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20100191530 | SPEECH UNDERSTANDING APPARATUS - A speech understanding apparatus includes a speech recognition unit which performs speech recognition of an utterance using multiple language models, and outputs multiple speech recognition results obtained by the speech recognition, a language understanding unit which uses multiple language understanding models to perform language understanding for each of the multiple speech recognition results output from the speech recognition unit, and outputs multiple speech understanding results obtained from the language understanding, and an integrating unit which calculates, based on values representing features of the speech understanding results, utterance batch confidences that numerically express accuracy of the speech understanding results for each of the multiple speech understanding results output from the language understanding unit, and selects one of the speech understanding results with a highest utterance batch confidence among the calculated utterance batch confidences. | 07-29-2010 |
20110010177 | QUESTION AND ANSWER DATABASE EXPANSION APPARATUS AND QUESTION AND ANSWER DATABASE EXPANSION METHOD - A question and answer database expansion apparatus includes: a question and answer database in which questions and answers corresponding to the questions are registered in association with each other, a first speech recognition unit which carries out speech recognition for an input sound signal by using a language model based on the question and answer database, and outputs a first speech recognition result as the recognition result, a second speech recognition unit which carries out speech recognition for the input sound signal by using a language model based on a large vocabulary database, and outputs a second speech recognition result as the recognition result, and a question detection unit which detects an unregistered utterance, which is not registered in the question and answer database, from the input sound based on the first speech recognition result and the second speech recognition result, and outputs the detected unregistered utterance. | 01-13-2011 |
20110112839 | COMMAND RECOGNITION DEVICE, COMMAND RECOGNITION METHOD, AND COMMAND RECOGNITION ROBOT - A command recognition device includes: an utterance understanding unit that determines or selects word sequence information from speech information; speech confidence degree calculating unit that calculates degree of speech confidence based on the speech information and the word sequence information; a phrase confidence degree calculating unit that calculates a degree of phrase confidence based on image information and phrase information included in the word sequence information; and a motion control instructing unit that determines whether a command of the word sequence information should be executed based on the degree of speech confidence and the degree of phrase confidence. | 05-12-2011 |
20110141306 | Image capturing device, method of searching for occlusion region, and program - An image capturing device is equipped with an external parameter estimating unit for estimating external parameters using a distance image obtained by a TOF camera and a luminance image obtained by a CCD camera, a corresponding pixel determining unit for determining a correspondence relationship between pixel positions in the distance image and pixel positions in the luminance image, using previously stored internal parameters of the TOF camera and the CCD camera or the CCD camera, and the external parameters, and an occlusion searching unit for searching for an occlusion region in the distance image, using the correspondence relationship between pixel positions in the distance image and pixel positions in the luminance image. | 06-16-2011 |
20110184737 | SPEECH RECOGNITION APPARATUS, SPEECH RECOGNITION METHOD, AND SPEECH RECOGNITION ROBOT - A speech recognition apparatus includes a speech input unit that receives input speech, a phoneme recognition unit that recognizes phonemes of the input speech and generates a first phoneme sequence representing corrected speech, a matching unit that matches the first phoneme sequence with a second phoneme sequence representing original speech, and a phoneme correcting unit that corrects phonemes of the second phoneme sequence based on the matching result. | 07-28-2011 |
20130013290 | LANGUAGE PROCESSOR - A referring expression processor which uses a probabilistic model and in which referring expressions including descriptive, anaphoric and deictic expressions are understood and generated in the course of dialogue is provided. The referring expression processor according to the present invention includes: a referring expression processing section which performs at least one of understanding and generation of referring expressions using a probabilistic model constructed with a referring expression Bayesian network, each referring expression Bayesian network representing relationships between a reference domain (D) which is a set of possible referents, a referent (X) in the reference domain, a concept (C) concerning the referent and a word (W) which represents the concept; and a memory which stores data necessary for constructing the referring expression Bayesian network. | 01-10-2013 |
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20100303252 | DATA RELAY APPARATUS, ACOUSTIC REPRODUCTION SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD OF THE SAME - In a system in which a plurality of speakers are connected to an acoustic reproduction apparatus which reproduces an acoustic signal input from an external sound source by transmitting the acoustic signal to each speaker, the acoustic reproduction apparatus transmits a control signal by superimposing the control signal on an acoustic signal to be transmit to each speaker. Each speaker generates a predetermined response signal in accordance with the transmitted control signal. When reproducing the acoustic signal, acoustic control is executed in accordance with the generated response signal. | 12-02-2010 |
20150139433 | SOUND CAPTURE APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A noise signal is estimated based on a captured audio signal captured from a sound capture unit. It is determined whether the estimated noise signal thus estimated is in a noiseless state. If it is determined that the estimated noise signal is in the noiseless state, the captured audio signal is analyzed as a target sound signal, and a characteristic obtained by the analysis is learned and modeled, thereby generating a target sound model. | 05-21-2015 |
20150208167 | SOUND PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SOUND PROCESSING METHOD - An audio matrix formed from absolute amplitude values of coefficients obtained by frequency-transforming an audio signal is generated. The audio matrix is factorized into a basis spectrum and activity matrices. Bases in the basis spectrum matrix are classified into bases concerning a target sound and bases concerning noise. Bases in the activity matrix are classified into bases concerning the target sound and bases concerning the noise. Bases concerning the target sound are obtained from the bases concerning the noise classified from the basis spectrum matrix. A matrix including frequency amplitude values of the target sound is obtained using the bases concerning the target sound classified from the basis spectrum matrix, the bases concerning the target sound and noise classified from the activity matrix, and the obtained bases. The audio signal of the target sound is generated using the matrix. | 07-23-2015 |
20150208171 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, MOVIE CAPTURING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME - An audio signal processing apparatus acquires a specific audio signal based on at least one of audio signals of multiple sound capturing channels captured by multiple microphones, cancels a signal corresponding to the specific audio signal in the audio signals of the sound capturing channels that are to be used in surround audio signal generation, and, using the specific audio signal and the audio signals in which the signal corresponding to the specific audio signal was canceled, generates a surround audio signal such that the sound source of the specific audio signal is located at a specified direction in the surround sound field. | 07-23-2015 |
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20080199921 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING GLUTAMATE DERIVATIVES - The present invention relates to a process for producing efficiently glutamic acid derivatives (including salts thereof) such as monatin by converting a substituted α-keto acid of formula (1) into a glutamic acid derivative of formula (2) in the presence of an enzyme catalyzing conversion of the same. | 08-21-2008 |
20090259052 | PROCESSES OF PRODUCING GLUTAMIC ACID COMPOUNDS AND PRODUCTION INTERMEDIATES THEREFORE AND NOVEL INTERMEDIATE FOR THE PROCESSES - The present invention relates to processes of producing glutamic acid compounds, for example, monatin, which are useful as, for example, production intermediates for sweetener or pharmaceutical products. | 10-15-2009 |
20100261234 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING GLUTAMATE DERIVATIVES - The present invention relates to a process for producing efficiently glutamic acid derivatives (including salts thereof) such as monatin by converting a substituted α-keto acid of formula (1) into a glutamic acid derivative of formula (2) in the presence of an enzyme catalyzing conversion of the same. | 10-14-2010 |
20100323411 | PROCESS OF PRODUCING GLUTAMATE DERIVATIVES - The present invention relates to a process for producing efficiently glutamic acid derivatives (including salts thereof) such as monatin by converting a substituted α-keto acid of formula (1) into a glutamic acid derivative of formula (2) in the presence of an enzyme catalyzing conversion of the same. | 12-23-2010 |
20110189738 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING GLUTAMATE DERIVATIVES - The present invention relates to a process for producing efficiently glutamic acid derivatives (including salts thereof) such as monatin by converting a substituted α-keto acid of formula (1) into a glutamic acid derivative of formula (2) in the presence of an enzyme catalyzing conversion of the same. | 08-04-2011 |
20120035373 | PROCESSES OF PRODUCING GLUTAMIC ACID COMPOUNDS AND PRODUCTION INTERMEDIATES THEREFORE AND NOVEL INTERMEDIATE FOR THE PROCESSES - The present invention relates to processes of producing glutamic acid compounds, for example, monatin, which are useful as, for example, production intermediates for sweetener or pharmaceutical products. | 02-09-2012 |
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20090321924 | Power Semiconductor Module - A power semiconductor module includes: a power semiconductor device; a first heat dissipation plate; a second heat dissipation plate; a first channel; a second channel; a first channel wall; a second channel wall; a first refrigerant outlet provided on the first channel wall in a position corresponding to the power semiconductor device; a second refrigerant outlet provided on the second channel wall in a position corresponding to the power semiconductor device; first pin fins provided on at least one of the first heat dissipation plate and the second heat dissipation plate so as to be arranged radially around at least one of the first refrigerant outlet and the second refrigerant outlet; and second pin fins arranged in a staggered manner or in a tessellated manner around the first pin fins that are arranged radially. | 12-31-2009 |
20110049976 | Electric Power Converter - An electric power converter for a vehicle, including a semiconductor element from which a motor drive current is output, a drive circuit that drives the semiconductor element, a control circuit that controls the drive circuit, a capacitor that smooths a DC current to be input to the semiconductor element, a container housing the semiconductor element, the drive circuit, the control circuit and the capacitor, a refrigerant retained in a state of vapor-liquid two-phase equilibrium within the container, and a heat exchanger unit that condenses the refrigerant in a vapor phase to be a liquid phase and exchanges heat with outside, wherein the semiconductor element, the drive circuit, the control circuit and the capacitor are disposed in a positional arrangement that will leave the semiconductor element, the drive circuit, the control circuit and the capacitor immersed in the refrigerant as the electric power converter is installed in the vehicle, and the heat exchanger unit is disposed at a side of a wall of the container forming a vapor-phase space. | 03-03-2011 |
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20080224303 | Power Semiconductor Module - A power semiconductor module with its thermal resistance and overall size reduced. Insulating substrates with electrode metal layers disposed thereon are joined to both the surfaces of a power semiconductor chip by using, for example, soldering. Metal layers are disposed also on the reverse surfaces of the insulating substrates and the metal layers are joined to the heat spreaders by using brazing. Heat radiating fins are provided on the heat radiating surface of at least one of the heat spreaders. The heat radiating side of each of the heat spreaders is covered by a casing to form a refrigerant chamber through which refrigerant flows to remove heat transmitted from the semiconductor chip to the heat spreader. | 09-18-2008 |
20080236247 | Evaluation System for Amount of Emission Gases Through Fuel Supply Chain - The object of the present invention provides an evaluation system for evaluating accurately emission amount of environmental influence substance of fuel in a fuel supply facility for supplying stored fuel to a consumer. | 10-02-2008 |
20090116197 | METHOD FOR POWER SEMICONDUCTOR MODULE FABRICATION, ITS APPARATUS, POWER SEMICONDUCTOR MODULE AND ITS JUNCTION METHOD - A power semiconductor module includes first and second insulating substrates, a power semiconductor device joined directly or through another element to opposite sides of the first and second insulating substrates and first and second heat spreaders joined with joining material having fluidity upon joining so as to put the first and second insulating substrates between the first and second heat spreaders. When the power semiconductor module is fabricated, the first and second insulating substrates are joined to the first and second heat spreaders, respectively, in the state that weight bearing on joining material is reduced by means of resilient member. | 05-07-2009 |
20140042611 | POWER CONVERTER - A power converter including: a plurality of semiconductor devices forming a power conversion circuit; a base section to which the plurality of semiconductor devices are attached; and radiating fins dissipating heat generated from the semiconductor devices into outside air, in the power converter in which the direction of the flow of a refrigerant flowing into the radiating fins changes depending on the operation status of the power conversion circuit, the shape of each radiating fin changes in such a way that the cross-sectional area of a channel of the refrigerant on the outflow side becomes smaller than the cross-sectional area of the channel of the refrigerant on the inflow side in the radiating fins depending on the direction of the flow of the refrigerant. | 02-13-2014 |
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20080303158 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE - In a semiconductor integrated circuit device having plural layers of buried wirings, it is intended to prevent the occurrence of a discontinuity caused by stress migration at an interface between a plug connected at a bottom thereof to a buried wiring and the buried wiring. For example, in the case where the width of a first Cu wiring is not smaller than about 0.9 μm and is smaller than about 1.44 μm, and the width of a second Cu wiring and the diameter of a plug are about 0.18 μm, there are arranged two or more plugs which connect the first wirings and the second Cu wirings electrically with each other. | 12-11-2008 |
20100203724 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE - A manufacturing technique is disclosed for producing a semiconductor integrated circuit device having plural layers of buried wirings, and such that there is prevented the occurrence of a discontinuity caused by stress migration at an interface between a plug connected at a bottom thereof to a buried wiring and the buried wiring. For example, in the case where the width of a first Cu wiring is not smaller than about 0.9 μm and is smaller than about 1.44 μm, and the width of a second Cu wiring and the diameter of a plug are about 0.18 μm, there are arranged two or more plugs which connect the first wirings and the second Cu wirings electrically with each other. | 08-12-2010 |
20110204486 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE - In a semiconductor integrated circuit device having plural layers of buried wirings, it is intended to prevent the occurrence of a discontinuity caused by stress migration at an interface between a plug connected at a bottom thereof to a buried wiring and the buried wiring. For example, in the case where the width of a first Cu wiring is not smaller than about 0.9 μm and is smaller than about 1.44 μm, and the width of a second Cu wiring and the diameter of a plug are about 0.18 μm, there are arranged two or more plugs which connect the first wirings and the second Cu wirings electrically with each other. | 08-25-2011 |
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20110014725 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SOLAR CELL MODULE - Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a solar cell module in which a wiring substrate having a base material and a wiring formed on the base material, and a plurality of solar cells electrically connected by being placed on the wiring of the wiring substrate are sealed with a sealant, including a first step of placing at least one of the solar cells on the wiring of the wiring substrate, and a second step of sealing the wiring substrate and the solar cells with the sealant, the method including the step of conducting an inspection of the solar cells after the first step and before the second step. | 01-20-2011 |
20110094562 | SOLAR BATTERY MODULE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Provided is a solar battery module wherein solar battery cells are electrically connected to each other by using a wiring board having a predetermined wiring pattern formed on a resin base material. A method for manufacturing such solar battery module is also provided. In the wiring board of the solar battery module, a direction wherein a design margin is small is permitted to be a direction wherein the thermal contraction ratio of the resin base material is small, by the shape of an electrode pattern on the solar battery cell and that of the wiring pattern on the wiring board. At the time of manufacturing such solar battery module, temperature in a heat treatment step is set at 100° C. or higher but not higher than 180° C. Electrode designing at a fine pitch is made possible and the solar battery module exhibits high solar battery characteristics, even when the solar battery cells are connected by using wiring boards composed of various types of resin materials having thermal compression ratio not sufficiently low. | 04-28-2011 |
20110300697 | METHOD OF FABRICATING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - Disclosed is a method of fabricating a semiconductor device, including the steps of forming a diffusion preventing mask on a surface of a semiconductor substrate, applying a dopant diffusing agent containing a dopant of a first conductivity type or a second conductivity type onto the surface of the semiconductor substrate at a spacing from the diffusion preventing mask, and forming a dopant diffusion layer by diffusing the dopant from the dopant diffusing agent into the semiconductor substrate. | 12-08-2011 |
20120325291 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING BACK ELECTRODE TYPE, SOLAR CELL, BACK ELECTRODE TYPE SOLAR CELL AND BACK ELECTRODE TYPE SOLAR CELL MODULE - A method for producing a back electrode type solar cell including the steps of forming a light-receiving surface diffusion layer and an anti-reflection film by applying, to a light-receiving surface of a silicon substrate, a solution containing a compound containing an impurity identical in conductivity type to the silicon substrate, a titanium alkoxide, and an alcohol, followed by heat treatment, and forming a light-receiving surface passivation film on the light-receiving surface of the silicon substrate by heat treatment; a back electrode type solar cell including a light-receiving surface diffusion layer, and an anti-reflection film on the light-receiving surface diffusion layer, made of titanium oxide containing an impurity identical in conductivity type to a silicon substrate; and a back electrode type solar cell module including the back electrode type solar cells. | 12-27-2012 |
20130069209 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the semiconductor device are provided. A semiconductor substrate has a surface on which an abrasion trace is formed, and a dopant diffusion region includes a portion extending in the direction at an angle within the range of −5° to +5° with respect to the direction in which the abrasion trace extends | 03-21-2013 |
20130125967 | SOLAR CELL - A solar cell includes a substrate, and a plurality of strip-shaped p type impurity diffusion regions and a plurality of strip-shaped n type impurity diffusion regions in one surface of the substrate adjacently. The p type impurity diffusion region has an area ratio of not less than 60%, an area ratio larger than 80%, in particular, to the surface of the substrate. | 05-23-2013 |
20140339682 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - Provided are a semiconductor device in which abrasive grain marks are formed in a surface of a semiconductor substrate, a dopant diffusion region has a portion extending in a direction which forms an angle included in a range of −5° to +5° with a direction in which the abrasive grain marks extend, and the dopant diffusion region is formed by diffusing a dopant from a doping paste placed on one surface of the semiconductor substrate; and a method for manufacturing the semiconductor device. | 11-20-2014 |
20150075676 | BASE RESIN FOR SOLDERING FLUX, SOLDERING FLUX AND SOLDER PASTE - The object of the present invention is to provide a soldering-flux-oriented novel base resin that enhances the fluidity of a soldering flux and both the visco-stability and adhesion of a solder paste, while improving the color tone and anti-crack property of the flux residue. The present invention is directed to a base resin for a soldering flux, the base resin comprising a rosin (A) containing at least 15 wt % of a pimarane-type resin acid (a-1), at least 1 wt % of a labdane-type resin acid (a-2), and at least 50 wt % of an abietane-type resin acid that has no conjugated double bond (a-3). | 03-19-2015 |