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20090140161 | Electrostatic deflector - An electrostatic deflector that can be manufactured easily and very accurately without using a member for positioning is provided. After multiple slits | 06-04-2009 |
20100108918 | EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS - An extreme ultraviolet light source apparatus comprises a target supply unit supplying a target into a vacuum chamber, a laser oscillator outputting a laser light into the vacuum chamber, a collector mirror outputting an extreme ultraviolet light outside by reflecting the extreme ultraviolet light emitted from the target being ionized as a plasma by irradiation with the laser light at a plasma luminescence point in the vacuum chamber, and an ion debris removal unit at least a part of which is located in an obscuration region including the plasma luminescence point. | 05-06-2010 |
20100120515 | GAME SYSTEM, GAME CONTROL METHOD, INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM - To provide a game system that makes players' play order comply with a predetermined rule but nevertheless allows, with appropriate measure, any delaying player to join the game, each terminal device constituting the system stores in a storage unit game's stage/delay information regarding all players including players operating other terminal devices, a stage updating unit updates the storage unit based on an operation entry accepted by an operation entry unit from an owner player as a play determining unit determines that the owner player's turn has come, and an operation entry received by an operation receiving unit from any other terminal device, and a delay updating unit updates the storage unit when an abort entry unit accepts an abort entry from the player or an abort notification is received, or updates delay information when stage information is updated. | 05-13-2010 |
20110053974 | CARBOXYLIC ACID COMPOUND - To find a therapeutic agent and/or a preventive agent for diabetes mellitus or the like having excellent activity and safety. A compound represented by the following general formula (I), or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof. In the formula, X represents ═C(R5)- or ═N—; Y represents —O— or —NH—; L represents a bond or a substitutable C1-C3 alkylene group; M represents a substitutable C3-C10 cycloalkyl group, a substitutable C6-C10 aryl group, or a substitutable heterocyclic group; R | 03-03-2011 |
20110196976 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A communication system including a SIP client, a proxy, and a node. When the node relays a SIP message sent for the SIP client, the node replaces management information set up in a parameter with an ID, and stores the ID and the management information by associating them with each other. When the node relays a SIP message in which the stored ID is set up, the node replaces the ID with the management information associated with the ID. When an ID is set up in a parameter of a received SIP message, the SIP client stores the parameter and the ID by associating them with each other. When the client sends a SIP message that includes the stored parameter, an ID associated with the parameter is set up in the parameter. | 08-11-2011 |
20110266468 | EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS - An extreme ultraviolet light source apparatus comprises a target supply unit supplying a target into a vacuum chamber, a laser oscillator outputting a laser light into the vacuum chamber, a collector mirror outputting an extreme ultraviolet light outside by reflecting the extreme ultraviolet light emitted from the target being ionized as a plasma by irradiation with the laser light at a plasma luminescence point in the vacuum chamber, and an ion debris removal unit at least a part of which is located in an obscuration region including the plasma luminescence point. | 11-03-2011 |
20110284774 | TARGET OUTPUT DEVICE AND EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS - A target output device may include: a main body for storing a target material; a nozzle unit, connected to the main body, for outputting the target material as a target; an electrode unit provided so as to face the nozzle unit; a voltage control unit that applies predetermined voltage between the electrode unit and the target material to generate electrostatic force therebetween for pulling out the target material through the nozzle unit; a pressure control unit that applies predetermined pressure to the target material; and an output control unit that causes the target to be outputted through the nozzle unit by controlling signal output timing of each of a first timing signal and a second timing signal, the first timing signal causing the voltage control unit to apply the predetermined voltage between the target material and the electrode unit at first timing, and the second timing signal causing the pressure control unit to apply the predetermined pressure to the target material at second timing. | 11-24-2011 |
20140178349 | Cycloalkyl-Substituted Imidazole Derivative - A compound represented by the following general formula (I) or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof, wherein A represents a C3 to C12 cycloalkyl group which may be substituted by one to three selected from a fluoro group, a hydroxy group, a C1 to C6 alkyl group, etc; R | 06-26-2014 |
20150377801 | X-RAY NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING DEVICE - There is provided an X-ray nondestructive testing device which irradiates X-rays to an article, the article including a substrate having a predetermined X-ray absorption coefficient and a measurement target object disposed therein and having another X-ray absorption coefficient differing from that of the substrate, the device including: an X-ray source configured to irradiate the X-rays to the article; a detector configured to detect the transmission amounts of the X-rays passed through the article at at least paired different locations; a detection position specifying designator configured to specify the paired different locations as a set of paired locations based on a pre-stored design information; a driving mechanism configured to move the detector to the set of paired locations; and an operation calculator configured to calculate the thickness of the measurement target object based on the transmission amounts of the X-rays detected by the detector. | 12-31-2015 |
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20100302571 | Image forming system having information processing apparatus controlling guidance display on image forming apparatus - An information processing apparatus includes: an input device receiving an input of information related to a document to be processed in the image forming apparatus and an input determining manner of output from the image forming apparatus as a result of processing of the document; a process request generating device, connected to receive an output from the input device, for generating a process request including guidance information necessary to generate guidance of an operation to be performed by a user in the image forming apparatus, so that the document is output from the image forming apparatus in a manner determined in accordance with an input received by the input device, and output manner specifying information specifying the manner of output of the document from the image forming apparatus; and a transfer device, connected to receive an output of the process request generating device, for transferring the process request generated by the process request generating device to the image forming apparatus. | 12-02-2010 |
20120164732 | CANCER TISSUE-DERIVED CELL MASS AND A PROCESS FOR PREPARING SAME - Disclosed is a novel cell mass derived from a cancer tissue, which can reflect the in vivo behavior of a cancer cell correctly. Also disclosed is a process for preparing the cell mass. Specifically disclosed is a cell mass derived from a cancer tissue, which is an separated product that is isolated from a cancer tissue obtained from an individual as a mass containing at least three cancer cells or a cultured product of the separated product and which can retain a proliferation ability in vitro. The cell mass derived from a cancer tissue is produced by, for example, a preparation process comprising the steps of: treating a pulverized product of a cancer tissue removed from a living body with an enzyme; and selecting and collecting a mass containing at least three cancer cells among from an enzymatic treatment product. | 06-28-2012 |
20130012404 | CULTURE METHOD, EVALUATION METHOD AND STORAGE METHOD FOR CANCER-TISSUE-DERIVED CELL MASS OR AGGREGATED CANCER CELL MASS - It is intended to provide a method for culturing a novel cancer tissue-derived cell mass or a novel aggregated cancer cell mass that can reflect the behavior of cancer cells accurately in vivo. First, a cancer tissue-derived cell mass or an aggregated cancer cell mass is prepared from an individual. The novel cancer tissue-derived cell mass or the novel aggregated cancer cell mass is cultured, and the properties are evaluated using the cultured cell mass. Examples of the evaluation of properties include the evaluation of genes and the evaluation of culture conditions. In addition, the cancer tissue-derived cell mass or the aggregated cancer cell mass can be stored. It is possible to establish an optimal therapeutic method for an individual efficiently by linking the clinical information or the genetic information on the individual to the stored cancer tissue-derived cell mass or the stored aggregated cancer cell mass. | 01-10-2013 |
20140128272 | Method for Inducing Dormancy of Cancer Tissue-Derived Cell Mass and Method for Evaluating Treating Means with the Use of Cancer-Tissue-Derived Cell Mass - Provided are a method for retaining in a dormant state a cancer tissue-derived cell mass that can reflect accurately the in vivo behavior of cancer cells, and an evaluation method for examining the sensitivity to various treatments including a drug sensitivity test by using a cancer tissue-derived cell mass in such a dormant state. The cancer tissue-derived cell mass is prepared from an individual. Such a cancer tissue-derived cell mass is cultured in vitro under the conditions of hypoxia and low levels of growth factors. Furthermore, a treatment with a drug, etc. is applied in vitro to the cancer tissue-derived cell mass in the dormant state so that evaluation is achieved by examination of its proliferation state, determination of life and death, and analysis of signals. | 05-08-2014 |
20140247430 | IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - In an image display system, a light distribution forming lens is placed between a laser light source and a spatial light modulator or a MEMS mirror device for adjusting a distribution of light intensity of the laser light so that light intensity at an exit pupil of a projection lens is greater in a radially intermediate part thereof than in a central part thereof. The light distribution lens is provided with a conical incident surface and a convex exit surface so as to function also as a collimator lens. Thereby, the image display system can be constructed as a highly compact unit that is highly efficient in the use of available light and free from the problem of speckle noises. | 09-04-2014 |
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20090147121 | SOLID STATE IMAGING DEVICE - A solid state imaging device including a plurality of photo diodes disposed in a matrix shape, a vertical transfer unit disposed along each vertical column of the photo diodes, and a horizontal transfer unit in which a predetermined number, two or more, of adjacent vertical transfer units are used as one group to correspond to a unit transfer bit, wherein at least one charge transfer unit corresponding to each group of the vertical transfer unit is provided for each group. | 06-11-2009 |
20120037787 | IMAGE SENSOR - An image sensor comprises, a substrate, a plurality of photoelectric converters mounted on the substrate, for each of which a photoelectric conversion layer is formed of an organic compound layer and is sandwiched between an anode and a cathode so as to perform photoelectric conversion based on incident light, drive circuits for detecting output provided by a signal current generated by the photoelectric converters and for reading signal charges, and a wiring for electrically connecting the photoelectric converters and the drive circuits, wherein, for the plurality of the photoelectric converters that form one read pixels, the size of a photoelectric conversion area differs in accordance with a sensitivity of each of the plurality of photoelectric converters. | 02-16-2012 |
20120293774 | PROJECTOR LENS SYSTEM AND IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM USING SAME - In a projector lens system including at least three lens elements and telecentric on a side of an optical modulator, two of the lens elements located on outer most ends of the projector lens system facing conjugate points of the projector lens system consist of plastic lenses, and an aperture stop of the projector lens system is located between the two outer most lens elements while at least one of the lens elements other than the two outer most lens elements most adjacent to the aperture stop consists of a glass lens. Thereby, the cost and weight of the projector lens system can be reduced while achieving the required optical properties. | 11-22-2012 |
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20090050119 | System and Method for Determining Acceleration of an Internal Combustion Engine - An ECU for determining whether a request for acceleration is made to a supercharged internal combustion engine includes an acceleration request determining unit that determines whether a pressure difference between the upstream pressure and downstream pressure of a throttle valve disposed in an intake system is equal to or smaller than a predetermined value, and determines that a request for acceleration is made when the pressure difference is equal to or smaller than the predetermined value. The ECU also includes a variable valve actuating mechanism control unit that controls an InVVT and an ExVVT so that the intake charging efficiency and output torque of the engine become equal to the maximum intake charging efficiency and output torque at a certain downstream pressure when the acceleration request determining unit determines that a request for acceleration is made. | 02-26-2009 |
20110160984 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - Disclosed is a control device for an internal combustion engine that is used with an internal combustion engine having an EGR catalyst and an EGR valve in an EGR path for connecting an exhaust path to an intake path, and capable of preventing the purification performance of the EGR catalyst from being degraded during EGR stoppage and purifying exhaust gas in a preferred manner upon EGR resumption. When EGR is stopped with the EGR valve closed, the control device judges whether an EGR path air-fuel ratio is richer than a threshold value. If the EGR path air-fuel ratio is judged to be richer than the threshold value, the control device sets a target air-fuel ratio for the internal combustion engine to be leaner than a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio. | 06-30-2011 |
20110232269 | CATALYST DETERIORATION DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - In an internal combustion engine including an EGR device with an EGR catalyst in some of exhaust systems, an oxygen occlusion capacity of a catalyst disposed in an exhaust collecting pipe of it is obtained with high precision, and based on the result, deterioration of the catalyst can be accurately diagnosed. A catalyst deterioration diagnostic device for an internal combustion engine of the present invention implements active air-fuel ratio control which forcefully changes an air-fuel ratio of an exhaust gas which flows into a main catalyst between a lean side and a rich side with stoichiometry as a center. The catalyst deterioration diagnostic device measures an oxygen occlusion capacity of the main catalyst by using signals outputted from an air-fuel ratio sensor upstream from the main catalyst and an oxygen sensor downstream from the main catalyst at a time of implementation of the active air-fuel ratio control, and diagnoses deterioration of the main catalyst from the measurement result of the oxygen occlusion capacity. In the active air-fuel ratio control according to the catalyst deterioration diagnostic device of the present invention, when the EGR device with the EGR catalyst is stopped, a target air-fuel ratio of a cylinder group with the EGR device not provided in an exhaust system is changed with a large amplitude between the lean side and the rich side with stoichiometry as a center, and a target air-fuel ratio of a cylinder group with the EGR device provided in an exhaust system is kept stoichiometric. | 09-29-2011 |
20110282539 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE AND MEASURING DEVICE OF MASS FLOW RATE OF NOx RECIRCULATED TO INTAKE PASSAGE WITH BLOWBY GAS - A mass flow rate of NOx which is recirculated to an intake passage with a blowby gas is obtained with high precision, and based on the result, a state of an internal combustion engine can be accurately diagnosed. A control device for an internal combustion engine of the present invention measures a NOx concentration in an intake passage downstream from a position where the blowby gas is recirculated, and similarly measures an oxygen concentration in the intake passage downstream from the aforesaid position. Further, the control device measures a mass flow rate of fresh air taken into the intake passage. The control device calculates a mass flow rate of the blowby gas recirculated to the intake passage from the oxygen concentration and the mass flow rate of the fresh air. Next, the control device calculates a mass flow rate of all gases in the intake passage from the mass flow rate of the fresh air and the mass flow rate of the blowby gas. Subsequently, the control device calculates the mass flow rate of NOx in the aforesaid intake passage from the mass flow rate of all the gases and the NOx concentration. The present control device diagnoses the state of the internal combustion engine based on the mass flow rate of NOx thus calculated. | 11-17-2011 |
20120210987 | ABNORMALITY DETECTION DEVICE FOR EXHAUST GAS RECIRCULATION APPARATUS - An abnormality detection device for an exhaust gas recirculation apparatus is provided that can perform abnormality detection with respect to an EGR valve while suppressing the influence of a size relationship between an intake pressure and an exhaust pressure. An ECU (Electronic Control Unit) executes processing for extracting a pulse from an intake pipe pressure value. The ECU executes arithmetic processing for performing Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) with respect to an output waveform of an intake pressure sensor obtained by sampling processing, and also executes extraction processing that extracts a “frequency component corresponding to a period of an exhaust pulse”. The ECU executes processing that determines, in steps, whether or not the size of the extracted pulse (amplitude size) exceeds a threshold value. If the amplitude size exceeds the threshold value, the ECU executes processing that determines that a totally closed abnormality is occurring in the EGR valve. | 08-23-2012 |
20120259532 | CONTROL APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - An object of this invention is, even when executing WGV control, to stably control an air-fuel ratio in parallel therewith. An engine includes a supercharger, a waste gate valve (WGV) and the like. An ECU calculates a wall-surface fuel adherence amount that is an amount of fuel adhering to a wall surface of an intake port based on a plurality of parameters including a degree of opening of the WGV or an indicator corresponding to the degree of opening. The calculated wall-surface fuel adherence amount is reflected in a fuel injection amount. Thus, even when executing WGV control, a state of a blowback amount of exhaust gas that varies with the degree of opening of the WGV can be reflected in the wall-surface fuel adherence amount, in other words, the fuel injection amount, and thus a disturbance of the air-fuel ratio or the like caused by changes in the blowback amount can be suppressed. | 10-11-2012 |
20130019846 | CONTROL APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine is provided that can favorably determine a shut-off failure of an EGR valve under a high intake pressure condition in which an intake pressure becomes higher than an exhaust pressure. In a case where the high intake pressure condition and a transition condition are established at a time of a shut-off instruction on shutting off the EGR valve, it is determined that a shut-off failure of the EGR valve has occurred if an actual measurement value of the air-fuel ratio of exhaust gas detected by a main air-fuel ratio sensor is a value that is leaner by an amount equal to or greater than a predetermined lean determination value relative to a target value of the air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas. | 01-24-2013 |
20140053813 | CONTROL APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - Provided is a control apparatus for an internal combustion engine, which can adequately perform the control of a fuel injection amount even when an abnormality, a disconnection or the like of a fuel pressure sensor occurs and thereby accurate fuel pressure information is not able to be obtained. | 02-27-2014 |
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20120111616 | ELECTRONIC-COMPONENT-MOUNTED WIRING SUBSTRATE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An electronic-component-mounted wiring substrate provides enhanced joining reliability when an electronic component is joined to terminal pads of the wiring substrate, has sufficient strength, and can prevent generation of warpage and formation of a short circuit, which would otherwise occur as a result of re-melting of solder. Solder completely covers an entire surface of each of the terminal pads provided on a laminated substrate such that they project therefrom, and also joins to terminals of the electronic component. Therefore, each of the terminal pads and the solder are joined together reliably, and sufficient electrical continuity is secured therebetween. That is, the reliability of a joint between the solder and each terminal pad is extremely high, and the reliability of joint between the terminal pads and the electronic component is extremely high. | 05-10-2012 |
20120186857 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING WIRING BOARD FOR MOUNTING ELECTRONIC COMPONENT, WIRING BOARD FOR MOUNTING ELECTRONIC COMPONENT, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING WIRING BOARD HAVING AN ELECTRONIC COMPONENT - A method for manufacturing a wiring board for mounting an electronic component, a wiring board for mounting an electronic component, and a method for manufacturing an electronic-component-mounted wiring board are provided. A bonding material paste, which can include solder and an electric insulation material made of a resin, can be placed on chip mount terminal pads and heated to fuse the solder and soften the electric insulation material. Subsequently, the solder is solidified to form solder bumps. Further, the electric insulation material is cured on a surface of each of the solder bumps and a surface of a multilayer board around each of the solder bumps to form an electric insulation surface layer. Accordingly, when a chip is mounted to such wiring boards, the electric insulation surface layer minimizes or eliminates the connection between adjacent solder bumps during re-fusing of the solder. | 07-26-2012 |
20120186863 | MULTILAYER WIRING BOARD - A multilayer wiring board including a build-up layer comprising a conductor layer and a resin insulation layer that are alternately layered, conductive pads formed on a surface of a resin insulation layer so as to project from the surface, and a solder layer formed over an upper surface of each of the conductive pads is provided. The upper surface of the conductive pads may have a recess, and the entire surface of the solder layer may be situated at an elevated position with respect to an outer periphery portion of the upper surface. Embodiments make it possible to feed and hold a sufficient amount of solder paste on the upper surface of conductive pads, thereby minimizing or eliminating the occurrence of defective connections to a semiconductor element and damage to the solder layer caused by an insufficient thickness of the solder layer. | 07-26-2012 |
20120186864 | WIRING BOARD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A wiring board and a method for manufacturing the wiring board reinforced by means of a resin is provided. Embodiments of the wiring board allow for reliable attachment of a connection member, like a socket, to a terminal member. For example, a base of terminal pins is put on pin grid array (PGA) terminal pads, and a bonding material paste including solder and an electric insulation material made of a resin is placed on each of the PGA terminal pads. The bonding material paste is then heated to fuse the solder and soften the electric insulation material. Subsequently, the bonding material paste is cooled to solidify the solder and bond each of the bases to a corresponding PGA terminal pad and form an electric insulation surface layer on an exposed surface of each of solder junctions to which the respective bases are bonded. | 07-26-2012 |
20120211271 | MULTILAYER WIRING BOARD - A multilayer wiring board including a build-up layer, formed from one or more conductor and resin insulation layers that are layered one on top of the other, having conductive pads formed on a surface of at least one resin insulation layer so as to project from the surface are provided. The conductive pads may each include a columnar portion situated at a lower part thereof and a convex portion situated at a higher part thereof, wherein a surface of the convex portion may assume a continual curved shape. A solder layer may be formed over an upper surface of the conductive pads. Certain embodiments make it possible to minimize or eliminate the concentration of stress on the conductive pads, and may inhibit the occurrence of defective connections to a semiconductor element and infliction of damage to the conductive pads. | 08-23-2012 |
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20130098670 | WIRING SUBSTRATE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME - Embodiments of the present invention provide a wiring substrate that includes a structure where a plurality of projection electrodes are arranged within an electrode formation region on a substrate main surface. At least one among the plurality of projection electrodes has a larger outer diameter than an outer diameter of a via conductor and is a variant projection electrode which has a roughened upper surface. Embodiments of the present invention also provide methods for manufacturing wiring substrates having one or more of said variant projection electrode. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100626 | WIRING SUBSTRATE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME - Embodiments of the present invention provide a wiring substrate having a structure where a plurality of projection electrodes are arranged within an electrode formation region on a substrate main surface. At least one among a plurality of the projection electrodes is a variant projection electrode which has a recess portion on an upper surface, an outer diameter at the upper end that is larger than an outer diameter at the lower end, and a reverse trapezoidal cross-section shape. Embodiments of the present invention also provide methods for manufacturing wiring substrates having one or more of said variant projection electrode. | 04-25-2013 |
20130180772 | WIRING BOARD AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Embodiments provide a wiring board which is structured to be suitable for connection with components, whereby its reliability can be improved. An embodied wiring board of the invention has pads and a solder resist in which opening portions which expose the pads are formed. Protrusion-shaped members are fixed to some of the surfaces of the pads. The surfaces of the pads and the surfaces of the protrusion-shaped members are covered with solder bumps. The height of the solder bumps is larger than the height H | 07-18-2013 |
20150136449 | MULTILAYERED WIRING SUBSTRATE - [Objective] To provide a multilayer wiring substrate in which, even when a core substrate is thinned, the core substrate can reliably accommodate a capacitor. | 05-21-2015 |