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20100305417 | BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION MEASUREMENT DEVICE CAPABLE OF ACCURATELY CONDUCTING MEASUREMENT, THAT CAN SAFELY BE USED - A biological information measurement device is constituted of an upper cover and a lower cover and a main body portion. Then, the upper cover and the lower cover are assembled such that they partially overlap with each other. A fingertip insertion portion is formed of a holding member, on which a substrate and a line of the main body portion are placed. By covering the whole main body by assembling the upper cover and the lower cover, the substrate and the line of the main body portion arranged on a side surface of the main body in the inside cannot externally be seen. | 12-02-2010 |
20120106041 | CONTROLLER DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A terminal device | 05-03-2012 |
20120106042 | DEVICE SUPPORT SYSTEM AND SUPPORT DEVICE - A terminal device | 05-03-2012 |
20120108329 | CONTROLLER DEVICE AND CONTROLLER SYSTEM - A terminal device | 05-03-2012 |
20120108340 | CONTROLLER DEVICE AND CONTROLLER SYSTEM - A controller system includes a terminal device | 05-03-2012 |
20140295966 | CONTROLLER DEVICE AND CONTROLLER SYSTEM - An example terminal device includes a generally plate-shaped housing, an LCD provided on the front side of the housing, analog sticks, and first and second buttons. The analog sticks are provided respectively in left and right portions of the LCD above the center of the housing. The first and second buttons are provided on the back side of the housing so as to generally correspond to the analog sticks on the front side of the housing. | 10-02-2014 |
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20090209346 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SIMULATING GAMES INVOLVING A BALL - A sports video game having a new and improved user interface that substantially increases the potential realism of the game uses a handheld controller that is able to sense its own position, orientation and/or motion and is affixed to a ball. The ball can be a model of a football that is provided with a depression that snugly accepts and retains the handheld controller. The handheld controller may sense motion, position and/or orientation of the ball and provide wireless inputs to a video game system. The video game system may process such inputs to provide a simulated sports action game play on a video display. | 08-20-2009 |
20090305572 | Secure and/or lockable connecting arrangement for video game system - Compatible mechanical and/or electrical connections to video game system accessories provide unique shape, design and dimensions that discourage or prevent non-compatible devices from being connected, connector configurations that allow connection only in a proper orientation to ensure electrical compatibility and eliminate the possibility of short-circuits, quick release locking arrangement firmly mechanically holds mating connectors together despite extensive movement of the game player's arms and hands, staged electrical contacting sequence provides proper signal application sequence, and wrist strap to tether handheld remote controller to hand is attached to a locking connector that mates with a connector of the remote controller. | 12-10-2009 |
20100197402 | SECURE AND/OR LOCKABLE CONNECTING ARRANGEMENT FOR VIDEO GAME SYSTEM - Compatible mechanical and/or electrical connections to video game system accessories provide unique shape, design and dimensions that discourage or prevent non-compatible devices from being connected, connector configurations that allow connection only in a proper orientation to ensure electrical compatibility and eliminate the possibility of short-circuits, quick release locking arrangement firmly mechanically holds mating connectors together despite extensive movement of the game player's arms and hands, staged electrical contacting sequence provides proper signal application sequence, and wrist strap to tether handheld remote controller to hand is attached to a locking connector that mates with a connector of the remote controller. | 08-05-2010 |
20140140032 | HAND-HELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND BATTERY UNIT - A non-limiting example hand-held electronic device includes a battery accommodating portion provided with an attaching portion which is formed in a rectangular shape in plain by longer first sides and shorter second sides, and formed with concave portions at corresponding positions on the first sides. A first battery unit is attached to the attaching portion by fitting first ends which form shorter sides of the first battery unit into the concave portions. When a second battery unit is to be attached to the same attaching portion, a second battery unit is attached within the first sides and the second sides without using the concave portions. | 05-22-2014 |
20140141652 | HAND-HELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE, BATTERY WITH CONNECTOR, BATTERY LID, CONNECTOR AND CONNECTOR DISCONNECTION PREVENTING METHOD - A non-limiting example electronic device includes a battery accommodating portion in which a battery unit is accommodated. A male connector is provided on wires drawn-out from a main unit of the battery unit, and the male connector is inserted (connected) to a female connector which is fixed on a circuit board provided within a housing, and a battery lid is attached to the housing. The battery lid is provided with a projection on a surface which is rendered as an inner surface side when the battery lid is attached, and the projection prevents a connection state of the male connector and the female connector from being disconnected. That is, the projection restrains a movement of the male connector in a direction that the male connector comes out. | 05-22-2014 |
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20080258408 | Boot for constant-velocity universal joint and fixing structure for the same - A boot for constant-velocity universal joint is retained to a shaft, which has a general surface, a tapered surface, or a vertical surface instead of the tapered surface, and a major-diameter surface that are disposed one after another in this order and coaxially. The boot includes a minor-diameter cylindrical portion, a major-diameter cylindrical portion, a tapered wall portion, or a vertical wall portion instead of the tapered wall portion, and a bellows. The minor-diameter cylindrical portion is retained to the major-diameter surface of the shaft. The major-diameter cylindrical portion is disposed separately away from the minor-diameter cylindrical portion and coaxially therewith. The tapered wall portion is in contact with the tapered surface of the shaft. The vertical wall portion is in contact with the vertical surface of the shaft. The bellows connects the tapered wall portion or the vertical wall portion with the major-diameter cylindrical portion integrally. | 10-23-2008 |
20080258409 | Boot for constant-velocity universal joint - A boot for constant-velocity universal joint includes a minor-diameter cylindrical portion, a major-diameter cylindrical portion, and a bellows. The bellows connects the minor-diameter cylindrical portion with the major-diameter cylindrical portion integrally, and includes a plurality of crests and roots, being made of a first crest, a first root, a second crest, a second root, and so on, which are disposed alternately in this order from one of the opposite ends that faces the minor-diameter cylindrical portion to the other one of the opposite ends that faces the major-diameter cylindrical portion. The bellows further includes a rising wall, which connects one of the opposite ends of the minor-diameter cylindrical portion that faces the bellows with a top of the first crest in the bellows, and which exhibits a rising angle of less than 45 degrees to an imaginary central line of the boot or that of the shaft. | 10-23-2008 |
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20080236158 | Hydraulic oil supply structure and vehicle drive apparatus provided with the same - The hydraulic control apparatus includes a separating plate that is interposed between an upper valve body and a lower valve body. The separating plate and the lower valve body provide a projecting portion that projects toward a discharge opening side of the oil pump with respect to the upper valve body. A first oil feed path is provided at the projecting portion, is formed between the separating plate and the lower valve body, and receives the hydraulic oil from the oil pump and guides the hydraulic oil to an upper valve body disposition side. | 10-02-2008 |
20080236952 | Oil return structure for vehicle drive apparatus - An oil return structure for a vehicle drive apparatus includes a hydraulic control apparatus disposed below an oil supply target device to which oil for lubricating and cooling is supplied; and an oil pan that retains the oil that is supplied to the oil supply target device is provided below the hydraulic control apparatus, wherein a bypass oil path is formed in a body of the hydraulic control apparatus, the bypass oil path being structured in order to guide the oil from the oil supply target device from an upper surface of the body, inside the body and then discharge the oil from a side surface of the body. | 10-02-2008 |
20080256943 | Hydraulic control device - A hydraulic control device includes an oil pan; an oil pump; a strainer; a pressure regulating valve; an oil cooler; a cooler bypass valve with an input port that is connected with a cooler supply oil passage through which the hydraulic oil to be supplied to the oil cooler flows, wherein the input port is communicatively connected with an output port when the hydraulic pressure of the hydraulic oil within the cooler supply oil passage is equal to or greater than a predetermined valve opening pressure; and a cooler bypass oil passage that connects the output port of the cooler bypass valve with an intake oil passage between the strainer and the intake port of the oil pump. | 10-23-2008 |
20080314658 | Hybrid drive unit and running control method for hybrid drive unit - A hybrid drive system includes an engine; at least one rotating electric machine, wherein the engine and the at least one rotating electric machine are capable of driving a vehicle; and a controller. The controller starts a load limit control that limits a load exerted to the rotating electric machine when a temperature of the rotating electric machine exceeds a load limit start temperature; detects a loading state or a towing state of the vehicle; and determines the load limit start temperature based on the loading state or the towing state detected. | 12-25-2008 |
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20110129281 | RECORDING DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM SUPPLY MECHANISM FOR A RECORDING DEVICE - A recording device and a recording medium supply mechanism for a recording device enable using both fanfold paper and roll paper as recording media. A printer assembly | 06-02-2011 |
20120320128 | PLATEN GAP ADJUSTMENT MECHANISM AND PRINTER - A platen gap adjustment mechanism includes a carriage guide shaft, a carriage drive unit and a main carriage. The carriage guide shaft is configured to extend perpendicularly to a media conveyance direction that passes over a platen. The carriage drive unit is supported on the carriage guide shaft and pivotable around an axis of the carriage guide shaft. The main carriage is supported on the carriage drive unit, pivotable around a parallel axis that is parallel to the axis of the carriage guide shaft, and configured to carry a printhead for printing on a print medium conveyed along the media conveyance path past the platen. The main carriage is moveable toward and away from the platen according to a thickness of the print medium while being slidable in sliding contact with the print medium conveyed over the platen to maintain a constant gap between the printhead and the print medium. | 12-20-2012 |
20140119801 | PLATEN GAP ADJUSTMENT MECHANISM AND PRINTER - A platen gap adjustment mechanism includes a carriage guide shaft, a carriage drive unit and a main carriage. The carriage guide shaft is configured to extend perpendicularly to a media conveyance direction that passes over a platen. The carriage drive unit is supported on the carriage guide shaft and pivotable around an axis of the carriage guide shaft. The main carriage is supported on the carriage drive unit, pivotable around a parallel axis that is parallel to the axis of the carriage guide shaft, and configured to carry a printhead for printing on a print medium conveyed along the media conveyance path past the platen. The main carriage is moveable toward and away from the platen according to a thickness of the print medium while being slidable in sliding contact with the print medium conveyed over the platen to maintain a constant gap between the printhead and the print medium. | 05-01-2014 |
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20090168061 | FLUORESCENCE DETECTION APPARATUS - A fluorescent detection apparatus relates to an analysis technique for qualitatively detecting or quantifying biomolecules by producing an evanescent field on a surface of a substrate, exciting fluorescently labelled biomolecules on the substrate surface in the evanescent field, and detecting the resultant fluorescent light emitted from the biomolecules. The fluorescent detection apparatus has a configuration in which a well is provided in a surface opposing to a sample substrate of a prism, the well is filled with a matching liquid, and the matching liquid is filled between the sample substrate and the prism, thereby improving operability and providing a stable evanescent field. | 07-02-2009 |
20090242804 | METHOD FOR FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS AND FLUORESCENCE ANALYZER - The present invention aims at reducing background noise derived from a substance that is present in the vicinity of a target substance such as a DNA and protein and attached to the surface of a substrate without an effect on a fluorescent dye labeling the target substance. The substrate that has a probe and is capable of interacting with the target substance is irradiated with noise removing light such that an evanescent field is generated on the surface of the substrate. A target substance and a foreign particle, which are non-specifically stuck to the surface of the substrate, are decomposed by the evanescent field generated by the irradiation with the noise removing light. The evanescent field present near the surface of the substrate has almost no effect on the probe. It is possible to reduce the background noise derived from the substance that is present in the vicinity of the target substance and attached to the surface of the substrate and suppress effects on the probe and the target substance interacting with the probe. | 10-01-2009 |
20110105358 | SINGLE MOLECULE REAL TIME SEQUENCER, NUCLEIC ACID ANALYZER AND SINGLE MOLECULE REAL TIME SEQUENCING METHOD - An object of the present invention relates to selectively control an extension reaction within a desired area in a substrate. In the present invention, an oligo probe arranged with a caged compound at the terminal thereof is immobilized to a reaction field area in the substrate. After pouring a reaction solution into a flow cell including the reaction field area, the reaction field area alone is irradiated with light to associate the photodegradation-active protecting group at the terminal of the oligo probe that has been immobilized in the reaction field area and thus to selectively control initiation of a polymerase extension reaction. In the flow cell, a plural number of the reaction field areas are arranged at constant interval on the substrate. The flow cell immobilized to a moving stage is moved by a distance equal to the interval between the adjacent reaction field areas and then light irradiation is carried out to measure the extension reaction continuously. By repeating these operations, the base extension reaction is stably measured in the flow cell without using complicated channels or without replacing the reaction solution. | 05-05-2011 |
20110121204 | TOTAL REFLECTION FLUORESCENCE OBSERVATION DEVICE - A technique and device for fluorescence observation with good operability, high sensitivity, acid high reliability. The device is used for fluorescence observation using evanescent light. The angle of incidence of the excitation light is adjusted so that the excitation light is always totally reflected from the surface of a substrate irrespective of the angle of the surface of the substrate. The method includes a step of shining the excitation light on the observation substrate while continuously varying the angle of the excitation light with respect to the observation substrate, a step of sensing the shone excitation light by means of optical sensors, and a step of setting the angle of total reflection according to the result of the sensing by the optical sensors. The direction in which the shone excitation light travels varies with the angle of incidence. That is, the excitation light travels as the transmitted light, the reflected light, or the surface propagating light. These lights are sensed by the corresponding optical sensors, and how the angle of incidence of the excitation light is with respect to the critical angle is determined. The angle of incidence of the excitation light is varied depending on the result of the determination, thereby realizing an optimum total reflection angle. | 05-26-2011 |
20110284768 | FLUORESCENCE ANALYZING DEVICE AND FLUORESCENCE ANALYZING METHOD - The present invention has an object to provide a method for efficiently detecting an image with a smaller number of pixels. | 11-24-2011 |
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20080239837 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor memory device includes a boosting circuit which boosts in a second voltage higher than an external power supply by using a first voltage as a reference voltage, and a bandgap reference circuit which operates by using the second voltage generated by the boosting circuit as a power supply voltage. | 10-02-2008 |
20090261893 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING CELL TRANSISTOR AND CELL CAPACITOR - A semiconductor memory device includes a current source, a first resistance element, a comparator, and a charge pump. The current source supplies current to a first node. The current source includes a first transistor, and a second transistor. The first transistor supplies a drain current. The second transistor supplies a drain current. The first resistance element including a first end connected to the first node and a second end connected to a second node. The comparator compares a reference potential with a voltage of the first node. The charge pump generating a negative voltage of the sensed level based on a result of the comparison performed by the comparator, to output the generated negative voltage to the second node. The current source supplies a sum of the drain current in the first transistor and the drain current in the second transistor to the first node. | 10-22-2009 |
20100214837 | NONVOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY WITH CHARGE STORAGE LAYERS AND CONTROL GATES - A nonvolatile semiconductor memory includes a memory cell array, bit lines, a first voltage generator, and a second voltage generator. The memory cell array includes memory cells. The bit lines each of which is connected electrically to one end of the current path of the corresponding one of the memory cells. The first voltage generator which is capable of supplying via a first output terminal to the bit lines a first voltage externally supplied or a third voltage which is obtained by stepping down a second voltage supplied and higher than the first voltage and which is as high as the first voltage. The second voltage generator which is capable of supplying a fourth voltage obtained by stepping down the second voltage to the bit lines via a second output terminal when the first voltage generator steps down the second voltage to generate the third voltage. | 08-26-2010 |
20110128792 | SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE AND BOOSTING CIRCUIT - A boosting circuit includes first to fourth rectification elements, first to fourth MOS transistors, first to fourth capacitors, and a switch circuit. The switch circuit has a low level terminal connected to a first connection node between the first end of the third rectification element and the first end of the fourth rectification element, and a high level terminal connected to a second connection node between a second end of the third MOS transistor and a second end of the fourth MOS transistor. The switch circuit conducts changeover between a voltage at the low level terminal and a voltage at the high level terminal to output a resultant voltage to the output terminal. | 06-02-2011 |
20110249492 | SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE AND BOOSTING CIRCUIT - A boosting circuit includes a clock control circuit which outputs a first reference clock signal by controlling the clock signal, and which outputs a second reference clock signal having a same period as that of the first reference clock signal, the second reference clock signal shifted in phase from the first reference clock signal. The boosting circuit includes a first pump clock generation circuit which outputs the first reference clock signal which is input thereto, as a first pump clock signal in accordance with a first pump flag signal. The boosting circuit includes a second pump clock generation circuit which outputs the second reference clock signal which is input thereto, as a second pump clock signal in accordance with a second pump flag signal. The boosting circuit includes a first charge pump which boosts an input voltage in accordance with the first pump clock signal. The boosting circuit includes a second charge pump which boosts an input voltage in accordance with the second pump clock signal. | 10-13-2011 |
20110249506 | SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE - A semiconductor storage device according to an embodiment includes a plurality of memory cells which electrically rewrite data by controlling the amount of charges accumulated in a floating gate formed on a well through a tunnel insulating film. The semiconductor storage device includes a well control circuit which outputs an erasure voltage to be applied to the well through an output terminal. The semiconductor storage device includes a first pump circuit which outputs a voltage set by boosting an input voltage to the output terminal. The semiconductor storage device includes a second pump circuit which outputs a voltage set by boosting the input voltage to the output terminal and outputs a voltage higher than an output voltage of the first pump circuit. The semiconductor storage device includes a pump switching detecting circuit which outputs an assist signal to perform a boosting operation on at least one of the first pump circuit and the second pump circuit. The semiconductor storage device includes an erase pulse control circuit which sets target voltages of the first pump circuit and the second pump circuit, on the basis of setting values to set a target voltage of the erasure voltage. | 10-13-2011 |
20120170380 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array, a first detecting circuit, a second detecting circuit, a switching circuit and a recovery control circuit. The first detecting circuit outputs a first detection signal which shows whether an externally supplied external power supply is equal to or more than a first voltage. The second detecting circuit outputs, at a higher speed than the first detecting circuit, a second detection signal which shows whether the external power supply is equal to or more than the first voltage. In a write operation, the switching circuit outputs the second detection signal output from the second detecting circuit. In an operation other than the write operation, the switching circuit outputs the first detection signal output from the first detecting circuit. The recovery control circuit terminates the write operation according to the second detection signal output from the switching circuit. | 07-05-2012 |
20120249187 | CURRENT SOURCE CIRCUIT - According to one embodiment, a current source circuit comprises a first circuit, a second circuit, and a current synthesizing circuit. The first circuit generates a first current having a positive temperature characteristic. The second circuit includes a feedback circuit configured to receive a first voltage having a negative temperature characteristic, and output a second voltage equal to the first voltage, and generates a second current having the negative temperature characteristic based on the second voltage. The current synthesizing circuit generates a constant current having an arbitrary temperature characteristic by adding the first and second currents. | 10-04-2012 |
20150070084 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes an input-part receiving a first voltage and an output-part outputing a second voltage. A current mirror part receives the first voltage. A reference voltage is supplied to a gate of a reference transistor. The reference transistor is electrically connected between the current-mirror part and a ground voltage. A monitor transistor includes a gate electrically connected to the second power-supply voltage, and is electrically connected between the current-mirror part and the ground voltage. A voltage-generation transistor includes a gate electrically connected to both the current-mirror part and the reference transistor. The voltage-generation transistor is electrically connected between the input-part and the output-part. A first capacitor including one end electrically connected to the output-part, and the other end electrically connected to both the current-mirror part and the reference transistor. | 03-12-2015 |
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20130163015 | DEVICE, CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A device includes a first receiving unit that receives a supply voltage supplied from a control device, a second receiving unit that receives from the control device a control signal for executing a predetermined operation in each functional unit, a setting unit that sets the predetermined operation in a setting section when the second receiving unit receives the control signal indicating the predetermined operation to be executed in each functional unit when the supply voltage is in an OFF state, and a controller that performs control to execute the predetermined operation, which is set in the setting unit, in each functional unit when the supply voltage received by the first receiving unit is in an OFF state. | 06-27-2013 |
20140355044 | PROCESSING INSTRUCTION DEVICE, PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A processing instruction device includes a memory, a display instruction data acquisition unit, a changing unit, a display controller, an operation data acquisition unit, and a processing instruction unit. The memory stores management data and first display instruction data. The display instruction data acquisition unit acquires second display instruction data from an external device. The changing unit specifies second processing identification data corresponding to display position identification data, specifies first processing identification data corresponding to the specified second processing identification data, and changes the first processing identification data corresponding to the display position identification data to the specified first processing identification data. The display controller causes a display device to display an image in accordance with the first or second display instruction data. The operation data acquisition unit acquires operation data. The processing instruction unit gives an instruction to perform processing in accordance with processing instruction data. | 12-04-2014 |
20140355045 | PROCESSING INSTRUCTION DEVICE, PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A processing instruction device includes a memory, a display instruction data acquisition unit, a display controller, an operation data acquisition unit, and a processing instruction unit. The memory stores management data and condition data. The display instruction data acquisition unit acquires display instruction data. The display instruction data is data for giving an instruction to display an image including an operator corresponding to each of the one or more pieces of processing instruction data selected from among one or more pieces of processing instruction data stored in the memory. The operation data acquisition unit acquires operation data indicating an operation of a user from an operation device that receives a user operation. The processing instruction unit instructs at least one of the image forming device, the imaging device, and the data communication device to perform a processing operation in accordance with processing instruction data corresponding to the one operator. | 12-04-2014 |
20140355046 | PROCESSING INSTRUCTION DEVICE, PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A processing instruction device includes a memory, a display instruction data acquisition unit, a specifying unit, a display controller, an operation data acquisition unit, and a processing instruction unit. The memory stores processing instruction data, processing identification data, and processing attribute data. The display instruction data acquisition unit acquires display instruction data. If the display instruction data includes processing identification data which is not stored in the memory, the specifying unit specifies alternative processing instruction data. The display controller causes a display device to display an image which prompts a user to select the alternative processing instruction data. If the operation data acquisition unit acquires operation data indicating selection of processing instruction data, the processing instruction unit instructs at least one of an image forming device, an imaging device, and a data communication device to perform a processing operation in accordance with the acquired processing instruction data. | 12-04-2014 |
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20110216800 | TWO-STAGE LASER SYSTEM FOR ALIGNERS - The invention relates to a two-stage laser system well fit for semiconductor aligners, which is reduced in terms of spatial coherence while taking advantage of the high stability, high output efficiency and fine line width of the MOPO mode. The two-stage laser system for aligners comprises an oscillation-stage laser ( | 09-08-2011 |
20120224600 | TWO-STAGE LASER SYSTEM FOR ALIGNERS - The invention relates to a two-stage laser system well fit for semiconductor aligners, which is reduced in terms of spatial coherence while taking advantage of the high stability, high output efficiency and fine line width of the MOPO mode. The two-stage laser system for aligners comprises an oscillation-stage laser ( | 09-06-2012 |
20140307244 | METHOD FOR ADJUSTING SPECTRUM WIDTH OF NARROW-BAND LASER - An upper limit and a lower limit are preliminarily set for a spectral line width common to a plurality of narrow-band laser devices. When delivered or subjected to maintenance, the narrow-band laser device is caused to laser oscillate to detect its spectral line width before it is used as a light source for semiconductor exposure. A spectral line width adjustment unit provided in the narrow-band laser device is adjusted so that the spectral line width assumes a value between the upper limit and the lower limit. The present invention is able to suppress the variation in spectral line width such as E95 bandwidth caused by machine differences during the manufacture of the laser device, or by replacement or maintenance of the laser device, whereby the quality of integrated circuit patterns formed by the semiconductor exposure tool can be stabilized. | 10-16-2014 |
20140369373 | TWO-STAGE LASER SYSTEM FOR ALIGNERS - The invention relates to a two-stage laser system well fit for semiconductor aligners, which is reduced in terms of spatial coherence while taking advantage of the high stability, high output efficiency and fine line width of the MOPO mode. The two-stage laser system for aligners comprises an oscillation-stage laser ( | 12-18-2014 |
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20130064258 | MASTER OSCILLATOR SYSTEM AND LASER APPARATUS - A master oscillator system may include a grating that functions as one of a plurality of resonator mirrors in an optical resonator, an optical element disposed within an optical path between the plurality of resonator mirrors, and an attitude control mechanism that adjusts an angle at which laser light traveling within the optical resonator is incident on the grating by adjusting the attitude of the optical element. | 03-14-2013 |
20130208744 | EXCIMER LASER AND LASER DEVICE - An excimer laser may include a frame, a base plate on which the frame is disposed, an excimer laser configured to oscillate and output laser light by discharge-pumping within a chamber containing a laser gas, an optical element that is mounted upon the frame and that is disposed in the optical path of the outputted laser light and a heat removal mechanism connected to both the frame and the base plate. | 08-15-2013 |
20130235893 | TRANSMISSIVE OPTICAL DEVICE, LASER CHAMBER, AMPLIFIER STAGE LASER DEVICE, OSCILLATION STAGE LASER DEVICE AND LASER APPARATUS - A transmissive optical device includes a crystal part including a c-axis in a crystal structure. The crystal part is configured to include a surface to receive a laser beam. The c-axis is arranged to be inclined relative to an incident direction of the laser beam in a plane of incidence of the laser beam. | 09-12-2013 |
20130315270 | LASER APPARATUS - A laser apparatus may include an optical resonator, a laser chamber, an optical loss adjustment mechanism, and a spectral line width adjustment mechanism. The optical resonator includes a mirror configured to reflect a part of light and a grating. The laser chamber is provided in the optical resonator and contains a laser gain medium, configured to emit a laser beam. The optical loss adjustment mechanism is provided in the optical resonator and configured to adjust an optical loss of the laser beam. The spectral line width adjustment mechanism is provided in the optical resonator and configured to adjust a spectral line width of the laser beam. | 11-28-2013 |
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20120236884 | LASER APPARATUS - This disclosure is directed to widen an adjustable range of the spectral linewidth of laser light output from a laser apparatus. This laser apparatus may include: (1) an excitation source configured to excite a laser medium in a laser gain space, (2) an optical resonator including an output coupler arranged on one side of an optical path through the laser gain space and a wavelength dispersion element arranged on the other side of the optical path through the laser gain space, and (3) a switching mechanism configured to switch a beam-width magnification or reduction factor by placing or removing at least one beam-width change optical system for expanding or reducing a beam width in or from an optical path between the laser gain space and the wavelength dispersion element or by inverting orientation of the at least one beam-width change optical system in the optical path. | 09-20-2012 |
20140286366 | OPTICAL DEVICE, AND LASER CHAMBER AND GAS LASER APPARATUS USING THE SAME - An optical device includes a plate-like optical element made of a calcium fluoride crystal, a holding member to sandwich and hold the optical element, a seal member provided between the holding member and one surface of the optical element in close contact therewith, and a cushioning member provided between the holding member and the other surface of the optical element in contact therewith. The cushioning member is made of one of a 304 stainless steel, a 303 stainless steel, a 316 stainless steel, a Hastelloy™ alloy, a carbon steel for machine construction S45C, and Inconel™. | 09-25-2014 |
20150180192 | LASER APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING LASER APPARATUS - A laser apparatus may comprise: a laser chamber configured to include a laser gain medium; a pair of electrodes disposed in the laser chamber; an energy detector configured to measure pulse energy of laser beams outputted by discharging between the pair of the electrodes; an optical element disposed on a light path of the laser beams; and a controller configured to calculate an integration value of absorption energy at the optical element, and determine whether the integration value exceeds a lifetime integration value of the optical element based on the pulse energy of the laser beams. | 06-25-2015 |
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20080249780 | VOICE GUIDANCE SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE - A voice guidance system for a vehicle includes a transmitter, a tuner, a touch sensor, a smart ECU, a D-seat speaker, and a P-seat speaker, which are all mounted in a vehicle. It is used for an in-vehicle system, such as a smart entry system, which performs intercommunication with a portable unit. In this guidance system, a smart ECU stores in a memory information indicating that a user has performed predetermined operation with the smart entry system. When it is determined that a user will use the smart entry system, the following processing is performed: voice guidance about the operation procedures for the system is outputted from a driver seat speaker or a passenger seat speaker when information indicating that the user has performed the predetermined operation in the past is not stored in the memory; and voice guidance is disabled when information indicating that the user has performed the predetermined operation is stored. | 10-09-2008 |
20120179306 | VEHICLE DEVICE CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD - A vehicle-side unit transmits a first request signal WAKE periodically toward a portable unit, and transmits a second request signal CHLG at every predetermined transmission interval specific to the vehicle-side unit upon reception of a firs response signal ACK from the portable unit in response to the transmitted WAKE. The portable unit is operable with power supplied from a battery. The portable unit transmits ACK upon reception of WAKE and becomes ready for reception of CHLG at a timing CHLG is transmitted in accordance with the transmission interval specific to the vehicle-side unit. | 07-12-2012 |
Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090315378 | SWITCHING MECHANISMS OF VEHICLE SEATS - A switching mechanism of a vehicle seat includes a base element, an output arm pivotally connected to the base element via a second pivot shaft, an input arm having a force input point and pivotally connected to the output arm via a first pivot shaft as a rotational center, and an input arm biasing member. The input arm biasing member normally biases the input arm in a normal rotational direction, so that the input arm can contact the second pivot shaft at a middle portion between the force input point and the rotational center. When a normal directional input force is applied to the input arm, the input arm can be rotated around the second pivot shaft in the normal rotational direction while contacting the second pivot shaft, so that the first pivot shaft can pivot about the second pivot shaft, thereby rotating the output arm about the second pivot shaft with the input arm. When a reverse directional input force is applied to the input arm, the input arm can be independently rotated in a reverse rotational direction about the first pivot shaft against a spring force of the input arm biasing member. | 12-24-2009 |
20100013289 | VEHICULAR SEATS - One aspect of the present invention can include a vehicular seat including a seat cushion, a seat back inclinably attached to the seat cushion, and a restricting falling down mechanism. The restricting falling down mechanism restricts the seat back from falling down forward when the seat back falls down from a substantially erected state so that the seat back is maintained in a forward inclining attitude. The restricting falling down mechanism comprises an interference lever pivotably attached to the seat cushion. When the seat back falls down forward from the substantially erected state, the interference lever is squeezed between a member on a side of the seat back and a member on a side of the seat cushion. And the seat back is restricted from falling down forward by the member on the side of the seat cushion via the interference lever. | 01-21-2010 |
20100244524 | VEHICLE SEAT - When a tilt-down function is performed, a rotationally-preventing condition of a reclining device connecting a base member and an intermediate member is released, so that a seat back is tiltably rotated forwardly integrally with the intermediate member and a seat cushion is pushed by a boomerang link capable of moving with the intermediate member so as to be sunk downwardly while tiltably rotating a front link. However, when a walk-in function is performed, a rotationally-preventing condition of a memory device connecting the seat back and the intermediate member is released, so that the seat back can be tiltably rotated to a forwardly inclined position independently of the intermediate member that is maintained in a condition in which the intermediate member is integrated with the base member. | 09-30-2010 |
20100276976 | VEHICLE SEAT RECLINING DEVICE - Each of the pawls that are capable of rotationally locking a reclining device has a hardness greater than a slide cam that is capable of pressing the pawls to engage a ratchet. When a large load capable of forcibly rotationally displacing the ratchet is applied thereto while the pawls mesh with the ratchet, the pawls are pressed by the ratchet in a radially inward direction in which the pawls are disengaged therefrom, so as to press the slide cam with an increased buckling strength and plastically deform the same. | 11-04-2010 |
20130341985 | VEHICLE SEAT - A vehicle seat includes an operating link rotatably mounted to a base, a bracket that is provided on a seat back, and is arranged to be pressed against the operating link due to rotation of the seat back, so as to push and rotate the operating link, and an operating mechanism arranged to be operated by the operating link when the operating link is pushed and rotated. The bracket and the operating link are engaged with each other such that one of the bracket and the operating link sandwiches the other of the bracket and the operating link in rotational directions thereof, so that the above-indicated one of the bracket and the operating link abuts on the other thereof in both of the rotational directions. | 12-26-2013 |
20140110985 | SEAT FRAME STRUCTURE - A seat frame structure includes a first mechanism element; a second mechanism element; a bolt shaft; and a seat frame that has a fitting portion that fits together with the first mechanism element, and a hole through which the bolt shaft passes, the seat frame being sandwiched between the first mechanism element and the second mechanism element, and integrated with the first mechanism element and the second mechanism element by fastening of the bolt shaft in the hole in a state extending between the first mechanism element and the second mechanism element. The first mechanism element has a fitting portion that fits together with the seat frame, and the second mechanism element is integrally assembled, by the fastening of the bolt shaft, to the first mechanism element in a state positioned on the seat frame by the fitting of the each fitting portion. | 04-24-2014 |
20140110986 | VEHICLE SEAT - A vehicle seat includes a stopping structure that stops forward tilting rotation of a seatback between the seatback and a base on a floor. The stopping structure includes a stopping portion provided on one of the seatback or the base, and a stopper that is provided in a state supported in a cantilevered manner on the other of the seatback or the base, and that extends to a position overlapping with the stopping portion in a seat width direction. The stopping structure is configured to stop the forward tilting rotation of the seatback by abutment of the stopping portion and the stopper. A deformation inhibiting member that minimizes deformation in the seat width direction from the stopper abutting against the stopping portion following forward tilting rotation of the seatback, is provided on the other of the seatback or the base. | 04-24-2014 |
20140125106 | VEHICLE SEAT - A vehicle seat includes a reclining mechanism that is provided to make the angle of a seat back relative to a seat cushion adjustable; a biasing member that biases the seat back in such a direction as to decrease the angle of the seat back relative to the seat cushion; and an assist member that applies a force in a direction opposite to the biasing force of the biasing member to the seat back, and generates a force that is smaller than the total of the weight of the seat back and the biasing force of the biasing member when the seat back is lifted up from a forwardly folded position in which the seat back has a small angle relative to the seat cushion toward a sitting position. | 05-08-2014 |