| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20090257007 | Method for evaluating color filter, color filter and liquid crystal display device - A method of evaluating a color filter including a substrate, and at least three color pixels disposed thereon, the method includes determining an oblique visibility of a liquid crystal display device equipped with the color filter on the basis of value ξ | 10-15-2009 |
| 20090284697 | Color filter and liquid crystal display device - A color filter including a transparent substrate, and colored layer having at least a red pixel, green pixel, and blue pixel, and formed on the transparent substrate, wherein the green pixel contains a zinc phthalocyanine halide-based pigment, and has a perpendicular optical retardation Rth(G) satisfying formula Rth(G)>0, Rth(G) representing a product of a thickness of the green pixel and a value obtained by subtracting a refractive index in the thickness wise-direction of the green pixel from an average refractive index in the plane of the green pixel. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20100271569 | Liquid crystal display device and color filter for liquid crystal display device - A liquid crystal display device which includes a backlight device provided with an LED, and a color filter having colored layers of plural colors including a green layer, wherein the green layer of the color filter contains brominated zinc phthalocyanine green pigment and a dielectric loss tangent of the green layer at a driving frequency of a liquid crystal display device is confined to not more than 0.02. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100296024 | Liquid crystal display device and color filter for liquid crystal display device - Disclosed a liquid crystal display device including a backlight device including a white-emitting LED device which emits a white light arising from a color mixture created through a combination of a blue-emitting LED, a red-emitting phosphor and a green-emitting phosphor, and a color filter equipping color pixels exhibiting plural colors including a red pixel and formed on a transparent substrate, wherein the white-emitting LED device is enabled to exhibit an emission spectrum having a first peak wavelength falling within a range of 440-470 nm, a second peak wavelength falling within a range of 510-550 nm and a third peak wavelength falling within a range of 630-670 nm, and a red display chromaticity of the liquid crystal display device is confined within a region bounded by lines connecting four points (0.620, 0.280), (0.620, 0.300), (0.680, 0.315) and (0.680, 0.280) based on an xy chromaticity coordinate system. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20110043486 | Liquid crystal display device, black matrix substrate and color filter substrate - A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate located opposite the first substrate via a liquid crystal, a blue display element, a green display element, a red display element, a short-wavelength optical sensor, a red optical sensor, and an infrared optical sensor formed on a liquid crystal side surface of the first substrate, and a color filter formed between the first substrate and the second substrate and includes a blue filter, a green filter, a first red filter, a short-wavelength transmission filter, a second red filter, and an infrared transmission filter corresponding to the blue display element, the green display element, the red display element, the short-wavelength optical sensor, the red optical sensor, and the infrared optical sensor, respectively. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110096273 | Color filter substrate for liquid crystal display devices and liquid crystal display devices - Disclosed is a color filter substrate which exhibits color filter contrast of not less than 9000 and includes a transparent substrate, and a plurality of color pixels differing in color and formed on the transparent substrate, wherein each of the plurality of color pixels is formed of a photosensitive color composition containing two or more kinds of pigments, a birefringence Δn of a pigment dispersion represented by following equation (1) and a content of pigments contained in the photosensitive composition satisfies prescribed conditions, and, an absolute value of retardation in thickness direction (Rth) of the color pixels which is represented by following equation (2) is confined to a range of 0-3 nm. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110149215 | Color filter substrate and liquid crystal display device - Disclosed is a color filter substrate provided with a transparent substrate, and a plurality of color pixels including a green pixel and formed on the transparent substrate. The green pixel contains halogenated zinc phthalocyanine-based green pigment and at least one kind of yellow pigment and satisfies prescribed three conditions, and absolute value of retardation in thickness direction (Rth) of the green pixel is confined to no more than 2 nm. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110149216 | Color filter, coloring composition for color filter and liquid crystal display device - A coloring composition for a color filter, which includes a transparent resin, an organic pigment dispersed in the transparent resin, and a retardation-regulating agent containing a compound which is capable of increasing a retardation. A color filter which is provided with colored pixels formed on a transparent substrate by using this coloring composition. A liquid crystal display device which is provided with this color filter. | 06-23-2011 |
| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20100123813 | Solid-state imaging device and readout method thereof - A solid-state imaging device includes: a plurality of pixels arrayed in the vertical transfer direction and in the horizontal transfer direction; a vertical CCD shift register disposed between two pixels adjacent in the horizontal transfer direction of the plurality of pixels; a first channel stop portion used for separation between pixels, formed between the two pixels adjacent in the horizontal transfer direction, and pixels adjacent to the two pixels adjacent in the horizontal transfer direction, in the horizontal transfer direction; and a readout gate portion and a second channel stop portion, formed in a direction parallel to the vertical transfer direction between the pixels and the vertical CCD shift register, with the two pixels adjacent in the horizontal transfer direction sharing the vertical CCD shift register, and with an insulating layer which is thicker than the gate insulating layer of the vertical CCD shift register being formed above the first channel stop portion. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100130405 | BIGLYCAN AND RELATED THERAPEUTICS AND METHODS OF USE - The invention provides compositions and methods for treating, preventing, and diagnosing diseases or conditions associated with an abnormal level or activity of biglycan; disorders associated with an unstable cytoplasmic membrane, due, e.g., to an unstable dystrophin associated protein complex (DAPC); disorders associated with abnormal synapses or neuromuscular junctions, including those resulting from an abnormal MuSK activation or acetylcholine receptor (AChR) aggregation. Example of diseases include muscular dystrophies, such as Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy, Becker's Muscular Dystrophy, neuromuscular disorders and neurological disorders. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100195217 | Variable focal length lens system and imaging apparatus - A variable focal length lens system includes first to fourth lens groups which have positive, negative, positive, and positive refractive powers, respectively, and are arranged in this order from an object side to an image side. An aperture diaphragm is arranged in the vicinity of the third lens group. The variable focal length lens system satisfies the following Conditional expressions 1 and 2: | 08-05-2010 |
| 20110013057 | Output circuit for CCD solid-state imaging device, CCD solid-state imaging device, and imaging apparatus - An output circuit for a CCD solid-state imaging device, includes: a first source follower circuit that is supplied with an imaging signal acquired by a floating diffusion, and includes a driver MOS transistor and a load MOS transistor; and a last source follower circuit that is supplied with an imaging signal amplified by the first source follower circuit, and includes a driver MOS transistor and a load MOS transistor each being a P-channel MOS transistor to provide an output signal. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110053854 | TREATMENT OF MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES AND RELATED DISORDERS - The invention provides, among other aspects, compositions and methods for treating, preventing, and diagnosing diseases or conditions associated with an abnormal level or activity of biglycan; diseases or conditions associated with an abnormal level or activity of collagen VI; disorders associated with an unstable cytoplasmic membrane, due, e.g., to an unstable dystrophin associated protein complex (DAPC); and disorders associated with abnormal synapses or neuromuscular junctions, including those resulting from an abnormal MuSK activation or acetylcholine receptor (AChR) aggregation. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110183910 | BIGLYCAN AND RELATED THERAPEUTICS AND METHODS OF USE - The invention provides compositions and methods for treating, preventing, and diagnosing diseases or conditions associated with an abnormal level or activity of biglycan; disorders associated with an unstable cytoplasmic membrane, due, e.g., to an unstable dystrophin associated protein complex (DAPC); disorders associated with abnormal synapses or neuromuscular junctions, including those resulting from an abnormal MuSK activation or acetylcholine receptor (AChR) aggregation. Examples of diseases include muscular dystrophies, such as Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy, Becker's Muscular Dystrophy, neuromuscular disorders and neurological disorders. | 07-28-2011 |
| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20080279714 | High Strength Spring Steel and Steel Wire - The present invention provides spring steel used for spring steel wire achieving both high strength and cold coilability and spring steel wire, that is, spring steel containing, by mass %, C: 0.45 to 0.70%, Si: 1.0 to 3.0%, Mn: 0.05 to 2.0%, P: 0.015% or less, S: 0.015% or less, N: 0.0015 to 0.0200%, and t-O: 0.0002 to 0.01 and further limiting Al≦0.01% and Ti≦0.003%. Further, it is characterized by satisfying the following regarding the cementite-based spherical carbides present at an observed plane, an occupied area ratio of grains with a circle equivalent diameter of 0.2 μm or more of 7% or less, a density of presence of grains with a circle equivalent diameter of 0.2 to 3 μm of 1/μm | 11-13-2008 |
| 20090050241 | Steel superior in machinability and method of production of same - The present invention provides steel superior in machinability comprised of, by wt %, C: 0.005 to 0.2%, Si: 0.001 to 0.5%, Mn: 0.2 to 3.0%, P: 0.001 to 0.2%, S: 0.03 to 1.0%, T.N: 0.002 to 0.02%, T.O: 0.0005 to 0.035%, and the balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, said steel satisfying one or both of Mn/S in the steel being 1.2 to 2.8 or an area ratio of pearlite over a grain size of 1 μm in a microstructure of the steel being not more than 5%. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090092516 | High strength spring-use heat treated steel - The present invention provides spring use heat treated steel which is cold coiled, can achieve both sufficient atmospheric strength and coilability, has a tensile strength of 2000 MPa or more, and can improve the performance as a spring by heat treatment after spring fabrication, that is, high strength spring-use heat treated steel characterized by containing, by mass %, C: 0.45 to 0.9%, Si: 1.7 to 3.0%, and Mn: 0.1 to 2.0%, restricting N: to 0.007% or less, having a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, and satisfying, in terms of the analyzed value of the extracted residue after heat treatment, [amount of Fe in residue on 0.2 μm filter/[steel electrolysis amount]×100≦1.1. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090205753 | High strength spring-use heat treated steel - The present invention provides spring-use heat treated steel which is cold coiled, can achieve both sufficient atmospheric strength and coiling workability, has a tensile strength of 2000 MPa or more, and can improve the performance as a spring by heat treatment after shaping the spring, that is, heat treated steel for high strength spring containing, by mass %, C: 0.45 to 0.9%, Si: 1.0 to 3.0%, Mn: 0.1 to 2.0%, V: over 0.1 to 1.0%, N: limited to 0.007% or less, and a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, and satisfying, in terms of the analyzed value of the extracted residue after heat treatment, [amount of V in filtrate filtered by 0.2 μm filter (mass %)]≧[amount of V in steel (mass %)]×0.4. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20100028196 | High Strength Spring Steel and High Strength Heat Treated Steel Wire for Spring - The present invention provides a high strength heat treated steel wire for spring having a tensile strength of 2000 MPa or more which is coiled in the cold state and can achieve both sufficient atmospheric strength and coilability and spring steel used for that steel wire, that is, a high strength heat treated steel wire for a spring characterized by comprising, by mass %, C: 0.5 to 0.9%, Si: 1.0 to 3.0%, Mn: 0.1 to 1.5%, Cr: 1.0 to 2.5%, V: over 0.15 to 1.0%, and Al: 0.005% or less, controlling N to 0.007% or less, further containing one or two of Nb: 0.001 to less than 0.01% and Ti: 0.001 to less 0.005%, and having a tensile strength of 2000 MPa or more, having cementite-based spheroidal carbides and alloy-based spheroidal carbides in a microscopic visual field satisfying an area percentage of carbides with a circle equivalent diameter of 0.2 μm or more of 7% or less and a density of carbides with a circle equivalent diameter of 1 grain/μm | 02-04-2010 |
| 20110169865 | PORTABLE TERMINAL DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD USED FOR SAME, AND RECORDING MEDIUM TO RECORD PROGRAM FOR SAME - Provided are a portable terminal device, an image display method used for same and a recording medium to record a program for same that enable display of images suitable for various forms of use, such as when the screen orientation or input operation is changed, and display of information pertaining to the images. The portable terminal device can make changes for multiple forms of use and has detection means for detecting a change in the form of use, and changing means for changing the method to be used to display image-related information on a display screen according to the detection result by the detection means. | 07-14-2011 |
| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20090087672 | RARE EARTH MAGNET AND ITS PRODUCTION METHOD - The present invention has aimed to provide a method which is capable of producing a rare earth magnet having a protective layer that can provide a sufficient water resistance. The present invention provides a method for producing a rare earth magnet comprising a magnet body containing a rare earth element and a protective layer with high water resistance formed on the surface of the magnet body, the method comprising a first step in which a zinc compound soluble in an alkaline solution is dissolved in an alkali silicate solution to prepare a treatment solution, a second step in which the treatment solution is attached on the surface of the magnet body, and a third step in which the treatment solution attached on the magnet body surface is cured to form a protective layer comprising the cured product of the treatment solution. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20100144995 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING THERMOPLASTIC RESIN, POLYESTER RESIN AND POLYCARBONATE RESIN, AND THEIR APPLICATIONS - The invention relates to a method for producing a thermoplastic resin, comprising using a composition at least comprising a fluorene-containing dihydroxy compound represented by the following formula (1) and a fluorene-containing hydroxy compound represented by the following formula (2) in an amount of from 0.5 parts by weight to 1.5 parts by weight relative to 100 parts by weight of the fluorene-containing dihydroxy compound of formula (1). | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100194508 | RARE-EARTH PERMANENT MAGNET - There is provided a rare-earth permanent magnet optimized to an IPM type motor for a car, capable of improving corrosion resistance, abrasion resistance, and impact resistance. The rare-earth permanent magnet | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100210811 | POLYCARBONATE RESIN COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - The present invention relates to a polycarbonate resin composition which comprises a polycarbonate resin having the repeating unit that is represented by the following general formula (1) and a hydroxyl group at terminal thereof and has the concentration of the terminal hydroxyl group of 1000 ppm or more. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100330361 | METAL MAGNET AND MOTOR USING THE SAME - A metal magnet | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110112271 | POLYCARBONATE RESIN HAVING ULTRAVIOLET ABSORBING CAPACITY, RESIN COMPOSITION AND OPTICAL MATERIAL - A polycarbonate resin having at least one terminal group which is represented by formula (1), and a resin composition and an optical material comprising the polycarbonate resin are disclosed. In the formula, R | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110201762 | POLYCARBONATE RESIN COMPOSITION AND OPTICAL MATERIALS USING THE SAME - To provide a polycarbonate resin composition excellent in low-birefringence and environment resistance properties to be used for optical materials such as lenses, films or sheets. | 08-18-2011 |
| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20090304255 | X-RAY IMAGE DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - The present invention is an image processing apparatus that reconstructs one frame of image data using block-level image data, including a unit that receives the block-level image data to which position information has been added, a unit that determines whether or not there was an error in the transmission of the received position information, a first storage area used for storing the block-level image data corresponding to the position information for which a transmission error did not occur, a second storage area used for storing the block-level image data corresponding to the position information for which a transmission error occurred, a unit that infers correct position information for the block-level image data stored in the second storage area based on the first storage area and the second storage area, and a unit that reconstructs the one frame of image data using the inferred position information. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20110157655 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a first halftone processor, a first filtering processor, a second filtering processor, and an evaluator. The first halftone processor generates first halftone image data from input image data using thresholds. The first filtering processor smoothes the first halftone image data using a first filter having a size corresponding to a cycle of the thresholds. The second filtering processor smoothes the input image data using a second filter having a characteristic corresponding to the first filter. The evaluator evaluates a moiré caused in the first halftone image data based on a difference between the first halftone image data smoothed by the first filtering processor and the image data smoothed by the second filtering processor. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20120057771 | X-RAY IMAGE DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - The present invention is an image processing apparatus that reconstructs one frame of image data using block-level image data, including a unit that receives the block-level image data to which position information has been added, a unit that determines whether or not there was an error in the transmission of the received position information, a first storage area used for storing the block-level image data corresponding to the position information for which a transmission error did not occur, a second storage area used for storing the block-level image data corresponding to the position information for which a transmission error occurred, a unit that infers correct position information for the block-level image data stored in the second storage area based on the first storage area and the second storage area, and a unit that reconstructs the one frame of image data using the inferred position information. | 03-08-2012 |
| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20100053579 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANUFACTURING A RETICLE USING CHARACTER PROJECTION PARTICLE BEAM LITHOGRAPHY - A method for manufacturing a surface, the surface having a multiplicity of slightly different patterns, is disclosed with the method comprising the steps of designing a stencil mask having a set of characters for forming the patterns on the surface and reducing shot count or total write time by use of a character varying technique. A system for manufacturing a surface is also disclosed. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100055619 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANUFACTURING A RETICLE USING CHARACTER PROJECTION LITHOGRAPHY - A method for manufacturing a surface, the surface having a multiplicity of slightly different patterns, is disclosed with the method comprising the steps of designing a stencil mask having a set of characters for forming the patterns on the surface and reducing shot count or total write time by use of a character varying technique. A system for manufacturing a surface is also disclosed. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100058281 | METHOD FOR OPTICAL PROXIMITY CORRECTION OF A RETICLE TO BE MANUFACTURED USING CHARACTER PROJECTION LITHOGRAPHY - A method for optical proximity correction of a design of a pattern on a surface is disclosed with the method comprising the steps of inputting desired patterns for the substrate and inputting a set of characters some of which are complex characters that may be used for forming the patterns on the surface. A method of creating glyphs is also disclosed. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100058282 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DESIGN OF A RETICLE TO BE MANUFACTURED USING CHARACTER PROJECTION LITHOGRAPHY - A method for fracturing or mask data preparation or proximity effect correction is disclosed which comprises the steps of inputting patterns to be formed on a surface, a subset of the patterns being slightly different variations of each other and selecting a set of characters some of which are complex characters to be used to form the number of patterns, and reducing shot count or total write time by use of a character varying technique. A system for fracturing or mask data preparation or proximity effect correction is also disclosed. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20110053093 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANUFACTURING A SURFACE USING CHARGED PARTICLE BEAM LITHOGRAPHY WITH VARIABLE BEAM BLUR - A charged particle beam writer system is disclosed comprising a generator for a charged particle beam having a beam blur radius, wherein the beam blur radius may be varied from shot to shot, or between two or more groups of shots. A method for fracturing or mask data preparation or optical proximity correction is also disclosed comprising assigning a beam blur radius variation to each calculated charged particle beam writer shot. A method for forming a pattern on a surface is also disclosed comprising using a charged particle beam writer system and varying the beam blur radius from shot to shot. A method for manufacturing an integrated circuit using optical lithography is also disclosed, comprising using a charged particle beam writer system to form a pattern on a reticle, and varying the beam blur radius of the charged particle beam writer system from shot to shot. | 03-03-2011 |
| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20080273542 | Communication Apparatus - A communication apparatus according to the invention can be applied to constitute each of relay nodes provided to constitute a novel communication network which avoids electric wave collision arising on a communication channel without carrying out “carrier sense” or operations for transmitting and receiving control information, such as “RTS”, “CTS”, and so no. The communication apparatus comprises a temporary managing portion | 11-06-2008 |
| 20090022081 | Communication Apparatus - A communication apparatus according to the invention can be applied to constitute each of relay nodes provided to constitute a novel communication network which avoids problems brought about by one or more bottlenecks formed in the communication network to result from the convergence of communication traffic induced in one or more relay nodes in the communication network. The communication apparatus comprises a temporary managing portion | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090262756 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A communication apparatus according to the invention can be applied to constitute each of relay nodes in a novel wireless communication network, in which the number of relaying stages formed with the relay nodes can be freely set without restriction by the amount of communication information to be processed, and consequently, a multistage-relayed communication extending over a long distance can be carried out to realize a long-distance communication. The communication apparatus comprises temporary and main managing portions | 10-22-2009 |
| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20100070454 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR CONTENT RECOMMENDATION AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An attribute weight adjustment engine adjusts a weight of a user in accordance with a record of an identified member ID out of records of an attribute weight adjustment database. The weight adjustment is performed through the multiple regression analysis based on a target similarity resulting from the record of the attribute weight adjustment database and a similarity of each attribute of the attribute weight adjustment database. The resulting weight is identified as the weight of each attribute of the identified user. To account for the weight of each attribute of the user, an attribute weight database is updated, and an unwanted record is deleted from the attribute weight adjustment database. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20110161323 | Information Processing Device, Method of Evaluating Degree of Association, and Program - There is provided an information processing device including: a storage unit that stores information element data defining a plurality of information elements; an information acquisition unit that acquires an information set having a referential relationship with each other from an information source accessible through a communication network; a classification unit that classifies information included in the information set acquired by the information acquisition unit into information of a first class corresponding to an information element defined by the information element data and information of a second class other than the information of the first class; and an evaluation unit that evaluates a degree of association between information elements respectively corresponding to two or more information of the first class based on a referential relationship between the information of the first class and the information of the second class in the information set. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110243392 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION OUTPUTTING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM STORAGE DEVICE - An apparatus, method and computer program storage device cooperate to acquire an image of at least a part of a meal. An analysis is then done on the image to determine a substance in the image. The analysis also considers caloric intake and exercise data and compares the same with a health management model to arrive at a recommendation for a user who consumed the meal. Various optional features include using wireless communications to receive exercise data from sensors, as well as communication related images such as the menu of a restaurant or the location of the restaurant. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110307350 | ITEM RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM, ITEM RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND PROGRAM - An item recommendation system includes: a feedback receiving unit receiving feedbacks with respect to items by users; a feedback history storage unit storing information of feedbacks received at present or in the past by the feedback receiving unit in units of combinations of users and items; a relevance calculation unit calculating relevance between items base on first information indicating the degree in which the same user gives feedbacks to respective items and second information indicating the degree in which many users give feedbacks by using feedback information stored by the feedback history storage unit when receiving the feedback by the feedback receiving unit; and a recommendation unit immediately recommending items having higher relevance with respect to the item to the user who has given the feedback to the item by the feedback receiving unit based on the relevance calculated by the relevance calculation unit. | 12-15-2011 |
| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20080241489 | Method of forming resist pattern and semiconductor device manufactured with the same - A method of forming a resist pattern through liquid immersion exposure in which exposure is performed such that a liquid film is formed between a substrate for a semiconductor device on which a processed film is formed and an objective lens arranged above the substrate is provided, and the substrate treated with a water-repellent agent solution composed of at least a water-repellent agent and a solvent is exposed to light. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20100021703 | DEVELOPING METHOD FOR IMMERSION LITHOGRAPHY, SOLVENT USED FOR THE DEVELOPING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING THE DEVELOPING METHOD - A developing method for immersion lithography is provided, realizing a process that is simple and low-cost and enables high repellency sufficient to allow high-speed scanning. The developing method for immersion lithography improved by inexpensive material without introducing any new facility, a solution to be used in the developing method, and an electronic device formed by using the developing method are provided. The developing method for immersion lithography is a method of developing for immersion lithography of an electronic device with a resist containing a surface segregation agent and chemically-amplified resist, including the step of development with alkali immersion, characterized by the dissolving and removing step, conducted using a dissolving and removing solution that selectively dissolves and removes the surface segregation agent of the resist. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100233449 | METHOD OF FORMING RESIST PATTERN - The present invention relates to a method of forming a resist pattern for obtaining an electronic device in which a development defect is eliminated, and aims at providing a process that is simple and low-cost, and can impart a high hydrophobicity capable of high-speed scan. It relates to a method of forming a resist pattern including the steps of: providing immersion exposure to a resist film; solubilizing the resist film subjected to the immersion exposure in an alkaline developer; developing the resist film solubilized in the alkaline developer by alkali immersion; and performing a deionized water rinse treatment on the developed resist film in this order, wherein the step of solubilization in the alkaline developer is performed by exposing the resist film subjected to the immersion exposure to ozone gas without irradiating ultraviolet rays (hereinafter, sometimes referred to as ozone treatment). | 09-16-2010 |
| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20080250256 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING POWER THEREOF - Backup control means controls processing for backing up data in storage means. In a state in which the storage means is not being supplied with power from the main power supply, a backup power supply supplies power to the storage means in order that backup processing by the backup control means will be performed. A timer measures power-supply time, which is the length of time the backup power supply supplies a voltage equal to or greater than a rated voltage to the storage means in order that backup processing will be performed. Determination means determines whether the power-supply time counted by the timer is shorter than length of a reference backup time. Notification of result of backup processing is given by alert means in accordance with the result of the determination made by the determination means. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20110099339 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The information processing apparatus of the present invention comprises a control unit configured to control such that part of a storage region of the second storage unit is used as a virtual storage region for the first storage unit when the information processing apparatus is operating in the first mode, and part of a storage region of the third storage unit is used as the virtual storage region for the first storage unit when the information processing apparatus is operating in the second mode. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20120084503 | DISK CONTROL APPARATUS, DISK CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING DISK CONTROL PROGRAM - A disk control apparatus that is capable of performing a reliable mirroring control for both of an SSD and an HDD. The disk control apparatus that performs a mirroring control to the SSD and the HDD. An acquisition unit acquires the data rewriting number in the SSD. A derivation unit derives a data retention period of the SSD from the data rewriting number acquired. A comparison unit compares a predetermined threshold value with an increment between the data rewriting number acquired at a predetermined timing and the data rewriting number acquired after a retention period, which is derived from the data rewriting number at the predetermined timing, elapses. A setting unit sets so as to read data from the SSD by default and to read data from the HDD when the comparison unit determines that the increment is less than the threshold value. | 04-05-2012 |