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20100187860 | CAB AND CONSTRUCTION MACHINE - A cab includes left and right rear pole members having internal spaces and prescribed shapes in cross-section. The right rear pole member includes a first hole portion that extends along the longitudinal direction of the right rear pole member and penetrates the right rear pole member in the left-and-right direction of the right rear pole member, and a first plate-shaped member inserted into and secured in the first hole portion. | 07-29-2010 |
20110057479 | CAB FOR CONSTRUCTION MACHINE - A cab for a construction machine includes a pillar member and a beam member. The pillar member is disposed generally along a vertical direction, and includes a cutout portion and a protruding portion. The cutout portion is formed on an upper end thereof. The protruding portion is formed on the upper end on an inner side of the cutout portion with respect to a widthwise direction of the cab. The beam member is disposed generally along a direction perpendicular to the vertical direction. The beam member is joined to the pillar member with the beam member partially overlapping the cutout portion on the upper end of the pillar member in a plan view, and a lateral surface of the beam member abutting against the protruding portion. | 03-10-2011 |
20110273611 | Single-Focus Optical System, Image Pickup Device, and Digital Apparatus - Provided is a single-focus optical system which is configured, in order from the object side to the image side, of a first to third lens groups and in which the first lens group and the third lens group are fixed with respect to a predetermined imaging surface, and the second lens group is moved in the optical axis direction to focus, wherein the first lens group comprises at least one positive lens and at least one negative lens, the second lens group comprises at least one positive lens, the third lens group comprises at least one lens having at least one aspheric surface and having a positive optical power at a peripheral portion thereof, and 5<|Δv | 11-10-2011 |
20120075721 | Image Pickup Lens, Image Pickup Device Provided with Image Pickup Lens, and Mobile Terminal Provided with Image Pickup Device - Provided is an image pickup lens that forms an image on an image pickup element with light from a subject. In the image pickup lens, a lens that is disposed on an image pickup element side is fixed in position, and a focusing lens group having a plurality of lenses including a lens closest to the subject is moved in an optical axis direction, thereby performing focusing. | 03-29-2012 |
20150070534 | ZOOM LENS, IMAGING OPTICAL APPARATUS, AND DIGITAL DEVICE - A zoom lens includes, in an order from an object side, four groups of a positive group, a negative group, a positive group, and a negative group. For varying magnification from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end, the first group is configured to be moved toward the object side, the second group is configured to be moved toward an image side, the third group is configured to be moved toward the object side, and the fourth group is configured to be moved toward the object side, and conditional equations of −0.6303-12-2015 | |
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20080280385 | Thin-film transistor, TFT-array substrate, liquid-crystal display device and method of fabricating the same - A thin-film transistor includes a gate layer, a gate insulting layer, a semiconductor layer, a drain layer, a passivation layer (each of which being formed on or over an insulating substrate), and a conductive layer formed on the passivation layer. The conductive layer is connected to the gate layer or the drain layer by way of a contact hole penetrating at least the passivation layer. The passivation layer has a multiple-layer structure comprising at least a first sublayer and a second sublayer stacked, the first sublayer having a lower etch rate than that of the second sublayer. The first sublayer is disposed closer to the substrate than the second sublayer. The second sublayer has a thickness equal to or less than that of the conductive layer. The shape or configuration of the passivation layer and the underlying gate insulating layer can be well controlled in the etching process, and the conductive layer formed on the passivation layer is prevented from being divided. | 11-13-2008 |
20080287038 | Polishing composition for semiconductor wafer, method for production thereof and polishing method - The present invention relates to a polishing composition for a substrate including a metal such as wiring, etc., formed on a semiconductor wafer, which can provide a high polishing rate without causing scratches on the wiring metal, a method of producing the polishing composition, and a polishing method. The polishing composition for a semiconductor wafer comprises an acid and an aqueous medium dispersion containing positively-charged silica particles having an amino group-containing silane coupling agent bonded on a surface thereof, the polishing composition having a pH of 2 to 6. | 11-20-2008 |
20080311750 | Polishing composition for semiconductor wafer and polishing method - The present invention relates to a polishing composition for a semiconductor wafer which is excellent in polishing property, and a polishing method. The polishing composition for a semiconductor wafer comprises colloidal silica consisting of non-spherical silica particles having a ratio of long axis to short axis of 1.5 to 15. The polishing method for a semiconductor wafer uses the polishing composition. The polishing composition can provide a remarkably high polishing rate compared with a polishing composition using spherical colloidal silica, and can provide good mirror-polishing without causing scratches. In addition, small alkali metal content enables reduction of adverse effects on a semiconductor wafer, such as residual abrasives after polishing. | 12-18-2008 |
20090209070 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A THIN FILM TRANSISTOR HAVING A MICRO-CRYSTALLINE SILICON HYDROGEN FEEDING LAYER FORMED BETWEEN A METAL GATE AND A GATE INSULATING FILM. - A TFT (Thin Film Transistor) is provided in which a hydrogen feeding layer is able to be formed in a position where diffusing distance of hydrogen can be made short without causing an increase in photolithography processes. In the TFT, the hydrogen feeding layer to diffuse hydrogen into a dangling bond existing at an interface between a polycrystalline silicon thin film and a gate insulating film is formed in a position between the gate insulating film and a gate electrode. According to this configuration, diffusing distance of hydrogen at a period of time during hydrogenation can be made short and the hydrogenation process can be sufficiently performed without taking time in heat treatment. | 08-20-2009 |
20090278968 | SOLID STATE IMAGING APPARATUS, SOLID STATE IMAGING DEVICE DRIVING METHOD AND CAMERA - A solid state imaging apparatus includes a solid state imaging device and a control circuit for performing control such that a first clock signal applied to transfer signal charges for a time period from after a preceding signal charge has been read out from a light sensing unit to when the preceding signal charge is transferred to a horizontal transfer unit and a second clock signal applied for a time period from after the preceding signal charge has been transferred to the horizontal transfer unit to when a succeeding signal charge is read out from the light sensing unit have almost the same amplitude and a high level potential of the first clock signal is set higher than that of the second clock signal. | 11-12-2009 |
20110034622 | AQUEOUS DISPERSION AND AQUEOUS COATING COMPOSITION, AND PROCESS OF FORMING COATING FILM - It is an object of the present invention to provide an aqueous dispersion of acrylic modified starch with excellent long-term storage stability, as well as an aqueous coating composition that can form a coated film with excellent finished appearance, curability and weather resistance, obtained using the dispersion. | 02-10-2011 |
20110258367 | MEMORY SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - According to the embodiment, a nonvolatile semiconductor memory that includes a plurality of banks capable of operating in parallel, a command analyzing unit that, upon receiving a power management command from a host, analyzes the received power management command, and a recording control unit that dynamically and variably controls an upper limit of the number of banks to be operated in parallel at a time of writing in accordance with an analysis result by the command analyzing unit are included, thereby suppressing the upper limit of a power consumption in accordance with an instruction from the host. | 10-20-2011 |
20120008025 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A solid-state imaging device includes an image sensor chip and a signal processing chip, which are electrically connected. A low thermal conductivity region is positioned between the image sensor chip and the signal processing chip. The low thermal conductivity region is configured to insulate the image sensor chip from heat, which may be generated by the signal processing chip. | 01-12-2012 |
20120331448 | COVERAGE MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD AND MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, a coverage measurement apparatus includes a compiler unit, an execution environment unit, and a coverage calculation unit. The compiler unit produces a first object code from a program to be subjected to coverage measurement, and inserts an instruction to switch to a code rewriting process into the first object code, the code rewriting process being such that when the instruction is executed, the instruction is rewritten into a no-operation instruction. The execution environment unit executes the first object code, thereby producing a second object code. The coverage calculation unit calculates, based on the first and second object codes, the coverage of the program to be subjected to the coverage measurement. | 12-27-2012 |
20130010145 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSING APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A solid-state image sensing apparatus includes a solid-state image sensing device, signal processing circuit device, and a multi-layer wiring package. The solid-state image sensing device has a pixel in an image sensing area thereof. The pixel receives incident light and generate a signal electric charge. The signal processing circuit device is arranged to face the image sensing area and applies signal processing to a signal output from the solid-state image sensing device. The multi-layer wiring package has wiring layers, the solid-state image sensing device, and the signal processing circuit device. Each of the wiring layers is laminated via an insulator. The multi-layer wiring package is formed such that a first wiring layer provided between the solid-state image sensing device and the signal processing circuit device has a greater thickness than second wiring layers and has heat conductivity higher than or equal to heat conductivity of the second wiring layers. | 01-10-2013 |
20130202321 | METHOD OF MEASURING TOTAL AMOUNT OF LATENT IMAGE CHARGE, APPARATUS MEASURING TOTAL AMOUNT OF LATENT IMAGE CHARGE, IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A method of measuring a total amount of latent image charge includes: scanning a sample with a charged particle beam, the sample having a charge distribution on a surface of the sample, the charge distribution being caused by forming an electrostatic latent image by exposure; measuring a state of a surface charge distribution on the sample based on a detection signal obtained by the scanning; obtaining an electric potential at a potential saddle point, the potential saddle point being formed by the surface charge distribution of the sample; obtaining an electrostatic latent image area, the electrostatic latent image being formed by the surface charge distribution of the sample; and performing a calculation using the electric potential at the potential saddle point and the electrostatic latent image area to measure a total amount of electric charge of the electrostatic latent image. | 08-08-2013 |
20130229558 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND CAMERA SYSTEM - A solid-state image pickup apparatus includes a timing signal generation unit, a plurality of sensor units arranged in a matrix pattern and configured to perform photoelectric conversion of light received on an image pickup surface to accumulate signal charges, a vertical transfer unit provided for each vertical column of the sensor units and configured to transfer the signal charges in a plurality of divided fields in a vertical direction in an image pickup area in a plurality of horizontal blanking periods, a horizontal transfer unit configured to perform a horizontal transfer of the signal charges to the vertical transfer unit along with the horizontal blanking period, and a vertical and horizontal shift control unit configured to control a timing at which the vertical transfer unit transfers the signal charges to the horizontal transfer unit for each vertical column of the sensor units on the basis of the timing signal. | 09-05-2013 |
20140068120 | HOST SYSTEM, STORAGE DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A host system which maybe connected to a storage device has an application module and a communication interface section. The application module issues commands for the operation of the storage device. The communication interface transmits the commands issued by the application module. The commands are placed in a frame unit which can include multiple commands stored in a command packet. A storage device that may be connected to the host system receives the frame unit, then retrieves the commands from the command packet and executes the commands. By communicating in frame units containing multiple commands, the communication efficiency between host system and storage device can be improved. | 03-06-2014 |
20140075096 | STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A storage device according to an embodiment includes: a host interface connected to a host; a memory including a first buffer that stores a logical address range designated by an invalidation instruction received from the host via the host interface and a second buffer that stores an internal logical address range which is an area combination with the logical address range; a nonvolatile memory; and a controller. The controller includes: an invalidation instruction processor that stores the logical address range designated by the invalidation instruction in the first buffer; an area combination executor that generates the internal logical address range by the area combination with the logical address range and stores the internal logical address range in the second buffer; and an invalidation executor that executes invalidation processing on the nonvolatile memory based on the internal logical address range. | 03-13-2014 |
20140218573 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSING APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A solid-state image sensing apparatus includes a solid-state image sensing device, signal processing circuit device, and a multi-layer wiring package. The solid-state image sensing device has a pixel in an image sensing area thereof. The pixel receives incident light and generate a signal electric charge. The signal processing circuit device is arranged to face the image sensing area and applies signal processing to a signal output from the solid-state image sensing device. The multi-layer wiring package has wiring layers, the solid-state image sensing device, and the signal processing circuit device. Each of the wiring layers is laminated via an insulator. The multi-layer wiring package is formed such that a first wiring layer provided between the solid-state image sensing device and the signal processing circuit device has a greater thickness than second wiring layers and has heat conductivity higher than or equal to heat conductivity of the second wiring layers. | 08-07-2014 |
20140253658 | ELECTROSTATIC LATENT IMAGE FORMING METHOD, ELECTROSTATIC LATENT IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An electrostatic latent image forming method for forming, on an image carrier, an electrostatic latent image that has a pattern where there are an irradiated area and a not-irradiated area in a mixed manner, the electrostatic latent image forming method comprises; adjusting an exposure condition of an irradiated area that is included in the irradiated area and is adjacent to the not-irradiated area so that an electric field intensity of an electrostatic latent image that corresponds to the not-irradiated area is increased so as to prevent adhesion of a developer, and irradiating the image carrier with light under the adjusted exposure condition. | 09-11-2014 |
20150028270 | COMPOSITION FOR OPTICAL MATERIALS - The present invention inhibits the clouding of cured products obtained by polymerizing and curing a composition including sulfur and an episulfide compound, and inhibits clouding particularly in lenses, called plus-power lenses, that have large central thicknesses; and provides a composition for optical materials with which it is possible to predict and assess whether or not clouding will occur after curing and to determine quality at a stage before polymerization and curing. These objectives are achieved by, for example, a composition for optical materials that includes: sulfur, the turbidity value of which when made into a 30-mass % carbon disulfide solution is 10 ppm or less; and an episulfide compound. That is, clouding is prevented and excellent transparency is achieved in optical materials produced from said composition for optical materials that comprises an episulfide compound and sulfur that satisfies the aforementioned condition in terms of turbidity value. | 01-29-2015 |
20150042740 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming method includes: exposing a surface of an image carrier with a light based on an image pattern including an image portion and a non-image portion to form an electrostatic latent image corresponding to the image pattern. The image portion is made up of a plurality of pixels. Some of the pixels that make up the image portion are exposed with light of a first output value that is higher than a prescribed optical output value when the entire pixels corresponding to the image portion are exposed over a prescribed time period. | 02-12-2015 |
20150092994 | ELIGIBLE OPERATOR DETERMINATION DEVICE AND ELIGIBLE OPERATOR DETERMINATION METHOD - An eligible operator determination device includes a three-dimensional light measurement unit configured to measure three-dimensional coordinates of respective parts in a visual field including a posture of a monitor target operating a device; a motion recognition unit configured to recognize a predetermined ineligible motion from a measurement result obtained by the three-dimensional light measurement unit; and an ineligibility coping unit configured to execute a predetermined process according to the predetermined ineligible motion, when the predetermined ineligible motion is recognized by the motion recognition unit. | 04-02-2015 |
20150116587 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND PROGRAM - The present technology relates to an imaging apparatus, an imaging method, an electronic device, and a program that can stabilize a clamp level at the time of imaging while realizing power saving of the imaging apparatus. In an imaging mode including a valid signal period in which a video signal imaged by an imaging device | 04-30-2015 |
20150123234 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSING APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A solid-state image sensing apparatus includes a solid-state image sensing device, signal processing circuit device, and a multi-layer wiring package. The solid-state image sensing device has a pixel in an image sensing area thereof. The pixel receives incident light and generate a signal electric charge. The signal processing circuit device is arranged to face the image sensing area and applies signal processing to a signal output from the solid-state image sensing device. The multi-layer wiring package has wiring layers, the solid-state image sensing device, and the signal processing circuit device. Each of the wiring layers is laminated via an insulator. The multi-layer wiring package is formed such that a first wiring layer provided between the solid-state image sensing device and the signal processing circuit device has a greater thickness than second wiring layers and has heat conductivity higher than or equal to heat conductivity of the second wiring layers. | 05-07-2015 |
20150301690 | INPUT-OPERATION DETECTION DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, PROJECTOR APPARATUS AND PROJECTOR SYSTEM - According to an aspect of the present invention, an input-operation detection device for detecting a user input operation performed on at least a portion of a displayed image includes; a light emitter that emits detection light, an imaging unit including an imaging optical system and an image sensor and configured to capture an image of at least one of the displayed image and the input operation, and a processing unit that detects position, at which the input operation is performed, or motion, by which the input operation is provided, based on a result of image capture output from the imaging unit. The position where optical axis of the imaging optical system intersects a display surface of the displayed image and center of the displayed image are on the same side relative to a position where the imaging unit is mounted. | 10-22-2015 |
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20090269057 | WAVELENGTH ROUTE SELECTION SYSTEM AND WAVELENGTH ROUTE SELECTION METHOD - A wavelength route selection system includes an inhibition route setting unit determining, for each of the spans, whether or not the span reliability exceeds the upper limit value, and extracting, as second wavelength routes, routes based on spans, the span reliability of which is determined to exceed the upper limit value, from among wavelength routes from the node device as the start point to the node device as the end point. The system further includes a route reliability calculation unit adding, for each of the second wavelength routes extracted by the inhibition route setting unit, the span reliabilities of all the spans in the corresponding second wavelength route calculated so as to calculate a wavelength route reliability representing the reliability of the second wavelength route. The system further includes a route selection unit selecting a second wavelength route having a minimum wavelength route reliability calculated by the route reliability calculation unit from among the second wavelength routes as the first wavelength route. | 10-29-2009 |
20100130661 | RESIN COMPOSITION FOR OPTICAL MEMBER AND OPTICAL MEMBER OBTAINED FROM THE SAME - The present invention can provide a composition for optical members, which contains (a) a compound having one or more of any group selected from the group consisting of an acryloyl group, a methacryloyl group, an allyl group and a vinyl group and one or more β-epithiopropyl groups in a molecule. In a preferable embodiment of the present invention, the composition for optical members further contains at least one compound selected from (b) a compound having one or more β-epithiopropyl groups in a molecule while having no polymerizable unsaturated bond group, (c) an inorganic compound having a sulfur atom and/or a selenium atom, (d) a compound having one or more thiol groups in a molecule, (e) a compound having one or more amino groups in a molecule while having no heterocyclic ring, and (f) a compound having one or more of at least one group selected from the group consisting of a vinyl group, an acryloyl group, a methacryloyl group and an allyl group in a molecule. | 05-27-2010 |
20100299472 | MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - In a multiprocessor system including a plurality of processors, the processors execute, at a time of migration a task operating in own processor to another processor, a transmitting task for transmitting the migration target task to a destination processor, and when an interrupt request to be received and executed by an interrupt handler accompanying the migration target task is generated during transmission of the migration target task, the transmitting task receives the interrupt request instead of the interrupt handler and starts the interrupt handler. | 11-25-2010 |
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20130319105 | MICRO FLOW SENSOR - A micro flow sensor includes: a flow path through which a fluid to be measured flows; a detection unit having a heater configured to heat the fluid to be measured in the flow path and temperature sensors configured to measure temperature of a fluid to be measured in the flow path; an arithmetic unit configured to measure a flow rate of the fluid to be measured flowing through the flow path based on the temperature of the fluid to be measured, measured by the temperature sensors; and a narrowed portion disposed on an upstream side of the detection unit in the flow path for narrowing the flow path. | 12-05-2013 |
20140366642 | ULTRASONIC FLOWMETER - An ultrasonic flowmeter includes a plurality of ultrasonic wave elements attached to an outer wall of a pipeline through which a measurement target fluid flows, and configured to transmit and receive an ultrasonic signal, wherein at least one of the ultrasonic wave elements is an ultrasonic wave transmission element and is attached to the outer wall of the pipeline so that an ultrasonic wave transmission surface thereof is in parallel to a pipe axis direction of the pipeline, and another at least one of the ultrasonic wave elements is an ultrasonic wave reception element and is attached to the outer wall of the pipeline so that an ultrasonic wave reception surface thereof is in parallel to the pipe axis direction of the pipeline. | 12-18-2014 |
20150068311 | ULTRASONIC PIPE MEASUREMENT APPARATUS - An ultrasonic pipe measurement apparatus includes: a plurality of ultrasonic transceivers discretely disposed on a pipe wall of a pipe; and a control unit configured to control the plurality of ultrasonic transceivers and detect a generation point of damage caused in the pipe based on an ultrasonic signal exchanged between the ultrasonic transceivers. | 03-12-2015 |
20150350557 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, IMAGING OPTICAL DEVICE, AND DIGITAL APPARATUS - In a zoom lens system, a distance between a first lens group and a second lens group is increased, a distance between the second lens group and a third lens group is reduced, and a distance between the third lens group and a fourth lens group is reduced. The third lens group includes, in order from an object side, a front lens group and a rear lens group separated from each other by a widest air gap on an optical axis in the third lens group. Camera-shake correction is performed by moving whole or part of the front lens group as a camera-shake correction lens group perpendicularly to the optical axis. Conditional formula below is satisfied: −3.012-03-2015 | |
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