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| 20090020434 | Substrate processing method and substrate processing apparatus - A substrate processing method makes it possible to fill interconnect recesses, such as trenches, with a defect-free interconnect material by carrying out electroplating directly on a surface of a ruthenium film as a barrier layer. The substrate processing method comprises: providing a substrate having interconnect recesses formed in a substrate surface and having a ruthenium film formed in the entire substrate surface including interior surfaces of the interconnect recesses; keeping the substrate surface in contact with a plating solution for a predetermined time to adsorb an additive in the plating solution onto the ruthenium film, and then carrying out electroplating to form a conductive film on a surface of the ruthenium film. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090045067 | Apparatus and method for processing a substrate - A method and apparatus are set forth capable of processing a substrate with a high uniformity within the surface area even for a thin feeding layer. The method comprises arranging a counter electrode and the substrate to confront each other; providing a membrane between the counter electrode and the substrate to define a substrate side region and a counter electrode side region. The substrate side region and the counter electrode side region are capable of accommodating respective electrolytes. The substrate side region and the counter electrode side region are supplied with respective electrolytes having different specific resistances. A processing current is also supplied between the substrate and the counter electrode. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20100032315 | Electrolytic processing apparatus and electrolytic processing method - An electrolytic processing apparatus, prior to carrying out plating directly on, e.g., a ruthenium film of a substrate using the ruthenium film as a seed layer, can securely remove a passive layer formed on a surface of the ruthenium film even when the substrate is a large-sized high-resistance substrate, such as a 300-mm wafer, thereby reducing the terminal effect during the subsequent plating, improving the quality of a plated film and enabling filling of a void-free plated film into a fine interconnect pattern. The electrolytic processing apparatus includes: an anode disposed opposite a seed layer of a noble metal or a high-melting metal, formed on a substrate; a porous body impregnated with an electrolytic solution, disposed in a space, filled with the electrolytic solution, between the substrate and the anode; and a control section for controlling an electric field on a surface of the seed layer so that a reduction reaction takes place in the seed layer, thereby electrolytically and electrochemically removing a passive layer formed in the surface of the seed layer. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100219078 | PLATING APPARATUS AND PLATING METHOD - A plating apparatus securely carries out a flattening plating of a substrate to form a plated film having a flat surface without using a costly mechanism, and without applying an extra plating to the substrate. The plating apparatus includes a substrate holder; a cathode section having a seal member for watertightly sealing a peripheral portion of the substrate, and a cathode electrode for supplying an electric current to the substrate; an anode disposed in a position facing the surface of the substrate; a porous member disposed between the anode and the surface of the substrate; a constant-voltage control section for controlling a voltage applied between the cathode electrode and the anode at a constant value; and a current monitor section for monitoring an electric current flowing between the cathode electrode and the anode, and feeding back a detection signal to the constant-voltage control section. | 09-02-2010 |
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| 20080211497 | MRI APPARATUS - An MRI apparatus includes a navigator device for obtaining information of body motion produced by respiration of a subject by a navigator pulse sequence, and a respiration waveform display device for displaying a respiration waveform on the basis of the body motion information obtained by the navigator device. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080218167 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING METHOD - A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus has a controller which controls an operation of a scan section in such a manner that the scan section executes a scan in an imaging sequence, based on the imaging sequence condition set so as to correspond to a slice tracking method by an imaging sequence condition setting unit, and controls the operation of at least one of the scan section and an image reconstruction unit, based on a phase difference calculated by a phase difference calculation unit so as to eliminate the phase difference at which phases of the magnetic resonance signals produced in an imaging slice areas change, when an RF pulse subsequent to having been adjusted in frequency so as to the slice tracking method is transmitted upon execution of the scan in the imaging sequence. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080224698 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING METHOD - A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus which executes a mask scan for acquiring, as mask data, magnetic resonance signals produced in an imaging area in which a fluid flows through a subject, in a state in which a contrast agent is not injected into the fluid, and an imaging scan for acquiring, as imaging data, magnetic resonance signals produced in the imaging area in which the fluid containing the contrast agent flows after the injection of the contrast agent into the fluid, so as to correspond to a TRICKS method, thereby sequentially generating images about the imaging area along a time base, said magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes
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| 20090066329 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS AND NAVIGATOR DATA ANALYZING METHOD - A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus executes scans for executing a navigator sequence for acquiring as navigator data a magnetic resonance signal from a navigator area containing tissues body-moved in a subject and executing an imaging sequence for acquiring a magnetic resonance signal from an imaging area as imaging data at the subject, thereby to generate an image with respect to the imaging area. The magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes, a phase profile generating part which generates a phase profile so as to show a relationship between a phase of the navigator data and a position of the navigator area, a phase correcting part which corrects folding back of the phase profile generated by the phase profile generating part, and a position detecting part which detects a position of a tissue body-moved in the navigator area, based on the phase profile corrected by the phase correcting part. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090259120 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGE GENERATING METHOD - A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes a first navigator data processor that generates a first phase profile based on first navigator data acquired by executing a first navigator sequence, generates a position profile indicative of a relationship between a plurality of region positions and time at which the first navigator sequence is executed, and detects a specific position in the position profile. A second navigator data processor generates a second phase profile based on second navigator data acquired by executing a second navigator sequence, detects the position of each region with respect to each second phase profile within a reference range set so as to contain the specific position, based on each second phase profile, and acquires the same as its corresponding position data. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20090270720 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS AND RF PULSE APPLYING METHOD - A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes a scan section for executing a navigator sequence which transmits an RF pulse to a subject to obtain each magnetic resonance signal as navigator data. Upon execution of the navigator sequence, the scan section excites both a navigator area having two regions from which intensities of different navigator data signals are obtained, said two regions containing a body-moved region of the subject, and a region different from the two regions simultaneously, and transmits the RF pulse in such a manner that the phase of navigator data obtained from the different region differs from the phase of at least one region of navigator data obtained from the two regions. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20100171497 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS - A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes a scan execution unit configured to execute a regular scan in which a navigator sequence for generating a magnetic resonance signal in a navigator area containing a region of interest moving with a biological movement of a subject and an imaging sequence for generating a magnetic resonance signal in an imaging area of the subject are carried out, and a signal processing unit configured to detect a position of a region of interest based on a magnetic resonance signal generated by a navigator sequence in the regular scan and to generate an image based on the detected position and the magnetic resonance signal generated by the imaging sequence. The signal processing unit is configured to generate an intensity profile with respect to the magnetic resonance signal generated by a navigator sequence in the pre-scan and received at each of the coil elements, determine the gradient polarity of the profile line corresponding to the high-signal substance in the predetermined direction in the generated intensity profile, and to select a coil element that received a magnetic resonance signal of the intensity profile highest in maximum signal intensity among the intensity profiles the gradient polarity of which was determined to face upward. The position of the region of interest is detected based on a magnetic resonance signal generated by a navigator sequence in the regular scan and received at the selected coil element. | 07-08-2010 |
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| 20080310639 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication apparatus stores, in a memory, secret data shared with a first terminal, transmits a first connection request message to the first terminal, receives (a) a transfer instruction message which is transmitted from the first terminal in response to the first connection request message, includes address information of a second terminal, and instructs transfer of a connection request to the second terminal, and (b) an encrypted message which is encrypted by using a public key of the second terminal or a shared key shared between the first terminal and the second terminal, transmits the encrypted message together with a second connection request message whose destination is the address information, receives a response message to the second connection request message and a decryption result of the encrypted message, and starts, when the decryption result equals the secret data, a communication with the second terminal. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20090016520 | APPARATUS, METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND TERMINAL DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING COMMUNICATIONS - A receiving unit receives from a second terminal, a switching request message requesting switching of a counterpart of a communication that a third terminal is establishing with a first terminal, from the first terminal to the second terminal. When receiving the switching request message, a selecting unit selects one of the second and third terminals based on a predetermined rule, as a transmission source terminal that transmits an establishment request message requesting establishment of a communication between the second terminal and the third terminal. A transmitting unit transmits to the transmission source terminal, a transmission request message requesting transmission of the establishment request message. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20110271110 | KEY MANAGEMENT DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD HAVING A REKEY MECHANISM - According to some embodiments, a key management apparatus for deploying in a smart grid system adapted to receive metering data from smart meters connected to at least one relay via a network, includes: a key control mechanism that derives a key array of individual purpose specific keys from one master key such that the purpose specific key in the key array are each independent cryptographic keys for each specific usage in an application or for each application if there is only one specific usage in an application. | 11-03-2011 |
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| 20100328695 | BOOKLET PAGE TURNING APPARATUS, BOOKLET PAGE TURNING METHOD, AND ID PRINTING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a control device which controls to, after the feed device has fed the booklet so as to bring the page on the other surface side of the booklet into contact with the contact roller unit and fold the page on the other surface side, feed the booklet to the page turning position again. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110233030 | BOOKLET HANDLING APPARATUS AND BOOKLET HANDLING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a booklet handling apparatus includes a take in unit to take in a booklet in a closed state, a conveying unit to convey the booklet taken in by the take in unit to a predetermined position in a first direction, a page turning unit to turn, about a stitch of the booklet, a back cover of the booklet conveyed to the predetermined position by the conveying unit, a push up unit to push up a front cover of the booklet pivoting about the stitch thereof by rotating a push up cam arranged in contact with the front cover of the booklet, a support unit to support the front cover pushed up by the push up unit, and a folding unit to fold the front cover by conveying the booklet in a second direction opposite to the first direction from the predetermined position using the conveying unit while the support unit supports the front cover. | 09-29-2011 |
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| 20080312761 | AUDIO PLAYING APPARATUS AND AUDIO PLAYING METHOD - An audio playing apparatus that plays a multiplexed audio stream resulting from the multiplexing of multiple kinds of audio is disclosed. The apparatus can be switched at least between a mixing output mode for mixing decoded data or uncompressed data of the audio streams of multiple kinds of audio and outputting the result to one audio output terminal and a separate output mode for outputting the audio streams of multiple kinds of audio to separate audio output terminals independently. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20090245058 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus includes a measuring unit, a transmitter, and a receiver. The measuring unit first measures the performance of the information processing apparatus. The transmitter then transmits measurement results in the form of information indicating the performance measured by the measuring unit, together with a content request requesting desired content, to another information processing apparatus. The receiver subsequently receives content from the other information processing apparatus that has been supplied according to the content request and selected on the basis of the measurement results. In so doing, the information processing load is suitably adjusted according to the performance of the information processing apparatus. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20100249466 | THERMAL RECORDING MATERIAL CONTAINING TRIS(2-METHYL- 4-HYDROXY-5-t-BUTYLPHENYL)BUTANE - A thermal recording material of the invention contains, as a storability improver, tris(2-methyl-4-hydroxy-5-t-butylphenyl)butane trapping and containing water and/or methanol and having a crystal structure that shows a maximum X-ray diffraction peak at a diffraction angle 2θ of 6.58° according to X-ray diffraction measurement using an X ray having a wavelength of a Cu—Kα line. The recording material has improved heat resistance in non-printing sections while maintaining the moisture-and-heat resistance in printing sections. The thermal recording material of the invention has a thermal-recording layer that contains the tris(2-methyl-4-hydroxy-5-t-butylphenyl)butane in an amount of preferably 0.1 to 15% by mass with respect to the thermal-recording layer. The amount of the water and/or methanol trapped and contained in the tris(2-methyl-4-hydroxy-5-t-butylphenyl)butane is preferably 0.1 to 10% by mass in total. | 09-30-2010 |
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| 20090193461 | Information processing device and information providing method - The information processing device of the present invention includes: a display portion that displays objects that respectively performed a function assigned in advance by being selected; an operation portion that inputs operation information to select one of the objects; and a control portion that displays supplementary information linked to the object on the display portion, based on the operation information. The control portion, based on predetermined conditions, performs a first process to display first supplementary information on the display portion. If operation information is not newly input during a prescribed period of time after the first process is performed, the control portion performs a second process to acquire second supplementary information and display the second supplementary information on the display portion. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20100045211 | BRIGHTNESS ADJUSTING DEVICE AND BRIGHTNESS ADJUSTING METHOD - A brightness adjusting device has: a warm-up time determining unit which calculates a temperature difference between the outside temperature detected by an outside temperature detecting unit and the inside temperature detected by an inside temperature detecting unit and reading and determining a warm-up time corresponding to the calculated temperature difference, as an estimated warm-up time, from a product inside temperature table stored in a product inside temperature table storing unit; a target brightness value determining unit which reads and determines a target brightness value, which corresponds to the estimated warm-up time read and determined by a warm-up time estimating unit, from a target brightness value table stored in a target brightness value table storing unit; and a brightness value setting unit which sets a brightness value of the display device according to the target brightness value read and determined by the target brightness value calculating unit. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20110202962 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program - A package identifier generating unit generates, for each unique combination of information on specific items included in a package, a package identifier identifying the combination. A first table registering unit extracts information on the specific items from the obtained package, and registers the information on the specific items, a user identifier identifying a user of a program reproducing apparatus being a transfer source of the package, and the generated package identifier in correspondence with each other, in a first table. A second table registering unit extracts a correspondence relation between the user identifier and the package identifier from the first table, and registers the package identifier corresponding to the user identifier, as a program view history for each user, in a second table. A determining unit determines the package identifier being a difference between program view histories similar to each other registered in the second table. | 08-18-2011 |
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| 20080315502 | Feeding apparatus, and image forming apparatus incorporating feeding apparatus - A feeding apparatus including a feeding roller for conveying a sheet, a separation roller for conveying the sheet in a reverse direction, a transmission mechanism for transmitting the rotational force to the feeding roller, a limited force reverse transmission mechanism for transmitting the rotational force to the separation roller through a torque limiter, a forced reverse transmission mechanism for directly transmitting the rotational force to the separation roller, a temperature detector and a controller, wherein the controller controls the separation roller to receive rotational force through the forced reverse transmission mechanism after the limited force reverse transmission mechanism transmits the rotational force to the separation roller, then allows the limited force reverse transmission mechanism to transmit the rotational force to the separation roller, or to rotate the feeding via the transmission mechanism and the limited force transmission mechanism to transmit the rotational force to the separation roller. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20080315511 | Feeding apparatus, and image forming apparatus incorporating feeding apparatus - A feeding apparatus including a feeding roller for conveying a sheet, a separation roller for conveying the sheet in a reverse direction, a transmission mechanism for transmitting the rotational force to the feeding roller, a limited force reverse transmission mechanism for transmitting the rotational force to the separation roller through a torque limiter, a forced reverse transmission mechanism for directly transmitting the rotational force to the separation roller, a temperature detector and a controller, wherein the controller controls the separation roller to receive rotational force through the forced reverse transmission mechanism after the limited force reverse transmission mechanism transmits the rotational force to the separation roller, then allows the limited force reverse transmission mechanism to transmit the rotational force to the separation roller, or to rotate the feeding via the transmission mechanism and the limited force transmission mechanism to transmit the rotational force to the separation roller. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20090283954 | SHEET ALIGNING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - In a sheet aligning apparatus, a sheet is conveyed from a conveying-in path into a sheet storing section through an open end portion and the leading end of the sheet comes in with a stop member. Thereafter, when a shifting section shifts the stop member from an initial position to a first position, the sheet is shifted inversely together with the stop member and the back end of the sheet proceeds as the inversed leading end from the open end portion to a conveying-out path so that a succeeding sheet is allowed to be conveyed from the conveying-in path into the open end portion. When the sheet is shifted inversely, a shift regulating section regulates the shift of the sheet in such a way that the back end of the sheet is prevented from proceeding more than a predetermined distance due to the inertia of the shift. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20110026995 | INTERMEDIARY CONVEYANCE APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - When a sheet is brought into a sheet storage section ( | 02-03-2011 |
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| 20100300620 | Atmospheric Inductively Coupled Plasma Generator - In an atmospheric inductively coupled plasma generating apparatus, impedance matching between a coil for plasma generation and an RF power source is effected at a high speed. A control method and/or condition for the output frequency of an oscillator which supplies a power to the coil for plasma generation or a control method and a control condition for the output power of the oscillator are changed appropriately in accordance with a generation state of a plasma. When a plasma is not generated, the output frequency is controlled according to a first condition and, when a plasma is generated, the output frequency is controlled according to a second condition different from the first condition. When a plasma is not generated, the output power is controlled according to a third condition and, when a plasma is generated, the output power is controlled according to a fourth condition different from the third condition. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20120074309 | INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROSCOPY APPARATUS AND MEASURED DATA PROCESSING METHOD IN THE INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROSCOPY APPARATUS - The present invention performs measurement for determining a P/A coefficient and/or determination of the P/A coefficient after measurement of a standard density sample for density calibration in an ICP-MS. Specifically, after measuring signal intensity of each mass number in the standard density sample, the P/A coefficient is determined from the signal intensity for a mass number having the signal intensity within a P/A coefficient calibration range, while for a mass number having the signal intensity above the calibration range, a voltage applied to an ion lens of the ICP-MS is changed so that the signal intensity becomes within the calibration range, to thereby adjust an ion transmission ratio of the ion lens, and then the P/A coefficient is determined from the signal intensity determined within the calibration range. | 03-29-2012 |
