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20080269457 | Process For Producing Polyimide Fine Particle - A process for producing polyimide fine particles that involves subjecting a polyamic acid solution to a thermal imidization process to directly produce polyimide fine particles. In the process, relatively monodisperse, non-aggregating fine polyimide particles can be directly obtained without using thermal imidization catalysts that are difficult to remove from the reaction mixture or without using an azeotropic solvent to remove the water produced. | 10-30-2008 |
20090143505 | Curable Resin Composition - A curable resin composition is provided which has an appropriate viscosity suitable for encapsulating a light-emitting device. The cured product of the curable resin composition has a refractive index equal to or larger than that of epoxy resins, is excellent in heat resistance and light resistance, and has thermal stress relaxation properties. The curable resin composition contains a high refractive index acrylic-based monomer having a refractive index of 1.52 or more and a non-polymerizable carbazole, and further contains a polymerizable carbazole in accordance with need. An acrylate or methacrylate having a fluorene skeleton, a bisphenol-A skeleton, a biphenyl skeleton, a naphthalene skeleton, or an anthracene skeleton is used as the high refractive index acrylic-based monomer. | 06-04-2009 |
20100059774 | ENCAPSULANT MATERIAL FOR OPTICAL COMPONENT AND LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE - A light-emitting device is provided which uses an encapsulant material made from a polymer having a high relative light output. The light-emitting device includes a light-emitting element and a member sealing the light-emitting element. The encapsulant material has one or more than two kinds of units given by the following formula (1) and a refractive index of 1.55 or more. | 03-11-2010 |
20100140654 | LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT MODULE AND METHOD FOR SEALING LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT - Disclosed is a method for sealing a light-emitting device wherein formation of air bubbles in a light-emitting device module can be prevented by performing no gelation after fitting of a cover member. This method also enables to seal a light-emitting device by using a gel sealing material composed of a gel precursor which uses a solvent. Also disclosed is a light-emitting module formed by such a sealing method. In this method for sealing a light-emitting device, gelation of the gel precursor of a gel sealing material is performed before placing the precursor on the light-emitting device, and thus no gelation is necessary after fitting of a cover member. Consequently, a gel precursor having high viscosity that is difficult to be used in an injection method can be used in this method. Furthermore, a substance which requires use of a solvent can be used as a gel precursor of a gel sealing material. A light-emitting device module with high luminance wherein no air bubbles are included can be obtained by this method. | 06-10-2010 |
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20090325328 | Plasma processing apparatus and plasma processing method - A plasma processing method is provided. The method includes providing photon detection sensors for measuring an ultraviolet-light-induced current around circumferential portions of a wafer stage within a plasma chamber. The method also includes providing a semiconductor wafer on the wafer stage and performing plasma processing so as to form an insulating layer the semiconductor wafer or etch an insulating layer formed on the semiconductor wafer. | 12-31-2009 |
20120190212 | LOW DIELECTRIC CONSTANT INSULATING FILM AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME - Disclosed is a low dielectric constant insulating film formed of a polymer containing Si atoms, O atoms, C atoms, and H atoms, which includes straight chain molecules in which a plurality of basic molecules with an SiO structure are linked in a straight chain, binder molecules with an SiO structure linking a plurality of the straight chain molecules. The area ratio of a signal indicating a linear type SiO structure is 49% or more, and the signal amount of the signal indicating Si(CH | 07-26-2012 |
20120295066 | SURFACE NANOSTRUCTURE FORMING METHOD AND BASE HAVING SURFACE NANOSTRUCTURE - A surface nanostructure forming method includes: preparing a substrate having an appropriate processing value; a first process of irradiating a part which is close to a surface of the substrate with laser light having a pulse duration of picosecond order or shorter at an irradiation intensity being close to the appropriate processing value of the substrate, or greater than or equal to the appropriate processing value and less than or equal to an ablation threshold and forming periodic nanostructures in which first modified portions and second modified portions are periodically arranged in a self-assembled manner at a focus at which the laser light is concentrated and in a region being close to the focus; and a second process of performing an etching treatment on the surface of the substrate having the periodic nanostructures formed thereon to form an uneven structure having the first modified portions as valleys. | 11-22-2012 |
20120308765 | NANOSTRUCTURE FORMING METHOD AND BASE HAVING NANOSTRUCTURE - A nanostructure forming method includes: preparing a substrate having an appropriate processing value; applying laser beam having a pulse duration of picosecond order or less to a planar surface oriented in a propagation direction of the laser beam and a direction perpendicular to a polarization direction (electric field direction) of the laser beam in the interior of the substrate at an irradiation intensity which is close to the appropriate processing value of the substrate; forming a structure-modified portion at a focus at which the laser beam is concentrated and in a region which is close to the focus; and forming a nanostructure formed of a nano-hole by selectively etching the structure-modified portion. | 12-06-2012 |
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20080286883 | Dry etching method and production method of magnetic memory device - Provision of a process capable of preferably etching particularly PtMn used for a pin layer of an MRAM is an object: a dry etching method for performing dry etching on a layer including platinum and/or manganese by using pulse plasma and a production method of an MRAM, wherein the dry etching method is applied to processing of the pin layer. The MRAM is configured to have a memory portion comprising a magnetic memory element composed of tunnel magnetoresistive effect element formed by stacking a magnetic fixed layer having a fixed magnetization direction, a tunnel barrier layer and a magnetic layer capable of changing the magnetization direction. | 11-20-2008 |
20090058424 | Plasma monitoring method and plasma monitoring system - A plasma monitoring method using a sensor, the sensor having a substrate; a first electrode, the first electrode being a conductive electrode and formed on the substrate while being isolated from the substrate; an insulating film formed on the first electrode; a contact hole formed in the insulating film and having a depth from a surface of the insulating film to the first electrode; and a second electrode, the second electrode being a conductive electrode, formed on the surface of the insulating film, and faced to plasma during a plasma process, the plasma monitoring method including measuring and monitoring potentials of the first electrode and the second electrode or a potential difference between the first electrode and the second electrode during the plasma process is disclosed. A plasma monitoring system carrying out the plasma monitoring method is also disclosed. | 03-05-2009 |
20090058432 | Ultraviolet light monitoring system - An ultraviolet light monitoring system includes first and second electrodes, an evaluation subject film and a power source. The first and second electrodes are opposingly disposed and attract holes which are generated in accordance with irradiation of ultraviolet light. The evaluation subject film is formed in a vicinity of the first and second electrodes, and is a subject of evaluation of damage caused by the irradiation of ultraviolet light. The power source, at times of monitoring of the ultraviolet light, applies a predetermined bias to a series path formed by the first electrode, a gap between the first and second electrodes, and the second electrode. | 03-05-2009 |
20100244861 | PLASMA MONITORING METHOD - A plasma monitoring method measures in-situ a resistance of a side wall in a particular pattern and a current flowing in the side wall in the pattern. A monitoring system has two sensors in a plasma chamber. Each sensor has an upper electrode and a lower electrode. An external resistance element is connected only to one of the two sensors. The external resistance element is connected in parallel to the wires extending from the upper and lower electrodes of the sensor concerned. As a result, a resistance between the upper and lower electrodes is different in the two sensors, and two different values of potential difference between the upper and lower electrodes are obtained in-situ. Because a resistance value of the external resistance element is already known, a resistance value of a side wall of a contact hole per one contact hole is obtained in-situ. When the resistance per one contact hole is obtained, an electric current flowing in the side wall of the contact hole per one contact hole can be obtained. | 09-30-2010 |
20130013253 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR PREDICTING PROCESSING SHAPE BY PLASMA PROCESS - A system, a method, and a program for predicting a processing shape by a plasma process by which a process state is measured on a realtime basis based on the result of which the processing shape is predicted. The system includes an apparatus condition DB | 01-10-2013 |
20140116502 | QUANTUM NANODOTS, TWO-DIMENSIONAL QUANTUM NANODOT ARRAY AS WELL AS SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE USING THE SAME AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR - A quantum nanodot | 05-01-2014 |
20140291288 | METHOD FOR ETCHING FILM HAVING TRANSITION METAL - Provided is a method of etching a transition metal-containing film using a substrate processing apparatus. The substrate processing apparatus includes: a processing container configured to define a processing chamber and a plasma generation chamber; and a shielding unit provided between the processing chamber and the plasma generation chamber and formed with a plurality of openings to communicate the processing chamber and the plasma generation chamber with each other. The shielding unit has a shielding property against ultraviolet rays. The method includes: supplying neutral particles of oxygen atoms to the processing chamber in which a workpiece is accommodated by generating plasma of a first gas containing oxygen in the plasma generation chamber; supplying a second gas to complex a transition metal oxidized while supplying the neutral particles of oxygen to the processing chamber; and supplying neutral particles of rare gas atoms to the processing chamber by generating plasma of a rare gas. | 10-02-2014 |
20150179417 | PLASMA MONITORING METHOD AND PLASMA MONITORING SYSTEM - A plasma monitoring method using a sensor, the sensor having a substrate; a first electrode, the first electrode being a conductive electrode and formed on the substrate while being isolated from the substrate; an insulating film formed on the first electrode; a contact hole formed in the insulating film and having a depth from a surface of the insulating film to the first electrode; and a second electrode, the second electrode being a conductive electrode, formed on the surface of the insulating film, and faced to plasma during a plasma process, the plasma monitoring method including measuring and monitoring potentials of the first electrode and the second electrode or a potential difference between the first electrode and the second electrode during the plasma process is disclosed. A plasma monitoring system carrying out the plasma monitoring method is also disclosed. | 06-25-2015 |
20150197853 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS - Provided is a substrate processing including: a plasma generation source configured to generate the plasma within the processing container; a substrate holding mechanism configured to hold the substrate within the processing container; a separation plate disposed between the plasma generation source and the substrate holding mechanism and having a plurality of openings formed therein, in which the plurality of openings are configured to neutralize the plasma generated in the plasma generation source so as to form neutral particles, and to irradiate the neutral particles onto the substrate; and a directivity adjusting mechanism configured to adjust directivity of the neutral particles irradiated onto the substrate such that a plurality of peak values of an incident angle distribution of the neutral particles on the substrate are distributed at positions which are deviated from a normal direction of the substrate and located on both sides of the normal direction. | 07-16-2015 |
20150214015 | FILM FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD OF FORMING LOW-PERMITTIVITY FILM, SiCO FILM, AND DAMASCENE INTERCONNECT STRUCTURE - In a film forming apparatus according to an embodiment, a processing container defines a space including a plasma generation chamber and a processing chamber disposed under the plasma generation chamber. A first gas supply system supplies noble gas to the plasma generation chamber. The plasma generation chamber is sealed by a dielectric window. An antenna supplies a microwave to the plasma generation chamber via the dielectric window. A second gas supply system supplies a precursor gas to the processing chamber. A shield portion is disposed between the plasma generation chamber and the processing chamber. The shield portion includes a plurality of openings providing communication between the plasma generation chamber and the processing chamber, and has ultraviolet ray shielding property. In this film forming apparatus, the pressure in the plasma generation chamber is set greater than the pressure in the processing chamber by a factor of 4 or more. | 07-30-2015 |
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20140294661 | FERRITIC STAINLESS STEEL - The ferritic stainless steel has a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.003% or more and 0.012% or less, Si: 0.30% or more and 0.60% or less, Mn: 0.10% or more and 0.35% or less, P: 0.040% or less, S: 0.020% or less, Cr: 17.0% or more and 19.0% or less, Ni: more than 0.10% and 0.30% or less, Ti: 0.10% or more and 0.40% or less, Nb: 0.005% or more and less than 0.050%, Mo: 0.20% or less, N: 0.005% or more and 0.015% or less, Cu: 0.3% or more and 0.5% or less, Mg: less than 0.0005%, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities. | 10-02-2014 |
20150023832 | FERRITIC STAINLESS STEEL - A ferritic stainless steel is provided having a chemical composition consisting of, by mass %, C: 0.003% or more and 0.015% or less, Si: 0.05% or more and 0.30% or less, Mn: 0.10% or more and 0.35% or less, P: 0.06% or less, S: 0.02% or less, Cr: 17.0% or more and 19.0% or less, Ni: more than 0.10% and 0.30% or less, Ti: 0.10% or more and 0.40% or less, Nb: 0.005% or more and less than 0.050%, Mo: less than 0.20%, N: 0.005% or more and 0.015% or less, Cu: 0.30% or more and 0.50% or less, Mg: less than 0.0005% and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities. | 01-22-2015 |
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20110250511 | BIOFUEL CELL - Disclosed herein is a biofuel cell including a polymer gel reversibly swelling and contracting in response to variations in a property of a fuel solution making contact therewith, the polymer gel being on a surface of an electrode and/or in the inside of the electrode. | 10-13-2011 |
20110287312 | BIOFUEL CELL - Provided is a biofuel cell including: electrodes disposed inside a cell casing; and current collectors exposed to the outside of the cell casing; wherein a part of each of the current collectors is separably put in close contact with the corresponding electrode through an opening provided in the cell casing, in the state of being provided with a leakage preventive section configured to prevent a solution inside the cell casing from leaking out through the opening. | 11-24-2011 |
20120264023 | BIO-FUEL CELL FUEL SUPPLY BODY AND BIO-FUEL CELL SYSTEM - A fuel supply body is partially or wholly formed from a material having a biopolymer as a main component and a biocatalyst that metabolically decomposes the biopolymer is contained therein or immobilized thereto. A bio-fuel cell system is constituted of the fuel supply body and a bio-fuel cell including electrodes with an oxidation-reduction enzyme present on a surface thereof to supply fuel and/or the biocatalyst from the fuel supply body to the bio-fuel cell and also to use the fuel supply body itself as the fuel. | 10-18-2012 |
20130011748 | POWER SUPPLY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A power supply device in which an enzyme is immobilized as a catalyst on negative electrodes and/or positive electrodes, includes electromotive portions in which at least two of the negative electrodes and the positive electrodes are connected in series, and a fuel supply portion which communicates with the negative electrodes and which simultaneously supply a fuel to the negative electrodes, and in the power supply device, the fuel supply portion includes fuel-supply adjusting portions which adjust fuel supply to the negative electrodes. | 01-10-2013 |
20130065139 | FUEL CELL - A fuel cell that can have a higher battery capacity without degradation of cathode characteristics is provided. | 03-14-2013 |
20130130130 | FUEL LEAKAGE PREVENTING STRUCTURE AND BIOFUEL CELL - The valve control unit of a fuel leakage preventing structure of the present invention includes first and second electrodes. The first electrode is attached to a first member that is movable. When a pressing force is applied to the first member to move, the first and second electrodes are brought into contact with each other, to cause conduction. The first and second electrodes are connected to a control device, and the control device opens a control valve when the first and second electrodes are put into a conducting state. As the control valve is opened and closed by a pressing force in this manner, a fuel solution can be easily supplied. | 05-23-2013 |
20130143131 | BIOFUEL CELL - A biofuel cell is formed by disposing an anode (negative electrode) to be a fuel electrode, an anode current collector, a separator, a cathode current collector, a cathode (positive electrode) to be an air electrode and a gas-liquid separation membrane in this order between a fuel tank and a positive electrode cover. During the formation, an electrode formed of a carbon fiber fabric having a network structure constituted by a monofilament strand of a carbon fiber and has a redox enzyme on the surface is used in at least the anode. | 06-06-2013 |
20140065494 | FUEL CELL, METHOD FOR PRODUCING FUEL CELL, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE-IMMOBILIZED ELECTRODE, NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE-IMMOBILIZED CARRIER, ENZYME REACTION UTILIZATION DEVICE, PROTEIN-IMMOBILIZED ELECTRODE AND PROTEIN-IMMOBILIZED CARRIER - Provided is a fuel cell capable of preventing elution of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide and/or a derivative thereof immobilized on an electrode, and capable of preventing performance degradation due to elution, and a method for manufacturing the fuel cell. | 03-06-2014 |
20140273183 | SUBSTRATE DETECTION DEVICE AND BIOFUEL CELL WITH SUBSTRATE DETECTION FUNCTION - There is provided a substrate detection device including a sensor unit configured to extract electrons by oxidizing a substrate, the substrate being a test target, a capacitor connected in series to the sensor unit, and a circuit configured to measure a voltage across terminals of the capacitor. The substrate detection device determines a concentration of the substrate based on the voltage across the terminals of the capacitor. | 09-18-2014 |
20140287328 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING FUEL BATTERY, AND FUEL BATTERY AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Provided is a method for producing a fuel battery in which an oxidoreductase has been fixed as a catalyst on at least one electrode of a negative electrode or a positive electrode, including conducting at least a step of preparing an electrode pattern, in which an electrode material containing at least electroconductive particles is printed on the surface of a bendable non-electroconductive sheet, and a step of preparing a negative electrode and a positive electrode, in which a negative electrode and a positive electrode are made by printing a predetermined oxidoreductase on the electrode pattern prepared in the step of preparing an electrode pattern. | 09-25-2014 |
20150280266 | BIOFUEL CELL, METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF BIOFUEL CELL, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, ENZYME IMMOBILIZATION ELECTRODE, METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF ENZYME IMMOBILIZATION ELECTRODE, ELECTRODE FOR PRODUCTION OF ENZYME IMMOBILIZATION ELECTRODE, METHOD FOR 5 PRODUCTION OF ELECTRODE FOR PRODUCTION OF ENZYME IMMOBILIZATION ELECTRODE AND ENZYME REACTION USING DEVICE - Provided are an enzyme immobilization electrode capable of easily immobilizing an enzyme while retaining activity, an electrode for production of an enzyme immobilization electrode which is suitably used for production of the enzyme immobilization electrode, and a biofuel cell using the enzyme immobilization electrode. | 10-01-2015 |
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20090045999 | Object recognition apparatus for vehicle and distance measurement apparatus - In an object recognition apparatus for a vehicle which uses intensities of reflected waves from reflecting objects to make a recognition on whether a reflecting object is a vehicle or a non-vehicle, a plurality of transmission waves are emitted to receive a plurality of reflected waves from the reflecting objects, and a decision is made as to whether or not the reflecting object producing the plurality of reflected waves is a unitary reflecting object. If the decision shows a unitary reflecting object, the highest intensity of intensities of the reflected waves from the unitary reflecting object is compared with a reference intensity to makes a decision on whether the reflecting object is a vehicle or a non-vehicle. This enables univocally making a decision for each unitary reflecting object as to whether the reflecting object is more likely to be a vehicle or to be a non-vehicle, thus improving the recognition accuracy. | 02-19-2009 |
20090207079 | Radar sensor for receiving radar wave while judging existence of wave attenuator - A radar sensor receives a radar wave signal through a radome in each of antennas while judging existence of an attenuating thing in a detecting unit. This unit extracts a maximum level channel from receiving channels assigned to the antennas every modulation period, calculates a difference in signal level between the maximum level channel and each receiving channel every modulation period, sets each receiving channel corresponding to large level differences in one measuring period including plural modulation periods as a candidate channel every measuring period, increments a preliminary variable of each candidate channel every measuring period, increases a final variable each time the preliminary variable of at least one receiving channel reaches or exceeds a preliminary value in one measuring period, and judges in response to the final variable reaching a final value that the attenuating thing attenuates the radar wave directed toward the radome. | 08-20-2009 |
20110006941 | DEVICE FOR ESTIMATING INFORMATION ON TARGET OBJECT - A target object information estimating device embodied by an electronically agile radar sensor is mounted in a moving vehicle. The device has a unit outputting a radar wave every measuring period, receiving radar waves reflected from a target object through different transmission paths and calculating a distance to the object in each measuring period to detect the object, a unit tracking the object in a tracking term of measuring periods, a unit setting the distance changed with time as a null distance each time electric power of the received waves is reduced to a minimal value, and a unit producing an actual pattern of null points corresponding to the null distances, collating the actual pattern with modeled patterns corresponding to various heights and estimates the height of the object from the collation result as information about the object. | 01-13-2011 |
20110010020 | Object specifying device and vehicle control apparatus having the device - An object specifying device mounted in a controlled vehicle has a unit for tracking objects, existing in a monitoring area set along a running direction of the controlled vehicle, to detect the objects as forward objects, a unit for specifying one forward object running in the area as a forward vehicle, a unit for specifying each of other forward objects as a candidate for a control-based object when the forward object is placed in an inter-vehicle area between the controlled and forward vehicles, and a unit for specifying each candidate, tracked for a tracking period equal to or longer than a reference tracking period, as a control-based object and specifies each candidate, tracked for a tracking period shorter than the reference tracking period, as a non-control-based object. The controlled vehicle is controlled according to a movement of the control-based objects, regardless of a movement of the non-control-based objects. | 01-13-2011 |
20120271483 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOGNIZING SHAPE OF ROAD FOR VEHICLES - An example of recognition of the shape of a road where a vehicle travels is provided. An object type as to whether an object is a moving or stationary object is determined according to a relative speed of the object and a speed of the vehicle. Object-unit data effective for recognizing a road shape is extracted according to the determination. The object-unit data is used for forming data of a roadside object group, based on which a road edge is recognized. A series of the processes is repeatedly performed at a predetermined cycle. After the extraction process, a data addition process is performed to add object-unit data obtained in the extraction process of the previous cycle to object-unit data obtained in the extraction process of the present cycle. In a recognition process, a road edge is recognized according to the object-unit data obtained in the data addition process. | 10-25-2012 |