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20100301884 | THIN-FILM PROBE SHEET AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, PROBE CARD, AND SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP INSPECTION APPARATUS - A semiconductor chip inspection apparatus largely reduces occurrence of damage due to foreign matter in an inspection process and improves durability at the same time of miniaturization is provided. As to a highly accurate thin-film probe sheet which performs: a contact to electrode pads arranged at a narrow pitch and a high density along with integration of semiconductor chip; and an inspection of semiconductor chips, by providing two layers of metal films selectively removable in a step-like shape in a periphery region of fine contact terminal having sharp tips and arranged at a high density and a narrow pitch at the same level as electrode pads, an upper periphery of the contact terminals is covered with an insulating film, and a large space region is formed. | 12-02-2010 |
20100304510 | FABRICATION METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE - To permit electrical testing of a semiconductor integrated circuit device having test pads disposed at narrow pitches probes in a pyramid or trapezoidal pyramid form are formed from metal films formed by stacking a rhodium film and a nickel film successively. Via through-holes are formed in a polyimide film between interconnects and the metal films, and the interconnects are electrically connected to the metal films. A plane pattern of one of the metal films equipped with one probe and through-hole is obtained by turning a plane pattern of the other metal film equipped with the other probe and through-hole through a predetermined angle. | 12-02-2010 |
20110014727 | THIN FILM PROBE SHEET AND SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP INSPECTION SYSTEM - In the highly accurate thin film probe sheet which is used for the contact to electrode pads disposed in high density with narrow pitches resulting from the increase in integration degree of semiconductor chips and for the inspection of semiconductor chips, a large spatial region in which a metal film selectively removable relative to terminal metal is formed in advance is formed in the peripheral region around minute contact terminals having sharp tips and disposed in high density with narrow pitches equivalent to those of the electrode pads. Thus, occurrence of damage in an inspection process is significantly reduced, and an inspection device simultaneously achieving the miniaturization and the durability can be provided. | 01-20-2011 |
20110136272 | FABRICATION METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE - To permit electrical testing of a semiconductor integrated circuit device having test pads disposed at narrow pitches probes in a pyramid or trapezoidal pyramid form are formed from metal films formed by stacking a rhodium film and a nickel film successively. Via through-holes are formed in a polyimide film between interconnects and the metal films, and the interconnects are electrically connected to the metal films. A plane pattern of one of the metal films equipped with one probe and through-hole is obtained by turning a plane pattern of the other metal film equipped with the other probe and through-hole through a predetermined angle. | 06-09-2011 |
20110175634 | FABRICATION METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE - To permit electrical testing of a semiconductor integrated circuit device having test pads disposed at narrow pitches probes in a pyramid or trapezoidal pyramid form are formed from metal films formed by stacking a rhodium film and a nickel film successively. Via through-holes are formed in a polyimide film between interconnects and the metal films, and the interconnects are electrically connected to the metal films. A plane pattern of one of the metal films equipped with one probe and through-hole is obtained by turning a plane pattern of the other metal film equipped with the other probe and through-hole through a predetermined angle. | 07-21-2011 |
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20080260209 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A location predicting unit predicts a composing location based on the composing locations corresponding to partial images of one-frame-before and two-frames-before the current partial image on an assumption that the above partial image moves at a constant speed, and gives the above predicted value to a combining unit as an initial value. The combining unit moves locations of the current partial image and the one-frame-before partial image pixel by pixel in a predetermined direction starting from the initial value and combines the above partial images each other. A picture element comparing unit and a location determining unit calculate the cumulative value of the brightness differentials between picture elements of the current partial image and the one-frame-before partial image in the overlapped part with respect to each of the combining locations. In the above operation, the calculation of the cumulative value corresponding to the currently-calculated combining location is finished when the above currently-calculated cumulative value exceeds the cumulative value corresponding to the already-calculated combining location. | 10-23-2008 |
20080284789 | Image processing circuit - an image processing circuit includes a memory storing an image data, which includes a plurality of line data disposed regularly a first module performing a plurality of thinning processes, at each of which a plurality of line data are readout from the memory, and at each of which one line data is processed by using the readout line data, wherein the processed line data is restored in the memory, and wherein the first image processing module outputs a first signal after the thinning processes for a certain times are completed, and a second module, which start its operation in response to the first completion signal, performing a similar image-process performed by the first module, wherein the second image processing module outputs a second completion signal after the thinning processes for the entire image data stored in the memory are completed. | 11-20-2008 |
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20100082194 | PATH PLANNING DEVICE AND METHOD, COST EVALUATION DEVICE, AND MOVING BODY - To generate an optimal path in a search space represented by a grid. A path search device includes: an edge generation section that generates edges extending to neighboring nodes located at least forward and diagonally forward right and left of a focus node, assuming that each grid point is a node and that a minimum cost node among end nodes each located at an end of the edges is the focus node, when a cost from a start point to a given node is a cost of the given node; an edge cost calculation/readout section that reads out a shortest distance from a reference node to the neighboring node (first distance) and a shortest distance from the reference node to the focus node (second distance) from a database, assuming that a node obtained by tracing back a predetermined number of nodes from the focus node in a direction toward the start point along the path is the reference node; a path cost calculation section that calculates a cost of a path from the start point to the neighboring node as a sum of costs of edges constituting the path; and a path determination section that selects a path having a minimum cost from the start point to the end point. | 04-01-2010 |
20100198443 | PATH PLANNING DEVICE, PATH PLANNING METHOD, AND MOVING BODY - To provide a path planning device and a path planning method capable of, when installed in a moving body such as a robot, exhibiting a natural moving action, and a moving body having such a path planning device installed therein. A path planning device includes a path guide area setting unit that sets a first movement prohibited area for assisting moving path generation on one or both sides of the robot, and a path decision unit that determines a path to a target position such that the robot does not move inside the path guide area. The path guide area setting unit sets the path guide area such that its perimeter passes through the center of that robot. | 08-05-2010 |
20100324771 | AUTONOMOUS MOVING BODY, ITS CONTROL METHOD, AND CONTROL SYSTEM - To provide an autonomous moving body capable of moving with efficiency along a path toward a travel end point while avoiding a collision with a moving obstacle, its control method, and its control system. An autonomous moving body in accordance with the present invention includes means to create a traveling path of the autonomous moving body that extends from a travel start point to a travel end point, means to calculate a point at which a moving obstacle located within the moving area crosses the created traveling path of the autonomous moving body as a collision prediction point, means to calculate a first passage time period during which the moving obstacle passes through the collision prediction point, and means to calculate a second passage time period during which the autonomous moving body passes through the collision prediction point. Further, if at least a part of the second passage time period overlaps the first passage time period, the traveling speed of the autonomous moving body is adjusted so that the second passage time period does not overlap the first passage time period. | 12-23-2010 |
20110010033 | AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOT, SELF POSITION ESTIMATION METHOD, ENVIRONMENTAL MAP GENERATION METHOD, ENVIRONMENTAL MAP GENERATION APPARATUS, AND DATA STRUCTURE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MAP - To improve the accuracy of the self position estimation of a mobile robot. A robot measures a distance to an object in the mobile environment by using a range sensor. An environmental map storage unit stores an environmental map containing a plurality of map data each corresponding to a respective one of a plurality of measurement directions from which a point in the mobile environment is to be observed. A self position estimation unit selects a map data corresponding to a measurement direction in which a distance to the object is measured by the range sensor from the plurality of map data. Then, the self position estimation unit estimates a self position of the mobile robot based on the selected map data and range data obtained by the range sensor. | 01-13-2011 |
20120035797 | AUTONOMOUS MOVING BODY AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - To enable stable collision avoidance operation without the need to install an infrastructure or the like even in a dangerous area where running out is likely to occur. An autonomous moving body according to the present invention includes: a distance measuring sensor that measures a distance to an object existing in an environment; a distance information acquisition unit that acquires a distance measurement value of the distance measuring sensor as distance information on a measurement point; and a dangerous area extraction unit that categorizes adjacent measurement points as an identical object according to a distance difference between the measurement points, and extracts an endpoint of the object as a dangerous area when the categorized object itself has a size equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold and when an opening formed between endpoints of the objects has a width equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold, in which the autonomous moving body travels so as to avoid a collision in the extracted dangerous area. | 02-09-2012 |
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20150337401 | PLANT-BIOMASS HYDROLYSIS METHOD - A method for hydrolyzing a plant biomass, including hydrothermal treatment in which an equivalent concentration of an acid equal to the total of 30 to 1,000% of the equivalent concentration of cations and equivalent concentration of hydroxide ions in a plant-biomass hydrolysis reaction solution is added to the reaction solution; and a method for producing glucose using the above method for hydrolyzing a plant biomass. The hydrothermal treatment is desirably conducted using a solid catalyst including a carbon material and an inorganic acid. The method can eliminate reaction-inhibiting factors due to cations existing in the reaction system to thereby attain a high glucose yield. | 11-26-2015 |
20150337402 | PLANT-BIOMASS HYDROLYSIS METHOD - A method for hydrolyzing a plant biomass, which includes a first process of heating a mixture containing a plant biomass, a solid catalyst, acid and water, and a second process for heating the mixture containing a solid containing a plant biomass and a catalyst separated from the reaction solution after the first process, acid and water, wherein the highest heating temperature in the second process is higher than that in the first process; and a method for producing glucose and xylose using the above-mentioned hydrolyzing method. In the method, both of glucose and xylose can be obtained efficiently from an actual biomass. | 11-26-2015 |
20150337403 | PLANT-BIOMASS HYDROLYSIS METHOD - A method for hydrolyzing a plant biomass, which includes hydrothermal treatment in the presence of an equivalent concentration of an acid equal to 30 to 1,000% of the equivalent concentration of cations in a plant-biomass hydrolysis reaction solution; and a method for producing glucose using the above method for hydrolyzing a plant biomass. The hydrothermal treatment is preferably conducted by using a solid catalyst comprising a carbon material and using inorganic acid as acid. The method eliminates reaction-inhibiting factors to thereby obtain a high glucose yield. | 11-26-2015 |
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20080241669 | FLAT-SHAPED BATTERY - The flat-shaped battery includes an electrode material containing an active material, and a battery case which has the electrode material housed inside and in which a plurality of protruding members extending inwardly from an inner surface of the battery case are fixed to the inner surface. The electrode material is housed in the battery case with those individual protruding members inserted in the electrode material. As a result, even if the flat-shaped battery is subjected to such external influences as accelerations and vibrations, the electrode material can securely be prevented from moving within the battery case. | 10-02-2008 |
20080248384 | FLAT-SHAPED BATTERY - A flat-shaped battery of the present invention includes an outer can that is open upward, a sealing can that is open downward, and a gasket that is placed between the outer can and the sealing can to seal the space between them. The outer can includes a base plate and a cylindrical surrounding wall. The surrounding wall of the outer can includes a straight portion that extends upward and perpendicular to the base plate. The sealing can includes a housing in the form of an inverted dish, a flange that projects outward from a lower end of the opening of the housing, and a single outer surrounding wall that extends downward from an outside edge of the flange so as to be perpendicular to the flange. The outer surrounding wall of the sealing can is arranged perpendicular to the base plate of the outer can. The gasket includes a base that receives a lower end of the outer surrounding wall of the sealing can, and an outer cylindrical wall that extends upward from the base and is disposed between the surrounding wall of the outer can and the outer surrounding wall of the sealing can. The surrounding wall of the outer can has a curved edge such that the surrounding wall at the opening of the outer can is bent toward an axis of the outer can and positioned laterally with respect to the outer surrounding wall of the sealing can. The curved edge presses an upper end of the outer cylindrical wall of the gasket against an upper end of the outer surrounding wall of the sealing can. | 10-09-2008 |
20100068614 | FLAT BATTERY - A flat battery of the present invention is a flat battery including an exterior can and a sealing can with which an opening of the exterior can is sealed, wherein the exterior can and the sealing can include a bottom portion and a circumferential wall extending upright from an outer circumference of the bottom portion and have a cylindrical shape that is open at one end; a distal end portion of the circumferential wall of the exterior can is bent toward a central axis of the sealing can to form a curve, whereby the exterior can is fixed to the sealing can by crimping; in a cross-sectional shape of the sealing can in the direction of the central axis, the circumferential wall of the sealing can is a single layer wall without being folded back, and the circumferential wall of the sealing can includes a rectilinear portion that is connected to the bottom portion via a corner portion; and the rectilinear portion has a Vickers hardness greater than the Vickers hardness of the corner portion. | 03-18-2010 |
20110001618 | METHOD FOR ATTACHING A FLAT-SHAPED BATTERY AND APPARATUS TO BE ATTACHED TO A ROTARY PORTION - An apparatus to be attached to a rotary portion includes a substrate and a flat-shaped battery buried in resin. The substrate and the flat-shaped battery are connected to each other via a terminal in such a manner that one of a positive electrode can and a negative electrode can constituting the flat-shaped battery, the can having a smaller amount of deformation caused by bulging at a time of the expansion of the flat-shaped battery, is opposed to the substrate. A surface of the flat-shaped battery having a smaller amount of deformation is opposed to the substrate, and hence, adverse effects on the apparatus, such as the displacement of the terminal and the deformation of the substrate, can be reduced even when the flat-shaped battery expands. | 01-06-2011 |
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20080281027 | Polymer composition for conductive roller, polymer composition, conductive roller, and conductive belt - A polymer composition for a conductive roller composed of a rubber component whose main component is an epichlorohydrin rubber containing ethylene oxide at not less than 55 mol % nor more than 95 mol %. Thioureas are added to 100 g of the rubber component as a crosslinking agent at a rate not less than 0.014 mol nor more than 0.080 mol. In a compression set test of a vulcanized rubber described in JIS K6262, a compression set measured at 70° C. for 22-24 hours is less than 15%; and in a volume resistivity value test described in JIS K6911, a volume resistivity value measured at an applied voltage of 1000V is less than 10 | 11-13-2008 |
20100222483 | Polymer composition for conductive roller, polymer composition, conductive roller, and conductive belt - A polymer composition for a conductive roller composed of a rubber component whose main component is an epichlorohydrin rubber containing ethylene oxide at not less than 55 mol % nor more than 95 mol %. Thioureas are added to 100 g of the rubber component as a crosslinking agent at a rate not less than 0.014 mol nor more than 0.080 mol. In a compression set test of a vulcanized rubber described in JIS K6262, a compression set measured at 70° C. for 22-24 hours is less than 15%; and in a volume resistivity value test described in JIS K6911, a volume resistivity value measured at an applied voltage of 1000V is less than 10 | 09-02-2010 |
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20150045196 | METHOD OF PRODUCING ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE FOAM RUBBER ROLLER, ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE FOAM RUBBER ROLLER, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The present invention provides a production method for producing an electrically conductive foam rubber roller which has a tubular body free from internal abnormal foaming and hence free from internal cracking after the foaming. The production method includes the steps of: continuously extruding a rubber composition into a tubular body ( | 02-12-2015 |