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A barrier polishing liquid is provided that includes (a) a nonionic surfactant represented by Formula (I) below, (b) at least one type of organic acid selected from the group consisting of an aromatic sulfonic acid, an aromatic carboxylic acid, and a derivative thereof, (c) colloidal silica, and (d) benzotriazole or a derivative thereof.

(In Formula (I), R¹ to R⁶ independently denote a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbons, X and Y independently denote an ethyleneoxy group or a propyleneoxy group, and m and n independently denote an integer of 0 to 20.) There is also provided a chemical mechanical polishing method that includes supplying the barrier polishing liquid to a polishing pad on a polishing platen at a flow rate per unit area of a semiconductor substrate per unit time of 0.035 to 0.25 mL/(min·cm²), and polishing by making the polishing pad and a surface to be polished move relative to each other while they are in a contacted state.

An electronic equipment system includes a housing 20 and a plurality of modules 31 to 35, which are removably built in and fixed to the housing 20. The modules 31 to 34 includes a liquid crystal display 31a; a graphic control circuit 32a1 and a navigation control circuit 32a2; an MD unit 33a; and a CD unit 34a, respectively. The module 35 is formed through integration of control sections, such as constant-voltage circuits for power supply, which achieve a function that is common among the graphic control circuit and the navigation control circuit, the MD unit, and the CD unit. Thus, it becomes possible to replace only necessary one among the modules 31 to 34, thereby reducing cost necessary for upgrading of the system.

It is an object to provide a method for manufacturing a display device suitable for mass production without complicating a manufacturing process of a thin film transistor. A microcrystalline semiconductor film is formed by use of a microwave plasma CVD apparatus with a frequency of greater than or equal to 1 GHz using silicon hydride or silicon halide as a source gas, and a thin film transistor using the microcrystalline semiconductor film and a display element connected to the thin film transistor are formed. Since plasma which is generated using microwaves with a frequency of greater than or equal to 1 GHz has high electron density, silicon hydride or silicon halide which is a source gas can be easily dissociated, so that mass productivity of the display device can be improved.

A current sensor for measuring a current supplied to a conductor includes a case which accommodates an electrical parts therein, and a cover attached to the case. A groove part is provided on an outer surface of at least one of the case and the cover to allow the conductor to pass through the groove part. When the cover is attached to the case, the conductor arranged on the groove part is sandwiched between the case and the cover. A width of the groove part becomes narrower toward an interior side thereof.

An interlock device includes an upper lid provided such that an inverter unit cannot be exposed and having a shape accommodating a housing, an interlock detecting terminal electrically connected to the housing when being in contact therewith and electrically disconnected from the housing when losing contact therewith, a bolt for fixing the upper lid to the housing, and a bracket for restricting a motion of the bolt for removal of the upper lid when the interlock detecting terminal is in contact with the housing.

An object of the present invention is to provide a charge amplifier which can be operated at low cost so that electric charge generated in a piezoelectric pressure sensor having one end grounded is converted into a voltage signal.

In the charge amplifier (1) according to an embodiment of the present invention, a plus side power source input terminal of an operational amplifier (5) is connected to a plus power source (+5 V) while a minus side power source input terminal of the operational amplifier (5) is grounded, so that the operational amplifier (5) is supplied with a single power source. Further, an offset voltage lower than the plus power source voltage but higher than the ground potential is applied to a non-inverted input terminal of the operational amplifier (5). Accordingly, change of pressure in both positive and negative directions can be converted into a voltage signal with the offset voltage as its center though the operational amplifier (5) is driven by a single power source. That is, cost can be suppressed because a double power source is not required.

Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus includes: a storage section for storing AC adapter capacity identification information with which a rated power capacity of an AC adapter which can supply power to the apparatus can be identified; a first outputting section for outputting the above mentioned AC adapter capacity identification information; a setting section for setting a threshold value with which control of power consumption of the apparatus is to be started based on the outputted AC adapter capacity identification information; a detection section for detecting the power consumption; and a control section for controlling so that, when the detected power consumption exceeds the threshold value, the power consumption may become equal to or lower than the threshold value.

A power transmission apparatus according to the present invention is characterized in that it comprises: a multistaged change-speed mechanism (3) having an input shaft (31) to which a rotary power that is output from an output shaft (21) of an internal combustion engine (2) is input, and an output shaft (32) for changing the rotary power, which is input from the input shaft (31), in speed with a plurality of switchable speed reducing ratios, and then outputting the resulting rotary power to wheels; a rotary electric device (4); a rotary-electric-device-side output shaft (43) for outputting a rotary power of the rotary electric device (4) to the wheels; a first power interrupting mechanism (51) for switching the connection and disconnection of rotary-power transmission between the input shaft (31) of the multistaged change-speed mechanism (3) and a rotor (4) of the rotary electric device (4); a second power interrupting mechanism (52) for switching the connection and disconnection of rotary-power transmission between the rotary-electric-device-side output shaft (43) and the rotor (42) of the rotary electric device (4); and a controlling unit for controlling the rotary electric device (4), the first power interrupting mechanism (51), and the second power interrupting mechanism (52).

The present invention aims at providing a storage subsystem capable of improving a backend-side I/O processing performance and enabling a single semiconductor memory adapter to be replaced at a time. Therefore, the present invention provides one or more semiconductor memory adapter boards mounting semiconductor memories each having smaller capacity than SSDs attached detachably to a drive canister, a wide port connection established to access the semiconductor memories, the semiconductor memories used as a read cache area of HDDs, and further adopts a wind direction control structure for ensuring a cooling wind path to the HDDs when an adapter board is attached.

An inter-node connection method and apparatus for at least a first and second nodes respectively connected to private IP address network ends of at least a first and second address translation devices, which translate a private IP address into a global IP address, through global IP address network ends of the first and second address translation devices. Firstly, a control session is established with the first or the second node respectively through the first or the second address translation device; and secondly a connection request frame or a connection reply frame is respectively transferred to the second or the first node by the control session through the second or the first address translation device when the connection request frame or the connection reply frame is received respectively from the first and second nodes by a data session. The second or the first node transmits a data frame toward the first or the second address translation device, which binds an IP address and a port number of the first or the second node included in the data frame respectively to those of the second or the first address translation device for a direct communication between the nodes.

A Stirling engine comprises a first porous body having a large hole diameter, a second porous body having a small hole diameter and a ring for fixing the first porous body and the second porous body in a pressurization chamber inside a gas outlet closer to the pressurization chamber.

In the disclosed vapor deposition method, by using a structure wherein an inner diameter of a group-V source gas introduction piping is greater than an outer diameter a group-III source gas introduction piping, and the group-III source gas introduction piping is inserted one-to-one into the interior of the group-V source gas introduction piping, the group-III source gas piping is thereby prevented from being cooled by a cooling mechanism, and hardening of metallic materials upon the surface of the wall of the piping is alleviated. It is thus possible to provide a vapor deposition device, a vapor deposition method, and a semiconductor element manufacturing method, which are capable of efficaciously introducing easily hardening metallic materials into a reactor without the metallic materials adhering to a showerhead or a piping, and to carry out efficacious doping.

A frequency of a drive signal supplied to a piezoelectric element is swept within a specific range, a detection signal indicating the vibrating state of a vibrating member is detected, and the sweep speed of the drive signal frequency supplied to the piezoelectric element is controlled based on this detection signal. Thus, even if nonuniformities occur in the drive frequency of the piezoelectric element due to fluctuations in the surrounding temperature or the load, such nonuniformities can be overcome without any adjustments, and the piezoelectric element can be reliably driven. Also, since the sweep speed of the drive signal frequency is at a high speed when the vibrating member is in a non-drive state, needless drive signal output time during which the piezoelectric element cannot be driven can be reduced, needless power consumption can be curtailed, and nonuniformities in the drive speed of the driven object can also be reduced.

A microscope equipped with an imaging device used for the positioning of a sample, the microscope capable of removing distortion and blind spots from an image generated by the imaging device and reducing cost by using a commercially available imaging device. A sample holder for holding a sample; a measurement light source for irradiating the sample held by the sample holder with irradiation light; a focusing optical element for focusing measurement light derived from the irradiation light transmitted through or reflected from the sample; a detection unit for detecting the measurement light focused by the focusing optical element; an image capture device for capturing the image of the sample; and an objective optical system switching unit arranged to switch either the focusing optical element or the image capture device with the other to a position facing the sample.

In a Hall sensor in which a Hall element and elements serving as heat sources out of components of a circuit for driving the Hall element are arranged close to each other on a silicon substrate, two directions of control currents by spinning current for the Hall element are selected in a vector manner based on signals from temperature sensors arranged close to a periphery of the Hall element, thereby enabling the elimination of a magnetic offset caused by heat generation of the heat sources.