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The invention provides a process for forging a titanium-based material comprises the steps of: preparing a titanium-based sintered workpiece including at least one of ceramics particles and pores in a total amount of 1% or more by volume, the ceramics particles being thermodynamically stable in a titanium alloy; and heating the workpiece to a forging temperature and forging the same. In the production process, the pores or the ceramics particles inhibit the grain growth during forging. Accordingly, it is possible to carry out the forging at a relatively high temperature at which the titanium-based material exhibits a small resistance to deformation. Moreover, the titanium-based material can maintain an appropriate microstructure even after the forging. Consequently, the impact value and the fatigue strength are inhibited from decreasing.

A solid-state imaging device is provided with a pixel region in which a plurality of pixels including photoelectric conversion films are arrayed and pixel isolation portions are interposed between the plurality of pixels, wherein the photoelectric conversion film is a chalcopyrite-structure compound semiconductor composed of a copper-aluminum-gallium-indium-sulfur-selenium based mixed crystal or a copper-aluminum-gallium-indium-zinc-sulfur-selenium based mixed crystal and is disposed on a silicon substrate in such a way as to lattice-match the silicon substrate concerned, and the pixel isolation portion is formed from a compound semiconductor subjected to doping concentration control or composition control in such a way as to become a potential barrier between the photoelectric conversion films disposed in accordance with the plurality of pixels.

Provided is a sulfide-based solid electrolyte which is capable of suppressing the generation of hydrogen sulfide caused by reaction with moisture even when in contact with dry air in a dry room or the like, and capable of maintaining lithium ion conductivity. Proposed is a sulfide-based solid electrolyte for a lithium secondary battery, wherein the surface of a compound containing lithium, phosphorus, sulfur, and halogen, and having a cubic argyrodite-type crystal structure is coated with a compound containing lithium, phosphorus, and sulfur, and having a non-argyrodite-type crystal structure.

A semiconductor display device with which flicker, vertical striping, and horizontal striping are not easily seen, and a method of driving the semiconductor display device, are provided. Display signals inputted to a plurality of pixel electrodes have a positive or negative polarity based on the electric potential of an opposing electrode, and pixel electrodes to which display signals having a positive polarity are inputted, and pixel electrodes to which display signals having a negative polarity are inputted, differ for each frame period with the method of driving the semiconductor display device.

Provided is a semiconductor device which can operate stably even in the case where a transistor thereof is a depletion transistor. The semiconductor device includes a first transistor for supplying a first potential to a first wiring, a second transistor for supplying a second potential to the first wiring, a third transistor for supplying a third potential at which the first transistor is turned on to a gate of the first transistor and stopping supplying the third potential, a fourth transistor for supplying the second potential to the gate of the first transistor, and a first circuit for generating a second signal obtained by offsetting a first signal. The second signal is input to a gate of the fourth transistor. The potential of a low level of the second signal is lower than the second potential.

A particulate combustion catalyst which includes a carrier containing a cerium-zirconium double oxide having a cerium oxide content of 5 to 50 mass %, or a carrier containing a cerium-zirconium-based double oxide containing an oxide of at least one metal selected from Nd, La, Fe, Y, Pr, Ba, Ca, Mg, Sn, and Sr in an amount of 1 to 35 mass %, and having a cerium oxide content of 5 to 50 mass %; and at least one metal selected from Ag, Ru, and K, or an oxide thereof supported on the carrier, and at least one metal selected from among Pt, Pd, and Rh supported on the carrier in an amount of 0.01 to 2 mass %. A particulate filter and an exhaust gas cleanup system having the catalyst are also disclosed. Employment of the particulate combustion catalyst realizes removal of soot through oxidation at low temperature without employment of an expensive noble metal. Since oxidation reaction proceeds with the aid of only oxygen, soot can be removed through oxidation at low temperature regardless of the NO_x concentration of exhaust gas. Addition of a small amount of a noble metal can enhance effective removal of SOFs through oxidation while ensuring soot combustion.

According to the invention, a malfunction due to catch of a foreign matter in a variable valve timing mechanism is prevented. In an internal combustion engine including a variable valve timing mechanism, when feedback control of an actuator is conducted so that an actual cam phase corresponds to a target cam phase calculated depending on an engine operation condition, if the target cam phase changes by a change in the engine operating condition, the actuator is controlled with a predetermined control value different from the feedback control only for a predetermined time thereafter.

The hydrophobicizing apparatus includes a vaporizing surface forming member of which surface is located in a vaporizing room; a vaporizing surface heating unit that heats the vaporizing surface forming member; a liquid chemical supply port that supplies a liquid chemical for a hydrophobicizing process on the surface of the vaporizing surface forming member; a gas inlet port that introduces a carrier gas into the vaporizing room; an outlet port that supplies a hydrophobicizing gas vaporized in the vaporizing room; and a processing chamber that performs the hydrophobicizing process on a substrate accommodated therein by the hydrophobicizing gas supplied through the outlet port. With this configuration, the hydrophobicizing gas of a high concentration can be supplied onto the substrate. Further, since the stored liquid chemical is not in contact with the carrier gas when a process is not being performed, degradation of the liquid chemical is suppressed.

An electronic module is provided which includes an electronic device in which an electronic element is provided on a flexible substrate that does not transmit water vapor, an edge sealant provided at a peripheral edge of the flexible substrate of the electronic device, and a water vapor barrier film provided so as to cover a region surrounded by the edge sealant. When a square root of twice a diffusion coefficient of the edge sealant is denoted by K, K is not greater than 0.1 cm/√h. The water vapor barrier film includes a support member made of a transparent resin and at least one inorganic layer formed on the support member, and the support member is disposed on a side on which the edge sealant is located.

A radio-frequency module (20) includes a module substrate (50) and a filter (21). The filter (21) has a sensitive GND electrode and a non-sensitive GND electrode that are connected to an external-connection ground terminal of the module substrate (50), and parallel-arm resonators. An inductance component generated by the sensitive GND electrode shifts, by a first shift amount, an attenuation pole that corresponds to a parallel-arm resonator and that is formed near a pass band. An inductance component generated by the non-sensitive GND electrode shifts, by a second shift amount, an attenuation pole that corresponds to a parallel-arm resonator and that is formed near the pass band. The first shift amount is larger than the second shift amount, and the distance between the sensitive GND electrode and the external-connection ground terminal is smaller than the distance between the non-sensitive GND electrode and the external-connection ground terminal.

A sensor package includes a pressure sensor, a computation unit that performs specified computation in accordance with a result of detection performed by the pressure sensor, a lead frame through which a result of computation performed by the computation unit is output to an outside, a main housing that is formed of resin and that holds the lead frame, and a sensor housing that is formed of ceramic and that has an inner space in which the pressure sensor is disposed. The pressure sensor is disposed in the main housing using the sensor housing.

An object of the present invention is to provide a nicotine-containing patch preparation which enables to suppress degradation of nicotine and coloring of the patch preparation. The present invention provides a patch preparation comprising a support and an adhesive layer on its at least one surface, wherein the adhesive layer comprises an adhesive polymer, nicotine and a stabilizer, and the stabilizer is at least one kind selected from the group consisting of butylhydroxyanisole (BHA), propyl gallate (PGA), dibutylhydroxytoluene (BHT) and 2-mercaptobenzimidazole (MBI).

A semiconductor device includes on an n-type semiconductor substrate of silicon carbide, an n-type semiconductor layer, a p-type base region, an n-type source region, a p-type contact region, a gate insulating film, a gate electrode, and a source electrode. The semiconductor device has a drain electrode on a back surface of the semiconductor substrate. On a surface of the gate electrode, an interlayer insulating film is disposed. The interlayer insulating film has plural layers among which, one layer is formed by a silicon nitride film. With such a structure, degradation of semiconductor device properties are suppressed. Further, increases in the number of processes at the time of manufacturing are suppressed.

A wireless communication system includes a plurality of transmission devices, each of which transmits signals resulting from precoding performed for a plurality of resources, and a reception device that receives at least one desired signal and a plurality of undesired signals, the number of which is greater than or equal to the degree of freedom that the plurality of resources have. The at least one desired signal and the plurality of undesired signals have been transmitted from the transmission devices. The plurality of resources is the unit of precoding. At least one of the plurality of transmission devices transmits signals on each of which precoding has been performed such that equivalent channel vectors of the plurality of undesired signals in the reception device are made to be orthogonal to a reception weight vector used in the reception device. The reception device estimates equivalent channel vectors of the plurality of undesired signals, calculates a reception weight vector by using the estimated equivalent channel vectors of the plurality of undesired signals, and extracts a desired signal by multiplying a reception signal received using the plurality of resources and the calculated reception weight vector together. The plurality of resources is the unit of precoding. As a result, in a system in which IA is used, the degradation of reception characteristics may be suppressed even under circumstances in which a CSI error occurs.

A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell stack, a fuel gas supply path, an injector, an ejector, a circulation path, a pressure difference detection unit that detects a pressure difference between an ejector inlet port pressure and an ejector outlet port pressure, and a control device. The control device calculates a required circulation flow rate that is required for a fuel off gas supplied from the fuel cell stack to the ejector, based on a required load for the fuel cell stack, calculates an estimated circulation flow rate that is an estimated flow rate of the fuel off gas supplied from the fuel cell stack to the ejector, based on the required load and the pressure difference, and increases the flow rate of a fuel gas supplied from the injector to the fuel cell stack when the estimated circulation flow rate is lower than the required circulation flow rate.