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A semiconductor memory device includes a lower select transistor formed within a semiconductor substrate, memory cells stacked over the lower select transistors, and an upper select transistor formed over the memory cells.

A compact low-cost imaging lens unit for a solid-state image sensor which corrects various aberrations adequately and produces a high-resolution high-definition image. The components of the unit are arranged from an object side to an image side in the following order: an aperture stop, a first lens with positive refractive power having a convex surface facing the object side, a second lens with negative refractive power having a convex surface facing the object side near an optical axis, a third lens with negative refractive power having a convex surface facing the object side near the optical axis, a fourth lens as a meniscus lens with positive refractive power having a convex surface facing the image side near the optical axis; and a fifth lens with negative refractive power having a concave surface facing the image side near the optical axis.

Method of manufacturing a chip card having an antenna support, two card bodies and an electronic module or a chip linked to the antenna. This method has a first lamination step which includes fusing two thermoplastic sheets (32, 34 or 62, 64) on each side of antenna support (10 or 40) at a temperature sufficient for the thermoplastic sheet material to soften and to flow wholly so as to eliminate any differences in thickness from the support, and a second lamination step carried out after a period of time necessary for the thermoplastic sheets (32, 34 or 62, 64) to be solidified, the second step including fusing by hot pressing two plastic layers (36, 38 or 66, 68) making up the card bodies onto the plasticised and even faces of uniformly thick antenna support (30 or 60) plasticised by the thermoplastic sheets.

A method for forming a self-aligned pattern on an existing pattern on a substrate comprising applying a coating of a solution containing a masking material in a carrier, the masking material being either photo or thermally sensitive; performing a blanket exposure of the substrate; and allowing at least a portion of the masking material to preferential develop in a fashion that is replicates the existing pattern of the substrate. The existing pattern may be comprised of a first set of regions of the substrate having a first reflectivity and a second set of regions of the substrate having a second reflectivity different from the first composition. The first set of regions may include one or more metal elements and the second set of regions may include a dielectric. Structures made in accordance with the method.

Apparatus and process for winding a material web into a wound roll on a winding core. The apparatus includes a press roll, movable press roll bearings coupled to the press roll, and a pressing device positioned to press the press roll against the wound roll. In this manner, the press roll and the wound roll form a winding nip, and the material web is guided the press roll and through the winding nip. The pressing device is adapted to set a line load in the winding nip, and movable winding core bearings are couplable to the winding core of the wound roll and are adapted to move the winding core to compensate for an increasing wound roll diameter. The winding nip one of remains in an at least approximately same position and is displaced by a small amount during winding. A driving device is positioned to move each of the movable winding core bearings, and a control device is arranged to control the driving device as a function of movement of the press roll from a desired position. A position measurement device, coupled to at least one of the movable press roll bearings, is adapted to produce an instantaneous position value of the press roll in accordance with a current position of the press roll, a regulator is adapted to compare the instantaneous position value with a desired position value of the press roll and to transmit an actuating variable that corresponds to a deviation of the instantaneous value from the desired value, and a wire is adapted to transmit the actuating variable from the regulator to the control device.

A piezoelectric actuator includes a substrate; a diaphragm overlying the substrate; a lower electrode overlying the diaphragm; a piezoelectric body overlying the lower electrode; an upper electrode that includes a first upper sub-electrode which overlies the piezoelectric body and which has a first sputtering rate and also includes a second upper sub-electrode which overlies the first upper sub-electrode, which has a second sputtering rate less than the first sputtering rate, and which is the uppermost layer; and a protective film extending over side surfaces of the piezoelectric body and the second upper sub-electrode, a portion of the protective film that overlies the second upper sub-electrode being removed by sputtering.

Transfer sheets on which an image quite closely resembling an external appearance of a bait fish is color printed on the surface of a hologram sheet are adhered to back sides of bilaterally symmetrical body-half segments made of a flexible transparent thermoplastic resin in a state that the image can be viewed perspectively from the surface side. Only front head sides which occupy at least half in both the body-half segments are adhered and remaining rear end sides are kept open, by which a line equipped with a hook is guided out and wired to the front from the rear end sides via an interior hollow of a lure body.

An apparatus for processing a substrate according to the present invention comprises a lamp unit heating the substrate placed in the chamber at a position facing the substrate. A transmission window constituting the top wall of the chamber and transmitting light emitted from the lamp unit is provided between the chamber and the lamp unit. A window assembly having a wall constituted by the transmission window is provided at the lamp unit side of the transmission window. An evacuation unit is connected to the window assembly. A pressure control unit controls the evacuation unit to maintain the internal pressure of the window assembly at a specific pressure. In this way, multiple substrates are subject to a significantly uniform substrate processing when they are processed in succession.

A washing machine including a door to open and close an opening for laundry. The door includes a first upper door, a second upper door disposed to allow at least one portion of the first upper door to be seen therethrough, and a lower door. The lower door includes a contraction preventing part to prevent the lower door from contracting when molded.

A method for manufacturing a pneumatic tire including: (a) an assembly step of bonding the inner liner and an unvulcanized rubber sheet with end portions thereof in a width direction being displaced from each other in the range of 50 mm to 500 mm in the width direction to manufacture a laminate; (b) a cutting step of cutting the laminate to have a constant length corresponding to a width of a drum to manufacture a cut sheet; and (c) a joining step of winding the cut sheet on entire circumference of the drum such that a cut surface thereof extends in a circumferential direction of the drum and the inner liner is disposed on an inner surface side, and joining the end portions of the inner liner and joining the end portions of the unvulcanized rubber sheet.

In a rod lens array having a structure in which a plurality of rod lens elements are arranged between two side panels and a resin is filled and cured in spaces between the rod lens elements to be integrally formed, the side panels are made of a glass fiber reinforced epoxy resin and a phenol-based curing agent is used as a curing agent of the epoxy resin. In detail, the curing agent is exemplified by a phenol-based curing agent including a tris-hydroxyphenyl-methane skeleton.

The present invention provides a color liquid crystal display device in which a color filter layer is formed on an array substrate. The array substrate includes a scan line and a data line forming a pixel, on which a thin film transistor is formed, and a pixel electrode is connected to the thin film transistor. A black matrix layer is formed on the array substrate. A black matrix frame is formed around the periphery of the black matrix layer. A color filter layer is formed on the array substrate and the black matrix layer, and extends to cover the black matrix frame.

A semiconductor device includes: a ferroelectric capacitor that is provided above a base substrate and includes a first electrode, a ferroelectric film provided on the first electrode and a second electrode provided on the ferroelectric film; a stopper film that covers a top surface of the second electrode of the ferroelectric capacitor; a hydrogen barrier film that covers a top surface and a side surface of the stopper film and a side surface of the ferroelectric capacitor; an interlayer dielectric film that covers the hydrogen barrier film and the base substrate; a contact hole that penetrates the interlayer dielectric film, the hydrogen barrier film and the stopper film and exposes the second electrode; a barrier metal that covers the second electrode exposed in the contact hole and an inner wall surface of the contact hole and is composed of a conductive material having hydrogen barrier property; and a plug conductive section that is embedded in the contact hole and conductively connects to the barrier metal, wherein the stopper film is formed from a dielectric material having a smaller etching rate than an etching rate of the interlayer dielectric film.

In an inner bottom surface of a case, a substantially oblong recess having a long axis and a short axis forms a vibration area. A piezoelectric element is bonded to the center of the recess. On the opposite sides of the vibration area, vibration suppression areas thicker than the vibration area are disposed. A side portion of the case is formed to be thin over the entire circumference thereof. A reinforcing member higher in rigidity than the case is bonded to upper portions of the vibration suppression areas. The reinforcing member has a bottom surface substantially equal to the shape of the vibration suppression areas, and has a predetermined height. A gap between the reinforcing member and an inner side surface of the case is also filled with a filling member.

A method is provided of measuring the mass thickness of a target sample for use in electron microscopy. Reference data are obtained which is representative of the X-rays (28) generated within a reference sample (12) when a particle beam (7) is caused to impinge upon a region (14) of the reference sample (12). The region (14) is of a predetermined thickness of less than 300 nm and has a predetermined composition. The particle beam (7) is caused to impinge upon a region (18) of the target sample (16). The resulting X-rays (29) generated within the target sample (16) are monitored (27) so as to produce monitored data. Output data are then calculated based upon the monitored data and the reference data, the output data including the mass thickness of the region (18) of the target sample (16).