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A raw material gas supply apparatus includes a liquid raw material gas supply source, a source tank storing liquid raw material, a gas distribution passage through which raw material gas comprising steam of the liquid raw material is supplied to a process chamber from the source tank, an automatic pressure regulator installed on an upstream side of the gas passage, wherein the automatic pressure regulator keeps supply pressure of the raw material gas at a set value, a supply gas switching valve installed on a downstream side of the gas passage, wherein this valve opens and closes the gas passage, an orifice provided on at least one of an inlet side or outlet side of the valve, wherein the orifice regulates flow rate of the raw material gas, and a constant temperature heating device heats the source tank, the gas passage, the valve and the orifice to a set temperature.

In a radar device, in order to make it simple to attach a connector to a housing and connect a control circuit board to an antenna module, to make it possible to automate assembly, and to achieve downsizing and weight reduction, the radar device comprises a resin housing having upper and lower opening portions, and a control circuit board attached to the resin housing, a metal front cover and a metal rear cover are arranged so as to close the upper and lower opening portions of the resin housing, an opening portion is formed in the metal front cover, and an antenna module is arranged in the opening portion so as to be firmly attached, whereby the radar device can be assembled from one side, it is possible to improve efficiency of assembling work and it is possible to achieve downsizing and cost reduction of the radar device.

A gate driver is provided with an odd-numbered stage shift register, an even-numbered stage shift register, and main lines including clock signal main lines. In at least one example embodiment, each stage of one of the shift registers receives the first clock and the second clock from the clock signal main lines, and the third clock and the fourth clock from an adjacently provided stage of the other shift register. Each stage of the shift register can receive the second clock from a different stage of the same shift register. With this, it is possible to reduce a picture-frame area of a panel in a display device provided with a scanning signal line drive circuit having the plurality of shift registers.

A magnetic sensor including a magnetoresistive effect element has the following structure. Element units each having an element width W1 and an element length L1 perpendicular to the element width W1 and producing a magnetoresistive effect in which electrical resistance changes in response to an external magnetic field are arranged in an element-length direction with a space therebetween. An intermediate permanent magnet layer is disposed in the space, and the element units are connected to each other with the intermediate permanent magnet layer therebetween to form a connected-element body. A plurality of the connected-element bodies are arranged so as to be adjacent to one another in an element-width direction with a space therebetween, the ends of the connected-element bodies are connected to each other with an outer permanent magnet layer therebetween to form a magnetoresistive effect element having a meandering shape.

A monolithic gate driver capable of operating with a relatively small number of circuit elements is realized. A stage constituent circuit constituting each stage of a shift register includes two output terminals connected to scanning signal lines, two thin-film transistors each having a drain terminal to which an output control clock signal is supplied and a source terminal connected to the output terminal, a first-node connected to the two thin-film transistors in common, a first-node control circuit, and an input terminal for receiving a set signal. In this configuration, the first-node changes from an OFF level to an ON level based on the set signal. Further, the first-node control circuit changes the first-node from the ON level to the OFF level.

An optical module 1A is an optical module, which is manufactured from an SOI substrate having a support substrate 10 and a semiconductor layer 14 disposed on a surface 10a of the support substrate 10 via an insulating layer 12, the optical module including a movable mirror 22 in which a mirror surface 22a is formed on a side face intersecting with a Y-direction, that is movable in the Y-direction, a photodiode 32 which is provided on the surface 10a of the support substrate 10, and is optically coupled to the mirror surface 22a of the movable mirror 22, a cap member 34 which is provided on the surface 10a of the support substrate 10, that airtight-seals the movable mirror 22 and the photodiode 32, and an element electrode part 36 which is provided through the support substrate 10 and the insulating layer 12, and is electrically connected to the photodiode 32. Thereby, it is possible to realize an optical module which is capable of enhancing the airtightness of an optical system including a movable mirror, and which also can be downsized.

Provided is an LC composite component having a multi-layer substrate, a pattern coil, and a chip capacitive element. The multi-layer substrate is configured such that insulating layers are stacked. The pattern coil forms a coiled shape of which the coil axis extends along a stacking direction of the multi-layer substrate, and includes a coil conductor disposed between the insulating layers. The chip capacitive element includes a ceramic body having a relative permittivity higher than that of the insulating layers and counter electrodes. The chip capacitive element is at least partially disposed within the pattern coil.

A compact, low cost high intensity discharge lamp ballast apparatus which can carry out normal ballasting without extinction at discharge start includes a DC-AC inverting booster circuit, a first resonance circuit, and a second resonance circuit. The DC-AC inverting booster circuit includes a DC-AC converter transformer for converting a DC voltage fed from a DC power supply to an AC voltage in response to switching on and off of FETs, boosting the voltage. The first resonance circuit includes a leakage inductance connected in series with the secondary winding of the DC-AC converter transformer, and a first resonant capacitor connected in parallel with the secondary winding. The second resonance circuit includes a metal halide lamp, an ignitor transformer for producing a voltage to start lighting of the metal halide lamp, and a second resonant capacitor.

[Object] To provide an accessory drive system which is capable of achieving downsizing of the system, reduction of manufacturing costs thereof, and enhancement of its marketability.[Solution] An accessory drive system 1 is comprised of a stator 6, a first rotor 5, and a second rotor 7, which respectively include armatures 6a, permanent magnets 5a, and first and second cores 7a and 7b, all of which are arranged in a circumferential direction. One of the first and second rotors 5 and 7 is connected to an accessory 22, and the other thereof to an internal combustion engine 21. Further, when the polarity of a first armature magnetic pole of each armature 6a is different from the polarity of a first magnetic pole of an opposed one of the permanent magnets 5a, the polarity of a second armature magnetic pole of the armature 6a becomes the same as the polarity of a second magnetic pole of the opposed one of the permanent magnets 5a. Further, when each first core 7a is in a position between the first magnetic pole and the first armature magnetic pole, each second core 7b is in a position between a pair of the second armature magnetic poles circumferentially adjacent to each other, and between a pair of the second magnetic poles circumferentially adjacent to each other.

The image forming apparatus comprises: a print head with a nozzle surface on which a plurality of nozzles that eject ink are arranged in a two-dimensional matrix; and a rotating drum which is disposed to face the nozzle surface so that the ink ejected from the print head are deposited onto a surface of the rotating drum.

A nonvolatile RAM for reading and writing data in a random manner includes a memory area configured by a plurality of memory cells suited to a nonvolatile-mode write operation, in which the stored content thereof is not lost irrespective of a power-off event, and a volatile-mode write operation, in which the stored content thereof is lost in the power-off event. A register designates a first portion of the memory area adapted to the nonvolatile-mode write operation regarding fixed data such as program codes and a second portion of the memory area serving as a work area adapted to the volatile-mode write operation. A control circuit performs the nonvolatile-mode write operation on the first portion of the memory area while performing the volatile-mode write operation on the second portion of the memory area.

A direct current motor with brushes in which an armature is provided with a rotating shaft that is supported by a yoke housing, an armature core that is fitted and fixed to a rotating shaft from the outer side, and a commutator that is provided on the rotating shaft adjacent to the armature core with nine segments arranged in the circumferential direction. The armature core has nine teeth that extend in the radial direction in a radial pattern and nine slots that are formed between the teeth and extend in the axial direction, the segments having the same polarity are connected with short-circuiting members, and a pair of brushes that make sliding contact with the segments is disposed so as to be mutually point symmetric centered on the rotating shaft. According to the preset invention, it is possible to effectively achieve flattening of the direct current motor.

A polarization independent optical isolator includes: a first birefringent plate that divides the receiver light from the optical transmission path into normal light and abnormal light to output the normal light and the abnormal light; a second birefringent plate that combines the normal light and the abnormal light to output the combined light to the light receiving element; an optical rotation unit that is disposed between the first birefringent plate and the second birefringent plate, rotates the polarization direction of the normal light and the abnormal light which are outputted from the first birefringent plate by substantially 90° and outputs the rotated light, and outputs the reflected light of the receiver light in a state where the polarization direction of the reflected light is not rotated; and a polarizing element that is disposed between the optical rotation unit and the second birefringent plate, allows one of the normal light and the abnormal light which are inputted from the optical rotation unit to pass therethrough and to be inputted to the second birefringent plate, and outputs the transmitter light inputted from the light emitting element to the optical rotation unit.

According to the present invention, an electromagnetic encoder includes a number of scale coils arranged on a scale along a measuring direction; and transmitting coils and receiving coils arranged on a grid to be movable relative to the scale in the measuring direction, in which a relative movement amount between the scale and the grid is detected based on variation in magnetic flux detected by the receiving coils via the scale coils at the time of exciting the transmitting coils, and the receiving coils are provided in the measuring direction to be a plurality of sets, one of the sets of the receiving coils being displaced by a ½ phase of a scale pitch relative to the other set of the receiving coils.

A multilayered device comprises an insulation sheet 1 having at least two foldable areas 11, 12 which are multilayered by being folded; and a first conductor 21A, 22A which is formed on a first face 11A, 12A and constitutes a first coil 51A, 52A having one turn or more, and a second conductor 21B, 22B which is formed on a second face 11B, 12B and constitutes a second coil 51B, 52B having one turn or more in the same winding direction as that of the first coil in each of the foldable areas, at least four conductors are disposed in parallel with each other by folding the insulation sheet so as to constitute an inductor, and thus, it enables to thin the thickness of the multilayer, to downsize and to lightweight even when it constitutes a coil device having a larger winding number.

The reflective collection-type light receiving unit of the present invention is a reflective collection-type light receiving unit having a light receiving element which receives spatial light on which an information signal is superimposed after being reflected and collected via a concave mirror. The light receiving element is arranged approximately at the center inside the concave mirror, with the light receiving plane thereof facing to the reflection plane of the concave mirror. A pair of electrode leads connected to both electrodes of the light receiving element are extended so as to be opened from the center on the front plane of the concave mirror to both sides and connected to a light receiving circuit by way of the lateral plane of the concave mirror.

The present invention provides a semiconductor device and a fabrication method therefor, the semiconductor device including a first semiconductor chip (20) disposed on a substrate (10), a first sealing resin (26) sealing the first semiconductor chip (20), a built-in semiconductor device (30) disposed on the first sealing resin (26), and a second sealing resin (36) sealing the first sealing resin (26) and the built-in semiconductor device (30) and covering a side surface (S) of the substrate (10). According to an aspect of the present invention, it is possible to provide a high-quality semiconductor device and a fabrication method therefor, in which downsizing and cost reduction can be realized.

An image reading and recording apparatus is provided with a carriage having the drive switching gear, which transmits driving power to a reading drive gear train only in a drive switching position. Then, when a reading command is issued, the carriage moves to this drive switching position. For this operation, a driving motor that serves as one driving source is arranged to transmit the driving power thereof to the recording drive gear train and the reading drive gear train. Also, there is no need for an original and a recording sheet to pass different passages of transportation by shearing a common passage of transportation for use by both of them, hence making it possible to materialize downsizing the apparatus, and reducing the cost of manufacture as well.

Normal memory cells are arranged in rows and columns, and dummy memory cells are arranged to form dummy memory cell rows by sharing memory cell columns with the normal memory cells. When there is at least one defect in the normal memory cells and / or the dummy memory cells, replacement / repair is carried out using a redundant column in a unit of memory cell column. The redundant column includes not only spare memory cells for repair of the normal memory cells but also spare dummy memory cells for repair of the dummy memory cells.

To provide a vacuum processing apparatus applicable to various manufacturing processes, by efficiently and highly reliably stacking films of various types and thicknesses and by downsizing the manufacturing apparatus by suppressing size increase of the apparatus due to increase of the number of film forming chambers caused by increase and complexity of process steps. A vacuum processing apparatus is provided with a plurality of film forming process parts which are provided with rotating transfer tables and film forming chambers. The rotating transfer tables form a transfer path for a work to be processed, in chambers which can be vacuum-exhausted. The film forming chambers are provided for depositing a film on the work to be processed which is arranged and transferred along a circumference which has a rotating shaft of the rotating transfer table as a center. The vacuum processing apparatus is also provided with a connecting part which connects the film forming process parts so as to share a vacuum space between the chambers, and the work to be processed in the film forming process parts is mutually transferred in the vacuum. A load lock mechanism is provided in one of the film forming process part or in the connecting part.

The wireless identification card (10) includes an identification information storage (11) configured to store identification information, and a transmitter (12) configured to transmit, to a reader (90), a wireless signal including the identification information stored in the identification information storage (11). The wireless identification card (10) further includes a solar cell (15) configured to supply electrical power to the transmitter (12). The solar cell (15) includes a sensitizing material having sensitization action, a semiconductor layer (1513) defined as an electron transport member, and an electrolyte layer (1514) defined as a hole transport member.

A multilayered device comprises an insulation sheet 1 having at least two foldable areas 11, 12 which are multilayered by being folded; and a first conductor 21A, 22A which is formed on a first face 11A, 12A and constitutes a first coil 51A, 52A having one turn or more, and a second conductor 21B, 22B which is formed on a second face 11B, 12B and constitutes a second coil 51B, 52B having one turn or more in the same winding direction as that of the first coil in each of the foldable areas, at least four conductors are disposed in parallel with each other by folding the insulation sheet so as to constitute an inductor, and thus, it enables to thin the thickness of the multilayer, to downsize and to lightweight even when it constitutes a coil device having a larger winding number.

An illumination device including: a light source including a light emitting element that emits light; a first optical element that transmits the light; a second optical element that transmits the light transmitted by the first optical element; a holder that holds the second optical element; and a spring member including at least one spring portion that generates spring force by being deflected, the spring member pressing the second optical element against the holder with the spring force to hold the second optical element against the holder, wherein the first optical element and the second optical element deflect a center portion in a long edge direction of the at least one spring portion with respect to ends in the long edge direction of the at least one spring portion.

A pressing terminal includes an outer conductive member having a shield outer tube; an inner conductive member; and a dielectric member. The dielectric member includes a protruding portion fitted into the shield outer tube so that a signal line pressing portion of the inner conductive member is situated at a pressing tool insertion opening portion. The dielectric member is inserted into a shield outer tube with the protruding portion thereof sliding against the shield outer tube. A terminal pressing device includes an anvil unit and a crimper unit. Upon attaching the signal wire, a claw portion of a signal line crimper of the crimper unit is inserted into a claw insertion groove portion of a signal line anvil of the anvil unit. A terminal pressing anvil portion of the signal line anvil is ushered to a terminal pressing anvil insertion portion of the signal line crimper.

A raw material vaporizing and supplying apparatus including a source tank in which a raw material is stored, a raw material gas supply channel through which raw material gas is supplied from an internal space portion of the source tank to a process chamber, a pressure type flow rate control system which is installed along the way of the supply channel, and controls a flow rate of the raw material gas which is supplied to the process chamber, and a constant temperature heating unit that heats the source tank, the supply channel, and the pressure type flow rate control system to a set temperature, wherein the raw material gas generated in an internal space portion of the source tank is supplied to the process chamber while the pressure type flow rate control system performs flow rate control.

An actuator having an output axis which is moved linearly by a rotatory force, and a boss for holding the above-mentioned output axis in such a way that the output axis can move linearly includes a connecting member for propagating the linear motion of the above-mentioned output axis to an external device. The above-mentioned connecting member is comprised of a joint connected to the above-mentioned output axis, and a link plate having an end rotatably connected to the above-mentioned joint, and another end rotatably connected to the external device. A mechanism for preventing rotation of the above-mentioned output axis is constructed of only a connecting portion for connecting the above-mentioned joint, the above-mentioned link plate, and the above-mentioned external device to one another.

The invention downsizes and simplifies structures of a compressor and its driving system apparatus, and achieves a reduction of a noise. An oil free screw compressor is constituted by compressor main bodies compressing a gas, a motor driving rotors of the compressor main bodies via step-up gears, a gear casing storing the step-up gears, cooling apparatuses cooling a discharge air and the like. An oil tank is provided independently from the gear casing, the motor is fixed to a common base, the gear casing is integrally attached to the motor via a flange, and the compressor main bodies are integrally attached to the gear casing via the flange. Further, the cooling apparatuses are arranged in an upper side of the driving system apparatus, and a cooling fan is installed in an upper side thereof.

An invention relating to an eFuse bar code structure and a method of using the bar code structure is disclosed. The bar code structure includes a substrate and a plurality of eFuse elements disposed on the substrate and arranged in a form of an array, such that a bar pattern can be formed by the result of whether the fuse of the eFuse elements is blown or not. The method of using the bar code structure includes, with respect to a data, fuses of the eFuse elements in the bar code structure being correspondingly blown in accordance with an encoding method to form a bar pattern. The eFuse bar code structure according to the present invention can be manufactured by using a semiconductor manufacturing process, and thus it has small volume, a high density and may record a huge number of data.