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A radio wave lens antenna device including a semispherical Luneburg lens and a radio wave reflection plate. The radio wave lens antenna device prevents the signal reception sensitivity from being lowered in rain or snow. The radio wave lens antenna device includes a semispherical Luneburg lens 1, a radio wave reflection plate 2 that is larger than the diameter of the lens, an antenna element 3, and a holder 4 that holds the antenna element. The radio wave reflection plate 2 is arranged in an erected state. An ice-snow-water resistant means, which includes a first cover 5 and a second cover 6, prevents rain, snow, and ice from collecting and running off the Luneburg lens.

The present invention provides an IC card that can realize high function without increasing the size of an IC chip, and that can realize cost reduction. The IC card comprises a first single crystal integrated circuit, a second integrated circuit, and a display device. The second integrated circuit and the display device are each formed from a thin film semiconductor film, over a plastic substrate, and the first single crystal integrated circuit is mounted on the plastic substrate so as to be electrically connected to the second integrated circuit.

The present invention relates to a laser device comprising at least one large area VCSEL (101) and at least one optical feedback element (201, 301) providing an angular-selective feedback for laser radiation emitted from the laser. The angular-selective feedback is higher for at least one portion of laser radiation emitted at angles θ>0 to the optical axis (601) of the laser than for laser radiation emitted on said optical axis (601). The invention also refers to a method of stabilizing a laser emission of a large area VCSEL in a desired angular distribution (501, 502). With the proposed device and method, the intensity distribution of a large area VCSEL can be stabilized in a desired shape, for example a ring shape.

A radar system suitable for an automated vehicle includes a plurality of antennas configured to detect a reflected radar signal reflected by an object in a field-of-view of the system. Each antenna of the plurality of antennas is configured to output detected signals indicative of the reflected radar signal detected by each of the plurality of antennas. The system also includes a controller configured to receive the detected signals from the plurality of antennas, determine if the object is present in the field-of-view based on the detected signals, and determine a phase-difference between symmetrical-frequency-bins for each antenna. The symmetrical-frequency-bins are symmetrically offset from a maximum-amplitude non-coherent-integration detection-frequency-bin (max-NCI-bin). The controller is further configured to determine a classification of the object based on a time-domain-analysis of the phase differences across the plurality of antennas.

To provide a method for driving a semiconductor device, by which influence of variation in threshold voltage and mobility of transistors can be reduced. The semiconductor device includes an n-channel transistor, a switch for controlling electrical connection between a gate and a first terminal of the transistor, a capacitor electrically connected between the gate and a second terminal of the transistor, and a display element. The method has a first period for holding the sum of a voltage corresponding to the threshold voltage of the transistor and an image signal voltage in the capacitor; a second period for turning on the switch so that electric charge held in the capacitor in accordance with the sum of the image signal voltage and the threshold voltage is discharged through the transistor; and a third period for supplying a current to the display element through the transistor after the second period.

A body movement detecting apparatus includes a measuring section which outputs, as at least one time-series signal, at least one result of measurement obtained by measuring body movement, a detecting section in which, after slicing off a part of the time-series signal output from the measuring section to generate a reference signal having a predetermined interval length from a predetermined position in the time-series signal, the detecting section detects the intensity of correlation between the reference signal and each different part of the time-series signal in the vicinity of the reference signal, the different part having the predetermined interval length, and a determining section which, on the basis of the detected intensity of correlation detected by the detecting section, performs one or both of determining whether or not the body movement is periodic, and determining the period of the body movement.

A fabrication apparatus and fabrication method of a semiconductor device are provided, allowing the temperature distribution of a substrate to be rendered uniform. The fabrication apparatus for a semiconductor device includes a susceptor holding the substrate, a heater arranged at a back side of the susceptor, a support member located between the substrate and susceptor, including a support portion, and a spacer located between the susceptor and support member. The spacer has an opening formed corresponding to the site where said support portion is located, at an opposite face side of the support member.

It is to form a memory access circuit comprising a memory, a clock generator for generating a reference clock signal, and a clock delay adjusting circuit for delaying the reference clock signal to create a delay clock signal. The clock delay adjusting circuit is a circuit for generating a plurality of delay clock signals of various delay value. The memory access circuit further comprises a test data generator for generating test data and a memory access test controller for supplying a memory writing test start signal in reply to the external synchronizing signal. The test data generator generates the test data in reply to the memory writing test start signal, writes the test data into the memory in synchronization with the reference clock, and supplies the write data corresponding to the test data in synchronization with the reference clock, and the memory access test controller reads the test data from the memory in synchronization with the delay clock signal, compares the read test data with the write data, and adjusts the memory access timing according to as a result of the comparison.

A method of treating the surface of copper is provided to ensure adhesive strength between the surface of copper and an insulating layer without forming irregularities exceeding 1 μm on the surface of copper and to improve insulation reliability between wirings. A copper whose surface is treated by the above surface treating method is also provided. The method of treating the surface of copper comprises the surface of copper comprising the steps of: forming a metal nobler than copper discretely on the surface of copper; and subsequently oxidizing the surface of copper by using an alkaline solution containing an oxidant.

The present invention includes an IC card that can realize high function without increasing the size of an IC chip, and that can realize cost reduction. The IC card has a first single crystal integrated circuit, a second integrated circuit, and a display device. The second integrated circuit and the display device are each formed from a thin film semiconductor film, over a plastic substrate, and the first single crystal integrated circuit is mounted on the plastic substrate so as to be electrically connected to the second integrated circuit.

A compact fluorescent lamp comprises a fluorescent tube having a helical portion on at least a part thereof and turned down in the middle, a pair of tube ends thereof each provided with a discharge electrode, the pair of tube ends juxtaposing with each other in the same direction, a holder for holding the tube ends so as that the fluorescent tube is supported at the one side thereof, a lighting device for supplying a high-frequency power to the fluorescent tube, the lighting device comprising a circuit board facing the other side of the holder and circuit elements mounted on the circuit board, a cover for accommodating the lighting device the cover opening at both ends and holding the holder at the one opening end, and a cap fixed to the other opening end of the cover for supplying a commercial power to the lighting device by being mounted to a socket of luminaire, wherein a thin tube is protruded from at least one of the tube ends of the fluorescent tube in the cover, and the thin tube is communicated with the fluorescent tube.

A radar system suitable for an automated vehicle includes a plurality of antennas configured to detect a reflected radar signal reflected by an object in a field-of-view of the system. Each antenna of the plurality of antennas is configured to output detected signals indicative of the reflected radar signal detected by each of the plurality of antennas. The system also includes a controller configured to receive the detected signals from the plurality of antennas, determine if the object is present in the field-of-view based on the detected signals, and determine a phase-difference between symmetrical-frequency-bins for each antenna. The symmetrical-frequency-bins are symmetrically offset from a maximum-amplitude non-coherent-integration detection-frequency-bin (max-NCI-bin). The controller is further configured to determine a classification of the object based on a time-domain-analysis of the phase differences across the plurality of antennas.

The present invention provides a stringed instrument capable of corresponding to a preference of a player of the stringed instrument, a purpose of performance, and so on as much as possible. A resonance box portion fabricated by an additive fabrication method and a neck portion protruding from the resonance box portion are included, and material constants at a desired area of the resonance box portion is made different from material constants at an adjacent area adjacent to the desired area step by step or continuously. Vibrational characteristics of the instrument are changed by the partial difference of the material constants, and thereby, the stringed instrument capable of corresponding to the preference of the player, the purpose of the performance, and so on is provided.

The camera platform system of the present invention operates at least one function selected from zoom / focus / tilt / pan / iris of a mounted camera or lens in response to an operation instruction output from an operation device. The camera platform system includes a drive control unit configured to convert an operation instruction output from the operation device into a drive control signal corresponding to any one motion of the zoom / focus / tilt / pan / iris; a motion prediction position calculation unit configured to calculate a motion prediction position of any one of the zoom / focus / tilt / pan / iris based on the drive control signal converted by the drive control unit; and a motion prediction position output unit configured to output the motion prediction position, which has been calculated by the motion prediction position calculation unit, as motion prediction position information.

Provided is a photographing optical device, which is able to reliably correct an unintentional movement by hand of a user by improving the constitution of a camera unit driving mechanism for correcting the deflection of a camera unit. In order that a camera unit is made to be rocked to correct the unintentional movement, a photographing optical device includes a first camera unit drive mechanism and a second camera unit drive mechanism, which are so disposed at two side portions sandwiching a pivot portion therebetween as to make a pair. In these camera unit drive mechanisms, camera unit driving magnets are held on the side of the camera unit as a movable body side, and camera unit driving coils are held on the side of a stationary body. The camera unit is pushed toward the pivot portion by a gimbal spring.

A display apparatus and method for adjusting the gray level depending on environment illumination is used to adjust the average-gray-level of an image frame with a plurality of pixels. The display device includes a display-panel, an optical-sensor, a controller, and an adjusting module. The display-panel displays the image frame with the plurality of pixels. The optical-sensor is used to obtain the environment illumination. The controller is used to drive the display-panel to display the image frame. The adjusting module is used to adjust gray-levels of the pixels according to the environment illumination. When the environment illumination is too high, the adjusting module raises the gray-level of partial or all pixels; and when the environment illumination is too low, the adjusting module reduces the gray-level of partial or all pixels; so that visual effect of the display device is enhanced.

Contactless power receiver 1a includes power reception unit having a contactless power reception function using electromagnetic induction; communication unit separately transmitting a plurality of data items in the vicinity of a zero cross point of an alternating current voltage from commercial power supply; and power reception side message division unit dividing a transmission message into a plurality of data items. Contactless power feeder includes power feeding unit having a contactless power feeding function using electromagnetic induction; communication unit separately receiving a plurality of data items in the vicinity of a zero cross point of an alternating current voltage from commercial power supply; and power feeding side message combination unit generating a reception message by combining a plurality of data items. Each of the plurality of data items which are divided by power reception side message division unit and are combined by power feeding side message combination unit has a size transmittable in the vicinity of the zero cross point. According to this configuration, it is possible to accurately perform communication having a large amount of information without being affected by a noise due to contactless power transmission.

It is an object to perform imaging a high-resolution image in a display device including a photosensor regardless of the intensity of incident light on the photosensor. A display device including a display panel which is provided a photosensor and having a function of imaging by a change of the sensitivity of the photosensor in accordance with the incident light is provided. The sensitivity of the photosensor is improved when the intensity of the incident light is low, so that the imaging accuracy is improved; therefore, misperception of contact is prevented and an obtained image can be clear.

A display device in which a current supplied to a light emitting element is corrected depending on a degradation level of the light emitting element and display variations due to the degradation of each light emitting element are suppressed. Further, according to the display device of the invention, the effect of variations in TFTs is reduced and writing time of a signal is shortened. To achieve the aforementioned display device, according to the invention, a current value supplied to a light emitting element is corrected in accordance with the degradation thereof instead of correcting a video signal. Further, the display device comprises at least a supply source for supplying a corrected current depending on the degradation of a light emitting element and a current source for supplying the corrected current from the supply source to the light emitting element. Moreover, according to such a display device, a first current source of the supply source supplies a corrected current corresponding to the degradation of the least degraded light emitting element of the light emitting elements connected to the same signal line, meanwhile a second current source supplies a corrected current corresponding to the degradation of the most degraded light emitting element of the light emitting elements connected to the same signal line.

A method for manufacturing a solid-state imaging device in which a charge generator that detects an electromagnetic wave and generates signal charges is formed on a semiconductor substrate and a negative-charge accumulated layer having negative fixed charges is formed above a detection plane of the charge generator, the method includes the steps of: forming an oxygen-feed film capable of feeding oxygen on the detection plane of the charge generator; forming a metal film that covers the oxygen-feed film on the detection plane of the charge generator; and performing heat treatment for the metal film in an inactive atmosphere to thereby form an oxide of the metal film between the metal film and the oxygen-feed film on the detection plane of the charge generator, the oxide being to serve as the negative-charge accumulated layer.

A force detecting device includes a first base section, a second base section, and a charge output element arranged between the first base section and the second base section. The charge output element includes a first board formed by a Y-cut quartz plate and a second board formed by a Y-cut quartz plate. The boards are laminated in a direction orthogonal to the normal an attachment surface of the second base section. The force detecting device detects an external force on the basis of a first output corresponding to a shearing force in a first detection direction orthogonal to the laminating direction of the first board and a second output corresponding to a shearing force in a second detection direction orthogonal to the laminating direction of the second board and crossing the first detection direction.

To provide a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device using a method in which a desired position is rapidly subjected to laser irradiation while switching laser irradiation patterns. With respect to an organic memory element having a structure in which an organic compound layer is interposed between a pair of conductive layers, data is written to the organic memory element by laser irradiation using a laser irradiation apparatus. Further, a laser beam emitted from a laser oscillator is split by a diffractive optical element into a plurality of laser beams, thereby irradiating a plurality of portions on the organic compound layer with laser beams by single irradiation.

An oscillating circuit includes N nodes outputting oscillating signals, a main loop circuit including N inverting circuits, and a plurality of auxiliary loop circuits. Each inverting circuit in the auxiliary loop circuits is connected in parallel with even numbers of inverting circuits cascaded in the main loop circuit. The circuits for feeding back signals from outputs to inputs of the respective inverters of the main loop circuit have circuit configurations equivalent to each other. Each inverting circuit in the main loop circuit and the auxiliary loop circuits drives an output line such that a phase of an output signal is inverted with respect to a phase of an input signal and has driving power that becomes lower when the phases of the output signal and the input signal are inverted with respect to each other than when the output signal and the input signal are in phase with each other.

A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device (and method of forming same) includes a word gate provided above a channel region of a semiconductor substrate via an insulating layer, a control gate provided at a side of the word gate, and a charge storage layer provided by an ONO film between the channel region and the control gate, and between the word gate and the control gate. The control gate includes a silicide layer including silicide containing nickel, and a non-silicide layer provided between the silicide layer and the charge storage layer.

A low floor vehicle reduces, when the vehicle enters a curved track, the lateral force of the vehicle, prevents occurrence of vibration and creaking sounds of the vehicle, improves riding quality of passengers, and reduces wear of wheel flanges. A low floor vehicle includes a bogie frame 9 of a bogie 7, a pair of bogie frame cross beams 9a arranged along a vehicle lateral direction in the middle of a vehicle longitudinal direction of the bogie frame 9 and arranged spaced apart from each other in the vehicle longitudinal direction, and a pair of wheels 8 provided in each of a vehicle front edge direction and a vehicle rear edge direction with respect to the pair of bogie frame cross beams 9a of the bogie frame 9 and configured to travel on a track 1. A pair of flexible traction rods 15 arranged along the vehicle longitudinal direction and configured to be capable of extending and retracting in the vehicle longitudinal direction are provided in the bogie 7, the pair of flexible traction rods 15 are arranged spaced apart from each other in a vehicle lateral direction, one ends 15b of the flexible traction rods 15 are attached to the bogie frame cross beams 9a, and the other ends 15c of the flexible traction rods 15 are attached to a receiving section 6c of in the vehicle body 6, and the bogie 7 is configured to be capable of turning with respect to the vehicle body 6.

The present invention focuses on the development of a high-efficiency single-stage bidirectional converter with multi-input power sources. In the present invention, it takes a three-winding coupled inductor as the main component of energy transmission, and utilizes only two power semiconductor switches to accomplish the multi-input function. According to the designed switching conditions, this circuit could be operated at discharge, charge and standalone states to simplify conventional structure in which multiple converters are used in boosting voltage and then connected in parallel to supply power. Moreover, the coupled inductor as the principal part of this circuit has high-voltage gain property, and the present invention fully utilizes the winding voltage in the high-voltage side to further increase the corresponding voltage gain superior to that in the conventional coupled-inductor strategy. This property is helpful to solve the power conversion problem caused by clean energies with inherent low-voltage characteristics. In addition, all switches and diodes have favorable voltage-clamped effects so that the voltage spikes induced by the leakage-induction energy can be alleviated effectively, and there are no high reverse-recovery currents within diodes because the leakage induction can restrain instantaneous changes in the current. Furthermore, the present invention has a charging route of low-voltage conversion without adding additional components, avoiding the power losses induced by the multistage conversion in the traditional auxiliary power systems, and utilizes the synchronous rectification technique to decrease the conducting losses.

A piezoelectric vibrator according to the invention has a base, an integrated circuit element, and a piezoelectric vibration element. The base has internal terminal pads, and external terminals including an AC output terminal. The base includes rectangular ceramic substrate layers stacked in at least three layers, each of which has castellations formed at four corners. Among the internal terminal pads, internal terminal pads for the integrated circuit element and internal terminal pads for the piezoelectric vibration element are connected to each other by externally exposed wiring patterns formed on upper surfaces of the castellations at the corners of the ceramic substrate constituting a middle layer.

A bias voltage is compared with a voltage difference in a detecting element according to the present invention. A bias voltage unit is coupled to the detecting element, so that they have a common voltage level to avoid noises when the circuit is operating. Accordingly, the erroneous detection caused by the noise interference can be avoided. Hence, a detecting element with a low resistance, such as an MOEFET, can be used in the present invention to decrease power consumption arisen from current detection and to further increase conversion efficiency.

Modifications to an armrest for a wheelchair include the application of a double sided tape, cut to dimensions that fits conveniently onto the undersurface of the armrest for the wheelchair, and which double sided tape has adhered thereto a corresponding metal strip, that provides a permanent metal surface to the underside of the armrest, for application and adherence of a flashlight magnet for holding the flashlight in position during movement by the person using the wheelchair. The light may be directed forwardly, rearwardly, or removed for directing its illumination in different directions.