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The present invention is a film deposition apparatus configured to deposit a film on a substrate that has been loaded into a vacuum container via a transfer opening and placed on a table in the vacuum container, by supplying a process gas to the substrate from a process-gas supply part opposed to the table under a vacuum atmosphere, while heating a table surface of the table, the film deposition apparatus comprising: an elevating mechanism configured to vertically move the table between a process position at which the substrate is subjected to a film deposition process, and a transfer position at which the substrate is transferred to and from an external transfer mechanism that has entered from the transfer opening; a surrounding part configured to surround the table with a gap therebetween, when the table is located at the process position, so that the surrounding part and the table divide an inside of the vacuum container into an upper space, which is located above the table, and a lower space, which is located below the table; a vacuum exhaust conduit in communication with the upper space, through which a process atmosphere in the upper space is discharged to create a vacuum in the upper space; a heating unit configured to heat a gas contact region ranging from the upper space to the vacuum exhaust conduit, to a temperature higher than a temperature allowing adhesion of reactant; and a heat insulation part disposed between the heating unit and a lower part of the vacuum container surrounding the lower space.

A determining section (18) and gain variation amount detecting section (9) detect a period having a possibility of a DC-component offset in an internal circuit of a direct conversion receiver increasing beyond an allowable value due to AGC operation, and during the period, a cut-off frequency of each of high-pass filters (12a to 12d) is set at a frequency higher than that in general operation, thereby rapidly converging transient responses of signals passed through the high-pass filters, while controlling precisely operation timings of reception power measuring section (16), gain calculating section (22), gain control section (23) and circuit power supply control section (24) composing an AGC loop, whereby the DC offset is prevented from increasing and stable circuit operation is assured. It is thereby possible to achieve further reductions in size and power consumption of a CDMA receiver using the direct conversion receiver.

A nanofiber structure having pores is used as a preservative material for a liquid material. A liquid material can be stored for a long period without causing deterioration and without the need of using any additive such as an anti-bacterial agent merely by contacting the liquid material with the preservative material.

This invention is intended for the purpose of providing the storage system, the storage apparatus, and the storage system by which, even if the storage areas allocated to the virtual volume are managed in management units set by the RAID group, overhead for parity calculation does not become excessive. This invention, by releasing a specific management unit not fully utilized for page allocation from allocation to the virtual volume and migrating the allocated pages belonging to this specific management unit to the other management unit, makes the storage areas of the specific management unit available for the write accesses for the other virtual volumes from the host computer.

An ink-jet recording apparatus includes plural cartridge loading units respectively corresponding to plural ink cartridges and configured in such a manner that the respective ink cartridges are loaded therein in a reloadable manner, ink inflow ports provided to the respective plural cartridge loading units to introduce the inks accommodated in the ink cartridges to be supplied to the plural heads when connected to ink outflow ports provided to the ink cartridges, a detection unit configured to detect whether the ink cartridges are loaded in the cartridge loading units as predetermined before the ink outflow ports come into contact with the ink inflow ports when the ink cartridges are loaded in the cartridge loading units, and a notifying unit configured to notify a detection result of the detection unit in a form of a display or a sound.

A hanger device in an assembly of a clip and a support member for installation upon a wallboard. The clip is formed as one piece, having an upturned arm, a downwardly turned leg and a horizontally oriented extension member connecting the two together. A hook is mounted on leg and a pointed end is provided on the terminal end of the arm. An opening is formed in support member so as to mate geometrically to the rectangular cross section of extension member to prevent turning of clip after installation of device in wallboard. A plurality of spaced-apart apertures is provided in the support member for insertion of fasteners to attach support member to the wallboard. The device of the invention carries much more weight than do the present state-of-the art hangers.

The invention discloses a biological sediment modifier for a fishpond, belonging to the technical field of water quality purification of fishponds. The biological sediment modifier is prepared from the following raw materials in parts by weight: 3-8 parts of bacillus subtilis powder, 3-8 parts of nitrifying bacteria powder, 3-8 parts of denitrifying bacteria powder, 3-8 parts of sulfurizing bacteria powder, 10-40 parts of zeolite powder, 40-70 parts of sodium humate, and 0.5-3 parts of calcium peroxide, wherein the total content of viable bacteria is 2*10<8>-2*10<9> per gram. The biological sediment modifier disclosed by the invention can be used for absorbing the nutrition of sediment, and forming a bacterium membrane on the sediment via fermentation, breeding and bacterial community expansion, so as to cover the sediment and prevent the sediment from polluting water quality, thus benefiting the growth of aquatic animals, greatly increasing a degradation rate, and avoiding the secondary pollution of chemical degradation to a water body.

A stator core is formed into a cylindrical shape, 3n teeth are disposed at a predetermined pitch in a circumferential direction where n is a positive integer, and slots are formed between adjacent pairs of the teeth so as to open onto an inner circumferential side. A stator coil is installed as a concentrated winding in the stator core. A rotor is rotatably disposed inside the stator and 2n permanent magnets are disposed at a predetermined pitch in a circumferential direction on an outer peripheral portion of a shaft. The stator core is constructed such that a slot opening (d) and a slot pitch (p) at an inner circumferential surface of the stator core satisfy an expression 0.1≦d/p≦0.3.

The invention detects the state where a vehicle cabin is or the individual occupants are short of oxygen and eliminates this shortage of oxygen. Further, the invention prevents the occupant from developing high-altitude sickness when a vehicle runs in highlands. Still further, the invention constructs a system tough to the failure of sensors. There is provided an apparatus in which a system is constructed in such a way as to provide a vehicle with a function of measuring oxygen saturation in blood, a function of measuring oxygen concentration or carbon dioxide concentration, and a function of measuring altitude and can condition air in a vehicle cabin by use of a remaining function even in the event of a failure of the respective functions. With this, it is possible to eliminate a shortage of oxygen in individual occupants according to their states and hence to prevent the occupants from developing high-altitude sickness when the vehicle runs in highlands and hence to secure the safe running of the vehicle.

In a first standby state, the reception quality of a signal from a system which has established synchronization is detected. If the detected reception quality deteriorates to be less than a threshold value, the destination of synchronization establishment is changed from a first system to a second system. In a second standby state after this system change, the reception quality of a system having a higher priority order of selection than the second system which has established synchronization is detected. If a third system whose detected reception quality exceeds the threshold value is found, the destination of synchronization establishment is changed to this third system again. After that, the first standby state is returned.

In one embodiment of the present invention, a liquid crystal apparatus includes first and second transmissive liquid crystal panels which are combined with each other. Each of the liquid crystal panels displays a video image in accordance with an identical video source. The first liquid crystal panel is driven by an interlace method in which a video image corresponding to one frame is displayed in two fields while the second liquid crystal panel is driven by a progressive method in which a video image corresponding to one frame is displayed in one field. Accordingly, the display apparatus has high display quality and no interference fringes. This attains a liquid crystal display apparatus with high display quality since the liquid crystal display apparatus has no interference fringes even if a plurality of transmissive liquid crystal display panels are combined with each other.

A method of producing a fuel hose material which is obtained at low costs and has excellent properties such as antistatic property, resistance to thermal aging and resistance to sour gasoline, and a material produced by the method. The method includes the steps of: dispersing a carbon nanotube in a polar plasticizer comprising at least one of a sulfonamide plasticizer and an ester plasticizer; and blending the resulting compound into a polyamide resin having a relative viscosity (ηr) of 2.5 to 3.5, in which the carbon nanotube is present in a proportion of not less than 7 wt %.

A transmission cable for transmitting operation of a transmission lever to a select arm or a shift arm is disposed in a curved state in a manual transmission. An inner cable protrudes from an outer tube of the transmission cable, whereby a set load in a compressing direction is generated in the inner cable. However, by ensuring that the rigidity of a rubber bush for connecting one end of the inner cable to the select arm or the shift arm is set so that it is lower in a direction of pushing the inner cable than in a direction of pulling the inner cable to provide an anisotropic property, the set load in the compressing direction in the inner cable can be countervailed by a difference in rigidity of the rubber bush between a pushing direction and a pulling direction to eliminate deterioration in shifting feeling.

A brake device for a vehicle is equipped with an electric motor which drives a pump to deliver brake fluid to a wheel cylinder installed in a wheel of the vehicle. The brake device works to control pressure of the brake fluid in the wheel cylinder for creating a target braking force. In response to an increase in stroke of a brake pedal, the brake device elevates the pressure in the wheel cylinder gradually without sharply changing it. This eliminates deterioration of a driver's braking feeling arising from a variation in deceleration of the vehicle and ensures smooth deceleration of the vehicle intended by the driver of the vehicle.

[Problem] To provide an automated liquid supply mechanism eliminating the need to physically connect a liquid material storage portion and a discharging device and capable of effectively preventing generation and mixing of particles, and a coater provided with the automated liquid supply mechanism. [Solution] An automated liquid supply mechanism characterized by comprising: a liquid storage portion for storing a liquid material; a supply portion having a supply port for supplying the liquid material stored in the liquid storage portion; a receiving portion having a bubble removing mechanism and a receiving port for receiving the liquid material discharged from the supply portion; and a receiving portion driving device for driving the receiving portion, wherein the receiving portion moves to a receiving position with the receiving port located immediately below the supply port, receives the liquid material supplied in drops from the supply port, and supplies, to the discharging device, the liquid material from which bubbles have been removed by the bubble removing mechanism, and a coater provided with the automated liquid supply mechanism.

A video processing method comprises the steps of dividing an entire input data region into three of first, second and third regions in order from the low level side thereof; setting, as an output data characteristic to input data, a trapezoidal characteristic which is nonlinear and continuous as a whole and consists of a linear portion in the first region where the gain is greater than one, a linear portion in the second region where the gain is equal to one exactly or approximately, and a linear portion in the third region where the gain is smaller than one; setting, as another output data characteristic to the input data, an S-shaped characteristic which is nonlinear and continuous as a whole and consists of linear portions in the first and third regions where the gain is smaller than one, and a linear portion in the second region where the gain is greater than one; selecting either the trapezoidal characteristic or the S-shaped characteristic; and correcting the digital luminance data in accordance with the selected characteristic. This method eliminates the known disadvantages and increases the luminance of a reproduced image while raising the contrast of its dark portion.

The invention discloses a multi-cavity coupled low-phase noise voltage-controlled oscillator. A plurality of voltage-controlled oscillators are coupled to each other by the circuit of the voltage-controlled oscillator to improve phase noise performance, and a current multiplexing technology is used to reduce power consumption of the circuit. The circuit of the voltage-controlled oscillator includes a first voltage-controlled oscillator, a second voltage-controlled oscillator, a third voltage-controlled oscillator and a fourth voltage-controlled oscillator which are coupled to each other. The negative resistance unit circuit of each voltage-controlled oscillator adopts a current multiplexing structure to reduce power consumption and remove the deterioration caused by the second harmonic ofthe common mode node to the phase noise, and further improve the phase noise performance. The low-phase noise voltage-controlled oscillator provided by the invention is capable of effectively improving phase noise performance.

In image-data recording processing performed when a video output conforms to the PAL system, a display-signal processing section receives image data having a frame rate of 30 Hz recorded in a memory, through a bus, converts the image data to image data having an NTSC frame rate of 29.97 Hz by a frame-rate conversion method in which thinning out is performed according to the ratio of frame rates, and outputs it to a display section and a codec-IC interface. The display-signal processing section also converts to image data having a PAL frame rate of 25 Hz, and outputs it to a video-output interface. In other words, image data is processed at a frame rate not related to the output, and then converted to image data having a frame rate suited for the output, and output. This invention can be used in digital cameras.