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Provided is a method for moving, in a vacuum chamber carrying therein a fixedly-provided evaporation source, a substrate toward the evaporation source together with a mask closely attached to the substrate surface, and onto the surface substrate, evaporating a material vaporized in the evaporation source through an aperture formed to the mask. In this method of the invention, means for moving the substrate toward the evaporation source is provided with cooling means not to come in contact with but to be in proximity to a surface of the mask on the evaporation source side, and a cooling plate formed with an aperture proximal to the evaporation source is disposed. With such a configuration, the steam of the material coming from the evaporation source is directed to the mask and the substrate through the aperture of the cooling plate. As such, the material film evaporated on the substrate surface shows a satisfactory distribution of film thickness, and any possible misalignment from desired positions of evaporation can be accordingly suppressed.

A motor vehicle is equipped with an outside air introduction assembly 104 functioning to introduce the outside air into a radiator 92 in an engine cooling system during driving, as well as with an outside air introduction assembly 114 functioning to introduce the outside air into an engine 22 during driving. The motor vehicle is also equipped with shutter plates 106 capable of regulating the amount of the outside air to be introduced by the outside air introduction assembly 104, as well as with shutter plates 116 capable of regulating the amount of the outside air to be introduced by the outside air introduction assembly 114. The shutter plates 106 and the shutter plates 116 are individually actuated and controlled to increase the amount of the outside air to be introduced by the outside air introduction assembly 104 and the amount of the outside air to be introduced by the outside air introduction assembly 114 with an increase of temperature of cooling water detected as a cooling water temperature Twe in the engine cooling system. Such actuation and control assures the adequate cooling performances to cool down the cooling water by the radiator 92 and to cool down the engine 22.

It is an object of the invention to provide a light emitting device which can display a superior image in which luminescent color from each light emitting layer is beautifully displayed and power consumption is lowered in a light emitting element in which light emitting layers are stacked. One feature of the invention is that, in a light emitting element which comprises light emitting layers stacked between electrodes, each distance between each light emitting layer and an electrode is approximately oddly multiplied ¼ wavelength by controlling a thickness of a layer provided therebetween to enhance luminous output efficiency. Another feature of the invention is that a drive voltage is lowered using a high conductive material for the layer compared with a conventional element.

An electroluminescent display is disclosed. An electroluminescent display comprises a display panel including a plurality of pixels, each of the plurality of pixels including subpixels. A pixel circuit of each subpixels includes a driving transistor configured to drive the electroluminescent diode, a first switching transistor configured to supply a first voltage to a gate of the driving transistor in response to a first scan signal, a second switching transistor configured to supply a second voltage to the gate of the driving transistor in response to a second scan signal, a third switching transistor configured to supply the second voltage to a first electrode of the driving transistor in response to the second scan signal, a fourth switching transistor configured to supply a first supply voltage to a second electrode of the driving transistor in response to an emission control signal, a first capacitor between a first node connected to the gate electrode of the driving transistor and a second node connected to the second electrode of the driving transistor, and a second capacitor between the second node and a power supply line supplied with the second voltage or the first supply voltage.

The invention provides a data writing method for writing data sequentially in a cross-point memory cell array having a variable resistive element whose electric resistance is changed by application of an electric stress. When data is sequentially written in memory cells in the same row or column, the writing order of the memory cells to be written is determined according to the length from an electric connection point to a selected memory cell to be written and the increase/decrease direction of the electric resistance of each selected memory cell changed by data writing, the electric connection point being between a write voltage applying circuit, which applies a data writing voltage to a same wiring of the selected word line or bit line connected to the selected memory cell, and the same wiring, and the data writing is executed based on the determined writing order.

A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes a receiver coil, at least one transmitter antenna, receiver antennas, a signal selection unit and a processing unit. The receiver coil receives a nuclear magnetic resonance signal from an object as a reception signal. The transmitter antenna transmits the reception signal by radio. The receiver antennas are arranged to receive the reception signal. The signal selection unit selects a reception signal received by a specific receiver antenna. The processing unit reconstructs an image of the object from the reception signal selected by the signal selection unit.

The present invention is a wafer polishing method including simultaneously polishing both surfaces of a wafer by pressing and rubbing the wafer, while holding the wafer with: a lower turn table having a flat polishing-upper-surface rotationally driven; an upper turn table having a flat polishing-lower-surface rotationally driven, the upper turn table being arranged with facing to the lower turn table; and a carrier having a wafer-holding hole for holding the wafer, wherein the polishing is performed while measuring a thickness of the wafer through a plurality of openings provided between a rotation center and an edge of the upper turn table or the lower turn table, and switching a polishing slurry with a polishing slurry having a different polishing rate during the polishing of the wafer. As a result, there is provided a wafer polishing method that can manufacture a wafer having a high flatness and a high smoothness at high productivity and high yield.

An optical pickup including an optical member which inhibits interference light reflected from an adjacent layer from being received by a photodetector when an optical information storage medium includes a plurality of recording layers on at least one side thereof. The optical pickup suppresses a photodetector, especially first and second sub-photodetectors of the photodetector, from receiving the interference light reflected from the adjacent layer.

A gas detection system capable of suppressing the power consumption of the system using gas sensors required for heating for measurement at high accuracy, comprising a server and a plurality of gas sensors connected by way of wireless communication with the server, in which each of the gas sensors is provided with a heater, a controller for controlling the ON-OFF for the power supply to the heater and a comparator for comparing the detected gas concentration with a predetermined threshold value. In the gas detection system, electric power is not usually supplied to the heater in each of the gas sensors and the gas sensor measures the gas concentration at a low accuracy and always compares it with the threshold value. In a case where the gas concentration exceeds the threshold value in one of the gas sensors, it turns the heater of its own to ON thereby switching the measurement to that at high accuracy and turns the heater to OFF upon completing the measurement. At the same time, it informs the detection for the excess of threshold value to the server and the server lowers the threshold value of the gas sensors in the vicinity of the gas sensor that has informed the detection for the excess of threshold value to make the monitoring level severer.

In a steering system having a variable gear transmission system and an electrical power steering system, respective compensation amounts for first and second electric motors are produced by a first mathematical model. The compensation amounts are added to command values (v₁, v₂) to generate final command signals (i_gref, i_pref) to the respective electric motors. According to the above structure and operation, a mutual interference between two control systems can be suppressed.

An oil pan separator 132 is disposed so as to divide a space within an oil pan 130 into a first chamber 30a and a second chamber 30b. The oil pan separator 132 has a protrusion 132b formed at a low position in such a manner that a portion of the first chamber 30a protrudes into the second chamber 30b. A protrusion upper-plate 132b1, which serves as an upper end portion of the protrusion 132b, is provided with an oil feed valve 138, which is a one-way valve, for allowing substantially only outflow of oil from the first chamber 30a to the second chamber 30b.

The exhaust gas purifying catalysts sometimes generate H₂S which emits exhaust odor under reducing atmosphere. However, in the ordinary air-fuel ratio control, it takes much time to establish sufficient oxygen atmosphere for suppressing H₂S emission when the maximum oxygen storage amount which the exhaust gas purifying catalyst can store is large. Thus, the fuel cut control apparatus of an internal combustion engine executes fuel cut to bring oxygen in the exhaust gas into an excessive state when the maximum oxygen storage amount is a predetermined amount or more. As a result, sufficient oxygen can be stored in the exhaust gas purifying catalyst. Even when the maximum oxygen storage amount of the exhaust gas purifying catalyst is smaller than the predetermined amount, if the temperature of the exhaust gas purifying catalyst is lower than predetermined temperature, fuel cut is executed. In this case, influence which is given to deterioration of the catalysts is small even if the fuel cut is executed and the inside of the catalysts is under the oxygen atmosphere. On the other hand, if the temperature of the exhaust gas purifying catalyst is the predetermined temperature or higher, the fuel cut is not executed. Since the deterioration of the catalyst is promoted when the catalyst is under the oxygen atmosphere at high temperature, priority is given to prevention of deterioration of the exhaust gas purifying catalyst.

This invention relates to a method for eliminating power of peak values including: 1, carrying out interpolation filter to each channle signals after modulation and spread to change them to signals of different frequency points, 2, making linear overlapping all the frequency point signals on the time domain, 3, carrying out cancel of peaks to signals needing clipping according to the clipping sequence regulated according to the change of amplitude, which can adaptively regulate peak-clipping sequencies of 1 path and Q to adaptively eliminating power of peak values and the loss of phase information of original signals is the least.

An ion generating element capable of cost reduction and space saving while exhibiting a high generation efficiency of positive ions and negative ions and stabilized generation capacity with less variation, and an ion generator and a neutralizer employing it. The ion generating element comprises a dielectric body having at least two faces, at least two discharge electrodes arranged on the at least two faces of the dielectric body, and an induction electrode arranged in the dielectric body and subjected to the action of the at least two discharge electrodes and is characterized in that positive ions and negative ions are generated on the body, and ions are generated from the at least two faces of the dielectric body through discharge generated because of the potential difference between the discharge electrode of the ion generating element and the induction electrode when a drive voltage is applied between them.

A stacked piezoelectric device 1 including a ceramic laminate formed by laminating piezoelectric ceramic layers and inner electrode layers alternately and a pair of side electrodes. The inner electrode layers 13 and 14 have inner electrode portions 131 and 141 and the recessed portions 132 and 142. The ceramic laminate 15 has the stress absorbing portions 11 and 12. A recessed distance of one of two of the recessed portions 132 and 142 which interleave the stress absorbing portions 11 and 12 therebetween which is located on the same side surface as the stress absorbing portion 11 or 12 is greater than the depth of the stress absorbing portion 11 and 12.

The present invention relates to a resist composition for EUV or EB containing a base component (A) which generates acid upon exposure and exhibits changed solubility in a developing solution by the action of acid, and a resin component (W) that contains at least one atom selected from a fluorine atom or a silicon atom and contains a polarity conversion group that exhibits increased polarity after decomposition by the action of base, wherein the base component (A) contains a component (A1) which contains a structural unit (a0) having a group represented by general formula (a0-1) or (a0-2) shown below, and the amount of the resin component (W) relative to 100 parts by weight of the base component (A) is 1 to 15 parts by weight. In the formulas, Q¹ and Q² represents a single bond or a divalent linking group; R³ to R⁵ represents an organic group, and —R³—S⁺(R⁴)(R⁵) has one aromatic ring or no aromatic ring in total; V⁻ represents a counteranion; A⁻ represents an organic group containing an anion moiety; and M^m+ represents a mono- to tri-valent organic cation, provided that M^m+ has one aromatic ring or no aromatic ring.