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Techniques for fabricating a device include forming a fabrication layout, such as a mask layout, for a physical design layer, such as a design for an integrated circuit, and identifying evaluation points on an edge of a polygon corresponding to the design layer for correcting proximity effects. Techniques include correcting for proximity effects associated with an edge in a first fabrication layout by determining whether any portion of the edge corresponds to a target edge in a design layer. The first fabrication layout corresponds to the design layer that indicates target edges for a printed features layer. If any portion of the edge corresponds to the target edge, then it is determined whether to establish an evaluation point on the edge. Then it is determined how to correct the edge for proximity effects based on the evaluation point. In case it is determined that no portion of the edge corresponds to the target edge, then no evaluation point is selected on the edge.

A radio communication device includes a reception unit for receiving a route request message from another radio communication device, a route control message processing unit for judging whether the received route request message is addressed to itself or not, a route request message management unit for deciding a delay amount for delaying response transmission or relay forwarding with regard to the route request message according to an operating state of the radio communication device when the route request message is not addressed to itself, and a delay processing unit which performs response transmission or relay forwarding to the route request message when the delay amount time has expired. Thus, a route selected giving preference to radio communication devices having a preferable operating state can be obtained.

A conventional DRAM needs to be refreshed at an interval of several tens of milliseconds to hold data, which results in large power consumption. In addition, a transistor therein is frequently turned on and off; thus, deterioration of the transistor is also a problem. These problems become significant as the memory capacity increases and transistor miniaturization advances. A transistor is provided which includes a wide-gap semiconductor and has a trench structure including a trench for a gate electrode and a trench for element isolation. Even when the distance between a source electrode and a drain electrode is decreased, the occurrence of a short-channel effect can be suppressed by setting the depth of the trench for the gate electrode as appropriate.

A power control apparatus for controlling charging and discharging of a plurality of storage means devices has a voltage measuring arrangement for measuring voltages of each of the storage devices, a current measuring arrangement for measuring currents flowing through each of the storage devices, a status detector for detecting the operating status of each storage device from values measured by the voltage and current measuring arrangements, and a charging / discharging control device for controlling currents, voltages, or power according to the operating status of each storage devices detected by the status detector to charge or discharge the storage devices.

An organic electroluminescent device including a pair of electrodes and an emitting layer provided between the pair of electrodes, the emitting layer comprising a derivative having an unsymmetrically substituted anthracene as a partial structure and an amine derivative represented by Formula (1), wherein Ar1 to Ar4 are independently a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic ring having 6 to 50 nucleus carbon atoms, R1 and R2 may be the same or different substituents and linked to each other to form a saturated or unsaturated ring, and p is an integer of 1 to 6.

A switching device having a central actuator and two outer actuators disposed separately from the central actuator on two sides, wherein the central actuator is a cylindrical dial (23) supported rotatably and depressibly by a pair of spindle bearings (26) included in a base plate; the base plate (25) supporting the dial (23) is fitted in a frame; the outer actuators are pivotable in a direction approximately perpendicular to a direction in which the three actuators are arrayed and about a pivot approximately perpendicular to a direction in which operating surfaces of the outer acutators are pushed to press a contact (30) disposed on the frame; and each of the outer actuators has a to-be-supported piece (34) extending to a position where the outer actuator deviates from a lateral edge of the dial (23) in the rotating direction as viewed from the front. The outer actuator is pivotally attached at the end of the to-be-supported piece (34) to the frame (22) and has a center axis crossing the pair of spindle bearings of the central actuator.

To achieve a stable reading operation in a memory cell having a gain-cell structure, a write transistor is configured, which has a source and a drain that are formed on the insulating layer, a channel formed on the insulating layer and between the source and the drain and made of a semiconductor, and a gate formed on an upper portion of the insulating layer and between the source and the drain and electrically insulated from the channel by a gate insulating film and controlling the potential of the channel. The channel electrically connects the source and the drain on the side surfaces of the source and the drain.

A production method of a zinc oxide single crystal, comprising depositing a crystal of zinc oxide on a seed crystal from a mixed melt of zinc oxide and a solvent capable of melting zinc oxide and having a higher average density than zinc oxide in the melt. Preferably, a zinc oxide single crystal is continuously pulled while supplying the same amount of a zinc oxide raw material as that of the pulled zinc oxide. A single crystal excellent in the crystal quality and long in the pulling direction can be continuously produced.

A multi-leaf collimator for a radiotherapy apparatus comprises a plurality of elongate leaves mounted in a carriage, the carriage being mounted on a substrate, wherein the leaves are independently moveable relative to the carriage in a longitudinal direction, and the carriage is moveable in that direction relative to the substrate, and a control apparatus arranged to receive a signal representing leaf positions relative to the substrate and being arranged to control the leaf positions relative to the carriage and the carriage positions relative to the substrate so as to achieve those leaf positions relative to the substrate. By allowing the carriage to be driven concurrently with the leaves, the speed of movement of the carriage can be added to that of the leaves. In this way, where leaves are required to make a long traverse they can do so more quickly. Most MLCs have a means for sensing the current positions of the leaves relative to the substrate, such as an optical or mechanical positional feedback system. The control apparatus can therefore compare the current leaf positions to the signalled leaf positions, and move the leaves and the carriage accordingly. Each leaf can be moved according to a difference between the current leaf position and the signalled leaf position, and the carriage can be moved according to an average difference between the current leaf positions and the signalled leaf positions. A corresponding method is also disclosed.

A power control apparatus for controlling charging and discharging of a plurality of storage devices has a voltage measuring arrangement for measuring voltages of each of the storage devices, a current measuring arrangement for measuring currents flowing through each of the storage devices, a status detector for detecting the operating status of each storage device from values measured by the voltage and current measuring arrangements, and a charging / discharging control device for controlling currents, voltages, or power according to the operating status of each storage devices detected by the status detector to charge or discharge the storage devices.

A power control apparatus for controlling charging and discharging of a plurality of storage means (101a, . . . ) has voltage measuring means (102a, . . . ) for measuring voltages of said storage means respectively, current measuring means (103a, . . . ) for measuring currents flowing through said storage means respectively, a status detecting means (104) for detecting the operating status of each storage means from values measured by said voltage measuring means and said current measuring means, and a charging / discharging controlling means (105) for controlling currents, voltages, or power according to the operating status of each storage means detected by said status detecting means to charge or discharge said storage means.

A substrate processing apparatus includes: a holding unit holding a substrate; a rotation driving unit rotating the substrate held on the holding unit; a moving mechanism moving the holding unit between a delivery position and an edge exposure position; an exposure unit provided on the edge exposure position side and exposing an edge portion of a coating film above the substrate held on the holding unit; an image capturing unit provided on the edge exposure position side and above the exposure unit and capturing an image of the substrate held on the holding unit; and a direction change unit changing a direction of an optical path formed between the substrate held on the holding unit and the image capturing unit. The direction change unit includes a first reflecting mirror, a second reflecting mirror, and a third reflecting mirror.

A torque-transmitting, variably-flexible, corrugated insertion device includes a hollow body having a proximal end with an entrance for receiving an instrument and a distal end with a tip for protrusion of the instrument. A vacuum-activated device transitions the hollow body between a relatively flexible condition and a relatively stiff condition. A corrugated tube transmits torque from the proximal end toward the distal end. A method for transmitting torque and variably flexing an insertion device for receiving an instrument includes providing a hollow body, transmitting torque along the hollow body with a corrugated tube, applying suction to create a vacuum in the hollow body for placing the hollow body in a relatively stiff condition, and relieving the vacuum for placing the hollow body in a relatively flexible condition.

A trim operating wire is disclosed wherein the length of the pull wire connecting between the push-pull converter and the trim operating lever can be made short, and the push wire can be made long. As a result, even where the pull wire, which is thin and highly flexible, is disposed in the state of being bent at several portions thereof, the sliding resistance of an inner wire of the pull wire is small, and operability is enhanced.

A propeller shaft assembly includes a thin-walled tubular member, a connecting member fixed to each end of the tubular member, and a support member fixed within the tubular member. The support member includes a plurality of radial elements extending a first length (L1) within the tubular member and engaging an interior surface of the tubular member to increase the bending frequency of the propeller shaft assembly. In one example, the support member includes a central hub coaxially located within the tubular member and the radial elements extend from the central hub to the interior surface of the tubular member. The radial elements can include enlarged end portions for engaging the interior surface of the tubular member. The radial elements, at their ends, can also include either axial or circumferential grooves which act as an adhesive reservoir.

In a battery system for a vehicle, a lead battery is connected in parallel to a sub-battery, and a charging resistance r2 of the sub-battery 2 is lower than a charging resistance r1 of the lead battery.

A conventional DRAM needs to be refreshed at an interval of several tens of milliseconds to hold data, which results in large power consumption. In addition, a transistor therein is frequently turned on and off; thus, deterioration of the transistor is also a problem. These problems become significant as the memory capacity increases and transistor miniaturization advances. A transistor is provided which includes a wide-gap semiconductor and has a trench structure including a trench for a gate electrode and a trench for element isolation. Even when the distance between a source electrode and a drain electrode is decreased, the occurrence of a short-channel effect can be suppressed by setting the depth of the trench for the gate electrode as appropriate.

The object of this invention is to provide a cellular phone holder, which could easily hold a standard type cellular phone as well as a collapsible type cellular phone having different sizes, respectively. Thus cellular phone holder is comprised of a lateral case capable of holding cellular phones of different width, and a longitudinal strap belt attached in a manner so as to intersect with the lateral case. Thus lateral case is formed of a single trunk member in which the trunk member is bent into a cylindrical shape and secured by Velcro tape attached in plural portions. A ring couples thus longitudinal strap belt to a plurality of strap belts and thus, a portion of the longitudinal strap belt is structured by an elastic material.

A five-piece optical lens system is provided with, in order from the object side to the image side: a stop, a first lens element with a positive refractive power having a convex image-side surface, one of the object-side surface and an image-side surface being aspheric; a second lens element with a negative refractive power having a concave image-side surface, one of the object-side surface and an image-side surface being aspheric; a third lens element with a positive refractive power having a convex image-side surface, one of an object-side surface and the image-side surface being aspheric; a fourth lens element having a concave object-side surface, one of the object-side surface and an image-side surface being aspheric; a fifth lens element with a negative refractive power having a convex image-side surface, one of an object-side surface and the image-side surface being aspheric.

A centrifuge includes a rotor which accommodates a sample, a motor which rotationally drives the rotor and a chiller which cools a rotor chamber, and is provided with a transformer which has a plurality of secondary side taps, converts an AC voltage which is input from a primary side to a plurality of voltages, and outputs, and a voltage switching unit which is connected to the plurality of secondary side taps of the transformer, selects any one of outputs of the secondary side taps, and outputs to the chiller. The microcomputer controls the voltage switching unit corresponding to the power supply frequency which is determined using the output of the zero-crossing detection circuit, and supplies the desired driving voltage to the chiller.

A machine tool has a holding portion, spindle, feed device, controller generating a position control signal according to machining data and controlling a feed motion of a drive unit according to the position control signal, reaction force detecting section for determining a reaction force the tool receives from the workpiece during machining, displacement amount calculating section for determining displacement of the tool with respect to a target control position based on the reaction force, and compensating section receiving the displacement amount and adding correction data for eliminating the displacement amount to the position control signal or the machining data.

A configurable object graph traversal component with redirection capability for use in garbage collectors and other related applications. The component may be implemented in either hardware or in software, and provides an interface that allows reuse of the same component for the various traversal tasks performed during garbage collection. The interface supports redirecting traversal to new copies of moved objects, updating referring cells, performing cycle detection efficiently, and in some embodiments also supports selecting the direction of traversal, handling exits from the traversed memory region specially, and providing access to the old address of copied cells.

A method for functionally testing an ultrasonic sensor on a motor vehicle in which, in a test operating mode, an ultrasonic signal is emitted whose magnitude is large enough that under conventional conditions this ultrasonic signal is reflected by a ground surface in front of the vehicle and is received again. In this way, it can easily be determined that the ultrasonic sensor is functioning properly.

A torque-transmitting, variably-flexible, corrugated insertion device includes a hollow body having a proximal end with an entrance for receiving an instrument and a distal end with a tip for protrusion of the instrument. A vacuum-activated device transitions the hollow body between a relatively flexible condition and a relatively stiff condition. A corrugated tube transmits torque from the proximal end toward the distal end. A method for transmitting torque and variably flexing an insertion device for receiving an instrument includes providing a hollow body, transmitting torque along the hollow body with a corrugated tube, applying suction to create a vacuum in the hollow body for placing the hollow body in a relatively stiff condition, and relieving the vacuum for placing the hollow body in a relatively flexible condition.

A vacuum apparatus has a process chamber for processing a workpiece and a transfer apparatus for positioning the workpiece in the process chamber and for removing the workpiece from the process chamber. The transfer apparatus has a pair of generally parallel and spaced-apart transfer bodies and a workpiece holder connected to the transfer bodies for supporting the workpiece. A feeding mechanism feeds the transfer bodies in a longitudinal direction thereof to position the workpiece holder and the workpiece in the process chamber.

A material, such as track member for a linear motion guide, having a plurality of rows of portions to be hardened which are thermally influenced on each other, is hardened by emitting laser beams so as to simultaneously irradiate a plurality of rows of portions of the material to be hardened, and moving the laser beams irradiating the rows of portions to be hardened relatively in a longitudinal direction of the portions to be hardened. In this hardening process, the laser beam irradiation is performed such that, in a sectional plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the laser beam, a length of a laser beam irradiation shape in the longitudinal direction of the portion to be hardened is set to be longer than a length thereof in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction.

Debris adhering to the outer surface of a barrel-type fish screen is cleared by air bursts from a series of perforated air pipes positioned inside the outer foraminous shell of the screen, the perforations being holes with axes at an acute angle to the screen radius for efficient use of the air. Separately, the conical water collection manifold mounted inside the shell is open at its narrow end, with a valve mounted to that open end to control the opening. The opening prevents reduced water inflow at that end of the manifold, and the valve adjusts the access of the surrounding water to the opening, thereby allowing the manifold to be tuned to more closely approach a uniform distribution of axial water flow along the length of the collection manifold for different ambient conditions. Webs joining the air pipes to the collection manifold are also included in certain embodiments of the invention to support increased lengths of the entire apparatus without loss of structural integrity, including support for the foraminous shell.

A propeller shaft assembly includes a thin-walled tubular member, a connecting member fixed to each end of the tubular member, and a support member fixed within the tubular member. The support member includes a plurality of radial elements extending a first length (L1) within the tubular member and engaging an interior surface of the tubular member to increase the bending frequency of the propeller shaft assembly. In one example, the support member includes a central hub coaxially located within the tubular member and the radial elements extend from the central hub to the interior surface of the tubular member. The radial elements can include enlarged end portions for engaging the interior surface of the tubular member. The radial elements, at their ends, can also include either axial or circumferential grooves which act as an adhesive reservoir.

When a neighbor ONU receives a signal with light intensity high enough to secure communication between an OLT and a remote ONU, the light intensity may be excessively high to damage a receiver of the neighbor ONU. In order to avoid such a problem, each ONU is notified of a downstream signal transmission plan (downstream light intensity map) prior to transmission of a downstream signal. Each ONU receives the downstream light intensity map (light intensity transmission schedule of downstream signal) in advance. Thus, the neighbor ONU can block or attenuate an optical signal addressed to the remote ONU, and the remote ONU can determine normal operation even when the remote ONU cannot receive a signal addressed to the neighbor ONU. Thus, the remote ONU can be prevented from issuing a wrong error signal.