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An electric arc welder for performing a pulse welding process by a current between an advancing electrode and workpiece where the welder comprises a short detecting circuit for creating a short signal upon occurrence of a short circuit between the advancing electrode and the workpiece and a boost circuit to create a plasma boost pulse after the short circuit is cleared during the time period when the welder is not outputting the peak pulse current.

This invention realizes an image decoding apparatus and an image decoding method capable of correctly performing a decoding process in short time with a simple construction. In an image decoding apparatus and an image decoding method for performing a decoding process under a prescribed coding method, simple playback frames comprising an I-picture and following prescribed pieces of P-pictures on the basis of the I-picture existing at a desired position in picture data encoded with the coding method are extracted in a fast playback mode.

The present invention is a method suitable for heat treatment, or a heat treatment method for growing single crystal silicon carbide by a liquid phase epitaxial method, wherein a monocrystal silicon carbide substrate as a seed crystal and a polycrystal silicon carbide substrate are piled up, placed inside a closed container, and subjected to high-temperature heat treatment, by which very thin metallic silicon melt layer is interposed between the monocrystal silicon carbide substrate and the polycrystal silicon carbide substrate during heat treatment, and single crystal silicon carbide is liquid-phase epitaxially grown on the monocrystal silicon carbide substrate. The closed container is in advance heated to a temperature exceeding approximately 800° C. in an preheating chamber kept at a pressure of approximately 10⁻⁵ Pa or lower, the closed container is reduced in pressure to approximately 10⁻⁵ Pa or lower, and the container is transported and placed in the heat chamber, which is in advance heated to a prescribed temperature in a range from approximately 1400° C. to 2300° C., in a vacuum at a pressure of approximately 10⁻² Pa or lower or in an inert gas atmosphere at a prescribed reduced pressure, by which the monocrystal silicon carbide substrate and the polycrystal silicon carbide substrate are heated in a short time to a prescribed temperature in a range from approximately 1400° C. to 2300° C. to produce single crystal silicon carbide which is free of fine grain boundaries and approximately 1/cm² or lower in density of micropipe defects on the surface. Further, the present invention is heat treatment equipment used in carrying out the heat treatment method.

In a packet transfer apparatus for transferring packets between first and second networks, a translated network address is assigned to a first node in the first network and having a first private network address when the first packet from the first node is transferred to a second node in the second network, and said translated network address is stored in an address management circuit associated with said first and second network addresses. Thereafter, address translation for realizing an NAT function is performed on subsequent packets transferred between the first and second nodes, by a dedicated hardware circuit and reference to the address management circuit, while performing processing for receiving the packets.

A method for performing adaptive scaling in a touch sensitive device including a touch pad is provided. The method includes obtaining a trajectory of touch positions from the touch pad; setting a first scaling factor; comparing an acceleration factor to a deceleration factor, and: setting a second scaling factor to the acceleration factor if the first scaling factor is lower than the acceleration factor when the acceleration factor is greater than the deceleration factor; setting the second scaling factor to the deceleration factor if the first scaling factor is greater than the deceleration factor when the acceleration factor is lower than or equal to the deceleration factor; and updating the trajectory with a new touch position provided by the touch pad and a scaling factor set to the second scaling factor. A touch sensitive device coupled to a display for use with the above method is also provided.

A memory device is provided in which recording of multi-valued data can be performed at a high speed and the recording of multi-valued data can be performed with a drive circuit having comparatively simple configuration.

The memory device is formed of a memory cell including a memory element which stores information according to a state of electric resistance and a MIS transistor as a load connected in series to the memory element; and when an operation to change the memory cell from a state of high resistance value to a state of low resistance value is defined as writing and when an operation to change the memory cell from the state of low resistance value to the state of high resistance value is defined as erasing respectively, a resistance value of the memory element after writing is set to a plurality of different levels by controlling gate voltages VG1, VG2 and VG3, or the like, which are applied to the MIS transistor at the time of writing, so that different information is respectively assigned to each of the plurality of levels and to the state of high resistance value after erasing to store information of three values or more respectively into a memory element of each memory cell.

An exhaust gas treatment filter removes particulate matter from exhaust gas of a diesel engine. The particulate matter which accumulates on the filter is removed by a manual regeneration system that can simply be controlled. After a manual regeneration switch 22 is shifted to an ON-position, load control section 66 keeps at least one of the revolution speed N of an engine 1, the displacement volume q and discharge pressure P of a hydraulic pressure pump 11 at a corresponding first target value (N1, q1, or P1) or second target value (N2, q2, or P2) depending on a temperature of the cooling water in relation to a flame-out prevention temperature T1. A regeneration control section 67 starts the compulsory regeneration after the manual regeneration switch has been shifted to the ON-position and when the cooling water temperature is equal to or higher than T0.

A method includes receiving, at a computing device comprising a processor, a request to determine bicliques in a graph, where the graph includes a first set of nodes, a second set of nodes, and a set of edges, each edge in the set of edges connecting a node in the first set of nodes to a node in the second set of nodes. The method also includes determining at least one biclique based on querying a bitmap index representing the graph, where the bitmap index includes a plurality of bit strings corresponding to the first set of nodes, and where a value stored in a particular location in each bit string indicates whether an edge connects a first node corresponding to the bit string to a second node corresponding to the particular location.

Upon detection of an error such as a malfunction occurring at a drive mechanism, a sensor transmits an error signal to a control section. The control section selects character information about details of the error corresponding to the error signal and an image representing the drive mechanism where the error occurs and a position of the sensor in the drive mechanism, and reads out the character information and the image from a storage part. Then, the control section allows a liquid crystal display device to display error information in which a first image of character information is combined with a second image of an error occurrence site in the drive mechanism. Then, error correction is sequentially performed in accordance with details of an error displayed as an uppermost layer on a screen.

A mask manufacturing method includes a first step of forming, on a workpiece substrate, a fine pattern on the basis of a pattern of a fine opening having a size of not more than a wavelength of exposure light by irradiating the workpiece substrate with the exposure light through a first mask provided with the fine opening and using near-field light leaking from the fine opening; and a second step of forming a second mask by processing the workpiece substrate on the basis of the fine pattern formed in the first step.

The object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a thermoplastic resin composition that contains a vegetable material in a large amount of 50% or more by weight and is capable of being pelletized so as to exhibit high fluidity, and to a method for producing a molded article of a thermoplastic resin. The present production method for the composition is one for producing a thermoplastic resin composition which comprises a vegetable material and a thermoplastic resin, and contains the vegetable material in an amount of 50% to 95% by weight based on 100% by weight of the vegetable material and the thermoplastic resin, and is characterized by comprising a mixing process for mixing the vegetable material such as kenaf core and kenaf fiber, and the thermoplastic resin such as polypropylene and polylactic acid using a mixer, and a pelletizing process for pressing the mixture obtained in the mixing process to form a pellet. In the present production method for the molded article, the thermoplastic resin composition is subjected to extrusion molding or injection molding to form a molded article.

The present invention provides an active assay method for detecting a biological analyte. According to the method, a probe molecule is immobilized on a surface. An analyte is then placed in fluidic connection with the probe molecule on the surface. A force is then applied to the analyte to move it toward the surface to facilitate contact and possibly binding of the analyte to the probe. Optionally, another force can be applied or the force can be reversed, to remove unbound or weakly bound analyte from the surface. Analyte that remains bound to the surface is then detected. The detection can include rolling or sliding beads over an analyte and/or probe on a substrate, and detecting bound beads. The present invention furthermore, provides devices, such as electrophoresis apparatuses and biochip assemblies, for carrying out the methods of the invention.

A write type optical disk device with the PRML mode allows accuracy in the trial writing to be improved accompanied with the high speed processing while assuring the readout compatibility. A readout signal that has been A/D converted at timing that interposes the edge has its phase compensated with the even numbered FIR filter. The level at the edge point and the absolute values thereof are accumulated respectively so as to provide a circuit for detecting the edge shift and jitter. Coping with the high speed processing, the edge shift of the readout signal is detected at the position where the edge shift is around zero, thus improving the accuracy in learning of trial writing.

The X-ray analyzing apparatus according to the present invention includes, in combination: a first correcting unit (13A, 13B) to output a first gain to cause a pulse height of a target peak which is estimated on the basis of a sum of counting rates obtained in preliminary measurement, to match a predetermined expected pulse height; and a second correcting unit (14A, 14B) to output, in real time through feedback control, a second gain to be added to the first gain in order to cause the pulse height of the target peak detected within a predetermined energy range, to match the expected pulse height, and further includes a feedback control stopping unit (16A, 16B) to appropriately determine presence/absence of an interfering line with respect to the target peak, and to set, when determining that the interfering line exists, the gain to a fixed value including only the first gain.

According to an aspect, a display device with a touch detection function includes a plurality of drive electrodes that face a plurality of pixel electrodes in an orthogonal direction to the surface of the substrate, and extend in a direction parallel to the direction in which a plurality of signal lines extend. The display device with a touch detection function also includes a scan driving unit that applies a touch drive signal to a signal line that faces, in an overlapping manner in the orthogonal direction, a drive electrode to which the touch drive signal is applied.

An ultrasonic washing apparatus, comprising a body part, an ultrasonic vibrating horn exposed to the outside of the body part, a liquid feeding means for feeding liquid to the ultrasonic vibrating horn, and a mounting means for mounting the body part at any position, the mounting means further comprising a support arm to be installed on an installed object such as a full automatic washing machine, wherein the support arm is extendable, energized in a retracting direction by a helical tension spring, and can stop an extension at any length with a fixing screw, and the body part can change an attitude or a position relative to the mounting means.

Upon detection of an error such as a malfunction occurring at a drive mechanism, a sensor transmits an error signal to a control section. The control section selects character information about details of the error corresponding to the error signal and an image representing the drive mechanism where the error occurs and a position of the sensor in the drive mechanism, and reads out the character information and the image from a storage part. Then, the control section allows a liquid crystal display device to display error information in which a first image of character information is combined with a second image of an error occurrence site in the drive mechanism. After correction of the error, an operator touches a GUI on a screen to thereby check an operation of the drive mechanism.

A cooking double boiler including an outer pan that is heated upon pouring water therein, an upper lid that covers an upper aperture thereof, and an inner pan with a flange that is set into the interior of the outer pan. The outer pan includes a peripheral edge portion that supports the flange of the inner pan, wherein a plurality of concave portions for directing generated water vapor upward of the inner pan are located at the peripheral edge portion. The cooking double boiler has vapor spouts located between the peripheral edge portion of the outer pan and the flange of the inner pan for movement between open and closed positions.

The invention refers to a tool (1), a machine tool, and a method for cutting machining of a workpiece. The tool includes a mounting portion (5) for mounting of the tool in the machine tool, a tool shaft (7), which has a first inner end (7'), connected to the mounting portion (5), a longitudinal centre axis (a), which extends through the mounting portion and the tool shaft, and a main cutting edge (9) on the tool shaft. The main cutting edge (9) has an extension in an axial direction along an imaginary envelope surface, which is concentric to the centre axis (a) and located radially outside an outer periphery surface of the tool shaft (7). The main cutting edge (9) is arranged to permit cutting engagement with said workpiece when the tool is rotated around the longitudinal centre axis.

In the present invention, a thermal plate of a heating unit is divided into a plurality of thermal plate regions, and a temperature can be set for each of the thermal plate regions. A temperature correction value for adjusting a temperature within the thermal plate can be set for each of the thermal plate regions of the thermal plate. The line widths within the substrate which has been subjected to a photolithography process are measured, and, from an in-plane tendency of the measured line widths, an in-plane tendency improvable by temperature correction and an unimprovable in-plane tendency are calculated using a Zernike polynomial. An average remaining tendency of the improvable in-plane tendency after improvement obtained in advance is added to the unimprovable in-plane tendency to estimate an in-plane tendency of the line widths within the substrate after change of temperature setting.

A transcranial electrical stimulation device 1 having a wearing equipment 2 detachably worn onto a patient's head and at least a pair of electrodes 4 attached to the wearing equipment 2, the device for electrically stimulating a motor area of a patient's cerebral cortex by outputting current from the electrode 4 connected to a current generator. An engagement part 6 capable of engaging the wearing equipment 2 to a scalp with a thread-like body 8 is provided to the wearing equipment 2, and the electrode 4 is attached to the wearing equipment 2 protrudably to the head side of the electrode 4, and tip of the electrode 4 is capable of subcutaneously piercing through the head. It is unnecessary to bore a patient's skull outer layer with a drill, and a mounting of the electrode can be performed in a short time. The electrodes can be accurately positioned at predetermined positions of a patient's head, and the motor area of a cerebral cortex can be effectively stimulated.