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A shift register circuit which stably operates with low electric power consumption and can realize a long life. In the shift register circuit constructed by connecting a plurality of fundamental circuits in each of which fundamental clocks of three phases are inputted to input terminals and is constructed by a gate line driving circuit, a timing control circuit, and a holding device control circuit, each of the gate line driving circuit and the timing control circuit has charging devices and holding devices. A node is stabilized by the timing control circuit.

A solid state imaging device that comprises a first, a second, and a third pixel, and a micro lens is provided. The first pixel has a first color filter. The second pixel has a second color filter, of which the color is different from the color of the first color filter. The third pixel has a third color filter, of which the color is different from the colors of the first color filter and the second color filter. The micro lens covers the first, the second, and the third pixels neighboring each other.

The present invention relates to a laundry machine. The laundry machine includes a drum rotatably mounted in a cabinet, a hot air heater to heat air and supply hot air into the drum, a steam generator to supply steam into the drum, a water supply source detachably mounted in the cabinet to supply water into the steam generator, and a water leakage preventing unit to prevent water leakage when the water supply source is detachably mounted.

A joint nozzle that delivers a developer, a rinsing liquid and nitrogen gas is disposed adjacent the spin center of a substrate in plan view. A controller operates electromagnetic switch valves to continue supply of the developer, while spinning the substrate, in a developing process, and to start supply of the rinsing liquid in a rinsing process, immediately after the supply of the developer ends, thereby achieving a shortened period of the developing process. A switching is made to a drying process by starting supply of the nitrogen gas immediately after completion of the rinsing process. Thus, even if the substrate has a large angle of contact, formation of droplets of the rinsing liquid is inhibited to prevent post-develop defects.

Spherical members 7 are provided between plural pairs of axial grooves 3, 5 which are respectively formed on the outer peripheral surface of a male shaft 1 and on the inner peripheral surface of a female shaft 2, a leaf spring 9 for preload is interposed between the axial groove of the male shaft and the spherical member, and columnar members 8 are provided between another plural pairs of axial grooves 4, 6 which are respectively formed on the outer peripheral surface of the male shaft 1 and on the inner peripheral surface of the female shaft 2. Moreover, the radius of curvature of a transverse cross section of the axial groove 5 on the side of the female shaft 2 in which the spherical member 7 is rotated is set as 55% or less of the diameter of the spherical member 7.

Embodiments of the invention provide an image correcting apparatus for an imaging device including a camera module having a first motion sensor. The image correct apparatus includes a second motion sensor sensing a movement, and a controller determining whether the movement gets out of an operation range of the first motion sensor, and correcting an image obtained from the camera module based on movement data sensed by the second motion sensor, when the movement gets out of the operation range of the first motion sensor. Generation of blur in an image when a displacement of handshaking is at an angle equal to or greater than a correction angle of an optical image stabilizer (OIS) module is prevented, and thus, a clear image is obtained.

A vehicle mounted sensor system for detecting the presence of objects and individuals adjacent a vehicle such as a commuter bus includes at least four motion detectors mounted to the front, back and both sides of the vehicle, an electrical control box for receiving and interpreting signals generated by the motion detectors, and a display and control panel having indicator lamps that light in response to one or more of motion detectors being triggered by the presence of an individual within the preset detection range. The control panel also includes a tone or alarm that will also sound in response to the detection of the presence of an individual. An integral sensing switch is interconnected to the control box and either the transmission, the drive shaft or a wheel hub for detecting when the vehicle comes to a stop so that the sensor system can be immediately activated; and when the vehicle resumes motion, the sensor system goes to a standby mode until the integral sensing switch detects the next stoppage of the vehicle and the system is activated.

A driving circuit of a DC motor includes a control circuit for providing a control signal, and a motor drive circuit commanded by the control circuit for providing respective command signals for the switches of an output power stage connected to the DC motor. The output power stage is connected to a power supply line and drives the windings of the DC motor. The driving circuit prevents generation of voltage surges having a significant magnitude on the power supply line because the driving circuit has logic circuits for preventing any substantial inversion in the direction of current flow in the supply lines when the DC motor operates as a current generator.

A laminate includes insulating layers laminated to each other. Capacitor conductors are embedded in the laminate and have exposed portions exposed between the insulating layers at respective surfaces of the laminate. The capacitor conductors define a capacitor. External electrodes are provided by plating on the respective surfaces of the laminate so as to directly cover the respective exposed portions. When the laminate is viewed in plan in a y axis direction, the length of each of the exposed portions is approximately 35% to approximately 45% of the length of an outer periphery of the insulating layer.

A liquid processing apparatus 1 comprises a casing 5, a substrate holding mechanism 20 that holds a wafer (substrate to be processed) W, a process-liquid supplying mechanism 30 that supplies a process liquid, a draining cup 12 that receives a process liquid, and a draining pipe 13 that discharges a process liquid outside. The process-liquid supplying mechanism 30 includes a first chemical-liquid supply mechanism that supplies a hydrofluoric process liquid, and a drying-liquid supplying mechanism that supplies an organic solvent for drying a wafer W. A control part 50 causes the first chemical-liquid supplying mechanism to supply a hydrofluoric process liquid, and then causes the drying-liquid supplying mechanism to supply an organic solvent. In addition, before the control part 50 causes the drying-liquid supplying mechanism to supply an organic solvent, the control part causes a cleaning mechanism 10 to remove an alkaline component in a casing 5.

Provided herein is a refrigerator with an improved coupling structure of a heat dissipation duct for dissipating heat generated in a display unit and having and applying the improved heat dissipation duct to a door having a thin thickness such that a problem in which a curve is generated at an exterior of a door when an inside of the door is filled with a heat insulating material is prevented. The refrigerator includes a main body, and a door, wherein the door includes a door cap coupled to at least one of an upper portion and a lower portion of the door, a display unit provided at a front surface of the door, a heat dissipation cover arranged behind the display unit, and a heat dissipation duct slidably inserted into the door through the at least one of the upper portion and the lower portion of the door.

A liquid crystal display device can have enhanced display quality of a display screen by preventing the generation of lateral stripes on the display screen when the polarity of a gray scale voltage is inverted for every N (N≧2) lines without providing a new display control signal. In the liquid crystal display device, a gray scale voltage is applied to a plurality of pixels, and the polarity of the gray scale voltage is inverted for every N (N≧2) video lines. The polarity inversion line position at which the polarity of the gray scale voltage is changed from the positive polarity to the negative polarity or vice versa different among respective frames. Thus, the polarity inversion line position is discontinuous among continuous frames. Further, the positive polarity gray scale voltage and the negative polarity gray scale voltage are supplied to the respective pixels every N/2 times.

A linear vibration motor comprises: a stator provided with one of a permanent magnet and an electromagnet including a winding; a vibrator provided with the other of the permanent magnet and the electromagnet and supported to be able to vibrate; a movement detection unit for detecting movement of the vibrator; a control output unit for supplying electric power to the winding of the electromagnet based on an output of the movement detection unit so as to generate vibration of the vibrator; a rechargeable battery for supplying electric power to the control output unit; and a power supply unit for supplying electric power to the control output unit and to the rechargeable battery, wherein the power supply unit supplies electric power in an intermittent mode with synchronized timing such that the timing of the intermittent power supply is synchronized with the timing of the power supply to the winding. Thereby, the voltages of the rechargeable battery for left and right outputs to the winding become the same as each other at the timing of supplying electric power to the winding for left and right outputs, preventing amplitude variation caused by difference between the voltages of the rechargeable battery, and thereby preventing amplitude fluctuations and whirring noise.

A continuous time sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter (CT ΣΔADC) including an integrator, which includes an operational amplifier having at least one input terminal that receives an input signal, a feedback mechanism operatively connected to the operational amplifier, at least one capacitor coupled to the operational amplifier and the feedback mechanism, a reset switch coupled to the at least one capacitor, the operational amplifier, and the feedback mechanism, and a single directional voltage-to-current converter coupled to the input terminal. The single directional voltage-to-current converter translates a differential signal voltage only to a differential signal current. The reset switch resets the feedback mechanism. The single directional voltage-to-current converter behaves a one-directional resistor. The integrator prevents current generation when there is a non-linear disturbance at the input terminal of the operational amplifier. The single directional voltage-to-current converter clips an input current that exceeds a threshold value.

To provide a semiconductor device and a semiconductor module in which breakage of a semiconductor element due to a pressing force given from the outside is prevented. A semiconductor device according to the present invention has a configuration mainly including an island, a semiconductor element mounted on a front surface of the island, a lead that functions as an external connection terminal, and a sealing resin that covers these components in an integrated manner and mechanically supports them. Further, a through-hole is provided so as to penetrate the sealing resin. A front surface of the sealing resin around the through-hole forms a flat part. The front surface of the sealing resin that overlaps the semiconductor element is depressed inward with respect to the flat part to form a depressed part.

A first slit pattern is formed in a display substrate and a display panel of vertical alignment mode having the display substrate. The first slit pattern includes slits, a pair of projections and a pair of notches. A divergence point where the slits meet each other and an incision portion of the slits have the same function as the pair of projections in the generation of a singular point of liquid crystal. A contact hole exposing a part of an output electrode of a switching element is formed at a protective layer of an array substrate. A step recess is formed at a protective layer corresponding to a storage electrode, a divergence point of the slits is arranged to correspond to the storage electrode. The singular point of the liquid crystal is induced to occur at a regular position, and thus afterimages and spots can be prevented.

A are provided a light source module. The light source module including a light emitting device configured to emit light in a light emitting direction; and an optical device including a first surface disposed over the light emitting device and having a groove recessed in the light emitting direction in a central portion through which an optical axis of the optical device passes, and a second surface disposed opposite to the first surface and configured to refract light incident through the groove to be emitted to the outside. The optical device includes a plurality of ridges disposed on the second surface and periodically arranged in a direction from the optical axis to an edge of the optical device connected to the first surface.

The present invention provides a LLC resonant converter with magnetic-flux balance control circuit. The LLC resonant converter comprises a primary-side circuit and a secondary-side circuit, wherein the control loop of secondary-side circuit comprises a voltage control unit, a digital pulse-width-modulation generation unit, and the control loop of primary-side circuit comprises a DC detection unit, a balance control unit, a digital pulse-width-modulation generation unit.

A phase synchronization circuit and an electronic apparatus equipped with the phase synchronization circuit are provided. The phase synchronization circuit includes an oscillation unit, a phase comparison unit, a loop unit, a drive unit, an oscillation control signal unit, and a gain characteristic information obtaining unit. In the phase synchronization unit, a compensation signal is generated based on the gain characteristic information obtained by the gain characteristic information obtaining unit at the time of the usual phase synchronizing operation, and the drive unit is controlled by the compensation signal so that a product of the input signal-oscillation frequency conversion gain at the time of actual operation and the drive signal with which the drive unit drives the loop filter unit is constant.

An ultrasonic sensor includes a transceiver block having a transceiver device for transmitting and receiving ultrasonic waves, and a circuit board mounted with an electronic circuit for processing ultrasonic signals transmitted and received through the transceiver device. A housing of the ultrasonic sensor includes a storing portion having an opening. The circuit board is stored within the storing portion, and the opening of the storing portion is closed by the transceiver block.

In view of the problem that an existing technique can detect a failure in an arm circuit for each phase and continue motor drive by only a normal phase, but a brake torque is generated due to a closed circuit of the faulty phase, an inverter apparatus for polyphase AC motor drive is provided that includes: a first power supply switching device in a power supply line to an inverter circuit; a second power supply switching device for each phase in the arm circuit of the inverter circuit, and a motor relay switching device in an output path from each phase, wherein the parasitic diodes of the first power supply switching device and second power supply switching device have directional characteristics different from each other, which prevent generation of a closed circuit.

In a wire core 20 embedded in an opening seal for automobiles, a non-thermo-fusible yarn221 on the outer-cabin side is provided in a range 401 from a bending start position 21c forming a shoulder 21a on the outer-cabin side of a wire body 21 which is bent roughly in U-shape to a position 52 determined by offsetting a point 51 on a door internal circumference side of a base 12a of a hollow seal member 12 on the inner side whereas a non-thermo-fusible yarn 222 on the inner-cabin side is provided in a range 501 from a bending start position 21e forming a shoulder 21b on the inner-cabin side of the wire body 21 to a position 54 determined by offsetting a point 53 on an opening edge side on an inner-cabin side wall 11b of a base of a protuberance 13 with respect to the wire body 21.

Provided is a cutting method for a tube glass, including: a heating step of heating a preset cut portion (CP) of the tube glass (G2) by radiating laser light (L11) to the preset cut portion (CP); an inner crack region forming step of forming an inner crack region (C1) including one or a plurality of cracks through multiphoton absorption that occurs in an irradiation region of laser light (L12) by radiating the laser light (L12) having a focal point adjusted to an inside of the preset cut portion (CP); and a cooling step of cooling the preset cut portion (CP), to thereby cause the cracks to propagate in the inside of the preset cut portion (CP).

An image forming apparatus includes a fixing unit, wherein the fixing unit includes a first temperature detection member detecting the temperature of a first non-passing area of the fixing unit; a second temperature detection member detecting the temperature of a second non-passing area; and a cooling unit supplying air so as to simultaneously cool the first non-passing area and the second non-passing area, wherein the image forming apparatus is configured, when the absolute value of the difference between the detection temperature of the temperature detection members becomes not less than a threshold value, while air is being supplied to the non-passing area and the second non-passing area, to stop the supplying of air by the cooling unit and continue recording material fixing processing.

After introducing gas into a cavity of a clamped die to boost a pressure therein, a resin material containing a foaming agent is injected. After forming a skin layer, at the same time as a start of a core-back operation for foaming the resin material or after the core-back operation, gas in the cavity is vacuum-suctioned to make a pressure in the cavity less than the atmospheric pressure. By cooling and solidifying, an injection foam molded article is obtained. Before complete solidification, gas between the resin material and an inner surface of the die is reliably discharged out of the cavity, so that surface recesses and generation of swirl marks due to gas accumulation can be prevented.

A three-dimensional formation apparatus includes a head-unit which can discharge liquid in a first-direction and a control-unit which controls the head-unit. The control-unit forms a hollow on a changed portion where an outline of a cross section object is simultaneously changed in a second-direction and a third-direction towards the inside from the outline of the cross section object in the second-direction or the third-direction, in a first cross section object formation process and executes a filling process of discharging the liquid containing a second quantity which is larger than a first quantity to the hollow so as to come in contact with the cross section object formed in the first cross section object formation process, to fill at least a part of the hollow with the liquid, after the first cross section object formation process is executed and before the second cross section object formation process is executed.

The transparent conductor involves a first laminate part including a transparent resin substrate and a transmittance-controlling layer, and a second laminate part including the transparent resin substrate, the transmittance-controlling layer, a metal layer containing silver or a silver alloy, and a metal oxide layer in the order presented. The first laminate part and the second laminate part are adjacent to each other in a direction perpendicular to the direction of lamination of the first laminate part and the second laminate part, and the difference between the transmittance of the first laminate part in the direction of lamination, T1, and the transmittance of the second laminate part in the direction of lamination, T2, (T2−T1) is 4% or more.

Disclosed is a method for forming: a Re—Cr alloy film consisting of Re in the range of greater than 0 (zero) to less than 98% by atomic composition, and the remainder being Cr except inevitable impurities; a Re-based film consisting of 98% or more, by atomic composition, of Re, with the remainder being Cr and inevitable impurities; or a Re—Cr—Ni alloy film consisting of Re in the range of 50 to less than 98% by atomic composition, Cr in the range of 2 to less than 45% by atomic composition, and the remainder being Ni except inevitable impurities. The method comprises performing an electroplating process using an electroplating bath containing an aqueous solution which includes a perrhenate ion and a chromium (III) ion. The present invention allows a Re—Cr alloy, Re-based or Re—Cr—Ni alloy film usable as a corrosion-resistant alloy coating for a high-temperature component or the like to be formed through an electroplating process using an aqueous solution, so as to provide heat/corrosion resistances to the component, even if it has a complicated shape, in a simplified manner at a low cost.

A process for producing aqueous chlorous acid solution in which chlorous acid, which is safe for the human body, is easy to handle, and less generates chlorine dioxide, is yielded and used as a disinfectant for a pretreatment in food processing. To an aqueous sodium chlorate solution is added sulfuric acid or an aqueous solution thereof in such an amount and concentration that the pH of the aqueous solution can be kept at 2.3-3.4 to thereby react them and generate chloric acid. Subsequently, hydrogen peroxide is added to the chloric acid in an amount which is equal to or larger than the amount necessary for a reduction reaction to thereby yield chlorous acid. Any one of inorganic acids, inorganic acid salts, organic acids, and organic acid salts, or two or more thereof, or a combination or these is added to the aqueous solution containing chlorous acid yielded, whereby the chlorous and acid can be present for long and the pH of the aqueous solution is regulated to regulated to 3.2-7.0. Thus, high bactericidal power is imparted thereto.

The present invention relates to a film for flip chip type semiconductor back surface to be formed on a back surface of a semiconductor element flip chip-connected to an adherend, the film for flip chip type semiconductor back surface containing an inorganic filler in an amount within a range of 70% by weight to 95% by weight based on the whole of the film for flip chip type semiconductor back surface.