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It is an object of the present invention to provide a charged particle beam extraction method and particle beam irradiation system that make it possible to exercise intensity control over an extracted ion beam while a simple device configuration is employed. To accomplish the above object, there is provided a particle beam irradiation system comprising: a synchrotron for accelerating and extracting an charged particle beam; an irradiation apparatus for extracting the charged particle beam that is extracted from the synchrotron; first beam intensity modulation means for controlling the beam intensity of the charged particle beam extracted from the synchrotron during an extraction control period of an operation cycle of the synchrotron; and second beam intensity modulation means for controlling the beam intensity during each of a plurality of irradiation periods contained in the extraction control period of the operation cycle.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a charged particle beam extraction method and particle beam irradiation system that make it possible to exercise intensity control over an extracted ion beam while a simple device configuration is employed. To accomplish the above object, there is provided a particle beam irradiation system comprising: a synchrotron for accelerating and extracting an charged particle beam; an irradiation apparatus for extracting the charged particle beam that is extracted from the synchrotron; first beam intensity modulation means for controlling the beam intensity of the charged particle beam extracted from the synchrotron during an extraction control period of an operation cycle of the synchrotron; and second beam intensity modulation means for controlling the beam intensity during each of a plurality of irradiation periods contained in the extraction control period of the operation cycle.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a charged particle beam extraction method and particle beam irradiation system that make it possible to exercise intensity control over an extracted ion beam while a simple device configuration is employed. To accomplish the above object, there is provided a particle beam irradiation system comprising: a synchrotron for accelerating and extracting an charged particle beam; an irradiation apparatus for extracting the charged particle beam that is extracted from the synchrotron; first beam intensity modulation means for controlling the beam intensity of the charged particle beam extracted from the synchrotron during an extraction control period of an operation cycle of the synchrotron; and second beam intensity modulation means for controlling the beam intensity during each of a plurality of irradiation periods contained in the extraction control period of the operation cycle.

A liquid crystal panel with built-in sensors 11 includes, in a pixel array 17, a plurality of pixel circuits 1 and a plurality of optical sensors 2 which are arranged two-dimensionally. Infrared light transmitting filters 3 that allow infrared light to pass therethrough and cut off visible light are respectively provided in paths of light entering the optical sensors 2. Accordingly, an image obtained by the optical sensors 2 is prevented from being influenced by visible light included in outside light or backlight light and thus a touch position is detected with high accuracy, based on an image that is not influenced by visible light included in a large amount in outside light or backlight light. Instead of the infrared light transmitting filters 3, a light-shielding film having the same property 3 may be used.

A cooling water circulation system (100) is configured so that cooling water is delivered from a water pump (113) toward a cylinder head (111) via a pump delivery pipe (114). Further, the system (100) is configured so that an engine block cooling switching section (170) changes the supply of the cooling water from the cylinder head (111) to a cylinder block (112) in accordance with a cooling water temperature. An EGR cooler branch pipe (151), which branches off from the pump delivery pipe (114), is connected to an EGR cooler (150). The EGR cooler branch pipe (151) is provided with an EGR cooler cooling switching valve (153) that opens or closes in accordance with an operating state.

A fuel vapor control device include a fuel tank for storing fuel, a canister for adsorbing fuel vapor produced in the fuel tank, and an evaporation path communicating between the fuel tank and the canister. The tank has a resiliently deformable wall portion that can resiliently deform in response to an amount of the fuel vapor in the fuel tank, so that volume of the fuel tank can be varied. A pressure regulating valve can perform a relief function for opening the evaporation path during the expansion of volume of the fuel tank to a set volume. The pressure regulating valve closes the evaporation path if pressure inside the fuel tank is lower than the set value. On the other hand, the pressure regulating valve opens the evaporation path if the pressure inside the fuel tank is equal to or higher than the set value.

A vehicle gas contamination amount measure equipment and method relates to gas diluted flux measure part and originality gas concentration measure part. The former relates to diluted tube connecting fan engine and its exhaust pipe having vortex flow meter which having temperature sensor, pressure sensor and zirconia sensor. The latter relates to sampling tube and gas analysis meter which connecting with the tube, and separator for gas and water, condenser, filter, electromagnetic valve and sampling pump. It measures the flux of the gas, temperature, pressure, concentration of oxygen and the concentration of the each contamination to the originality gas and accounts all of them. The equipment and method can measure the contamination of gas at real time and greatly predigest the station and cost to be used for the gas let test.

To provide a hand-held power tool which is equipped with a motor and can be used in a normal driving mode for a tip end tool and also in driving modes other than the normal driving mode. A power tool in which a tip end tool is driven by a motor to thereby perform a predetermined machining process on a workpiece, wherein the motor is a dual rotor motor comprising: an inner rotor; an outer rotor; and a stator including a driving coil mechanism, with the inner rotor and the outer rotor being coaxially disposed.

A miniature linear motor driving device for lens focusing is disclosed. Said driving device comprises a holder, at least a driving coil, and at least a magnetic guide rail. The holder is disposed with at least a guide hole and can be used to accommodate the lens unit. The driving coil is wound around the periphery of guide hole. The magnetic guide rail is secured through the guide hole and formed with a first polarity and a second polarity opposing each other at each end. The holder engages in linear displacement along the magnetic guide rail. A predetermined magnetic force is generated by supplying current to said driving coil, which interacts with the polarities at both ends of magnetic guide rail to push the holder to move linearly along the magnetic guide rail.

Disclosed is a steam oven to cook food in a cooking chamber by use of steam. More particularly, disclosed is a steam generator of a steam oven, which can simplify the configuration of a device required to generate steam and is detachably attached to a cabinet to assure easy cleaning and washing thereof. The steam generator includes a single body having an inner space divided into a water supply compartment and a boiler compartment by a partition, the water supply compartment having a water pouring hole, and the boiler compartment having a heater and a steam discharge hole. Also, a water supply passage is defined between the water supply compartment and the boiler compartment. This configuration has the effects of achieving improved workability and reduced manufacturing costs of the steam generator and also, of overcoming a limit in the inner volume of a cooking chamber of the steam oven.

Measurement of blood flow rate in a convenient manner has been enabled by using a simple device constitution and a simple signal processing technique. A measurement mechanism having both the function of measuring temperature of the measurement site and the function of applying a thermal load to the measurement site is used, and a process of extracting temperature change associated with the recovery of the surface temperature by the blood flow is conducted from the measurement results obtained by the measurement mechanism.

An image processing device includes a filtering unit which filters an input image with variable frequency characteristics, an edge detection unit which detects magnitudes of edges appearing in the input image, and a degree-of-white-background-likeliness detection unit which detects degrees of white-background likeliness in respect of local areas of the input image, wherein the filtering unit changes the variable frequency characteristics in response to the magnitudes of edges and to the degrees of white-background likeliness.

There is provided a display device which quenches ambient light by using only an optical interference effect without additionally using an optical filter such as a color filter, and can provide good visibility out of doors in the daylight. The display device includes a plurality of organic EL elements each having a light extraction electrode, a reflective electrode, and a plurality of organic compound layers disposed between the electrodes, wherein the plurality of organic EL elements include at least organic EL elements which emit a red light, a green light, and a blue light, respectively; a layer comprised of a material having anomalous dispersion is disposed at a location which is on a light extraction side with respect to the reflective electrode in each of the plurality of organic EL elements; and an ambient light reflectance of the display device shows a minimal in a region of 535 nm or more and 575 nm or less.

A cooling water circulation system (100) is configured so that cooling water is delivered from a water pump (113) toward a cylinder head (111) via a pump delivery pipe (114). Further, the system (100) is configured so that an engine block cooling switching section (170) changes the supply of the cooling water from the cylinder head (111) to a cylinder block (112) in accordance with a cooling water temperature. An EGR cooler branch pipe (151), which branches off from the pump delivery pipe (114), is connected to an EGR cooler (150). The EGR cooler branch pipe (151) is provided with an EGR cooler cooling switching valve (153) that opens or closes in accordance with an operating state.

The liquid crystal display device with a simple configuration is capable of emitting light with a desired color temperature, achieving high light use efficiency, and displaying high quality images. The liquid crystal display device includes a planar lighting device and a liquid crystal display panel. The planar lighting device includes a light source having LED chips for emitting blue light, a transparent light guide plate having a light entrance plane admitting light emitted by the light source and a light exit plane emitting planar light, and a fluorescent member disposed between the light emission plane and the light entrance plane and having one or more fluorescent substance coated areas for emitting white light by converting blue light from the light source into white light and one or more blue light passing areas passing blue light as blue light. The liquid crystal display panel essentially includes red, green and blue filters.

The present invention provides a sliding door opening / closing device for a vehicle that applies a sufficient opening / closing drive force to the left and right sliding doors and reduces a force necessary to lock and unlock the latch, despite a simple configuration of the device, and that facilitates the manufacturing process, improves operability and safety, and reduces noise. A lock device, against both sides of which locking portions abut, rotates a columnar permanent magnet so as to form magnetic locking circuits and fixes the locking portions by magnetic forces of the locking magnetic circuits. The rotational operation of the columnar permanent magnet is converted into the downward operation of a latch, and the lowered latch restrains the locking portions with respect to the lock device.

The invention discloses a microvia-superfilling copper plating technology. The microvia-superfilling copper plating technology comprises the following steps of a, carrying out activation treatment on a blind hole plate to be plated in a dilute sulphuric acid solution for 1-10min, carrying out water washing and drying, vertically fixing the blind hole plate to be plated to the middle of a Hull cell having the volume of 1500mL, and putting phosphor-containing copper plates as anodes having phosphor content of 0.04-0.065% at two ends of the cell, b, preparing a plating solution, c, switching on a power supply, carrying out electroplating at current density of 0.5-2ASD for 5-30min, increasing current density to 0.5-4ASD, carrying out electroplating for 10-20min, wherein the whole electroplating process is finished in a static state, then switching off the power supply, taking out the blind hole plate as a cathode, flushing the blind hole plate by distilled water, and blow-drying the blind hole plate by cold air to obtain a sample. Under the condition of absolutely no forced convection of the plating solution, the microvia-superfilling copper plating technology does not increase surface copper thickness and guarantees a high microvia-filling rate of the blind hole device.

An automatic analysis device 1a includes: an intermediate disk (intermediate unit) 20 on which a disposable container (intermediate container) 21 for carrying out a pretreatment by pretreatment liquid for a sample dispensed from a sample container 11 or a reaction with a reagent is arranged; a reaction disk (main analysis unit) 60 for carrying out a test of an item having a relatively large number of test requests, on which a reaction vessel 61 for carrying out a reaction of a reagent with the sample obtained after the pretreatment is arranged; and flow-based analysis mechanisms (sub analysis units) 30a to 30c for carrying out a test for the sample obtained after the reaction with the reagent in the disposable container 21, which is the item having a relatively small number of test requests.

It is possible to provide a device and a method for combusting particulate substances which particulate matters discharged from an internal combustion engine can be effectively combusted, and the device configuration is simple and does not become large and heavy. The combustion device has: an introduction portion 8 used to introduce a particulate matter-containing gas 5 discharged from the exhaust port of an internal combustion engine; a charging unit 11 which is provided on the downstream side of the introduction portion 8, and in which all or part of the particulate matters 6′ are e negatively charged by bringing the particulate matter-containing gas into contact with; an electric discharge unit 15 which is provided in an insulation pipe 100 which is connected to the downstream side of the charging unit 11, and in which the particulate matters 6′, all or part of which are negatively charged, are introduced into a silent discharge area A1 and are combusted with an increased retention time, the silent discharge area being generated between an anode and a cathode; a discharge portion 9 which is connected to the insulation pipe 100 at the downstream side of the electric discharge unit and which discharges the combusted gas; and a power source unit which applies an electric field to the charging unit and the electric discharge unit.

When light is made incident into antenna layers 11a, 11b, and 11c of a photodetector 1, specific wavelength components of light contained in the incident light combine with surface plasmons of the antenna layers 11a, 11b, and 11c, and surface plasmon resonance occurs. Thereby, near-field lights are outputted from through-holes 13 of the antenna layers 11a, 11b, and 11c. The near-field light outputted from each through-hole 13 reaches a light absorbing layer 4 via light receiving surfaces 4a, 4b, and 4c. The light absorbing layer 4 generates a charge of an amount according to the amount of received light. Since cycle intervals Λa, Λb, and Λc of convex portions 12 in the antenna layers 11a, 11b, and 11c are different from each other, the wavelength component of light that combines with a surface plasmon differs in each of the antenna layers 11a, 11b, and 11c. Consequently, a plurality of wavelength components of light can be detected.

A quantum cryptography transmission system according to the present invention comprises a transmission device (10A), a reception device (20A), and a transmission path (30) configured to connect between the devices. The transmission device includes a light emitting unit (11) configured to emit photons serving as quantum bit information carriers, and a transmission-side optical circuit (12A). The reception device includes a light receiving unit (21) configured to detect photons serving as quantum bit information carriers, and a reception-side optical circuit (22A). Each of the transmission-side optical circuit (12A) and reception-side optical circuit (22A) is an optical circuit which is configured of an unbalanced Mach-Zehnder interferometer (123; 223) including an optical delay circuit (123-1; 223-1) in one arm thereof, and two transmission-side 3-dB couplers (126; 226) and (127; 227) to be connected to the two arms of the unbalanced Mach-Zehnder interferometer (123; 223), respectively.

Provided is an inspection robot that is self-propelled on piping, measures moisture contained in a lagging material using a mounted inspection device, for example, a neutron moisture meter, and detects risk of corrosion. The inspection robot includes a main frame 1 including a recessed part 17 fit onto an outer circumferential surface of piping P, a main frame drive mechanism (first drive mechanism) D1 that causes the main frame to advance / retract in an axis direction of the piping, a revolving member 32 supported in an advanceable / retractable manner along an arc-shaped locus in the recessed part of the main frame, a revolving member drive mechanism (second drive mechanism) D2 that moves the revolving member, and an inspection device mounted on the revolving member.

A method and device for sealing gas in a gas compartment-equipped bag, in which pressurized gas discharge outlets (47, 52) are provided in the distal ends of a horn (31) and an anvil (32) of an ultrasonic sealing device, and such horn and anvil used for ultrasonic sealing are also used as gas-discharging nozzles. The distal ends of the horn and the anvil are placed against a cutout (19) of a gas compartment (16) of a bag, a gas is discharged into the gas compartment from the discharge outlets, the films surrounding the cutout are being clamped by the horn and the anvil while gas discharging is in progress, and then the gas compartment is ultrasonically sealed by the horn and the anvil to trap the gas inside.

A scanning charged particle microscope which facilitates adjustment, has a deep focal depth, and is provided with an aberration correction means. The state of aberration correction is judged from a SEM image by using a stop having plural openings and the judgment result is fed back to the adjustment of the aberration correction means. A stop of a nearly orbicular zone shape is used in combination with the aberration correction means.

A technique is described allowing an IMS enabled network to terminate a communication request directed towards a user device in a well-defined way, even for cases in which multiple registrations for IMS are present that are related to the same physical user device. A method embodiment of this technique comprises registering multiple user agents for one and the same user device, wherein from each user agent contact information including a device ID identifying the user device is provided; and processing a communication request directed towards the user device, the processing comprising identifying multiple identical device IDs of registered contacts, and treating the communication request according to a predetermined handling scheme related to the detection of identical device IDs.

An image processing device includes a filtering unit which filters an input image with variable frequency characteristics, an edge detection unit which detects magnitudes of edges appearing in the input image, and a degree-of-white-background-likeliness detection unit which detects degrees of white-background likeliness in respect of local areas of the input image, wherein the filtering unit changes the variable frequency characteristics in response to the magnitudes of edges and to the degrees of white-background likeliness.

A hydrostatic continuously variable transmission includes a hydraulic pump and a hydraulic motor, supported by a common support shaft, and hydraulically connectable to each other through a hydraulic circuit including an inside passage and an outside passage. A clutch device includes a valve spool, which is slidably disposed in a hollow internal bore formed in the transmission support shaft. The valve spool is operable to make or interrupt fluid communication between the inside passage and the outside passage, according to the movement thereof. A governor mechanism is mounted to a pump casing of the hydraulic pump, and the governor mechanism generates a governor force corresponding to the rotating speed of a clutch cap, by use of centrifugal force generated by the rotation thereof. The valve spool is effectively moved in the hollow internal bore, using the governor force generated from the governor mechanism, to engage or disengage the clutch.

The present invention is aimed to simplify a configuration of a device and to reduce installation and running cost. A carriage is driven on a curved potions 31a, 32a of an oval-shaped endless moving path 5 under a guide of rails 31, 32. The carriage positioned on the ground side is engaged with a carrier 37 driven along the curved portions 31a, 32a. The carriage is towed over the entire length of the curved portion by the carrier 37.