Abstract: Since the pulse currents supplied to a pair of heating resistors can be controlled at once based on a color signal from a color tone detector, the discharge angle of ink droplets can be easily adjusted to an angle that provides a predetermined color tone.

Abstract: A unit element of a magnetic device or a ferroelectric device and magnetic particles of a magnetic recording medium are provided. The outline of the unit element and the magnetic particles is arranged so as to have a portion topologically identical to one of a letter-C shape and a letter-S shape that correspond to the magnetization or polarization distribution immediately before the rotation of magnetization or polarization.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to suppress a picture defect such as a vertical streak, a ghost or the like on an active matrix display apparatus of a divided sample and hold type. A horizontal driving circuit (17) sequentially generates sampling pulses of which sampling pulses supplied to sampling switches (23) connected to an identical video line (25) do not overlap each other and sampling pulses supplied to adjacent sampling switches (23) overlap each other, and drives the switches, whereby a video signal is sequentially written to pixels (11). A clock generating circuit (18) generates a clock signal HCK serving as a basis for operation of the horizontal driving circuit (17), and a clock signal 2HCK having twice a cycle of the clock signal HCK and twice a pulse width of the clock signal HCK.

Abstract: In a photographic apparatus (1), there are included a housing (11) consisting of a pair of side panels (13, 14) and a top panel (15) provided contiguously to the side panels (13, 14) in pair, these panels defining together a photo compartment (16) in the housing (11), a photographic unit (17) provided at the rear side of the housing (11) to take a picture of an object person inside the photo compartment (16), printers (18, 19) installed to the housing (11) to print an image of the object person, captured by the photographic unit (17), onto a photographic paper and eject the photographic paper having the object image printed thereon to a photo outlet (38), and a curtain (33) provided, by hanging, on the top panel (15) at the front side, opposite to the rear side, of the housing (11) to face the photographic unit (17). One (13) of the side panels (13, 14) is formed narrower than the other (14). The housing (11) is generally flush, at the bottom thereof, with the floor surface.

Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus has liquid chambers and nozzles that discharge droplets of liquids contained in the liquid chambers through liquid channels. The liquid discharge apparatus includes a substrate provided with partitions on one face thereof, the liquid chambers and the liquid channels being defined between the partitions. The liquid discharge apparatus further includes a nozzle sheet provided with adhesion-improving layers at least at positions corresponding to the top faces of the partitions and the nozzles for discharging liquid, the nozzle sheet and the top faces of the respective partitions being bonded to each other with the adhesion-improving layers. The liquid discharge apparatus also includes driving elements provided on the face of the substrate at positions corresponding to the liquid chambers, for changing the pressure of the liquid chambers. The liquid discharge apparatus is used as a printer head for ink jet printing.

Abstract: A CAN package light emitting device comprises a semiconductor laser 1 bonded on a sub mount 6 and a CAN package 2 for housing the semiconductor laser 1 bonded on the sub mount 6. The CAN package 2 comprises a fixing structure 3 for fixing the semiconductor laser at a predetermined position, and a cap 4 covering the semiconductor laser 1 fixed to the fixing structure 3. Vapor pressure of Si organic compound gas in the CAN package 2 is limited to or below 5.4×102 N/m2 to prevent any deposit as thick as inviting characteristics deterioration from being formed on the light emitting portion of the semiconductor laser 1 within the guaranteed time of its proper operation.

Abstract: To provide an exposure method and an exposure apparatus, using a complementary divided mask, designed to enable alignment of a complementary divided mask at a high precision over the entire region of a semiconductor wafer. Further, to provide a semiconductor device fabricated by the exposure method and a method of producing a semiconductor device using the exposure method.

Abstract: A top-emitting display unit is fabricated by the following steps: A lower electrode is formed on a substrate. An organic layer including a luminescent sublayer is formed on the lower electrode. Furthermore, an upper electrode containing lithium is formed by a sputtering process into a thickness of 7 nm to 21 nm. The upper electrode functions as a cathode. The lithium content in the upper electrode is in the range of 0.3 to 1.9 percent by weight. In the sputtering process, the upper electrode is preferably formed at a deposition rate of 50 nm/min or less.

Abstract: A liquid discharging head includes a plurality of liquid discharging units and a common flow path. The liquid discharging units include ink chambers for containing liquid to be discharged, heating elements disposed in the ink chambers for applying discharge force to the liquid, and a nozzle sheet having nozzles for discharging the liquid in the ink chambers. The common flow path supplies the liquid to the liquid discharging units. The liquid discharging units face the same direction in relation to the common flow path, and the nozzles of the liquid discharging units arc disposed at a predetermined pitch. Adjacent nozzles are separated by a predetermined interval in a direction perpendicular to a direction or arrangement of the nozzles.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to an image display apparatus comprising an illumination optical system (2) for illuminating a light valve (1) including a reflection electrode, and a projection lens (3) for forming an image of the light valve (1), wherein reflection plane surface (4) is disposed between the illumination optical system (2) and the light value (1) to bent, by the reflection plane surface (4), an optical path of illumination light extending from the illumination optical system (2) to the light valve (1).

Abstract: A polishing method for electropolishing a metal film formed on a wafer surface so as to fill concave portions formed on the wafer surface comprises a step of determining an electropolishing end point of the metal film on the basis of a change of a current waveform resulting from electropolishing the metal film. An electropolishing apparatus comprising a current detector for detecting a current waveform resulting from electropolishing a metal film and an end point determination part for determining an electropolishing end point of the metal film on the basis of the change of a current detected with the current detector is used to realize the polishing method.

Abstract: On a liquid discharge head including an ink discharge surface (6) having rows of ink discharge holes (13) each for discharging different colors of ink, a cleaning roller (7) formed of a cylindrical elastic material touching the ink discharge surface (6) is moved relative to the ink discharge surface (6). This movement causes the pressure inside the ink discharge holes (13) to change and, as a result, the ink (15) inside the ink discharge holes (13) is absorbed. In this way, a ink discharge head, a method for cleaning thereof, and a ink discharge apparatus that do not damage the ink discharge surface (6) with the ink discharge holes (13) and that have improved effectiveness of cleaning the vicinity of the ink discharge holes (13) are provided.

Abstract: A semiconductor device comprising: a first insulating film formed on a semiconductor substrate; a semiconductor layer at least a part of which is formed on the first insulating film; a second insulating film comprising a non-doped silicon oxide film and formed on the semiconductor layer; a third insulating film comprising a silicon oxide film containing at least phosphorus formed on the second insulating film; and a fourth insulating film comprising a non-doped silicon oxide film formed on the third insulating film.

Abstract: In a magnetic recording system applied to a magnetic recording medium having a magnetic layer composed of a metal magnetic thin film, the error rate of the magnetic recording medium can be reduced by selecting an isolated reproducing waveform half-width less than the shortest recording wavelength to be used.

Abstract: A connector is disclosed into and from which a memory card can be inserted and removed with certainty. A slider is assembled in a slider accommodating chamber of a case body for movement among a leading end position, an intermediate position and a trailing end position. A memory card is inserted into the slider positioned at the leading end position and further pushed in to the trailing end position. Then, when the memory card is released, the slider moves to the intermediate position, at which contacts of the memory card are electrically connected to connection terminals of the connector. Then, when the memory card is pushed in, the slider is moved from the intermediate position to the trailing end position, and when the memory card is released, the slider is moved to the leading end position so as to be taken out.

Abstract: A mask for photolithography in which a semi-transmission film is formed so that the phase difference of lights passing through a semi-transmission portion and a transmission portion of the mask for photolithography is between (?¼+2 m).? and (¼+2 m).? inclusive, where m is an integer. The invention makes it possible to efficiently and properly form a thin film having a multi-step structure by a single process.

Abstract: In a method and an apparatus for ejecting liquid, the processing accuracy of an ejection unit for ejecting ink can be easily increased and the variations in the volume of ink drops, the ejection angle thereof, etc., can be reduced even when dust is mixed in ink. In addition, a reduction in an ink-supply speed at which ink is supplied to an ink ejection unit can be prevented. An ink ejection apparatus includes a plurality of heating units (13) provided on a base member (11), ink cells for pressurizing ink with energy generated by the heating units (13), and nozzles (17) having ejection holes for ejecting the ink which is pressurized in the ink cells. Each of the nozzles (17) is disposed above each of the heating units (13).

Abstract: The present invention provides a display apparatus including a pixel array unit, a vertical driving circuit, and a horizontal driving circuit. The horizontal driving circuit includes a shift register for performing shift operation in synchronism with the clock signal and sequentially outputting shift pulses from respective shift stages, a shaping switch group for shaping the shift pulses sequentially outputted from the shift register and sequentially outputting non-overlap sampling pulses temporally separated from each other, and a sampling switch group for sequentially sampling the input video signal in a non-overlapping manner in response to the sampling pulses and supplying the sampled video signal to each of the signal lines.

Abstract: A magnetic material having a structure of a material having a ferromagnetic phase at ordinary temperature as a core and a material having an antiferromagnetic phase at ordinary temperature surrounding the periphery of the core in the form of a shell, wherein a ratio between a volume of the ferromagnetic phase material and the volume of the antiferromagnetic phase material in the magnetic material is in a range where no exchange biasing field of the magnetic material appears and a rotational hysteresis loss of the magnetic material is made the maximum, a method of producing the same, and a magnetic recording medium using the same.

Abstract: The present invention is designed to provide a secondary battery accommodation case with improved exterior surface having no parting line in two or more exterior faces out of four exterior faces encircling the battery accommodation portion. It comprises a substantially rectangular bottom case 11 having a battery accommodation portion 18 for accommodating secondary batteries 13 and a top case 12 to be assembled with the bottom case 11 for closing the battery accommodation portion 18. In the assembled condition of the top case 12 and the bottom case 11, the exterior face of the top case 12 closing the secondary battery accommodation portion 18 is made equal to or lower than two or more open edges 15a˜15d out of four exterior faces 11b˜11e encircling the battery accommodation portion 18 in the bottom case 11.