Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a housing, a feeding tray inserted into and pulled out from the housing, an image forming unit, and first and second guide members. The feeding tray includes a first accommodation part in which a roll body having a configuration where a sheet-shaped medium is rolled in a roll shape is accommodated and a second accommodation part in which stacked sheet-shaped media are accommodated. The first guide member guides a sheet-shaped medium to a conveying path. The second guide member guides a roll medium unrolled from the roll body to the conveying path. The second guide member is movable between a guide position for guiding the roll medium to the conveying path, and a retreat position further distant from the first guide member than the guide position and where the second guide member does not interfere with a sheet-shaped medium accommodated in the second accommodation part.

Abstract: The present invention provides a sheet stacking device, a counter-ejector, and a carton former and is provided with: a hopper unit that stacks cardboard boxes; feed rollers that feed a cardboard box to the hopper unit; a first blower device that blows air from above the hopper unit toward the cardboard box fed by the feed rollers; and a second blower device that blows air between the cardboard box stacked in the hopper unit and the cardboard box fed by the feed roller.

Abstract: A speech valve to be connected to a respiration opening of a tracheostomy tube includes: a passage portion communicating with the respiration opening; a balloon disposed within the passage portion, and configured to deform from a shrink state, in which the passage portion is opened, to a bloat state, in which at least a part of the passage portion is closed so as to inhibit discharging of exhaled air through the passage portion; an automatic pump switching between supplying and stopping in accordance with an operation of an operation unit, and continuously supplying air to the balloon when supplying; and a coupling tube connecting the automatic pump and the balloon.

Abstract: An injection instrument set includes a tubular injection instrument in which an injection liquid is contained, and a guide member disposed on a surface of an injection target of the injection liquid. The injection instrument includes an injection needle which is inserted into the injection target to inject the injection liquid into the injection target. The guide member includes a guide passage which is disposed at a predetermined angle with respect to a surface of the guide member which comes into contact with the injection target and which allows the injection needle to be inserted and guides the injection needle onto the surface of the injection target, and an anti-slip portion disposed at a portion at which the guide member comes into contact with the surface of the injection target.

Abstract: A speaking valve which is applied to a respiration opening of a tracheostomy tube comprises: a main body portion which has a passage portion communicating with the respiration opening; a balloon which makes a motion between an opened state for opening the passage portion of the main body portion and a closed state for closing the passage portion; a syringe which is provided away from the main body portion and accepts a pushing operation to a plunger by a patient; and a coupling tube which couples the syringe and the balloon with each other and makes the balloon in a shrink state transform to a bloat state by the operation to the syringe, so that the motion from the opened state to the closed state is made.

Abstract: The present inventors have found that a wafer process of VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) has the following problem, that is, generation of foreign matters due to moisture from a wafer as a result of degassing when a barrier metal film or a first-level metal interconnect layer is formed by sputtering as a preliminary step for the formation of a tungsten plug in a pre-metal step. To overcome the problem, the present invention provides a manufacturing method of a semiconductor integrated circuit device including, in a plasma process, in-situ monitoring of moisture in a processing chamber by receiving an electromagnetic wave generated from plasma.

Abstract: The present inventors have found that a wafer process of VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) has the following problem, that is, generation of foreign matters due to moisture from a wafer as a result of degassing when a barrier metal film or a first-level metal interconnect layer is formed by sputtering as a preliminary step for the formation of a tungsten plug in a pre-metal step. To overcome the problem, the present invention provides a manufacturing method of a semiconductor integrated circuit device including, in a plasma process, in-situ monitoring of moisture in a processing chamber by receiving an electromagnetic wave generated from plasma.

Abstract: In a high-performance semiconductor integrated circuit, the standby current is reduced by preventing current leakage in a semiconductor integrated circuit device, for example, the memory cell of an SRAM. A gate electrode G is formed on semiconductor substrate 1 and n+-type semiconductor regions 17 (source/drain regions) are formed in the semiconductor substrate on both sides of this gate electrode. Within the same apparatus and under near-vacuum conditions, a depth of 2.5 nm or less is etched away from the surfaces of the source/drain regions and gate electrode, a film of Co is then formed on the source/drain regions, and thermal processing is applied to form CoSi2 layer 19a. As a result, current leakage in the memory cell can be prevented and this method can be applied to semiconductor integrated circuit devices that have low current consumption or are battery-driven.

Abstract: To provide a high-performance semiconductor integrated circuit in which the standby current is reduced by preventing current leakage in a semiconductor integrated circuit device, for example, the memory cell of an SRAM.

Abstract: The pressure control valve is structured such that a first port is formed on one side of a casing, a second port is formed on the other side, and, in the casing, there are disposed not only a positive pressure valve which, when the pressure on the first port side becomes high, can be moved to the second port side to thereby communicate with the second port side, but also a negative pressure valve which, when the pressure on the first port side becomes low, can be moved to the first port side to thereby communicate with the second port side. In the pressure control valve, there is provided flow passage expanding means which, which the positive pressure valve has moved to the second port side beyond a given distance, allows the first port side to communicate with the second port side.

Abstract: The pressure control valve is structured such that a first port is formed on one side of a casing, a second port is formed on the other side, and, in the casing, there are disposed not only a positive pressure valve which, when the pressure on the first port side becomes high, can be moved to the second port side to thereby communicate with the second port side, but also a negative pressure valve which, when the pressure on the first port side becomes low, can be moved to the first port side to thereby communicate with the second port side. In the pressure control valve, there is provided flow passage expanding means which, which the positive pressure valve has moved to the second port side beyond a given distance, allows the first port side to communicate with the second port side.

Abstract: The pressure control valve is structured such that a first port is formed on one side of a casing, a second port is formed on the other side, and, in the casing, there are disposed not only a positive pressure valve which, when the pressure on the first port side becomes high, can be moved to the second port side to thereby communicate with the second port side, but also a negative pressure valve which, when the pressure on the first port side becomes low, can be moved to the first port side to thereby communicate with the second port side. In the pressure control valve, there is provided flow passage expanding means which, which the positive pressure valve has moved to the second port side beyond a given distance, allows the first port side to communicate with the second port side.