Abstract: An acceleration sensor includes: a semiconductor substrate including a support layer and a semiconductor layer, which are stacked in a first direction; a movable electrode and a fixed electrode; and a trench. The movable electrode separately faces the fixed electrode by sandwiching the trench along with a second direction. The trench has a detection distance in the second direction. The movable electrode is movable along with the first direction when acceleration is applied. The movable electrode has a bottom apart from the support layer. The width of the movable electrode along with the second direction is smaller than the width of the fixed electrode. The thickness of the movable electrode along with the first direction is smaller than the thickness of the fixed electrode.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor physical quantity sensor including a support substrate, a movable electrode, a fixed electrode is provided. The method includes the steps of: preparing a multi-layered substrate; forming a compression stress layer on a part of a surface of the semiconductor layer; forming a trench in the semiconductor layer; and releasing the movable electrode from the substrate by removing the insulation film. In the step of releasing, the part of the semiconductor layer, on which the compression stress layer is disposed, is cambered by the compression stress toward a direction apart from the substrate.

Abstract: A method for positioning a dicing line includes the steps of: bonding an adhesive tape on a semiconductor layer of a wafer; detecting an image of the wafer by an imaging device on the basis of a light transmitted through the wafer; and determining the dicing line of the wafer on the basis of a position of an image of a marker, which is disposed on the semiconductor layer of the wafer. The image of the marker is obtained by image recognition from the detected image of the wafer.

Abstract: A semiconductor physical quantity sensor includes: a substrate; a semiconductor layer supported on the substrate; a trench disposed in the semiconductor layer; and a movable portion disposed in the semiconductor layer and separated from the substrate by the trench. The movable portion includes a plurality of through-holes, each of which penetrates the semiconductor layer in a thickness direction. The movable portion is capable of displacing on the basis of a physical quantity applied to the movable portion so that the physical quantity is detected by a displacement of the movable portion. The movable portion has a junction disposed among the through-holes. The junction has a trifurcate shape.

Abstract: A stretch fabric material having an elongation of at least 20% in the warp direction is provided with both of the stretchability and the stiffness, which is composed of a Raschel warp knit fabric formed of non-stretchable fiber yarns having no rubbery elasticity, wherein loops of tuck warp are engaged with loops of a ground fabric structure. Since the stretch knit fabric material of the invention exhibits a gentle tightening force when covering or bandaging a human body, it is suitably used for a medical material for covering or bandaging a human body having curved or irregular portions, a reinforcement material for a molded object having curved or irregular figure or portions, a stretchable bandage, a casting tape or a splint for orthopedic surgery use.

Abstract: A positive tone radiation-sensitive resin composition comprising (A) a 1-substituted imidazole, (B) a photoacid generator, and (C-a) a resin protected by an acid-dissociable group, insoluble or scarcely soluble in alkali, but becoming soluble in alkali when the acid-dissociable group dissociates or (C-b) an alkali-soluble resin and an alkali solubility controller, and a negative tone radiation-sensitive resin composition comprising (A), (B), (D) an alkali-soluble resin, and (E) a compound that can crosslink the alkali-soluble resin in the presence of an acid. The radiation-sensitive resin composition of the present invention is a chemically amplified resist exhibiting high resolution and high storage stability as a composition, and suitable for microfabrication sensible to active radiations, for example, ultraviolet rays such as g-lines and i-lines, deep ultraviolet rays represented by a KrF excimer laser, ArF excimer laser, F2 excimer laser, and EUV excimer laser, and electron beams.

Abstract: A stretch fabric material having an elongation of at least 20% in the warp direction is provided with both of the stretchability and the stiffness, which is composed of a Raschel warp knit fabric formed of non-stretchable fiber yarns having no rubbery elasticity, wherein loops of tuck warp are engaged with loops of a ground fabric structure. Since the stretch knit fabric material of the invention exhibits a gentle tightening force when covering or bandaging a human body, it is suitably used for a medical material for covering or bandaging a human body having curved or irregular portions, a reinforcement material for a molded object having curved or irregular figure or portions, a stretchable bandage, a casting tape or a splint for orthopedic surgery use.

Abstract: The invention relates to a one-axis starter apparatus which can eliminate the use of a one-way rotation clutch and simplify the machining of the motor shaft, wherein while the first male helical spline is provided at the tip end of the motor shaft, the inner member is externally provided at the tip end portion of the corresponding motor shaft via the first female helical spline. The second male helical spline is provided in the screwing direction opposite to the first male and female helical splines, respectively, on the outer circumferential surface of the inner member, whereas the outer member, having a pinion gear formed thereon via the second female helical spline, is externally fitted to the corresponding inner member, and a pressing mechanism which presses the outer member toward the tip end o the starter apparatus intervenes between the corresponding outer member and the inner member.

Abstract: In the method for manufacturing a semiconductor substrate, a concavity and a connecting hole for connecting the concavity to the outside are formed on a lower face side of a first substrate, and the first substrate is laminated with a second substrate in an atmosphere at atmospheric pressure. A diaphragm is formed by thinning the first substrate from its upper face by polishing. A sealing hole reaching to the connecting hole is formed from the upper face of the first substrate. An oxide film is formed in the sealing hole in a vacuum, whereby the connecting hole is sealed while the pressure of the pressure reference chamber is reduced to a vacuum. In this way, since the pressure reference chamber is pressure-reduced in a final stage, the diaphragm can be prevented from deforming due to pressure difference during polishing.

Abstract: A pair of signal voltages outputted from a bridge circuit composed of plural strain gauges are linearly amplified individually by a pair of amplifiers, whereupon a difference between the pair of signal voltages is detected. The pair of amplifiers are formed respectively in regions that are symmetrical with each other on a chip. As a result, variations in the output characteristics between the amplifiers are decreased.

Abstract: A sunlight sensor is provided which detects sunlight by means of a semiconductor device and achieves the desired elevation angle characteristics. The sunlight sensor is implemented as a semiconductor device having p+ layers 10 and 11 as a light-responsive section and an n+ or n layer 9 as a light-nonresponsive section, and additionally having a light-detection element 2 which outputs a detection signal responsive to the amount of light received by the p+ layers 10 and 11. A light-transparent molding 4 is provided at least over the light-detection element 2, and additionally a light-cutoff mask 5 is provided on the transparent molding 4. The relative positions of the light-cutoff mask, the p+ layers 10 and 11, and the n+ or n layer 9 are then established.

Abstract: An inorganic nonaqueous electrolytic solution cell containing an oxyhalide which is in a liquid state at room temperature as a positive electrode active material, and a solvent of an electrolytic solution and an alkali metal as a negative electrode active material, in which the electrolytic solution contains a tertiary or quaternary organic silane compound, and a Lewis acid is dissolved in the electrolytic solution in an amount larger than a stoichiometric equivalent of a Lewis base which comprises a halide of an alkali metal present in the electrolytic solution.

Abstract: A flat disc type sealed battery comprises a battery vessel having a bottom wall with an electrolyte charging opening formed in the central portion thereof, and a battery lid member for covering the upper opening of the battery vessel. Power generating components are enclosed by sealing the battery vessel battery lid member, and a first sealing member is provided for sealing the electrolyte charging opening after the electrolyte is charged into the battery vessel, and a second sealing member is provided for covering the aperture in the side of the lower edge portion of the electrolyte charging opening. The outer peripheral portion of the second sealing member is welded to the bottom wall of the battery vessel to perfectly seal the battery vessel.

Abstract: In a non-aqueous electrochemical battery, there are formed a plurality of grooves with thinned bottom portion on the bottom of the battery container. The grooves are intersected at least at one point and the bottom of the grooves are made flat so that the explosion-proof arrangement is operable for a desired inner pressure of the battery.

Abstract: An electrochromic display device which comprises a display electrode comprising a transparent substrate, a transparent electrode formed on an inner surface of the transparent substrate and an electrochromic material layer for display made of tungsten oxide and formed on the transparent electrode; a counter electrode comprising a substrate, a conductive layer formed on an inner surface of the substrate and an activated carbon fiber material; and a spacer provided between the display electrode and the counter electrode with their inner surfaces facing each other to define, between them, an electrolyte chamber, which is filled with an electrolyte comprising a lithium salt and at least one of the tertiary alkyl ammonium salts and quarternary alkyl ammonium slats dissolved in a non-aqueous medium containing a small amount of water, which device has increased original injected charge which can last for a long time.

Abstract: An electrical double layer capacitor containing at least one electrical double layer unit which comprises a pair of electrodes separated by a separator and positioned between a pair of collecting plates with an insulating ring being provided with around the periphery of the electrodes, wherein the electrode comprises active carbon fiber fabric carrying active carbon powder thereon, which has stable capacitance and longer discharging time due to small internal resistance.

Abstract: A leak-proof alkaline cell comprising a positive can, a negative cap having a turned-up portion, said cap being fitted at the open end of the positive can and a gasket provided between the positive can and the negative cap, the rim of the positive can being crimped inwardly so as to press the gasket to the negative cap, the negative cap being made of a metal plate laminated with a copper layer which is adapted to be contacted with a negative electrode active material mix and the copper layer also extending to the outer surface of the negative cap facing the gasket, characterized in that the copper layer is eliminated at the ultimate terminal edge of the turned-up portion.

Abstract: A leak-proof alkaline cell comprising a negative electrode collector and a gasket, characterized in that the negative electrode collector is coated with a film comprising a triazole compound at least at the part faced to the gasket.

Abstract: Acicular ferromagnetic metal particles having a particle size of 0.1 to 1 .mu.m and a dimension of crystallite-size of not more than about 215 A in the effective thickness of the crystallite in the direction perpendicular to the reflecting plane (110), which have a high coercive force, preferably not less than 1,400 oersteds and are useful for a high-density magnetic recording tape, video mother tape, or permanent magnet material, and a method for the preparation of the ferromagnetic metal particles comprising reducing with heating goethite particles which are prepared by treating a ferrous salt with a large amount of a basic agent, particularly an alkali metal hydroxide.