Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a sample repairing apparatus, a sample repairing method and a device manufacturing method using the same method, which can reduce an edge roughness in a repaired pattern and also can provide the repairing of a sample by applying an electron beam-assisted etching or an electron beam-assisted deposition. There is provided a sample repairing method comprising: (a) a step of focussing an electron beam by an objective lens to irradiate a sample: (b) a step of supplying a reactive gas onto an electron beam irradiated surface of said sample: (c) a step of selectively scanning a pattern to be repaired on said sample with the electron beam so as to repair said pattern by applying an etching or a deposition; and (d) a step of providing a continuous exhausting operation by means of a differential exhaust system arranged in said objective lens so as to prevent the reactive gas supplied onto said electron beam irradiated surface from flowing toward an electron gun side.

Abstract: In a slot format of a received signal, AGC gain update timings (t1 to t4) are shifted every time to disperse and reduce an influence of a noise attributable to a direct current component specific to direct conversion which is accompanied by AGC gain update. In particular, in the case where each of slots in the received signal includes an information portion (data) having a larger code correcting capability and an information portion having a smaller code correcting capability (TPC (transmission power control), TFCI (transport format combination indicator), PILOT), the AGC gain update timing is generated while being shifted in the former information portion, thereby reduce the influence of the noise. When the amount of shift of the AGC gain update timing is set to be larger than that of one symbol of the received signal, the influence of the noise accompanied by the AGC gain update is further reduced.

Abstract: When a radio communication terminal including an AGC receiver starts, a set gain of the AGC receiver is switched in a short updating period. At this time, the terminal switches among antennas, and calculates and stores a received power of a received radio signal through each antennal. This calculation is performed a predetermined number of times for each antenna. After that, the terminal compares the calculated received powers of the radio signal through each antenna, and fixedly uses, as a receiving antenna, one of the antennas which receives a signal with the largest power.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method that permits a seed crystal to be directed to a precise location of a melt for growing a ribbon-shaped crystal, but after the crystal has commenced growing, the ribbon-shaped crystal is continuously pulled up so as to produce a longitudinally extending crystal using a continuous pulling device. The method for producing a ribbon-shaped crystal includes growing a ribbon-shaped crystal on a seed crystal using a linear pulling device for pulling the seed crystal and a crystal growing at the end of the seed crystal in a vertical direction, and continuing to pull the ribbon-shaped crystal by using a continuous pulling device having a continuous pulling mechanism.

Abstract: To perform path search processing by means of a smaller amount of calculation and less power consumption, region index calculator 29 decides, for each region resulting from subdividing the delay profile measurement range, whether or not it is a region in which there is a peak, and supplies the results of these decisions as index information. On the basis of this index information, region designation calculator 27 outputs information indicative of whether or not a given region is a region in which a path is present. On the basis of the information from region designation calculator 27, data classifier 24 classifies data, after analogue-to-digital conversion, into data of regions in which there is a path and data of regions in which there is no path.

Abstract: A seed crystal is lowered toward a melt, and a contact between the seed crystal and the melt is detected using an image captured by an imaging device. The temperature of the melt is adjusted to keep a meniscus of the melt in contact with the seed crystal. The temperature of the melt is then lowered to create a wingout extending from the seed crystal. The length and symmetry of the wingout is detected with an image captured by the imaging device, and a ribbon of crystal following the wingout starts to be lifted from the melt.

Abstract: An apparatus for pulling up a strip of semiconductor crystal continuously from a crucible with a pair of endless belts has a position control device for automatically adjusting a transverse position of the strip of semiconductor crystal. The position control device is disposed in a path for pulling up the strip of semiconductor crystal from the crucible. The position control device comprises a pair of blocks disposed one on each side of the path transversely of the strip of semiconductor crystal and movable transversely of the strip of semiconductor crystal, and a pair of position sensors mounted respectively on the blocks for detecting respective edges of the strip of semiconductor crystal. The blocks have respective side faces for adjusting a direction in which the strip of semiconductor crystal is pulled up, by contacting the respective edges of the strip of semiconductor crystal.

Abstract: In a path search method, all regions of a delay profile subject to peak detection are divided into a plurality of regions, and a control is performed so as to assign a searching frequency to each regions, which is higher the higher is the total peak power of the path existing in the region. A CDMA receiver in which this path search method is implemented has a region data separating section, which separates region data, a peak position detection section, which detects a peak position of each region, a region index calculation section, which establishes and manages the priorities of each region, and a region designating calculation section, which specifies a region for the region data separating section as a region having a high priority.

Abstract: A seed crystal is lowered toward a melt, and a contact between the seed crystal and the melt is detected using an image captured by an imaging device. The temperature of the melt is adjusted to keep a meniscus of the melt in contact with the seed crystal. The temperature of the melt is then lowered to create a wingout extending from the seed crystal. The length and symmetry of the wingout is detected with an image captured by the imaging device, and a ribbon of crystal following the wingout starts to be lifted from the melt.

Abstract: A compact structure of a facsimile machine is provided. This facsimile machine includes a casing, a document-recording sheet inlet for insertion of a document and a recording sheet, a document-recording sheet outlet for ejection of the document and the recording sheet, a rotatable roller arranged in the casing to feed the document sheet and the recording sheet along a given path of travel extending from the document-recording sheet inlet to the document-recording sheet outlet, an image reading sensor for reading an image printed on the document moving along the given path of travel, and an image recording head for recording an image stored in an image memory on the recording sheet.