Abstract: A surface fastener which includes a hook surface fastener (A) and a loop surface fastener (B), or a mixed surface fastener (C). The hook surface fastener (A) has hook fastener elements made of monofilaments on a surface of a base fabric. The loop surface fastener (B) has loop fastener elements made of multifilaments and capable of engaging with the hook fastener elements on a surface of a base fabric. The mixed surface fastener (C) has hook fastener elements made of monofilaments and loop fastener elements made of multifilaments on the same surface of a base fabric. The monofilaments are made from a polyethylene terephthalate-based polyester resin, and the multifilaments are made of a polybutylene terephthalate-based polyester resin.

Abstract: An apparatus for cleaning a substrate includes a cleaning chamber which accommodates a substrate inside the cleaning chamber, a treatment solution supply device which supplies a treatment solution having a volatile component and capable of solidifying or being cured to form a treatment film through vaporization of the volatile component, and a removal solution supply device which supplies a removal solution capable of removing the treatment film formed on a surface of the substrate. The treatment solution supply device supplies the treatment solution on the surface of the substrate set inside the cleaning chamber, and the removal solution supply device supplies the removal solution onto the treatment film formed on the surface of the substrate.

Abstract: A semi-transmissive-type liquid crystal display device is provided which is capable of preventing an electric erosion reaction between a reflective film made of Al (aluminum) or an Al alloy and a transparent electrode film made of ITO or a like (Indium Tin Oxide) and of inhibiting occurrence of a flicker caused by a residual DC (Direct Current) voltage in the reflective film. In the semi-transmissive-type of a liquid crystal display device, a transmissive region to provide light from a backlight source and a reflective region to receive ambient light are placed in a pixel region and a transparent electrode film is formed above a reflective film formed in the reflective region on an active matrix substrate with a second passivation film being interposed between the reflective film and the transparent electrode film.

Abstract: Providing a data structure appropriate for performing rights management for multimedia-type contents, and further providing a recording medium containing data with the data structure, and a reproduction device and a reproduction method for reproducing the data. The present invention is a computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon license data for permitting a computer to use contents data comprising a plurality of resources, the license data including a resource-based use condition configuration structure, in which a use condition is set for the computer with respect to each of resources.

Abstract: A semi-transmissive-type liquid crystal display device is provided which is capable of preventing an electric erosion reaction between a reflective film made of Al (aluminum) or an Al alloy and a transparent electrode film made of ITO or a like (Indium Tin Oxide) and of inhibiting occurrence of a flicker caused by a residual DC (Direct Current) voltage in the reflective film. In the semi-transmissive-type of a liquid crystal display device, a transmissive region to provide light from a backlight source and a reflective region to receive ambient light are placed in a pixel region and a transparent electrode film is formed above a reflective film formed in the reflective region on an active matrix substrate with a second passivation film being interposed between the reflective film and the transparent electrode film.

Abstract: A semi-transmissive-type liquid crystal display device is provided which is capable of preventing an electric erosion reaction between a reflective film made of Al (aluminum) or an Al alloy and a transparent electrode film made of ITO or a like (Indium Tin Oxide) and of inhibiting occurrence of a flicker caused by a residual DC (Direct Current) voltage in the reflective film. In the semi-transmissive-type of a liquid crystal display device, a transmissive region to provide light from a backlight source and a reflective region to receive ambient light are placed in a pixel region and a transparent electrode film is formed above a reflective film formed in the reflective region on an active matrix substrate with a second passivation film being interposed between the reflective film and the transparent electrode film.

Abstract: An experiment is conducted in advance, for finding a temperature of a cooling plate attained as a result of balancing between a temperature of a substrate after heat treatment and a temperature of the cooling plate at the time of cooling of the substrate. Then, before heat treatment of a first substrate, the cooling plate is moved to a position above a hot plate, the cooling plate is heated to that temperature, and thereafter heat treatment of the substrate is started.

Abstract: Light exposure areas 103 and light masking areas 104 in a sole reticle are arrayed in alternation to one another in both the longitudinal and transverse directions. Substrate is exposed to light by multi-domain light exposure using this reticle so that the respective areas of the reticle exposed to light with respective shots A to B, B to C . . . , N to M are not adjacent to one another in the boundary portions of the reticle shifted for executing the respective shots, thus relaxing the difference in illuminance between the respective shots and the difference in finish of the boundary portions of the shots, such differences becoming imperceptible to human eyes upon displaying liquid crystal display apparatus.

Abstract: An experiment is conducted in advance, for finding a temperature of a cooling plate attained as a result of balancing between a temperature of a substrate after heat treatment and a temperature of the cooling plate at the time of cooling of the substrate. Then, before heat treatment of a first substrate, the cooling plate is moved to a position above a hot plate, the cooling plate is heated to that temperature, and thereafter heat treatment of the substrate is started.

Abstract: An experiment is conducted in advance, for finding a temperature of a cooling plate attained as a result of balancing between a temperature of a substrate after heat treatment and a temperature of the cooling plate at the time of cooling of the substrate. Then, before heat treatment of a first substrate, the cooling plate is moved to a position above a hot plate, the cooling plate is heated to that temperature, and thereafter heat treatment of the substrate is started.

Abstract: To provide a thermally conductive acrylic sheet having a high temperature conductivity and also a good adhesion characteristic. A double-sided, thermally conductive acrylic adhesive sheet, which is produced from a raw material mixture comprising (a) a monomer: an acrylate or methacrylate having a C2-12 alkyl group, (b) a monomer: an acrylic monomer which is represented by a formula (1) but which is different from the monomer (a), (c) a polythiol and (d) an inorganic powder, wherein the content of the inorganic powder in the raw material mixture is from 30 to 70 vol %, and the maximum particle diameter of the inorganic powder is from 5 to 70% of the thickness of the sheet.

Abstract: A media information distribution and recording system for distributing media information from a central apparatus to terminal apparatus through a network and for recording the media information on a detachable recording medium in the terminal apparatus, wherein the terminal apparatus serves not only as a transmitting terminal apparatus, but also as a receiving terminal apparatus, is proposed, together with the terminal apparatus, a media information recording apparatus for use in this system, and a recording medium which stores a program that controls the operation of a computer for use in this system as well as in the media information recording apparatus.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to realize, in a coating and developing apparatus including an inspection section, reduction in the startup time, cost reduction, and an improved operating rate of the inspection section. In the present invention, a control program of the coating and developing apparatus is set such that a processing flow and an inspection flow can be independently executed, the processing flow being a flow in which a substrate is carried to a processing station from a cassette station to be processed in the processing station and an aligner and thereafter is returned to the cassette station, and the inspection flow being a flow in which the substrate is carried from the cassette station to an inspection station to be inspected there, and is thereafter returned to the cassette station.

Abstract: A data delivery system providing multipoint delivery of encrypted digital data to specific destinations. A plurality of pieces of key information are generated on the basis of an encryption key specific to each digital data item to be delivered. The multiple pieces of key information are delivered over routes which differ from the routes used to deliver the digital data and which further differ from each other. Physically different media or transmission over a network at different times are used to separately transmit different sets of key information.

Abstract: There is provided a liquid crystal display device including a display screen comprised of a plurality of areas in each of which a pixel pattern is formed, wherein any two areas located adjacent to each other, among the areas, have at least two stitches therebetween.

Abstract: On top of respective areas divided by partition plates, that is, a cassette station, a processing station, and an interface section in a coating and developing processing system, gas supply sections for supplying an inert gas into the respective areas are provided. Exhaust pipes for exhausting atmospheres in the respective areas are provided at the bottom of the respective areas. The atmospheres in the respective areas are maintained in a clean condition by supplying the inert gas not containing impurities such as oxygen and fine particles from the respective gas supply sections into the respective areas and exhausting the atmospheres in the respective areas from the exhaust pipes.

Abstract: There is provided a liquid crystal display device including a display screen comprised of a plurality of areas in each of which a pixel pattern is formed, wherein any two areas located adjacent to each other, among the areas, have at least two stitches therebetween.

Abstract: In optical line width measurement performed using the scatterometry technique, the present invention measures the line width formed on a substrate more accurately than in the prior art. After a predetermined pattern is formed in a resist film on a substrate, the refractive index and the extinction coefficient of the resist film are measured. Based on the measured values, calculation is performed to obtain calculated light intensity distributions of reflected light reflected from a plurality of virtual patterns. The calculated light intensity distributions are stored, and their library is created. The substrate for which the refractive index and so on are measured is irradiated with light, and the light intensity distribution of its reflected light is measured.

Abstract: A holding apparatus for a substrate cassette include a support base for holding the cassette with substrates. A tilting device is fixed to the support base for allowing the support base to rotate about a horizontal axis from a horizontal position, wherein top surfaces of the substrates are arranged upwardly, to an over vertical position, wherein the top surfaces of the substrates are arranged downwardly, by rotating the support base over 90 degrees. A storage method for a substrate cassette includes steps of storing a substrate in the cassette for substrates almost horizontally, fixing a cassette on a support base, and rotating the support base around a rotary shaft so that the substrate may rotate to the angle beyond 90 degrees.

Abstract: An experiment is conducted in advance, for finding a temperature of a cooling plate attained as a result of balancing between a temperature of a substrate after heat treatment and a temperature of the cooling plate at the time of cooling of the substrate. Then, before heat treatment of a first substrate, the cooling plate is moved to a position above a hot plate, the cooling plate is heated to that temperature, and thereafter heat treatment of the substrate is started.