Abstract: A noncontact power supply apparatus includes a coil unit having a coil for transmitting electric power to a power supply target by noncontact and an electromagnetic shield for reducing a leakage magnetic field of the coil. The electromagnetic shield is the laminate body in which the metal plates are laminated. A lubricant having a predetermined viscosity is applied to a contacting surface between the metal plates.

Abstract: A power transmission coil unit provided with a board having at its back surface a component mounting part to which electronic components are mounted and a coil forming part at which a coil comprised of a conductor pattern is formed, a core arranged so as to abut against a back surface of the board and formed with a hole for housing the electronic components at a position facing the electronic components, and a protective member provided at a further front surface side of the power transmission coil unit than the component mounting part of the board and receiving a load applied to the power transmission coil unit. A space is formed on a back surface side of the facing portion of the protective member positioned at the location facing the component mounting part.

Abstract: A fixing belt includes a base member containing a metal, a sliding layer containing a filler and formed on a base member inner side, and a separation layer formed on a base member outer side. Assume that (i) a sliding layer cross section is obtained by cutting the sliding layer along a sliding layer thickness direction and is divided into sections each having a length that is the same as a sliding layer thickness in a direction perpendicular to the thickness direction, and (ii) a ratio of a filler area to a sliding layer area in each cross section sections is an area ratio. A period coefficient is calculated using the formula (Ave %?Min %)/Ave %, where an average of area ratios of filler areas in all the sections is Ave % and a minimum of the area ratios is Min %, and the calculated period coefficient is 0.6 or more.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a wafer edge protection film having dry etching resistance superior to those of the previously-known wafer edge protection films, as well as excellent film forming property even at wafer edge portions, which are difficult to coat: a wafer edge protection film forming method for forming a protection film on a wafer edge of a substrate, including the steps of (i) coating a peripheral edge of the substrate with a composition for forming a protection film including an aromatic ring-containing resin (A) having an organic group represented by the following general formula (1), and a solvent; and (ii) curing the applied composition for forming a protection film by heat or optical irradiation to form the protection film on the peripheral edge of the substrate. wherein RA is a hydrogen atom or a monovalent organic group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, and * represents a bonding site.

Abstract: A power transmitting coil unit includes a board on which a coil comprised of a conductor pattern is formed and to a back surface side of which capacitors are mounted, a core arranged at a back surface side of the board and formed with a hole at a position facing the capacitors, a bottom plate arranged at a back surface side of the core, a space formed defined by a back surface of the board, a front surface of the bottom plate, and an inner circumferential surface of the hole and in which the capacitors are housed, and support member arranged in the space and supporting the board.

Abstract: In a display device, a first power supply voltage line includes a first trunk wiring line, a plurality of branch wiring lines, and a second power supply voltage line includes a second trunk wiring line. The first trunk wiring line includes a first portion and a second portion. A line width of the first portion is smaller than a line width of the second portion. A frame region in a frame region provided with the first portion includes a first irregular frame edge having an irregular shape.

Abstract: An image pickup module includes: a lens unit including a first principal surface and a second principal surface; an image pickup unit including a third principal surface and a fourth principal surface on which an external electrode is disposed; a wiring board including a hole and a bonding electrode disposed on a bottom surface of the hole; a solder that bonds the bonding electrode and the external electrode; a rigid member that defines a spacing between the fourth principal surface and the bottom surface; and a second resin disposed between the fourth principal surface and the bottom surface.

Abstract: A coating device includes a head, a wiping mechanism, an arm, and a controller. The head includes a nozzle surface for discharging a coating material. The wiping mechanism wipes the nozzle surface. The arm holds the head. The controller controls movement of the head via the arm. The controller relatively moves the head with respect to the wiping mechanism to wipe the nozzle surface.

Abstract: A terminal fitting comprising: a first terminal portion in which first tab portions, extending from a first tab continuous connecting portion, are arranged; a second terminal portion in which second tab portions, extending from a second tab continuous connecting portion, are arranged; a connecting portion connecting the first and second terminal portions; and a contact portion to be connected to an external terminal. The terminal fitting has a three-dimensional shape in which the terminal fitting having a preliminary shape is bent at the connecting portion. In the three-dimensional shape, the first terminal portion and the second terminal portion are three-dimensionally arranged to be connected at the connecting portion. In the preliminary shape, the first terminal portion and the second terminal portion are arranged to be fitted to each other, and the first tab continuous connecting portion and the second tab continuous connecting portion are connected at the connecting portion.

Abstract: A system for detecting changes in an electronic component and a method for operating a data processing system for finding events that predict an electronic component's failure are disclosed. The system includes an input port that receives a data stream that includes an ordered sequence of data values generated by the electronic component. A controller identifies a segment of the data stream (EDS), transforms the EDS to a CSV, and compares the CSV to a plurality of reference signature vectors (RSVs) to determine if the CSV is similar to any of the RSVs. Information identifying a new CSV is stored in an RSV database if the new CSV is similar to one of the RSVs, and a new RSV is created if the new CSV is not similar to any of the RSVs in said RSV database. A predictor RSV that occurs as the electronic component ages is identified.

Abstract: The present invention is a composition for forming a metal oxide film including (A) an organic-inorganic composite material and (B) a solvent, (A) the organic-inorganic composite material being a reaction product of a metal source (I) and an organic source (II), the metal source (I) containing one or more compounds derived from a metal compound represented by the general formula (I-1), and the organic source (II) containing a compound having a unit represented by the general formula (II-1) and a cardo structure. The present invention provides a composition for forming a metal oxide film which has excellent coatability relative to a previously-known material for forming a metal oxide film and also has high filling and planarizing properties, a patterning process using the material, and a method for forming a metal oxide film.

Abstract: In order to achieve an optical transmitter that is reduced in size and price, an optical waveguide module includes a wavelength controller that controls a wavelength of output light output from a light source, and a wavelength locker that receives an input of the output light and outputs an electric signal indicating a relation between a wavelength of the output light and a target wavelength, wherein the wavelength controller and the wavelength locker are formed as a semiconductor optical waveguide on the same semiconductor substrate.

Abstract: The present invention is a composition for forming a silicon-containing metal hard mask, including: (A) a metal oxide nanoparticle; (B) a thermally crosslinkable polysiloxane (Sx) having no aromatic-ring-containing organic group; and (C) a solvent. This provides a composition for forming a silicon-containing metal hard mask that has a high effect of inhibiting collapse of an ultrafine pattern in a multilayer resist method, that can form a resist pattern having excellent LWR, that has more excellent dry etching resistance and wet removability than a conventional silicon-containing underlayer film material, and that has more excellent filling ability than a conventional metal hard mask material.

Abstract: A management system stores peripheral information apparatus management information for managing a configuration of a peripheral information apparatus on a network of a to-be-managed information apparatus. The peripheral information apparatus management information indicates an identifier of the peripheral information apparatus recognized in the network. The management system receives, from the to-be-managed information apparatus, current peripheral information apparatus configuration information indicating a configuration of the peripheral information apparatus in a current network of the to-be-managed information apparatus. The current peripheral information apparatus configuration information indicates an identifier of the peripheral information apparatus recognized in the current network.

Abstract: The present invention is a composition for forming a metal oxide film, comprising (A) a metal oxide nanoparticle, (B) a flowability accelerator, which is a compound and/or a polymer having a molecular weight of 5000 or less represented by one or more selected from the following general formulae (I), (II) and (III), and (C) an organic solvent, wherein a weight ratio of the (A) metal oxide nanoparticle to the (B) flowability accelerator is 10/90 to 90/10. This makes it possible to provide a composition for forming a metal oxide film having excellent dry etching resistance relative to a previously-known organic underlayer film composition and also has high filling and planarizing properties, a patterning process using the composition, and a method for forming a metal oxide film (resist underlayer film).

Abstract: A medium processing apparatus includes a liquid applier, a crimper, a stapler, and circuitry. The liquid applier applies liquid to a liquid application position of a medium. The crimper presses and deforms at least a part to which the liquid is applied by the liquid applier, to bind a plurality of media including the medium to which the liquid is applied. The stapler performs stapling with a staple on a medium bundle in which the plurality of media is bound by the crimper. The circuitry controls operations of the crimper, the liquid applier, and the stapler, and selectively switches between first binding performed by the liquid applier and the crimper and second binding performed by only the stapler, in accordance with information on the medium or a binding position at which the medium bundle is bound by the crimper.

Abstract: A composition for forming an organic film, containing: a material for forming an organic film shown by the following general formula; and an organic solvent, where R1 represents a hydrogen atom, an allyl group, or a propargyl group, R2 represents a nitro group, a halogen atom, a hydroxy group, an alkyloxy group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, an alkynyloxy group having 2 to 4 carbon atoms, an alkenyloxy group having 2 to 4 carbon atoms, a linear, branched, or cyclic alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, a trifluoromethyl group, or a trifluoromethyloxy group, m = 0 or 1, n = 1 or 2, 1 = 0 or 1, k represents an integer of 0 to 2, W represents a divalent organic group having 1 to 40 carbon atoms, and each V independently represents a hydrogen atom or a linking moiety.

Abstract: A medical photometer includes a signal producing section that produces a first control signal to emit a first light having a first wavelength, a second control signal to emit a second light having a second wavelength, a third control signal to emit a third light having a third wavelength, and a fourth control signal to emit a fourth light having a fourth wavelength, a signal acquiring section that acquires a first to fourth intensity signals, a processor, and a memory that stores instructions. In the medical photometer, the first wavelength and the second wavelength are selected as two wavelengths at each of which an extinction coefficient of blood is a first value. The third wavelength and the fourth wavelength are selected as two wavelengths at each of which the extinction coefficient of the blood is a second value which is different from the first value.

Abstract: A resist underlayer film material contains (A) a resin having a compound shown in the following general formula (1A), and (B) an organic solvent. Mw/Mn of the compound shown in the general formula (1A) is 1.00?Mw/Mn?1.25. This provides: a resist underlayer film material having all of favorable dry etching resistance, heat resistance to 500° C. or higher, and high filling and planarizing properties; and methods for forming a resist underlayer film and patterning processes which use the material.

Abstract: An organic film forming composition, containing: a material shown by formula (I) and/or (II); and an organic solvent, where R1 and R4 each represent a hydrogen atom, an allyl or propargyl group, R2 and R5 each represent a substituent, R3 and R6 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, an alkynyl group having 2 to 4 carbon atoms, or an alkenyl group having 2 to 4 carbon atoms. “m” and “i” represent 0 or 1, “k” and “q” represent an integer of 0 to 2, “n” represent 1 or 2, “h”, and “j” represent an integer of 0 to 2 and satisfy the relationship 1?h+j?4, and “1” and “r” represent 0 or 1. W represents a single bond or divalent group shown by formulae (3). Each V independently represents a hydrogen atom or linking moiety.