Abstract: A method for manufacturing a novel display apparatus is provided. The method includes a first step of forming a first electrode, a second electrode, and a first gap over an insulating film, a second step of forming a first film over the second electrode; a third step of forming a first layer overlapping with the first electrode, a fourth step of removing the first film by an etching method to form a first unit overlapping with the first electrode, a fifth step of removing a surface of the second electrode, a sixth step of forming a second film over the first layer and the second electrode, a seventh step of forming a second layer overlapping with the second electrode, and an eighth step of removing the second film by an etching method using the second layer to form a second unit overlapping with the second electrode and a second gap.

Abstract: The semiconductor device includes a first conductor and a second conductor; a first insulator to a third insulator; and a first oxide to a third oxide. The first conductor is disposed to be exposed from a top surface of the first insulator. The first oxide is disposed over the first insulator and the first conductor. A first opening reaching the first conductor is provided in the first oxide. The second oxide is disposed over the first oxide. The second oxide comprises a first region, a second region, and a third region positioned between the first region and the second region. The third oxide is disposed over the second oxide. The second insulator is disposed over the third oxide. The second conductor is disposed over the second insulator. The third insulator is disposed to cover the first region and the second region and to be in contact with the top surface of the first insulator.

Abstract: A transistor with favorable electrical characteristics is provided. One embodiment of the present invention is a semiconductor device including a semiconductor, a first insulator in contact with the semiconductor, a first conductor in contact with the first insulator and overlapping with the semiconductor with the first insulator positioned between the semiconductor and the first conductor, and a second conductor and a third conductor, which are in contact with the semiconductor. One or more of the first to third conductors include a region containing tungsten and one or more elements selected from silicon, carbon, germanium, tin, aluminum, and nickel.

Abstract: A tire wear prediction system (100) is provided with a wear prediction unit (110) for predicting a wear state of a tire mounted at a predetermined wheel position of a vehicle based on the traveling state of the vehicle, a change history acquisition unit (120) for acquiring a change history including the rotation of the wheel position on which the tire is mounted or a content of replacement with another tire, and a wear state correction unit (140) for correcting a reference of the wear state of the tire predicted by the wear prediction unit (110) based on the change history. The wear prediction unit (110) predicts the wear state of the tire based on the reference of the wear state corrected by the wear state correction unit (140).

Abstract: Manufacturing equipment for a light-emitting device with which steps from formation to sealing of a light-emitting element can be successively performed is provided. With the manufacturing equipment for a light-emitting device, a deposition step, a lithography step, and an etching step for forming an organic EL element and a sealing step by formation of a protective layer can be successively performed. Accordingly, a downscaled organic EL element with high luminance and high reliability can be formed. Moreover, the manufacturing equipment can have an in-line system where apparatuses are arranged in the order of process steps for the light-emitting device, resulting in high throughput manufacturing.

Abstract: A high-resolution display device is provided. A display device with both high display quality and high resolution is provided. The display device includes a first display element including a first pixel electrode, a first EL layer, and a common electrode; a second display element including a second pixel electrode, a second EL layer, and the common electrode; a first insulating layer covering an end portion of the first pixel electrode and an end portion of the second pixel electrode; a second insulating layer over the first insulating layer; and a third insulating layer over the second insulating layer. The first EL layer is placed over the first pixel electrode and the third insulating layer. The second EL layer is placed over the second pixel electrode and the third insulating layer.

Abstract: A control device for a moving body is configured to execute following movement control under which a movement speed of a moving body is controlled to follow a preceding moving body moving ahead of the moving body, and constant speed movement control under which the movement speed of the moving body is controlled to be a predetermined target. The control device is configured to execute, when the preceding moving body is detected, the following movement control, and execute, when the preceding moving body is no longer detected during execution of the following movement control, the constant speed movement control under which the movement speed of the moving body is controlled such that the movement speed of the moving body becomes the target speed based on a movement speed of a surrounding moving body moving in a surrounding area of the moving body.

Abstract: A wear amount estimation device estimates plural kinds of wear energy depending on each of an internal pressure of aircraft tires, a load acting on the aircraft tires, a velocity of an aircraft, a slip angle caused in the aircraft tires, and a braking force of the aircraft, in accordance with each of these elements and wear energy EFR of the aircraft tires in a state of a free rolling run The wear amount estimation device estimates the wear amount wear of the aircraft tires in accordance with each of the calculated wear energy and a wear resistance R indicating a relationship between predetermined wear energy and a predetermined wear amount.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes rib-shaped land parts adjacent to each other with a circumferential groove therebetween, and raised-row-shaped projections projecting toward each other from both mutually opposed side wall surfaces of the adjacent rib-shaped land parts are provided to extend in the tread circumferential direction. As compared to a raised-row-shaped projection in an outermost-side circumferential groove located on a tire width direction outermost side, a raised-row-shaped projection in an inner adjacent circumferential groove located on tire width direction inner side of and adjacent to the outermost-side circumferential groove is formed at a shallower position near a tread surface between the tread surface and the groove bottom.

Abstract: A tire wear prediction system (100) is provided with a wear prediction unit (110) for predicting a wear state of a tire mounted at a predetermined wheel position of a vehicle based on the traveling state of the vehicle, a change history acquisition unit (120) for acquiring a change history including the rotation of the wheel position on which the tire is mounted or a content of replacement with another tire, and a wear state correction unit (140) for correcting a reference of the wear state of the tire predicted by the wear prediction unit (110) based on the change history. The wear prediction unit (110) predicts the wear state of the tire based on the reference of the wear state corrected by the wear state correction unit (140).

Abstract: A wear amount estimation device estimates plural kinds of wear energy depending on each of an internal pressure of aircraft tires, a load acting on the aircraft tires, a velocity of an aircraft, a slip angle caused in the aircraft tires, and a braking force of the aircraft, in accordance with each of these elements and wear energy EFR of the aircraft tires in a state of a free rolling run The wear amount estimation device estimates the wear amount wear of the aircraft tires in accordance with each of the calculated wear energy and a wear resistance R indicating a relationship between predetermined wear energy and a predetermined wear amount.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes rib-shaped land parts adjacent to each other with a circumferential groove therebetween, and raised-row-shaped projections projecting toward each other from both mutually opposed side wall surfaces of the adjacent rib-shaped land parts are provided to extend in the tread circumferential direction. As compared to a raised-row-shaped projection in an outermost-side circumferential groove located on a tire width direction outermost side, a raised-row-shaped projection in an inner adjacent circumferential groove located on tire width direction inner side of and adjacent to the outermost-side circumferential groove is formed at a shallower position near a tread surface between the tread surface and the groove bottom.

Abstract: A tire, wherein, in a cross section in the tire width direction thereof in a state where the tire has substantially not been inflated with no load applied thereon, provided that the maximum height in the tire radial direction of the carcass is h, a radius of curvature of the carcass within a height range 0.91 h-h measured from the radially innermost position of the carcass is R7, an acute inclination angle specifically defined in the height range 0.91 h-h is ?7, the intermediate value of a radius of curvature in the height range 0.82 h-0.91 h is R6, a radius of curvature in the height range 0.63 h-0.82 h is R5, and an acute inclination angle specifically defined in the height range 0.63 h-0.82 h is ?5, R7?0.26h, ?7?14°, R6<R7, R5>R6, and ?5?23°.

Abstract: Provided is an arc evaporation source for melting and evaporating a cathode material by arc discharge for film formation on a surface of a substrate, and including a cathode formed in a substantially disc shape and a magnetic field generating apparatus, disposed at a back side of the cathode. The magnetic field generating apparatus generates a magnetic field which forms magnetic lines that form an acute angle with respect to a substrate direction at an outer circumferential surface of the cathode, magnetic lines that are substantially perpendicular to the discharge surface at an outermost circumference part of the discharge surface of the cathode, and magnetic lines that form an acute angle with respect to a center direction of the cathode at a region towards the outer circumferential surface of the discharge surface of the cathode, by at least one permanent magnet disposed at the back side of the cathode.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire including: on a tread of the tire, inclined belt layer and circumferential belt layer; and on the tread surface, a plurality of circumferential grooves extending in the tread circumferential direction, and shoulder land portions partitioned between the circumferential grooves located outermost in the tire width direction and tread ground contact ends. Positions of the tread surface that correspond to the outermost ends of the circumferential belt layer in the tire width direction are within the shoulder land portions, and the distance in the tire width direction between the outermost ends in the tire width direction of the circumferential belt layer and tire equator side ends of the shoulder land portions is 12% or more and 22% or less of a half of the width of the circumferential belt layer in tire width direction.

Abstract: This disclosure aims to achieve reduction in rolling resistance and ensure excellent steering stability. In this disclosure, a tire widthwise maximum width of a carcass is 1.35 W or less; a tire outer surface has a recess; within a second height range h2 and on the outer side in a tire radial direction with respect to bead cores, a radius of curvature of the carcass is 0.46 h or more; within a third height range h3, the radius of curvature of the carcass is 0.62 h or more; during movement of a virtual point from a bead core height position Hbc toward a third height position H3, a tire gauge at the virtual point is reduced by a reduction amount of 0.025×G0/mm or less; and the tire gauge at the virtual point at the third height position H3 is 10% or more of the tire widthwise maximum width of the bead core.

Abstract: A tire, wherein, in a cross section in the tire width direction thereof in a state where the tire has substantially not been inflated with no load applied thereon, provided that the maximum height in the tire radial direction of the carcass is h, a radius of curvature of the carcass within a height range 0.91 h-h measured from the radially innermost position of the carcass is R7, an acute inclination angle specifically defined in the height range 0.91 h-h is ?7, the intermediate value of a radius of curvature in the height range 0.82 h-0.91 h is R6, a radius of curvature in the height range 0.63 h-0.82 h is R5, and an acute inclination angle specifically defined in the height range 0.63 h-0.82 h is ?5, R7?0.26h, ?7?14°, R6<R7, R5>R6, and ?5?23°.

Abstract: This disclosure aims to achieve reduction in rolling resistance and ensure excellent steering stability. In this disclosure, a tire widthwise maximum width of a carcass is 1.35 W or less; a tire outer surface has a recess; within a second height range h2 and on the outer side in a tire radial direction with respect to bead cores, a radius of curvature of the carcass is 0.46 h or more; within a third height range h3, the radius of curvature of the carcass is 0.62 h or more; during movement of a virtual point from a bead core height position Hbc toward a third height position H3, a tire gauge at the virtual point is reduced by a reduction amount of 0.025×G0/mm or less; and the tire gauge at the virtual point at the third height position H3 is 10% or more of the tire widthwise maximum width of the bead core.

Abstract: Provided is an arc evaporation source for melting and evaporating a cathode material by arc discharge for film formation on a surface of a substrate, and including a cathode formed in a substantially disc shape and a magnetic field generating apparatus, disposed at a back side of the cathode. The magnetic field generating apparatus generates a magnetic field which forms magnetic lines that form an acute angle with respect to a substrate direction at an outer circumferential surface of the cathode, magnetic lines that are substantially perpendicular to the discharge surface at an outermost circumference part of the discharge surface of the cathode, and magnetic lines that form an acute angle with respect to a center direction of the cathode at a region towards the outer circumferential surface of the discharge surface of the cathode, by at least one permanent magnet disposed at the back side of the cathode.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire including: on a tread of the tire, inclined belt layer and circumferential belt layer; and on the tread surface, a plurality of circumferential grooves extending in the tread circumferential direction, and shoulder land portions partitioned between the circumferential grooves located outermost in the tire width direction and tread ground contact ends. Positions of the tread surface that correspond to the outermost ends of the circumferential belt layer in the tire width direction are within the shoulder land portions, and the distance in the tire width direction between the outermost ends in the tire width direction of the circumferential belt layer and tire equator side ends of the shoulder land portions is 12% or more and 22% or less of a half of the width of the circumferential belt layer in tire width direction.