Abstract: This is a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device having a first region, a second region, and a third region. A second gate dielectric film is formed on a semiconductor substrate in the second region. A thin first gate dielectric film is formed on the semiconductor substrate in the first region. A protective film is formed on the first gate dielectric film and on the second gate dielectric film. A thin paraelectric film is formed on the semiconductor substrate in the third region. An amorphous film formed of a material including a metal oxide and a first element is formed on the protective film and on the paraelectric film. A metal film is formed on the amorphous film. By performing a heat treatment, the amorphous film is crystallized to form a ferroelectric film.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to enabling acquisition of information of an argument corresponding to a case. The present disclosure is a language processing apparatus which refers to an argument emergence history database 14 which stores argument emergence patterns associated with cases and arguments of verbs for each meaning of a word or usage of a verb, acquires an argument emergence pattern which matches a verb and a case of the verb included in a request from a user from the argument emergence history database 14, and generates a response to the user using an argument included in the argument emergence pattern acquired from the argument emergence history database 14.

Abstract: A solar power generation system includes a string, an inverter a first shut-off device, and a second shut-off device. The string includes a plurality of solar cell module groups connected in series with each other. The first shut-off device cuts off a connection between the plurality of solar cell module groups connected to a first electric path connecting between the plurality of solar cell module groups in response to a first control signal from the inverter. The second shut-off device is connected to the first shut-off device in a two-way communicable manner by a communication system different from power line communication and cuts off a connection between the solar cell module groups connected to a second electric path connecting between the plurality of solar cell module groups in response to a second control signal output from the first shut-off device by a communication system different from power line communication.

Abstract: A solar power generation system includes a string, an inverter a first shut-off device, and a second shut-off device. The string includes a plurality of solar cell module groups connected in series with each other. Each of the solar cell module groups includes one or a plurality of solar cell modules connected in series. The first shut-off device cuts off a connection between the plurality of solar cell module groups connected to a first electric path in response to a first control signal from the inverter. The second shut-off device is connected to the first shut-off device in a two-way communicable manner, is driven by an electrical power supplied from the first shut-off device, and cuts off a connection between the plurality of solar cell module groups connected to a second electric path in response to a second control signal from the first shut-off device.

Abstract: A solar power generation system includes a string, an inverter a first shut-off device, and a second shut-off device. The string includes a plurality of solar cell module groups connected in series. The first shut-off device is connected to a first electric path connecting between the plurality of solar cell module groups. The second shut-off device is connected to a second electric path connecting between the plurality of solar cell module groups. The first shut-off device cuts off a connection between the plurality of solar cell module groups connected to the first electric path in response to a first control signal from the inverter. The second shut-off device is driven by an electrical power supplied from the first shut-off device and cuts off a connection between the solar cell module groups connected to the second electric path in response to a second control signal from the first shut-off device.

Abstract: This invention provides a technology to support decision making in doing stock planning across a supply chain.

Abstract: There is provided a value chain planning apparatus for a value chain from material procurement to sales of a product in which at least two or more business entities participate. The value chain planning apparatus includes an agent recruitment unit that recruits an execution module that is an agent that realizes a task included in the value chain, an agent registration unit that registers the execution module as the agent when receiving an application including the execution module, a plan preparation unit that executes the execution module for two or more tasks included in the value chain, performs a simulation of executing the task, and measures a KPI, and a reward payment processing unit that pays a reward corresponding to an execution result to the executed execution module.

Abstract: A temperature sensor includes a pair of thermocouple wires, a temperature measuring junction formed by joining tip ends of the pair of thermocouple wires together, an outer tube having a tip end in which the temperature measuring junction is held, an insulator insulating the pair of thermocouple wires from the outer tube, and a glass seal filled in a base end of the outer tube. The pair of thermocouple wires disposed in the outer tube have surfaces where passive films are respectively formed due to the oxidization of the metallic materials on the surfaces of the pair of thermocouple wires.

Abstract: Provided is a measurement device including a mounting unit in which a flow channel device is attachably and detachably mounted, the flow channel device including a first flow channel, a second flow channel having a communicating portion that communicates with a part of the first flow channel, and a cell sheet in which a plurality of cultured cells are arranged in such a manner that the cells are bound to each other and which partitions between the first flow channel and the second flow channel at the communicating portion; and a detection unit that optically distinguishes and detects a leakage state of each of a plurality of types of tracers having different sizes and leaking out from the first flow channel into the second flow channel through a defect occurring in the cell sheet in a case where an evaluation liquid is fed into the first flow channel.

Abstract: A temperature sensor includes a pair of thermocouple wires, a temperature measuring junction formed by joining tip ends of the pair of thermocouple wires together, an outer tube having a tip end provided with a tip end cover in which the temperature measuring junction is held, an insulator insulating the pair of thermocouple wires from the outer tube, and a glass seal filled in a base end of the outer tube to seal the outer tube from inside thereof. The glass seal contains bubbles which are independent of each other.

Abstract: The technical problems to be solved are to keep the vicinity of the nozzle opening clean and to restrain the jet liquid column from tilting. The solution to problems lies in a method for cleaning a nozzle of a laser machining apparatus to process a work piece to be processed by a laser beam introduced into a jet liquid column, the method comprising the steps of: forming the jet liquid column by jetting a liquid from the nozzle; and irradiating a spot 30 of the laser beam onto a vicinal section of an inlet opening 22c of the nozzle in such a state that a peak power per unit area of the spot 30 of the laser beam irradiated on a surface provided with the inlet opening 22c of the nozzle does not go beyond a threshold value at which the nozzle is damaged and removing foreign matters attached on the surface.

Abstract: A parallel distributed processing control system used in production distribution planning includes: a storage unit storing step information of steps constituting a production distribution process of a product, CPU information of CPUs that calculate a value of a simulation result for the step, and a constraint value in the production distribution process; a divided model generation unit generating a divided model by grouping the steps; a CPU allocation unit allocating the divided model to the plurality of CPUs; an engine execution unit enabling the CPU to calculate the value for the step constituting the divided model; and a constraint monitoring unit determining whether the value satisfies a condition specified by the constraint value. An output information generation unit generates result information using the value satisfying the condition; and the CPU allocation unit allocates the divided model so that processing loads of the plurality of CPUs are equalized.

Abstract: An object is to provide a channel device that can perform both optical measurement and electrical measurement. The object is achieved by having a first channel member having a first channel, a second channel member having a second channel, a porous membrane provided between the first channel member and the second channel member, and a pair of transparent electrodes provided so as to interpose the first channel and the second channel therebetween.

Abstract: A valve timing change device includes: a housing rotor (10); a vane rotor; a fastening bolt (40) for fastening the vane rotor to a cam shaft; and an advance angle oil passage that constitutes a ring-shaped groove communicating with an advance angle chamber and a delay angle oil passage that constitutes a ring-shaped groove communicating with a delay angle chamber, via oil passages which are open at intervals on an outer circumferential surface of the fastening bolt. The vane rotor includes: a rotor body (20) having a small-diameter inner circumferential portion (23) and a large-diameter inner circumferential portion (24); and a rotor sleeve (30) that is fitted into the large-diameter inner circumferential portion, is in tight contact with the outer circumferential surface (41a) of the fastening bolt, and demarcates the advance angle oil passage (23a) in cooperation with the small-diameter inner circumferential portion.

Abstract: A temperature sensor includes a pair of thermocouple wires, a temperature measuring junction formed by joining tip ends of the pair of thermocouple wires together, an outer tube having a tip end provided with a tip end cover in which the temperature measuring junction is held, an insulator insulating the pair of thermocouple wires from the outer tube, and a glass seal filled in a base end of the outer tube to seal the outer tube from inside thereof. The glass seal contains bubbles which are independent of each other.

Abstract: A temperature sensor includes a pair of thermocouple wires, a temperature measuring junction formed by joining tip ends of the pair of thermocouple wires together, an outer tube having a tip end in which the temperature measuring junction is held, an insulator insulating the pair of thermocouple wires from the outer tube, and a glass seal filled in a base end of the outer tube. The pair of thermocouple wires disposed in the outer tube have surfaces where passive films are respectively formed due to the oxidization of the metallic materials on the surfaces of the pair of thermocouple wires.

Abstract: A valve timing change device includes: a housing rotor (10); a vane rotor; a fastening bolt (40) for fastening the vane rotor to a cam shaft; and an advance angle oil passage that constitutes a ring-shaped groove communicating with an advance angle chamber and a delay angle oil passage that constitutes a ring-shaped groove communicating with a delay angle chamber, via oil passages which are open at intervals on an outer circumferential surface of the fastening bolt. The vane rotor includes: a rotor body (20) having a small-diameter inner circumferential portion (23) and a large-diameter inner circumferential portion (24); and a rotor sleeve (30) that is fitted into the large-diameter inner circumferential portion, is in tight contact with the outer circumferential surface (41a) of the fastening bolt, and demarcates the advance angle oil passage (23a) in cooperation with the small-diameter inner circumferential portion.

Abstract: A parallel distributed processing control system used in production distribution planning includes: a storage unit storing step information of steps constituting a production distribution process of a product, CPU information of CPUs that calculate a value of a simulation result for the step, and a constraint value in the production distribution process; a divided model generation unit generating a divided model by grouping the steps; a CPU allocation unit allocating the divided model to the plurality of CPUs; an engine execution unit enabling the CPU to calculate the value for the step constituting the divided model; and a constraint monitoring unit determining whether the value satisfies a condition specified by the constraint value. An output information generation unit generates result information using the value satisfying the condition; and the CPU allocation unit allocates the divided model so that processing loads of the plurality of CPUs are equalized.

Abstract: A valve timing change device includes: a housing rotor (10); a vane rotor; a fastening bolt (40); and an advance angle oil passage communicating with an advance angle chamber and a delay angle oil passage communicating with a delay angle chamber, via oil passages which are open at intervals on an outer-circumferential surface of the fastening bolt. The vane rotor includes: a rotor body (20) formed of a material having a thermal expansion coefficient greater than that of the fastening bolt; and a rotor sleeve (30) that is formed of a material having a thermal expansion coefficient equal to that of the fastening bolt and is integrally incorporated such that the rotor sleeve does not contact a cam shaft and tightly contacts the outer circumferential surface (41a), in a region in which the advance angle oil passage (23a) and the delay angle oil passage (35) are blocked from each other.

Abstract: A delivery planning device is provided to efficiently cope with delivery requirements of a loading place, an off-loading place, a cargo amount, a car loading vehicle, and a work shift of a driver that fluidly change. A delivery planning device receives and registers one or more delivery requests relating to deliveries between predetermined points. The delivery requests are divided into deliveries in one or more areas for which drivers of a predetermined number of delivery vehicles are responsible according to the predetermined number of the delivery vehicles; and a vehicle route planning unit specifies a delivery route and a cost relating to deliveries for each combination of a candidate for a relay place between the areas and a relay time in the candidate for the relay place, and specifies the delivery route as a vehicle route using the cost.