Abstract: There is provided a technique that includes: (a) modifying a surface of a first base exposed on a surface of a substrate to be terminated with a hydrocarbon group by supplying a hydrocarbon group-containing gas to the substrate having the first base and a second base exposed on the surface of the substrate; and (b) selectively forming a film on a surface of the second base by supplying an oxygen- and hydrogen-containing gas to the substrate after modifying the surface of the first base.

Abstract: An optical device manufacturing method and an optical device capable of forming a desired cured resin layer regardless of shapes of cover members. The method includes closely laminating a cover member having an opening onto a mold member having a fitting projection which fits to the opening so that the fitting projection is fitted to the opening to form a hollow laminated body capable of being filled with a curable resin; filling the hollow portion of the laminated body with the curable resin; curing the curable resin to form a cured resin layer on the cover member; peeling off the mold member from the cover member; and bonding the cured resin layer and an optical member.

Abstract: An object is to provide a skin modifying sheet as described below. According to this skin modifying sheet, a period until effects of ethyl-?-D-glucoside appear is shorter than when food products or cosmetics containing ethyl-?-D-glucoside are orally taken in or applied on the skin, and collagen in the skin can be increased at a pinpoint location. The skin modifying sheet includes a sheet-like substrate and a plurality of fine needles which is formed on one surface of the sheet-like substrate and contains ethyl-?-D-glucoside.

Abstract: An optical device manufacturing method and an optical device capable of forming a desired cured resin layer regardless of shapes of cover members. The method includes closely laminating a cover member having an opening onto a mold member having a fitting projection which fits to the opening so that the fitting projection is fitted to the opening to form a hollow laminated body capable of being filled with a curable resin; filling the hollow portion of the laminated body with the curable resin; curing the curable resin to form a cured resin layer on the cover member; peeling off the mold member from the cover member; and bonding the cured resin layer and an optical member.

Abstract: A power-factor correcting converter includes: a series circuit including a first higher-potential switch and a first lower-potential switch connected in series to each other; and another series circuit including a second higher-potential switch and a second lower-potential switch connected in series to each other. In a positive phase period of the input AC voltage, a control circuit turns off the second higher-potential switch, turns on the second lower-potential switch, and alternately turns on and off the first lower-potential switch as a master switch and the first higher-potential switch as a slave switch. In a negative phase period of the input AC voltage, the control circuit reverses the on/off operation and the master/slave relationship, and turns on and off only the master switch and turns off the slave switch when the absolute value of the input AC voltage is smaller than or equal to a predetermined value.

Abstract: An alternating current-direct current (AC-DC) converter includes: an input AC power supply that outputs an input AC voltage; a step-up converter that converts the input AC voltage into an output DC voltage to be outputted from an output capacitor; and an inrush current suppressing circuit. The inrush current suppressing circuit includes: an inrush current suppressing resistor provided on a path through which a current from the input AC power supply flows to charge the output capacitor and returns to the input AC power supply; a resistance short-circuiting switch that short-circuits the inrush current suppressing resistor; and a control circuit that generates a signal for turning off the resistance short-circuiting switch when an absolute value of the input AC voltage is higher than the output DC voltage.

Abstract: An alternating current-direct current (AC-DC) converter includes: an input AC power supply that outputs an input AC voltage; a step-up converter that converts the input AC voltage into an output DC voltage to be outputted from an output capacitor; and an inrush current suppressing circuit. The inrush current suppressing circuit includes: an inrush current suppressing resistor provided on a path through which a current from the input AC power supply flows to charge the output capacitor and returns to the input AC power supply; a resistance short-circuiting switch that short-circuits the inrush current suppressing resistor; and a control circuit that generates a signal for turning off the resistance short-circuiting switch when an absolute value of the input AC voltage is higher than the output DC voltage.

Abstract: A power-factor correcting converter includes: a series circuit including a first higher-potential switch and a first lower-potential switch connected in series to each other; and another series circuit including a second higher-potential switch and a second lower-potential switch connected in series to each other. In a positive phase period of the input AC voltage, a control circuit turns off the second higher-potential switch, turns on the second lower-potential switch, and alternately turns on and off the first lower-potential switch as a master switch and the first higher-potential switch as a slave switch. In a negative phase period of the input AC voltage, the control circuit reverses the on/off operation and the master/slave relationship, and turns on and off only the master switch and turns off the slave switch when the absolute value of the input AC voltage is smaller than or equal to a predetermined value.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a method for manufacturing a touch sensor capable of concurrently forming routed circuit patterns on both surfaces of a base film and capable of aligning the routed circuit patterns on the top and bottom surfaces with each other with high accuracy. [Solution] A method for manufacturing a touch sensor includes forming electrode patterns on both surfaces of a base film through concurrent light exposure on both surfaces and development using photosensitive electrically conductive films each including a support film, an electrically conductive layer disposed on the support film and containing an electrically conductive fiber, and a second photosensitive resin layer disposed on the electrically conductive layer. Routed circuit patterns obtained by patterning the light-shielding metal layers are formed in advance on both surfaces of the base film.

Abstract: A touch sensor with a circularly polarizing plate includes an electrostatic capacitance type touch sensor. A circularly polarizing plate is arranged on a visible side of the electrostatic capacitance type touch sensor. The sensor includes a transparent substrate and a plurality of first electrodes individually formed in a strip shape on the transparent substrate. The sensor additionally includes a plurality of second electrodes formed on a surface of the transparent substrate opposite to a surface on which the first electrodes are formed. The second electrodes have a strip shape in a manner of intersecting with the first electrodes. The first electrodes are made of a metal mesh. The second electrodes are made of a plurality of conductive nanowires, existing in a connecting state respectively so as to be conductively connected, and a binder resin holding the plurality of conductive nanowires on the second transparent substrate.

Abstract: A switching circuit includes main switching a device and a drive circuit. The main switching device has a gate terminal, a drain terminal, and a first source terminal through which a main current flows, and a second source terminal for gate drive connected to drive circuit. The drive circuit has a bias capacitor having a negative electrode terminal connected to the second source terminal, a first series circuit formed between a positive electrode terminal and the gate terminal by connecting a high-side switch, a resistor, and a capacitor in series, and a second series circuit formed between the gate terminal and the second source terminal by connecting the capacitor, a resistor and a low-side switch in series. The drive circuit adjusts each of gate charge and discharge currents, and further damps the oscillation of the waveform of gate current/voltage.

Abstract: A touch sensor with a circularly polarizing plate includes an electrostatic capacitance type touch sensor. A circularly polarizing plate is arranged on a visible side of the electrostatic capacitance type touch sensor. The sensor includes a transparent substrate and a plurality of first electrodes individually formed in a strip shape on the transparent substrate. The sensor additionally includes a plurality of second electrodes formed on a surface of the transparent substrate opposite to a surface on which the first electrodes are formed. The second electrodes have a strip shape in a manner of intersecting with the first electrodes. The first electrodes are made of a metal mesh. The second electrodes are made of a plurality of conductive nanowires, existing in a connecting state respectively so as to be conductively connected, and a binder resin holding the plurality of conductive nanowires on the second transparent substrate.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a method for manufacturing a touch sensor capable of concurrently forming routed circuit patterns on both surfaces of a base film and capable of aligning the routed circuit patterns on the top and bottom surfaces with each other with high accuracy. [Solution] A method for manufacturing a touch sensor includes forming electrode patterns on both surfaces of a base film through concurrent light exposure on both surfaces and development using photosensitive electrically conductive films each including a support film, an electrically conductive layer disposed on the support film and containing an electrically conductive fiber, and a second photosensitive resin layer disposed on the electrically conductive layer. Routed circuit patterns obtained by patterning the light-shielding metal layers are formed in advance on both surfaces of the base film.

Abstract: There is provided an interlayer film for laminated glass which is capable of enhancing sound insulating properties in the laminated glass obtained in the case of being used for constituting the laminated glass, and laminated glass prepared using the interlayer film for laminated glass. An interlayer film for laminated glass according to the present invention includes a modified polyvinyl acetate and a plasticizer, and the modified polyvinyl acetate has a vinyl acetate structural unit and a fatty acid vinyl ester structural unit; the laminated glass according to the present invention includes a first laminated glass constituent member, a second laminated glass constituent member, and an interlayer film sandwiched between the first and second laminated glass constituent members, and in the laminated glass according to the present invention, the interlayer film is the interlayer film for laminated glass described above.

Abstract: The present invention generally provides a processing chamber having shadow frame supports that direct cleaning gas flow to the corners of the chamber. The shadow frame supports are disposed along part of the chamber walls, thus leaving the corners unoccupied. During cleaning, the shadow frame is disposed in a way that it rests on both the substrate support and the shadow frame supports. Therefore, the cleaning gas flowing along the chamber walls is blocked by the shadow frame supports and the cleaning gas is forced to the corners since the shadow frame supports do not extend to the corners.

Abstract: The reliability of backwashing valves constituted of first backwashing valves and second backwashing valves is ensured. A first backwashing valve (backwashing-gas rear valve) (7) that controls gas for backwashing and a second backwashing valve (backwashing-gas front valve) (6) that operates at slower speed than the first backwashing valve (7) are disposed, in a series including two or more thereof, at backwashing-gas introducing pipes individually provided for each of the filter blocks.

Abstract: The present invention generally provides a processing chamber having shadow frame supports that direct cleaning gas flow to the corners of the chamber. The shadow frame supports are disposed along part of the chamber walls, thus leaving the corners unoccupied. During cleaning, the shadow frame is disposed in a way that it rests on both the substrate support and the shadow frame supports. Therefore, the cleaning gas flowing along the chamber walls is blocked by the shadow frame supports and the cleaning gas is forced to the corners since the shadow frame supports do not extend to the corners.

Abstract: A first electrode pattern 25a and a second electrode pattern 25b, each composed of an opaque conductive fine line and a blank part 17 partitioned by the conductive fine line, have line segments 16a of the conductive fine lines 16, that face each other across a substrate 12, and the conductive fine line 16 in one of the first electrode pattern 25a and the second electrode pattern 25b is formed narrower in line width than that in the other of the first electrode pattern 25a and the second electrode pattern 25b only at the facing line segment 16a, thereby designed to have a non-uniform width.

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure generally provide methods of forming a silicon containing layer utilizing a deposition gas mixture with Ar gas dilution in a plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) process for display devices. The silicon containing layer may be used as an insulating layer, a passivation layer, a gate dielectric layer, an etch stop layer, an interlayer insulator or other suitable layers in thin film transistor (TFT) devices, or other suitable display applications.

Abstract: A first electrode pattern 25a and a second electrode pattern 25b, each composed of an opaque conductive fine line and a blank part 17 partitioned by the conductive fine line, have line segments 16a of the conductive fine lines 16, that face each other across a substrate 12, and the conductive fine line 16 in one of the first electrode pattern 25a and the second electrode pattern 25b is formed narrower in line width than that in the other of the first electrode pattern 25a and the second electrode pattern 25b only at the facing line segment 16a, thereby designed to have a non-uniform width.