Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell and a control circuit. The memory cell is such that a ferroelectric film is provided as a gate dielectric film. When data is stored in the memory cell, the control circuit applies a first voltage to the gate dielectric film and thereafter applies a second voltage, whose amplitude is smaller than that of the first voltage and whose polarity is opposite to that of the first voltage.

Abstract: A vehicle door frame includes a door sash, a belt-line reinforcement member, and a bracket which connects the door sash and the belt-line reinforcement member to each other and is fixed to a door panel. The bracket is welded to the belt-line reinforcement member at a plurality of welding portions, each of the welding portions defining a welding line, where an extension of each of the welding lines are not aligned with one another.

Abstract: A dust removal device is provided which reduces the differences, among different dusty environments, in time at which dust collection is started until the time when possible clogging may occur to significantly increase the time from the start of dust collection until the time when possible clogging occur, while improving dust removal performance. The dust removal device includes main filter 10 that is formed of non-woven cloth 8 with charged fiber, duct 6-1 with main filter 10 disposed therein, sub-filter 11 including a plurality of cylindrical air trunks formed of a charged member, and duct 6-2 with sub-filter 11 disposed therein. Duct 6-1 and duct 6-2 are in communication with each other. In operation, air flows from duct 6-1 to duct 6-2. Main filter 10 in duct 6-1 has a larger vent cross-sectional area than sub-filter 11 in duct 6-2.

Abstract: The lens shifting device includes: first plate through which video light passes; second plate connected to first plate via elastic member and having projection lens attached to a position into which the video light that passed through first plate enters; slider disposed to project from second plate and housed in first plate to be movable in a predetermined direction; and guide shaft attached to first plate in the state of being engaged with slider and rotated to move the second plate. Elastic member is disposed between first plate and second plate to connect first plate and second plate in the state of generating an elastic contraction force.

Abstract: A vehicle door sash having a uniform cross-sectional shape is provided, including an enclosed section on a vehicle inner side, and an outer extending wall which extends from the enclosed section toward the vehicle outer side, the enclosed section provided with inner and outer walls, with respect to a vehicle width direction, a body-side wall, and a window-opening-side wall that is adjacent to a window glass of the vehicle door. A weather strip is abutted against the body-side of the outer extending wall, and a glass runner is abutted against the window side of the outer extending wall. The body-side wall of the enclosed section is straight in cross section. A thickness of at least one of the inner and outer walls of the enclosed section is greater than a thickness of each of the body-side wall and the window-opening-side wall.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell and a control circuit. The memory cell is such that a ferroelectric film is provided as a gate dielectric film. When data is stored in the memory cell, the control circuit applies a first voltage to the gate dielectric film and thereafter applies a second voltage, whose amplitude is smaller than that of the first voltage and whose polarity is opposite to that of the first voltage.

Abstract: An electronic device includes an input acceptance section that accepts an input of a command that causes any one of a plurality of operation states to be selected; a function section that has a plurality of operation states that differ in power consumption and that operates in an operation state selected from among the plurality of operation states; a storage section that pre-stores a reference value, power consumption values corresponding to the plurality of operation states and a conversion factor; and a control section that multiplies a difference between the power consumption value of the selected operation state and the reference value by the conversion factor, obtains an increased/decreased amount of emitted greenhouse gas, and causes the increased/decreased amount, which indicates whether or not the power consumption value of the selected operation state is lower than the reference value, to appear on a display section.

Abstract: A belt molding for an automotive door panel includes a molding body made of a hard resin and having an outer wall and an inner wall; a design tape fusion-bonded to an outer surface of the outer wall; and a lip made of a soft resin and standing from the vicinity of an edge portion of the outer wall. The outer surface of the outer wall to which the design tape is fusion-bonded is convexly curved in a direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction. An edge portion of the design tape is covered with a root portion of the lip. A largest curvature portion of the outer wall is located immediately under a covered portion of the design tape.

Abstract: An electronic device of the present invention includes an input acceptance section that accepts an input of a command that causes any one of a plurality of operation states to be selected; a function section (342) that has a plurality of operation states that differ in power consumption and that operates in an operation state represented by the command that is input to the input acceptance section of the plurality of operation states; a storage section (16) that pre-stores power consumption values corresponding to the plurality of operation states and a conversion factor, based on which, power consumption is converted into an amount of emitted greenhouse gas; and a control section (15) that reads from the storage section a power consumption value corresponding to an operation state represented by the command that is input to the input acceptance section, multiplies the power consumption value that has been read by the conversion factor, obtains the multiplied result as the amount of the emitted greenhouse gas

Abstract: A lens cleaning mechanism according to the present invention comprises: a cleaning unit (1a) that covers a standby area being a part of the surface of a front lens element (11), as the standby area is pressed, the cleaning unit (1a) being rotationally moved along the surface of the front lens element (11) to slide over the entire surface of the front lens element (11), including a remaining part of the surface and the standby area; a drive unit (3) connected to a holding member (1b); and a control unit (2) for rotationally moving the cleaning unit (1a) by driving the drive unit (3).

Abstract: It is possible to reliably prevent dust particles from becoming attached to optical components and it is also possible to suppress temperature rises in optical components. A projection type display device according to the present invention includes a plurality of optical components (20, 21, 24, 30, and so on), a hollow structure (45, 50, or the like), and an air blow source (19, 46, or the like). The plurality of optical components are provided along the optical axis direction of light emitted from a light source. The hollow structure includes optical components (20, 24) that are to be protected from the attachment of dust particles to optical components among the plurality of optical components, and forms an enclosed space separated from the surroundings. Then, the source that blows air is provided in the inside of the enclosed space to circulate the internal air for cooling targets.

Abstract: The method of manufacturing a semiconductor device selectively forms a resist film on the multilayer gate film and the gate side wall insulating film extending on the semiconductor substrate. An upper part of the gate side wall insulating film and the hard mask film selectively are removed by etching using the resist film as a mask so as to expose a surface of the metal film. the metal film and the barrier metal film adjoining the metal film are removed, by wet etching. After the removal of the resist film, embedding a space formed by removal of the metal film and the barrier metal film and depositing a pre-metal dielectric to a level higher than an upper surface of the remaining hard mask film. A top part of the pre-metal dielectric is planarized by CMP using the remaining hard mask film as a stopper.

Abstract: A projection type display device includes a lamp, polarization means (21) for converting light emitted from the lamp to polarized light, a liquid crystal panel for modulating the polarized light to form an image light, a projection lens (7) for projecting the image light, fans (11R, 12G, 23B) for taking outside air in and for supplying the outside air to the polarization means and the liquid crystal panel, a filter for collecting dust contained in the outside air, a first detection means for detecting temperature T1 of the outside air, a first control means for controlling the number of revolutions of the fan in response to temperature T1, a second detection means for detecting temperature T2 of the polarization means, a storage means for storing reference temperature T3, and a second control means. The second control means issues a warning or stops the projection type display device when temperature T2 is higher than reference temperature T3.

Abstract: The invention relates to a door sash having a cross-sectional shape including a design portion and a hollow portion formed on an inboard side with respect to the design portion and connected to the design portion, and is intended to provide a door sash which achieves weight reduction. The hollow portion is an extrusion mold of light metal, the design portion is a product having a variable cross-sectional shape in which the shape in the direction of the width of a vehicle is increased in length as it gets close to a waist line of a door, and the hollow portion is integrated with the design portion. The door sash further includes: a glass run holder positioned on an outboard side with respect to the hollow portion and configured to hold a glass run which a window glass comes into abutment with, the glass run holder being adjacent to the design portion, and a bracket which connects the glass run holder and the hollow portion.

Abstract: A dust removal device is provided which reduces the differences, among different dusty environments, in time at which dust collection is started until the time when possible clogging may occur to significantly increase the time from the start of dust collection until the time when possible clogging occur, while improving dust removal performance. The dust removal device includes main filter 10 that is formed of non-woven cloth 8 with charged fiber, duct 6-1 with main filter 10 disposed therein, sub-filter 11 including a plurality of cylindrical air trunks formed of a charged member, and duct 6-2 with sub-filter 11 disposed therein. Duct 6-1 and duct 6-2 are in communication with each other. In operation, air flows from duct 6-1 to duct 6-2. Main filter 10 in duct 6-1 has a larger vent cross-sectional area than sub-filter 11 in duct 6-2.

Abstract: The present invention provides compositions, methods of manufacture, process and uses for diagnosing, preventing, inhibiting, and treating the development and proliferation of diseases and disorders associated with Okadaella gastrococcus (Og) bacterial infection in a patient.

Abstract: In a laser processing method, a workpiece is set with respect to a jig having a laser passage hole and a relative position of the jig and the workpiece is determined so that the laser passage hole can face toward a target processing point on the workpiece. Then, laser light is irradiated on the target processing point through the laser passage hole while creating a stream of an inert gas flowing from a peripheral area of the target processing point toward the target processing point and flowing away from the workpiece through the laser passage hole.