Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes a substrate, and first isolation structures, at least one buried word line and at least one second isolation structure which are disposed in the substrate. The buried word line intersects the first isolation structures. The second isolation structure intersects the first isolation structures. A material of at least a portion of the second isolation structure is different from a material of the first isolation structures.

Abstract: Provided is a memory device including a substrate, isolation structures, conductive pillars, and bit-line structures. The substrate includes active areas. The active areas are arranged as a first array. The isolation structures are located in the substrate and extending along a Y direction. Each of the isolation structures is arranged between the active areas in adjacent two columns. The conductive pillars are located on the substrate and arranged as a second array. The conductive pillars in adjacent two rows are in contact with the active areas arranged as the same column, to form a first contact region and a second contact region. The bit-line structures are arranged on the substrate in parallel along a X direction. Each of the bit-line structures is in contact with the active areas arranged as the same column, to form a third contact region between the first and second regions.

Abstract: There is provided an engine stopping device including a stopping solenoid, where an operating shaft, interlocked to a control rack of a fuel injection pump, is rotatably supported by an engine case in a pass-through manner. The control rack is forcibly movable to a stopping position by an action of the stopping solenoid on an operation arm provided for a projecting portion of the operating shaft in an integrally rotatable manner. An extending-retracting rod of the stopping solenoid and the operation arm are interlocked by fitting engagement between a pin provided for the extending-retracting rod and a cut-out portion of the operation arm. The cut-out portion is configured in a shape elongated along a direction perpendicular to a movement trajectory of the extending-retracting rod.

Abstract: The disclosed technology is directed to a fixing unit of a light guide member. The fixing unit is attaching the light guide member to a protective member that protects outer circumference of the light guide member that guides primary light and a holding member. The fixing unit comprises a defining member forming a spatial region in which the protective member and the holding member are encapsulated separately from one another in a longitudinal axis direction of the fixing unit. An adhesive that is applied in the spatial region to bond at least part of the protective member and at least part of the holding member to the defining member. The defining member includes a specific region that defines a bonding range of the adhesive in the spatial region in at least one of a longitudinal axis direction and a radial direction of the defining member.

Abstract: A radio communication method includes: by a radio terminal device, generating position indicating signals that are different between blocks of radio resources each of which is an allocation unit of data; mapping the position indicating signals generated and transmission data to the blocks; and transmitting a signal including the blocks; by a base station device, receiving the signal including the blocks of the radio resources; evaluating continuity of the blocks, based on the position indicating signals mapped to the blocks; and demodulating data mapped to the blocks for each radio terminal device, based on an evaluation result.

Abstract: A seal device of a turbine includes: at least one step surface disposed on a radially outer surface of a rotor blade facing a first radial-directional gap or on an outer peripheral surface of a rotor facing a second radial-directional gap, the at least one step surface facing upstream in a flow direction of a fluid and dividing the radially outer surface of the rotor blade or the outer peripheral surface of the rotor into at least two sections in an axial direction of the rotor; at least two seal fins protruding toward the at least two sections, respectively, from a surrounding member or the stationary vane, and facing the at least two sections via a seal gap, respectively, the at least two seal fins forming a cavity which extends over the at least one step surface in the axial direction of the rotor between each other.

Abstract: A seal structure (2) for sealing a gap between a first structure body (10) and a second structure body (51). The seal structure includes: a peripheral surface formed on one of the first structure body and the second structure body; a plurality of seal fins (5) provided at intervals in the axial direction so as to form clearances (m) together with the peripheral surface and protrusions that form re-adhesion edges between pairs of axially adjacent seal fins; the re-adhesion edges being locations at which leak currents (SL) re-adhere that have passed through a clearance (mA) of an upstream seal fin; and the protrusions forming first cavities in which eddies (B1) are created that flow along the upstream seal fin toward the second structure body, and second cavities in which currents (B2) are created that cause a contraction current effect on a clearance (mB) of a downstream seal fin.

Abstract: A turbine is provided with a seal device. The seal device includes: at least one step surface disposed in a region of an outer peripheral surface of a rotor facing a shroud of a stationary vane in the radial direction of the rotor, the at least one step surface facing upstream in a flow direction of the fluid and dividing the region of the outer peripheral surface into at least two sections in an axial direction of the rotor: at least two seal fins protruding toward the at least two sections from the stationary vane and facing the at least two sections via a seal gap; and a swirling-component application portion disposed on an end side of the shroud of the stationary vane with respect to the axial direction of the rotor and configured to be capable of applying a swirling component to the fluid flowing toward the seal gap.

Abstract: A base station to be used in a communication system in which an uplink and a downlink are time-multiplexed, includes: a controller configured to set a first time period and a second time period in a single frequency block among multiple frequency blocks included in the uplink or the downlink and set symbol lengths or cyclic prefixes for the set first and second time periods so that the symbol lengths or cyclic prefixes set for the first time period are different from the symbol lengths or cyclic prefixes set for the second time period; and a transmitter configured to transmit setting information of the set symbol lengths or the set cyclic prefixes to the user equipment.

Abstract: A two-dimensional photonic crystal including a plate-shaped base body in which modified refractive index areas differs from the base body are periodically arranged in a two-dimensional pattern; an active layer provided on one side of the two-dimensional photonic crystal; and first and second electrodes facing each other across the two-dimensional photonic crystal and the active layer, for supplying an electric current to the active layer. The modified refractive index areas are provided in the in-plane occupancy of areas in the base body increases, or the lattice constant for those areas decreases, in the direction from an outer edge toward the center of a current passage region where the electric current passes through the two-dimensional photonic crystal. A stable laser oscillation can be obtained when temperature distribution is lower at the outer edge and higher at the center of the current passage region is formed within the two-dimensional photonic crystal.

Abstract: A base station device communicates with a user equipment by using a frame including a downlink region in which a signal for a downlink is allocated and an uplink region in which a signal for an uplink is allocated. The base station device includes: a guard period determination unit, a frame configuration determination unit, a notification unit, and a communication circuit. The guard period determination unit determines a length of a guard period provided between the downlink region and the uplink region based on a transmission delay between the base station device and the user equipment. The frame configuration determination unit determines a configuration of the frame based on the length of the guard period. The notification unit notifies the user equipment of configuration information that indicates the configuration of the frame. The communication circuit communicates with the user equipment based on the configuration of the frame.

Abstract: A developer supply device includes a container body that receives and contains a developer with which a toner cartridge is filled and that has a supply port used for supplying the developer, which is contained in the container body, to a developing device, a sensing member that detects the developer contained in the container body, a first transport member that is rotatably disposed in the container body and that transports the developer at a first transport speed by rotating, and a second transport member that is rotatably disposed in the container body in such a manner as to face the sensing member and that transports the developer at a second transport speed that is higher than the first transport speed by rotating.

Abstract: A wireless communications system configured to perform wireless communication by using a first band dedicated to the system and a second band shared by the system and another wireless communications system, the system including: a base station configured to transmit in the first band to the terminal, a control signal permitting data transmission in the second band from a terminal to the base station; and the terminal configured to detect an available carrier wave of the second band after a predetermined time from the transmission of the control signal by the base station, the terminal performing the data transmission after waiting until detection of the available carrier wave.

Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a radio signal; processor circuitry configured to generate a response signal to respond to the received radio signal; and a transmitter configured to transmit a plurality of types of signals including the generated response signal, wherein a size of a radio resource to be used for transmitting the generated response signal is changed when the plurality of types of signals including the generated response signal are transmitted on one physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource.

Abstract: A communications system includes a first mobile terminal; a second mobile terminal that includes one or more mobile terminals in a state of being unable to directly communicate with the first mobile terminal and that transmits to a network, via a base station, service information indicating communications services that the second mobile terminal is able to provide in inter-terminal communication; and a communications apparatus that is provided on the network and that transmits to the first mobile terminal, information related to a communications service that the first mobile terminal is able to use, among the communications services indicated by the service information transmitted by the second mobile terminal.

Abstract: A radio communication apparatus to perform communication with another radio communication apparatus by using a plurality of frequency bands, the radio communication apparatus includes: a receiver configured to receive, when performing a random access procedure to the another radio communication apparatus, a control message by using a first frequency band as a message transmitted by the radio communication apparatus at a last of the random access procedure, the control message instructing communication using a second frequency band different from the first frequency band; and a controller configured to control communication according to reception of the control message, to perform data communication with the another radio communication apparatus by using the second frequency band.

Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a first light emitting unit (10) which includes: a first blue light emitting element (11) emitting emission light with the peak wavelength being a first wavelength; and a first phosphor layer (12) and outputs white light of a first chromaticity; and a second light emitting unit (20) which includes: a second blue light emitting element (21) emitting emission light the peak wavelength being a second wavelength, the second wavelength being longer than the first wavelength; and a second phosphor layer; and outputs white light of a second chromaticity. In an xy chromaticity diagram, the first and second chromaticities are located symmetrically with respect to a predetermined chromaticity, and the difference between the predetermined chromaticity and each of the first and second chromaticities is not greater than 0.04.

Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a substrate (40); blue light emitting elements (10) arranged on the main surface of the substrate (40); and a phosphor sheet (30) containing a phosphor that is excited by emission light from the blue light emitting elements and emits excitation light, the phosphor sheet (30) being disposed above the blue light emitting elements (30), wherein the blue light emitting elements (10) includes first blue light emitting elements (11) which emit first emission light having a first wavelength taken as a peak wavelength of a light emission spectrum, and second blue light emitting elements (12) which emit second emission light having a second wavelength taken as a peak wavelength of a light emission spectrum, and the second wavelength being a longer wavelength than the first wavelength by a wavelength difference of at least 10 nm.

Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes an element body of roughly rectangular solid shape which is constituted by dielectric layers alternately stacked with internal electrode layers having different polarities and which has a pair of principle faces, a pair of end faces, and a pair of side faces, wherein the multilayer ceramic capacitor is such that: external electrodes are formed on the pair of end faces and one principle face of the element body; and on a cross section taken in parallel with one end face of the multilayer ceramic capacitor near the end face, the ratio of area A constituted by the internal electrode layers connected to the external electrode on this end face side and the dielectric layers present between the internal electrode layers, and area B covering the part of the section excluding the external electrodes, A/B, is 0.92 or more.

Abstract: Provided is a turbine. One of a tip portion of a blade and a portion of a partition plate outer ring corresponding to the tip portion of the blade is provided with a step part having a step face that protrudes toward the other, and the other is provided with seal fins) extending out with respect to the step part and forming minute clearance between the step part and the other. The step part facing the seal fins is configured to protrude so that a cavity forming a main vortex and counter vortex being formed by the main vortex are formed on an upstream side of the seal fins. The cavity is formed so that an axial width dimension and a radial height dimension satisfy Formula expressed by 0.45?D/W?2.67.