Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetoresistive memory device includes a substrate, a first oxide film provided on the substrate, bottom electrodes provided in the first oxide film, a part of each of the bottom electrodes protruding above the first oxide film, magnetoresistive elements provided on the respective bottom electrodes, sidewall nitride films provided on side surfaces of the respective bottom electrodes and the magnetoresistive elements, a second oxide film provided on the magnetoresistive elements, the sidewall nitride films and the first oxide film, and contact electrodes provided in the second oxide film and the first oxide film to reach the substrate from an upper surface of the second oxide film.

Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus stores ejection pattern information and slight vibration pattern information indicating two-dimensional arrangements of ejection information and slight vibration information, respectively. A controller transmits an ejection signal when the ejection information at a first position in the ejection pattern information is first information and when the slight vibration information at a second position in the slight vibration pattern information is third information or fourth information. The controller transmits a slight vibration signa the ejection information at the first position is second information and when the slight vibration information at the second position is the third information. The controller transmits a non-vibration signal when the ejection information at the first position is the second information and when the slight vibration information at the second position is the fourth information.

Abstract: A conversion area in a storage of a printer is determined to accommodate slips of different sizes. Slips are conveyed along a path that is guided on one side and open on the other. A detector detects the length of the slip in the conveyance direction. Dimensions of the conversion area are determined based on the detected length of the slip, and a recording range of a recording head is also determined. Font data is read from memory based on font code that is received from a control device and written in the conversion area per line unit in the order in which the font code is received and in a direction corresponding to toward the open side of the conveyance path and away from the guided side of the conveyance path. The recording head is controlled to record the font data in the conversion area on the slip.

Abstract: A wire-equipped crimp terminal includes a wire, a crimp terminal and a coating agent. The wire has a conductor exposed from an insulative sheath. The crimp terminal has a crimping piece which is press-deformed to embrace the conductor. The coating agent is coated to a first part of the crimp terminal. A recess is formed at a non-coating part of the crimp terminal where the coating agent is not coated. The coating agent is cured by irradiating light or an electron beam to the first part in a state where a part of the coating agent flowing out from the first part is received in the recess.

Abstract: Provided are a coating agent giving a coating film which has superior adhesion even to polyolefin resin base materials that have not been subjected to preliminary surface treatment and which has satisfactory adhesion even to high-polarity base materials; a decorative film having at least one layer formed from said coating agent; an article decorated with said decorative film. The coating agent includes an olefin polymer having a heat of fusion in the range of 0 to 50 J/g and having a weight average molecular weight (Mw) as measured by GPC of 1×104 to 1000×104, and a hydrocarbon-based synthetic oil having a 40° C. kinematic viscosity of 30 to 500,000 cSt.

Abstract: According to the present invention, a recording apparatus includes an apparatus body having a front surface and a rear surface that constitute a front and a back, a first microphone which is placed in the front surface of the apparatus body and which has a predetermined directivity, a second microphone which is provided in the rear surface facing the front surface of the apparatus body and which has a directivity that is narrower than that of the first microphone, and a recording processing unit which switches a microphone for use in recording processing between the first microphone and the second microphone to perform the recording processing in accordance with the state of the apparatus body.

Abstract: An antenna-integrated wireless module is provided which does not need a metal case, and which can realize size reduction. A shield layer is formed on an upper surface of a resin sealing layer, which is disposed on one principal surface of a substrate and which covers a wireless region and an antenna region, such that the shield layer does not cover a portion of the resin sealing layer, the portion being positioned directly above the antenna region. Hence the shield layer formed on the upper surface of the resin sealing layer on the side covering the wireless region can serve to suppress electromagnetic waves radiated from a wireless functional section, which is disposed in a region overlapping the wireless region when looking at the module in a plan view, and which includes an RF circuit disposed at least on the one principal surface of the substrate or inside the substrate.

Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes: a channel unit including: a discharge port; a first channel through which liquid to be supplied to the discharge port flows; and a second channel communicated with the first channel and the discharge port; an actuator including a first and second electrodes and a piezoelectric layer, and being configured to apply pressure to the liquid in the second channel; and a signal supply unit configured to selectively supply a discharge driving signal and a non-discharge driving signal to the actuator. The discharge driving signal includes a first voltage signal which drives the actuator to discharge the liquid from the discharge port, and the non-discharge driving signal includes a plurality of second voltage signals each of which drives the actuator not to discharge the liquid from the discharge port.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) element includes a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer and a non-magnetic layer between the first and second magnetic layers, a contact layer formed underneath the MTJ element, the contact layer being formed of a first material, and a first layer formed around the contact layer, wherein the first layer in contact with a side surface of the contact layer, has a first width extending parallel to a stacking direction of the MTJ element, and a second width extending perpendicularly to the direction of extension of the first width, the second width being less than the first width.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic memory is disclosed. The magnetic memory includes a substrate, an electrode provided on the substrate, a first insulating film surrounding a side surface of the electrode. The first insulating film contains oxygen. The magnetic memory further includes a second insulating film provided between the electrode and the first insulating film, and surrounding the side surface of the electrode. The second insulating film contains nitrogen. A magnetoresistance effect element is provided on the electrode.

Abstract: A semiconductor light-emitting device having favorable optical characteristics can include a first conductor pattern having a die-bonding pad and a second conductor pattern having a wire bonding pad, which are formed on a circuit board. The semiconductor light-emitting device can also include a semiconductor light-emitting chip mounted on the die-bonding pad, a first encapsulating material, which can include a wavelength converting material to wavelength-convert light emitted from the chip and can cover the chip in a substantially fair dome shape on the circuit board, and a second encapsulating resin to cover the first encapsulating material, which can transmit light emitted from the first encapsulating material. Thus, a semiconductor light-emitting device is provided, which can emit a mixture light having various color tones and favorable optical characteristics and which can be used to illuminate goods laid out in a narrow show window, a vending machine, and the like.

Abstract: An adhesive includes a modified olefin polymer (A) allowing a polymer of a C2 to C20 ?-olefin having a structural unit derived from a C4 to C20 ?-olefin to be modified with a monomer having a functional group capable of reacting with an isocyanate group and having a heat of fusion measured in accordance with JIS K7122 of 0 J/g or more and 50 J/g or less and a polyisocyanate (B).

Abstract: A thin film forming method for forming a thin film on a workpiece accommodated within a reaction chamber includes a first operation of supplying a first source gas and a second source gas into the reaction chamber, and a second operation of stopping the supply of the first source gas, supplying the second source gas into the reaction chamber and setting an internal pressure of the reaction chamber higher than an internal pressure of the reaction chamber set in the first operation. The first operation and the second operation are alternately repeated a plurality of times.

Abstract: A connector includes a housing formed with a plurality of terminal insertion holes into which a plurality of terminal metal fittings is inserted, respectively, and a spacer arranged inside the housing and coating the plurality of terminal metal fittings. The spacer includes main bodies fixed inside the housing, and a plurality of slit doors provided in the main bodies and divided into a plurality of small pieces by a plurality of slits. Each of the slit doors elastically deforms by abutting a terminal metal fitting inserted into a terminal insertion hole when the terminal metal fitting passes therethrough, and is brought into contact with the terminal metal fitting when the terminal metal fitting is attached to the housing.

Abstract: A semiconductor light-emitting device having favorable optical characteristics can include a first conductor pattern having a die-bonding pad and a second conductor pattern having a wire bonding pad, which are formed on a circuit board. The semiconductor light-emitting device can also include a semiconductor light-emitting chip mounted on the die-bonding pad, a first encapsulating material, which can include a wavelength converting material to wavelength-convert light emitted from the chip and can cover the chip in a substantially fair dome shape on the circuit board, and a second encapsulating resin to cover the first encapsulating material, which can transmit light emitted from the first encapsulating material. Thus, the disclosed subject matter can provide the semiconductor light-emitting device, which can emit a mixture light having various color tones and the favorable optical characteristics and which can be used to illuminate goods laid out in a narrow show window, a vending machine, etc.

Abstract: A thin film forming method for forming a thin film on a workpiece accommodated within a reaction chamber includes a first operation of supplying a first source gas and a second source gas into the reaction chamber, and a second operation of stopping the supply of the first source gas, supplying the second source gas into the reaction chamber and setting an internal pressure of the reaction chamber higher than an internal pressure of the reaction chamber set in the first operation. The first operation and the second operation are alternately repeated a plurality of times.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a variable resistance memory including a bit line extending in a first direction, a word line extending in a second direction, and a memory cell array including memory cells, each of the memory cells including a variable resistance element and a selective transistor, the element being configured to store two-bit data using a change in resistance, the element being connected to the bit line, a gate of the selective transistor being connected to the word line, wherein a first and a second write current are selectively applied to the element, to enable the data to be written, and a first and a second read current are selectively applied to the element, to enable the data to be read.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory unit, a receiver unit, and a control unit. The memory unit stores unit identification information indicating a function extension unit that is permitted to transmit and receive data. When adjacent to the function extension unit, the receiver unit receives unit identification information indicating the function extension unit from the adjacent function extension unit by wireless communication. When the received unit identification information is identical with the unit identification information stored in the memory unit, the control unit permits data transmission and reception with the adjacent function extension unit via the wired transmission channel.

Abstract: The present invention is an enteric coated granule having controlled dissolution in water even at a small coating amount; and a preparation method thereof.

Abstract: A conversion area in a storage of a printer is determined to accommodate slips of different sizes. Slips are conveyed along a path that is guided on one side and open on the other. A detector detects the length of the slip in the conveyance direction. Dimensions of the conversion area are determined based on the detected length of the slip, and a recording range of a recording head is also determined. Font data is read from memory based on font code that is received from a control device and written in the conversion area per line unit in the order in which the font code is received and in a direction corresponding to toward the open side of the conveyance path and away from the guided side of the conveyance path. The recording head is controlled to record the font data in the conversion area on the slip.