Abstract: A device management apparatus is connected to a plurality of devices via a network and includes a processing unit. The processing unit includes a trap setting part that defines a trap setting of each device, a storing part that stores device information of each device, transmitted by a trap processing of each device, in a predetermined storage area of a storage device as device management information of management object devices, and an excepting part which deletes device information of a device from the device management information. When an exception request for excepting exception devices from the management object devices is received, the trap setting part changes a trap setting of each exception device to an OFF state and the excepting part deletes device information of each exception device from the device management information.

Abstract: A semiconductor package includes a wiring board and a semiconductor device mounted on the wiring board. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate and a penetration electrode penetrating the semiconductor substrate. A cavity part is formed in the semiconductor substrate to isolate the penetration electrode from the semiconductor substrate. A connection terminal is provided at a position where the connection terminal does not overlap the penetration electrode in a plan view. The connection terminal electrically connects the semiconductor device to the wiring board.

Abstract: A disclosed semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip having an electrode pad on a circuit forming face of the semiconductor chip, an internal connection terminal formed on the electrode pad, a stepped portion formed along an outer edge portion of the circuit forming face of the semiconductor chip, a first insulating layer formed on the circuit forming face of the semiconductor chip to cover at least the stepped portion, a second insulating layer formed on the circuit forming face of the semiconductor chip to cover the first insulating layer, and an interconnection formed on the second insulating layer and electrically connected to the electrode pad via the internal connection terminal.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a photoresist pattern on an insulating film formed on a semiconductor substrate by applying a photoresist on the insulating film; processing the insulating film by removing an unnecessary portion of the insulating film by wet etching; and implanting ions into the insulating film before and/or after forming the photoresist pattern. In implanting the ions, the depth of a damaged region formed in the insulating film by implanting the ions is changed in accordance with the presence or absence of the photoresist pattern.

Abstract: A flexible cable connecting structure includes a terminal part including a plurality of conductive patterns, the conductive patterns being formed at an end part of a flexible cable; a plurality of connector pins that are provided side by side inside a connector, the connector pins being configured to be connected to the terminal part; a cable side guide part fixed at a rear surface of the terminal part of the flexible cable; and a connector side guide part provided at a cable inserting opening of the connector, the connector side guide part being configured to guide inserting and detaching of the cable side guide part. The cable side guide part slides on the connector side guide part when the cable side guide part is being inserted into the cable inserting opening of the connector, so that the inserting and detaching of the cable side guide part is guided.

Abstract: A wiring board includes a substrate having a surface made of an insulating resin. An adhesion layer is formed on the substrate. A wiring layer is formed on the adhesion layer. The adhesion layer is formed by a nitrided NiCu alloy containing nitrogen therein. A nitrogen content of the nitrided NiCu alloy is within a range from 1 atoms % to 5 atoms %.

Abstract: In the hybrid-type construction machine, the control unit (60) includes a drive distributing unit (60-8) and an output condition calculating unit (60-9). The output condition calculating unit (60-9) calculates output conditions inclusive of an output setting of the electric storage device determined from a state of charge of the electric storage device (58), an output setting of the engine determined from a number of revolutions of the engine (50), a hydraulic load required value indicative of drive power required by the oil pressure generating unit, and an electric load required value indicative of electric power required by the electric drive unit. The drive distributing unit (60-8) determines output values of the electric drive unit and the hydraulic drive unit based on the calculated output conditions.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a conveyance part; a detecting part; a control part which prints image data on the printing medium based on a detecting signal from the detecting part; a masking part configured to perform a masking process on the detecting signal generated by the detecting part between when the printing medium starts being conveyed from the printing medium receiving part and when the printing medium passes through a designated section; a conveyance distance measuring part configured to measure a conveyance distance of the head end of the printing medium conveyed from a receiving position of the printing medium receiving part; a determining part configured to determine whether the printing medium stops in an uncertain position not detected by the detecting part when the conveyance part stops while the printing medium is being conveyed by the conveyance part; and a masking process section setting part configured to set.

Abstract: A connector includes a plurality of contact modules each including a contact member and a contact module body covering the contact member, and a plurality of shield members each including a shield body part corresponding to the contact module body of the contact module. The contact modules and the shield members are alternately arranged and accommodated close to each other in a housing. The shield body part of each shield member includes a first hook part configured to be engaged with a rear end of the contact module body in order to prevent the shield body part from turning up from the contact module body.

Abstract: A communication device is disclosed that includes an antenna apparatus including: a feeding portion, a looped antenna element connected to the feeding portion, and a resistor inserted into the looped antenna element; and a communication circuit configured to process data that is transmitted and received via the antenna apparatus.

Abstract: A molecular simulation method that acquires physical properties or physical quantities of a predetermined shape using simulation, including arranging atoms in the predetermined shape, acquiring interatomic potential based on positions of the arranged atoms, and carrying out a molecular dynamics calculation based on the acquired interatomic potential, and acquiring the physical properties or the physical quantities.

Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a first communicating part that reads data stored in a storage device of an outside apparatus and writes data in the storage device of the outside apparatus, a second communicating part that transmits and receives data with respect to the outside apparatus, and an operation controlling part that operates either the first communicating part or the second communicating part. The operation controlling part is configured to operate the first communicating part when power is supplied to the communication apparatus and operate the second communicating part when power is not supplied to the communication apparatus.

Abstract: A disclosed fine pattern forming method includes steps of: forming patterns made of a first photoresist film, arranged at a first pitch on a film; trimming the patterns made of the first photoresist film; depositing a protection film on the patterns made of the first photoresist film on the trimmed patterns made of the first photoresist film, the protection film being made of reaction products of an etching gas, thereby obtaining first patterns; forming other patterns made of a second photoresist film, arranged at a second pitch, on the protection film, the other patterns made of the second photoresist film being shifted by half of the first pitch from the corresponding patterns made of the first photoresist film; trimming the other patterns made of the second photoresist film into second patterns; and etching the film using the first patterns and the second patterns.

Abstract: A phosphorylcholine group-containing compound that is a structure having a phosphorylcholine group represented by the following formula 1 and an amino group or a group derived from an amino group in an identical compound. (In the formula, m is 2 or more and 6 or less and p is 1 or 2. Each of X1, X2 and X3 is an alkyl group whose carbon number is 1 or more and 6 or less.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a coordinate position detecting device includes the steps of forming the common electrode on the resistive film of tour sides of the substrate having a rectangular-shaped configuration; measuring the electric potential of the resistive film by plural probes contacting a surface of the resistive film where the electric potential is supplied from the common electrode to the resistive film; calculating a resistive film removing area, based on a value of a measured electric potential, by a calculating part so that the electric potential distribution of the resistive film is made uniform; and removing the resistive film in the resistive film removing area calculated by the calculating part, by a laser light.

Abstract: An information processor includes a display part displaying a configuration pattern combining values set for corresponding two or more of printing conditions; a management part managing default values for the printing conditions for an image forming apparatus; a recording part recording the configuration pattern and optionally setting an identifier as a value for the individual printing conditions, the identifier being indicative of the individual default values; and a setting part, in response to the identifier being set for at least one of the two or more of the printing conditions in the recorded configuration pattern, obtaining one of the default values corresponding to the at least one of the two or more of the printing conditions from the management part and setting the obtained one of the default values for the at least one of the two or more of the printing conditions in the configuration pattern.

Abstract: A nonvolatile memory device includes one or more reference cell transistors, one or more memory cell transistors, and a current source circuit including three or more field effect transistors that have gates thereof connected together, the three or more field effect transistors including two or more field effect transistors and another field effect transistor, currents flowing through the two or more field effect transistors being combined to flow through the one or more reference cell transistors, and another field effect transistor having a drain thereof connected to one of the one or more memory cell transistors.

Abstract: A method of forming an image by an image forming apparatus provided with a print head having plural nozzles, wherein the print head has an overlapping area whose print area overlaps a print area of a physically adjacent print head, or has an overlapping area whose print area overlaps an adjacent scan line on a print sheet surface, includes an image forming step of forming an image by the print head, wherein the image forming step includes a control step of controlling in a variable manner an amount of ink sprayed from a proximity nozzle situated in close proximity of the overlapping area, the proximity nozzle being one of the nozzles situated in a non-overlapping area outside the overlapping area.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus including an input part configured to input document data of a document, an extracting part configured to automatically extract partial image data from the document data, a storage part configured to store the document data and configuration data of the document data, a registering part configured to associate the document data with the partial image data and register the document data and the associated partial image data in the storage part, a generating part configured to generate push-type data based on the configuration data, and a transmitting part configured to transmit the push-type data.

Abstract: A surface modification method includes a step of applying, onto a material, an application fluid containing a polymer having a functional group capable of producing a silanol group through hydrolysis thereof and an alkoxysilane and a step of applying, onto the material on which the application fluid is applied, an application fluid containing a hydrophilizing agent having a functional group capable of producing a silanol group through hydrolysis thereof or a silanol group.