Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a high-quality capillary tube used in an electrophoresis apparatus in a safe and inexpensive manner. A polymer coating on a capillary tube is converted into gas and removed through an oxidative reaction with oxygen radicals resulting from ozone decomposition.

Abstract: The invention provides a manufacturing method of a laser diode having buried grown layer with less crystal defects and with low consumption power and having high reliability in a buried heterostructure laser diode using an InGaAlAs type material as an active layer, by preventing the inhibition of burying and regrowing of the active layer caused by oxidation of Al contained in the active layer. A manufacturing method of a semiconductor laser diode and the active layer comprises a material at least containing Al and having a buried hetero-cross sectional structure, formation of the buried heterostructure, comprising the steps of fabricating the active layer into a stripe shape or mesa shape by etching including at least wet etching, cleaning the stripe-shape sidewall of the core layer with a gas containing chlorine or other halogen element in a crystal growing apparatus and burying the active layer in the semiconductor.

Abstract: A method for examining nucleotide sequences of a sample includes adding a group of primers of multiple species to a solution containing the sample and simultaneously synthesizing complementary strands at each of the multiple regions containing the nucleotide sequences; designing the DNA probes with specific sequences elongate the complementary strands by the presence or absence of mutations in the nucleotide sequences, wherein the same number of such DNA probes and the nucleotide sequences are used for complementary strand synthesis; using the nucleotide sequences or their complementary sequences as a template to convert pyrophosphate produced during the elongation reaction to ATP which then reacts with chemiluminescent substrates to develop luminescence to be detected. According to the method, sensitivity is greatly increased by amplification of the amount of pyrophosphate produced in synthesis of the complementary strands without amplifying the copies of nucleotide sequences.

Abstract: A reclining mechanism for a vehicle seat includes first and second attachment members coupled with each other at their outer peripheries and connected by a hinge pin, a slide pawl slidably mounted within one of the attachment members, and a cam element mounted on the hinge pin in a space between the attachment members. The cam element is engaged with the slide pawl to maintain engagement with the ratchet portion of the attachment member when the hinge pin is retained in a torsion spring load position. This construction permits relative rotation of the attachment members for adjustment of an inclined angle of a backrest. In the reclining mechanism, a thrust member is coupled with one of the attachment members and welded to a frame structure of the back rest allowing the device to be assembled as a unit.

Abstract: A hard disk drive and magnetic medium including a servo area, a data area divided into a plurality of sector blocks and at least one micro-servo area disposed between two sector blocks. There may be a micro-servo area immediately preceding each of the plurality of sector blocks. The micro-servo areas include an address mark and a track parity check code that allow the detection of an external shock that causes the recording (write) head to skip to an adjacent track in the hard disk medium. The micro-servo area is smaller than the servo areas, and various numbers of different track parity check codes can be used for different resolution of shock detection. An acceleration sensor may also be provided to detect larger external shocks. By detecting various external shocks with improved accuracy, and aborting the recording operation of data if an external shock is detected, the corruption of data in adjacent tracks is substantially reduced to improve disk drive performance.

Abstract: The present invention aims at producing a biochip by an inkjet system without wasting a DNA solution. A biochip-producing solution is prepared to contain a combination of a DNA solution 6 to be spotted on a plate 5 and a low-cost buffer solution 7 to be remained in the device after the production. The buffer solution 7 used has a different specific gravity from that of the DNA solution 6 and thus is not mixed therewith.

Abstract: As the top electrode material of a thin-film electron emitter, a material having a bandgap wider than that of Si and electrical conductivity is used. In particular, a conductive oxide such as an SnO2 or ITO film and a wide-bandgap semiconductor such as GaN or SiC are employed. The electron energy loss in a top electrode through which hot electrons pass can be reduced so as to enhance the electron emission efficiency. A high emission current can be obtained in the case of the same diode current as a prior art. In addition, in the case of the same emission current density as a prior art, a small driving current is enough. A bus line and driving circuits can be simplified.

Abstract: There is provided a TFT liquid crystal display device in which the adhesion strength of a sealing material is high and the reliability of its terminals is high. In a peripheral area of the liquid crystal display device, an organic protective film underlying the area of the sealing material is collectively removed together with an inorganic protective film, and video signals are respectively led from drain lines of a display area in such a manner that the respective drain lines are temporarily connected to gate lines underlying an insulating film under the sealing material.

Abstract: Disclosed here is an information providing system for mobile objects. The system obtains information of a moving purpose of the user of each mobile object to provide the user with information matching with the moving purpose. The information providing system comprises route type determining apparatus for determining the type of the current route on which the user is moving, provided information selecting unit for selecting information to be provided to the user according to the route type determined by the route type determining apparatus, and provided information presenting means for presenting the information selected by the provided information selecting unit to the user. Therefore, the user can receive more proper information according to the user's moving purpose at that time, thereby the convenience of the user is improved while the information provider can improve the advertisement effect by transmitting information to more proper users.

Abstract: A virtual private volume control system, wherein in a data frame of a command issued from an OS, an ID number for identifying the OS is attached to the command; inside the disk apparatus, exclusion/priority processing is controlled, based on the ID number; thereby enhancing the transaction processing performance of a complex of servers and the disk apparatus as a whole.

Abstract: A semiconductor device which has an internal circuit for performing a circuit operation corresponding to a signal inputted or outputted through an input/output interface circuit adapted to a serial bus. The semiconductor device has a non-volatile storage circuit for storing identification data. Internal identification data stored in the non-volatile storage circuit is compared with external identification data included in an input signal supplied through the serial bus by a comparator circuit. A control circuit is responsive to a match detecting signal generated by the comparator circuit to perform a circuit operation corresponding to an input signal subsequently supplied through the serial bus to change the internal identification data stored in the non-volatile storage circuit.

Abstract: The storage system includes disk control clusters. Each cluster has channel IF units, disk IF units and local shared memory units. The channel IF units, disk IF units and local shared memory units in the plurality of disk control clusters are connected to each other across the disk control clusters by interconnection, global information control unit for storing management information about the disk control clusters is connected to the interconnection. Host computers and the channel IF units of the disk control clusters are connected via front-end switch for storing copy of the management information. Since the front-end switch reflects the contents of the copy of the management information on routing table, an access request from the host computer can be sent to a suitable disk control cluster.

Abstract: There is provided an electric connection-inspection device which does not impair a freedom of selection of using materials from a viewpoint of restriction in terms of product's function with the aptitude of electric features of electric resistance and physical properties of internal stress, and restriction in terms of manufacture as to the appropriation or not of employment of a plating method, and which has a fine construction provided with the excellent durability that an electrode element is hard to adhere and coagulate.

Abstract: An apparatus can detect a magnetic field with a high sensitivity using an ordinary-temperature pickup coil even when the pickup coil is arranged outside a cryostat. Specifically, the apparatus for measuring a magnetic field includes a pickup coil for detecting an external magnetic field, a SQUID electrically or magnetically connected to the pickup coil, a cryostat for holding the SQUID at low temperatures, and a driving device for driving the SQUID. The pickup coil is made of a normal-conducting material and is placed at an ordinary temperature outside the cryostat. By arranging outside the cryostat, the pickup coil can be brought close to a subject and can thereby detect a weak magnetic field in the subject with a high sensitivity.

Abstract: A perpendicular magnetic recording medium, which has a low level of recording noise and sufficiently large perpendicular magnetic anisotropy energy relative to demagnetizing field energy, includes a substrate and a multi-layered magnetic film. The multi-layered magnetic film is composed of ferromagnetic metal layers of Co alloy containing at least Cr and non-magnetic metal layers of Pd alloy, each one layer of which are laminated alternately on top of one layer of the other. The ferromagnetic metal layers and the non-magnetic metal layers have a thickness of d1 and d2, respectively, with the ratio of d1/d2 being in the range of 1.5 to 4.0. This specific layer structure reduces the magnetic exchange interaction between magnetic particles in the multi-layered magnetic film. Therefore, the perpendicular magnetic recording medium is stable against thermal disturbance and has a low level of recording noise.

Abstract: In a TFT type liquid crystal display device comprising first and second transparent substrates and a liquid crystal layer which is sandwiched between the first and second substrates, the first substrate includes a plurality of video signal lines, a plurality of scanning signal lines and a plurality of pixel regions which are formed as regions surrounded by the video signal lines and the scanning signal lines, each pixel region includes at least one active element, one pixel electrode and one common electrode, and color filter layers are formed between the pixel electrodes and the liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal display device is substantially characterized in that the common electrodes are formed as layers above the color filters, the pixel electrodes are formed as layers below the color filters, and the color filters are superposed at least on the whole surfaces of the pixel electrodes in the pixel region.

Abstract: A process for selectively forming a metal barrier layer on a surface of an interconnect of a wiring substrate comprising the steps of abrading the substrate and simultaneously feeding onto the substrate a plating solution having said metal dissolved therein. The abrading step comprises contacting the substrate against an abrasive surface and causing relative linear and/or rotary motion between the abrasive surface and the substrate while the substrate is in contact with the abrasive surface. Growth of the metal barrier layer on a portion of the wiring substrate other than the interconnect layer is suppressed and the metal barrier layer thus formed is thinner, exhibits improved uniformity and superior prevention against Cu diffusion.

Abstract: The invention relates to an implant, especially a breast implant, which is made of a biocompatible material with a pore structure. The biocompatible material is preferably designed to be reabsorbable.

Abstract: An interlayer dielectric film that surrounds via holes for connecting wirings of a second wiring layer and the wirings of third wiring layer is constituted of a dielectric material having a relatively smaller Young's modulus compared with the Young's modulus of a dielectric material constituting a dielectric film that surrounds wiring grooves in dual damascene wirings, which can improve the heat resistance and electromigration resistance of the dual damascene wirings.

Abstract: A personal identification system, which uses a vein pattern of a finger, optimizes the amount of light of a light source based on a captured finger image and emphasizes the vein pattern during image processing for identification.