Abstract: A cooling device is provided that can thin a boundary layer and thus obtain the effect of sufficiently improving the heat transfer coefficient. The cooling device for an electronic apparatus that has a plurality of members juxtaposed such that the surfaces of the members confront each other, the surface of at least one member of these members having a heat discharge surface from which heat is discharged, includes: a duct (100) equipped with an opening (100a) whereby a first air flow emitted from the opening (100a) flows in a first direction along the heat discharge surface, and a duct (101) equipped with an opening (101a) whereby a second airflow emitted from the opening (101a) flows along the heat discharge surface in a second direction that intersects with the first direction. Taking as a boundary a line (200c) that passes through the center (200a) of the heat discharge surface, the center of the opening (101a) is located on the side opposite the side in which the opening (100a) is provided.

Abstract: The invention provides a group III nitride semiconductor manufacturing system which is free from interruption to rotation of a rotational shaft.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first pad, a second pad, and a third pad that are placed along one side of a perimeter of the substrate, a circuit that is formed above the substrate, and that is coupled to the first pad, a first external terminal that is coupled to the second pad, and a second external terminal that is coupled to the third pad, wherein the circuit generates a signal indicative of a connection configuration between the first pad and the first external terminal, wherein the third pad is placed adjacent to one of the first pad and the second pad, wherein, in a direction parallel to the one side of the perimeter of the substrate, the first pad, the second pad and the third pad have a first width, a second width and a third width, respectively, and wherein each of the first width of the first pad and the second width of the second pad is smaller than the third width of the third pad.

Abstract: A receiving circuit includes a frame memory to store received data of one frame, a de-rate matching circuit to generate data before encoding by reading the received data from the frame memory and performing de-rate matching in a reverse manner to rate matching performed on the received data at a transmitting end, and a TTI memory to store the data before encoding.

Abstract: A method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming a dummy metal gate layer including work function metals directly on a base insulator, diffusing the work function metals into the base insulator by annealing, removing the dummy metal gate layer by a wet etching, forming a metal gate on the base insulator, and forming a high-k insulator on the metal gate.

Abstract: One exemplary embodiment includes a semiconductor chip that has a rectangle principal surface including a first and a second side that oppose each other. A first and a second semiconductor element, and a first and a second wire are formed on the principal surface. The first wire is formed from the first side to reach the second side, and coupled to the first semiconductor element. The second wire is formed to contact at least the first wire, and coupled to the second semiconductor element. Further, an edge part of the first wire on the second side and an edge part of the second wire on the first side are placed to substantially position on a common straight line which is vertical to the first and the second sides.

Abstract: A method of forming a semiconductor device includes the following processes. A first pillar and a second pillar are formed on a semiconductor substrate. A semiconductor film is formed which includes first and second portions. The first portion is disposed over a side surface of the first pillar. The second portion is disposed over a side surface of the second pillar. The first and second portions are different from each other in at least one of impurity conductivity type and impurity concentration. A part of the semiconductor film is removed by etching back. The first and second portions are etched at first and second etching rates that are different from each other.

Abstract: The electrolytic action torch (2, 12, 19, 22, 26) for the surface treatment of metals, comprises a nib (4, 11) connected with the unipolar supply of electric current (7) from an external apparatus, the other pole being connected with the metal surface being treated and a device for protecting the operator from the gases and vapors generated, and the protection device consists of a member suitable for providing the area of the nib with a flow of pressurized air (3, 5, 9, 23, 27, 29, 36). Different integrated and non-integrated embodiments of the delivery member of air in the vicinity of the nib are described.

Abstract: A ball spline includes a connecting part of a cage of a spline nut has a turning ball receiving part adapted to receive balls which are turning from a no-load raceway part, and a turned ball receiving part adapted to receive the balls which are forwarded to a main passage after turning. An outer diameter of the turning ball receiving part is made larger than an outer diameter of the turned ball receiving part.

Abstract: A spin-polarized electron generating device includes a substrate, a buffer layer, a strained superlattice layer formed on the buffer layer, and an intermediate layer formed of a crystal having a lattice constant greater than a lattice constant of a crystal of the buffer layer, the intermediate layer intervening between the substrate and the buffer layer. The buffer layer includes cracks formed in a direction perpendicular to the substrate by tensile strain.

Abstract: A display device uses a field sequential color scheme. Assume that a panel video writing period defines a period from the start of writing image data into a display panel to the completion of displaying the image on the basis of the image data in a sub-frame. A light source driving circuit generates a driving signal for gradually increasing the luminance of a light source of a color corresponding to a displayed image in the present sub-frame from zero to a predetermined value within the panel video writing period of the present sub-frame and for gradually decreasing the luminance of the light source from the predetermined value to zero within the panel video writing period of the next sub-frame. A light source driver drives the light source to emit light in accordance with the driving signal.

Abstract: A tandem continuous paper printer includes: a first printer engine; a second printer engine; and a printer controller; and performing tandem printing by performing printing using the second printer engine on a paper that has been printed on by the first printer engine, the tandem continuous paper printer being arranged so that the first printer engine is made to print tandem check marks on the paper at check page intervals and the second printer engine is provided with a sensor detecting the tandem check marks.

Abstract: A number of techniques are described for signalling the allocation of resources within a communications system. A preferred method that is described includes the steps of: receiving an allocation of sub-carriers for a user device, the allocation comprising data defining a starting block and data defining a number of consecutive blocks from the starting block; a first mapping step of mapping the data defining the number of consecutive blocks from the starting block to a first mapped value in accordance with first mapping data; a second mapping step of mapping the data defining the starting block and said first mapped value to a second mapped value representative of the allocation in accordance with second mapping data; and signalling said second mapped value as resource allocation data to the user device.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a control target circuit section; and a voltage control section configured to dynamically control a supply voltage to the control target circuit section. The control target circuit section includes: a delay monitor circuit configured to measure a delay in the control target circuit section as a monitor delay; and a target delay register configured to store a target delay data which shows a target delay as a target value of the monitor delay. The delay monitor circuit compares the monitor delay and the target delay shown by the target delay data and sends a comparison resultant signal to the voltage control section to show a result of the comparison. The voltage control section controls the supply voltage based on the comparison resultant signal such that the monitor delay approaches to the target delay.

Abstract: An illumination device for use in an endoscope includes a light source, an optical fiber and a wavelength conversion member. The optical fiber guides light to a tip end of an endoscope insertion portion of the endoscope. The wavelength conversion member is provided at an emission end of the optical fiber. The wavelength conversion member configured to be excited by the light source. The illumination device can provide white illumination light obtained by mixing light emitted from the optical fiber and light obtained by exciting the wavelength conversion member by the light emitted from the optical fiber. Also, the illumination device can provide illumination light being different from the white illumination light, by using other excitation light.

Abstract: An apparatus for cleaning (washing) spherical objects, preferably golf balls, includes two substantially round disks which are disposed in register with one another with an interspace which is less than the diameter of the spherical objects, at least the one disk being rotary and provided with a device for guiding the spherical objects out towards the periphery of the disk, and the second disk has a centrally located infeed opening and is provided with a brush which extends from the surface of the disk at an angle of less than 90° to the surface of the disk from the center of the disk out towards the periphery of the disk.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate, an insulator layer on the substrate, an inductor on the insulator layer, and a film including a ferromagnetic particle on the inductor.

Abstract: A booster circuit has: a charge pump configured to perform a booster operation that boosts a voltage supplied from an external power source and outputs the boosted voltage as an output voltage through an output capacitor; and a feedback circuit section configured to control the booster operation depending on the output voltage. A mode of the booster operation includes: a charge mode that charges the output capacitor with the voltage supplied from the external power source; and a discharge mode that discharges the output capacitor. The mode of the booster operation is switched between the charge mode and the discharge mode depending on the output voltage. The feedback circuit section has a booster operation control section that secures a period during which the mode is not switched between the charge mode and the discharge mode in accordance with an external synchronizing signal.

Abstract: A level shifter converts an input signal having an amplitude between a ground and a first power supply voltage into an output signal having an amplitude between the ground and a second power supply voltage. The level shifter includes an input unit, driven by the first power supply voltage, that raises a first pulse signal at a rise of the input signal and raises a second pulse signal having the same polarity as the first pulse signal at a fall of the input signal, and a level shift unit that converts a signal level of the first pulse signal into an amplitude level of the second power supply voltage, and converts a signal level of the second pulse signal into an amplitude level of the second power supply voltage.

Abstract: A microcomputer system according to the present invention includes multiple backup power supplies that are used instead of the main power supply in response to a voltage drop of a main power supply. The microcomputer system further includes a backup power supply monitoring circuit that monitors charge amount of the multiple backup power supplies and determines whether the charge amount is lower than a predetermined charge amount, a backup power supply charging circuit that charges the backup power supply from the main power supply, where the backup power supply is determined by the backup power supply monitoring unit that the charge amount thereof is lower than the predetermined charge amount, and a power supply switching unit that switches to the backup power supply selected according to a predetermined rule if a voltage of the main power supply is reduced.