Abstract: The invention provides an aliphatic polymer having a ketone group and ether bonding in its main chain, characterized by comprising structural units represented by the Formula (1) and by the Formula (2). In the Formulae (1) and (2), Ra and Rb each independently represents a substituted or unsubstituted divalent aliphatic hydrocarbon group. Rc represents a substituted or unsubstituted divalent aliphatic hydrocarbon group having ether bonding in a terminal thereof, or a single bond. N1 represents an integer of 1 or more. N2 represents an integer of 0 or more. And, n1+n2 is in a range of 2 to 1000. The polymer preferably contains ether bonds and ketone groups in a ratio of 0.01 to 100. The polymer can be substantially comprised of a structural unit represented by the Formula (1) as a repeating unit. A resin composition containing as a component structural units represented by the Formula (1) is also provided. The resin composition may further comprise an electrically conductive powder.

Abstract: The present invention is an SOI wafer in which at least a silicon active layer is formed over a support substrate via an insulator film or on a support substrate directly, wherein, at least, the silicon active layer consists of a P(phosphorus)-doped silicon single crystal grown by Czochralski method, which is occupied by N region and/or defect-free I region, and contains Al (aluminum) with concentration of 2×1012 atoms/cc or more. There can be provided with ease and at low cost an SOI wafer with high electrical reliability in a device fabrication process, that has an excellent electric property without generation of micro pits by cleaning with hydrofluoric acid etc. even in the case of forming an extremely thin silicon active layer, or that retains high insulation property even in the case of forming an extremely thin inter-layer insulator film.

Abstract: The low voltage circuit for starting up a synchronous step-up DC/DC converter, which connects to a voltage source through an inductor, includes a P-type power transistor, an N-type power transistor and a controller. The P-type power transistor includes a body diode, and one end of the P-type power transistor acts as a power source of an oscillator. The N-type power transistor connects the P-type power transistor in series, and both of the power transistors are not enabled at the same time. The oscillator electrically connects to the controller, which enables the P-type power transistor at initialization time, and enables the N-type power transistor a period after the initialization time.

Abstract: A current detector (60) samples a motor current (MCRT_A) from a controlling sensor and a motor current (MCRT_B) from a monitoring sensor, and holds respective motor current maximum values (MCRT_Amax, MCRT_Bmax) at each prescribed operation cycle. An abnormality determiner (62a) detects that the motor current maximum value (MCRT_Amax) is in GND short-circuiting range and that the current difference between the maximum values exceeds a prescribed threshold value at each of successive operation cycles, to thereby determine an abnormality of the controlling sensor. Then, the abnormality determiner (62a) generates a detect signal (DET) specifying the current sensor abnormality and outputs it to a relay driver (64) and an alarm (66). Relay driver (64) receives the detect signal (DET) and generates a signal (SE) to turn off a system relay. The alarm (66) generates a signal (AL) and outputs it to display means arranged outside a power supply apparatus.

Abstract: In a signal generator, a peak value/peak position detection section detects value and position of an amplitude peak observed in modulation data coming from an orthogonal modulation section, and a peak carrier extraction section extracts L subcarriers capable of minimizing such an amplitude peak. A peak carrier generation section generates peak suppression data corresponding to thus extracted subcarriers, and a subtraction section subtracts the peak suppression data from the modulation data. A transmission signal generation section generates an analog transmission signal from the modulation data, and a peak suppression section generates an analog peak suppression signal from the peak suppression data. A signal synthesis section synthesizes the transmission signal and the peak suppression signal, and sends out the synthesis result to a wireless communications line via a transmission antenna. With such a structure, any amplitude peak found in a multicarrier transmission signal can be successfully suppressed.

Abstract: In a flying capacitor type battery voltage detector on a circuit substrate, a large number of photo MOS switches having performance highly depending from temperature are dividedly disposed on front and back surfaces of the circuit substrate such that the photo MOS switches of the back surface are lying over the photo MOS switches of the front surface. Each of pairs of photo MOS switches connects a pair of surface lines with first and second floating lines to transmit an output voltage of each cell of a battery pack connected with the surface lines to a differential amplifier through a flying capacitor connected with the floating lines. Because of the division of the photo MOS switches on the surfaces of the circuit substrate, temperatures of the photo MOS switches have less dispersion, and an S/N ratio of each signal indicating the output voltage can be improved.

Abstract: An electrophoretic display device includes a display layer comprised of a binder having a multiplicity of individual cavities therein that contain a display medium, and conductive substrates, at least one of the conductive substrates being transparent, wherein the display layer is located in between the conductive substrates, and wherein the display medium comprises one or more set of colored particles in a dielectric fluid and has an electrical conductivity of about 10?11 to about 10?15 S/m. The display device may be made by forming composite particles comprised of a sacrificial binder and the one or more set of particles of the display medium; mixing the composite particles with the binder to form a mixture; forming a layer from the mixture; removing the sacrificial binder from the composite particles in the layer to form cavities in the layer that contain the one or more set of colored particles; and filling the cavities with the dielectric fluid.

Abstract: A device includes banks formed on a substrate, a conducting film formed by droplet ejection onto a predetermined pattern formation region in a groove between the banks, and a second conductive film formed by droplet ejection disposed outside the pattern formation region and electrically separated from the conductive film.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrical machine, comprising: a supporting structure; a stator cantilevered-out from the structure; and a rotor mounted to rotate on the structure about an axis of rotation in such a manner as to be capable of being driven by the stator, the supporting structure comprising a hollow central shaft substantially coaxial about the axis of rotation of the rotor, an electric cable for powering the stator traveling along the inside of the shaft, and the rotor having a drive surface for transmitting torque to at least one element that is to be driven, the drive surface being situated at least in part around the shaft.

Abstract: An engine ECU executes a program including the steps of, when it is necessary to calculate an integral term, employing an integral term for use when two pumps are operating for calculation of a duty when the number of operating pumps is 2 and storing the calculated integral term in a memory as the one for use in the case of two pumps operating, and employing an integral term for use when one pump is operating for calculation of a duty when the number of operating pumps is not 2 and storing the calculated integral term in the memory as the one for use in the case of one pump operating.

Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide an illumination optical device including a light source unit having an arc tube, an ellipsoidal reflector, and a collimator lens, a first lens array to split the luminous flux output from the light source unit into plural partial luminous fluxes, and a superposing lens to superpose the respective partial luminous fluxes split by the first lens array on an image forming region of a liquid crystal panel, and to illuminate the liquid crystal panel in which microlenses are arranged on an incident side of the rectangular image forming region so as to correspond to pixels. By such a constitution, an illumination optical device capable of enhancing image quality and addressing and/or achieving miniaturization and a projector including the device can be provided.

Abstract: A semiconductor device having a memory region in which a memory cell array is formed of non-volatile memory devices arranged in a matrix of plurality of rows and columns. Each of the non-volatile memory devices has: a word gate formed above a semiconductor layer with a gate insulating layer interposed; an impurity layer formed in the semiconductor layer to form a source region or a drain region; and sidewall-shaped control gates formed along both side surface of the word gate. Each of the control gates consists of a first control gate and a second control gate adjacent to each other. The first control gate and the second control gate are respectively formed on insulating layers having different thickness.

Abstract: A foldable keyboard includes first, second, and third keyboard units U1, U2, and U3 which are rotatably connected with one another by means of main links (4) and (5) disposed on side end surfaces of each unit. The first and second units U1 and U2 are rotatably connected by means of an auxiliary link (6) parallel to the main link (4), and the second and third units U2 and U3 are rotatably connected by means of an auxiliary link (7) parallel to the main link (4). The first unit U1 is formed with recesses (38) at four corners of a peripheral wall member (12) and the second unit U2 is formed with projections (36) at four corners of an undersurface of the second unit U2 so that the projections (36) are received in the recesses (38) when the first, second, and third units U1, U2, and U3 are disposed (stacked) one upon another into a folded state.

Abstract: A particulate filter (22) is arranged in an exhaust passage of an engine. When an amount of discharged particulate discharged from a combustion chamber (5) per unit time exceeds an amount of particulate removable by oxidation which can be removed by oxidation on the particulate filter (22) per unit time without emitting a luminous flame, at least one of the amount of discharged particulate and the amount of particulate removable by oxidation is controlled so that the amount of discharged particulate becomes smaller than the amount of particulate removable by oxidation, whereby the particulate in the exhaust gas can be continuously removed by oxidation on the particulate filter (22) without emitting a luminous flame.

Abstract: In a scanning device producing an image from data obtained from a nonlinear piezoelectric scanner having an attached end and a free end providing the data from a lateral scanning motion of the free end a distance about a center position as a result of the connection of a changing scan voltage to elecrodes carried by the piezoelectric scanner, a method of making the scanning motion of the free end linear with time and increasing the speed at which the data is provided for producing the image.