Abstract: An objective-lens driving device includes a fixed block fixed to a moving base, a movable block having a lens holder configured to hold objective lenses, support springs configured to connect the fixed block and the movable block to each other, a focusing magnetic circuit including a first focusing coil, a second focusing coil, a first focusing magnet, and a second focusing magnet, and a tracking magnetic circuit. The first focusing coil is attached to the lens holder such that a first thrust-generating portion and a second thrust-generating portion are spaced from each other in a tangential direction. The second focusing coil is attached to the lens holder such that an axial direction of the second focusing coil coincides with the tangential direction. The first focusing magnet and the second focusing magnet are arranged in the tangential direction with the movable block disposed therebetween.

Abstract: An image detector which includes an active matrix substrate and a protection substrate bonded to the active matrix substrate by an insulating bonding member, in which the insulating bonding member is bonded to the active matrix substrate through an inorganic insulating film disposed in an area around the periphery of the semiconductor layer.

Abstract: Dividing memory used for storing histogram data into multiple banks is disclosed to allow for phased RMW cycles. Although the same address lines are provided to each bank, address control logic ensures that each successive RMW cycle is handled by a different bank, so that another RMW cycle can be started in one bank while the previous RMW cycle is still being performed in another bank. By staggering or phasing the starts of the RMW cycles in a wraparound fashion, each histogram bin is spread out over multiple banks, but testing can proceed faster than if only a single bank was used. After the histogram data has been captured, the areas of memory in each bank associated with a particular bin can be added together to compute the total count for that bin.

Abstract: A design structure for noise suppression. A design structure has a noise detection unit, a noise suppression unit, and a control unit. The noise suppression unit has an input and an output, wherein the input of the noise detection unit is connected to a signal and generates a signal change at the output if a change in the signal is detected. The noise suppression unit has an input and an output, wherein the input of the noise suppression unit is connected to the output of the noise detection unit and generates a correction to the signal in response to detecting the signal change at the output of the noise detection unit. The control unit has an input and an output, wherein input to the control unit is connected to the signal and turns off the noise suppression unit if a state change is detected in the signal.

Abstract: An inkjet ink capable of forming a polyimide film having, for example, strong mechanical strength, is provided. The inkjet ink contains: a polyamic acid (A) having a weight-average molecular weight of 50,000-500,000; one or more of an amic acid compound (B1) and an amic acid compound (B2), in which the amic acid compound (B1) is prepared from a compound (a3) having two or more anhydride groups and a monoamine (a5), and the amic acid compound (B2) is prepared from a diamine (a4) and a compound (a6) having one anhydride group; and a solvent (C).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for increased production of a secreted, recombinant protein product through the introduction of molecular chaperones in a mammalian host cell. The present invention also relates to a mammalian host cell with enhanced expression of a secreted recombinant protein product by coexpressing at least one chaperone protein.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a package on package (PoP) structure, which comprises: a first packaging substrate having a plurality of conductive elements on its surface; a second packaging substrate having a plurality of conductive elements on its surface; and a surface-ceramic aluminum plate sandwiched between the first packaging substrate and the second packaging substrate. The surface-ceramic aluminum plate includes plural plated through holes extending through the layer. In addition, the first packaging substrate electrically conducts with the second packaging substrate through these plated through holes. The disclosed structure eliminates the warpage problem of PoP structure, and enhances the strength of PoP structure.

Abstract: A method for testing a printed circuit board to determining the dielectric loss associated with the circuit board material relative to a standard. Dielectric losses in the material generate heat when a high frequency electronic signal, such as a microwave frequency signal, is communicated through a microstrip that is embedded within the printed circuit board. The temperature or spectrum at the surface of printed circuit board is measured and compared against the temperature or spectrum of the standard to determine whether the material under test is acceptable. While various temperature measurement devices may be used, the temperature is preferably measured without contacting the surface, such as using an infrared radiation probe.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes an optical system which forms an image of a shooting subject. A driving section drives the optical system. A focus operation section transmits a driving direction and a driving amount of the optical system on the basis of a manual operation. An image pickup element converts the image of the shooting subject formed by the optical system into a video signal. An evaluation section evaluates a focus condition of at least one area within a photographing field on the basis of the video signal from the image pickup element. An autofocus adjustment section selects an area which is determined to be focused as a result of the evaluation of the focus condition and drives the optical system to a position corresponding to the area determined to be focused.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for controlling overall transmission ratios in a vehicle powertrain with an engine, fixed multiple-ratio gearing and infinitely variable ratio components. For a given vehicle speed and for a given vehicle traction wheel horsepower, the fixed multiple-ratio gearing and the infinitely variable ratio components are controlled to operate with an overall ratio that will permit the engine to operate with optimum efficiency.

Abstract: There is provided a method of managing a cache memory. The method comprising resetting a flag indicative of lack of incoming data for generating a packet for forwarding; receiving the incoming data; storing the incoming data in the main memory; transferring the incoming data from the main memory into a cache buffer within the cache memory, the cache buffer having a buffer size; setting the flag indicative of the incoming data received for generating the packet for forwarding; processing the incoming data to generate the packet in the cache buffer for forwarding, the packet having a packet size; writing back the packet from the cache buffer into the main memory; first invalidating a portion of the cache buffer; transmitting the packet after the first invalidating; and second invalidating, after the transmitting, the cache buffer for the buffer size if the flag is not set by the setting.

Abstract: A lower system structure reports performance information to an upper system structure. When detecting performance deterioration of the system structure on the basis of the reported performance information, the upper system structure optimizes resource redistribution of the system structure that the upper system structure manages. If the performance is improved by the optimization in the managed system structure, the optimization results is applied to the resource control of the lower system structure, and the lower system structure redistributes the resources according to the resource control. If the performance is not improved by the optimization, the lower system structure reports the performance information to the upper system structure, which optimizes the resource redistribution.

Abstract: An annular member is mounted on an outer ring, and a sensor is fixed to the annular member. The annular member includes a fixing portion, and a cover portion. The sensor is fixed to the fixing portion by a bolt and a nut. The fixing portion is fixed to the cover portion by bolts. The cover portion is separate from the fixing portion, and therefore does not have an opening extending in a circumferential direction, and covers a magnet rotor fitted on an inner ring in the circumferential direction.

Abstract: An image-capturing device includes: a plurality of first pixels disposed along a first direction; a plurality of second pixels different from the first pixels disposed along the first direction in admixture with the plurality of first pixels; and an adder that adds a plurality of outputs provided by a plurality of first selected pixels selected from the plurality of first pixels to each other and a plurality of outputs provided by a plurality of second selected pixels selected from the plurality of second pixels to each other in such a manner that outputs provided by the first pixels and outputs provided by the second pixels are not added one to another. Disposition of the plurality of second pixels conforms to positional relationship of the plurality of first selected pixels in the plurality of first pixels.

Abstract: There is reduced labor to directly connect two ports selected from ports of a network analyzer in order to measure transmission tracking errors. A network analyzer, to which a test set which branches four ports to nine ports (main port group: three ports, and sub port groups: three ports ×2) is connected, includes transmission/reception ports, a transmission tracking error determining unit which determines transmission tracking errors of a combination of one of possible connections in the main port group and one of possible connections in the sub port groups for all the possible connections in the main port group based on signals before transmitted by the transmission/reception ports and reception signals, and a transmission tracking error deriving unit which derives other transmission tracking errors based on the transmission tracking errors determined by the transmission tracking error determining unit.

Abstract: Methods are provided that enable the ability to use a less aggressive liner processes, while producing structures known to give a desired high stress migration and electro-migration reliability. The present invention circumvents the issue of sputter damage of low k (on the order of 3.2 or less) dielectric by creating the via “anchors” (interlocked and interpenetrated vias) through chemical means. This allows the elimination or significant reduction of the sputter-etching process used to create the via penetration (“drilling, gouging”) into the line below in the barrier/seed metallization step. The present invention achieves the above, while maintaining a reliable copper fill and device structure.

Abstract: A gate electrode is buried in a trench passing through a second conductivity type first body region formed on a first conductivity type drain region so as to form a recessed portion at the upper part of the trench. An insulating film is formed on the gate electrode so as to occupy the recessed portion partway. A first conductivity type source region is formed in at least a region of the upper part of the first body region which serves as at least the wall part of the trench. A second conductivity type second body region is formed in the other region of the upper part thereof so as to be adjacent to the source region in the direction that the trench extends. A second conductivity type third body region is formed in the respective upper parts of the source region and the second body region.

Abstract: File data for an operating system may be stored in a compressed format in a re-programmable semiconductor memory. The memory may be provided with a header and data for one or more file systems all stored in a compressed format. A device driver also stored in the memory may be utilized to decompress the data and to convert it to a format suitable for a particular file system or operating system.

Abstract: A fixed codebook searching apparatus which slightly suppresses an increase in the operation amount, even if the filter applied to the excitation pulse has the characteristic that it cannot be represented by a lower triangular matrix and realizes a quasi-optimal fixed codebook search. This fixed codebook searching apparatus is provided with an algebraic codebook (101) that generates a pulse excitation vector; a convolution operation section (151) that convolutes an impulse response of an auditory weighted synthesis filter into an impulse response vector that has a value at negative times, to generate a second impulse response vector that has a value at second negative times; a matrix generating section (152) that generates a Toeplitz-type convolution matrix by means of the second impulse response vector; and a convolution operation section (153) that convolutes the matrix generated by matrix generating section (152) into the pulse excitation vector generated by algebraic codebook (101).

Abstract: A cradle bearing comprises a circular arcuate outer race arranged in a circular arcuate recessed part provided in a housing, a plurality of rollers arranged along the inner circumferential surface of the outer race and supporting a swash plate swingably, and a retainer for retaining the interval between the rollers. An engagement member and the end face of the retainer in the circumferential direction are in face-to-face contact with each other.