Abstract: A plasma display panel is provided which is free from blisters and pinholes on its dielectric layers and has excellent characteristics of breakdown voltage. The plasma display panel has a multilayered first dielectric layer covering a display electrode including a scanning electrode and a sustain electrode that are provided on a front substrate, and a multilayered second dielectric layer covering a data electrode that is provided on a back substrate. The periphery of an upper dielectric layer of the first dielectric layer and/or the second dielectric layer is positioned identically or partially in size and shape to a periphery of a lower dielectric layer to be formed.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a microstructure, which includes at least one feature having a dimension less than 200 nm, on a work piece. Pulses of UV laser light having a duration of less than about 1 ps and a peak wavelength of less than about 380 nm are generated. These pulses of UV laser light are focused to a substantially diffraction limited beam spot within a target area of the work piece. The fluence of this substantially diffraction limited beam spot in the target area of the work piece is controlled such that the diameter of the section of the target area machined by one of the pulses of UV laser light is less than 200 nm.

Abstract: In a semiconductor device for generating complementary PWM signals for, for example, controlling an inverter, a dead time is flexibly added by using a simple architecture. A dead time addition unit adds time elapsing until a value of a timer reaches a set value of a register as a first dead time at a rise of a first PWM signal. On the other hand, time elapsing until the value of the timer reaches a set value of another register is added as a second dead time at a rise of a second PWM signal.

Abstract: A navigation system, which can determine a place suitable for meeting as a meeting place, is disclosed. This navigation system obtains positional information of mobile units, and extracts candidates for a meeting place from adequate meeting places registered in advance. The navigation system automatically selects or a user manually selects one place from the extracted candidates, and determines the selected one as the meeting place. The navigation system transmits the information about the meeting place to the other mobile units, so that the mobile units can meet each other at the right meeting place free from any place-caused inconvenience.

Abstract: A plasma display panel is provided, in which a false discharge between adjacent discharge cells is prevented, and generation of an address discharge between a scanning electrode and a data electrode is ensured, thereby enabling the panel to display a quality picture. A discharge cell includes a recess in a dielectric layer that overlaps a display electrode consisting of a scanning electrode and a sustain electrode, wherein a dimension where the recess overlaps the scanning electrode is made larger than a dimension where the recess overlaps the sustain electrode. A discharge area is restricted within the recess for preventing a false discharge to occur between adjacent discharge cells, thereby stabilizing address discharge between the scanning electrode and a data electrode.

Abstract: A sheet capacitor of the invention has a contact portion formed in a through-hole requiring electrical connection with an IC connection pin among the through-holes in which the IC connection pins are inserted, and a capacitor element connected to the contact portion. Another sheet capacitor of the invention includes an insulating board and a capacitor element mounted on the insulating board. The insulating board has a connection land with an IC at the upper side, and a connection land with a printed wiring board at the lower side. The capacitor element and connection lands at the upper and lower side of the insulating board are connected with each other electrically. In any one of these configurations, a capacitor element of large capacity and low ESL is connected closely to the IC, and the mounting area of the peripheral circuits of the IC can be increased.

Abstract: An information processing device for sequentially reading and executing programs stored in memory means, including: a program counter for outputting an address for reading a program to the memory means; an instruction decoder for decoding instructions read from the memory means in response to a control signal indicating a period in which the types of codes used in at least a field among fields constituting an instruction in the program are limited to a predetermined number or less; and controlled means for performing processing corresponding to the decoded results output from the instruction decoder. The instruction decoder has a reconfigurable circuit for changing the circuit configuration in response to the control signal so that the decoding is performed based on a relationship between codes in a field in which the types of codes used are limited and decoded results, the relationship being set so that the number of times of change of bit values in the field is reduced.

Abstract: The media player employs an operating system that supports a virtual machine into which auto-run playback programs may be loaded and run. The auto run playback program is stored on the media containing the program content, such as on an optical disc medium. When the medium is inserted in the player, the auto run playback program automatically launches and is thereafter used to access playback the media content.

Abstract: A head slider has, on its front face opposing a disk, a positive pressure generating section and a negative pressure generating recess, and a sloped face slopping toward the air outlet side. By virtue of the sloped face, the negative pressure hindering with high-speed unloading operation of the head slider can be decreased quickly. Thus, at the time of unloading, an additional load is not necessary for the suspension, and the stroke of the suspension for raising the head slider can be shortened. Therefore, a disk drive which is thinner, smaller, and capable of high recording density can be realized.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display according to the invention includes a liquid crystal display element (100) having a liquid crystal layer (4) containing liquid crystal molecules oriented so as to assume a bend alignment when an image display is being made, and at least one retardation plate for compensating for a retardation of the liquid crystal layer, wherein the display is made by varying the retardation of the liquid crystal layer in accordance with video signals inputted from outside to vary the transmittance of the liquid crystal display element to light for display, characterized in that: the liquid crystal display element (100) includes a plurality of red pixels for displaying a red color, a plurality of green pixels for displaying a green color, and a plurality of blue pixels for displaying a blue color; and a thickness (53B) of the liquid crystal layer (4) associated with the blue pixels is larger than a thickness (53R, 53G) of the liquid crystal layer associated with the red pixels and/or the green pixels.

Abstract: An arc discharge metal halide lamp having a discharge chamber having visible light permeable walls bounding a discharge region supported electrodes in a discharge region spaced apart by a distance Le with an average interior diameter equal to D so they have a selected ratio with D exceeding a minimum value. Ionizable materials are provided in this chamber involving a noble gas, one or more halides, and mercury in an amount sufficiently small so as to result in a relatively low maximum voltage drop between the electrodes during lamp operation for a lamp dissipation sufficient to have the chamber wall loading exceed a minimum value or so as to maintain chamber luminosity above a minimum value for a selected operational duration.

Abstract: An optical lens 1 makes three components of visible light and near infrared light in different wavelength regions severally form images at different locations according to their wavelengths. An imaging element 2 has a plurality of pixels, which include pixels having a visible light detection section 6 and pixels having a near infrared light detection section 8. The visible light detection section 6 has three detectors 3, 4, and 5 which detect three components of visible light which form images at locations of different depths in the same pixel according to their wavelengths. The near infrared light detection section 8 has a near infrared light detector 7 which detects near infrared light which forms an image at a location of a depth different from the depths at which the three components of visible light form images.

Abstract: The inventive method for manufacturing a semiconductor device is a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device using irradiation with laser light to partition a substrate having semiconductor layers formed thereon, with gallium contained in at least one of the substrate and the semiconductor layers, wherein the method comprises: forming grooves to be used as boundaries between individual substrates by irradiating the substrate along partitioning locations with laser light, immersing the substrate into an acid solution, and partitioning the substrate into individual substrates along the boundaries where grooves are formed. In this manner, it provides a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device in which, during the partitioning of a gallium-containing semiconductor device substrate, deposits of gallium compounds adhered during laser irradiation are removed, partitioning surfaces are formed flat and uniform, and the incidence of electrode continuity failures and resin peeling is low.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a pressure sensor, an object detecting system and an opening and closing system which realize the improvement in efficiency of sealing work on end portions of the pressure sensor and which are fabricated at low costs, as well as a pressure sensor fabricating method which requires no complex and troublesome steps. A pressure sensor (17) includes a pressure sensing means (a piezoelectric sensor (33)) for detecting a deformation due to an external force and a sensor accommodation body (a support means (35)) which incorporates therein the pressure sensing means and which is made from a thermoplastic elastomer, and the sensor accommodation body is sealed off at at least one end portion thereof through a thermal treatment.

Abstract: Of two bearings supporting a rotor of a circuit-integrated type core-equipped brushless motor, a part of an outer periphery of the bearing, which is disposed at a position near a stator core, is allowed to directly abut on an inner periphery of a hole formed in a center of the stator core, and therefore, reduction in thickness, reduction in diameter, space-saving and enhancement in output power can be realized. The stator core is fixed to the casing by causing projected parts provided at the housing to bite into second notched parts formed inside first notched parts formed at the stator core and crimping them, whereby the problem of a decrease in a winding space accompanying reduction in a diameter of the stator core is solved, and reduction in thickness, reduction in diameter, space-saving and enhancement in output power are achieved.

Abstract: A communication system enabling significant reduction in delay in handover between MAPs without increasing the number of MAPs to install. In the communication system, MAP(101) issues a Router Advertisement to AR(111) to AR(118). Particularly, MAP(101) assigns a plurality of Router Advertisements of a source of care-of address (RCOA) to register with HA to AR(118) of a cell on either side of a boundary of areas for each MAP. MN(107) receives a Router Advertisement transmitted from AR that is a communicating party among AR(119) to AR(126), and using the Router Advertisement, generates care-of addresses, RCOA and LCOA. AR(111) to AR(118) transmit the Router Advertisement RA generated by MAP(101) to MN in communication. Further, AR(111) to AR(118) transmit the care-or-addresses, RCOA and LCOA, issued from MN(107) to MAP(101).

Abstract: An interpolated image obtained by enlarging and interpolating an image (IN) is subjected to predetermined vector transformation to calculate an image feature vector. Also, a characteristic of a subject is obtained to calculate a physical characteristic parameter of the interpolated image. The physical characteristic parameter is used to transform the image feature vector to sharpen the interpolated image. The transformed image feature vector is subjected to transformation inverse to the predetermined vector transformation to generate an enlarged image (ELI).

Abstract: In order to improve system throughput in a radio transmitting apparatus of a multicarrier system in which transmission is performed simultaneously to a plurality of receiving stations using subcarriers, subcarriers are divided into blocks, a receiving station is selected on a block unit basis, and the number of subcarriers per block is varied adaptively for each receiving station based on the propagation environment of that receiving station.

Abstract: Disclosed is an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus that can dynamically change a focus position of a phasing circuit installed in a sub-array. A transducer element is two-dimensionally arrayed and constitutes a sub-array. The sub-array is two-dimensionally arrayed and constitutes an arrayed transducer element. An output of the transducer element of the sub-array is sent to a phasing circuit and a phasing circuit. Outputs of the phasing circuits are coupled by a coupling circuit. All of the foregoing transducer elements, sub-arrays, phasing circuits and coupling circuits are accommodated in a probe handle. An output from the coupling circuit is sent through a probe cable to a delay adding circuit of a main body. Also, the phasing circuits are controlled by a control circuit. An output of the delay adding circuit is processed by a signal processor and displayed on a display.

Abstract: A current summing type D/A converter having a configuration of two or more steps is provided. In a D/A converter block of the first step, by adding current segments, upper bits are D/A converted, and one of the current segments in the first step is further supplied to a D/A converter block in a second step to be shunt by the D/A converter block in the second step, so that lower bits are D/A converted. The output current in the first step and the output current in the second step are then added each other. According to the foregoing method, the D/A conversion may be performed without causing a differential linearity error.