Abstract: To enhance and/or improve reliability in a method of forming a semiconductor device. An exemplary method of forming a semiconductor device forms a conductive part within a concave portion which is formed in a first surface of a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate includes an integrated circuit. The method also thins the substrate by removing a part of a second surface of the semiconductor substrate so as to make the conductive part penetrate from the first surface to the second surface, and cuts the semiconductor substrate into pieces. An electric property of the semiconductor substrate is inspected through the conductive part after the conductive part is formed.

Abstract: An exemplary aspect of the invention can provide a method for easily adjusting the distortion of a projected image. In adjusting the amount of distortion correction, values of the amount of distortion correction for a desired outline form to be formed based on desired positions are calculated after the desired positions can be specified. Then whether all the calculated values of the amount of distortion correction are within a predetermined range where an original image is transformable into a distortion correction image can be judged. If all the calculated values of the amount of distortion correction are within the predetermined range, the calculated values of the amount of distortion correction can be set in an image distortion correction part.

Abstract: For providing an ink composition which can reduce matamerizm while reducing the total amount of inks used when such ink composition is simultaneously used with another ink composition, and prevent reduction of the image quality, the present invention provides an ink composition wherein the difference between the maximum value and the minimum value of the reflectance of an output color through an ink jet output over a light source wavelength range of 400 to 700 nm, in which such output color satisfies formulae (1), (2) and (3) below at a spatial coordinate (L* a* b*) stipulated by CIE under the D 50 light source is not more than 20%: (1) 45?L*?55 (2) ?10<a*<10 (3) ?10<b*<10

Abstract: In a TFT active matrix electro-optical device, the pixel-aperture ratio is increased while a pixel electrode and a semiconductor layer are interconnected, and a high resolution image can be displayed, with a relatively simple structure. For that purpose, the electro-optical device includes a TFT array substrate provided with a TFT, a data line, a scanning line, a capacitor line, and a pixel electrode. The pixel electrode and the TFT are electrically connected to each other, and are interconnected by a first barrier layer through contact holes. A second barrier layer is formed broader than the data line, and a portion of the second barrier layer overlaps the pixel electrode, and thus the pixel-aperture region is delimited.

Abstract: A paper feeding roller rotates to feed the continuous paper along a paper path. A print head performs printing on the continuous paper. The print head has a first side opposing to the paper path and a second side opposite to the first side. A cutter mechanism is overlappingly disposed with the print head, at a downstream of the paper path relative to the print head, to cut the continuous paper. A motor is disposed in the second side of the print head to provide a driving force to the paper feeding roller and the cutter mechanism. A cutter driving mechanism is disposed in the second side of the print head to transmit the driving force of the motor to operate the cutter mechanism.

Abstract: The manufacturing method of the present invention forms a patterned gate layer 140d as a dummy circuit on a peripheral portion of a chip 900 simultaneously with formation of a patterned gate layer 140a in a memory area 1000, prior to formation of an insulating layer 270 over whole surface of a semiconductor substrate. This causes appearance of a new protrusion on the top surface of the insulating layer 270 in the peripheral portion of the chip 900. The insulating layer 270 is subsequently polished by chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) technique. The presence of the new protrusion on the top surface of the insulating layer 270 effectively reduces the polishing rate and thereby decreases the polishing degree on the peripheral portion of the chip 900.

Abstract: Performance of an electronic device is highly improved by epitaxially growing a perovskite-type oxide thin film on an inorganic amorphous layer or an organic solid layer in a desired direction; and furthermore, a high performance electronic device is provided by incorporating the electronic device into an integrated circuit, wherein oxide thin layers are formed on the inorganic amorphous layer or the organic solid layer, and the perovskite-type oxide thin film is grown epitaxially on the oxide layer, the oxide thin layers being able to be at least one of strontium oxide, magnesium oxide, cerium oxide, zirconium oxide, yttrium stabilized zirconium oxide, and strontium titanate; and as the perovskite-type oxide thin film, the perovskite-type oxide thin film being a piezoelectric or ferroelectric material, for example, is used.

Abstract: A panel substrate includes a substrate, a plurality of display electrodes running in parallel on the substrate, and a plurality of wirings respectively continuous from the display electrodes formed on the substrate. The display electrodes and the wirings respectively have a bilayer structure of a transparent conductive layer and a metal layer. The metal layer of the display electrode is substantially narrower in width than the width of the transparent conductive layer.

Abstract: An optically transmissive layer 212 is formed on a first substrate 211, and a slope surface 212a having a valley in cross section is formed in the optically transmissive layer 212. A reflective layer 213 having a aperture 213h on the slope surface 212a is formed on the optically transmissive layer 212. A color layer 214 is formed on the reflective layer 213. The color layer 214 has a thick portion 214a formed corresponding to the slope surface 212a of the optically transmissive layer 212.

Abstract: An ink tank of the foam type which is provided with a detected portion capable of exactly and surely detecting the amount of ink used by the printer or remaining in the ink tank. The ink tank includes a sub ink chamber that is diposed or formed between a main ink chamber and an ink outlet of an ink tank of a foam type. When an amount of air flowing into the sub ink chamber increases, one or more reflecting surfaces of a right-angled prism, which function as ink interfaces, resume their original function of reflecting surfaces, thereby enabling the detection of an ink end. Air bubbles having entered the sub ink chamber are surely led onto the one or more reflecting surfaces by a bubble storage part. At an ink passage having a narrow width, which is defined by the one or more reflecting surfaces, air bubbles are pressed against the one or more reflecting surfaces to be put to a crushed state and in surface contact with the latter.

Abstract: A drive unit for a liquid ejection head in which shrinkage of a pressure chamber and ejection of the liquid are caused by the application of a voltage to a piezoelectric body, wherein: (A) a drive pulse with an electric field exceeding the coercive electric field of the piezoelectric body is applied to the piezoelectric body during the liquid ejection operation such as printing, and (B) a pulse that eliminates polarization remaining in the piezoelectric body is applied to the piezoelectric body when no liquid ejection operation is conducted. As a result, a difference between the elements can be prevented even as time elapses, and a stable ejection characteristic can be obtained.

Abstract: When an alignment film 416 and an overcoating film 429 are formed by flexography on the front side of a second transparent substrate 420, on which color filters 407R, 407G, and 407B are formed at a predetermined same-color pitch P1, during the procedure for manufacturing a liquid crystal device 400, the pitch of meshes of an anilox roller used in flexography and the pitch of pitches formed on the surfaces of projections of a letterpress are set to be equal to the same-color pitch P1 of the color filters 407R, 407G, and 407B, thereby preventing moiré.

Abstract: To provide a micro-lens substrate wherein a higher contrast ratio can be obtained when used in a liquid crystal panel and the like. A micro-lens substrate 1A includes a first substrate 2 with concaves for microlenses having a plurality of first concaves 31 and first aligment marks 71 formed on a first glass substrate 29, a second substrate 8 with concaves for microlenses having a plurality of second concaves 32 and second aligment marks 72 formed on a second glass substrate 89, a resin layer 9, microlenses 4 consisting of double convex lenses formed of a resin filled in between the first and second concaves 31 and 32, and spacers 5.

Abstract: A first current supplier supplies a first current to a first phase coil of a motor. A second current supplier supplies a second current to a second phase coil of the motor. A current selector selects a value of the first current and a value of the second current, so as to make constant at least one of a magnitude of a synthetic vector obtained by the selected value of the first current and the selected value of the second current at every microstep driving step of the motor, and an angular interval between synthetic vectors corresponding to adjacent microstep driving steps of the motor.

Abstract: An ink cartridge is constituted of an ink-filled bag-shaped ink pack and an outer shell case for housing the ink pack. An ink cartridge according to one embodiment is constituted such that a contact prevention member is housed in the ink pack for preventing close contact between interior surfaces of the ink pack when a reduction arises in the amount of ink stored in the ink pack.

Abstract: In an analog electrical timepiece with a motor coil, when an external operating member is in a prescribed operating condition, the operating mode of the analog electrical timepiece is set to the data receive mode. Next, the analog timepiece generates a synchronization signal which is in synchronized to an external synchronization signal that is input from outside. Then, the analog electrical timepiece, when the operating mode is the data receive mode by the detection circuit, based on a synchronization signal and a data voltage signal that is a voltage signal induced around the motor coil by a data signal input from outside, generates and outputs a receive data.

Abstract: The invention provides a stabilized frequency characteristic over a wide temperature range. A quartz resonating piece is provided such that an electrical axis of quartz corresponds to an X axis, a mechanical axis of the quartz corresponds to a Y axis, and an optical axis of the quartz corresponds to a Z axis. The quartz resonating piece includes a quartz plate having a side that is parallel to an X?axis set by clockwise rotation of the X axis around the Z axis by an angle equal to or greater than ?5.0° and less than ?1.0° or by an angle greater than +1.0° and equal to or less than 15.9°, and another side that is parallel to a Z? axis set by clockwise rotation of the Z axis around the X? axis by an angle in a range from 34.6° to 35.1° inclusive; or a quartz plate having a side that is parallel to the X? axis set by clockwise rotation of the X axis around the Z axis by an angle in a range from ?15.9° to ?5.

Abstract: A method, for manufacturing a nonvolatile memory device, includes: forming a first insulating layer above a semiconductor layer; forming a first conductive layer above the first insulating layer: forming a stopper layer above the first conductive layer; patterning the stopper layer and the first conductive layer; forming an ONO film made of a first silicon oxide layer, a silicon nitride layer and a second silicon oxide layer above the semiconductor layer and on both side surfaces of the first conductive layer; forming a second conductive layer above the ONO film; applying anisotropic etching to the second conductive layer, and thereby forming a side wall-like control gate aside each of both side surfaces of the first conductive layer, the ONO film being interposed therebetween; forming an impurity layer to be a source region or a drain region inside of the semiconductor layer; forming a second insulating layer over an entire surface; polishing the second insulating layer so as to expose the stopper layer; rem

Abstract: An optical component casing (25) having a plurality of holes penetrating toward the inside thereof includes a casing body which is constituted of a container (25A), in which a plurality of optical components are housed and arranged therein, and a lid (25B), and a plurality of positioning members (253) for positioning the plurality of optical components at predetermined positions in the casing body. The plurality of positioning members (253) abut on the optical components by being inserted through the plurality of holes to position the optical components at the predetermined positions on an illumination optical axis of light beam irradiated by a light source.