Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a lower electrode provided over the substrate, a capacitive insulating film, and an upper electrode provided over the lower electrode, wherein the lower electrode has an upper portion and a lower portion, and at a boundary between the upper portion and the lower portion, the diameter of the upper portion is smaller than the diameter of the lower portion.

Abstract: A vehicle passenger protecting device includes: a side airbag installed at least in a vehicle transverse direction outer side end portion of a headrest of a vehicle seat, and configured to, due to gas supplied at a time of a side collision, inflate and expand toward a vehicle front side at least at a vehicle transverse direction outer side of a head of a passenger seated on the vehicle seat; and a curtain airbag that is installed in at least a roof side rail of the vehicle, and that inflates and expands toward a vehicle lower side due to gas being supplied thereto at a time of a side collision of the vehicle. The side airbag for a head is configured so as to inflate and expand only in a case in which a seatback of the vehicle seat has been reclined by a predetermined angle or more.

Abstract: A vehicle passenger protecting device includes: a side airbag installed in a side portion at an outer side of a seatback of a vehicle seat, and inflating and expanding toward an outer side of a passenger seated on the vehicle seat due to gas being supplied at a time of a side collision of a vehicle; and a curtain airbag installed in at least a roof side rail, and inflating and expanding toward a vehicle lower side due to gas being supplied at a time of a side collision of the vehicle. The curtain airbag has an enlarged inflating portion that overlaps a center of a head of the passenger as seen in a side view, when the vehicle seat has been slid to a predetermined position at a vehicle rear side and the seatback has been set in a relaxed posture of being reclined to a recommended limit position.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a lower electrode provided over the substrate, a capacitive insulating film, and an upper electrode provided over the lower electrode, wherein the lower electrode has an upper portion and a lower portion, and at a boundary between the upper portion and the lower portion, the diameter of the upper portion is smaller than the diameter of the lower portion.

Abstract: Provided is a boarding/deboarding controller that enables reduce time and effort for boarding and deboarding a vehicle of which canopy is opened or closed to allow a user boards or deboards. One aspect of the present disclosure provides a boarding/deboarding controller for a vehicle including a seat, an occupant compartment provided with the seat, and a canopy that moves to a closed position where the canopy covers the occupant compartment and to an opened position, which is situated upper than the closed position. The boarding/deboarding controller is configured to change a posture or position of the seat concurrently while the canopy is moved from the closed position to the opened position in an opened movement, or, from the opened position to the closed position in a closed movement.

Abstract: Provided is a coated aluminum material having a coating film on a surface of an aluminum material, and capable of exerting excellent corrosion resistance even under severe use conditions while being chromium-free. The coating film is formed on a surface of the aluminum material with a silica-containing film including a water dispersible silica, a phosphorus compound, and a silane coupling agent provided therebetween. The silica-containing film includes 0.5 to 35 mass % of a silane coupling agent, and has Si and P contents of 2 to 60, and 0.1 to 6.0 mg/m2, respectively, and a P/Si mass ratio of P content and Si content of 0.02 to 0.15. Further, provided is a method for producing such a coated aluminum material.

Abstract: A skill diagnosis device includes a question storage configured to store a question for skill diagnosis related to project management, a diagnosis executor configured to read the question for skill diagnosis from the question storage, transmit the question for skill diagnosis to a first terminal used by an organization member, and receive an answer result to the question for skill diagnosis from the first terminal, an answer result storage configured to store the answer result received from the first terminal, a diagnoser configured to diagnose a skill of the organization member based on the answer result stored in the answer result storage, and an outputter configured to output a diagnosis result of the diagnose. The diagnosis result includes a classification of a human resource type representing an ability or an action characteristic capable of taking a specific action.

Abstract: An apparatus that includes a first interlayer insulating film having a contact hole; a contact plug embedded in the contact hole, the contact plug including a main part and a barrier metal part located between an outer wall of the main part and an inner wall of the contact hole; a second interlayer insulating film covering the first interlayer insulating film; and a first conductive pattern embedded in the second interlayer insulating film and connected to the contact plug. Apart of the second interlayer insulating film is embedded in a gap between a top part of the outer wall of the main part of the contact plug and a top part of the inner wall of the contact hole.

Abstract: An air conditioning apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit including a plurality of heat exchangers (a condenser and an evaporator), and an axial fan configured to send air to the heat exchangers. The refrigerant circuit and the axial fan are accommodated in a case. The heat exchangers are disposed in a direction orthogonal to an air flow direction, and the axial fan is disposed on one side of an arrangement direction of the heat exchangers, and supplies the air to the heat exchangers.

Abstract: An apparatus that includes a first conductive pattern positioned at a first wiring layer and extending in a first direction, a second conductive pattern positioned at a second wiring layer located above the first wiring layer and extending in a second direction, and a contact plug connecting the first conductive pattern with the second conductive pattern. The contact plug includes a lower conductive section contacting the first conductive pattern and an upper conductive section contacting the second conductive pattern. The width of the lower conductive section on a first boundary between the lower and upper conductive sections in the first direction is greater than the width of the upper conductive section on the first boundary in the first direction and the width of the second conductive pattern on a second boundary between the contact plug and the second conductive pattern in the first direction.

Abstract: A push switch includes a case having a housing space with an upper opening, fixed contacts provided at a bottom of the housing space in the case, a movable contact member having a dome-shaped member, the movable contact member being disposed in the housing space, and having a central portion that is brought into contact with the fixed contacts by inverting the movable contact member in response to the movable contact member being pushed by an operator, and a pushing member is disposed above the movable contact member, and the pushing member is configured to push the movable contact portion directly or through other portions upon being pushed by the operator. The pushing member pushes a portion being situated outside of a central portion of the movable contact member directly or through other portions.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a lower electrode provided over the substrate, a capacitive insulating film, and an upper electrode provided over the lower electrode, wherein the lower electrode has an upper portion and a lower portion, and at a boundary between the upper portion and the lower portion, the diameter of the upper portion is smaller than the diameter of the lower portion.

Abstract: A plate-stacked heat exchanger is proposed which exchanges heat with high heat exchange efficiency in flow paths each including an internal space bulging outward between two heat transfer plates. A flow path forming portion includes a plurality of flow path bulging portions that bulges outward of a heat exchanger plate and forms heat exchange flow paths of a first heating medium therein, and a header portion includes a communication hole communicating with the header portion of an adjacent heat exchanger plate, and a flow path forming portion-side expanded portion expanding from the communication hole toward the flow path forming portion, and the flow path forming portion-side expanded portion communicates with the plurality of heat exchange flow paths. Consequently, heat can be exchanged in a greater width. Therefore, a high heat exchange rate can be obtained.

Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a pair of headers, and a plurality of heat exchanger tubes stacked between the pair of headers. Each of the headers includes header members each having a gutter-shaped cross section and including an open part and a bottom part. The header members are stacked in a staking direction of the heat exchanger tubes in such a way that the bottom part of one header member closes the open part of another header member. A fitted hole into which an end of a heat exchanger tube is fitted is provided in a side part of the header member.

Abstract: An apparatus includes: a substrate; a plurality of pillar-shaped bottom electrodes provided over the substrate; and an upper electrode covering side and top surfaces of the pillar-shaped bottom electrodes with an intervening capacitor insulating film therebetween. The pillar-shaped bottom electrodes have at least an upper portion and a lower portion. The diameter of the upper portion is smaller than the diameter of the lower portion.

Abstract: Provided is a project success probability calculation system including a performance influencing pre-element holder that holds a performance influencing pre-element which is a pre-element that influences the performance of a project, a questioner that outputs a question for associating a performance pre-status value with the performance influencing pre-element assuming a specific project in which the project is specifically specified and prompts an input, a probability distribution derivation function holder that holds a probability distribution derivation function which is a function for calculating a probability distribution of success of the specific project using the performance pre-status value associated with the performance influencing pre-element, a success probability distribution calculator that calculates a success probability distribution of the specific project, based on the performance pre-status value obtained by the input and the held probability distribution derivation function, and a success

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a lower electrode provided over the substrate, a capacitive insulating film, and an upper electrode provided over the lower electrode, wherein the lower electrode has an upper portion and a lower portion, and at a boundary between the upper portion and the lower portion, the diameter of the upper portion is smaller than the diameter of the lower portion.

Abstract: A project management organization diagnosis DB system that diagnoses a proper operability which is information indicating whether a project management organization, which is an organization to manage a project, is properly installed and operated during the progress of the project, and provides a database storing a result of the diagnosis.

Abstract: An apparatus includes: a substrate; a plurality of pillar-shaped bottom electrodes provided over the substrate; and an upper electrode covering side and top surfaces of the pillar-shaped bottom electrodes with an intervening capacitor insulating film therebetween; wherein the pillar-shaped bottom electrodes have at least an upper portion and a lower portion, and the diameter of the upper portion is smaller than the diameter of the lower portion.

Abstract: Provided is a vehicle air-conditioning system configured so that air-cooling/heating can be efficiently performed. The system (10, 20, 30, 40) includes a vapor compression heat pump unit (HP) having at least a compressor (CP), a condenser (CD), an expansion mechanism (EX), and an evaporator (EV) on a refrigerant circuit (RC), a brine flow path network (BC) having multiple pumps (PC, PH) and multiple flow path switching valves (TV1 to TV8, V1 to V9), and a vehicle indoor air-conditioning unit (AC) having an air duct (AD) and multiple vehicle indoor heat exchangers (HXC1, HXC2) arranged in series in the air duct. Upon actuation in an air-cooling mode or an air-heating mode accompanied by neither dehumidification nor defrosting, brine flows in series in the multiple vehicle indoor heat exchangers.