Abstract: Provided is a liquid supply device that includes a liquid storage portion that stores liquid containing sedimenting components which are sedimented in solvent, a liquid supply path that extends from the liquid storage portion to a liquid ejecting portion and through which the liquid to be supplied to the liquid ejecting portion can flow, a liquid flowing portion that is operated to cause the liquid to flow through at least part of the liquid supply path, a temperature detection portion that can detect the temperature of at least part of the liquid in the liquid supply path, and an operation control portion that controls an operation of the liquid flowing portion in correspondence with a detected temperature of the liquid, which is detected by the temperature detection portion, such that a flow condition of the liquid in the liquid supply path changes.

Abstract: A plasma etching method performs plasma etching on a sample, which has laminated films containing a variable layer of a magnetic film, a barrier layer of an insulating material, and a fixed layer of a magnetic film, using a hard mask, which includes at least one of a Ta film and a TiN film. The plasma etching method includes a first step of etching the laminated films using N2 gas; and a second step of etching the laminated films after the first step using mixed gas of N2 gas and gas containing carbon elements.

Abstract: In a bus system including a bus master, a first bus, and a second bus to connect them together, this router is arranged on the second bus to relay packets. The bus master outputs packets including information about at least one of (N+1) predetermined types of quality requirements. The second bus transmits packets designating at most N types of quality requirements. An exemplary router controls sending of the packets, with respect to at most N types of buffers that classify and store the packets by reference to the quality requirement type information and the packets stored in the buffers, so that the packets are sent in the descending order of their level of the quality requirement. The router controls sending schedule of the traffic flows by sensing a difference between the (N+1) different types of quality requirements.

Abstract: In a bus control system for a semiconductor circuit, data is transmitted between first and second nodes over a network of buses. The bus controller is connected directly to the first node and includes: a route load detector which detects loads on routes that form at least one of a group of forward routes leading from the first to the second node and a group of backward routes leading from the second to the first node; a candidate route extraction circuit which extracts a candidate route from the group of routes so that loads on the routes that form the group become uniform; a route determining circuit which determines the route to transmit the data based on the candidate route and a predetermined selection rule; and a data communication circuit which transmits the data between the first and second nodes based on header information including route information indicating the route.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a magnetoresistive element having a high selection ratio of an insulating layer to a free layer. The method for manufacturing a magnetoresistive element includes the steps of preparing (left drawing, middle drawing) a substrate on which a free layer, a fixed layer disposed under a first magnetic layer, and a barrier layer that is an insulating layer disposed between the free layer and the fixed layer are formed and processing (right drawing) the free layer by plasma etching, in which an insulating layer configuring the barrier layer contains a Ta element or a Ti element.

Abstract: A polishing method includes rotating a substrate, performing a first polishing process of pressing a polishing tape against an edge portion of the substrate by a pressing member, with a portion of the polishing tape projecting from the pressing member inwardly in a radial direction of the substrate, to polish the edge portion of the substrate and bend the portion of the polishing tape along the pressing member, and performing a second polishing process of pressing the bent portion of the polishing tape inwardly in the radial direction of the substrate by the pressing member to further polish the edge portion of the substrate.

Abstract: A relay device includes a switch for switching a combination of an input for receiving traffic data and an output for sending the traffic data; a congestion information processing section for obtaining congestion information indicating a degree of congestion of each of a plurality of traffics from an adjacent relay device, and congestion information of each traffic in the relay device; a congestion information comparison section for finding information on a congestion level which quantitatively indicates difficulty of flowing of each traffic on a transmission route based on the congestion information obtained from the adjacent relay device and the congestion information of the relay device; a transmission scheduling adjustment section for assigning a transmission band of a bus to each traffic based on the congestion level; and a switch assignment section for shifting the switch based on a result of the assignment of the transmission band of the bus.

Abstract: A three-dimensional image processor includes an aspect conversion discriminator, an aspect conversion parameter generator, a 2D/3D conversion parameter generator, a frame memory unit and a read address controller. The aspect conversion discriminator generates a signal indicating whether or not a read position of a video signal is to be modified. The aspect conversion parameter generator generates a parameter indicating an aspect ratio of an image based on the video signal. The 2D/3D conversion parameter generator generates shift amounts for generating a left-eye signal and a right-eye signal based on the video signal. The frame memory unit temporarily stores the video signal. The read address controller controls the read position of the video signal based on the parameter and the shift amounts when the signal received from the aspect conversion discriminator indicates that the read position is to be modified.

Abstract: A controller as an embodiment of the present disclosure controls a timing of transmitting an access request that has been received from an initiator (or its transmission interval). The controller includes: transmitting and receiving circuitry configured to receive an access request related to burst accesses from a first initiator that is connected via a first bus to, and adjacent to, the transmitting and receiving circuitry and configured to transmit the access request to a second bus implemented as a network; and a transmission interval controller configured to control the timing of transmitting the access request that has been received from the first initiator according to density of the burst accesses during a period in which the burst accesses continue and an access load on the second bus.

Abstract: A bellows pump which is provided with a case member that forms an axial space therein, closed-bottomed cylindrical bellows that are arranged in the space in an axially extendable/contractable manner and axially separate the space into a pump chamber and an operation chamber, suction valves that are provided on a suction side of the pump chamber and guide a fluid to be transferred to the pump chamber, and discharge valves that are provided on a discharge side of the pump chamber and discharge the fluid to be transferred from the pump chamber, and which extends/contracts the bellows by introducing a working fluid into the operation chamber to discharge the working fluid from the operation chamber, wherein each of the bellows is configured by alternately forming mountain portions and valley portions along the axial direction and having, on a predetermined position in the axial direction, annular ring portion integrally formed therewith.

Abstract: A testing device includes a pressure vessel, a mounting stand disposed in an internal space of the pressure vessel, on which a device to be tested is mounted, test electrodes, disposed in the internal space of the pressure vessel, that supply a test voltage to the device to be tested mounted on the mounting stand, and a pressurization unit that raises the pressure of the internal space of the pressure vessel. The test voltage is supplied from the test electrodes to the device to be tested mounted on the mounting stand, and testing of the device to be tested is carried out, in a condition that the pressure of the internal space of the pressure vessel is raised by the pressurization unit.

Abstract: A method for plasma-etching a magnetic film and plasma-cleaning, in which deposits in an etching processing chamber are efficiently removed while corrosion of a wafer is suppressed, is provided. A plasma processing method for plasma-etching a to-be-processed substrate having a magnetic film in an etching processing chamber includes the steps of plasma-etching the magnetic film using a first gas not containing chlorine, transferring out the to-be-processed substrate from the etching processing chamber, first plasma-cleaning of the etching processing chamber using a second gas containing chlorine, and second plasma-cleaning using a third gas containing hydrogen after the first plasma cleaning.

Abstract: This controller is used in a system in which initiators and targets are connected via distributed buses to control transmission timing of an access request received from the initiators. The controller stores intermittent information including information about an intermittent period in which interference between packets can be restricted and bus operating frequency information indicating a bus operating frequency at which real-time performance is guaranteed for each initiator and which has been generated based on system configuration information and flow configuration information indicating, on a flow basis, a specification required for each initiator to access the target. The controller includes a clock generator; communications circuitry; and transmission interval setting circuitry which sets a time to send transmission permission responsive to a transmission request based on the intermittent period, a time when the transmission request is detected, and a previous transmission time.

Abstract: An exemplary router is provided for an integrated circuit that has distributed buses and is arranged on a transmission route that leads from a transmission node to a reception node on the distributed buses to relay data. The distributed buses include first and second routes, each leading from the router to the reception node. The router includes a notifying section which sends a data transfer permission request to a second router on the first route and a third router on the second route and which determines whether or not the request is approved before a predetermined standby period passes to see if there is any abnormality in the first and second routes.

Abstract: An ink jet recording method includes discharging a ultraviolet curable ink of which viscosity is 7 mPa·s or more at 20° C. from a head toward a recording medium, and curing the ultraviolet curable ink adhered to the recording medium, wherein, in the discharging, the temperature of the ultraviolet curable ink discharged is 20 to 30° C., and the viscosity of the ultraviolet curable ink at the temperature is 13 mPa·s or less.

Abstract: The router is used to relay a packet to be transmitted from one node to another in an integrated circuit that has distributed buses according to a packet exchange method. The router includes: a plurality of buffers, each of which configured to store packets with information indicating their transmission node; a classifying section configured to classify the buffers that store the packets into a number of groups according to the transmission nodes of the packets; a selecting section configured to select at least one of the buffers of each group; and an output port configured to sequentially output the packets that are stored in the selected buffer.

Abstract: A method for treating a keratoconjunctival disorder, wherein the keratoconjunctival disorder comprises at least one disorder selected from the group consisting of a superficial punctate keratopathy, a corneal epithelial defect, corneal erosion, a corneal ulcer, a conjunctival epithelial defect, keratoconjunctivitis sicca, superior limbic keratoconjunctivitis, filamentary keratoconjunctivitis, keratitis and conjunctivitis, and wherein the method comprises orally administering from 3 mg/kg to 30 mg/kg per day of 2-phenyl-1,2-benzisoselenazol-3(2H)-one or a salt thereof to a patient in need thereof.

Abstract: A frequency distribution monitor unit partitions, into a plurality of classes, a size of a vertical component of a motion vector, and detects a frequency of the number of occurrences at which the vertical component occurs in each of the classes. In a case where the vertical component of the motion vector exceeds a predetermined threshold value in predetermined specific classes, the offset control unit creates offset signals which shift read addresses in the vertical direction in delay units. A selection control unit controls to shift, in the vertical direction, pixel data selected by delay selection units.