Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises a first semiconductor chip; and a second semiconductor chip provided on the first semiconductor chip with having chip-on-chip connection to the first semiconductor chip, wherein when seen from a direction perpendicular to an upper surface of the second semiconductor chip, an outline of the second semiconductor chip is larger than an outline of the first semiconductor chip, a plurality of electrode terminals for the first semiconductor chip are provided on an upper surface of the first semiconductor chip, the plurality of electrode terminals for the first semiconductor chip comprise one or more first covered terminals which are covered with the second semiconductor chip and one or more first uncovered terminals which are not covered with the second semiconductor chip.

Abstract: A raised and depressed plate has a base surface, a raised surface, and a depressed surface. A mask processing section is configured to use mask data in which a given region and the remaining region in each of the base surface, the raised surface and the depressed surface are defined as a valid region and an invalid region, respectively, to extract measurement data of the valid regions from measurement data obtained from the sidewall surface of the master disk. A master data generation section is configured to generate master data representing a surface shape of the master disk, by using the measurement data of the valid regions. A user can check measurement accuracy of a shape inspection device by comparing shape values of the raised and depressed plate with the master data.

Abstract: An inorganic polarizing plate, which contains: a substrate transparent to light in a wavelength range for use; linear metal layers; linear dielectric layers; and linear light-absorbing layers having a light absorbing function, provided in this order, wherein the linear metal layers are aligned being apart from each other on the substrate at a pitch shorter than wavelengths of the light; each of the linear dielectric layers is provided on each of the linear metal layers; each of the linear light-absorbing layers is provided on each of the linear dielectric layers; and a cross-sectional shape of the linear metal layer cut in a direction orthogonally crossing a longitudinal direction thereof is a trapezoid with a bottom base at a side of the substrate, and an upper base at a side of the linear dielectric layer, where the bottom base is longer than the upper base.

Abstract: Disclosed is a coil structure including: a first wire rod including a first coil portion and a first lead wire connected to the first coil portion, the first coil portion winding around a coil axis in a first space; a second wire rod including a second coil portion, the second coil portion winding around the coil axis in a second space, the second space being aligned with the first space along the coil axis; and an insulating structure including a first insulating section that insulates the first coil portion from the second coil portion. The first lead wire portion extends through the second space. The insulating structure fixes the first lead wire portion at a position that is away from the second coil portion by not less than a minimum creepage distance between the first and second coil portions, the minimum creepage distance being defined by the first insulating section.

Abstract: A control device for an internal combustion engine which includes one of the port injection fuel injection valve and the cylinder injection fuel injection valve that serves as a main fuel injection valve, the other of the fuel injection valves that serves as an auxiliary fuel injection valve arranged to be auxiliarily operated in a specified engine driving condition, and which is configured to perform a switching of an injection and a stop of the auxiliary fuel injection valve in accordance with an engine driving condition, the control device includes: the control device being configured to switch the injection and the stop of the auxiliary fuel injection valve in a state where an air-fuel ratio by an injection amount of the fuel by the main fuel injection valve is thicker than a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio.

Abstract: An amplifier circuit includes first and second amplification units. A first detection electrode and a high impedance circuit are connected to the input terminal of the first amplification unit. A second detection electrode and a high impedance circuit are connected to the input terminal of the second amplification unit. The output terminals of the first and second amplification units output first and second output signals, and are connected to the input terminals of a differential amplifier circuit through coupling capacitors, respectively. The differential amplifier circuit operates a difference between the first and second output signals in a state where a direct-current component is omitted.

Abstract: An organic compound with excellent characteristics excelling in hole-injecting/transporting performance and having electron blocking ability, high stability in a thin-film state and high luminous efficiency is provided as material for an organic electroluminescent device. The compound of a general formula (1) having an indenocarbazole ring structure is used as a constituent material of at least one organic layer in the organic electroluminescent device that includes a pair of electrodes and one or more organic layers sandwiched between the pair of electrodes.

Abstract: A fuel cut during deceleration is executed at time point t1. An oxygen storage amount (rOS) which increases with this fuel cut is estimated based on an exhaust air-fuel ratio and an intake air quantity. When the oxygen storage amount (rOS) reaches a threshold value (at time point t2), a target compression ratio (tCR) is corrected to become lower than a basic target compression ratio (tCR). Although a fuel recovery is executed at time point t4, a combustion temperature is lowered because of the lowering of the mechanical compression ratio, so that a production of NOx in a combustion chamber is suppressed. Therefore, worsening of NOx is suppressed even if the oxygen storage amount (rOS) of exhaust-emission purification catalyst (4) is excessive.

Abstract: Disclosed is a coil structure including: a first wire rod including a first coil portion and a first lead wire connected to the first coil portion, the first coil portion winding around a coil axis in a first space; a second wire rod including a second coil portion, the second coil portion winding around the coil axis in a second space, the second space being aligned with the first space along the coil axis; and an insulating structure including a first insulating section that insulates the first coil portion from the second coil portion. The first lead wire portion extends through the second space. The insulating structure fixes the first lead wire portion at a position that is away from the second coil portion by not less than a minimum creepage distance between the first and second coil portions, the minimum creepage distance being defined by the first insulating section.

Abstract: A communication device and the like are provided in which a throughput during a congestion avoidance operation in a communication session can be improved by considering a congestion state of a network. A communication device 1 for controlling a data amount to be continuously transmitted to a network 10 is configured so as to determine a transmission rate control mode using RTT (Round Trip Time) as a reference, determine an upper limit value of a transmission rate according to the transmission rate control mode, and control to keep continuously transmitting data in a range not exceeding the upper limit value of the transmission rate.

Abstract: Provided are a novel titania fine-particle composite which has high transparency, high stability, and high ultraviolet-absorbing power and excellent redispersibility, and skin-care external preparations which contain the titania fine-particle composite and exert high ultraviolet protective effect. The titania fine-particle composite can be produced by adding one or more selected from among carboxylic acids and carboxylic acid derivatives represented by general formula (1), and polymers containing the carboxylic acids or carboxylic acid derivatives as a constituent monomer to an aqueous acid dispersion of titania fine particles, and neutralizing the resulting dispersion with an alkali to form a titania fine-particle composite composed of titania fine particles functioning as cores and the carboxylic monomer or polymer deposited on the surface of the cores.

Abstract: A measuring unit (301) acquires measurement data for a plurality of lines by repeatedly executing, on a reference tire, a measurement process to acquire measurement data for one line. A first acquisition unit (311) generates height data for one line for each of the plurality of sets of measurement data measured by the measuring unit (301), arranges the generated plurality of values of one-dimensional height data into a matrix form, generates two-dimensional height data for the measured face, and generates reference shape data. A second acquisition unit (314) acquires object one-dimensional height data from one-line shape data measured by the measuring unit (301) for the object tire.

Abstract: A dual link internal combustion engine, as viewed in a crank axial direction where a crankshaft rotates clockwise, has a following relative configuration. A piston pin center axis is offset to a right side of a piston center line extending through a center of a piston crest surface of a piston. A movement trajectory of a link coupling center of first and second links is positioned to a left side of a piston reciprocation line. A piston center of gravity is positioned to the left side. An average value of a distance in the cylinder axial direction to individual points of the piston crest surface from a reference plane passing through the piston pin center axis and orthogonal to the cylinder axial direction in an area to the left side is greater than an average value of the distance in an area to the right side.

Abstract: A protecting tube deterioration detecting apparatus applies a predetermined electric current to a measurement target thermocouple with protecting tube for a predetermined time, calculates a temperature rise amount of the thermocouple, and determines, when the calculated temperature rise amount exceeds a predetermined threshold, that the protecting tube is deteriorated.

Abstract: A data transfer system of this invention includes a plurality of transfer apparatuses (11-14) and a control apparatus (10). On condition that data transfer to a transfer apparatus of a transmission destination is completed before a requested transfer completion time, the control apparatus (10) builds a data transfer tree serving as a data transfer path from a transfer apparatus of a transmission source to the transfer apparatus of the transmission destination. Each of the transfer apparatuses (11-14) transfers data in accordance with the tree. This allows to guarantee to complete transfer to transfer apparatuses of a plurality of transmission destinations up to a requested transfer completion time even when a transfer apparatus of one transmission source transfers a file to the transfer apparatuses of the plurality of transmission destinations by multicast.

Abstract: A tire shape inspection method executes the following steps: first, as a teaching operation step, boundary lines of the bulge and dent marks are detected in a sample source image of a sample tire, a mask image is generated which denotes the boundary lines, regions are removed from the sample source image which correspond to the boundary lines which are denoted in the mask image, and a height offset image is generated which represents the heights of the remaining regions with one or more offset values. Next, as an inspection operation step, the height offset image is subtracted from an inspection image of the inspection tire, the boundary regions which the mask image represents are removed, and, on the basis of the obtained bulge/dent removal image, shape defects of the sidewall surfaces of the inspection tire are inspected.

Abstract: Boundary lines which are contours of uneven marks are detected in a sample original image of the sidewall surface of a sample tire, and a mask image showing the position of the boundary lines is generated. Thereupon, a height offset image which shows a height of the uneven marks is generated by, in use of a plurality of discrete height threshold values, classifying the height of regions in the sample original image which remain after excluding regions corresponding to the positions of the boundary lines shown in the mask image. An unevenness-excluded image is generated by excluding the uneven marks from an inspection image of a sidewall surface of a tire under inspection, by subtracting the height offset image from the inspection image. A shape defect in the sidewall surface of the tire under inspection is inspected on the basis of the unevenness-excluded image.

Abstract: A coil structure includes a conductor band and a first insulating plate. The conductor band turns around a coil axis in such a manner that the conductor band folds at a plurality of portions which form a plurality of folded portions. The first insulating plate includes a first edge portion which abuts along at least one of the plurality of folded portions. At least part of the conductor band is wound around the first insulating plate.

Abstract: An engine control apparatus has an electric discharge device, a voltage application device, a fuel supplying device, and a control unit. The electric discharge device includes a first electrode and a second electrode. The second electrode is arranged opposite the first electrode to produce radicals within a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine by a non-equilibrium plasma discharge that is generated between the electrodes before autoignition of the air-fuel mixture occurs. The voltage application device is operatively coupled to the first electrode for applying a voltage between the first and second electrodes to generate the non-equilibrium plasma between the first and second electrodes. The fuel supplying device forms an air-fuel mixture inside the combustion chamber. The control unit is operatively coupled to the electric discharge device to set a discharge start timing of the electric discharge device to occur during an intake stroke of the internal combustion engine.

Abstract: A tire shape inspection method comprises a contact face acquisition step of acquiring contact face height changes by removing data outside of a prescribed range from detected tread face height data, a height change interpolation step of interpolating the section removed in the previous step using heights in the prescribed height range and acquiring height changes in the interpolated contact faces, and a runout value acquisition step of acquiring, as a runout value indicating the shape of the tread face, the difference between the maximum value and the minimum value in the height changes of the interpolated contact faces.