Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device for forming a thin film having characteristics of low permittivity, high etching resistance and high leak resistance is provided. The method includes: forming a film containing a predetermined element, oxygen, carbon and nitrogen on a substrate by performing a cycle a predetermined number of times. The cycle includes: (a) supplying a source gas containing the predetermined element and a halogen element to the substrate; (b) supplying a first reactive gas containing three elements including carbon, nitrogen and hydrogen wherein a number of carbon atoms in each molecule of the first reactive gas is greater than that of nitrogen atoms in each molecule of the first reactive gas to the substrate; (c) supplying a nitriding gas as a second reactive gas to the substrate; and (d) supplying an oxidizing gas as a third reactive gas to the substrate, wherein (a) through (d) are non-simultaneously performed.

Abstract: A valve is configured to control an opening in a passage. A valve angle sensor is configured to send an electric signal according to a rotation angle of the valve. In a storing process, an actual measurement value of a valve angle at a mechanical full open position is stored as an actual full open valve angle. In a first setting process, a first output value at a mechanical full close position is set. In a second setting process, a second output value at the stored actual full open valve angle is set. The output characteristic is set as an angle to output value relation according to the first output value and the second output value.

Abstract: A medical instrument system includes an elongated member having an inner space in a direction of a longitudinal axis, an insertion section installed at the inner space and having a bending section capable of being bent, a manipulation section configured to manipulate the bending section, a first manipulation member transmitting a driving force of the bending section in accordance with the manipulation by the manipulation section, a second manipulation member arranged in the direction of a longitudinal axis, a connecting section having a first connecting section and a second connecting section and capable of connecting the first manipulation member and the second manipulation member, and a switching mechanism having a first acting section and a second acting section and switching between a connection state and a release state in accordance with a relative movement between the elongated member and the insertion section.

Abstract: A transfer apparatus includes first and second communication paths, an accepting unit, a registration unit, an acquisition unit, and a transfer unit. The accepting unit accepts a request for data. The registration unit detects and registers a range that has been specified for writing. The acquisition unit acquires the data from a memory controller via the first communication path in a case where the request is issued for a registered range, and acquires the data from the arbitration device via the second communication path in a case where the request is issued for an unregistered range. The transfer unit transfers the acquired data. In a case where a first range detected from the arbitration device overlaps at least a portion of or is adjacent to a second range, which has been registered, the registration unit combines the first and second ranges into a continuous range and registers the continuous range.

Abstract: A hydraulic excavator capable of achieving suppression of decrease in weight of a counterweight and appropriate arrangement of an exhaust gas treatment device is provided. A rear leg portion forming a leg portion supporting the exhaust gas treatment device against the revolving frame has a main body portion formed to have a U-shaped cross-section, and an open side of the U-shape of the main body portion is opposed to a counterweight. The counterweight has a pair of groove-shaped recesses formed, in which a pair of end portions of the U-shape of the main body portion is inserted.

Abstract: There is provided a buckle. A pair of vertical bars and a horizontal bar of a string attachment part of a female member are located below an upper surface of an operation portion. A coupling wall extending downwards from a front side of an upper plate of a female member main body and coupled to at least one of a lower plate of the female member main body and the string attachment part is provided. The operation portion is positioned at an outside with respect to an outer edge of the coupling wall at a state where engagement between an engaging portions of the male member and the engaged portions of the female member is released.

Abstract: A compact low-profile imaging lens which offers a wide field of view and corrects aberrations properly. It includes: a first positive (refractive power) lens having a convex object-side surface as a first optical element; a second negative meniscus lens having a concave image-side surface as a second optical element; a third lens having at least one aspheric surface as a third optical element; a fourth lens having at least one aspheric surface as a fourth optical element; a fifth lens having at least one aspheric surface as a fifth optical element; and a sixth double-sided aspheric lens having a concave image-side surface as a sixth optical element. The aspheric image-side surface of the sixth lens has pole-change points off an optical axis. As a seventh optical element, one double-sided aspheric aberration correction optical element with virtually no refractive power is located between the first lens and an image plane.

Abstract: A storage device includes a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device including a plurality of physical blocks, and a controller configured to map the physical blocks and access the physical blocks based on mapping thereof. The controller maps a physical block having space, as a first input block for writing data associated with a first identifier, another physical block having space, as a second input block for writing data associated with a second identifier, a physical block that became full of data associated with the first identifier, as a first active block, a physical block that became full of data associated with the second identifier, as a second active block, and a physical block that became full of invalid data associated with the first identifier and a physical block that became full of invalid data associated with the second identifier, as free blocks associated with no identifier.

Abstract: The present invention provides a seamless capsule for exterminating insect pests, particularly the capsule effective for termites, which hardly affects an ecological system other than the insect pests, such as a human being and domestic animals and useful insects around the human being, has an excellent safety and an excellent transporting rate by insect pests, particularly termites and has an improved exterminating efficiency per number of capsules transported or per unit time, and a method of exterminating insect pests by using the seamless capsule.

Abstract: A sheet feeding device having sheet feed tray configured to support multiple sheets be movably inserted to a main body. A sheet feed roller is configured to contact the sheet supported by the sheet feed tray and rotate to apply a feeding force to feed the sheet in a sheet feed direction. The sheet feed roller is configured to contact the sheet feed tray when there is no sheet on the sheet feed tray. A push latch mechanism is arranged on a downstream side with respect to the sheet feed roller in the sheet feed direction. A state of the push latch mechanism is alternately switched between an engaged state and a disengaged state every time when a pressing force is applied to the push latch mechanism. A first spring is configured to exert an elastic force to move the sheet feed tray toward a near side.

Abstract: A wireless teaching pendant for operating a control apparatus of a robot or a machine tool by wireless communication includes a wireless communication unit for performing wireless communication with the control apparatus and a transmission interval change unit for changing a transmission interval of periodic data transmitted by the wireless communication unit to the control apparatus.

Abstract: A photovoltaic apparatus 10 includes: a plurality of photovoltaic elements 11 having transparent conductive oxide layers 18, 19 and generating electrical power by light irradiation; and power collecting members provided on the front and back of each of the photovoltaic elements 11, wherein the power collecting members on the front sides are provided with finger electrodes 27 and a plurality of metallic conductor wires 28, the finger electrodes 27 formed on top of the transparent conductive oxide layers 18 in parallel by gravure offset printing, the thickness of the finger electrodes 27 formed to be 5 ?m or less, the metallic conductor wires 28 orthogonally joined to the finger electrodes 27, and wherein the metallic conductor wires 28 are extended further in one direction and joined to one of the power collecting members provided on the back sides of the adjoining photovoltaic elements 11 to be connected in series.

Abstract: A medium for culturing Euglena includes a cell membrane-permeable electron mediator that includes a biocompatible moiety and a redox-active moiety. A method for culturing Euglena includes culturing Euglena in a medium including a cell membrane-permeable electron mediator that includes a biocompatible moiety and a redox-active moiety. The medium is placed in a fermenter system that includes a device for extracting electrons from the medium. A method for reducing photoinhibition in Euglena includes electrochemically culturing Euglena in a medium including a cell membrane-permeable electron mediator that includes a biocompatible moiety and a redox-active moiety. The medium is placed in a fermenter system that includes a device for extracting electrons from the medium.

Abstract: A storage system includes a drive having a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device including a plurality of physical blocks and a controller configured to control access to the nonvolatile semiconductor memory device, and a host connected to the memory drive through an interface and access the drive in accordance with an operation of a file system driver executing in the host. When a file is updated, the file system driver operates to determine an identifier based on a file name or a file extension of the file and transmit a write command, the identifier, and update data for the file to the drive. Upon receiving the write command, the identifier, and the update data for the file, the controller is configured to write the update data into a physical block associated with the identifier.

Abstract: Provided is an absorber that removes sulfur oxide in a flue gas with an absorbent, an absorbent storing unit that stores the absorbent that has absorbed the sulfur oxide, an oxidation-reduction potential meter that measures an oxidation-reduction potential of the absorbent in the absorbent storing unit, a reducing additive supplying unit that supplies a sulfur oxoacid reducing additive into the absorbent storing unit, and a control device that controls the reducing additive supplying unit based on a measured value of the oxidation-reduction potential of the absorbent measured with the oxidation-reduction potential meter, wherein the reducing additive supplying unit supplies the sulfur oxoacid reducing additive when the measured value of the oxidation-reduction potential has exceeded an upper limit of an appropriate range of the oxidation-reduction potential.

Abstract: An exhaust gas recirculation device includes a housing including an inner wall defining an intake passage through which an intake air passes. The housing includes an outlet opening of an EGR gas provided in the inner wall, and a throttle valve positioned in the intake passage and generating a negative pressure at the outlet opening. The housing includes an intake air guide device provided in the housing and guiding the intake air, which has passed between the throttle valve and the inner wall of the housing, toward an axial center area of the intake passage. At least a part of the intake air guide device is positioned on an upstream side of the intake air with respect to the outlet opening.

Abstract: A hollow structure is manufactured by preparing a lower structure which includes a concave portion, depositing a sacrifice film composed of an organic film on the lower structure by a vapor deposition polymerization method to bury the concave portion with the sacrifice film, removing an unnecessary portion of the sacrifice film, forming an upper structure on the sacrifice film with the unnecessary portion removed, and forming an air gap between the lower structure and the upper structure by removing the sacrifice film.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a structure for mounting a hook bracket formed of an aluminum alloy extrusion to a bumper reinforce having a hollow cross-section, and further reduces the weight of the hook bracket and the weight of the mount structure without deteriorating towing performance. The hook bracket has a cut that is formed in an extrusion cross-section (a cross-section perpendicular to the direction of extrusion) and extended from the rear end of a shaft portion into the hollow in the bumper reinforce. Further, an internally threaded hole is formed. The shaft portion of the hook bracket is penetrated through a hole formed in front and rear walls of the bumper reinforce and fillet-welded to the front and rear walls. The shaft portion is not fillet-welded to the rear wall at a position where the cut is formed.

Abstract: An impact-absorbing member, wherein a formed body (D1) made of a fiber-reinforced resin composition includes a polyamide resin, a rubbery polymer having a reactive functional group and a fibrous inorganic filling material is superposed on another formed body (D2) made of a non-reinforced resin composition comprising a polyamide resin and a rubbery polymer having a reactive functional group, wherein the formed body (D1) is disposed at an impact-receiving side.

Abstract: The absorbent article includes a chassis, a crotch region, an absorbent body, and an elastic member arranged along a side edge in width direction of the crotch region. The oblong absorbent body arranged in the crotch region includes a first narrow width section, a second narrow width section, a center low rigidity section formed along a center line that halves the absorbent article in the width direction and a pair of lateral low rigidity sections provided at both sides of the center low rigidity section in the width direction with a substantially equal interval. Skin contacting face-side sheets and non-skin contacting face-side sheets 6 and 10 are arranged in the crotch region. The initial tensile strength of the skin contacting face-side sheets is lower than that of the non-skin contacting face-side sheets or that of the chassis 2.