Abstract: A method for fabricating a DRAM capacitor stack is described wherein the dielectric material is a doped material formed from a first dopant in concert with a second dopant wherein the second dopant has a different physical size from the first dopant and the presence of the second dopant influences the solubility of the first dopant in the dielectric material.

Abstract: Disclosed is a solid-state image sensing device including: a first photoelectric conversion element having a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type formed inside a semiconductor substrate; a second photoelectric conversion element having a second semiconductor region of a first conductivity type formed at a deeper position of the semiconductor substrate than the first photoelectric conversion element; a gate electrode laminated on the semiconductor substrate and to which a predetermined voltage is applied at a charge transfer time; a floating diffusion region to which the charges accumulated in the first photoelectric conversion element and the second photoelectric conversion element are transferred at the charge transfer time; and a third semiconductor region of a first conductivity type arranged between the first semiconductor region and the second semiconductor region in a depth direction of the semiconductor.

Abstract: A method of producing a hollow valve comprises the step for forming material having a blind hole along its axis, the step for extruding the material in a shaping hole in a die downward and the step for lowering a lower part of a pin to an upper part of a smaller-diameter portion of the shaping hole to allow the material to plastically flow downward through a gap between the lower part of a pin and the smaller-diameter portion of the shaping hole thereby molding a primary intermediate of the hollow valve having a stem and a head at the upper end of the stem through which a hole is formed.

Abstract: In a shift by wire transmission, a control unit limits the shift position (P, R, N, D, L) to be changed beyond a prescribed shift position depending on an initial shift position and an amount of the movement of the shift member in a single shifting operation. Thereby, even when the shift member is excessively advanced or otherwise improperly advanced, the actually selected shift position can be suitably selected so that an undesired change of the shift position can be avoided. The control unit may also limit the selected shift position to be changed beyond a prescribed shift position depending on a traveling speed of the vehicle so that an improper change in the shift position due to vehicle speed constraints can be avoided by using a simple structure.

Abstract: A clock divider unit includes a plurality of divider circuits which divides a common reference clock, and a gate circuit disposed before the plurality of divider circuits. The reference clock is supplied to the divider circuits via the gate circuit after a reset state of each divider circuit is released so that dividing action of each divider circuit is allowed.

Abstract: A processing terminal has a communication unit that establishes a connection with a server and conducts communication; a processing unit that executes predetermined processing based on information acquired from the server through the communication; a disconnection detecting unit that detects a disconnection of the connection; and a reconnecting unit that repeatedly attempts a reconnection with the server at first timing that is random and meets conditions that an expected value of the interval of the attempts is a predetermined certain value in a case where a disconnection of the connection is detected.

Abstract: A model transforming device includes: a processing section configured to modify respective algebra expressions of an interface model for simulation in a fixed description style and an interface model for behavioral synthesis in a fixed description style, and when both of the algebra expressions after being modified match each other, determine that the models have equivalence, and perform mutual transformation of the models. The processing section performs mutual equivalent transformation of hierarchical channel and integration channel model transformation by following three operations a, b, and c maintaining algebraic equivalence: a: mutual equivalent transformation by payload disclosure and payload concealment operation, b: interface and channel decomposition and interface and channel integration, and c: process remapping operation.

Abstract: A projection display apparatus includes: a substantially box-shaped enclosure having a bottom surface portion, the bottom surface portion having an ventilation groove and an air inlet formed through a wall of the ventilation groove; an air sucking fan provided in the enclosure and forming an air flow flowing through the air inlet into the enclosure, and a filter through which the air flowing through the air inlet into the enclosure passes.

Abstract: A motor includes a stationary unit and a rotary unit. The stationary unit includes a stator, a base portion having at least one hole extending in the up-down direction, and a flexible wiring substrate. The flexible wiring substrate reaches a position higher than a lower surface of the base portion through at least one hole and is arranged to supply electric power to the stator. The flexible wiring substrate includes a connection portion arranged higher than the lower surface of the base portion and connected to the stator. The connection portion includes a solder portion arranged on a lower surface thereof to cover a portion of a lead wire extending from a coil of the stator. At least a portion of the solder portion is positioned within the hole.

Abstract: In a vane pump, when discharge pressures of respective discharge ports are different from each other, an extension length A of a notch groove which is provided in the discharge port in a side of a high discharge pressure is set longer than an extension length B of a notch groove which is provided in the discharge port in a side of a low discharge pressure.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a power supply circuit configured to supply an intermediate voltage between a power supply voltage and a ground voltage to each of a plurality of memory cells. The power supply circuit firsts generates a first intermediate voltage between the power supply voltage and the ground voltage and a second intermediate voltage between the power supply voltage and the ground voltage. In response to a first control signal, the first intermediate voltage is supplied to an output node and the second intermediate voltage stops. A connection control circuit connects the first output node and a second output node when the second intermediate voltage generating circuit stops its operation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a polypeptide.

Abstract: A store system comprises an image output section configured to output an image captured by an image capturing unit, an object recognition section configured to recognize a specific object by reading the characteristic quantity of the output image and a reporting section configured to report that an object other than a commodity subjected to sales registration is recognized in the condition that the recognized object is the object other than the commodity included in a commodity file storing information for the sales registration.

Abstract: A toner supply device including a casing and a shutter member. The casing includes a toner container for containing toner, a discharge aperture for discharging the toner from the toner container, and an aperture. The shutter member includes an elastic part having at least one bending portion and the elastic part is elastically deformable. The shutter member is insertable into the casing through the aperture to be movable between a closed position at which the discharge aperture is closed and an opened position at which the discharge aperture is opened while the elastic part is kept elastically deformed.

Abstract: A speaker (200) includes a cylindrical diaphragm (201) which has closed ends, an edge (202) which supports the diaphragm (201) in a manner which allows the diaphragm to vibrate, a voice coil bobbin (203) around which a voice coil (204) is wound and which is connected to the diaphragm (201), and a magnetic circuit for driving the voice coil (204).

Abstract: A radio base station (eNB) according to the present invention includes: a management unit (11) configured to manage the number of mobile stations UE corresponding to each carrier; and a scheduling unit (12) configured to perform a scheduling processing to a scheduling-target mobile station (UE#A), in which the “CA” is set to be performed, in at least one of a primary carrier (carrier #1) and a secondary carrier (carrier #2) of the mobile station UE#A based on the number of mobile stations UE corresponding to each carrier.

Abstract: In an environment in which a processor operates a hypervisor and multiple guest partitions operating under the hypervisor's control, it is desirable to allow a guest partition access to a physical memory device without decreasing system performance. Accordingly, a conversion instruction for converting a logical address to a real address, i.e., an LTOR instruction, executable from a guest partition, is added to the processor. Upon the guest partition's execution of the conversion instruction with the logical address specified, the processor converts the logical address to an encrypted real address, and returns it to the guest partition. The guest partition is then able to pass the encrypted real address to an accelerator that converts the encrypted real address to a real address in order to access the memory device using the real address.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling an air-fuel ratio of an internal-combustion engine includes an air-fuel ratio detector, a fluctuation signal generating device, an air-fuel ratio fluctuation device, a 0.5th-order frequency component strength calculator, a fluctuation frequency component strength calculator, a reference component strength calculator, and an imbalance fault determining device. The reference component strength calculator is configured to calculate strength of a reference component in accordance with strength of a first frequency component and strength of a second frequency component. The imbalance fault determining device is configured to make a determination of an imbalance fault in which air-fuel ratios of a plurality of cylinders vary beyond a tolerance limit on a basis of a relative relationship between strength of the 0.5th-order frequency component and the strength of the reference component.

Abstract: A tip section of a discharge nozzle 31 is shaped like a wedge, and projections 310 which further protrude are formed at the tip of the wedge. Lower surfaces 310b of the projections 310 define a substrate-facing-surface which is brought into proximity to the substrate, and discharge outlet bearing surfaces 310c, which gradually retract back from the substrate W, are formed as if to rise from the edges of the lower surfaces 310b. At adjacent positions within the discharge outlet bearing surface 310c which are adjacent to the substrate-facing-surface 310b, discharge outlets 311 for discharging an application liquid are opened. Areas around the discharge outlets 311 and a wall around a fluid feeding path 312 are integrated with each other.

Abstract: An exposure apparatus exposes a substrate to exposure light through liquid. The exposure apparatus includes: a first member which is disposed in at least a portion of the periphery of a light path of the exposure light, and has a first surface that faces an upper surface of an object via a first gap interposed therebetween and holds the liquid between the upper surface of the object and the first surface; a second member which is disposed at the outside of the first surface with respect to the light path, and has a second surface that faces the upper surface of the object via a second gap interposed therebetween; and a suction port which is disposed between the first surface and the second surface, and suctions at least a portion of gas in a space located outside the second member with respect to the light path, through the second gap.