Abstract: A break roll machine wherein a timing belt of a differential transmission mechanism can be removed easily and wherein the removal of a roll pack module from a machine frame and the installation of the new pre-assembled roll pack module can be performed easily in a short time is disclosed. A cutout portion is provided to one of a paired tension arms so that the one tension arm is rotatable around a pivot point at an upper portion of the tension arm. As a rotary shaft of an idler pulley is released from the tension arm through the cutout portion, the timing belt can be removed easily. An air cylinder is rotated freely by a first and a second linkage member. An operator can easily access to a bolt located behind the air cylinder only by inclining the air cylinder at any desired direction.

Abstract: A method of outputting a recording medium on which forgery-inhibited data of a certificate of residence, securities, or the like which is obtained through a communication network such as a computer network and is inhibited to be forged by copying is printed directly from a printer without using a copy forgery preventing sheet. A recording medium outputting system of the invention is constructed by connecting a LAN having a DB server managing transmission/reception of data to/from a database disposed in a city office or the like, and a number of LANs each having a terminal and a printer installed in stores such as convenience stores via a communication line and the internet.

Abstract: The image processing apparatus is arranged by an object tag adding unit 11 for producing an object tag indicative of a sort of an object and a region, which are contained in an input image represented by input image data; a halftone screening unit 13 and a smoothing processing unit 14, which perform a predetermined conversion for image data identical to the input image data; and a selecting unit 16 for inputting thereinto the respective output image data from the halftone screening unit 13 and the smoothing process unit 14, and the image data identical to the input image data, and further the object tag. Based upon this object tag, this selecting unit 16 selects one image data from the input image data, and then produces an image forming control signal used to execute the image forming process operation based on the selected image data.

Abstract: First, a substrate, on which a plurality of semiconductor devices is formed, is provided. Next, a first etching treatment is carried out to the substrate with a first etching gas comprising CF4 to form a base trench having a rounded-off upper edge or tapered upper edge. A second etching treatment is carried out to the substrate to form a trench region at the base trench so that the trench region has a rounded-off upper edge. And then, an insulating layer is formed on the substrate to fill up the trench region therewith.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes the formation of a dielectric film on a substrate having an effective device area surrounded by a peripheral area. A resist pattern exposing part of the dielectric film in the peripheral area is formed, and the dielectric film is etched to reduce the thickness of the exposed part. After the resist pattern has been removed, the dielectric film is planarized by chemical-mechanical polishing. Good planarity is achieved because the etching step removes high parts of the dielectric film from the peripheral area. This method of achieving improved planarity is less expensive than conventional methods employing dummy devices.

Abstract: First, a substrate, on which a plurality of semiconductor devices is formed, is provided. Next, a first etching treatment is carried out to the substrate with a first etching gas comprising CF4 to form a base trench having a rounded-off upper edge or tapered upper edge. A second etching treatment is carried out to the substrate to form a trench region at the base trench so that the trench region has a rounded-off upper edge. And then, an insulating layer is formed on the substrate to fill up the trench region therewith.

Abstract: Image data combined of a first piece of and a second piece of image data and selection data to selectively designate one of the first piece or the second piece of image data is input to an input portion 1. Those data are expanded by an expanding portion 4. A first image-structure recognizing portion 2 (second image-structure recognizing portion 3) recognizes the image structure of the first (second) piece of image data. A first image-structure converting portion 5 (second image-structure converting portion 6) converts the recognized image structure of the first (second) piece of image data to the image structure of an output device 9. Those image data and the selection data are expanded. A combining portion 7 combines the first piece and the second piece of image data having the same image structure as of the output device while successively selecting the first piece or the second piece of image data on a basis of the selection data, and outputs the combined image data to the output device 9.

Abstract: A semiconductor device having an STI structure is provided by eliminating an insufficient polishing problem of an insulating film on chips adjacent to a marking region by making an equal polishing pressure to be applied to entire chips at polishing. A method for fabricating a semiconductor device having an isolation structure of the present invention includes: processing a marking region of a wafer having a device region, a grid line region and the marking region in order to enable a substantially equal polishing pressure to be applied to chips adjacent to the marking region of the wafer and to other chips, for example, tapering or recessing; marking in the marking region; forming a nitride film and an oxide film on a surface of the wafer; removing the oxide film by polishing; and removing the nitride film.

Abstract: An uneven-pattern reading apparatus includes a detecting prism having a detecting surface on which an uneven pattern is placed, an incident surface upon which an incident light beam for illuminating the uneven pattern is incident, and an emergent surface from which a light beam reflected from the uneven pattern on the detecting surface is emergent, angles between the respective detecting, incident, and emergent surfaces providing that the incident light beam is applied to the uneven pattern and the light reflected from the detecting surface is emergent from the emergent surface; an incident-light-beam converger for causing an incident light beam from a light source to be incident upon the incident surface after collimating or converging the incident light beam; an imaging device for detecting a reflected image emergent from the detecting prism; a converging optical system for collimating or converging the emergent light beam emergent from the emergent surface; and a processing device for identifying the uneve

Abstract: In a device having a structure in which a silicon oxide film, a silicon nitride film, and a silicon oxide film are layered on a silicon substrate in that order from a bottom position, CMP polishing is performed in order for a top layer of a silicon oxide film to residually exist. An etchant for selectively etching a silicon nitride film only is then used. Only a nitride film in a scratched portion, the depth of which is deeper than the depth of the silicon oxide film, is selectively etched, and only the scratch, the depth of which is deeper than the depth of the residual film of the silicon oxide film, is exposed.

Abstract: An image data outputting apparatus and method form satisfactory images regardless of characteristics of an image forming apparatus by outputting copy forgery preventing image data for preventing copy-based forgery to the image forming apparatus. For example, a recording medium outputting system is constructed by connecting a LAN having a DB server managing transmission/reception of data to/from a database in the city office, and many LANs each having a terminal and a printer installed in a convenience store via a communication line and the Internet. Document data of a certificate is retrieved from the database in the city office by operating a terminal in a store, the retrieved document data is merged with copy forgery preventing image data corresponding to characteristics of a printer in the same store, and the merged data is outputted from the printer.

Abstract: A process for manufacturing a semiconductor device comprising the steps of: depositing a polish-stopper film on a semiconductor substrate, applying a photoresist on the polish-stopper film and removing the photoresist from a region for forming a device isolation region to form an opening; dry etching using the photoresist as an etching mask to form a trench of a predetermined depth in the semiconductor substrate; removing the photoresist; forming a first insulating film and a second insulating film in sequence to bury the trench, the second insulating film being capable of being etched by the same etching step as that for the first insulating film and having an etching rate greater than that of the first insulating film; polishing the first and second insulating films by CMP method until a surface of the polish-stopper film is exposed; removing the polish-stopper film; and removing the first and second insulating films projected from a surface of the semiconductor substrate by etching using the same etchant,

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of outputting a recording medium on which forgery-inhibited data of a certificate of residence, securities, or the like which is obtained through a communication network such as a computer network and is inhibited to be forged by copying is printed directly from a printer without using a copy forgery preventing sheet. A recording medium outputting system of the invention is constructed by connecting a LAN having a DB server managing transmission/reception of data to/from a database disposed in a city office or the like, and a number of LANs each having a terminal and a printer installed in stores such as convenience stores via a communication line and the Internet.

Abstract: First, a substrate, on which a plurality of semiconductor devices is formed, is provided. Next, a first etching treatment is carried out to the substrate with a first etching gas comprising CF4 to form a base trench having a rounded-off upper edge or tapered upper edge. A second etching treatment is carried out to the substrate to form a trench region at the base trench so that the trench region has a rounded-off upper edge. And then, an insulating layer is formed on the substrate to fill up the trench region therewith.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image processor and an image processing method wherein a specific image such as an image of which the printing is prohibited can be recognized at high speed and in addition, with high precision. A rendering command analysis unit passes a rendering object to any of a recognition unit for a raster image, a recognition unit for graphics and a recognition unit for a character according to the type of the rendering object in the rendering command and tries to recognize a specific image. The result of recognition by each recognition unit is passed to a recognition determination unit and it is synthetically determined based upon these results of recognition whether the specific image exists or not. Even if the specific image is formed by dividing into plural types of rendering objects, the specific image can be recognized by such recognition processing.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image processing device capable of recognizing a specific image such as an image which is prohibited from printing at high speed and, moreover, without being influenced by an image forming process. A drawing command analysis unit analyzes a drawing command received by a drawing command input unit and sends an analysis result to both an output image data generation unit and a recognition image data generation unit. The output image data generation unit generates output image data adapted to an image formation device in accordance with the drawing command. In parallel with the operation, the recognition image data generation unit generates recognition image data adapted to a recognition unit in accordance with the drawing command. The recognition unit performs a process of recognizing a specific image by using the recognition image data.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image processor that enables recognition of a specific image such as an image of which the printing is prohibited at high speed and in addition, with high precision. Image data input to an image formation device is converted to output image data in a PDL conversion unit and it is determined in a preliminary determination unit whether a certain condition is met or not. Only if the certain condition is met, processing for recognizing the specific image is executed by a recognition unit. If the certain condition is not met, it is considered that the possibility of including the specific image is low and no processing for recognizing the specific image is executed. Therefore, the processing can be sped up by the quantity in which no recognition processing is executed. Also, as recognition processing is executed if the certain condition is met and there is the possibility of including the specific image, the precision of recognizing the specific image is never deteriorated.

Abstract: To secure high quality, require no bulk memory and reduce processing time when code image data is expanded to plotted pattern data, a binary expansion section for expanding code image data to binary plotted pattern data, a multivalued expansion section for expanding code image data to multivalued plotted pattern data and an expansion method determining section for judging whether code image data is data for plotting a character and a line or not and whether code image data meets a predetermined condition or not and determining the expansion section to be applied are provided, and code image data is applied to the expansion section determined by the expansion method determining section.

Abstract: Light emitted from a light source is split into a plurality of grating-like diverged beams of light by a Fourier transform phase hologram (3), and an image of a grating (100) is formed on a fiber (1) by a lens (4). Consequently, a grating cycle A can be obtained with accuracy ranging approximately from 25 to 1 (nm). Also, the grating cycle &Lgr; can be readily changed.

Abstract: Formatted code data are sequentially input to an input terminal A. A receiving section 11 passes a header portion etc. to a control section 16, and causes selection codes (output to CDS) and text color codes (output to CDC) to be stored sequentially in a storage section 15. When pattern codes are output to CDI and input to an expansion section 12b, the control section 16 reads out the selection codes and the text color codes from the storage section 15 with such timing that pixels at the same position are output simultaneously from image conversion sections 13a-13c, and inputs those codes to expansion sections 12a and 12c. The respective compressed codes are expanded by the expansion sections 12a-12c, converted by the image conversion sections if necessary, and then input to a composing section 14. At this time point, respective data corresponding to pixels are timed with each other, which allows a correct composing process to be executed in the composing section 14.