Abstract: A signal processing device is provided which is designed to process an output of a piezoelectric sensor to produce a signal which indicates a load applied to the piezoelectric sensor accurately without being affected adversely by leakage current occurring in the piezoelectric sensor and electrical disturbances. The signal processing device includes a differentiating circuit which differentiates the output of the piezoelectric sensor and an integrating circuit which integrates an output of the differentiating circuit to produce an output signal as a function of the output of the piezoelectric sensor. The frequency range of the output signal is selected based on a frequency range of the load applied to the piezoelectric sensor.

Abstract: To provide a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a method of manufacturing an active matrix substrate, and an electrooptic device in which in forming different type TFTs on the same substrate, a variation in the LDD length or offset length of TFT can be suppressed by a small number of steps. In the method of manufacturing an active matrix substrate, a patterning mask 554 used for forming gate electrodes 15 and 25 is left, and used in introducing a medium concentration of phosphorus ion to introduce impurities in self alignment with the patterning mask 554. Next, with the patterning mask 554 removed, low-concentration of phosphorus ion is introduced by using the gate electrodes 15 and 25 as a mask to form low-concentration source-drain regions 111, 121, 211 and 221 in self alignment with the gate electrodes 15 and 25. The LDD length of each of the regions is equal to the amount of side etching caused in patterning the gate electrodes 15 and 25.

Abstract: In an installation structure of a glow plug with a combustion pressure sensor, a seat surface is provided in an installation hole formed in the engine so as to penetrate from outside into a combustion chamber of the engine. A contact surface is formed in the glow plug. The glow plug is partly inserted into the installation hole and is fixed via a ring shaped gasket to the engine so that the glow plug comes in pressurized contact with the engine in an axial direction of the installation hole. With the installation structure mentioned above, the elastic member is elastically more deformable in an axial direction of the installation hole than a portion of the glow plug on which the combustion pressure sensor is mounted.

Abstract: The present invention provides a glow plug with combustion pressure sensor having a plug body having a screw portion on the outer peripheral surface that is inserted into a screw hole of an engine head and screw-connected to it, a combustion pressure sensor fixed to the plug body to which the plug body is inserted, and a lead wire for leading out the sensor signal connected to the sensor, wherein the outside diameter of a hexagonal portion used for screw connection between the plug body and the screw hole out of the plug body is smaller than the inside diameter of a through hole of the combustion pressure sensor so that the plug body can be inserted into the combustion pressure sensor from the hexagonal portion end.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is obtained which performs point-sequential driving so that unevenness in brightness on a display screen becomes less noticeable. A signal line driving circuit that applies an image signal voltage sent from a signal processing circuit and a timing circuit to signal lines for performing point-sequential driving of the signal lines includes a driving direction switching circuit for inverting a driving direction of the point-sequential driving, and the signal processing circuit includes an image signal rearranging circuit for performing rearrangement of image signals, which is needed in accordance with inversion of the driving direction, in synchronization with the inversion of the driving direction.

Abstract: An information inconsistency judgment apparatus, an information inconsistency judgment method, and a medium recorded with an information inconsistency judgment program, for judging as to whether an inconsistency has occurred in a transmitted information, based on an object at a higher level of the object to be operated, and on the registered object. An information inconsistency correction apparatus, an information inconsistency correction method, and a medium recorded with an information inconsistency correction program, for correcting the registered object based on an operational information, when it is judged that an inconsistency has occurred in the transmitted information.

Abstract: A thin film transistor of the present invention is composed of a transparent insulating substrate, a gate electrode formed on the transparent insulating substrate, a gate insulating film formed on the transparent insulating substrate including the gate electrode, a semiconductor active layer formed corresponding to the gate electrode through the gate insulating film, a source region and a drain region formed adjacent to the semiconductor active layer, a protective layer formed on the semiconductor active layer and having the side face inclined with respect to the transparent insulating substrate surface, a source electrode and a drain electrode formed respectively on the source region and the drain region, a part of which is extended onto the protective layer.

Abstract: An active-matrix liquid crystal display integrally formed with a driver circuit including: a pair of substrates disposed in opposing relation to each other; and a liquid crystal material sandwiched between the pair of substrates,wherein the pair of substrates includes:a TFT substrate including at least an insulative substrate, source interconnection line and gate interconnection line which are formed in a matrix pattern on the insulative substrate, a thin film transistor provided to each pixel portion for use as a switching element for applying a voltage to a portion of the liquid crystal material which lies at a location where the source interconnection line and the gate interconnection line intersect each other, a pixel electrode connected to a drain electrode of the thin film transistor for supplying a voltage to the liquid crystal material, and a CMOS driver circuit having a CMOS which comprises thin film transistors for supplying an electric signal to the thin film transistor of the pixel portion through

Abstract: A registered information recovery processing apparatus and method in a store-and-forward type of electronic conference system, in which operation informations representing operations performed for various objects are stored is disclosed. Between information administrating devices which register and administrate the various objects, the stored operational informations are batch transmitted toward destination-information specified by information-exchange-destinations which is recorded in the information administering devices. Registered information recording devices record registered information which specifies the object registered in the information administrating devices. Recording controlling devices control recording of the registered information into the registered information recording devices.

Abstract: An object move processing apparatus, an object move processing method, and a medium recorded with an object move processing program, in a store-and-forward type of electronic conference system, in which an object creation processing and an object deletion processing are independently performed when an object move operation has been performed between different hierarchy structures, to thereby obtain a result substantially same with an object-move processing, so that the object move processing can be correctly performed regardless of a move sequence of information transmission.

Abstract: A projection type display in which contrast of projected picture is improved without negatively affecting luminance of a projected picture. The projection type display comprises a main light bulb 3 wherein an illumination light flux 2 from a light source 1 is transmitted or scattered according to a display picture image formed by a control signal from a control circuit 9, and an auxiliary light bulb 17 wherein the illumination light flux 2 transmitted or scattered by the main light bulb 3 is transmitted or scattered according to the control signal from the control circuit 9. The light flux having transmitted through the auxiliary light bulb 17 is enlargedly projected by a projecting lens 7 via a diaphragm 6 condensed by a condensing lens 4, and is subjected to image-formation on a screen 8.

Abstract: An active-matrix liquid crystal display integrally formed with a driver circuit including: a pair of substrates disposed in opposing relation to each other; and a liquid crystal material sandwiched between the pair of substrates, wherein the pair of substrates includes: a TFT substrate including at least an insulative substrate, source interconnection line and gate interconnection line which are formed in a matrix pattern on the insulative substrate, a thin film transistor provided to each pixel portion for use as a switching element for applying a voltage to a portion of the liquid crystal material which lies at a location where the source interconnection line and the gate interconnection line intersect each other, a pixel electrode connected to a drain electrode of the thin film transistor for supplying a voltage to the liquid crystal material, and a CMOS driver circuit having a CMOS which comprises thin film transistors for supplying an electric signal to the thin film transistor of the pixel portion throu

Abstract: An Si thin film (2) for a channel is formed on an insulating substrate (1), and then a gate insulating film (3) made principally of SiO.sub.2 is formed thereon. On the gate insulating film (3) is formed a gate electrode (4) composed of a Si thin film doped with impurities. The gate electrode (4) is patterned by isotropic etching using a photoresist (11) as a mask, and the gate insulating film (3) is patterned by anisotropic etching using the photoresist (11) as a mask into a configuration wider than the gate electrode (4) to be removed from source/drain regions position. The Si thin film (2) is ion implanted with impurities to form source/drain regions of an offset structure. A thin film transistor having an offset or LDD structure and capable of reducing an off-state drain current is fabricated without the need for increased number of masks and for an accurate photolithography technique, such as in alignment accuracy between masks.

Abstract: A process of making a negative electrode for a storage battery including a positive electrode capable of being reversibly charged and discharged, a nonaqueous electrolyte containing lithium salt, and a negative electrode is provided. The negative electrode is made of an inorganic carbon material which has an improved surface having a specific surface area sufficiently large enough to store the largest possible amount of lithium ions therein to provide the largest possible charge and discharge capacitances for the storage battery. The electrode is made by adding an acid to an inorganic carbon containing material to form a mixture, heating the mixture for at least 10 hours to obtain a carbon material having a specific surface area of more than 8.0 m.sup.2 /g and forming the electrode using the carbon material.

Abstract: A can top end includes a disc-shaped panel having a disc-shaped flat section an outer periphery to be engaged with an upper end of a can body, and a stay-on type tab attached on the flat section of the panel. The disk-shaped flat section has a primary score to define a primary scored portion surrounded by the primary score and the flat section further includes a secondary score to define a secondary scored portion surrounded by the secondary score. The tab has a connecting portion rotatably connected to a center portion of the flat section around an axis perpendicular to the flat section and the tab has both a pull-up end and a push-down end. The primary scored portion is located below the push-down end of the tab to enable the primary scored portion to be opened by pulling up the pull-up end of the tab.

Abstract: A lithium secondary battery comprising a positive electrode a double oxide of lithium and nickel wherein said double oxide is formed by burning a mixture of a nickel compound such as nickel carbonate, and a lithium compound such as lithium nitrate, at an atomic ratio of Li/Ni of from >1.0 to 1.4, in either air or oxygen, and a method of manufacturing the same.

Abstract: An electrode for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery to be embodied in both the anode and cathode. It comprises a mixture including, an active material having reversibility for charging and discharging, and a whisker which is chemically and electrochemically inert. Said active material is a substance capable of reversibly intercalating and deintercalating lithium. Said mixture includes a binding agent and constitutes a solid structural body. Said whisker is at least one selected from the group consisting of silicon carbide whisker, silicon nitride whisker, potassium titanate whisker and aluminum borate whisker.

Abstract: A pixel electrode and a line for a storage capacitor are sandwiched by first and second protecting films so as to position them in a different plane from a gate electrode and source/drain lines. An insulating film for a storage capacitor and the second protecting film remain at a crossing of the source line and a gate line, but part of them on a TFT is removed, when a pattern of the removal is at least partially deviated from a pattern of a contact hole in the first protecting film directly covering a polycrystalline Si film over the TFT, so that a short-circuit between lines and a breaking of the lines because of a level difference of film layers. Thus, an occurance of failure because of the short-circuit between lines is inhibited, and failure in the lines is reduced by reducing the breaking of the source line and/or the drain line.

Abstract: A process for the production of LiNi.sub.1-x Mn.sub.x O.sub.2 (0.005.ltoreq..times..ltoreq.0.45) as a positive electrode active material for a nonaqueous lithium secondary cell comprising a) mixing aqueous solutions of a lithium salt, a nickel salt and manganese nitrate, b) heating with stirring the solution to dryness and c) pre-calcining from 250.degree. C. to 400.degree. C., grinding and mixing the product and finally calcining from 600.degree. C. to 900.degree. C.

Abstract: There is provided a secondary battery comprising a positive and a negative electrode and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode is made by dipping an electrode comprising a positive active material such as LiMn.sub.2 O.sub.4, LiMnO.sub.2, LiCoO.sub.2, LiNiO.sub.2, LiFeO.sub.2 or .gamma.LiV.sub.2 O.sub.5, in a solution containing butyllithium, phenyllithium, or naphthyllithium. The negative electrode of the battery absorbs and desorbs lithium by charging and discharging, and the nonaqueous electrolyte contains a lithium salt. Also provided is a method of manufacturing a secondary battery comprising a nonaqueous electrolyte. The method comprises the steps of preparing an electrode group containing a positive electrode of LiMn.sub.2 O.sub.4, LiMnO.sub.2, LiCoO.sub.2, LiNiO.sub.2, LiFeO.sub.2 or .gamma.-LiV.sub.2 O.sub.5, as the active material, and a negative electrode which absorbs and desorbs lithium by charging and discharging, with a separator therebetween.