Abstract: To provide a thin film capacitor having high adhesion performance with respect to a multilayer substrate. A thin film capacitor includes: a metal foil having a roughened upper surface; a dielectric film covering the upper surface of the metal foil and having an opening through which the metal foil is partly exposed; a first electrode layer contacting the metal foil through the opening; and a second electrode layer contacting the dielectric film without contacting the metal foil. A height of the first electrode layer is lower than a height of the second electrode layer. This enhances adhesion performance when the thin film capacitor is embedded in a multilayer substrate and improves ESR characteristics.

Abstract: Control calculation units of a back system in each actuator operate by a collaborative drive mode in which a torque is output to a motor drive unit by using an information transmitted and received mutually by a communication between the systems in common. Cooperative control calculation units in a reaction force actuator and a turning actuator can operate in cooperation with each other based on the information transmitted and received mutually by a communication between actuators. A communication between adjacent systems and a communication between adjacent actuators are restored, when a focus control calculation unit is restored, after the focus control calculation unit is stopped during operation and at least one of the communication between adjacent systems or the communication between adjacent actuators is interrupted.

Abstract: A steer-by-wire steering system for a vehicle, including: an operating member operable by a driver; a steering device including an electric motor and configured to steer a wheel by a force generated by the electric motor; a controller configured to control the steering device, wherein the controller enables the wheel to be steered in accordance with an operation of the operating member while imposing limitation on a supply current to the electric motor, and wherein the limitation imposed on the supply current is made smaller when a running speed of the vehicle is lower than a set speed and a steering motion of the wheel is a motion in a direction to decrease a steering amount than i) when the running speed of the vehicle is not lower than the set speed and ii) when the steering motion of the wheel is a motion in a direction to increase the steering amount.

Abstract: A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes a first electrode having a first main surface and a second main surface opposite to the first main surface, a semiconductor substrate disposed on the second main surface, and a second electrode disposed on a fourth main surface of the semiconductor substrate opposite to a third main surface in contact with the first electrode. The first electrode has a first side surface substantially perpendicularly intersecting with the first main surface, and a second side surface substantially perpendicularly intersecting with both the first main surface and the first side surface, and the first main surface, the first side surface, and the second side surface are connected to each other via a curved surface.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program each capable of measuring a position and a posture by using sound without bringing discomfort to a user. A spread code signal emitted from each of multiple sound output blocks present at known positions, shifted to a frequency band that is not easily perceivable for a human sense of hearing, and based on a spread code to which spread spectrum modulation has been applied is received. The received spread code signal of a sound signal is reversely shifted. The own absolute position and the own absolute posture are calculated on the basis of the reversely shifted spread code signal, and angular velocity and acceleration detected by an IMU. The present disclosure is applicable to a game controller and an HMD.

Abstract: A drift layer is formed over a semiconductor substrate which is an SiC substrate. The drift layer includes first to third n-type semiconductor layers and a p-type impurity region. Herein, an impurity concentration of the second n-type semiconductor layer is higher than an impurity concentration of the first n-type semiconductor layer and an impurity concentration of the third n-type semiconductor layer. Also, in plan view, the second semiconductor layer located between the p-type impurity regions adjacent to each other overlaps with at least a part of a gate electrode formed in a trench.

Abstract: A resist composition containing: (A) a resin containing a repeating unit having an acid-labile group; (B) a photo-acid generator shown by a general formula (B-1); and (C) a solvent, where W1 represents a cyclic divalent hydrocarbon group having 4 to 12 carbon atoms and containing a heteroatom; W2 represents a cyclic monovalent hydrocarbon group having 4 to 14 carbon atoms and not containing a heteroatom; Rf represents a divalent organic group shown by the following general formula; and M+ represents an onium cation. This provides a resist composition and a patterning process that uses the resist composition that show a particularly favorable mask dimension dependency (mask error factor: MEF), LWR, and critical dimension uniformity (CDU) particularly in photolithography where a high-energy beam such as an ArF excimer laser beam is used as a light source.

Abstract: A steer-by-wire steering system, including a steering device including a dual-system steering motor including a main system and a sub system, wherein a power supply to the main system is conducted selectively by a main power source and a backup power source, and a power supply to the sub system is conducted by only the main power source, wherein, in a normal power-supply situation in which the power supply to the main system and to the sub system is conducted by the main power source, a controller controls the sub system to operate in accordance with the main system, and wherein, in a backup power-supply situation in which the power supply to the main system is conducted by the backup power source, the controller controls the main system not to operate or to operate while limiting the power supply to the main system and controls the sub system independently.

Abstract: A steer-by-wire steering system for a vehicle includes: a reaction force actuator to which an operation member is connected such that the reaction force actuator is moved by the operation member, the reaction force actuator including a power source by which the reaction force actuator applies an operation reaction force to the operation member; a steering actuator to which a wheel is connected, the steering actuator including a power source by which the steering actuator steers the wheel; and a controller configured to control the reaction force actuator and the steering actuator. The controller is configured to execute, for the reaction force actuator, the steering actuator, or both the reaction force actuator and the steering actuator, a neutral position setting processing of setting a neutral position in a motion range and a motion position hold processing of holding a motion position at the neutral position by the power source.

Abstract: A lamp for heating is composed of a heat dissipation substrate made of metal, an insulating layer disposed on the heat dissipation substrate, a plurality of wiring patterns disposed on the insulating layer, a plurality of light source elements disposed on the plurality of wiring patterns on a one-to-one basis, a joining material electrically joining each of the plurality of wiring patterns and each of the plurality of light source elements, and a metal wiring electrically connecting each adjacent pair of the plurality of light source elements.

Abstract: A light emitting device is composed of a light source, including a plurality of LEDs, and a polarizing element that receives rays of light emitted from the light source and causes at least in part the rays of light to transmit therethrough and be then incident on a work. Besides, each of the plurality of LEDs has an optical axis tilting at a first angle ?1 with respect to the work, whereas a second angle ?2, defined as half of a light distribution angle of the rays of light emitted from each of the plurality of LEDs, is set to be less than the first angle ?1. Moreover, an illuminance and a cumulative illuminance of the rays of light incident on the work or an exposure surface are adjusted by changing electricity to be inputted to the plurality of LEDs.

Abstract: A light irradiation device for an exposure apparatus allowing implementation of photo-alignment process with a simple configuration is provided. The light irradiation device is configured using a light source with a plurality of LEDs, and a polarizing element that receives light from the light source and applies the light transmitted through the polarizing element to a workpiece. An optical axis of each of the LEDs is set in such a manner as to have a first angle ?1 to the workpiece. A second angle ?2 as an angle half of a light distribution angle of the light emitted from each of the LEDs is set smaller than the first angle ?1.

Abstract: An infrared lamp 100 is composed of an LED 110 that emits infrared light and a cut filter 120 that transmits a part of the light from the LED 110. And a peak wavelength of the light emitted from the LED 110 in the lighting starting stage is set to be shorter than a cut-on wavelength of the cut filter 120.

Abstract: A charged particle beam device includes: a plurality of detecting units which detect charged particles diffracted by a specimen; and an intensity pattern information generating unit which generates, based on intensities of a plurality of detection signals output from the plurality of detecting units, intensity pattern information that represents the intensities of the plurality of detection signals as a pattern.

Abstract: There is provided a steel cord including a steel wire and a plating layer that covers the steel wire and has Cu, Zn, and Co, wherein Cu and Zn are alloyed and a region covered with Co and a region not covered with Co are mixed on the outermost surface of the plating layer.

Abstract: A tire includes a steel cord having a plated coating layer, rubber covering the steel cord, the plated coating layer including Cu and Zn, and a bonding layer including Cu2S and CuS provided closer to the rubber than an interface between the steel cord and the rubber, wherein a molar ratio Cu2S/CuS of Cu2S and CuS included in the bonding layer is 1.0 or higher.

Abstract: A tire having a rubber body in which a steel cord is embedded, wherein a layer composed of ZnxCoyO is formed at the interface between the steel cord and the rubber body and x+y is 5/6 or more and 1 or less.

Abstract: An infrared lamp 100 is composed of an LED 110 that emits infrared light and a cut filter 120 that transmits a part of the light from the LED 110. And a peak wavelength of the light emitted from the LED 110 in the lighting starting stage is set to be shorter than a cut-on wavelength of the cut filter 120.

Abstract: A charged particle beam device includes: a plurality of detecting units which detect charged particles diffracted by a specimen; and an intensity pattern information generating unit which generates, based on intensities of a plurality of detection signals output from the plurality of detecting units, intensity pattern information that represents the intensities of the plurality of detection signals as a pattern.

Abstract: A light emitting diode lamp is composed of a light emitting diode, a band-pass filter and a light angle adjuster. The filter has a light cutoff function to cut off a light ray with a specific wavelength. The light angle adjuster allows the light rays emitted from the diode to be incident on the filter at incident angles of less than or equal to a maximum incident angle up to which the filter is capable of exerting the light cutoff function. The light angle adjuster is a reflector. The diode is mounted to a bottom portion. The filter is mounted to an opening. On an imaginary cross section including the optical axis, an angle formed between the optical axis and a straight line is less than or equal to the maximum incident angle, the straight line connects the emission center and an edge of the opening.