Abstract: A capacitive distance sensor includes a first guard electrode, a conductor, a second guard electrode, and insulators. The conductor includes a sensor electrode and a lead portion and is arranged on a side of a measurement target with respect to the first guard electrode. The second guard electrode is arranged on the side of the measurement target with respect to the conductor. The first guard electrode includes portions overlapping the sensor electrode and the lead portion. The second guard electrode includes a portion overlapping the lead portion and does not overlap the sensor electrode.

Abstract: An object is to improve a user's convenience. There is provided a control unit for use in a liquid ejecting apparatus using a tank containing a liquid and a storage material attachable to and detachable from the liquid ejecting apparatus, and storing an amount of the liquid in the tank. After the storage material is not mounted on a predetermined place, the control unit receives an answer for a question to ask whether or not the liquid is injected to the tank.

Abstract: The novel bisphosphonic acid ester derivatives represented by the following formula (1): Y—Cy—(NH)m—(CH2)n—C(X)(PO(OR1)(OR2))2 ??(1) wherein each symbol is as defined in the DESCRIPTION, which has an amino group substituted by a heterocyclic group or a heterocyclic group containing a nitrogen atom, and the acid moiety is esterified with a POM group, an n-butanoyloxymethyl (BuOM) group and the like, exhibit a superior direct or indirect cytotoxicity effect on tumor cells and virus infected cells.

Abstract: A touch panel includes first sensor electrode arrays in which first island-shaped electrode portions are arrayed along a first direction and connected through connecting portions, second sensor electrode arrays in which second island-shaped electrode portions are arrayed at intervals along a second direction, jumper wiring portions being superimposed through insulating portions and connecting the second island-shaped electrode portions arranged adjacent to each other along the second direction, and a lead-out wiring portion connected to the first and second sensor electrode arrays, the first and second sensor electrode arrays being formed of a first transparent conductor layer having a first thickness, the jumper wiring portions being formed of a second transparent conductor layer having a second thickness, the lead-out wiring portion being formed of a third transparent conductor layer having a third thickness that is larger than the first thickness.

Abstract: In an embodiment, an electronic component fuse 10 includes: (1) an insulator sleeve 11 having a hollow part 11a that opens to the exterior at both ends; (2) a conductor element 12 having a fusible part 12a whose cross-section is smaller than the cross-section of the hollow part 11a, a first engagement part 12b provided at one end of the fusible part 12a, and a second engagement part 12c provided at the other end of the fusible part 12a, where the fusible part 12a is positioned in the hollow part 11a, the first engagement part 12b and the second engagement part 12c are disposed on the respective ends of the insulator sleeve 11; (3) a first terminal 13 having a first connection part 13a connected to the first engagement part 12b; and (4) a second terminal 14 having a second connection part 14a connected to the second engagement part 12c.

Abstract: A light modulating device 103 includes: a selective diffraction device (10, 10?) which generates diffracted light beams of a plurality of orders by diffracting illumination light into one of a plurality of directions, the illumination light being linearly polarized light having a polarization plane oriented in a first polarization direction, and which causes a phase difference between the diffracted light beams of the plurality of orders; and a polarization plane rotating device 14 which rotates the polarization plane of the diffracted light beam of each order so as to be oriented in a direction perpendicular to a direction radiating from an optical axis.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes preparing a substrate having an interlayer insulating film and a hard mask provided on the interlayer insulating film and having a predetermined pattern, etching the interlayer insulating film to form a trench, forming a MnOx film through an ALD method in a state where the hard mask is left on the interlayer insulating film, the MnOx film being turned into a self-forming barrier film by reacting with the interlayer insulating film, performing a hydrogen radical processing on the MnOx film, forming a Ru film through a CVD method, forming a Cu-based film through a PVD method or by forming a Cu seed through the PVD method, and then performing a Cu plating processing so as to embed the Cu-based film within the trench, and performing a CMP method to remove the hard mask and to form a Cu wiring.

Abstract: In a Cu wiring manufacturing method for manufacturing Cu wiring that fills a recess formed in a predetermined pattern on a surface of an interlayer insulating film of a substrate, a MnOx film that becomes a self-formed barrier film by reaction with the interlayer insulating film is formed at least on a surface of the recess by ALD. A CuOx film that becomes a liner film is formed on a surface of the MnOx film by CVD or ALD. An annealing process is performed on the substrate on which the CuOx film is formed and the CuOx film is reduced to a Cu film by oxidation-reduction reaction between the MnOx film and the CuOx film. A Cu-based film is formed on the Cu film obtained by reducing the CuOx film by PVD to fill the Cu-based film in the recess.

Abstract: An object is to improve a user's convenience. There is provided a control unit for use in a liquid ejecting apparatus using a tank containing a liquid and a storage material attachable to and detachable from the liquid ejecting apparatus, and storing an amount of the liquid in the tank. After the storage material is not mounted on a predetermined place, the control unit receives an answer for a question to ask whether or not the liquid is injected to the tank.

Abstract: An electric circuit device connecting first and second external elements, the electric circuit device including: a first electronic component; a first bus bar electrically connected to the first electronic component; a second bus bar electrically connected to the electronic component and overlapped with the first bus bar in a direction perpendicular to main surfaces of the first and second bus bars; a first external terminal electrically connecting the first bus bar to the first external element; a second external terminal electrically connecting the second bus bar to the second external element; a first region in the first external terminal electrically coupled to the first external element; and a second region in the second external terminal electrically coupled to the second external element, and at least partially overlapped with the first region in the direction.

Abstract: An ankle arthrodesis of this embodiment performs a cartilage the ultrasonic treatment procedure using an ultrasonic treatment tool. As one condition, when wear of cartilage has attained to the whole of an ankle, it carries out. A method for ankle arthrodesis is disposal which excises the cracked organization which exists in an ankle using the ultrasonic treatment tool, and fixes a tibia and a talus under it with a screw.

Abstract: In an integrating sphere including a structure having a spherical inner wall that forms a spherical space, there are provided an LED circuit board equipped at one end with a light-emitting device adapted to radiate a light in the space at an input port formed at the structure to be diffuse-reflected on the spherical inner wall and equipped at other end with a heat sink, a measuring port formed at the structure to pass the light diffuse-reflected on the spherical inner wall on a measuring object, an output port formed at the structure to output a reflected light of the diffuse-reflected light passing the measuring port and reflected on the measuring object outside, and a detector adapted to be detachably connected to the output port to receive the outputted reflected light.

Abstract: An aberration correction device (3) corrects wave front aberration arising in an optical system that includes an object lens (4) disposed in an optical path for light beams output by a coherent light source (1). The aberration correction device (3) has a symmetrical aberration correction element (3a) that corrects symmetrical aberrations, which are the wave front aberrations that are symmetrical with respect to the optical axis among the wave front aberrations generated in the optical path, and an asymmetrical aberration correction element (3b) that corrects asymmetrical aberrations, which are wave front aberrations that are asymmetrical with respect to the optical axis, generated in light beams incident obliquely on the object lens (4).

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes preparing a substrate having an interlayer insulating film and a hard mask provided on the interlayer insulating film and having a predetermined pattern, etching the interlayer insulating film to form a trench, forming a MnOx film through an ALD method in a state where the hard mask is left on the interlayer insulating film, the MnOx film being turned into a self-forming barrier film by reacting with the interlayer insulating film, performing a hydrogen radical processing on the MnOx film, forming a Ru film through a CVD method, forming a Cu-based film through a PVD method or by forming a Cu seed through the PVD method, and then performing a Cu plating processing so as to embed the Cu-based film within the trench, and performing a CMP method to remove the hard mask and to form a Cu wiring.

Abstract: An object is to improve a user's convenience. There is provided a control unit for use in a liquid ejecting apparatus using a tank containing a liquid and a storage material attachable to and detachable from the liquid ejecting apparatus, and storing an amount of the liquid in the tank. After the storage material is not mounted on a predetermined place, the control unit receives an answer for a question to ask whether or not the liquid is injected to the tank.

Abstract: In a method of cleaning a bottom of a via hole, a copper oxide on a surface of an underlying Cu wiring exposed at the bottom of the via hole is removed before forming a Cu wiring in a trench and the via hole extended between the trench and the underlying Cu wiring. The trench and the via hole are formed in a predetermined pattern in an interlayer insulating film of a substrate. Reducing species containing a metal in a state capable of reducing the copper oxide is supplied to the bottom of the via hole. The metal has a higher oxidation tendency than Cu and an oxide of the metal has a lower electrical resistance than the copper oxide. The copper oxide is removed by reducing the copper oxide and the oxide of the metal is generated through a reaction between the metal in the reducing species and the copper oxide.

Abstract: A surface of a steel material cut to a desired shape and carbonitrided is heated by excitation and thereafter repeatedly heated/cooled a predetermined number of times, such that an ultrafine crystal layer is formed immediately under the surface of the steel material and at least a predetermined number of cracks are formed under the formed ultrafine crystal layer, thereby enabling to increase toughness of the surface or immediately thereunder and enhance tenacity and inhibiting growth of cracks.

Abstract: Structure of control valve body of automatic transmission has valve body enclosures having channels on opposing surfaces thereof; a separate plate sandwiched between the valve body enclosures for defining oil passages on both sides of the separate plate; and an orifice provided at the separate plate. The oil passages on both sides of the separate plate, which are upstream and downstream side oil passages located on upstream and downstream sides of the separate plate, communicate with each other through the orifice. Depth h, in a part facing to the orifice, of the channel corresponding to the downstream side oil passage is set to be shallower than depth of the channel corresponding to the upstream side oil passage, and the depth h of the channel in the part facing to the orifice and a diameter d of the orifice are set so as to satisfy relationship of h?3d.

Abstract: A method for forming a manganese-containing film to be formed between an underlayer and a copper film includes reacting a manganese compound gas with a nitrogen-containing reaction gas to form a nitrogen-containing manganese film on the underlayer; and reacting a manganese compound gas with a reducing reaction gas, thermally decomposing a manganese compound gas, or performing a decomposition reaction on a manganese compound gas through irradiation of energy or active species to form a metal manganese film on the nitrogen-containing manganese film.

Abstract: A liquid crystal optical device includes multiple liquid crystal elements arranged along the optical axis. Each liquid crystal element includes two transparent electrodes that are disposed so as to face each other with a liquid crystal layer disposed therebetween. At least one of the two transparent electrodes includes multiple partial electrodes. For each of a predetermined number of levels obtained by dividing, by the predetermined number, difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of a phase modulation amount provided to a luminous flux passing through the liquid crystal layer, at least one of the multiple partial electrodes is disposed on a part of the liquid crystal layer, the part providing the luminous flux with a phase modulation amount corresponding to the level. A position of the boundary between any two adjacent partial electrodes with respect to the luminous flux, is different for each liquid crystal element.