Abstract: The present invention provides aqueous chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) polishing compositions that comprise a mixture of (a) one or more alkoxylated diamines having a number average molecular weight (Mn) of from 1,000 to 20,000, or, preferably, from 1000-15000 and having four (poly)alkoxy ether groups each containing from 5 to 100 alkoxy repeat units; (b) from 0.01 to 2 wt. % or, preferably, from 0.1 to 1.5 wt. %, as solids, based on the total weight of the compositions, of one or more aqueous dispersions of elongated, bent or nodular colloidal silica particles, preferably, having a secondary particle size as determined by dynamic light scattering (DLS) of from 20 to 60 nm; and (c) ammonia or an amine base, wherein the compositions have a pH ranging from 9 to 11. The compositions are substantially free of metals, such as alkali or alkaline earth metals that can damage substrates in polishing.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for, at each of plural calculation timings, associating pieces of position information indicating the positions of objects in a virtual space at the calculation timing with leaves and creates a complete binary tree in which position information reflecting pieces of the position information of child nodes is associated with an internal node, and a node shuffling section that shuffles 2·2n (n?1) child nodes regarding each group of 2n nodes on the basis of the position information associated with each of the 2·2n child nodes belonging to the 2n nodes in each layer sequentially from the immediately-upper layer of the lowermost layer in the complete binary tree; and carrying out collision determination between objects by using the complete binary tree resulting from the shuffling by the node shuffling section.

Abstract: A sensor device includes an element cover at the tip end of a housing, retaining a sensor element. An outer cover is provided with outer side holes, with the tip position of the outer side holes being farther toward the tip end than is the tip position of an inner cover, and a first flow passage having a gas flow direction that is at right angles to the axial direction is formed at the inner side of the outer cover. An inner side hole in the inner cover is open to a second flow passage provided between the side surfaces of the inner cover and the outer cover, and a detection surface of the sensor element is located on an extension line in an extension direction of a guide member which extends obliquely into the interior of the inner cover from the tip-position edge of the inner side hole.

Abstract: In a development operation support system, a development management server includes a recording unit configured to record configuration information and application time of applying the configuration information to a target system in a history-included CMDB, and a generating unit configured to generate configuration information corresponding to the application time as configuration information used for design at a subsequent design time. An operation management server includes a setting unit configured to set, at the recorded application time, configuration information corresponding to the application time in the target system, a collecting unit configured to collect setting information of a current target system from the set target system; and a confirming unit configured to confirm a match or a mismatch between the collected setting information and the configuration information corresponding to the recorded application time.

Abstract: A temperature sensor includes a temperature detector, an element electrode wire, a lead wire, and an intermediate member. Each of the lead wire and the intermediate member is made of a Ni-based alloy or an Fe-based alloy. The element electrode wire and the intermediate member are welded together in such a manner that opposing surfaces, facing each other abut against each other to constitute an element-side weld. The intermediate member and the lead wire are welded together such that they overlap each other in a longitudinal direction Z to constitute a lead-side weld. The lead wire is extended closer to the temperature detector than the element-side weld is located. A gap between the element electrode wire and the lead wire at least in the longitudinal direction Z is filled with a filler. The element electrode wire, the element-side weld, and the lead wire are fixed to one another by the filler.

Abstract: The present invention provides aqueous chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) polishing compositions that comprise a mixture of (a) one or more alkoxylated diamines having a number average molecular weight (Mn) of from 1,000 to 20,000, or, preferably, from 1000-15000 and having four (poly)alkoxy ether groups each containing from 5 to 100 alkoxy repeat units; (b) from 0.01 to 2 wt. % or, preferably, from 0.1 to 1.5 wt. %, as solids, based on the total weight of the compositions, of one or more aqueous dispersions of elongated, bent or nodular colloidal silica particles, preferably, having a secondary particle size as determined by dynamic light scattering (DLS) of from 20 to 60 nm; and (c) ammonia or an amine base, wherein the compositions have a pH ranging from 9 to 11. The compositions are substantially free of metals, such as alkali or alkaline earth metals that can damage substrates in polishing.

Abstract: The method forms a porous polyurethane polishing pad by coagulating thermoplastic polyurethane to create a porous matrix having large pores extending upward from a base surface and open to an upper surface. The large pores are interconnected with small pores. Heating a press to temperature below or above the softening onset temperature of the thermoplastic polyurethane forms a series of pillows. Plastic deforming side walls of the pillow structures forms downwardly sloped side walls. The downwardly sloped side walls extend from all sides of the pillow structures. The large pores open to the downwardly sloped sidewalls are less vertical than the large pores open to the top polishing surface and are offset 10 to 60 degrees from the vertical direction.

Abstract: A surface protection composition stably protecting a metal surface even at a high temperature, and a terminal-fitted electric wire improved in anticorrosion property by using the composition. The surface protection composition contains a high-consistency material (A) containing a lubricant base oil and an amide compound, and a composition (B) containing a phosphorus compound containing one or more compounds represented by the general formulae (1) and (2) and a metal. The mass ratio (A):(B) of the high-consistency material (A) to the composition (B) is within a range of 50:50 to 98:2. The lubricant base oil has a kinematic viscosity of 10 mm2/s or higher at 100° C.

Abstract: A surface protection composition which is hard to deform or flow even placed under environments of a large temperature change with an external physical load such as pressure, and which stably protects a metal surface. A terminal fitted electric wire coated with the composition. The surface protection composition contains a high-consistency material (A) containing a lubricant base oil and an amide compound, and a phosphorus composition (B). The phosphorus composition (B) contains a composition (b1) containing one or more compounds represented by the general formulae (1) and (2) and one or more metals and/or one or more amines. The phosphorus composition (B) also contains one or more compounds (b2) represented by the general formula (3).

Abstract: An anticorrosive agent stably protecting a metal surface with maintaining an anticorrosion property at a high temperature, and a terminal-fitted electric wire improved in anticorrosion property by using the agent. The anticorrosive agent contains a high-consistency material (A) containing a lubricant base oil and an amide compound, a composition (B) of a phosphorus compound containing one or more compounds represented by the general formulae (1) and (2) and a metal, and an azole (C). The mass ratio (A):(B) of the high-consistency material (A) and the composition (B) is within a range of 50:50 to 98:2. The content of the azole (C) is 0.5 to 20 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the total of (A) and (B).

Abstract: A metal surface coating composition including a high-consistency material containing a lubricant base oil and an amide compound, and a composition of a phosphorus compound containing one or more compounds represented by the below formulae and a metal, wherein the ratio (a/b) of the number of amide groups (a) and the number of acidic groups (b) is within a range of 1.1 to 6.0: where X1 to X7 represent an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom, R11 to R13 represent a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms, wherein at least one of them is a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms, and R14 to R16 represent a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms wherein at least one of them is a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms.

Abstract: A metal surface coating composition and a terminal-fitted electric wire which is anti-corrosion treated with the composition are provided. The composition includes a high-consistency material containing a lubricant base oil and an amide compound, a composition of a phosphorus compound containing one or more compounds represented by the below formulae and a metal, and a nucleating agent: where X1 to X7 each represent an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom, R11 to R13 each represent a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms, among which at least one is a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms, and R14 to R16 each represent a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms among which at least one is a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms.

Abstract: An anticorrosive agent including: a high-consistency material having a lubricant base oil and an amide compound, a composition of a phosphorus compound comprising one or more compounds represented by the general formulae (1) and (2) and a metal, and at least one kind of resin selected from a rosin-based resin, a terpene resin, a terpene phenol resin, a phenol resin, a coumarone-indene resin, and a petroleum resin, wherein a mass ratio of the high-consistency material and the composition is within a range of 50:50 to 98:2, and a content of resin is 2 to 20 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the total of the high-consistency material and the composition.

Abstract: The porous polyurethane polishing pad includes a porous matrix having large pores that extend upward from a base surface and open to an upper surface. The large pores are interconnected with small pores. The porous matrix is a blend of two thermoplastic polymers. The first thermoplastic polyurethane has by molecular percent, 45 to 60 adipic acid, 10 to 30 MDI-ethylene glycol and 15 to 35 MDI and an Mn of 40,000 to 60,000 and a Mw of 125,000 to 175,000 and an Mw to Mn ratio of 2.5 to 4 The second thermoplastic polyurethane has by molecular percent, 40 to 50 adipic acid, 20 to 40 adipic acid butane diol, 5 to 20 MDI-ethylene glycol and 5 to 25 MDI and an Mn of 60,000 to 80,000 and a Mw of 125,000 to 175,000 and an Mw to Mn ratio of 1.5 to 3.

Abstract: A simulation apparatus which simulates a position of each of plural objects, which move in a virtual space together with time, at each of plural time points of calculation. The apparatus includes: an object pair information acquisition unit acquiring plural pieces of information of object pairs each including, as components thereof, two objects which contact with each other at each of the plural time points of calculation; an allocation unit allocating, at each of the plural time points of calculation, each of the plural object pairs to one of plural groups such that two or more object pairs which include a common object do not belong to the same group; and a calculation unit calculating, at each of the plural time points of calculation, an influence of contact of two objects included in each of the plural object pairs upon positions of the two objects.

Abstract: A metal surface coating composition including a high-consistency material containing a lubricant base oil and an amide compound, and a composition of a phosphorus compound containing one or more compounds represented by the below formulae and a metal, wherein the ratio (a/b) of the number of amide groups (a) and the number of acidic groups (b) is within a range of 1.1 to 6.0: where X1 to X7 represent an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom, R11 to R13 represent a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms, wherein at least one of them is a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms, and R14 to R16 represent a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms wherein at least one of them is a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms.

Abstract: A metal surface coating composition and a terminal-fitted electric wire which is anti-corrosion treated with the composition are provided. The composition includes a high-consistency material containing a lubricant base oil and an amide compound, a composition of a phosphorus compound containing one or more compounds represented by the below formulae and a metal, and a nucleating agent: where X1 to X7 each represent an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom, R11 to R13 each represent a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms, among which at least one is a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms, and R14 to R16 each represent a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms among which at least one is a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms.

Abstract: A simulation apparatus which simulates a position of each of a plurality of objects, which move in a virtual space together with time, at each of a plural calculation time is disclosed. The apparatus includes: an object connection block for applying, to each object of each three or more objects contacting with each other at each of the plural calculation time points, a pointer value indicative of a contact destination object with which the object is in contact determining one of the three or more objects as a terminal end to connect the objects; and a pointer value updating block for repeating a pointer value updating process, by which the pointer value of each object is updated to the pointer value of the contact destination object indicated by the pointer value until the pointer values of all of the objects come to indicate the object of the terminal end.

Abstract: The porous polyurethane polishing pad includes a porous polyurethane matrix having large pores extending upward from a base surface and open to a polishing surface. A series of pillow structures is formed from the porous matrix that include the large pores and the small pores. The pillow structures have a downward surface extending from the top polishing surface for forming downwardly sloped side walls at an angle from 30 to 60 degrees from the polishing surface. The large pores open to the downwardly sloped sidewalls and are less vertical than the large pores. The large pores are offset 10 to 60 degrees from the vertical direction in a direction more orthogonal to the sloped sidewalls.

Abstract: A temperature sensor includes a temperature detector, an element electrode wire, a lead wire, and an intermediate member. Each of the lead wire and the intermediate member is made of a Ni-based alloy or an Fe-based alloy. The element electrode wire and the intermediate member are welded together in such a manner that opposing surfaces, facing each other abut against each other to constitute an element-side weld. The intermediate member and the lead wire are welded together such that they overlap each other in a longitudinal direction Z to constitute a lead-side weld. The lead wire is extended closer to the temperature detector than the element-side weld is located. A gap between the element electrode wire and the lead wire at least in the longitudinal direction Z is filled with a filler. The element electrode wire, the element-side weld, and the lead wire are fixed to one another by the filler.