Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes a trench forming step, a laser irradiation step and a peeling step. In the trench forming step, a trench is formed on a first main surface of a semiconductor substrate having a device structure formed thereon. In the laser irradiation step, a laser is irradiated from a second main surface of the semiconductor substrate to a plane surface that is positioned and extends at a predetermined depth of the semiconductor substrate. In the peeling step, a device layer is peeled off from the semiconductor substrate along the plane surface on which the laser is irradiated. The peeling step may be performed in a state in which the trenches are either unfilled or filled with a material having a lower coefficient of thermal expansion than the semiconductor substrate.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, includes: applying a laser beam to a plane extending at a predetermined depth in a semiconductor substrate from a second main surface side of the semiconductor substrate opposite to a first main surface side on which a device structure including a channel is formed; and peeling off a device layer including the device structure from the semiconductor substrate along the plane applied with the laser beam. In the applying of the laser beam, the laser beam is applied so that a power density is lower in a region corresponding to the channel in a thickness direction of the semiconductor substrate than in the other region, in the plane extending at the predetermined depth in the semiconductor substrate.

Abstract: In a computer system for performing linkage control of information between organizations, scenario management information for managing a scenario in which trigger information related to an event related to a user is associated with a target organization as a target of the linkage control accompanying an occurrence of the event is held, and when receiving information from an arbitrary organization, an arithmetic device searches for the scenario including the received information as the trigger information, identifies the target organization based on the scenario and the received information, and transmits shared information generated from the received information to the target organization.

Abstract: It is provided an information linkage system, which is configured to allow a plurality of organizations to register and update data, and is formed of a computer including: a calculation device configured to execute predetermined calculation processing, to thereby implement the following functional modules; and a storage device accessible to the calculation device, the information linkage system comprising: an information linkage control module configured to receive a registration request for data, an update request for data, and an acquisition request for data from a plurality of external systems; an information linkage database in which data is allowed to be registered and updated; an information linkage database access module configured to access the information linkage database in response to a request received by the information linkage control module; and a reliability calculation module configured to calculate reliability information relating to the data stored in the information linkage database.

Abstract: It is provided an information linkage system, which is configured to allow a plurality of organizations to register and update data, and is formed of a computer including: a calculation device configured to execute predetermined calculation processing, to thereby implement the following functional modules; and a storage device accessible to the calculation device, the information linkage system comprising: an information linkage control module configured to receive a registration request for data, an update request for data, and an acquisition request for data from a plurality of external systems; an information linkage database in which data is allowed to be registered and updated; an information linkage database access module configured to access the information linkage database in response to a request received by the information linkage control module; and a reliability calculation module configured to calculate reliability information relating to the data stored in the information linkage database.

Abstract: The self-healing system comprises a self-healing processor and an error mitigation system. The self-healing processor includes a code block associated with the operation of a portion of digital logic. The self-healing processor also includes a dynamic signature analysis circuit. The processor executes the code block. The dynamic signature analysis circuit creates a dynamic signature representing the operation of the portion of digital logic associated with the code block. The error mitigation system receives the dynamic signature from the dynamic signature analysis circuit. The error mitigation system compares the dynamic signature to a static signature to determine if the signatures match. If the signatures do not match, then the digital logic associated with the code block has an error. The error mitigation system retries execution of the code block. The error mitigation system stores log information describing the above events.

Abstract: A first semiconductor chip includes a first inductor and a second inductor, and a second semiconductor chip includes a third inductor and a fourth inductor. The first inductor is connected to a first receiving circuit of the first semiconductor chip, and the second inductor is connected to a second transmitting circuit of the second semiconductor chip through a first bonding wire. The third inductor is connected to a second receiving circuit of the second semiconductor chip, and the fourth inductor is connected to a first transmitting circuit of the first semiconductor chip through a second bonding wire.

Abstract: A composite image-generating device includes: a geometric transformation table that assigns coordinates corresponding to positions of pixels of an output image on an input image received from a capturing section; and an output image-generating section that generates the output image by superimposing an overlay image based on overlay data associated with the positions of the pixels of the output image in the geometric transformation table on an image obtained by geometrically transforming the input image according to the geometric transformation table.

Abstract: An electrically insulated switching element driver includes: a pulse transformer driving unit into which a switching element driving signal and a duty signal are input and which drives, in accordance with the duty signal, a first or second pulse transformer that is selected depending on a state of the switching element driving signal; a first edge detection unit that outputs an on-off signal according to an edge in a pre-rectification output of the first pulse transformer; a second edge detection unit that outputs an on-off signal according to an edge in a pre-rectification output of the second pulse transformer; and a control driving unit that drives a switching element to be driven, based on the output of the first and second edge detection units, wherein the first and second edge detection units and the control driving unit operate with power resulting from rectifying the output of the first and second pulse transformers.

Abstract: An electrically insulated switching element driver includes: a pulse transformer driving unit into which a switching element driving signal and a duty signal are input and which drives, in accordance with the duty signal, a first or second pulse transformer that is selected depending on a state of the switching element driving signal; a first edge detection unit that outputs an on-off signal according to an edge in a pre-rectification output of the first pulse transformer; a second edge detection unit that outputs an on-off signal according to an edge in a pre-rectification output of the second pulse transformer; and a control driving unit that drives a switching element to be driven, based on the output of the first and second edge detection units, wherein the first and second edge detection units and the control driving unit operate with power resulting from rectifying the output of the first and second pulse transformers.

Abstract: The self-healing system comprises a self-healing processor and an error mitigation system. The self-healing processor includes a code block associated with the operation of a portion of digital logic. The self-healing processor also includes a dynamic signature analysis circuit. The processor executes the code block. The dynamic signature analysis circuit creates a dynamic signature representing the operation of the portion of digital logic associated with the code block. The error mitigation system receives the dynamic signature from the dynamic signature analysis circuit. The error mitigation system compares the dynamic signature to a static signature to determine if the signatures match. If the signatures do not match, then the digital logic associated with the code block has an error. The error mitigation system retries execution of the code block. The error mitigation system stores log information describing the above events.

Abstract: A first semiconductor chip includes a first inductor and a second inductor, and a second semiconductor chip includes a third inductor and a fourth inductor. The first inductor is connected to a first receiving circuit of the first semiconductor chip, and the second inductor is connected to a second transmitting circuit of the second semiconductor chip through a first bonding wire. The third inductor is connected to a second receiving circuit of the second semiconductor chip, and the fourth inductor is connected to a first transmitting circuit of the first semiconductor chip through a second bonding wire.

Abstract: A composite image-generating device includes: a geometric transformation table that assigns coordinates corresponding to positions of pixels of an output image on an input image received from a capturing section; and an output image-generating section that generates the output image by superimposing an overlay image based on overlay data associated with the positions of the pixels of the output image in the geometric transformation table on an image obtained by geometrically transforming the input image according to the geometric transformation table.

Abstract: A vacuum switchgear system for a three phase electric power system, wherein a switchgear comprises a vacuum switch comprising a vacuum container and switches accommodated in the vacuum switch and an operation unit. Each of the switches and each of the operation units is coaxially connected with an operating rod of each of the switches. A link mechanism of the operation unit is connected with a link of the adjoining operation units of the switchgears. Each of the link mechanisms transmits a force of the driving rod assisted by an electro-magnet to the adjoining driving rods through the link mechanisms so that the operation units and the switches in the same phase and the same vacuum container are operated in synchronism in response to a switch-on signal or a switch-off signal.

Abstract: A double-acting hydraulic actuator structure for use in an automatic transmission has a two-layered structure which includes first and second frictional engagement element hydraulic actuators. The first hydraulic actuator includes a drum member and a first piston fitted hermetically and slidably in the drum member. The second hydraulic actuator is formed by the interior of the first piston and a second piston fitted hermetically and slidably mounted within the first piston. The first and second pistons are both urged toward their disengaged positions by the action of a common return spring. A second spring is provided for urging the second piston alone against the force of the return spring.

Abstract: A thrust washer has a protrusion which is formed with a projecting pawl. The rotating member is formed with a through hole, into which the protrusion of the thrust washer is inserted, such that the pawl is projected out on the opposed surface remote from the thrust washer of the rotating member, whereby the upstanding surface of the pawl is used as a stop means. Thus, the thrust washer is positively secured to the rotating member.

Abstract: A four-wheel drive automatic transmission primarily consisting of an automatic transmission having a transmission case, a transmission gear mounted in the transmission case and an automatic transmission hydraulic control unit including a transmission valve body secured to the bottom surface of the transmission case; and a four-wheel drive transfer having a transfer case, a transfer unit mounted in the transfer case and a transfer hydraulic control unit including a transfer valve body secured to the bottom surface of the transfer case. The automatic transmission hydraulic control unit and the transfer hydraulic control unit communicate with each other by oil passages cast in the transmission case and in the transfer case.

Abstract: In a clutch mechanism for a power transmission system which effects engagement and disengagement between a central shaft and an outer peripheral shaft provided on the outer periphery of the central shaft, an improvement characterized by comprising splines provided on the outer periphery of the central shaft, and an inner tube of an annular clutch cylinder containing a piston of a fluid actuator and a clutch plate of a multiple disk clutch, the inner tube being fitted on the outer periphery of the central shaft through the splines.

Abstract: Described herein is a brake support mechanism particularly suitable for use in a 4-wheel drive auxiliary transmission to reduce the axial dimensions and to facilitate assembling of the transmission, the brake support mechanism essentially comprising: a transmission case; a cylindrical rotary member mounted in the transmission case; a multiple disk brake constituted by a combination of brake plates splined on the inner periphery of the transmission case and brake disks splined on the outer periphery of the rotary member; a center support fitted in the transmission case in a position adjacent the multiple disk brake; and a hydraulic actuator including an annular cylinder formed in the center support on the side of the multiple disk brake, a piston slidably fitted in the cylinder, an operating fluid supply passage formed in the center support, a return spring located on the outer periphery of the multiple disk brake and having one end thereof abutted against the transmission case, and a return spring mounting me

Abstract: A contour line of a circle or an object having a configuration close to a circle or a portion thereof is identified by presuming picture image data representing a contour candidate point of the object to be detected among picture image data representing the brightness of one picture in which the object presents, and then scanning the picture image data of a predetermined region containing the picture image.