Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, comprises forming a first film above a pattern forming material, patterning the first film to form a core material pattern, forming a second film above the pattern forming material so as to cover a side surface and an upper surface of the core material pattern, forming a third film above the second film as a protective material for the second film, etching the second and third films so that side wall sections including the second film and the third film are formed on both sides of the core material pattern and the second film and the third film of an area other than the side wall sections are removed, removing the core material pattern between the side wall sections, and transferring patterns corresponding to the side wall sections on the pattern forming material by using the side wall sections as a mask.

Abstract: A compound of the following formula (1): CH2?CR1—COO—R2—OCO-Cy-COO-Cy-A-Cy-R3??(1) wherein R1 is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; R2 is a hydrocarbon group having from 1 to 8 carbon atoms, provided that some or all of hydrogen atoms bonded to carbon atoms in the group may be substituted by fluorine atoms, and when it has 2 or more carbon atoms, it may have an etheric oxygen atom in a carbon-carbon bond, R3 is an alkyl or alkoxy group having from 1 to 8 carbon atoms, or a fluorine atom, provided that when it is the alkyl or alkoxy group, some or all of hydrogen atoms bonded to carbon atoms in the group may be substituted by fluorine atoms; Cy is a trans-1,4-cyclohexylene group, provided that hydrogen atoms bonded to carbon atoms in the group may independently be substituted by fluorine atoms, chlorine atoms or methyl groups; and A is a single bond, a trans-1,4-cyclohexylene group or a 1,4-phenylene group, provided that hydrogen atoms bonded to carbon atoms in the group may independently be substituted by

Abstract: A spindle motor, comprising a base having a cylindrical drawn portion formed by plastic working, a sleeve that is inserted in the drawn portion, a shaft that is inserted in a state of being rotatable relative to the sleeve, and a lubricant that fills the gap between the sleeve and the shaft, in which the sleeve is affixed with an adhesive agent to the drawn portion inner periphery, wherein there are adhesive reservoirs around the inner periphery of the drawn portion. These adhesive reservoirs are formed during a series of plastic working steps in which the cylindrical drawn portion is formed.

Abstract: A surface treatment method includes: removing a fluorocarbon-containing reaction product from a surface of a workpiece by oxygen gas plasma processing. The workpiece includes a plurality of layers. The fluorocarbon-containing reaction product is deposited by successively etching the layers of the workpiece. The method further includes after removing the reaction product, removing an oxide-containing reaction product from the surface of the workpiece using hydrogen fluoride gas.

Abstract: A transmission and reception system utilizes primarily a combination of punctured-convolution-coding and diversity. Degradation in likelihood of certain data is prevented by adopting the steps of (a) punctured-convolution-coding series of identical information data by using a plurality of different puncturing patterns, (b) diversity-transmitting each of different series of punctured data obtained in step (a) as diversity branches, (c) depuncturing the series of punctured data individually in a receiving device by using identical puncturing patterns and as used in the transmission side, and (d) combining and convolution-decoding them thereafter.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystalline compound which has a large value of refractive index anisotropy, exhibits a liquid crystal phase in a wide temperature range, and is stable under use conditions. It is a liquid crystalline compound represented by the following formula (1): wherein the symbols in the formula have the following meanings: R1, R2: each independently, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkoxy group, a halogen atom or a cyano group, wherein at least one hydrogen atom in each of the alkyl, alkenyl and alkoxy groups may be replaced with a chlorine or fluorine atom; ring A, ring B: each independently, a trans-1,4-cyclohexylene group or a 1,4-phenylene group, wherein a hydrogen atom in each of these rings may be replaced with a chlorine atom, fluorine atom or methyl group; X1, X2: each independently, a hydrogen or fluorine atom; n: 0 or 1.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, and an interlayer wiring structure further including a lower wiring layer formed on the semiconductor substrate, a first interlayer an interlayer wiring layer including an interlayer insulating film formed on the lower wiring layer and including a first upper surface and a second upper surface, the first upper surface being higher than the second upper surface relative to a surface of the semiconductor substrate, a contact plug formed in the interlayer insulating film and including a first bottom surface contacting to the lower wiring layer, a third upper surface flush with the second upper surface and a fourth upper surface flush with the first upper surface, an upper wiring layer formed on the first and third upper surfaces and including a first side surface and a second side surface opposite to the first side surface, and a second interlayer insulating film formed on the second and fourth upper surfaces.

Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a seat body having a seat back, a pair of left and right legs, a headrest coupled to the seat back at above the seat back through the pair of legs, load detecting means provided on the seat back and having a movable part that displaces in a predetermined direction upon undergoing a load from the front of the seat back; a first interacting member mechanically coupled to one leg of the pair and to the movable part of the load detecting means, to move one leg of the pair in conjunction with a displacement of the movable part caused upon undergoing the load, thereby displacing the headrest frontward, and a second interacting member mechanically coupled to the other leg of the pair and to the first interacting member, to move the other leg of the pair in conjunction with a movement of the first interacting member caused upon moving the one leg of the pair, thereby displacing the headrest frontward.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for efficiently producing sporangia of Bacillus popilliae containing spores and parasporal bodies having controlling effects on Scarabaeidae insects, and a control agent and controlling method for Scarabaeidae insects obtained by said production process. In a process for producing sporangia of Bacillus popilliae containing spores and parasporal bodies by culturing Bacillus popilliae in a medium containing an adsorbent, the medium contains 0.2-4.0% by weight of glutamic acid.

Abstract: A display device suitable for a game machine has dot printed films which are printed on a light guide plate which constitutes a backlight for illuminating a liquid crystal display panel. The dots of the dot printed films are arranged more densely in a window-frame portion corresponding region, which faces a display region of the liquid crystal display panel, and in the vicinity of an inner periphery of a transmission portion corresponding to a region which faces a transmission region.

Abstract: A seat back comprises a support bracket in which a stay of a head rest is inserted, a guide bracket for supporting a rear surface of a vertically intermediate portion of the support bracket on the seat back frame, a head rest tilt mechanism, and a pressure receiving member which moves rearward when pushed by the body of an occupant. The head rest tilt mechanism includes slotted brackets each having a guide hole and slide members which individually movably engage the respective guide holes of the slotted brackets along the longitudinal direction thereof. The head rest tilt mechanism drives the sub-frame so that the head rest body tilts forward while moving upward as the slide members are moved upward along the guide holes when the pressure receiving member is moved rearward.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystalline compound which has a large value of refractive index anisotropy, exhibits a liquid crystal phase in a wide temperature range, and is stable under use conditions. It is a liquid crystalline compound represented by the following formula (1): wherein the symbols in the formula have the following meanings: R1, R2: each independently, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkoxy group, a halogen atom or a cyano group, wherein at least one hydrogen atom in each of the alkyl, alkenyl and alkoxy groups may be replaced with a chlorine or fluorine atom; ring A, ring B: each independently, a trans-1,4-cyclohexylene group or a 1,4-phenylene group, wherein a hydrogen atom in each of these rings may be replaced with a chlorine atom, fluorine atom or methyl group; X1, X2: each independently, a hydrogen or fluorine atom; n: 0 or 1.

Abstract: A polishing method includes the steps of, performing a chemical-mechanical polishing with a first acid slurry, in the case of polishing soft magnetic layer with iron alloy that contains silicon and aluminum, and performing a mechanical polishing with a second weak acid or neutral slurry with a pH different from that of the first slurry.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a lower wiring layer on a semiconductor substrate, forming an interlayer insulating film on the lower wiring layer, layer, forming a plurality of. contact plugs in the interlayer insulating film so that the contact plugs are brought into electrical contact with the lower wiring layer, thereby forming an interlayer wiring layer, forming an upper wiring, layer on the interlayer wiring layer so that the upper wiring layer is brought into electrical contact with the contact plugs, and patterning the upper wiring layer so that the upper wiring layer corresponds to the contact plugs. In the patterning, after the upper wiring layer has been etched, the exposed interlayer insulating film and the exposed contact plugs are etched.

Abstract: When a vehicle is rear-ended and a seated user moves rearward in reaction to the rear-end collision, a load movement of a lumbar part of the seated user is sufficiently transmitted from a pressure plate of operating force generating means to an operating force generating mechanism, regardless of an amount of rearward tilting of a seat back. Then, a pressure roller serving as a driven member of the operating force generating mechanism largely deflects and sufficiently pulls inner cables of respective pulling cable devices, thereby smoothly moving both end portions of a headrest frame upward. As a result, the headrest frame is moved upward smoothly and reliably, and a headrest is moved in an upward-forward direction, that is, toward the head of the seated user smoothly and reliably.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a conductive member for use in OA equipment which shows very stable conductivity in the volume resistivity range of 105 to 1012 ?·cm, the conductivity of which is less dependent on the voltage applied and varies only slightly during continuous energization and upon changes in environmental factors such as temperature and humidity and which will not stain photoconductors due to bleeding or blooming. The present invention provides a conductive member for OA equipment, which is obtainable by molding a composition comprising a non-ether-based polyurethane and bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imidolithium.

Abstract: To provide a liquid crystal optical modulation element capable of stably modulating a laser beam having a wavelength of at most 500 nm for a long period of time. A liquid crystal optical modulation element to modulate a laser beam having a wavelength of at most 500 nm, which comprises a layer of a liquid crystal composition sandwiched between a pair of transparent substrates facing each other, characterized in that each of the pair of transparent substrates has an electrode and an alignment film comprising a polyimide on the surface which faces the other transparent substrate, the alignment film and the liquid crystal composition are in contact with each other, and the liquid crystal composition contains an antioxidant.

Abstract: The present invention aims to improve the efficiency of a clamping step for combining a flange with a shaft and to improve productivity. The shaft and the flange are previously tentatively combined in the tentative clamping step. In the tentative clamping step, a concave part at the end of the shaft is pressurized by a metal mold such as a ball to be enlarged to an outer circumferential direction, and then, pressurizing this concave part against the inner circumference of the flange, the concave part is fixed. The combined body made by tentatively combining the shaft and the flange is strongly combined in a proper clamping step. In order to correct a distortion such as a warpage of the flange that has been solidly combined by the proper clamping step, sandwiching the flange by the upper and lower metals, the flange is pressurized and a flash molding is carried out.

Abstract: A relay apparatus 30 issues a new sub-address at a timing when mobile phones (10a, 10b) requested content from a CP server apparatuses (20a, 20b), that is, at a timing when a sub-address is required. The content specified by this sub-address is distributed from the CP server apparatuses via the relay apparatus (30) to the mobile phones. In system of the present invention it is possible to utilize the same sub-address many times for different content items. It is therefore possible to avoid increasing the number of digits of the sub-address as well as the complexity of the sub-address structure, in a case where the types of content or the number of content items increases.

Abstract: A seat back comprises a support bracket in which a stay of a head rest is inserted, a guide bracket for supporting a rear surface of a vertically intermediate portion of the support bracket on the seat back frame, a head rest tilt mechanism, and a pressure receiving member which moves rearward when pushed by the body of an occupant. The head rest tilt mechanism includes slotted brackets each having a guide hole and slide members which individually movably engage the respective guide holes of the slotted brackets along the longitudinal direction thereof. The head rest tilt mechanism drives the sub-frame so that the head rest body tilts forward while moving upward as the slide members are moved upward along the guide holes when the pressure receiving member is moved rearward.