Abstract: There is provided an electronic motor in which a stator core is thinned to obtain an increased diameter of a rotor is to produce a high power output, and a stator can be positioned with high accuracy at the time when a coil is wound on the stator. The outside peripheral surface of a yoke part 31 is substantially the same as the outside peripheral surface of a flange 42 of an insulator 4, and in a part of the flange 42, a cut-away part 43 is provided to expose a part of the end face of a stator core 30.

Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor interconnection wherein a barrier layer different from a TiO2 layer is formed on an interface between an insulating film and a Cu interconnection without increasing electrical resistivity of the Cu interconnection. In the semiconductor interconnection, a Cu interconnection containing Ti is embedded in a trench arranged on an insulating film on the semiconductor substrate, and a TiC layer is formed between the insulating film and the Cu interconnection. The insulating film is preferably composed of SiCO or SiCN. The thickness of the TiC layer is preferably 3-30 nm.

Abstract: A fixing device fixing a toner image on a recording material, includes: a first blowing section that blows air against a leading edge of the recording material that has passed through a nip portion formed by a heated fixing member and a pressing member kept in pressure contact with the fixing member, and a second blowing section that blows air against the recording material that has passed through the nip portion, wherein an air speed of air blown out from a first blowing outlet is higher than that of air blown out from a second blowing outlet, wherein an air flow amount from the first blowing outlet is less than that from the second blowing outlet, and wherein the first and second blowing outlets are arranged at the same position in a direction in parallel with a rotational axis of the fixing member.

Abstract: A fixing device including: a heated fixing member; a pressure member to form a nip portion between the pressure member and the fixing member; first blowing unit and second blowing unit both located close to an outlet of the nip portion and separate the recording medium from the fixing member by blowing air to the recording medium, wherein a velocity of the air discharged from the first unit is higher than that of the air discharged from the second unit, whereas a volume of the air discharged from the first unit is smaller than that of the air discharged from the second unit; and the first unit starts discharging air before a leading edge of the recording medium reaches the outlet of the nip portion, whereas the second unit starts discharging air after the leading edge of the recording medium has passed through the outlet of the nip portion.

Abstract: Disclosed is a fixing device having a self-temperature control function, and reducing a heat capacity of a heat generation member for saving energy and achieving good warm-up property. The fixing device includes a fixed plate inside a closed rotation path of a belt, contacting an inner circumferential surface of the belt, substantially opposed to an excitation coil with the belt therebetween, keeping the belt on the rotation path. The fixed plate includes: a magnetic shunt alloy layer made of a magnetic shunt alloy; a conductive heat generation layer being disposed toward a main surface of the magnetic shunt alloy layer facing the belt, being made of a conductor other than the alloy, and being thinner than the alloy layer; and a low resistance conductive layer being disposed toward another main surface, having a lower electric resistance value than the heat generation layer, and being thicker than the heat generation layer.

Abstract: A fixing device including: a heated fixing member to fix a toner image on a recording medium; a pressing member to form a nip portion between the pressing member and the fixing member; a first blowing unit that blows air to a position close to a leading edge of the recording medium; and a second blowing unit that blows air to the recording medium, wherein a discharge pressure of the air discharged by the first blowing unit is larger than that of the air ejected by the second blowing unit; a discharged air volume discharged by the first blowing unit is less than that discharged by the second blowing unit; and a first discharge port from which air is blown by the first blowing unit is arranged upstream of a second discharge port from which air is blown by the second blowing unit.

Abstract: A fixing device including: a fixing member; a pressing member to form a nip portion between the pressing member and the fixing member, wherein the fixing member and the pressing member sandwich a recording medium, fix a toner image on the recording medium and convey the recording medium; a detection unit for detecting that a leading edge of the recording medium is located at the nip portion; a first air jetting unit for separating the recording medium from the fixing member by jetting air only to a position close to the leading edge of the recording medium having passed the nip portion based on the detection result by the detection unit; and a second jetting unit for jetting air to the recording medium whose leading edge has passed through the nip portion.

Abstract: A solid-state image sensor includes first and second pixels formed on a semiconductor substrate. The first pixel includes: a first photoelectric conversion region located in an upper portion of the semiconductor substrate; a first transfer electrode; a light-shield film covering the first transfer electrode and having a first opening on the first photoelectric conversion region; and a first anti-reflection film located on the first photoelectric conversion region and, when viewed in plan, within the first opening so as not to overlap the first light-shield film. The second pixel includes: a second photoelectric conversion region located in an upper portion of the semiconductor substrate; a second transfer electrode; the light-shield film covering the second transfer electrode and having a second opening on the second photoelectric conversion region; and a second anti-reflection film located on the second photoelectric conversion region and continuously extending to a portion on the second transfer electrode.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to obtain greater reduction in resistance between an n-electrode and an n-type layer made of a Group III nitride compound semiconductor. According to the present invention, the n-electrode is formed with a first electrode material made of at least one member selected from the group consisting of vanadium (V), titanium (Ti), zirconium (Zr) and tungsten (W), a second electrode material made of at least one member selected from the group consisting of palladium (Pd), platinum (Pt), gold (Au), silver (Ag) and copper (Cu), and a third electrode material made of at least one member selected from the group consisting of aluminum (Al), silicon (Si) and germanium (Ge).

Abstract: A conveying device includes a cylindrical first roller, a cylindrical second roller that has a surface hardness higher than a surface hardness of the first roller, and a belt placed in a state surrounding either the first roller or the second roller. the conveying device moves an object to be conveyed by bringing the first roller and the second roller in pressure contact with each other via the belt and making the object pass through a nip portion formed of the belt and the first roller or the second roller facing the belt. A length in a lengthwise direction of an outer peripheral portion of the first roller is shorter than a length in a lengthwise direction of an outer peripheral portion of the second roller.

Abstract: A method of fabricating semiconductor interconnections is provided which can form a Ti-rich layer as a barrier layer and which can embed pure Cu material as interconnection material into every corner of grooves provided in an insulating film even when the grooves have a narrow minimum width and are deep. The method may include the steps of forming one or more grooves in an insulating film on a semiconductor substrate, the recess having a minimum width of 0.15 ?m or less and a ratio of a depth of the groove to the minimum width thereof (depth/minimum width) of 1 or more, forming a Cu alloy thin film containing 0.5 to 10 atomic % of Ti in the groove of the insulated film along a shape of the groove in a thickness of 10 to 50 nm, forming a pure Cu thin film in the groove with the Cu alloy thin film attached thereto, and annealing the substrate with the films at 350° C. or more to allow the Ti to be precipitated between the insulating film and the Cu alloy thin film.

Abstract: There is provided an electronic motor in which a stator core is thinned to obtain an increased diameter of a rotor is to produce a high power output, and a stator can be positioned with high accuracy at the time when a coil is wound on the stator. The outside peripheral surface of a yoke part 31 is substantially the same as the outside peripheral surface of a flange 42 of an insulator 4, and in a part of the flange 42, a cut-away part 43 is provided to expose a part of the end face of a stator core 30.

Abstract: There is provided a permanent magnet motor capable of reducing cogging torque and torque ripple while suppressing a decrease in motor output. In a permanent magnet motor 1 including a rotor 3 in which a plurality of permanent magnets 5 are arranged in a ring shape as a magnetic field unit, the transverse cross section of the permanent magnet 5 has an inside periphery 51 formed by a first arc 511 having the center of curvature O1 and the radius of curvature R1, and an outside periphery 52 formed by a second arc 521 having the center of curvature O2 and the radius of curvature R2, a third arc 522 having the center of curvature O3 and the radius of curvature R3 and joined to one end of the second arc 521, and a fourth arc 523 having the center of curvature O4 and the radius of curvature R4 and joined to the other end of the second arc 521. The above-described centers of curvature are disposed at different positions.

Abstract: In an electric rotary machine, a stator, a metallic supporting member configured to support the stator, and a rotor are provided, the rotor is relatively rotatably supported with respect to the stator, a magnetic path is formed via a gap portion between the stator and the rotor to give a torque to the rotor, and a space section is provided to interrupt the magnetic path at a position of the metallic supporting member near to a magnetic pole of the stator facing the gap portion.

Abstract: A fixing device forms a fixing nip by pressing a first roller, which is inside a rotation path of a rotating belt, with a second roller via the belt, and thermally fixes an unfixed image formed on a sheet S by passing the sheet S through the fixing nip while heating the belt by electromagnetic induction. The fixing device comprises an excitation coil positioned outside said path, and a fixed plate that (i) is inside said path, substantially facing the excitation coil via the belt, (ii) contacts an inner surface of the belt, and (iii) keeps the belt on said path. A base member of the belt is a conductive heat generation layer containing no magnetic shunt alloy. The fixed plate includes a conductive layer and a magnetic shunt alloy layer that is closer to the belt than the conductive layer.

Abstract: Disclosed is a fixing device having a self-temperature control function, and reducing a heat capacity of a heat generation member for saving energy and achieving good warm-up property. The fixing device includes a fixed plate inside a closed rotation path of a belt, contacting an inner circumferential surface of the belt, substantially opposed to an excitation coil with the belt therebetween, keeping the belt on the rotation path. The fixed plate includes: a magnetic shunt alloy layer made of a magnetic shunt alloy; a conductive heat generation layer being disposed toward a main surface of the magnetic shunt alloy layer facing the belt, being made of a conductor other than the alloy, and being thinner than the alloy layer; and a low resistance conductive layer being disposed toward another main surface, having a lower electric resistance value than the heat generation layer, and being thicker than the heat generation layer.

Abstract: Disclosed is a fixing device that easily suppresses an excessive temperature increase in a guide plate without extending a warm-up period, the device comprising: guide plate 156 that includes a low-resistance, electrically conductive layer, and guides fixing belt 155 in its rotation direction by contacting its inner surface inside its rotation path; and magnetic flux generator 170 that is positioned outside the rotation path, facing guide plate 156 with fixing belt 155 in between, and generates magnetic flux. Fixing belt 155 includes heat generation layer 155c, which generates heat due to the magnetic flux, and magnetic shunt alloy layer 155d, which turns from ferromagnetic to nonmagnetic when a temperature thereof has exceeded a predetermined temperature. At least one of ends of guide plate 156 in the rotation direction is thick portion 156a having a greater thickness than a central portion of guide plate 156.

Abstract: A solid-state image sensor includes: a photoelectric conversion region formed in an upper part of a semiconductor substrate, for generating charges by photoelectric conversion; a transfer region formed in the upper part of the semiconductor substrate and located on a side of the photoelectric conversion region, for transferring the charges; and a transfer electrode formed over the semiconductor substrate and located above the transfer region. The solid-state image sensor further includes: a first insulating film which covers the photoelectric conversion region and the transfer electrode; an antireflection film which covers the first insulating film; and a first light-shielding film which is formed on the antireflection film and covers at least the transfer electrode. The antireflection film and the first light-shielding film have an opening above the transfer electrode.

Abstract: A solid state image pickup device includes a plurality of light receiving sections formed in a regular pattern, transfer channels, a plurality of first transfer electrodes and a plurality of second transfer electrodes formed on the transfer channels, a plurality of first wires each applying a potential to the corresponding first transfer electrodes and a plurality of second wires each applying a potential to the corresponding second transfer electrodes. The first and second wires extend in the directions intersecting each other.

Abstract: A light emitting element having a light emitting element portion formed of a group III nitride-based compound semiconductor and having a layer to emit light. The light emitting element portion is formed by lifting off a substrate by wet etching after the light emitting element portion is grown on the substrate. The light emitting element portion has a lift-off surface that is kept substantially intact as it is formed in growing the light emitting element portion on the substrate.