Abstract: A semiconductor device including a base substrate B, which includes wire layers, chips C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, and C6 provided on the base substrate B, and a protective film P provided on each of the side faces of the chips C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, and C6.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes a container configured to contain a substrate, and a pipe configured to supply the container with liquid to treat the substrate. The apparatus further includes an ejector including a first passage where the liquid introduced from the pipe and the liquid introduced from the container are joined and pass through, and a first opening configured to eject the liquid that has passed through the first passage. Furthermore, the first passage has an area where a sectional area of the first passage becomes large as advancing downstream in the liquid.

Abstract: A maintenance support server includes a communication interface, a first memory, a second memory, and a processor. The communication interface communicates with a terminal device. The first memory stores machine body internal information relating to maintenance to an image forming apparatus. The second memory stores search history information indicating a search history of the machine body internal information with respect to the first memory. The processor stores a search result obtained by searching for the machine body internal information from the first memory in response to a search request from the terminal device as search history information in the second memory and transmits questionnaire information to the terminal device together with the search result.

Abstract: A production system includes a memory containing instructions, and a processor that executes the instructions to execute a quality verification process corresponding to identification information assigned to a print job, determine whether or not a condition corresponding to the identification information assigned to the print job is met, in a case it is determined that the condition is not met, execute an adjustment process for meeting the condition, and execute the print job in a case the adjustment process has been completed or in a case it is determined that the condition is met.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a plurality of stacked bodies on a substrate, each of the stacked bodies includes a plurality of semiconductor chips. The method further includes forming a plurality of first wires on the stacked bodies. The first wires connecting the stacked bodies to each other. The method further includes forming a resin layer on the stacked bodies and the first wires, then thinning he resin layer until the first wires are exposed.

Abstract: A driving assist device for a vehicle sets a a roadway area ahead of the vehicle, detects an avoidance target existing ahead of the vehicle, and executes collision avoidance control that avoids a collision between the vehicle and the avoidance target. The collision avoidance control is more likely to be executed when the avoidance target is within the roadway area than when the avoidance target is outside the roadway area. The driving assist device detects a roadway end object and a first lane marking of a first lane in which the vehicle exists. An imaginary position is a position apart from the detected position of the roadway end object toward the first lane by a constant distance. The driving assist device sets the imaginary position or the detected position of the the first lane marking as a boundary position of the roadway area based on a predetermined condition.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a gas processing equipment includes an oxygen remover 2 that removes oxygen contained in exhaust gas G, and a gas processing device 3 that processes pretreated exhaust gas G (P), from which the oxygen has been removed by the oxygen remover 2, with a carbon dioxide absorbent solvent S as a treatment agent.

Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a piezoelectric element in which, at a time when the piezoelectric element is manufactured, a piezoelectric material is prevented from being exposed to a temperature higher than a Curie temperature thereof to be depolarized, to thereby significantly decrease piezoelectric properties. The method of manufacturing a piezoelectric element includes a first step of arranging a plurality of electrodes on a piezoelectric material, electrically short-circuiting two or more electrodes of the plurality of electrodes, and subjecting the piezoelectric material to heat treatment, and a second step of, after the first step, electrically opening the short circuit of the two or more electrodes at a time when a temperature of the piezoelectric material decreases to less than a temperature of the piezoelectric material at a time of the heat treatment.

Abstract: Disclosed is a preparation method for preparing a measurement sample comprising an aggregate of metal nanoparticles having an analyte bound thereto, the preparation method comprising: contacting the analyte with a linker to bind the analyte to the linker; and contacting the linker that has been bound to the analyte with the metal nanoparticles to bind the linker to the metal nanoparticles.

Abstract: Disclosed is an analytical method for analyzing a test substance contained in a measurement sample, the method comprising: generating a data set based on a plurality of optical spectra acquired from a plurality of locations in the measurement sample; inputting the data set into a deep learning algorithm having a neural network structure; and outputting information on the test substance, on the basis of an analytical result from the deep learning algorithm.

Abstract: To realize a device and method that outputs scents according to an advertisement. A scent output control unit that executes scent output control and a scent output unit that executes a scent output under control of the scent output control unit are included, and the scent output control unit selects a scent to be output on the basis of an advertisement and outputs the selected scent via the scent output unit. The scent output control unit selects a scent to be output on the basis of an advertisement detected from an image captured by a vehicle exterior camera that captures the outside of the vehicle or an advertisement output to the information output terminal, and outputs the selected scent via the scent output unit. Furthermore, an occupant profile is analyzed on the basis of an image of an occupant, and a scent corresponding to the occupant is output.

Abstract: To realize a device and method for controlling a scent to be output on the basis of various types of information acquired by an information acquisition unit. The device includes a scent output control unit that executes a scent output control, and a scent output unit that executes a scent output under the control of the scent output control unit, in which the scent output control unit selects a scent to be output according to input information from the information acquisition unit, and outputs the selected scent via the scent output unit. The scent output control unit selects information to be used for scent selection from the input information according to a preset mode, and selects a scent to be output according to the selected input information. For example, the control of the scent to be output is executed on the basis of a user utterance or information of an area, a facility, or the like.

Abstract: Disclosed is a seat including: sensors which includes a first cushion sensor provided at a seat cushion in a position corresponding to buttocks of an occupant, a second cushion sensor provided at the seat cushion and located farther frontward than the first cushion sensor, a first back sensor provided at a seat back and located in a lower position thereof, and a second back sensor provided at the seat back and located above the first back sensor; and a controller connected to the sensors and thereby allowed to acquire pressure values from the respective sensors. The controller is configured to identify the motion of the occupant based on outputs of at least two sensors of the first cushion sensor, the second cushion sensor, the first back sensor, and the second back sensor.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. In the method, a silicon-containing gas is supplied to a substrate having a recess in a surface thereof at a predetermined film deposition temperature, thereby depositing a first silicon film in the recess. Chlorine and hydrogen are supplied to the substrate while maintaining the predetermined film deposition temperature, thereby etching the first silicon film deposited in the recess to expand an opening width of the first silicon film. The silicon-containing gas is supplied to the substrate while maintaining the predetermined film deposition temperature, thereby further depositing a second silicon film on the first silicon film in the recess.

Abstract: A carbon dioxide capture system according to an embodiment includes: a carbon dioxide capturer, an absorbing liquid regenerator, a first washer, a second washer, and an absorbing liquid line. The first washer washes the combustion exhaust gas discharged from the carbon dioxide capturer with a mist of a first cleaning liquid sprayed by a first spray to capture the amine accompanying the combustion exhaust gas. The absorbing liquid line supplies the absorbing liquid regenerated in the absorbing liquid regenerator as the first cleaning liquid to the first spray. The first cleaning liquid sprayed by the first spray is supplied as the absorbing liquid to the carbon dioxide capturer.

Abstract: An XTC circuit includes delay circuits, differentiated signal generating circuits, and an amplitude adjusting and adding circuit. A signal Da, which is one aggressor signal, is input to the differentiated signal generating circuit after being delayed by the delay circuit, and the differentiated signal generating circuit generates a differentiated signal having a differentiated waveform of the signal Da. In the amplitude adjusting and adding circuit, the differentiated signal generated by the differentiated signal generating circuit is amplitude-adjusted to become a current signal, and the differentiated signal after the amplitude adjustment is current-added to the signal Db.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus that transmits print data and a print quality requirement to a control system that controls a printing apparatus to output a printed product satisfying required print quality, includes a reception unit configured to receive print data, a display control unit configured to display, on a display unit, a user interface that prompts a user to select a setting of print quality of the print data from among predetermined options, a generation unit configured to generate quality requirement data suitable for an option selected via the user interface, and a transmission unit configured to transmit, to the control system, the print data received by the reception unit and the quality requirement data generated by the generation unit, wherein the quality requirement data includes at least information indicating an acceptable range of a color difference between a standard color value and a colorimetric value of the printed product.

Abstract: A printing system provides an efficient operation process by automating work for producing a print product that meets quality terms requested by a customer with an information format for transferring quality terms or a quality report. A control method for an information processing apparatus includes receiving order data including quality request data from an order receiving system, interpreting the received quality request data, generating a job containing information that is used for quality adjustment to be performed by a production system, based on the interpreted quality request data, and sending the job to the production system. The job containing quality request data in a data format that is same as a data format of the received quality request data is generated.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a talk control unit that controls proxy utterance processing in voice talk processing on the basis of environment information regarding a user terminal acquired from the user terminal. Furthermore, there is provided an information processing method performed by a processor, including: acquiring environment information regarding a user terminal from the user terminal; and controlling proxy utterance processing in voice talk processing on the basis of the acquired environment information. Furthermore, there is provided an information processing system including: a user terminal that is able to acquire environment information regarding the user terminal; and a server that includes a talk control unit controlling proxy utterance processing in voice talk processing on the basis of the environment information regarding the user terminal acquired from the user terminal.

Abstract: An in-seat experience system includes: a seat which includes a seat body, a sensor, and a seat controller allowed to acquire a measurement value from the sensor; an experience instruction device connected to the seat controller, configured to notify an occupant seated on the seat body a motion instruction and to store user identification information; and a server capable of communicating with the experience instruction device. The experience instruction device makes a determination based upon a measurement value of the sensor as to whether or not a first condition is satisfied, and to transmit a result of the determination to the server when at least the first condition is satisfied, and the server is allowed to increase a point score stored for the corresponding user identification information with a condition that the result of the determination that the first condition is satisfied is received from the experience instruction device.