Abstract: A three-dimensional semiconductor device includes source-level material layers including a doped semiconductor source contact layer including boron atoms and n-type dopant atoms, an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers located over the source-level material layers, memory stack structures vertically extending through the alternating stack in which each of the memory stack structures comprises a memory film and a vertical semiconductor channel. Each vertical semiconductor channel includes a first region in which n-type dopants have a higher atomic concentration than boron atoms and a second region overlying the first region that includes boron atoms at a higher atomic concentration than n-type dopant atoms to provide a p-n junction at an interface with the first region.

Abstract: A video reproduction apparatus determines a position of a joint of a performer based on a sensing result by a sensor. The video reproduction apparatus calculates an angle formed by a joint used for scoring an element of an athletic event by using calculation information regarding a calculation formula for calculating the angle and the determined position of the joint of the performer. The video reproduction apparatus displays a performance image of the performer acquired from a camera and a scoring image having the angle displayed on a 3D model image of the performer which is generated according to the sensing result so as to be compared with each other.

Abstract: A dielectric spacer assembly including an annular dielectric isolation structure is formed through in-process source-level material layers. An alternating stack of insulating layers and spacer material layers is formed over the in-process source-level material layers. A contact via cavity is formed through the dielectric spacer assembly, and is filled within a dielectric spacer and a sacrificial via fill structure. The dielectric spacer assembly protects the dielectric spacer during replacement of a source-level sacrificial layer with a source contact layer. The sacrificial via fill structure is subsequently replaced with a through-memory-level contact via structure.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a matted object capable of achieving both a lower range of glossiness and an antifouling property. A matted object includes a substrate, and a glassy layer provided on the surface of the substrate. The surface of the glassy layer has a 60°-glossiness of 20 or less, a skewness Rsk of ?0.5 or more, and a maximum height roughness Rz more than 2.5 ?m and less than 5.7 ?m, the skewness Rsk and the maximum height roughness Rz being specified in JIS B0601 (2001).

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member and transfer and control units. The transfer unit and image bearing member form a nip portion where a recording material receives a toner image. The control unit controls image formation based on a timing when a recording material leading edge is detected. To perform sheet conveyance, the control unit changes a first recording material conveyance speed to a second speed before a fed first recording material leading edge is detected. Before the first recording material leading edge reaches the nip portion, the control unit changes the first recording material conveyance speed to a first speed, slower than the second speed, based on when the fed first recording material leading edge is detected. The control unit obtains a timing for the image formation to the image bearing member based on when the conveyance speed is changed from the faster to slower speed.

Abstract: A control device of a four-wheel drive vehicle that includes a central axle disposed between paired left and right control couplings and coupled to the paired control couplings and that is switched between a two-wheel drive state and a four-wheel drive state selects between provision and stop of a slip prevention control in which when at least one of the main drive wheel slips during running of the vehicle, a brake is automatically operated to the at least one slipping main drive wheel, and when the stop of the slip prevention control is selected and it is detected that the at least one main drive wheel has slipped in the four-wheel drive state, a rotation speed of the central axle is made lower than that at the time of detection of the slip of the at least one main drive wheel.

Abstract: An assistance device that enables a caregiver or care receiver to understand a degree to which a load is applied in the front-rear direction of a body supporting member. The assistance device includes: the body supporting member configured to support the upper body of the care receiver; a load detecting device provided on the body supporting member and configured to detect a load applied by the care receiver; and a display device configured to display an extent to which a load is applied to the body supporting member in a front-rear direction of the body supporting member based on the load detected by the load detecting device.

Abstract: A vehicle front portion structure includes a front side member rear extending in a front-rear direction of a vehicle, a part of a front side of the front side member rear being an inclined portion inclined such that a position of the inclined portion rises toward a front side of the vehicle, and a tubular front side member fixed to the inclined portion of the front side member rear and extending from the inclined portion to the front side of the vehicle. A plate-shaped reinforcing member is fixed to an inner peripheral surface of the front side member, the reinforcing member is provided with an extending portion extending to a rear side of the vehicle behind a rear end of the front side member, and the extending portion is fixed to the front side member rear.

Abstract: The present invention provides a heterocyclic compound represented by the general formula (1): The compound of the present invention has a wide treatment spectrum for mental disorders including central nervous system disorders, no side effects and high safety.

Abstract: A etch stop semiconductor rail is formed within a source semiconductor layer. A laterally alternating stack of dielectric rails and sacrificial semiconductor rails is formed over the source semiconductor layer and the etch stop semiconductor rail. After formation of a vertically alternating stack of insulating layers and spacer material layers, memory stack structures are formed through the vertically alternating stack and through interfaces between the sacrificial semiconductor rails and the dielectric rails. A backside trench is formed through the vertically alternating stack employing the etch stop semiconductor rail as an etch stop structure. Source strap rails providing lateral electrical contact to semiconductor channels of the memory stack structures are formed by replacement of sacrificial semiconductor rails with source strap rails.

Abstract: A method of forming a three-dimensional memory device includes forming at the least one lower level dielectric layer over a semiconductor substrate, forming a buried source line over the least one lower level dielectric layer and over the semiconductor substrate, such that the buried source line is electrically connected to the semiconductor substrate, forming an alternating stack of insulating layers and sacrificial material layers over the buried source line, such that the sacrificial material layers are subsequently replaced with, electrically conductive layers, forming memory openings through the alternating stack by etching through the alternating stack after the buried source line is electrically connected to the semiconductor substrate, and forming memory stack structures in the memory openings. Each memory stack structure includes a vertical semiconductor channel electrically connected to the buried source line and a memory film laterally surrounding the vertical semiconductor channel.

Abstract: A position management apparatus includes motors connected to a power supply; a position detecting device connected to the power supply and detecting the rotational position of the motors or the drive position of driving members driven by the motors; position storage devices connected to the power supply and storing the rotational position or the drive position detected by the position detecting devices; and a power cut-off delay circuit for keeping the position detecting devices and the position storage devices connected to the power supply even if the power switch is shut off from a conducting state, and for storing the rotational position or the drive position of the position storage devices after the motor has lost its rotational speed.

Abstract: [Problem] An adhesion-preventing material having a high adhesion-preventing effect has been demanded. [Solution] An adhesion-preventing material including a sterilized biocompatible sponge-like laminate, wherein the sponge-like laminate comprises a sponge-like first layer and a sponge-like second layer each of which is at least partially crosslinked with a curing agent and comprises a low-endotoxin alginic acid monovalent metal salt, the alginic acid monovalent metal salt in the first layer has a weight average molecular weight of 10,000 to 2,000,000, the alginic acid monovalent metal salt in the second layer has a weight average molecular weight of 1,000 to 1,000,000, the weight average molecular weights are measured by a GPC-MALS method after a decrosslinking treatment, and the weight average molecular weight of the alginic acid monovalent metal salt in the first layer is higher than that in the second layer.

Abstract: An assistance device that more appropriately identifies a user using speech. The assistance device is provided with a speech detector, a name acquiring section that acquires a name of a person based on speech detected by the speech detector, and a user identifying section that identifies a care receiver who is a user of the assistance device based on the name acquired by the name acquiring device.

Abstract: An assistance device that enables appropriate evaluation of to what extent a care receiver is using their own leg power. The assistance device is provided with: a body supporting member configured to support the upper body of the care receiver; a first load detecting device provided on the body supporting member, and configured to detect a first load applied by the care receiver; a second load detecting apparatus provided on the body supporting member at a position rearwards of the first load detecting device, and configured to detect a second load applied by the care receiver; and an effort level calculating device configured to calculate effort levels representing to what extent the care receiver is using their own leg power during the standing assistance based on a relationship between the first load and the second load.