Abstract: In a semiconductor device of the present invention, an N-type epitaxial layer 2 is deposited on a P-type substrate 1. In the epitaxial layer 2, a P-type diffusion layer 5 to be used as a back gate region is formed. An N-type diffusion layer 8 to be used as a drain region is formed so as to surround the P-type diffusion layer 5. The P-type diffusion layer 5 and the N-type diffusion layer 8 partially overlap with each other. By use of a structure described above, a distance between a drain and a source is shortened. Thus, an ON resistance value can be reduced. Moreover, since a concentration gradient can be generated in the drain region, withstand pressure characteristics can be maintained while reducing an element formation region.

Abstract: A semiconductor device including a large capacity non-volatile memory and at least one random access memory, said the access time of said device being matched to the access time of each random access memory. The semiconductor memory device is comprised of: a non-volatile memory FLASH having a first reading time; a random access memory DRAM having a second reading time which is more than 100 times shorter than the first reading time; a circuit that includes a control circuit connected to both the FLASH and the DRAM and enabled to control accesses to those FLASH and DRAM; and a plurality of I/O terminals connected to the circuit. As a result, FLASH data is transferred to the DRAM before the DRAM is accessed, thereby matching the access time between the FLASH and the DRAM. Data is written back from the DRAM to the FLASH as needed, thereby keeping data matched between the FLASH and the DRAM and storing the data.

Abstract: In a semiconductor device of the present invention, an N-type buried diffusion layer is formed across a substrate and an epitaxial layer. A P-type buried diffusion layer is formed across an upper surface of the N-type buried diffusion layer over a wide range to form a PN junction region for an overvoltage protection. A P-type diffusion region is formed so as to be connected to the P-type buried diffusion layer. A breakdown voltage of the PN junction region is lower than a breakdown voltage between a source and a drain. This structure makes it possible to prevent a concentration of a breakdown current and protect the semiconductor device from an overvoltage.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus including: a cleaning member for cleaning an image carrier after a toner image on the image carrier has been transferred; a toner recycling device for conveying toner removed by the cleaning member to a developing device; a collection section where the toner removed by the cleaning member is collected; a branch conveyance path, branched from the toner recycling device, for conveying the toner to the collection section; and an air pump, provided on the branch conveyance path, for sucking air with the toner; wherein, whether the toner is conveyed from the cleaning member to the collection section or to the developing device is switched corresponding to whether the air pump operates or does not operate.

Abstract: A display device having a liquid crystal display element (30) transmitting light projected from a light source to an watching point side, and including pixels (31) forming a first image region and a second image region, and an image separation filter (32) disposed from the pixels (31) through glasses (33, 34) each with a specified thickness and forming a first image separation mechanism and a second image separation mechanism, in which a calculation for obtaining the disposing interval (P1, P3) of each of the above-described image separation mechanisms of the image separation filter (32) is carried out on the basis of angles of elevation ?k+1, ?k, angles ?k+1, ?k, thicknesses W1, W2 and refractive index n of the glasses (33, 34), a distance D from the watching point to the display device, and an interval (P2) between the image regions of the above-described pixels (31) to dispose the image separation mechanisms of the above-described filter (32) with the obtained P1, P3.

Abstract: In displaying cell images of raised letters under editing on a display screen together with a notation character string corresponding to the cell images, the maximum continuous embossing amount that can be embossed on a single processing sheet when embossing the raised letters on the processing sheet, is predetermined. A continuous embossing amount of the raised letters is determined, and when the continuous embossing amount is in excess of the maximum continuous embossing amount, the excess cell images corresponding to the portion exceeding the maximum continuous embossing amount out of the cell images and the notation character string, or excess notation characters corresponding to the excess cell images are displayed so as to be distinguishable from the remaining portion.

Abstract: A liquid crystal panel is provided that has a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between a pair of substrates, wherein the liquid crystal layer comprises a liquid crystal and a cross-linked resin, the cross-linked resin comprises a cross-linked structural part adhered to a liquid crystal layer contacting surface and a terminal part rising from the liquid crystal layer contacting surface, and at least one of three conditions: the outer surface of at least one substrate is curved; a liquid crystal layer contacting surface is curved; and the thickness of one of the substrates is not more than ½ of the thickness of the other substrate, is satisfied. It is possible to obtain a liquid crystal panel having increased freedom in the appearance, device weight reduction, simplified structure, etc. by improving the outer and/or inner surfaces of the device.

Abstract: It was difficult to acquire a good CO cleanup efficiency in a hydrogen refining apparatus, for instance, when the start-up and stop operations are frequently repeated. A hydrogen refining apparatus, including a shifter having a shifting catalyst body containing noble metals and metal oxides, and a reforming section for supplying hydrogen gas containing carbon monoxide to the shifter, (1) the temperature of an upstream side of the shifting catalyst body relative to the hydrogen gas flow being substantially between 300° C. and 500° C. and (2) the temperature of a downstream side of the shifting catalyst body relative to the hydrogen gas flow being substantially at 300° C. or less.

Abstract: Provided is an equipment having a safety mechanism in hardware. The equipment is arranged such that a third relay (9) is controlled by a third contact driving circuit (11) as hardware so that an igniter (2) and a fuel supply valve (3) become operable when a blower is operated and a certain amount of time elapses. The equipment is arranged so as to complement drawbacks of software by the safety mechanism of hardware. The third contact driving circuit (11) is composed of a voltage multiplying rectifier circuit (27) containing a time constant circuit (13), an oscillating circuit (28) on a secondary side of the voltage multiplying rectifier circuit (27), a contact driving part (relay driving circuit) (37) on a secondary side of the oscillating circuit (28), and the like. The third relay (9) is connected to a part of the contact driving part (37).

Abstract: A fuel cell includes first and second separators sandwiching a membrane electrode assembly. The first and second separators include first and second metal plates, first and second insulating bushings for positioning the first and second metal plates in alignment with each other, and first and second seal members formed integrally with the first and second metal plates. The first and second seal members are formed by injection molding on the first and second metal plates using the first and second insulating bushings as insert members.

Abstract: A capacitor includes two sub capacitors and two connecting portions. The two sub capacitors respectively include a lower electrode provided on a substrate, a dielectric film provided on the lower electrode, and an upper electrode provided on the dielectric film, and the two connecting portions respectively connecting the lower electrode of one of the two sub capacitors and the upper electrode of the other sub capacitor of the two sub capacitors.

Abstract: A printing apparatus that selects and prints images represented by candidate image data files to be output among a plurality of image data files includes an image data file acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of image data files, each having image data regarding an image and additional data regarding at least a photographing condition when the image was taken, and a candidate file selection unit that selects image data files, which have the additional data, not the image data, satisfying one of one or more predetermined selection conditions, among the plurality of image data files as the candidate image data files to be output, and a printing unit that performs printing of images represented by at least some of the candidate image data files.

Abstract: A hydrogen manufacturing apparatus for manufacturing hydrogen by utilizing heat generated in a nuclear plant. The apparatus has a heat exchanger or steam reformer to be brought into contact with cooling water containing tritium produced from the nuclear plant and a tritium permeation suppressing ceramic coating at least either the outer surface or the inner surface of the heat exchanger or steam reformer for suppressing permeation of tritium. Instead of coating with a tritium permeation suppressing ceramic, a structure prepared by combining at least two types of materials having different crystal structures may be used.

Abstract: A buckle 5 for a thin plate storage container is easily mounted and a lower container part 2 and an upper container part 3 are easily fixed. The buckle 5 for the thin plate storage container includes a plate-shaped main body 25, an upper hook part 26 having a groove part 26A engaged with a locking plate 15 of the upper container part 3, a lower hook part 27 having a groove part 27A engaged with a locking plate 7 of the lower container part 2, spring mounting parts 28 which are formed by hollowing horizontal center positions of the upper hook part 26 and the lower hook part 27, leaf springs 29 which are fitted in the spring mounting parts 28, and locking protrusions 30 which are provided at the middle of the leaf springs 29 and fitted into notches 8 formed in the locking plates 7 and 15 of the lower container part 2 and the upper container part 3 to position and support the lower container part and the upper container part. The upper hook part 26 and the lower hook part 27 are vertically symmetrically formed.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention is a technique to fabricate a package. A lower die is attached to a substrate. A stacked-die assembly having a spacer made of a cured mold compound is formed between the lower die and an upper die. The stacked-die assembly is encapsulated using the cured mold compound.

Abstract: In a structure for a motor or generator, stator segments have a toothed portion to receive a coil. A busbar is electrically connected to the coil, and an insulator has a coil insulator portion disposed between the toothed portion and the coil and a busbar insulation portion insulatedly supporting the busbar.

Abstract: Ribbon tension detecting means (20, 21), which are formed of a plate-like lever body (35) each, are located individually on the upstream side and the downstream side of a platen (7) with respect to its travel. The plate-like lever body (35) has first and second rollers (47, 48) on the upstream and downstream sides with respect to travel of a ribbon, and swings around an axis of rotation of the second roller (48), depending on a tension of the ribbon traveling guided by the rollers (47, 48). If the amount of its swing is not less than or not more than a fixed value, a ribbon feed motor (18) or a ribbon take-up motor (19) is driven. Further, the ribbon tension detecting means (20, 21) are provided with a smoothing member which touches the ink ribbon (13) to remove wrinkles from the ink ribbon (13).

Abstract: In an electronic apparatus in which plural substrates are arranged in a perpendicular direction between plural cooling fans in a lower part of a case and plural temperature sensors in an upper part of the case, any temperature variation by 2° C. in three seconds detected by any one of the temperature sensors is determined to be abnormal, and thermal energy is caused to be discharged from surfaces of substrates on two sides of a flame by raising air flow rates of fans. Expansion of the flame to other substrates is thereby prevented.

Abstract: To provide an ethylene/tetrafluoroethylene copolymer molding, and a method for producing the ethylene/tetrafluoroethylene copolymer molding in which the operation for the production is simple, and the surface can be highly hydrophilized. An ethylene/tetrafluoroethylene copolymer molding is produced by conducting discharge treatment of a surface of a molding to be treated, under reduced pressure in a mixed gas containing oxygen and a hydrocarbon, said surface being made of a material comprising an ethylene/tetrafluoroethylene copolymer as the main component.

Abstract: A printing apparatus creates and prints an order sheet on which a list of image data is placed. By filling in marking fields on the order sheet a user can select image data for transmission. Once the order sheet has been scanned by the scanner, the printing apparatus creates an e-mail having attached to it the image data selected by the user, and sends this to a computer or the like via a mail server. It is possible in this way to easily select image data for transmission through a prescribed communications network.