Abstract: An electric power supply system includes an electric power reception apparatus and an electric power supply apparatus adapted to supply electric power to the electric power reception apparatus when the electric power reception apparatus is placed on the electric power supply apparatus. The electric power supply apparatus includes a plurality of electric power supply units adapted to supply electric power by electromagnetic induction to the electric power reception apparatus. A selection unit of the electric power supply apparatus selects, from the total plurality of electric power supply units, a plurality of electric power supply units whose location corresponds to a position where the electric power reception apparatus is placed, and a control unit controls the supply of electric power such that electric power is supplied to the electric power reception apparatus from the selected plurality of electric power supply units.

Abstract: A small-sized head-mount type vision testing device, which is mounted on a testee's head, including: a display device that presents a visual target to an eyeball of the testee; a display optical system that guides light of the visual target presented on the device to the retina; an imaging device that images the eyeball; and an observation optical system that guides an image of the eyeball to the imaging device, and further including a mirror that reflects light of a specific wavelength and transmits the other light at a point closer to the eyeball side than the display device, wherein an optical axis from a pupil to the mirror in the display optical system and an optical axis from the pupil to the mirror in the observation optical system, coincide with each other, and the optical axes are bent through the mirror.

Abstract: When displaying visual targets on a planar display element and performing vision examinations, the size of the visual target visible to the subject changes according to the position at which the visual target is displayed. This vision examination device includes: a planar display element that displays visual targets to a subject of a vision examination; and a display optical system provided upon an optical axis between an eyeball position at which an eyeball of the subject is arranged and a display screen of the planar display element. The display optical system includes an f-? optical system having a proportional relationship between an image height on the display screen of the planar display element and the angle of incidence ? for the main light rays when the subject views the visual target through the display optical system from the eyeball position.

Abstract: The gate electrode is provided on the gate insulating film. The interlayer insulating film is provided to cover the gate electrode. The interlayer insulating film includes a first insulating film which is in contact with the gate electrode, contains silicon atoms, and contains neither phosphorus atoms nor boron atoms, a second insulating film which is provided on the first insulating film and contains silicon atoms and at least one of phosphorus atoms and boron atoms, and a third insulating film which contains silicon atoms and contains neither phosphorus atoms nor boron atoms. The second insulating film has a first surface which is in contact with the first insulating film, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a third surface which connects the first surface and the second surface. The third insulating film is in contact with at least one of the second surface and the third surface.

Abstract: A semiconductor device manufacturing system includes: a PL evaluation apparatus that evaluates wavelengths of photoluminescent light produced by individual optical modulators on a single semiconductor wafer; an electron beam drawing apparatus that draws patterns of diffraction gratings of laser sections that adjoin respective optical modulators on the wafer; and a calculation section that receives the wavelengths of the photoluminescent light from the PL evaluation apparatus, calculates densities of respective diffraction gratings so that differences between the wavelengths of the photoluminescent light and oscillating wavelengths of the laser sections become a constant, and sends the densities calculated to the electron beam drawing apparatus for drawing respective diffraction grating patterns on the respective laser sections.

Abstract: A UV curable silicone composition comprises: (A) 100 parts by mass of an organopolysiloxane represented by formula (1) wherein n represents a number satisfying 1?n?100, Ar represents an aromatic group, each of F1 and F2 is selected from groups of formulae (2) and (3), and a ratio of the number of terminal groups of the formula (3) to a total number of all the terminal groups is not lower than 20%, wherein each R1 represents a monovalent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, wherein m represents a number satisfying 0?m?10, each R1 represents a monovalent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, R2 represents an oxygen atom or an alkylene group, and R3 represents an acryloyl group, a methacryloyl group, an acryloyloxyalkyl group or a methacryloyloxyalkyl group; and (B) 0.1 to 10 parts by mass of a photopolymerization initiator.

Abstract: A home screen display unit displays a global navigation screen 12 that is located on an upper layer with respect to a screen transition and that is used for selecting a category of content to be processed. The home screen display unit displays a content zone screen 18 that is located on a lower layer with respect to a screen transition and that is used for selecting a piece of content to be processed from among a plurality of pieces of content corresponding to the category selected in the global navigation screen 12. If a specific piece of content is selected in the content zone screen 18, a game screen display unit displays a screen of the selected content. The home screen display unit displays, in the global navigation screen 12, an image of at least a portion of the content zone screen 18 with image quality lower than that in the case where the image is displayed in the content zone screen 18.

Abstract: A fastening system for securing a first region having a first securing member and a second region having a second securing member. The system includes a first surface fastener provided on a first securing member and a second surface fastener provided on a first securing member or a second securing member. That securing member, out of the first securing member and the second securing member, having the second surface fastener provided thereon includes the second surface fastener and a substrate having the second surface fastener laminated thereon.

Abstract: A vision testing device and a vision testing program are capable of obtaining a correct test result while reducing an accumulation of fatigue added on one of the eyes of a testee, including: image displays that present a light for suppressing a dark adaptation for both eyes of a testee; and image displays that present a target for an eye (L, R, or both) of the testee so that the target is presented for one of the eyes before the vision testing for the other eye is ended.

Abstract: A semiconductor device manufacturing system includes: a PL evaluation apparatus that evaluates wavelengths of photoluminescent light produced by individual optical modulators on a single semiconductor wafer; an electron beam drawing apparatus that draws patterns of diffraction gratings of laser sections that adjoin respective optical modulators on the wafer; and a calculation section that receives the wavelengths of the photoluminescent light from the PL evaluation apparatus, calculates densities of respective diffraction gratings so that differences between the wavelengths of the photoluminescent light and oscillating wavelengths of the laser sections become a constant, and sends the densities calculated to the electron beam drawing apparatus for drawing respective diffraction grating patterns on the respective laser sections.

Abstract: An addition-curable silicone composition includes: a three-dimensional network organopolysiloxane having at least one alkenyl group and at least one aryl group in one molecule, having a siloxane unit represented by the following general formula, R2SiO, and SiO2, and not having a unit represented by RSiO3/2, wherein R represents an organic group; a linear organopolysiloxane having at least two alkenyl groups and at least one aryl group in one molecule; an organosilicon compound having at least two hydrogen atoms bonded to silicon atoms per one molecule, and not having an alkenyl group; and a hydrosilylation catalyst containing a platinum group metal. Thereby, there can be provided an addition-curable silicone composition which provides a cured product having high refractive index, transparency, and temperature cycling resistance, an optical device encapsulating material, and an optical device which is encapsulated with the optical device encapsulating material.

Abstract: A silicon carbide semiconductor device includes a silicon carbide substrate, a gate insulating film, and a gate electrode. The gate insulating film is provided as being in contact with the first main surface of the silicon carbide substrate. The gate electrode is provided on the gate insulating film such that the gate insulating film lies between the gate electrode and the silicon carbide substrate. In a first stress test in which a gate voltage of ?5 V is applied to the gate electrode for 100 hours at a temperature of 175° C., an absolute value of a difference between a first threshold voltage and a second threshold voltage is not more than 0.5 V, with a threshold voltage before the first stress test being defined as the first threshold voltage and a threshold voltage after the first stress test being defined as the second threshold voltage.

Abstract: An elastic laminate sheet with excellent elasticity while maintaining softness and favorable appearance including surface feel and the like, an article containing this elastic laminate sheet, a laminate sheet where a high elasticity laminate portion is the elastic laminate sheet, and an article containing the laminate sheet.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a lower light confinement layer on a substrate, a light absorption layer on the lower light confinement layer, and an upper light confinement layer on the light absorption layer; and removing parts of these layers to form an optical modulator, forming a laser section having a diffraction grating in a portion of the substrate where the optical modulator is not present, forming a diffusion constraining layer, which constrains diffusion of a dopant, on the upper light confinement layer, and forming a contact layer on the laser section and the diffusion constraining layer. The same dopant is present in the contact layer and the upper light confinement layer.

Abstract: An electric power supply system includes an electric power reception apparatus and an electric power supply apparatus adapted to supply electric power to the electric power reception apparatus when the electric power reception apparatus is placed on the electric power supply apparatus. The electric power supply apparatus includes a plurality of electric power supply units adapted to supply electric power by electromagnetic induction to the electric power reception apparatus. A selection unit of the electric power supply apparatus selects, from the total plurality of electric power supply units, a plurality of electric power supply units whose location corresponds to a position where the electric power reception apparatus is placed, and a control unit controls the supply of electric power such that electric power is supplied to the electric power reception apparatus from the selected plurality of electric power supply units.

Abstract: An image forming device including a casing having a front wall formed with a first opening and an upper wall continuous to the front wall and formed with a second opening. The first and second openings together form a single opening. The device further includes a door for covering the single opening, a belt unit, and a guide member. The belt unit includes first and second rollers, and a conveyer belt. The drawer is configured to accommodate a plurality of cartridges. The guide member is configured to movably guide the drawer. The first roller is disposed nearer to the single opening than the second roller to the single opening. In a state where the door is opened and the drawer is inside the casing, one of the plurality of cartridges closest to the door is detachably attachable to the drawer through the single opening.