Abstract: A pressure sensitive adhesive sheet to be used in producing an extremely thin semiconductor chip which is free of breakage and discoloration by a predicing process and a method of use thereof are provided. The pressure sensitive adhesive sheet is used in a method for producing a semiconductor chip, in which the method involves the steps of: forming a groove having depth smaller than thickness of a wafer on a surface of the wafer on which a semiconductor circuit is formed; reducing the thickness of the wafer and finally dividing the wafer into individual chips by grinding a back face of the wafer.

Abstract: A connector unit includes a mating connector and a connector. The mating connector includes a canceling piece for canceling connections between the female terminals of a short-circuit terminal when the mating connector is connected to the connector. The connector includes a connector housing, female terminals, a short-circuit terminal, and a contact regulating part. The contact regulating part includes a regulating piece and a regulating projection. A through hole for passing a resilient contact piece of the short-circuit terminal is provided on the regulating piece. The regulating projection is projected from the other end of the resilient contact piece. The regulating projection prevents the other end from projecting toward the female terminal through the through hole.

Abstract: The present invention is intended to detect, when a meta data author inputs a viewpoint and viewpoint score to contents having time information, time information of the contents corresponding to the input time of the viewpoint and viewpoint score input, assign corresponding time information to the viewpoint and viewpoint score input and create meta data related to the viewpoint and viewpoint score.

Abstract: A disk array device comprises: a hard disk drive module including a disk for recording information thereon and having one side that has a length substantially equal to the diameter of the disk; a battery module; an operation module; a fan module having at least one cooling fan; a controller module having a controller; a power supply module provided for supplying power to the modules; a circuit board to which the above-mentioned modules are connected via electrical connectors; and a substantially box-shaped chassis in which the modules and the circuit board are housed. A front surface and a rear surface of the chassis are opened in a rectangular shape. A length of one side of the opened front surface of the chassis is substantially the same length as the one side of the hard disk drive module.

Abstract: An exchange is provided, the exchange receiving a number of a telephone terminal of a called party, selecting a network from a plurality of connectable networks including the Internet with the number and connecting to the network. In addition, the exchange calls the telephone terminal via a network other than the Internet and connects to the telephone terminal in response to a predetermined operation by a caller during a call via the Internet.

Abstract: This invention provides an electronic part for high frequency power amplification (RF power module) which will automatically perform the precharge level setting for proper output power at start of transmission without requiring the software process for precharging to run on the baseband IC, which can reduce the burden on users, namely, mobile phone manufacturers. Such electronic part configured to amplify RF transmit signals includes an output power control circuit which supplies an output power control voltage to a bias control circuit in a high frequency power amplifier circuit, based on an output power level directive signal. This electronic part is equipped with a precharge circuit which raises the output power control voltage to produce a predetermined level of output power, while detecting a current flowing through a final-stage power amplifying element, triggered by rise of a supply voltage at start of transmission.

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus which forms an image by transferring, onto sheets fed by a feeding unit at the first feeding interval, a toner image formed on a photoconductor or intermediate transfer member, if the temperature of a fixing unit which fixes an image transferred onto a sheet falls outside a set temperature range, the sheet layout is changed to a feeding interval wider than the first feeding interval. Whether to perform adjustment processing is determined based on determination of an image forming condition. If the feeding interval is changed to a wider one in the feeding interval changing step during image formation and it is determined in the determination step to perform adjustment processing, toner patch images are formed in an area where no toner image is formed on the photoconductor or intermediate transfer member. The adjustment processing is performed based on reading toner patch images.

Abstract: Within a finger vein authentication input apparatus, a finger positioning portion comprises a fingertip projection portion provided at a position corresponding to the tip of the finger when picking up an image thereof, protruding into the horizontal direction, soas to be in contact with a tip of a finger, horizontally, a finger pulp projection portion provided at the position corresponding to the tip of the finger when picking up the image thereof, protruding into the vertical direction, so as to be in contact with the tip of the finger, vertically, and a base guide portion provided at the position corresponding to the base side than a second joint of the finger when picking up the image thereof, having a configuration curved along the cross-section configuration of the finger, or a curved configuration including a projection portion at a center thereof, thereby increasing an accuracy of positioning the finger in the longitudinal direction thereof, and further lowering shift of angle of attaching the finger i

Abstract: An information processing apparatus that decodes a plurality of coded streams includes a decoder configured to decode the plurality of coded streams and a control unit configured to control the decoding of the plurality of coded streams so that the start of decoding a subject frame among frames forming the plurality of coded streams is delayed by an amount equal to a delay time, which is the longest pre-processing time among pre-processing times necessary for starting decoding the frames after an instruction to decode the subject frame is given.

Abstract: The present invention provides a plasma reactor which can suppress deactivation of components (active components) activated by plasma when causing exhaust gas to flow through a plasma generating space to ensure efficient reaction between the active components and particulate matter, whereby the particulate matter can be efficiently purified via reaction. The plasma reactor includes a plasma reactor main body 1, a positive electrode 11 disposed on an inlet side 2 of the plasma reactor main body 1, a conductive honeycomb filter 21 disposed so that a filter inlet side 22 faces an outlet side 3 of the plasma reactor main body 1, and a pulse power supply 31 which is connected with the positive electrode 11 and the honeycomb filter 21 and is capable of applying a pulse voltage between the positive electrode 11 and the honeycomb filter 21 as plasma generating electrodes to generate plasma.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus having a main body unit for forming an image on a recording medium, connectable to at least one post-processing unit for performing post-processing for the recording medium on which the image is formed, the image forming apparatus includes, a current value acquiring portion for acquiring at least one of a calculated value of a current and a measured value of the current as a value of the current flowing through the main body unit, and a control portion for selecting an operation mode from a plurality of operation modes each having a distinct value of current flowing through the main body unit.

Abstract: The invention provides a carburization treatment method in which a carburization treatment is conducted simultaneously with an operation of supplying a hydrocarbon gas and an oxidative gas into a furnace kept under a reduced pressure. Preferably, the internal pressure within the furnace is kept at 0.1 to 101 kPa, the hydrocarbon gas is one, two or more than two kinds of gases selected from the group consisting of C3H8, C3H6, C4H10, C2H2, C2H4, C2H6 and CH4, while the oxidative gas is an air, an O2 gas, or CO2 gas.

Abstract: A method for bonding fluororesin films, a wide fluororesin film obtained by the method, and a covering material for agricultural use, made thereof, are presented. A method of bonding films (A), wherein two sheets of films (A) made of a fluororesin, are disposed so that their edges overlap each other, a central part (b1) of the overlapping portion (B) is press-bonded under heating at a temperature within a range of from lower by 5° C. to higher by 20° C. than the melting point of the fluororesin, and then the entire area of the portion (B) is press-bonded at a temperature within a range of from lower by 30° C. to lower by more than 5° C., than the melting point, to weld the two sheets of films (A); a wide fluororesin film obtained by the method; and a covering material for agricultural use, made thereof.

Abstract: A traffic state predicting apparatus, which predicts congestion states of parts of a link based on limited information (the travel time for the link), comprises storage means that stores link data including a link length of each link forming part of a road on a map and parameters including, for each link, a smooth traffic speed indicting being smooth, a congested traffic speed indicating being congested, and a congestion reference position which is a reference position for a congested section; means that acquires a predicted travel time for the link; and congestion degree classified section calculating means that obtains sections classified according to their level of congestion in the link with use of the predicted travel time and the parameters.

Abstract: A semiconductor wafer whose position information on defects on a surface of the semiconductor wafer is already known, is placed on a stage of an imaging apparatus. Positions in a height direction of a plurality points on the surface of the semiconductor wafer are measured. In accordance with the measured positions in the height direction, the surface is partitioned into a plurality of partial areas. One partial area for which images of defects are still not acquired, is selected from the partial areas. The height of the stage is adjusted so as to set the selected partial area in an auto focusing range. Defects in the selected partial area are imaged with the imaging apparatus to acquire images of defects. Steps between the step of selecting the partial area and the step of acquiring the images of defects are repeated until images of defects in all partial areas are acquired.

Abstract: A magnetic head substrate is provided with a recording element having a main magnetic pole layer and a recording-side monitor element including a resistance film, a lead conductor located as a layer below the resistance film, and a contact conductor for conductively connecting the resistance film and the lead conductor. The resistance film is formed on the same plane as that for a lowermost layer of the main magnetic pole layer or a base layer from the same material as that for them, so as to straddle the surface position of a medium-facing surface in the height direction. The contact conductor and the lead conductor are disposed while being retreated to the back side of the above-described position in the height direction. The upper surface and the lower surface of the contact conductor are entirely in contact with the resistance film and are not exposed to the outside.

Abstract: A collector voltage of a power management semiconductor device is detected by a first comparator, and when the detected collector voltage exceeds a first reference voltage, the first comparator outputs a first detection signal. Furthermore, a gate voltage of the power management semiconductor device is detected by a second comparator, and when the detected gate voltage exceeds a second reference voltage, the second comparator outputs a second detection signal. The second reference voltage is a minimum gate voltage for feeding a rated power to the power management semiconductor device or over, and less than a line power voltage of a drive circuit of the power management semiconductor device. When both the first detection signal and second detection signal are being outputted, the gate voltage is reduced by a gate voltage reduction means so as to protect the power management semiconductor device from overcurrent and overvoltage.

Abstract: A novel optically-anisotropic film is disclosed. The film is formed of a composition comprising at least one discotic liquid-crystal compound having a ratio, ?1, which is a ratio of birefringence at 400 nm to birefringence at 550 nm in a liquid-crystal state, of less than 1.25, in which the molecules of the liquid-crystal compound are fixed in an alignment state at a mean tilt angle ranging from 35 to 85°, wherein its in-plane retardation Re, as measured in a direction normal to a plane of the optically-anisotropic film for 50 nm wavelength light, falls within the range from 60 nm to 220 nm.

Abstract: According to a blood plasma collection tool of the present invention, a phenomenon that blood cells in blood spontaneously precipitate due to an effect of gravitational force takes place in the very narrow microspace (separation part) having the very narrow depth in the direction of gravitational force of not greater than 1 mm, and the overflow channel functions as a dam against the separation part so that the blood plasma separated out as supernatant fluid can overflow beyond the overflow channel, whereby the blood cells separated out can be prevented from entering the collection part. Therefore, blood plasma can be collected by accurately and readily separating blood plasma and blood cells in a small amount of blood from each other in a short time, using a small tool having a simple structure.