Abstract: Disclosed is a gaming machine. The gaming machine determines a priority attraction-in ranking depending on an internal winning combination and a type of a symbol, for each of the symbols arranged on the reels, compares the priority attraction-in rankings related to each of the symbols ranging from a symbol located at a predetermined position to symbols within a predetermined range, when the stop operation is detected, and stops rotation of the reels when a symbol having the highest priority attraction-in ranking reaches the predetermined position.

Abstract: A coordinate input unit is composed of a sensor as a means for detecting a manipulating state on a manipulation surface A manipulated by a coordinate indicator and a front light as an illumination means disposed on the sensor to illuminate the manipulation surface A. When the manipulation surface of the coordinate input device is illuminated, the light emitted from an LED is transmitted in a light introduction plate, emerged from a prism surface, changes its direction by being reflected on a reflection plate, and is directed to the manipulation surface. With this operation, the manipulation surface is illuminated.

Abstract: A reflecting device that enables to prevent infiltration of particles into a processing chamber. The reflecting device is disposed in a communicating pipe. The communicating pipe allows the processing chamber of a substrate processing apparatus and an exhaust pump to communicate with each other. The exhaust pump has at least one rotary blade. The reflecting device comprises at least one reflecting surface. The at least one reflecting surface is oriented to the exhausting pump.

Abstract: A gas supply member is disposed in a chamber of a plasma processing apparatus and has a planar surface facing an inner space of the chamber and a plurality of gas holes bored in the planar surface to supply a gas through the gas holes to the inner space. An outer periphery portion of each gas hole at the planar surface has a slant surface formed to correspond to a flow of the gas injected through each gas hole. Further, the slant surface includes at least any one of a flat surface and a curved surface. An angle formed between the slant surface and the planar surface is equal to or greater than that formed between the planar surface and a distribution of the gas injected through each gas hole.

Abstract: A shield casing of an image display apparatus including a casing which covers other than a front surface of an image display device having an electromagnetic wave emitter and shielding the electromagnetic waves, a protection panel on which a conductive film is laminated, and a mounting device which is in contact with the conductive film and attaches the protection panel to the casing, wherein the mounting device has an arm stretching toward a front side of the protection panel, a tip portion of the arm curves toward the protection panel and has a contact surface with the protection panel on an outer side surface of the tip portion, and the mounting device mounts the protection panel to the casing with the force more than supporting the protection panel.

Abstract: An envelope for e.g. FED has spacerless structure while increase of the mass due to increase of the thickness of glass is suppressed. Further, the handling of conductors connected to emitters can be easy. An envelope for a flat panel display comprising a glass envelope and a support member for preventing deformation, wherein the glass envelope comprises a front glass and a rear glass, and the support member comprises a rim, bridges and a rear plate. The front glass comprises a face portion for displaying an image and a skirt portion is extended to the rear glass so that a hermetical seal is kept by the contact of a seal edge portion at the end of the skirt portion to the rear glass, the rim supports outer peripheries of outer surfaces of the skirt portion and the face portion, the rear plate is fixed to the rear glass to support the rear glass, and the rim and the rear plate are connected via a plurality of bridges.

Abstract: At the time of plasma igniting or during plasma processing, only optimizing the distance between electrodes in each case caused a limitation to the prevention of charging damage. To resolve this, a novel plasma processing method employs a plasma processing apparatus which includes an upper electrode to which first high-frequency power is applied, a lower electrode to which second high-frequency power is applied, and a lift mechanism for controlling the spacing between the upper and lower electrodes. The first high-frequency power is applied to the upper electrode to cause plasma igniting. The method is adapted to make the spacing between the upper and lower electrodes larger at least at the time of plasma extinction than during plasma processing of a wafer on the lower electrode.

Abstract: When M observed signals xi(k) are sequentially inputted into a noise removing part 12 via M channels 11a of an input part 11 in time series, processing is sequentially performed on the observed signals xi(k) by singular value decomposition units 12a of N stages cascaded to one another. Specifically, the singular value deposition unit 12a of each stage separates M input signals into a signal subspace and a noise subspace by a singular value decomposition and extracts M output signals, which are signals over a time region, by orthonormal projection of the M input signals onto the separated signal subspace.

Abstract: A glass bulb for a cathode ray tube comprising a panel portion having a substantially rectangular face portion and a funnel portion having a neck portion, wherein when the glass bulb is used for a cathode ray tube, the glass bulb at least regionally suffers from a tensile stress resulting from the atmospheric pressure on the outer surface of the glass bulb having a vacuum inside, at least part of the face portion of the panel portion where the tensile stress over the face portion has a maximum value &sgr;VP has a compressive stress layer formed by chemical tempering on the outer surface, and the &sgr;VP, the magnitude of the compressive stress on the compressive stress layer &sgr;C MPa, and the thickness of the compressive stress layer tC &mgr;m satisfy the following relationship: 120/tC≧(1−|&sgr;VP/&sgr;C|)>30/tC provided that &sgr;VP≧20 MPa.

Abstract: A glass bulb for a cathode ray tube comprising a panel portion having a substantially rectangular face portion and a funnel portion having a neck portion, wherein when the glass bulb is used for a cathode ray tube, the glass bulb at least regionally suffers from a tensile stress resulting from the atmospheric pressure on the outer surface of the glass bulb having a vacuum inside, at least part of the face portion of the panel portion where the tensile stress over the face portion has a maximum value &sgr;VP has a compressive stress layer formed by chemical tempering on the outer surface, and the &sgr;VP, the magnitude of the compressive stress on the compressive stress layer &sgr;C MPa, and the thickness of the compressive stress layer tC &mgr;m satisfy the following relationship:

Abstract: Disclosed is a key switch in which a stem extending from a key top is slidably inserted into a seat formed on a housing; and longitudinal grooves extending in the direction of the axis X of reciprocating movement of the stem are formed in the circumferential surface of the stem which is in contact with the inner surface of the seat.

Abstract: A controller comprises means for transmitting to an interface device, when predetermined data for examination must be acquired from a communication and charge or discharge controller in a packed battery which is an examination object in the step of performing examination processing, a communication command for acquiring the data for examination, the interface device comprises means for converting, when it receives the communication command from the controller, the received communication command into protocol data corresponding to a communication protocol used for communication with the packed battery which is an examination object, means for transmitting the obtained protocol data to the communication and charge or discharge controller in the packed battery which is an examination object, and means for receiving the data for examination which has been fed from the communication and the charge or discharge controller in the packed battery and transmitting the data for examination to the controller.

Abstract: A push button switch comprises a housing having an opening at the top and provided with a fixed contact member at the inner bottom, a stem supported to be vertically movable in and with respect to the housing, and an elastic member being capable of buckling and having one end attached to near a lower end of the stem and the other end attached to near the inner bottom of the housing, the elastic member being positioned in the housing to extend diagonally and urging the stem upward by its own resilient force. A high degree of reliability is ensured with the simple structure and a good click feeling is provided.

Abstract: A method of making a thin film transistor is described incorporating the steps of forming a gate electrode, a layer of insulating material, a layer of buffer material, a layer of semiconductor material, a source electrode and drain electrode. The invention reduces the problem of variation in threshold voltage of thin film transistors due to external stress such as the gate voltage or temperature.

Abstract: A thin film transistor is described incorporating a gate electrode, a layer of insulating material, a layer of buffer material, a layer of semiconductor material, a source electrode and drain electrode. The invention reduces the problem of variation in threshold voltage of thin film transistors due to external stress such as the gate voltage or temperature.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a multilayer circuit board in which landless inter-layer connection is made between a lower-layer electric circuit and an upper-layer electric circuit formed on a substrate. The method of the invention utilizes a single photoresist to form a circuitization layer and the conductive via extending upwardly from it. In the method of the invention a metal layer is applied to the substrate, and photoresist is applied to the metal layer. The photoresist is then exposed and developed to define a resist hole. A via bump is formed in the resist hole. The residual resist is then imaged to form a first circuit pattern in the underlying metal layer. The remaining photoresist is removed from the first metal layer, and an organic dielectric layer is formed on the etched metal layer, the exposed substrate, and via bump. The organic dielectric layer is then flattened or otherwise processed to expose the surface of the via bump.