Abstract: A laser processing device having a simple structure and a means for accurately detecting expansion and misalignment of a laser beam. A sensor, which receives the laser beam after transmitting through a half mirror, is arranged on a back surface of the half mirror opposed to a front surface which reflects the laser beam. The sensor is positioned via a heat insulating material between the back surface of the half mirror and a shield plate for shielding or absorbing the laser beam after transmitting through the half mirror, so that the sensor is thermally-independent from the other components. The sensor is positioned so that the sensor does not receive the laser beam after transmitting through the half mirror in the normal state, and so that the sensor directly receives the laser beam after transmitting through the half mirror when the laser beam is expanded or misaligned.

Abstract: A portable terminal includes a touchpad that detects contact made thereto and output a value indicating a degree of the contact, and stores a first threshold and a second threshold less than the first threshold. The portable terminal calculates, based on the output value, an area contact value indicating a degree of the contact for each of contacted areas of the touchpad. The portable terminal judges whether the contacted areas include two areas that are not directly adjacent to each other and each have a calculated area contact value equal to or greater than the second threshold. When judging negatively, the portable terminal determines, as a target area to which processing to be performed is allocated, one of the contacted areas having an area contact value equal to or greater than the first threshold, and when judging affirmatively, the portable terminal does not to determine the target area.

Abstract: A portable terminal includes a touchpad that detects contact made thereto and output a value indicating a degree of the contact, and stores a first threshold and a second threshold less than the first threshold. The portable terminal calculates, based on the output value, an area contact value indicating a degree of the contact for each of contacted areas of the touchpad. The portable terminal judges whether the contacted areas include two areas that are not directly adjacent to each other and each have a calculated area contact value equal to or greater than the second threshold. When judging negatively, the portable terminal determines, as a target area to which processing to be performed is allocated, one of the contacted areas having an area contact value equal to or greater than the first threshold, and when judging affirmatively, the portable terminal does not to determine the target area.

Abstract: A mobile phone 100 having a capacitive touchpad unit 102 includes a touch sensor circuit 121 that outputs measurement values each indicating a capacitance of the touchpad unit 102, a computing unit 111a that computes a sensor output value based on each measurement output from the touch sensor circuit 121, a calibration coefficient updating unit 111a3 that updates the sensor output value by updating a calibration coefficient so as to be equal to a predetermined reference value, a judging unit 118 that detects a contact based on the sensor output values, and a judgment threshold switching unit 133 that causes the judging unit 118 to use a provisional contact-judging unit for a time period starting when the update occurs during the time that the user's face is in contact with the touchpad unit 102 and ending when it is judged that the touch to the touchpad unit 102 is released.

Abstract: A portable terminal operates while switching first mode for generating, based on a value indicating a degree of contact output by a touchpad, a value indicating degree of the contact for each contacted area and second mode for generating, based on the output value, a value by performing adjustment such that temporal change amount of the value indicating the degree is equal to or less than a predetermined value. When a value of one contacted area generated in the second mode equals or exceeds the first threshold, the portable terminal switches to the first mode, and when a value of one contacted area generated in the first mode falls below the second threshold, the portable terminal switches to the second mode. The portable terminal determines, as a target area to which processing to be performed is allocated, one contacted area having a value that equals or exceeds the first threshold.

Abstract: When a driving module is performing processing of vibrating a piezoelectric vibration module based on a sound signal in an electronic apparatus, a determination module determines whether or not an ear putting position specified by an ear putting position specifying module is close to a reference position. When the processing is being performed, a notification module notifies the user at least one of that the ear putting position is appropriate and that the ear putting position is inappropriate, based on a determination result of the determination module.

Abstract: A semiconductor device manufacturing method is disclosed. The method includes etching a silicon on insulator (SOI) from its surface (i.e., semiconductor substrate layer) to form a first trench and a second trench. The first trench extends through the SOI substrate and reaches an electrode pad. The second trench terminates in the semiconductor substrate layer. The manufacturing method also includes forming an insulation film that covers the surface of the semiconductor substrate layer as well as the side walls and bottoms of the first and second trenches. The manufacturing method also includes removing the insulation film from the bottoms of the first and second trenches to expose the electrode pad from the first trench bottom and to expose the semiconductor substrate layer from the second trench bottom.

Abstract: A mobile phone 100 having a capacitive touchpad unit 102 includes a touch sensor circuit 121 that outputs measurement values each indicating a capacitance of the touchpad unit 102, a computing unit 111a that computes a sensor output value based on each measurement output from the touch sensor circuit 121, a calibration coefficient updating unit 111a3 that updates the sensor output value by updating a calibration coefficient so as to be equal to a predetermined reference value, a judging unit 118 that detects a contact based on the sensor output values, and a judgment threshold switching unit 133 that causes the judging unit 118 to use a provisional contact-judging unit for a time period starting when the update occurs during the time that the user's face is in contact with the touchpad unit 102 and ending when it is judged that the touch to the touchpad unit 102 is released.

Abstract: A portable terminal including a touch-sensitive first input device and a touch-sensitive second input device that receive input when contact is made thereto, the portable terminal comprising: a first execution unit configured to execute processing that is in accordance with input received by the first input device; a second execution unit configured to execute processing that is in accordance with input received by the second input device; and a control unit that controls whether or not to inhibit the execution of the second processing by the second execution unit according to which position on the first input device is contacted.

Abstract: A photodiode includes a silicon semiconductor layer; a P-type high concentration diffusion layer with a P-type impurity diffused therein at a high concentration; an N-type high concentration diffusion layer with an N-type impurity diffused therein at a high concentration; and a low concentration diffusion layer with one of the P-type impurity and the N-type impurity diffused therein at a low concentration. The P-type high concentration diffusion layer and the N-type high concentration diffusion layer are formed in the silicon semiconductor layer, and are arranged to face each other with the low concentration diffusion layer in between. The photodiode further includes an interlayer insulation film formed on the silicon semiconductor layer, so that a covalent bond between silicon and hydrogen is formed in an atom row of the low concentration layer adjacent to an interface thereof with respect to the interlayer insulation film.

Abstract: A portable communication terminal pertaining to the present invention comprises a touchpad that detects contact made thereto and outputs a value indicating a degree of the contact, and select, based on the value output by the touchpad, one area from among areas on the touchpad on which contact is detected, the areas each having processing to be executed allocated thereto. When the communication terminal does not judge that the number of areas on which contact is detected equals or exceeds a predetermined number within a time period from the selection until a specific condition is satisfied, the communication terminal does not execute the processing allocated to the selected area. The specific condition includes a requirement that contact made to the selected area continues to be detected for a predetermined time period from the selection. When the communication terminal judges in the affirmative, the communication terminal does not execute the processing.

Abstract: A portable terminal operates while switching first mode for generating, based on a value indicating a degree of contact output by a touchpad, a value indicating degree of the contact for each contacted area and second mode for generating, based on the output value, a value by performing adjustment such that temporal change amount of the value indicating the degree is equal to or less than a predetermined value. When a value of one contacted area generated in the second mode equals or exceeds the first threshold, the portable terminal switches to the first mode, and when a value of one contacted area generated in the first mode falls below the second threshold, the portable terminal switches to the second mode. The portable terminal determines, as a target area to which processing to be performed is allocated, one contacted area having a value that equals or exceeds the first threshold.

Abstract: A portable terminal includes a touchpad that detects contact made thereto and output a value indicating a degree of the contact, and stores a first threshold and a second threshold less than the first threshold. The portable terminal calculates, based on the output value, an area contact value indicating a degree of the contact for each of contacted areas of the touchpad. The portable terminal judges whether the contacted areas include two areas that are not directly adjacent to each other and each have a calculated area contact value equal to or greater than the second threshold. When judging negatively, the portable terminal determines, as a target area to which processing to be performed is allocated, one of the contacted areas having an area contact value equal to or greater than the first threshold, and when judging affirmatively, the portable terminal does not to determine the target area.

Abstract: A mobile phone includes an external power supply terminal receiving power from the external power supply, a secondary battery charging at least part of the received power and supplying the charged power to a load, a radio circuit receiving power from the secondary battery and allowing transmission power to be varied, and a control portion detecting the transmission power level of the radio circuit and switching to any of a plurality of charge modes having different time periods for charging the secondary battery, based on the detected transmission power level.

Abstract: A portable terminal pertaining to the present invention comprises: a touchpad having a plurality of areas; an illumination unit that illuminates the touchpad in lit state, and does not illuminate the touchpad in unlit state; and a control unit that detects contact made to the areas of the touchpad, performs a first judgment when detecting contact made to at least one of the areas of the touchpad while the illumination unit is unlit, the first judgment being a judgment of whether the number of areas of the touchpad to which the contact during the unlit state has been made equals or exceeds a predetermined number within a first interval from the detection of the contact, and turns the illumination unit on when the result of the first judgment is negative and does not turn the illumination unit on when the result of the first judgment is positive.

Abstract: A method for suppressing the number of peripheral blood lymphocytes involving administering to a human in need thereof a pharmaceutically effective amount of a compound which is (2R) -2-amino-2-methyl-4-{1-methyl-5-[4-(4-methylphenyl)butanoyl]pyrrol-2-yl}butan-1-ol or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof, such as the hydrochloride salt.

Abstract: A semiconductor device manufacturing method includes etching a silicon on insulator (SOI) from its surface (i.e., semiconductor substrate layer) to form a first trench and a second trench. The first trench extends through the SOI substrate and reaches an electrode pad. The second trench terminates in the semiconductor substrate layer. The manufacturing method also includes forming an insulation film that covers the surface of the semiconductor substrate layer as well as the side walls and bottoms of the first and second trenches. The manufacturing method also includes removing the insulation film from the bottoms of the first and second trenches to expose the electrode pad from the first trench bottom and to expose the semiconductor substrate layer from the second trench bottom.

Abstract: An amplifying method and apparatus generates a plurality of constant envelope signals from an input signal and generates a plurality of pilot signals associated with the generated plurality of constant envelope signals, respectively. The plurality of pilot signals have predetermined amplitudes, predetermined phases, and predetermined frequencies, respectively, and the phases and frequencies are different from each other. The plurality of pilot signals are added to the generated plurality of constant envelope signals, and the sum is amplified. An amplitude or phase of one of the generated plurality of constant envelope signals is corrected using signal components included in the amplified plurality of constant envelope signals.

Abstract: A photodiode includes a silicon semiconductor layer; a P-type high concentration diffusion layer with a P-type impurity diffused therein at a high concentration; an N-type high concentration diffusion layer with an N-type impurity diffused therein at a high concentration; and a low concentration diffusion layer with one of the P-type impurity and the N-type impurity diffused therein at a low concentration. The P-type high concentration diffusion layer and the N-type high concentration diffusion layer are formed in the silicon semiconductor layer, and are arranged to face each other with the low concentration diffusion layer in between. The photodiode further includes an interlayer insulation film formed on the silicon semiconductor layer, so that a covalent bond between silicon and hydrogen is formed in an atom row of the low concentration layer adjacent to an interface thereof with respect to the interlayer insulation film.

Abstract: An amplifying circuit which can provide an output signal having less distortion at high power efficiency without increasing the circuit scale and the sizes of the entire device. The amplifying circuit (100) generates two constant envelope signals from an OFDM signal inputted to an S/P converting section (131), and after amplifying each of the constant envelope signals by two amplifiers (111, 112), respectively, the signals are combined by a combiner (113) and a transmission signal is provided. At this time, a pilot signal generating section (102) adds a pilot signal whose frequency orthogonally intersects with that of an OFDM subcarrier to the two constant envelope signals, extracts a pilot signal from the transmission signal of output, and controls a vector adjusting section (105) so that the gains or the phases of the two systems are equivalent.