Abstract: A power storage device comprises: an electrode stack comprising a plurality of bipolar electrodes and a pair of outermost current collectors; an inner voltage detection terminal; a housing; and a pair of outer voltage detection terminals. Each of the plurality of bipolar electrodes has a current collector, a positive electrode active material layer, and a negative electrode active material layer. The inner voltage detection terminal is electrically connected to the current collector. Each of the pair of outer voltage detection terminals is thicker than the inner voltage detection terminal. The housing is located between the pair of outer voltage detection terminals in the stacking direction. A dimension of the housing in the stacking direction is equal to or less than a distance between the pair of outer voltage detection terminals in the stacking direction.

Abstract: The second multi-dimensional feature vectors 92a of sample image data 34a having instruction signals that are converted by a feature converter 27 are read in (Step S10), two-dimensional graph data for model 36a is generated based on the read second multi-dimensional feature vectors 92a to be stored (Step S12), two-dimensional model graphs Og and Ng are generated based on the generated two-dimensional graph data for model 36a, to be displayed on the window 62 (Step S14). The second multi-dimensional feature vectors 92a are indicators appropriate for visualization of the trained state (individuality) of a trained model 35. Thus, it is possible to visually check and evaluate whether the trained model 35 is in an appropriately trained state (individuality) or not.

Abstract: A first exemplary aspect is a press roll apparatus including: a first roll and a second roll configured to hold a workpiece therebetween to press the workpiece; a mobile unit configured to move the second roll; a detection unit configured to be able to detect a load that acts between the first and the second rolls; and a control unit configured to control the mobile unit. The control unit moves the second roll in a direction in which the second roll approaches the first roll in a state in which the workpiece is not held between the first and the second rolls, and sets a position of the second roll where the load detected by the detection unit has become equal to or greater than a predetermined value as an origin position.

Abstract: To increase horizontal resolution while preventing the depth of focus, a magnetic disk inspection device is configured: a table part which has a spindle shaft and a stage; a lighting system which irradiates a magnetic disk; a specularly reflected light detection optical system; a scattered light detection optical system; and a signal processing unit which processes outputs from the specularly reflected light detection optical system and the scattered light detection optical system and detects a defect, in which the scattered light detection optical system is provided with a lens system and a photoelectric converter having a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged in an array, and using the lens system, forms an image of the scattered light on the photoelectric converter, which is long in one direction and thinner than the width of the photoelectric conversion element in a direction perpendicular to the direction of the arrangement in an array.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for inspecting a surface of a substrate. The apparatus includes: a rotatable stage on which a substrate to be inspected is placed; an inspection optical system having an illumination light source for emitting light to a substrate placed on the stage and a detector for detecting light from the substrate which is irradiated with the light from the illumination light source; an A/D converter for amplifying and A/D converting signals output from the detector in the inspection optical system; and a defect detector for detecting defects in a surface of the substrate by processing signals output from the detector and converted by the A/D converter and classifying the defected defects. The defect detector extracts micro defects in the surface of the substrate by processing the signals output from the detector, and detects linear defects existing discretely in a linear region.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for inspecting a surface of a substrate. The apparatus includes: a rotatable stage on which a substrate to be inspected is placed; an inspection optical system having an illumination light source for emitting light to a substrate placed on the stage and a detector for detecting light from the substrate which is irradiated with the light from the illumination light source; an A/D converter for amplifying and A/D converting signals output from the detector in the inspection optical system; and a defect detector for detecting defects in a surface of the substrate by processing signals output from the detector and converted by the A/D converter and classifying the defected defects. The defect detector extracts micro defects in the surface of the substrate by processing the signals output from the detector, and detects linear defects existing discretely in a linear region.

Abstract: There is provided a method for spin coating, by which a resist is coated on a surface of a circular disc with a hole formed in its center. A method for spin coating coats a film-forming material discharged from a nozzle to an upper surface of a circular disc substrate with a through hole formed in a center while rotating the substrate. At an initial discharging stage where a discharge amount fluctuates, an inner diameter center of the nozzle is located at an initial discharge radius position apart from a position corresponding to a coat boundary of the disc substrate at an outer radial side. At a subsequent stage of stabilized discharging amount, the inner diameter center of the nozzle is moved from the initial discharge radius position to a stabilized discharge radius position around the coat boundary to further discharge the film-forming material.

Abstract: The present invention provides a disk surface defect inspection method including: irradiating a laser beam from an oblique direction onto a disk surface being rotated; detecting intensities of a first light that is scattered with low-angle and a second light that is scattered with high-angle from minute concave and convex defects; determining that a defect is the minute convex defect if a ratio of the intensity of the first light to the intensity of the second light is constant; and determining that a defect is the minute concave defect if the ratio of the intensity of the first light to the intensity of the second light is changed.

Abstract: There is provided a control device enabling switching of communication of a mobile terminal with one system to communication with another system while reducing power consumption and workload of the mobile terminal. The control device is used in a communication system including a first mobile communication system, a second mobile communication system, and a mobile terminal being in communication with the first mobile communication system. The control device comprises a position measuring unit for measuring the position of the mobile terminal, a judgment unit for making a determination whether or not to switch the communication of the mobile terminal from the first mobile communication system to the second mobile communication system according to a position measurement result of the position measuring unit, and a switching unit for performing the above switching operation according to the determination of the judgment unit.

Abstract: A radio terminal (10) and a radio relay (20, 30, 40) perform radio communications therebetween by a radio communications system else than a TDMA system, an interference measurer (13a) measures a degree of interference of each of radio slots constituting a radio channel employed in the radio communications system, a decision maker (13b, 13c) makes a decision, depending on a measurement result of the degree of interference, whether or not the radio communications by the radio communications system is able to be continued, and a switcher (42) switches, as the decision is made of the radio communications by the radio communications system to be unable to be continued, the radio communications system to a radio communications system of the TDMA system.

Abstract: A control device for carrying out control of first and second radio base stations at a time of handover from a first radio base station to a second radio base station in radio communications between a radio terminal and a radio base station is provided to prevent the use of signals other than the control signals currently used in the areas before and after the moving, in the same channel as the control signals currently used in the moving target area, during the handover, such that it is possible to improve the receiving quality of the control signals at the radio terminal.

Abstract: A radio communication system comprises a radio terminal and a plurality of base stations. The base stations communicate with the radio terminal by connecting radio links with mutually different frequencies. The base stations comprise a control signal transmitter configured to transmit control signals in a plurality of control signal time slots included in one frame. The radio terminal comprises a reception time slot determining unit configured to determine reception time slots for receiving the control signals transmitted from the plurality of base stations, from among the plurality of control signal time slots, a control signal receiver configured to receive the control signals in the reception time slots determined by the reception time slot determining unit, and a communication signal transmitter configured to transmit communication signal to the base station in an uplink communication signal time slot other than the control signal time slots.

Abstract: Inspection with respect to a defect on a surface of a substrate with an inherent or partial wave-like distortion is performed with high accuracy in consideration with the fluctuation caused by the wave-like distortion detected by the defect in excess of the signal level. The substrate is diagonally illuminated while being rotated and moved toward one axial direction to detect the specular reflected light and the scattered light. Based on the detected signal waveform, the state with respect to the inherent or partial wave-like distortion is determined. When the wave-like distortion exists in the substrate, the waveform is divided, and the threshold value is set for the divided regions. The signal higher than the threshold value will be output or displayed as the defect.

Abstract: In the present invention, since light beams are irradiated from a back face of a glass disk through the glass disk on to an outer peripheral chamfered portion at a front face side of the glass disk, a difference between extinction amounts in a received light due a foreign matter and a flaw increases, and the received light signal representing a defect detection signal in response to this difference can be obtained.

Abstract: A regularly reflected light made incident with an incident angle in a range of 45°±5° with respect to a surface of a chamfered portion of a disk is received by a light receiver The level reduction in the received light signal due to a flaw caused by the chuck traces is increased greatly to enlarge the level difference between the detection signals due to foreign matter and due to the flaw. Thereafter, the variation of signal reference level in the received light signal due to shifting in the up and down direction of the outer peripheral surface of the disk caused by rotation thereof is suppressed or canceled out. Thereby, the detection signal of the outer peripheral defect of which level in the received light signal is greatly reduced can be easily obtained.

Abstract: A testing method and a testing apparatus for surface detects on a disc, wherein a testing position is provided within an outside of a front surface disc cassette, the disc, which is stored in said disc cassette, is pushed out in front of the disc cassette from a bottom surface of the disc cassette, said disc, which is pushed out in the front, is moved up to the testing position, while holding it, and scanning is made on the disc by a laser beam while moving front/back the disc into direction of pushing out the disc held, at the testing position.

Abstract: At a time of the handover, the communications with respect to the radio terminal related to the handover are carried out by using the same antenna as the antenna with respect to the other radio terminal that is already located in the moving target area, so that interferences due to the difference in the propagation paths can be suppressed to the minimum, and the receiving quality can be improved.

Abstract: A communication channel allocation method allocates a communication channel to communications between a mobile terminal device and a second radio base station using a second frequency band which is close to a first frequency band used by a first radio base station, by detecting a first distance between the second radio base station and the first radio base station, detecting a second distance between the second radio base station and the mobile terminal device when the first distance is less than a first threshold, and allocating a communication channel of a frequency far from the first frequency band in the second frequency band to the communications between the second radio base station and the mobile terminal device when the second distance is less than a second threshold.

Abstract: A receiver of a mobile station or a base station in radio communications is formed by a correlation unit for generating a delay profile for specifying paths by taking correlations by using replica signals for a received pilot signal, and a path selection unit for comparing a power level of each path in the delay profile with a threshold determined according to an index value regarding a communication state, selecting paths for which a comparison result satisfies a prescribed condition as valid paths, and outputting a selected delay profile formed by the valid paths as a channel estimation value.

Abstract: In radio communication, the throughput reduction of a whole radio communication system caused by discarding retransmission data at the time of handover is prevented. The system includes a radio terminal for conducting data transmission and reception with a radio base station by executing one or more processes, a process executer in the radio base station for executing processes depending upon a number of processes executed in the radio terminal, and transmitting/receiving data to/from the radio terminal, a handover monitor in the radio base station for monitoring for the occurrence of handover or for the possibility of occurrence of handover in the radio terminal, and a process number controller in the radio base station for controlling the number of processes executed by the process executer according to a result of monitoring conducted by the handover monitor.