Abstract: There is provided an ultrasonic wave diagnosis instrument. The ultrasonic wave Doppler diagnosis instrument transmits an ultrasonic continuous wave in a range direction and receives a reflective wave of the ultrasonic continuous wave. The ultrasonic wave Doppler diagnosis instrument includes: a modulation unit that subjects the ultrasonic continuous wave to frequency modulation such that a phase is varied in accordance with the distance of the range direction; a demodulation unit that demodulates the reflective wave for each range of the range direction while interlocking with the frequency modulation, and generates a reception signal in the range in a separated state; and a presentation unit that presents information by using a signal of a Doppler component based on the reception signal.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing laminated core segments including: a process to blank and laminate, wherein the segment core sheets formed in the adjacent virtual lines are aligned so that directions of the segment core sheets alternate, each of the segment core sheets are blanked and formed by a die device, and the laminated core segments are formed by laminating the blanked segment core sheets in the die device; a process to eject, wherein each of the laminated core segments formed by blanking and laminating in each virtual line is ejected from the die device; and a process to identify a blanking position, wherein the distinguishing marks are provided for the laminated core segments to identify the virtual lines therefor.

Abstract: There is provided a charged particle beam device which has a mechanism adjusting the shape of an ionic liquid droplet to be adhered to a sample and the thickness of a film of the ionic liquid, in such a manner that they are suitable for various types of observations by an electronic microscope and the like, and for processing using ion beams. The charged particle beam device is characterized in that it includes an ionic liquid holding member having an opening, an ionic liquid supplying unit for filling an ionic liquid into the opening, an observation unit for observing an adhesion state of the ionic liquid, and charged particle beam generating units for radiating charged particle beams, and can adjust the thickness of an ionic liquid droplet to be filled in the opening, when the charged particle beam device observes a sample in a state where it is floating in the ionic liquid by being dispersed into the ionic liquid or on a surface of the ionic liquid.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a thin film transistor (TFT) through a process including back exposure, in which oxide semiconductor is used for a channel layer; using an electrode over a substrate as a mask, negative resist is exposed to light from the back of the substrate; the negative resist except its exposed part is removed; and an electrode is shaped by etching a conductive film using the exposed part as an etching mask.

Abstract: A high frequency electric wire is provided in such a manner that a large number of wires are bundled, twisted and insulated with an outer sheath S. Each wire has an extra-fine hollow pipe structure of a capillary shape. The wire is provided to make its hollow section with the extra-fine hollow pipe structure an air cavity or to cause its hollow section to house an insulating material. In the latter case, the wire is provided by causing a metal conductor to adhere to the outer periphery of an extra-fine insulating yarn, which serves as the insulating material, by plating or vapor-deposition. The electric wire is used as a circuit cable or a coil in a non-contact power feeding device which supplies power based on a mutual induction action of the electromagnetic induction. In this manner, the electric wire fulfills its function to suppress and reduce an increase of the alternating current resistance due to a high frequency alternating current.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to enhance transmissivity and the luminance of a screen in an IPS liquid crystal display device. To achieve the object, in the IPS liquid crystal display device according to the present invention, a counter electrode is formed flatly and solidly on an organic passivation film, a pixel electrode having a slit is formed on the counter electrode via an interlayer insulation film, and an alignment film the orientation of which is controlled by optical orientation is formed on the pixel electrode. The transmissivity is enhanced by also making the inside of the contact hole function as a transmissible area for image formation by applying optical orientation to the alignment film in the contact hole to result in enhancement of the luminance of the screen.

Abstract: Provided are a metal microparticle dispersion which is excellent in a dispersibility, an electrically conductive substrate which is obtained by using the above metal microparticle dispersion and which is excellent in an electrical conductivity and a production process for the same. Provided is a metal microparticle dispersion comprising metal microparticles, a polymeric dispersant and a dispersion medium, wherein an average primary particle diameter of the metal microparticles is 0.001 to 0.

Abstract: A display device for improving an aperture ratio of the pixel is provided. In the display device, a transparent oxide layer, an insulating film, and a conductive layer are sequentially stacked on a pixel region on a substrate, the conductive layer has a gate electrode of a thin film transistor connected to a gate signal line, and a region of the transparent oxide layer other than at least a channel region portion directly below the gate electrode is converted into an electrically conductive region, and a source signal line, a source region portion of the thin film transistor connected to the source signal line, a pixel electrode, and a drain region portion of the thin film transistor connected to the pixel electrode are formed from the conductive region.

Abstract: Polycrystalline diamond includes cubic diamond and hexagonal diamond, and a ratio of X-ray diffraction peak intensity of a (100) plane of the hexagonal diamond to X-ray diffraction peak intensity for a (111) plane of cubic diamond is not lower than 0.01%. In addition, a present method of manufacturing polycrystalline diamond includes the steps of preparing a non-diamond carbon material having a degree of graphitization not higher than 0.58 and directly converting the non-diamond carbon material to cubic diamond and hexagonal diamond and sintering the non-diamond carbon material, without adding any of a sintering agent and a binder, under pressure and temperature conditions at which diamond is thermodynamically stable.

Abstract: A deforming mechanism for deforming a transmissive optical element comprises a rotation member configured to hold the optical element and to rotate around an axis parallel to a tangential line of a circumference of the optical element at a portion where the rotation member holds the optical element, so as to deform the optical element by the rotation, a torque generating unit configured to generate a torque to rotate the rotation member around the axis, a holding base, and an elastic member connecting the holding base to the torque generating unit.

Abstract: A receiving apparatus for receiving a pulse sequence signal includes a pulse decoding unit which determines, by observing, about a detection signal obtained by performing synchronous detection of a pulse sequence signal modulated by at least a pulse position modulation method, the pulse sequence signal as a pulse string transmitted by on-off keying, and applying a maximum likelihood sequence estimation method using trellis state transition defined by a time interval of the on-off keying and an on-off value concerned, an on-off value of the received pulse string, and a data decoding unit which decode, about the pulse string, information data transmitted by the pulse position modulation method.

Abstract: Carbon iron composite is produced by feeding a formed product of a carbon-containing substance and an iron-containing substance into a carbonization furnace, carbonizing the formed product in a carbonization zone, blowing a coolant gas into the furnace through a coolant-gas-blowing tuyere disposed in a cooling zone to cool carbon iron composite, exhausting a furnace gas through an outlet in a top portion, and discharging the carbon iron composite through a lower portion of the cooling zone.

Abstract: A coke layer and an ore layer are formed in a blast furnace. The coke layer is formed of conventional coke and the ore layer is formed of carbon iron composite, conventional coke, and ore. The mixing percentage of the conventional coke in the ore layer with respect to the ore is 0.5 mass % or more. Slowing of the gasification reaction of carbon iron composite in the cohesive zone can be suppressed.

Abstract: A display device for improving an aperture ratio of the pixel is provided. In the display device, a transparent oxide layer, an insulating film, and a conductive layer are sequentially stacked on a pixel region on a substrate, the conductive layer has a gate electrode of a thin film transistor connected to a gate signal line, and a region of the transparent oxide layer other than at least a channel region portion directly below the gate electrode is converted into an electrically conductive region, and a source signal line, a source region portion of the thin film transistor connected to the source signal line, a pixel electrode, and a drain region portion of the thin film transistor connected to the pixel electrode are formed from the conductive region.

Abstract: A silicone rubber composition, which comprises 100 parts by weight of a vinyl group-introduced methylfluoroalkylvinyl-based silicone rubber obtained by copolymerization of a dimethylsiloxane copolymerization unit as the main component with 5-50% by mole of a methylfluoroalkylsiloxane copolymerization unit, and 0.2-8 parts by weight of an organic peroxide. When silica is used as a filler, it is desirable to use a surfactant for silica, and water at the same time. The present silicone rubber composition can give distinguished low-temperature characteristics and blister resistance, and thus can be used for seal materials directed to high-pressure hydrogen gas storage tanks, for example, to storage under 70 MPa, and particularly as suitable vulcanization-molding materials for O-rings, packings, gaskets, oil seals, valves, etc. High-pressure gases for storage are not limited only to hydrogen gas, but also to oxygen gas, nitrogen gas, helium gas, etc. likewise.

Abstract: A synchronous rectification type DC-DC converter equipped with a burst mode prevents backward flows of currents on the secondary side thereof. The DC-DC converter turns off a control signal of a switching element on the primary side when the load thereof becomes light, and includes a voltage converting transformer, a first switching element connected to the primary side coil of the transformer, a primary side control circuit performing on-off control of the first switching element, a synchronously rectifying second switching element connected to the secondary side coil, and a secondary side control circuit performing on-off control of the second switching element. A pulse width ensuring circuit ensures that the pulse width of the control signal performing on-off control of the first switching element does not become equal to or less than the original width of a PWM pulse when entering the burst mode and when exiting the burst mode.

Abstract: In this non-contact power feeding apparatus, a power feeding circuit is provided with a power transmission coil and a first parallel capacitor to provide a first parallel resonance circuit, while a power receiving circuit is provided with a power receiving coil and a second parallel capacitor to provide a second parallel resonance circuit. Both parallel resonant circuits are set to have the same resonance frequency and a power frequency of a high-frequency power source in the power feeding side circuit is set to be the same as this resonance frequency. A circuit section including the high-frequency power source and a circuit section including the first parallel capacitor and the power transmission coil are connected by the electric field coupling of electric field coupling capacitors.

Abstract: In a non-contact power feeding apparatus of the present invention, power is fed through an air gap from a power transmission coil of a power feeding side circuit to a power receiving coil of a power receiving side circuit, which are closely located to face each other, based on a mutual induction effect of electromagnetic induction. The power transmission coil and the power receiving coil are respectively composed of a planar assembly of a number of unit coils. Each unit coil is formed in a spirally wound flat structure, wherein the direction of an electric current is set in reverse to make the north and south magnetic poles reverse between each unit coil which is juxtaposed to another to directly come into line.

Abstract: Multiresolution decomposition of image data before scan conversion processing is hierarchically performed, low-frequency decomposed image data and high-frequency decomposed image data with first to n-th levels are acquired, nonlinear anisotropic diffusion filtering is performed on output data from a next lower layer or the low-frequency decomposed image data in a lowest layer, and filtering for generating edge information on a signal for every layer is performed from the output data from the next lower layer or the low-frequency decomposed image data in the lowest layer. In addition, on the basis of the edge information on each layer, a signal level of the high-frequency decomposed image data is controlled for every layer and multiresolution mixing of the output data of the nonlinear anisotropic diffusion filter and the output data of the high-frequency level control, which are obtained in each layer, are hierarchically performed.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing metallurgical formed carbon iron composite, in which the particle size of a raw material iron ore is optimized in the manufacture of carbon iron composite having a relatively small particle size so as to manufacture high-strength carbon iron composite while maintaining a target reduction ratio. The method for manufacturing carbon iron composite includes mixing coal and iron ore having a maximum particle size of 1 to 2 mm to produce a briquetted material, and carbonizing the briquetted material. Preferably, the iron content of the iron ore is 63% by mass or less, the blending ratio of the iron ore is 40% by mass or less relative to the total amount of coal and iron ore, and the iron ore is undersize of a 1- to 2-mm mesh screen.