Abstract: The remote device includes at least an arithmetic processing unit and software that controls the arithmetic processing unit. The software of the main body device includes a hardware access layer including a driver group that drives each piece of hardware, a control layer that controls the hardware group via the driver group, and a main body device-side function layer that accepts an order to the main body device and outputs an instruction to the control layer. The software of the remote device includes a remote device-side function layer that accepts an order to the main body device and outputs an instruction to the control layer via the main body device-side function layer. A function execution program that executes a function provided by the main body device is placed in at least one of the main body device-side function layer and the remote device-side function layer.

Abstract: An analyzing apparatus includes a memory unit that stores analysis conditions of each standards specifying analysis conditions for each analytical technique, a control unit, and an analysis unit that performs an analysis in accordance with a predetermined analytical technique. The control unit reads out the analysis conditions of the standard, and the control unit displays analysis conditions in time sequence, the displayed analysis conditions being necessary for the analysis and selected from out of the read-out analysis conditions, or the control unit prompts to input the analysis conditions in time sequence. When the analysis conditions are input, the control unit determines whether or not the input analysis conditions comply with the read-out analysis conditions, and in a case where a result of the determination is positive, the control unit displays a next analysis condition being necessary for the analysis, or the control unit prompts to input the next analysis condition.

Abstract: An analyzing apparatus includes a memory unit that stores analysis conditions of each standards specifying analysis conditions for each analytical technique, a control unit, and an analysis unit that performs an analysis in accordance with a predetermined analytical technique. The control unit reads out the analysis conditions of the standard, and the control unit displays analysis conditions in time sequence, the displayed analysis conditions being necessary for the analysis and selected from out of the read-out analysis conditions, or the control unit prompts to input the analysis conditions in time sequence. When the analysis conditions are input, the control unit determines whether or not the input analysis conditions comply with the read-out analysis conditions, and in a case where a result of the determination is positive, the control unit displays a next analysis condition being necessary for the analysis, or the control unit prompts to input the next analysis condition.

Abstract: A method for digital communication in a system including a gateway apparatus, a first radio communication apparatus, and a second radio communication apparatus, the method including: at the first radio communication apparatus, sending first data to the gateway apparatus during a first time slot of a radio frame, the radio frame including a common slot, the first time slot allocated to the first radio communication apparatus for data transmission, and a second time slot allocated to the second radio communication apparatus for data transmission; determining whether the first data has been received by the gateway apparatus; upon determining that the first data has not been received by the gateway apparatus, sending a relay request signal to the second radio communication apparatus during the common slot of the radio frame; in response to the relay request signal, receiving a response signal from the second radio communication apparatus.

Abstract: A method for digital communication in a system including a gateway apparatus, a first radio communication apparatus, and a second radio communication apparatus, the method including: at the first radio communication apparatus, sending first data to the gateway apparatus during a first time slot of a radio frame, the radio frame including a common slot, the first time slot allocated to the first radio communication apparatus for data transmission, and a second time slot allocated to the second radio communication apparatus for data transmission; determining whether the first data has been received by the gateway apparatus; upon determining that the first data has not been received by the gateway apparatus, sending a relay request signal to the second radio communication apparatus during the common slot of the radio frame; in response to the relay request signal, receiving a response signal from the second radio communication apparatus.

Abstract: A method used in an access module that uses a file system to manage a nonvolatile memory of an information recording module enables an available storage space to be calculated in a short time before file data is recorded, and shortens the time required from initialization of the file system to recording. An access module (1) manages information about area management of the file system configured in an information recording module in units of fixed-length blocks. A divisional available storage space calculation unit (103) performs an available storage space calculation process in units of the fixed-length blocks, and completes preparations for recording when detecting a minimum required storage space for recording file data and enables recording of the file data. This shortens the time required from initialization of the file system to recording.

Abstract: A solar cell module having a laminated glass structure includes: one glass substrate; a plurality of solar cells provided on one glass substrate; and electrically interconnected; and a leader line provided on the plurality of solar cells for extracting electric power generated by the plurality of solar cells. Furthermore, the solar cell module having the laminated glass structure includes: another glass substrate opposite to one glass substrate with the plurality of solar cells and a portion of the leader line posed therebetween; and a resin sealant sealing the plurality of solar cells and the portion of the leader line between one glass substrate and the other glass substrate. The leader line has the portion set in thickness to at most 30% relative to that of the resin sealant located between the plurality of solar cells and the other glass substrate.

Abstract: A method used in an access module that uses a file system to manage a nonvolatile memory of an information recording module enables an available storage space to be calculated in a short time before file data is recorded, and shortens the time required from initialization of the file system to recording. An access module (1) manages information about area management of the file system configured in an information recording module in units of fixed-length blocks. A divisional available storage space calculation unit (103) performs an available storage space calculation process in units of the fixed-length blocks, and completes preparations for recording when detecting a minimum required storage space for recording file data and enables recording of the file data. This shortens the time required from initialization of the file system to recording.

Abstract: AFM tweezers that include a first probe, including a triangular prism member having a tip of a ridge which is usable as a probe tip in a scanning probe microscope, and a second probe, including a triangular prism member provided so as to open/close with respect to the first probe, are provided. The first probe and the second probe are juxtaposed such that a predetermined peripheral surface of the triangular prism member of the first probe and a predetermined peripheral surface of the triangular prism member of the second probe face substantially in parallel to each other, and the first probe formed of a notch that prevents interference with a sample when the sample is scanned by the tip of the ridge.

Abstract: There is provided a sample manipulating apparatus which is an apparatus for manipulating a sample mounted on a substrate surface, in which at least position data and shape data are acquired by observing the sample. Thereafter, tweezers are positioned by moving means such that the sample is positioned between an observing probe and a grasping probe based on the two set of data. After positioning, a height of the tweezers is set to a position of being remote from the substrate surface by a constant distance by moving means while monitoring a result of measurement by displacement measuring means. Thereafter, the grasping probe is moved to a side of the observing probe while monitoring the result of measurement by the displacement measuring means at the set height and the sample is grasped while detecting a grasping start point.

Abstract: A recording device (101) can record data to a recording medium (164) that executes initialization operation when the recording medium (164) receives an initialization command, and the recording device (101) includes controller (160) for controlling operation of the recording device (101) and storage unit (190) for storing an operating system (5) which is executed by the controller (160) after a start-up of the recording device (101) is completed, and provides a predetermined function. The controller (160) performs start-up control so that the controller provides an instruction for initializing the recording medium when the recording device (101) is powered on, and, in parallel with the initialization of the recording medium (164), the controller (160) executes initialization of the operating system (5).

Abstract: To realize to adapt to a shape of a surface, shorten a measurement time period and promote a measurement accuracy by setting a sampling interval in accordance with a slope of the shape of the surface and controlling a stylus in accordance with the interval, there is provided a scanning probe microscope, in which in scanning the stylus, an observation data immediately therebefore is stored as a history, the sampling interval in X or Y direction is set at each time based on a shape of the observation data, and the stylus is scanned to a successive sampling position.

Abstract: A position change section of a processing device changes the position of a treatment object, at the time of performing a process by a process section, to correspond to a predetermined position in conformity to the treatment object. An inspection device inspects the occurrence of a defect on the treatment object having been subjected to processes by a plurality of processing devices. Then an analyzing process for specifying in which processing device the defect occurred is carried out based on (i) positional information of the treatment object, in each of the processing devices, and (ii) defect information defected by the inspection device. With this arrangement, during the process of manufacture of treatment objects, it is possible to precisely specify which processing device or processing device group caused the defect, without performing processes such as attaching, to the treatment object, information regarding processing devices which have conducted processes.

Abstract: There is provided a sample operation apparatus in which, by a static electricity force acting between a probe and a sample, an accurate position is gripped without the sample being moved, and the sample can be operated by the probe for an observation, a grip, a release, or the like. In a casing body capable of being sealed, there are installed a sample operation tweezers comprising an observation probe and a grip probe, and a sample base fixing a substrate on which the sample is mounted. By the facts that a surface of the substrate is treated such that its hydrophilic nature is higher than the sample operation tweezers, and that a humidity in the casing body is controlled by a humidity control device, there is made such that an actuation of a grip, a movement, a separation or the like of the sample is performed under a state in which water films are formed on the sample, the substrate and a surface of the sample operation tweezers.

Abstract: There is provided a sample operation apparatus in which, by a static electricity force acting between a probe and a sample, an accurate position is gripped without the sample being moved, and the sample can be operated by the probe for an observation, a grip, a release, or the like.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first wiring layer having a first wiring, a second wiring layer having a second wiring formed over the first wiring layer, and a first insulating layer interposed between the first and second wiring layers, wherein the second wiring layer or an upper layer thereof has a fine projection, and the diameter of a circle circumscribing the projection in a plane or sectional view is 40 nm or less.