Abstract: A method for producing a ferroelectric thin film comprising: coating a composition for forming a ferroelectric thin film on a base electrode of a substrate having a substrate body and the base electrode that has crystal daces oriented in the (111) direction, calcining the coated composition, and subsequently performing firing the coated composition to crystallize the coated composition, and thereby forming a ferroelectric thin film on the base electrode, wherein the method includes formation of an orientation controlling layer by coating the composition on the base electrode, calcining the coated composition, and firing the coated composition, where an amount of the composition coated on the base electrode is controlled such that a thickness of the orientation controlling layer after crystallization is in a range of 5 nm to 30 nm, and thereby controlling the preferential crystal orientation of the orientation controlling layer to be in the (110) plane.

Abstract: A radar device includes: a receive antenna having a plurality of element antennas disposed in the left-right direction such that at least some of the plurality of element antennas is shifted in the up-down direction from the others; and a position detecting ECU. The position detecting ECU Includes: a first position detecting section, which detects a position of an object in the up-down direction, based on a phase difference between the respective reception signals received by the plurality of element antennas; and a first position correcting section which corrects the position in the up-down direction, based on the history of the position in the up-down direction, and obtains a first corrected position which is a position in the up-down direction after the correction.

Abstract: An optical module is provided that includes a Faraday rotator having a Verdet constant at a wavelength of 1.06 ?m of at least 0.27 min/(Oe·cm), a first hollow magnet disposed on the outer periphery of the Faraday rotator, and second and third hollow magnet units disposed so as to sandwich the first hollow magnet on the optical axis. The second and third hollow magnet units include 2 or more magnets equally divided in a direction of 90 degrees relative to the optical axis. A magnetic flux density B (Oe) applied to the Faraday rotator is in the range of 0.5×104?B?1.5×104. The Faraday rotator is disposed on a sample length L (cm) in the range of 0.70?L?1.10, and has an external diameter D (cm) in the range of 0.20?D?0.60.

Abstract: In this process of forming a dielectric thin film, when a dielectric thin film represented by Ba1?xSrxTiyO3 (0.2<x<0.6 and 0.9<y<1.1) is formed by a sol-gel method, the process from coating to baking is carried out 2 to 9 times, the thickness of the thin film formed after the initial baking is 20 nm to 80 nm, the thickness of each thin film formed after the second baking and beyond is 20 nm to less than 200 nm, each baking from the first time to the second to ninth times is carried out by heating to a prescribed temperature within the range of 500° C. to 800° C. at a heating rate of 1° C. to 50° C.

Abstract: A lesion extracting device includes a light source for emitting an excitation light toward a subject body, a control unit for changing an amount of the excitation light, a light irradiating and receiving portion for irradiating the excitation light to the subject body and receiving fluorescence generated from the subject body, a distance holding member for holding a distance between the subject body and the light irradiating and receiving portion at a predetermined value, a measuring unit for measuring the intensity of the fluorescence received by the light irradiating and receiving portion, and an extracting unit for extracting a lesion part of the subject body based on relationships between measured values of changes in the fluorescence intensity with respect to changes in the amount of the excitation light and information regarding the changes in the amount of the excitation light, the information being obtained from the control unit.

Abstract: The changing of the azimuth of directivity in which the azimuth of directivity of the antenna that achieves the maximum gain thereof is switched to the azimuths of tires is performed repeatedly for a plurality of cycles during a transmission duration of information. The output value of the antenna whose azimuth of directivity is controlled is sampled separately for each of the azimuths of directivity subjected to the switching. The sampled values are sorted into groups separately for each azimuth of directivity, and are accumulated separately for each group. The position of the tire shown by the azimuth of directivity of the group whose accumulated value is the largest is determined as being the position of the tire equipped with the transmitter that is transmitting the information.

Abstract: A radar device 100 includes: a receive antenna 2 having a plurality (here, three) of element antennas (21, 22, and 23) disposed in the left-right direction such that at least some of the plurality of element antennas is shifted in the up-down direction from the others; and a position detecting ECU (5). The position detecting ECU (5) includes: a first position detecting section 53, which detects a position P1 of an object TG in the up-down direction, based on a phase difference between the respective reception signals received by the plurality of element antennas (21, 22, and 23); and a first position correcting section (54) which corrects the position P1 in the up-down direction, based on the history of the position P1 in the up-down direction, and obtains a first corrected position which is a position P1A in the up-down direction after the correction.

Abstract: Coated film is removed at an outer peripheral edge of a substrate before heat-treating in CSD method by spraying or dropping liquid for removing CSD coated film including water and organic solvent mixed in a weight ratio of 50:50 to 0:100, in which the organic solvent is one or more selected from the group consisting of ?-diketones, ?-ketoesters, polyhydric alcohol, carboxylic acids, alkanolamines, ?-hydroxy carboxylic acid, ?-hydroxy carbonyl derivatives, and hydrazone derivatives.

Abstract: A pressure buffer is disposed in an ink supply path that connects an ink supply source to an ink-jet head to suppress pressure fluctuations due to vibrations created by movement of a carriage. The pressure buffer includes a chamber having an ink flow inlet through which ink flows from the ink supply source into the chamber and an ink flow outlet through which the ink flows from the chamber to the ink-jet head. A partition wall disposed within the chamber extends at least partly along a side wall of the chamber to define an ink flow path that communicates at its upper end with the chamber and at its lower end with the ink flow outlet. A through-opening is provided in the partition wall in the vicinity of the ink flow outlet and through which the ink flows between the ink flow path and the chamber to suppress pressure fluctuations in the ink flow path. Alternatively, an air pocket may be provided in the partition wall in the vicinity of the ink flow outlet to reduce presure fluctuations in the ink flow path.

Abstract: To provide a method of effectively reducing the amount of ink droplets remaining on a nozzle surface after a cleaning operation, and an inkjet recording apparatus capable of shortening an entire processing time of an initial filling operation and a cleaning operation by shortening an ink discharge operation time. By providing a partition wall so that a suction port and an atmosphere opening port provided on a back side of a porous sheet placed in a cap are not directly communicated with each other, in an ink discharge operation in the cap, air having entered through the atmosphere opening port flows through a space between the porous sheet and the nozzle surface, and thereafter, flows to the suction port via the porous sheet. Therefore, ink droplets remaining adhering to the nozzle surface can be removed using the force of air flow.

Abstract: Observation is performed with a fluorescence image having high quantitativeness by satisfactorily eliminating dependency on distance.

Abstract: A dielectric-thin-film forming composition for forming a BST dielectric thin film, includes a liquid composition for forming a thin film which takes a form of a mixed composite metal oxide in which a composite oxide B including Cu (copper) is mixed into a composite metal oxide A expressed by a formula: Ba1-xSrxTiyO3 (wherein 0.2<x<0.6 and 0.9<y<1.1), the liquid composition is an organic metal compound solution in which a raw material for composing the composite metal oxide A and a raw material for composing the composite oxide B are dissolved in an organic solvent at a proportion having a metal atom ratio expressed by the formula shown above and a molar ratio between A and B in the range of 0.001?B/A<0.15.

Abstract: A lesion extracting device having a control unit for changing an amount of the excitation light emitted toward a subject body, a measuring unit for measuring a change in the intensity of fluorescence generated from the subject body with respect to a change in the amount of the excitation light, and an extracting unit for calculating a ratio of the change in the intensity of fluorescence on the basis of a ratio of the change in the amount of the excitation light to the change in the intensity of fluorescence and for extracting a lesion part of the subject body on the basis of the ratio of the changes in the amount of the excitation light to the ratio of the changes in the intensity of fluorescence.

Abstract: The invention includes an insertion portion, one end of which is inserted inside a lumen of a subject; an image-acquisition unit for acquiring an image of an interior wall in the lumen as a substantially circular or substantially ring-shaped interior wall image; a transformation processing unit for transforming, in the interior wall image, at least substantially ring-shaped images concerning the interior wall, whose distance from the one end is uniform, to substantially straight-line-shaped or substantially band-shaped images; a distance-measuring unit for measuring a distance moved by the insertion portion relative to the subject; and an image synthesizing unit for joining the transformed images on the basis of the distance moved measured by the distance-measuring unit.

Abstract: Provided is a pressure damper, a liquid jet head, and a liquid jet recording apparatus capable of detecting and regulating the pressure of liquid with high accuracy, irrespectively of the kind of the liquid. The pressure damper includes: a main body portion (91) having a concave portion (91a) for storing liquid and a conduit (93, 94) open to the concave portion (91a) formed therein; a thin film (96) which is disposed so as to hermetically seal the concave portion (91a) and which is fixed to the main body portion (91) at a peripheral portion (91c) of the concave portion (91a); a reference member (97) which is freely brought into/out of contact with the thin film (96) and which is disposed in the concave portion (91a); and displacement amount detecting means having a loop coil portion (99) for detecting change in relative position of the reference member (97) with pressure fluctuations of the liquid stored in the concave portion (91a) without contacting the reference member (97).

Abstract: A thin film capacitor is characterized by forming a lower electrode, coating a composition onto the lower electrode without applying an annealing process having a temperature of greater than 300° C., drying at a predetermined temperature within a range from ambient temperature to 500° C., and calcining at a predetermined temperature within a range of 500 to 800° C. and higher than a drying temperature. The process from coating to calcining is performed the process from coating to calcining once or at least twice, or the process from coating to drying is performed at least twice, and then calcining is performed once. The thickness of the dielectric thin film formed after the first calcining is 20 to 600 nm. The ratio of the thickness of the lower electrode and the thickness of the dielectric thin film formed after the initial calcining step (thickness of lower electrode/thickness of the dielectric thin film) is preferably in the range 0.10 to 15.0.

Abstract: A liquid jet head including: a wall portion (24) which surrounds a jetting hole column and protrudes in the same direction as a direction of openings of jetting holes; a lid member (62) which may open and close an opening formed in the wall portion; an opening and closing mechanism (60) for forming closed space between the wall portion and a jetting body (23) and for, in an open state, exposing the jetting holes to the outside; an absorber (40) provided on a back surface of the lid member, for absorbing liquid which overflows from the jetting holes; a suction flow path (15) which has a suction port (15a) that is open to the closed space and which is connected to an outside suction device (8); and an atmosphere release portion (33) which is switchable between release of the closed space to the outside and interruption thereof.

Abstract: A liquid jet head includes: a head chip (21) including a plurality of channels, drive electrodes which are formed on side walls of the channels, and nozzle holes which communicate with the channels; a temperature sensor (50) arranged in the head chip or in proximity to the head chip; and control means (23) including a drive circuit board (26) having a drive circuit (25) packaged thereon, a flexible printed board (27) having signal lines (28) formed thereon, and drive voltage value setting means (60) for determining magnitude of drive voltage based on a value detected by the sensor, the control means being for applying, from the drive circuit via the signal lines, the drive voltage determined by the drive voltage value setting means, in which the flexible printed board includes connecting wiring formed thereon for electrically connecting the sensor and the drive voltage value setting means.

Abstract: A liquid jet head including: an opening and closing mechanism for, in an open state, opening a wall portion release opening (24n) to expose nozzle holes to outside and for, in a closed state, closing the wall portion release opening to form closed space between a wall portion (24) and a nozzle plate (31); a suction flow path (15) having, on one end side thereof, a suction port (15a) which is open below a nozzle column while another end side thereof being connected to a suction pump (16) for, by sucking an inside of the closed space with the suction pump, causing the closed space to become a negative pressure chamber to supply ink I from an ink tank of the ink to the nozzle holes; and an atmosphere release flow path (33) which is switchable between communication of the closed space with the outside and interruption thereof.

Abstract: Provided is a pressure damper reducing pressure fluctuations of liquid and detecting the pressure fluctuations of the liquid. The pressure damper (1) includes: a main body portion (2), the main body portion (2) including a recessed portion (4) with an opening and a communication hole (5) which is open to an inner surface of the recessed portion (4) and communicates to an external region; a flexible thin film (7) which closes the opening for reducing pressure fluctuations of fluid (6) included in the closed recessed portion (4); and a detecting portion (10) engaged with the main body portion (2) for detecting electromotive force generated by electromagnetic induction thereby detecting relative positional change between the flexible thin film (7) and the main body portion (2).