Abstract: A cylinder causing an abnormal air-fuel ratio is specified. Injection ratio changing control for gradually changing a ratio between command injection quantities of two injectors of the abnormal cylinder while keeping the sum of the command injection quantities of the two injectors constant is performed on the abnormal cylinder. If the injection ratio changing control is performed under the same condition, a changing behavior of the actual sum injection quantity of the two injectors varies and a changing behavior of the air-fuel ratio varies depending on which one of the two injectors is abnormal. Therefore, the abnormal injector out of the two injectors is specified using a learning value of an air-fuel ratio feedback correction value based on an output of an exhaust gas sensor.

Abstract: The mask blank inspection apparatus is constituted of a stage for mounting a reflective mask blank thereon, a light source for generating inspection light, a mirror serving as an illuminating optics, an imaging optical system, a beam splitter, two two-dimensional array sensors, signal storage units, an image processing unit, a main control unit for controlling operation of the whole apparatus, the first sensor being located at a position which is displaced by a predetermined distance from the focal plane of a first light beam, the second sensor being located at a position which is displaced by a predetermined distance from the focal plane of a second light beam along a opposite direction, whereby accurately and conveniently inspecting presence/absence and types of defects in reflective mask blank.

Abstract: A method for measuring a shape of a phase defect existing on an exposure mask includes making inspection light incident on the mask, measuring the intensity of light scattered in an angular range in which the width of an scattering area on the phase defect can be predicted, calculating a radius of the phase defect based on the measured scattered light intensity, changing the angular range of scattered light to be measured, remeasuring scattered light intensity in the thus changed angular range, and calculating a scattering cross-sectional area based on the scattered light intensity obtained by remeasurement. A process of remeasuring the scattered light intensity and calculating the scattering cross-sectional area is repeatedly performed until the remeasured scattered light intensity is saturated and the shape of the phase defect is determined by using the calculated radius of the phase defect and each of the calculated scattering cross-sectional areas.

Abstract: Disclosed is a diamond film that can solve a problem of a conventional thin film of diamond which, due to insoluble, infusible and hardly machinable properties of the diamond, is produced by plasma CVD requiring the use of a disadvantageously large apparatus. Specifically, a nanodiamond film, which can be simply produced without the need to use a large apparatus, is disclosed. The nanodiamond film is characterized by comprising a nanodiamond. The nanodiamond film has a thickness of not more than 5000 nm.

Abstract: Provided is a transparent thin-film electrode characterized in that light transmitted through the transparent thin-film electrode is polarized. The transparent thin-film electrode comprises a conductive polymer or the transparent thin-film electrode comprises a carbon nanotube. Consequently, the transparent thin-film electrode and a liquid crystal display device or a light-emitting element using the same which has industrially satisfactory performance can be provided without using indium that has a problem in terms of stable supply and cost because the amount of indium as a resource is small and the price thereof rises sharply due to stringent demand.

Abstract: A server, which functions as an image data control device, stores image data based on input information into a hard disk of a storage unit, reads sequentially the image data stored in the hard disk sequentially, and detects the usage status of the hard disk in the course of reading the image data. Further, based on the detection result of the usage status of the hard disk, the server provides control for deleting from the hard disk at least a portion of the image data, which has already been read, among image data being read.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an ion-conductive composition that has proton conductivity over a wide temperature range, including the intermediate and high temperature range of 100° C. and higher, and an ion-conductive composite material such as ion-conductive membrane prepared from the composition. The composite ion-conductive material comprises the ion-conductive composition of the present invention, and the ion-conductive composition includes an ion-conductive polymer and ion-conductive inorganic solid material.

Abstract: An abnormality diagnosis apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes an abnormality diagnosis unit, an other fuel contamination determination unit, and a misdiagnosis prohibition unit. The abnormality diagnosis unit determines whether there is an abnormality in a fuel system based on an output from an exhaust gas sensor mounted on an exhaust duct of the internal combustion engine. The other fuel contamination determination unit determines whether an other fuel contaminates a supply fuel supplied to the internal combustion engine. The misdiagnosis prohibition unit conducts one of (a) changing an abnormality determination condition for the abnormality diagnosis in the fuel system and (b) prohibiting the abnormality diagnosis in the fuel system, when the other fuel contamination determination unit determines that the other fuel contaminates the supply fuel.

Abstract: A reverse pattern is formed once by combining a negative exposure mask having a wiring pattern with a positive resist, and then a positive wiring pattern is formed by use of the reverse pattern. That is, a positive resist applied on a semiconductor substrate is exposed by use of the exposure mask having an opening part in a region corresponding to the wiring pattern, and then the exposed part is removed by development to form a resist pattern, thereby forming the wiring pattern in the region corresponding to the opening part of the resist pattern. Consequently, it is hardly affected by flare during EUV exposure, thereby fabricating a fine wiring pattern with higher exposure latitude.

Abstract: A server, which functions as an image data control device, makes a judgment as to whether a job containing image data stored in a hard disk of the storage unit has received deletion designation for being designated to be deleted from the hard disk. Then, among the jobs judged to have received the deletion designation, the server provides control that prevents a referenced job containing image data that is referenced by a reproduced or combined job (referencing job) from being deleted from the hard disk.

Abstract: Provided are an electrode to enhance the power generation efficiency in a fuel cell, in particular a single-chamber solid electrolyte fuel cell, and such an electrode. The electrode of the present invention comprises ?Eh, represented by the following formula (1), being not less than ?10 mV and not more than 100 mV. ?Eh=E0?E3??(1) (where E0 denotes an electrode potential when a gas having a hydrogen concentration of 0% (an oxidizing gas only) makes contact with the electrode at room temperature, and E3 denotes an electrode potential when a mixed gas having a hydrogen concentration of 3 volume % (a hydrogen gas and the oxidizing gas) makes contact with the electrode at room temperature.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for manufacturing semiconductor devices including steps of: forming on a wafer W a resist film 102 of a developer-repellent material, which has a contact angle of, e.g., 65 degrees or more with a developer; exposing the resist film 102 with a desired pattern of light; oxidizing a surface layer of the resist film 102 to render the surface layer 104 hydrophilic; and developing the resist film 102 using the developer to form a resist pattern 105, whereby solving both of collapsing of the pattern due to micro-swelling and dimensional variations of the pattern due to nonuniformity of development to improve yielding of product.

Abstract: A inspection image data of the chip A is captured and the data representing the amount of correction of flare corresponded to the chip A is appropriately loaded from the map storage block. Next, a inspection image of the chip A? is captured, and the data representing the amount of correction of flare corresponded to the chip A? is loaded from the flare map storage block as the amount of shifting of the edge of the contour of the pattern. The amount of correction is converted, by a correction data generation block which is a correction data generator, into the amount of geometrical correction of pattern which provides correction data. In the comparison block, the images of the geometry of two chips are compared and corrected on the amount of correction of flare generated by a correction data generation block, to thereby judge whether defect is found or not.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an electrode catalyst composition capable of forming an electrode to enhance the power generation efficiency in a fuel cell, in particular a single-chamber solid electrolyte fuel cell. The electrode catalyst composition of the present invention comprises gold and platinum, wherein the number of gold atoms is exceeding 0 and not more than 3 when the number of platinum atoms is 100.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a semiconductor device including a first wiring pattern extending in a vertical direction and a second wiring pattern identical in geometry to the first wiring pattern and extending in a (horizontal) direction orthogonal to the vertical direction, including the steps of: employing linearly polarized illumination to perform exposure along a mask pattern including mask patterns used to form the first and second wiring patterns, respectively; and subsequently forming the first and second wiring patterns having a geometry along the mask patterns. The mask patterns to form the first and second wiring patterns are formed to be different in geometry.

Abstract: The present invention provides a polymeric adsorption film comprising a polymer containing two or more charge-transport blocks and a substrate, wherein any of the charge-transport blocks is preferentially adhered to a surface of the substrate; a polymeric adsorption film comprising a polymer containing two or more charge-transport blocks and a substrate, wherein any of the charge-transport blocks different from the charge-transport block preferentially adhered to a surface of the substrate is preferentially exposed; or a polymeric adsorption film comprising a polymer and a substrate, wherein the polymer contains two or more charge-transport blocks and any charge-transport block selected from the charge-transport blocks is adhered to a surface of the substrate more preferentially than the other charge-transport blocks.

Abstract: An atopic dermatitis inducer binding to a human own IgE antibody and activating mast cells and basophiles, which includes a purified human secretion fraction, or an antigenic molecule or an antigenic determinant in the purified fraction, and obtained through the following steps of: filtering a human secretion, removing insoluble matters and collecting the filtrate; mixing the filtrate with a ConA-affinity carrier and collecting the supernatant; and separating a component having a histamine-releasing activity from the supernatant by column chromatography. This inducer is effective in diagnosing and treating human atopic dermatitis.

Abstract: A cam follower includes a shaft member which is cantilevered at one end and a slide bearing fitted onto the outer periphery of the other end of the shaft member. The slide bearing is composed of a cylindrical matrix made of an Fe-based sintered metal material having an Fe content of 90 wt % or more and a slide layer formed from the inner peripheral surface to the both end faces of the matrix. The slide layer is made of a slide material composition having a base material such as polyethylene resin blended with a lubricant such as silicone oil and a globular porous silica impregnated with this lubricant.

Abstract: A metal phosphate having high proton conductivity which is useful for a fuel cell having higher output, and a method for producing such a metal phosphate are provided. The method for producing a metal phosphate is a metal phosphate production method using a compound containing M, a compound containing J1, and a compound containing P, as raw materials, wherein M represents at least one selected from the group consisting of group 4A and group 4B elements in the long form of the periodic table, J1 represents at least one selected from the group consisting of group 3A, group 3B, group 5A and group 5B elements in the long form of the periodic table, the compound containing J1 is composed of at least one selected from hydroxides of J1, halides of J1 and nitrate of J1.

Abstract: Defect detection is performed with two settings, that is, setting of a focus position where a signal intensity obtained from a dot pattern is maximum and setting of a focus position where a signal intensity obtained from a hole pattern is maximum. In addition, defect detection is performed at a predetermined focus position previously set and for the detected defect, the focus position is changed at that position to find a focus position where the signal intensity is maximum. If the focus position is away from a signal light-receiving system, the defect is determined as dot-shaped. If the focus position is close to the signal light-receiving system, the defect is determined as hole-shaped. If the focus position is intermediate of them, the defect is determined as an elongated-shaped.