Abstract: Provided is a metal phosphate showing high proton conductivity, which is useful for a fuel cell having higher output and produced at lower cost. The proton-conductive metal phosphate is a compound containing M, P and O, 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, a part of M is substituted with a dopant element J J 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 and at least contains an element selected from B, Al, Ga, Sc, Yb, Y, La, Ce, Sb, Bi, V, Ta and Nb.

Abstract: A manufacturing technique of a semiconductor integrated circuit device utilizing a defect correction technique of a reflection-type mask using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light with a wavelength of about 13.5 nm as an exposure light source is provided. An auxiliary pattern having an opening diameter finer than that of an opening pattern in which a phase defect is generated is formed in an absorption layer in the vicinity of the opening pattern. The auxiliary pattern is a pattern for adjusting the exposure light amount at the time when the opening pattern is transferred to a photoresist film on a wafer.

Abstract: A control apparatus of an internal combustion engine performs control to warm up a catalyst. More specifically, the control apparatus keeps a wastegate valve open when the temperature of the catalyst is less than a predetermined temperature and closes the wastegate valve when the temperature of the catalyst becomes equal to or greater than the predetermined temperature. The control apparatus executes control to increase and decrease the fuel injection quantity such that the internal combustion engine alternately switches between lean burn and rich burn when the wastegate valve is closed. Accordingly, rich gas and lean gas can be reliably mixed in the catalyst, and CO can be reliably combusted in the catalyst. Therefore, the catalyst can be promptly warmed up while CO, HC, and the like can be appropriately suppressed from flowing through the catalyst.

Abstract: Provided is an electro-optical device including: a display unit including a plurality of display areas in which pixels are arranged; common electrodes provided in correspondence with the plurality of display areas; pixel electrodes provided in correspondence with the pixels and facing the common electrodes with an electro-optical material interposed therebetween; a driving control unit which controls writing of an image signal to the pixel electrode in each of the plurality of display areas; and a voltage applying control unit which controls applying of a predetermined voltage to the common electrode in each of the plurality of display areas; wherein the driving control unit is configured to stop the writing of the image signal to the pixel electrode during a predetermined period in a period close to at least one of a start time point or an end time point of the applying of the predetermined voltage, when the predetermined voltage is applied to the common electrode of the display area adjacent to one display

Abstract: A control system for a supercharged internal combustion engine provided with a main exhaust passage (20) extending through a turbocharger turbine (21) and further through a catalyst (23, 24) to open to the outside air, an exhaust bypass passage (25) by passing the turbocharger turbine by branching from the main exhaust passage at the upstream side of the turbine and merging with the main exhaust passage before reaching the catalyst at the turbine downstream side, and an exhaust bypass valve (26) provided at the exhaust bypass passage, the control system for a supercharged internal combustion engine controlling the ignition timing in accordance with at least one of the engine warmup state and the catalyst warmup state until warmup of the internal combustion engine and warmup of the catalyst are completed and further controlling the opening degree of the exhaust bypass valve based on the control of the ignition timing, is provided.

Abstract: If improper fuel (light oil or kerosene) is mixed into fuel (gasoline) supplied to the engine, a knock limit of an ignition timing is retarded. Based on such a characteristic, every when knocking is detected based on a detection signal from a knock sensor, the ignition timing is stored as the knock occurring ignition timing and the ignition timing is retarded by a predetermined amount. After repeating the above processes, it is determined whether the knock occurring ignition timing is retarded more than a determination value (for example, a retarded limit value of the knock occurring ignition timing in a case that proper gasoline is served). When the knock occurring ignition timing is retarded more than the determination value, it is determined that the improper fuel is mixed in the fuel.

Abstract: In a masking pattern (a) for patterning word and data lines, length is changed between adjacent word lines so as to be shifted from each other at their tips, and furthermore, the tip of each word line is cut obliquely. It is thus possible to prevent the resist pattern from separation and contact of adjacent patterns. Consequently, it is also possible to prevent break failures of patterned lines and short failures between those patterned lines.

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: A reflective-type mask having a main surface including a pattern region in the main surface, the pattern region including a multilayer reflective film which reflects the exposure light and a first absorber pattern on the multilayer reflective film, the first absorber pattern including a pattern which absorbs the exposure light and corresponds to a pattern to be formed on a wafer, a light shielding region in the main surface for preventing a region on the wafer excluding a predetermined region from being irradiated with the exposure light when the main surface is irradiated with the exposure light for transferring the first absorber pattern to the predetermined region, the light shielding region including a second absorber pattern having a lower reflectivity to the exposure light than the first absorber pattern and being provided in a position differing from a position in which the first absorber pattern is provided.

Abstract: Provided are a sintered metal material improved in sliding property and wear resistance with respect to an associated sliding member to be supported, and a sintered oil-impregnated bearing formed of this metal material. A bearing sleeve is formed by compacting a mixed metal powder composed of not less than 5 wt % and not more than 94.3 wt % of Cu powder, not less than 5 wt % and not more than 94.3 wt % of SUS powder, not less than 0.2 wt % and not more than 10 wt % of Sn powder, and not less than 0.5 wt % and not more than wt % of graphite, and then performing sintering on a compact of the mixed metal powder.

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: 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 other-type fuel contamination determination apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes an exhaust gas sensor. The exhaust gas sensor is configured for obtaining one of (a) an air-fuel ratio and (b) a combustion state for the internal combustion engine based on exhaust gas. The other-type fuel contamination determination apparatus determines whether other-type fuel contaminates fuel that is supplied to the internal combustion engine based on an output by the exhaust gas sensor.

Abstract: If improper fuel (light oil or kerosene) is mixed into fuel (gasoline) supplied to the engine, a knock limit of an ignition timing is retarded. Based on such a characteristic, every when knocking is detected based on a detection signal from a knock sensor, the ignition timing is stored as the knock occurring ignition timing and the ignition timing is retarded by a predetermined amount. After repeating the above processes, it is determined whether the knock occurring ignition timing is retarded more than a determination value (for example, a retarded limit value of the knock occurring ignition timing in a case that proper gasoline is served). When the knock occurring ignition timing is retarded more than the determination value, it is determined that the improper fuel is mixed in the fuel.

Abstract: The density of a multipolar magnet in this type of magnetic encoder, in particular, a multipolar magnet composed of a sintered compact, is made uniform. Samarium-iron based magnetic powder is used as magnetic powder, tin powder is used as non-magnetic metal powder, and a compressed molded body 114 is obtained by compression molding of a mixed powder of 20 to 90 wt % of samarium-iron based magnetic powder and 10 to 80 wt % of tin powder. The compressed molded body 114 is sintered at a temperature less than the melting point of the tin powder serving as the non-magnetic metal powder, so that the sintered compact is formed which serves as the multipolar magnet of the magnetic encoder 10.

Abstract: A method for designing a mask pattern realizes shortening the ever-growing time for the OPC treatment, decreases the fabrication TAT of a semiconductor device and cuts cost. A method for fabricating a semiconductor device uses the mask pattern designed. This invention performs the OPC treatment in advance on a cell library constituting the basic configuration of a semiconductor circuit pattern and prepares a semiconductor chip using the cell library that has undergone the OPC treatment.

Abstract: A mask pattern designing method capable of achieving the reduction in the increasing OPC processing time, shortening the manufacture TAT of a semiconductor device, and achieving the cost reduction is provided. An OPC (optical proximity correction) process at the time when a cell is singularly arranged is performed to a cell library pattern which forms a basic structure of a semiconductor circuit pattern in advance, and a semiconductor chip is produced using the cell library pattern to which the OPC process has been performed. At this time, since the cell library pattern which has been OPC-processed in advance is influenced by the cell library patterns around it, the correction process thereof is performed to the end portions of the patterns near the cell boundary. As particularly effective OPC correction means, the genetic algorithm is used.

Abstract: An HTTP server including a communication section which communicates with a client, and a control section which, as a response to an HTTP request for requesting a report pertaining to a monitoring object received from the client via the communication section, transmits the report via the communication section to the client by making the report with chunked data in chunked transfer coding, upon a change of the monitoring object occurs.

Abstract: A defect inspection device which inspects for surface defects in substrates, and which includes an illumination section that irradiates the substrate with illumination light having a variable incident angle, and a light-receiving section that receives light from the substrate irradiated with illumination light from the illumination section with a variable detection angle. The light-receiving section receives diffracted light emitted in substantially the same direction as the direction of incidence of the illumination light from the illumination section.

Abstract: A surface defect inspection apparatus in accordance with the present invention is a surface defect inspection apparatus 500 which includes a tested object 40 a multi-layer film is formed on the surface thereof, and an illumination portion 5 which irradiates an illumination light 6b generated by the illumination lamp 41 onto the tested object 40 so that the image of the tested object irradiated with the illumination light 6b to detect a surface defect of the tested object 40 is visually observable by an observer 49. A wavelength distribution of the illumination light 6b is corrected so that the light intensity is substantially constant with respect to the wavelength sensitivity characteristics of the human eye. In accordance with the present invention, in a case of inspecting a tested object formed with a multi-layer film, even with a difference in film thickness in lower layers, unevenness in brightness or color of the surface hardly occurs, whereby it is possible to improve the detection accuracy of defects.