Abstract: The present invention provides a method of discriminating singly-charged ions from multiply-charged ions by the use of an ion trap type mass spectrometer which is an inexpensive mass spectrometer. This is achieved by a mass-analyzing method using an ion trap type mass spectrometer equipped with a ring electrode and one pair of end cap electrodes to temporarily trap ions in a three-dimensional quadrupole field to mass-analyze a sample.

Abstract: In a heterojunction FET in which source and drain areas are formed by carrying out high temperature annealing process after carrying out ion implantation in areas to be formed into source and drain areas, conventionally, the N-type carrier supply layer and the N-type active layer are doped with Si. In place of doping with Si, doping with Se or Te is adopted. Thereby, in high temperature annealing process for activating the ion implanted areas, which serves as source and drain areas, unlike the Si donor, inactivation of donor due to reaction with F-atoms occurs scarcely with respect to the diffusion of F-atoms on the surface of the epitaxial substrate, which adhered during the process. Further, since the Se and Te are impurities from VI-family, when the Se or Te occupies any grid position of atoms from III-family or V-family, the Se or Te serves as the donor. Accordingly, a high performance heterojunction FET of little deterioration of the FET characteristics can be obtained.

Abstract: A connector enables a size reduction while maintaining a function of reliably preventing terminal members from falling out of terminal holes. In this connector, a plate spring piece is provided in a terminal hole of a connector housing, with a length thereof set to an axial direction of the terminal hole, and an engaging pawl protrudes from the plate spring piece. When a female terminal is inserted into the terminal hole, the engaging pawl engages with the female terminal and bends the plate spring piece downward, enabling the insertion. When the female terminal is inserted to a predetermined depth in the terminal hole, the plate spring piece returns and the engaging pawl moves into an engaging hole of the female terminal. The plate spring piece has a structure of which one length direction end portion and one side portion, along the length direction, are fixed to the connector housing.

Abstract: It is the object of the present invention to provide a manufacturing method for a compound semiconductor device capable of removing remaining organic substances without deteriorating a characteristic of the compound semiconductor device, wherein a surface of an i-type AlGaAs schottky layer 105 is cleaned in a state where light is blocked using either one of ozone (O3) water whose ozone concentration is 13 mg/L or less and hydrogen (H2) water whose hydrogen ion concentration (pH) is from 6 to 8 inclusive, or using both of the ozone water and the hydrogen water after a schottky electrode 111 made of Ti/Al/Ti is evaporated onto the exposed i-type AlGaAs schottky layer 105 and a lift-off is performed using a remover.

Abstract: A fastening device for facilitating temporary fastening of an electronic component to a circuit board. The fastening device includes a base embedded in an electronic device and two elastic plates extending from the base. Each elastic plate includes a diagonal portion, which extend diagonally relative to the plane of the circuit board, and a leg, which extends continuously from the diagonal portion. When the legs are inserted through a connecting hole of the circuit board, the resilient force of the elastic plates presses the diagonal portions against the wall of the connecting hole.

Abstract: Accurate mass measurement is carried out for product ions of a sample. A method for accurate mass determination of ions with Trap-TOF/?s includes steps of generating ions of an analyte sample and a standard material; introducing the ions of the analyte sample and the standard material together into an ion trap to trap them; selecting a precursor ion from the ions of the analyte sample to leave the precursor ion and a standard material ion in the ion trap and eliminate other ions; exciting and dissociating the precursor ion to generate product ions; ejecting the precursor ion, its product ions, and the standard material ion trapped in the ion trap to introduce these ions into the TOF mass spectrometer; and measuring a mass spectrum with the TOF mass spectrometer, where correction for accurate masses of the product ions is carried out based on the standard material ion measured.

Abstract: The present invention is a charge transfer device that includes: a charge transfer unit 203 that transfers signal charge; a first gate electrode 201 which is formed above the charge transfer unit 203 and controls the transfer; a second gate electrode 202 which is formed, covering an edge of the first gate electrode, above the charge transfer unit 203, and adjacent to the first gate electrode 201; a first wiring portion 208 which is connected to the first gate electrode 201 for applying driving voltage to it; a second wiring portion 209 which is connected to the second gate electrode 202 for applying driving voltage to it. The second wiring portion 209 is formed within an area above the first wiring portion 208 and within an area inward of edges along a length of the first wiring portion 208, or is formed, covering an edge of the first wiring portion 208 with an overlap length which is equal to or shorter than a gate overlap length of the vertical transfer unit 203.

Abstract: A plurality of picture frames is arranged as one group according to correlation between picture frames in a picture sequence. Then, a coding mode corresponding to each of the picture frames of the group is determined. Subsequently, preceding is performed according to the coding mode. Then, the coding of a picture is performed by controlling a coding parameter according to a result of the preceding and to the coding mode.

Abstract: A female terminal, into which a male terminal is inserted and connected, is formed in a shape of a substantially square tube. Respective one portions, in an axial direction and between corner portions, of a ceiling wall, a floor wall, and a pair of left and right side walls, which are four wall portions, are plate spring portions which contact the male terminal while elastically deforming independently of one another. Because the wall portions themselves structure the plate spring portions, there is no need to provide a plate spring within a tube wall, and the female terminal can be made compact. Further, contact pressure is ensured because the respective plate spring portions contact the male terminal from different directions.

Abstract: The solid-state imaging device according to the present invention comprises: the photodiode 1 which converts the incident light into charge; the first dielectric film 82 formed above the photodiode 1; the second dielectric film 83 and the third dielectric film 21 formed above the first dielectric film 82; and the hollow layer 9 formed between either two of the first, second and third dielectric films.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device of the present invention is provided with a plurality of photodiodes arranged in a one-dimensional or a two-dimensional arrangement, inorganic dielectric films that are made of a translucent inorganic substance, formed on the photodiode, and a hollow layer that is formed within the inorganic dielectric film and sandwiched between an inner lateral wall and an outer lateral wall formed with the inorganic dielectric film, wherein the hollow layer has a funnel shape whose aperture widens from an end portion near an upper portion of the photodiode with increasing distance from the photodiode. Light that is incident on a region above the photodiode area can be focused effectively onto the photodiode over a wide range.

Abstract: A data receiver (201) or gateway (203) notifies a data transmitter (202) of error conditions in the data receiver (201) or gateway (203) via networks 1 (204) and 2 (205). According to the error conditions, the data transmitter (202) transmits data at a packet length corresponding to the error rate even for the higher level protocol common the networks 1 (204) and 2 (205), as well. Thus, the fraction of packets lost can be reduced in the higher level protocol common to the networks 1 (204) and 2 (205).

Abstract: In a semiconductor device, after the deposition of an interlayer insulating film is deposited on a substrate on which an element and wiring of a lower layer are provided, a via hole reaching to the wiring and an annular groove reaching to an annular pad are formed in the interlayer insulating film, in the internal element region and in the chip area outer periphery region, respectively. Next, by etching using a photoresist pattern formed on the inetrlayer insulating film as a mask, a larger groove for use in wiring than the via hole is formed in the internal element region. At this time, a portion of the annular groove, positioned in the side portion of the chip area outer periphery region, is filled with a portion of the photoresist pattern, thereby decreasing the amount of Cu and the like released from the bottom of the annular groove.

Abstract: An industrially useful process for producing benzofuran derivatives of formula (1): by formylating a compound of formula (2): (where A1 is a protective group), followed by reaction with a compound of formula (4): (where X1 is a halogen atom), then performing a cyclizing reaction and subsequently performing a reaction for hydroxyl group deprotection.

Abstract: A connector has terminals, each having a tip end portion. A wiring board has through holes. A land is provided on the wiring board about each through hole. When the connector is mounted on the wiring board, each terminal is connected to one of the lands with a part of the tip end portion being located in the corresponding through hole. The ratio of the cross-sectional area of each tip end portion to the cross-sectional area of each through hole is at least 0.11 and no more than 0.89. This improves the reliability of the joint portions between the terminals and the wiring board.

Abstract: A method of discriminating singly-charged ions from multiply-charged ions using an inexpensive ion trap type mass spectrometer is provided. A mass-analyzing method using an ion trap type mass spectrometer equipped with a ring electrode and one pair of end cap electrodes temporarily traps ions in a three-dimensional quadropole field to mass-analyze a sample. The method comprises applying a main high frequency voltage to the ring electrode forming a three-dimensional quadropole field; generating ions in the mass analyzing unit or injecting ions from the outside and trapping the ions of a predetermined mass-to-charge ratio in the mass analyzing unit; applying a supplementary AC voltage having a plurality of frequency components between the end cap electrodes and scanning the frequency components of the supplementary AC voltage; and scanning a main high frequency voltage and ejecting ions from the mass analyzing unit and detecting thereof. With this, chemical noises can be reduced dramatically.

Abstract: An image defect correction apparatus that processes luminance signals output from two-dimensionally arranged light-sensitive elements via a plurality of vertical charge coupled devices and a horizontal charge coupled device in a predetermined order, outputs image information, and includes: a recording unit that records therein an X address for identifying a correction-target vertical line of pixels corresponding to a vertical charge coupled device in which a point defect exists; a correction value calculating unit that calculates a correction value from values of (i) a luminance signal corresponding to at least one pixel at a predetermined position on the correction-target vertical line identified by the X address and (ii) a luminance signal corresponding to at least one pixel at a predetermined position on another vertical line; and a correcting unit that corrects values of luminance signals corresponding to the correction-target vertical line, based on the calculated correction value.

Abstract: There is provided an analyzer system capable of easily improving the efficiency of a charge reduction due to ion/ion reactions. A mass spectrometer system includes: a first ion source for ionizing a sample to be measured; a second ion source for producing ions of a polarity reversed from that of the ions produced in said first ion source; an ion deflector for introducing and deflecting the ions of said first and second ion sources; an ion-trap mass spectrometer including a ring electrode and a pair of endcap electrodes; and a detector for detecting the ions ejected from the mass spectrometer, wherein the ions from said first and second ion sources are introduced together through the ion deflector into the ion-trap mass spectrometer; the ions from the two ion sources are mixed in the ion-trap mass spectrometer; and in that the ions are then detected in the detector.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a portable terminal device, such as a cellular phone, which has a screen display section, such as an LCD module, in its upper part and a key manipulation section having an array of plural keys in its lower part. The portable terminal device has a removable battery and is highly protected from water especially in a battery area. There is provided a pair of inner housings, that are a backside inner housing and a front side inner housing, which form a battery compartment having an opening for battery insertion/removal. A key manipulation sheet is disposed on the front side inner housing, and the whole components are covered with a pair of outer housings.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a decoder which detects a start code in a layered coded data stream on a layer basis for improving an error detecting function to reduce possible damaging effects, and replaces a detected start code with minor error by an appropriate start code to maintain decoding. The decoder includes a unique pattern detector which detects a start code pattern in a layered coded data stream, a start code identifier which identifies the detected start code pattern based on a given condition, a similarity calculator which calculates similarity as an evaluation between the error detected start code pattern and an expected start code based on layer, and a similarity based replacement identifier which replaces the error detected start code pattern by the most appropriate replacement selected based on the similarity based evaluation, and otherwise the priority based replacement identifier which selects a replacement by the priority order.