Abstract: A method of manufacturing includes arranging an integral resin sleeve formed by integrating a plurality of sleeve parts so that the sleeve parts are respectively fitted with a plurality of electrode terminals. There is a press-fitting of the sleeve parts to the electrode terminals by performing mold clamping on molds to apply a force downward on the integral resin sleeve. Further, there is a filling of a molding resin into a hollow cavity of the molds.

Abstract: Provided is a power semiconductor device including: an insulating substrate; a circuit pattern formed on an upper surface of the insulating substrate; a power semiconductor formed on the circuit pattern; a plurality of metal socket electrode terminals formed perpendicularly to the circuit pattern or the power semiconductor so as to be in conduction with external terminals; an integral resin sleeve in which a plurality of sleeve parts are integrated, the plurality of sleeve parts being fitted with the plurality of metal socket electrode terminals from above the plurality of metal socket electrode terminals and having openings at both ends thereof; and a molding resin covering the insulating substrate, the circuit pattern, the power semiconductor, the electrode terminals, and the integral resin sleeve.

Abstract: A power block includes an insulating substrate, a conductive pattern formed on the insulating substrate, a power semiconductor chip bonded onto the conductive pattern by lead-free solder, a plurality of electrodes electrically connected to the power semiconductor chip and extending upwardly away from the insulating substrate, and a transfer molding resin covering the conductive pattern, the lead-free solder, the power semiconductor chip, and the plurality of electrodes, wherein surfaces of the plurality of electrodes are exposed at an outer surface of the transfer molding resin and lie in the same plane as the outer surface, the outer surface being located directly above the conductive pattern.

Abstract: For collecting fine particles from fume generated in the process of thermal cutting or welding of a metal material and solidifying them, a fume disposal system comprises a fume introducing chamber 25 which is connected to a cutting machine body through a suction duct 2 and into which suctioned fume is introduced; a bug filter 24 for separating and collecting fine particles from the fume introduced into the fume introducing chamber 25; a hopper 22 for storing the separated, collected fine particles; a screw conveyor for conveying the fine particles stored in the hopper 22 to a molding chamber; and a pressurizing device 38 for pressurizing the fine particles fed into the molding chamber to reduce the volume thereof.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing includes arranging an integral resin sleeve formed by integrating a plurality of sleeve parts so that the sleeve parts are respectively fitted with a plurality of electrode terminals. There is a press-fitting of the sleeve parts to the electrode terminals by performing mold clamping on molds to apply a force downward on the integral resin sleeve. Further, there is a filling of a molding resin into a hollow cavity of the molds.

Abstract: When a sheet cassette (10a) is pulled out of the body of an image forming apparatus (100), winding pulleys (40a and 40b) are rotated by the weight of a lift plate. An idle gear (47) also is rotated by a predetermined amount, so that the engagement portion (47b) thereof engages with a second arm portion (50c) of a torsion spring (50). Since a force exerted by the torsion spring (50) is set greater than the force that rotates the idle gear (47) by downward movement of lift plate (30), rotation of the idle gear (47) and winding pulley (40a) is regulated, and thus the upper surface of lift plate (30) stops in a substantially constant position with respect to sheet supply opening portions (31a and 31b).

Abstract: A sheet storage apparatus 10a (10b) includes a sheet storage portion 31 that loads and stores a plurality of sheets P, and an end cursor (a restriction member) 50 that is disposed in the sheet storage portion 31 and restricts a sheet position. The end cursor 50 is composed of two or more members so as to be foldable and removably fixed in the sheet storage portion 31.

Abstract: Electrocardiogram wave data in which a component of cardiac massage is removed from the electrocardiogram wave data is generated, so that the electrocardiogram wave at the time of cardiopulmonary resuscitation is identified. An electrocardiogram wave processing system of obtaining and processing the electrocardiogram wave data includes a wave identification unit that identifies an electrocardiogram wave from the obtained electrocardiogram wave data, a feature selection unit that selects a feature pattern including a feature when a cardiac massage has been performed with respect to the electrocardiogram wave data identified by the wave identification unit, a generation unit that generates a component of the cardiac massage using the feature pattern selected by the feature selection unit, and a removal unit that removes, from the obtained electrocardiogram wave data, the component of the cardiac massage generated by the generation unit.

Abstract: A system and method for making menu items easily adjustable on the setting screen of a camera with regard to the predetermined object to be operated. The camera setting utility screen for the CCD camera is displayed on the liquid crystal display any one of the plural number of menu items is selected from said camera setting utility screen displayed according to the rotation operation and the push operation of the jog dial. The setting condition with regard to the menu item selected is adjusted corresponding to the rotation operation and the push operation of the jog dial. The CCD camera is set to the setting condition adjusted, such that operation of selection of menu item to the adjustment of setting condition can be conducted merely by the rotation operation and the push operation of the jog dial.

Abstract: An information processing system is disclosed. The system includes: a client that executes information display processing; and a server that creates a display structure description file applied in the information display processing, wherein the client acquires image data reference information and transmits display structure description file creating data including the image data reference information to the server, the server creates the display structure description file and transmits the created display structure description file to the client, and the client executes processing for displaying a map on a display unit on the basis of the display structure description file received from the server and acquiring image data from a storage unit within the client on the basis of the image data reference information recorded in the display structure description file and then displaying the acquired image data on the display unit.

Abstract: An impurity concentration profile in a vertical direction of a p type base contact layer of a power semiconductor device has a two-stage configuration. In other word, the impurity concentration profile is highest at an upper face of the p type base contact layer, has a local minimum value at a position other than the upper face and a lower face of the base contact layer, and has a local maximum value at a position lower than the position of the local minimum value.

Abstract: A cutting machine secures safety of a worker during movement of a head without lowering production efficiency. When moving a cutting head without cutting material to be cut upon a table, a moving truck and the cutting head are moved at a higher speed as compared with when cutting the material to be cut. If, when the moving truck and the cutting head are moving at high speed, a worker who is present upon the table intercepts either of light beams which are located in front of and behind a horizontal beam, then this movement speed is decelerated to a safe low speed, but the task of cutting the material is not interrupted. Subsequently, when the worker approaches the horizontal beam closer, and contacts a wire or a bar in the vicinity of the horizontal beam, movement of the moving truck and the cutting head is forcibly stopped.

Abstract: A vertical power semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type formed in both a cell section and a termination section, the termination section surrounding the cell section, a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type formed on the first semiconductor layer in the cell section, a third semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type formed in part on the second semiconductor layer, and a guard ring layer of the second conductivity type formed on the first semiconductor layer in the termination section. Net impurity concentration in the guard ring layer is generally sloped so as to be relatively high on its lower side and relatively low on its upper side. Alternatively, the net impurity concentration in the guard ring layer is constant.

Abstract: An object is to provide a semiconductor device having a plate electrode adapted to a plurality of chips, capable of being produced at low cost, and having high heat cycle property. A semiconductor device according to the present invention includes a plurality of semiconductor chips formed on a substrate, and a plate electrode connecting electrodes of the plurality of semiconductor chips. The plate electrode has half-cut portions formed by half-pressing and the raised sides of the half-cut portions are bonded with the electrodes of the semiconductor chips.

Abstract: A dye-sensitized solar cell is provided, wherein it can be produced by a relatively easy and simple process and ensures high conversion efficiency even in cases where the thickness of the porous semiconductor layer is increased. The dye-sensitized solar cell 10 includes, in the interior of or on the conductive-substrate-side surface of the porous semiconductor layer 16, conductive metal film 20, such as a film of tungsten, having a large number of randomly located penetrations 24. Penetrations 24 of the conductive metal film 20 are formed by forming a fine-particle layer on the surface of the porous semiconductor layer, forming a conductive metal film on the surface of the fine-particle layer, and making the fine-particle layer disappear by heating or solvent-cleaning.

Abstract: There is provided a dye-sensitized solar cell high in power generation efficiency. A dye-sensitized solar cell 10 includes: a transparent substrate 12; a conductive substrate 14; a porous semiconductor layer 16 containing a dye adsorbed thereto; and a conductive metal layer 18 arranged in contact with a side of the porous semiconductor layer 16 opposite to the transparent substrate 12 and serving as an anode electrode. The conductive metal layer 18 is formed of a metallic porous body having through-holes, and a multitude of holes of the metallic porous body are isotropically communicated with one another. The metallic porous body has a specific surface area of 0.1 m2/g or larger, a porosity of 30 to 60 vol. %, and a pore diameter of 1 ?m to 40 ?m, and is formed of a metal material, such as Ti, W, Ni, Pt or Au.

Abstract: To provide a tandem dye-sensitized solar cell having a novel structure capable of improving the light absorption efficiency and being manufactured less expensively. A dye-sensitized solar cell 10 is configured by including, in order from the light incident side, an anode substrate 12, a first dye-carrying porous oxide semiconductor layer 14, a first electrolyte layer 16a, an electrolyte redox catalyst layer 18, a second dye-carrying porous oxide semiconductor layer 20, a porous support layer 19, a second electrolyte layer 16b, and a cathode substrate 22. The electrons extracted from a conductor layer 12b by a conductor are introduced into the cathode substrate 22, so that a battery circuit, for example, for a lighting power source is configured.

Abstract: Electrocardiogram wave data in which a component of cardiac massage is removed from the electrocardiogram wave data is generated, so that the electrocardiogram wave at the time of cardiopulmonary resuscitation is identified. An electrocardiogram wave processing system of obtaining and processing the electrocardiogram wave data includes a wave identification unit that identifies an electrocardiogram wave from the obtained electrocardiogram wave data, a feature selection unit that selects a feature pattern including a feature when a cardiac massage has been performed with respect to the electrocardiogram wave data identified by the wave identification unit, a generation unit that generates a component of the cardiac massage using the feature pattern selected by the feature selection unit, and a removal unit that removes, from the obtained electrocardiogram wave data, the component of the cardiac massage generated by the generation unit.

Abstract: Provided are a squarylium dye having a carboxyindolenine structure and an N-alkyl substituent, and a photoelectric conversion element having high photoelectric conversion efficiency in a near-infrared region and a dye-sensitized solar cell, both of which are produced using the squarylium dye. The photoelectric conversion element or dye-sensitized solar cell uses a compound represented by the formula (1) as the squarylium dye. In the formula (1), R1 and R2 represent a substituted or unsubstituted C5 to C30 alkyl group; X represents C(CH3)2; and A and B represent a carboxy group.

Abstract: A vertical power semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type formed in both a cell section and a termination section, the termination section surrounding the cell section, a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type formed on the first semiconductor layer in the cell section, a third semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type formed in part on the second semiconductor layer, and a guard ring layer of the second conductivity type formed on the first semiconductor layer in the termination section. Net impurity concentration in the guard ring layer is generally sloped so as to be relatively high on its lower side and relatively low on its upper side. Alternatively, the net impurity concentration in the guard ring layer is constant.