Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication system in which high-speed communication is implemented. A receiving device includes an RA managing unit that transmits Msg1 through a PRACH over an SCELL and a D-SR managing unit that transmits a D-SR through a PUCCH over a PCELL before or after the PRACH. A transmitting device includes an RA managing unit that receives Msg1 and a D-SR managing unit that receives the D-SR. The RA managing unit associates a scheduling request with a preamble, and identifies a receiving device.

Abstract: A memory device and a method for manufacturing a memory device are provided. The memory device includes a semiconductor substrate having a trench, an oxide layer formed on a surface of the trench, and a buried word line formed in the trench having the oxide layer formed thereon. The oxide layer includes a first portion extending downward from a top surface of the semiconductor substrate, a second portion extending upward from a bottom portion of the trench, and a third portion formed between and adjoining the first portion and the second portion. The third portion tapers toward the second portion. The first portion of the oxide layer is located between the buried word line and the surface of the trench.

Abstract: A terminal device includes a processor and a memory connected to the processor, wherein the processor executes a process including: receiving a resource specifying signal that specifies a random access resource used to transmit a preamble for random access; selecting one preamble from a plurality of preamble candidates previously acquired; and transmitting the selected preamble by using a random access resource arranged in timing based on a reception timing of the resource specifying signal.

Abstract: A communication device supports a D2D (Device-to-Device) communication and includes a storage, a scheduler and a transmitter. The storage stores a first resource pool information that indicates first resource pool including control resources allocated to control information for transmitting data and a second resource pool information that indicates second resource pool including data resources allocated to data. The scheduler selects a first resource for transmitting control information from the first resource pool and selects a second resource for transmitting data from the second resource pool. The transmitter transmits the control information by using the first resource and transmit the data by using the second resource. The scheduler selects the second resource from the second resource pool according to a received signal intensity in at least one of resources included in the first resource pool and the second resource pool.

Abstract: A developer supply device includes a container body that receives and contains a developer with which a toner cartridge is filled and that has a supply port used for supplying the developer, which is contained in the container body, to a developing device, a sensing member that detects the developer contained in the container body, a first transport member that is rotatably disposed in the container body and that transports the developer at a first transport speed by rotating, and a second transport member that is rotatably disposed in the container body in such a manner as to face the sensing member and that transports the developer at a second transport speed that is higher than the first transport speed by rotating.

Abstract: There is provided a cylinder head cooling apparatus of an engine capable of enhancing cooling efficiency around an auxiliary combustion chamber wall. The cylinder head cooling apparatus of an engine including a cylinder head having therein an intake port, an exhaust port, an auxiliary combustion chamber, and a cooling water jacket, in which an intake port wall, an exhaust port wall, and an auxiliary combustion chamber wall are placed in the cooling water jacket, the cooling water jacket includes a cooling water inlet and a cooling water outlet, engine cooling water flowed from the cooling water inlet into the cooling water jacket flows out from the cooling water outlet through the cooling water jacket, wherein a cooling water guide wall is provided upstream of the auxiliary combustion chamber wall in a cooling water passing path of the cooling water jacket, and the upstream cooling water guide wall is formed into a shape whose width gradually widens toward a downstream side.

Abstract: A radio communication method including: storing each of a plurality of associations between each resource size and each data size by a terminal, each data size indicating each size of data capable of being transmitted using an associated resource size, receiving specified data, first control information, and second control information from a base station by the terminal, the specified data being mapped across a plurality of radio resources, each of the plurality of radio resources having each specified frequency bandwidth and each specified time period, the first control information indicating the number of the plurality of radio resources, the second control information indicating an individual resource size allocated for the specified data in each of the plurality of radio resources, obtaining a total data size of the specified data by the terminal based on the first control information, the second control information, and the plurality of associations.

Abstract: A communication duration configuring method is used in a mobile communication system including a mobile relay station for relaying a wireless communication between a base station and a mobile station. The method includes: configuring at least any of a downlink communication duration where the relay station receives a transmission signal from the base station by restricting a transmission of a signal from the relay station to the mobile station and an uplink communication duration where the relay station transmits a transmission signal to the base station by restricting a transmission of a signal from the mobile station to the relay station; and restricting a transmission of a signal with the mobile station in a first period from detection of a handover until when the communication duration is configured between the relay station and a target base station, and using a desired duration within the first period.

Abstract: An oxide sputtering target includes at least one of indium (In), zinc (Zn), tin (Sn), and gallium (Ga), and tungsten (W) in an amount from 0.005 mol % to 1 mol %.

Abstract: A vehicle panel structure includes a metal outer panel configuring an outer panel of a vehicle, a metal reinforcing member that is disposed at an end portion of the outer panel and that is joined to the outer panel further toward an inner side of the vehicle than the outer panel, and a resin inner panel that is disposed further toward the inner side of the vehicle than the reinforcing member and that is joined to the reinforcing member so as to form a closed cross-section between the inner panel and the reinforcing member.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a multilayer ceramic capacitor includes: producing a plurality of dielectric green sheets; producing therefrom a plurality of internal electrode-printed green sheets; producing therefrom a plurality of individually cut unsintered laminates by stacking some of the plurality of dielectric green sheets, as cover layers, and the plurality of internal electrode-printed green sheets together; producing therefrom element body precursors by applying a ceramic paste to side faces of the unsintered laminates for forming side margins thereon, wherein an application thickness of the ceramic paste is adjusted in a manner such that a thickness of the side margins is greater than a thickness of the cover layers in the final product; producing therefrom element bodies by sintering; and forming external electrodes on at least one of principal faces and on both end faces of the element bodies.

Abstract: A cooling structure of a water-cooled engine includes: a plurality of cylinders 2 arranged in a cylinder block 1; and a water jacket W formed around the plurality of cylinders 2. The water jacket W includes a pair of main flow paths 7, 8 formed in a state of extending in a cylinder arrangement direction outside the cylinders, and inter-bore flow paths 9, 10 formed between adjacent cylinders 2 in a state of connecting the pair of main flow paths 7, 8. Guide walls 11h, 13h, capable of guiding the cooling water flowing in the main flow paths 7, 8 to the inter-bore flow paths 9, 10, are formed in the cylinder block 1.

Abstract: A turbine includes blades and a structure rotating relative to the blades and having a fluid flowing thereto. The turbine includes step portions that are provided in either radial tip portions of the blades or areas of the structure that face the radial tip portions; sealing fins that extend from the other of the radial tip portions of the blades or areas of the structure that face the radial tip portions toward the step portions, and form minute gaps between the sealing fins and the step portions; a flow collision surface that is provided upstream of the sealing fins in a flow direction of the fluid and against which the fluid collides; a protrusion that protrudes toward an upstream side from the flow collision surface; and a facing surface that faces the flow collision surface.

Abstract: A sealing device for suppressing a leakage flow of a fluid via an annular gap between a stationary member and a rotary member of a rotary machine includes: a fixed fin having an annular shape and disposed in the annular gap; and a movable fin having an annular shape and being disposed adjacent to the fixed fin in an axial direction inside the annular gap. The movable fin has a greater thermal expansion coefficient than the fixed fin and is fixed to the fixed fin in a fixing region on a root-end side of the movable fin.

Abstract: A hydraulic system of vehicle transmission device is provided. A heat exchanger configured downstream is used to cool working oil discharged from a torque converter, and the working oil is supplied, as lubricating oil, to a lubricating system hydraulic circuit. On the other hand, excess oil flowing out of a regulator valve for regulating line pressure returns to an input side of an oil pump through a recycle oil path. A bypass oil path is disposed in a manner of branching from the recycle oil path and connecting to an input side of the heat exchanger. A control mechanism is disposed, and when hydraulic pressure at the side of the recycle oil path is higher than that at the side of the heat exchanger, the bypass oil path is opened to guide oil at the side of the recycle oil path to the input side of the heat exchanger.

Abstract: A base station apparatus includes a processor. The processor executes a process including obtaining information indicating a radio status of each mobile station apparatus relevant to first communication in which radio communication is performed between the mobile station apparatuses via the base station apparatus, and second communication in which radio communication is directly performed between the mobile station apparatuses without via the base station apparatus; and notifying, based on the obtained information, the mobile station apparatuses that perform the second communication of control information for controlling the second communication.

Abstract: A dielectric elastomer motor includes an artificial muscle and a conversion mechanism cooperating with the artificial muscle. The artificial muscle includes a dielectric elastomer film or layer having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. First and second electrodes are attached to the first surface and the second surface of the dielectric elastomer film, respectively. First and second bases are attached to the dielectric elastomer so as to be spaced apart from each other. The first base and the second base are capable of reciprocation relative to each other upon change in size of the dielectric elastomer. The conversion mechanism converts the reciprocation of the bases to pivotal or rotational movement. The dielectric elastomer receives voltage application with a predetermined timing via the first and the second electrodes.

Abstract: A wireless communication method including: when transmitting data from at least one of a plurality of transmission apparatuses to a reception apparatus using a radio resource, selecting a first transmission scheme or a second transmission scheme based on a status of transmission from the plurality of transmission apparatuses, the first transmission scheme in which the plurality of transmission apparatuses transmit same data to same reception apparatus using same radio resource, the second transmission scheme in which one transmission apparatus of the plurality of transmission apparatuses transmits the data to the reception apparatus using the radio resource.

Abstract: A dynamic random access memory (DRAM) includes a substrate, a plurality of isolation structures, a plurality of conductive structure sets, a plurality of bit-line structures, and a plurality of spacers. The substrate has a plurality of active areas. The isolation structures are located in the substrate and extending along a first direction. Each of the isolation structures is disposed between two adjacent active areas. The conductive structure sets are disposed in parallel along the first direction and on the substrate. The bit-line structures are disposed in parallel along a second direction and on the substrate. The bit-line structures penetrate through the conductive structure sets. The spacers are disposed in parallel along the second direction and on sidewalls of the bit-line structures, so as to electrically isolate the bit-line structures from the conductive structure sets.

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit includes: a first voltage line on which a specific one of a power-supply voltage and a reference voltage appears; a second voltage line; a plurality of circuit cells each receiving power generated as a difference between a voltage appearing on the second voltage line and the other one of the power-supply voltage and the reference voltage; a plurality of switch transistors connected in parallel between the first and second voltage lines to serve as switch transistors including switch transistors each having different conducting-state resistances; and a switch conduction control section for controlling a transition of each of the switch transistors from a non-conducting state to a conducting state by turning on the switch transistors at separate points of time.