Abstract: A high-luminance light emitting element is manufactured by a method comprising: forming a light emitting layer on a first surface of a GaP substrate including the first surface and a second surface opposed to the first surface and having an area smaller than the first area, the light emitting layer emitting light of a wavelength ? permitted to pass through the GaP substrate; forming a plurality of side surfaces on the GaP substrate to be respectively aslant by substantially the same angle to become narrower toward the second surface; and forming a plurality of depressions and protrusions as high as 0.1 ? to 3 ? on the side surfaces.

Abstract: A renaming apparatus configured to set a correspondence between a physical register number and a logical register number. The apparatus includes a control register configured to store the correspondence between the physical register number and the logical register number and a control register setting part configured to set the control register in accordance with the content of an instruction, when an instruction for setting the correspondence between the physical register number and the logical register number is included in the issued string of instructions.

Abstract: An optical pickup converts a laser beam from a semiconductor laser (1) into a parallel ray with a collimator lens (2), and divides it into a main beam (30), a sub-beam (+1st order component) (31), and a sub-beam (?1st order component) (32) with a gradient multiple-division type phase difference grating (3). After passing through a beam splitter (4), an objective lens (5) condenses the light beams on a track (61) of an optical disc (6), and the reflected light that has passed through the objective lens 5 is reflected at the beam splitter (4) and is guided into optical detectors (8A, 8B, and 8C) by a condensing lens (7). Accordingly, in a tracking error signal detecting method using the push-pull signals of the main beam and sub-beams, an offset produced by an objective lens shift or a disc tilt can be cancelled at low cost without lowering the efficiency of using light.

Abstract: A method for producing particles having a monocrystalline diamond structure, comprises the steps of operating a plasma chamber (100) containing a reaction gas with at least one carbon compound and generating a reactive plasma, providing seed particles in said plasma chamber (100) which are arranged under the influence of external gravity compensating forces within the reactive plasma, and polydirectional growing carbon with diamond structure on said seed particles, so that growing diamond containing particles are formed.

Abstract: Part of light emitted downward by an active layer is reflected by an electrode functioning as a reflective layer, and travels upward to radiate outside. Since the electrode is made of a metal, it reflects almost all light regardless of its incident angle, and light can be efficiently extracted.

Abstract: A semiconductor light-emitting device, including a first substrate of a first conductivity type, a first bonding layer provided on the first substrate and consisting essentially of a GaP material of the first conductivity type, a second bonding layer provided on the first bonding layer, coincident with the first bonding layer in the planar direction of the crystal, having the first conductivity type, and consisting essentially of a material represented by a formula InxGayP, where 0?x, y?1, and x+y=1, and a light-emitting layer comprising a first cladding layer, an active layer, and a second cladding layer, which are successively provided on the second bonding layer, each of the active layer and first and second cladding layers consisting essentially of a material represented by a formula InxGayAlzP, where x+y+z=1, and 0?x, y, z?1.

Abstract: A stiffness-taper tubing and a manufacturing method and apparatus for such, in which the bonding strength in a transition section between resins having different stiffness is increased, where the length of the transition section is shortened and operability is improved, and where the volume of residual resin when switching resins is reduced as well as the degradation of the quality of residual resin due to heating is suppressed. An apparatus for manufacturing stiffness-taper tubing may include a mandrel having a mixing portion, which is tapered and has projections formed thereon.

Abstract: Regional borderlines that are the borderlines between the first region and the second region on a diffraction grating of an optical pickup partially overlap a group of y-axis parallel borderlines that are borderlines between pattern A and pattern B that are parallel to a direction parallel to the y-axis.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing stiffness-taper tubing includes a die having an extrusion hole, a die holder for holding the die, and a mandrel mounted inside the die holder and that fits in the extrusion hole. The apparatus forms stiffness-taper tubing by switching between and supplying resins having different stiffnesses over the mandrel from a plurality of resin-supply ports formed in the die holder such that the stiffness gradually changes in the lengthwise direction. A mandrel insertion hole connecting to the extrusion hole is formed in the die holder and the mandrel is mounted in this mandrel insertion hole. The plurality of resin-supply ports open to a cylindrical space formed between the inner surface of the mandrel insertion hole and the outer surface of the mandrel at a position separated from the extrusion hole in the die, and the plurality of resins flow together in this space.

Abstract: A semiconductor light emitting element and a semiconductor light emitting device, which are high in optical output, uniform in emission of light and high in production yield and productivity, comprise: an electrically conductive transparent substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposed to each other; a semiconductor epitaxial layer formed on a location of the first surface of the substrate; a first electrode formed on the semiconductor epitaxial layer; a second electrode formed on a location of the second surface of the substrate offset from alignment with the first electrode; and a groove formed to indent from the second surface of the substrate toward the first surface in a location between the first electrode and the second electrode.

Abstract: A computer architecture and programming model for high speed processing over broadband networks are provided. The architecture employs a consistent modular structure, a common computing module and uniform software cells. The common computing module includes a control processor, a plurality of processing units, a plurality of local memories from which the processing units process programs, a direct memory access controller and a shared main memory. A synchronized system and method for the coordinated reading and writing of data to and from the shared main memory by the processing units also are provided. A hardware sandbox structure is provided for security against the corruption of data among the programs being processed by the processing units. The uniform software cells contain both data and applications and are structured for processing by any of the processors of the network. Each software cell is uniquely identified on the network.

Abstract: Part of light emitted downward by an active layer is reflected by an electrode functioning as a reflective layer, and travels upward to radiate outside. Since the electrode is made of a metal, it reflects almost all light regardless of its incident angle, and light can be efficiently extracted.

Abstract: A semiconductor light emitting element and a semiconductor light emitting device, which are high in optical output, uniform in emission of light and high in production yield and productivity, comprise: an electrically conductive transparent substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposed to each other; a semiconductor epitaxial layer formed on a location of the first surface of the substrate; a first electrode formed on the semiconductor epitaxial layer; a second electrode formed on a location of the second surface of the substrate offset from alignment with the first electrode; and a groove formed to indent from the second surface of the substrate toward the first surface in a location between the first electrode and the second electrode.

Abstract: A low-cost, high-mass-productivity catalytic combustion apparatus having a construction that permits easy maintenance is realized. There is provided a catalytic combustion apparatus in which, by means of a combustion chamber having a fuel supply portion 1 and a combustion air supply portion on the upstream side thereof and a combustion gas exhaust port on the downstream side thereof and a catalytic combustion portion with an upstream surface and a downstream surface provided in the combustion chamber, the upstream surface and the downstream surface being substantially parallel to each other, a fuel-air mixture supplied to the interior of the combustion chamber is caused to react to liberate heat.

Abstract: A high-luminance light emitting element is manufactured by a method comprising: forming a light emitting layer on a first surface of a GaP substrate including the first surface and a second surface opposed to the first surface and having an area smaller than the first area, the light emitting layer emitting light of a wavelength &lgr; permitted to pass through the GaP substrate; forming a plurality of side surfaces on the GaP substrate to be respectively aslant by substantially the same angle to become narrower toward the second surface; and forming a plurality of depressions and protrusions as high as 0.1 &lgr; to 3 &lgr; on the side surfaces.

Abstract: A semiconductor light-emitting device, including a first substrate of a first conductivity type, a first bonding layer provided on the first substrate and consisting essentially of a GaP material of the first conductivity type, a second bonding layer provided on the first bonding layer, coincident with the first bonding layer in the planar direction of the crystal, having the first conductivity type, and consisting essentially of a material represented by a formula InxGayP, where 0≦x, y≦1, and x+y=1, and a light-emitting layer comprising a first cladding layer, an active layer, and a second cladding layer, which are successively provided on the second bonding layer, each of the active layer and first and second cladding layers consisting essentially of a material represented by a formula InxGayAlzP, where x+y+z=1, and 0≦x, y, z≦1.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing unit, an image processing system, and an image processing method capable of achieving a higher speed and a higher efficiency in a rendering and implementing a low cost of the system. The image processing unit according to the present invention comprises a main storing portion for storing information of three-dimensional objects, a plurality of calculating portions for processing images based on three-dimensional object information which are read from the main storing portion, and a hierarchical storing portion having a plurality of hierarchies and connected between the main storing portion and the plurality of calculating portions to store a part of information at a lower level into a higher level sequentially, wherein image processing by the plurality of calculating portions are performed in parallel.

Abstract: A low-cost, high-mass-productivity catalytic combustion apparatus having a construction that permits easy maintenance is realized. There is provided a catalytic combustion apparatus in which, by means of a combustion chamber 200 having a fuel supply portion 1 and a combustion air supply portion 2 on the upstream side thereof and a combustion gas exhaust port 4 on the downstream side thereof and a catalytic combustion portion 5 with an upstream surface and a downstream surface provided in the combustion chamber 200, the upstream surface and the downstream surface being substantially parallel to each other, a fuel-air mixture supplied to the interior of the combustion chamber 200 is caused to react to liberate heat.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing unit, an image processing system, and an image processing method capable of achieving a higher speed and a higher efficiency in a rendering and implementing a low cost of the system. The image processing unit according to the present invention comprises a main storing portion for storing information of three-dimensional objects, a plurality of calculating portions for processing images based on three-dimensional object information which are read from the main storing portion, and a hierarchical storing portion having a plurality of hierarchies and connected between the main storing portion and the plurality of calculating portions to store a part of information at a lower level into a higher level sequentially, wherein image processing by the plurality of calculating portions are performed in parallel.

Abstract: A semiconductor light-emitting device, including a first substrate of a first conductivity type, a first bonding layer provided on said first substrate and consisting essentially of a GaP material of the first conductivity type, a second bonding layer provided on the first bonding layer, coincident with the first bonding layer in a crystal orientation, having the first conductivity type, and consisting essentially of a material represented by a formula InxGayP, where 0≦x, y≦1, and x+y=1, and a light-emitting layer comprising a first cladding layer, an active layer, and a second cladding layer, which are successively provided on the second bonding layer, each of the active layer and first and second cladding layers consisting essentially of a material represented by a formula InxGayAlzP, where x+y+z=1, and 0≦x, y, z≦1.