Abstract: An alternating stack of insulating layers and spacer material layers is formed over a substrate. The spacer material layers are formed as, or are subsequently replaced with, electrically conductive layers. Memory openings and support openings are formed through the alternating stack. The memory openings are arranged in a first hexagonal array having a nearest-neighbor direction that is parallel to a first horizontal direction, and the support openings are arranged in a second hexagonal array having a nearest-neighbor direction that is perpendicular to the first horizontal direction. Memory opening fill structures are formed within a respective one of the memory openings, and support pillar structures within a respective one of the support openings.

Abstract: Disclosed is a patch comprising an adhesive layer on a backing layer, wherein the adhesive layer comprises lidocaine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, propylene glycol, a rubber adhesive base and a terpene resin, wherein the content of the lidocaine or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof in the adhesive layer is 3 mass % to 5 mass % with respect to the total mass of the adhesive layer, the content of the terpene resin in the adhesive layer is 5 mass % to 18 mass % with respect to the total mass of the adhesive layer, and the content of propylene glycol in the adhesive layer is 3 mass % to 7 mass % with respect to the total mass of the adhesive layer, wherein crystals are not precipitated in the patch, and wherein the adhesive layer has an adhesive surface, and requires a force of 1.3 N or less to release the adhesive surfaces during self-adhesion.

Abstract: The invention provides a tape material applicator and computer program capable of applying relatively short tape materials and reducing the difficulty in tape application. The tape material applicator unit 60, mounted on the sixth axis of a robot, includes a disc-shaped member 50 and a roller swing mechanism 80. The tape material clamping device 200, attached to the disc-shaped member 50, clamps one end 304 of the tape material 300, while the guide 100, attached to the roller swing mechanism 80, holds the other end 305 of the tape material 300. The roller 90 presses the tape material 300 onto the workpiece 40. The tape material 300 is applied from one end 304 to the other end 305 along the application path by pressing with the roller 90, while maintaining the unattached part of the tape material 300 elevated from the workpiece 40.

Abstract: A communication device and a communication method for allowing a communication terminal to be able to search for access points within a short time are provided. A communication device operating as an access point in a wireless network transmits a beacon signal at a predetermined beacon interval on an operation channel selected from available frequency channels. In addition, the communication device performs data transmission and data reception to/from a communication terminal subordinate thereto on the operation channel, and transmits a notification signal including information about the operation channel while switching channels at each predetermined cycle in available frequency channels other than the operation channel.

Abstract: The present technology relates to a wireless communication device and method capable of improving reliability of notification regarding a reception result in communication using a plurality of bands. The wireless communication device controls to transmit, by using any band of two or more bands, an MBO BA Setup signal containing setting information regarding a setting of a notification method for a reception result used for communication in the two or more bands, and to transmit a Data signal containing data by using the two or more bands. The present technology can be applied to wireless communication systems.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit. A first device that transmits data to the information processing device has a multiplexing function for multiplexing and transmitting data from a plurality of devices including the first device to the information processing device. The control unit provided in the information processing device performs control to tell the first device having the multiplexing function a multiplexing method for notification information and presence of data addressed to the first device. The notification information indicates that the first device has shifted from a functional suspension state to a data receivable state. The information processing device can reduce power consumption.

Abstract: A connection structure, a method of manufacturing the connection structure, a connection material, and a coated conductive particle capable of reducing and stabilizing a conduction resistance value. The connection structure includes: a first electronic component having a first terminal; a second electronic component having a second terminal, and a cured film provided between the first electronic component and the second electronic component and formed by curing the connection material, wherein, with regard to the coated conductive particles between the first terminal and the second terminal, metal atoms of the conductive layer diffuse into the metal of the metal fine particles, and metal atoms of the first terminal and the metal atoms of the second terminal diffuse into the metal of the metal fine particles.

Abstract: There is provided a communication device that transmits a wireless signal using a plurality of bands. The communication device that transmits data in a plurality of bands includes: a first queue for each band that stores data to be transmitted in each band; a second queue common to at least two bands of the plurality of bands, the second queue storing data to be transmitted with high priority; and a control unit that controls transmission of the data stored in the first queue and the second queue. The communication device transmits information regarding the first queue and the second queue. The second queue stores the retransmission data together with information regarding a band of first transmission.

Abstract: The present technology relates to a communication device and a communication method capable for enabling more reliable acknowledgment of data receipt.

Abstract: The efficiency of wireless communication is improved. A communication system includes a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus. The first information processing apparatus controls to determine an information amount to be used for a receipt acknowledgment response to packets to be transmitted to a second information processing apparatus on the basis of information relating to the packets and notifies the second information processing apparatus of that determined information amount. The second information processing apparatus controls to return the receipt acknowledgment response to the packets transmitted from the first information processing apparatus to the first information processing apparatus on the basis of the information amount notified from the first information processing apparatus.

Abstract: A wireless communication device includes: a transmission unit that transmits a request frame indicating a request for traffic information; a receiving unit that receives a response frame in which the traffic information is stored; and a control unit that controls transmission of a frame related to permission of transmission directed to a first wireless communication device that is identified on the basis of the traffic information stored in the received response frame and that is permitted to perform multiple access. A wireless communication device includes: a receiving unit that receives a request frame indicating a request for traffic information; a transmission unit that transmits a response frame in which the traffic information is stored in response to the received request frame; and a control unit that controls transmission of a frame related to the traffic information on the basis of a communication parameter related to multiple access.

Abstract: The present technology relates to a communication control apparatus and a method, and a wireless communication apparatus and a method that enable data that has failed to be demodulated to be retransmitted with higher reliability. A communication control apparatus that functions as AP1 causes a first wireless communication apparatus that functions as AP2 to hold a Data signal including data, and causes the first wireless communication apparatus to operate to transmit the Data signal to a second wireless communication apparatus that functions as STA upon receipt of a transmission request. The present technology is applicable to a wireless communication system.

Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus determines whether or not a confirmed abnormal state in which it can be confirmed that a driver of a vehicle has fallen into an abnormal state where he/she is unable to drive the vehicle is occurring. When it is determined that the confirmed abnormal state is occurring, the apparatus decelerates the vehicle at a normal deceleration DGnor. However, when it is predicated that a control limit of a lane keeping control will come before the vehicle stops in the case where the vehicle is decelerated at the normal deceleration DGnor from when the confirmed abnormal state is determined to be occurring, the apparatus decelerates the vehicle at a maximum deceleration DGmax greater than the normal deceleration.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a connection structure, connection structure, film structure, and a method of manufacturing a film structure capable of mounting an electronic component having a plurality of terminal rows on a mounting surface by using existing equipment, including: a pasting step of pasting, from a film structure including a tape-shaped base material and a connection film formed thereon, connection films having a unit region of a predetermined length in the length direction of the base material and a predetermined width in the width direction to a first or second electronic component having a plurality of terminal rows; and a connecting step of connecting terminals of the first and second electronic components through the connection films, wherein the film structure includes, in the unit region, in addition to portions corresponding to the plurality of terminal rows, a non-pasting portion in which the connection film is not pasted.

Abstract: The present technology relates to a wireless communication device and method, and a wireless communication terminal and method which allow for increased transmission opportunities using multi-link aggregation. A communication control device transmits a first parameter and a second parameter. The first parameter is used for setting of communication in which a wireless communication terminal uses a plurality of links. The second parameter is used for setting of communication in which the wireless communication terminal uses a single link. It is possible to apply the present technology to a wireless communication system.

Abstract: The present technology aims to achieve flexible transition of a communication apparatus from a centralized communication mode to another mode. A communication apparatus includes: a transition information generation unit that generates a plurality of pieces of different transition information related to transition from a first mode in which centralized communication is performed by an access point to a second mode in which no centralized communication by an access point is performed; and a frame generation unit that generates a frame containing the transition information.

Abstract: The present technology relates to a communication device capable of improving a system throughput. Provided is a communication device including a control unit that transmits a second signal including a transmission request for a first signal for measuring reception power or propagation loss to another communication device, receives the first signal transmitted from the other communication device, measures the reception power or the propagation loss on the basis of the received first signal, and controls transmission power on the basis of the measured reception power or propagation loss. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a wireless LAN system.

Abstract: A hazard estimation unit 21 estimates a likelihood of an occurrence of an event according to a hazard function, with respect to each of a plurality of pieces of time-series data that are a series of multiple pieces of data to which an event occurrence time relevant to the data is given in advance and that include time-series data in which the event did not occur and time-series data in which the event occurred. A parameter estimation unit 22 estimates a parameter of the hazard function so as to optimize a likelihood function expressed by including the event occurrence time given with respect to each of the plurality of pieces of time-series data and the likelihood of the occurrence of the event estimated with respect to each of the plurality of pieces of time-series data.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a monotonic neural network, and a first calculation unit configured to calculate a cumulative intensity function based on an output from the monotonic neural network and a product of a parameter and time.

Abstract: The present technology relates to a wireless communication device and a method, and a wireless communication terminal and a method in which sounding is capable of being implemented efficiently. A wireless communication device controls transmission of antenna operation information to a wireless communication terminal, the antenna operation information being information regarding operation of an antenna for sounding in an enhanced multi-link multi-radio (EMLMR) mode. The present technology can be applied to a wireless communication system.