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In order to provide a semiconductor device having good quality by keeping the relative permittivity of a High-K insulation film in a high state, or to provide a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device in which the relative permittivity of the High-K insulation film can be kept in a high state, a semiconductor device is disclosed that includes a silicon substrate, a gate electrode layer, and a gate insulation film between the silicon substrate and the gate electrode layer. The gate insulation film is a high relative permittivity (high-k) film being formed by performing a nitriding treatment on a mixture of a metal and silicon. The High-K film itself becomes a nitride so as to prevent SiO2 from being formed.

The present invention provides a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery comprising a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator, and a non-aqueous electrolyte, wherein the non-aqueous electrolyte comprises a non-aqueous solvent and lithium salt as an electrolyte, and wherein the non-aqueous solvent contains chain fluorinated carboxylic acid ester represented by the formula CH3COOCH2CH3-xFx (wherein x is 2 or 3) and a film forming chemical decomposed in the range of +1.0 to 3.0 V based on an equilibrium potential between metal lithium and lithium ion.

An image displaying apparatus includes a signal control unit for receiving an input image signal and converting the signal into a signal for alternately displaying a right-eye image and a left-eye image, display panel into which the signal converted in the signal control unit is input for the right-eye image and the left-eye image, a surface light source for illuminating the display panel from its back, a shutter control unit for generating a timing signal indicating a period in which the right-eye and left-eye shutters are opened for a pair of viewing glasses with the right-eye and left-eye shutters, and for relatively changing the shutter-opened period for the emission timing of the surface light source, and a surface light source control unit for emitting the surface light source in a shorter period than the shutter-opened period in response to the switching between the right-eye image and the left-eye image.

In a semiconductor multi-layer structure in which a first SiGe layer having a first conductivity-type and high impurity concentration, a second SiGe layer having the first conductivity-type and a low impurity concentration and a Si layer having a low impurity concentration are formed one on another in this order on a Si substrate of the first conductivity-type, a channel is formed in a part of the Si layer and a source electrode passes through the second SiGe layer of low impurity concentration to electrically contact the first SiGe layer of high impurity concentration or the substrate.

A window fog detecting apparatus has an optical type fog detecting sensor for optically detecting fog occurring at a window glass, a humidity sensor for detecting a relative humidity of air at an interior side of the window glass, and a sensor output correcting unit. When a fog occurrence at the window glass is determined based on the output values of the optical type fog detecting sensor, the sensor output correcting unit corrects the relative humidity detected by the humidity sensor based on output values of the optical type fog detecting sensor.

In some embodiments, an insulated gate bipolar transistor includes a drift layer, insulation gates formed at a principle surface portion of the drift layer, base regions formed in a between-gate region, an emitter region formed in the base region so as to be adjacent to the insulation gate, an emitter electrode connected to the emitter region, a collector layer formed at the other side of the principle surface portion of the drift layer, and a collector electrode connected to the collector layer. The conductive type base regions are separated with each other by the drift layers, and the drift layer and the emitter electrode are insulated by an interlayer insulation film.

An impeller is employed for a fuel pump and boosts a pressure of fuel by rotating the fuel in a pump passage formed in the fuel pump in a rotational direction of the impeller. The impeller includes a plurality of vane grooves formed adjacent to each other in the rotational direction of the impeller and a plurality of vanes formed adjacent to each other in the rotational direction. Each one of the plurality of vanes divides one of adjacent two of the plurality of vane grooves from the other. A difference between a maximal value and a minimum value of an adjacent vane angle is set in a range of 2.5° to 4°. A fuel pump includes a motor unit, the impeller, and a casing member. The impeller is rotated by rotation driving force of the motor unit. The casing member rotatably receives the impeller and defines the pump passage.

A method of driving a display device including a display panel that includes a color filter board is provided. The color filter board includes a light blocking section formed in a grid and color sections that are formed in areas surrounded by a pattern of the light blocking section in different colors from area to area. The color sections form display pixels on a combination basis. The display panel includes a light blocking area in at least a section of an edge along an outline of the display pane. The method includes setting the color sections that do not form the display pixels among the color sections adjacent to the light blocking area in a plan view of the display panel constantly in the black state.

A motion control system is applied to a vehicle, which has front wheel side suspensions with an anti-dive geometry and rear wheel side suspensions with an anti-lift geometry. A degree of an anti-lift effect of the anti-lift geometry is larger than a degree of an anti-dive effect of the anti-dive geometry. Normally, a controller controls a hydraulic unit such that a brake force distribution between front wheels and rear wheels during a braking-period is adjusted to a basic distribution. In contrast, in a state where abrupt application of brakes is started, the controller controls the hydraulic unit such that the brake force distribution is adjusted to a first distribution, at which a brake force respectively applied to the rear wheels is larger than that of the basic distribution only for a predetermined short time period upon starting of the application of the brakes.

An image displaying apparatus includes a signal control unit for receiving an input image signal and converting the signal into a signal for alternately displaying a right-eye image and a left-eye image, display panel into which the signal converted in the signal control unit is input for the right-eye image and the left-eye image, a surface light source for illuminating the display panel from its back, a shutter control unit for generating a timing signal indicating a period in which the right-eye and left-eye shutters are opened for a pair of viewing glasses with the right-eye and left-eye shutters, and for relatively changing the shutter-opened period for the emission timing of the surface light source, and a surface light source control unit for emitting the surface light source in a shorter period than the shutter-opened period in response to the switching between the right-eye image and the left-eye image.

In an in-cylinder injection spark-ignition internal combustion engine including a plurality of cylinders and a catalyst device disposed in an exhaust system of the engine, a fuel is injected to at least one selected cylinder selected from the plurality of cylinders to be operated, and subsequently the fuel is injected to all cylinders to be operated. At this time, a warm-up controlled variable for the at least one selected cylinder is smaller than the warm-up controlled variable used when all cylinders are operated. In the in-cylinder injection spark-ignition internal combustion engine, the all cylinder operation is started and the warm-up control is started for all cylinders to warm up the catalyst device disposed in the exhaust system of the engine preferably when a fuel injection pressure exceeds a target value.

An outer stator is provided in a reciprocating engine together with an inner stator and a mover, that has a cylindrical shape and is placed around the mover coaxially with an axis of the mover, and that forms a magnetic path between itself and the inner stator via a field magnet of the mover, the outer stator includes an aperture portion that is formed in an inner circumferential surface thereof that faces the mover; an internal space that opens via the aperture portion, and in which a wound wire coil is placed; and undercut portions that, in a cross section including the axis, are provided at both end positions along the axis, and that are recessed from the inner circumferential surface towards the outer side in a radial direction.

A solar cell apparatus in which contamination of solar cells is suppressed and a power generation quantity of the solar cells is maintained for a long period of time, even if the solar cell apparatus is disposed outside. The apparatus is provided with: a light transmitting plastic material; a light transmitting back sheet; a plurality of bifacial solar cells that are electrically connected to each other by means of interconnectors; and a transparent filled resin that surrounds the solar cells. The light transmitting plastic material has a curved surface, and is capable of constituting a hermetically closed space by being fixed to a disposition region of a body having the solar cell apparatus disposed thereon. The light transmitting back sheet, the solar cells, and the transparent filled resin are disposed in the hermetically closed space.

In some embodiments, an insulated gate bipolar transistor includes a drift layer, insulation gates formed at a principle surface portion of the drift layer, base regions formed in a between-gate region, an emitter region formed in the base region so as to be adjacent to the insulation gate, an emitter electrode connected to the emitter region, a collector layer formed at the other side of the principle surface portion of the drift layer, and a collector electrode connected to the collector layer. The conductive type base regions are separated with each other by the drift layers, and the drift layer and the emitter electrode are insulated by an interlayer insulation film.

In an angular velocity sensor, a beam portion couples a pair of vibrators with each other and couples each of the vibrators to a substrate to enable the pair of vibrators to be movable in a first direction and a second direction that are perpendicular to each other. The driving portion vibrates the pair of vibrators in opposite phases in the first direction. The detecting portion detects displacement of the pair of vibrators in the second direction as a change in capacitance. The detecting portion includes first and second detecting electrodes. The restricting portion restricts displacement of the pair of vibrators in the second direction based on the change in capacitance. The restricting portion includes first and second restricting electrodes, and an electrode interval between the restricting electrodes is twice a width of the detecting electrodes in the second direction.

A method of driving a display device including a display panel that includes a color filter board is provided. The color filter board includes a light blocking section formed in a grid and color sections that are formed in areas surrounded by a pattern of the light blocking section in different colors from area to area. The color sections form display pixels on a combination basis. The display panel includes a light blocking area in at least a section of an edge along an outline of the display panel. The method includes setting the color sections that do not form the display pixels among the color sections adjacent to the light blocking area in a plan view of the display panel constantly in the black state.

A method for controlling a reversible polyphase rotating electrical machine, wherein at least one coil circuit is supplied through a bridge of switches, including the following steps: controlling (P1) the bridge to deliver to the coil circuit a periodic voltage with a phase shift (d) relative to an electromotive force induced in the coil circuit, such that an operating torque is generated, the phase shift having initially a first value (d0); controlling (P2) the bridge to deliver to the coil circuit a periodic voltage with the phase shift (d) producing a torque ranging between the operating torque and the opposite of the operating torque, the phase shift taking on a plurality of values upon the control; flipping (T2) the bridge in rectifying mode.

A primary groove, into which a primary vane is slidably fitted, and a primary rotor-side suction passage, which conducts refrigerant of a shaft-side suction passage of a shaft to a primary compression chamber, are formed at a primary rotor. The primary groove is shaped into a form that extends from an inner peripheral side toward an outer peripheral side and extends toward a rear side with respect to a rotational direction, and the primary rotor-side suction passage is shaped into a form that extends from the inner peripheral side toward the outer peripheral side and extends and tilts toward a front side with respect to the rotational direction. A fluid outlet of the primary rotor-side suction passage opens at a location that is immediately after the primary groove on the rear side of the primary groove with respect to the rotational direction.

A vehicle device is used for a vehicle and includes a data acquisition unit, a compensation unit, and an output unit. The data acquisition unit acquires data successively transmitted from outside a subject vehicle via communication. The compensation unit compensates a data loss resulting from unsuccessfully acquiring of data in the data acquisition unit by using data already acquired by the data acquisition unit and generates assistive data used for travel assistance of the subject vehicle. The compensation unit associates with the assistive data a compensation implementation value indicating an implementation of the compensation. The output unit outputs the assistive data associated with the compensation implementation value to a travel assistance device for performing the travel assistance when the compensation unit generates the assistive data by compensating the data loss. Accordingly, decrease of driver's reliability for travel assistance using data acquired through communication is restricted.

A method for manufacturing a compound semiconductor device includes: providing a semiconductor substrate including a foundation layer having a first conductivity type; forming a deep trench in the foundation layer; and forming a deep layer having a second conductivity type by introducing material gas of the compound semiconductor while introducing dopant gas into an epitaxial growth equipment to cause epitaxial growth of the deep layer in the deep trench. A period in which a temperature in the epitaxial growth equipment is increased to a temperature of the epitaxial growth of the deep layer is defined as a temperature increasing period. In the forming the deep layer, the deep layer is further formed in a bottom corner portion of the deep trench by starting the introducing of the dopant gas during the temperature increasing period and starting the introducing of the material gas after the temperature increasing period.

Provided is an automobile member including a hat-shaped first member that has a first flange, a second flange, a first wall portion erected from the first flange, a second wall portion erected from the second flange, and a web connecting the first and second wall portions to each other; a second member that is spot-joined to the first and second flanges; a first joining plate that is joined to inner wall surfaces of the first wall portion and the second member; and a second joining plate that is joined to inner wall surfaces of the second wall portion and the second member.

A plasma processing apparatus capable of, over a prolonged period of time, controlling a decrease in the value of a DC current flowing within an accommodating compartment. The plasma processing apparatus comprises an accommodating compartment adapted to accommodate a substrate and perform a plasma treatment thereon, a high-frequency power source adapted to supply high-frequency power to the inside of the accommodating compartment; a DC electrode adapted to apply a DC voltage to the inside of the accommodating compartment, a ground electrode provided within the accommodating compartment and used for the applied DC voltage, and an exhaust unit adapted to evacuate the inside of the accommodating compartment.

A vehicle device is used for a vehicle and includes a data acquisition unit, a compensation unit, and an output unit. The data acquisition unit acquires data successively transmitted from outside a subject vehicle via communication. The compensation unit compensates a data loss resulting from unsuccessfully acquiring of data in the data acquisition unit by using data already acquired by the data acquisition unit and generates assistive data used for travel assistance of the subject vehicle. The compensation unit associates with the assistive data a compensation implementation value indicating an implementation of the compensation. The output unit outputs the assistive data associated with the compensation implementation value to a travel assistance device for performing the travel assistance when the compensation unit generates the assistive data by compensating the data loss. Accordingly, decrease of driver's reliability for travel assistance using data acquired through communication is restricted.