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An oxide or nitride film containing carbon and at least one of silicon and metal is formed by ALD conducting one or more process cycles, each process cycle including: feeding a first precursor in a pulse to adsorb the first precursor on a substrate; feeding a second precursor in a pulse to adsorb the second precursor on the substrate; and forming a monolayer constituting an oxide or nitride film containing carbon and at least one of silicon and metal on the substrate by undergoing ligand substitution reaction between first and second functional groups included in the first and second precursors adsorbed on the substrate. The ligand may be a halogen group, —NR2, or —OR.

The invention is directed, in one embodiment, to systems and methods relating to managing rights associated with digital content.

The invention provides an absorbent laminate for absorbing a body fluid and usable for a disposable absorbent article, in which the absorbent laminate comprises an upper layer absorbent body and a lower layer absorbent body, the upper layer absorbent body has at least one opening part extended continuously or discontinuously in the longitudinal direction of the upper layer absorbent body, and the maximum width W1 of the opening part is 40% or less of the minimum width W2 of the upper layer absorbent body. The invention also provides a disposable absorbent article provided with the absorbent laminate.

A charged particle reaction cell of the present invention has a serially-arranged plurality of ring electrodes, wherein a modulated radio frequency voltage obtained by modulating the amplitude of a radio frequency voltage is applied, whereby ions are captured at the bottom of the ups and downs of a formed pseudopotential and are transferred with the move of the pseudopotential. In the charged particle reaction cell, the time required for the charged particle reaction can be secured and also the problem of the decrease of the throughput or the mass resolution can be solved, and the speed of the structure analysis of a measurement sample can be accelerated.

A wipe-off unit is provided with a cleaning liquid ejection member in a manner to be positioned below a horizontal surface coincident with a nozzle surface and on a sheet feeding side relative to a pressing roller. A wiping sheet is fed from below to the pressing roller through a space between the pressing roller and the cleaning liquid ejection member, and a cleaning liquid is applied to a surface of the wiping sheet.

A charged particle reaction cell of the present invention has a serially-arranged plurality of ring electrodes, wherein a modulated radio frequency voltage obtained by modulating the amplitude of a radio frequency voltage is applied, whereby ions are captured at the bottom of the ups and downs of a formed pseudopotential and are transferred with the move of the pseudopotential. In the charged particle reaction cell, the time required for the charged particle reaction can be secured and also the problem of the decrease of the throughput or the mass resolution can be solved, and the speed of the structure analysis of a measurement sample can be accelerated.

Method and apparatus for controlling acoustic treatment of a sample including a liquid. A processing volume in which the sample is acoustically treated may be controlled, e.g., by positioning a suitable element so as to reduce and / or eliminate a headspace at a sample / gas interface. An interaction between the acoustic energy and the sample may be controlled, e.g., by using an energy director positioned at least partially in the sample that helps to reduce splashing or other sample ejection that would otherwise occur.

Provided is a light-emitting element with high emission efficiency including a fluorescent material as a light-emitting substance. In a light-emitting element including a pair of electrodes and an EL layer between the pair of electrodes, a delayed fluorescence component due to triplet-triplet annihilation accounts for 20% or more of light emitted from the EL layer, and the light has at least one emission spectrum peak in the blue wavelength range. The EL layer includes an organic compound in which an energy difference between the lowest singlet excited energy level and the lowest triplet excited energy level is 0.5 eV or more. The EL layer includes a benzo[a]anthracene compound.

A network device allows inbound connections from external addresses to a computer on a local network while forbidding output connections from the computer to that external address unless preceded by an inbound connection therefrom. In some embodiments, the computer is allowed to accept inbound connections from external addresses but is not permitted to initiate outbound connections to other computers in the local network unless preceded by an inbound connection. In some embodiments, a request from an external address is processed by the network device by transmitting network information for the computer to the external address and temporarily changes network rules to allow connections from the external address. In some embodiments, if the computer attempts a disallowed connection, the connection attempt is routed through a proxy server by providing network data for the proxy server to the computer.

A printer, a computer program and a method are provided for camouflaging defective print elements in the printer having a printhead with a plurality of print elements. The method includes (a) representing the image information to be printed by a multi-level pixel matrix wherein a grey level of each pixel is indicated by a number, (b) transferring the grey levels of pixels that are assigned to a defective print element, to neighbouring pixels in the pixel matrix, and (c) converting the pixel matrix having the transferred grey levels, into a bitmap to be printed.

To clean an element in a vacuum chamber by causing particles sticking to the element to scatter, the present invention uses a means for applying a voltage to the element and causing the particles to scatter by utilizing Maxwell's stress, a means for electrically charging the particles and causing the particles to scatter by utilizing the Coulomb force, a means for introducing a gas into the vacuum chamber and causing the particles sticking to the element to scatter by causing a gas shock wave to hit the element, a means for heating the element and causing the particles to scatter by utilizing the thermal stress and thermophoretic force, or a means for causing the particles to scatter by applying mechanical vibrations to the element. The thus scattered particles are removed by carrying them in a gas flow in a relatively high pressure atmosphere.

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for managing secure transactions between electronic devices and service providers. In one embodiment, an administration entity system may receive device order data from an electronic device, wherein the received device order data is indicative of an order for an item of value of a service provider system to be stored on the electronic device, transmit administration order data to the service provider system based on the received device order data, wherein the administration order data is indicative of the order for the item of value, receive service provider fulfillment data from the service provider system based on the transmitted administration order data, wherein the service provider fulfillment data includes the item of value, and transmit administration fulfillment data to the electronic device based on the received service provider fulfillment data, wherein the administration fulfillment data includes the item of value.

A platform segment for supporting a nozzle guide vane for a gas turbine is provided. The platform segment includes a gas passage surface arranged to be in contact with a streaming gas exhausted from a combustor, wherein the streaming gas streams along the gas passage surface in a streaming direction, a cooling surface, opposite to and thermally connected to the gas passage surface and arranged to be in contact with a cooling fluid, a wall protruding from the cooling surface and extending at least partially in the streaming direction, wherein the wall is arranged circumferentially between positions, at which adjacent guide vanes are to be provided, such that cooling fluid is channeled by the wall for cooling a downstream portion of the cooling surface, and a further wall protruding from the cooling surface and extending at least partially in the streaming direction.

A quantum interference device includes: gaseous alkali metal atoms; and a light source for causing a resonant light pair having different frequencies that keep a frequency difference equivalent to an energy difference between two ground states of the alkali metal atoms, the quantum interference device causing the alkali metal atoms and the resonant light pair to interact each other to cause an electromagnetically induced transparency phenomenon (EIT), wherein there are a plurality of the resonant light pairs, and center frequencies of the respective resonant light pairs are different from one another.

A fan structure is disclosed to include a fan holder holding a fan motor and a fan blade, a bottom cover frame, which has smoothly arched bottom wall, a horizontal mounting flange extending around the smoothly arched bottom wall and mounted in one frame sash of a light steel structure of a ceiling, a vertical connection flange connected to the top cover shell of the fan holder, a circular center opening corresponding to the fan blade, ventilation holes spaced around the circular center opening and a fence disposed above the circular center opening and surrounding the fan blade defining with the top cover shell of the fan holder a space for causing a gate effect during rotation of the fan blade, and a grille mounted in the circular center opening of the bottom cover shell for output of currents of air caused by the fan blade.

Devices and methods are provided for positioning a tool. In one embodiment, an endoscopic rotation device is provided having a rotatable collet, a flexible elongate translating mechanism, and an actuating mechanism. The rotatable collet can be configured to receive and engage a tool disposed therethrough, and the translating mechanism can be coupled to the collet. The actuating mechanism can be operatively associated with the translating mechanism and can be effective to cause the translating mechanism to apply a rotational force to the collet to rotate the tool disposed therethrough.

A bearing apparatus include a rotor having a flange portion, a foil bearing for supporting the rotor in a radial direction, and a magnetic bearing for supporting the rotor in an axial direction by an electromagnet, and a control portion for controlling electric current supplied to the electromagnet. The control portion controls such that a first electric current is supplied to the electromagnet so as to cause the electromagnet to attract the flange portion so as to support the rotor in the axial direction. The control portion also controls such that when the number of revolutions of the rotor is smaller than the number (R1) of revolutions at which the rotor floats off the foil bearing when supplying the first electric current to the electromagnet, a second electric current larger than the first electric current is supplied to the electromagnet.

In a dust removal apparatus, a front air nozzle unit emits air jets onto a region of a workpiece surface near a rotary brush along a linear front end edge of a hood covering an upper half portion of the rotary brush. Rear air nozzle unit emits air jets onto another region of the workpiece surface near the rotary brush along a linear rear end edge of the hood.

A printer, a computer program and a method are provided for camouflaging defective print elements in the printer having a printhead with a plurality of print elements. The method includes (a) representing the image information to be printed by a multi-level pixel matrix wherein a grey level of each pixel is indicated by a number, (b) transferring the grey levels of pixels that are assigned to a defective print element, to neighboring pixels in the pixel matrix, and (c) converting the pixel matrix having the transferred grey levels, into a bitmap to be printed.

A fluorescence detecting method utilizes surface plasmon enhancement. An electric field enhancing field is caused to be generated at a detecting portion that includes a metal film provided on a surface of a dielectric prism. Fluorescence emitted by fluorescent labels, which are attached to a detection target substance, due to the excitation effect of the electric field enhancing field is detected by a photodetector. During the detection, a plurality of fine metal particles are dispersed on the detecting portion.

A game developer can “tag” an item in the game environment. When an animated character walks near the “tagged” item, the animation engine can cause the character's head to turn toward the item, and mathematically computes what needs to be done in order to make the action look real and normal. The tag can also be modified to elicit an emotional response from the character. For example, a tagged enemy can cause fear, while a tagged inanimate object may cause only indifference or indifferent interest.

The present invention provides a table for use in a plasma processing system that makes it possible to obtain a substrate processed with plasma, improved in within-substrate uniformity, and a plasma processing system comprising such a table. A table 2 for use in a plasma processing system 1 comprises an electrically conductive member serving as a lower electrode 21 for plasma formation, a lower dielectric layer 22 (first dielectric layer) formed on the electrically conductive member so that it covers the center of the upper surface of the electrically conductive member, serving to make a high-frequency electric field to be applied to plasma via a substrate uniform, and an upper dielectric layer 24 (second dielectric layer) having a relative dielectric constant of 100 or more, formed on the electrically conductive member so that it is in contact at least with the edge of the substrate, in order to prevent a high-frequency current that has propagated along the electrically conductive member face from leaking to the outside of the substrate (wafer W).

A wipe-off unit is provided with a cleaning liquid ejection member in a manner to be positioned below a horizontal surface coincident with a nozzle surface and on a sheet feeding side relative to a pressing roller. A wiping sheet is fed from below to the pressing roller through a space between the pressing roller and the cleaning liquid ejection member, and a cleaning liquid is applied to a surface of the wiping sheet.

Disclosed herein is a table 2 for use in a plasma processing system 1 that includes an electrically conductive member serving as a lower electrode 21 for plasma formation, a lower dielectric layer 22 (first dielectric layer) formed on the electrically conductive member so that it covers the center of the upper surface of the electrically conductive member, serving to make a high-frequency electric field to be applied to plasma via a substrate uniform, and an upper dielectric layer 24 (second dielectric layer) having a relative dielectric constant of 100 or more, formed on the electrically conductive member so that it is in contact at least with the edge of the substrate, in order to prevent a high-frequency current that has propagated along the electrically conductive member face from leaking to the outside of the substrate (wafer W).

A data processing apparatus has a cache with a data array and a tag array. The tag array stores address tag portions associated with the data values in the data array. The cache performs a tag lookup, comparing a tag portion of a received address with a set of tag entries in the tag array. The data array includes a partial tag store storing a partial tag value in association with each data entry. In parallel with the tag lookup, a partial tag value of the received address is compared with partial tag values stored in association with a set of data entries in said data array. A data value is read out if a match condition occurs. Exclusivity circuitry ensures that at most one partial tag value of said partial tag values stored in association with said set of data entries can generate said match condition.

A fuel cell electrode catalyst includes: a noble-metal-supported catalyst including a carbon support and a noble metal supported on the carbon support; and a water-repellent material with which the noble-metal-supported catalyst is modified. The carbon support is mesoporous carbon in which a pore volume of pores having a pore size of 2 nm to 5 nm is 2.1 ml / g to 2.4 ml / g. An amount of the water-repellent material is 3% by weight to 7% by weight with respect to a total weight of the mesoporous carbon and the water-repellent material.

A device mountable to a gutter for removing debris therefrom includes an elongated shaft with proximal and distal end portions positionable within the gutter, a plurality of debris-removing members mounted about the shaft and between the proximal and distal end portions thereof, a plurality of brackets spaced along the gutter for receiving the shaft therethrough, and a mechanism for operating the device causing the debris-removing members to rotate in a select direction as desired by a user. The operating mechanism may rotate the debris-removing members in an oscillating path or unidirectional path and a sensor may also be included to selectively toggle the device between on and off modes, without direct user input.

The invention provides a reaction apparatus capable of efficiently causing a reaction, and a fuel cell system and an electronic device that include such a reaction apparatus. A reaction apparatus (1) includes a reformer (4), a CO remover (5) and a connecting portion (6) that connects the reformer (4) and the remover (5). The reformer (4) has a reforming reaction chamber (31) and a reformer combustion chamber (30) that generates heat to be supplied to the reforming reaction chamber (31), which (30, 31) are adjacent to each other with a partition interposed therebetween. The CO remover (5) has a removing reaction chamber (35) and a remover combustion chamber (34) that generates heat to be supplied to the removing reaction chamber (35), which (34, 35) are adjacent to each other with a partition interposed therebetween. The reformer (4) and the CO remover (5) are arranged spaced apart from each other, at least one of which is configured by combining ceramic parts (11, 12) and a reformer lid member (15) and a remover lid member (16), and heaters (48, 49) are disposed so as to face the ceramic parts (11, 12).

A game developer can “tag” an item in the game environment. When an animated character walks near the “tagged” item, the animation engine can cause the character's head to turn toward the item, and mathematically computes what needs to be done in order to make the action look real and normal. The tag can also be modified to elicit an emotional response from the character. For example, a tagged enemy can cause fear, while a tagged inanimate object may cause only indifference or indifferent interest.