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A mobile station according to the present invention that is capable of connecting simultaneously to a plurality of base stations comprises a reception radio portion and TPC bit detecting portions, for receiving and detecting TPC bits (transmission power control signals) from the plurality of base stations during soft handover; a combining portion, for combining the detected TPC bits to determine a combination signal; and a transmission power control deciding portion, for controlling the transmission power of the mobile station based on the combination signal determined by the combining portion. A method according to the present invention governs use of the mobile station hereof.

It is an object of the invention to provide a vacuum processing apparatus that enables setting a timing interval between self-cleaning procedures simply and so as to have general-use, enables significantly lengthening this timing interval, and improves the production efficiency. In a plasma CVD apparatus (100) that carries out self-cleaning procedure by feeding a cleaning gas into a film deposition chamber (1) in which film deposition processing is carried out on a substrate (4), the timing interval between self-cleaning procedures is set in a range in which a film deposition operating time ratio (Ps) is converged with respect to an increase in a film deposition process amount, where the film deposition operating time ratio (Ps) is represented by the proportion of a film deposition-related operating time (Tt) in the sum of the film deposition-related operating time (Tt) and a cleaning-related operating time (Tc).

In a method of treating a semiconductor element which at least includes a semiconductor, a threshold voltage of the semiconductor element is changed by irradiating the semiconductor with light with a wavelength longer than an absorption edge wavelength of the semiconductor. The areal density of in-gap states in the semiconductor is 1013 cm−2eV−1 or less. The band gap may be 2 eV or greater. The semiconductor may include at least one selected from the group consisting of In, Ga, Zn and Sn. The semiconductor may be one selected from the group consisting of amorphous In—Ga—Zn—O (IGZO), amorphous In—Zn—O (IZO) and amorphous Zn—Sn—O (ZTO). The light irradiation may induce the threshold voltage shift in the semiconductor element, the shift being of the opposite sign to the threshold voltage shift caused by manufacturing process history, time-dependent change, electrical stress or thermal stress.

To provide a novel nonvolatile latch circuit and a semiconductor device using the nonvolatile latch circuit, a nonvolatile latch circuit includes a latch portion having a loop structure where an output of a first element is electrically connected to an input of a second element, and an output of the second element is electrically connected to an input of the first element; and a data holding portion for holding data of the latch portion. In the data holding portion, a transistor using an oxide semiconductor as a semiconductor material for forming a channel formation region is used as a switching element. In addition, an inverter electrically connected to a source electrode or a drain electrode of the transistor is included. With the transistor, data held in the latch portion can be written into a gate capacitor of the inverter or a capacitor which is separately provided.

A photoelectric converting apparatus of the present invention includes a photoelectric converting element, a resetting transistor in which a source is connected to the photoelectric converting element and a drain is connected to a resetting power source, a readout transistor in which a gate is connected to the photoelectric converting element and a drain is connected to a readout power source, a signal line connected to a source of the readout transistor, a selecting transistor connected between the readout power source or the signal line and the readout transistor, and a constant current source connected to the signal line.

An electronic part for a high frequency power amplifier is provided which is designed to constitute at least a part of a wireless communication system for performing feedback control by detecting an output power, and which can miniaturize a directional coupler. Also, the electronic part permits control of the output power with high accuracy without having any influence on a monitor voltage by a reflected wave propagating through a line of the directional coupler. The directional coupler includes a subline disposed in parallel to and in the vicinity of a part of a main line of an impedance matching circuit on the last output stage side of a power amplifier circuit, a capacitance element connected to between the main line and the subline, and a resistor element connected to between a constant potential point and a termination side of the subline. An output power detection circuit includes a first detection circuit for detecting an alternating current signal taken from a beginning side of the subline, a second detecting circuit for detecting an alternating current signal taken from a termination side of the subline, and a subtracting circuit for performing subtraction between an output of the first detection circuit and an output of the second detection circuit.

The present invention provides a culture method of cells and / or tissues including culturing cells and / or tissues in a suspended state by using a medium composition wherein indeterminate structures are formed in a liquid medium, the structures are uniformly dispersed in the solution and substantially retain the cells and / or tissues without substantially increasing the viscosity of the solution, thus affording an effect of preventing sedimentation thereof, and the like.

Provided is a k-nearest neighbor search method of searching for a query number k of nearest points to an arbitrary point in a DBMS for creating a spatial index from multidimensional points, comprising setting a search conditions, judging which of a lowest branch and an intermediate branch of the spatial index a nearest region to the query point is, calculating, when the nearest region is judged to be the lowest branch, a distance between the query point and a child region of the nearest region, storing information of a divided region which has become a calculation target, calculating, when the nearest region is judged to be the intermediate region, a distance between the query point and a point included in the nearest region, storing information of the point which has become a calculation target, finishing search processing when the search conditions are satisfied, and obtaining a search result from the DBMS.

A solid-state imaging device includes: multiple pixels making up a slanted grid array inclined to a scanning direction, which include a photoelectric conversion unit configured to convert incident light quantity into an electric signal; and a charge-to-voltage conversion unit configured to convert signal charge read out from the photoelectric conversion unit disposed between two pixels adjacent to each other in the diagonal direction of the pixels of the multiple pixels into voltage; wherein the charge-to-voltage conversion unit is shared with the two pixels; and wherein a set of transistor group are disposed in a sharing block, which is configured of a pixel pair made up of the two pixels adjacent to each other in the diagonal direction, and a pixel pair adjacent to that pixel pair, including wiring to which the charge-to-voltage conversion unit of each pixel pair is connected.

An interference reduction device includes an analog to digital converter, a serial to parallel converter, a first FIR filter, a second FIR filters, a flip-flop, a decision unit, and a selector. The analog to digital converter performs A / D conversion. The serial to parallel converter performs a session of distribution processing in which a digital signal obtained by the A / D conversion. The first FIR outputs the signal after a filer operation at the desired output frequency. The second FIR filters each perform a filter operation, also each output the generated signals at the desired output frequency. The flip-flop samples the inputted digital signal. The decision unit decides which one of the FIR filters has the smallest influence of interference of the input digital signal. The selector outputs one of the signals outputted by the FIR filters.

In learning for pattern recognition, an aggregation of different types of object image data is inputted, and local features having given geometric structures are detected from each object image data inputted. The detected local features are put through clustering, plural representative local features are selected based on results of the clustering, and a learning data set containing the selected representative local features as supervisor data is used to recognize or detect an object that corresponds to the object image data. The learning thus makes it possible to appropriately extract, from an aggregation of images, local features useful for detection and recognition of subjects of different categories.

A reducing agent injection device is equipped with a storage tank that houses a reducing agent, a pump that pressure-feeds the reducing agent, a reducing agent injection valve that injects the reducing agent pressure-fed by the pump into the inside of an exhaust pipe of an internal combustion engine, a supply path that interconnects the pump and the reducing agent injection valve, and a pressure sensor that is disposed in the supply path. The reducing agent injection device is configured such that it can suck, into the inside of the supply path, a gas inside the exhaust pipe via an injection hole in the reducing agent injection valve by subjecting the inside of the supply path to depressurization processing. An abnormality detection device detects clogging of the reducing agent injection valve in the reducing agent injection device and includes a clogging determination component. The clogging determination component uses a pressure value detected by the pressure sensor after the start of the depressurization processing to determine whether or not clogging is occurring in the reducing agent injection valve.

The device includes plural transmitting electrodes and receiving electrodes, a multiline driving unit that simultaneously applies periodic alternating voltages to at least two electrodes of the transmitting electrodes, a current measurement unit, a computing unit, and a control unit. The computing unit includes a linear computing unit that performs linear computation to convert the current values or amounts of accumulated charge measured in the current measurement unit into values in response to the electrostatic capacitances of the respective intersections between the transmitting electrodes and the receiving electrodes, and a proximity computing unit that obtains the approach determination or the approach position of the object toward the detection area from an output of the linear computing unit. The linear computing unit includes a memory unit that stores an interim result of the computation to be read out at plural times.

An apparatus provided is capable of performing injection molding of a high-melting point metal. The injection molding apparatus comprises a mold, a sleeve disposed so as to be movable forward and backward toward a pouring gate of the mold, a plunger slidably disposed in the sleeve, a heating means for heating and melting a raw material lump supplied into a raw material accommodating part formed by an inside wall of the sleeve and the plunger mentioned above, and a raw material lump supplying means for supplying the raw material lump to the above-mentioned raw material accommodating part from above. For the purpose of ensuring that a melt of a metal which has been heated and melted hardly flows into a gap between the plunger and the sleeve, the above-mentioned plunger and / or sleeve is equipped with a cooling means.

A vehicle fuel informational system is provided with a fuel level determination component, an onboard vehicle positioning component, an onboard vehicle navigation component and a low fuel notification component. The fuel level determination component determines a fuel level of a host vehicle equipped with the vehicle fuel informational system. The onboard vehicle positioning component determines a host vehicle's position of the host vehicle equipped with the vehicle positioning component. The onboard vehicle navigation component provides vehicle route information for a desired vehicle route of the host vehicle. The low fuel notification component provides a low fuel alert notification that is indicative of a low fuel and automatically recommends a suggested fuel provider at least partially based on at least one of the host vehicle's position of the host vehicle and the desired vehicle route.

A complementary gate driver on array circuit employed for panel display includes a plurality of GOA units that are cascade connected, in which an nth GOA unit controls charge to an nth horizontal scanning line G(n) in a display area and includes a pull-up circuit module, a pull-down circuit module, a pull-down holding circuit module, a pull-up controlling circuit module, a pull-down circuit module of an nth gate signal point Q(n), and a bootstrap capacitor. The pull-up circuit module, the pull-down circuit module, the pull-down holding circuit module, the pull-down circuit module of the nth gate signal point Q(n), and the bootstrap capacitor are respectively coupled to the nth gate signal point Q(n) and the nth horizontal scanning line G(n), and the pull-up controlling circuit module is coupled to the nth horizontal scanning line G(n).

To provide a novel display device without deterioration of display quality, the display device includes a display panel including a pixel portion that displays still images at a frame frequency of 30 Hz or less, a temperature sensing unit that senses the temperature of the display panel, a memory device that stores a correction table containing correction data, and a control circuit to which correction data selected from the correction table is input in accordance with an output of the temperature sensing unit. The pixel portion includes a plurality of pixels. Each of the pixels includes a transistor, a display element, and a capacitor. The control circuit outputs a voltage based on the correction data input to the control circuit, to the capacitor included in each of the pixels.

It is intended to provide water-soluble derivative of camptothecins which are excellent in therapeutic effect and suitable for chemotherapy for cancer. Namely, a water-soluble high-molecular weight derivative of camptothencins being excellent in sustained-release which is obtained by ester-bonding a carboxylic acid group of a polyethylene glycol-polycarboxylic acid polymer to a phenolic hydroxyl group of phenolic camptothencins.

When a light-emitting element having an intermediate conductive layer between a plurality of light-emitting layers is formed, the intermediate conductive layer can have transparency; and thus, materials are largely limited and the manufacturing process of an element becomes complicated by a conventional method. A light-emitting element according to the present invention is formed by sequentially stacking a pixel electrode, a first light-emitting layer, an intermediate conductive layer (including an electron injecting layer and a hole-injecting layer, one of which is island-like), a second light-emitting layer and an opposite electrode. Therefore, the present invention can provide a light-emitting element typified by an organic EL element in which arange of choice of materials that can be used as the intermediate conductive layer is broadened extremely, and which can realize a high light-emitting efficiency, a low power consumption and a high reliability, and further a display device using the light-emitting element.

A liquid crystal layer (3) is sandwiched between upper and lower substrates (1, 2), a segment electrode (5g) and an auxiliary electrode (11) surrounding the segment electrode (5g) with a gap (G1) are formed on the upper substrate (1) by using the same transparent conductive film. An opposite electrode (6) is provided over the whole display area of the lower substrate (2). The overlap between the counter electrode (6) and the segment electrode (5g) constitutes a pixel portion (32), and the overlap between the opposite electrode (6) and the auxiliary electrode (11) constitutes a background portion (33). Voltages are selectively applied to the liquid crystal layer (3) of the pixel portion (32) and that of the background portion (33), and thereby the transmission, diffusion, or absorption of the light incident on the liquid crystal layer (3) is arbitrarily varied to conduct display.

According to the present invention, an impurity region, to which a rare gas element (also called a rare gas) and one kind or a plurality of kinds of elements selected from the group consisting of H, H2, O, O2, and P are added, are formed in a semiconductor film having a crystalline structure, using a mask, and gettering for segregating a metal element contained in the semiconductor film to the impurity region by heat treatment. Thereafter, pattering is conducted using the mask, whereby a semiconductor layer made of the semiconductor film having a crystalline structure is formed.

At the time of, for example, a set operation (SET) for making a phase-change element in a crystalline state, a pulse of a voltage Vreset required for melting the element is applied to the phase-change element, and subsequently a pulse of a voltage Vset that is lower than Vreset and is required for crystallizing the element is applied thereto. And, the magnitude of this voltage Vset is then changed depending on the ambient temperature so that the magnitude of the voltage Vset is small as the temperature becomes high (TH). In this manner, a margin of a write operation between the set operation and a reset operation (RESET) for making the element to be in amorphous state is improved.

A robot structure, suited especially for minimally invasive surgery, comprises two robot elements interconnected by a hinge. Using a force transmission means the movable robot element of said robot element, notably comprising two gripping elements, can be moved. A sensor element is provided for picking up forces occurring. To reduce the influence of motional forces, said force transmission means is connected with a base element of said sensor element such that motional forces transmitted by said force transmission element are supported at the base element.

A shim support guide jig includes a shim support guide pipe in which a guide passage for guiding the movement of a shim support is formed. In a state where a superconducting magnet has generated a static magnetic field, the designated shim support can be drawn out from the internal space of the superconducting magnet through the guide passage, and the designated shim support for which magnetic material shims have been arranged and adjusted can be inserted into the internal space through the guide passage. A magnetic field generation apparatus has the magnetic material shims arranged and adjusted using the shim support guide jig, and a magnetic resonance imaging equipment employs the magnetic field generation apparatus. Magnetic field adjustment methods for the magnetic field generation apparatus and for the magnetic resonance imaging equipment are performed using the shim support guide jig.

A position information measuring method capable of easily obtaining information on a relative position deviation between two marks by using scatterometry or reflectometry. Marks (25A) are formed on a wafer (W) at a pitch P1, and marks (28A) are formed on an intermediate layer (27) over them at a pitch P2 different from the pitch P1. A detection light (DL) is allowed to vertically enter the wafer (W) and a regular reflection light (22) from two marks (25A, 28A) only is spectrally separated on a wavelength basis for photoelectric converting. Wavelength-based reflectances are obtained from obtained detection signals, a reflectance at a specified wavelength is determined for each position in the measuring direction (X direction) of marks (25A, 28A), the shape of a Moire pattern formed by the overlapping of two marks (25A, 28A) is determined from the obtained reflectance distribution, and the position deviation amount of a mark (28A) is determined from the shape.

A multi-layer ceramic capacitor includes a multi-layer unit, side margins, and bonding units. The multi-layer unit includes ceramic layers laminated in a first direction and internal electrodes disposed between the ceramic layers. The side margins cover the multi-layer unit from a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The bonding units are each disposed between the multi-layer unit and each of the side margins and have higher silicon content than the ceramic layers and the side margins.

To provide a novel display device where display quality does not deteriorate. The display device includes a display portion configured to display a still image at a frame frequency of 30 Hz or lower. The display portion includes a driver circuit, a plurality of wirings, and a pixel portion. The pixel portion comprises a plurality of pixels. Each of the plurality of pixels comprises a transistor, a display element, and a capacitor. A channel is formed in an oxide semiconductor layer included in the transistor. A gate of the transistor is electrically connected to one of the plurality of wirings. The driver circuit performs scanning where the plurality of wirings in one of odd-numbered rows and even-numbered rows are sequentially selected and scanning where the plurality of wirings in the other of the odd-numbered rows and the even-numbered rows are sequentially selected.