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In a portable radio communication apparatus including a housing, at least one part of the housing is formed as a housing electrical conductor portion by an electrically conductive material. The housing electrical conductor portion is connected with a radio communication circuit of the portable radio communication apparatus so as to operate as at least one part of an unbalanced type antenna of the radio communication circuit.

Apparatus and methods for controlling operations of a touchscreen terminal having grip sensors are disclosed. A grip signal is detected when the terminal is gripped. A touch-inactive area is established in the touchscreen area based at least upon the grip signal. Touches occurring within the touch-inactive area are designated as non-executable gripping touches. Accordingly, unintentional touch executions due to an overlapping grip are prevented.

Methods and apparatus for providing manned, e.g., live customer support to customers, e.g., people using the Internet to purchase goods and / or services are described. A person viewing a Web Site, e.g., a customer, is presented with a button which provides the opportunity to talk to a customer service representative. Upon activating the button, e.g., by clicking on it, the customer's computer or other Internet browser device sends a signal, e.g., a call request message, over the Internet indicating that the customer wants to talk with a service representative. The call request message includes the customer's telephone number and / or IP address. In response to the call request message, calling equipment is used to establish a customer service call between the customer and a customer service representative. The equipment can be owned by the telephone company thereby avoiding the need for E-business companies to make investments in telephone equipment. In addition, a customer service representative can be located either at the E-business site or remotely, e.g., at the customer service representative's private home or other site, with the representative being called by the conference equipment as required to service a customer. Voice over IP conference equipment may be used instead or in conjunction with telephone conference equipment where one or both of the customer and service representative have voice over IP capability.

Methods which can be applied during the epitaxial growth of semiconductor structures and layers of III-nitride materials so that the qualities of successive layers are successively improved. An intermediate epitaxial layer is grown on an initial surface so that growth pits form at surface dislocations present in the initial surface. A following layer is then grown on the intermediate layer according to the known phenomena of epitaxial lateral overgrowth so it extends laterally and encloses at least the agglomerations of intersecting growth pits. Preferably, prior to growing the following layer, a discontinuous film of a dielectric material is deposited so that the dielectric material deposits discontinuously so as to reduce the number of dislocations in the laterally growing material. The methods of the invention can be performed multiple times to the same structure. Also, semiconductor structures fabricated by these methods.

To solve a problem that in a battery having a negative electrode having a capability of releasing a metal ion, a positive electrode for causing a liquid such as water or seawater to contribute to battery reaction, and an inorganic solid electrolyte, the inorganic solid electrolyte contacts the positive electrode for a long term, whereby a deterioration is generated from the interface between the electrolyte and the positive electrode so that the battery capacity falls or the battery cannot give a high power. The positive electrode and the inorganic solid electrolyte are not brought into contact with each other. Preferably, the interval between the positive electrode and the electrolyte is set to 0.3 nm or more.

An exciting coil is wound on a cylindrical yoke provided with a pair of pole teeth, a cylindrical permanent magnet where N pole and S pole are magnetized in a radial direction is disposed so as to be movable in a hollow portion of the yoke and the permanent magnet is coupled toa spool byamagnet holder, and a displacement sensor is disposed in a hollow portion of the permanent magnet so as to be positioned on a center axial line of the permanent magnet, so that the displacement of the permanent magnet is detected by the displacement sensor and the degree of opening of the spool is controlled by performing feedback of the displacement to a control portion.

Image light reflected by a third reflective surface of a light incidence portion is propagated while being totally reflected by first and second reflective surfaces of a light guiding portion, is reflected by a fourth reflective surface of a light emission portion, and is incident to observer's eye as a virtual image. At this time, the number of times of reflection of first image light, which is emitted from a first partial region of an image display device, in the light guiding portion, and the number of times of reflection of second image light, which is emitted from a second partial region of the image display device in the light guiding portion are different from each other, such that it is possible to take in the image light beams from the different partial regions of the image display device with a relatively wide angle of view.

Transmission power relative to a propagation path having a variation in gain is controlled to increase communication channel capacity, and a data rate is controlled in accordance with the variation of the increased communication channel capacity. In order to increase the communication channel capacity, the transmission power is determined so that the sum of noise power (=received noise power / propagation path gain) converted into one at a transmitter and the transmission power becomes constant. As a result, contrary to the background art, the transmission power is controlled to be reduced when the propagation path gain decreases and to be increased when the propagation path gain increases.

When a crystalline semiconductor thin film formed by using a catalytic element for facilitating crystallization is subjected to a heat treatment in an atmosphere containing a halogen element at a temperature exceeding 700° C., a crystal structure in which crystal grain boundaries do not substantially exist can be obtained. In the present invention, the foregoing crystalline semiconductor thin film is formed on a crystallized glass substrate which is inexpensive and has high heat resistance, so that an inexpensive semiconductor device can be provided.

An inkjet printing head 1 includes a piezoelectric element 6 having a lower electrode 7, a piezoelectric film 8 formed above the lower electrode 7, and an upper electrode 9 formed above the piezoelectric film 8, a hydrogen barrier film 13 covering an entirety of a side surface of the upper electrode 9 and the piezoelectric film 8, and an interlayer insulating film 14 that has an opening 17 at an upper surface center of the upper electrode 9, is laminated on the hydrogen barrier film 13, and faces the entirety of the side surface of the upper electrode 9 and the piezoelectric film 8 across the hydrogen barrier film 13.

An object of the present invention is to provide a technique for improving characteristics of a TFT and realizing the structure of the TFT optimal for driving conditions of a pixel section and a driving circuit, using a smaller number of photo masks. A semiconductor device has a semiconductor film, a first electrode, and a first insulating film sandwiched between the semiconductor film and the first electrode, and further has a second electrode, and a second insulating film sandwiched between the semiconductor film and the second electrode. The first electrode and the second electrode overlap with each other across a channel-formed region which the semiconductor film has. A constant voltage is applied to the first electrode at any time.

An electrostatic discharge protection element and a protection resistor, which are formed on an N-drain region with a field oxide film interposed therebetween for the purpose of preventing electrical breakdown of a field effect transistor, are composed as a stacked bidirectional Zener diode of one or a plurality of N+ polycrystalline silicon regions of a first layer and a P+ polycrystalline silicon region of a second layer, and a stacked resistor of one or a plurality of N+ resistor layers of the first layer and an N+ resistor layer of the second layer, respectively. One end of the plurality of N+ polycrystalline silicon regions of the first layer is connected to an external gate electrode terminal, and the other end is connected to a source electrode. One end of the plurality of N+ resistor layers of the first layer is connected to a gate electrode, and the other end is connected to the external gate electrode terminal. Semiconductor regions of the first layer and the second layer are formed by using semiconductor films, which form a hetero semiconductor region and the gate electrode, respectively.

A plasma display panel has plural discharge cells between two opposing first and second substrates. Each of the discharge cells includes at least one pair of electrodes for generating a discharge for display, a discharge gas and a phosphor film for emitting visible light by being excited by ultraviolet rays produced by the discharge of the discharge gas. Laminated members are dispersed in a plane within each of the discharge cells inside the first substrate from which visible light for display is emitted, and each of the laminated members includes a light absorption layer disposed on a side of the first substrate on which ambient light is incident and a light reflection layer disposed on a phosphor-film side of the laminated members. A visible-light-reflection layer is disposed on a surface of the phosphor film on a side thereof opposite from a space in which the discharge is generated.

A carburetor valve control system for stabilizing engine warm-up operating conditions by automatically controlling the degree of opening of a throttle valve so as to be larger than a normal degree of opening for idling, without carrying out a special operation of appropriately strengthening the spring force of a governor spring. The carburetor throttle valve control system includes a throttle lever and a governor system coupled to the throttle lever. A choke return spring is connected to a choke lever, the choke return spring urging the choke lever to a choke valve closing side. An automatic choke system is disposed so as to face the choke lever. A throttle valve closure restricting member is provided between the throttle lever and the choke lever. During engine warming-up, when the spring force of a governor spring is adjusted to zero or a minimum, the choke lever restricts closing of the throttle valve via the throttle lever by means of the spring force of the choke return spring.

A case body (a first member) and a cap member (a second member) that have not been subjected to welding include a protrusion consisting of at least one of a first protrusion that protrudes from a first outer surface and a second protrusion that protrudes from a second outer surface when the case body and the cap member are assembled together such that the first outer surface is flush with the second outer surface. The protrusion is placed between the first outer surface and the second outer surface. In a condition where the first outer surface and second outer surface of the pre-welding case body and cap member are flush with each other, and the protrusion is placed between the first outer surface and the second outer surface, the protrusion is irradiated with a laser beam, so that the case body and the cap member are welded together with the protrusion providing a part of a weld. Thus, a method of producing a welded structure is provided for producing a welded structure in which the first member and the second member are firmly welded together.

A display driver driving a display panel according to inputted display data comprises: a first circuit changing brightness of a display image by conversion of the display data based on a first reference value and a second reference value, the first reference value being a display data value at a first position in an upper part of a histogram of the inputted display data, and the second reference value being a display data value at a second position in a lower portion of the histogram; a second circuit changing brightness of a illuminating device illuminating the display panel based on the first reference value; and a control circuit performing a processing of making the brightness of the display image high by the first circuit and a processing of making the brightness of the illuminating device low by the second circuit in correlation with the brightness of the display image.

A fluid-filled active vibration damping device including a partition member having a holding space formed therein and a movable membrane installed in the holding space. A filter orifice tuned to a higher frequency than an orifice passage is formed at one wall part of the holding space facing to one surface of the movable membrane, and the holding space is in communication with one of a pressure receiving fluid chamber and an excitation fluid chamber through the filter orifice. An open hole is formed on the other wall part of the holding space facing to the other surface of the movable membrane opposite to the one surface in the thickness direction, and the holding space is in communication with the other of the two fluid chambers through the open hole. A through hole pierces the movable membrane in the thickness direction.

A rotational speed detector such as a wheel speed detector has an elongate housing containing a detector unit therein. The detector unit is a molded unit having a sensor element and an integrated circuit chip for processing sensor signals. A front wall of the elongate housing faces a magnetized rotor rotated by a rotating object so that the rotational speed of the rotor is detected by the detector unit. After the housing and a center rod having a terminal wire for leading out the detected electrical signals are connected to each other, a resin mold covering an outside of the center rod and a part of the housing is formed to formulate a unitary body of the rotational speed detector.

When a crystalline semiconductor thin film formed by using a catalytic element for facilitating crystallization is subjected to a heat treatment in an atmosphere containing a halogen element at a temperature exceeding 700° C., a crystal structure in which crystal grain boundaries do not substantially exist can be obtained. In the present invention, the foregoing crystalline semiconductor thin film is formed on a crystallized glass substrate which is inexpensive and has high heat resistance, so that an inexpensive semiconductor device can be provided.

A lateral shake prevention when a video picked up by a digital camera is reproduced is realized, and viewing on a large screen television set is made comfortable.At the time of the image pickup recording, face detection position center coordinate data is recorded in an attribute information unit of a stream as ARI data for each VOBU (GOP) in units of 0.5 seconds. At the time of the reproduction, the ARI data of GOP stream is collectively read ahead in units of RUV at the time of the reproduction of the video included in detection data of the face center position coordinate to read a large number of VOBUs in advance, an interpolation of missing times in units of GOP with respect to the face center position coordinate is performed, and a screen shift amount is subjected to a time axis smoothing computation through a time moving average computation in a frame unit.

Methods which can be applied during the epitaxial growth of semiconductor structures and layers of III-nitride materials so that the qualities of successive layers are successively improved. An intermediate epitaxial layer is grown on an initial surface so that growth pits form at surface dislocations present in the initial surface. A following layer is then grown on the intermediate layer according to the known phenomena of epitaxial lateral overgrowth so it extends laterally and encloses at least the agglomerations of intersecting growth pits. Preferably, prior to growing the following layer, a discontinuous film of a dielectric material is deposited so that the dielectric material deposits discontinuously so as to reduce the number of dislocations in the laterally growing material. The methods of the invention can be performed multiple times to the same structure. Also, semiconductor structures fabricated by these methods.

A belt unit includes a plurality of rollers including a driving roller and a driven roller; a belt being supported by the plurality of rollers; a specified roller; and a shift restraint member restraining the belt from shifting toward one end side of the specified roller. The specified roller is at least one roller of the plurality of rollers. The specified roller has such a shape that an outer diameter thereof on each of both end sides thereof is continuously enlarged toward a central part thereof in an axial direction thereof, and has such a shape that a region where the outer diameter thereof is the largest is shifted onto one end side thereof with respect to the central part thereof in the axial direction thereof within a belt suspension range.

An automatic opening / closing apparatus for vehicle is downsized, and cost of the automatic opening / closing apparatus is reduced by reducing the number of its components. A driving drum is rotatably accommodated in a main body case of a driving unit, and one ends of cables are connected to a sliding door and the other ends are wound around the driving drum. An electric motor is attached to the main body case, and the driving drum is driven for rotation. A tensioner mechanism applying a predetermined tension to the cables is accommodated in the main body case. A control device, including a control substrate and a substrate case for accommodating the control substrate, is disposed to be overlapped on an axial-directional side of the driving drum to a portion of the main body case for accommodating the tensioner mechanism, whereby an operation of the electric motor is controlled by the control device.

A fluid machine, a wind turbine, and a method for increasing velocity of an internal flow is provided. A basic shape of the casing has a cycloid curve having a convex portion at a throat section between the front and rear edges. The throat section and a vortex generating face disposed downstream of the throat section to generate the negative pressure region are formed on an inner circumferential face of the casing. A first outflow gradient is formed on an outer circumferential face of the casing and at the rear edge. A second outflow gradient is formed on a boundary of a throat-side adjacent face adjacent to the vortex generating portion to separate the internal flow. The negative pressure region of high vorticity is generated behind the vortex generating face by virtue of the non-streamline shaped casing to increase the velocity of the internal flow.

A tea drink preparation method for preparing a cold tea drink by: using high temperature and high pressure brewing machine to brew a powdered tea so as to make a hot tea drink, and then using a beverage cooling device to cool down the hot tea drink so as to obtain a cold tea drink, and then using a vessel to take the cold tea drink for service. Thus, this method shortens the contact time between the hot tea drink and the air and reduces the risk of tea drink contamination, avoiding deterioration in color and flavor due to oxidation and maintaining good tea drink hygiene.

The invention relates to a busbar pack comprising n busbars (2) and at least n−1 insulating bars (4) the surfaces of which project beyond the busbars (2), one insulating bar (4) being interposed between two busbars (2), said stack of bars (2, 4) being immobilized in their position relative each other by devices. The invention is characterized in that at least one inner busbar (2) is provided with a reticular bar (6) on both sides thereof and has perforations (14) that are arranged to match crossbars (12) of corresponding reticular bars (6). The invention allows production of a busbar pack at least the inner busbar (2) of which is convection-cooled, said busbar cooling system being producible at low costs.

In a large capacity semiconductor storage device having a multi-bank configuration, it is desired to reduce a peak current of one refresh operation, to avoid an interference between adjacent banks, and to prevent a data breaking of a memory cell caused by a lack of a data hold time. A semiconductor storage device includes: a memory cell array part including a plurality of banks; a refresh control circuit configured to output a refresh timing control signal periodically; and an access control circuit configured to perform a refresh operation on a group of banks which are not adjacent to one another in accordance with a preset combination of banks which are simultaneously activated and a preset activating order when the refresh timing control signal is supplied.