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When a signal inputted to a pixel is erased by setting potentials of a gate terminal and a source terminal of a driving transistor to be equal, a current slightly flows through the driving transistor in some cases, which leads to occur a display defect. The invention provides a display device which improves the yield while suppressing the increase in manufacturing cost. When a potential of a scan line for erasure is raised, a potential of the gate terminal of the driving transistor is raised accordingly. For example, the scan line and the gate terminal of the driving transistor are connected through a rectifying element.

An object is to provide a semiconductor device having an antenna structure which is advantageous for miniaturization, without changing the number of steps and communication distance. One feature to achieve the above object is a semiconductor device including a substrate, a tag portion including a thin film element formed over the substrate, a first antenna, and a second antenna, in which the first antenna and the second antenna are formed in different layers separated by an insulating film, the first antenna and the second antenna are partially electrically connected to each other, the first antenna is formed of a same material and in a same layer as a source or drain wiring connected to the thin film element, and the second antenna is formed in a different layer from the source or drain wiring connected to the thin film element.

A number of photoelectric conversion elements are disposed in a plurality of rows and columns in a pixel shift layout, and an analog / digital conversion unit is provided per two photoelectric conversion element columns to form a MOS type solid-state image pickup device. It is possible to suppress an increase in the manufacture cost of MOS type solid state image pickup devices with built-in A / D conversion units and improve the integration degree of photoelectric conversion elements.

A receptacle includes a signal terminal, a ground terminal, and a signal terminal. A second portion of the ground terminal is distanced from a first portion of the signal terminal in an extension direction. A third portion of the signal terminal is distanced from the first portion of the signal terminal in the extension direction.

An object is to prevent malfunction of a power device. In a semiconductor device for driving a power device for power supply, a buffer circuit and a level-shift circuit are configured by transistors having the same conductivity type. Furthermore, a capacitor is provided in the level-shift circuit, and a signal to be boosted is supplied to the capacitor and is boosted using capacitive coupling of the capacitor. Furthermore, a structure can be employed in which the signal is boosted in such a manner that, in the level-shift circuit, a capacitor is provided between a wiring for supplying a low power source potential and a wiring for supplying a potential to boost the signal so that a power transistor can be driven.

The present invention relates to a system for detecting washing machines removable basket, which comprises at least one washing basket (1) attached to the washing machine, at least one washing basket (2) removable from the washing machine and at least one structural component (3) attached to the washing machine. The system itself consists of at least one sensor (4) and at least one component (5) able to cause excitation in the sensor (4), wherein the sensor (4) can be physically associated to the structural component (3) attached to the washing machine and the component (5) can be physically associated with the washing basket (2) removable from the washing machine. Alternatively, the sensor (4) can be physically associated to the washing basket (2) removable from the washing machine and the component (5) may be physically associated to the structural component (3) attached to the washing machine. The subject method provides for at least one driving step of the motive source (6) and at least one checking step of the output signal of the sensor (4), the detection of the removable washing basket (2) being performed by checking the change of the output signal of the sensor (4).

There are provided a method of heating a focus ring and a plasma etching apparatus, capable of simplifying a structure of a heating mechanism without a dummy substrate. The plasma etching apparatus includes a vacuum processing chamber; a lower electrode serving as a mounting table for mounting a substrate thereon; an upper electrode provided to face the lower electrode; a gas supply unit for supplying a processing gas; a high frequency power supply for supplying a high frequency power to the lower electrode to generate a plasma of the processing gas; and a focus ring provided on the lower electrode to surround a periphery of the substrate. In the plasma etching apparatus, the focus ring is heated by irradiating a heating light thereto from a light source provided outside the vacuum processing chamber.

A top-emission-type organic EL display device which exhibits uniform screen brightness is realized by preventing a voltage drop of an upper electrode formed of a transparent conductive film. Pixels each of which is sandwiched between an upper electrode and a lower electrode are arranged in a matrix array to form a display region. An auxiliary electrode extends in the lateral direction between the pixels and the pixels for preventing a voltage drop of the upper electrode. A current supply line which supplies an electric current to the upper electrode and the auxiliary electrodes are made conductive with each other by forming a through hole in an insulation layer. To ensure reliability of connection at the through hole, a contact electrode made of metal which overlaps with the auxiliary electrode is formed on the through hole by vapor deposition.

The flow rate control device is provided with: a fluid resistor provided on the flow channel; a pressure sensor provided in any one of an upstream side or a downstream side of the fluid resistor; a stable state judging part configured to judge, based on the measurement flow rate value or a measurement pressure value measured by the pressure sensor, whether or not a state of the fluid flowing through the flow channel is in a stable state; and an abnormality diagnosing part configured to diagnose an abnormality of the measurement flow rate value based on a variation amount of the measurement pressure value in the case where the stable state judging part judges that the state of the fluid is in a stable state.

The flow rate control device is provided with: a fluid resistor provided on the flow channel; a pressure sensor provided in any one of an upstream side or a downstream side of the fluid resistor; a pressure calculating part configured to calculate a pressure in a side with respect to the fluid resistor where the pressure sensor is not provided; a flow rate calculating part configured to calculate a flow rate based on the measurement pressure value and a calculation pressure value calculated by the pressure calculating part; and an abnormality diagnosing part configured to diagnose an abnormality of the measurement flow rate value based on the measurement flow rate value and a calculation flow rate value.

The invention provides a shift register which can function normally even with an abnormal register or a broken register while suppressing the manufacturing cost as little as possible. The shift register of the invention includes n regular registers (SR(1) to SR(n)) connected in series and n output lines (L1 to Ln) corresponding to the n regular registers, r (r≦n) redundant registers (SR(n+1) to SR(n+r)) connected in series to the n regular registers, and a switch circuit for selectively connecting the regular and redundant resistors to output lines. The switch circuit connects the n regular registers to the corresponding output lines in a normal state, connects normal registers of upper and lower stages of the broken register by skipping and disabling the broken register if any, and connects normal regular registers and the same number of redundant registers as the broken registers to the n output lines.

When a signal inputted to a pixel is erased by setting potentials of a gate terminal and a source terminal of a driving transistor to be equal, a current slightly flows through the driving transistor in some cases, which leads to occur a display defect. The invention provides a display device which improves the yield while suppressing the increase in manufacturing cost. When a potential of a scan line for erasure is raised, a potential of the gate terminal of the driving transistor is raised accordingly. For example, the scan line and the gate terminal of the driving transistor are connected through a rectifying element.

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor element of good characteristics at a reduced manufacturing cost is provided. The manufacturing method of the semiconductor element includes a GaN-containing semiconductor layer forming step, an electrode layer forming step, a step of forming an Al film on the GaN-containing semiconductor layer, a step of forming a mask layer made of a material of which etching rate is smaller than that of a material of the Al film, a step of forming a ridge portion using the mask layer as a mask, a step of retreating a position of a side wall of the Al film with respect to a position of a side wall of the mask layer, a step of forming, on the side surface of the ridge portion and the top surface of the mask layer, a protective film made of a material of which etching rate is smaller than that of the material forming the Al film, and a step of removing the Al film and thereby removing the mask layer and a portion of the protective film formed on the top surface of the mask layer.

The present invention is to provide an air cleaning method and device that realize sufficient purification of polluted air, high-efficiency removal of germs or the like from polluted air, and has a relatively simplified structure.

In a case where a balloon is broken and a body fluid reversely flows into a feed / discharge tube during a suction operation of a balloon control apparatus, a pump is stopped by operation-canceling section after passing of a preset predetermined time, and the suction operation of sucking the fluid into a bottle is canceled. Thereby, the amount of recovered liquid in the bottle is limited within a predetermined capacity. Thus, even in the case where the body fluid reversely flows into the feed / discharge tube, the body fluid does not overflow from the bottle, and the body liquid can properly recovered in the bottle.

A dielectric feedhorn as a feedhorn according to the present invention, with which a feedhorn, a radio wave receiving converter and an antenna capable of suppressing an increase in manufacturing costs can be obtained, includes a chassis body including a waveguide having an opening, and a dielectric member. The dielectric member is connected to the opening of the waveguide, and constituted by dielectrics as a plurality of members.

An illumination apparatus includes a red light valve, a green light valve, a blue light valve, a polarization adjustment element, and a color combiner. The polarization adjustment element adjusts polarization of fourth color component light. The color combiner combines light emitted from the red light valve, the green light valve and the blue light valve. Superimposed component light which is any one of a red component light, a green component light and a blue component light enters the polarization adjustment element together with a fourth color component light. The polarization adjustment element transmits the superimposed component light without adjusting the polarization, and transmits the fourth color component light with adjusting the polarization. The superimposed component light and the fourth color component light emitted from the polarization adjustment element enter a specific light valve corresponding to the superimposed component light, among the red light valve, the green light valve and the blue light valve.

In a lubrication structure of a differential gear unit, a case has a guide rib that extends over a certain area with respect to a rotation path of a head of a bolt when a ring gear rotates, and that protrudes out from the case toward the head of the bolt. Also, a through-hole that extends in a vertical direction is formed in an upper portion of a hollow supporting portion, and the guide rib has an oil reservoir that curves toward an upper end opening of the through-hole.

The disclosed multilayer structure provided with at least eight resin layers is characterized by: having, as resin layers, A layers comprising a resin composition containing a gas-barrier resin, and B layers comprising a resin composition containing a thermoplastic resin; containing a metal salt within at least one of the resin compositions of the adjacent A layers and B layers; the quantity of contained metal salt being at least 1 ppm and no more than 10,000 ppm in terms of the metallic element; and the interlayer adhesive force between the A layers and the B layers being at least 450 g / 15 mm. It is preferable that the A layers and B layers are layered in alternation. Furthermore, it is preferable for the average thickness of one layer of the A layers and / or the B layers to be at least 0.01 [mu]m and no more than 10 [mu]m.

Provided are a semiconductor device wherein heat dissipating characteristics are excellent, reliability is high, and an increase of process cost load is suppressed, and a semiconductor device manufacturing method. A semiconductor device (1) is provided with an insulating substrate (12), semiconductor elements (13, 14), and a cooler (20). The cooler (20) has: a heat dissipating substrate (21) bonded to the insulating substrate (12); a plurality of fins (22) which are provided on the heat dissipating substrate (21) surface on the reverse side of the surface bonded to the insulating substrate (12); and a case (23), which houses the fins (22), and which is provided with an introducing port and a discharge port for a cooling liquid. An end portion of the heat dissipating substrate (21) is disposed in a cutout (23k) that is provided in an upper end portion of a side wall (23b) of the case (23), and the heat dissipating substrate (21) and the case (23) are bonded to each other in a liquid-tight state.

A mist is generated by scooping up cooling oil using a lower end portion of a non-load side end plate. Air containing this mist is circulated by a centrifugal fan provided to a load side end plate to form a recirculating air current flowing through first through-holes in a rotor core and through a ventilation passage on the outside of a rotor in opposite directions. According to a cooling mechanism as above, a mist generated in at least one point in the housing can be supplied with the recirculating air current to every point across a whole area within the machine. Hence, both of the rotor and a stator can be cooled efficiently with a small amount of mist.

Provided is a planar illumination device wherein the use efficiency and the brightness of light are improved while suppressing the unevenness of the brightness; the increase of the manufacturing cost is suppressed; and the thickness of the planar illumination device can be reduced. In the planar illumination device (backlight device) (20), a plurality of prisms which gradually reduce the incident angle of light with respect to the back surface (23c) of the light guiding element are provided on a light emitting surface (23b) of a light guiding element (23). A plurality of prisms (24b) are formed on a back surface (24a) of a low refractive index layer (24). The prisms (24b) reflect all of the light emitted from a LED (21) at the interface between the back face of the low refractive index layer and an air layer.

This moving parking facility is provided with: a pallet (2) which has a moving vehicle (M) placed thereon, which is moved horizontally to accommodate the moving vehicle (M) in an accommodation space, and which has a magnetic-field-transmitting region corresponding to a power-receiving coil (J) provided to a bottom surface of the moving vehicle (M); a power-supplying coil (3) which is provided to the accommodation space so as to be facing the magnetic-field-transmitting region, and which contactlessly supplies power to the power-receiving coil (J); and a foreign-substance removal unit (4) which is provided to a lower surface (2b) of the pallet (2), and which, in a state of being in contact with or separated by a constant space from an upper surface (3a) of the power-supplying coil (3), engages with foreign substances as the pallet (2) is moved, thereby removing foreign substances present on the upper surface (3a) of the power-supplying coil (3).

The invention relates to a control device of an automatic transmission. A shift position determination portion determines that operation of shifting a shift position from other range than a parking range to the parking range is conducted. A parking lock command portion causes a piston to maintain a state of being mechanically locked at a second position when the shift position is shifted to the parking range. An actuator drive command portion commands an actuator to drive the piston from the second position to a first position in a state where the position of the piston is mechanically lockedat the second position. A parking lock failure determination portion determines that the locking mechanism portion is in a failure in an unlocked state when the position of the piston goes out of thesecond position within a predetermined time after a command is issued. The device not only guarantees high reliability but also inhibits increase of manufacturing cost.

A semiconductor device comprising: a first semiconductor chip provided with a first function, including a memory element but not including a peripheral circuit; first connection terminals provided in the first semiconductor chip; a second semiconductor chip provided with a second function, including a peripheral circuit but not including a memory element; and second connection terminals provided in the second semiconductor chip, wherein the first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip are stacked on one another by causing the first connection terminals and the second connection terminals to come into contact with one another.

An ignition coil apparatus for an internal combustion engine can suppress an increase in the manufacturing cost of a terminal of a low-tension side connector resulting from variation in a wire diameter of an one end of a primary winding, and can ensure a stable fusing state. The positive terminal side fusing portion is composed of a planar portion and a turned portion that is inversely turned back from the planar portion to cooperate therewith to clamp a winding start conductor portion. A first bent portion of a radius of curvature R is formed at a base end portion of the turned portion. A second bent portion with its tip end tilted toward a planar portion is formed at an intermediate portion of the turned portion.

Main characteristic of the invention is to provide a medical instrument which can properly recover liquid even in case that the body fluid reversely flows into the feed / discharge tube, and can prohibit increasing of the manufacturing cost. In a case where a balloon is broken and a body fluid reversely flows into a feed / discharge tube during a suction operation of a balloon control apparatus, a pump is stopped by operation-canceling section after passing of a preset predetermined time, 20 seconds for example, and the suction operation of sucking the fluid into a bottle is canceled. Thereby, the amount of recovered liquid in the bottle is limited within a predetermined capacity. Thus, even in the case where the body fluid reversely flows into the feed / discharge tube, the body fluid does not overflow from the bottle, and the body liquid can properly recovered in the bottle.