Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Tokyo Medical and Dental University

Japan Science and Technology Agency

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Hiroshi Deguchi

Hajime Yuzurihara

Yoshiyuki Kageyama

Katsuyuki Yamada

Kazunori Ito

Makoto Harigaya

Eiko Hibino

Mikiko Abe

Hiroshi Miura

Hiroko Iwasaki

Yukio Ide

Hiroko Ohkura

Masaetsu Takahashi

Masaki Kato

Michiaki Shinotsuka

Hiroyoshi Sekiguchi

Hiroko Tashiro

Yoshitaka Hayashi

Yujiro Kaneko

Michiharu Abe

Shinya Narumi

Masaru Shinkai

Kenji Kameyama

Shigenori Kawabata

Mikiko Takada

Koji Yamaguchi

Nobuaki Onagi

Satoshi Taniguchi

Yasutomo Aman

Katsunari Hanaoka

Takumi Yamaga

Wataru Ohtani

Takeshi Kibe

Shunichi Matsumoto

Kiyoto Shibata

Seiichi Oseto

Takafumi Ishibe

Yoshinori Okada

Toshiaki Tokita

Yoshihisa Naijo

Kensuke Yamamoto

Motoharu Tanaka

Takashi Shibaguchi

Atsuyuki Watada

Mikio Kinoshita

Hiroyuki Iwasa

Taishi Watanabe

Kawori Tanaka

Seiichi Ohseto

Miku Mizutani

Yuki Miyano

Yoshiko Kurosawa

Shuta Ushio

Osamu Nonoyama

Hiroko Okura

Shigenobu Seki

Mikiko Kawasakidaishi Park Familia 403 Abe

A biomagnetic measurement apparatus includes a table on which a subject is placed; a biomagnetic detector configured to detect a biomagnetic field of the subject; a supporter configured to support a detection target region from which the biomagnetic field of the subject is detected; a radiation detector provided below the supporter; and a position changer configured to change relative positions of the biomagnetic detector and the detection target region. The supporter has a surface shape that corresponds to a surface of the biomagnetic detector.

Biomagnetic measurement apparatus, biological information measurement apparatus, and biomagnetic measurement method

A magnetic measuring apparatus includes an inclination gantry including a mount surface and an inclined surface that is inclined with respect to the mount surface, a cryostat disposed on the inclined surface, a cryocooling system connected to the cryostat, a sensor tube connected to the cryostat and including a curved surface that does not curve in a predetermined direction and curves in a direction orthogonal to the predetermined direction such that a center of the curved surface protrudes with respect to side edges of the curved surface, and a magnetic sensor that measures biomagnetism and is housed in the sensor tube such that a sensor surface of the magnetic sensor faces the curved surface. The sensor surface is inclined with respect to the mount surface in a direction that is the same as a direction in which the inclined surface is inclined.

Magnetic measuring apparatus

A nerve stimulation apparatus is provided. The nerve stimulation apparatus detects nerve activities from a body surface and applies stimulation. The nerve stimulation apparatus includes a stimulation apparatus with multiple electrodes which are arranged on skin and a current supply unit which supplies a current to the electrodes, which stimulation apparatus provides the current to a living body percutaneously to stimulate a target nerve; a measurement apparatus which measures activities of muscles governed by the nerve according to the stimulation from the stimulation apparatus; and an information processing apparatus which determines, based on a measurement result of the nerve activities obtained from the measurement apparatus, which electrode is capable of providing the target nerve activities equal to or greater than a desired value.

Nerve stimulation apparatus and biomagnetic field measurement system

A data storage unit of a data editing apparatus stores both a base indicating a data attribute and a data value in association with each other as data to be edited. A code acquisition unit acquires a user code, which is a code described in a first program language for describing data editing details by intensive notation and which describes editing details for the data to be edited that are based on the base. A code generation unit generates, in accordance with a predetermined correspondence relationship between a second program language for describing data editing details by extensive notation and the first program language, an execution code described in the second program language based on the user code. An editing processing unit edits the data to be edited in accordance with the execution code.

Data editing device and data editing method

An energy event recording apparatus is mounted on each of a plurality of equipment installed at a business facility. When a change in the amount of the flow or stock of energy is detected in the apparatus mounted, each of a plurality of the energy event recording apparatuses records journal information, which associates the amount of change to a debit side item and a credit side item, respectively, and notifies an energy management server of the journal information. The energy management server calculates pieces of journal information conveyed from a plurality of recording apparatuses, respectively, based on the debit side item and the credit side item.

Information processing system and recording device

According to one embodiment, CONTROLLER includes a phase comparator that receives a data strobe signal outputted from a memory in response to a read enable signal, and a delayed data strobe signal formed by applying a delay to the data strobe signal, and outputs a result of comparison between phases of two signals. The controller also includes a Duty control unit that corrects a Duty of the read enable signal outputted to the memory based upon the comparison result of the phase comparator.

Controller

According to an embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a power supply switch and a first regulator. One end of the power supply switch is connected to an input terminal. The other end of the power supply switch is connected to an output terminal. The first regulator includes a power supply terminal connected to the one end of the power supply switch, and a voltage output terminal connected to the other end of the power supply switch. The first regulator is configured to control a voltage of the voltage output terminal to approach a target voltage based on a voltage of the power supply terminal. The target voltage is switched to a first voltage or a second voltage. The first voltage is equal to or more than the voltage of the power supply terminal. The second voltage is lower than the voltage of the power supply terminal.

Semiconductor device and memory system comprising the same

The present invention provides a method for forming a pattern, containing: stacking a master having at least a two-dimensional pattern or a three-dimensional pattern formed thereon and a pattern-transferring material containing at least a recording layer which changes a state thereof as light is transmitted thereto; and transmitting light to the recording layer so as to transfer the pattern of the master onto the recording layer.

Pattern and method for forming the same

An optical recording medium contains a recording layer being composed of a phase-change recording material where at least four elements, Ga, Sb, Sn and Ge are contained and the transfer linear velocity is 20 m/s to 30 m/s, and when the wavelength of a recording/reproducing light is within the range of 650 nm to 665 nm and the recording linear velocity is 20 m/s to 28 m/s, the refractive index Nc and the extinction coefficient Kc in a crystalline state and the refractive index Na and the extinction coefficient Ka in an amorphous state in the recording layer respectively satisfy the following numerical expressions: 2.0&#x2266;Nc&#x2266;3.0, 4.0&#x2266;Kc&#x2266;5.0, 4.0&#x2266;Na&#x2266;5.0, and 2.5&#x2266;Ka&#x2266;3.1, and information is recordable at the range of 20 m/s to 28 m/s of recording linear velocity.

Optical recording medium

An optical recording medium having first protective layer, recording layer, second protective layer, and reflective layer, wherein the recording layer contains a phase-change material represented by Formula (1&#x2033;1), Formula (1-2), or Formula (1-3); the second protective layer contains one selected from zinc oxides, indium oxides, tin oxides, mixtures thereof, and materials Formula (2), and materials Formula (3). Formula (1&#x2033;1): InSbX1(X1: Ge, Te, Zn, Mn, or mixture thereof, 0.10&#x2266;&#x3b1;1&#x2266;0.25, 0.65&#x2266;&#x3b2;1&#x2266;0.80, and 0.04&#x2266;&#x3b3;1&#x2266;0.15) Formula (1-2): GaSbSnGeX2(X2: Te, Zn, Mn, In, or mixture thereof, 0.04&#x2266;&#x3b1;2&#x2266;0.09, 0.56&#x2266;62&#x2266;0.79, 0.05&#x2266;&#x3b3;2&#x3c;0.30, 0.03&#x2266;&#x3b4;2&#x2266;0.19, and 0&#x2266;&#x2208;2&#x2266;0.09) Formula (1-3): MnSbSnGeX3(X3: Te, In, Zn, Bi, or mixture thereof, 0.04&#x2266;&#x3b1;3&#x2266;0.09, 0.56&#x2266;63&#x2266;0.79, 0.05&#x2266;&#x3b3;3&#x2266;0.29, 0.03&#x2266;&#x3b4;3&#x2266;0.23, and 0&#x2266;&#x2208;3&#x2266;0.09) Formula (2): ZnO&#x2014;Al&#x2014;Y [(100&#x2212;&#x3b1;4&#x2212;64):&#x3b1;4:&#x3b2;4] (Y: Mn, Ge, Ti, or mixture thereof, 0.5&#x2266;&#x3b1;4&#x2266;10.0, and 0&#x2266;B4&#x2266;25.0) Formula (3): ZnO&#x2014;AlO&#x2014;Z [(100&#x2212;&#x3b1;5&#x2212;65):&#x3b1;5:&#x3b2;5] (Z: Mn oxide, Ge oxide, Ti oxide, or mixture thereof, 0.5&#x2266;&#x3b1;5&#x2266;10.0, and 0&#x2266;65&#x2266;30.0).

To provide an optical recording medium in which error-causing short marks are produced in numbers small enough excellent high-recording characteristics and in which amorphous marks are uniform in shape. The optical recording medium includes: a first protective layer; a recording layer containing Sb as a main ingredient; a second protective layer; and a reflective layer, the first protective layer, the recording layer, the second protective layer and the reflective layer being provided in the order in which light passes through the medium for recording and reproduction of information, wherein the first protective layer and/or the second protective layer, both of which are in contact with the recording layer, are/is formed of a crystalline oxide.

An oscillator circuit generates a constant delay time by use of a current source and a load element to determine a frequency of a clock. The oscillator circuit includes an integrator which integrates the clock, a first comparator which compares an output voltage of the integrator with a reference voltage, and a variable current source which changes a current in accordance with the comparison result of the first comparator. The frequency is corrected in accordance with the current of the variable current source.

Oscillator circuit and memory system

A recording method of an optical recording medium comprises irradiating the medium with a laser having m pulse sets each comprising a heating pulse and a cooling pulse, in which m is a natural number; and scanning the medium with the laser at a scanning speed v to record marks each of a length nT, in which n is a natural number of 3 or more and T is a clock cycle, wherein a length Tof a final cooling pulse is determined in accordance with the scanning speed v using the following functions, in v&#x3c;v, T/T=f(v) in v v, T/T=f(v), where the f(v) and f(v) each represents a continuous function of the scanning speed v and satisfies the condition where an existence ratio of abnormal marks is 1.0&#xd7;10or less, and vis a selectable scanning speed.

Optical recording medium, recording method thereof and evaluation method of optical recording medium

To provide a method of recording information to an optical recording medium comprising recording a mark of time length nT (n: natural number of 3 or more, T: clock cycle) in an optical recording medium capable of supporting different recording speeds and having constant information line density, and irradiating the optical recording medium, the optical recording medium irradiated with light of alternating mheating pulses of power Pw and mcooling pulses of power Pc (where mis a natural number smaller than n) provided v&#x3c;v(where v is a scanning speed and vis a scanning speed unique to each optical recording medium), the optical recording medium irradiated with light of alternating mheating pulses of power Pw and mcooling pulses of power Pc (where mis a natural number smaller than n) provided v&#x2267;v, wherein the condition n/m&#x2267;n/mis satisfied.

Optical recording medium and method of recording to the same

The phase-change optical recording medium having a substrate, and at least a first protective layer, a recording layer composed of a phase-change material, a second protective layer and a reflective layer disposed on the substrate in this sequence has a maximum recording linear velocity Vof 20 m/s to 60 m/s, a range of linear velocity recordable even when the recording linear velocity is continuously changed of 0.3Vto 1.0V, and no occurrence of crystals causing a reproduction error in recorded marks.

Phase-change optical recording medium and recording and reproducing method thereof

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