Hitachi, Ltd.

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

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Bridgestone Tire Company Limited

Jasco Corporation

Sumitomo Metal Industries, Inc.

Sumco Corporation

Sumitomo Mitsubishi Silicon Corporation

Ecology Development Corp.

Hiroshi Hayakawa

Junji Akimoto

Shinya Takeuchi

Kazuyuki Egashira

Akira Shirasu

Takayuki Furo

Tetsuo Nagano

Takaki Kuroda

Hiroki Murakami

Kazuya Kikuchi

Yoshihito Narita

So Suzuki

Makoto Ito

Kunimitsu Kataoka

Nobumitsu Takase

Takashi Takusagawa

Takashi Fukuda

Hideshi Nishikawa

Nobumasa Ikeda

Yuichi Miyoshi

Masahiko Okui

Minoru Togashi

Toshio Kita

Sakae Ezura

Sakae Higashidate

Tsuneaki Sugimoto

Yasushi Idemoto

Yoshiharu Goto

Tokuji Maeda

Akira Emoto

Yasuhiko Takahashi

Kelly Garret

Yoshinori Shirakawa

Akemi Kawashima

Masaaki Hirobe

Norihito Kijima

Yasunobu Hirata

A reflective polarized-light separating diffraction-element including a substrate, a reflection surface formed on a surface of the substrate, and a lattice structured body assembly that is provided on the reflection surface and exhibits a form birefringence (Δn*). The lattice structured body assembly includes lattice structured bodies of a plurality of patterns having lattice structures of different azimuths, and these lattice structured bodies of a plurality of patterns are aligned in a predetermined direction on the reflection surface so that the azimuths of the lattice structures change in a structurally periodic manner.

Reflective polarized light separation and diffraction element and optical measurement device comprising same

Disclosed is an evaluation system for evaluating a resource operation of an information system by a user. The evaluation system includes one or more arithmetic units, and one or more storage devices. The one or more storage devices are configured to store risk management information for managing an erroneous operation risk evaluation index relating to the resource operation of the information system. The one or more arithmetic units are configured to: receive operation information indicating a first resource operation designated by a first user, and evaluate an erroneous operation risk of the first resource operation based on the first resource operation and the risk management information.

Evaluation system for evaluating resource operation of information system by user

To automate processing of agent software which operates in a storage apparatus. A storage system includes: a storage apparatus including a storage device which stores data and one or two or more pieces of agent software, and a controller for controlling the agent software; and a server that transmits and receives information to and from the storage apparatus via a network, wherein the controller: activates the agent software and monitors a status of the agent software; and causes the agent software to execute processing on condition that the status of the agent software is standby.

Storage system and information processing method by storage system

A composite oxide which includes lithium, at least one of calcium and magnesium, and nickel and manganese, and has a lithium-excess layered rock-salt structure, and a cathode active material and a lithium secondary battery which contain the composite oxide.

Cathode material and lithium secondary battery using same as cathode

Provided is a performance information management system which includes a target apparatus having a plurality of components as monitoring targets and a management computer for managing the target apparatus and which manages performance information of the target apparatus with the management computer, wherein the target apparatus is capable of acquiring performance information for each monitoring target, and the management computer is configured to: allocate an initial storage area of which capacity differs for each monitoring target to each of the monitoring targets; detect depletion of a storage area allocated to a monitoring target when attempting to store the performance information of the monitoring target to the storage area; additionally allocate a consecutive storage area with a prescribed capacity to the monitoring target with the depleted storage area; and store the performance information of the monitoring target in the additionally-allocated storage area.

Performance information management system, management computer, and performance information management method

A method of producing a titanium oxide, including the steps of: ion-exchanging a sodium titanium oxide NaTiO, to synthesize LiTiO; subjecting LiTiOto proton exchange, to give HTiO; and subjecting HTiO, as a starting material, to a heat treatment.

Titanium oxide and method of producing the same

The present invention relates to a novel compound characterized by having a one-dimensional tunnel structure and being represented by the chemical formula HTiO, a method for manufacturing the same, and a lithium secondary battery containing, as a constituent thereof, an electrode produced by using the novel titanium oxide as an active material, and expected to demonstrate superior charge/discharge cycle characteristics over a long period of time as well as high capacity.

Titanium oxide, method for manufacturing the same, and lithium secondary battery using the same as active material

The liquid surface position of the melt in the crucible in the silicon single crystal growth process utilizing the Czochralski method is monitored using the melt surface position on the occasion of seeding as a reference position and an estimated melt surface position can be calculated according to every situation, so that the distance between the melt and the thermal shield or water-cooling structure can be controlled with high precision. When the estimated melt surface position passes a preset upper limit and approaches the thermal shield, an alarm goes off and, further, when the melt comes into contact with the thermal shield or approaches the water-cooling structure, an alarm goes off if desired and, at the same time, the crucible is forcedly stopped from moving, so that a serious accident such as steam-incurred explosion resulting from the melt coming into contact with the water-cooling structure can be prevented. Accordingly, the apparatus can be widely applied as a melt surface position monitoring apparatus making it possible to safely operate any silicon single crystal growth apparatus utilizing the Czochralski method.

Melt surface position monitoring apparatus in silicon single crystal growth process

A silicon annealed wafer having a sufficient thick layer free from COP defects on the surface, and a sufficient uniform BMD density in the inside can be produced by annealing either a base material wafer having nitrogen at a concentration of less than 1&#xd7;10atoms/cm, COP defects having a size of 0.1 &#x3bc;m or less in the highest frequency of occurrence and no COP defects having a size of 0.2 &#x3bc;m or more, oxygen precipitates at a density of 1&#xd7;10counts/cmor more, and BMDs (oxygen precipitates), where the ratio of the maximum to the minimum of the BMD density in the radial direction of the wafer is 3 or less, or a base material wafer grown at specific average temperature gradients within specific temperature ranges and specific cooling times for a single crystal at a nitrogen concentration of less than 1&#xd7;10atoms/cm, employing the Czochralski method. Moreover, a silicon epitaxial wafer having very small defects and a uniform BMD distribution in the inside can be formed by growing an epitaxial layer on the surface of either the first type base material wafer or the second type base material wafer. Both the silicon annealed wafer and the silicon epitaxial wafer greatly reduce the rate of producing defective devices, thereby enabling the device productivity to be enhanced.

Silicon annealed wafer and silicon epitaxial wafer

A method of producing high-quality and large-diameter single crystals by the Czochralski method is disclosed which can provide wafers with a minimized number of such grown-in defects as dislocation clusters and laser scattering tomography defects. Specifically, it is a method of producing silicon single crystals which comprises carrying out the crystal pulling while maintaining the solid-melt interface during pulling in the shape of an upward convex with the central portion of the interface being higher by at least 5 mm than the peripheral region thereof and while applying a magnetic field, and optionally in addition to the above, while maintaining the temperature gradient in the direction of axis of pulling in the peripheral region at a level lower than that in the central portion in the range of from the melting point to 1,200&deg; C. In this case, it is desirable that the portion of the single crystal surface lying at least 50 mm above the melt surface be shielded from direct radiant heat from the heater and/or crucible wall, that a horizontal magnetic field of 0.08 to 0.3 T be applied in parallel with the melt surface or a cusped magnetic field showing an intensity of 0.02 to 0.07 T at a crucible wall site on the melt surface be applied and that the crucible be rotated at a speed of not more than 5 min and the single crystal at a speed of not less than 13 min .

Method of producing high-quality silicon single crystals

An appliance for supporting carriage of a cylindrical article which consists essentially of two proximate triangular prisms portion comprising a curved loading face of a cylindrical article with fold lines, a beam plane and a perpendicular plane and a base plane portion, wherein said two proximate triangular prisms portion is formed in the state approached to each other in parallel by bending both ends of a square cardboard sheet to a proximate triangle form in cross section toward inside of the square cardboard sheet and a floated space is formed between said two beam planes of said two proximate triangular prisms portion and said base plane portion during loading of a cylindrical article.

Appliance for supporting carriage of cylindrical article

An NO radical measuring method comprising the steps of mixing a test sample solution containing NO radicals with hydrogen peroxide or an analogous substance thereto and luminol or an analogous substance thereto, and measuring the intensity of chemiluminescence. The method enables a trace amount of NO radical to be measured with accuracy and in real time. An apparatus used for this method is also disclosed.

No radical measuring method and apparatus

A corrugated board pallet with considerable strength and simple structure. The corrugated board pallet includes: a structural reinforcing member constructed from corrugated board sheet; structural reinforcing bends formed by bending the structural reinforcing member, axes of the structural reinforcing bends in parallel with the direction that forks of a forklift vehicle are inserted in the pallet; a load carrying member constructed from corrugated cardboard sheet, the load carrying member fixed to an upper surface of the structural reinforcing member, wherein the direction that waves of the corrugated board forming the structural reinforcing member, and the load carrying member are in parallel with the direction that the forks of the forklift vehicle insert into the pallet.

Corrugated board pallet

A pneumatic radial tire for passenger cars having a low rolling resistance and an excellent wet skid resistance is disclosed. The radial tire comprises a carcass of a radial construction toroidally extending between a pair of bead cores with the ends turned thereover, a tread portion arranged outside a crown portion of the carcass and having a two laminate structure of tread base rubber and tread cap rubber, and a reinforcing belt layer embedded in the tread base rubber and superimposed about the crown portion of the carcass. The tread base rubber and tread cap rubber have resiliences of not less than 65% and not more than 60%, respectively. The tread portion has a sectional ratio of a sectional area of the tread cap rubber occupied in the equatorial section of tire to a total sectional area of the tread portion of not less than 50% and a negative ratio of not more than 45%. The belt layer has a flatness of not more than 15%.

Pneumatic radial tires for passenger cars having low rolling resistance

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Tokyo, Japan

Hiroshi Hayakawa