Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Sony Corporation

Nissan Motor Company Limited

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Henkel Corporation

International Business Machines Corporation

Renault S.a.s.

Hiroyuki Wada

Naoya Kaneda

Masahide Hirasawa

Hirofumi Suda

Nobuhiko Umezu

Koichi Tatsuki

Michio Oka

Ayumu Taguchi

Kenji Kondo

Shigeru Ogino

Makoto Takatoku

Hitoshi Tamada

Minehiro Tonosaki

Yutaka Imai

Susumu Maeshima

Tadaki Mano

Tadashi Hattori

Kazuya Nakada

Tetsuo Abe

Akifumi Ooshima

Hiroshi Komatsu

Takashi Kawabata

Akihiro Fujiwara

Nobuhiro Takeda

Shigeo Kubota

Tatsuya Yaguchi

Hideyuki Arai

Junichi Murakami

Hisashi Masuda

Masaki Higashihara

Tatsuzo Ushiro

Takao Mori

Yoshiyuki Fukumoto

Shigeo Ogura

Masashi Sato

Shuichi Terada

Hiroyuki Tamaki

Youichi Iwasaki

Masaru Sugita

Hiroyuki Takahara

Yoshiki Kino

Yukiyasu Sugano

Yukinobu Moriya

Tsuneo Takashima

Akinobu Moriyama

Katsumi Azusawa

Shigeru Takeshita

Harunobu Ichinose

Takahiro Oya

Kazuya Matsuda

Miho Sugiyama

Yukio Miura

Yoshimi Hirata

Satoshi Takaichi

Tetsuro Yasukawa

Yoshiyuki Noguchi

Masamitsu Satake

Eiji Isomura

Koichi Ohmori

Masako Mitani

Mitsuru Nakamura

Makoto Uragaki

Tomohiro Ishiguro

Masataka Ebe

Yasuyuki Kato

Yoshifumi Mizuno

Yuushi Kaneda

Kazuko Iwatsuki

The fuel cell system includes a fuel cell, a first injection device associated with a supply of a fuel to the fuel cell, and a second injection device provided on an upstream side of the first injection device in a fuel flow passage from a fuel storage unit to the first injection device. The first and second injection devices switch a flow passage extending downstream from the fuel flow passage, between a first flow passage via the first injection device and second flow passage via the second injection device. The second injection device operates at a lower frequency than the first injection device during an operation of the fuel system.

Fuel cell system and method of operating the same

A method for controlling a catalytic combustion apparatus having a heater capable of heating fuel to be supplied to a catalyst includes a step of supplying oxidant gas to the catalytic combustion apparatus, and an injection step of injecting the fuel into the catalytic combustion apparatus. The injection step also includes an electric power feeding step of supplying electric power to the heater, and a setting step of setting an injection amount of the fuel to be injected into the catalytic combustion apparatus in response to output of the heater.

Control method for a catalytic combustion apparatus and a catalytic combustion system

A short-circuit prediction device for predicting the presence or absence of occurrence of an internal short circuit in a secondary battery is provided. The secondary battery has a positive electrode, a solid electrolyte, and a negative electrode that contains a lithium alloy. The short-circuit prediction device includes a measurement instrument that measures AC impedance of the secondary battery and a controller that predicts the internal short circuit in the secondary battery. The measurement instrument calculates electrolyte resistance of the secondary battery and reaction resistance of the secondary battery from the AC impedance. When a change rate of the electrolyte resistance per a predetermined period is within a predetermined range and the reaction resistance becomes higher than a predetermined upper limit, the controller predicts that there is a possibility of occurrence of the internal short circuit.

Secondary battery short-circuiting assessment device, short-circuiting assessment method, and short-circuiting assessment system

To provide a color mixing inspection method, a color mixing inspection apparatus and a print apparatus capable of carrying out a color mixing inspection at low cost for the inspection with high detection ability. To that end, an evaluation pattern is irradiated with light having a color complementary to color mixed into the evaluation pattern to emphasize the color mixing and measure lightness, thereby determining the presence of color mixing.

Color mixing inspection method, color mixing inspection apparatus and print apparatus

A vibration wave driven apparatus includes a vibrator configured to generate vibration, a rotor configured to be in frictional contact with the vibrator and to rotate about an axis of rotation, and a transmitting member configured to rotate about the axis and to transmit rotation of the rotor to an external component. A part of the transmitting member forms a worm portion of a worm gear.

Vibration wave driven apparatus and image pickup apparatus including vibration wave driven apparatus

A cartridge having an ejection head for ejecting medicine and a reservoir as integral parts thereof is provided with an electric connection section on a lower surface of a junction forming section thereof to be brought into contact with an inhaler body. As the cartridge is put into the inhaler body and secured to the latter by means of a cartridge fixing member, the electric connection section of the cartridge is brought into contact with an electric connection section arranged on a top surface of a cartridge mounting section of the inhaler body to establish electric connection between the cartridge and the inhaler body.

Inhaler

This invention provides an exposure apparatus configured to expose a pattern of an original on a substrate through a projection optical system. The apparatus comprises a holding unit configured to hold the projection optical system, at least three anti-vibration mounts configured to support the holding unit, and at least three supporting members configured to support the at least three anti-vibration mounts respectively. The at least three supporting members are independent of each other without connecting to each other.

Exposure apparatus and device manufacturing method

A processor and program for analyzing network trace with the use of data packets transmitted via a network includes: a memory sectionfor storing trace data generated from the data packets; a packet analyzing sectionfor retrieving a pair of packets belonging to the same session from the trace data to generate an order relation between nodes; an array data generating sectionfor using packet pair data and order relation data to generate and store array data used for estimating time difference of the specific time axis of each node; and a solution engine sectionfor calculating an estimated value of the time difference with the use of the array data to store the estimated value in a memory.

Method for analyzing network trace, method for judging order among nodes, processor for analyzing network trace, computer-executable program for controlling computer as processor, and method for correcting time difference among nodes in network

A driving device includes a stepping motor for causing the light-amount adjusting member to open and close so as to adjust an amount of light passing through an optical system. A driving range where the light-amount adjusting member is actually used for effecting light amount adjustment is set to a range exceeding an electrical angle 360&#xb0; of the stepping motor. A mechanical abutment portion is provided at a position outside the driving range, and a portion of the light-amount adjusting member is brought into abutment with the mechanical abutment portion when an initial reset of the stepping motor is performed. The light-amount adjusting member is brought to a position a predetermined distance away from the mechanical abutment portion when a light-amount adjusting function of the light-amount adjusting member is stopped.

Driving device and light-amount adjusting device provided with the same

A lens drive mechanism, enabled to move lens holding member in a stable state, is disclosed. The lens drive mechanism comprises: first and second guide members, each extending in a predetermined direction; a first lens holding member holding a first lens and including a first cam follower portion and a first sleeve portion which engages with the first guide member and is guided in the predetermined direction; a second lens holding member holding a second lens and including a second cam follower portion and a second sleeve portion, which engages with the second guide member and is guided in the predetermined direction; and a cam member engaging with the first and second cam follower portions and driving the first and second lens holding members.

Lens drive mechanism and image-taking apparatus

A lens barrel includes a lens-holding cylinder which supports a lens and is provided with a cam-follower and a rectilinear key; a cam-cylinder having a cam-groove which engages with the cam-follower so as to apply a driving force to the lens-holding cylinder in the optical-axis direction; and a guide cylinder which is enclosed by the cam-cylinder and has a rectilinear guide opening that engages with the rectilinear key so as to guide the lens-holding cylinder in the optical-axis direction. A segment of the cam-cylinder adjacent to an object to be photographed has a greater wall thickness such that the cam-cylinder has a level difference. A portion of the guide cylinder adjacent to an object to be photographed, which corresponds to the level difference of the cam-cylinder, is made thinner by the amount of the level difference.

Lens barrel having cam-cylinder with cam-groove and varying thickness, lens barrel having guide-cylinder with varying wall thickness, and lens barrel having the cam-cylinder and the guide-cylinder

Lens barrel having cam-cylinder with cam-groove and varying wall thickness, lens barrel having guide-cylinder with varying wall thickness, and lens barrel having the cam-cylinder and the guide-cylinder

The state of a polysilicon film formed by excimer laser annealing an amorphous silicon film is to be evaluated. When the amorphous silicon film is annealed to form a polysilicon film, linearity or periodicity presents itself in the spatial structure of the film surface of the polysilicon film formed depending on the energy applied to the amorphous silicon during annealing. This linearity or periodicity is processed as an image and represented numerically from the image by exploiting the linearity or periodicity. The state of the polysilicon film is checked based on the numerical results.

Polysilicon evaluating method, polysilicon inspection apparatus and method for preparation of thin film transistor

A film scanner irradiates a film with visible light and infrared light to read image data. Infrared image data and visible light image data are compared, and any shift therebetween is corrected to accurately specify a dust particle/flaw region.

Image reading apparatus and method, and storage medium

A polysilicon film evaluation apparatus is provided which enables objective automatic evaluation of the status of a polysilicon film, as formed to a high accuracy in a contact-free fashion. To this end, there is provided a polysilicon film evaluation apparatus including a stage on which to set a substrate W carrying a polysilicon film, an optical system for observation with the visible light for illuminating the visible light on a substrate W on the stage to photograph a surface image of the polysilicon film on the substrate W to effect auto-focusing, an optical system for observation with UV light for illuminating the UV light on the substrate on the stage to acquire a surface image of the polysilicon film of the substrate, auto-focused using the optical system for observation with the visible light, and an evaluating unit for evaluating the linearity and periodicity of a spatial structure of the film surface of the polysilicon film, from a surface image of the polysilicon film obtained by the optical system for observation with UV light, to evaluate the status of the polysilicon film based on the results of evaluation of the linearity and periodicity.

Apparatus for evaluating polysilicon film

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Kanagawa, Japan

Hiroyuki Wada