Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Sony Corporation

Hitachi, Ltd.

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Fujitsu Corporation

Hitachi Vlsi Engineering Corp.

Azbil Corporation

Takashi Nakao

Ichiro Mizushima

Yukihiro Ushiku

Shuichi Samata

Akihito Yamamoto

Yuuichi Mikata

Takeo Furuhata

Kenji Yamamoto

Fumiki Aiso

Michihiko Aizawa

Yasuo Koseki

Tomihisa Ohuchi

Akira Nishiguchi

Yoshio Ozawa

Takashi Suzuki

Kimihiro Saito

Yoshitaka Tsunashima

Noriaki Nishi

Kazuhiro Sugiyama

Ken Ishii

Kenichiro Toratani

Junko Kijima

Katsuyuki Sekine

Yoshiko Hatano

Hiroaki Yoda

Motoya Kishida

Yutaka Tentaku

Kyoji Kohno

Kazuaki Iwasawa

Akiko Sekihara

Tsubasa Harada

Tsutomu Sato

Atsushi Fukumoto

Tatsuya Narahara

Yasuhito Yoshimizu

Masahiro Kiyotoshi

Isao Ichimura

Nobuhiko Ando

Masayuki Tanaka

Hideo Sato

Masato Doi

Hiroshi Sasaki

Yoshiteru Kamatani

Shinji Mori

Kanji Otsuka

Hiroaki Nakagawa

Hiroshi Itokawa

Hiroshi Akahori

Tsunetoshi Arikado

Ikuo Yoshida

Akiomi Kohno

Shinichi Kai

Shinichiro Suzuki

Daisuke Hisajima

Seiichiro Sakaguchi

Hirokazu Ishida

Masaya Horino

Hideaki Kamohara

Yoshihiko Saito

Hiroshi Akasaki

Fumiaki Nakano

Mamoru Inamura

Kunizo Sahara

Yoshiaki Emoto

Taiji Ito

Toshio Watanabe

Tadashi Ozue

Hironobu Narui

Kengo Hayasaka

Kiyoshi Ohsato

Hiroaki Yamada

Takeshi Kubo

Gakuji Hashimoto

Keisuke Nakazawa

Shigehiko Saida

Junya Shiraishi

Kiyoshi Osato

Katsuya Ebara

Toshio Sawa

Takeshi Hoshi

Junji Kajihara

Takeshi Sano

Minako Inukai

Keiichi Shibata

Junji Sukeno

Tetsuya Kai

Tamotsu Ishii

Ryuichi Kaji

Shinji Ohta

Kaori Umezawa

Kenji Yokose

Mitsuhiro Ueno

Masaki Kamimura

Yasuyuki Takeshita

Ryu Kato

Yoshitaka Nishino

Hiroshi Hatanaka

Kyohei Iwamoto

Hiroshi Miyoshi

Shuji Katsui

An optical communication device, for performing communication between spatially separated points by using one or more laser beams, includes an angle correction device that corrects a direction of a light receiving system and an emission optical axis correction device, in which an angle error which is not corrected by the angle correction device is detected by a light receiving angle detection device, and the emission optical axis correction device is controlled according to a detected error amount, and an emission optical axis is corrected.

Optical communication device

An information processing apparatus including circuitry configured to acquire weight distribution information of a subject by at least one sensor, analyze the acquired weight distribution information, and initiate a providing of feedback information based on the analyzed weight distribution information.

Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and insole

A bus control circuit includes: a plurality of queues that each include a plurality of entries for storing data, a first read pointer, and a check pointer set to indicate a same entry as an entry indicated by the first read pointer, and each store data on a First in, First out basis; a plurality of first arbitration circuits that receive, in a divided manner, arbitration participation signals from the plurality of queues, each arbitrate the received plurality of arbitration participation signals, and each output one of the plurality of arbitration participation signals; a plurality of buffers that each store, on the First in, First out basis, the arbitration participation signals output from the respective first arbitration circuits; and a second arbitration circuit that arbitrates the arbitration participation signals output from the plurality of buffers and outputs an arbitration result signal corresponding to one of the plurality of queues.

Bus control circuit, information processing apparatus, and control method for bus control circuit

An optical medium reproduction apparatus for optically reproducing an optical medium, including: a detection unit for splitting a cross section of a beam returned from the optical medium into a plurality of regions and for forming respective detection signals; a multiple input adaptive equalizer having a plurality of adaptive equalizer units, wherein the respective detection signals are inputted into the adaptive equalizer units, and the outputs of the adaptive equalizer units are computed to form equalization signals; a binarization unit for binarizing the equalization signals to provide binary data; and an equalization error computing unit for determining an equalization error from equalization target signals provided based on the binary data from the binarization unit and the equalization signals, and providing the adaptive equalizer units with the equalization error as control signals for adaptive equalization.

Optical medium reproduction apparatus and method of reproducing optical medium

An LPCVD apparatus is provided with a processing chamber and a reaction cooling apparatus. The reaction cooling apparatus is placed outside the processing chamber and is configured to generate hydrogen fluoride gas by reaction of hydrogen gas and fluorine gas and to cool the hydrogen fluoride gas. The hydrogen fluoride gas cooled by the reaction cooling apparatus is supplied into the processing chamber as a cleaning gas.

Semiconductor manufacturing apparatus and method for cleaning same

There is provided an optical disc device that performs recording on a land and a groove, including an optical path splitter configured to split a luminous flux returning from an optical disc into first and second optical paths, a first detector configured to receive a whole of the luminous flux that has passed through the first optical path, a second detector configured to receive a luminous flux of an inside part of the luminous flux that has passed through the second optical path, a spherical aberration error signal generation unit configured to generate a spherical aberration error signal on the basis of a difference between a first focus error signal obtained on the basis of a detection signal of the first detector and a second focus error signal obtained on the basis of a detection signal of the second detector, a spherical aberration correction unit, and an adjustment unit.

Optical disc device and spherical aberration error signal detection method

An optical medium reproducing apparatus that optically reproduces an optical medium on which a plurality of tracks is formed in which a beam returning from the optical medium is divided into a first region of an outside portion and a second region of an inside region, according to the shape of the pupil of an object lens, and crosstalk between the tracks is reduced by using a first detection signal of the first region and a second detection signal of the second region.

Optical medium reproducing apparatus and optical medium reproducing method

A restoration apparatus restores backup data without running an operating system (OS) until a time point until which the total amount of the data read out along with the start-up of the OS and a business system remains equal to or smaller than the total amount of the data that is restorable while running the OS and the business system, and subsequently restores the backup data in parallel with the start-up of the OS and the business system.

Restoration apparatus

According to one embodiment, a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes a substrate, a stacked structural body, a semiconductor pillar, and a memory unit. The stacked structural body is provided on a major surface of the substrate. The stacked structural body includes electrode films alternately stacked with inter-electrode insulating films in a direction perpendicular to the major surface. The pillar pierces the body in the direction. The memory unit is provided at an intersection between the pillar and the electrode films. The electrode films include at least one of amorphous silicon and polysilicon. The stacked structural body includes first and second regions. A distance from the second region to the substrate is greater than a distance from the first region to the substrate. A concentration of an additive included in the electrode film in the first region is different from that included in the electrode film in the second region.

Nonvolatile semiconductor memory device and method for manufacturing same

There is provided an optical pickup including a light source, an objective lens configured to focus light from the light source onto one signal face of an optical disc, the optical disc including two or more signal faces, each of the signal faces having a groove formed therein, a photodetector configured to receive returning rays from the optical disc, the photodetector having a light receiving face divided into four light receiving regions by a dividing line that is substantially parallel to a track direction of the optical disc and by a dividing line that is substantially perpendicular to the track direction, and a shading unit disposed at an incident side of the photodetector and configured to block, of returning rays from a signal face other than the one signal face of the optical disc, at least a diffracted ray that is diffracted by the groove.

Optical pickup and optical disc device

In one embodiment, a method of cleaning a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes supplying a cleaning gas for removing a deposition film deposited on an inside wall of a treatment chamber through a supply pipe of the treatment chamber so that a supply amount of the cleaning gas from the supply pipe per unit time is greater than an exhaust amount of the cleaning gas from an exhaust pipe of the treatment chamber per unit time. The method further includes supplying an inert gas to fill the supply pipe with the inert gas.

Method of cleaning semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, and management system

A method of fabricating a semiconductor device according to one embodiment includes: exposing a surface of a semiconductor substrate to a halogen-containing gas that contains at least one of Si and Ge, the semiconductor substrate being provided with a member comprising an oxide and consisting mainly of Si; and exposing the surface of the semiconductor substrate to an atmosphere containing at least one of a Si-containing gas not containing halogen and a Ge-containing gas not containing halogen after starting exposure of the surface of the semiconductor substrate to the halogen-containing gas, thereby epitaxially growing a crystal film containing at least one of Si and Ge on the surface.

Method of fabricating semiconductor device

A nonvolatile memory device includes: a substrate; a stacked structure member including a plurality of dielectric films and a plurality of electrode films alternately stacked on the substrate and including a through-hole penetrating through the plurality of the dielectric films and the plurality of the electrode films in a stacking direction of the plurality of the dielectric films and the plurality of the electrode films; a semiconductor pillar provided in the through-hole; and a charge storage layer provided between the semiconductor pillar and each of the plurality of the electrode films. At least one of the dielectric films includes a film generating one of a compressive stress and a tensile stress, and at least one of the electrode films includes a film generating the other of the compressive stress and the tensile stress.

Stacked multiple cell nonvolatile memory device

In a manufacturing process of a semiconductor device by forming a structure film on a substrate in a reaction chamber of a manufacturing apparatus, cleaning inside the reaction chamber is performed. That is, a precoat film made of a silicon nitride film containing boron is deposited on an inner wall of the reaction chamber, a silicon nitride film not containing boron is formed as the structure film on the substrate in the reaction chamber, and the inner wall of the reaction chamber is dry etched to be cleaned. At this time, the dry etching is terminated after boron is detected in a gas exhausted from the reaction chamber.

Semiconductor device manufacturing method and semiconductor device manufacturing apparatus

A recording apparatus includes the following elements. A recording light source emits pulse laser light for recording. A first light source emits first CW laser light. An irradiation optical system irradiates an optical recording medium with the pulse laser light and the first CW laser light via an objective lens in the state in which the optical axis of the first CW laser light is tilted with respect to the optical axis of the pulse laser light. A reception optical system outputs, to a first light receiver, a returned light portion of the first CW laser light which has been reflected by a reflection surface formed on the optical recording medium and which has been input through the objective lens. A focus servo controller performs focus servo control for the objective lens on the basis of a first reception signal obtained by the first light receiver.

Recording apparatus and servo control method

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Takashi Nakao