Minolta Company, Ltd.

Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha, Ltd.

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Minolta Camera Co., Ltd.

Shiga University of Medical Science

Konica Minolta Camera, Inc.

Takashi Okada

Hisayuki Masumoto

Hiroshi Ootsuka

Masataka Hamada

Tetsuo Kohno

Hideki Nagata

Takumi Mikawa

Eiji Yamakawa

Kazuhiko Ishimaru

Hiroshi Takano

Junji Hashimura

Tougo Teramoto

Mamoru Terada

Hiromu Mukai

Koji Arita

Kenji Konno

Takehiro Katoh

Hiroyuki Matsumoto

Akira Fukushima

Kiyotaka Tsuji

Kazuhiro Yamamoto

Tetsuya Arimoto

Tetsushi Yonekawa

Hirohiko Kimura

Mitsuo Sano

Hiromu Umeda

Yoshihiro Ogawa

Tokuji Ishida

Yukio Tanaka

Katsuhiko Kumagawa

Shigeto Ohmori

Hisashi Tokumaru

Toshihiro Hamamura

Masanori Kimura

Mitsuteru Iijima

Fuminori Kato

Mitsuko Date

Kazufumi Ogawa

Takeshi Takagi

Dai Shintani

Michihiro Yamagata

Tsuguhiro Korenaga

Tetsuya Uno

Kohtaro Hayashi

Hiroyuki Okada

Hiroaki Kubo

Norihiro Imamura

Katsuyuki Nanba

Shigeo Hayashi

Yoshito Iwasawa

Shinji Tominaga

Tsutomu Honda

Masatoshi Kamitani

Hideo Kajita

Yasuhiro Hashimoto

Naoki Yoshikawa

Kiyoshi Seigenji

Hironori Kumagai

Yoshinao Taketomi

Takuma Asari

Taro Shibuya

Taku Hamamoto

Yoshimitsu Noguchi

Takashi Kato

Mitsugu Iwasa

Shigehiro Morikawa

Masanari Kato

Hiroyuki Ogura

Shunji Yuki

Toshihiko Ueki

Shinzaburo Ishikawa

Makoto Urushitani

Chiaki Takeda

Kiyoshi Tamai

Ikuo Tooyama

Hiroyasu Taguchi

Daijiro Yanagisawa

Tomone Nagae

Nobuaki Shirai

Koichi Hirao

Katsumi Kosakai

Yasuhiro Okumura

Shinya Mori

Yusuke Kobayashi

Kumiko Azuma

To provide a pesticidal solid composition which is excellent in the controlling effects with reduced labor in application operation with a smaller dose. A pesticidal solid composition, which comprises a solution having cyclaniliprole or its salt and an anionic surfactant dissolved in a polar solvent (component (1)), an oil-absorbing powder (component (2)) and a granular carrier (component (3)) (the anionic surfactant is described in the specification); and the component (1) is absorbed into or attached to at least one of the components (2) and (3).

Pesticidal solid composition containing cyclaniliprole or its salt

To provide an oil-based pesticidal suspension which suppresses foaming at the time of preparation of a spray liquid by an organic silicone type surfactant, and which has excellent pesticidal activity with a small amount of an agricultural chemical. The present invention provides an oil-based pesticidal suspension comprising (1) flonicamid or its salt, (2) an organic silicone type surfactant and (3) at least one oil-based diluting agent selected from the group consisting of a vegetable oil and its alkylated oil, and a method for controlling pests, which comprises applying the oil-based pesticidal suspension to the pests or to a place where they grow.

Oil-based pesticidal suspension

Provided are a variable resistance semiconductor memory device which changes its resistance without being affected by an underlying layer and is suitable as a memory device of increased capacity, and a method of manufacturing the same. The semiconductor memory device in the present invention includes: a first contact plug formed inside a first contact hole penetrating through a first interlayer insulating layer; a lower electrode having a flat top surface and is thicker above the first interlayer insulating layer than above the first contact plug; a variable resistance layer; and an upper electrode. The lower electrode, the variable resistance layer, and the upper electrode compose a variable resistance element.

Semiconductor memory device and method of manufacturing the same

An imaging-observation apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: an image capturing section that shoots a subject under multiple different shooting optical conditions at the same time and sequentially generates a plurality of images under those multiple different shooting optical conditions; a display control section that accepts an operator's input; an image synthesizing section that synthesizes together the plurality of images in accordance with the input to the display control section at a synthesis ratio specified by the input and sequentially generates synthetic images one after another; and a display section that presents the synthetic images.

Imaging-observation apparatus

Disclosed are a curcumin derivative or a salt thereof, which contains a fluorine atom, represented by formula (I): (wherein Rand Rare each independently a hydrogen atom, alkyl, acetyl, or methoxycarbonyl; Rs are each independently a fluorine atom, CHF&#x2014;, CF&#x2014;, CHFO&#x2014;, or CFO&#x2014;; Rs are each independently a hydrogen atom or a fluorine atom; A is alkyl, cyano, carboxyl, alkoxycarbonyl, or R&#x2014;(CH)&#x2014;; Ris hydroxy, carboxy, cyano, acetyloxy, alkoxycarbonyl, alkoxyalkoxy, hydroxyalkoxy, or CONRR; Rand Rare each independently a hydrogen atom or alkyl; and m is an integer from 1 to 5), and a diagnostic imaging agent for diagnosing a disease in which an amyloid &#x3b2; peptide aggregate accumulates, the diagnostic imaging agent containing a compound having a 1,3-dicarbonyl structure, wherein the compound exists in a keto form and an enol form, and the keto form and the enol form have different affinities, respectively, to the amyloid &#x3b2; peptide aggregate.

Imaging diagnostic agent and extracorporeal diagnostic agent for incurable neurological diseases

Provided are a substrate on which carbon nanotubes each having one end connected to the substrate can be formed at a high synthetic rate and from which the carbon nanotubes are less likely to be peeled off. The substrate is a substrate for forming the carbon nanotubes and includes a buffer layerformed on at least one of surfaces of a substrate main bodyand containing aluminum atoms and fluorine atoms. The carbon nanotube complex includes the substrate and a plurality of carbon nanotubeseach having one end connected to a surface of the buffer layer

Carbon nanotube forming substrate, carbon nanotube complex, energy device, method for manufacturing energy device, and apparatus including energy device

A memory element () arranged in matrix in a memory device and including a resistance variable element () which switches its electrical resistance value in response to a positive or negative electrical pulse applied thereto and retains the switched electrical resistance value; and a current control element () for controlling a current flowing when the electrical pulse is applied to the resistance variable element (); wherein the current control element () includes a first electrode; a second electrode; and a current control layer sandwiched between the first electrode and the second electrode; and wherein the current control layer comprises SiN, and at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode comprises &#x3b1;-tungsten.

Current control element, memory element, and fabrication method thereof

A nonvolatile memory element including a resistance variable element configured to reversibly change between a low-resistance state and a high-resistance state in response to electric signals with different polarities; and a current controlling element configured such that when a current flowing when a voltage whose absolute value is a first value which is larger than 0 and smaller than a predetermined voltage value and whose polarity is a first polarity is applied is a first current and a current flowing when a voltage whose absolute value is the first value and whose polarity is a second polarity is applied is a second current, the first current is higher than the second current, and the resistance variable element is connected with the current controlling element such that the first polarity voltage is applied to the current controlling element when the resistance variable element changes from the low-resistance to the high-resistance state.

Nonvolatile memory element, and nonvolatile memory device

A method of manufacturing a memory cell array in which first conductive layers () and second conductive layers () extend above a semiconductor substrate () and three-dimensionally cross with each other, and memory cells each of which includes a current steering element () and a variable resistance element () electrically connected in series to each other is provided at a corresponding one of three-dimensional cross points between the first conductive layers () and the second conductive layers (). The method includes: forming a first interlayer insulating film (); forming a contact hole in the interlayer insulating film (); depositing a first plug material () in the contact hole and on the first interlayer insulating film (); performing a first polishing in which the first plug material () is polished until the first interlayer insulating film () is exposed; depositing a conductive film () that becomes a first electrode () of the current steering element (), on the first plug material () and the first interlayer insulating film () after the first polishing; and performing a second polishing in which a surface of the conductive film () is polished.

Memory cell array, nonvolatile storage device, memory cell, and method of manufacturing memory cell array

In a current rectifying element (), a barrier height &#x3c6;A of a center region () of a barrier layer () in a thickness direction thereof sandwiched between a first electrode layer () and a second electrode layer () is formed to be larger than a barrier height &#x3c6;B of a region in the vicinity of an interface () between the barrier layer () and the first electrode layer () and an interface () between the barrier layer () and the second electrode layer (). The barrier layer () has, for example, a triple-layer structure of barrier layers (), () and (). The barrier layers (), () and () are, for example, formed by SiN layers of SiNx, SiNx, and SiNx(X1&#x3c;X2). Therefore, the barrier layer () has a barrier height in which the shape changes in a stepwise manner and the height of the center regionis large.

Current rectifying element, memory device incorporating current rectifying element, and fabrication method thereof

A nonvolatile memory element comprises a resistance variable elementconfigured to reversibly change between a low-resistance state and a high-resistance state in response to electric signals with different polarities which are applied thereto; and a current controlling elementconfigured such that when a current flowing when a voltage whose absolute value is a first value as a desired value which is larger than 0 and smaller than a predetermined voltage value and whose polarity is a first polarity is applied is a first current and a current flowing when a voltage whose absolute value is the first value and whose polarity is a second polarity different from the first polarity is applied is a second current, the first current is higher than the second current, and the resistance variable element is connected in series with the current controlling element such that a polarity of a voltage applied to the current controlling element when the resistance variable element is changed from the low-resistance state to the high-resistance state is the first polarity.

To provide cytokine production inhibitors useful as preventive or therapeutic medicines for diseases accompanied by hyperactivated immune functions. A cytokine production inhibitor containing, as an active ingredient, a thioamide compound represented by the formula (I) or a salt thereof: wherein A is N, NO, C&#x2014;NOor C&#x2014;CN; Hal is a halogen; Mis alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkenyl, aryl, heterocyclyl, amino, O, S, SO or SO; Mis amino, O, S or a single bond; Ris a halogen, alkyl or the like; each of R, R, Rand Ris independently H, alkyl or the like; Ris a halogen, alkyl or the like; Cy is cycloalkyl, cycloalkenyl, aryl or heterocyclyl; each of k, p and q is independently an integer of from 0 to 3; and r is an integer of from 0 to 5.

Thioamides and salts thereof and cytokine production inhibitors containing both

A taking lens apparatus includes a zoom lens system that is composed of a plurality of lens units and that achieves zooming by varying the distances between the lens units and an image sensor that converts the optical image formed by the zoom lens system into an electrical signal. The zoom lens system has, from the object side,: a first lens unit having a negative optical power, a second lens unit disposed on the image side of the first lens unit and having a negative optical power, a third lens unit disposed on the image side of the second lens unit and having a positive optical power, a fourth lens unit disposed on the image side of the third lens unit and having a positive optical power, and a fifth lens unit disposed on the image side of the fourth lens unit and having a positive optical power. During zooming, the first lens unit remains stationary relative to the image sensor, and the second and third lens units move.

Taking lens apparatus

The present invention provides a cytokine production inhibitor containing as an active ingredient an aniline derivative of the formula (I) or a salt thereof: [wherein A is CO or SO; Cy is an aryl group or a heterocyclic group; each of Rand Rwhich are independent of each other, is a halogen atom, a cyano group, a nitro group, an alkyl group which may be substituted, an alkenyl group which may be substituted, an alkynyl group which may be substituted, a cycloalkyl group which may be substituted, a cycloalkenyl group which may be substituted, an aryl group which may be substituted, a heterocyclic group which may be substituted, an amino group which may be substituted or a &#x2014;B-Q group; Ris a -M-M-Rgroup; Ris a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group which may be substituted; x is an integer of from 0 to 5; y is an integer of from 0 to 4; and z is an integer of from 0 to 1].

Aniline derivatives or salts thereof and cytokine production inhibitors containing the same

Disclosed is a display capable of improving uniformity of luminance and chroma in a plane of a display panel. When point at which the light source is turned ON is represented by T, transmittance in a display region onto which the video signals are being written at the point Tis represented by M, point at which the light source is turned OFF is represented by T, transmittance in the display region onto which the video signals are being written at point Tis represented by M, a maximum value of the transmittance in the display region of the light modulation element in a period during which the light source is ON is represented by M, and the write period is represented by Twrite, the illuminating device control portion is adapted to control the illuminating device so as to satisfy a formula given by [|M&#x2212;M|Twrite]/[M(T&#x2212;T)]&#x2266;0.92.

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Takashi Okada