Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Matsushita Electronics Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Japan Science and Technology Agency

Tetsuya Ueda

Shinji Miyauchi

Eiji Tamaoka

Kousaku Yano

Nobuo Aoi

Satoshi Ueda

Akinari Nakamura

Kohsaku Yano

Masataka Ozeki

Takeshi Harada

Masashi Hamanaka

Hideaki Yoshida

Kunihiro Ukai

Takeshi Tomizawa

Noboru Nomura

Hideo Ohara

Kiyoshi Taguchi

Naoki Suzuki

Takashi Uehara

Teruhito Ohnishi

Jiro Suzuki

Hiroshi Nishimura

Shunsuke Isono

Tomoyasu Murakami

Kiichi Koike

Terumaru Harada

Andrey Porokhnyuk

Hiroyuki Zimbo

Masayuki Endo

Yoshikazu Tanaka

Hideo Nakagawa

Osamu Ogawa

Takashi Matsuda

Akinori Yukimasa

Seiji Fujihara

Akira Maenishi

Masafumi Kubota

Hiroshi Masuda

Masao Yamamoto

Hiroyuki Umimoto

Yoshiaki Yamamoto

Tomonori Asou

Yuka Terai

Shinichi Domae

Toshiyuki Shono

Shuji Hirao

Michinari Yamanaka

Yutaka Yoshida

Atsuhiro Yamano

Takuya Kotanagi

Takato Handa

Ippei Oda

Shuichi Mayumi

Kenji Taki

Kazuhiro Taniguchi

Koichiro Kitagawa

Tetsuo Satake

Takashi Hyakushima

Yasuyo Sugimoto

Tsutomu Katou

Hideo Nakagwa

Tatsuo Nakayama

Tsukasa Hattori

Nobou Aoi

Teruhito Onishi

Yashikazu Tanaka

In a circularly polarized wave antenna apparatus including a non-reciprocal transmission line apparatus having forward and backward propagation constants different from each other, the non-reciprocal transmission line apparatus includes a transmission line part for a microwave, a series branch circuit equivalently including a capacitive element, and a shunt branch circuit branched from the transmission line part and equivalently includes an inductive element. The non-reciprocal transmission line apparatus is formed in a nonlinear shape and magnetized in a magnetization direction different from a propagation direction of the microwave. The non-reciprocal transmission line apparatus includes first and second reflectors provided at both ends of the non-reciprocal transmission line apparatus, respectively, and reflecting a signal; and satisfies that a phase difference between each pair of line parts located at positions opposed to each other across a substantially central part of the non-reciprocal transmission line apparatus is substantially 180 degrees.

Non-reciprocal transmission apparatus with different backward and forward propagation constants, provided for circularly polarized wave antenna apparatus

When a phase constant in a first mode of propagation in the forward direction is &#x3b2;, and a phase constant in a second mode of propagation in the backward direction is &#x3b2;, respective first and second electrical lengths of stub conductors are set so that a function of nonreciprocal phase shift amount &#x3b2;=(&#x3b2;&#x2212;&#x3b2;)/2 with respect to an operating angular frequency comes close to a function &#x3b2;with respect to an operating angular frequency, when beam squint of such a phenomenon that a radiation direction of electromagnetic waves radiated from a nonreciprocal transmission line apparatus changes in accordance with frequency does not occur in the vicinity of an intersection of a dispersion curve representing a relation between the phase constant &#x3b2;and the operating angular frequency and a dispersion curve representing a relation between the phase constant &#x3b2;and the operating angular frequency.

Nonreciprocal transmission line apparatus whose propagation constants in forward and backward directions are different from each other

A solid-state imaging device according to the present disclosure includes: a pixel region which includes: pixel plugs formed above and electrically connected to a charge accumulation and diffusion layer, the pixel plugs respectively corresponding to pixels; lower pixel electrodes formed on and electrically connected to the pixel plugs, respectively, the lower pixel electrodes respectively corresponding to the pixels; an organic photoelectric conversion film formed on and electrically connected to the lower pixel electrodes; and an upper pixel electrode formed on and electrically connected to the organic photoelectric conversion film, and in which top surfaces of a global interconnect, a light shielding film, and a first AI pad formed in an uppermost layer of a multilayer interconnect structure disposed in a peripheral region is above a bottom surface of the organic photoelectric conversion film, the peripheral region being peripheral to the pixel region.

Solid-state imaging device and method of manufacturing the same

An insulating layer is layered above a substrate, and a plurality of pixel electrodes are formed above the insulating layer in a matrix with intervals therebetween. A photoelectric conversion layer and an opposing electrode are formed in respective order above the pixel electrodes. A dummy layer is formed above the insulating layer in a region that in plan-view is more peripheral than a pixel region in which the pixel electrodes are formed. The dummy layer is formed from the same material as the pixel electrodes. The dummy layer is composed of a plurality of dummy layer portions that are each equal to each of the pixel electrodes in terms of size in plan-view. The dummy layer functions as a support layer for planarization during polishing by chemical mechanical polishing.

Solid-state imaging apparatus and method for manufacturing same

A control method for drying clothes is disclosed. The method finds a difference in surface temperature between clothes catching air blow and the same clothes catching no air blow, and then determines a degree of dryness in the clothes based on the difference. Based on the degree of dryness, the method determines at what time heating should start.

Method for controlling drying of clothes and dryer for clothes

A method of operating fuel cell system includes generating electricity by a fuel cell using fuel gas and oxidizing gas and allowing cooling water to flow in the fuel cell and thereby cooling the fuel cell. The method includes transferring moisture from exhaust gas to supply gas using a first humidifier, the exhaust gas being discharged from the fuel cell, the supply gas being supplied to the fuel cell, and transferring moisture from the cooling water to the supply gas humidified using a second humidifier. The method includes at least one of detecting humidity of the supply gas humidified, detecting temperature of the cooking water, detecting the flow rate of the supply gas and detecting the amount of electricity generated by the fuel cell. The method also includes controlling the humidity of the supply gas humidified based on the value detected.

Fuel cell system operation method

A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes the steps of forming a plurality of lower interconnections at intervals in a first insulating film; removing a portion of the first insulating film located between the lower interconnections, thereby forming an interconnection-to-interconnection gap; forming a second insulating film over the first insulating film in which the lower interconnections and the interconnection-to-interconnection gap are formed such that an air gap is formed out of the interconnection-to-interconnection gap; and forming, in the second insulating film, a connection portion connected to one of the lower interconnections and an upper interconnection connected to the connection portion. The connection portion is formed to be connected to one of the lower interconnections not adjacent to the air gap.

Method for fabricating semiconductor device and semiconductor device

A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes the steps of: forming a plurality of lower interconnections at intervals in a first insulating film; removing a portion of the first insulating film located between the lower interconnections, thereby forming an interconnection-to-interconnection gap; forming a second insulating film over the first insulating film in which the lower interconnections and the interconnection-to-interconnection gap are formed such that an air gap is formed out of the interconnection-to-interconnection gap; and forming, in the second insulating film, a connection portion connected to one of the lower interconnections and an upper interconnection connected to the connection portion. The connection portion is formed to be connected to one of the lower interconnections not adjacent to the air gap.

There is disclosed a fuel cell system according to the invention comprising; a material gas feeder (); a reformer (); a fuel cell (); a combustor (); communication passages (A-E); and a controller (),

Fuel cell system and operation method thereof

Method and fabricating semiconductor device and semiconductor device

A method of operating a fuel cell cogeneration system comprises the steps of cooling a fuel cell by circulating an internal heat transfer medium through the fuel cell while the fuel cell is generating electric power, storing an external heat transfer medium in a heat utilization portion, detecting remaining calories of the heat utilization portion by a first detector provided at the heat utilization portion, increasing a temperature of the fuel cell to an operating temperature by carrying out a first temperature increasing operation, and increasing the temperature of the fuel cell to the operating temperature by carrying out a second temperature increasing operation.

Fuel cell cogeneration system, method of operating

A method of operating a fuel cell system includes step a) of providing a package accommodating a fuel cell stack and a hydrogen-rich gas supply configured to supply hydrogen-rich gas, step b) of detecting leakage of a combustible gas, comprised of the hydrogen-rich gas or a raw fuel gas, using a combustible gas detector, step c) of injecting the combustible gas intermittently into the package through a combustible gas guide pipe, and step d) of determining whether or not detection sensitivity of the combustible gas is proper based on an output value of the combustible gas detector when step c) is preformed.

Method of operating a fuel cell system by detecting leakage of a combustible gas

A cogeneration system of the present invention includes: an electric power generator (); a cooling circuit () configured to cool the electric power generator () with a first heat transfer medium; a heat exchanger () provided on the cooling circuit (); an exhaust heat recovery circuit () through which a second heat transfer medium that exchanges heat with the first heat transfer medium via the heat exchanger () flows; a heat storage unit () connected to the exhaust heat recovery circuit () and configured to store the second heat transfer medium that has undergone a heat exchange by the heat exchanger (); and a controller (), wherein a first temperature sensor (), and a heater to which electric power is supplied from the electric power generator (), are connected, in this order, downstream of the heat exchanger () in a direction in which the second heat transfer medium flows, and the controller () controls a flow rate of a circulating pump () so that, based on a temperature detected by the first temperature sensor (), the detected temperature becomes a predetermined target temperature. In addition to preventing water temperature decrease in heat recovery and ensuring safety, this configuration can keep water temperature high at all times.

Cogeneration system

Semiconductor device with a low dielectric constant film between lower interconnections

It has heretofore been practiced upon the occurrence of abnormalities on the equipment to make tentative conditioned operation disregarding abnormalities on the assumption that the abnormalities shall be coped with by servicemen. Thus, troubles having insignificant contents of abnormality could not be readily coped with by a simple method. There are provided a fuel cell, a fuel gas supplying unit, an oxidizer gas supplying unit, a state detecting unit of detecting the temperature of the fuel gas supplying unit, an operation controlling unit of detecting abnormalities of predetermined functions performed by the fuel gas supplying unit utilizing the results detected by the state detecting unit and performing operation control in an operation mode corresponding to the contents of abnormalities, and an operation mode switching unit of switching to an operation mode corresponding to the contents of abnormalities.

Systems for controlling operation of a fuel cell electricity generating system responsive to detection of abnormalities

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Osaka, Japan

Tetsuya Ueda