PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce a positioning error to position an object precisely.

SOLUTION: An observation part 102 finds a tolerance function of information about the object, based on an image; an estimation part 104 estimates a posterior distribution of the information about the object, based on the tolerance function of the information about the object and a predicted prior distributi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pneumatic liquid level detection system capable of automatically cleaning an air supply pipe, without the need to consider the influence of a gas flow loss during a measurement.

SOLUTION: The pneumatic liquid level detection system feeds air with a constant pressure into a tank through the air supply pipe by operating a pump at a constant cycle (SP1), meas...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To clean an elevation wire 11 and a sensor part 13 with an easy configuration.

SOLUTION: In the waiting position of the sensor part 13, a cleaning part 9 having 24 nozzles is provided in all the periphery. When all of the 3 pairs of light receiving elements do not detect light a sensing part 5 determines that an interface appears, opens an electromagnetic valve 17 and ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a test method for a power supply control integrated circuit device which is unaffected by switching noise.

SOLUTION: An IC circuit section 10 includes a series resistance circuit comprising a built-in reference voltage source 11, an error amplifier 12, a PWM comparator 13, and resistors R1, R2 and a triangular wave oscillator, a drive circuit, or the like, w...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an infrared sensor unit that is excellent in insulation performance and can be miniaturized.

SOLUTION: In the infrared sensor unit, a thermal type infrared sensor and a semiconductor device corresponding to this are formed on a common semiconductor base. An insulating upper layer is applied onto the semiconductor base to cover the semiconductor device formed...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a scanning type laser microscope that has a plurality of optical systems, the laser microscope being designed such that the effects of the optical systems on one another are eliminated and an image in which temporal quantitativity is retained is obtained, and to provide a control method for the scanning type laser microscope.

SOLUTION: The scanning type lase...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To increase durability of a display device by preventing a moisture-proof film of a display element from being damaged.

SOLUTION: The display device has a display element 101, a first light-transmissive moisture-proof film 102 which is provided covering a display surface of the display element 101 and includes a film formed of an inorganic material, and a second light-...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a display apparatus and a display method for fixing relative luminance differences with time between a bright image display part and a dark image display part by controlling the drive of respective light emitting elements.

SOLUTION: In the display apparatus and the display method, the display apparatus is provided with a plurality of light emitting elements ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a toner supply roller restraining the deterioration in image quality to be little even when printing is repeated, and having high durability by sufficiently scraping and supplying residual toner on a developing roller even if the density of material of a foaming layer is low, and to provide an image forming apparatus.

SOLUTION: The toner supply roller having...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To highly accurately measure the condition of a substance in two or more depths with high frequency.

SOLUTION: A scanning disk 32 in which 10 pieces of the adjustment glasses 34a to 34j of different thicknesses are arranged in circle is disposed between a micro-passage 12 and an objective lens 22. A motor 38 is provided for rotating the scanning disk 32. When the adjus...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electrophotographic photoreceptor having high durability, high sensitivity and excellent potential stability during repeated use, and hardly causing decrease in the sensitivity even when light at a wavelength of 380 to 450 nm is used as exposure light.

SOLUTION: The electrophotographic photoreceptor comprises a conductive support, and from the support sid...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a credit card fare adjustment system for making it difficult to leak personal information.

SOLUTION: A PC for managing a fare adjustment terminal is provided with a fare adjustment information storage part 21 in which fare adjustment information is stored and a card information storage part 22 in which the card information of a credit car read by the fare ad...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an IC tag which comprises an invisible information recording/erasing means and a visible information recording/erasing means capable of writing and erasing with non-contact, has flexibility, and can be small-sized.

SOLUTION: The present invention relates to an IC tag which includes an invisible information recording/erasing means and a visible information re...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a position detection device which detects a three-dimensional position of a detection object.

SOLUTION: In a calculation processor 33, respective distances between three quantum type infrared sensors A, B and C, and a finger are calculated from output signal intensities of the three quantum type infrared sensors A, B and C arranged in a right triangle-like f...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an integrated circuit apparatus and electronic equipment in which control of P type and N type MOS transistors constituting a transfer gate connected to a memory cell at the time of reading and erasing modes and programming can be changed to secure breakdown voltage and a sub-word line decoder which can be reduced in area is mounted.

SOLUTION: A first transf...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor device capable of ensuring the reliability of both gate insulation films, and to provide a manufacturing method thereof.

SOLUTION: The semiconductor device 100 has an N-channel transistor 101 and a P-channel transistor 102 which are formed as vertical MOS transistors of trench gate structures on the same semiconductor substrate 10. Gate insul...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor device in which a semiconductor chip can be highly accurately die-bonded on s substrate.

SOLUTION: The semiconductor device is provided with the semiconductor chip, and an island on which the semiconductor chip is die-bonded by a die bonding material. A coating layer with the die bonding material hardly wettable than the island is formed on o...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To control punch through that occurs at the lower part of Fin in a Fin-type MISFET (Metal Insulator Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor).

SOLUTION: For example, Fin 12 is arranged as an element region on the surface of a Si substrate 11. Then, source drain diffusion layers 23a and 23b are formed in the Fin 12. A channel section is formed between the source drain diff...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new use of 2-deoxyribose 5-phosphate aldolase (DERA) and to provide a modified type DERA suitable for the new use and to provide a nucleic acid, etc., encoding the DERA.

SOLUTION: The method for synthesis of a β-ketol by one step aldol reaction uses the DERA as a catalyst. The modified type DERA comprises an amino acid sequence in which one or more amino a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a player to have sufficient interest and to use the system of winning and losing decision whose using object is tended to be limited before in various games by incorporating various elements in a game as superiority judgement in spite of a simple system by continuous hitting of a button or the like.

SOLUTION: The video game device comprises: a means for contr...