Abstract:
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes growing a first GaN layer on a SiC substrate, and forming a second GaN layer on the first GaN layer, the second GaN layer being grown under such conditions that a ratio of a vertical growth rate to a horizontal growth rate is lower than that in the growth of the first GaN layer.
Abstract:
An optical-pickup apparatus includes: a laser diode; an objective lens; a diffraction grating; a photodetector including main-beam-, first-sub-beam-, and second-sub-beam-light-receiving portions; a quarter-wave plate having either a second area allowing a reflected-laser beam to pass therethrough without polarization or a third area allowing the reflected beam to pass therethrough at a polarization angle different from that of the first area; and a polarizing member having a separate-light-amount ratio set therefor with respect to the reflected beams passing through the second or third area and an area excluding the second or third area from the first area, such that proportions of the reflected beams passing therethrough toward the photodetector are different, thereby decreasing an irradiation level when the first- and second-sub-beam-light-receiving portions are irradiated, as stray light, with the reflected beam reflected from either one, not subjected to a signal-reading operation, of the first- and second-signal-recording layers of an optical disc.
Abstract:
A firewall apparatus including plural virtual firewalls, each virtual firewall including a dependent firewall policy, is disclosed. The firewall apparatus includes: a distribution management table for managing a user name and a virtual firewall ID; a part configured to receive authentication information for network connection from a user terminal, and hold a user name included in the authentication information; a part configured to report the authentication information to the authentication server; and a part configured to receive an authentication response from the authentication server, and hold a user ID, included in the authentication response, to be provided to the user terminal. The firewall apparatus registers the user ID in the distribution management table associating the user ID with the user name.
Abstract:
A fluid filled engine mount including: a pressure-receiving chamber and an equilibrium chamber connected via a first orifice passage tuned to excite resonance of fluid flowing therethrough to engine shakes; a partition rubber plate partially defining a pressure receiving chamber and tuned to perform absorption of a fluid pressure fluctuation in the pressure-receiving chamber to booming noises; an oscillating chamber connected to the pressure receiving chamber via a second orifice passage tuned to excite resonance of the fluid flowing therethrough to idling vibrations; an oscillating rubber elastic plate having an expansion spring smaller than that of the partition rubber plate and defining the oscillating chamber; a working air chamber applied with air pressure fluctuation with a frequency corresponding to the idling vibration during idling, and to make the working air chamber atmospheric pressure during running.
Abstract:
An information processor for preventing information contained in a file, which has a first area storing first data, a second area storing second data and a third area, from being lost when a format of the file is transformed includes extension unit for extending the second area, a first storage for storing the first data, which is stored in the first area, in the third area, a format analyzer for reconstructing the second data stored in the second area on the basis of a first format and an extended area storage for storing the reconstructed second data in the extended second area.
Abstract:
A vibration controller includes a data map storage, a detector, a determiner, a signal generator, and an actuator. The data map storage stores amplitude and/or phase data with respect to torque values of a vehicle engine as a data map in advance. The detector detects actual torque values of the vehicle engine. The determiner determines one of the amplitude and/or phase data with respect to one of the actual torque values based on the data map. The signal generator generates a control signal based on cyclic pulsating signals emitted from the vehicle engine, and updates the amplitude and/or phase of the control signal based on the one of the determined amplitude and/or phase data. The actuator actuates an electromagnetic actuator of an active vibration insulator based on the updated control signal, whereby inhibiting vibrations of the vehicle engine from transmitting by means of vibrating forces exerted by the electromagnetic actuator.
Abstract:
A method for actuating active vibration insulators includes the steps of generating an idling control signal in an idling range of a vehicle, generating a running control signal in a running range of the vehicle, and actuating an electromagnetic actuator of an active vibration insulator based on the idling control signal or the running control signal, thereby inhibiting vibrations of a vehicle engine from transmitting by the electromagnetic actuator. The idling control signal is produced by adding a higher order harmonic signal component with respect to a control frequency, based on a cyclic pulsating signal emitted from the vehicle engine, to a fundamental-wave signal component of the control frequency. The running control signal is composed of the fundamental-wave signal component of the control signal. The method can inhibit noises from generating by actuating simple electromagnetic actuators, and can damp vibrations of vehicle engines simply and less expensively.
Abstract:
A vibration controller includes an input signal generator for generating input signals based on cyclically pulsating signals emitted from a vibration generating source, an actuating waveform detector for detecting actuating waveforms of an electromagnetic actuator of active vibration insulators, a waveform analyzer for determining higher harmonic component datum information by carrying out a waveform analysis, a higher harmonic component signal generator for generating higher harmonic component signals of the actuating waveforms based on the higher harmonic component datum information, a higher harmonic component signal remover for removing the higher harmonic component signals from the input signals and outputting the resulting processed input signals, and an actuator for receiving the processed input signals, generating output signals based on the processed input signals and actuating the electromagnetic actuator in accordance with the output signals. Thus, it is possible to inhibit the vibration generating source from vibrating effectively and less expensively.
Abstract:
At one end of the hose body 55 formed by the thin cylindrical wall, and straight end portion 54 extending straightly and an annular groove 56 integrally mold-formed on an outer peripheral surface of the straight end portion 54 are provided. An connecting member 60 for connecting the one end of the hose body 55 with the mating member has a cylindrical portion 61 secured on an outer peripheral surface of the straight end portion 54 coaxially. When the straight end portion 54 onto which the cylindrical portion 61 is secured is inserted into the straight end portion 54, a first engaging element 60b extending radially outwardly from the cylindrical portion 61 engages with a second engaging element 77 protruded from the opened end portion 76 radially outwardly.
Abstract:
The gas filter module of the invention has: a housing which has a gas inlet port at one end and a gas outlet port at another end, and which is divided into two portions in a longitudinal direction; a filter body consisting of a porous ceramics member which is loaded into the housing and through which an inflow gas passes; and a ring-like support member consisting of dense ceramics which is fittingly coupled to a step portion formed inside the housing and which is joined to the filter body. The ring-like support member is fixed via two metal O-rings to a fixing gap of the step portion of the housing.