Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes: an insulating base; a semiconductor element provided on the insulating base; a protector provided on the semiconductor element; and a frame provided on a periphery of the insulating base and surrounding the semiconductor element. A region inside the frame is filled with a sealing resin, and at least one groove is provided in an upper corner portion of the frame on the semiconductor element side of the frame.
Abstract:
A tabular form element arrangement data describing the arrangement of various component elements constituting a production system along the work flow in a combination of process identification names with component element names, is prepared. Element definition files describing programs for simulating the operations of various component elements are prepared. A program preparation unit sequentially reads component element names combined with process identification names from the element arrangement data and sequentially reads the element definition files corresponding to the read component element names. A variable array containing variables described in respective element definition files is prepared simultaneously along with an initial process program array containing programs described in respective definition files and a simulation program array. The initial process programs contained in the initial process program array are executed to correspond variables referring to each other and the operations of various component elements constituting a production system are simulated.
Abstract:
A laser processing apparatus is provided with a first laser oscillator for laser CVD and a second laser oscillator for laser repair in a laser oscillation section. Either one of the first or second laser beam is irradiated by switching the first and second laser oscillators by a laser oscillator switch portion of a main body section. An optical path forming member is disposed such that the first or second laser beam, whichever is irradiated, will take the same optical path and reach a sample, after passing a common slit, to perform laser processing on the sample. Further, an objective lens is configured to be switched to an objective lens having a magnification corresponding to a wavelength of the laser beam irradiated from the laser oscillation section by an objective lens switch section of an objective lens section.
Abstract:
A polyamide with excellent stretching properties is disclosed, which comprises 50 to 99.8 mol % of a unit derived from a lactam and/or an aminocarboxylic acid, 0.1 to 25 mol % of a unit derived from a dicarboxylic acid, and 0.1 to 25 mol % of a unit derived from a diamine component containing 10 to 100 mol % of at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a branched saturated diamine having 6 to 22 carbon atoms, a branched alicyclic diamine having 6 to 16 carbon atoms, and a norbornanediamine.
Abstract:
This invention provides a paint composition which comprises a film-forming resin component comprising from 65 to 95 parts by weight of a hydroxyl-containing polyester resin (A) having a number average molecular weight of from 1,500 to 35,000, a glass transition temperature of from −30° C. to 60° C. and a hydroxyl value of from 3 to 100 mg KOH/g; and 5-35 parts by weight of a melamine resin crosslinking agent (B) which is a methylolated melamine resin whose methylol groups are alkyl etherified, at least 20% of the total number of methylol groups therein having been etherified with a C6-C12 alkyl group; and (C) 0.1 to 2.0 parts by weight, per 100 parts by weight of the total resin component, of a curing catalyst. The paint composition excels in popping resistance, and can form paint film of favorable hardness, formability, curability (solvent resistance) and adhesion.
Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a distance measuring apparatus comprising an irradiation unit for generating an electromagnetic wave, a receiving unit for receiving a reflected wave of the electromagnetic wave reflected by an object of measurement and generating a reception signal, and a propagation delay time measuring unit for measuring a propagation delay time by counting the number of pulses of a pulse train having a predetermined frequency. The propagation delay time is the time between the time that the irradiation unit irradiates the electromagnetic wave and the time that the reflected wave is received by the receiving unit. The vehicle distance measuring apparatus further comprises an electric discharge unit for performing an electric discharge from the time that the reflected wave is received by the receiving unit, a discharge-voltage measuring unit for measuring a discharge voltage of the discharge unit, and a distance computing unit for correcting the counted number of pulses, based on the propagation delay time and the measured discharge voltage, and computing a distance to the object.
Abstract:
A vehicle following apparatus with a distance measuring function is provided in which once the driver roughly sets a vehicle following window on a display screen, the exact position and size of the window can be automatically adjusted so as to locate the image of a target preceding vehicle as sensed in the center of the window, and in which the distance to the target preceding vehicle can be successively measured in an exact manner while following the target vehicle. A pair of image sensors sense an object from two different points to form a pair of first and second images thereof. A window forming means defines a vehicle-following window of a variable size within the first images. A memory successively stores an image in the vehicle-following window. An image processor finds, from the first images at a current time, a new image which is the most similar to the image stored in the memory at a previous time. The image processor defines a provisional window containing therein the thus found new image. A controller not only calculates the distance to the preceding vehicle, but also adjusts the location of the provisional window to form a new window so that the new window thus formed contains the most number of horizontal lines. To this end, using the provisional window, differences between vertically adjacent image signals within the provisional window are summed up over the horizontal length of the provisional window to extract horizontal lines in the provisional window, so that the new window is defined based on a vertical position maximimizing the sum of the differences.
Abstract:
A process for recovering uranium and/or thorium from a liquid containing uranium and/or thorium is disclosed, which comprises capturing the uranium and/or thorium in the liquid by an amorphous silica precipitate formed by adding water glass to the liquid, making the captured uranium and/or thorium eluted from the precipitate by acid-treatment, recovering the eluted uranium and/or thorium as an acidic solution, and regenerating the precipitate to water glass by use of an alkali metal hydroxide solution. Thus, the uranium and/or thorium can be recovered in high yield and the amorphous silica precipitate, that is, a formed radioactive solid waste can be remarkably reduced.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes: an insulating base; a semiconductor element provided on the insulating base; a protector provided on the semiconductor element; and a frame provided on a periphery of the insulating base and surrounding the semiconductor element. A region inside the frame is filled with a sealing resin, and at least one groove is provided in an upper corner portion of the frame on the semiconductor element side of the frame.
Abstract:
A bright and dark field switching device, according to the present invention, comprises a glare-proof filter 31 and a condenser lens 32 for a dark field, a guide mechanism 40, and a switching mechanism 60. The glare-proof filter 31 and the condenser lens 32 for a dark field are arranged on both sides with an optical path L of an illuminating optical system interposed therebetween. The guide mechanism 40 holds the glare-proof filter 31 and the condenser lens 32 for a dark field such that they can be moved to the optical path L and can be returned from the optical path L. The switching mechanism 60 moves the glare-proof filter 31 and the condenser lens 32 for a dark field to the optical path L and returns them from the optical path L. Further, the switching mechanism 60 moves the glare-proof filter 31 together so as to position the same on the optical path L only when returning the condenser lens 32 for a dark field from the optical path L.