摘要:
In an apparatus for controlling supply power to a conductive porous carrier of a catalyst converter for cleaning an emission, a moisture determiner determines whether moisture is contained in and/or on the conductive porous carrier. A power controller controls supply power to the conductive porous carrier for energization of the conductive porous carrier such that a value of the supply power to the conductive porous carrier when it is determined that the moisture is contained in and/or on the conductive porous carrier is lower than a value of the supply power to the conductive porous carrier when it is determined that the moisture is not contained in and/or on the conductive porous carrier.
摘要:
An interlayer insulating film is formed on the upper surface of a semiconductor substrate, and lower-level interconnects are formed in the interlayer insulating film. A liner insulating film is formed on the upper surfaces of the interlayer insulating film and lower-level interconnects. An interlayer insulating film is formed on the upper surface of the liner insulating film. Upper-level interconnects are formed in the interlayer insulating film. The lower-level interconnects and the upper-level interconnects are connected with each other through vias. Parts of the liner insulating film formed in via-adjacent regions have a greater thickness than a part thereof formed outside the via-adjacent regions.
摘要:
After a first insulating film is formed on a substrate, a wiring groove is formed in the first insulating film, and then a wire is formed inside the wiring groove. Subsequently, a protection film is formed on the first insulating film and on the wire, and then a hard mask film is formed on the protection film. After that, the hard mask film is patterned. Subsequently, the protection film and the first insulating film are partially removed using the patterned hard mask film to form an air gap groove, and then a second insulating film is formed to close an upper portion of the air gap groove for forming an air gap.
摘要:
A structure has a printed board carried by a metal chassis. A printed board carrying chassis analyzing system, a printed board carrying chassis analyzing method, a printed board carrying chassis structure, and a printed board carrying chassis analyzing program are provided to achieve a screw-fastened arrangement for predicting unnecessary radiation frequencies and for reducing unnecessary radiation. An equivalent circuit model including a printed board power and ground plane pair, a pair of confronting surfaces of a printed board and a chassis, and screw-fastened grounding posts is generated and analyzed to predict unnecessary radiation frequencies and unnecessary radiation reductions and to select a screw-fastened arrangement for reducing unnecessary radiation.
摘要:
An imaging apparatus for recording an imaging result on a recording medium includes an imaging device operable to obtain an imaging result; an optical system operable to form an optical image on an imaging plane of the imaging device; a first motion detector operable to detect a movement of the imaging apparatus and to output a detection result; and a recorder operable to record the imaging result, together with the detection result, on the recording medium.
摘要:
An image processing apparatus and method is disclosed wherein a plurality of images having different aspect ratios can be displayed with minimized distortion on the same display screen. An image processing apparatus records a thumbnail image with an aspect ratio of 4:3. When a thumbnail image whose aspect ratio is corrected from 16:9 to 4:3 is to be displayed on a display screen whose aspect ratio is 4:3, the thumbnail image is reduced so as to have a heightwise dimension reduced to ¾. On the other hand, when a thumbnail image whose aspect ratio remains 4:3 and is not corrected is to be displayed on a display screen whose aspect ratio is 16:9, the thumbnail image is reduced so as to have a widthwise dimension reduced to ¾. The present invention can be applied to a digital video camera.
摘要:
A variable valve mechanism performs a valve lift switching operation for an intake valve. ECU defines valve lift switching characteristics corresponding to the engine operating region and executes the valve lift switching operation based on the switching characteristics. ECU calculates a parameter fluctuation amount of an engine occurring in response to the valve lift switching operation, and corrects the valve lift switching characteristics when the calculated parameter fluctuation amount exceeds a predetermined judgment value.
摘要:
After a thin first conductive film is formed on a barrier film having a crystal structure, a second conductive film is formed on the first conductive film. Thereafter, the first conductive film and the second conductive film are heated such that the first and second conductive films are integrated to form a third conductive film.
摘要:
After a plurality of grooves are formed in an insulating film and in an antireflection film on the insulating film, a barrier metal film and a conductive film are deposited on the anti-reflection film such that each of the grooves is filled. Subsequently, the portions of the conductive film outside the grooves are removed by a first polishing step and then the portions of the barrier metal film outside the grooves are removed by polishing. Thereafter, foreign matter adhered to the surface of the anti-reflection film is removed and a third polishing step is conducted on the surface of the anti-reflection film using an abrasive agent of the same type as used in the first polishing step of the conductive film.
摘要:
The present invention provides a packet transfer system for use in an ATM network, which can realize a high-speed packet transfer by implementing a packet transfer process by hardware and also can enhance the throughput of the packet transfer process implemented by software. This packet transfer system comprises a hardware processing portion, which a memory, a packet assembling portion for causing the memory to store a packet assembled from an ATM cell received from a main circuit or an expansion circuit, a higher layer processing portion for performing higher layer processing portion according to header information sent from the packet assembling portion, and a packet determining/transmitting portion for transmitting a packet, which is determined according to a result of the higher layer processing in the higher layer processing portion as required to undergo packet processing, to an expansion circuit and for transmitting a packet, which is determined according to the result of the higher layer processing as not required to undergo packet processing, in a form of an ATM cell to a main circuit. The packet transfer system may further comprises a software processing portion, which has a second memory, a cell assembling/disassembling portion for assembling the ATM cell received from the expansion circuit into a packet, for causing the second memory to store the assembled packet, for reading the packet stored in the second memory and for transmitting the read packet in the form of an ATM cell to the expansion circuit, a packet processing portion for performing packet processing on a packet, which is received in the second memory, by software.