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20110094445 | APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING THIN-FILM SOLAR CELL - An apparatus for manufacturing a thin film solar cell of the present invention includes a film forming chamber in which a film is formed on a film formation face of a substrate using a CVD method; an electrode unit including a cathode unit having cathodes to which voltages are to be applied arranged on both sides thereof, and a pair of anodes each of which is arranged to face a different one of the cathodes, at a separation distance therefrom; a mask for covering a peripheral edge portion of the substrate; and a discharge duct installed around the cathode unit. A film formation space is formed between the cathode unit and the substrate installed on the side of the anode, an evacuation passage is formed between the mask and the cathode unit, the discharge duct and the film formation space are connected together via the evacuation passage, and a film forming gas introduced into the film formation space is evacuated from the discharge duct through the evacuation passage. | 04-28-2011 |
20110094446 | THIN-FILM SOLAR CELL MANUFACTURING APPARATUS - A thin-film solar cell manufacturing apparatus, includes: a film formation space in which a substrate is disposed so that a film formation face of the substrate is substantially parallel to a direction of gravitational force, and in which a desired film is formed on the film formation face by a CVD method; a cathode unit including cathodes to which a voltage is applied, and two or more power feeding points, the cathodes being disposed at both sides of the cathode unit; and an anode distantly disposed so as to face the cathodes that are disposed at both sides of the cathode unit. | 04-28-2011 |
20110100296 | FILM FORMATION APPARATUS - A film formation apparatus includes: a film forming chamber in which a desired film is formed on a substrate in a vacuum; a loading-ejecting chamber fixed to the film forming chamber with a first opening-closing section interposed therebetween, being capable of reducing a pressure inside the loading-ejecting chamber so as to form a vacuum atmosphere; a second opening-closing section provided at a face opposite to the face of the loading-ejecting chamber on which the first opening-closing section is provided; and a carrier holding the substrate so that a film formation face of the substrate is substantially parallel to a direction of gravitational force, wherein the carrier or the substrate passes through the second opening-closing section, and is transported to the loading-ejecting chamber and is transported from the loading-ejecting chamber; a plurality of carriers is disposed in the loading-ejecting chamber in parallel to each other; the plurality of carriers is transported in parallel between the loading-ejecting chamber and the film forming chamber; and a film is simultaneously formed on a plurality of substrates that is held by the plurality of carriers in the film forming chamber. | 05-05-2011 |
20110100297 | THIN-FILM SOLAR CELL MANUFACTURING APPARATUS - A thin-film solar cell manufacturing apparatus includes a film forming chamber that is evacuated to a reduced pressure and forms a film on a substrate using a CVD method; a loading-ejecting chamber that is connected to the film forming chamber via a first opening-closing part and that is switchable between atmospheric pressure and reduced pressure; transfer rail that is laid at the film forming chamber and the loading-ejecting chamber; a carrier that holds the substrate and moves along the transfer rail; and a carrier transfer mechanism that transfers the carrier, wherein, the carrier transfer mechanism is provided in the loading-ejecting chamber to transfer the carrier between the film forming chamber and the loading-ejecting chamber. | 05-05-2011 |
20110107969 | APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING THIN-FILM SOLAR CELL - An apparatus for manufacturing a thin film solar cell of the present invention has a film forming chamber in which a substrate is arranged so that the film formation face of the substrate is substantially parallel to the direction of gravitational force and a film is formed on the film formation face by a CVD method; an electrode unit including a cathode unit having cathodes to which voltages are to be applied arranged on both sides thereof, and a pair of anodes each of which is arranged to face the cathodes, respectively, at a separation distance therefrom; and a conveying part which supports the substrate and conveys the substrate to between the cathode and the anode facing the cathode. The separation distance is variable. | 05-12-2011 |
20110120370 | THIN-FILM SOLAR CELL MANUFACTURING APPARATUS - A thin-film solar cell manufacturing apparatus includes a film forming chamber which stores a substrate; and an electrode unit which performs film formation using a CVD method on the substrate in the film forming chamber. The electrode unit has an anode and a cathode; and a side wall portion which holds the anode and the cathode and forms a part of a wall portion of the film forming chamber, and is attachable to and detachable from the film forming chamber. | 05-26-2011 |
20110189384 | THIN-FILM SOLAR CELL MANUFACTURING APPARATUS - A thin-film solar cell manufacturing apparatus includes a film forming chamber that is evacuated to a reduced pressure and forms a film on a substrate using a CVD method; a loading-ejecting chamber that is connected to the film forming chamber via a first opening-closing part and that is switchable between atmospheric pressure and reduced pressure; a first carrier that holds a pre-processed substrate; and a second carrier that holds a post-processed substrate, wherein the loading-ejecting chamber simultaneously stores the first carrier and the second carrier. | 08-04-2011 |
20110300694 | ELECTRODE CIRCUIT, FILM FORMATION DEVICE, ELECTRODE UNIT, AND FILM FORMATION METHOD - An electrode circuit for plasma CVD includes: an alternating-current source; a matching circuit that is connected to the alternating-current source; and parallel plate electrodes that are constituted of a pair of an anode electrode and a cathode electrode, in which the anode electrode and the cathode electrode are arranged such that electrode surfaces of the anode electrode and the cathode electrode face each other. The matching circuit, the parallel plate electrodes, and plasma generated by the parallel plate electrodes form a balanced circuit. | 12-08-2011 |
20120015473 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD, PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE, PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE MANUFACTURING SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR USING PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE MANUFACTURING SYSTEM - A photoelectric conversion device manufacturing method manufactures a photoelectric conversion device in which a first photoelectric conversion unit and a second photoelectric conversion unit are sequentially stacked on a transparent-electroconductive film formed on a substrate. The method includes: forming each of a first p-type semiconductor layer, a first i-type semiconductor layer, a first n-type semiconductor layer, and a second p-type semiconductor layer in a plurality of first plasma CVD reaction chambers; exposing the second p-type semiconductor layer to an air atmosphere; supplying a gas including p-type impurities to inside a second plasma CVD reaction chamber before forming of the second i-type semiconductor layer; forming the second i-type semiconductor layer on the second p-type semiconductor layer that was exposed to an air atmosphere, in the second plasma CVD reaction chamber; and forming the second n-type semiconductor layer on the second i-type semiconductor layer. | 01-19-2012 |
20130199572 | FILM-FORMING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR MAINTAINING FILM-FORMING APPARATUS - Ignition sections are provided at two locations on each of lower portions of the side surfaces on both sides of a film-forming chamber so as to be provided at four locations in total. A flowing current is applied to the ignition sections when a flammable by-product is ignited. A first detecting section for measuring a pressure in the film-forming chamber is formed on the side surface of the film-forming chamber. A second detecting section is formed at the lower portion of the side surface of the film-forming chamber. A third detecting section for measuring a spatial temperature in the film-forming chamber is formed at an upper portion of the film-forming chamber. | 08-08-2013 |
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20100223360 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION OPTIMIZING APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION NETWORK ESTABLISHING METHOD USED IN THEM - A communication system comprises a communication optimizing apparatus | 09-02-2010 |
20100245156 | DISTANCE MEASURING APPARATUS AND DISTANCE MEASURING METHOD - Distance measuring apparatus has a rough distance measuring circuit ( | 09-30-2010 |
20110035659 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A display device is caused to display information indicating a pattern for determining an output target area in a web page, and an output target area in a web page that is being displayed using a browser is determined in accordance with a pattern corresponding to information instructed by a user among the displayed information. Then, an image corresponding to the determined output target area in the web page is output in a manner distinguishable from images corresponding to another area in the web page. | 02-10-2011 |
20120017181 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM - A method of controlling an image processing apparatus communicating with an image server storing first images, second images wherein one of the first images and one of the second images are managed as one image data in the image server. The method includes downloading a plurality of first images from the image server and displaying the plurality of first images; selecting at least one of the first images from the displayed plurality of first images; requesting the image server for second images associated with the selected at least one first images; and downloading the requested second images from the image server. When at least one of the second images is downloaded, a determination is made as to whether the downloaded second images correspond to the selected images, and if it is determined not, a notice indicating that the selected images can not be downloaded is displayed. | 01-19-2012 |
20120092712 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - According to the invention, when a Web page in which a plurality of elements included in a structured document have been arranged is arranged to a page and output, information indicating corresponding positions of the plurality of elements arranged in the Web page in the page in which the Web page is arranged is obtained. The element(s) to be arranged to two pages among the plurality of elements arranged in the Web page are detected based on the obtained information. Whether the element(s) as detected is divided and arranged to the two pages or the element(s) is arranged to one of the two pages is determined, according to contents of the element(s). At least a part of the element(s) is arranged to one of the two pages according to the determination. An image corresponding to the page in which at least a part of the element(s) has been arranged is output. Thus, a layout of the elements to each page can be properly determined according to the contents of the element(s) and the image can be output. | 04-19-2012 |
20120256782 | IMMERSION NOZZLE USED FOR MEASURING LEVEL OF MOLTEN METAL AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING LEVEL OF MOLTEN METAL - An immersion nozzle used for measuring a level of molten metal, wherein a first conductive portion and a second conductive portion which are made of carbon are imbedded in a pair of slots which are provided on the surface of the immersion nozzle separately from each other and along the longitudinal direction in such a way that the first and second conductive portions form integral parts of the surface of the immersion nozzle. | 10-11-2012 |
20130181862 | DISTANCE MEASURING APPARATUS AND DISTANCE MEASURING METHOD - Disclosed is a distance measuring apparatus which includes: a first pulse generating means ( | 07-18-2013 |
20140091221 | APPARATUS FOR MEASURING LEVEL OF MOLTEN METAL AND METHOD FOR MEASURING LEVEL OF MOLTEN METAL - Provided is an apparatus for measuring a level of molten metal which has a simple structure and is highly robust against a change in level at a local portion of the surface of molten metal. The apparatus for measuring a level of molten metal according to a first aspect of the present invention is an apparatus which measures a level of molten metal in a mold. The apparatus includes an omnidirectional transmitting antenna; an omnidirectional receiving antenna; and a signal processor. The apparatus measures the level of molten metal in the mold using electromagnetic wave in ultra-high frequency range emitted into the mold by the omnidirectional transmitting antenna. | 04-03-2014 |
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20090189224 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND FABRICATION PROCESS THEREOF - A semiconductor device includes: an insulated gate field effect transistor of a first conductivity type as a first transistor, the first transistor having a gate insulating film and a gate electrode; and an insulated gate field effect transistor of a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type as a second transistor, the second transistor having a gate insulating film and a gate electrode. | 07-30-2009 |
20100177222 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, ITS ELECTRIC-CHARGE TRANSFER METHOD AND ITS FABRICATION METHOD - The present invention solves a smear problem caused by mixing of a noise signal with signal electric charge being transferred in an operation to transfer the signal charge obtained as a result of a process carried out on a received light beam having a large wavelength. In order to solve the problem, the present invention provides a solid-state image pickup device including a layered structure which includes photosensors and an electric-charge transfer section. The photosensors include a first photosensor ( | 07-15-2010 |
20110236694 | LAYERED STRUCTURE, FIXING MEMBER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A layered structure including a base, and an elastic layer and a release layer positioned on the base in this order, the layered structure satisfying at least one of Formula (1): an interlayer peeling force between the elastic layer and the base at a temperature of from 20° C. to 30° C. | 09-29-2011 |
20120104509 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes: a first conductivity type transistor and a second conductivity type transistor, wherein each of the first conductivity type transistor and the second conductivity type includes a gate insulating film formed on a base, a metal gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film, and side wall spacers formed at side walls of the metal gate electrode, wherein the gate insulating film is made of a high dielectric constant material, and wherein offset spacers are formed between the side walls of the metal gate electrode and the inner walls of the side wall spacers in any one of the first conductivity type transistor and the second conductivity type transistor, or offset spacers having different thicknesses are formed in the first conductivity type transistor and the second conductivity type transistor. | 05-03-2012 |
20130034374 | SLIDING MEMBER FOR FIXING DEVICE, FIXING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A sliding member for a fixing device includes a base body and a sliding sheet that is disposed on the surface of the base body and is made of cross-linked polytetrafluoroethylene provided with through holes passing therethrough in a thickness direction. | 02-07-2013 |
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20080206651 | ANODE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING IT, AND BATTERY - A battery having a high charge and discharge efficiency is provided. An anode being provided with an anode active material layer on an anode current collector, in which the anode active material layer contains silicon as an anode active material and includes a compound film having Si—O bond and Si—N bond on at least part of the surface of the anode active material layer. | 08-28-2008 |
20080305391 | ANODE AND BATTERY - A battery capable of improving cycle characteristics and a manufacturing yield is provided. An anode includes: an anode current collector; and an anode active material layer arranged on the anode current collector, in which the anode active material layer includes an anode active material including a plurality of pores, and the rate of change in the amount of mercury intruded into the plurality of pores is distributed so as to have a peak in a diameter range from 80 nm to 1200 nm both inclusive, the amount of mercury intruded being measured by mercury porosimetry. | 12-11-2008 |
20080305395 | ANODE AND SECONDARY BATTERY - A battery capable of improving cycle characteristics is provided. An anode includes: an anode current collector, and an anode active material layer arranged on the anode current collector, in which the anode active material layer includes an anode active material including silicon (Si), and including a pore group with a diameter ranging from 3 nm to 50 nm both inclusive, and the volumetric capacity per unit weight of silicon of the pore group with a diameter ranging from 3 nm to 50 nm both inclusive is 0.2 cm | 12-11-2008 |
20090061079 | EVAPORATION APPARATUS, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ANODE USING SAME, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING BATTERY USING SAME - An evaporation apparatus that is capable of stably forming a good quality thin film and is highly suitable for mass production is provided. The evaporation apparatus include an evaporation source discharging an evaporation material by heating, a retention member retaining an evaporation object, and a heat shield member that is located between the evaporation source and the evaporation object retained by the retention member, has an opening for passing the evaporation material in a state of vapor phase from the evaporation source to the evaporation object, and shields the evaporation object from part of radiation heat of the evaporation source. The heat shield member is located closer to the evaporation source than to the retention member. | 03-05-2009 |
20090148778 | ANODE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING IT, AND BATTERY - A battery having a high charge and discharge efficiency in which a spirally wound electrode body having a lamination structure of a cathode, an anode | 06-11-2009 |
20090291371 | ANODE AND SECONDARY BATTERY INCLUDING THE SAME - A secondary battery having high cycle characteristics is provided. The secondary battery includes a cathode, an anode, and an electrolyte. In the anode, an anode active material layer containing silicon, carbon, and oxygen as an anode active material is provided on an anode current collector. In the anode active material, a content of carbon is from 0.2 atomic % to 10 atomic % both inclusive, and a content of oxygen is from 0.5 atomic % to 40 atomic % both inclusive. A ratio from 0.1% to 17.29% both inclusive of the silicon contained in the anode active material exists as Si—C bond. | 11-26-2009 |
20100159337 | ANODE AND SECONDARY BATTERY - A secondary battery is provided that is capable of improving the cycle characteristics. The secondary battery includes a cathode, an anode, and an electrolytic solution. The electrolytic solution is impregnated into a separator provided between the cathode and the anode. In the anode, an anode active material layer and a compound layer are provided on both faces of an anode current collector. The anode active material layer contains a plurality of anode active material particles. The anode active material particles have a multilayer structure of an anode active material containing silicon as an element. The thickness of each layer in the multilayer structure ranges from 50 nm to 1050 nm. Thus, contact characteristics between each layer, contact characteristics between the anode active material layer and the anode current collector, and current collectivity are improved. | 06-24-2010 |
20110151326 | ANODE AND BATTERY - An anode capable of relaxing the stress concentration and improving the characteristics and a battery using it are provided. The anode includes an anode current collector and an anode active material layer containing silicon (Si) as an element, wherein the anode active material layer has a metal element increasing and decreasing region in which a metal element is contained as an element, and a concentration of the metal element is increased and then decreased in a thickness direction. | 06-23-2011 |
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20100032419 | WELDING GAN DRIVING DEVICE - A welding gun driving device is provided with an electric motor, a feed screw mechanism, and a pressure rod axially moved forward and backward via the feed screw mechanism by the electric motor. A rotor of the electric motor is formed into a hollow shape through which the pressure rod is insertable. The feed screw mechanism is provided with a screw shaft fixed to the rotor concentrically with the rotor, and a nut portion screwed to the screw shaft. The pressure rod is provided with the nut portion and a hollow rod portion extending toward the axial front from the nut portion. The rotor is provided, at its inner peripheral face, with a guide portion through which the pressure rod is inserted and supported so as to be relatively rotatable and axially slidable. | 02-11-2010 |
20110150381 | BEARING INSTALLATION STRUCTURE AND INSTALLATION METHOD - An installation structure of bearings and an installation method are provided that can reduce the amount of damage caused by tightening bearings supporting a fulcrum shaft that pivotally supports a gun arm, as well as simplify operation and maintenance. One race is fixed among an inner race and an outer race constituting a bearing, which supports a fulcrum shaft ( | 06-23-2011 |
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20120031887 | WELDING GUN - A welding gun is provided that can achieve both a size reduction and increase in pressure using a servo motor. The welding gun ( | 02-09-2012 |
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20110179719 | BACK DOOR STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE - A back door structure of a vehicle comprises an inner panel and an outer panel of a back door, a latch provided at a central portion, in a vehicle width direction, of a lower side portion of the back door, a latch opening portion formed at a latch attachment portion of the lower side portion, a reinforcing member provided at the lower side portion, the reinforcing member reinforcing a periphery of the latch opening portion, and side wall portions provided on both sides of the reinforcing member, in the vehicle width direction, the side wall portions extending in a vehicle longitudinal direction between the inner and outer panels of the back door and connecting the inner panel to the outer panel. | 07-28-2011 |
20120248814 | STRUCTURE OF LIFT GATE FOR VEHICLE - An inner panel of a lift gate includes an outer-frame forming portion comprising a pair of side edge frame portions including a pair of pillar portions and a lower end frame portion integrally formed at the side frame portions, an inner-frame forming portion formed at a lower edge portion of a window opening to connect to the outer-frame forming portion, and a panel portion covering over a portion enclosed by the outer-frame forming portion and the inner-frame forming portion. The panel portion comprises an outside panel portion provided to contact the outer panel and an inside panel portion integrally formed at the outside panel portion to connect to the outside panel portion and project toward a vehicle-compartment side beyond the outside panel portion and connects to the outer-frame forming portion and the inner-frame forming portion of said inner panel. | 10-04-2012 |
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20120313914 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - A plasma display panel has a display region and a non-display region formed around the display region. The rear plate has data electrode that applies a drive voltage to the rear plate, a dummy electrode that is in parallel with the data electrode and does not apply a drive voltage to the rear plate, an insulating layer that coats the data electrode and the dummy electrode, and a plurality of horizontal barrier ribs formed on the insulating layer and orthogonal to the data electrodes. The data electrode is arranged in the display region and the non-display region. The dummy electrode is arranged in the non-display region. An outermost horizontal barrier rib is arranged in the non-display region. The outermost horizontal barrier rib is opposed to the data electrode via the insulating layer, and is not opposed to the dummy electrode. | 12-13-2012 |
20120326604 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - A plasma display panel has a sealed part where peripheral portions of a front plate and a rear plate are sealed to each other with a sealing member. The sealed part includes bead which regulates any gap formed between the peripheral portions of the front plate and the rear plate. A dielectric layer is formed as far as location of the bead but an insulator layer is formed short of the location of the bead in the sealed part on the side of a direction where display electrodes extend. The insulator layer is formed as far as the location of the bead but the dielectric layer is formed short of the location of the bead in the sealed part on the side of a direction where data electrodes extend. The bead has a diameter larger than a thickness of the dielectric layer and a height of barrier ribs summed with each other and at most twice as large as the thickness of the dielectric layer and the height of the barrier ribs summed with each other. | 12-27-2012 |
20130088145 | PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL - A plasma display panel includes a front plate and a rear plate opposing the front plate. The front plate has a display region to generate a discharge between the front plate and the rear plate, and a non-display region provided in an outer periphery of the display region. A discharge gap is provided between a first electrode and a second electrode of the front plate. The first electrode includes a plurality of first projecting parts projecting from a first base part toward the discharge gap. The second electrode includes a plurality of second projecting parts projecting from a second base part toward the discharge gap. The discharge gap in the non-display region is larger than the discharge gap in the display region. | 04-11-2013 |
20130187838 | PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL AND REAR PLATE FOR PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL - A rear plate has a display region, and a non-display region provided around the display region. The rear plate further has a plurality of connection terminal parts, a plurality of middle connection wiring groups, a plurality of electrodes, an insulating layer, and a barrier rib. The plurality of connection terminal parts is provided in the non-display region so as to be spaced out each other. The plurality of middle connection wiring groups is provided in the non-display region so as to be spaced out each other. The middle connection wiring group includes a plurality of middle connection wirings. A dummy part is provided between the plurality of middle connection wiring groups. A lower layer of the barrier rib has the electrode and at least one part of the middle connection wiring group and at least one part of the dummy part. | 07-25-2013 |