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20100129737 | DEVELOPMENT METHOD, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PHOTOMASK, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND DEVELOPMENT DEVICE - A development method according to an embodiment includes exposing a photosensitive film formed on a substrate at a predetermined exposure amount, carrying out a first development process that develops the exposed photosensitive film at a predetermined first development condition so as to leave the photosensitive film, obtaining a sensitivity information of the photosensitive film from a film thickness reduction of the photosensitive film developed by the first development process and the exposure amount, predicting pattern dimensions of multiple types of patterns to be formed when a second development process is carried out following the first development process from the sensitivity information, and determining a first acceptable range of a development condition in the second development process, determining a second acceptable range of the development condition in the second development process from the first acceptable range and a variation amount of the pattern dimension after the development process between the multiple types of patterns and determining a second development condition in the second development process so as to satisfy both of the first and second acceptable ranges. | 05-27-2010 |
20110207031 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF EUV MASK, AND EUV MASK - According to the substrate processing method in the embodiments, as a mask substrate used for forming an EUV mask, a mask substrate in which a first film having a first hydrophilicity is formed on one main surface and a resist is applied to another main surface is exposed from a side of the resist. Then, a hydrophilic treatment is performed on a surface of the first film to make the surface of the first film have a second hydrophilicity larger than the first hydrophilicity. Then, a development treatment of the resist is performed with respect to the mask substrate in which the hydrophilic treatment is performed on the surface of the first film to have the second hydrophilicity. | 08-25-2011 |
20110293305 | Development method, method of manufacturing photomask, method of manufacturing semiconductor device and development device - A development method according to an embodiment includes exposing a photosensitive film formed on a substrate at a predetermined exposure amount, carrying out a first development process that develops the exposed photosensitive film at a predetermined first development condition so as to leave the photosensitive film, obtaining a sensitivity information of the photosensitive film from a film thickness reduction of the photosensitive film developed by the first development process and the exposure amount, predicting pattern dimensions of multiple types of patterns to be formed when a second development process is carried out following the first development process from the sensitivity information, and determining a first acceptable range of a development condition in the second development process, determining a second acceptable range of the development condition in the second development process from the first acceptable range and a variation amount of the pattern dimension after the development process between the multiple types of patterns and determining a second development condition in the second development process so as to satisfy both of the first and second acceptable ranges. | 12-01-2011 |
20130141708 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF EUV MASK, AND EUV MASK - According to the substrate processing method in the embodiments, as a mask substrate used for forming an EUV mask, a mask substrate in which a first film having a first hydrophilicity is formed on one main surface and a resist is applied to another main surface is exposed from a side of the resist. Then, a hydrophilic treatment is performed on a surface of the first film to make the surface of the first film have a second hydrophilicity larger than the first hydrophilicity. Then, a development treatment of the resist is performed with respect to the mask substrate in which the hydrophilic treatment is performed on the surface of the first film to have the second hydrophilicity. | 06-06-2013 |
20140087291 | METHOD FOR FORMING PATTERN AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHY MASK - A method forming a pattern includes a process in which self-assembly material is formed on the substrate where on which a fiducial mark is formed, and the self-assembly material is separated in micro phase to form a self-assembled pattern. The position error from a predetermined formation position of the self-assembled pattern is measured on the basis of the fiducial mark, and a pattern for an alignment as well as a peripheral circuit pattern are formed on the substrate. The formation position of at least one pattern among the pattern for alignment and peripheral circuit pattern is corrected using the position error. | 03-27-2014 |
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20100109118 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device of the present invention includes a semiconductor layer, a low withstand voltage transistor, and a high withstand voltage transistor. In the low withstand voltage transistor, a first high concentration collector region and a first base region contact with a first low concentration collector region provided in the semiconductor layer. In the high withstand voltage transistor, a second high concentration collector region and a second base region contact a second low concentration collector region provided in the semiconductor layer. Further, the second high concentration collector region and the second base region are configured such that the distance between the second high concentration collector region and the second base region in a parallel direction to a main surface of the semiconductor layer is longer than the distance between the first high concentration collector region and the first base region. | 05-06-2010 |
20150108788 | STRUCTURE AGAINST SIDE IMPACT - A structure against a side impact has a side wall of a vehicle body, the side wall including a pillar within which a reinforcement is provided, a seatback frame, and a load receiving member disposed on the seatback frame to contact with the side wall of the vehicle body and to receive an impact load when the side wall of the vehicle body is moved toward a vehicle cabin by a side impact. A high-strength area reinforced by the reinforcement to have high strength is formed in the side wall of the vehicle body. An upper area reinforced by the reinforcement to have strength lower than the strength of the high-strength area is formed beneath the high-strength area. A lower area that is not reinforced by the reinforcement is formed beneath the upper area. | 04-23-2015 |
20150123434 | LOAD TRANSFER STRUCTURE AGAINST SIDE IMPACT - A load transfer structure includes a seatback frame, and a load receiving member disposed on the seatback frame to contact with a side wall of a vehicle body when the side wall is moved toward a vehicle cabin by a side impact. The load receiving member includes a horizontal portion extending laterally, an inclined portion extended obliquely outward and upward from an outer end of the horizontal portion, and a curved portion provided between the horizontal portion and the inclined portion and having inner and outer concave edges. A bisector of an angle between straight edges continued from both ends of the outer concave edge and a bisector of an angle between straight edges continued from both ends of the inner concave edge intersect with each other in the curved portion. Accordingly, an absorbed energy amount by the load receiving member increases. | 05-07-2015 |
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20110245473 | Anti-IL-6 Receptor Antibody - The present inventors succeeded in discovering specific amino acid mutations in the variable region, framework region, and constant region of TOCILIZUMAB, and this enables to reduce immunogenicity risk and the heterogeneity originated from disulfide bonds in the hinge region, as well as to improve antigen binding activity, pharmacokinetics, stability under acidic conditions, and stability in high concentration preparations. | 10-06-2011 |
20130317203 | Anti-IL-6 Receptor Antibody - The present inventors succeeded in discovering specific amino acid mutations in the variable region, framework region, and constant region of TOCILIZUMAB, and this enables to reduce immunogenicity risk and the heterogeneity originated from disulfide bonds in the hinge region, as well as to improve antigen binding activity, pharmacokinetics, stability under acidic conditions, and stability in high concentration preparations. | 11-28-2013 |
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20110090168 | Touch Screen Input Method and Device - A touch panel | 04-21-2011 |
20120038578 | Touch Screen Input Method and Device - A touch panel is constructed by a display/sensor unit which is slightly larger than a display screen of an LCD and a sensor unit which is projected to the outside from one side, for example, from one side on the right. A finger of the user is touched to a selection item such as desired button, icon, or the like on the display/sensor unit and vertically moved on the sensor unit. A selection display constructed by a plurality of buttons is displayed along the side of the display screen by the LCD. A button beside the finger is highlighted. When the finger is released, the highlighted button is selected. If there are no buttons adjacent to the finger, the button is not highlighted. Even if the finger is released, the state is not changed. When finger is moved to the display/sensor unit, the selection display disappears. | 02-16-2012 |
20130021282 | Touch Screen Input Method and Device - A touch panel is constructed by a display/sensor unit which is slightly larger than a display screen of an LCD and a sensor unit which is projected to the outside from one side, for example, from one side on the right. A finger of the user is touched to a selection item such as desired button, icon, or the like on the display/sensor unit and vertically moved on the sensor unit. A selection display constructed by a plurality of buttons is displayed along the side of the display screen by the LCD. A button beside the finger is highlighted. When the finger is released, the highlighted button is selected. If there are no buttons adjacent to the finger, the button is not highlighted. Even if the finger is released, the state is not changed. When finger is moved to the display/sensor unit, the selection display disappears. | 01-24-2013 |
20140289677 | Touch screen input method and device - A touch panel is constructed by a display/sensor unit which is slightly larger than a display screen of an LCD and a sensor unit which is projected to the outside from one side, for example, from one side on the right. A finger of the user is touched to a selection item such as desired button, icon, or the like on the display/sensor unit and vertically moved on the sensor unit. A selection display constructed by a plurality of buttons is displayed along the side of the display screen by the LCD. A button beside the finger is highlighted. When the finger is released, the highlighted button is selected. If there are no buttons adjacent to the finger, the button is not highlighted. Even if the finger is released, the state is not changed. When finger is moved to the display/sensor unit, the selection display disappears. | 09-25-2014 |
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20100092081 | COLOR GAMUT OUTLINE COMPUTING DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - A device includes a setting section that sets a single-color amount limit and an ink total amount limit, an upper half outline constructing section, a lower half outline constructing section, a restricting outline constructing section, and a color space converter. The upper half outline points are points at which one or more color components are 0% and that satisfy the single-color amount limit and the ink total amount limit. The lower half outline points are points at which one or more color components satisfy the single-color amount limit and that satisfy the ink total amount limit. The restricting outline points satisfy the single-color amount limit and the ink total amount limit, and are connected to the upper or lower half outline points which satisfy the single-color amount limit and the ink total amount limit. The color space converter converts the constructed outline points into another color space. | 04-15-2010 |
20120013923 | COLOR CONVERSION COEFFICIENT GENERATING APPARATUS, COLOR REPRODUCTION CHARACTERISTIC MODIFYING DEVICE, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - A color conversion coefficient generating apparatus includes a first color reproduction characteristic obtaining unit that obtains a first color reproduction characteristic that is obtained by correcting a color reproduction characteristic of a first device in accordance with a color of a first medium used for printing in the first device, a second color reproduction characteristic obtaining unit that obtains a second color reproduction characteristic that is obtained by correcting a color reproduction characteristic of a second device in accordance with a color of a second medium used for printing in the second device, a modifying unit that modifies the first color reproduction characteristic and that repeatedly modifies the modified first color reproduction characteristic, and a generating unit that generates a color conversion coefficient for performing simulated printing based on the color reproduction characteristic of the first device on the basis of the first and second color reproduction characteristics. | 01-19-2012 |
20120249520 | COLOR GAMUT BOUNDARY INFORMATION GENERATING DEVICE, COLOR GAMUT BOUNDARY INFORMATION GENERATING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A color gamut boundary information generating device includes a receiving unit, a tetrahedralizing unit, a first generating unit, and a correcting unit. The receiving unit receives pieces of coordinate information indicating points in a color space. The tetrahedralizing unit performs a tetrahedralization process. The first generating unit generates boundary information, which is a set of outermost triangular faces among triangular faces obtained through the tetrahedralization process. The correcting unit selects a target face from among the triangular faces included in the boundary information, regards a tetrahedron including the target face as a target tetrahedron, determines whether or not the target tetrahedron satisfies a condition, and, if the target tetrahedron does not satisfy the condition, selects the triangular faces included in the target tetrahedron except the target face, eliminates the target face from the boundary information, and adds the selected triangular faces to the boundary information, thereby correcting the boundary information. | 10-04-2012 |
20120249521 | COLOR GAMUT BOUNDARY INFORMATION GENERATING DEVICE, COLOR GAMUT BOUNDARY INFORMATION GENERATING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A color gamut boundary information generating device includes a mapping unit, a triangulating unit, and a generating unit. The mapping unit maps boundary points existing at plural coordinates in a color space that is independent of an output device to corresponding points in a two-dimensional region while maintaining respective phases of the boundary points. The triangulating unit performs triangulation on the inside of a convex hull including plural points in the two-dimensional region obtained by the mapping unit, thereby generating triangulation information, which is a result of the triangulation. The generating unit generates color gamut boundary information on the basis of the triangulation information generated by the triangulating unit. The color gamut boundary information is information that specifies a three-dimensional shape in the color space, the three-dimensional shape having a boundary including the boundary points. | 10-04-2012 |
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20130011173 | IMAGE GLOSSING APPARATUS, IMAGE GLOSSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING IMAGE GLOSSING PROGRAM - An image glossing apparatus including a recording sheet feeder feeding a recording sheet bearing a toner image; a glossing device including a heater heating a glossing portion of the toner image to gloss the portion; a glossiness information obtaining device obtaining position information on the position of the glossing portion; and a position detector including a tip detector detecting tip of the fed recording sheet, and a distance measuring device measuring the moving distance of the recording sheet after the tip of the recording sheet is detected. The position detector detects the position of a portion of the recording sheet facing the heater based on the information on the tip of the recording sheet and the information on the moving distance of the recording sheet. When the portion of the recording sheet facing the heater is the glossing portion, the heater heats the portion to gloss the glossing portion. | 01-10-2013 |
20130028619 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND IMAGE FORMING PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus and method compute a total amount of toner to be deposited per unit area of a target image. When the highest total amount of toner computed exceeds a given level, a heating determination unit, using a processor, determines whether a first heating amount range enabling fusing of the computed highest total amount of toner and a second heating amount range enabling fusing of the computed lowest total amount of toner have an overlapping portion that can effectively fuse a first toner image, a second toner image, and identifies a heating amount to fuse a toner image of the target image from an overlapping portion that can effectively fuse the first toner image, and the second toner image. | 01-31-2013 |
20130028620 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND IMAGE FORMING PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus and method that compute a total amount of toner to be deposited per unit area of a target image in which a first unit area is computed to form a first toner image using a highest total amount of toner, and a second unit area is computed to form a second toner image using a lowest total amount of toner. When the highest total amount of toner computed by a computing unit exceeds a given level, a transfer bias determination unit identifies a transfer bias to transfer a toner image of the target image from an overlapping portion that can effectively transfer the first toner image, and the second toner image. | 01-31-2013 |
20130278943 | PRINT CONTROL DEVICE AND PRINT CONTROL METHOD - An inverse image data generating unit that generates inverse image data that indicates a transparent developer amount that indicates an amount of a transparent developer, and a region where the transparent developer amount is used, based on a color plane image data that indicates a color developer amount that indicates an amount of a color developer, and a region where the color developer amount is used; a conversion unit that converts the transparent developer amount of the inverse image data into a transparent developer amount larger than the transparent developer amount by referring to a conversion table; and a transparent developer plane image data generating unit that generates transparent developer plane image data used in image formation of a transparent developer in an image forming apparatus based on the inverse image data indicating a transparent developer amount after the conversion. | 10-24-2013 |
20130342859 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE DATA CONVERTER TO CONVERT IMAGE DATA THEREFOR, AND METHOD OF CONVERTING IMAGE DATA THEREFOR - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device to form an image on a sheet of recording media according to a toner adhering amount of each pixel and position data indicating a position of the pixel on the sheet, a storage device to store post-processing position data that indicates a position of post processing on the sheet, a retriever to retrieve the post-processing position data from the storage device, and a converter to convert the toner adhering amount of the pixel designated by the post-processing position data. | 12-26-2013 |
20140086605 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a transfer unit, and a control unit. The image carrier has a surface to bear a toner image thereon. The transfer unit has a transfer member to transfer the toner image onto a recording sheet conveyed in a conveyance direction for trailing-end borderless image formation and duplex image formation. The transfer unit is configured to form the toner image on the recording sheet without forming a margin at a trailing end of the recording sheet in the conveyance sheet in the trailing-end borderless image formation. The transfer unit is configured to form the toner image on front and back faces of the recording sheet in the duplex image formation. When a width of the toner image formed in a borderless image area of the recording sheet in the trailing-end borderless image formation is smaller in a direction perpendicular to the conveyance direction than a threshold value, the control unit permits the duplex image formation. When the width is the threshold value or greater, the control unit prohibits the duplex image formation. | 03-27-2014 |
20150192879 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes at least one image bearer; multiple developing devices to develop the latent images with developers including toner and carrier into a toner image; multiple developer supply devices to supply the developers to the multiple developing devices, respectively; and a fixing device to fix the toner image on a sheet of recording media. When one of the multiple developing devices positioned at a shortest distance from an outline of the fixing device is referred to as a first developing device, and one of the multiple developer supply devices that supplies developer to the first developing device is referred to as a first developer supply device, the first developer supply device is greater in percentage by weight of carrier in developer supplied to the first developing device than rest of the multiple developer supply devices. | 07-09-2015 |