Author: claimsbot

What is claimed is:

1. An inside handle illuminator comprising:
an inside handle vessel;
a lamp unit having a light source for illuminating an inside handle portion of said inside handle vessel from a back surface side of said inside handle vessel; and
a fixing device for fixing said lamp unit to said inside handle vessel.
2. An illuminator according to claim 1, wherein said fixing device makes at least one part of said inside handle vessel engage with at least one part of said lamp unit so as to fix said lamp unit to said inside handle vessel.
3. An illuminator according to claim 2, wherein said fixing device comprises one recess or protrusion provided in said inside handle vessel; and another protrusion or recess provided in said lamp unit, and engageable with said recess or protrusion provided in said inside handle vessel.
4. An illuminator according to claim 1, wherein said light source is constituted by an LED.
5. An inside handle illuminator comprising:
an inside handle vessel having first and second plug in portions formed in a back surface of said inside handle vessel; and
an LED unit including an LED for illuminating an inside handle portion from a back surface side of said inside handle vessel, said LED unit having first and second protrusions;
wherein said first protrusion is plugged in said first plug-in portion, and said second protrusion is plugged in said second plug-in portion, whereby said LED unit is fixed to said inside handle vessel.
6. An inside handle illuminator according to claim 5, wherein:
said first and second plug-in portions are formed as a recess and a through hole respectively;
lock means is provided in a forward end portion of said second protrusion; and
when said second protrusion is plugged in said second plug-in portion, said second protrusion is locked on a circumferential wall of said second plug-in portion by said lock means so that said LED unit is fixed to said inside handle vessel.
7. An illumination module comprising:
a vessel;
a lamp unit having a light source; and
a fixing device for fixing said lamp unit to said vessel;
wherein said lamp unit is fixed to said vessel so that said light source illuminates said vessel inside from a back surface side of said vessel.
8. An illumination module according to claim 7, wherein said fixing device makes at least two parts of said vessel engage with at least two parts of said lamp unit so as to fix said lamp unit to said vessel.
9. An illumination module according to claim 8, wherein said fixing device comprises recess provided in said vessel; and another protrusion provided in said lamp unit, and engageable with said recess provided in said vessel.
10. An illumination module according to claim 7, wherein said light source is constituted by an LED.
11. An illumination module according to claim 8, wherein one engagement direction between one of said two parts of said vessel and one of said two parts of said lamp unit is substantially orthogonal to another engagement direction between another part of said vessel and another part of said lamp unit.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A method for manufacturing an SOI wafer in which a thickness of an SOI layer is increased by growing an epitaxial layer on the SOI layer of the SOI wafer having an oxide film and the SOI layer formed on a base wafer, wherein the epitaxial growth is performed in such a manner that a reflectivity of a surface of the SOI wafer on which the epitaxial layer is grown in a wavelength region of a heating light at the start of the epitaxial growth falls within the range of 30% to 80%.
2. The method for manufacturing an SOI wafer according to claim 1, wherein the reflectivity of the surface of the SOI wafer on which the epitaxial layer is grown is set to fall within the range of 30% to 80% by adjusting a thickness of the oxide film and a thickness of the SOI layer, respectively.
3. The method for manufacturing an SOI wafer according to claim 1, wherein the SOI wafer on which the epitaxial layer is grown is fabricated by ion-implanting a hydrogen ion, a rare gas ion, or a mixed gas ion containing these ions from a surface of a bond wafer to form an ion implanted layer in the wafer, closely contacting an ion implanted surface of the bond wafer with a surface of the base wafer through the oxide film, and then performing a heat treatment to delaminate the bond wafer in a thin film with the ion implanted layer being used as a cleavage plane.
4. An SOI wafer manufactured based on the method for manufacturing an SOI wafer according to claim 1.
5. The method for manufacturing an SOI wafer according to claim 2, wherein the SOI wafer on which the epitaxial layer is grown is fabricated by ion-implanting a hydrogen ion, a rare gas ion, or a mixed gas ion containing these ions from a surface of a bond wafer to form an ion implanted layer in the wafer, closely contacting an ion implanted surface of the bond wafer with a surface of the base wafer through the oxide film, and then performing a heat treatment to delaminate the bond wafer in a thin film with the ion implanted layer being used as a cleavage plane.
6. An SOI wafer manufactured based on the method for manufacturing an SOI wafer according to claim 2.
7. An SOI wafer manufactured based on the method for manufacturing an SOI wafer according to claim 3.
8. An SOI wafer manufactured based on the method for manufacturing an SOI wafer according to claim 5.

1. A method for continuously manufacturing a liquid crystal display panel, comprising:
a manufacturing step that comprises cutting a first long polarizing plate to form a first polarizing plate while feeding the first long polarizing plate from a first polarizing plate roll and bonding the first polarizing plate to first side of a liquid crystal cell which is being fed, and
cutting a second long polarizing plate to form a second polarizing plate while feeding the second long polarizing plate from a second polarizing plate roll and bonding the second polarizing plate to second side of the liquid crystal cell which is being fed in such a manner that absorption axis of the first polarizing plate and absorption axis of the second polarizing plate are perpendicular to each other, so that a liquid crystal display panel is manufactured; and
an inspection step of optically inspecting the liquid crystal display panel being fed, wherein
the manufacturing step and the inspection step are performed on a continuous feeder for feeding the liquid crystal cell and the liquid crystal display panel, and
the inspection step comprises: applying a line-shaped light beam from one side with respect to the feeder to the liquid crystal display panel being fed by the feeder, wherein the line-shaped light beam is parallel to a width direction of the feeder; and imaging a region irradiated with the line-shaped light beam in the liquid crystal display panel, wherein the imaging is continuously performed in a line pattern parallel to a width direction of the feeder and performed at a position that is on another side with respect to the feeder and tilted at a predetermined angle to a feed direction of the feeder or a direction opposite thereto with respect to a direction in which the line-shaped light beam is applied.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the line-shaped light beam is applied in a direction perpendicular to the liquid crystal display panel.
3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the region irradiated with the line-shaped light beam in the liquid crystal display panel is imaged in a line pattern at positions tilted at a predetermined angle to the feed direction of the liquid crystal display panel and the direction opposite thereto with respect to the direction in which the line-shaped light beam is applied.
4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the region irradiated with the line-shaped light beam in the liquid crystal display panel is imaged in a line pattern at positions symmetrically tilted to the feed direction of the liquid crystal display panel and the direction opposite thereto with respect to the direction in which the line-shaped light beam is applied.
5. The method according to claim 1, wherein in the imaging, the region irradiated with the line-shaped light beam in the liquid crystal display panel is imaged in a line pattern at a position or positions tilted at an angle of 1\xb0 to 45\xb0 with respect to the direction in which the line-shaped light beam is applied.
6. A method for optically inspecting a liquid crystal display panel being fed by a feeder, comprising:
applying a line-shaped light beam from one side with respect to the feeder to the liquid crystal display panel being fed by the feeder, wherein the line-shaped light beam is parallel to a width direction of the feeder; and
imaging a region irradiated with the line-shaped light beam in the liquid crystal display panel, wherein the imaging is continuously performed in a line pattern parallel to a width direction of the feeder and performed at a position that is on another side with respect to the feeder and tilted at a predetermined angle to a feed direction of the feeder or a direction opposite thereto.
7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the line-shaped light beam is applied in a direction perpendicular to the liquid crystal display panel.
8. The method according to claim 6, wherein the region irradiated with the line-shaped light beam in the liquid crystal display panel is imaged in a line pattern at positions tilted at a predetermined angle to the feed direction of the liquid crystal display panel and the direction opposite thereto with respect to the direction in which the line-shaped light beam is applied.
9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the region irradiated with the line-shaped light beam in the liquid crystal display panel is imaged in a line pattern at positions symmetrically tilted to the feed direction of the liquid crystal display panel and the direction opposite thereto with respect to the direction in which the line-shaped light beam is applied.
10. The method according to claim 6, wherein in the imaging, the region irradiated with the line-shaped light beam in the liquid crystal display panel is imaged in a line pattern at a position or positions tilted at an angle of 1\xb0 to 45\xb0 with respect to the direction in which the line-shaped light beam is applied.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. An information processing apparatus stored on a recording medium that classifies a plurality of document components into a plurality of groups, said information processing apparatus comprising:
a conversion instruction input section for receiving the conversion instructions;
a related document detecting section for related document information having a predetermined relationship with target document information;
a component converting section for converting said target document information and said related document information into element identifying information indicating a document component type;
an inter-document pattern converting section for identifying patterns in said element identifying information which that
(a) appear in both said target document information and said related document information; and
(b) appear at a first threshold frequency in said element identifying information for indicating;

an intra-document pattern of sequence converting section that selects sets of element identifying information that appear repeatedly at a second threshold frequency or higher as candidates for conversion;
a group classifying section for grouping said identified patterns wherein each group comprises patterns that are identical to each other;
a displaying section for displaying said converted target document information;
an annotation output section for labeling each of the groups of said identified patterns; and
a document information identity output section for presenting said labeled groups.
2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:
a component selecting section that selects element identifying information and processes said document information converted by said component converting section; and
an interstitial component detecting section that detects a component arranged between selected document information selected by said component selecting section and said element identifying information which is arranged next to said selected element identifying information in said document information and which is of the same type as that of said selected element identifying information, and
wherein said intra-document pattern of sequence detecting section detects said selected information and said interstitial component as element identifying information.
3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said component detecting section further detects a component following selected information in said document information, and said intra-document sequence detecting section detects selected information arranged at an end of said document information.
4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said component selecting section selects said element identifying information from the document information converted by said component converting section, in order of ascending frequency of occurrence,
said interstitial component detecting section detects said interstitial component for selected information selected by said component selecting section, and
said intra-document pattern of sequence converting section detects, for the selected information sequentially selected by said component selecting section, said selected information and said interstitial component as a set of element identifying information.
5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said intra-document pattern converting section converts the element identifying information appearing repeatedly at the second threshold frequency, into importance information indicating an importance of the sets of element identifying information, and
a rearrangement output section that further rearranges document structure information in said groups in order of ascending importance indicated by the importance information.
6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a group identifying information generating section that generates information identifying each of the groups obtained by the classification by said group classifying section.
7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an annotation output section that generates and outputs information identifying each of the groups obtained from said group classifying section, said identifying information indicating where in the target document information each document component in a group is located.
8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a repetition end determining section that processes the sets of the element identifying information to be converted by said intra-document pattern of sequence converting section and thereby exclude sets of element identifying information from target document information for repeated conversions if the total size of the document components converted into the element identifying information reaches a size of information that can be displayed.
9. An information processing apparatus stored on a recording medium, comprising:
a component converting section that:
acquires sets of registered elements indicating a combination of document components to be converted; and
converts document components into element identifying information indicating the type or role of the document component;

a component selecting section that selects element identifying information as selected information, in order of ascending frequency of occurrence;
an interstitial component detecting section that:
detects (a) an interstitial component arranged between the selected information and information in the document information that is next to the selected information and which is of the same type as that of the selected information; and (b) a terminal component following a plurality of selected information; and
transmits the interstitial component to an intra-document pattern of sequence converting section;

wherein the intra-document pattern of sequence converting section:
generates element identifying information indicating a pattern of sequence of sets of element identifying information that are candidates for conversion;
converts the sets of element identifying information into element identifying information; and
detects selected information which is arranged at an end of the document information;

a repetition end determining section that transmits document information to the component selecting section in order to cause the intra-document pattern of sequence converting section to further convert the document information already converted by the intra-document pattern of sequence converting section;
an inter-document pattern of sequence converting section that:
sequentially receives target document information and related document information from the repetition end determining section;
identifies sets of element identifying information that appear in both the target document information and the related document information;
detects identified sets of element identifying information which appear repeatedly at a predetermined threshold frequency or higher in the document containing a combination of the target document information and the related document information; and
converts each set of element identifying information that appears repeatedly at the threshold frequency or higher into element identifying information indicating a pattern of sequence of element identifying information; and

a group classifying section that receives from the inter-document pattern of sequence of converting section target document information and related document information that has been converted.
10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising a conversion instruction input section that allows a user input whether or not said intra-document pattern of sequence converting section is to execute a conversion into element identifying information, by outputting, to a user the sets of element identifying information.
11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 9, wherein said component converting section converts said document components into said element identifying information in accordance with the data size of the document components.
12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 9, wherein said document information contains image identifying information identifying an image displayed on a display screen, as said document component, and
said component converting section converts said image identifying information into said element identifying information indicating the shape of the image identified by said image identifying information.
13. The information processing apparatus according to claim 9, wherein said document information contains, as said document components, display information displayed to the user and storage position information indicating positions where other pieces of information to be displayed in accordance with an instruction for the display information are stored, and
said component converting section converts said storage position information into said element identifying information indicating a range of said storage positions in which said other pieces of information are stored.
14. The information processing apparatus according to claim 9, wherein said document information designates information to be displayed on a display screen and contains comment information not displayed on said display screen, and
said intra-document pattern of sequence detecting section uses the comment information as information indicating a boundary between sets of element identifying information.
15. The information processing apparatus according to claim 9, wherein said group classifying section generates, for each of the groups obtained by the conversion, title information indicating a role played in said document information by the document components in the group or content information of the document components in the group.
16. The information processing apparatus according to claim 15, further comprising comment information provided at a boundary of the sets of element identifying information, as said title information.
17. The information processing apparatus according to claim 9, wherein said group classifying section further generates, for groups obtained by the conversion, importance information indicating an importance of the groups.
18. An information processing apparatus stored on a recording medium, comprising:
a related document detecting section that detects related document information that has a predetermined relationship with target document information and that is document information stored in a predetermined range from a storage position where the target document information is stored;
a component converting section that:
determines an existence of image identifying information, text data, or link information for conversion into element type information; and determines whether a document component conforms to a predetermined rule; and
converts document components into element identifying information indicating contents of the rule;

a group classifying section that:
groups converted document components into corresponding element identifying information;
generates title information indicating (a) a role played in the document information by the document components in a group or contents of the document components in the group; and
generates importance information indicating the importance of the group;

a document structure information generating section that generates document structure information indicating the structure of the document information;
an interstitial component detecting section that detects an interstitial component arranged between selected information selected by the component selecting section and information which is arranged in the document information next to the selected information and which is of the same type as that of the selected information,
whereby the apparatus can determine whether a set of document components is arranged so as to be displayed to a user in a table form or utilizes the table form to improve the layout of the document information, and can identify the roles of sets of document components.
19. The information processing apparatus according to claim 18, further comprising a table of contents information output section that outputs, for each group obtained from classification by said group classifying section, table of contents information indicating a table of contents for the document components included in the group.
20. The information processing apparatus according to claim 18, further comprising a rearrangement output section that rearranges said plurality of document components according to the groups obtained from classification by said group classifying section.