Author: claimsbot

What is claimed is:

1. A display apparatus comprising light-emitting devices and driving electrodes therefor provided on a panel substrate so as to form a light-emitting region and an electrode region in the surroundings of said light-emitting region, said panel substrate and a sealing substrate opposed thereto being adhered to each other through a sealing resin for sealing said light-emitting region, wherein
protective wall for shielding said light-emitting region and said electrode region from each other is provided between said panel substrate and said sealing substrate.
2. A display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said protective wall is provided at least singly in the surroundings of said light-emitting region.
3. A display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said protective wall is so-provided as to project from said panel substrate toward the side of said sealing substrate.
4. A display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said protective wall is so provided as to project from said sealing substrate toward the side of said panel substrate.
5. A method of manufacturing a display apparatus comprising light-emitting devices and driving electrodes therefor provided on a panel substrate so as to form a light-emitting region and an electrode region in the surroundings of said light-emitting region, said panel substrate and a sealing substrate opposed thereto being adhered to each other through a sealing resin for sealing said light-emitting region, wherein
a protective wall projecting from said panel substrate toward the side of said sealing substrate is preliminarily provided at a location for shielding said light-emitting region and said electrode region from each other prior to adhesion of said sealing substrate.
6. A method of manufacturing a display apparatus according to claim 5, wherein said protective wall is provided at least singly in the surroundings of said light-emitting region.
7. A method of manufacturing a display apparatus comprising light-emitting devices and driving electrodes therefor provided on a panel substrate so as to form a light-emitting region and an electrode region in the surroundings of said light-emitting region, said panel substrate and a sealing substrate opposed thereto being adhered to each other through a sealing resin for sealing said light-emitting region, wherein
a protective wall projecting from said sealing substrate toward the side of said panel substrate is preliminarily provided at a location for shielding said light-emitting region and said electrode region from each other prior to adhesion of said sealing substrate.
8. A method of manufacturing a display apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said protective wall is provided at least singly in the surroundings of said light-emitting region.

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 pedaling correction device operative to transmit a cyclist-inputted torque of a crank gear to a driven subject via a flexible drive component of an endless belt form, said crank gear having a crank with a pedal at its distal end mounted on a central axis thereof,
wherein a configuration of the crank gear is modified according to a measurement result of at least a crank angular position corresponding to a torque peak, said crank angular position included in pedaling characteristics of a cyclist determined from the variations of pressure exerted upon the pedal by the cyclist during one crank stroke, said pressure exerted upon the pedal previously determined by taking measurements as allowing the cyclist to operate a pedaling measurement device incorporating a crank angle sensor mounted to a circular crank gear having a crank with a pedal at its distal end mounted on a central axis thereof, and a pressure sensor for measuring the pressure exerted upon the pedal, the crank or the circular crank gear by the cyclist,
wherein the modification made in a manner that in a case where the torque peak is shifted from a crank angular position of 90\xb0 to a forward position with respect to a rotational direction of the crank gear, a distance between the central axis of the crank gear and a start point of engagement with the flexible drive component, as determined when the crank reaches the crank angular position of 90\xb0 or is in the range from a top dead center to the crank angular position of 90\xb0, is increased, and
that the distance between the central axis of the crank gear and the start point of engagement with the flexible drive component is relatively longer when the crank reaches a crank angular position where the cyclist needs to increase the pressure upon the pedal during one crank stroke,
whereby the crank angular position where the cyclist needs to increase the pressure upon the pedal is indicated to the cyclist, who is intentionally allowed to physically experience the variations of the torque transmitted from said crank gear to said flexible drive component.
2. A pedaling correction device according to claim 1, wherein the configuration of the crank gear is further modified according to the measurement result of a pedaling force determined when the crank is in the range from the crank angular position of 90\xb0 to a bottom dead center, said pedaling force included in the pedaling characteristics of the cyclist previously determined by taking measurements as allowing the cyclist to operate the pedaling measurement device,
the modification made in a manner that in a case where the cyclist is still pressing down on the pedal after passage through the bottom dead center, a distance between the central axis of the crank gear and the start point of engagement with the flexible drive component, as determined when the crank is in the range from the crank angular position of 90\xb0 to the bottom dead center, is decreased, and
that the distance between the central axis of the crank gear and the start point of engagement with the flexible drive component is relatively longer or shorter when the crank reaches a crank angular position where the cyclist needs to increase or decrease the pressure upon the pedal in one crank stroke,
whereby the crank angular position where the cyclist needs to increase or decrease the pressure upon the pedal is indicated to the cyclist, who is intentionally allowed to physically experience the variations of the torque transmitted from said crank gear to said flexible drive component.
3. A method for correcting bicycle pedaling for transmitting a cyclist-inputted torque of a crank gear to a rear wheel via a flexible drive component of an endless belt form, said crank gear having a crank with a pedal at its distal end mounted on a central axis thereof,
wherein measurement is taken on at least a crank angular position corresponding to a torque peak, said crank angular position included in pedaling characteristics of the cyclist determined from the variations of pressure exerted upon the pedal by the cyclist during one crank stroke, said measurements previously taken by allowing the cyclist to operate a pedaling measurement device incorporating a crank angle sensor mounted to a circular crank gear having a crank with a pedal at its distal end mounted on a central axis thereof, and a pressure sensor for measuring the pressure exerted upon the pedal, the crank or the circular crank gear by the cyclist,
wherein a configuration of the crank gear is modified based on said determined crank angular position in a manner that in a case where the torque peak is shifted from a crank angular position of 90\xb0 to a forward position with respect to a rotational direction of the crank gear, a distance between the central axis of the crank gear and a start point of engagement with the flexible drive component, as determined when the crank reaches the crank angular position of 90\xb0 or is in the range from a top dead center to the crank angular position of 90\xb0, is increased, and
that the distance between the central axis of the crank gear and the start point of engagement with the flexible drive component is relatively longer when the crank reaches the crank angular position, determined based on the measurement result, where the cyclist needs to increase the pressure upon the pedal during one crank stroke,
wherein the cyclist is subjected to pedaling training as riding on a bicycle equipped with the crank gear thus modified, and
wherein the crank angular position where the cyclist needs to increase the pressure upon the pedal is indicated to the cyclist, who is intentionally allowed to physically experience the variations of the torque transmitted from the crank gear to the flexible drive component.
4. A method for correcting the bicycle pedaling according to claim 3, wherein a pedaling force is determined when the crank is in the range from the crank angular position of 90\xb0 to a bottom dead center, said pedaling force included in the pedaling characteristics of the cyclist determined by using the pedaling measurement device,
wherein the configuration of the crank gear is modified based on said determined pedaling force in a manner that in a case where the cyclist is still pressing down on the pedal after passage through the bottom dead center, a distance between the central axis of the crank gear and-the start point of engagement with the flexible drive component, as determined when the crank is in the range from the crank angular position of 90\xb0 to the bottom dead center, is decreased, and
that the distance between the central axis of the crank gear and the start point of engagement with the flexible drive component is relatively longer or shorter when the crank reaches the crank angular position, determined based on the measurement result, where the cyclist needs to increase or decrease the pressure upon the pedal during one crank stroke, and
wherein the crank angular position where the cyclist needs to increase or decrease the pressure upon the pedal is indicated to the cyclist, who is intentionally allowed to physically experience the variations of the torque transmitted from the crank gear to the flexible drive component.

1. An electronic mail server device, comprising:
an address extracting unit which extracts transmission destination information from received electronic mail;
a communication data creating unit which determines whether or not to execute an encryption processing on the electronic mail in accordance with the extracted transmission destination information, and when said communication data creating unit determinates to execute the encryption processing, said communication data creating unit decides a method for executing the encryption processing, executes the encryption processing on the electronic mail by the decided method and creates communication data; and
a transmission unit which transmits the created communication data.
2. The electronic mail server device according to claim 1, wherein the communication data creating unit includes an encryption processing database in which the transmission destination information is associated with information relating to the encryption processing of the electronic mail having the transmission destination information, and
by referring to the encryption processing database, the communication data creating unit decides whether or not to execute the encryption processing, the encryption method and a public key.
3. The electronic mail server device according to claim 1, wherein the transmission destination information is an electronic mail address of a transmission destination.
4. The electronic mail server device according to claim 1, wherein the transmission destination information is a domain name of an electronic mail address of a transmission destination.
5. The electronic mail server device according to claim 2, wherein the transmission destination information is an electronic mail address of a transmission destination.
6. The electronic mail server device according to claim 2, wherein the transmission destination information is a domain name of an electronic mail address of a transmission destination.
7. An electronic mail server device, comprising:
a reception unit which receives communication data;
an electronic mail processing unit which extracts encrypted electronic mail from electronic mail obtained from the received communication data and decrypts the extracted electronic mail; and
a mailbox which temporarily stores the electronic mail obtained by the electronic mail processing unit and according to a request from a client terminal of a recipient, transmits the stored electronic mail to the client terminal.
8. The electronic mail server device according to claim 7, wherein the electronic mail processing unit includes an encryption processing database in which transmitter information of the electronic mail is associated with information relating to a decryption processing of the electronic mail having the transmitter information, and
by referring to the encryption processing database, the electronic mail processing unit decides an encryption method and a secret key.
9. The electronic mail server device according to claim 8, wherein the transmitter information is an electronic mail address of a transmitter.
10. The electronic mail server device according to claim 8, wherein the transmitter information is a domain name of an electronic mail address of a transmitter.
11. An electronic mail processing method, comprising:
a receiving step of receiving communication data;
a decrypting step of extracting encrypted electronic mail from electronic mail obtained from the received communication data and decrypting the extracted electronic mail;
a storing step of temporarily storing the decrypted electronic mail; and
a transmitting step of transmitting the stored electronic mail to a client terminal of a recipient according to a request from the client terminal.
12. The electronic mail processing method according to claim 11, wherein the decrypting step decides an encryption method and a secret key in accordance with an encryption processing database in which transmitter information of the electronic mail is associated with information relating to a decryption processing of the electronic mail having the transmitter information.
13. The electronic mail processing method according to claim 12, wherein the transmitter information is an electronic mail address of a transmitter.
14. The electronic mail processing method according to claim 12, wherein the transmitter information is a domain name of an electronic mail address of a transmitter.

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 fabricating an integrated circuit comprising:
providing an integrated circuit structure comprising a copper bump structure and a copper seed layer underlying and adjacent to the copper bump structure;
etching the seed layer selective to the copper bump structure using a wet etching chemistry comprising H3PO4 in a volume percentage of about 0.07 to about 0.36, H2O2 in a volume percentage of about 0.1 to about 0.7, and a remainder of H2O, wherein etching the seed layer comprises applying the wet etchant at a temperature of about 30\xb0 C. to about 40\xb0 C.
2. (canceled)
3. The method of claim 1, wherein etching the seed layer comprises applying the wet etchant for a time period of about 60 seconds to about 5 minutes.
4. (canceled)
5. The method of claim 1, further comprising fabricating the integrated circuit structure comprising the copper bump structure and the copper seed layer underlying and adjacent to the copper bump structure.
6. The method of claim 5, wherein fabricating the integrated circuit structure comprises depositing, using physical vapor deposition processes, the copper seed layer over a passivation layer, wherein the copper seed layer is deposited to a thickness of about 500 to about 10000 Angstroms.
7. The method of claim 6, wherein fabricating the integrated circuit structure comprises depositing, using electro-chemical deposition, the copper bump structure to a height of about 40 \u03bcm to about 70 \u03bcm.
8. The method of claim 7, wherein fabricating the integrated circuit structure comprises depositing a titanium-containing barrier layer prior to depositing the copper seed layer, wherein depositing the titanium-containing barrier layer comprises depositing the titanium-containing barrier layer to a thickness of about 500 to about 2000 Angstroms.
9. The method of claim 8, wherein fabricating the integrated circuit structure comprises depositing a SnAg solder layer over the copper bump structure.
10. The method of claim 9, further comprising etching using a dilute hydrofluoric acid etchant the titanium barrier layer selective to the copper bump structure and the solder layer.
11. The method of claim 1, wherein etching the copper seed layer comprises etching the copper seed layer in areas that are not underneath the copper bump structure.
12. The method of claim 11, wherein etching the copper seed layer consists of etching the copper seed layer in areas that are not underneath the copper bump structure in addition to an under-cut of the copper bump structure to an extent less than about 1 micron.
13. The method of claim 1, wherein etching the seed layer comprises applying a wet etchant using a wet etching chemistry wherein H2O2 is present in a volume percentage of about 0.1 to about 0.3.
14-20. (canceled)
21. A method for fabricating an integrated circuit comprising:
providing an integrated circuit structure comprising a copper bump structure and a copper seed layer underlying and adjacent to the copper bump structure;
etching the seed layer selective to the copper bump structure using a wet etching chemistry comprising H3PO4 in a volume percentage of about 0.07 to about 0.36, H2O2 in a volume percentage of about 0.1 to about 0.7, and a remainder of H2O, wherein etching the copper seed layer comprises etching the copper seed layer in areas that are not underneath the copper bump structure in addition to an under-cut of the copper bump structure to an extent less than about 1 micron.
22. A method for fabricating an integrated circuit comprising:
providing an integrated circuit structure comprising a copper bump structure and a copper seed layer underlying and adjacent to the copper bump structure;
etching the seed layer selective to the copper bump structure using a wet etching chemistry comprising H3PO4 in a volume percentage of about 0.07 to about 0.36, H2O2 in a volume percentage of about 0.1 to about 0.7, and a remainder of H2O.
23. The method of claim 22, wherein the wet etching chemistry further comprises NH4OH in an amount sufficient such that the wet etchant has a pH of about 7 to about 9.