Nec Corporation

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Ebara Corporation

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Oiles Corporation

Mabuchi Motor Co., Ltd.

Nippon Chemi-con Corporation

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.

Carnegie Mellon University

Fujifacom Corporation

Suntory Holdings Limited

Atsushi Yoshida

Tetsuji Togawa

Hiroshi Ishii

Naoki Matsuda

Hideki Hayashi

Masaya Seki

Yuki Inoue

Masayuki Nakanishi

Osamu Kizaki

Ryohei Kaneko

Hideki Hashimoto

Yu Ishii

Toshifumi Watanabe

Ayumu Hashimoto

Noriaki Koyanagi

Masaki Nagase

Naoki Asaba

Masayuki Yabuuchi

Masafumi Kishi

Naoki Goh

Hiroaki Takezawa

Takanao Suzuki

Kenichi Kobayashi

Hozumi Yasuda

Takayuki Suzuki

Kenichi Tanaka

Takeo Kanade

Youichi Chikugo

Makoto Kashiwagi

Kenichi Hirota

Hiroki Shirado

Kazunari Hatazaki

Kazuya Koseki

Kazuhiro Nagahara

Hiroshi Kano

Hiroshi Kokubo

Kenichi Akazawa

Yasuo Hongo

Hiroyuki Fujii

Eiji Satou

Keita Kondo

Yosuke Nakanishi

Satoshi Hatanaka

Hisashi Ogino

Manabu Nishio

Hiroki Hamashoji

Shiho Shimosaka

Michiyoshi Yamashita

Shin-ichi Shionoya

Takaaki Moriya

Makoto Tominaga

Ryota Koibuchi

Naoki Tateishi

Masanori Hattori

Masaya Tanaka

Kazuo Oda

Tsutomu Hosokawa

Hisashi Oishi

Hayato Kano

Kyohei Akiyoshi

Shinichiro Katsuki

Tatsuru Hatae

Yoshiaki Shimada

Tetsuya Furuike

Hiroshi Tamura

Daiki Komoto

Shin-Ichi Shionoya

Tomoya Osada

Provided is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device capable of suppressing variation in thickness of oxide films among a plurality of SiC wafers. Forming first inorganic films on lower surfaces of a plurality of SiC wafer, and then performing etching of the plurality of SiC wafers so that 750 nm or more of the first inorganic film is left in thickness, and then forming oxide films on upper surfaces of the plurality of SiC wafers by performing thermal oxidation treatment in a state in which a first SiC wafer of the plurality of SiC wafers is placed directly below any one of at least one wafer, including at least one of a dummy wafer and a monitor wafer, and a second SiC wafer of the plurality of SiC wafers is placed directly below a third SiC wafer of the plurality of SiC wafers.

Method of manufacturing semiconductor device and semiconductor manufacturing apparatus

A cathode and an electrolytic capacitor including the cathode which can suppress production of hydrogen gas are provided. The cathode of the electrolytic capacitor comprising cathode foil formed of valve action metal, and a conductive layer formed on a surface of the cathode foil. When current in a range of current density of leakage current of the electrolytic capacitor flows by electrochemical polarization, potential corresponding to said current is at a higher side than a natural immersion potential of reference cathode foil formed of the valve action metal with purity of 99.9%.

Cathode and electrolytic capacitor

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a fixing unit including a rotary member pair configured to form a first nip portion, a cooling unit configured to form a second nip portion, a drive unit, an obtaining unit configured to obtain information regarding torque of the drive unit, and a control unit. In a state where the recording material is nipped by the first nip portion and the second nip portion, if the information is equal to or less than a threshold value, the control unit is configured to set a conveyance speed of the cooling unit at a first speed larger than a conveyance speed of the fixing unit, and if the information is larger than the threshold value, the control unit is configured to set the conveyance speed of the cooling unit at a second speed smaller than the conveyance speed of the fixing unit.

Image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, an oblique movement correcting portion including a first registration roller pair and a first moving portion, a reversing portion, and a re-feeding portion. The reversing portion includes a reversing roller pair and a second moving portion. The re-feeding portion includes a second registration roller pair. When an image is formed on a second surface of a sheet opposite from a first surface of the sheet, a side end position of the sheet is corrected by the second moving portion and oblique movement of the sheet is corrected, and then the side end position of the sheet is corrected again by the first moving means and the sheet is fed to the image forming portion.

Information indicating what technology and service are necessary to solve issues is provided by a device including dictionaries recording words having similar meanings and concepts concept co-occurrences in which two of the concepts are combined, a classification of each of technology names and service names, and a score assigned to each of the classifications, a sentence input unit receiving a sentence representing an issue, a morpheme analysis unit performing morpheme analysis on the sentence and output morphemes, a concept conversion unit extracting a word from the morphemes and convert the extracted word to a concept, a classification identifying unit configured to sum scores of respective classifications in which a set of the extracted concepts and the concept co-occurrence match and identify the classification having a highest summed score, and a recommendation unit configured to obtain, from the name list, the technology names and service names belonging to the identified classification.

Technology name/service name generation device and method therefor

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a sheet reversing roller portion, a first sheet feeding passage, a second sheet feeding passage, a sheet a guiding member forming a retraction feeding passage for guiding upward a leading end of the sheet fed from the reversing roller portion rotating in the first direction and then for guiding the sheet, guided upward, in a direction crossing a vertical direction, the guiding member having an inner surface curved to guide one side of the sheet, and a preventing member for preventing a droop of the leading end of the sheet by contact with the sheet guided in the direction crossing the vertical direction by the sheet guiding member.

An image forming apparatus includes a control unit to perform a first conveyance process in which a sheet is conveyed in a second direction opposite to a first direction at a first speed by a reverse conveyance roller pair, a second conveyance process in which the sheet is conveyed at a second speed by a decurler, and a third conveyance process in which the sheet is conveyed to an inlet roller pair at a third speed by a conveyance roller pair, with the second speed being slower than the first speed, and the third speed being different from the first and second speeds. An image forming unit conveys the sheet at a fourth speed while transferring the image onto the sheet, the fourth speed being slower than the first speed, the second speed, and the third speed.

A polishing method capable of accurately determining a polishing end point of a substrate is disclosed. The method comprises: rotating a polishing table supporting a polishing pad; and polishing the substrate by pressing the substrate against a polishing surface of the polishing pad by a polishing head, wherein polishing the substrate includes: an oscillation polishing process of polishing the substrate while causing the polishing head to oscillate along the polishing surface; and a static polishing process of polishing the substrate with the oscillation of the polishing head stopped, the static polishing process is performed after the oscillation polishing process, and the static polishing process comprises determining a static polishing end point which is a point in time at which a rate of change of torque for rotating the polishing table has reached a change-rate threshold value.

Polishing method and polishing apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a reversing portion configured to reverse the sheet received through a first feeding passage by feeding the sheet in a first direction and then in a second direction opposite to the first direction, a sheet feeding portion provided in a second feeding passage branching from the first feeding passage on a side upstream of the reversing portion with respect to the first direction, a first guiding surface forming the second feeding passage for guiding a first surface of the sheet fed by the feeding portion, and a second guiding surface for guiding a second surface, opposite from the first surface, of the sheet fed from the reversing portion in the second direction. The second guiding surface is movable with movement of the first guiding surface for opening the second feeding passage.

Disclosed is a polishing head for a polishing apparatus for polishing a quadrangular substrate using a polishing pad attached to a polishing table, comprising a head body portion, a plurality of elastic bags disposed in a surface of the head body portion, which is to face the polishing table, and a substrate holding plate for holding the substrate, the substrate holding plate being pressed by the elastic bags in a direction away from the head body portion, the head body portion being provided with channels for bags, which are in communication with the respective elastic bags, the polishing head further including at least two support plates disposed between the elastic bags on one hand and the substrate holding plate on the other, the elastic bags being configured to press the substrate holding plate through the support plates.

Polishing head and polishing apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes a fixing unit, a first guiding unit having a first surface forming a first feeding passage, and a second guiding unit forming a second feeding passage. The second guiding unit includes a first member made of metal and having a first guiding surface on which a leading end of a sheet is guided in a first section including an upstream end portion of the second feeding passage with respect to a sheet feeding direction, and includes a second member made of a resin material and having a second guiding surface on which the sheet is guided in a second section downstream of the first section in the second feeding passage with respect to the sheet feeding direction. The first guiding surface is spaced from a first phantom contact surface extending from an end portion of the first surface and contacting the second guiding surface.

Image forming apparatus with guiding surfaces formed of metal and resin for improved resistance to water vapor condensation

An electrolytic capacitor module includes at least two types of electrolytic capacitors (--) having etching pits in electrode foils. The at least two types of electrolytic capacitors (--) are different in length of the etching pits and are connected in parallel. The number of electrolytic capacitors to be mounted is the same or different. The electrolytic capacitors (--) are each an electrolytic capacitor with an etching pit length of 27 [&#x3bc;m] or less or an electrolytic capacitor with an etching pit length over 27 [&#x3bc;m]. Such a configuration enhances performance of the electrolytic capacitors in a high-frequency region, keeps a rate of decrease in capacitance low in the high-frequency region, and enhances a ripple current capability in the high-frequency region.

Electrolytic capacitor module, filter circuit and power converter

An image diagnostic device comprising circuitry configured to output a diagnostic chart for image defect detection, read a predetermined reading range of the diagnostic chart, output a read image based on reading of the predetermined reading range, detect an image defect in the diagnostic chart based on the read image, and determine whether the image defect is at an end of the read image. In response to a determination that the image defect is at the end of the read image, the circuitry controls rereading to read a rereading range of the diagnostic chart different from the predetermined reading range.

Image diagnostic device, failure diagnostic apparatus, and diagnostic method

An external cooling deviceis connectable to an image forming apparatus. The external cooling deviceimproves cooling power of a recording material S after toner image fixation. In this case, even when a heating amount of the fixing deviceis increased, a temperature of the recording material S stacked on a stacking unitcan be lowered to not more than a predetermined temperature at which sticking does not occur. Further, the number of sheets stackable on said stacking unitcan be increased. By this, a user is capable of adjusting glossiness without concern for the sticking of the recording materials S on the stacking unit. Further, the user is not required to frequently carry out the recording material S of the stacking unit. That is, it is possible to provide an image forming systemX capable of flexibly meeting the recording materials S of various kinds.

Cooling device and image forming system

In a feeding direction of a recording material, a recording material cooling device is provided downstream of a fixing device, a curl reducing device is provided downstream of the recording material cooling device, and another recording material cooling device is provided downstream of the curl reducing device. By this configuration, occurrence of image defect by the recording material cooling device during the feeding of the recording material can be suppressed, and the curling of the recording material can be reduced after the recording material is cooled.

Image forming system including a plurality of recording medium cooling apparatuses and an uncurling apparatus

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Tokyo, Japan

Atsushi Yoshida